both stumbled to ground, Blaez quickly jumped up and scratched the side of Jate face who growled as he swung around but before Jate could attack Blaez Akela leapt out from the trees and landed in the middle of the two wolves who both looked at her.

‘Quick Akela help me defeat this wolf.’  Blaez growled as he looked at Jate who seemed very calm as he looked at Akela and nodded as she turned around to face Blaez who was very confused,

‘Blaez this is Jate, he’s on our side.’ She said angrily.

‘How can you trust this wolf!?’

‘Because he owes me something, he’s fighting for us.’  Akela stopped and looked at Blaez who was staring coldly at Jate before Akela continued.

‘Now let’s work on getting your friend back.’  With that Akela quickly hurried off in to the forest leaving Blaez looking at Jate who smirked slightly as a few drops of blood trickled down from his scratch Blaez had given him on the side of his face. Slowly Blaez walked up to Jate who was larger then he was.

‘I don’t trust you…’  Blaez said as he turned to follow Akela whilst Jate just stood their and smiled to himself.

‘Oh no Blaez I believe we can’t trust you.’ With that Jate quickly padded over the two wolves a large smirk on his face.

The three wolves slinked through the forest with Akela leading the wolves. As Blaez walked he couldn’t help but think how much he disliked Akela he used to live here but why did she pretend she knew more then he did? Why did she always have an attitude? Didn’t she know who he was?

‘Stop!’ Jate suddenly whispered as Blaez and Akela turned around and faced him. ‘I must leave you here…’

‘To go warn them eh?’  Blaez sneered.

Frowning Jate ignored the comment as he looked back at Akela who was listening. ‘Go towards the holding area where Blaez was last night he’d be there I’ll try and distract the wolves long enough but I can’t promise anything.’

With that Jate quickly disappeared in to the trees leaving Blaez and Akela. ‘This way…’ Akela said as she started to walk off in to the trees.

‘No wait, I know a shortcut because I know where we are.’  Blaez said looking at Akela who seemed to consider the options for a moment.

‘Ok but we must be quick.’ Smiling for a moment Blaez quickly walked off in a different direction with Akela following close behind him, they were going to save Silver he knew it.

‘How can you just sit there?’ Azure said pacing up and down in front of Konnor who was sitting down and Keaton who was lying down obviously annoyed because Azure didn’t seem to want to be quiet.

‘Akela said she’d be back with Blaez soon enough.’ Keaton said opening one of his eyes and looking at Azure who frowned and looked at Konnor.

‘Well if you two won’t help them because I know Blaez won’t leave Silver then I’ll have to go alone.’

‘Wait a minute; we’re supposed to stay here!’ Konnor said standing up as Azure started to walk towards the forest, gritting his teeth for a moment Konnor quickly ran after Azure leaving Keaton watching them leave.

‘Why does everyone around here have to be so headstrong?’ Keaton sighed as he slowly stood up and padded after the wolves.

Blaez and Akela soon could see the cave where Blaez had been captured the night before; they hid in the bushes as a large black wolf guarded the entrance to the cave.

‘We must wait for Jate.’ Akela whispered to Blaez who rolled his eyes.

‘I doubt he’s going to be any help.’ From the bushes suddenly Jate leapt out very panted and ran up towards the black wolf who looked up at him.

‘Quick wolves are attacking our borders we need every wolf we have!’

‘What about the prisoner?’ The black wolf said looking at Jate who thought for a moment before saying.

‘Trust me after last night with what Torren did to him he’s in no way about to escape now follow me quickly…’ The wolf didn’t move as Jate growled. ‘…that’s an order!’  He barked as both Jate and the black wolf started to run into the trees leaving the cave completely free so they could get in and out.

‘I don’t like this it seems to easy…’ Blaez turned to Akela and was surprised to see that she was gone, he looked and saw her walking towards the cave so he quickly jumped out beside her and started to look around nervously as though expecting the whole Shangkai pack to jump out at them at any time.

‘Get your friend quickly, we don’t have much time…’ Akela said as she turned to Blaez who nodded and quickly ran in to the dark damp cave. Slowly he padded in and looked around before whispering.

‘Silver…Silver?’ Looking around Blaez couldn’t see his friend but suddenly he saw someone at the back of the cave smiling Blaez quickly ran over to him.

Opening his eyes Silver looked at his friend who looked shocked. ‘Blaez you need to get out of here!’ Silver said as he slowly stood up revealing he was worse for wear, covered in scratches and sores.

‘No quick come with me…’

‘Listen to me Blaez! It’s a trap!’ Blaez looked shocked  but still helped his friend out of the cave, he wouldn't leave him. Once outside bthey looked directly at two wolves in front of them.

‘Look what we have here.’ One of them muttered as Akela growled and stepped back beside Blaez and Silver who looked down at the ground.

‘Torren is going to be very pleased with us’ The brown wolf said smiling to himself as he suddenly leapt at Akela with his jaws open Blaez seeing this quickly leapt in front of Akela as he pushed the brown wolf away from her making her look shocked. The brown wolf quickly leapt up as Blaze and he started to circle each other. The other wolf slowly moved forward towards Akela and Silver.

The wolf easily pushed Silver out of the way and on to the ground as he snapped at Akela who was ready to fight.  From the trees and white flash instantly leapt on the back of the wolf that was about to attack Akela, it was Keaton. The wolf reared painfully as Keaton bit down.

Konnor ran up beside Blaez who looked at his friend. ‘Why are you here?’ Blaez quickly asked looking confused.

‘It wasn’t me it was Azure….’ Konnor said glancing over at Keaton, Azure and Akela all circling the Shangkai wolf. For a moment Blaez thought before yelling.

‘All of us are a match for you Shangkai wolves now let us leave and no one will be injured.'

‘Never.’ One of the wolves snarled as Blaez looked deadly serious.

‘If you take me down there are these wolves behind me and we’ll at least take one if not both of you before we die’ Blaez snarled walking closer towards one of the wolves with Konnor beside him. The two Shangkai wolves seemed to consider the options for a moment before one of them stepped backwards.

‘Just wait in one year you’ll be nothing and I shall enjoy killing you…’ With that the two Shangkai wolves quickly jumped around and ran away.

‘We did it.’ Azure said cheerfully as Blaez quickly turned to all the wolves.

‘No time to celebrate now follow me quickly we must get out of here but before we do I need to do something…’ Blaez said looking at Silver who was standing up looking at him with a knowing look on his face

All the wolves walked on to the cold beach as small snow flakes began to slowly fall from the sky towards them. Autumn was nearly over, winter was close around the corner and Blaez knew that in his state Silver wouldn’t be able to recover and he feared for his oldest friend so he had to make this hard decision.

‘Blaez what’s going on?’ Konnor said walking up to his friend as Blaez looked out towards the ocean where icebergs slowly floated past as they drifted out to sea.

Slowly Blaez walked up to Silver who looked at his friend and understood exactly what he was doing. ‘I let you down again didn’t I?’

Silver laughed looking at Blaez who shook his head. ‘You never let me down Silver, its just who you are.’

Azure turned to Konnor and whispered. ‘’I don’t understand Konnor?’

Sighing for a moment Konnor finally understood as he turned to Azure and said softly. ‘Silver’s going home…’

For a moment Silver and Blaez looked at each other before Silver slowly walked in to the freezing water and climbed on to a small iceberg which had broken away from the shore and was ever so slowly drifting out to sea.

Walking forward towards the water Blaez watched as Silver looked at him and smiled. Blaez knew that going back to Aleu’s pack would be the only way he could be helped, if he stayed Blaez knew he might not survive the winter here and he couldn’t risk his already injured friend getting taken by the Shangkai pack again. Aleu and the pack would care for him and give him the care that Blaez knew that they couldn’t give him here.

Silver knew he would return and tell of what has happened to their old pack to Aleu. Akela who was nearby walked up to Blaez and said to him. ‘What