Chapter 5
I and Jon are standing around the dead dire wolf, looking at it closer its side is torn open, I guess the bear had a lucky hit before the dire wolf managed to rip his throat out. Looking around I see some tracks
"Jon, look around I see some tracks it looks like she had little ones."
"Robb, come take a look at this" Jon yells at me.
Coming closer I see six puppies huddled together in some kind of burrow.
"What should we do with them?" Jon asks
"Jon, buddy they are our symbol. We have them on banners, of course, we will keep them. Look there is even one for every sibling. "I say pointing at them
Jon looks at me strangely and after a sec he shooks his head with a smile on his face. I ignore him a go for obviously his pup, albino. Picking it up I gave it to him "Here you go, white pup for snow" he takes it from me.
"What will you name him?" I ask.
He looks dire wolf pup in the eye and with a serious expression reply "Ghost"
Huh, just like in the original timeline. Anyway, we pick them up with help of the North Wolf guard and head back. As we walk through the forest I get an idea. Trying to feel the minds of animals is different than humans, they don't have clear thoughts like us, they are thinking in concepts and instincts but delving into the mind of my pup I try to discern the Pack behavior, I take time but in the end, I have a clear feeling. Currently, only his siblings are his pack, looking for the same feeling in the other surprisingly Gost already considers Jon part of the Pack, it must have something to do with Wargs. Anyway, I focus on the Pack instincts of my dire wolf and I try to implant the suggestion that I'm his Alpha. It takes a bit of work but in the end, when I scan his mind I get a familiar feeling of the pack towards me like from his siblings but with something extra. This is a good development, I can now add myself and the rest of my family as members of the pack with me as alpha if I need to give them orders, I will test giving orders telepathically when they are older.
Now that I know what I'm working with and I know I can shut them down in the worst-case scenario I decided to give them my blood. I'm honestly curious what will happen to non-human species with my regeneration, will it make them stronger? Bigger? or will it even work? What are the good questions because if it works and I can somehow manage to track down more of them and start breeding I can have fucking dire wolf cavalry, now there is the thought. No matter I will look into finding more if this experiment works.
I stop walking, which means guards and Jon stop too. He looks at me
"What?" asks
"I want to try something," I say. Pulling a dagger from my belt I cut my palm with the intent of giving away regeneration and give a suggestion to a pup to lick my wound clean. He does until my wound closes. The pregnant moment stretches as we watch the pup, I really need to figure out the name for him if he survives this. The pup isn't dying that is a piece of good news, I will not know if the regeneration took until tomorrow morning just to be sure.
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Coming back to the castle I look for my siblings, first, one to notice is Arya sparring with our master-at-arms Rodrik Cassel, I guess she took Lyanna's words to hearth about training.
"Arya" I yell to get her attention, walking up to her I pick one pup from guard arms and show it to her. "Come here I have someone to meet you"
I puck up a pup from the guard's arms and present it to Arya
She was mesmerized by the dire wolf, looking at me with big eyes.
"Where did you find him?" she asks
"First of all, it's a female and I found her at hunt we were with Jon, her mother was killed by a boar and we found a litter of six pups not too far from her, and since the dire wolf is our symbol of the house I thought why not give each of them to one of you. Jon already named his, Ghost a fitting name for a pet of Shadowcat." I explain with a laugh
Arya looks stumped, it's the first time I see such an expression on her, opening and closing her mouth. In the end, she manages to get out "thank you" as she carefully picks the pup.
"So what will be her name?" I ask interested if it will be the same.
"Nymeria" she answers
"Why?" I ask, again interested why would they choose the same names even tho they are a lot different in this timeline.
Arya is thoughtful for a while. "I don't know, it just feels right," she answers perplexed as I am.
I humm, maybe it has to do something with Warging.
Anyway, I delve into the min of pups and mark Arya as part of the pack.
I repeat the same process with every dire wolf and my sibling. The was a short problem when mother thought that they are too dangerous but I assured her I will keep the eye on my siblings.
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The next morning I wake up with something heavy laying on my chest. Looking down I see a mouth full of fangs, yellow eyes, furry ears, and fluffy tail waving in the air.
"Hey, buddy. What are you doing here?" I ask bewildered. When I get out of my sleepy doziness I notice that something is very wrong with the weight and propositions of this dire wolf. He is fucking huge, he grew almost once his size over.
So the regeneration works, and if we take into consideration that wolfs grow a lot faster than humans and regeneration fixing everything wrong with him due to lack of food plus strengthening him that explain sudden growth. Immortal dire wolf mount here we come! Now I need a name, Grey Wind is not my style like Robbs from the original timeline.
"What will I call you buddy?" I ask him.
He just wiggles his tail. Looking at him, he is almost full in black only white coloring is on the back and around his mouth.
Feeling his mind, he wants to play and has this mischievous edge to it, here is the idea.
"Your name will be Loki, what do you say buddy?" I ask
I get the feeling from him that he is pleased with the name.
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I find Jon in godswood with Lyanna present.
"Hey, you two" I wave at them. Giving Jon a handshake and Lyanna a kiss on the cheek. Behind me Loki comes running straight at Jon, he manages to surprise him and they fall to the ground.
"I wanted to introduce you to a Loki, the regeneration took effect if you want Jon, you can bring Ghost and I will do the same for him," I say while trying to hold laughter as Loki slobber Jons face. Lyanna doesn't have to hold back at all and is openly laughing at Jon.
Jon manages to escape Loki and goes for Ghost. In the meanwhile, I show him, my mate.
"Loki this is Lyanna, my mate, take good care of her ok buddy?" I say while trying to imprint that information into his brain.
"Now Robb, you just need to find me a bear cub," Lyanna says playfully.
Instead of laughing, I wave at one of North Wolves,
"Take some of the guards with you and find me some abandoned cub,"
"Robb! you can't be serious, even if he finds some there is no way bear will listen to me, they are not wolves." Lyanna admonishes me.
"You worry too much love, it will all work out just right I'm sure of it" After all if I can influence dire wolfs why could I not influence a bear.
We chat for a while about little things and wedding preparations when Jon comes in with Ghost in his arms. I give him my blood and we split up. I need to show myself to the guests after all.
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