willow ( víðir )

As the north wind blows, and the sky cries, a legend is born...

Willow wasn't meant to be living in the wolf pack that she is in now. In fact, she was originally from the Opal Forest Pack, whom was created by the King and Queen of Iceland. And she just wasn't a member of that pack, she was the daughter of the King and Queen.

When Willow was a newborn pup, she had been stolen from her pack. She was taken far away from her pack and deep into a hidden forest. The pack that took her was called the Black Fang Pack. Their leader was one of the most feared wolves ever known. His name was Obsidian and he was a full black covered wolf with plenty of battle scars.

Obsidian knew that Willow wasn't like any other wolf. He knew that she had powers that no other wolf had. So while she was young, he thought he could take her powers before she would figure out how to use them herself. As Willow grew a little older, Obsidian realized he had still even under estimated Willow. Willow was quite small for her age and all of the other pups in the pack were nearly twice her size. But that didn't stop Willow from showing them who was better.

One day, when Willow was a teen pup, one of the other pups decided to push Willow beyond her limits. In fact, that pup was Obsidian's pup. His name was Raven and he was nearly a spitting image of his father and even acted the same horrible way. Raven had been arguing with Willow for a while when he decided to challenge her to a fight to see who was stronger, but this how he took it to far, he challenged Willow to a fight to the death. But Willow wanted to prove him wrong, so she accepted.

Raven instantly thought he would win, so he went and told the whole pack to come watch him demolish Willow. So that afternoon they met in a clearing of the forest. Pretty much the whole pack had come to watch, expecting to see Raven demolish Willow. Willow heard everyone cheering Ravens name. But she knew that wouldn't last long.

A wolf blew a horn to start the fight, Raven instantly lunged towards Willow, but Willow was ready for it. She let Raven go crazy, she watched him jump one to another. All she had to do was dodge him. When she could tell he was very tired she decided to have her move, she lunged at him, causing a huge gush on his side. He started whimpering, but Willow wasn't even close to being finished, she kept going at him. Then soon enough Raven collapsed in a heap. He wasn't dead but very close to being it. The battle was meant to go until one's death, but deep inside Willow was soft. She had thought she had shown Raven who was boss by now so she stopped. She looked over at Obsidian. " Well come on, you are meant to finish him!" But Willow said no, she told him that she had done enough.

While they were saying that to each other, from behind Raven was coming from behind for one more go, but this time with a bone spear. Obsidian must have told Raven to do it if it went this far because Obsidian watched him sneak up behind Willow. The whole crowd watched in silence. But little did they know that Willow could sense him coming up behind her the whole time because she could smell his blood.

As Raven was coming up behind her. All Willow could feel was betrayal. She couldn't believe that none of the pack were going to warn her. Anger over took her. When she heard raven leap to pounce on her, she quickly turned around to meet him. As he came down to stab her, she to leaped up and grabbed the spear, turned it round and stabbed him right in the chest. He went crashing to the ground in front of Willow. Everything went silent. Willow looked around at everyone, but they weren't cheering, instead, they looked completely shocked. Then when she looked down at Raven she realized what she had done. Not only had she stabbed him, but she had stabbed in straight into the heart. Willow just stood there in shock. She didn't know what to do. Then she turned around to where Obsidian was. He just stood there. Half sad and half in rage. Raven was his only son and only pup. He was meant to be the Alpha after Obsidian retired.

For the first time in Willow's life she felt fear and sadness. She had never meant to kill Raven, but just to put him in his place. She then heard Obsidians destroyed voice. " WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??!!! " Willow was to scared to get any words out. By now Obsidian was by his sons now dead body. No other wolf had even made a noise, they just stood there in shock. "I..i..l didn't mean to go that far." Willow said quietly. Obsidian looked up Willow and said, " This should be you on the ground! l never wanted you in my pack anyway. l just have been using you for your... Obsidian then stopped talking when he realized what he was saying. After he said that, everything finally made sense to her. He had been using her this whole time. " l should've known." said Willow angrily.

All Willow could think of doing now was to run. Run away from the dead Raven, run from this pack and run away from Obsidian. With that she turned around and ran, ran past where the new born puppies were being looked after, ran past the pup training centre and past the dens. But she didn't stop there she kept going until she eventually went past her packs territory.

SEVERAL YEARS LATER...

Willow had now been roaming the land by herself for quite a while now. She had grown stronger and tougher everyday, and had finally learnt how powerful she was. Willow didn't venture around forever by herself though. One day she came across a lone border Collie pup. The little bundle of fur looked half dead. It straight away reminded her of what she did to Raven years ago. She just couldn't to leave it there to fend for itself, so she looked after it. The border collie pup soon became her best friend. The dogs name was Oakley and Willow always enjoyed her company.

One day, Willow and Oakley stumbled across Willow's old home, the Black Fang Pack. But something didn't seem right. She couldn't pick up on any other wolf scents. She looked around her own home. Everything seemed isolated and abandoned. Just as the two were about to leave they heard a little whine, they both turned around to see a strange wolf. He looked them up and down and then stared at Willow shocked. Willow also realized who it was. It was an old pack member from her old pack.

Willow and Oakley also found a couple more of the last surviving pack members. The wolves begged Willow for help. Willow looked at the sad wolves. She then decided it was time to turn a new leaf. So she started her own pack, and it was called the Ancient Celtic Pack.