Of births and naming's.
Disclaimer: None of the EQ-characters are mine except Raven. She's created by me and thereby owned by me, if you wish to use her in a story of your own contact me and we'll see what we can do.
It was an early night when the first baby cries could be heard throughout the Holt. A first cub born of love mates for centuries. Somehow, amazingly enough, Bearclaw and Joyleaf had become parents to a newborn girl cub. It had been as much of a shock to the parents as it had been to the tribe.
After the death of Crescent Bearclaw hadn't been the same and when Shale and EyesHigh died it got even worse. He were more and more spending time in the troll caverns and less and less time with the tribe not making certain that they were safe. That last order anyone could remember him giving was that no one went alone in the forest and that lifebearers (the women) weren't allowed to hunt. However on one of those occasions were he wasn't at the troll caverns, it seemed he and Joyleaf had been able to created a baby cub.
Now the new girl cub was nuzzled in leather and safely placed in Joyleaf's arms with Bearclaw looking curiously on.
Clearbrook and Moonshade smiled at the look of complete amazement on Bearclaw's face. Rain the Healer also watching the way Bearclaw looked. Bearclaw hadn't been around much when it came to cubs being born, except when the cub was introduced to the tribe and given a name. He wasn't that interested in the cubs growing up either, at least not until they were old enough to learn how to hunt and fight. Which basically meant till they were at least 3 or 4 turns of the seasons old.
Rain smiled, Bearclaw's face truly was fun to look at as that was not something showed so much. Not to mention that he wasn't in the troll caverns either. Perhaps this would be a good thing for all of us. Maybe he will be around here some more from now on, Rain thought.
"Look Bearclaw, isn't she beautiful?" asked Joyleaf.
"She looks so small. Is she really meant to be so small?"Bearclaw asked.
Clearbrook and Moonshade started laughing as Bearclaw gave them a dirty look.
Even Rain smiled, though he tried to hide it. An angry or upset Bearclaw was not a good thing. Everyone knew that, but it seemed like the little girl cub had calmed him somehow. Because he didn't retaliate the way he usually did. He just gave them a dirty look and then looked back at his lifemate and cub with amazement and curiosity.
Joyleaf chuckled as she said,"Of course she's normal. All cubs are like this in the beginning."
"Well, I hope she grows up fast. I'm not used to with cubs this small and why does she has to cry all the time? Doesn't she ever stop?"Bearclaw asked.
"It will take time for her to grow up, Bearclaw. She cries because she's hungry."Moonshade said. Then she added,"Perhaps she's inherited your bad temper too, tough."
Bearclaw gave her a really dirty look and said grumpily,"I never have a bad temper, it's just that everyone else never does anything to make me happy that's all."
"Well, anyway the girl needs a name. So, what will it be?"asked Clearbrook, trying really hard to hold back the laughter at the sight of Bearclaw's look of grumpiness and amazement at the same time because of the question she had asked.
"Well."Joyleaf said with a chuckle in her voice,"how about it, old badger, what will her name be? Personally I like Raven, because of her raven black hair."
"Then Raven it will be, till another comes up,"said Bearclaw with a firm tone in his voice,"I wouldn't have known what to name her anyway."
When the other three females heard that they couldn't hold their laughter back, but burst out in loud laughter while Bearclaw gave them such a grumpy look that they couldn't stop laughing even if they had wanted to. Even Rain started chuckling with a smile on his face.
A/N: This is my first fan fiction story ever, so please review and come with any comments you wish to add. Anything that might help me becoming a better author would be highly appreciated. Any questions you may have will be answered in upcoming chapters. I don't know how far I'll take the story, but it's been placed about three years after Skywise's birth. Bearclaw haven't participated so much in Skywise's first years that's why he's not used with baby cubs.
A/N #2: I've just begun rereading the wolfrider series, but please understand that this is slightly AU even though the time line is normal. I rated the story a T because of upcoming chapters and just to be certain that it didn't go to bad on the rating. This chapter's been revised both because of my first reviewer as well as the fact that I reread the series and decided to put in some additional characters that I forgot earlier, like Rain the Healer. Please review it would be greatly appreciated c",)
Shade and sweet water,
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