Luna

> Lone Wolf life is not for me. I can hunt, fight, and are loyal; the things a pack wolf should be.
>
> Luna to Ice, Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 2.

## Luna

* Official Art
* Reference

## General

### Name

Lunar (birthname), Luna (nickname), Blacky (Fire's nickname)

## Education

### Mentor

Blaze

Lunar, better known as Luna, is a she-wolf of DawnPack. She first appears in Cliff of Shadows and is the protagonist for the Spirits and Shadows arc. Luna's rank is Apprentice and she currently lives in DawnPack, with her mentor being Blaze.

## Looks

Luna is a large, thick-furred black wolf with purple eyes.

## Personality

Her personality is joyful, careful, and understanding, and she has a fascination with Pack Life. She tends to get angry and frustrated with Lone Wolf treatment.

## Appearances

### Cliff of Shadows

*"Why can't the other wolves treat me like the ocean? Calm, and not willing to hurt anyone.* She hardly held back a howl. *I never hurt anyone! All I am is one big insult. That's all to my name. Her head lowered itself, defeated. That's all to my name…" Luna, Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 2.*

Luna adventures around the forest during a foggy night. She struggles in the fog until finding scents of other wolves, and she follows it, hoping to escape the fog. Shortly after she encounters one of the wolves, a red wolf called Blaze. When Blaze mentions her pack, Luna asks if she could join it, but Blaze denies it, saying that the alpha doesn't like Lone Wolves. Blaze then helps Luna out of the fog and tells her to stay away from the pack.

That night, Luna has a dream about a drought. She wakes up and decides to earn herself into the pack by bringing prey there. As she goes to find something, a patrol spots her and drives her away before she can explain herself. She then goes around the pack, reaching a cliff where trees shade the area. Another wolf appears over the water, but it fades as soon as Luna talks to it. When she turns to leave, a rabbit comes in her view, and she chases after it.

Later that day, she finds and enters the DawnPack territory, dropping her catch. Most of the wolves are hostile, but Blaze defends her, saying she might be useful. The Alpha, Ice, lets her into the pack, but has her rank as Apprentice until she is worthy of being a True Wolf. A lot of the wolves dislike this decision, but don't object. Blaze is assigned as Luna's mentor, and they begin training right away, starting with hunting.

During training, Luna only catches a mouse, as the rabbit she chased got away. She drops her catch at the Prey Pile, ignoring the other wolves' hostile stares, and is show to her den, where she sleeps. As falls asleep, a strange orange-furred shadow wolf watches her before fading away. Luna is soon knocked awake by Blaze, who tells her that Ice wants her on Sun-Fall patrol. Luna has to do the patrol alone as a way to test her trust.

While doing the patrol, she sees a strange wolf shadow with a jagged black and white spotted outline, and decides to follow it. The shadow leads her to the same cliff from before, but when Luna turns back to the wolf, it had vanished. She goes back to her patrol, confused, and encounters a band of Rogues that were going to raid DawnPack. Once everything is explained, her patrol is finished as normal. But as Luna sunbathes on a rock, she thinks the mysterious wolf was guiding her, as she would have missed the Rogues if her path was done normally.

Her next dream involves another strange wolf shadow, this one pure white except for a black left eye spot, who tells her 'The objects in the river' before fading away. She wakes with a start as Ice howls for attention. During this meeting, it comes to attention that there's a drought, as there hasn't been any recent rain and the only stream in DawnPack territory is drying up. Luna brings up her dream, but most of the other wolves don't believe her, claiming that dreams don't tell the truth. Blaze and Luna meet up by the drying stream before Luna explains her idea of going upstream, saying that a similar thing happened when she was growing up. Blaze says Ice wouldn't approve, but is convinced to tell Ice after some discussion. Ice is skeptical, but still hopeful on the possibility of rain, so she doesn't allow for the idea. Luna dislikes the decision, but respects it.

Luna goes on a hunt with Willow and Pebble, the two other apprentices. The party encounters a deer, and due to the other apprentices' recklessness, the deer injures Pebble. She tells Willow to get Sage, and she and the Healer haul Pebble over. The deer is taken, though some of it is eaten. After the hunt, Luna and Blaze start training in attacks. When Luna is charging, she notices a blue spirit wolf on Blaze and slashes her neck. Only small damage is done, and Blaze is understanding. Blaze goes to Sage for healing, with Luna staying behind so Sage doesn't yell at her. Luna waits until Blaze is gone, then goes to the edge of camp to watch. She hears Sage verbally attack Lone Wolves, and runs back, unable to handle it much longer.

After training, Luna gets many stares as she enters camp, and Sage asks if she's done any more damage. Blaze keeps Luna from responding. She lays down and tries to sleep, only to wake up by Ice's howling. They announce prey sharing, and the wolves eat. Throughout the event, Luna keeps hearing talk against her and Lone Wolves, and decides to eat elsewhere. She finishes up and pads into her den and falls asleep. Luna has another dream, this time where she's trapped in a cave where the wolves' mocking is everywhere. The blue spirit wolf from before shows up, telling her to stop panicking and to block it out. With some trying, the sounds fade, and she wakes up.

A half-spirit, Twilight, wakes her up, thinking she is dead. After a quick exchange of identities, Twilight hurries away, with Luna hoping to see him again. Luna is brought to the gathering with the other DawnPack wolves after a brief rundown of the rules. She is told how great the gathering is on the way there. The Apprentices of both packs gives her hostile glares as she approaches, all but Nova. His friendly questions confuse her, knowing how much discrimination she's faced in DawnPack. Throughout the fight between Pebble and Nova's brother, Canyon, Luna stays on the side, watching without a clue on what to do. Midnight ends up breaking the fight apart, where Luna comments about how similar he looks to her. Then, he returns, and the gathering officially begins.

When Ice brings up Luna, she is immediately talked against once the other wolves learn of her nature. River is snapped shut by Hawk for continuing to complain about Luna. Due to the chaos or her nature, no one cheers for her. Luna finds herself inside another spirit-altered dream, where she runs into Echo. The young spirit tells her about a flood, only to be confused by Luna's correction of a drought. Then, Luna is given an accurate message by Aqua, informing her that the pack is hopeless without Luna's help. Then she wakes up, unable to get a clear answer.

While walking through the forest, Luna encounters Raven and Willow, who are trapped in a rock pile. She frees them, and overhears Willow talking to Raven about a meet-up after the DawnPack wolves agree to return to camp. While there, Ice makes an announcement about the wolves who are going to be sent upstream, which makes Luna excited. But Ice doesn't pick her, leading to Luna assuming that it was due to her Lone Wolf nature.

Ice is outside when Luna wakes up, and since it's night, she approaches the Alpha, knowing how no other wolves will be there. They talk and Luna learns what happened. Unsatisfied with her answer, Luna droops her ears and is prepares to go back, only for Grey to give his position up. Ice decides to forward it to Luna, making the Apprentice happy. She goes to bed and has a dreamless sleep.

The next morning, Luna goes to Sage's den to get a checkup. Sage gives Luna some honey for her sore throat, but before she can eat it, Ice bats it away. It's learned that Sage had put deadly nightshade into her honey in an attempt to poison her. Afterwards, Luna is medically cleared, and joins the rest of her group to the gathering place. There, they join River, and together they set off. It isn't long before River and Cypress start insulting Luna behind her back, but Luna ignores most of the comments.

When River decides to catch rabbits, Luna offers help but is turned down. She also tries to tell River not to catch more than one, only to decide against it, knowing that River won't listen. Sometime later, Luna passes out, causing the group to stop all progress. She is surprised to hear that Willow persuaded the others to stay behind until she stirred. Once awake, the group continues on, with Luna hoping they survive past the night.

During the night, Luna wakes up, hearing a strange figure move. She chases it down, catching a glimpse of its looks before it disappears, leaving her alone. Though she had the urge to tell the others, Luna refrained, not wanting to worry them more. The group continues walking upstream, with Willow being the first to suggest a hunt again. River refuses, and would assert her leadership when Luna questioned her decisions. She lets the others get ahead when a strange sight and feeling reaches her fur, but in the end, she is yelled at by River.

Willow tries to say something, only to get silenced. The other wolves try to reason with River, who couldn't care less. Luna has the group vote on who they want to lead, with the choices being her or River. Cypress picks River as she doesn't trust Lone Wolves. An unknown amount of time passes before Cypress changes her vote to be with Luna, and River storms off, angry with the result. They find a boulder with a wolf smell to it, and Luna has them push it out of the way.

She and Willow are unable to push it, so they reach the conclusion that another wolf needs to help. Due to Cypress having a bad paw, Luna goes with Willow's plan of having MistPack send their True Wolves to help. The three then trudge towards MistPack. There, Luna goes towards Hawk and Midnight alone. When they hear that River isn't with them, and that Luna thought she was back, Midnight is told to setup a search. With that out of the way, she requests a wolf to come and help them.

The request is ignored, leaving Luna defeated. Then, Nova shows up, hoping to join. Luna welcomes him to the party before Canyon refuses to let him go. They argue until Nova has his final say and departs. Luna leads him to Willow and Cypress, only to find out that the latter left. With one less member, they backtrack to the boulder. On the way, it gets dark, so they set up camp and sleep. In her dreams, she is visited by a Spirit Wolf, Aqua. He urges her to move faster to get the boulder out of the way.

In the early morning hours, Luna wakes up the others and sets off. They reach the boulder, where they begin pushing. Luna has an easier time due to the river rising from an incoming story, only for the joy to turn to horror as the story increases. She keeps the group at the boulder until it's moved, but by then, the storm has grown dangerous, and wolves' lives get threatened.

After Nova's injury, she is moved to leave, yet the story disagrees. The river's levels are high enough that it sweeps the group away, separating them in the process. An undisclosed amount of time later, Luna wakes up in an unfamiliar area. She is surrounded by Cinder and Cobalt, the rogues from before. During their argument, Luna attempts an escape, failing due to Jade's intervention. The green wolf knocks her out cold.

The next time she wakes up, Luna is in ShadowPack, where she is forced to meet Shadow. Before learning of Luna's abilities, Shadow wants her packmates to kill her, but changes her mind. During the tense moment, Luna remembers Nova and Willow, catching the attention of the wolves as she mutters their names. An unknowing choice of words results in a lecture about how the pack works; according to Shadow and Amethyst, it's rankless. With all the speaking going on, Luna takes her chance to flee.

This causes a chase to capture her again, but Luna gets ahead enough to hide in a burrow. After collapsing from energy loss, she wakes up with the burrow full of stones, and Cinder and Cobalt are assigned to watch her. Luna tricks Cinder into ranting, allowing her to twist him away and escape. Left in a confused daze, she is captured. Instead of punishing her, Shadow sees potential and accepts her as a packmate, much to Luna's dismay.

*More coming soon!*

### Hidden Trails

Luna is mentioned by Blaze as she reflects her treatment in the unnamed group. At the same time, she's on a hunt with Grey, stalking a rabbit. The hunt is successful, and she returns with a decent catch to the already large prey pile. However, as she talks with Willow, he gives gossip that Ice fears another pack is stealing their prey, though no details are confirmed. She is skeptical of Willow's word, especially when he refuses to say where he got it from.

Alongside Willow and Pebble, Luna goes on a patrol. The Apprentice makes a comment in her mind about Pebble's limp, and the deer attack that caused it. They follow the usual route, but encounter some MistPack wolves. At first, Luna thinks it's a patrol, but she notices Midnight, Hawk, River, and surprisingly, Nova. Midnight requests to see the Alpha, which Hawk echos. Pebble gets defensive over it, and lashes out at Luna when she tries to calm him. Willow brings the chaos under control and allows the MistPack wolves to follow them into camp.

At camp, they receive questioning looks, but leave the wolves with Ice. Luna gives Nova a tour of DawnPack, at the end of which she overhears the discussion between the Alphas and Betas. They are talking about rogues and prey, but she doesn't think about it at first, assuming it's a normal thing packs do. She convinces Pebble and Willow to finish the patrol. Everything seems to be smooth at first, but Luna notices some claw marks on a nearby tree. They're carved like a wolf trying to escape, bringing her suspicion. Her memories of Blaze arrive, and Luna becomes sad thinking of her former mentor.

She returns to DawnPack to tell Ice, only to discover she's still talking with Hawk and Midnight. However, the words are more strained, and it sounds like they're going to break into a fight. Unable to handle such a thought, she peeks inside, and catches the arguing. Hawk is disagreeing that it's another pack, and believes DawnPack is responsible. However, Ice and Midnight agree that an outside force is doing it, and Moon is stuck in the corner, unsure of what to do. Luna backs away, almost bumping into Willow, who also came to investigate. They decide not to interfere, just in case.

Moon later leads her to Ice, who asks the Apprentices about the patrol. Luna is about to explain what happened when Pebble interrupts, telling most of the truth with some exaggerations. He doesn't mention the claw marks, so Luna brings it up, expecting Ice to brush it off. However, Ice agrees that it might be important, and since there was a faint scent of wolf, decides that the rogues of ShadowPack might be doing something. That night, Luna goes to sleep, and is visited by Indigo. He informs Luna to wake up, but she hesitates to ask questions. Eventually, Indigo screams for Luna to wake up, but Luna refuses to, asking why he can't tell her what's going on.

Then, a howl makes her stir. She is about to leave and investigate when Cypress calls her out, but since both wolves are not in their dens, Cypress agrees to keep quiet if Luna does, too. The gray she-wolf thinks of leaving, but is talked into following by Luna. The two set off, entering the forest to find a series of mossy blocks. They are shaped like stones, with plants and a small waterfall. Luna cannot recall seeing the area before, and thus they look around. Luna finds a den behind the waterfall, along with a wolf, but the wolf dashes through, preventing Luna from seeing them clearly. Before darting away, the wolf stares at her, almost confused.

They attempt to chase the wolf, but Cypress falls behind, so Luna decides against it. However, they notice something in the bushes, which makes the same shrill howl as before. On closer inspection, they realize it's a coyote pup, and after some debate and talking, they bring it to Ice. Though the pack is skeptical on keeping the coyote pup, Ice proudly adopts it as her own, making Sandstorm an official member of DawnPack. She approaches the prey-pile, where a moldy rabbit is spotted. Luna rushes to tell Ice, but the pups' playing hinders her. Her message still gets to Ice.

Upon hearing Luna's concerns, Ice snarls how an intruder must've put that there, and that Luna mustn't tell anyone to prevent a panic. However, Sandstorm eats the foul rabbit, and she drags Sage into the mess. Fear from the incident makes Luna leave to think about the possible suspects. Her options run out just as she finds Obsidian near the borders. This raises her suspicion, and she rushes back to DawnPack.

## Gallery

*This is for official art only.*

Luna on the cover of Cliff of Shadows.Luna, as seen in Wolves of the Packs.
## Trivia

* She has purple eyes, which allows her to see and communicate with spirit wolves.
* She is based on a wolf from a closed Fandom wiki.
	+ This is proven by black fur, purple eyes, and having a mentor called Blaze.
* According to Luna, her name is short for Lunar.

## References & Citations

1. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 8.
2. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 5.
3. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 18.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 1.
5. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 2.
6. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 3.
7. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 4.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 5.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 6.
10. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 7.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 8.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 9.
13. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 10.
14. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 11.
15. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 12.
16. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 13.
17. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 14.
18. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 15.
19. ↑ Hidden Trails, Prologue.
20. ↑ Hidden Trails, Chapter 1.
21. ↑ Hidden Trails, Chapter 2.
22. ↑ Hidden Trails, Chapter 3.
23. ↑ Hidden Trails, Chapter 4.
24. ↑ Cliff of Shadows, Chapter 18.