Of Daughters and Fathers (DESTINY!)

[Ärï]

"Thite stop!" Sunblaze barked, stepping forward as Thite started moving away. As she was about to go after him, she came up short as his howl broke through the silence. Sunblaze pinned her ears back, forgetting just how loud Thite could howl at times. Realizing they weren't as alone as she had thought, Sunblaze bounded over to Yoru and Sierra. Grabbing Yoru and Sierra, Sunblaze stood over them protectivly, ears pu and golden eyes skimming the area around them. "Girls, stay still and stay quiet" Sunblaze whispered softly, breathing in the scents of ill wolves.

[Destiny]

Yoru barked in surprise as Thite's howl split through the mainly silent area. Auds pinned to her skull as her mother grabbed her and Sierra. What esactly was going on? Sunblaze's protective stance signeled danger. Opening her maw Yoru scented the air. Wolves. Ill wolves. Auds pinned back against her skull in sudden fear. The pup lowered herself to the ground, tail between her legs.

Brute turned his head from side to eyes. Pools of ice invaded every crevice of the forest. There was a flash of reddish ebony fur directly in front of him. Farther too his left brownish, ragged and grey fur could be seen through the trees. That particular wolf was pacing, or so it seemed. Twisting his crown to the right he spotted the third wolf. A flash of gorgeous, glimmering and healthy silver peltage told him exactly who it was. The brute shivered and turned his attention back to the wolf who lurked in front of him. Puffing out his chest Thite stood his full height.

The reddish form of a brute lurked in the shadows of the forest. Flashes of ebony streaked through his pelt here and there. Pools burned with vicious bloodlust. Brute took in his prey. A sunset femmora who seemed to be protecting two young pups, both faes. Neither of them would be a problem, they were all small. The massive snowy brute who had scented them was the only issue. The brute was large and by the way his peltage rippled over his muscled obviously cery powerful. For a moment reddish ebony brute glared at the snowy wolf's face and head. The brute's pools of ice reminded him of the pretty silver femme who ran faster then the wind. The one he had raped.

[Ärï]

Sunblaze's lip curled in a low snarl, fur bristling. She was small, disadvantaged in a fight against brutes but she was fast and she had something to protect. Her daughters. She would protect them. Whoever was lurking about, whatever their business, they would not touch her daughters. Not unless they wanted their throats ripped out and their guts spread out in front of them. Her muscles tensed under her sun-kissed fur.

Sierra bristled in alarm, shrinking back a bit next to Yoru. Though she was much like Sunblaze, Sierra wasn't that much of a fighter. She was more of a peacekeeper, taking a little after her grandfather, Kojo whom had tried to keep the peace in their family from beyond the grave. Sierra looked around fearfully, trembling slight.

[Destiny]

Yoru snuggled up close to Sierra. Fear pulsing through her in waves. She turned her crown to catch sight of a flash of silver fur close to her. Too her right. Ice blue pools glimmered from the shadows. There was a strange lighty too them. Not vicious or bloodlusting. They were not dull with sickness, though the scent of disease did come from the wolf who owned them. The eyes, they were so familier. They were....

Brute tossed his head from the brute lurking in the shadows ahead of him to the pacing fae to his left. Wait. The fae wasn't pacing anymore. In fact she seemed to be lying on her side. Shaking his head brute turned his attention back to the glimmering medium sized mound of reddish ebony fur. It was gone. Thite bristled. Shaking his head the brute tried to spot the other wolf. The main threat.

The dusky brown femme was lying in the brush. Her sides heaved, crimson coated her maw and chest from the fits of coughing. Four small bodies lay next to her stomach. Four faes. The reddish ebony brute, her master, towered over her. The femme trembled as he sank his fangs into the neck of the runt. A tiny, frail looking brown fae. With a sickening crunch she heard the neck break. Tortured pools watched as he inspected the other three pups.

Thite stared in horror as a small brown lump was thrown from the forest. Cautiously he padded towards it. Jaw dropped as he realized that the lump was a tiny pup. Head twisted at an odd angle, her neck was broken.

[Ärï]

Sunblaze shuddered as she heard the sickening crack of what could only be bone. Sunblaze lowered herself slightly so she was looming just over her own daughters, growling a steady soft warning. Her ears were pinned back, eyes alight with the feirce determination to protect her own. Sunblaze's eyes flicked through the undergrowth, catching snatches of fur and the shapes of wolves. Her growl deepened, vibrating in her chest.

Sierra was too scared to make a sound. She was trembling, pressed against Yoru, innocent honey eyes wide with fright. Her mother's growl was frightening but the others approaching them scared her even more.

[Destiny]

Yoru trembled. Pools alight with fear. The young fae gasped as she noticed something flying through the air. The scent was wolf. The femme shuddered and moved closer to Sunblaze and Sierra. Cowering.

Harriet shut her pools as she saw the gleam of his crimson stained fangs. There was another sickening crunch of bone. As she dared to open her pools again she watched him fling the second smallest pup through the brush. A small brown grey pup. Two of there pups remained. He was insepecting them, deciding if they were both worthy of life.

The silver femme heard the sickening crunch of bone and watched as another small lump landed in the open grass. Not far from the first. Gorgeous femme turned her gaze back on the small group in front of her. Sunblaze. Oh how she hated that wolf. The wolf who had stolen her brother from her. Ice blue pools drifted downward towards the pups. Silver femme might hate Sunblaze, but she loved her brother dearly and the two small pups were his. Besides that, she was a pack wolf and she felt a strange kin ship with them. Even Sunblaze. Silver femme winced as one of her pups kicked.

Brute sniffed both of his daughters. They needed to be tested. Reaching forward he nipped them both on the ears. Too his utter disgust they both cried out in pain. With a snarl he lurched forward and cracked the neck of the one on the right, a small grey pup. Tossing his head he flung her through the brush where he had thrown the others. "Useless welp, you have failed me. For this your pups have paid the price, if you fail me next time. Your life will be the price as well." Amber pools burned with bloodlust.

Snarling as he spotted a second pup being flung through the air Thite began to pad cautiously in the direction from which they were coming. The brute ducked out of the way as a third pup went flying over his crown to land in a bloody heap not far behind him. The sound of vicious snarls could be clearly heard ahead. Suddenly he lurched forward, disappearing into the underbrush.

"Get out of here." Warned the round bellied silver femmora as she dashed out from her hiding place. Thite had disappeared into the brush now. There was an urgency in Svel's stance. "Hurry, before he comes for them too!" She motioned too the pups.

[Ärï]

Sunblaze was horrified and her horror was quickly melting to blind rage. Her snarl deepend. She couldn't leave her own pups but she couldn't let that brute continue to kill. Pup killer. Scum of the earth. Sunblaze tensed. "Yoru, Sierra" Sunblaze whispered, "Hide in those boulders near the lake shore. I'll be back." Sunblaze grabbed both pups by their scruffs and with a soft grunt, quickly bounded to a cluster of boulders near the lake shore. Under a few were hollows, small dens dug by foxes moons ago. The pups would be safe there.

Turning, Sunblaze started to run, at the brute. The pup killer. Her ears were ringing and her adrenaline-pumped blood burned in her veins. Sunblaze shot past Thite, not seeing him, eyes glazed with rage. When she was close enough, Sunblaze leapt. She slammed into the brute, putting all of her weight into it and grabbing onto any part of him she could reach with her fangs, snarling furiously.

[Destiny]

Yoru hung limply from her mother's jaws as the fae hid them by some boulders. Noticing a small den under one of the rocks the fae motioned to Sierra with her tail. Glancing after her mother the reddish brown pup dashed down into the dark tunnel. Sighing in releif as it opened out into a larger, yet still not very big, den.

Fangs bared reddish ebony brute lunged for the final pup. Snarling ferociously as a sunset femme slammed into his side. Claws or fangs sank into his hind leg. Twisting his head blood stained fangs aimed for sunset fae's neck.

Brown fae lurched as she saw a wolf attack her master. Pup killer or not he was her master. Rolling too her paws ragged femme lunged at the sunset femme's right forleg. Claws aimed for anything they could get a hold of.

The underbrush cracked under snowy brute's weight. He watched as SUnblaze darted past him, launching herself at the medium to large sized reddish ebony brute. As the dusky brown femme lunged at Sunblaze he interfered. Placing himself between his mate and the ragged looking fae. Fangs sank into his shoulder and claws scored his side. Viciously he lunged at the fae's forleg.

[Ärï]

Sunblaze let out a muffled howl as the femme locked onto her hind leg. Kicking the fae loose, Sunblaze glimpsed her mate interfering, blocking the fae's path to her. Sunblaze growled low and focused on the brute, sinking her fangs as far as she could into his leg. Damned bastard. Pup killer. Slaver. Another beast for Hellfire. Sunblaze released the brute's leg for a mere moment before flinging herself forward, tearing her throat out of the brute's grasp. She doesn't focus on the wound though its painful and cutting red trailed down her chest. Sunblaze sank her fangs into the brute's shoulder, hind legs braced against the ground, pushing him away from the final pup. Her claws caught his fur, her muzzle twisting as she bit down with all her might.

Sierra scrambled after Yoru but glimpsed something from the corner of her eye and gasped. It was Sunblaze. Sierra and Yoru had never seen their mother fight. It was frightening. Apart from animal blood, Sierra had never seen wolf blood...much less her mother's...Her eyes found the other, younger pup. "Yoru...we hve to help" Sierra barked, looking at her sister. "That pup, that's what momma's doing, she's trying to save it! We have to help!"

[Destiny]

The silver femme was after Sunblaze in mere moments. At a breath taking speed she loped easily into the bushes. It did not take her long to see what was going on. Leaping agiley over Thite she aimed her fangs for the brute's scruff. Not aiming to hurt. She meant to pull him away from Sunblaze's grasp so that he could escape. He could kill her and all her pups easily in the future or any time. If she betrayed him now not only herself but her pack could suffer. She has to do what was best for herself, her unborn pups and her pack.

Yoru turned her crown as she realized her sister was not following her. Trotting back out of the den she glanced in the direction of the fighting wolves. Her pools darted to the small pup on the ground. "Alright, let's go." Yoru darted towards the fighting wolves.

The small pup had an ebony pelt with reddish sunset streaks throughout it. She was wandering aimlessly about. Un-able to see or understand what was happening.

Harriet howled in pain as fangs dug deeply into her forleg. There was a sickening crack as her leg broke. Lashing out with her useable paw she sliced her claws along the brute's snowy hide.

Thite felt wind ruffle his fur as his sister leaped over him. The brute did not turn, simply assuming that Svel was going to aid them. He snarled through her fur as she sliced her claws along his hind leg.

Reddish brute snarled. He let go of her leg pulling away as fangs and claws stabbed at him. The brute struggled, attempting to shove her away from him.

[Ärï]

Sunblaze released the brute, glimpsing the pup wondering amilessly. Paws barely touching the ground, Sunblaze dived toward the poor little scrap. Grabbing its scruff, Sunblaze jerked it off the ground and started running toward her own pups. Her hind right leg hurt from where one of the wolves had bitten her and her head felt fuzzy and unfocused, her neck and chest a bloody mess. Sunblaze glimpsed Thite and Svel but couldn't stop. She saw Yoru and Sierra running toward them. Sunblaze's paws stumbled and she fell forward, managing to bring her head up so she wouldn't hurt the pup. Sheltering the pup under her head, near her chest, Sunblaze tried to focus. The world was fuzzy. When she hit the ground, the wind was knocked clean from her. Coughing, Sunblaze released the young pup, blood splotching the ground in front of her.

Dizzy and lightheaded, Sunblaze let her head fall on one of her paws, panting.

"Momma!" Sierra yelped, seeing her mother fall. She ran faster toward her mother. She could see the pup her mom had been trying to save, next to one of Sunblaze's paws.

[Destiny]

The ebony reddish pup whimpered as she was picked up. Dangling limply for several moments in mid-air she shivered and whimpered pitifully.

Reddish ebony brute lept to his paws as the sunset femme let go of him. His gorgeous silver fae held his scruff, she had been helping him. As she released him he glared in the direction of the snowy brute. "This isn't over." He snarled viciously. Turning he dashed off into the dark depths of the forest.

Yoru yelped as she saw her mother fall. Skidding to a halt alongside her mother and the small wimpering pup Yoru nudged SUnblaze's neck. "Mommy!" She whimpered, nuzzling her mother's neck.

Thite snarled viciously, the damn femme wasn't giving up. Her fangs were imbedded in his shoulder. Her claws slicing along his side. Thinking quickly he lunged at her neck. Pearly fangs sinking in deeply, there was a sickening crack

[Ärï]

Sierra whined, nudging her mother's neck. "Momma! Wake up!" Sierra whined.

Sunblaze's topaz eyes fluttered and then settled half-closed, half open. She looked at her daughters and smiled. "I'm alright" she promised softly. Sunblaze turned her head and brushed her muzzle against Sierra and Yoru's muzzles. Sunblaze slowly raised her head, still feeling dizzy and foggy-headed. She didn't look at Thite. She didn't want her pups to look and see what he was doing. Looking down at the dark little pup, Sunblaze licked its head before slowly lowering her head back to her paw, eyes sliding closed though she was still breathing.

[Destiny]

Yoru whimpered. Moving close to her mother she lay down. Topaz pools darted from her mother to Sierra to the small ebony and reddish sunset pup.

Thite dropped the femme's limp body to the earth. For several moments he stood panting. Sighing he reached down and grabbed her scruff. Quickly her dragged the ragged looking femme's figure towards the waters edge. Drooping the dead wolf he turned and darted across the clearing. Reaching down he grabbed the first pup in his jaws and then the second.

Her head felt damp for a minute as another wolf licked her on the head. Following the scent of the wolf who had licked her the little pup stumbled into Sunblaze's paw. Nosing about blindly she nuzzled Sunblaze's muzzle.

[Ärï]

Sierra managed a weak smile as she looked at the little pup that bumped blindly into their mother's paw. It seemed impossible to think that at one time she and Yoru had been that small and weak, not even able to see the world around them and only trust blindly in their mother's love and protection. Bending her head, Sierra sniffed the pup. "I guess...we have another sister after all" Sierra said softly. "I just wonder...who Akani would have been..." Sierra thought back for a moment to the little white pup that she remembered. Sighing, Sierra laid down next to her sister, near her mother's paw and waited for Sunblaze to wake up again.