It was one fine day, Ellie was lying down trying to sleep with Sid collecting berries near by while Eddie and Crash were on Ellie head, but they all stop what were doing at Manny came into view.

"Where is Diego?" asked Manny.

"He said he need to go for a run," said Ellie.

"I bet he gonna spy on Shira," said Sid.

"Yea now that you think of it he is spending more time alone then with us," said Eddie on Ellie head getting tears in his eyes.

"I think he left us alone to die!" said Crash.

"Wait, where is Peaches?" asked Manny.

"I haven't seen her this morning" said Ellie getting up from her nap, Manny looked at the two possums. Crash and Eddie cover their mouths but Manny can tell through their eyes.

"I need to go find Peaches," said Manny walking off again.

"Manny you need to relaxed," said Ellie.

"I need to make sure that Ethan not putting his trunk all over my daughter," said Manny.

"I'm pretty sure he wont do that, unlike you when we first met," said Ellie walking over to Manny.

"That was different," said Manny.

"How?" asked Ellie.

"Because we are full-grown adults, and teenagers have a little spot in the minds thinking of things that Peaches shouldnt know yet, in fact they shouldnt at all" said Manny.

"What about you when you were a teenager?" asked Ellie.

"Well I was um more I was good I didn't do anything 'wrong'," said Manny.

"And by the way what do you mean dirty things?" asked Ellie, Manny remembered that Ellie spent half her life thinking that she was a possum.

"Well I tell you later unless you don't want to know" said Manny walking quickly away from Ellie not wanting her to ask questions that might be a little awkward, it's not easy being with a mate that doesn't know much about what they suppose to know and now you have to tell them as an adult and who knows what they do when they find out. Manny shook his fur thinking of Ellie knowing this kind a stuff.

Diego

Diego was running through the landscape until he jumped onto a rock to rest for a bit, he had run for like 50 minutes and his heart wont stop pounding. Diego was about to sit when something caught he eyes and he looked and saw something greyish running, he leapt off the rock and started to chase after it. Diego caught up to the thing, he then know he was chasing Shira he tried to stopped but instead he tripped and fell in the dust. Shire looked back and saw a Saber lying on the ground.

"Well don't tell me its the tawny Saber that got tripped by its own foot" said Shira walking over to Diego. He got up and spit dirt out of his mouth.

"Huh in your dreams" said Diego.

"I don't have dreams" said Shira and she walked off leaving Diego all alone.

"What? everyone has dreams" said Diego still standing in the same spot, Shira ears twitch and she turned around.

"I don't have dreams like everyone else i got something else" said Shira.

"And what is it?" asked Diego.

"Nightmares" said Shira turning around again and walking off, Diego tried to move but can't after he heard that she has nightmares.

"Whoa, wait up" said Diego catching up to Shira and was now walking with her Shira looked at him.

"Why do you have nightmares?" asked Diego, Shira rolled her eyes.

"Whoa, now you want to hear my stories and the next thing we do is licking each others faces," said Shira.

"that's what you want to do," said Diego.

"In your dreams," said Shira smirking.

"Want to tell me why you have nightmares or not?" asked Diego.

"Nope" said Shira but Diego tackled her to the ground.

"What the, what was that for" said Shira.

"For not telling me your story," said Diego.

"Why do you want to know?" asked Shira trying to escaped from his claws.

"That's what herds do, they got each other back," said Diego.

"And who's said I was in your herd anyway?" asked Shira, Diego was stunned by this question.

"We saved you from drowning and from the crew and Gutt and your still saying you don't want to join our herd?" asked Diego.

"It's not that" said Shira.

"Then what is it from joining our herd?" asked Diego.

"I only tell you if you get off me" said Shira, Diego let go of Shira and waited for her to get up.

"Okay now tell me" said Diego.

"It's because of my fur" said Shira.

"What about it?" asked Diego.

"Haven't you heard that having grey fur on a saber its rare?" asked Shira.

"My old pack didn't like my fur" said Shira.

Flashback

"Shira come here my darling," said Shira mother, she had the same fur as Diego and she had black stripes around her legs.

"Coming mummy" said Shira when she was a cub, she was walking to her mother which she was standing near their cave but she notice that her father was coming towards her mother and so she ran up to her mother and hid behind her.

"Cookie I think its time that we should give Shira to another pack" said the father, who has brown fur with black marks around his neck and he had scars around his back.

"No, she is my baby and I will make sure she has food and shelter and I'm not letting her get killed just because of her fur" said Cookie who was Shira mother.

"Ugh fine she stay here in the pack but if i hear that she be doing something that she wasnt allowed to do, i will make sure she will get a punishment" said her father walking away from mother and cub to a group of males.

"Mom?" said Shira coming out from behind her.

"Yes?" said Cookie still looking at her mate.

"I wish I was never born," said Shira, Cookie looked at her shocked of what she said.

"Why?" asked Cookie getting closer to Shira.

"Then I wont have to listen to my father threatening me and I wouldn't be called something like weirdo, and its all my fault that I'm grey" said Shira getting tears in her eyes.

"Darling you should be proud of what your fur is," said Cookie sitting down in front of Shira

"But it's just grey I'm the only one who has it," said Shira

"But having grey fur is rare and not many pack has sabers have that kind of fur," said Shira mother.

"Yea I guess so," muttered Shira.

"And besides you got your brother that loves you and a good friend, what would they do without you?" said Shira.

"But the rest of the pack hates me," said Shira

"Don't worry I'm gonna be there for you," said Cookie putting a paw on Shira.

"Really?" asked Shira

"Of course I will, I'm your mother and will always be there for you no matter what," said Cookie hugging Shira.

ten years later

"Can I learn to hunt?" asked Shira who was all grown up and her black markings was dark on her back.

"No you're a female and you stay here and look pretty as you can until you get a mate," said Father who was looking into the distance not looking at her for one minute.

"Fine," said Shira who walked away to sabers cave where she saw her dark brown brother and her friend who was tawny.

"Did you ask him?" asked Shira friend.

"No, he said just look pretty until I get a mate," said Shira.

"But I don't want to just look around pretty," said Shira friend who was nearly yelling.

"Sh Elia you don't want to get in trouble," said the brown saber.

"Oh please Fang if I get in trouble I'm you bringing down with me," said Elia.

"Do it and you are so dead," said Fang.

"That's it I'm going hunting no matter what," said Shira walking out of the cave.

"No Shira you get kick out of the pack," said Fang.

"Well maybe I will find a new pack" said Shira without looking back. Its been ten minutes and already found a gazelle who was eating grass near a tree, Shira crept up to it hiding in the tall grass. Then Shira leapt at it and killed it in a heat beat, Shira brought the animal home to where all the sabers that were standing around the cave.

"I brought dinner," said Shira letting go of the meat.

"Shira who have disobeyed me and now your kick out of the pack," said her father coming in front of her, then Cookie stand besides Shira.

"If Shira goes, so will I," said Cookie.

"Don't do this Cookie I need you to have another cub and not one that has grey fur and or that brings bad luck to the pack," said her father.

"So that's what I am to you, you only became my mate so you can just have more cubs to do your dirty work" said Cookie, her mate was about to say something but Cookie didn't finish her speech.

"I'm like a machine to you, you really don't care about love all you care about is power," said Cookie.

"Cookie you got this all wrong it's for the good of the pack," said her mate, but in his corner of his eye he saw Fang and Elia walking towards Shira and Cookie.

"Don't you dare take another step or I will kill you," said Shira father they both stand very still.

"As for you two" now looking at the two sabers "you disappoint me Shira" said Shira father and he brought up his paw high and brought it down but Cookie jump in front of Shira and instead of Shira getting killed her mother took her place.

"MOM" yelled Shira as she stood by her mother side.

"Shira I want *cough* to stay alive *cough* be free my child" said Cookie saying her last words before dying in front of the whole pack. Some of the sabers looked away but some just stared and was trying to hold their tears in, Fang failed to keep his tears in and started crying a bit while Elia patted him on his back.

"See what have you done, your mother is dead and since you care for her so much why don't you join her?" said her father, Shira knew what he meant and she began to run away from the pack. She hears breathing and she turn her head around to see the whole pack chasing her even Fang and Elia but they were way far behind.

Fang and Elia saw Shira looking back at them and they both winked and Shira smiled and she gave a little boost, after a while she began to run slow she use up all her energy and now she was trapped on an ice edge. She was standing between the sea and the land, the pack crept to Shira but as they all step paw on the ice, the ice edge gave out and went falling to the sea. Shira went falling to the sea when she reach the water there was silent.

The pack thought she was dead and so they left, but Shira popped her head out of the water coughing out water out of her mouth. Shira knew this was her end since she doesn't know how to swim because her father never taught her but as she was gonna take her last breath she saw and ice berg that she was standing on the edge.

She swam to the ice berg, well at least she tried to but she still made it Shira got up on the ice berg and shook herself. Her fur was soaking wet she looked back at the island and a tear escaped from her eye, she wasn't crying because of her pack she missed her brother, Elia and her mother and she know that she will never see them again. As she was being carried out to sea she sat down and cried for her mother knowing that she will be lonely without her loves one.

Flash ends

"And that's how I end up meeting Gutt and his crew," said Shira when she looked at Diego she could see tears in his eyes.

"Aw, you really are a softie," said Shira.

"What, oh no this isn't tears something went into my eye and it stings," said Diego trying to wipe tears off his face and he groan in pain trying to pretend he was in pain.

"Well I do know that you're not good at pretending your being in pain," said Shira.

"How did you know?" asked Diego giving up his act.

"I didn't become pirate for nothing tiger," said Shira and after that she ran off into the distance leaving Diego walking alone. Diego smiled a bit and he turned another path towards where the herd was staying before they get any ideas where he has gone.