Whisp crouched down, her white fur blending in with the new snow finely as she trailed the rabbit who was scavenging for food at the moment. It was mid-winter and possibly the coldest day they had seen through out the whole time.

Though the prey in the eastern part of the ripple was running nicely; she couldn't say the same for the others.

She jumped a good distance into the air before landing on the rabbit and killing it with a bite to the neck. She picked its limp body up off of the ground, trudging through the deep snow back to the main den.

She entered the tunnel that went underground to the dens, the path worn by many generations and lit by the mushrooms that grew alongside it. She deposited the rabbit into a small hole in the ground, where it was stored with the other pieces of prey

"Hello?" She called down one of the tunnels.

No response.

She tried another tunnel.

No response.

Sighing, she tried the last tunnel. "Anyone here?"

She grinned hearing a familiar voice drift back to her, answering her call "Nope!"

She ran down the winding tunnel, greeting Puddle with a tackle as she entered one of the many rooms.

Puddle laughed, pushing her sibling away from her.

Puddle gave her sister a mischievous smirk

"Wanna go to the lake?"

That simple question had silenced Whisp immediately.

She didnt know why, but ever since she was a kit she was terrified of the lake. Since before the elders had told her about its curse. It confused her, and honestly, she was tired of it.

She was one of the members who got to live with the chiefs after all. She shouldn't be scared of an over-sized puddle.

Whisp swallowed.

"Sure." was all she could manage to choke out. 'pathetic'

Puddle's eyes widened "You sure?"

Whisp responded with a simple nod.

"Great lets go!" Puddle said running ahead of her sister and out of the network of tunnels.

Whisp follower her, just not as eagerly.

She paused when she spotted the lake over a hill, dread churning in her stomach as a cold wind blew around her.

She shook off the feeling and pushed forward after her sister.

When they arrived at the lake, they discovered that the edge of it had been frozen over from the cold.

Intrigued, Puddle wandered closer, placing a paw on the smooth surface. She put more weight on it, earning a terrified look from Whisp.

Puddle walked forward onto the ice, smiling and looking at her sister "Come over here! The ice wont break i promise!"

Whisp, still ignoring the increasing amount of dread in her stomach, stepped onto the solidified horror with her sister who was on the edge of the ice, looking into her reflection with awe. She signaled for her sibling to come closer. And she did. And she looked into the water. But she didn't see her own reflection. What she was was a white fox with deep blue eyes staring directly at her through the water.

This scared her. But what happened next petrified her. It smirked... And then she heard a cracking noise and then she looked next to her, her sister was gone. And so was the piece of ice that she was standing on.

She looked around frantically hoping that her sister was just pulling a cruel prank. She called her sisters name, when suddenly, a frenzy of bubbles appeared on the waters surface.

Without a second thought, she plunged into the water after her sister, swimming deeper and deeper into the liquid. The light slowly fading the farther she went.

'I cant hold my breath any longer' She thought.

But she heard another voice inside her head that wasn't hers. 'Then let it out'

She reached the bottom. Her heart filled with dismay at the sight of her sisters lifeless eyes staring at her, a look of pure sadness frozen on her face.

'I give up' she wanted to cry. Her limbs were starting to cramp from the cold water. 'It's hard to move'

She couldn't hold the air in anymore. She watched the bubbles of air drift up past her face. She began to close her eyes, when she caught a glimpse of the fox she saw in her reflection. His white fur with swirling blue markings along his back and deep blue glowing eyes. 'How beautiful' she thought as the image swam past her face.

She closed her eyes. 'I'm so sorry it ended this way'

The last physical thing she felt was her sister resting next to her.

That was my first chapter. I think ill be working on this story really often :)

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