User blog:SaynaSLuke/A Quest Begins

Foreword
There is a thing that seems to be a cruel taskmaster over all of us, a thing that no one can fight and defeat. It's name is one we all know. Destiny. Some say your destiny controls you. Does it really? Or do we control it? Or is it some of both?

Now, once, not so long ago, there lived a fox, two squirrels, a hare, a badger, and a horse. What did all these creatures have in common? They all would fight a battle with destiny. The question is, who would prevail?

Prologue
The wind blew cold, driving ice through the freezing air. But the knives it possessed were far less then Ferdahoe the Assassin's. He stood over the body of a dead squirrel, a smirk on his face as he surveyed the carnage he had created. The winter-locked clearing was littered with the fallen bodies of the squirrel tribe who had dared oppose him.

He knelt beside the dead squirrel at his feet, a smile in his beautiful blue eyes.

"Well, well, Fircone, you shouldn't have fought me."

He patted his vanquished enemy's paw. "It was fun killing you, but it was even better that you got to see your wife and daughter die before your eyes, wasn't it?"

The Assassin looked over to the body of a beautiful young squirrel maid. Her fur was a striking white, that contrasted drastically with her black paws, tail, muzzle, and head fur.

"My but she was a pretty thing. Almost a pity to kill her. But then, I had to be avenged Fircone. You were foolish to defy me."

Little did the Assassin know, but his entire conversation had been heard. As he slipped from the clearing, a blue gray fox and a pine martin, both quite young as well, stepped out of the woodlands.

"Ach twas a bad days work Ferdahoe did today, and that's for sure." The pine martin sighed.

"To true Martes, to true." His blue gray companion agreed.

"So now what Azul?" Martes asked.

She looked away. "Regroup with the others, and be ready to fly as soon as I get back. Remember what happens if Ferdahoe catches us."

Martes bowed. "Yes Azul!"

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Azul sorrowfully placed the bodies beneath some bushes, murmuring, "Sorry it's all I can do for you poor beasts. And I hope you know I ain't with Ferdahoe no more."

When she came to the young squirrel maid, she shook her head. "She weren't much younger than me poor thing."

Azul bent over to pick the squirrel up, however she stopped the next second with a gasp of joy. "Why you ain't dead!"

As she picked the squirrel up, the creature whimpered quietly. Azul stroked her new charge's head fur. "Now don't you worry no more, cause Ferdahoe ain't gonna catch us. We'll go somewhere far away."

The fox looked thoughtful. "I always wanted a little sister."

She hurried off into the woodlands, murmuring, "My little sister."

Chapter 1 Mountain by the Sea
TBC~