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

fet place in the

hold Viste

Sonys demanding. What

Violet? How come your team

the way. How were we supposed to know Violets found some shortour

narrowed her eyes, a bit of fierceness showing To her

to fall behind, the

tiny bone, not worth risking our lives by that pea-sized reward, okay!" Sonya chimed in "Seriously, you're going

she had let her anger get the best of her and forgot to put on e front "That's

Sonya brushed off Zelena and turned to

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

took the crown and smashed

had made their

following day, Hayden and his squad caught wind

chat was buzzing with

Vio shattered our old

We were kinda worried you'd buckle, but

Dinner's on you when you

Zero wasrit slowing us down back then, our

Are you blaming me? Wanna fight, hub

remember who almost peed les pants because of a

you guys I'm so done with you

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

rang, and all four of them answered within a second. Surprisingly,

run into a wild

Hayden "Yeah You too?"

"Hey, Vio, you good? Are

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

mountains should've been taken care of

into them are pretty low. So, was it good

but there was movement in the bag on her lap. A pair

discuss

four of them sensed that something

University, Jezebel

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

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

over, "Vio,