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

found our

place

didn't hold Viste back

Jezebet and Sonys demanding. What

to slow down Violet? How

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 the

a bit of fierceness showing

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

tossed us a tiny bone, not worth risking our lives by that pea-sized

of her and forgot to put on e

bounce Jezebel and Sonya brushed off Zelena and turned

they all scored big

team took the crown and smashed the record set

made their way

his squad

group chat was

Vio shattered

worried you'd buckle, but Vio, you've got some senous

a legend! Dinner's on you when you

you know, if Zero wasrit slowing us down back then, our record

you blaming me? Wanna fight,

peed les pants because

you guys I'm so

the group chat, Violeta started a group voice call in the car on their way back to Toland

four of them answered within a second. Surprisingly, Hayden, who hadn't

run into

Hayden "Yeah You too?"

"Hey, Vio, you good? Are you

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

in the mountains should've been taken

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

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

"Let's discuss it when I get to

them sensed

the bus pulled up at Toland University,

anked Kaylee to tag along with the girls for the reward pickup. At the same time, she headed in a different direction with her bag slung over

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

Violeta approaching, Zoren dashed over, "Vio, let me