"Aniu are you SURE you know where we're going?" Dante moaned behind her ears. Heaving a big sigh under her breath the young wolfess gathered her tension and spoke. "Mother left behind a trail when she left for the caverns so, we'll just follow the same path she took."
A slight chuckle could be heard by the tallest sibling "But what if her journey wasn't an easy one? I heard rumors about-,"
"and that's all they are; rumors." Atka shouted at Dante. "Geez I was only teasing." Dante shrugged. "You forget Balto isn't here with us so you can forget trying to scare everyone."
"Atka you've been under some stress sense mother and father left. Something's on your mind." the white wolf stopped in her tracks turning tail to face her brother. "I-," the tan wolf sighed heavily. "I know I can't hide it from you sister. But I'd rather get to our current objective-,"
"No Atka, before we advance any further I want all of us to understand each other as a team. I can tell just by looking at you that somethings eating you under your fur. Please, tell us."
Atka folded his ears and sat his rump down, head lowering and facing the earth. "Its just all this is happening at once. Tier's gone, Mom and Dad leaving with Balto and eska, me getting all the responsibility thrown at me, that ghost coming back to haunt us,"
"Maybe we should let you rest for a while. You've had a long day." Aniu padded over to her brother. "No, the one thing I wanna do now is get to this cavern so we can get our grandmother to help us with, with this…"
"ghost?" Dante helped finished Atka's stuttering sentence. "Shut up Dante there's no such thing!" the young beta spat out. "Atka, there's no reason to raise your voice," Aniu assured.
"Why? You know him he's trying to scare us! Like he's always been since we were pups! Let me tell you I've had enough of his jokes, it isn't gonna work this time and if you think-, OOPH!" everything got dark suddenly, a forceful blow hitting his stomach. Topling over to his side, Atka's vision blurred, the world spinning around him. "Sorry brother," was all he heard before fainting.
"You sure I should have done that?" Dante lowered his head to his brothers face, nudging his cheek softly. "He needed it, there was no other way he'd comply." Aniu took a final sigh of relief. "We'll camp here until dawn."
(A/N: not much but its something to keep you occupied. letting you readers know I'm still writing. right now i'm going on writters block but no worries. I'm still continuing)