[kivr & fireflii]

Tall, lean frame, round ears, and bright eyes, Xholis are diurnal, hierarchal, and intelligent species that wield the forces of nature. Xholis are social animals that can be recognized into 2 different clans. The ones that hunt at dusk, and those that hunt at dawn. Their pelt reflects their environment as the Dusk hunters tend to have darker palette while the Dawn hunters are significantly lighter. Between those two clans, the species are once again split into more diverse and specialized packs. Fire, Earth and Water are the most common forces of nature that each Xholi wields. The gem they are born with determines their attribute, which is effected by the parent's gems. Every Xholi is given a role befitting their status in the pack, and the leader of the each pack is expected to keep the peace.

Scout - Dawn Dunia Pack

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Name:

Tanith

Meaning:

Serpent Lady

Gender:

Boy

Story:

Wolves are not like Xholi, though we share similar traits. Wolves are far more brutal with their customs, they have no powers and no rules like my pack does. We consider them to be lesser beings, annoyances at worst as few of them would take us on in a fight.

And right now, they were my only hope.

A pup had been born in the pack tonight, a pup unlike any others. It didn't belong with any of the tribes. Rather then being a proper Dunia, it had a silver stone. There had been unrest just as I returned from my shift.

I knew the rules, I had been told them a thousand times. None of it makes it any easier to watch the ashamed parents leave the healer's den. I knew what I was supposed to do.

It wasn't what I did. With my head raised, I trotted across the camp to the healer's den. There I saw two little pups on the floor, one normal, one with a silver gem behind it's ear. The healer looked up at me, clearly unhappy about this turn of events. They looked up at me as I entered, waiting for me to state my purpose.

My throat was tight with my lie, but I told it anyways.

"I'll be heading out on patrol to the furthest border soon. If you would like, I could take the pup there. It would save the trouble of having the parents carry them out and risk them trying to hide it."

They looked at me, I thought they would find my lie, that I would be punished. But my friend must have been rubbing off on me, my lie worked. I was given a nod and tired eyes in return and without any further words between the two of us, I grabbed the pup by it's scruff and off I went.

As I left the clearing, I saw the heartbreak in my friend's eyes. He was weak when it came to pups. But I suppose I was hardly one to talk.

Away my paws flew against the dirt. I knew where I was going, but despite my speed I wasn't eager to get there.

I found myself at the border, and it was there I found what I was looking for. What I had yet to report.

My luck was good that night, there was only two wolves on a patrol against the border. When I arrived they looked up at me with hostile gazes. I set the pup down at my feet, doing my best to hide my accent I as spoke to them.

"I have a propose for you. You take this pup into your pack, you care for them and raise them as an equal."

With lowered ears and almost snarls on their faces, the dominant of the two steps forward and growled out.

"Why?"

"They'll be a boast to your pack, strength in their powers."

"Not good enough."
They were moving closer, snarling as they went.

I let out a sigh, dipping my head in defeat and asked

"What do you want?"

They considered me for a moment. Looking me up and down. Finally they spoke again.

"One month. We know we can't fight your kind, but we need time to move. You tell a lie to your pack, that we were more numerous then your pack could easily fight. That we're already on the move and that you think we'll be gone by then. If we don't see any of your kind around while we move, the pup will be safe with us. Agreed?"

I didn't want to take the offer, I didn't want to lie to my pack, to give up the extra food this territory would give us. But I needed this pup to live.

So I took the chance. I pushed the pup towards them, the little thing clearly upset to be leaving me. Raising my head, I looked them in the eye and spoke.

"Yes."

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[Lilelith]

by novapup
Name: Mirakel
Meaning: The miracle of the Swedish language.
Gender: Male

Two loving partners for a long time sought the offspring. However, nothing pointed to the fact that ever will succeed. When they have lost all hope, suspecting infertility or an illness, it turned out that the female is pregnant. Finally, she gave birth to one pup. He wasn't the biggest and most massive, but she believed that he catch up agility. And so began the story of Mirakel. They named him so, because his birth was a miracle. They love him, pampered and they are doing as much as possible to make it him well. And he was grateful to his parents, even how much time he spent with elders. Parents bery much hunted. He was more adult issues, interested in the other clans and rules. He wanted them to know how best to parents were proud and he able to repay.
And one day, he found himself in a terrible situation.
He continued his patrol. He had to look after, and all the puppies sleep, if no one got lost, and if no one is on their territory.
He had to oversee that all puppies asleep, or no one got lost, and if no one is on him territory. In the middle of the night he felt a strange smell. When he came closer, the moon shone his frail figure Xholis. He does not smelled them, so it had to be an enemy. He braced himself for the worst. Running up to her in the position ready to attack, she fell. She lay there, part of the blood. Slightly curled. Mirakel scared. He did not know what to do. Abashed took a few steps back before morning did not raise his eyes to wet snout.
- Please, s-save him. This is my t-treasure - she whispered, feeling that he is taking good person. I slowly pulled out to reveal the silhouette of a small puppy. Scout did not know what to do. He knew that the rules punish him what else he should not, that will be punished for your help ... However, too much he felt sorry for her. He would know what his mom would do if he was in danger. He bent head toward the mouth of the female.
- P-pleas...
- I promise - he said, gently touching the tip of the snout her fur. He knew that he could not save her. He was sure that if he asks for help, the elders, and so will not agree. Kill and mother and child, and punish him. There was no chance. With a feeling grabbed the puppy and began to walk toward the trees. I knew without looking that she died. Mirakel running as soon as possible so that no one noticed that she could be with someone else. When it was hard for him because he sinned not by force, he sighed heavily. And then, when nearly put the puppy in his feet, he saw two figures in the distance.I knew what I was doing was against our customs however. I couldn't let this pup die. I promised. I made a bargain - one I would surely regret. But there are no option.
He noted that there were only two silhouettes of wolves. They looked scary, but thet seemed to worry about. Arms something. Or someone.
So I took the chance.
And then I realized that behind them is a female. A few squeaks came to his ears before you work out, that gave birth to puppies.
Yes.
He left the tail, strongly holding the puppy. Submissively closer to the ground to place a few steps forward. He knew that they could kill him. And even though it risked. In the end he promised, and promises himself should keep. With each tape a history of wolves becoming increasingly upset. However, it did not seem to Xholis give up. They saw his submission and even seemed to have no bad intentions. But no chances. Being very close, let puppy. He pushed it forward. I retreated. Wolves confused already wanted to kill him, and Mirakel began to regret. Before this happened, he heard a growl, and soon after nursing mother withdrawing towards the orphans. He had seized him to her, looking all the time in the eyes of a savior.
To this day, remember this night. Anyone about her said. Nobody knows about his little secret, when I broke the rules. Maybe it better? Sometimes it seems to him that a figure passes in front of him. About the same colors as a small puppy, but before they catch up - disappears. And for women howl echoing behind him and he voiced two other songs. And quiet, much softer, as if belonging to the puppies.
He succeeded.

Art Bank
by aviate

[Dawnbreeze10210]

Mark

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Totally watching. OvO

[giraffidae]

username: legend-
name: Harley
meaning: originates in Old English language and means "meadow in the woods"
gender: female
story: life is not a story without drama & dreams.

────────── ｉ ｋｎｏｗ ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｏｆ ｙｏｕ， ──────────

────── ｓｏ ｙｏｕ ｍｉｇｈｔ ｊｕｓｔ ｂｅ， ｈｏｌｄｉｎｇ ｍｙ ｋｅｙ ──────

diamond gif credit: google

..............They spent their years growing up together, becoming friends, best friends, & then a bonding experience that took over their lives. Different packs, they were shamed a bit, but allowed to meet each other every day for the last five years. On occasions each would have different opinions about something, getting into an argument, staying away from each other for multiple days straight, and then cuddling and laughing. They were cute, you could admit. Just at a good age, like most xholis, they wanted a real life together. They went and "fused" their gems. As it was expected there were plans with one pup as the gem *popped* up, but as two more did, they looked at each other suspiciously..

As days passed slowly by, both newly achieved parents became less worried. Their pups grew into their own forms more more after the two lovers forgot all about whats happened over the past rare events.

Hitting the packs in the clans like a lightning bolt hitting a tree, it electrified them. Terrified them. The wolves became deadly. Not even understanding why, the wolves searched every pairings and pups for... something.. The pups quickly started yapping, making some kind of noise they could. Watching them, the parents gathered the pups up and quietly took off into the woods. The Wolves heard a rattling right after the family was out of sight. The adults ran carrying the pups, in their mouth as quickly as they could. Attempting to leave no trace of them, they decided to run in the freezing water. Getting drenched in cool buckets of water, they began slowing down. Finally looking back, they saw, heard, & felt nothing. Slowly creeping up on them, the wolves were on a mission it seemed for the way they moved. The female was slowing down even more than the male, but only carrying one out of the three. She fell, and the male skid to a stop and run to help her get up. She dropped the pup and dropped herself. Neither one of the xholis knew what was going on. Quickly, the male dragged the female behind some flowers and a tree. The flowers helped hide her original sent, and the tree, it was just a hiding spot.



flower credit: tumblr
He picked up the helpless pup and sat it beside the female, curled up and warm. Lying the others with them, he faced the wolves alone. They circled him. And questioned him. "Wheres the pups. Why did you run? Wheres the female." He just stood, chest out, not barging to their penetrating stares. Eventually, a wolf struck him in the back, and he elpped and lunged at him. Not being very muscular, but enough to stand when hurt, he was quickly taken down by few wolves. As he thought and slightly whispered, so glad shes not seeing this.

But she was. Well, almost everything. Certain things were blurry for her to see. She could tell by the size and shaping of the small animals beside her, they were the pups, but then she saw what was happening to her mate, and she felt a lump in her throat. She couldnt say anything she was so upset. She just lied there silently crying her little blue eyes out. The wolves completely took the male down, nothing to do with him when he couldnt even stand on his own. The pack left, but slowly to make sure no one came to him. Feeling like hours passing by, the female waited staring with a blurry vision from salty tears at her dying mate. She quickly raised to her paws and raced over to his side only to lick his face, but with no response. The last movement she saw of him- a tear rolling down his cheek bone and a blink of his eyes.

It crushed her, but she knew she couldnt stay here long. Other creatures would smell him and soon come to his disposing of his body. She swiftly picked up two of her pups, the weakest, and convinced her last to follow her. She found a hole leading under a tree. It wasnt that big, and so she softly laid down the pups and started digging. She dug until her paws left small drips of blood in the dirt when she walked. The dirt was hard and ashy. It was damp, but usable. She gathered her pups and took one by one into the makeshift den. Collapsing from her paws, she instantly feel asleep. Breathing heavily, her pups crawled up under her paws to keep warmth throughout their bodies.

Waking upon mornings first light she yawned and saw a small and injured doe in the distance. The doe laid down and she fired after it, feeling fresh and newly born, she felt her muscles gain strength and her mind gain information on the land and her surroundings. She let the doe go only to notice how beautiful the place was she wondered into. The pond water was crystal like and able to see the fish and toads swimming around. The patches of grass were so soft, it was like your were lying on a dreamy cloud. The whole place seemed like a dream. She finally remembered the pups. Quickly turning around, she almost stepped one one, but she stumbled and so did it. Falling onto the rocks and rolling into the water, it got up and acted dizzy. She thought something was wrong but, there wasn't, until they walked back to the den, she noticed a slight crack in the pups gem. Even more worse news of her day & life was finding her other pups gone. No scent or nothing. First thing that came to her mind was humans. But they never come this far into the woods...

She stood there shocked. Still unable to actually process what just happened in the past few minutes of her whole life. Theres was nothing she could do. If she wasnt so weak, she would go looking for them, but she was exhausted. Trying not to be a bad mother, she took the resources she had and used them to make a better home for her and her last pup.

Both stayed in that area, but it seemed every morning she got up and smelled the scents floating through the air, she couldnt remember more and more each day. Each day, she knew less and less about the pup. And the pup knew less and less about her. At some point in the years, they forgot almost everything of each other. Following that day, it was like they meet each other for the first time. They started a bond together- mother and son. As her and the pup grew old, they stayed in that secretive landing. They were never really disturbed, maybe every once in a while by some bees or a beaver from the dam close by. Other than that, they both loved it. As soon as the pup was of age, it choose his own identity: male. As his crack stayed the same throughout his life time, the one thing that changed, was his ability to remember memories, it got better. But the one question he always asked her was: "Do you know what happened to my mother?"

Each year, every month, & week as a newly, adoptive, mother, she would tell her young pup a story about two xholis and their pups. How much trouble they got into and didnt even know. She would tell him the story of how a mother is loyal to her pups and how it can effect their lives positively or negatively in the future. Seeming like each time she told him this story, something special about the pup really opened her eyes. Every night she would dream about the story, getting a new piece of the strip every opportunity.

One night, she had a horrible night mare, but it started off as a dream. She relived the whole "fictional" story she tells her pup. At first she didnt believe her dream, but as the same dream came to her in her sleep every night, she started to believe it more and more.

A week passed, and her son asked the seem question for the last time it seemed like, and finally, Harley answered," Yes."

[Moorray]

Name:
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Lumière

Meaning:
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Light in french

Nickname[s]:
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Loup calls him Little light
Other Xholi's call him Lumi

Gender:
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Male

Rank:
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Working class-scout

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NOTE
Lumière is the pup
in the comic that
is shown. His mother
is the one carrying
the pup. This is here
to clarify. If you don't
read this the story will
be extremely confusing.
[Winter&Firefly gave
me permission to do it
this way.]

And kudos to anyone
who knows what Loup
means [HINT: It's also
French.]

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Lumière walked out on another sunny day alone. He couldn't go with anyone, they didn't know that he was still visiting the wolves. They were practically family, being the ones who raised them. He even knew wolf as his native language, even though he was an Xholi.
The young Xholi peeked into the cavern of what use to be his home. "Hello... Loup?" Of course he was speaking wolf when calling to his former mother. there was no response.
"Loup!?" She was usually always in the den. It was a rather large one though, and she was a near pitch black wolf. Maybe Lumière just needed to walk down more. he moved rather quickly through the cave, he was worried. This was the first time Loup hadn't answered. Was she sad, angry at him, famished... dead? "Loup!" Lumière finally saw his foster mother is the back of the den, looking to the cave walls. "What's wrong. A-are you okay?" Loup shook her head.
"I should of told you this earlier, before I had become weak or frail. You should've known your origin from the start." Loup turned to face the scout, she looked old and tattered. Even her voice sounded weaker than from Lumière's previous visit. "What do you mean? Y-you simply told me about how you were taking care of me for the other Xholis when there was a fight. A-and how they needed all pups in a safe place." The frail wolf sighed, looking Lumi in the eyes, "I am ashamed I have lied to you, Little light."
Lumière glared at Loup. "But why would you? Now should I trust anything you say?" His barking was harsh at the she-wolf. She backed up out of fear, she knew Xholi's have powers, and she looks like she had seen what they could do. "A-at least let me explain..." The Xholi huffed, but obliged to Loup.
Lumière moved closer to Loup. The wolf just looked at him. "Well?" He said impatiently. "Oh, right.." at her old age, Loup must be forgetting a lot lately. "Oh, yes.
"I have known your mother for a while. She was a beautiful gatherer, and she looked a lot like you. even the placement of her gem was almost the same. She knew every creature had emotions just like you Xholis. She easily bonded with everything she met."
Lumière looked at Loup with wide eyes. 'Really?" Loup chuckled and nodded, "Yes. Just like you, your mother visited everyday, learning our language and our customs. She loved every bit of it, until one day.
"Another Xholi followed her into our cave and sent out an ambush against us. We had to feel the force of the dawn pack's power, my pack and I. I-it was horrible. I-I'm the only w-wolf survivor of the ambush against us.... A-anyway, your mother felt horrible for what we had to go through, and stopped visiting me. I still wanted her company, especially out of loosing the others I knew and loved. I can only imagine that she was ashamed of what she put us through.
"Eventually, she fell in love with an Xholi from the Dusk Pack. Your mother knew it was wrong and so did your father, but they were perfect together. It was all against their customs, but she still had you."
"So, then she brought me here, but why would she do that when she thought you were holding a grudge?" Lumière looked at Loup with confusion. "I'm getting to that part, Little light. All she wanted to do was keep you safe, but leaving you out in the wild, alone would be just as bad as exile. Her only choice was to bring her to me. She told me about all that has happened, how sorry she felt. I accepted her apology and you with open paws, but that was the last time I saw her."
"What happened to her?!" Lumière's voice was shrill, he was anxious to see what had happened. "I-i don't know that part. Like I said, that's the last time I saw her. She was probobly Exiled, along with her mate..." Lumière growled out of frustration. "Why do the do that? Keep wolves, I mean, Xholis that love each other away?"

"I don't know."

[Lady Sif]

Name:

Tanith

Meaning:

Serpent Lady

Gender:

Boy

Story:

Wolves are not like Xholi, though we share similar traits. Wolves are far more brutal with their customs, they have no powers and no rules like my pack does. We consider them to be lesser beings, annoyances at worst as few of them would take us on in a fight.

And right now, they were my only hope.

A pup in the pack had just gotten it's colors, a pup unlike any others. It didn't belong with any of the tribes. Rather then being a proper Dunia, it had a silver stone. There had been unrest just as I returned from my shift.

I knew the rules, I had been told them a thousand times. None of it makes it any easier to watch the ashamed parents leave the healer's den. I knew what I was supposed to do.

It wasn't what I did. With my head raised, I trotted across the camp to the healer's den. There I saw two little pups on the floor, one normal, one with a silver gem behind it's ear. The healer looked up at me, clearly unhappy about this turn of events. They looked up at me as I entered, waiting for me to state my purpose.

My throat was tight with my lie, but I told it anyways.

"I'll be heading out on patrol to the furthest border soon. If you would like, I could take the pup there. It would save the trouble of having the parents carry them out and risk them trying to hide it."

They looked at me, I thought they would find my lie, that I would be punished. But my friend must have been rubbing off on me, my lie worked. I was given a nod and tired eyes in return and without any further words between the two of us, I grabbed the pup by it's scruff and off I went.

As I left the clearing, I saw the heartbreak in my friend's eyes. He was weak when it came to pups. But I suppose I was hardly one to talk.

Away my paws flew against the dirt. I knew where I was going, but despite my speed I wasn't eager to get there.

I found myself at the border, and it was there I found what I was looking for. What I had yet to report.

My luck was good that night, there was only two wolves on a patrol against the border. When I arrived they looked up at me with hostile gazes. I set the pup down at my feet, doing my best to hide my accent I as spoke to them.

"I have a propose for you. You take this pup into your pack, you care for them and raise them as an equal."

With lowered ears and almost snarls on their faces, the dominant of the two steps forward and growled out.

"Why?"

"They'll be a boast to your pack, strength in their powers."

"Not good enough."
They were moving closer, snarling as they went.

I let out a sigh, dipping my head in defeat and asked

"What do you want?"

They considered me for a moment. Looking me up and down. Finally they spoke again.

"One month. We know we can't fight your kind, but we need time to move. You tell a lie to your pack, that we were more numerous then your pack could easily fight. That we're already on the move and that you think we'll be gone by then. If we don't see any of your kind around while we move, the pup will be safe with us. Agreed?"

I didn't want to take the offer, I didn't want to lie to my pack, to give up the extra food this territory would give us. But I needed this pup to live.

So I took the chance. I pushed the pup towards them, the little thing clearly upset to be leaving me. Raising my head, I looked them in the eye and spoke.

"Yes."