When the sun rose the pups were woken up by the mothers and led outside. The mothers made all the pups sit down together.
Ryan's mother was the first one to speak, "Little ones we have been with you for a long time and have become weaker. Don't ever forget that only the strong will be able to survive".
The other mother nodded and began talking "Because of this we will have to take turns taking care of you. Today Flame Claw and River Paw will be watching over you. Make sure to use your time outside to test your skills".
As they were finishing their explanations a wolf that seemed to be made of stone and another one that had a light blue pelt began walking towards them. They both had the antlers or "Horns" that they got from being a horned wolf.
His mother who had a white pelt that seemed to shine in the sun walked next to the stone wolf, "This is Flame Claw and the other one is River Paw".
Ryan was confused 'Hey god why is that stone one is called Flame Claw if he is made out of stone? shouldn't he be called Stone something? Don't tell me that this dude started a fire as a pup or something'.
He waited for a response but none came. He couldn't hold his curiosity and walked up to the stone wolf. "Hello, Flame Claw I was wondering why your name is Flame Claw. Wouldn't you being called Rock Claw be better?".
The wolf looked back at Ryan with curiosity "You are Viper Pup aren't you?"
Ryan nodded, he was cursing the name on the inside 'How could they use my hard training to compare me to a stupid Viper? Well, at least they didn't call me a worm that right there would just be torture.'
Flame Claw looked at him and began explaining "Well before my 3rd evolution I had a red pelt that's why the leader gave me the first name, Flame. Just like you have the name Viper, one day when you become a warrior you will one day receive a permanent last name from our Alpha."
Ryan nodded his understanding and thanked him. He began walking away from him into a nice clearing away from the rest. At least that is what he thought, after he arrived at the desired location he turned around and found that nearly all the pups had silently followed him.
"Umm what are you all doing?" he asked.
The pups began wagging their tails and sticking their tongues out. One of the smallest walked up to him shyly, "We have a lot of fun when we are playing with you so we decided to follow you".
Ryan nodded "great, it looks like now I'm stuck with a bunch of little kids", he thought.
He sighed and looked around. He found that 8 out of the 11 pups followed him. All of his 6 siblings were with him and the other 2 were from the strict mother. 'Man I really have to start getting to know the names of the pack at least the name of my own mother'.
He looked back at the small pup, "What's your name?"
The small silver pup stood lifted his head proudly "Fang Pup" he stated.
Ryan couldn't help laugh on the inside 'Father, looks like you ran out of things that were grey, didn't you. The names Rock and Stone Pup were already taken if I remember correctly and you couldn't think of anything at the moment'.
He looked at the pup and began thinking of ways to train, he would think of ways to make them stronger and survive. Ryan wasn't an angel, at the moment he had no bond with them he just wanted them to live and become strong so that his survivability could increase.
Ryan wasn't stupid after seeing the wolves hunt he knew that the more teeth and claws in a pack then the higher the chances to survive.
He turned his gaze on all the pups that had followed him, 'At the moment we should work on our bodies'.
He signaled with his snout at the 3 pups that were away from them pouncing at each other. They wrestled in the grass and had fun.
After the pups looked at them, they began wagging their tails faster. Ryan shook his head, "Do you guys remember what our mothers told us?".
They all tilted their heads in confusion, "Our mothers told us that only the strong will survive which means that we have to find ways to get stronger quickly. What they are doing is fun and shows us how to fight but at the moment we have to focus on getting stronger".
Flame Claw who was next to the pups was looking at Ryan with both excitement and curiosity.
"Today we can do what I like to call tag. It's pretty much what we have been doing in the den but I could never really let you know the rules since we couldn't yet speak. One will try to touch us and we have to run away from them. If they touch us then the pup that they touch tries to touch someone else. Only one pup can be trying to touch us at a time, this person will be called it. Do you all understand ?"
The pups seemed to get the gist of the game and nodded. On the other hand, Flame Claw seemed surprised and called out to the other wolf "River Paw, bring those brats here quickly".
The younger blue wolf, quickly did as he was told and brought the pups.
'So these two are mentor and student.'
After the 3 new pups were brought Flame Claw made Ryan explain the game rules again. When everyone was on the same page they began the game. They ended playing it for the rest of the day, all the pups were tired. Ryan's legs were feeling sore as well.
He laid down and prepared to sleep in a corner. When he closed his eyes he began to feel others next to him, opening his eyes he found himself surrounded by sleepy pups. He sighed and began thinking of new ways to train, now that he had others with him he could use them during training.
After forming an idea in his head he got comfortable and slept.