Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

Chapter 27

Chapter 27 Does the Wolf Cub Think Violeta's It's Mom?

The rest of the top nine teams rolled in

Violeta's crew rightfully snagge first place, and by the time the sun peeked over, all the teams gathered

The chief instructor stood tall on the platform, announcing Violeta's squad as the champs, Not just that, they broke Hayden's team record from three years back, now owning the crown for T Military Training. The four lined up all military-like on the platform, soaking in the cheers,

Violeta kept a poker face while Jezebel and Sonya were all smiles, completely shrugging off

their not-so-stellar start

Soon, the teams split up

Everyone returned to the tents for a night's shut-eye, and they'd be off the hook after an afternoon meet-up.

While packing up, someone accidentally bumped into Violeta's backpack. She scowled. nudged the person away, and then sauntered off with her bag.

The person grumbled, "Gosh. What's your problem..."

Violeta shot a glare, and the person wisely shut up.

Kaylee caught up with the grumbler and fired back, "Hey, you! You're the one with problems. Your whole family's a mess!"

Then, she hollered at Violeta, "Hey, Violeta, wait up!"

In the tent, Violeta unzipped her backpack and found the little wolf cub all cozied inside, already knocked out

It had polished off all the canned tuna she had tossed in earlier.

"Oh wow, Violeta, you brought it back?!"

Violeta replied, "Tried to shoo it away, but it's like Velcro. Had no choice but to bring it along. Kaylee tossed in her thoughts, "Maybe its mom bailed on it? That's why it's sticking to you, thinking you're its owner. By tagging along with you, it won't have to worry about finding food. and water it might've starved out there in the wild

"Are you thinking about keeping it? It's a wild wolf, still a pup, but who knows if it'll keep its wild side as it grows up." Violeta kept silent momentarily, then said, 'Nah, I'll set it free in the wild when we return"

After that, Violeta zipped up her backpack, flopped onto the bed, closed her eyes, and

bassed out

Zen found

fet place in

didn't hold Viste back their

up to Jezebet and Sonys

Violet? How come

'Come on, tea even though we promised to help you there were unexpected hitches along the way. How were we supposed to know Violets found some shortour She grabbed our shoulder badges and threatened to leave us in

bit of fierceness showing To her those with

you obey her? If you guys made an effort to fall behind, the core

a tiny bone, not worth risking our lives by that pea-sized reward, okay!" Sonya

moment, Zelena realized she had let her anger get the best of her and forgot to put on e front

let's bounce Jezebel and Sonya brushed off

training was a wrap, they all scored big by snagging first place.

team took the crown and smashed the record set

news and announcements had made their

his squad

chat was buzzing

Vio shattered our

buckle, but

you're a legend! Dinner's

down back then, our record could've been

Are you blaming me?

les pants

you guys I'm so done

Violeta started a group voice call

within a second. Surprisingly, Hayden, who hadn't talked in the group chat, picked up

guys also run into a wild wolf in the

Hayden "Yeah You too?"

Vio, you

know she's fine. If something happened, we'd have gotten a

"The wild wolves in the mountains

of running into them are pretty low. So, was it good luck or bad

stayed quiet, but there was movement in the bag on her lap. A pair of

discuss it when I get

them sensed that something

bus pulled up at Toland University, Jezebel and

girls for the reward pickup. At the same time, she headed in a different direction with her bag

the shaded path, Hayden and the other three were already waiting for Violets in the

dashed over, "Vio, let me