When Max got to the woods he tryed his best to sniff out Aniu but, had no such luck. He feared she had travled farther into town untill he spotted her tracks in the snow.Being careful not to distroy them as he walked, Max desided to let out a long lonly howl for all to hear, then he waited to hear if there was an answer to his cry. At first there was non, but after a few minutes passed, he heard a long and load howl that he could only guess was Aniu.Thinking this, he took off twards the sound and howled again only louder and more wolf-like this time, "Aniu!Is that you?Where are you Aniu?" He yelled,unfortunutly, there was no answer. Max disided to slow down a little since the howling soon stopped,he figured it had to be a clan looking for their members,"Sister! Where have you gone?! Please Aniu, I have desided to run with you, live in the wild as you do!Dear sister please show me where you have gone!"Max yelled as he came upon a river and sat down.Max sighed and looked at the moon and stars in the sky as tryed to way his options if Aniu was not to return to him. There wasn't many, the only things he could do is either live out the rest of his days with Boris and sneek thru town durring the night when people and dogs were asleep or he could become a wild lone dog hunting and feeding off the land freely.Either way, he couldn't go back to the life he once lived, no matter how much he wanted to,"Oh Max old boy how'd you get yourself in this mess? Since when does a female have you so hung up? Your three years old buddy,you should know better," Max said to himself as he looked at his reflection in the river.

Max's champian coller reflected brightly and Max was reminded of all his better days of racing.Even though he was filled with dought and guilt, he knew he'd have to leave thoses feelings behind and set his mind on learning how to hunt.Max laid down and continued to look at himself in the river, when he heard foot steps approching. Max lefted his head and growled loadly at the sound,"Brother? It is I brother!I've been looking for you," Yelled Aniu.Max was so releved it was her that his tail wagged wild, "Aniu, I'm here by the lake,"Max replied happily. Aniu lipmed over to Max and they hugged for the first time since they've met," Aniu I'm so glade your here,I....I'm not sure what to do in the wild all alone. I mean I'm a pet and a sled dog how am I gonna make it out here?" "With my help you will make it here fine,all you need is a few lessons and some days out here,your instinces will take over soon enough brother," Aniu said with a smile, "I love it when you smile," Max said smiling back at her.

They slept by the lake that night and stayed close to each other more for protection then for warmth. The next day at sun raise,Aniu tugged at Max's coller,getting him up so that they could start their training, "Brother our training should be easy,for most of the hunting information is in you as well many of what a hunter needs to survive, all I need to help you do,is remember that your roots lay in this wild land," Aniu said,sounding older and wizer then her days,"Alright then that's get to hunting,I'm starving," Max said in a bit of a high pitched tone, "Before we can hunt we must find a new den and new tarritory, then we can see to it that we have a good meal ," "Alright so how do we find a new place to live?" "You must learn to smell and at times fight but first you must see to it that the food we want lives not far from us.You see wolves, live in fox dens that have been long since gone but, very so often a fox does live in a den which has the same food source in which we use so we must fight for survival less we will die. Now, should find a den not so far from the lake and not so far from the carribu which is our food,"  "Hey Aniu what happened to your limp?" Max said looking at her now healed wounds, "......there are herbs I eat and roll in it heals wolves a bit faster then normal,but come now back to the lesson,"

Max hung on to Aniu's every word and lesson that day and pratcis what she told him to.With luck they were able to find an old den which empty and just big enough for the two of them to fit in. At the moment they were crouched a few feet away from a herd of carribu,"Ok brother here's your chance to prove yourself, all you have to do is go after one of them I suggest the medium sized one with both antlers over off the side from the rest of the herd we'll get him together," Aniu whispered,"Why that one?" Max whispered back,"Look at it, there's no marks on it,it has both antlers, and it looks a tad weak, it has to be half grown probly never fought before," "Alright Aniu,your the boss I'm only the bata dog runnin with you," Aniu rolled her eyes,"Your just new at this, I mean you were a house pet all your life, but all that doesn't matter now if you wish to eat!" Aniu said slightly loud. Max desided to shut up before he'd be killed by Aniu and started circling closer to one side of the carribu. Max looked back and saw that Aniu had the carribu's other side and crept closer,growling silenlty with excitment he waited for Aniu's signal,"Max move now now!" She whispered loudly setting Max into a run stright for the carribu. The Carribu took off and Max ran long side it biting it's side,trying to knock ot over, while Aniu charged at it and jumped on its back,"Max get its neck!" She screamed. Max sped infront of it and grabed it's neck tightly in his mouth as it slowed down making blood appear and drained deep into Max's mouth once again exciting him as it did when he bit his musher.

Later that afternoon while they ate,Max woundered what his team was up to right now, "You did good today, better then most first time hunters,"Aniu said thinking Max was worried about the hunt,"Thanks," Max said sadly, "Were are you?" "What?" "Your not worried about the hunt I can see that so were are you?" "I'm just thinkin about my team,I'm not sure if I made the right choice Aniu.I mean, don't get me wrong I love my new life but I kinda miss my old one," "Max, brother, we must learn to let go of our past so that we may face the present," "I know that Aniu but, it's just so hard letting go," "this I know for it was hard for me to except the fact that I may be alone as I saw more and more clans disipearing," "Aniu I'm so sorry you felt lonly but, I feel my team needs me badly, without me they may be lost!" "Listen! Brother!You must learn to let go of the past, your team will be well without you!I have seen them, they are strong they will make it without you fine enough," Aniu snapped right before she took anouther large bite of their catch. Max put his head down and was silent for a few minets,Aniu cearfully observed every inch of Max's body as she could while she ate, she noticed many scars and old wounds from the many battles his past held, "Brother, where....where did you get that scar across your eye?" She asked,"Scar?" "Across your one blue eye?" "Oh,when my  friend King and I where pups we hated each other, well one day in our younger years we'd gotten into a fight and he scratched me but, as you can see, he didn't aim very well and because of his mistake he lost the battle," "After the battle, you became friends because you earned each others' respect?" "Yea, it made us closer," Max said, sticking his chest out stright and smiling proudly, letting his champian collar shine from the light outside the cave.Aniu looked at the collar and sniffed it,"The one thing I never understood was why you human servants had these things around your necks," "Firstly Aniu, Iam no longer a servant of the humans and secound, this is called a collar and it is made to make sure that the runnaways are found by other humans and returned to their homes. Mine was a prize I got for being the fastest dog in Nome," Max said proudly, "Well you might want to get rid of it," "And why's that sister?" "If you come incontact with a human then he will take you back home," "I will not allow humans to come near me sister I will run back to our den if they try," "You must not return to the den less you are sure they will not follow you, you must warn them off and if they do not listen you must attack untill they back off," "Sister, Iam not acostom to fighting humans," "There is fight in you brother, you have the scars to prove it, all you have to do is try and see the humans as past dog fights," "That's great but what do I do should I get in a fight with a wolf?There is not much chance I will win," "You can learn to win your repect and kill a few wolves with a few lessons from me.Do not worry brother, I will teach you all you need to know and then maybe we can viset your team and check up on them but first, the lessons of the wild must come back to you," "When will my training begin Aniu?" "It has already began," Said Aniu with a slight grin.

The weeks that followed were intense and exhusting.Max however,took it all in and praticed everything that was taught to him,"Max you have done well in training, better then any dog I've ever seen in the wild,your pracitly a wolf dear brother," "Thankyou Aniu for teaching me," Max said with pride. "Max, there is one thing you must let go of before you are considered completly wild," "What's that Aniu?" "Your collar, you must let it go," "Aniu, even if I wanted to, I can't reach it I need hands to take it off," "Don't worry I'll take care of that just don't move alright?" "What are you gonna do?" Max asked. Within secounds,Aniu had leaped on Max, pushing him to his back and grabing his collar in her mouth, she pulled it off his neck and threw it, letting it land on a near on a tree limb, "Dag Aniu, you had me scared for a moment there I swear you where gonna bite my neck off!"
Max send, getting up from Aniu's grip. Aniu laughed and looked at Max with a huge smile, "I'm glade your finnaly free Max," "As am I Aniu," Max said with a smile.

Max yawned as the sun began to set in the sky.Colors flickered and the sounds of a howling