DOGS OF THE WILD

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"In a faraway forest, where no human would ever dare to go into, were dogs. In fact, many. There were 3 different groups of them, the richka tribe (water), the Zemli tribe (land), and lastly, the povitrya tribe  (Wind). Back then, these three tribes lived in peace. With all three of their leaders, who all possessed different powers which were given to them from the tribe. They all lived in one condition, though. 'Stay in your territory, and only take what is in it.' But after awhile, the leader of the Zemli tribe got jealous of the other leaders, and wanted their powers and their power over others, so he made a terrible decision. He sneaked up to the richka leader at night, and stole their powers. When the povitrya tribe heard of this, they locked the Zemli tribe into a magical cave and let them never be seen again. And gave the richka tribe back their powers. The end." 

Trig, the elder dog. slowly rose and got up from a stump he was sitting on and asked "Any questions?.." A young pup, with a reddish-brown coat raised her hand, confidently. "Yes.. Cindy?" Trig sighed. "In case you haven't noticed, you didn't tell us what the names of the tribe leaders were." She told him. "What are they?" Trig had never actually thought about that, given the fact that nobody actually told him. "It was never told, I guess that one of the generations forgot about the names.. Any more questions? Anyone?" She put her hand up again, before someone else throwing her paw down. "You gotta stop asking so many questions!" Her best friend whispered tense. This, was Coco. She had a long, black coat with a black stripe on her back. Trig looked around before deciding that no one had any, and then ended the session.

When he walked away, all of a sudden there was sudden yelling. Except this wasn't yelling, this was chanting, their village leader, (the povitrya tribe) was chanting along with the village, everyone sat in a circle around a  small jar. It had a glowing white sphere inside it. Cindy smiled for a second. Feeling proud of her tribe and its legacy. 

 After this, Coco and Cindy went back to their den and looked for their mother. When they finally found their mother, Bailey, she was sitting down. "I've been waiting for you, so how was the teachings?" Cindy and Coco walked over to their mother, before both saying : "It was great! Oh! JINKS!" Before both bursting into laughter. After they finally calmed down, Bailey asked "May you two go catch a rabbit? We've ran out of food. They should be near that old well those humans made. Oh, and maybe go try to gather some herbs, along with that too." They both nodded and made their way over to the old well she was talking about.

While walking, Coco turned to Cindy and asked: "Don't you think you're a little too young? You're only 10 moons old." Cindy turned back, and said, "Well, I may be young, but my mind isn't!" All of a sudden, they heard sudden movement. Fast movement. "That must be a rabbit!" Coco whispered. When they tried to find the rabbit, it was no where to be seen. But then Cindy caught sight of a big boulder. "Hey.. Coco.. Look! A big boulder.." "So? What so special about a boulder?.." "It's a special boulder!" When Coco walked over to see what Cindy was talking about, she was fascinated. It was a big boulder covering a large cave. The boulder had a leaf painted on it. 

"Huh.." Coco said. "So?.. Do you wanna move it??" Cindy said excitedly. "Well I mean like-" Coco responded. "Okay! Out it rolls!" Cindy pushed the boulder out of the way, and she was met with total darkness. Suddenly, they heard a voice down the cave, it echoed up to them. "Come.. Down." It was a raspy voice, and an Erie once, too. Cindy and Coco looked into the darkness,  it sent a shock down their spine. They decided to go down, anyway. They were met with multiple dogs sitting around a campfire. And there seemed to be a leader. 

The leader looked down on the pups, before slowly walking over to them. The leader was a black and brown dog (Rottweiler). They watched as they walked over to them, the leader had a piercing smile, that made them tuck their tails. When he finally got over to them, he sat down, narrowing his eyes at them. "Well, well, well. What do we have here?" The leader said. Suddenly, they noticed every one of them was surrounding them, circling them. Trapping them. Cindy looked around, worried as ever. "Uhm, sir.. Why is your group circling us?" Cindy asked, worryingly. "Dear.. your from the povitrya tribe, aren't you?" The young pup nodded. "So.. you were the one who LOCKED us in this cave for 10,000 years!?" He screamed at them. They were silent. "Sir?.." Coco asked.