Nefaria's Past

==Important Canines in the story==
Nefaria: The narrator, and the main character. A small, black and gray melanistic wolf with sapphire eyes, and a torn ear.
Vik: Nefaria's love interest, and best friend. A large gray tom.
Venom: Nefaria's mentor. A large, brown and black leonberger.
Moss: A counselor of The Merciless Empire. A large, battle-scarred, melanistic canis lupus with green eyes. 
==Prologue==
Hello young canine. No, don't go yet! It's not often I get a visitor from an adolescent like you, and you're not here to just give me respect. You want to learn my story! Come forward young canine, and you will be taken to a journey of my past, though be warned, it's not the most pleasant story. Move away now if you don't want to listen.
==Chapter 1==
It all truly started here. My trainee ceremony! "Nefaria, please step forward," Moss, one of our leaders barked. Reece, a warlord looks at me in anticipation. I had finally recovered! You see, I had hit my head when I was 4 moons old, so I had to take 4 moons of recovery, causing me to be apprenticed at 8 moons. "You've finally recovered from your amnesia, so now you can begin your training on the path of becoming a sentinel, and serve The Merciless Empire for many generations. Your mentor will be Venom." I look at a young sentinel, as everyone chants my name. 
"Nefaria! Nefaria! Nefaria!" I hear as Venom touches her muzzle to my forehead. 
Please train me well, I thought to myself as Venom beckons me toward her. 
"It's time you leave the camp Nefaria." Venom looked at the sky, and I wondered what she was doing. "Though I'm still a young sentinel, I see greatness in you. Don't waste this oppurtunity," she said softly as we padded out of the camp.
It wasn't easy for me to take in what I saw right after leaving the camp. The world is bigger than you could possibly imagine! Venom shows me a large swamp, as a snake slithers by. "You don't know basic killing methods Nefaria, I'll take care of this one," she says as she killed the snake by leaping onto it and digging her claws into it. I was intrigued by this kill, and I tried to copy it on a frog. I miss the frog, and I fall onto the hard Earth. Venom laughed softly. "It's not easy learning to ascend, and then descend onto an animal, but when you finally learn it, you get it easily." I was confused by her words. 
"What does ascend, and descend mean?" I ask. 
Venom looked at me. "You'll learn one day, Nefaria. I must continue the tour before we do anything else," she barked. I put my head down. I felt so humiliated! I follow Venom as we pad to a forest-like area. I go see a tree, and I don't know what it is. "Perhaps you don't remember what these are Nefaria. I guess your old head wound really messed up your memory," she said. Reality struck. I don't remember any of my adolescence at all. I don't even know who my mother was! 
"I guess," I say as Venom describes the tree. I'll need more training than I thought, my mind told me as I listen closely. "We have so much territory, it's not able to be toured in during a single day," Venom said as we went back to camp.
"Welcome back Nefaria, Venom," Zoltar, an admiral says to us as we come back to camp. Suddenly, Vik, my best friend comes over to me. 
"How was you first day of being a trainee?" he asks as we go to the Trainee den. 
"It was awful," I said as I get into my nest. 
==Chapter 2==
"What happened Nefaria? You can tell me about it," Vik says. I ensconce into the nest. 
"I fell flat on my stomach while trying to kill a frog, and I couldn't figure out what a tree was!" I say. Vik looks at me with sympathy. 
"Of course you couldn't, you hit your head hard when you were a kit, you don't even know who your mother is." I lose my temper. 
"I never asked for your opinion Vik!" I snap at him. Vik looks at me with unease, before going to sleep. I suddenly realized what I had done. 
He was just trying to help me, and I snapped at him, I thought to myself as sleep took me.
I was woken up to the sound of Vik rustling in his nest. Suddenly, I couldn't help but admire him. You probably could've said I had a crush on him. No, I thought to myself. I need to go to training. I leave the den, to see that Venom was still asleep. 
"Hey, Nefaria," Oka, a priest trainee said to me. 
"Hi Oka," I say. "I was just about to go training, but Venom is still asleep." Moss comes from the fresh-kill pile. 
"Sentinels usually sleep until sunhigh, and they do all of the night patrols, while sportsman do all of the dawn and morning patrols," she said to me. "If I can teach you basic hunting skills, as all members of the Merciless must learn these skills, do you wanna join a dawn sportsman patrol while you wait for Venom?" 
I think about the question. Hunting was never really my strong-suit, nor did I ever want it to be. I would feel like a burden during that whole patrol! I look at Oka. If I don't go to do the patrol, I'll have to sort herbs. "I'll go," I finally say as Moss takes me outside. 
"We have a couple of minutes to teach you a basic hunting move before the sportsmen come out, try your best to do this." I copy Moss's crouch, and I see her stalk a mouse. I look around, and I see a frog. Well well, we meet again, I think to myself as I pounce on the frog, like Moss did to the mouse. 
"Wow, I've never seen a wolf, especially a sentinel's trainee, catch prey on their first try." I look down. 
"It wasn't my first try. I tried catching a frog like how you kill snakes, and I fell flat." I say
Moss looked at me sympathetically. "Oh Nefaria, that move only works on snakes." She said softly as she heard a rustle. "I can hear a mouse, try to catch it!" she said to me as I scurried toward it and pounced on it. I caught another one! "You're doing good! The hunting patrol is out," Moss said as she nodded at Violet, an elite sportsman, the leader of the patrol. "Can Nefaria come with you? She woke up too early and she has nothing to do." I nod at Moss, and my eyes plead Violet to let me join. 
"I don't see why not. Has Malachite said anything about Nefaria?" I sit there, dumbfounded. Though Malachite was a leader, why would Malachite be talking about me? 
"Violet...." Moss pleaded slowly.
==Chapter 3==
"It's not important Nefaria, it's just talking about training for you." I get confused. Why would Violet care about my training? I'm not training to be a sportsman, and she doesn't really have much of a connection with Venom. Violet beckons me to the patrol. 
"Stay by the swamp today. Venom didn't get a chance to show Nefaria the canyons," Moss barked to the patrol. Violet nodded. 
"Merciless Empire, let's go," Violet said to us. I follow the patrol with excitement. I can't stop thinking about what I'll hunt today! I'm finally serving my pack!
Alabaster, a sportsman, sniffed the air for any aroma. "I can't smell much," Alabaster said. I sniff the air. 
"I can smell some frogs nearby, but there doesn't seem to be many," I say to the patrol. Stone, a trainee, under the education of Alabaster looked at me. 
"How can you smell that, let alone recognize it?" He sneered. "I thought you hit your head when you were a helpless puppy!" I unsheathe my claws. 
"I remember some smells, and I've had a day of training," I say, trying to calm myself down. Why was Stone being so obnoxious? 
"So you remember the smell of a frog, but you don't even know who your parents are?" Stone remarked. Violet flicked her tail. 
"Stone!" Stone looked at Violet. 
"What? I didn't even do anything!" He said. I stare at Stone, but I don't dare stay a word.
I run over to the scent of frog, and I quickly pounce. "Nice one Nefaria!" Alabaster said to me. I look at the sky.
"It's almost Sunhigh, and I need to go train," I said to the canines. Alabaster nodded. 
"Very well Nefaria. Good luck on your training!" He said to me. I felt a rush of affection for this Great Dane. I headed for the camp, when Venom stops me.
==Chapter 4==
"Where have you been?" Venom said to me. I stare at my paws slowly.
"I joined a dawn patrol-" Venom interrupts me.
"I know, Nefaria. I was testing you," she said. "Good job." My ears perk up, and my eyes brighten.
"Th... thank you Venom!" I manage to say. Venom nods, and flicks her tail to a sentinel Training Hollow. "Since I was apprenticed late, will I be an apprentice for longer than I should?" Venom sighed.
"You're different, Nefaria. You don't remember most things, that adolescents learn when they're the age that you hit your head."
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