Goal achieved~! We finally reached the coveted fifteen rabbits a day. It took longer than expected, almost three months, but the result is great. It's even easy now, no one gets hurt anymore. The lightest colored wolf has even managed to catch 23 rabbits in a day, by herself. My score is 38 rabbits in a day, I'm still the strongest. It's weird though, when I first met the wolves their fur was almost black, but it's been getting lighter. I wonder why. Maybe it's a sign of strength? Either way I'm doing a good job as the leader. My pack is well feed and definitely getting stronger. At this rate I'll definitely be able to find my mom. I really miss her.

  Focus, I need to focus. The wolves have gotten strong enough for us to move on to bigger prey. A little farther into this ring a sparse forest starts. As we hunted the rabbits I kept smelling deer coming from that area. I'm sure we are strong enough to hunt some, and it's a good opportunity to work on our team work. The wolves have told me about their hunts for normal deer. If we hunt them it should improve the wolves intelligence and speed. They'll have to change tactics for unexpected actions from the deer. Yup, this is a good plan.

  I lead my pack into the forest. There is a clearing where the deer often rest at, that's where we'll find our prey. We approach from downwind, so the deer won't notice us. Once the deer are in sight we freeze. There's a lot of deer. I count them, there are at least fifty deer. Why didn't I notice that when we were coming here? I'm confident in our ability to hunt deer. Judging by their strength, we might even be able to take on three deer at a time...but fifty deer is to much. Unlike normal deer, if we attack the whole herd would stampede towards us. Uuu, this won't work. Dejected, I lead the wolves back to the rabbits again. We'll hunt down a deer tomorrow. I leave the wolves as they hunt, and explore the deer forest. I'll look for more places where the deer gather so if this spot still doesn't work tomorrow we'll have other places to hunt... Failure is depressing. I need to do better, as a leader and a child. Don't worry mother I'll find you, just wait for me to get strong.

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  Yes, there's only one deer here today! I give the orders to the wolves. Two wolves will go out and taunt the deer and then lead it to the others who are laying in the bushes for an ambush. I climb a tree and sit on a branch overhanging the path they will lead the deer to. When the deer comes by I will leap onto its back from above. It should be more safe then jumping on the rabbits. Instead of chasing the deer here they are going to be chased this way. Being a spirit beast they should be very aggressive. I nod at the two fastest wolves and they head towards the deer. The deer spots them as soon as they are out in the open. The wolves and the deer spend a few seconds staring at each other. Then one of the wolves growls and the other turns around and swings its butt and tail from side to side. Mother taught me that, she would sometimes do that during our practice fights. I would always get really annoyed an charge her. The deer has the same response as I would. The two wolves comes running back here. The one who shook his butt is yelping a lot, but not in pain or fear, it's like he's...laughing? Wah, I got distracted. I quickly jump on the deer that's running past me. I land on its rump and almost fell. The yelping wolf looks back and sees me, he starts yelping louder. As I claw my way up the deers behind the other wolves attack from the side. I grab the deer's head and pull it upwards so that it can't see where it's going. One of the wolves, who are harassing the deer's sides, takes this opportunity to bite the deer's neck and hold tight. The deer slowly stops it's struggles. It's legs buckle and collapse underneath it. We win, and got away with only bruises. Time to take our reward.

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  The deer is even tastier than the rabbit. Its bigger then the rabbits, and normal deer, that means more to eat. It's green skin is really sweet. I wonder why it's green though. Hmm, mother says that you are what you eat, which is why if you eat the strong you'll be strong. Does that mean the deer has been eating a strong green thing? Deer usually eat grass, does that mean that there is grass with second energy? That would be spirit grass, right? But I don't want to eat grass, deer eat plants other than grass too, so that means it's spirit plants. Okay, I'll keep an eye out for them.

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  We hunt the rest of the day, and manage to catch another deer. I don't manage to find anything like a spirit plant. When we get back to the den I check the two strongest wolves distinguishing markings. They are the lightest colored wolf and the laughing wolf. She has a light colored blaze on her forehead, and he has darker colored fur lining the dies of his ears and paws. It odd that they are the strongest in the pack, because they are also the two youngest. Actually, that applies to the rest of the pack. The oldest is at the age of the peak of their strength, but the younger wolves are getting stronger faster then he is. Does that mean that the younger you are when you start training the stronger you'll get? Wah, I need to train even harder. I should make use of my youth. Okay, new goal. We'll aim to hunt ten deer a day as a pack. Then when we can do that, we'll split into three groups and aim for five deer a day per group. Eventually, everyone will be strong enough to hunt three deer a day, by themselves. I will make the most of my youth. I sit down to train my second energy. I've made a habit of practicing it before sleeping. That way I'll still have it while I'm hunting. My pool is bigger by a fourth of when I fell. Mother will be proud of my hard work. Secure in the knowledge that I'm doing my best, I sink into the warm embrace of sleep. Cozy.