Chapter 1: Final Origins

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"The sun shot at us, real harsh they used t' say, he, they should see it nowadays. Their journey seemed a long one, bu' they made it in th' end. They didn' 'ave armour back then, they 'ad to rely on our teeth 'n' claws. We had gotten a good hundred or so kills before this night, but this was a special night, the night them humans fall. Anyway, this pack had two apes as their leaders, not quite sure wha' the names of 'em where but they were apparently strong an' powerful. They had brains they did. The group traveled to a small cluster o' humans to pick 'em off one by one. Lyracus, you take your pack to the small area of shops, the cluster of "caves" as you call them. That's wha' the first ape said. Not quite sure wha' the other said. But we obeyed.  Lyracus took his pack to the place the humans called shops and raided the area. 'is pack was a large one, 'bout thirty two of us there was. War ain't a joke, it got real gruesome in there, probably shouldn't explain the details."

"I can take it, i'm like 8 months old or something"

"Alright, but don't go growin' up to fast. Us wolves spread through the area, tearing the necks of them humans open, blood showered everywhere, you could've mistaken us for bloody red wolves! The fightin' was probably loud, I wasn't there so I can't really comment. Somethin' they called gons or somethin' were drawn by the village protector group, they killed half the pack, but they didn't die in vain. They died with valor and dignity still burnin' in their hearts. The two apes finally came after who knows 'ow long. They snapped a few necks, knocked out a couple others. within a good few minutes the village was a dead empty shell, no use to any living creature for a long time. bu' this ain't it Azur, no way, I still got the bombin' to tell yeh abou'. We didn't take no breaks, we paid our respects to the ones who passed and moved to our next target. The group was a bi' lower on members with them deaths bu' them apes 'ad a plan. Halfway to our next target, amidst the dark moonlit forest clearing two different packs appeared. One o' 'em was a large group o' coyotes and the other I think were Eastern wolves, although they would o' traveled quite far to get to the south. Anyway, they were a large group, probably a hundred and twenty at min'. 

"A HUNDRED AND TWENTY? IN ONE GROUP? HOW? WHY? WHEN WOULD ANYTHING NEED SUCH A LARGE QUANTITY OF WOLVES!?"

"Calm yeh bloody paws, I still got some o' this story goin'. Yer questions will be answered,  don' you worry. The two packs 'ad a total o' fifteen ape leaders. The three packs conjoined into one mega pack, or an army if yeh will. The seventeen apes lead us to a larger area o' wooden caves. In no more 'an two hours the area was carpeted in blood, humans were screamin' left right and center, 'orrible it was. The area was soon wiped clean of humans and all the wolves got their share. Them apes didn't care for the food, said they'd rather fruit, can you believe that? Fruit!?"

"Yes Subor, I can believe that the world is not made up of only carnivores like yourself."

"Hey, it's in meh blood. What part were we talkin' 'bout?

"We killed a large amount of humans and ate them."

"Ah yes, well I could go for a human myself actually. Anyway, this particular area o' human caves was connected to an even larger cluster o' even larger groups o' caves. These caves were as tall as they get, kinda scary to be 'onest, glad the bears seized i' before we did. Yeh see we were originally tryin' to raid that place to but i' didn't quite work out. The place was already a flame,  gons were shootin' bloody everthin' in sight. Don't know whether they were livin' things or not, but we had to retreat either way. The Apes were signallin' us to leave, we weren't quite sure why bu' they knew better than us at tha' point. The apes had broke into their special way o' runnin'. We pelted past the lifeless heaps of carcass's that littered the area, most o' us were pretty worried if even them apes were runnin'. That's when their weird ol' technology came in an' blew up half of the damn area!

"That sounds way too technologically advanced Papa, you sure you got the story right?"

"Sure as a Lion when they see their prey. Them Bears rebuilt small amount's o' the place, not the best architects around but they got the job done. A good fifty of us lost our lives then, but them humans are reckless they are, dropped even more bomb they did. The noise would've been 'orrid. One of them apes died to, when the survivors made their escape they paid their respects to the past once more. Now this parts important son, listen carefully. ONE OF THE LAST SURVIVING HUMAN CITIES LOCATED SOUTH KOREA 37 DEGREES NORTH 126 DEGREES EAST, do yeh know why this was so important?"

"Not really, isn't that were the Amur Leopards live. Oh, did you hear about the triple war they got into? Apparently the Amur's broke their truce with the snow leopards which ended in a huge fight somewhere near Beijing, then the cinereous vultures thought they were being invaded because they recently claimed Beijing. So they joined the battle and it all ended in mayhem. To bad the snow's had to perish, they never had to much of a chance to expand their land."

"Yer gettin' off track son. But it is a shame that we lost the snow leopards, anyway, this message is so important because that means we are nearing the end of our story. So now that that area was bombed and wiped of it's inhabitance humans were left to their lonesome in two areas, England and North Korea. Now I don't quite know the details on this part bu' they got into a massive fight and murdered themselves, the survivors were picked of by a few Steppe wolves and Golden eagles, an' that's wha' started their damn rivalry by the way."

"And that's it? Humans just killed themselves in war? Doesn't that sound a little off to you? Maybe the story just got changed up a bit as it was passed down the generations?"

"DO NOT QUESTIONS THE TALES OF OUR BRAVE ANCESTORS!"

"Sorry Subor"

"Don't worry 'bout it. Now to answer yer first question we pay our respects to them humans 'cause although they were our enemies we acknowledge what they fought for and respect their efforts, now I need yeh to do somethin' fer me"

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