Frământări

Name means "Turmoil" in Romanian.

Theme Song: Don't You Dare (Make Me Fall in Love With You) by Kaden MacKay

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Pack legend always speaks of the elders and the young, but for those who were born the same day, they'd have a life intertwined. Seperation would only lead to reuniting, and desperation to leave would only result in a closer bond. Frământări had no exceptions.

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"Come onnn! Let's go already! Your slow butt's gonna make us late to our first training sessions! Your mom'll be pissed if you miss it-" Fră barked, casting a fiesty blue glare to the Nightfallers heir, In The Darkness (ITD).

"If you weren't so pushy, I might actually want to move faster," ITD grumbled, kicking the soil beneath him. A scowl settled on his maw, disinterest already radiating from the male.

Fră frowned, making way back to the other pup, and plopping down onto her haunches, "Okay, look. I get this stuff doesn't sound fun now, but I've heard from the apprentices that our training's fun!"

ITD maintained a disinterested stance, rolling his eyes, "They probably said that since you're the little 'fan favorite' around here. Your uncle's the famed breeding male, and your mom's the best chaser the pack's seen to-date. You're just..." He lolled his tongue in disgust before continuing, "...weirdly oozing a sense of fame."

Fră stuck out her tongue, "What say you, fancy man? Your mom's the pack leader, for Kimera's sake! Your dad is a world-renowned breeding male with the biggest wits and strength known to all wolfdom! And you seriously think I'm the 'fan favorite' here?"

ITD snarled, "Do not speak of my dad in that sense. It's bad enough getting pampered like royalty around here. I don't need a mere pup my age trying to act the same." The male wrinkled his nose bridge, padding off as he spoke, "Just- Leave me alone."

"Heyyy!" Fră called after the male, "Come back! Come on..!" The she-wolf frowned, shaking her head as she made way to find her mother for her first training session.

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ITD, after mellowing down, decided after his sudden leaving to go and apologize. Although it felt out-of-character for him to simply be kind, it was brash... Much less to a pup who was just trying to cheer him up. The male pup sighed, lowering his nose to the ground. Although he hadn't done tracking, his mother snuck in a few, private sessions to get him accustomed to helping the pack out in the future to come.

ITD's nose wrinkled as he sniffed along. Fră blinked, staring at the investigating male, a questionable look on her face. The male pup blinked, glancing upwards to spot his non-hostile target. "Oh- Heyyy..." He wheezed out.

Frământări slowly tilted her head as she questioned in the same speed, "Am I... uhh, intruding something or..?"

"O H. Nono, you're fine. I just-" ITD quickly bit his tongue, trying to find the right words. Fră merely stood there in silence. "I just... wanted to... apologize?"

"Waitwaitwait, hold up. Apologize?" Fră repeated, even more confusion clouding her mind, "For what, exactly..? It's just, I never expected to hear those words come out of-" Her paw wavered around his maw, "-your mouth."

ITD blinked, lost in a brief daze before coming back to reality, "Uhh... the- the outburst I had earlier... I figured you were just trying to, well, liven the mood. I didn't need to be so brash-"

Fră blinked before slowly narrowing her gaze, "And how do I know you're not lying?"

ITD broke out into a nervous sweat, side-eyeing for someone to just break him out of the current situation, "Uhh... Trust.. me?"

Fră frowned, rolling her eyes, "Fine."

Although it hadn't been a sure-fire response, ITD still lightly perked up, his tail faintly wagging. Frământări had noticed, a sly chuckle with a smirk following.

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"Look, just... Do what you want, I don't care!" Fră barked towards the male, tears rolling down her cheeks, "Go be what you're 'destined' to be, it's not like I cared anyway!"

The she-wolf turned tail, racing off. ITD sank his claws into the ground, an angered expression set on his maw. Passersby glanced to the heir of the Nightfallers, a rather quizzical look on their face. How did he manage to make the chaser idol of the living legend cry?

ITD softened after some time, noticing the glaring eyes settling on him. His muzzle wrinkled as his tone went from living inferno to rushing river, tears themselves rolling down his cheeks from his eyes of the seas and ground.

"Damnit," he barked to himself, trying to make pace behind the retreating Frământări.

Fră kept pacing along, sputtering under her breath, "Oh Kimera why did I even trust him? He goes off and does this and now I'm-"

She skidded to a halt, bracing quickly to avoid toppling over the Hill's Peak. Her crystalline blue gaze skimmed about in a moment of emotional panic to escape, before growing cowardice and tucking into a ball of self-shame.

ITD hadn't been far behind as he called out, "Fră, please! Listen to me! I can explain-"

Fră snarled back, baring her canines with such intensity one could say her maw hurt, her eyes full of sorrow, "Liar! What you've done cannot be explained! You sold out your own brothers, murdered them in cold blood, and now you expect me to treat you as a humble equal?"

ITD was quietly taken aback, but let the she-wolf continue.

"To think, I was actually developing something nice with you... You were becoming my whole world, and you just yank the strings right from my paws and play me like a marionette... Do-" Fră inhaled, exhaling shakily, trying to get a grip, "Do you even care..? At all? About all this? About us?"

ITD met her gaze, but didn't speak a word. Fră took note of the silence, her muzzle wrinkling in disgust, "Leave then. Leave if all this isn't something you're destined to care about. Kimera knows that you'd abandon everything for all the pride and pity of being an heir-"

The male snapped his maw, snarling, "You're wrong! Absolutely wrong!"

Fră snarled, tears welling in her eyes, "Then prove it."

ITD staggered his legs, sharply inhaling. He opened his maw, but slowly closed it. Nothing came to mind on how to prove such statement. Fate had him stuck in a narrow path and-

Frământări scoffed, "I see my point stands. Now leave."

The male's pelt bristled before padding off back to the packsite, leaving Fră alone with her thoughts.

"Ugh, Kimera... And here I was falling for him..." The she-wolf muttered to herself, the fearful tear seeping out of her gaze. With a paw wipe to clear them away, she continued, "I guess I'm not good enough for his destined standards then. Seems I'm... just another owl talon, a plaything."