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Ark had just entered the Eastern territory a little after day light. Victoria was sleepily at his heals. She didn't often come to see Azula, more or less just sleeping and lazily hanging out in the neutral grounds. Ark had three squirrels dangling in his jaws. One for each of Azula, Victoria, and himself. He saw the line of tree that hid the-soon-to-be mother of his children. He'd wanted to spend the night with her last night but she protested and told her to go tend to Victoria. Ark couldn't argue with that.

Ark was curious, unsure of Azula's movements he quickened pace, leaving Victoria behind him confused and really uncaring. He charged towards her, slightly frantic and froze when he saw three small puppies laying on the ground, whining and waddling about. His jaw dropped, the squirrels lifeless bodys thumping to the ground. "You-you..gave birth?" he asked in disbelief and regret that he left last night.

Aurora felt her body pressed into the ground and whined, not enjoying it one bit. Her tail flicked about angrily and she made grunting noises to what ever it was to bug off. She could only feel one of her siblings by her and, slightly worried, she whined and whimpered for the other one. She could hear him close by and, in the pursuit to find him, waddled around blindly on the ground. She soon felt him placed beside her and in attempt to 'teach him a lesson' for scaring her, she began chewing on one of his floppy ears.

Aurora smelled meat breath from the a large wet object nudging at her aggravatingly. To deal with the nudging, she stopped the mini assult on her brother but as she did, it was replaced with licking. This, she enjoyed, thoroughly. She rolled on her back and grunted happily, dangling her arms at her chest and curling her tail between her hind leg. It was very comforting, hopefully ritual thing.

Ark was stunned, but it wore off at Azula's wary expression. "I-I'm so sorry I wasn't around!" he nearly yelled, guilt ridden. By then, Victoria had caught up, half asleep and she suddenly seemed to burst with shock. It didn't take long before she lunged forward and stared smelling and staring at the pups, studying them.

"These are the things we've been waiting for??" She asked to Azula, her eyes wide with delight. She stuck her nose to the lightest one and nudged it gently. Aurora grunted at the interruption of her bath time and lazily swatted at it for it to shoo.

Ark could help but let a few quiet chuckles escape his mouth. "There new borns Azula dear. They must be small or else, it could of hurt you.." he slowly walked over, hovering over Victoria down at them. They were in fact small and so fragile looking. He really wanted to lean down and nuzzle them but he was nervous that Azula would snap or bite him. In his old pack, the mothers would let no male towards them if they had new borns. He'd attempted to stop Victoria but he knew Azula would never hurt Victoria purposely.

Aurora whined as she was left alone, gathered between her brothers. She didn't like her bath had ended so soon and grunted and squeaked, her tail batting the ground.

Victoria giggled at the pup and flopped down on her stomach, still staring at the tiny little sausage link looking fur puffs with tails. She used her tail to tickle the darkest one's nose, seeing what he would do.

Victoria grinned as the little pup curled himself aginst her chest and softly snored. "So cuuute!" she smiled more and nuzzled the little thing closer to her. She was much bigger than him, on the very of her teen stage.

Ark smirked and chuckled as the pups acted out in there personality's. "Have you named them?" Ark asked after a moment of silently staring at the little ones. His eyes flinted from Azula to each pup repeatedly, not wanting to miss a moment.

Aurora felt her body pressed against a warm and fuzzy body, much bigger than her or her siblings. Instinctively, she pulled herself whining to her mothers stomach and searched for something to suckle. She was quite hungry and slightly weak from her rampage on her brothers constantly.

Ark smiled softly. "No. They'll grow to be our size." just then, he finally noticed Azula. Really noticed her the way he had when they'd first met. "You look like you've matured.." he told Azula, smiling softly still as he spoke. Slowly, he walked around Victoria and his children to lay next to Azula, protectively nuzzling against her side. He rested his head on her shoulders, leaning over to the watch the puppies.

Victoria couldn't help but giggle at the little one. He was so cute! "Which one is this one Azula?" Victoria asked smiling over to the new mother as she nuzzled the small pup in her arms. He truly was tiny.

Aurora suckled food from her mom, guzzling up what she could. She didn't know when the next time she could have this rich and sweet fluid again.

((Lol, ok.))

"He's Shadow." Azula, said. She watched as her youngest pup came closer to her and sighed, resting her head on her paws. Ark wasn't that heavy and his warmth was kind of comforting, actually. Her ears perked up happily when she heard her second pup whimper and she gave him a reassuring lick. She was still tired from the recent events and she nudged Shadow closer to her, curling around her pups and snuffling them, as if to make sure they were still alive. Only when she was sure that they were all safe did she close her eyes and fall asleep.

Shadow gave a soft whimper when he felt himself being moved but he soon calmed down when he could feel the same familiar warmth from before. Once again he was squeezed between the other forms and although it was slightly uncomforatble, they radiated warmth. He snuggled in deeper, shoving his other siblings out of the way roughly and fell asleep.





Shadow sneaked around his mother's back, lifting his head up cautiously to peek at his father before hiding himself again. His mother was resting and his father was a few feet away. Grinning excitedly, he leaped -- or at least tried to, it was more of a scramble and an oof! -- over his mother's side and pounced on Ark's back, trying to scrable up to reach his ears.