Aonani paced in her den, she knew she was going to have a malcadh. The first malcadh of many years. If she had one then the cycle would continue. If this pup lived, it would have a horrible life if the gaddergnaw begins again. She finally laid down to rest for the time was coming.
Lexi, the Obea of the McCormick pack, stood on a ridge watching Aonani's den. I hate my job, Lexi thought. Only minutes later did she hear the whelping of the pups.
Aonani looked at her five, beautiful pups. Immediately, she saw that four of them was a malcadh. Oh Faolan, watch over them for you were once like this. Let them live like you have. Aonani thought. The one with no deformity look just like her, a dark grey with little white. The one of the girl malcadh was almost a blue color who's ear were really small and half of a tail. She sensed that this one was deaf in the left ear. The other malcadh girl was the color of the earth which had her left hind leg missing and she was blind in her right eye. One of the boy malcadh was the color of fire red. Like the one which the Great Faolan had jumped, Aonani thought. The red malcadh had a deformity of only two toes on all his feet and blind in his left eye. The other boy malcadh was pure white. He was deaf in his right ear and an engulfed chest with twisted blood veins and life pip. Like the Whistler. Oh my poor pups! Faolon and Edme! Whistler and all gnaw wolves of the past. Please help them! Aonani cried in the heavens.
An hour had past and Lexi went to the cave. Aonani looked up and saw the Obea. She rose up and the pups squeled. Lexi came in and grabbed the malcadh pups. So many malcadh. Has to be a record! Lexi thought. Aonani picked up the one that looked like her and followed Lexi out of her own den.
Lexi twitched her tail to tell Aonani to stay where she was. There was a cougar den just to the west of where they were and sat the malcadh pups down on their tummfraw. The malcadh pups barked and Lexi came back to Aonani. "Follow," Lexi said to Aonani as she picked up the only non-malcadh in the litter. Aonani followed immediatly, she knew where she was and if she could come back this way then she could pick up her pups if it's not to late.
A mother cougar walked out following her cubs. The cubs saw the malcadh pups and was licking them. The mother cougar saw the pups and scented the Obea. Why would a wolf abandoned their own kind? the cougar thought. Her cubs looked at their mother and pleaded to keep them for they didn't understand the wolf and cougar problem. The mother cougar roared to her cubs no then they started whimpering. The pups squealed at the roar. The mother cougar sighed to her pups and nodded for them to bring them in.
The pack ran Aonani and her mate to different directions. Aonani tried to go toward the tummfraw but the pack cut her off. Once off the MacDuff territory, Aonani went to the river and sat down. They were beautiful, Aonani thought.
The malcadh pups and the cougar cubs was drinking the milk from the mother cougar. She saw that there was a deformity in the wolf pups and now she knew why they were abandoned. She looked at her cubs and then at the wolf pups. She nuzzled them all. Her cubs asked to watch over the pups and not harm them and so she was keeping her word. I should give them names, the mother cougar thought.
The mother cougar named all the malcadh pups. The blue color one, Naida and her sister which was brown, Onatah. The boys were Falcon and Aden, in honor of their pelts. Such beauty, the cougar thought and laid down to rest.
Lexi was giving her testimony to the cheiftain. "I saw it with my own eyes. Four malcadh pups! The first malcadh pups for more than 24 moons!" Lexi cried.
"You have done the right thing for it is tradition that we abandon any malcadh pups. May these pups not die in vain, may all the gnaw wolves who recorded our history watch over these pups," Hunte McCormick answered. This clan was created from siblings of gnaw wolves and respected them but treated them the same but a little nicer.
Lexi bowed her head and trotted off to her den. May Faolan gaurd their lives till they die, Lexi thought. It would be cold tonight and she hoped the pups die a sleepy death or even Faolan's great paw put them in a snugged bush to keep them warm.
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