Nachi

Without a flaw of hesitancy in her graceful strides, Nachi crossed through the enterance and headed back down the spiraling staircase as she made for the basement. Then she turned, standing in a beam of light that shone down through one of the high windows. There she waited for the others to enter.

Silver Trace .+. Wither .+. Ynear

Silver Trace grew further behind to walk next to her ill half-sister, Ynear. Silver grabbed Ynear by the scruff and began to help her down the stairs then met next to Nachi. A power propelled her voice as she spoke with the adult. "N-Na... Mother... " She growled. "I want you to train me to be strong. I want to get revenge on my mother's death. On the humans and the dogs who murdered her." Blue spheres grew serious as she looked to Nachi's nose.

Wither moved just infront of Ynear looking around the dampness of the temple and growling slightly. "I don't like it here." She spat then turned to the rest of the pups. Ynear lagged behind and slumped down to rest. Wither felt responsible for her older sister and layed next to her to provide body heat. "What's your face! My sister is sick, what do we do?" Her manners were obviously not developed as she spoke so rudely to her new 'mother'. She was never taught otherwise. so far.

Palatina

She sat away from them all scared of his adult who told them she would be there mother.She had a mother.She curled up away from all them.She would wait for her mother she had heard her howl before they had gotten too far.

Nachi

Pride shone in Nachi's eyes when Silver Tip desired her help, "You will avenge them, my daughter. You will have strength that you could not have possessed if not for my training." Right now, Nachi was on cloud nine; she had more pups than she had ever had before, and a cougar who was coming to visit. Her little world was complete right now... almost.

Nachi looked sternly to Wither, her voice even but still motherly at this point, "Darling, it will take time to get use to your new home..." Her light eyes flickered to Ynear, "...and trust in your mother, for she knows best about curing all problems." The wolf said, speaking briefly in thir person. Nachi moved closer to the sickly pup and sat down next to her, leaning her muzzle down to lick the top of the pup's head, in a comforting action. "I will make you better, my child." For some reason, Nachi had taken a sudden and strong liking to this particular pup.

There was so much to do! First things first though, "Tell me now, what names have you been given?"

Palatina

She stayed away and on gaurd."Don't you consider yourself our mother you are not our mother and never will my mother is still alive and she will save us.My sister wouldn't be sick if it wasn't for these pesky wolves who attacked my family"She growled lightly watching nachi."Why should be give our names to a kidnapper?"She growled.

Silver Trace .+. Wither .+. Ynear

Silver Trace was only a little bit older than the alpha pups. Giving her size and wisdom a slight lead. "Pal, It's alright, She wont hurt us. Mother, My name is Silver Trace. Silver for short. And that is Palatina." She pointed to the one who was making the biggest commotion.

Wither watched as the new mother sauntered around the room. She was uneasy but soothing words came from her older half sister. "My name is Wither"she whispered as she began to relax and soon drifted into a small nap. The fighting had caused her great exhaustion. It was time for rest to her.

The little black pup looked up at the warm licks and smiled. "Thank you" She peeped out, then sniffled and continued. "My name is Ynear." The runt squeeked and held her tail slightly between her legs. Strong dark eyes gazing around the room. Although the room was dark, it was much brighter to her. Her gift to see in the dark far better than those around her, in return for her weak immune system.

Palatina

"i dont care my mother is gonna miss us and i want to go home to her now"She growled.

Nachi

A smile was presented to Silver Trace, "I know you, dear Silver, will make me very proud. You should all look up to your sister-" Nachi said, glancing at the pups before looking to Silver Trace, "-she is a very smart one." And then to Palitina, while carrying a look of slight hurt mixed with sympathy, "Poor child, you are still confused. I would never pupnap... I would never do anything bad. You are here because your mother... she has been taken by the evil wolves. She is dead now." The wolf hung her head down, closing her eyes for a moment as if the news was a harsh emotional blow to her. Slowing opening her light eyes, she looked fondly from Ynear and then back to Pal, "You have good anger in you; I will teach you to use it against the evil wolves that slain your old mother. But first, you must accept me as your new mother." To be called mother... that, for some reason, brought a tremendous joy and pride to her that she could not explain. But to be denied such a title stirred a fierce anger within. So far, she kept that emotion well concealed.

Palatina

"so you'll help me kill sacrifice? The one who attacked my mother? I saw her and the other wolves that are here attack my packs friends.My mother is not dead and even if she was i would not accept anyone as a mother especially the ones that would be my mothers downfall"She growled glaring at her.

Silver Trace

Silver looked up in suprise as her half sister spoke of slaying Sacrifice. Although the pup was a nuecence when she was little. "Rapture was the one who would hurt such a being, I can't see Sacrifice hurting the alphess... or would she?" She looked lost, remembering the temper of her half brother. "Pal, mother doesn't want to hurt us or bring a downfall to anyone. She's who rescued us. She will help us get back at those reched dogs who attacked our pack." Silver wasn't there for the attack, so she believed that all was the doing of humans and their canine companions.

Wither looked to Palatina and whimpered. "Pal, We don't know if mother is alive or not. We were taken in the middle of the battle. What if mommy thought Sacrifice was trying to steal us to kill us and attacked her for trying to protect us?" She understood herself, that's all she needed to know.

Ynear was a bit lost and all of the confusion just made her want to sleep even more and make the pain go away. She let out a soft whimpered and curled up in a ball and fell asleep.

Palatina

She growled at all of them."Too bad i saw the battle between sacrifice and mother sac attacked mom and i heard her howl to tell use she would save us"She growled."wither how can you say that?Mother doesn't like fights"

Lion, Outcast, & Tersek

The three had followed along with theirs mix of siblings into the den. Tersek had once again gotten himself occupied with exploring the much larger basement, and didn't pay mind to Nachi or the others at the moment.

Lion listened quietly to the arguments that were thrown back and forth and tried to decide for himself what was the right answer. He had to admit that Nachi seemed sincere in her words, despite a gut feeling that all was not right with this situation. But, he could find nothing against the wolf, and so he had to side with Silver Trace. "Palatina, I think Silver is right. Na-Mother saved us. I don't know about Sacrifice... but Mother didn't attack White Tip." It felt strange to call her mother, but he did it anyway. It was still hard for him to except Twilight's death... but he'd have time later to mourn for that. At the moment, things needed to get settled.

Outcast still did not have trust in Nachi. "Don't call her Mother! She's not our real mother." The wolf seethed, glaring at the female wolf banefully, "And we aren't your childeren, either." With or without facts, Outcast just didn't like Nachi.

Palatina

"I dont care she is holding us here and not returning us to our right ful mothers. Sacrifice did attack my mom im not blind i was the closest to the outside of our little cavern there.Kalaber is still alive and ill never call this disgrace of a wolf mother or even think of her as mother and when i get bigger i shall return home on my own to show mother that i will not be brainwashed by some fool of a wolf"She growled glaring.her tail above her back."Father will want us back and he will come for us"

Nachi

There were two speaking for her now, which was enough reason for her to keep her cool in light of Palatina and Outcast's defiance against her. Afterall, she didn't want to outright kill the two offending pups and loose the trust of the others who believed in her. Nachi moved closer to Palatina first, "Dear Palatina, I understand your confusion and anger, and I know you don't really mean what you are saying. You are too young to really comprehend any of this." She could see that arguing with the pups wasn't working out well, so now it was time for plan B.

"Today has been rough, I know. So how about we take a little trip and do something fun?" Distraction. Deception. "Does anyone have any suggestions?"

Palatina

She growled and glared at her."The only place im going is home to my mother"She snarled.Her hackles raised.

Silver Trace .+. Wither .+. Ynear

Silver Trace sighed to Palatina. Shaking her head as if the pup was against them all. "Just give mother a chance, she has shown no wrong, I don't know why you condem her so." she turned and began to trot around the dark. "I would suggest Blind Wolf Calling but it seemed not to get a huge responce from last time. Ynear is sick someone should stay here with her." She turned to the black pup that was curled on the floor. Her white sister stood up and walked along side of Silver Trace, if any was going to be her mother figure it would be her half sister. She didn't have anything against Nachi but Silver was someone she knew.

Palatina

"She is not mother i will not give her a chance i want my mother"SHe growled.

Nachi

Nachi deftly turned an unhearing ear on Palatina as she focused on Silver Trace, "Blind Wolf? I don't think I've ever heard of that game. What does it entail?" An ear was directioned to the temple's stairway, where she awaited Ireshk to come down. He would be appointed guardian of Ynear, and most likely Palatina and Outcast for that matter.

Palatina

She watched and growled but nothing more.

Lion, Outcast, & Tersek

Whether Palitina was right or wrong on the issue, he wanted to end the quarrels and focus everyone on something other than stress and arguements. "Silver had a good suggestion. Or maybe we could practice hunting or something?"

Tersek, finished with his exploring, came to stand near Nachi, "Lets do something, I'm bored!"

Outcast rolled her eyes, "Whatever." she didn't give a hoot about Nachi, and certainly didn't consider her anything near motherly. But like her brother, she was growing bored in the dark basement.

Ireshk

The yearling male sat near the stairs of the basement, having been keeping guard at the Temple until now. It seemed that everything had settled down for the time being, so he came to see his 'mother' and figure out what she was up to now. "Is there anything you need, Mom? Anything I can help you with?"