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Shira's POV
I stared at the younger saber for awhile, completely motionless on the outside, but my mind was wild as a rainstorm on the inside. This cub looked, and acted, so much like Solstice. Like my sister. But it couldn't be. No matter how much I wanted it to. She was dead.
"Shira?" The saber asked, walking up to me. But I barley heard. Diego nuged me out of my trance.
"What? What happaned...?" I muttered, rubbing my head.
"Shira? You okay?" The saber asked.
"I stepped back beside Diego, laying back my ears. "W-who are you? How do you know my name?" I stuttered, trying to look feirce, and failing.
The saber looked confused. "Shira? It's me. Solstice..." She said. "Don't you remember me? I'm your sister!" She squealed, starting to panic.
I shook my head. "No. Your not Solstice. She died a long time ago. Killed by mammothes during a hunting accident. Your not Solstice. For all I know, you could just be a figment of my imagination. You couldn't even exist!"
The saber shook her head vigorously. "No! No! I didn't die. The mammoth just knocked me out. Not killed me. When I woke up and went back to the camp, the whole pack was gone. You left after the attack. Didn't you?" She said desperately.
I slowly nodded. "Yes..."
The saber sighed with releif. "Oh, thank goodness."
"But." I said. "If your really Solstice, then you'll know who Bramble was."
"Oh that's easy." She said. "Bramble's our hot-headed brother. Hey. Whatever happened to him anyways? And mom and dad? And Lilly? And Glacier? And Cyclone? And-"
"Okay Okay. I beleive you." I chuckled, walking over to Solstice. "Geez. You must be her. No other saber in the universe talks this much."
Solstice chuckled. "Yeah. So, what happened to them?"
I let out a sigh. "Well, after you, ya know, things wern't the same around there. Mom started to go into deppression, so much that Cyclone had to take over leadership. And it only made it worse when Bramble fell off a cliff and was never seen again..."
Solstice widened her eyes in disbeleif. "B-brable's gone?" She said after awhile, tears forming in her crystal-blue eyes.
I just nodded and let her lean into my fur well I continued.
"After that, Mom got so deppressed that Cyclone had to take over completely. She ended up drowning in the river a couple months after he dissapeared. When that happened, I left. Dunno what happaned to any of the others." Solstice sighed. "Well, we might have lost Bramble. But we still got eachother, right?"
I nodded. Then she looked suspiciously at Diego. "Who's this?" She asked, narrowing her eyes at him.
I chuckled. "That's Diego. My uh... Friend." I finished quickly.
Diego walked up to her. "Uh, Hi." He said. "This is a bit akward..."
"Hey there." Solstice said. "Any friend of my sis is a friend of mine."
"So, uh, are you gonna be staying with us?" Diego asked.
Solstice shrugged. "...I guess so..."
I cut into the conversation. "We'll have plenty of time to talk about this once she meets the herd. Come on Solstice." I said, walking into the den, only to be stopped by Diego.
"Shira. Are you sure thi is a good idea?" He said. I glared at him.
"Of course it is. She is my sister after all. Why ever not."
Diego glanced at Solstice, who was currently stalking a butterfly. "You sure we can trust her?"
"She's barley more then a cub Diego." I growled, starting to loose patience with him. "And besides. We can handle her IF something happens. Which it won't."
He sighed. "Alright. Just trying to make sure you know what your doing."
I smiled at him. "I am. And if something happens. I won't judge if you say 'I told you so.' "
He smirked. "You really think I'm that stupid?" He chuckled, earning a laugh from me.
We walked into the den, seeing only the possum brothers and Sid. "Hey guys." Diego greeted. "Where's the others?"
"Out getting breakfast." Sid said. "Where'd you two lovebirds run off too?"
"Don't call us that." Diego and I said at once.
Sid chuckled. "See? Even your MINDS are connected as one. Can't you see your perfect together?"
Before we had a chance to answer, Solstice walked in. "Hey guys! What's taking so long?" She asked.
"Ahhhhh!" Sid, Crash, and Eddie screamed and ran behind a rock.
"W-who's THAT!" Crash stuttered, pointing at Solstice.
I had to muster up every ounce of will power I had to keep from laughing. "Guys relax. This is my sister. Solstice."
"You have a sister?" They said at once.
I nodded. "And a brother. But that's a different story for a different day. Solstice. Meet Sid, Crash, and Eddie."
The black and white saber walked up to them. "Hiya! The name's Solstice."
"H-hey." Crash said.
"Your not gonna eat us are you?" Eddie added.
Solstice chuckled. "Of course not. I don't eat possums. Or sloths. Besides. I don't think you'd be very tasty anyways."
"Well then. Nice to meet ya Solatice." Crash said and shook paws with her. Eddie did the same.
"So. You must be Sid." She said, looking up at the sloth.
"Yep. The one and only!" Sid said. I rolled my eyes and Diego face-pawed.
Solstice looked him over, circling him a couple times before sitting down again. "I'm not gonna lie." She she started. "Your not what I was expecting at all. But I like you." She smiled.
Sid sighed. "That's a releif."
Solstice chuckled and looked back at me. "So. Is this it? Or are there more?"
"There are plenty more." I assured. "Three mammoths, another sloth, and a hedgehog."
"Molehog." Diego corrected playfully. I nuzzled him. For a bit too long.
"Diego and Shira. Sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Sid, Crash, and Eddie sang. We broke apart and blused. Diego growled at them. "Hey. Solstice may not eat you. But that doesn't mean I won't." The others just chuckled, including me, and he eventually did too.
Solstice walked up to me. "Hey Shira. What happened after you left the pack? You never said what you did after that."
Diego glanced at me. "So. You gonna tell her?" He asked, settling down next to me.
I looked at Solstice. "You really wanna know?" I asked.
She nodded. "Uh-huh."
I sighed. "Alright. But I'm warning you. It's not a very nice story." By now the others had settled down in a circle around me and Diego. I took a deep breath, and started to explain.
A/N: Hoped you liked this chapter. It's longer then the frst by far. Yay! Anywho. Until next time!
Sianii out!
Peace!