Winter suddenly woke from her slumber to a flash of white light and the booming sound of thunder. She decided to investigate. She knew she had heard thunder before, but maybe only once or twice, and she still did not like it. Winter slinked out from under Moonbell, who had fallen asleep on her. She went outside, ‘The rain is dying down, and the thunder isn’t happening as frequently anymore’ she thought.
Winter just now realized how incredibly hungry she was. Maybe she could take a quick hunting trip. She turned her head in the direction of the hunting ground. Hmm... A little meal of fresh rabbit wouldn’t hurt, and it would aid her aching hunger.. Finally, Winter quietly trotted into the large forest, but didn’t go too deep. Her ears twitched, she heard a twig snap, and her keen eyes spotted four, furry feet scamper away. ‘A rabbit!’ she thought. Winter got lower to the ground, her stomach almost touching the soil, edging closer, following the sound of teeth gnawing on dandelions, and a small nose sniffle. Her ear twitched. She glanced behind her. ‘Nothing, just a rain drop that had fallen on my ear.’ she thought. She heard the sniffles getting louder with every tip toe step she made.. She pounced! Then, disappointedly watched the white, fluffy tail bounce away.
She looked up, and found herself in a clearing. She looked around briefly. Her ear twitched once more. This was getting kind of annoying. ‘Must be another raindrop.’ she thought. She thought she heard thunder, but it was tremendously close, and sounded... different than normal thunder. And ew, what was that terrible smell, it almost smelled like the breath of a, a... BEAR!
She turned around slowly.. Winter froze with fear, the bear snorting, sounding not very happy, and worst of all, hungry. Winter howled for help, waited for its echo, but no one answered; so, until someone did, she was on her own. Winter growled. The bear roared, and they made eye contact, both glaring disgusted looks at one another. Lightning flashed, and Winter was ready to pounce on the unsuspecting bear, and this time, she wouldn’t miss.
Suddenly she heard the sound of paws trampling small bushes and snapping twigs along their way, running, getting louder as they got closer to her. She looked in the direction of where she heard the sound coming from. While Winter was distracted, the bear violently scratched her on the ear. She whimpered, then growled, enraged at the bear. Then, her anger became so intense, her wild instincts, and the biological predator she was, wanted to kill the bear, who dare challenged her. She charged at the bear, full force, claws out, and teeth bared.
At that moment, Moonbell, Moonwatcher, Luna and Fang arrived, the second Winter was a foot away from the bear, ready to slay him. Suddenly, lightning flashed, illuminating Winter’s face, the light almost blinding her. A loud roar from the bear echoed throughout the forest and the mountains, before he fell, dead, on the ground. There, right before Winter’s eyes, almost blinded from the lightning, was a fried and sizzled bear, with burnt fur. The rain stopped, and the rain clouds rolled away, the sun now shining, and a double rainbow had formed in the sky. Winter was trembling, and her ear hurt badly, ‘But what a scar, and what a story to go with it!’ she thought.
Winter just now realized how incredibly hungry she was. Maybe she could take a quick hunting trip. She turned her head in the direction of the hunting ground. Hmm... A little meal of fresh rabbit wouldn’t hurt, and it would aid her aching hunger.. Finally, Winter quietly trotted into the large forest, but didn’t go too deep. Her ears twitched, she heard a twig snap, and her keen eyes spotted four, furry feet scamper away. ‘A rabbit!’ she thought. Winter got lower to the ground, her stomach almost touching the soil, edging closer, following the sound of teeth gnawing on dandelions, and a small nose sniffle. Her ear twitched. She glanced behind her. ‘Nothing, just a rain drop that had fallen on my ear.’ she thought. She heard the sniffles getting louder with every tip toe step she made.. She pounced! Then, disappointedly watched the white, fluffy tail bounce away.
She looked up, and found herself in a clearing. She looked around briefly. Her ear twitched once more. This was getting kind of annoying. ‘Must be another raindrop.’ she thought. She thought she heard thunder, but it was tremendously close, and sounded... different than normal thunder. And ew, what was that terrible smell, it almost smelled like the breath of a, a... BEAR!
She turned around slowly.. Winter froze with fear, the bear snorting, sounding not very happy, and worst of all, hungry. Winter howled for help, waited for its echo, but no one answered; so, until someone did, she was on her own. Winter growled. The bear roared, and they made eye contact, both glaring disgusted looks at one another. Lightning flashed, and Winter was ready to pounce on the unsuspecting bear, and this time, she wouldn’t miss.
Suddenly she heard the sound of paws trampling small bushes and snapping twigs along their way, running, getting louder as they got closer to her. She looked in the direction of where she heard the sound coming from. While Winter was distracted, the bear violently scratched her on the ear. She whimpered, then growled, enraged at the bear. Then, her anger became so intense, her wild instincts, and the biological predator she was, wanted to kill the bear, who dare challenged her. She charged at the bear, full force, claws out, and teeth bared.
At that moment, Moonbell, Moonwatcher, Luna and Fang arrived, the second Winter was a foot away from the bear, ready to slay him. Suddenly, lightning flashed, illuminating Winter’s face, the light almost blinding her. A loud roar from the bear echoed throughout the forest and the mountains, before he fell, dead, on the ground. There, right before Winter’s eyes, almost blinded from the lightning, was a fried and sizzled bear, with burnt fur. The rain stopped, and the rain clouds rolled away, the sun now shining, and a double rainbow had formed in the sky. Winter was trembling, and her ear hurt badly, ‘But what a scar, and what a story to go with it!’ she thought.
“What in the world happened??” “Are you okay?!” Moonbell and the others bombarded Winter with numerous questions, but Winter was still in shock. She looked at the bear, whose life had been taken by a single bolt of lightning. Still shaking, Winter admired the sky, and the double rainbow. The sky. Amazing things happen there. She had spotted the first star, howled at the moon, who is a well known resident of the sky, the rain, which falls from the clouds, in the heavens, in the sky, which breaths life to plants and animals, the lightning, which had saved her life from the bear, who lay, slain, before her, ‘Although I could have totally taken him on myself.’ she thought. And the beautiful rainbow, which she looked at now. The others were still overwhelming Winter with millions of questions. But then they decided to give her space, and help her back to the medical den.
“This is Mercury-” Moonbell started.
“Dr. Mercury, thank you.” he interrupted.
“Anyway, he is very smart, and has things to help you recover.” said Moonbell reassuringly. “Oh, and I think Luna might like him.” She said in a whisper then laughed. Winter looked at Luna, who was looking at Mercury like he was the most amazing thing she had ever seen, and Winter laughed as well. Moonwatcher had to push Luna out of the way to explain to Dr. Mercury what had happened to Winter. Luna still lingered near, but finally Moonwatcher dragged her away.
Once the others had left, Dr. Mercury, the medical wolf, walked over to Winter. The light of sun shone in the cave’s opening, and making Dr. Mercury’s already bright yellow and white fur look even brighter. Winter was sitting on a wooden log table, which was covered with a giant leaf; She was holding her bleeding ear with her paw, which really hurt at the moment. Dr. Mercury was a tall, proud looking wolf, who didn’t look all that strong, but he did look smart and caring, and kind, and he even had a little scar right by his nose.
“Pleased to meet you, my name is Dr. Mercury.” He introduced himself. “I am the medical wolf here, who works in the medics den.” he said, with a welcoming smile on his face. Dr. Mercury removed Winter’s paw from her injured ear gently, so he could take a look at it. She tried to cooperate, but whenever he touched her ear she growled slightly. He was very gentle when touching and cleaning the wound, and even talked to Winter and asked her questions, which sounded funny when he talked because he had a wet, human’s cloth in his mouth to clean the blood from Winter’s ear. Winter also noticed that he was considerate enough not to bother asking where her parents were or what happened to them.
In the blink of an eye, he was finished already! Her ear was bandaged up with a human’s cloth, which was very clean and soft, and tied on tightly with a human’s rope strand. Winter saw the leaf that was on her leg had fallen off, and there was a big scar in the place of the wound from the bite. Moonbell was right, the wound did heal fast.
Winter felt her stomach growl, and heard it too, for it was loud. Then she remembered the whole reason she got herself into the situation with the bear was because, she was simply hungry. Dr. Mercury must’ve heard her stomach rumble, because he now got out a big, juicy, delicious-looking piece of rabbit meat. Winter’s mouth watered, the meat looked so good, she jumped off of the table, and snatched the rabbit meat from his grasp, as graceful as an acrobat. She then scarfed down the fresh, yummy meat. She jumped up and down and her stomach rumbled in pure satisfaction.
“I see you’re feeling better.” Dr. Mercury laughed. She nodded. She was feeling better. She wiggled her ear, it still hurt a little, but it did feel a lot better. Dr. Mercury told her a few more things, like, don’t scratch at it, and get rest, and when it would be better and all those things. Then, Moonbell came and said thank you and goodbye to Dr. Mercury, and Winter did the same, and then took her to leave.
While on their way to the river to get a drink, Moonbell decided to talk and explain a few things to Winter about her pack, but the most intriguing thing to Winter was about the different clans some packs belong to. Moonbell said there were usually about 3 or 4 packs in different kinds of clans, who had ancestors with magical powers associated with different seasons and elements. Each clan had one head pack in charge of getting ready for the meetings and celebrations, and who were the most respected of the whole clan.
Moonbell said that her great, great grandmother was one of the many ancestors, who, long ago, could control the moon and stars and the whole Night. This meant, Moonbell had the potential to also posses that power if she could unlock it.
“And can I tell you a secret?” she asked.
“Of course you can.” Winter said.
“Well, my mother, Moonwatcher has those powers that my great, great grandmother had, and she unlocked them! And so does Aunt Luna! So maybe I will be able to unlock my powers too one day, when I’m older.” Moonbell said excitedly. Moonbell also explained that her clan that she was in was allied with other clans: “The Forest clan”, “The Sky clan”, and “The Winter clan.” Winter... Where had she heard that before..?
“This is Mercury-” Moonbell started.
“Dr. Mercury, thank you.” he interrupted.
“Anyway, he is very smart, and has things to help you recover.” said Moonbell reassuringly. “Oh, and I think Luna might like him.” She said in a whisper then laughed. Winter looked at Luna, who was looking at Mercury like he was the most amazing thing she had ever seen, and Winter laughed as well. Moonwatcher had to push Luna out of the way to explain to Dr. Mercury what had happened to Winter. Luna still lingered near, but finally Moonwatcher dragged her away.
Once the others had left, Dr. Mercury, the medical wolf, walked over to Winter. The light of sun shone in the cave’s opening, and making Dr. Mercury’s already bright yellow and white fur look even brighter. Winter was sitting on a wooden log table, which was covered with a giant leaf; She was holding her bleeding ear with her paw, which really hurt at the moment. Dr. Mercury was a tall, proud looking wolf, who didn’t look all that strong, but he did look smart and caring, and kind, and he even had a little scar right by his nose.
“Pleased to meet you, my name is Dr. Mercury.” He introduced himself. “I am the medical wolf here, who works in the medics den.” he said, with a welcoming smile on his face. Dr. Mercury removed Winter’s paw from her injured ear gently, so he could take a look at it. She tried to cooperate, but whenever he touched her ear she growled slightly. He was very gentle when touching and cleaning the wound, and even talked to Winter and asked her questions, which sounded funny when he talked because he had a wet, human’s cloth in his mouth to clean the blood from Winter’s ear. Winter also noticed that he was considerate enough not to bother asking where her parents were or what happened to them.
In the blink of an eye, he was finished already! Her ear was bandaged up with a human’s cloth, which was very clean and soft, and tied on tightly with a human’s rope strand. Winter saw the leaf that was on her leg had fallen off, and there was a big scar in the place of the wound from the bite. Moonbell was right, the wound did heal fast.
Winter felt her stomach growl, and heard it too, for it was loud. Then she remembered the whole reason she got herself into the situation with the bear was because, she was simply hungry. Dr. Mercury must’ve heard her stomach rumble, because he now got out a big, juicy, delicious-looking piece of rabbit meat. Winter’s mouth watered, the meat looked so good, she jumped off of the table, and snatched the rabbit meat from his grasp, as graceful as an acrobat. She then scarfed down the fresh, yummy meat. She jumped up and down and her stomach rumbled in pure satisfaction.
“I see you’re feeling better.” Dr. Mercury laughed. She nodded. She was feeling better. She wiggled her ear, it still hurt a little, but it did feel a lot better. Dr. Mercury told her a few more things, like, don’t scratch at it, and get rest, and when it would be better and all those things. Then, Moonbell came and said thank you and goodbye to Dr. Mercury, and Winter did the same, and then took her to leave.
While on their way to the river to get a drink, Moonbell decided to talk and explain a few things to Winter about her pack, but the most intriguing thing to Winter was about the different clans some packs belong to. Moonbell said there were usually about 3 or 4 packs in different kinds of clans, who had ancestors with magical powers associated with different seasons and elements. Each clan had one head pack in charge of getting ready for the meetings and celebrations, and who were the most respected of the whole clan.
Moonbell said that her great, great grandmother was one of the many ancestors, who, long ago, could control the moon and stars and the whole Night. This meant, Moonbell had the potential to also posses that power if she could unlock it.
“And can I tell you a secret?” she asked.
“Of course you can.” Winter said.
“Well, my mother, Moonwatcher has those powers that my great, great grandmother had, and she unlocked them! And so does Aunt Luna! So maybe I will be able to unlock my powers too one day, when I’m older.” Moonbell said excitedly. Moonbell also explained that her clan that she was in was allied with other clans: “The Forest clan”, “The Sky clan”, and “The Winter clan.” Winter... Where had she heard that before..?
