Father was a lone wolf that settled with an otter girl. They gave birth to two twin children, they cared for them growing up. The one that looked like his father was given the name Alexander; "protector". The next looked like his mother was given the name Dax; "one of water". Their father taught them how to hunt and fight, Alex was the stronger of the two in these fields. Their mother taught them how to read and right and other things of the mind, Dax was stronger in this field.

 Alex, while he gets his looks mostly from his father, he has some small otter features. He has short fur on his body and thick fur around his neck and on his tail. While not as muscular as his father, he has increased mobility on land and in water due to his slender body from his mother’s side. 

 Dax has more of his mothers’ features and has the appearance of a rather strong and tall otter. While having more mobility in water than his brother, he has less mobility on land due to his long otter tail. He has no thick fur like his brother. He has increased strength with having a wolf father.

 When Alex and Dax were around 7 years of age, things started to happen around them. Alex and Dax went to a nearby shaman to uncover why these two had strange incidents happen around them. To learn of the reasons, the shaman had markings made on their arms, a single black stripe tattoo around their upper arms, this helped to discover that he and his brother had natural abilities of nature. Alex's marks developed black icicle shaped marks below the stripe, while Dax had wave like markings appear above. The shaman told them this knowledge and decided they had to leave the village and learn to control these abilities before returning. After telling their parents, they had departed to develop these abilities. 

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After 2 years, they returned to the village. Alex, being a wolf in an otter tribe has its side of problems. None of the otters wanted to be around him. He was a freak in their eyes. Dax looked like an otter and was accepted by the otters. This was unknown to Dax.

A year after returning, Dax was the most popular in the tribe. One day, he was enjoying Alex's company when other otters of the tribe invited him hang with them. While leaving his brother there after finishing their conversation, they questioned Dax about why he hung around with him telling him that he was a freak, Dax stepped back disbelieving what he just heard and walked back to Alex and brought him back with him. "Apparently, not everyone knows this fact..." he said "...but this wolf is My BROTHER!" he yelled at them. With that, they headed home together.

After awhile of not returning to the main village for half the year, the group from that day came to their home and asked for forgiveness for their rude words. They were forgiven and they returned to the tribe, Alex was now accepted. 

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 Alex and Dax, now young boys of 11, had made plans to perform the annual spirit festival. They were the main attraction of the festival, they performed grand acts with abilities of water and ice. Having gone through the whole day performing, now tired, started to wander the village and mingle while the moon was shining bright. Alex found himself a cute otter girl and walked around with her. Alex was a gentle boy as he struggled with being accepted for most of his life. Mostly all the girls were short compared to him, his brother and their father, he didn't want to hurt anyone. Later finding a secluded place, she began to make advances on him and he told her he couldn't. He explained to her his reasons, she accepted that and they just fell asleep there. 
 Thanking her for her company and leaving to find his brother the next morning. He found him asleep in a rather big group of otters, he woke him and he looked around. Dax when wide eyed as he noticed some guys among the otter, smiled with a sweat drop coming from this forehead and leaving with his brother before Alex takes time to look around.

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 The boys are now 12 and have now been told that they can leave to travel like their father. They have never been out of these mountain woods and now are old enough to make their own decisions. They give their farewells to the village and their tribe and begin their journey. Days after they started they setup camp and began to sleep. 
 Sounds started to ring through the trees and rocks, Alex wakes hearing these sounds and alerts his brother. These two put out the fire and got there things before investigating these sounds. Fallowing the sounds for five minutes now come to a cliff. They lie down and look over the cliff and spot what looks like a swirl of light and hear the ringing coming from it. They watch as it slowly starts to grow. Wonder fills there mind as they watch.
 Now almost touching the side of the cliff, Dax starts to get worried. Just then, the vortex grows and makes contact, like an earthquake the ground below them shakes and shifts, their footing no losing starts to shift. Alex starts to slide toward the edge and nearly falls. Dax caught him and was now holding onto a nearby tree. Dax now had no hands to use his abilities and Alex needs water to use his, while being able to use them with water in the air, it seems like it was all being pulled into the vortex. Just then, the ground broke beneath them and now they were falling, rocks hitting Dax causing him to lose his grip and now they fall separate. Alex now pulled into this vortex disappears, Dax soon fallowing.

The woods fall silent as the vortex closes.