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 in

Viste back their team

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

How come your

along the way. How were we supposed to know Violets found some shortour She grabbed our

bit of fierceness showing To her those

you obey her? If you guys made an effort to fall behind, the core wolde de Zelena's words sent shivers down Jezebel and

just for you? Zelena, you tossed us a tiny bone, not worth risking our lives by that pea-sized reward, okay!" Sonya chimed in "Seriously, you're going too for Didrit expect you to

had let her anger get the best of her and forgot to

Jezebel and Sonya brushed off Zelena and

scored big by snagging first

crown and smashed the record set by

announcements had made their way through

his squad caught wind of

group chat was

Yol Vio shattered our old

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

you're a legend! Dinner's on you when

back

you mean? Are you

les pants because of a wild

so

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

a second. Surprisingly, Hayden, who

also run into a wild

Hayden "Yeah You too?"

Vio, you good?

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

wolves in the mountains

are pretty low. So, was it good luck

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

seconds later, she spoke, "Let's discuss it when I

four of them sensed that something

at Toland University, Jezebel and Sonya hustled

At the same time, she headed in a different direction with her

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

dashed over, "Vio, let me check if