disappeared out of sight from Yestin. And that was the last time they ever saw him.

Chapter Three

"So where are we going to go now?" Quincy asked as he followed Christi around by a river, Kweku and Aniu by his side.

"I don't know, it's getting dark, so we'll have to find somewhere quick," Kweku replied before Christi could speak. They walked farther and farther in the woods, until they spotted a den nearby. The scent of a fox was stale, it seemed like the fox hadn't come here in two years, so they decided to rest there until the next morning. Then they would start their journey again tomorrow.

Quincy woke up way before Kweku, Aniu, and Christi woke up. He got up and went outside to get some fresh air and exercise. His nose twitched when he smelt a rabbit, and followed the scent. When the scent got stronger and stronger, Quincy finally looked up and saw a rabbit eating some grass. Quincy hid quickly from it and stalked it through the trees. Just as he was about to pounce, there was a small snap sound like a twig. The rabbit's ears perked up and it fled to a nearby hole where it was safer. Quincy, ignoring the rabbit, froze and wondered what had made the sound. He yelled when suddenly something pounced on him and pinned him on his stomach by the back. He opened his eyes quickly and looked up, seeing a familiar looking dog standing over him, growling at him. Except he looked more scarred and like he had been in lots of fights...

"Emilianno! What the hell are you doing here!" Quincy asked, blinking at him in surprise.

"I'm here to kill you..." Emilianno growled, anger burning in his eyes. He bit into Quincy's neck, squeazing his throat hard and choking him. Quincy quickly kicked Emilianno in the stomach, making him yelp in surprise and let go. Quincy growled and charged to Emilianno, throwing him to the ground. He pinned him to the ground, but Emilianno bit into his neck again and brought him to the ground with him. They rolled through the snow, a ball of a scratching and biting frenzy. After awhile, Emilianno had Quincy pinned. He was about to scratch his eye out, when suddenly something grabbed his paw and through him to the ground.

"Christi! Get out of here or he'll kill you!" Quincy cried. Christi turned to look at him, but before replying, something suddenly stabbed thorugh her. Her eyes grew large and she fell limp to the ground, blooding coming from her mouth. She lied limp and never breathed again. Quincy stared at her with fright in his eyes, and looked over at Emilianno with a glare.

"You... you killed her...! GAH!" Quincy got up and charged at Emilianno. Emilianno yelped in surprise. He tried to escape Quincy's grip, but he couldn't since he was much more stronger from Christi's death. It took two minutes, until Emilianno finally gave in. He stopped breathing and laid limp under Quincy's massive body. He was dead for good. Quincy panted in exhaustion and stepped back. He was defineately exhausted from the fight, but at least he had avenged Christi. But how was he going to tell Aniu...?

"Mother! Mother, why did you have to leave me!" Aniu cried, sulking in Christi's soft fur. Quincy and Kweku tried their best to comfort her, but it didn't seem to work.

"Who would do such a thing to her!" Aniu kept crying, burrying her head in Christi's fur.

"An idiot Aniu, an idiot..." Quincy growled when the thought of Emilianno came to his mind.

"I'll bury her tonight, you guys can rest and we'll leave tomorrow," said Kweku, lowering himself so Quincy and Aniu could put Christi's body on his back easier. He then carried her off in the distance, where the sun was setting and getting the moon ready for night shift.

"Come on, just up this hill, and we'll make it to a cave somwhere!" Quincy yelled over the wind. During Quincy, Aniu, and Kweku's journey for two weeks, they had come across one of the most fierce storms in their life they have ever seen. They were making it up large mountains near Nome to look for a new home there. Quincy stopped immediately, also making Aniu and Kweku stop too. His eyes shifted towards a cave, which is where it was their chance to make their new home.

"Over there!" Quincy pointed out for Aniu and Kweku, and they both went inside. Quincy never noticed a scent though, because it was so cold outside, his nose was too numb to smell anything. Kweku and Aniu's weren't that bad, but they didn't seem to pay attention to smell either. They laid in the cave for ten minutes, then they finally fell asleep. An hour later, they were suddenly woken up by strangers. Quincy woke up first and looked over to a dark grey and cream wolf standing over him and snarling at him. Quincy blinked in surprise at this new stranger.

"Whoa! Who the heck are you!" Quincy raised a brow at him, trying to hide his fear of this larger wolf.

"Don't try to play innocent with me kid, I'm not that stupid!" Dewayne snarled, showing his big canines at Quincy.

"I outta kill right here, right now!" The wolf was about to go for Quincy's neck, but something interrupted.

"STOP!" The wolf's ears perked up and he looked behind him, seeing a Border Collie male standing behind him.

"Let him go, Dewayne. You know we don't harm loners unless they try to attack us," the border collie snarled.

"I'm sorry, Lord Maxwell," Dewayne whimpered, getting off of Quincy and bowing down to him. Quincy's ears perked right up at the name. Maxwell...? He thought to himself. That name sounds familiar to me, and so does the appearence... Quincy thought hard about who he was thinking of, and then it came into his head. It was his old child friend back at the farm, Maxwell. It had to be! He remembered clearly when his sister Vivianna came and told him that Maxwell had disappeared and the other farm dogs surrounding him said he ran off with a silver female wolf and he never came back. Could this really be him? Could the stories the farm dogs and Vivianna had told be true?

"Maxwell darling, where did these two wolves and dog come from?" Quincy turned his attention towards a brown female wolf with six puppies hiding behind her, studying the three of them curiously, but a little frightened of the strangers coming into their home out of nowhere. Another silver male wolf came up and studied them too.

"Maxxy, should we kill these trespassers before they cause trouble for us?" the sivler male wolf growled defendively.

"If they're injured it would be better killing them off than having more mouths to feed," another wolf, a black one growled softly at Quincy, Aniu, and Kweku, her fur puffing out and bristling to make her look bigger and scarier than them just like cats did.

"I agree with Julie, if they're bad, heres our chance!" another black male wolf growled also.

"Angela, Cristian, Julie, Kelvin, enough!" Maxwell's voice boomed above all of their questions, making them silence up quickly. He stared towards the new comer sternly.

"What's your name? I demand to know," Maxwell growled softly, showing his teeth a little to let Quincy, Aniu, and Kweku know he ment business and to try and not play games with him. Quincy blinked at him in surprise, and looked towards Aniu and Kweku, who were awake and staring at him as if they wanted him to do the talking for them, then he looked back at Maxwell. The Max he use to knew seemed so... different. He looked much more bigger and sounded more powerful and demanding than he use to. Quincy had to try to get him to recognize his old friend again though.

"Maxwell..." he said in a quiet tone.

"It's me, your old buddy Quincy back at the farm... remember? I was Vivianna's brother, and Vaughn's best friend, and you use to hang out and play with us too..." Maxwell stared hard at him, trying to figure out who this Quincy was. His eyes began to grow huge when he finally began to recognize him.

"Quincy...?" he asked in a surprised tone.

"Is that... is that really you?"

"Yeah... yeah, it is me, Maxwell. Your old buddy, Quincy..." Quincy's tail also began to wag when he saw Maxwell begin to wag his.

"Quincy!" Maxwell yelped in excitement, running over to him and licked him all over the face, to show how much he had missed him, and ignoring the surprised looks on his pack members' faces.

"How did you get here! What happened!" Maxwell asked, grinning largely as he stared at his friend straight in the eyes. Aniu and Kweku were also confused.

"Well, just sit down, and I'll explain everything," Quincy promised, so that's what Maxwell did. His pack sat down behind him, and so did Aniu and Kweku.

"After that time when I ran far off into the woods and looked for me and asked where I was and I said I was chasing a rabbit; I lied, I was actually chasing my mate Aniu here," said Quincy, pointing towards Aniu, then looking back at Maxwell.

"Then when I came back and we all went home because it was getting late, I went back to the barn and Emilianno and I got in a fight. He won and told me to never come back, so I did. Aniu was watching the whole thing, and told me I could come live with her. Her father didn't like me too much, but just to make his daughter happy, he took me in. My mentor with fighting and hunting was Kweku," said Quincy, pointing out Kweku to everyone, then looking back towards them.

"One day, I was using my trick on Aniu with those Aurora Borealis, and we... we fell in love, and created something beautiful that night. The next morning we went back to our territory, since we fell asleep under those northern lights, and everyone found out she was pregnant; with my puppies. So the alpha male, Aniu's father, Yestin, beat me up but I was saved by Aniu's mother,