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Wolf Knights by Lukas Sotola
ght began.
“Stay in here son,” my
They’re losing!” Cloud was right, they were, and most of the males were dead.
I was just a pup when, my father, the leader of my village, was approached by Shadow,
the leader of a Lion tribe, along with a small army of other lions. Shadow, had a black mane, and red eyes, and was abnormally
mom said. “Don’t exit this hut unless I tell you to. The other moms and I are right here.”
“ Lets go before they start coming for us!” I said.
huge. “ What do you want?” said my father.
“ What do think is going on out there?” said my friend Moon who had silver fur.
“ O..kay” She nished. They started into the forest. We ran as far away from the village as we could, then stopped to rest.
“ For you,” said Shadow. “Or should I say, ‘your’ surren- der to my rule.”
“ I don’t know, but I hope dad will be alright.” My other friend Cloud, a female with white fur, said,“ Well,” began my last friend Sun, but then a lion burst into the hut, the fe- males pounced on it. Mostly only males fought, but females did know how, but they didn’t usually.
“ My father once told me,” I said, “those in times of trouble, we should go to the northern mountains. I don’t know what he’s talking about but, we can go there.”
My father started laugh- ing so hard; I assumed he would fall over.
“ And why, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Should I surrender my
“Are you kidding?” said Moon,” There’s nothing there except mountain lions and, and...well nothing that would help us!”
village’s freedom, just like that?
Hm?” “ Surrender their free- dom? No the only different thing is that they’ll be under my rule, and all males will be hired into my army.”
“ Run Star! Run!” yelled my mom in the midst of battle.
“ No,” my father shook his head,” No. I will not give my village, and their freedom.” Then a blinding light came out of Shadow’s eyes. My father narrowed his eyes to blot it out. When it stopped my father said, “ What was that?”
friends,” Quick! Lets go!”
“ No!” said Moon,” I’m
“Um...well I guess you’ve got a point. But if we get chased by some...monster! It’s your fault!”
“Well, looks like I’ll be killing you all. Soldiers! At-
“ N-“ Moon stopped him- self,” okay, but on your head be it!” We ran past the four moms ghting the lion, and circled the hut into the forest. We crouched in the under-brush, to see the
mountains, they weren’t far, so we didn’t run into trouble. My father had brought me there with my mother one time.
tack!” “Attack!” yelled my fa-
But there was something different about them. There was a large fortress! It was a short wall, with two towers with ar- row holes on them, the gate was just a wooden rectangle that, by
ther. I watched from my hut as my father’s wolves charged at the lions. But my mom pulled me into the hut before the real
battle. “ Oh no!” said Cloud,”
“ Yes mom.” I said.
“ But, our homes...our families...”
I went into the back of the hut, where my friends were huddling in fear. I sat and joined them.
“ We can’t help them, but we must go!”
“ But mom!” I said.
“ Just run!”
“ Okay,” I turned to my
“ Well, do you have a bet- ter place?”
not leaving my mom to die!”
“ So you’ll stay and die with her?”
“ Com’mon! This isn’t time for your stubbornness! Lets get out of here!”
“Calm down, lets just get some rest okay?” I nished.
“ Yes!”
The next day, my friends and I went to the northern
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The Trumpet is Sounding by Geoff Roest