The night before...

Five beastmen stayed outside of their den while listening in to their female and their cub's steady breathing.

"Head male, how confident are we in this plan?" asks the tiger beastmen to the scowling golden bear beastmen.

"Not entirely, but those who have been captured preferred to die than to speak" sighs Dash.

Chris nods his head and glances at the three males who were added to their family. "Do any of you know The Clear Lake Clan Tribe's reputation?"

The three drew their lips in a thin line. The golden blonde shaggy hair male scratches his head, "all the Leopard Clan has heard is that the Bear Clan are tremendously strong... and where they lack, the Wolf Clan when in groups are tremendous hunters..."

"Attackers and scouters" adds the hawk beast.

Dash nods his head to them in agreement.

The tiger beastmen seeing that the other two have finished, reluctantly comments, "the Tiger Clan are aware that this tribe seeks retribution."

Chris smiles and Dash smirks, "we do."

The five then hear someone purposely making noises while walking to them. Five pair of glowing eyes stare at the incoming male.

Vick calmly stands before the five and nods his head to Dash, "does your female know of the plan?"

Dash nods solemnly back.

Vick noticing the nod, further adds, "you are aware what needs to be done in case she's first?"

Dash wanting to growl at this, stops and nods again with a slight show of pain in his eyes.

The black bear beast nods and disappears into the night.

The five beastmen silently clench their fist.

--- The Day of the Attack --

The beastmen lift their ears up at hearing the Wolf Clan's howl.

Dash and some of the other males nearby immediately wanted to charge to their females but were held back by Leader Axel pressuring aura "not yet."

Dash never closes his eyes in battle but just for this time he did it in order to control his urge.

His now controlled breath was soon snapped when he heard his cub's cry for help. With this he and the males started to deeply growl and appear to try to go against their leaders previous order.

Axel clench his teeth and placed further pressure on his comrades. Those who were barely moving soon had to forcefully stop yet they kept on growling. Dash, who was at the same mark level as Axel, could get up and move, yet Axel's pressure allowed him to clear his head to try to remember the plan discussed the other day.

Glancing at Vick's stern face and enlongated nails, Vick internally sigh and growl in a rough voice, "we need to hold on". Then adds, "our females are strong, they were trained for this moment."

Soon the males ears twitch at the arrival of more males. The Clan Wolf Leader appears in front of the group and nods his head at Leader Axel. He then bares his bloody teeth toward the area where the females can be seen running. James comments in a rough voice, "we were right, they attacked us as soon as we howled back." A red younger wolf beast then adds in a sneering voice as he watches worringly at his mothers and Elena's frightful eyes, "they never had a chance."

Axel nods and says, "Good.."

Yet before he could continue, an anguish cry could be heard from one of their tribe females.

Dash, Lucy's males, and her cubs raised their furs at hearing Lucy's cry for Dash. Worst, they are now watching her getting attacked by another female.

Dash immediately morphs into his golden bear beast form. Along with him, Lucy's six other males lost their rationality and did the same. With a huge grizzly growl that Dash and Juan let out, Axel and James had no choice but to internally curse and sent themselves and others to stop this family from heading out. From this internal dispute there was also whines of the injured since the tribe dared not to kill each other. Thus they were slowly getting hurt from Lucy's males letting their instinct take over.

One of the few who did not involve himself in this conflict was Vick and Radu who were staring coldly at the enemy males treatment to Lucy and Suki. Radu's heart clench and his claws were drawing blood from his own fisted hands, hold on Suki. Yet, he also lost part of his reasoning when he heard Suki's heart wrenching cry for her papas. With glowing purple eyes he was about to morph and run toward the incoming females when Vick suddenly gave a slight pressure to the young cub. Feeling extreme heaviness, Radu winced and stared with anguish at how Suki was being treated.

Thankfully the internal conflict was soon over when the majority of the females burst into their area. With this the tribe let out their rage at the enemy. Coyote and Lizard beastmens did not have the chance to call out their warnings to the others since they were quickly pounced on. Hence, they were occupied with protecting their own necks.

Jules, a fox beast female heavily breaths in her males scent while lying safely on one of her head males paws. Glancing around she then notices that two of their females were missing. Seeing Mallory nearby she shouts at her, "have you seen Lucy?"

Mallory's brown eyes widen and gets up from her head males paw and looks around, "they're not here" she mutters in horror. She then whispers sadly, "I knew it, that was her cry".

Natasha who was sitting nearby gasps and stares at her mother. Her eyes were signaling that they should help. Jazz knowing the message, glances at her almost grown cub. With a slight scowl, she gets up and howls. Her males hearing her message, growled and whine but knew that as a warrior of the Wolf Clan she would try to protect the other female and her cub.

Jazz and her teen cub soon left the protection of the males and head toward Lucy. However, besides them ran Radu in his small skunk beast form.

"What are you doing?" ask's Jazz as they ran.

"Helping you to get there" replies Radu.

Jazz frowns, "but they'll sense you."

Radu lets out a dry laugh as he runs, "I'm too weak for them to consider me a threat."

Natasha and her mother stay silent at this reply and kept on running.

True to Radu's word, whenever an enemy male tried to grab them. Radu would lift his tail and make a sneak attack at their face. Let's just say his attack was so toxic that the affected male would immediately faint. Unknown to the two other females. The three diablitos trail slightly behind them to make sure that the fainted males would never get up again.

The nearer they got, Radu began to fiercly clench his mouth. He soon regretfully comments, "this is as far as I can go." Jazz slows down to a trot and nod her thanks at him, yet Natasha who saw that one of the males was going for another swipe at Suki, gave herself a last push and prepared herself to bite down on the enemy's paw.... almost there.

Vick, has still not morph into his beast, but took extreme notice as the two wolf females stood protectively over the fox beast and Suki.

Jack in his bird beast form hops closer to Vick and watches. Blood is seen dripping from his beak. And on his back sits Chris with fierce eyes and enlongated teeth. When Lucy shifted into her other form, Jack then shrieks into the air and is followed by another bird beast.

"It's time" growls Vick as he stares with glowing black eyes at the sneering enemy males and morphs into his huge black bear beast.

Leader Axel hearing his son, growls out the order, "go!"

Dash, who heard them let's out a deafening roar of his own and runs heavily toward his female and cub.