[Here's Phoenix in the intro scene!
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3244133 I colored in Coalchaser's editable and added my own edits. Also posting it at the bottom.]
"Yay, great!" Maggot laughed, leaping high into the air. He fell onto his side, but rolled back onto his paws. Although he was small, he was a pretty resilient little wolf.
"Arewethereyet arewethereyet?" the excitable teenager asked.
"You were." It was supposed to be a question, but Felon's voice was flat. She was a soldier who had no use for emotions on a regular basis. "I was just training. We could train together if you want." Instead of its normal rigid posture, her tail lay at ease behind her. Felon was usually alone, but maybe being around her packmate would help both of them.
Churl, who was normally quiet and gentle, raised his tail in a threatening gesture. His lips curled back in a snarl. "The scent is getting stronger," he growled, hackles rising.
"I recognize it!" Phoenix gasped. It wasn't quite the same scent, but it held a trace of familiarity. "It's a lot different, but it almost smells like Alpha Brook before she caught the- oh no."
Fear swept through the young Alpha, making him dizzy. Brook had been a formidable fighter whose full-grown enemies rarely escaped in one piece. "You guys run," he whispered, looking side to side to see if she was already here. "I'll hold her off. I'll meet you back at camp one way or another, quickl-"
He heard a horrifying snarl, a sound no wolf should have made. A silver blur leaped out of the bushes, straight at Churl. The struggling black sentinel was pinned under Brook's weight.
"Look out!" Phoenix barked, leaping at the insane former Alpha. He knocked Brook off his brother, who quickly righted himself and broke into a run. The silver wolf whirled on Phoenix and attacked the young Alpha instead, clawing and biting savagely as the teenager feebly attempted to fight her off.
"Get out of here!" he shouted, his barks becoming whimpers as he lost more and more blood. "Run!"
