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 Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:45 am
 More life was being breathed into The Realm, mostly without her notice. She was a shaman, not a seer: things would slip past her radar, even when KK was also about to check in on pack members. Theirs was still a modest pack by others' standards, but Oathkeeper enjoyed that: it made life quaint but not necessarily unexciting. It kept her mind off her listless father, whom she visited daily and gave as much love to as she could. Perhaps he was only still healing, perhaps that was why he stayed within his den most of the time . . . She did not want to rush anything that might compromise his temper.
But that was her mind wandering once more as she headed towards the couples' dens. The two pairs were not too far from each other, but perhaps pups would be about playing nonetheless.
Oath had figured of course that Hero would be swooned by the newcomer Artemis, and smiled to herself as she imagined the goofy hero standing over his children with a proud father's smile. And yet, almost as if destiny wanted to continual throw curve balls, so too had Winner impregnated a femme; and this made her smile lessen. Gullwing was impossibly trusting, and she did not know how it came to the situation of puppies with such a dark wolf. Wasn't she great friends with Pumpkinhead? Oath could have sworn eventually she would have come to . . . PH was probably not taking this well.
But that was not the attitude to approach these pups. She dispelled her opinions and their melancholic implications, cleaning her calm presence until it was a shaman's natural calmness. Pups were always a pleasure in her eyes, and she was not going to taint meeting even clandestine-made ones with her own presumptions. They needed to grow in a loving environment!
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:34 am
 Heart whimpered slightly under the weight of her brother as he bowled her over and used her as something akin to a stepping stool, her ears flattened as he growled at her in a truly menacing fashion. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll leave him alone!" She promised, scrabbling with her paws to try and get out from under her twin.
She never should have touched Azazel - but she'd just been trying to make friends with the bird. Every time she tried however Raven would fly into a rage and tell her the bird had chosen him for a reason. If she wanted to be friends with Azazel then she'd have to prove herself - but Heart had no idea how to do that, and all her efforts ended up...pretty much like this. "I told you he doesn't like you touching him!" Raven hollered in his sister's ear while she tried to shrink away beneath him. Sometimes he wondered at his twin really - they might look the same but he had clearly gotten the good end of the deal. Really it was sad...she wanted so much for that dumb dead bird to like her that Raven couldn't help but hold it over her head and taunt her with it. Smirking he reached down and nipped at her ear, giving it a sharp tug to hear her squeal though he was careful not to draw blood - that way she wouldn't have any proof if she went tattling to mom.  Stand just couldn't well..stand..it anymore. His father had told him to leave this other litter alone - but there was only so much whimpering he could stand from the poor girl before he just had to step in.
Huffing slightly he strutted towards the larger pups, giving the bully a steady look as he tried to look imposing despite his smaller size. "Leave her alone will ya!" He shouted at Raven. "She was just trying to play!" He continued on - really he had no idea why Raven was such a bully and heart - well she was so sweet in the long run. Maybe not the brightest pup in the litter but not mean. Not like Raven!
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:41 am
 Endymion followed his brother, rolling his eyes. Why bother getting involved with their fight? Sure the chickadee, Heart, wasn't as bad as her brother but she was still one of them. Flicking his long, spiky bangs out of his face, he eyed the twins distrustingly and a small sneer formed on his lips. "If they wanna knock lumps out of each other, let them. Saves us from having to do it later".
He didn't really understand why he should hate them, if he thought about it. He just knew that his dad didn't like theirs and that it was thus bad for him to like them - a few pointed comments which had come from them towards him and his siblings had only served to cement the ingrained dislike.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:06 pm
 "SNERK."
That was Conquering Hero's catchphrase, so to speak; or sometimes known as Conk, both a butchering of his full name and his favorite sound to hear when trumping others.
"SNEEEEEEERK."
One word to shout, sure, but a definitive one, and certainly loud enough to be heard. The tell-tale sign someone was about to go and exacerbate a problem.
He was a rather thickset and large pup for someone who all but exploded from Gullwing along with his siblings, all but stomping over to the scene like he was a giant amongst mortals; clearly he had taken more from his father, from the dark splotches to his already mean-spirited heart. Not that Conk knew much about how not to be a bully. Anytime he pushed his brothers and sisters around (or especially that one friggen annoying chick who always followed dad around), well, Winner rewarded him with praise and attention. Doing so long enough, it was ingrained in the mullet-haired kid that bad equaled good, yet? Coupled with a rather bloated ego and a vendetta created before his birth and, well, it was chaos ready to begin once he hit the group.
"What's it to ya what he does, huh? Huh?" Conk barked at the opposing pair with a smirk. "Don't feel like watching? How's about you go running back to your dahdeeee so he'll give you a friendship speech or something to make you feel better."
The statement made him feel quite uber, since he was, y'know, Conquering Hero. Even the moon-faced guy's hair paled in comparison! "What's that, Mommy didn't lick your hair down enough?" he added snidely while on that observation. "Better go back and get it fixed before you get in truuuuuh-buuuuuhl for looking all messy."
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:35 pm
 Dragging her paws to show her disappointment in having to attend this gathering Celaeno was in no rush to reach her destination, but there it was just up ahead. Some of her siblings were already there, as were the pups from the other pack litter, but she didn't care. All she wanted to do was find Winner and follow him around, but father had made her come, made her promise she would show up. Oh she showed up and as soon as the shaman they were meeting was distracted by so many new faces Celaeno would slip away and track down the only one she cared about.
Plopping her butt on the ground a good distance from the rest Celaeno ignored the batter between the two rival litters. She wished so often that she could have been born in Winners litter, maybe then she could call him father, wouldn't that have been wonderful, following her father Winner around day and night. He would teach her so many new things and there would have been plenty of siblings to play with too should she ever decide to take a break from being Winners shadow. But alas that was not to be, so Celaeno was stuck with sneaking off every opportunity she could to seek out the only one she cared about. Whirlpool was in a calm state at the moment, though he did wish they had gathered a bit closer to the water. He was a water lover just like Aunt Abyss and mother was. If he stayed away from it for a long time he would get mad, very mad. Of course when he laid eyes upon some of the pups from Hero's litter anger flowed over him like the waves of the ocean, pulling him further and further away from the calm beach. Coming to a stop not far from his brother CH Whirlpool gave him a small smirk, as if saying that he would be his brothers wingman in whatever trouble came to be between this gathering today. But otherwise he remained as silent as an undisturbed pond on a windless day, waiting for that pebble to disturb peace before unleashing a torrent of destruction. "Wait up Whirl!" Rabbit's Luck half mumbled, half yelled around the mouthful of rabbit she had. Why had Blackavar decided to run off right before she needed to get here? Now she was running behind trying desperately to catch up to her siblings. Instead of rushing what she should have done was take her time, it wasn't like she was truly late, besides rushing always led to bad things happening to her. And so was the case today. As she ran to catch up her paw sank into a small hole, likely the entrance to a mouses house, causing the pup to suddenly tumble to the ground, sending Blackavar rolling away few feet away.
Luck whined softly before picking herself up off the ground, paw now sore from the fall and quickly gathered Blackavar back up in her maw. When she looked up to see the gathering of pups was only a few feet away Luck felt horribly embarrassed and ducked her head as she slowly walked towards the Shaman, Blackavar's back feet dragging along the ground as she did so. Today was not going to be a good day.
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:33 am
 Glory Storm might have let it go if it had just been her brothers up against Raven. That was two to one, after all -- even if Endy's involvement seemed a bit half-hearted -- and it was a private affair. Glory believed in fairness, above all else.
But as soon as that Conk idiot waltzed into the scene, Glory felt her hackles go up and a low growl catch in her throat; it sounded less menacing than it should, perhaps, considering her relatively tiny size, but she nevertheless felt quite rage-filled.
The oddly-marked pup rose from her seat and stalked stiff-legged to the gathering crowd, eyeballing the slick-haired rainbow-vomit pup with total disdain. She had practiced that look before. It was hard to come by such sustained hatred at a young age, but Glory Storm made a good show of it. "Oh yeah?" She said, coming alongside Stand and drawing herself to her full, not-all-that-impressive, height. "Well at least our family doesn't need to make friends with dead animals just so we can pretend somebody likes us!"
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:28 pm
 Little Rainbow didn't want to go out and play with them. Really, he didn't. Bad things always seemed to happen if he tried to play with any of them, even his own siblings. And especially with Hero's and Artemis's lot. Not that all of them didn't like him specifically, but . . . it was a by-proxy thing nonetheless. In all actuality Rainbow was just scared of them all and wanted nothing more than to stick by Mama's side and nap the day away, to take advantage of the silence while there was still some left.
'Course, then Mama said he had to go to the caretaker because she was feeling really tired right now, and there was no disobeying Mama . . . Still, he whimpered at the thought of being a part of that noisy argument already going on.
Snips, dour as ever, was not clinging to his nose currently, choosing to perch upon the pup's head for now. He surveyed the group with beady eyes that clear said "I HATE PUPPIES" in crabby language. He wanted very much to get to the water and clean himself off, which was shared by his larger partner. But Mama said . . .
Aiiiyeeee. Rainbow really, really wished they could all just get along so he wouldn't always be so nervous around them. Of course, he had to enter at a bad point, listening first to Glory Storm's insult about animals.
Sure, Snips was quite alive, but he still liked his brother and sisters' companions for what they were. "I-I, um . . . Snips isn't dead," he put in meekly, immediately wishing he hadn't said a word at all.
Bolstered by Whirlpool's presence, Conk confidently smirked right back at the stupid girl. "Oh yeah oh yeah? How about I DON'T CARE," he shot back so eloquently that it blew his mind with sheer brilliance. "How's it feel having a sister who likes our dad better than yoo-uurs?" Which was actually much more annoying than he put it. Seriously, Celaeno wasn't deterred by his fangs, or big size, or even by the fact that Daddy hated having her around. He could probably wound her twice over and the idiot would come limping back for more.
Reliable punching bag. Annoying baggage.
For right now, Conk wouldn't pay much attention to Little Rainbow, as his was a one-track mind that was focused on targeting the rival litter. He would have spouted more had the shaman not finally approached.
"Mess" didn't seem to begin to describe what she had been listening to. "Hearts above . . . Little one, come along," Oathkeeper said gently to the she-pup sitting away from them all, recognizing her as one of Hero's by the lightning bolts, and nudged her a little forward with her snout before turning to the lot.
"A moment, please. Some name exchanges are in order, I think," she said lightly and with a smile, trying to turn her gaze upon each in turn. "The sooner we get this finished, the sooner we can go and play." There were some missing, she noticed.
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:47 am
Heart stilled when the other pups all started to get involved, shrinking into herself slightly at the prospect of a huge fight...a huge fight that was going to be all her fault! Mother was just going to be sooo upset with them all - she didn't like fighting Heart knew, hated it in fact and Heart did so hate to cause her mother grief.
She might have slunk off into the woods..you know if her brother wasn't still pinning her to the ground and all. Twisting her head at an entirely awkward angle she managed to view the rest of the pups "Ti's okay...it was all my fault..please don't fight!" he begged them quietly
Raven had momentarily forgotten about tormenting his sister in light of this new fun challenge. Things were quickly dissolving into a full out brawl - and h was sure that he and hi brothers would prevail. Then their father would just have to take notice of their greatness. Pushing off from his sister and ignoring her as she scuttled to her feet behind him he walked stiff legged towards the other pups "You tell him Conk" he encouraged the whole mess..but then that Glory character had to speak up and Raven felt his fur bristle a little bit "At least we don't look like we have mold growing on our fur" He shot back, because really all that green on her legs really did look like mold to him.
"Because he's just being a bully and she didn't do anything to deserve it" Stand told Endymion firmly "It's just not right' He reiterated, not at all cowed by the growing numbers against them, even that Conk fellow - whom was all brawn and no brains as fa as he was concerned wasn't enough to scare him off..and Whirlpool was just a sidekick..surely Glory or Endy would back him up "You see they don't even care of one of their sibling gets hurt" He motioned with his muzzle at poor Rabbit's Luck as she picked herself up off he ground "Are you alright?" He called out to her - because she was a Lady and part of Winners litter or not it was the right thing to do.
He would have gone over to check on her - but that would mean turning his back on Conk,Raven and Whirlpool...Stand was heroic..he wasn't stupid. In any case by this time oath had reached them and surely the adult would put an end to this mess. Feeling safe in doing o now Stand turned and bowed cordially to the Shamaness "Last Stand" He introduced himself, ear flicking as he heard Ravenwing and Heartwing introduce themselves behind him, Raven rather sullenly and heart..well timid like normal.
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