beautiful scenery, another shape was moving. A red shape, the shape of a wolfdog.

Because Saba was walking out of the brush, just near Roamer.

As Saba walked out of the brush, she came to a small clearing. As she quickly looked around, she saw Speed half shadowed in a lean-to cave.

She smiled with relief. 'Speed's alive!' Saba thought.

She started to sprint over to him, when a burst of hot air on her back stopped her in her tracks. Saba froze.                Without turning around, she counted to three, and spun around. The biggest moose she had ever seen loomed over her. Its eyes were huge, the size of boulders, and they were big and angry. Its antelers were as tall as trees, and teeth and hooves were pricked sharp! Saba felt like sinking into the ground.

The moose let out one more large puff of hot air, and reared its antelers.

Saba screamed.

Speed leapt onto Roamer's back and dug his teeth into the moose's neck. Roamer let out a yell of pain and fury. Speed scratched his claws left, right and center, and kept a firm grip with his teeth.

Saba (still in shock) ran to the side, breathing heavily.

Roamer kicked and kicked and kicked! He spun around and made Speed so dizzy that he fell off, very close to Roamer's rampaging hooves.

Speed started to crawl to one side (still dizzy) but Roamer saw him and kicked him in the head! Speed fell unconcious. Roamer nuged Speed a few times, harshly with his antlers.

Seeming pleased (thinking that he had killed Speed) he continued grazing, as he forgot about Saba.

Saba, pleased once to have been forgotton, crept through the brush, closer to Speed. Only letting her head out, Saba grabbed Speed's fur and slowly pulled him into the brush.

Roamer heard a noise and turned around, he saw Saba (from the neck up) dragging Speed into the brush. Letting out a raged roar and stamped his hooves, hard.

Getting a better grip on Speed, Saba half ran off, dragging Speed and partly walking backward to hold onto him! Roamer wasn't far behind. Saba knew how fast moose could run, her dad had told her so. But Saba never thought that she would find out for herself!

Saba then came to the edge of the forest. She backwards-ran to the creek, and stopped exhausted. An idea formed in her mind. Grabbing Speed by his neck, she threw him into the creek.

"Cough-cough, splutter-splutter." Speed gagged. He shook himself out of his groggy stage.

He opened his eyes, and murmered "Where am I?" seeing Saba, he smiled, and hearing Roamers angry roar, he frowned.

He spund around, seeing Roamer, gaining fast. "Quick, lets get outta here!" he cried, quick acting and sensed, as wolves were.

Saba was grinning, her plan had worked! As they ran, they realised 'Where do we go?'

Speed cried "QUICK! If we get into town, someone will shoot the moose with a gun!"

"Brilliant!" cried Saba, as they steered to the right. Nome was growing closer.

The cry of a child told them that they had been seen, or at least, Nome had seen Roamer.

But Roamer was gaining on them. Speed let his wolf insticts take over, and let out a high-powered sprint.

Saba couldn't do a high-powered sprint, so she started to fall behind. Roamer saw this, and hurled himself faster.

'Have to kill dog. Have to kill wolf.' he thought.

As Speed ran closer to Nome, he heard Saba cry out. Roamer was less than a metre behind her! Speed stopped in his tracks, and Saba and Roamer almost passed him, exept that Speed hurtled himself at Roamer's leg, biting into it. Roamer screamed out in pain, and fell to the ground.

Saba and Speed kept running, and took cover behind a snow-mound. The gunshot sounded, and Roamer fell, dead.

As dusk fell, Saba and Speed sat by the creek, discussing the day's events.

They were both really happy, having escaped that.

"You were really brave back there," Saba said, suddenly.

"When?" asked Speed, "We were both really brave today."

"When you stopped and bit the moose." Saba said, blushing. "You didn't have to do that." her eyes twinkled.

Speed smiled. "Yes, I did. You're special Saba." he gave her a nuzzle, and then stopped short, blushing deeply.

Saba smiled, and nuzzled him back. "Your special, too Speed."

She and Speed met eyes, and smiled.

So, instead of going back to Nome, Speed coaxed Saba into joining him to explore the unknown.

So they stayed together, to special to be apart.