(Eyy, I finally finished writing it! This is a really long chapter, so sorry about that~ )
The sun rises, casting morning shadows across the forest floor. Eclipse yawns and stretches out, slowly waking up. The images from his dream are still fresh in his mind. He looks across at the sleeping pokemon near him. Aura and Azure. Eclipse's drowsy state is disrupted by something missing.
Snapping into reality, Eclipse jumps up, looking around. 'Where's fang?' He thinks, panicking. Shaking Azure awake, he explains the problem. Azure looks up at Eclipse.
"Eclipse, he's right here!" says Azure, trying not to laugh as she lifts her paw to reveal fang cuddling into her thick white fur. He yawns cutely, and rolls over, trying to feel to where the heat source went.
"uh..." Eclipse looks down at his paws, embarrassed to have been so worked up about something that didn't need worrying about. "sorry. " He attempts a feeble smile before padding over to Aurora, and nudging her gently with his muzzle. She wakes up and yawns, then smiles at Eclipse.
"Let's get moving. We're almost there!" Azure cheerfully declares. Aurora struggles to her feet. 'I hope we'll be able to walk all the way there...' Eclipse thinks, worried that the kits might come soon.
Fang stretches, and Azure picks him up by his scruff in her mouth, and motions for Eclipse and Aurora to follow before getting back onto the narrow path they have been traveling.
Getting narrower gradually with each step, the path brings them along a tall cliff, which overlooks a large valley, almost like a large hole in the ground, where the sides of the hole go straight down like cliffs. It has a roughly circular shape, almost a mile across on each side, and a fourth of a mile down.
Eclipse looks out at the valley below them. There are tall, steep cliffs surrounding a beautiful expanse of forest. There are large feilds scattered throughout the area, all powdered with a layer of snow. There's a beautiful waterfall pouring down the face of a cliff opposite of the one they were on, the edge of the pond it leads into has ice floating in it. The morning sun was just coming over the cliff with the waterfall, making the water sparkle. The faint light from the rising sun cast a golden glow upon the snow covering the fields and trees. A large Staraptor soars over their heads before diving down into the beautiful valley and landing in a tree before disappearing from view.
"Eclipse! 'cmon! We don't have all day!" Azure's voice snaps him back into reality. She and Aurora were already a good distance ahead of him on the path, which had started to lead towards the cliff face they were at. Breaking his stare from the beautiful scene, Eclipse runs to his small group.
"So this is where you live?" Eclipse says, catching up to Azure. She nods, looking out over the beautiful scene, a warm smile spreading across her face.
"This is where we planned to raise fang." Eclipse looks at Fang. He's asleep on his mother's back. Looking out into the valley as he walks alongside Azure and Aurora, hundreds of worries about his family flood Eclipse's mind.
"Hey. Don't worry." Eclipse realizes that Azure has been looking at him. 'oh, right, she senses these things...' Eclipse thinks to himself, looking back at the path. He runs a little bit ahead of the group to scout out the surroundings, but stops short when he comes to the end of the path, inches away from falling off the tall cliff.
Azure and Aurora catch up to Eclipse, who is busy examining the cliff face for a way down. "Eclipse," Azure half-laughs, "were definitely not going down that way!" she holds back laughter. She looks behind her to see if anyone is following them. "quick, follow me." her tone becomes serious as she puts fang down in front of Eclipse and crawls under a thick mint bush. The plant is surrounded by moss-covered rocks and thick trees on either side, the Bush itself seems to be blocking the entrance to a hollow inside the rock, and they are unable to see the other side.
