Tales of Pangea: Silver & Gold

Chapter 7

In the Silver Wolf Pack's home base, Kai was sitting in a room with his cousins, next to the room where a meeting was being held. "And even though he survived, the mime will never walk again. We still need to pay off his family. That payment is coming out of Ino's salary."

"Not my fault, I know he was thinking I was short!"

"What is with you short guys and pulling this stuff?" A wolf asked before Ino grabbed them in a headlock.

'When is grandpa's meeting gonna be over... I wanna go literally anywhere else!' Kai thought.

"Next order of business is about the upcoming games in Eleanoria, the one hosted by the Flock in their home turf." Cujo explained with many of the pack growing in frustration.

"We're not going to that event are we? We'd be literally walking into the belly of the beast, it could be an ambush or something." Ino pointed out.

"As much as I know Ino for being a dumbass at times--" A short black bear Pangean spoke up with Ino giving them the middle finger and using it like a knife motion. "We can't be certain this isn't a trap or something."

"The Flock is a lot of things..." A feminine voice spoke up, they all turned to a doberman Pangean in a leather jacket with a skull mask over their face and started to light a cigarette to smoke. "But they are not fools, they wouldn't try it when we could easily take out so many of them."

"Hmm, you make a good point miss Europa." Ino replied. "But still, why did they want to host the games there?"

"They're desperate." Gin spoke up, all eyes and ears on the old wolf. "Ino, how many canines moved to Zubeth in the last year from Eleanoria?"

Ino looked at the documents in front of him and answered, "In total, around a few dozen, mainly in families, and if I remember right, reports stated some were injured like they were assaulted, some stayed in Cherryton."

"I get it now/They think they are clever/So the old fart is useful!" Minos spoke, they slapped their last head. "It seems they want canine Pangeans to not feel in danger/This event is like a publicity stunt to make their home okay for canines/Idiots can't control their people and hate spreads."

"Huh? Wait, you mean to tell me they are hosting this event to boost morale or something?" Ino asked.

Gin nodded as he spoke, "That and, Cujo the documents I asked you to get," Gin was handed a large stack of papers. "Due to the assaults caused by the Flock, Eleanoria has been suffering a decline in their economy, small businesses close, homes become abandoned, and Pangeans litter the streets and homeless shelters."

"But why Kai's school? There are a few in the city and they could have invited any number of them?" Cujo wondered with him noticing the doberman named Europa get up and walk into the other room where the teens were than behind Kai and started to shake him a little.

"This here!" She stops shaking him a little. "Kai here is a public figure who is highly known in the canine community, as well as many other communities due to his love for fights with Ferals and bad Pangeans, almost as much as your old man and grandpa. Plus, you're a big spender."

"Wh-- No, I'm not!" Kai stated before Europa dropped a large file on the table that was titled: Kai's spending. He sweats a lot at this.

"Let's see," Europa opened the file and started to read. "Over a few hundred on clothes, a new TV every few months because you keep breaking them with controllers from your console that's a few thousand, geez, thousands in strawberry milkshakes, as well as a guide on how to make milkshakes, and a plot of land for strawberries--"

"I GET IT!" Kai shouts, getting her to stop. He could hear so many snickers around him.

"Anyway, they want everyone to see that they welcome others no matter their species. It might actually work. And Kai is the key to that," Europa explained as she walked back to her seat.