Wiggle

"I don't want to go with them. I want to stay with you and Lucky, and Mickey and the others."

— Wiggle to Martha in Darkness Falls, page 264

Wiggle
Affiliations
Current: Past:	Forests Beyond Wild Pack, Fierce Dogs
Description
Species Breed Gender	Dog Doberman Pinscher Male
Names
Names	Pup: Wiggle
Family
Family	Mother-Dog: Morningstar Foster Mother: Martha Foster Father: Lucky Sister: Storm Brother: Fang
Rank Positions
Rank	Unknown
Status
Status	Deceased (killed by Blade)
Book Appearances
Living	Darkness Falls, Storm of Dogs, A Pack Divided, Dead of Night, Into the Shadows, Red Moon Rising, The Exile's Journey, The Final Battle
Dead	The Final Battle

Wiggle was a glossy-furred male Fierce Dog pup with brown-and-tan fur, a round, lighter muzzle, a tufty neck, a short, thin stumpy tail, long, soft-furred, floppy ears, wide brown eyes, a darker, pointed face, thick, small legs, and a small, dark head.

History

In the Original Series

Darkness Falls

Wiggle and his brother and sister, Grunt and Lick, were found by Mickey and Lucky in the Fierce Dogs' place. Their mother, along with another pup were found dead. Wiggle seems to be the youngest of the litter. He and Lick appear not to be as aggressive as their brother, Grunt, though Wiggle is observed as the shyest in the group.

When the Fierce Dogs come to take him and his siblings back, he and Lick are reluctant to go and want to stay with Lucky and Martha.

Lick later returns to the Wild Pack and informs them on how Blade had killed Wiggle. The Fierce Dog Alpha yelled at them, saying "You're not my pups!" Blade killed Wiggle purposely. Grunt promised to be useful to her, and Lick ran away from Blade thanks to the fog. Afterwards, Lick explains to the Pack about what happened.

Storm of Dogs

When Blade mentions how she had to kill her own pup, Lucky says Wiggle's name, and his heart aches at the thought of the small, vulnerable puppy, who had been the weakest and gentlest of his litter. However, Blade says that she would kill him again, and she explains that she killed the Mother-Dog and assumed that the pups would weaken and die without her. The Fierce Dog Alpha goes on and tells Lucky that he ruined her plans by stealing them away. Later, Lucky notes how Fang wanted to be with the Fierce Dogs, even after seeing Blade kill Wiggle.

Later, when Lucky tells the Wild Pack of his dreams of the Storm of Dogs, Storm guesses that it is all because of her, and admits that she always thought that Blade killed Wiggle because she thought he was weak, and potentially wanted them dead because she hated their Mother-Dog. The young Fierce Dog realizes that Blade wanted to kill her because she thought that Storm would cause the Storm of Dogs, and Sweet confirms her beliefs, stating that that is why she killed Wiggle when she discovered they had survived being abandoned.

When Arrow explains to the Wild Pack how he left the Fierce Dog Pack, he mentions that he had heard about what she did to Wiggle, but after seeing her kill Fang, decided that he couldn't be in her Pack anymore.

In the Gathering Darkness arc

A Pack Divided

In the prologue, Lick and her siblings discover a dead pup, and Wiggle, though unnamed, curls tighter around Storm when she trembles, and nuzzles her ear with his nose. The pup guesses that he is sick, and suggests waking him up, and taking him inside, where it is warm and safe. Grunt says that Alpha will soon come and make her pup better, but the smaller pup is unsure that Alpha will come back. The bigger pup says that Alpha will come back for her pup, since Mother-Dogs never leave their pups, and Wiggle wags his tail hesitantly, wondering if the pup will play with them when he is better. When after a while passes and Lick begins to cry that the pup and their Mother-Dog are still, Wiggle joins in yelping miserably, and wonders where Alpha is. All three pups begin yipping, their calls echoing. However, they fall silent when their bigger litter-brother warns them to be quiet.

When Sweet tells her Pack the story of the Wind Dogs, Storm remembers how Martha used to tell her, Grunt, and Wiggle stories about the Spirit Dogs, and they didn't know anything because their Mother-Dog had died before she could tell them.

When Storm has a dream that she is Lick again, she asks Martha where Wiggle and Grunt are, and says that she wants to play with them.

Dead of Night

In the prologue, Mickey, Lucky, and the three pups have scented a coyote pack. The dogs roll on the forest floor to mask their scents. When the coyotes speak near them, Wiggle gets scared.

Into the Shadows

In the prologue, Martha takes the three pups to teach them about the River- Dog and how to swim. At first, Wiggle is scared to swim. Wiggle is scared when Grunt is swept away by the current and is later grateful to Martha for saving him.

Red Moon Rising

In the prologue, the three pups are sneaking away from the Wild Pack. Wiggle is reluctant to leave. Lick leads the pups, but they get lost. Fortunately, Daisy finds them and brings them back to the Pack.

The Exile's Journey

In the prologue, the three pups are walking with the Fierce Dog Pack when Blade kills Wiggle.

The Final Battle

Wiggle is seen, standing behind Whisper, next to Bella, Tufty, Alfie, Fiery, Spring, Whisper, Ruff, Bruno, Martha and Alpha as Earth, Forest, River and Sky assume their names. After this, he and the other dogs disappear, and Storm feels she will never see them again until she dies and joins them in the Forests Beyond.

Trivia

• Wiggle was around 8-10 weeks old when Lucky and Mickey rescued him.
• Storm mentions to herself in The Gathering Darkness that she misses Wiggle more than Fang, as Fang made his own choices, but Wiggle did not get the chance to.

Family

Members

Mother:

Morningstar: Deceased As of Storm of Dogs

Brother:

Fang: Deceased As of Storm of Dogs

Sister:

Storm: Living As of The Final Battle

Foster-Mother:

Martha: Deceased As of Storm of Dogs

Foster-Father:

Lucky: Living As of The Final Battle

Tree

Unnamed

Morningstar

Storm

Fang

Wiggle

    = Male

    = Female

    = Gender Unknown

Quotes

"I thought you liked us. I thought you were our friend."

—Wiggle to Lucky

""Where does the Forest-Dog sleep?""

—Wiggle to Lucky

""We're going on an adventure!""

—Wiggle

""I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so rough""

—Wiggle to Lucky