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Chapter three: The discovery
The forest was silent. There was no single sound but the wind rushing past trees and ice. Half of the forest was covered in ice. Animals had fled this place. It was deserted. Wolves arrived at the border of this forest. Slowly they walked in. There were about twenty wolves in this pack. The old pack that lived here was about fifteen. The alpha male stepped over the border.
'What happened here?': He spoke to himself.
Slowly the pack moved further. While they walk through the forest the ice melted.
'Who is doing this?!': the alpha asked firm.
'Sorry alpha, I didn't mean to': a wolf responded humbly.
'We do not defrost this ice until we are sure it's safe': the alpha spoke firmly again.
The pack moved ahead. Everywhere they saw ice.
'Split up! Howl if you find something of interest!': the alpha said firmly. The wolves scattered to search the entire area. The alpha sighs.
After a few hours half of the pack returned to the alpha. None of them had found anything. The last search group was not back yet. The pack waited calmly for those five to return.
‘I can’t find anything here, let’s go back. All the other groups are there already’: a fire wolf said to the other four. Three wolves responded and turned.
‘Kenji are you coming?’: the fire wolf who spoke before asked. Kenji did not respond. He was looking through the trees as if he was in trance. ‘Kenji!’: the fire wolf yelled. Kenji swiftly turned around to face the fire wolf.
‘Huh, is something wrong?’: Kenji replied.
‘Yes, you are not paying attention. We decided to go back’: the fire wolf said.
‘Can’t we check a little longer? I feel something is close’: Kenji pleaded.
‘I can’t leave you behind, so I’m sorry but no. We are going’: the fire wolf said firmly.
‘Come on, I don’t care. Leave me, I know where to find you guys’: Kenji said.
The fire wolf looked frustrated and turned to his fellow wolves. ‘It’ll be alright, just let him’: one of them said. The others nodded in agreement.
The fire wolf turned around to look at Kenji and sighed. ‘Fine, you can check for a little longer, but if you sense anything wrong howl immediately and be careful.’
‘Yes! Thanks, I will’: Kenji said overjoyed.
The four fire wolves turned to go back to the alpha while Kenji walked the other way. Kenji felt that strange feeling from before again. It took him in his grasp. Kenji could feel pressure around him in the air and saw he was walking towards a darkened part of the forest. Chills ran through his fur, but Kenji kept on going further into the dark. Most wolves would not dare go on alone, but Kenji was determined to find what was out there.
Suddenly the amount of trees thinned and slowly Kenji could see the darkness lift. He heard a sudden crack behind him, which made him jump forward causing him to land in a open place. He looked behind him, but he didn’t see anything there. Perhaps he was just a little on edge. He looked around the open area. It was filled with light, not like that part he just walked through.
Then his eyes spotted something that made him amazed, curious and flustered at the same time. In the middle of the open area stood a boulder of ice. He slowly walked towards it when he noticed a dark shape inside. Then he felt something under his paw. It was sticky and felt like a liquid. He looked down to see a small puddle of …….. blood! He jumped back in shock and let out a frightened high pitch howl. He looked around frightened to be attacked. But nothing happened. He looked around more and noticed more blood in the open area. It looked as if either a fight or a slaughter had taken place here. His thoughts were pulled back to the ice boulder. Now he noticed what the shape inside was. It was a wolf! He took a deep breath and howled loudly to call for the pack.
The four wolves who were with Kenji before, arrived back with the alpha. He looked at them wondering where Kenji was. The fire wolf who decided to come back stepped forward and told the alpha they had split up. The alpha thought deep and decided it was alright. Kenji was old enough to be on his own and he was a capable wolf. He directed his attention to the other wolves when suddenly a high pitch frightened howl sounded through the forest. As suddenly as it had sounded it was gone. All the wolves started to worry and felt uneasy. The alpha listened deep to hear if there was another sound. Nothing, it stayed quiet.
He was about to say to the others to find the source of the sound when they heard Kenji howl to them. He was calling them. The alpha turned to his pack and howled shortly. Then he quickly ran in the direction of Kenji’s howl, followed by his pack. While he ran he noticed the darkened area in front of him. He felt the pressure of the darkness, but swiftly made his way through it with his pack, who followed him without doubt. In the distance they could see light. The alpha jumped over a tree trunk and landed in the open area. His pack stopped behind him. Kenji was right in front of the pack staring at something. The alpha walked over to Kenji. Kenji looked at him. He lifted his paw and the alpha saw blood drip from it. Kenji shook his head in a way of telling the alpha it wasn’t his blood. He pointed with his paw at the middle of the open area. The alpha looked and saw the ice boulder with inside it …… a wolf!
In the far north a snowstorm was blowing hard. A lone wolf moved through the thick snow dragging one of his paws. He entered the mountain area, which was territory of the snow wolves. While he slowly moved further into the area, about 20 pair of eyes watched him from above. If the lone wolf would look up he would see the mountains covered with those eyes, but he didn’t look. He looked in front of him hoping to spot a cave or any other shelter. The snowstorm blinded his sight. He couldn’t see further than three meters. Because of this he couldn’t see the eyes surrounding him, nor could he hear them through the sound of the storm.
But he could smell them. He stopped dead in his tracks when he smelled about 20 wolves. He realized they were around him blocking every direction to escape. The wind blew their smells towards him and the lone wolf knew he was in danger for he was trespassing in territory of strangers.
The snowstorm suddenly lessened and he could see dark shapes surrounding him. The wind still howled passed his ears when one of the dark shapes came forward. The lone wolf looked straight into the leaders eyes. The response he got was suspected. The leader growled heavily for staring at a wolf of higher rank was disrespectful. The lone wolf did not look away for he was determined to overthrow this wolf and take his pack. The leader wolf howled and went straight for the lone wolf with his mouth open and ready to strike. The lone wolf readied himself for the attack as he saw the leader wolf only inches away…………………..
Kenji was staring at the ice boulder as was the alpha. The rest of the pack looked confused at it until they noticed too that there was a wolf inside. All the pack members stepped back and looked at the alpha for what to do. The alpha was thinking deeply about what could have happened here. It was then that he noticed the whole area was covered in blood and ice.
‘What happened here?’ He said to himself out loud.
‘It looks like there has been a fight or maybe a slaughter’: Kenji replied.
The alpha looked at him almost forgetting why he came here.
‘Are we going to help this wolf?’ a pack member asked.
The alpha turned around and looked at his pack. Then he looked back at the ice boulder. He walked towards it and looked closely at the wolfs face. The look in the eyes was fear, but also sent out determination. He turned to his pack.
‘Yes, we will help this wolf’: he said firmly.
‘But what if this wolf is the one who caused this?’ another pack member asked.
‘Then we’ll deal with it. It’s just one wolf and besides. I don’t think this wolf did all this. It’s just a feeling so be alert. Now we’ll need to do this carefully and bit by bit. Everyone who is very skilled will focus on warming the body. The others focus on the ice around it. But all of you must use a little amount of fire and don’t focus on the same spot. When I give the sign you are allowed to use a little more fire or perhaps less fire. So pay attention to me. Get ready!’: the alpha said.
All the fire wolves surrounded the ice boulder. The wolves who had to warm the body stood closer to the boulder and the others a little behind them. The alpha howled shortly and the back
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