The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XXVII: A Bitter Reunion.

Milly:

One day, I was informed about another strange figure roaming around near the forest and so I organized a patrol in the Shade Hunters Division that I would lead in order to investigate who or what it was. So far, we had found nothing.

It was not long until we heard something in the sound of wood clanking– wait, wood clanking? That isn't something you would hear in the forest unless…
Oh, no.

"You're in the territory of the Southwest Forest!" I yelled. "Whoever you are, I'd suggest you leave now before there's trouble!"

The strange figure then made themselves known to us at that very moment; it was a mouse-like creature wearing an orange shirt, a black jacket with black camouflage sleeves, dark green pants with holes on in them, a brown belt around his waste, black and orange boot, and black and orange eyes with a black and yellow glow coming from them. Above him were wooden handles with strings attached to them. "I'd only cause trouble if you'd caused it yourselves first." He said in a malicious tone. And let me tell you this, when I heard his voice for the first time, I could have sworn I had heard it before–but since it was a long time ago, I couldn't recall at first; it wasn't until he looked at me, his eyes widened with shock as if he knew me somehow. But it then came back to me when he asked: "Milly, is that you?"
It was my dreaded uncle, Mari! The only reason I didn't recognize him was because of how he looked; the last time I saw him was when he accidentally hit my brother, Myles, when he was nine when he tried to ask him why he never bothered to visit us– he hit him so hard that he knocked him to the ground. I was ten at the time and I tried my very best to defend him but I ended getting hurt as well, but when our parents heard what was going on, they kicked him out and he was in prison for over a year and a half but then, he just mysteriously disappeared and we never heard from him again. But now that I had found him, I wasn't at all happy; I was furious to see him again after all he had done to us! I had a lot of mixed feelings boiling up inside of me other than just rage itself: Sadness, betrayal, mostly anger, hatred, and bitterness; all mixed into one.

"Whoever or whatever you are, you are advise to leave now." DoveFeather said. "You have no business being here whatsoever."

"Pfft, you'd really think I would leave just like that after I've just reunited with my own niece?" He asked nonchalantly. "Well, think again. Because I'm not going anywhere without–"

"You heard DoveFeather. Leave." I bitterly muttered. He slowly turned to look at me. "What did you just say?" He asked. I then faced him and yelled: "Are you deaf or something? She said leave and that means you need to leave! Now!"

Mari: "Who are you to tell me what to do from what came out the mouth of some she-wolf? You have no sort of authority and therefore–"

Milly: "Shut the hell up, you bastard and listen! When we tell you to leave, you leave, damnit! Didn't the military teach you any of this shit?! Well, it looks like you just tossed all of that into the damn trash cause you ain't even listening to us!"

Mari: "Why, you little piece of shi–"

Before he could hit me, I moved out of the way and I pinned him to the ground. "You have some damn nerve showing yourself wretched face again and trying to take me with you to wherever it is you're going." I said. "Needless to say, you've done a very piss-poor job by doing so."

"All right, you've convinced me! I'll leave if that's what makes all of y'all happy!" He said. "And that would in fact make all of us happy." ShrewTalon said. Mari then yanked my foot off of his torso and got up, but before he turned away, I fiercely grabbed him by his shirt. "The next time you show your damn face again, it ain't gonna be pretty." I muttered. I then sank my claws into his skin above his eye, and clawed his face, causing him to let out a scream of pain, back away and cover his eye. "Run along now and leave you miserable prick!" I snarled.

And he did so. But I would then see his face again in battle.