🦊Vulpes☀️

The summer had officially arrived and warm moons with plenty lay ahead for the pack.
In the darkest night of the moon -New Moon-, the Headpupsitter Shadefern rushed into the Medicine Den. The herbalist Reyna wasn't asleep, she had sleep problems, so she often just used the extra time awake to work.
A male pup, almost the size of an adolscent, jumped in circles around her. "Reyna, Shadefern's here! He probably wants his poppy seeds after Chaos' death so he can sleep!"
"Tuuq!", the deaf herbalist hissed. "He doesn't want to know anyone that he needs those seeds to have a deep sleep!", she said, looking towards Lavenderpaw, who slept in the Medicine Cave because of Diarrhea, but luckily, the Alpha didn't seem like she heard anything.
Reyna sighed and turned towards Shadefern. "I appology. Having an apprentice is sometimes harder than I thought, especially when he's awake all night."
Tuuq stuck out his chest proudly. "That way, I can learn as much as possible!"
Reyna nodded. She couldn't hear, but she learned to speak and read lips. "So, what can I do for you?", she asked the Headpupsitter.
"Mango's pups are coming!", he explained, finally being able to speak.
"At New Moon?", the she-wolf asked shocked. "It'll be so difficult to assist in such a dark night, especially since the sky's cloudy and there isn't the slightest bit of star- or moonlight."
"I know!", Shadefern meant. "But we need you! Right now!"
The herbalist nodded. "I'll see what I can do. Tuuq, you know what kind of herbs we need."
The pup immediately started to put the herbs in a bundle, suddenly dead serious, while Reyna already followed Shadefern into the Nursery. It was warm and would've been cozy too, if Mango didn't breath so heavily in the very corner of the den.

Just one hour before dawn, Mango had given birth to three pups, of which only one, a strong and healthy female, survived.
"I'll call her Vulpes.", Mango whispered, her voice still weak from the birth, but also because of grief.
"She is the last pup of Amarok, isn't she?", Reyna asked.
Mango nodded. "I wish she could've gotten to know her. It's just like with my father Stone'Jump, I was his last pup and never got to know him."
Suddenly, a twitch ran through Reyna's entire body and she closed her eyes.
"She's the grandchild of Stone'Jump and Foxy, two founders and great chasers of the pack, and the child of you and Amarok, also two great chasers. A great path is destined for her."

Vulpes was born in a warm New Moon night and the only one of her siblings who survived the birth, so her mother Mango was always worried abot her being injured or dying. In the night she was born, Reyna received a sign that Vulpes is going to be a great and important chaser one day.
From the moment on Vulpes opened her eyes, she couldn't wait to start training. When she was weaned, the Alpha Lavenderpaw wanted her to start her training, but Mango was too worried about her daughter, though she did agree when her own brother Lion'Tooth -Vulpes' uncle- suggested to train his niece.
Vulpes was dedicated and motivated to learn from the first lesson on. She passed her final exam with ease and her mother and uncle watched her proudly when she got made a chaser apprentice. She never really had a mentor in her apprenticehood and just watched the hunt of her mother and uncle, as well as the young chaser Swift. Vulpes remembered looking up to her when she was a pup and Swift an apprentice and they soon got good friends.
Before she finished her training, her mother and her uncle died. She swore herself to make them proud and started to train even harder.
Now, Vulpes is a fullgrown chaser and hunts daily together with Icu, Silvester, Noodletail and her best friend Swift.