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familiar name: poppy
raen was full of spirit before the "incident" which would leave her scarred.
the day before she got to choose whether she would want to be a hunter or a soldier dreaded her. deep in her thoughts, she decides to think somewhere where she wasn't surrounded by the other lions in her pride.
she settles at the border of the prides territory, which was a long river parting each side. a few moments later, she hears a cry deep into the woods beyond her territory, somewhere she's never gone before, then loud yowling just seconds later.
she wastes no time and jumps to her paws, carefully passing the river to investigate the screams, to her surprise she sees nothing else but a heavily injured small cat in the middle of a clearing. without thinking, she pads forwards and sniffs the poor thing, blood seeping out of its wounds.
she nudges the little thing to its paws but it had to energy to even walk. she grabs it by the scruff, immediately having the urge to help it. halfway through the unknown lands, she has the feeling she's being followed. the uncomfortable feeling of eyes beating down onto her is enough for her to fasten her pace. but its too late, and something dangerous and violent is lurking behind her.
a panther leaps out of the thicket and jumps onto raen. it bares its teeth, clearly seeking for blood. the cat held in her jaws is thrown to the side, close to death.
with enough battle training, she uses her knowledge against the large and experienced predator to slash its chest which leaves it shocked and paralyzed momentarily. she pushes it off then rushes over to the rusty-spotted cat. but unfortunately, shes too slow, feeling a sharp pain over her eye and cheek.
shes grabbed by her head and dragged away, thrashing around helplessly.
struggling to survive, she slowly rakes her claws across the panthers eye, and which in return it lets her go. its blinded, backing away with pain. she rushes quicker this time, pushing her body onwards. she snatches the cat and runs as fast as she could, sharp pains all over her body.
minutes later, the panther had seemingly given up. she was safe, for now atleast. her legs were starting to give out, vision blurred and she starts to lose direction of where she was even going.
it wasn't long before she's found by araumi, asmodeus and selenolia. they were concerned about how long raen had gone out for. shes walked back to camp, on the brink of tears and raen and the cat is healed by adira. the cat becomes raens familiar, the two sharing the same traumatic experience and bond quickly.
she finally makes her decision, and becomes a soldier, feeling as if she was destined to protect her pride.
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a year later, she becomes cold-blooded, going even further to bully vayu for small reasons. she was unaware what she was doing wasn't okay, and took her anger from the trauma onto other adolescents her age who were vulnerable.
later on, shes scolded for her behavior and is forced to stop. not willing to argue with her elders, she leaves vayu alone. its not long before she realizes what she's done didn't help much with her frustration, and apologizes to the victim. she doesn't expect to be forgiven, but is surprised when vayu accepts her apology, and the two of them even go on to become friends. vayu helps raen with her anger issues and the two become great friends.
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