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

place in

hold Viste back their team

stored up to Jezebet and Sonys demanding. What happened bus recent

supposed to slow down Violet? How come your team still bagged

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

her eyes, a bit of fierceness showing To her those

guys made an effort to fall behind, the core wolde de

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

moment, Zelena realized she had let her anger get the best of her and

brushed off

scored big by snagging first place. Whed bother

team took the crown and smashed the record set

announcements had made their way

his squad

chat was buzzing

shattered our

buckle, but Vio, you've got some senous talent,

legend! Dinner's on

if Zero wasrit slowing us down back

you blaming

almost peed les pants because of a wild wolf

you guys I'm so done

the group chat, Violeta started a group voice call in

within a second. Surprisingly,

run into

Hayden "Yeah You too?"

Vio, you

hearing her voice, I know she's fine. If something happened, we'd

wolves in the mountains

The chances of running into them are pretty low. So, was it good

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

discuss

four of them sensed that something wasn't quite

University, Jezebel and Sonya hustled to claim their

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

path, Hayden and the other three were already waiting

"Vio, let me check if