Aniu's mother, Christi. She told him right off that she was leaving him and told me and Aniu to come with her. But Kweku came too, and we all left and never saw him again. The day after that, I was found by Emilianno and I was almost about to die, until... Christi sacrificed herself to... to save me..." A tear rolled down his eyes, but he stopped the others from falling out.

"I brought the body back to Kweku and Aniu, and Aniu was so upset... so Kweku burried her and the next morning, we left. After two weeks of traveling, we made it to this cave and passed out for an hour, then you woke us up, and well... here we are..." Quincy mumbled, ears twitching.

"So about your story?" Kweku asked curiously, ears twitching.

"Well, it only started back on the farm," Maxwell began.

"I was guarding the flock of sheep on my land, as always, until a beautiful silver female named Ashlee came. She told me about her pack becoming instinct, and she wanted me to join. I wasn't going to, but she started to talk me as hard as she could into it, even giving me those cute puppy dog eyes," Maxwell chuckled softly.

"Anyways, I followed her to her pack territory. Her father didn't like me much, but he let me stay to make her happy just like you," said Maxwell.

"I lived a happy life, and  earned the alpha's trust one day, but then my new mate, Angela came. I was already mates with the alpha's daughter, the silver wolf I was talking about, Ashlee, but I actually didn't like her. I only said yes or else she could complained to her father like a cry-baby she is." Maxwell rolled his eyes at the thought of her.

"So I cheated on her with Angela, and we both got banished, but we didn't care. Then one day, Ashlee's little brother, Cristian, came and told me that a rival pack called Red Pack came and invaded them, and he wanted us to help. I did, but I got knocked out and when I woke up, everyone was dead except Dewayne, Julie, and Kelvin. I brought them back to Angela and Cristian, and we decided to form a pack together, and we traveled for days until we found shelter, which is here. Then Angela had six puppies; three males and three females. I named the males Josh, Hamish, and Rick." Maxwell pointed to three of the six puppies beside Angela and him, who must have been Josh, Hamish and Rick.

"And Angela named the females Ursula, Candy, and Daphne." Then Maxwell pointed towards the other three, who were females.

"That's great," Quincy smiled.

"Listen uh, Maxwell. Now that we've reunited, can Aniu, Kweku, and I join your pack?"

"If it's alright with Aniu and Kweku." Quincy looked at Aniu and Kweku, who were smiling at the idea and nodded. Quincy grinned and looked back at Maxwell.

"They said yes," he said quickly. Maxwell grinned. "Great, welcome to the Blue Pack."

It had been one month and three weeks since Quincy had became an official member of the Blue Pack. After that many days, it was also time for Aniu's puppies to be born. Quincy had to wait outside though, since males were never aloud to watch puppies being born. Angela and Julie were helping though. Quincy whined and panted worriedly as he paced in front of the den, listening to Aniu's cries of pain. It took five minutes until the birth was finished, and Julie and Angela called them in quickly. Quincy came in alone and gasped as he saw nine beautiful, healthy puppies suckling Aniu's milk beside her.

"Nine puppies?!" Quincy asked in surprise, eyes growing a little huge.

"That's going to be a handful to take care of!"

Aniu giggled and sighed.

"Only three boys and six girls. Surprising, isn't it?" she asked.

"Yeah... should we name them now?" Quincy asked excitedly, wagging his tail also.

"Sure, you can name the first one," said Aniu, smiling warmly.

"Alright then, I'll name the first one..." Quincy looked towards the first female, which looked exactly like Quincy.

"How about... Deanna?" he asked. "Just a short form of Dianna, and that's what my mother's name was," said Quincy with a warm smile.

Aniu nodded with agreement and a pleased look on her face. "Good, now I'll name the next one." She looked at the second one, which had a dark brown spot on her back and dark brown toes, with a light brown face, legs, and tail, and a white chest, stomach, and also white under her tail.

"We can name her... Jana. It means God is Gracious, and God really is, I think," said Aniu, with a warm smile, as she licked Jana clean.

Quincy kept his grin on. "I think so too, so it's a perfect name for her," said Quincy, then looked at another female. She had Quincy's markings, except brown was surrounding her the light brown around her eyes.

"Genevieve? It is a long name, but we can just call her Gene. I think it means, "Female of the People" in French, so I want a puppy with a French name, just like I do," Quincy blushed a little.

Aniu nodded. "Good, good. I think we should start naming boys now." Aniu looked at the first male, and surprisingly, he also looked like Quincy too!

"How about... Kyler? It was a name after my grandfather on my mother's side before he passed away."

"Good, good," said Quincy. "I'll name the other male, and I think we'll save the last male." Quincy looked at the next male, which looked like him of course. "Ty? Only short for Tyler, that was my dad's name."

Aniu nodded, then looked at another female. She sighed with relief when she saw that there was at least one puppy that looked like her for the first time. "I think we should call her Bernadette. It's a French name, meaning "As Brave As A Bear"."

"Any French name is always fine with me," Quincy joked. "The next female should be..." Quincy looked at the next female, had his markings and colors, but also had white around her eyes. "Judy."

"Okay," said Aniu. "The next one shall be named..." Aniu looked at the last female, who looked just like Jana. "Jeannie."

"Alright, and the last one..." Quincy studied the last male, who looked exactly like Jana and Jeannie. "Hm... I'm kind of brain dead right now..." he thought to himself loudly. "Hm... Balto...?"

Aniu smiled. "That's a great name!"

Quincy smiled proudly. "Thank you!" he smiled, and nuzzled her lovingly. "I'll leave you alone, if you need rest," he said, getting up and walking out of the den to meet his new pack. Kweku and Maxwell ran up to him.

"So, were the puppies born healthy?" Kweku asked curiously, wagging his tail slowly. Quincy nodded slowly.

"Yep, they were."

"I remember when I first became a dad," Maxwell sighed happily at the thought, wagging his tail a little. "Say Quincy, you want to go for a walk while Aniu takes a rest?" he asked.

Quincy shrugged. "There's nothing to do, sure," he said, and they left together.

Kweku watched them both leave. "I'll stay here and guard the den!" Kweku yelled after them, and stood in front of the den, sat down and began to watch for them to come back.

Meanwhile, a young brownish-orangish-redish Border Collie male was running through the forest, tongue hanging out of his mouth as the wind pressed against his face. He seemed happy to be out and about in the wild by himself. He suddenly bumped into a large black and white thing. He looked up and growled, seeing another Border Collie, Maxwell with a Siberian Husky, Quincy standing in front of his way.

"Hey, watch where your going, pipsqueak!" Maxwell growled at the young Border Collie.

"Hey, don't call me a pipsqueak!" the younger male snapped.

Maxwel blinked in surprise. This dog seemed familiar to him... then it hit him like a freight train.

"Carter!" he growled.

"Maxwell!" he barked back.

"What are you doing here in the wild, shouldn't you be with your family!" Maxwell snapped, a little angry with this Carter.

"I don't need my stupid family, they're too bossy!" Carter growled. "I wanna run wild and free with no rules like you probably are right now!"

Mawell blinked in a little surprise, and a little irritated. He was speachless for a moment, but then his voice went back to him.

"Listen, Carter," he said, a little softer. "You should get out of here, before my pack finds you."

"Cool!" Carter barked outloud, hurting Quincy and Maxwell's ears a little. "Can I join!"

"No! Go home!" Maxwell suddenly snapped, surprising Carter. Carter whimpered. "But I don't want to, you don't know what it's like to be a house pet!"

"I know how it is, which is why I ran away!" Maxwell growled again.

"So all because you ran away because you don't want to be a house pet, doesn't mean I can't either?" Carter mumbled.

More anger rose in Maxwell, not because his little brother was annoying him, but because Carter was right. It wasn't fair that Maxwell got to do whatever he wants and Carter didn't. He sighed softly.

"Okay... you can join..." he said quietly.

Carter smiled and began to wag his tail again. "Really? YAHOO! When can I meet the pack!" he asked excitedly, running around Quincy and Maxwell in circles.

"If'll you'll calm down, that's when we'll meet the pack," Maxwell mumbled half to himself. "Carter, this is Quincy, my best friend. He's a hunter. Quincy and his mate, Aniu just had nine puppies today, so don't forget to congratulate him and Aniu later on," Maxwell introduced.

"Great! Can I be a hunter