Goldfire's heart just stopped when Flametail just told her what happened. Inferno, the love of her life, the father to her children, gone. She just dropped to the ground howling her heart out. The children were taking it even worse. Fluffy and Blaze were holding each other and bawling into each other. Summer was crying so much that she started to hyperventilate and couldn't breathe.
"DADDY, WHY DADDY!"
"Kids come here" Goldfire then wrapped her tails around each one of them, trying to comfort them the best that she could.
"Flametail, where is his body."
"We put his body and the others a few trees behind us."
"I would like to see his body."
"Sure Goldfire."
Flametail began to lead Goldfire towards her dead husband. She told the other wives to follow her to see their husbands. The kids started to follow their mothers, so they can also see their fathers. Other members of the pack stopped the kids in their tracks. No kid needs to see the horrors that were behind those trees.
"Kids just stay with the pack, mommy and the other mommies will be back soon."
Flametail then led the wives to where the dead Ninetales were. The scene before them made two of the wives to throw up. There in front of them were the mangled corpses that were once their mates. Two of the Ninetales had some of their tails ripped from them and had huge gashes in their stomachs. Only one had three of his four paws ripped off with cuts all along his back. The other one didn't even have a head at all. The wife of that one asked what happened and Flametail told her that the Houndoom took it with them to it. The wife then started to howl her heart out. The only Ninetales left is Inferno.
His body had the worse injuries than the rest. Inferno's body was missing six of his nine tails. His stomach has deep slash marks with some of his intestines falling out on the ground. One of his eyes is missing from its socket and has half of his jaw missing. The Houndoom ganged up on him because they could smell Goldfire's scent. They wanted to kill the leader's mate on purpose to hurt her.
"Alright, we need to have a proper burial for them."
"I agree, the other males and I will start to dig the graves. Goldfire, you need to keep all the kids away until we finish burying them."
While Flametail and the other males were digging the graves, Goldfire went back to the cave with the other females. The kids started to cry to them because they want to see their dads. Some of them tried to run past the adults, but were caught by their tails holding them. There was talking and misconduct going all around the pack right now. Goldfire climbed up on the high rock and launched a Fire Blast attack into the air. This act caught the attention of everybody and made them all be quit.
"I need everybody to remain calm and be quit. I now that we have all been hit with something pretty big that affects the entire pack."
"We need to take revenge" screamed somebody from the crowd.
"I say we kill every last one of those damn dogs" said another male from the pack.
Members of the pack were yipping in agreement with that idea while others were saying that will make them no better than the Houndoom.
Some males and females started to attack one another because of their different views Bites and fire attacks were being fired from all directions. Goldfire was looking down at her dissolving pack and was trying to figure out what to do. The Vulpix were all confused on what was going on and started to cry seeing their parents fight. Seeing the Vulpix cry was the last straw for Goldfire and she launched another Fire Blast at the adults.
The blast knocked some of them down leaving them unable to battle. The others looked over to their leader, who was now very angry for how her pack was acting.
" ARE ALL OF YOU CHILDREN!"
Her tone scared all the children into running into the cave. The adults were even frightened for they have never seen their leader so angry.
"THIS IS NOT HOW WE HANDLE THE PROBLEM. WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER IN ORDER TO AVENGE OUR LOVED ONES. ANYBODY THAT IS AGAINST THAT CAN JUST FUCKIN LEAVE THE PACK NOW!"
All the Ninetales looked at each other to see if anybody was going to leave. Nobody left and everybody leant down to bow before their leader. Goldfire has finally gotten control of her pack and everybody was in agreement. After everybody calmed down, Flametail and the other males came back from the graves.
"Everything is done Goldfire."
"Thank you everybody that helped with the graves."
The males shook their heads in the way of thank you and went on their ways. Goldfire told the pack to go pack to what they were doing before the attack. Hibernation is only a few weeks away and they need all the food that they can get. With those final words the pack split up to gather food. The Vulpix came out from the cave and started doing their part in collecting berries. Goldfire's children also came out from the cave and went towards Goldfire.
"Mom, are you done yelling" Fluffy asked.
"Sorry kids, mommy just got a little mad on how everybody was acting."
"Are we going to avenge dad?" asked Blaze.
Golfire didn't want to answer that question because they will still so young to know what was happening out in the forest. She told her kids to help the other Vulpix with the berry collecting. They each gave a happy bark and went to the bushes with the other kids.
For the next several weeks, the pack went on their daily routine for hibernation. The males did the hunting while the females watched the kids and collected berries with them. As the days became colder, the time to hibernate was coming. Goldfire was going over last minute things with her pack before they go into the cave for the next several months.
The scouts were coming back for what was going to be their last patrol. Because of the Houndoom and Houndour, scouts had to double the amount of time they looked over the territory. Goldfire assigned some of the females to help the male scouts. She didn't want the enemy to come into their land again and attack.
As the last scout came from the bushes, Goldfire let of a howl to signal her pack to go into the cave. Everybody from the pack went the cave while some members pushed a large boulder in front of the cave opening. This was to make sure any pokemon out of hibernation wasn't going to kill them while they slept. With the boulder set, everybody in the pack prepared for the long sleep.
Families began to wrap around each other to keep themselves warm. The parents formed a circle with the children in the middle of them. Goldfire wrapped around her children to keep them warm. It was lonely because Inferno wasn't here to complete the circle. Goldfire looked to see the other widows and see on how they were doing. She could see the sad looks on the faces of them all because they know that their circles won't be complete. Some of the Vulpix were tearing up from not being able to sleep with their dads.
Goldfire couldn't let herself see her pack being miserable and depressed. She couldn't let the attack from the Houndoom and the Houndour be unanswered. Once the winter ends and the spring begins, Goldfire will lead her pack to the territory of the hounds and kill every last man, woman, and child.
Goldfire has made her choice. She will avenge her love, Inferno, and attack the Houndoom in the spring. The time for battle will soon come and will decide which of the packs will survive or being completely wiped out. Just a reminder, as for the last sentence of chapter 2, there will be death and scenes that will make some readers uncomfortable. If you don't like to read this sort of stuff then you might not want to keep reading. I will understand your choices and don't forget to leave a review on the story.