Sycophanta Chapter 1

This story describes what the world in a wolf's perspective would look like if everything is machines. Join Sycophanta and his pack through this interesting journey.

     

THUMP.THUMP.THUMP. That was the sound of a machine walking towards the crime scene.

In this dystopian city machines are man’s best friends. Even the animals are machine, some got lucky and were only half machine. The most rare were the whole flesh and bones. They mainly roamed in the wild and were mostly wolves. Some were dogs others were half and half. Every time they tried to contains these magnificent beasts, their machines would never return. They would lose contact with them, no one could explain this. They had never spotted a wolf in the cities, until now that is.

“We need to move,” A deep and masculine voice called out,”The machines are invading once more.”

“Why must we move, why can’t we just attack Lord Sycophanta?” A more feminine voice questioned him,” After all we are stronger.”

“That doesn’t matter, they will be able to track us if we attack. That’s why the assassins do it. Their quick, they know the forest better than I do.”

“Then why don’t one of them become the Lord.” This voice mumbled.

Sycophanta bared his teeth, he let out a loud growl that clapped like thunder,” THAT’S ENOUGH KENJI!” a long silence followed.

Everyone knew not to disobey Lord Sycophanta or he would go on a massacre. Syringa, the Lady, always calmed him down but she was taken by the machines while she was asleep. That’s why they left their last home. It was the first time anyone had seen the Lord cry. He destroyed 15 machines in less than 10 minutes, his eyes were red meaning he was in battle mode. His eye color shows his mood, when he is angry they turn bright green. That’s the color they were now.

As they walked they realized how close they had gotten close to the city, Sycophanta looked at the city with a smirk.

“What are you thinking?” Duchess Aysel asked.

“ Nothing just that I really want to destroy some machines.” His eyes turned bright red.

“Lord are you sure, what if we get overpowered?”

“Just keep reminding me of My Lady.” Sycophanta howled and they all ran into the city on a killing spree. There was a total of 53 in the pack, they had not fought in almost a year. Everyone was excited.

The machines heard their battle cries and went to fight, they saw Sycophanta and got scared. They fought on though, Sycophanta charged at them. His teeth baring his claws out. Aysel right behind him, her size led to an advantage she slid under their transparent bellies and flipped over. Whilst on her belly she would kick up ripping right through the machines. Sycophanta was practically impossible to defeat, he would jump on top of the machines. Then he would bite their neck, swinging them across his whole body. Once and awhile they would get him off their back. Aysel was outnumbered and was slowly reaching defeat. Sycophanta  noticed and ran up to her, the machines clawed at his back slowing him down. Aysel screamed out “DO IT FOR THE LADY!” Sycophanta’s eyes turned dark purple meaning furry and a whole bunch of other bad stuff. Aysel knew this would hurt him more than the machines. Sycophanta charged at them, his teeth slowing growing along with his claws. He defeated them one by one, his black fur was now red from his own blood from the biting and scratching. After they had all retreated Sycophanta collapsed. Aysel ran up to him,” It’s okay we’ll get out of here.”

After everyone had gathered all the supplies they had needed they left the city, Sycophanta had recovered and was only limping a bit. The machines walked towards the crimes scenes with humans right behind them. When they machine's bit Sycophanta and Aysel they had implanted tracking devices into their backs,” Finally, we have a start.” a tall man with black curly called out as other wolves in the back were fighting off machines. The one in the arena was a burgundy wolf with cherry red flame markings, she was a whole wolf, no machinery. She fought the machines off like a master, she tore threw them one by one. Only a few scratches on her, she flew under them then went threw their hind legs. She bit their legs and flipped them, exposing their transparent belly. Then she would bare her teeth then bite down biting through the wires and computer chips. It would all happen so fast. Jake, the tall man always observed them seeing how the wolves worked hoping that the ones in the wild would work the same. He was working on a machine that would be undefeatable. Phoenix was the strongest one there, so if it could beat her it would be able to take out the assassins.

Nearing the facility were the machines were made, Sycophanta noticed Phoenix and her companions, his eyes turned blue meaning sadness. Aysel noticed his different eye color,” Should we save them?”

  “You know it….” Sychophanta’s eyes turned a beige color which was new.

  “You think the Lady is in there.” Aysel knew that beige meant love and fear.

   “I have a gut feeling.” He limped towards the entrance to the building.

         Aysel along with everyone else followed, ready to attack. Kenji was injured badly but was still ready to fight, as Sychophanta’s daughter she knew how to stay strong.  As the machines were getting ready for battle, Jake told them no.

“Let them in without a fight, we will be able to capture them if they just walked in here. Once they are twenty feet in we put the building on lockdown. Turn off all the lights, then you guys creep in. Got it?” The machines nodded as they watched the security cameras.

“It’s empty, they must be hiding.” Kenji suggested.

“ No, they are planning something, everyone let’s go. Move. Move. We walked into a trap.” They had no time to turn around and run, the door had already been shut. Sycophanta had ordered everyone to huddle together and fight for as long as they could. Sycophanta’s eyes turned burgundy meaning fear, though he was afraid he would still fight for his pack's survival. Aysel and Kenji always followed his orders and were ready to fight whenever. As it got darker all you could see were glowing red eyes of the machines. The darkness le to an advantage for the machines. As they crept in closer they huddled closer, ready to attack they started baring teeth and readying their defense. Soon enough they were all back to back, suddenly a dart came flying tranquilizing Aysel and Kenji. Soon enough everyone was down; Jake brought everyone into a caged area that was outside.  When they awoke they all had numbers taped around their ankle, scared and surprised Kenji started crying.  Sycophanta noticed his daughter crying and went to comfort her.

”I know everything's going wrong right now. Trust me, I will always be here to protect you nothing will ever change that. As long as you need me I’m right here, your mother would be so proud right now. You have grown into a wonderful young women, all I can see when I look at you is Syringa and you know that. Don’t be afraid young one, I love you.”

“ One day you will die, everyone does. What if I need you on that day. What then, you would be breaking your promise.” Kenji wiped her tears, she was still upset you could hear it in her voice.

“When that day comes, Aysel will be there always, you and her are best friends. You will always have someone you just have to open yourself to the right people. Everything will be okay, you just have to believe it that it will be.” Sycophanta always gave out good advice especially to family and friends. Everything had taken a drastic turn and when everything seemed at its lowest point things suddenly got better. Syringa walked out of a tall grey building and perked her ears,” SYCOPHANTA,KENJI!” she screamed out, they noticed her and ran up to her. The whole pack howled and rejoiced.

“Momma, is it really you?” Kenji barely got the words out of her mouth. Sycophanta’s eyes had turned a bright blue-ish color with purple meaning love. This eye color was new not even Lady Aysel knew what it meant. Everyone was cheering and howling of the return of Lady Syringa. Sycophanta started to cry tears of joy.

Because of this event there was sparing and feasting, no one cared about the machines surrounding them. This was a night to be celebrated, Kenji never seemed happier she told her mom stories of her training and her skills. Kenji finally had two parents once more. Throughout the feast Sycophanta noticed the parts of machine in Syringa. He asked her what they were,”What are the machine parts for?”

“They replaced 46 percent of my body for machines, I know I will never be accepted back into the pack now, will I?”

“I-I don’t yet. It’s up to the pack if they want you back. I’m pretty sure they will, they love you. Just like Kenji and I. Nothing will change that, machine or not you are my Lady.” Sycophanta comforted her like he always did. As the night went forth the burgundy wolf walked out calling Syringa. She was followed by 5 other wolves, they were in shadows and could not be seen by the others. Sycophanta did not get a good look at any of them, they only way he knew they were there was the scent. He could tell they were all wolf no machine. He was excited but kept calm.

“Syringa, are you going to introduce us to your friends?” Kenji looked at her surprised, Kenji looked back at her dad and noticed his eyes were bright green. She gave him the stare and turned back at her mom.

“Ah, yes. Phoenix this is my family, my daughter Keji and my mate Sycophanta. This is Phoenix, the brown one in the back in Benedict, his sister Syxela. Morana is the grey on and Vixen the black and grey one. They have protected me and I have protected them.” Her voice cracked a few times, fearing Sycophanta would disapprove of them.