The New Light of Hope Book I: The Adventure Begins.

Prologue: The Origin of the Heroes and The Prophecy.

Many years ago, five divisions had been formed.

The Forest Spirits Division, The Stream Echoes Division, The Shade Hunters Division, The Sun Chasers Division, and The Night Runners Division. Each division made an omen of peace and to never fight amongst one another. Everything seemed peaceful for a while, but then, a threat entered the Northwest part of the forest; a threat who went by the name of "The Venomous Loners" made us all cowardly in fear. But when Chief Hunter, who was the first leader and founder of The Shade Hunters Division, was assassinated by the Venomous Loners, the leaders needed to come up with a way to defend the Southwest from the Venomous Loners. That is when BoulderHeart, the first and only son of Chief Forest, the first leader and founder of The Forest Spirits Division, came up with the idea of Forest Heroes; he explained that there would be sixteen animals with unique abilities. The first eight heroes would have the following abilities: Strength, Bravery, Thorns, Shockwave, Teleportation, Speed, Stealth, and Protection; the other eight would have the following abilities: Solar Manipulation, Cryokinesis, Aerokinesis, Pyrokinesis, Combat Manipulation, Hyperacusis, Hydrokinesis, and Enhanced Tracking. The leaders had agreed with this idea and thus, The Heroes of the Forest were formed; they would be the ones to protect the Southwest from the Venomous Loners until they surrendered. Soon enough, the Venomous Loners came to the realization that they were overpowered and left the forest, since then, for each new generation, new Heroes of the Forest would be formed in order to protect their home from the enemies. But when the Sixth Generation came around, things were not at all great for the forest, rather bad and unlucky; many animals had died from either sickness or old age or other complications, offspring were either stillborn, weak, or had grown sick and died, mothers also died due to complications, apprentices had also died due to unknown reasons as well; some animals had left the forest due to all that was going on, and as for the Heroes, well, they themselves suffered a terrible fate, all of them were unfortunately killed by the enemies and the Southwest had lost the war against them; the deaths, along with the death of the Heroes and with the deaths of the Forest animals and with some of the animals leaving had brought great grame and devastation and mass hävitys, which gave the Sixth Generation the nickname of "The Unlucky Generation" due to all that had occurred during that time frame. But as the saying goes: "When one door closes, another one opens." For the Seventh Generation came around in which was very extraordinary. Because what if I were to tell you that the Heroes of the Seventh Generation were not only animals, but humans as well? So what is "The Story of the Seventh Generation''? What exactly happened during the Seventh Generation and why exactly is it so different from the other previous Generations? Well, this is how it all began.

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The leader of The Forest Spirits Division, Chief CrimsonPelt, was thinking about what was next for the Seventh Generation and what was to come for all of them. His co-leader, BlueFire, had approached him, concerned for his leader. "What are you thinking about on this clear night, sir?" He asked him. CrimsonPelt looked into BlueFire's concerned eyes with a concerned look back. "I... I am worried about what this generation has in store for all of us." He answered. "I just do not understand why we have not had any message from our ancestors to tell who the next Heroes are and the Heroes from the previous generation did not have any apprentices to take their places upon their unexpected deaths. I just do not know what to do or what is next for all of us."

BlueFire: "It is a bit strange, maybe the ancestors are still deciding on who should be next."

Chief CrimsonPelt: "It usually doesn't take them very long to make their final decision, maybe this time is different than the rest."

BlueFire: "Maybe so, but I believe you should rest for tonight, Chief, and if you do happen to receive the prophecy tonight, let me know first thing tomorrow morning."

Chief CrimsonPelt: "All right, I will."

Chief CrimsonPelt went to his den to sleep for the night just as his co-leader told him to do. He entered the den, laid down on his bedding and drifted off the sleep.

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Chief CrimsonPelt then found himself in a black void, or what is known as the Vision Realm, he looked around to see who he could find. "Hello, Chief CrimsonPelt." A voice said in a greeting manner. CrimsonPelt had recognized that voice from anywhere. EchoHeart? EchoHeart was the first Hero to represent Protection and was named after her mother, Chief Echo, who was the first leader and founder of the Stream Echoes Division. 

EchoHeart: "Chief CrimsonPelt, I have come to you tonight with a prophecy."

Chief CrimsonPelt: "You have?"

EchoHeart: "It is a prophecy which you have been waiting to receive for a while."

Chief CrimsonPelt: "Proceed."

EchoHeart: "Eight individuals who all have great, yet different destinies ahead of them will bring great changes to the forest and beyond it, but, there will be great obstacles in the front of it all. One of them in particular, who has been left so broken by tragedy will befriend seven."

Chief CrimsonPelt: "Do they live here somewhere within the forest?"

EchoHeart: "No, they do not live here in the Southwest Forest; they all live in a town called Wingard's County, Silverville, Lucella East Coast. Send your co-leader, your former apprentice, and your fellow lead tracker to the place, they will find them there. A forest so broken and so shattered, yet is still living cannot be rebuilt by the animals all by themselves. It will take the perseverance and teamwork of eight young individuals that do not live within the forest to help the animals out with restoring the Southwest Forest back to the way it was long ago."

She then left, leaving Chief CrimsonPelt all by himself.

He then woke up and looked around him and then looked around, he later laid his head back down, keeping the prophecy in mind. "Tomorrow, everything will change the forest as we know it." He whispered. Then he went back to sleep, remembering EchoHeart's words.

And this prophecy marked the very beginning of something remarkable that would be remembered by every animal who lived in the forest.