Ancient Wolf

"Find them and bring them to me." Hearing someone shouting to find them from the outside, the three boys and the two girls held their breath together.

Suddenly, the two wolves who were with the four humans, turned around and lowered their body to the ground and their head was lowered than their body.

Seeing that, the crippled boy asked "Summer! What's happening? What are you doing, Summer."

Then, the three year old toddler walked towards the wolves and mimicked what they were doing. The crippled boy asked again "What are you doing Rickon? Why are you mimicking them?"

The other three people were confused too, but one of the boys looked at where the wolves were bowing their head to and found a pair of grey orbs looking straight at them.

Slowly wrapping his hand around the crippled boy, the old man said "Barn, be quite. There's someone else inside the crypt, other than us."

"Took you long enough to notice me eh?" The the boys and one girl heard the the voice of man in the depths of the Crypt.

*Tap**Tap* They heard the footsteps of someone approaching from the depths very slowly.

When they clearly saw what was coming towards them, they held their breath in unison. Because, in front of then stood a gigantic black wolf that had lowered it's head so that the head won't touch the roof of the crypt.

Suddenly, the toddler, Rickon ran to the gigantic black wolf and hugged it's snout. Seeing that, the two boys and the two girls froze in fear that the wolf may attack the toddler, but nothing like that happened and the wolf gave the boy a lick with it's tongue.

Then the wolf looked at the crippled boy and slowly approached him with Rickon clinging to his front leg. Smelling the boy, the wolf licked him and Barn heard the gruff voice again "You'll be able to walk now. I have healed you."

Barn's eyes went wide as he touched his legs after hearing the gruff voice and he started to feel sensation on his legs. With amazement and gratitude, Barn stuttered out "Thh---Thank y--you!"

"You're welcome, pup." Saying that, the wolf lied down in front of the people and using the opportunity, Rickon climbed over the wolfs back. The black wolf looked at the two dire wolves and made a gruff noise "Grrr"

The wolves, looked at each other first, but when they heard the call from Rickon "Summer, Shaggydog! Come!" They ran towards the black wolf and climbed over it's back and started to play with Rickon without a care in the world.

Barn, on the other hand surprised the other three by standing up ok his two legs. Looking at Barn, the boy asked in wonder "How are you standing up?"

"I don't know Jojen, but it looks like I was healed thanks to the giant wolf." Barn said while jumping up and down, in happiness that he can feel his legs again.

"So, who is the new Winter King?" Suddenly, Barn heard the gruff voice of the black wolf which made him stop what he was doing.

Looking at the wolf, Barn said "It's my brother, Robb Stark."

The wolf showed it's sharp canine and Barn heard the wolf say "So that makes you two Princes of North, eh? Then who are the ones occupying the castle? They smell like the old Kraken."

"They are from the Iron Islands. They have taken over Winterfell." Barn said.

Right then, Jojen pulled Barn down from his standing position and asked "Who are you talking to?"

Looking confused, Barn said "I am talking with the black wolf, why do you ask?"

"Because we don't hear anything and you were just speaking one sidedly!" Jojen said while looking between Barn and the black wolf.

Right then, Barn heard the voice of the black wolf again "Don't worry pup, only the ones with Stark blood can hear what I say in this form."

"This form?" Barn asked confused.

"Right. Pups, off my back." The black wolf said and the dire wolves and Rickon got off of the back of the giant black wolf.

When they were off of him, the black wolf started to shrink and turned into a man wearing black fur armor with grey eyes and long wild black hair.

Seeing the muscular man, the girls had their mouth agape and the boys were too stunned after seeing the large wolf turn into a large muscular man towering over them.

Smiling at the bewildered kids and the woman, the wolf turned man said "Before we start, I have to get rid of that parasite that have attached itself to you two."

Saying that, the man placed his hands over the head of Barn and Jojen. A couple of seconds later, black smoke mixed with red started to flow out of the mouth and nose of Barn and Jojen.

Seeing that, the girl who had similar features of Jojen snapped out of her stunned state and asked the man while pointing her sword at him "What are you doing to them?"

Tilting his head the man said while observing the smoke "Cleansing them of the parasite that have attached itself to them."

"What?" The girl asked confused as she lowered her sword.

"Some kind of crow with three eyes. It seems, he thought that he could take over Barn and he was using Jojen as a guide to Barn." The man said as he took his hand off the boys head and touched the smoke that was still lingering there. When he touched it, the smoke froze over with an ear piercing scream.

*SCREEEEECH!*

Looking at the frozen smoke that is resting in his hand, the man clenched his hand into a fist crumbling it into nothingness.

Turning to the girl, the man asked "So, Winterfell has been occupied by the people who worship the old kraken?"

"We think so." The girl replied.

Nodding his head, the man extended his arms and looked up to the roof and howled out "Awooooooo!"

That howl came out of the crypts of Winterfell and spread like a ripple in a still pond in every direction. The beasts and animals that heard the howling started to make noise, the ones that were caged started to get restless, the wolves and dire wolves started to howl back in unison.

"What was that?! Why are you howling like that?" The girl asked the man as she heard him howling out.

Tilting his head, the man said as he started to move towards the entrance of the crypt "Calling out for an army to take back Winterfell."

"What army?" The girl asked.

"An army of beasts and animals. They have to answer their King, when called upon." Holding the handle of the door of the crypt, the man said "It seems that there are only six members of the main family is still alive, four died a decade ago, and two died recently."

Closing his eye's, the man said out loud "The ones who have Stark blood in them, listen to me. March for your King! Fight for your Monarch! Slaughter the enemies of your kin!"

With a slight push the man opened the door and left the crypt,and the girl heard the muttering of the man as he closed the dorr behind him "Glory for my descendant."

Far away from Winterfell, at the in some part of the Riverrun, the men that had Stark blood in their blood hear the words in their head. All of them that were near the Winter King looked at him in confusion. Robb also looked confused about this voice, shaking his head he looked around abd found some men looking at him with the same confused face as his. Squinting his eyes, he signaled them to talk in private, but all of them heard what he intend to convey in their heads "Come with me, we have to talk."

The men and women of different ages started to converge near Robb as he went towards a deserted place. When all of them stood around them, Robb asked "Did you all hear those words?"

"We did my King." One of the men said.

"Do you have any knowledge about this, my King?" A woman asked Robb.

"There was an old story, that was passed down in the Stark family." Pausing there, he continued "When the Winter King rules the North again, the Ancient Wolf will rise and assist the King like the olden days."

"What does that mean." A man asked.

"I have no idea. It was considered just a story. But, after hearing those words, I can't dismiss it as a simple story." Robb said. Sighing, he continued "It seems we have a new ally. That is all I can say. And I believe everyone noticed how every animals with us looked to North right before we heard those words."

"Yes, my King. We saw that. Even the horses turned to North and bowed it's head, and we all heard the howling of Grey Wind." A woman said.

Far from Winterfell, beyond the Wall, inside a cave, a man tangled up with tree roots screamed out as the wolf man destroyed the red black smoke in Winterfell "Arggggggggggg"

The children like entities that were around him looked at the man intrigued as this was the first time he had screamed like this.

A couple of seconds later, the man stopped screaming and asked in horase voice "What was he? Why did a wolf turn into a human abd used ice like the Others?"

One of the children like entities approached the man, while the rest stood there frozen after hearing the words uttered by the man, and asked "What did you say right now? A wolf turned into a man and used ice?"

"Yes. Do you know him? Who is he? Why didn't I see him in my visions?" The man asked without giving a pause.

Closing it's eyes, the child like entity said "He is one of the Old Gods, that we worship. He is the father of Barn the Builder. He who rules over beasts and animals alike, he who rules over ice, the Monarch of Beasts and Ice."