Under the Moonlight

Yoongi was in shock.

He had seen the names appear in the stone wall of the Fate Cave. But he barely believed his eyes. Six names etched into the stone wall, all of them beautiful, strong and wise men which he had never dared to dream of being matched with. RM who had been a lantern through his darkest times and had trained him for the last four years stood behind him. His expression had changed from pride to shock as his own name appeared at the bottom of the list.

Yoongi looked at him and felt guilty, not only was he forced to be HIS mate but he would have to compete with five others just to feel the love which he had waited for his whole life. And of course he could never have known.

He was the youngest of his generation of 18 pups. And all of them had been matched except 7, himself included. Of course it was possible to have a mate from another pack, which is what they had all probably assumed, or hoped would happen.

He felt such anger, why would the gods demand this of him, he couldn't lead.

Bearing his head he leaned over, transforming into his raven black fur, his red eyes shone with tears as he ran out the cave into the forest beyond.

"Wait!" A voice called out to him but he was already running as fast as he could through the fir trees and elderblooms. Raising his head to the wind, he could forget the pressure which had been lain on his shoulders, then he caught the scent. Blood, a injured deer or fox perhaps. The perfect distraction.

He began the hunt.

Leaning on his haunches, his muscles tensed under his black coat, he tracked the maimed animal until it came into sight, a deer. With a gash on its side, it was already skittish. He stalked it and launched. Quickly he bit into the neck, it was a quick death. Nearly painless, a mercy unlike the beast who had hunted it before. He was carrying the carcass to some nearby water when he saw it. A flash of white fur and teeth. Then his back was bitten. He rolled into the water and turned to the enemy, he growled sharply and bared his fangs. The white wolf, with black eyes, met his gaze and held it. Then he rolled forward transforming into a beautiful naked man. With white hair and dark eyes, his muscles wet from the river caught the moons light.

"That was my kill!" He said angrily.

Yoongi bristled the fur on his back and growled again. Transforming to his own human form he stood slightly taller than him and gazed into his red eyes. Yoongi always looked so kind to those he loved, but it was times like this that his darker side was revealed. He stared down the taller man. But after a moment of eye contact, recognition struck.

"Your him."

Yoongi looked away blushing, he couldn't believe that this was how he would meet one of his mates, especially the reclusive Tae-Hyung Kim.

"Your Tae-Hyung. Aren't you?" He asked while trying to look away from his glowing six pack.

"Just call me V."

"Alright." Yoongi responded at a loss for words

"Do you want to share the meal."

"Of course." Yoongi felt to awkward to say more, and was glad to return to his more confident wolf form. Things were easier this way, as a wolf the awkwardness of a first date, even an accidental one would not linger.

After they ate V beckoned for him to follow. They walked up stream and uphill until the stream turned to a river which became more rapid with each mile. After an hour of peace, listening to the crickets and fireflies sing a song to them they arrived at the waterfall.

There V transformed and Yoongi copied him watching again as his bare back stole all of the moons light. They stood at the top of the waterfall and V turned towards him, looking him in the eyes he asked.

"Do you really not remember me?"

Yoongi was confused and tilted his head to the side. "We've met before?" He couldn't look into those endless eyes any longer so he looked away. "I t-thought that we had never met..."

"Never mind then." V looked sad as he looked towards the waterfall.

"I'm sorry, please remind me?" He asked.

V took a few steps towards him and grabbed his hips, pulling him forward, he was so close that his warm breath which caught in the cold autumn air touched Yoongi's cheeks.

"Do you remember me now?" He rasped.

"N-no" Yoongi stuttered, but he could recall a flash of dark eyes carrying him through the snow. "Wait, you saved me, when I got lost as a cub didn't you, yes it was you!"

"My family was exiled not long after that, so maybe it was a mercy that you forgot me."

"No, I didn't forget you, I will always always be thankful for that day."

"But you did forget me... Even though I could never forget you." They still stood so close as V leaned even closer kissing his lips with a gentler force than a flower emerging from the winter snow. "I always hoped, but never dared to imagine, that you would be my mate Yoongi."