The Kalgorn Trilogy - Part One
By: balto678

The events of this fan fiction and characters Kalgorn, Mist, Fira, Hiro, Clive, Slythe, and River as well as The Anglo Pack, The Inca Pack, and the Redblood Pack are (c) 2007 to me balto678. The Lylrite pack is (c) 2007 to Balto5670. Do not use any characters found in this story without my permission.

In the far north, where the landscape is covered in a thick sheet of snow and ice most of the year, wolves live in packs. Using numbers over power to hunt down and kill their prey. However, for a brief period of time, the everlasting snow melts away and a little more color can be seen. This period of time most know as Spring. Several new litters of pups are birthed at this time of year. The one litter payed most attention to is always the alpha. As soon as his mate, the alphesse, goes into heat, she and the alpha will disappear for awhile and the news of it spreads quickly throughout the pack. Sometimes the news turned out to be false, so you could never really know for sure unless you spied upon the alpha and alphesse to see what they were up to. But this is a serious crime. If you're caught violating their privacy, any punishment from exile to death can be dealt your way. When the spring comes around, everyone expects the alphess to go into labor at any minute. But this is in a pack with very little to worry about. In a pack that's on the brink of a war and currently victim to a famine, whether or not the alphesse was pregnant was the least of their concerns. While the pack, The Inca Pack, struggled to prevent the nearing battle between them and their rival back, The Anglo Pack, many of their numbers were either dying from hunger or were too weak to be any use to the pack. It was a rough time and, with the famine and all, they didn't need more mouths to feed by having more litters of pups.

But, despite all this, nature still took it's course and the female wolf, Mist, went into heat. She was the alphesse, mate to the alpha, Hiro. Indeed, she fit the description one would expect a female of her status to look like. Slim and strong. Her pelt was a glossy smooth hue of gray. She had a pair of unbelievably warm and beautiful gold eyes. Hiro had the look of dominance. Pure brown coat and penetrating green eyes that seemed to stare right into your soul. It made one feel like he could tell immediately whether one was lieing or telling the truth. It seemed like that, he'd already executed one wolf from The Anglo Pack for feeding him false news about their agreement to a treaty. Exactly how he knew this was a lie, no one knew, but he explained to them that it was a false lead to get them off guard so that The Anglo Pack could spring a surprise attack on them. As soon as he'd ended the life of the wolf, several other Anglo wolves were seen falling back from their borders. After that, he'd exiled two other wolves found guilty of treason. No one had expected the two to betray their pack. They were two of their top fighters and had been sneaking in and out of the Anglo territory, only to return with information that, potentially, could win them the war should it break out. They were heroes in the eyes of everyone. At one point Hiro had even believed them to be outstanding, loyal, and brave members of their pack. So, naturally, everyone rebelled at the conviction. For a brief moment, it seemed that the two were going to get away with what they'd done. But, at the last minute, proof that the information they were feeding them was not only a lie, but downright madness, presented itself. As it turned out, they discovered that, had they used the information and fought The Anglo Pack then, their pack would have been slaughtered.

The two, Clive and Sythe, had personally told him that The Anglo Pack was planning to attack them on the first blue moon of the year. They would be sneaking over their borders from the north side. The blue moon came, and The Anglo Pack didn't attack. But someone did, and they came at them from the south side, not the north. They were attacked by wolves, not from The Anglo Pack, but from a pack they knew to be an allie of The Anglo Pack's, The Redblood Pack. This only confirmed it for Hiro and Mist that they were about to become the center and main target of a war. While most of their fighters marched off to their northern border, a few had been stationed around their borders in case they tried to pull some trickery and sent only half of their numbers to the north border while the other half circled around and attacked them from an unexpected direction. Hiro's suspicion and careful strategiesing saved them from a bloody day of pain and woe. While there was only about five wolves grouped together at certain intervals around their borders, those five wolves were able to hold off the attacking group of Redblood Pack wolves long enough to prevent them from causing too much damage to their pack and territory.

Thanks to the lives of five brave hearts, many lives had been saved and only one wolf was taken prisoner. Needless to say, that one prisoner was returned to them in exchange for the beta wolf they had captured as well. Sadly, however, all five of those fighters were killed that day. But they fought the Redblood wolves off until their dieing breath. As soon as they had seen movement in the serene azure light, they sent out a distress call. All five of them raising their heads and pointing their noses to the moon, letting out a loud group-howl. This caused the Redblood wolves to react. A few, maybe six, separated from the ranks and ran out to end the cries of the wolves. Their goal was for stealth, and setting off the alarm wasn't on the agenda. However, these wolves were highly trained and took all six of them out without getting more than a few scratches. By the time they had to end their howls to fight for their lives, Hiro and the rest of the pack had already heard the call. Immediately, they darted off for the opposite end of their territory. The wolves stationed a little closer managed to get there quicker and hold them off until the larger group reached them. Once the Redblood Pack's forces saw them coming, they knew they were fighting a losing battle here and retreated. While they ran away from them, a few were captured and questioned. But they revealed nothing, nothing useful that is. Because they couldn't have them returning to the Redblood pack and return to fight them again, they were executed. However, they knew the beta they had caught would be worth alot to The Redblood Pack. So, they offered a trade to get back the wolf that had been taken prisoner. The packs agreed to meet up at their borders to do the trade. Luckily, nothing went wrong with it. As soon as the beta was back with his pack, the rest of the wolves growled at them before running off to their own territory.

The wolf they had received for the beta gave them news of a traitor in their pack. The news she fed them, for it was a female wolf. Her name was River. Though she wasn't exactly an important member of the pack, she was one of the more stunning of the females. So, Hiro could only assume that their intentions for taking her was for reasons that were less than honorable. The information she gave them was enough to make a few jaws drop. The very words that spilled out of her panic stricken mouth were; "It was Clive and Sythe! They gave me to the Redblood Pack. They're siding with the enemy!" It was unbelievable. Had she mentioned the names of any other wolves and they would have more than likely tried right then. However, given how much the two in question had done for the pack and how loyal they always were to it, Hiro pushed it aside as the results of shock. She was disoriented and didn't know what she was saying. But later on when he got some time to think things over, it finally dawned on Hiro that Clive and Sythe were playing them for fools. The trade off for River had turned out to be a better deal than expected. At least, for them. The same couldn't be said for The Anglo Pack. After speaking to River again, she explained to him that she had been in the cover of her den when it happened. Clive jumped in and pinned her down while Slythe grabbed her and dragged her out. After that, she had been knocked out and when she awoke, she was surrounded by unfamiliar wolves that didn't look too friendly.

So, you've got one battle gone entirely wrong due to their information and one witness that was able to describe in depth into what had been done to her by the two. It was more proof than Hiro needed. Sentencing them to exile, they were chased off their territory, stripped of their title as Inca Pack's finest and became nothing more than loners. The attack from The Redblood Pack didn't get Hiro thinking they were at a war yet. Because the threat was between them and the Anglo Pack, The Redblood Pack was nothing more than an obstacle thrown there way to weaken them. Despite how quickly there numbers were falling victim to malnutrition. It seemed that The Anglo Pack didn't just want to defeat them, they wanted to slaughter every last one of them. The famine was just one of those unfortunate variables that worked in your enemy's favor. But the war hadn't started yet so there was hope still that the war could be avoided.

His mind was diverted from these problems however by his mate. It was the thing that he liked best about her. He always had her to look forward to every night when he layed down. But this time it wasn't for a nice talk to ease his mind of anything like that. She had gone into labor. As soon as the news reached his ears, he cursed himself for not being with her from the beginning. Without saying another word, literally leaving in the middle of a speech he'd been giving the pack's fighters. It was supposed to be a motivational speech to keep their spirits high. They weren't at war yet, but it felt like it. Anyway, someone had to fill in for Hiro. He was the alpha and had every right