Naryia’s mind, her imagination continued playing.
Teeth where bared.
Claws were ripped along skin, creating a horrid noise.
Yelping and screaming everywhere.
Chants back and forth from each of the packs.
“He did win the fight but he spared the wolf’s life. Although the alpha wouldn’t accept it, he said it had to be to the death and by sparing him, he said my father had withdrawed and…” Naryia shuttered, looking at the ground trying to keep her tears back.
“It’s okay,” Said Baako comfortingly, although he knew it wasn’t okay at all, this girl has a lost a family member, just like he had, but Baako didn’t remember as well as Naryia did. Naryia sniffled up her tears.
“The fight broke out, since I wasn’t part of the pack I could only watch up on a rocky cliff. I didn’t stay and see all of it though. I don’t know whose dead or alive, the odds were even between our packs,” Naryia was blubbering by this time with tears falling down her nose and face.
“There’s a chance he could still be alive though,” Comforted Baako.
“I know… But I don’t want to go back there. I’m afraid of what I’ll find,” She whimpered. Baako wasn’t sure about what to say to a crying girl. He wasn’t good at giving good explanations. Luckily they were interrupted by Eli calling for them. Naryia hastily dried her tears and made her way back to the shelter with Baako.
“What’s up Eli?” Asked Baako calmly.
“One of them woke up,” Explained Eli, tilting his head towards one of the wolves. This was the female wolf they had rescued.
“Hello Miss, are you okay? Don’t be alarmed, you’re safe with us. I’m Baako, this is Naryia and this is Eli,” Baako jerked his head towards each wolf as he named them. The female wolf smiled.
“Hi I’m Litzy and thank you I’m fine. What happened?” She asked, she hadn’t realized the other unconscious wolf next her yet.
“We would like to ask the same thing,” Commented Naryia.
“My friends and I pulled you two out of the river a few hours ago. May I ask why you were in the river?” Asked Baako politely.
“The two of us?” Litzy mumbled to herself. Her head turned to the body next to her and shouted as she pounced up. “Oh my gosh! Durango! Are you okay?”
“Perhaps you should just let him rest?” Warned Naryia. Durango didn’t move so Litzy tried her tactic from before, yelling at him and hitting him.
“Durango!” One last big hit and he moaned. Litzy sighed in relief. “Oh Durango, you’re alive!” She said.
“If you hit me one more time, one of us is going to end up dead,” He groaned, but Litzy didn’t seem affected by his threat. “What happened?” He asked as he got up slowly. Durango had a terrible headache and couldn’t move too fast.
“We were drowning while trying to run away from that big red hot thing and these guys saved us,” Litzy exclaimed. Once Durango was up he looked at the three wolves then started to walk off.
“Thanks for your help, we appreciate it but we’d better leave now. C’mon Litzy!” Ordered Durango.
“But brother, we have to stay!” Litzy whined.
“No! Let’s go! C’mon!” He yelled.
“No! I’m not going with you! You never show kindness to others, even when they save your hide! I thought it was just me because I’m your sister and I could live with that. But I’m not going to watch you walk away without appreciating what others do for you!” Litzy yelled. It was the first time she had ever raised her voice to him, so yelling at him would have a big shock.
“I already said I appreciate it,” Durango argued but all he got in response was a deadly glare. Durango gave in to his kid sister. “Fine but only for one night, then we are leaving,” He said in a crude voice.
Litzy was ecstatic.

Chapter Nine: A DEADLY ADVENTURE------------ Friday

It was early morning; Naryia and Litzy were the first ones up.
“Hey, I didn’t get a chance to thank you yesterday, I didn’t understand how much you were actually going through,” Said Litzy. Naryia looked at her in confusion ‘How much I was going through?’ She thought.
“Baako told me everything,” Continued Litzy, hoping to free Naryia’s confusion. Something jolted inside of Naryia, if Baako told Litzy about her painful past then we would be getting a big shock when he wakes up, possibly even before he wakes up.
“What do you mean? What did Baako tell you?” Naryia asked in a rush.
“Just how you almost drowned yourself trying to save us…” Said Litzy slowly, now she was the one confused. ‘Why is Naryia so worried?’ She thought.
“Oh…” Naryia made a sigh of relief in her head. “It’s okay, it wasn’t your fault,” Replied Naryia. A few minutes of silence fell between them and Naryia started getting uncomfortable.
“Uhh gee… my tummy is rumbling. Should we wake up the others and go find some food?” She asked.
“Nah lets go get some ourselves, we can surprise them when they wake up,” Litzy had a big grin on her face like it was the best idea she ever had. She was hoping it might get her back into the good books with Durango. But Naryia wasn’t as excited as Litzy.
“W-what? No, I think we should wake the others, I’m not good at hunting,” She objected.
“Neither am I but that’s what makes a good adventure!” Exclaimed Litzy. Naryia thought this idea was crazy and she tried reasoning with Litzy.
“Can we at least bring Baako with us?” She said. Litzy gave it a long thought but soon accepted. Naryia went to wake up Baako and didn’t notice that Litzy was already running off to look for prey.
“Baako?” Whispered Naryia. “Baako c’mon, wake up,” Baako groaned softly, but it wasn’t an annoyed groan, it was more a ‘ready for another day’ groan. Baako wasn’t a heavy sleeper like the other two. But Baako and Naryia crept as softly as they could to make sure they didn’t wake them. As soon as they were far enough away from them Baako started asking questions.
“What’s up Naryia?”
“Litzy wanted to surprise everyone with breakfast but neither of us are good at hunting so we thought you were our best… choice…” Naryia stopped and looked around, but she could find who she was searching for. “Oh no,” She whined.
“What’s wrong?” Asked Baako who wasn’t quite sure what she was looking for. “What have you lost?”
“Litzy! I’ve lost Litzy,” She exclaimed.
“It’s okay, I can track her,” Said Baako reassuringly. He started sniffing the air for her scent and caught on to it quite quickly. “This way,” He said to Naryia running off behind the scent. Naryia felt relieved and followed Baako. It wasn’t very long until they found Litzy, she was in an open field (Bigger than one Durango had chosen, much bigger) were she was stalking a big caribou lying in the grass. Baako and Naryia looked around and couldn’t see its herd anywhere, they thought it was rather odd. They looked closer at the caribou and noticed that it was already dead; the other thing they noticed was some shiny light in the tall grass behind Litzy. Naryia focused in on the shiny light, when the light disappeared she saw a face, an angry, dark pink face.
“Litzy! Look out!” Naryia cried. Litzy turned to Naryia about to ask was the fuss was about but her words were interrupted by a loud, deafening, low screech. *BANG* Litzy flinched at the sound but she didn’t turn to look at what made the noise, she just ran towards Naryia and Baako. The dark pink faced creature stood up on its hind legs, holding some strange long branch in its front legs. But that’s all they got to see before they ran back to the others in the shelter. When they got back they turned around, checking if the creature had followed them.
“What was that?” Naryia asked, all three wolves were puffing and trying to calm their nerves and shock.
“I’m not sure,” Replied Baako. They all clumped down together in front of the tree branch shelter, they laid there waiting to get their breath back and their nerves settled. A few moments later the other two woke up, well… Eli woke up and as he yawned and stretched, he kicked Durango in the head. Durango wasn’t happy but they were both awake. Baako, Naryia and Litzy were informing Durango and Eli about their scary morning.
“And then the beast stood up on its hind legs and went “GRRR” and it threw trees and boulders at us,” Exclaimed Litzy.
“No it didn’t,” Said Naryia, “It just stood up and we ran away,”
Durango laughed at them, “You’re all hallucinating!” He said, but Eli was amazed at this story.
“What was its name?” He asked, “He sounds friendly,” Baako and Naryia rolled their eyes together, Durango was still laughing, and Litzy was the only one who answered Eli’s question.
“He didn’t look very nice to me,” She said. Durango stood up and chuckled his way over to the river for a drink. But something stopped him.
“Uhh this beast didn’t have funny, patchy fur all over it did it?” He asked, not moving.
“Yea, it did. Have you seen one?” Asked Naryia.
“Uhh