Leaf Grey

- Robin in Leaf’s nightmare, Fighting Fire

**Leaf River Grey** was a member of the Outlaws and later, the co-owner of Irisbranch Plants, alongside his wife. Leaf was the youngest child of River and James Grey. His older sister, Finch was two when he was born. Leaf and his sister lived at 14 Cherry Road, which was near the walls that surrounded the city. Leaf was born with a very small pair of stumps on his head, which would eventually grow to become antlers. He was also able to hear the voices of animals from the age of around three. Both of these mutations were revealed to be from the Wixx blood running in the family.

Leaf started attending Mayfield Primary aged four, where he didn’t really make any friends because of his condition and introverted personality. Because of this, when he started going to Stonebridge Secondary, he was too scared to make any friends and became incredibly lonely and withdrawn. When Leaf was in Year 9 and aged fourteen, he received a letter from one of King Hawk Heles’ advisors, inviting him to come to the castle for educational purposes.

He accepted the offer and was apprenticed to Lilith Pierce, a gardener working at the castle. After discovering that Hawk’s true intentions were to kill Leaf and blame it on The Outlaws, he, alongside the imprisoned Summer Oakley, left Heles for the outside. Lilith helped them escape and was later executed. Leaf reluctantly joined The Outlaws in Eldrida, under Septima Eaglecrest. Leaf was initially not very popular with anyone, but eventually proved himself by killing a Silverwinged Raptor that attacked some of them on a hunting mission. Leaf participated in the Battle Against The Galewraiths, in which someone in the town ratted the group out to Hawk Heles’ army and they were chased out.

Hawk himself managed to locate the group soon after, defeating the unprepared group easily. Leaf and most of the others managed to escape and flee to the unclaimed lands of Tawnia. However, not everyone was as lucky and Eaglecrest sacrificed herself to save the rest of the group. Leaf reunited with Finch shortly after this.

Later, Leaf joined Rain, Quest, Robin, Finch and Summer on the quest to find Windrunner and figure out how to destroy Hawk. He also used his powers to communicate with the creatures in the Ravenwood in order to locate Copper Heles and seek out his help, which he was at first reluctant to do.

Leaf started having feelings for Robin Rhonye, a Redhorn girl and close friend of his and they briefly dated before Robin was tragically killed when Hawk’s dragon-cat hybrids attacked the group and murdered her. Leaf found it hard to cope with her death and started having a strong thirst for revenge, now that Hawk’s campaign had become personal.

Years after Hawk’s death, Leaf met and eventually married a woman named Iris Mayfair, having three daughters with her, named Maple Septima, Robin Lilith and Lillian Heather.

## History

### Background

Leaf Grey was born to River and James Grey, two scientists, on 11th November 202AMH in Heles City, Tawnia. He and his older sister Finch grew up at 14 Cherry Road in a middle-income household. At the age of three, Leaf started to grow a pair of stumps on his head and his parents took him to Mistle Hospital, where he was confirmed to have inherited a gene from his mother’s wixx ancestors.

Leaf was bullied and ignored during his time at Mayfield Primary School and at age five, he started to hear the voices of animals, which was also a side-effect from the gene. Leaf grew up to be very introverted, the polar opposite of Finch. By the time he started attending Stonebridge Secondary School, he still hadn’t made any friends.

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