Bellatrix:
Like all animal and Protectors of the forest, all must attend to the borders and must involve themselves in fight whenever a rival patrol intervenes with another. Often, other Divisions participate in these patrols as well the Protectors of the forest as well as it is another one of our responibilities to take care of as well; however, there is one incident in general that we have never forgotten about-- an incident that is never brought up whenever we meet with one another, until now that is.
Why exactly happened? Well, friend, this is just that story.
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Date: July 11th, 2019.A joint patrol consisting of the Night Runners Division, the Forest Spirits Division, and the Shade Hunters Division was formed that day; in the Night Runners Division, me, EmberNose, OwlHeart, RowanStep, General AspenFrost, GravelClaw, LilyFur, and RainCloud were part of the patrol; in the Forest Spirits Division, Aurora, her apprentice, Shadow, MoonStone and his apprentices, Berry and Strike, CedarTuft and his apprentices, Dusk and Antler, OspreyTalon, and RainPelt were part of the patrol; and in the Shade Hunters Division, Milly, FiercePounce, StrawberryHeart, DustTail, SpiderHeart, BadgerPelt, BarkClaw, and LittleFern were part of the patrol. And we were to check the Northeast Forest in particular to see if any of the Diablos had left their scent marks or had stolen anything from within the territory. The patrol was successful in the midst of it all and we had no problems; that is, until we were about to call if a day and head back home.
Milly:
As we were making our way to the middle part of the forest to split up and get to the Divisions and go back home, we were then stopped when we caught sight of a joint patrol led by Nathaniel and SunPelt, the former healer of the Shade Hunters Division--the patrol itself consisted of members of the Insolence and what I would suspect to be members of the Venomous Rogues and the Withered Souls. "Going somewhere, are we?" Nathaniel asked us, given us a bit of a wicked look in his eyes. "We were just about head home, Nathaniel." Aurora told him. "You and your patrol get lost and go somewhere else and leave us alone."
SunPelt: "Ah, but I don't think we will."
Bellatrix: "We're not going to ask you again, assholes! Leave now or there's gonna be some trouble! Now which one is it gonna be?"
SunPelt: "Trouble."
Aurora: "All right, you've asked for it."
And then we began to fight and that is where the incident truly began.
During the fight, SunPelt had attacked me and scratched my chin, but I quickly threw him off of me, scarred him, and then pinned him to the ground with great force. Remembering what I was told the night before, I looked at SunPelt. "This is nothing too personal." I murmured to him. "Too personal? What are you talking abou-" before he could even finish his sentence, I threw my head down and sank my teeth right into his neck, jerking back and forth as I sank deeper into his flesh with the salty, bitter taste of blood coming into my mouth. Then, I jerked my head up with his flesh in my mouth as he began to bleed out. I then spat out part of it and kept going where I then fought two other animals and slit their throats. I think it was the sight of me that gave Nathaniel the hint and he called the attack and they left. "Well, that was easy." Bella said when they were out of sight. "It didn't take them long to-" she then stopped when she and Aurora saw the bodies of SunPelt and the other two animals that I killed, then they caught a glimpse of me and saw that my hands and my mouth were covered in their blood. "Milly, what the hell did you do?!" Aurora asked in horror, frightened by wha she saw. "Wh-What are you tlking about?" I asked. Then I looked down and knew exactly what she meant. "Oh, I see. It was an accident, Aurora, I swear!"
Aurora: "Since when did you start doing that out of the blue?"
Milly: "I was defending myself, I swear I was!"
Aurora: "And just how can we be sure that you didn't do this on purpose, Mill?"
Milly: "Well, I-"
Aurora: "Answer me!"
Milly: "I-I... I was defending myself."
Bellatrix: "Not by the looks of it, you weren't. You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
I didn't answer them at that moment but they then turned to their assigned Divisions and went back, leaving me with just the Shade Hunters. "Come on, let's go home." I coldly ordered everyone, and so we did. And not was said when we got and not was said when we were heading back home either.
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Date: July 11th-July 12th, 2019.That night, I had learned another move in which involved you having to kick your enemy in the torso so hard to the point where their ribs or their entire ribcage broke and I had also learned that SunPelt and the other two animals --whose names were SandyHeart and Clyde-- had joined us as well prior to me killing them, though, they really did not have much to say to me when we saw each other again. "You're learning very quick, Milly." WoodTooth told me. "Soon enough, you'll be helped completely but you can still come back if you want."
"Hell, yeah, I will!" I told him. But that would later turn into a lie and so would my so-called "Help" as well.
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The New Light of Hope Book III: Enemies From Beneath.
Adventure"Enemies can lurk anywhere, even underneath us." Nearly one month has passed and the animals have officially named the Northeast Forest as their new forever home. The Octet are still helping them with building their new foundations in the Northeast...