up because regret is worse then failure my friend, believe me…’

Looking down at his own reflection Blaez turned back to Night but when he looked up Night had disappeared. Laying down beside the river Blaez sighed as he rested his head on his paws as the cool water splashed on his face as he thought about what Night had said and about Akela…

Part 3

Water splashed on Blaez face causing him to wake up only to realize that it was night and the stars were out. Looking down at his paws he noticed that the small river seemed to have risen slightly. Raising an eyebrow Blaez quickly stood up and walking in to the small river and began to follow it upstream, he walked for awhile before he turned around small block and noticed a large piece of ice in front of him with water coming from underneath it.

Slowly Blaez looked up to notice the large block of ice rose high in to the sky, all the water that had been on the top of the mountain when it froze over was holding out in the huge glacier size block of ice. Stepping forward Blaez looked in to the dirty ice and suddenly stepped back and gasped to himself. The glacier was starting to melt from the inside out, the inside was mostly liquid ice.

The small river was coming from the bottom of the glacier because it was beginning to melt and he knew that as Spring went on and the weather warmed it would only be a short amount of time before it burst flooding the entire Shangkai Pack lands. It had been a killer Winter so Blaez wasn’t to surprised that that much snow and ice had been built up high in the mountains that overlooked his old lands.

Quickly Blaez padded down the small river till he reached a spot where he could over look the lands and as he looked down his shocked look turned to a smirk. Slowly Blaez walked back on to the land before walking away, it looked as though mother nature would do the work for him.

Azure watched as JD quickly padded away to go hunting leaving Azure sitting down looking out for Blaez and this was when Konnor quickly took his chance as he walked forward towards her and sat down beside her. Looking at him Azure was about to get up and walk away but Konnor quickly jumped and stood in front of her but she refused to look at him.

‘Please talk to me Azure.’ Konnor said as Azure looked up at him.

‘Why just so you can talk back about me and JD?’ Azure huffed.

‘No Azure, I just wanted to say I think it’s nice you and…JD’ Konnor managed to say as their eyes met for a moment.

‘Really?’ Azure said blushing under her coat.

‘Yes but just let me say something to you first…’

‘Blaez’s back everyone!’ Sage yelled out causing Azure and Konnor to turn and see Blaez walk out from some rocks with a smirk on his face.

‘Why are you so happy Blaez?’ Azure asked smiling at her friend who looked at her and Konnor.

‘Yeah Blaez a few moments ago you were all angry?’ Konnor laughed.

‘No reason it’s just that I believe by the end of Spring the Shangkai pack will be taken care of.’ Blaez said proudly as everyone gasped.

‘How?’ Konnor said stepping forward towards Blaez.

‘You’ll have to wait and see’ Blaez joked as he watched Night appear from the shadows at the corner of his eye. Shivering for a moment Blaez had a strange feeling that Night knew exactly what Blaez was thinking but how could he?

That night whilst all the wolves sat under the stars and were talking Blaez noticed Sage being very quiet and slinking away and no one except Blaez seemed to notice. Standing up Blaez quickly followed Sage wondering where he was going and why he always excluded himself from talking to others,

Sage was sitting beside the small river as Blaez watched him for a moment before walking up and sitting down beside him. Ever since he’d known Sage he had been very shy and it was only now that he was starting to talk more that Blaez was starting to know him better.

‘Why are you out here on your own?’ Blaez said walking up and sitting down beside Sage who looked up at him.

‘I like to be on my own that’s all.’ Sage lied as Blaez looked down at him knowing instantly that Sage wasn’t a good liar.

‘Why did you stay with us and not go with Akela?’ Blaez asked looking down at Sage who looked up at him.

‘I feel as though we have a greater chance to defeat the Shangkai pack then we do with Akela.’

‘Why would you say that?’ Blaez asked questionably as Sage mentally shrugged and didn’t say anything.

‘When I was only a pup my mother died very early, and my father was killed by the Shangkai pack…and I want to defeat them to prove to them I’m no coward and avenge my father’

‘You’re not a coward Sage never think that you are!’ Blaez said surprised as Sage looked up at him with the exact same grey eyes and at that split second Blaez looked down at Sage realizing that this could be his long lost son.

‘What pack were your parents from?’ Blaez asked looking down at Sage with an excited look on his face.

‘My father was from the land that is now under control of the Shangkai pack…’ Nothing else that Sage seemed to say mattered as Blaez looked down at his son.

‘Sage…I…I…’ Baez started standing up for a moment before stopping himself, he couldn’t tell Sage yet he didn’t want to Sage to know that he was his father, if that happened Blaez was afraid that Sage wouldn’t believe him, would he lash back and call Blaez a liar and Blaez knew it would be harder to protect him if Sage knew that he was his father. Looking down at his son Blaez sighed as he finished ‘…I think you should come back and talk to the others with me, we need you to start opening up a little.’

Smiling Sage stood up and started to walk back towards the others and as he did Blaez noticed for the first time how much he resembled his mother Kia but had his eyes, how could he haven’t have seen this before? Sage was his long lost son…

Part 4

A few weeks went by with the wolves starting to learn how to train in fighting from Night who despite his old Packs quest for peace was quite an effective fighter if you could understand and follow what he was saying. The small river had grown in size and everyday when Blaez went to see it he discovered the hole at the bottom continued to get larger and large fractures started to appear along the ice. The creaking sound echoed around the entire area but only Blaez seemed to here it, was it a guilty mind?

‘Any news on Akela and the others?’ Blaez asked turning to Konnor who shook his head.

‘I haven’t seen them for weeks who knows where they are.’ Blaez sighed as he turned to see Night walk up beside him.

‘Blaze we need to talk…’ Night looked at Konnor ‘…alone’

Frowning Konnor stood up and walked away as Night turned to Blaez.

‘Are you going to tell me now?’

‘Tell you what?’ Blaez asked looking up at him.

‘I know this land better then any other living wolf today…’

Blaez looked up at Night and sighed. ‘I admit this year we had a very harsh winter…’ Thinking for a moment Blaez began to walk away, ‘Follow me.’

Night and Blaez quickly walked towards the large glacier and when Night saw it he gasped as he cranked his neck to look up to the very top before turning to Blaez.

‘So this is what you were talking about.’ Night said as Blaez nodded. Smirking to himself Night looked at Blaez, ‘Brilliant idea’

‘What?” Blaez said rather shocked, he thought that Night was disapprove but he had been wrong?

‘Finally we will rid the land of these wolves.’

‘I thought that you’d rather fight and not be a coward and let some thing else do the work for you?’

‘I’m already a coward my friend, but when the shadow that haunts our lands is gone so shall my cowardice, all we must do is wait till it cracks flooding the entire area killing every Shangkai wolf for miles around.’

Thinking for a moment Blaez quickly turned around and looked down towards the valley which would be flooded but before he could say anything he heard someone call his name.

‘Blaez…Blaez…’

Quickly bounding towards the voice Blaez stopped when he saw Akela standing beside the river looking up at him with her navy blue eyes.

‘Akela you came back.’ Blaez said sounding happy as he smiled.

‘I’m not here to stay I’ve brought news…’ Blaez looked a little disappointed ‘…Torren and Dusk have had pups.’

‘How does that concern us?’ Blaez asked.

‘I’m not a hard wolf Blaez, I will kill Shangkai wolves in an instant but whether you or I attack first I do not want any young pups harmed if they are you will face me.’ Akela said with a frown on her face.

‘I’d never hurt innocent pups.’ Blaez said shaking his head.

‘I didn’t think you would Blaez but I have to be sure because to much innocence has already been lost I do not want any more to disappear.’ Turning around Akela began to walk away but Blaez quickly ran after her and stopped her.

‘Before you leave please tell me where you are, just incase.’

Akela looked back at Blaez and sighed before saying ‘We’re beside the Shangkai pack lands monitoring their patrol if you need us come see us.’

‘What if I said I need you now?’ Blaez said looking after Akela who turned back around and walked away leaving Blaez on his own as she looked after him.

Azure and JD watched from the side as JD turned to Azure ‘Why don’t they just admit they like each other because we can all see it…’

‘I don’t know JD,’ Azure sighed as she looked over at Konnor who was play fighting with Sage who seemed to be winning.

Running back to Night and the large glacier Blaez skidded on the slippery rocks beneath as he stood beside Night who