Plot

[Anyu]

Before the humans left there were few dogs in the city. Humans had kept a tight control on the stray dog population; they didn't want their city overrun by stray mutts who ate out of garbage cans. No, before the disappearance of the humans the only dogs to be found in the city were the house pets, those kept and bred by humans. Soft, pampered dogs that would never survive on the street. Unless, of course, they really had to.

The humans left, chased away by some unknown force, leaving their pampered pets behind to try and survive in this strange new world.

They flourished.

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Fifty years later the humans still hadn't returned. Whatever had chased them away was keeping them away, it seemed, and the dogs were in charge now. These dogs - the fourth and fifth generations or so - were no longer the pampered pets that their ancestors had been. These were tought, street-smart dogs who knew how to survive without the interference of people. They had been doing it all their lives.

Dogs were always streaming into the city, coming and going, but usually staying. This was like dog paradise, despite the ramshackle appearance of the city. There was nothing here to hinder the existence of the dogs.

Before long, however, dog packs began to form.

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At first they were just simple street packs fighting for a little bit of power above the rest of the dogs. But before long they turned into real packs controlling territories. Southern Selance became the grounds of the Hiken pack, a pack that consisted of dogs who wanted to keep out of the fighting that was going on between two other packs; Mikiri and Tenshi. The forest outside of the city, soon to be known as the Forest of Death, became the home of the Mikiri pack, and the farmland on the outskirts of town, called the Ramchackle Hideaways, became the home for the Tenshi pack. Mikiri was the evil pack, the one that wanted to dominate all others. Tenshi was a better pack, one that was willing to fight to bring peace to the land.

Tenshi was led by a dog by the name of Shadow. He was a strong male who led his pack again the Mikiri with a strong will. Mikiri was led by a male called Demon, who led his pack with the desire to kill and bring an end to the other packs. Hiken was led by a female called Fell, who wanted all of the fighting to simply stop. Still, it wasn't long before Fell and the Hiken pack were pulled into the fighting.

During a bloody battle between the Tenshi and the Mikiri the fighting moved over to Hiken territory. Fell was forced to intervene with her pack. She was killed by Demon and her pack was quickly anhilated. They weren't used to fighting.

Demon and Shadow were left to face off once more. With the Hiken pack already out of the picture they were left to destroy each other.

And they did.

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Demon and Shadow were killed that day. A dog called Romano rose up to take Demon's place and led his pack back to the forests where they could recover and plot a new attack. Hiken and Tenshi packs were still struggling to find new leaders. In their confusion it could have been easy for Romano to rush in and take over, but his pack was short in numbers and he wanted them to heal before he did that.

So the time came when new leaders would arise and a new era would begin...

An era of war.