Blaez The Beta Male

Book 2: Winter

Part 1

Blaez smirked to himself as he watched the small white rabbit jump around only meters in front of him. His grey eyes shined as slowly he ran forward towards the unsuspecting rabbit, the rabbit who seemed to have a sixth sense instantly jumped down a hole that Blaez hadn’t seen and was gone.

Standing back up straight Blaez sighed as he turned around, winter had set in and he knew that it was going to be a long hard winter. The rocky area around him was covered in white snow and in the sky grey clouds loomed meaning that yet again another snow storm was going to be on its way.

Slowly he began to pad back towards the others, it had been almost 2 weeks since their escape from the Shangkai pack and they had made it to the secret hide-out Akela had been talking about, it was a far distance from the Shangkai pack lands which meant where they were was very rocky with no tree cover and barely enough food to sustain even one hungry wolf.

Everyday Blaez hoped that Silver had made it back to Aleu’s pack and everyday the thought of he and the others returning with Silver when he did grew more and more convincing, maybe he should have returned because surely they couldn’t survive here?

Walking into a small cave Blaez slowly shook the snow off his brown fur and shivered slightly it was so cold and being cold and hungry went hand in hand. He hadn’t seen much of Akela over the past 2 weeks because she had been constantly going away looking for food but every time she returned she was empty handed.

Lying his head down on his paws he looked up and saw Akela walk in to the cave with Keaton by her side, all the wolves in the cave ran over to them looking very excited but with a shake of her head once again the wolves slinked back in to their dark corners; she had not found food.

‘Any luck?’ Konnor asked walking up and sitting down beside Blaez who looked up at him.

‘No.’

‘I thought we had it bad back home but I guess I was wrong.’ Konnor said sarcastically as he turned to look over at two wolves who were sitting side by side, Blaez followed his gaze and chuckled as he sat up looking at Konnor.

‘Why don’t you go have a word with Azure?’ Blaez smirked as Konnor frowned.

Azure was sitting down beside another wolf who according to Konnor looked quite friendly. The wolf sitting beside her was known as JD and it was obvious Azure had fallen head over heels for him. JD had a black and white coat, piercing green eyes and a smile that seemed to make every female wolf melt.

‘No I don’t care.’ Konnor said frowning and standing up before walking away as Blaez looked after his friend, ever since they had arrived back on their old land his friends seemed to be growing more distant by the day and it was breaking him apart inside, maybe he chose the wrong team to accompany him?

‘Any luck at this end Blaez?’ Akela said as she walked up beside Blaez who looked at her before standing up and shaking his head.

‘There is simply no food any where if we don’t leave to find any we might starve.’

‘I know that.’ Akela snapped back and frowned. Every since Blaez arrived at the hide-out created by the rebellious wolves he had learnt the strange hierarchy that seemed to have and he knew enough to know that he, Azure and Konnor were quite far down.

It seemed to Blaez that Akela and Keaton seemed to be in charge, followed by JD who didn’t seem to take the position seriously which annoyed Blaez deep down.

Most of the other wolves in the group he hadn’t spoken to, but he did know Saffron who was a female wolf who sometimes accompanied him on hunts and a male wolf called Sage who to Blaez seemed to be extremely lonely and would avoid talking to most wolves.

‘What about Jate?’ Blaez said rolling his eyes, it was quite obvious to everyone that Blaez still didn’t trust Jate but he didn’t care what other wolves though because he had a feeling that Jate was going to betray them at any moment.

‘I haven’t seen him since we left.’ Akela sighed as Keaton walked up beside her before staring down at Blaez, every since they had arrived back the two wolves hadn’t seen eye to eye.

‘I think instead of sitting here bickering we go and find some food.’ Saffron suddenly said walking up to the wolves, she had brown and white fur and amber brown eyes but she had a small attitude and seemed to love hunting and fighting.

‘Where do you expect us to get something to eat then?’ Akela said looking at Saffron who frowned, another point that Blaez had noted since he arrived was that whilst all the wolves seemed to agree Akela and Keaton were in charge Saffron seemed to denote this fact and liked to take matters in to her own paws.

Before any of them could say anything they turned around to see Jate standing at the cave entrance looking at them, Blaez instantly frowned but Akela looked happy as Jate looked at them and smiled.

Jate stood proudly at the entrance and as Blaez eyed him the first thing he noticed was the still healing scar Blaez had given him only weeks before and it was something that made Blaez smirk as Jate eyed him evilly before looking at Akela who quickly padded forward towards Jate who shook a little snow of his grey fur.

‘I’ve seen better welcomes.’ Jate cooed as Akela frowned but quickly lightened up.

‘I though Torren had caught you out.’

‘We were hoping.’ Blaez whispered to Konnor who sneered.

‘What are you doing way out here?’ Akela asked as Jate who sat down and looked at the wolves who had all gathered around him. Saffron who was nearby walked away in a huff as though unhappy that the confrontation of her and Akela couldn’t continue.

‘I have news from Torren, that a pack known only as the Night-Slayers has seemingly declared war on the Shangkai pack, I assumed it was you.’ Jate asked looking down at Akela who looked confused as she turned to Blaez.

‘Blaez you’ve lived here longer then most of us have you ever heard of this pack before?’ Thinking for a moment Blaez shook his head.

‘I’ve never heard of them before.’

‘Do you think they might be another rebellious group?’ Jate asked.

‘There were many packs who have been destroyed so the possibility of them also forming a rebellious pack are high.’ Akela said as Keaton walked forwards and said loudly.

‘This doesn’t concern us. We have our own battle to fight!’

Frowning for a moment Blaez stepped forward before saying. ‘I haven’t been here long but I believe the more wolves we have fighting against them…’ He glanced up at Jate ‘…the better.’

Konnor who had remained quite the entire time nodded before standing up. ‘I agree with Blaez.’

Hearing something outside everyone suddenly went quite as Jate turned around and looked at the entrance with a worried expression on his face. ‘I need to go, I’ve told you all I know I’m sorry I can’t help you more.’

With that Jate bounded out of the cave leaving just as quickly as he had arrived leaving everyone looking at each other. A silence came over everyone as Blaez tried his best to remember if he had ever heard of the Night-Slayers before but no matter how long he thought he couldn’t think of a pack with that name. Smiling for a moment Blaez remembered something as he quickly looked at Akela and said out aloud. ‘No I haven’t heard of the Night-Slayers but there used to be the Night pack…’

‘How could we forget them!’ Konnor said excitedly stepping forward with Blaez.

‘Tell us everything you know about them.’ Keaton said turning to look at them.

‘Our pack never had much contact with them, but we know that they were most active at night, they kept to themselves at the top of the mountain ranges because they believed the higher they were in the sky the closer they were to the stars.’ Shaking his for a moment Blaez continued. ‘But they had always been a very peaceful pack, never getting involved in fights or wars they rarely ever ventured down from the mountain ranges.’

‘What ever happened to them because this added on slayer part doesn’t sound to friendly.’ Konnor said looking a little unsure as everyone looked at Akela but before she could say anything Keaton quickly interrupted her.

‘Ok it’s good they have decided to join the war but we have more important things to deal with, we barely have enough food to last the next few days let alone the rest of Winter!’

As much as Blaez tried to find an excuse for them to go find the Night-Slayers he knew that Keaton was right without food none of them would survive whether or not the Night-Slayers decided to join them.

‘Until we find enough food I’m not letting any wolf go to try and find these Night wolves.’ Blaez held back a sigh as he looked up at Akela before coming up with an idea.

‘I know where we can get food…’ Everyone turned to look at him.

‘…some of us must venture back to the Shangkai Pack Lands and bring it back.’

‘You’re crazy.’ Keaton laughed. ‘We can’t sneak in to the Shangkai Pack lands they would fight us mercilessly despite the fact food is plentiful over there.’

‘It’s the only way we’ll managed to survive.’ Blaez snapped back at Keaton as they exchanged glares. Sighing for a moment Akela nodded her head and turned to look at Blaez.

‘I’m not going to risk this whole pack, but I will allow a few of you to try and get food.’

‘What!?’ Keaton said looking at Akela who looked very concerned.

‘It’s our only chance without it we’ll starve, Blaez I need you and a few others to try this for us.’ Smiling for a moment Blaez stepped out in front, his leadership skills suddenly taking over as he turned to look at the wolves in front of him.

‘Who’s going to come with me?’ He yelled out as all the wolves looked at him and for a moment none seemed to move but Blaez was happy when Konnor stepped out and up beside Blaez who smiled at his old friend.

Glancing over at Azure Blaez watched as Azure quickly jumped forward towards him and smiled where as JD who was frowning didn’t budge from his spot with made Konnor