spot with made Konnor smile. The last wolf who stepped forward was someone that Blaez guessed would have come, it was Saffron, she smirked as she stood in front of Blaez she was quite tall and they looked at each for a moment before Blaez turned around glancing back at Akela who looked at him. ‘We’ll be back, and we’ll bring food.’ With that Blaez and the others quickly bounded out of the cave and began to run along side Jate’s footprints heading out of the rocky zone towards the lush forest that was in the distance.

 

 

 

It took them nearly half the day the reach the forest and once they did it was almost mid-day and the suns rays did little to warm the freezing wolves.

 

‘Where are we going to go?’ Konnor asked turning to Blaez who looked at the surrounding forest trying to remember how it looked before so he could find the best hunting spots since the caribou had returned.

 

‘Lets just go in and find some!’ Saffron said frowning as she jumped forward but Blaez quickly stopped her.

 

‘Shhh the Shangkai pack will have sentries we have to be quiet, we need to go in and out very quietly.’  Frowning but seeing his point Saffron stepped back and didn’t anything. Sniffing the air Blaez looked around till he was sure he knew where he was in relation to where the caribou had the best feeding grounds in winter. ‘This way towards the small plain they should be there.’ Walking in to the forest Saffron quickly followed behind but as they walked Konnor couldn’t seem to keep quite as he started to talk to Azure.

 

‘So how do you like staying with the other wolves?’

 

‘They’re nice’ Azure said as she kept walking.

 

‘I haven’t spoken to you for days.’ Konnor admitted looking down at the ground as s\he spoke.

 

‘I’m sorry I’ve been busy.’

 

‘Yeah talking to that JD wolf.’  Azure instantly turned around and looked at Konnor with a frown on her face.

 

‘I don’t need you telling me who I can and can’t talk to.’

 

‘I’m just saying maybe you should talk to your real friends more!’ Konnor finished and they both stared at each other before Azure said,

 

‘Have you ever wondered why I don’t talk to you? This is why!’ With that Azure quickly turned around to catch up the others as Konnor frowned and marched after her not saying anything as he imagined JD in his mind getting captured by the Shangkai pack, he wasn’t jealous he was just looking out for his best friend that’s all.

 

Breaking through some small bush Blaez smiled as he saw a snow covered plain with a few tall yellow grass sticking up and the caribou hastily fighting over what little grass there was left.

 

Saffron smiled widely as she looked at Blaez who turned and saw that Azure and Konnor looked just as eagerly down at the caribou.

 

‘Who said you didn’t know your own land?’ Konnor said cheerfully looking at Blaez who smiled.

 

‘Come one lets get one of them quickly before the Shangkai pack arrive…’ Blaez said as the four wolves quickly jumped down and small hill and ran towards the caribou the immense hunger they felt was going away just by the mere sight of their prey.

 

 

Torren stretched out in his large warm den and yawned as he slowly opened his eyes only to see a scout wolf looking down at him. Staring up at the wolf for a moment Torren growled before standing up. ‘What are you doing here?’

 

‘Torren we have found footprints leading in and out of our pack lands.’

 

‘What!’ Torren snapped looking back at the wolf. ‘Who were they, what did they do, where did they come from?’

 

‘They stole one of our caribou’ Dusk who had been asleep slowly opened her eyes and looked at the two wolves.

 

‘Quick follow those footprints we will be able to find out where they are hiding.’ Torren growled as he quickly walked out of his den followed by Dusk and the scout wolf. The sky had turned a dark grey and the sun was beginning to set.

 

‘Wait till tomorrow my mate there is a large snow storm on its way…’

 

‘If we wait the tracks will disappear completely.’ Torren argued back looking up at the sky.

 

‘Don’t worry if they are that hungry they will return and we have more urgent issues to deal with.’

 

‘The Night-Slayers…’ He finished as he turned back around and walked back in to his den as Dusk walked up the scout and whispered.

 

‘Double our border patrol if any other wolves make it in our lands and escape it’ll be your life…’ Swallowing hard the scout nodded before quickly running away leaving Dusk looking up at the sky.

 

 

 

‘Whoa Blaez.’ Akela said looking down at the food he and the others had brought back.

 

‘You should have seen all the caribou and Blaez lead us right to them’! Saffron said smiling looking at Blaez who looked back at Akela.

 

‘It was nothing, but no one detected us so we can go back and forth and keep getting more food.’ Blaez said looking at Keaton who still didn’t seem to be too impressed looked down at the food and frowned for a moment but didn’t say anything.

 

Konnor who was standing beside Azure watched sadly as she walked over to JD and started to talk with him completely ignoring Konnor as she did. Blaez who was watching his friend walked over to him and sighed. ‘Nice hunting today…’

 

‘Yeah she did hunt well didn’t she…’ Snapping back to reality Konnor looked at Blaez and blushed under his fur as he looked away, just as Akela walked up and stood beside Blaez who looked down at her.

 

‘Now that we have a way in which we can get food I’m going to allow you to seek out the Night-Slayers on one condition…’ Looking at confused for a moment Blaez quickly nodded. ‘…that I come with you.’  Akela smirked up at Blaez who returned one of his own. Sage quickly padded forwards towards the entrance of the cave and looked up in to the sky.

 

‘There’s going to be a bad snow storm you’ll have to wait till tomorrow.’ Blaez quickly walked up beside Sage as the snow outside began to fall down harder covering their tracks that were on the snow.

  

 

 

That night Blaez didn’t sleep as he thought about Aleu and the old pack he had left behind, he wondered what winter they were facing, were they surviving would they make it the year? Could Blaez save his pack or would he let them down? He knew unless the Shangkai pack were defeated that neither his pack nor any other pack could ever survive again on these lands, the Shangkai pack were the law.

 

As the thoughts crosses his mind he remembered the talk he’d had with Akela weeks ago about the fate of Nava.

 

‘So what happened, did he survive is he alive?’ Blaez asked looking at Akela excitably as she sighed.

 

‘The last we know of Nava was that when the Shangkai pack attacked and took over what was once his land he vowed to take it back but that was last he was seen or heard of.’ Hanging his head low for a moment Akela put on a small smile as she looked up at him. ‘He could be alive’  

 

‘I hope so…’ Blaez finished looking out towards the ocean as Konnor and Azure both looked sad at the news.

 

Slowly Blaez closed his eyes as the howling wind outside echoed throughout the cave like the eerie howl of a lone wolf left out on its own.

 

 

 

  

 

 

As the sun began to rise over the mountains and seeped in to the cave it revealed that Blaez was already awake and standing at the front of the cave looking towards the rising sun. He didn’t hear Saffron slowly slink up and sit down next to him. ‘How did you know where the caribou were?’ She asked looking at him.

 

‘I used to live on those lands…’

 

‘That’s impossible the entire pack was killed.’

 

Blaez sighed as he looked down at her. ‘Don’t believe what everyone else tells you Saffron.’

 

Akela who had also woken up quickly padded up beside Blaez and looked down at Saffron as they exchanged frowns before Akela said, ‘glad to see you’re up so early.’

 

Akela said as Saffron frowned and walked away leaving Blaez and Akela standing at the entrance. For a moment they both stood there in silence before Blaez quickly walked inside the cave to try and find Konnor and when he did he saw he was lying down still asleep. ‘Konnor get up.’ Blaez said rolling his eyes looking down at Konnor who opened his eyes and looked up at Blaez before moaning loudly.

 

‘It’s too early.’

 

‘Exactly the faster we get moving the quicker we’ll be able to find the Night-Slayer pack.’ Slowly Konnor stood up and looked over to see that Azure was still asleep.

 

‘Isn’t Azure coming with us?’ Konnor asked looking at Blaez who slowly shook his head.

 

‘She wasn’t feeling well last night so she can stay; Akela is coming with us.’

 

Looking worried for a moment Konnor nodded before both he and Blaez quickly bounded out of the cave where Akela was waiting for them.

 

‘Wait!’ Keaton yelled as he jumped out of the cave towards them.

 

‘I’m coming with you.’ He said panting slightly looking up at Blaez who didn’t look to enthused about the idea.

 

‘Let’s just get going quickly.’ Blaez said as he slowly started to walk in the deep snow up on a narrow path that would lead to the highest peak in the entire area, the area where he knew the Night Pack used to live.

 

 

 

 

The journey was long and steep and as Blaez started to climb up the rocky paths he could feel his paws being scratched on the sharp rocks

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