Renegades
Summary: Six young wolves. Spiritheart, Moonstream, Rockfoot, Ravenfeather, Amberstone, and Bearfang, have escaped from their home pack, which is now being ruled by a tyrant, Scarsky. Going out into the harsh wilderness by themselves will be hard... can they survive?
Disclaimer: Wait... besides the sounds of the names and Warriors concept, I own EVERYTHING for once! Go me!
The Renegades
Spiritheart: Solid gray male with blackish eyes. Very large and muscular
Moonstream: Beautiful silver she-wolf with black ears and dark brown eyes
Bearfang: Black and silver male with gold eyes
Ravenfeather: Small black female with gold eyes, Rockfoot's sister
Amberstone: Creamy colored she-wolf with amber eyes
Rockfoot: Tawny and gray male with yellow eyes
Prologue
The pack stared in horror Scarface tore into Pinesky, snarling viciously. A little gray pup, no older than two moons, peaked out of the nursery.
"Spiritpup!" His mother quickly shoved him back in with one paw.
Her mate suddenly walked toward her, silently, and looked into her eyes.
"Riverfur," He murmured. "Somebody has to help Pinesky. We can't just let Scarface kill him."
"No!" She whispered quickly. "You can't-"
"I'll help you, Eagleeyes," Came a voice. A second male wolf stood nearby, determination in his eyes. Now it was his mate, obviously expecting pups herself, stepping forward.
"It's too dangerous," She cried. "I want the pups to know their father."
But he only pressed his face against hers one last time, and murmured something in her ear.
Riverfur was numb as Eagleeyes licked her ear affectionately.
"Spiritpup," Eagleeyes said, crouching down to meet his son's eyes as well. "You be good, all right?" He licked the pup's nose.
"I will," Spiritpup promised, too young to realize what was going on. As Eagleeyes and the other male, Badgerclaw, walked off, Riverfur quickly pushed her son back into the nursery den. She didn't want him to see what may happen.
As Badgerclaw and Eagleeyes plunged into the battle together, two of Scarface's allies rushed to his side, fighting them off. The harsh winter had starved them, and they were thing, while Scarface and his friends had obviously been eating extra.
Suddenly, Browntail, one of the henchwolves, grabbed onto Eagleeyes's neck. Riverfur was only able to watch in horror, silently, as Browntail gave her mate's neck a hard shake, and the sickening snap sounded across the camp.
Eagleeyes's body dropped to the ground.
Riverfur slowly laid her head on her paws, but was unable to stop watching the battle. Pinesky and Badgerclaw were still there, they were still fighting for the pack...
But now, Browntail was joining Glassfur against Badgerclaw, and she knew it would be over soon.
Suddenly, a rip in his throat, Badgerclaw began to sank to the ground.
"No!" His mate cried, unable to keep silent as Riverfur had.
Blood bubbling up in his mouth, Badgerclaw spoke his mate's name one last time.
"Flowerpetal."
And his head fell to the ground.
Riverfur heard sympathetic murmurs from the other nursery she-wolves for her and Flowerpetal, but they were cut off as Pinesky gave one last dying cry as Scarface flung his body against the side of the stone leader's cave.
Everything was silent, and Scarface padded over to Pinesky's body, and raised his head in one long, howl of triumph. After a moment, Browntail, Glassfur, and his other allies, lifted their heads as well and howled long and hard.
Anger burned in Riverfur's heart as she stared at her mate's body. Slowly, she turned and walked back to where Spiritpup, her only pup, lay. The gray pup lifted his head sleepily from his nest.
"Mother?" He asked. "Where's Father?"
Riverfur took a deep breath.
And began the story.
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Bearpup and Ravenpup were four moons old when Scarface took over the pack.
They watched as their leader fell. Rockpup, Bearpup's best friend, was at their side. The two younger pups in the nursery, Spiritpup and Amberpup, simply were unable to watch, for their mothers didn't want them to see.
Though their own mothers didn't want them to see as well, Bearpup, Ravenpup, and Rockpup, watched from a tiny hole in the nursery den.
"Bearpup," Ravenpup said, her voice trembling. "What'll we do?"
"Don't worry," Bearpup assured her, giving his sister's ear a lick. "We'll be Ok. We'll find a way."
"We will," Rockpup agreed with a growl.
Both Bearpup and Rockpup were very protective of Ravenpup. They knew that her and Bearpup's parents had always preferred Bearpup, since, even for a she-pup, she was small, and shy as well.
"I promise you that we'll make it," Bearpup whispered.
He hoped that he could keep that promise.
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It was Moonstream and Spiritheart who had come up with the idea.
Moonstream had only been a warrior a few suns before she discovered how her father had died. How he had died even before she was born, and how Spiritheart's father had suffered the same fate.
She knew that this couldn't happen to them. They had to get out.
She begged her mother to come, but Flowerpetal refused, saying that she wouldn't leave her mate's final resting place.
But, the other younger warriors, her best friend, Amberstone, Bearfang, Ravenfeather, and Rockfoot, agreed. It was time to leave.
And so they left.
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R and R, please! We'll fast forward to where the renegades are now in the next chapter... Sorry it was so short, but my prologues always are...
