Chapter 1: The beginning

"Come on, you can do it!" - said a male saber.
"Says who?" - said Shira.

Then, the saber pushed her by that slope with about 20 meters high, falling into the sea so deep, and her, so helpless.

Shira's Perspective.

Flashback

"Her name will be Shira" - said the silver female saber, kissing her new cub.

"Mildred, she looks so bad" - said the strong male beside her. - "Look at her eyes. They're so beautiful as mine, but they're so glassy. Her nose is imperfectly. Oh, and look! She has got stripes." - said him. - "From who she inherited them?"

"Maybe from you?" - she laughed. - "Honey, she's just a cub, she'll be more pretty in time."

Although, my dad didn't had so much hopes. I don't believe he wished me as his daughter.

I fell in the water, without knowing how to swim. I could have died, of course all wanted me to die. Mi mother died when I had 7 moons for age, and my father never took care of me. In fact, when my mother gave me birth, 3 moons after, he left us for other female in the same pack. Shamelessness, uh? Since that, I was the kitty one in the pack. Momma's kitty. When she died, I grown up like a normal tigress, but it's seen that my kitty-reputation was more strong that the present. The other tigresses from my age, soon they remembered me that. They approaching very challenging, they used to pushed me and tell me that I was useless. Four tigresses against me. One.

They used to remember me about my screamer past, my mom's death, my dad's shamelessness, and all that causes together for none saber date with me.

One day, I fought with one of the female sabers. I just got tired of it. I was the most hated tigress, and I used to talk with anybody. When our leader came to intervene, he scolded me a lot, but he did not listened my arguments on defensive. Finally, I decided to leave, didn't even have to defend myself.

Before I leave, I begged my father to leave with me, despite our distant 'closeness'. His excuse was that his couple was now pregnant from other cub, so he must 'protect' her, no leave her. If the poor female saber had known that he was going to leave her in some time too.

Tigresses from my age smiled at me with satisfaction that my life was a full mess. The pushed me at a precipice that only was a snow mound, but the fall hurt anyway.

Time passed and I met another male saber that was my friend, but I understood that maybe he doesn't want me in that purpose. He was cruel, and I noticed this when he led me to that slope.

Flashback

"Shira, look at that" - said him, before I approached.

(I clarify: two days ago we were discussing for nothing, and more than one occasion, he started to put violent. Of course I wasn't a kitty anymore, then I could defend myself. I feigned interest, and I approached. I would do anything to be OK with my 'friend' and don't be hurt. He was my only known, who I had relatively OK, except the last three days.)

"I bet you that you will not jump there below." - he challenged me.

I looked down. The sea was furious, of course, a snow storm was coming. I never learned how to swim.

"Tell me what you want, I will do." - I said. - "I will not jump."

In less than five minutes, I was trapped into the waves, unable to breathe, and the only thing I saw before I faint, was a huge iceberg browsing to me.