Chapter 2
The low sinking of the sun set a auburn color to the rain- washed soil. A lone Grovyle from the clan sped up to a larger den in the clearing. His eyes shone with menace, and he was ready to tell it. He glared at his surroundings before composing himself, oh how his blood boiled at his planned kill. He walked into the Leader's cave. Slipknot, had served the Clan for 60 long years. Too long the Grovyle, Streamer as he was called thought. Slipknot looked up with weary, troubled eyes. "What is it Streamer?" He pried. "It's about a certain Grovyle in out clan" Streamer replied with cool demeanor. "Why don't we take this conversation to somewhere private….come."
As the setting sun dipped lower on the horizon, Echo and her two friends arrived just in time for Dinner. "Why don't we share Echo's Mightyena?" Riverbreeze suggested. "Yea!!!" Leaf and Echo coursed. As they chewed, Leaf sighed in bliss, then he spotted a scar on Echo's hip he never noticed before. He squinted at it, realizing it was over a year and a half old. "Um, Echo, how did you get that scar" He asked innocently. "Oh, this stupid thing?" Echo twisted around to see it better. "I got this scar when I was really young." "What happened?" River said, sensing a long story. Echo sighed, then began her story. "When I was really young my mother had gone out to get food, so I decided to wander, making sure to keep the nest in sight. Well, this scar came from a Mightyena" Riverbreeze gasped aloud "That's why you always bring Mightyena back to the kill pile!!" "Yeah, my mother, Reflection, had told me that not all the Pokemon living in the forest were kindhearted and spirited." "So what did you do that made the Mightyena strike?" Leaf intercepted . Echo leaned back a bit before answering, "Well my wanderings brought me to a nice clearing with all Wildflowers and berries. I started chasing a butterfly and doing so I hopped right on a Poocheyena's tail. Now this Poocheyena was from the Mightyena Clan that we all hear about. So the pup woke up real fast and screamed a howl. As soon as it was done I was surrounded by a pack of Mightyena. The Leader walked from the misty forest beyond and bent it's head down and spoke with the Poocheyena in soft whimpers and squeaks. Then his head whipped up, and a cold mean glare met my innocent scared eyes. He walked over to me slowly, and growled, "This is what happens to trespassers when they harm my pups in any way!!" He knocked me over easily with one paw then unsheathed one claw. The leader placed another paw on my hip, then drew the claw down my hipbone, down to my ankle, blood was all over, I screamed, squealed and struggled with all my weak power. He only pressed harder and smiled evilly. All the other Mightyena around us, whimpered with bloodlust and hunger. He began to laugh as I screamed louder. There was a massive crash and then a loud hissing noise. My mother flew out of the undergrowth, and grabbed the Mighteyena Leader's neck, prepared to slice him in two. The pack member's slowly advanced on me, with bloodlust lighting their malice filled, red eyes. My mother seemed to sense this and launched from the alpha, and body slammed the closest Mightyena to me. Then all was chaos, my mother disappeared into a wriggling mess of Mightyena. I at last saw a glimpse of my mother, her eyes full of determination .Then I was crawling away as fast as my injured leg allowed me. I passed out right on the spot, but when morning came again, I saw a lone shape lay peacefully in the flowers. It was my mother. Since I was young I never knew what death was, but my mother wasn't moving and her skin was cold. I remembered what she used to tell me. About this fierce Grovyle Clan somewhere that would never let a crime go unpunished. I had half-heartedly made my way there and I guess the leader found me. To this day I vowed to take down any Mightyena that got in my way in order to avenge my mother's death. Only then will I rest" Echosong then sighed as the invisible, heavy weight around her head and shoulders disappeared. No one spoke until they finished eating before going their separate ways.
As Echo laid in her nest, she tossed and turned, her mind was replaying the conversation at Dinner . Finally exhaustion put her mind at peace. As the dawn sun's probing ray flickered against her eyelids, she slowly rose up in her nest, groggy from exhaustion. She blinked and noticed her two friends standing next to her. From the grim looks on their faces she knew something was up in the clan. There was a large crowd of fidgety impatient Grovyle just awoken from sleep. Echosong joined the crowd, and noticed at the top of it all on the Gathering rock, there where two Pokemon. She recognized one of the shapes, "Who's with Streamer?" Echo asked Leaf. "Must be one of the new recruits, now let's listen" He replied, just as Streamer spoke. "Welcome all Grovyle from the clan, I have some news to share with you. This beside me is Rainshine, he was viciously attacked by a Mightyena Clan ambush" Gasps of outrage and horror ran through the crowd, Streamer continued, "Rain, please say exactly what happened." The smaller Grovyle swallowed in nervousness then walked up. "It happened this morning, I was taking a nice stroll, when I felt myself be flattened by a heavy force. It was a Mightyena" Here Rain shuddered, then continued. Luckily Streamer heard my cries of pain, and saved me before I got…." Then he turned to the side, and a horrible gaping wound stretched from the spine to his calf. More hisses, followed. Rain turned back and stumbled a bit before continuing, "The pain was like a searing fire, and it wouldn't let go no matter how I slashed and bit." Tears sprung in his eyes and he stepped back embarrassed. "This crime will not go unpunished!" Streamer roared, taking approval from the crowd. There were bloodlust rages and cheers, before all was silent again. Then a Grovyle spoke up from the gloomy silence, "Streamer, where is our leader, he should be here now, helping us with the situation" More Grovyle began to wonder, and then Streamer spoke up again. "The Leader, I'm sorry to say, was killed by the same Mightyena that tried to maul Rain". Now there were frightened squeaks and hisses. "How could this come upon us?!" One Grovyle stammered. "We haven't done anything to their clan" Another Grovyle gasped. Streamer tried to settle then down. "Grovyle, I have a plan!" All the Grovyle swiveled their heads back to focus on Streamer. "The Mightyena told me as it gave up on Rain, that one Grovyle is responsible for this madness. The Mightyena Clan will not rest, and stop killing till the accused Grovyle has been destroyed." Now they were silent, each staring at all the members of the crowd. "Who could it be, Streamer, do you know.. Who this Grovyle is?" There where frightened glances all around. "Yes… I know who it is exactly!" Streamer announced. He whipped his gaze to the back, "It is Echosong."