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Born To Lead ½ Prologue

It's hard to believe that only a few days prior things were peaceful in San Francisco. Apes and humans had lived separate lives, two worlds apart. Yet they'd been at peace coexisting side by side without the other even knowing it.

Then one encounter in the Redwoods changed everything. Bringing the two species together again after nearly a decade. At first, it appeared like that the two sides could live peacefully together without any discord or bloodshed. Unfortunately, all hope of this vanished when Koba, a bonobo, and citizen of the Ape Colony in the woods broke the sacred code the apes held killing their own people and instigating war against the humans.

Now Koba is dead, punishment for his betrayal, leaving the rest to pick up the pieces from the damage he left behind in a grave outlook.

A war between the true races has truly begun with little hope that peace can ever be restored.

Throughout it all the great Caesar, his wife Cornelia, and children, Blue Eyes, Willow, and newborn Cornelius, have withstood it all. They've survived and managed to stay together in order to continue leading the other apes counting on them.

This family of five will desperately need that unity in the weeks and months to come.

For if any of them assumed that things might get easier from this day onward then they're dead wrong.

With so many obstacles coming their way in different forms the true test has only just begun.

Will they remain strong enough to make it out alive to see the next sunrise?

So shaken following so soon after the loss of her beloved Ash…can Willow?

Authors Note:

Surprise! ;D Bet none of you were expecting this! Ha! Got you good!