Moonspear I'm the biggest, the best, better than the rest

Vela had been gone since spring started, now in the mid of summer, she felt the longing to go home to her family. She had been roaming far past the hinterlands but knew that she would always return to her family. Naturally, she missed her father the most out of all her loved ones. Though, she often caught herself thinking that Jarilo, her mother, Hydra, and her other siblings were doing. On the other hand, it felt great to be in a place where she wasn't Charon's daughter. She could just be who she wanted to be. She felt that in Teekon her father's reach was endless and that all the wolves she knew had some sort of fight with her father. If they were on bad terms with her father Vela felt often conflicted if she should feel the same way about them.

After months of anonymity, she decided to shed that cloak and return to the wilds she knew. There was an excited bounce in her step that looked to be conflicting with her dutiful and stoic nature. She ran for miles just to get to see her mountain home once more. Eager to tell them about her travels and what she encountered. It was perhaps the most excited she had ever been in her life. Just thinking of her father's reaction made her happy. The speckled female slowed down once she was seeing the hinterlands mountain range with behind that her home mountain. The final stretch. She could feel the tiredness in her legs and decided to continue on a steady trot.

That was when she heard a faint but desperate cry for family. Vela's heart sank, this sounded like... Hydra. Vela instantly sprinted forward, her heart hammering in her throat. The newfound spurt of adrenaline helped her and her tired legs to keep a fast pace. The girl had trouble with the steep path's of the Barrier Mountains as she was so tired. Vela stumbled almost falling down, deciding that a steady trot would be better. She howled towards Moonspear. 'I'm coming! I'm coming'. Then it hit her, what if there was something with her father? What if she wasn't able to say goodbye to him? Vela's heart stuttered with that thought and pushed herself forward towards Moonspear.

She went off automatic pilot when the scents of Moonspear were hitting her nose. Vela howled once more to her family. She was here. Where were they? She felt comfort within smelling her father, her family. It didn't take long for the female to locate them. It didn't matter that she wasn't part of this pack yet especially with the sight that came into her vision. Her father was on the ground!! Vela stumbled forward towards the group surrounding her mother and father. "Dad!!," she keened. Her eyes tearing up as she came closer. Her legs gave out the moment she reached her father. She could almost not recognize him, that was how broken he looked. "Papa, no," she sniffled and nudged him. She glanced over at her mother's still body. "Mom! What?," she whined and tried to push her father to his feet with her nose.

This had to be a sick prank. "No!!," she wailed. Vela's wailing echoed through the mountains. She should never have left. She could never say goodbye to her father. She couldn't tell him how much she loved him. She couldn't even let her mother know that she appreciated her. "Get up! Get up!," she snarled between her wails. She had registered that her siblings were around her but this was no time to greet them. There was only one question. "What happened?!," she called out to no one in particular. Then her watery blue eyes fell on Hydra. Her big sister. But even she seemed in shock. "What happened!!," she cried out once more.