Chapter 1

Juniper jumped as she heard a tree branch splinter. Spinning around, she saw the gray fur of Moon, slumped beneath a massive tree.
"Moon! Are you alright?" The white fox called to him, her voice shaking. The gray wolf lifted his gray head and shook away some twigs.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He winced. "I-I think I'm bleeding."
Juniper hurried from her safety of a rose bush and grabbed a wad of cobwebs from her small stock of herbs. She rushed over to Moon and sniffed his fur. A large tree branch had  made a nasty gash in his hind leg, soaking his fur with blood.
"Oh, Moon." She breathed.
The gray wolf looked at her, his eyes clouded.
"It doesn't even hurt that much. It just stings a little."
Juniper knew that he was trying to reassure her, but she couldn't keep from trembling. It worried her a great deal when an animal was hurt. Skillfully, the white fox placed the cobwebs on Moon's hind leg and tightly wrapped it around his thigh. She splashed honey on the cobweb for extra stick.
"Don't lick at it at all. It should be able to heal with in a moon."
The gray wolf dipped his head to her, thankfully.
"Thank you, Juniper. I don't know what I would do without you." The white fox stepped aside as Moon got to his paws and raced away, leaping on a black panther that was dazed by Hawk's fearsome dive.
It was a battle against The Creatures of Darkness and The Fifteen Animals of The Mystic Stone. So far, Moon had been the only that was hurt. Suddenly, a coal-black falcon swooped down at her, aiming it's sharp black talons right for her muzzle.
Juniper gasped and ducked, sweeping her snow white tail across her nose. The falcon screeched with fury and folded it's wings. It dived, beak first, right for Juniper. The white fox closed her eyes and waited for it's sharp beak to peck away her ears and it's talons scrape away her tail. But the enemy never came. A series of squawks and cries sounded right in Juniper's ears. The White Fox of Medicine opened her eyes to see Baron, with his talons locked around the black falcon's wing. The falcon struggled helplessly as Baron screeched and flung him into the forest. It barreled away until it was just a small black speck.
Baron slowly flew to the ground and poked Juniper gently.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
The white fox got to her paws.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just a little shaken but okay."
Baron nodded and unfolded his wings.
"There's a battle to win." He said before soaring into the air and over the trees.
Juniper slowly lifted a snowy white paw and made her way back to the thorn bush. She stopped dead when she saw all of her herbs torn apart and scattered everywhere. Black thorns lay next to each herb. Juniper's heart skipped a beat when she saw that the roses were not red, but a dark, evil black.
"Can't keep track of your own herbs, can you?"
Juniper spun around, fur on end, to see a pitch-black fox, her tail lashing back and forth. Her eyes were blood red and one of ears were torn.
"Ebony." Juniper snarled the name. The black fox stalked forward, her paw steps leaving behind a dark shadow.
"Nice to see you again, Juniper. It's been such a long time." She said menacingly.
"I have nothing to do with you Ebony." Juniper growled, her tail lashing.
Ebony flattened her ears.
"Once again, you are wrong, Juniper. I have a little secret for you."
Juniper snarled.
"Leave, you flea-bag."
Ebony made her red eyes wide.
"Now that wasn't very nice was it?"
Juniper spun around and started to stalk away.
"Oh, but you haven't heard my secret yet, Juniper!"
The white fox looked over her shoulder and bared her teeth.
Ebony growled.
"Remember your mother, Juniper?"
"Don't talk about my mother!" Juniper snarled.
Ebony let out a quiet chuckle.
"I killed her."