Animal jam: The alphas

Amelia

Hello. I'm Amelia, the female fox alpha. People look at me like I'm different. Strange I can even say. They wonder about my accent...about my earrings. You wanna know? Fine.

The sounds of banshees erupted through Amelia's eardrums as she awoke. She jumped from her bed and onto the bamboo floor, ran across the room and stuck her head out the window. "Y'all better shut up!" The orange fox barked. Shaking her head in disappointment, she walked down the loud bamboo stairs.

I wish these stairs could shut up. Walking down to the foyer she saw her mom, a brown fox with deep grey eyes.

"Hey mom." Amelia spoke in a thick accent. Her mom walked up to her and with fierce eyes, her mom studied her fur and spoke "you did not clean yourself." As the foxes eyes opened in realization, Amelia spoke "well, I was going to hunt today anyways, I will clean up then."

Did I just speak a lie? How dare I not brush my fur. I cannot be punished like last time. The grey foxes eyes penetrated through Amelia's fur. "Alright then, get out and hunt."

Amelia quickly rushed from the treehouse and jumped off the bridge, falling 20 feet and landing on the hard dirt but landing perfectly. Alright, I gotta find that hearthstone, Mira doesn't know we exist and although I should be hunting, I gotta be part of jamaa. The fox ran through the bushes, getting pricked by thorns. "Sarepia Forest is no place to strive." Amelia whispered to herself.

Suddenly, she saw something, or someone. Quickly she stopped running and crouched down, straining her neck to look up and see what it is, she saw a black circular body with 6 legs spreading out from it. Gasping in fear the fox whispered "phantom." I have never fought a phantom! I don't know the first thing about it! She then noticed it was concentrated on something.

"What is this??" A deep gravely voice spoke. Amelia then saw another phantom fly over and it spoke "looks like a paw of some creature, maybe even that hearthstone that pathetic heron Mira could be searching for!"

Phantoms have the hearthstone? I must get that, and not let them take it for the eternity of jamaa! Amelia quickly grabbed a stick and went around to the side of them. "Hear goes nothing." She whispered in a quiver.

The orange fox jumped up and stabbed the purple eyed phantom, as it quickly disintegrated into ashes. The other phantom quickly looked over and saw what Amelia had done. "You!" The phantom quickly lunged at the fox and the dodged it, grabbing the hearthstone and putting her paw in the center of it, where a paw was engraved.

Suddenly Amelia felt a shock, as orange wisps leaked from the stone. It went inside her, making her paws and eyes glow orange, and her increasing in size. "What?!" The phantom screeched. It then stopped as she stood there, breathing heavy and turned to face the phantom and killed it with one swipe of her glowing paw, making the phantom disintegrate.

The hearthstone then sent out a huge orange beacon, then ending with Mira standing on it. Amelia gasped in disbelieve at Mira, and everything that just happened. What just happened?? What am I! I just killed 2 phantoms! "Well hello Amelia." The heron spoke to her. Amelia bowed as the orange wisps faded away from her paws and eyes. Mira chucked, "no need for bowing, your one of us now."

Amelia quickly looked and and spoke "W-what do you mean??" The heron walked up to her and explained, "For many months now I have searched for a fox hearthstone, and once I found one I would need a fox alpha, but with the hearthstone playing by the rules of its game, the first fox to put its paw in the ancient engraving would become the fox alpha, as well as summoning me here." The newly crowned alpha looked at Mira in disbelief "So that means-" the heron stopped her. "Yes Amelia, your an alpha."