True Legends Never die

                                                                                                      -Unknown

     "This  one  will  eventualy  take  over  as  alpha,  you  know."  A  big  brown  wolf  said,  and  calmly  smiled. His  name  was  Nanook,  the  current  alpha  male  of  the  pack.  The  current  alpha  female  was  Ashur,  a solid  black  and  white  wolf,  looking  over  three  pups.  One  was  small  and  almost  completley  white.  Her name  was  Azura,  and  beside  her  was  a  larger  brown  and  black  male,  Dakota.  Then  there  was  the  first  born  pup.  She  was  a  female  and  pure  black  and  radiant  white.  She  was  also  the  first  born,  and claimed  future  alpha.  The  night  she  was  born  was  under  a  waxing  cresent  moon.  Being  born  under  a cresent  moon  ment  'the  seed  has  sprouted  and  is  growing  to  the  light'.  The  legend  of  Zasha  was  born.

     Azura nevered liked to play-fight like Dakota and I. We liked playing 'hunt' alot. We watched how momma and dad killed the elk from a distance. We acted like we were hunting eachother. We also hunted the bugs around the den. Azura always was picky about her food. I always sadly doubted her survival through being a puppy or even as a lone wolf. She'd have to stay the omega of the pack. Dakota was always better at playing the hunting game. He was more patient then I was. He knew the perfect timming to attack. Even though I was to become alpha, father liked to teach Dakota how to hunt small prey with him. They hunted rabbits and birds. When they went off, I tried to play with Azura, but she wasn't interested. "C'mon Azura! Let's play" I barked. I takled her a pulled on her ear. "OW! Zasha! Stop!" She cried. I let go and back off. "Your boring" I said and rolled my eyes. "Your stupid! And you'll be a dumb leader!" Azura snapped. If there is one thing that gets on my nevers more than anything, is big mouths with no room to talk. I attacked her and bit down on her ear, hard. She yelped and screamed for mom. "Zasha bit my ear, really hard!" She whined. Azura cried to mom alot. It made me and Dakota get into trouble alot, too. "She's just playing with you." Mom said and walked off.

      When crieng to mom didn't work, Azura always fought back. She bit down on my arm and tried to trip me, but I just pushed her away. I walked outside and waited for dad and Dakota to come back. Suddenly the two bolted inside the rim of our territory. My siblings and I were too big to be picked up my mouth, so Dad was pushing Dakota to go faster by nudging and nipping his shoulders. They were in a hurry to get home, and because we only ran about half the speed of an adult wolf, so he pushed Dakota to go quicker and quicker. When they fanially got up here with us, I noticed a large things that looked like silver pinestraw with a little peice of plastic at the end lodged in my dad's shoulder. He was bleeding and his arm was going numb. I now know it was a dart to make you sleep. My dad fell over. "NANOOK!" Our mom cried, shoving him over and over with her muzzle. I was scared, we all were. "What happened?" mother asked Dakota. "Two weird things came out of the woods! They had this black tree branch that controlled thunder! Then, dad got that thing in his shoulder!" He barked. Then I heard somthing in the woods. I sneaked out of the den, and went into the woods. I hoped my family didn't realize I'd gone. I'll never forgive myself for what happend next.

     I cought on to a scent like mom and dad would do during hunting. I followed it for only about five minutes, before seeing two odd creatues. They had four legs, like I do, but only two met the ground, the two others were grabbing onto black tree branches. "Did you see where they ran? I don't want anymore complaints of these monsters keeping people up with howling all night." One said. He other put up his hand, and the first fell silent. He pointed to the bush were I was at. Startled, I ran as fast as my legs could carry me back home. I now realized that maybe if I hadn't gone to the humans, or maybe if I just ran a different way, to lure them away, I....I....Might just be with my family as I speak. I lead the humans straight to my family. The man raised his thunder branch, and shot my mom. It was the same thing that happend to my dad. She fell to the ground. They weren't dead, just asleep. The man grabbed Azura my her ear and back, and shoved her into a small cage, the other man grapped Dakota by the leg. He too was put in a cage, I tried to run, and the man grabbed onto my tail and leg. I turned around and bit his finger, but he reacted my grabbing the back of my neck and thrusted me into another small cage. They also put mom and dad into cages a little larger than my own.

      I felt a sharp, quick lived pain in my shoulder. I saw the dart. I frantically looked around to my family. They were all knocked out. I started to panic, then fought to stay awake. The truck started moving, and after a little while, the calm humming sound of it plus the drug made me sleep. I woke up alittle while later. I found some food in my cage. "Don't eat it Zasha, the humans put it in there." My mother wispered to me. I sniffed it, and it smelled odd. I didn't know if it was the human's scent, or posion, so I left it alone. 

     After a while, I started to get hungry. So incredibly hungery. I looked around at my family. They were all asleep. I sniffed the meat again, and the odd smell was very very faint. I bit into it. It was elk, no doubt. It was good too. I ate it, and fell back asleep.

     "ZASHA!" I heard my mother scream. I bolted up. "What?!What?!" I barked. She scared me half to death. "Did you eat that meat? DID YOU!?!" she barked. "N-no." I said swiftly. "It's not in your cage! It could be poision!" She said. I didn't want to scare her, so I quickly answered back. "I pushed it out onto the road, it was taking up space." I saw a sign of relief come over her. "Thank God, you scared me." She replied, and turned around. I got alittle scared.

     "CLANK CHHHKK CLICK" I looked up. The belt-like thing attached to my cage holding it on the truck was comming apart. I yelped. Suddenly, it snapped, and my cage slid off the side. I had one last look ay my family. A tear rolled down my eye. I was cold and alone. I curled up and tucked my nose under the tip of my tail, the way that fox I saw last winter had looked. I finally fell asleep. When I woke up, I was starving. Only then did I realize I had another, bigger problem than hunger. I was trapped in a cage in the middle of nowhere. I'll die if I can't get to water and food soon. I started barking. I looked around. I barked more. I was from Tennesse, and now (though I didn't know it at the time) I was in Alaska. I didn't know about all the pradators. A large, tan thing came up to me.

     I knew alittle about cats, because I saw one once, but this was bigger than I was, bigger than my father Nanook!  Then I got an idea. "Hahah! You big, fat, dumb kitten! You can't get me in this cage!" I barked. The cat licked it's lips. "I'm a mountain lion," Her claws sprang out from her paws "Let's just see."

     She swung her claw (it was bigger than my entire boddy by the way) across my cage once. It was so close to hitting me, I could almost double over in pain from fear, but I knew I couldn't. "LOSER!" I barked. I moved into a crouching position. She slung her claw across the cage for the second time, sending it a few feet away and breaking the door almost completley off the hinges. I barked again. She but one claw on the cage, and lifted the other way up high. Then she slammed it against the cage. Before I had time to think, my reflect caused me to run up her nose, and bite into her