Rikitsu TaiShi-Amarante is the Alpha of the Arctic Shadows. Rikitsu is daughter to Ayakai TaiShi and Topaz Amarante, step-daughter to Kurosai, sister to Kiros. She is the neice of Alicorn and cousin to her descendents.

Rikitsu is a large Arctic wolf with golden eyes and pure white fur.

Topaz Amarante was happy with his sister AngelWolf in her pack, the Mystic Winds, for quite some time. One day while walking in the forest, he met a lone wolf named Ayakai TaiShi. Ayakai was born small, the runt of the litter, and never grew very large. Therefore she was always the last pup at the teet, the last wolf to eat after a hunt. This made her weak and easily fatigued, and when she turned three, the pack finally cast her out. It had become apparent that she would never be much use to the pack, and her packmates could no longer support her, as there were pups to be fed. Topaz became good friends with Ayakai, and Ayakai decided to ask to join the Mystic Winds. Angelwolf and her mate, though they liked Ayakai's personality, decided that Ayakai could not become a member. Like Ayakai's former pack, they felt she would be a burden on the pack, just another mouth to feed. Ayakai was asked to leave the territory, as there was already barely enough food for the pack to eat. Topaz had fallen in love with Ayakai by this time, and he decided to go with her, to provide and care for her, to protect her, and above all, simply to be with her.

Their first spring together, they were blessed with a litter of pups, three females and a male, Kiros. Just weeks later, while trying to bring down what seemed to be a lone doe to feed himself and his mate, he was attacked by a young buck, only about a year old. Topaz was caught by surprise as the young buck charged, and his antlers went into Topaz's side. The doe and buck quickly ran away, and Topaz bled to death. By the time Ayakai and the month-old cubs arrived, Topaz was gone. Ayakai had to raise her pups herself, which was very hard, as she was only capable of hunting very small game such as rabbits and was not even very good at that.

When the pups were just three months old, Ayakai met another lone male named Kurosai. Kurosai had been mated before, but his mate and pups were killed when his clearing was attacked by human hunters while the pack was hunting. Heartbroken, he left the pack to wander alone. A year passed by, and this was when Ayakai and Kurosai met. Kurosai, having grown very lonely during his travels, decided to stay near Ayakai to help her raise her pups, to make up for not having been able to save his own the year before. Eventually they grew to love one another, and they became mates. The pups grew up with Kurosai as their father and, though they knew their real father's name because their mother had told them, it was him they called papa.

Rikitsu left home with her brother Kiros, leaving her sisters and parents behind, to explore the world when she became an adult. During their travels, however, Kiros and Rikitsu were seperated. A rabid lioness attacked them, and in the confusion, they fled in opposite directions. They never found each other again afterwards, and Rikitsu was left to wander alone. A year passed by, and Rikitsu eventually became the Alpha female of the Arctic Shadows pack, one of her own founding.

Though she had a home, she still visitted other clearings often. Eventually, she happened upon the Silver Mists clearing. Alicorn Amarante-Tueor, Alpha female, noticed the new scent within her clearing and eventually decided to pay a visit to meet Rikitsu, the newcomer that had been visitting her home. The two introduced themselves, and after a long uncomfortable silence, spent staring at each other and pondering, they uncovered the fact that they are, indeed, related. It was thus that Rikitsu was reunited with her birth family, family she had never met, through her aunt, Alicorn.

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