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With the howls of the two fighting packs echoing behind them, two brightly colored wolves ushered or carried a litter of similarly-colored pups through the trees.

"Hurry, quietly now," the female whispered around the scruff of one of her daughters.

"Here," the male said, setting another daughter down by the thick patch of scrub brush. "All right, all of you, inside now."

The female set down her prize and nudged the little girl into the underbrush as well. A screeching yelp followed by a different wolf's howl of anguish pierced over all the other noise from the pack far behind them and the female and male both whipped their heads back.

"Darling--" She said, fear in her voice.

"Stay with the pups," he ordered.

The female seemed about to speak, but the male shot her a look and before she could argue he was off into the woods, running back to help defend their pack and throw the attacking wolves off of their trail.

The blue girl he had set down whimpered and stuck her nose out from the hiding place, looking up at her mother. With a whine, the female pushed the little one back, ushering her sons inside as well. Her mate was going to his death to save them, to give them time to hide.

Distant sounds came from the camp, setting the mother's nerves on edge as she stood guard by her pups' hiding place. The sudden loud snarls of a fight broke out and a whine caught in the mother's throat, fear in her face again. Her mate. She knew what would happen if she went back, but she had to help him.

"Stay. Hidden," she ordered her pups, lowering her face to the ground to look in at her beautiful, multicolored litter. They were scared and didn't know what was happening, the poor darlings. "Even when it's quiet out, do not leave here, do you understand? Stay quiet and stay hidden. If something tries to hurt you, run away from it as fast as you can."

She stood straight and turned back to the pack, sprinting back to her mate with no care for anything else around her.


((I think I was vague enough on the parents' appearance that we can just decide what they looked like later (or not at all, depending on if it's needed). Whichever female posts after this can decide if she was the one the mother was carrying or not. XD I just had their father carry Evadne, and the rest were, obviously, running with them. You may all feel free to retro-post "into" this one. Lol I mean post your pups as if they had just walked through all of this, what they were thinking, etc. and then beyond watching their mother leave. That's what I'll be doing with Evadne, anyway.

I just wanted to get this started, so there's no title right now, but there will be! XD Eventually...))

The voices, the horrors, the screams, the howls. Fear struck him hard and he went into defense mode as his Father was doing. He stuck mighty close to his younger sister, a yellow beauty. They'd been close since birth and he'd never let anything happen to her. Not that he didn't care about the others, it's just how things happened.

Silence would never come it seemed, Pekko and his siblings were stopped. His little yellow treasure was right by his side. "Mom.. Dad.." His voice was growing smaller by each howl, each realization. Moments later and his Fathers gone, he'd run off, large and proud, doing what needed to be done. Pekko was a very proud pup, that was his Father, his Father the Defender. But, bad things after bad things.. A shrill and very near howl of pain struck the air around them and Pekko was horrified to recognize it as his Dad's. He looked to his Mom who was on the verge of breaking down between choices of whether or not to stay or go.

'Stay hidden.' Those were the last of their Mothers words. Pekko knew this, he wasn't much older then the others but, seemed to have matured fast over the last 30 minutes of this action. He looked to the ground wishing he could become deaf just for the time being and never hear another howl of pain or the whimpering of his siblings.

Oh how he wanted to whimper with them. He wanted to shiver and be frightened to the very depth of his bone. But, he was more angry then scared. Angry at the night and how it had stolen their fun away, how the other wolves, evil wolves had come to destroy such peace and harmony and angry further more at the stealing of their parents lives. He was just angry in general. When all was approaching silence finally Pekko decided to poke his nose free and peer out.

He was disgusted and even more angered by what he saw.

Indeygo huffed as he scrambled along almost underneath his parent's rushing leg's, although they were moving at a pace he and his siblings could keep up with - they were definitely rushing and moving them along at the limits of their ability.

It wasn't hard to figure out why - even a puppy could smell the fear rolling through the woods behind them, clearly something terrible was happening and their parent's were taking them to safety. That is after all what parent's did. He opened his mouth to try and reassure his sister with this fact but their father warned her into silence and Indeygo thought better of his idea. He concentrated on not being left behind.

Ushered into the brush with the rest of his siblings he trembled slightly pressing up against Evadne his blue sister as their father rushed off quickly followed by thier mother. Indeygo wanted to cry out to his mother..please don't leave us here in the dark! he thought, and he very nearly voiced that thought before fresh snarls and yelps broke through the forest. This time they were closer then before and Indeygo drew back in fear.

"Pekko!"

He hissed having heard Chaz tell him to be careful.

"get back!"

He tried very hard to keep the tremor from his voice although it still wobbled ever so slightly.

Pekko huffed. The darkness, the fear, the bloodshed he could only smell, the howls of terror. His younger siblings curled up together each trying to be brave for the other. He was angry. Fearful and angry. What was this! How could those demons, how could they do this! Destroy their home, destroy their family, destroy hope for a new life that pups always bring. Didn't the demons know better? The question hurt little Pekko's heart. He growled under his breath and turned to his siblings. Most unsure about the situation.

"We'll have to move eventually, Momma will want us out of here as soon as we can." He spoke up taking leadership of the situation. He seemed to have gotten his Dad's sense of bravery and pride. He was the kind that would dive off a cliff to save a close friend even if the end was to be near no matter what.

"We'll leave as soon as silence enters the night. When the shadows stop looming." It wouldn't be until near dawn that they'd move. He wanted them to stay together. Oh how he didn't know what was to be their fate. For now he had high hopes and a sister to keep hopeful. He held his darling yellow girl to his side. He treats her like a daughter even if she's only so much younger then him.

Indeygo skittered sideways as Evadne pushed back to the front of the small area, he'd already had his tail stepped on twice in the cramped area and didn't want to have it happen again. creeping forward he listened to the argument going on. groaning inwardly because for sure before long thier voices would start to raise in anger and then whatever awful terrible thing was in the night would come here and eat them all. Or parents would come back and fuss at them. Inde hated being fussed at... almost as much as he hated being left here alone in the dark.

"you guys....be quiet! They're going to find us!"

The indigo pup whispered pleadingly to his siblings and then as an afterthought he figured he better chime in on this little discussion as well.

"And I'm not going anywhere, you'll be in big trouble if you do Pekko and mother and father find you gone when they get back"

Evadne nodded as Indeygo and Chaz agreed with her, albeit a bit put out that she'd gotten yelled at by her brothers. Still, it was an agreement, right? When she spoke again, she made sure to keep her voice down. The pups didn't know what or who was out there, and the last thing they needed was to attract attention. The sounds in the distance had faded off into quiet again, and Evadne tensed without knowing why. Wasn't silence a good thing?

"There's no more sounds..." She whispered, trailing off into a little whimper. Why was she so nervous? That meant the fighting had stopped.

But, a little part of her whispered, it didn't mean they had won.

((I'm thinking that if we don't get the other kids' responses soon, we can always have the fire occur and everyone get scattered off. smile ))

Vittoria had kept silent all the way. She had followed her parents quietly. A few minutes ago she was sleeping warmly in the den when her parents had woken her and her siblings. They had left very abruptly. Sounds far away frightened her. It was the sound of fighting wolves. She wondered how this could have happened and wanted to ask her mother, but no words came out of her mouth. Her big brother Pekko had walked closely next to her. He always gave her a secure
feeling and she loved him for that.

After they arrived at the patch of bushes her dad had taken off. Back to the noise! Her bright blue eyes had followed him until he melted within the darkness. He would come back would he? Vittoria shivered at the thought and crept closer to Pekko. Though he soon started to demonstrate, but it was usual for him. He was a real arguer! A much better one than she was... she preferred to listen.

When it became still in the woods they all wondered what to do and she finally decided to speak. "I- I think we should stay here a bit longer. We don't know what could still be out there looking for us..."

((so sorry for the late reply! I was busy with school and stuff but it's over now so I can pay full attention to rp stuffs ^^))