The Search For A New Home
 By: balto678 (Donovan Bailey)

CHAPTER ONE

The pitch black night was dead cold and swallowed up the mountains and trees along with everything else in its darkness. The night relentlessly pressed down over the wolves eyes. It was impossible to see anything threw the darkness. The wolf could only tell where it was going by keen senses. This wolf was a pregnant mother. She was searching for shelter to rest in until morning. The wolfs name was Anilda and she had gotten seperated from her pack. She knew there was no hope of finding her pack in the darkness.
Anilda knew her situation could result in death but she had always been told that if she ever got into a bad situation, she should remain calm, otherwise she might find herself in greater danger.
This had been told to her by her father again and again. Her father was now dead though. His name had been Nava. Anilda closed her eyes and sighed. She had no idea where the pack was or even where she was but she did know that they were headed south. Exactly why they were headed south was a mystery to Anilda. Hopefully, knowing the packs direction of travel would be enough.
Soon afterwards she grew too tired to continue her search for shelter so she resorted to digging a hole in the snow large enough for her to curl up in and warm herself up with her own body heat and rest.
As she lay there shivering, trying to find sleep, her mind kept wondering if her mate was looking for her. She was the Beta of the pack and her mate was the guard wolf. He was also one of the ten that had saved the alfa's life when they had been attacked unexpectedly. By ensuring Aleu's safety when she was wounded from a recent lethal fight, he had saved the pack. As a reward for this act of courage Aleu declared Adam and the other nine wolfs that had assisted him in the rescue 'The Ten Shields'
The Ten Shields kept adam busy but he had always spent as much time with her as he was able too. But recently adam had gotten even more busy. The pack had been attacked by the deadliest pack in history. They were called the 'red rock pack'. They had been attacked in the middle of the night while they all had been sleeping. Adam and the ten shields had reacted immediatly. They got aleu to safety and then returned to fight off the wolves. But as fast as they had reacted, they hadn't been fast enough. The red rock pack had defeated them. Now the pack was making their way to find new land to live on. They had been traveling for weeks. Their homeland was located in the White Hills. A peacefull location with plenty of rivers to get water and plenty of forest with more than enough game to satisfy their hunger.. A wolf's Paradise.
As these thoughts ran through Anilda's head she found it impossible to find sleep so she then turned her thoughts over to what she might name her pups wheather they were males or females. These thoughts soothed anilda's mood and soon she found herself dozing off.

When she woke up the next morning it was no longer dark but bright. The coldness still lingered though.Anlida shook the snow off that had landed on her as she slept through the night then sat up. Squinting as she looked around, letting he eyes adjust to the change in light, she saw that in every direction she looked there was just snow, snow, and more snow. There was an occasional tree in the clearing though. Anilda struggled to her feet and then decided to follow her tracks back from the direction she had came. Hoping they would lead her back to the pack's path but when she turned around to start she saw her tracks had been covered up with a fresh layer of snow.
"Oh, no" Anilda said as she realized just how much worse her situation had become.

CHAPTER TWO

At least twenty miles behind Anilda, a large group of wolves lay asleep.
All but one of the wolves was asleep. This pitch black wolf was walking around checking each wolf. This served two purposes. To see if any of the pack was missing and to find out if Anilda, his mate and the beta of the pack, was with the pack. She had gone missing that morning and hadn't showed up yet.
"Shield one"
"Zack ive told you dont call me that unless we're under attack." The wolf said. Ever since he and nine others had saved the pack leader, Aleu, from being killed she had given them a special rank in the pack known as 'The Ten Shields'. They then started calling each other the shield number they had recieved.
"Call me Adam. Anyway have you seen Anilda yet?" he asked glancing at the wolves snoozing on the ground.
"No. Sorry. But don't worry. Im sure she'll turn up" Zack said
"Shield one may i speak with you for a minute?"
"What is it this time Jon?" Adam replied recognizing the voice.
"i need to have a few words with you" Jon replied.
After looking from Zack to the wolves and back to Zack, Zack got the idea and took up the task of counting the wolves and looking for Anilda Adam jogged over to jon.
"Whats happening jon?" Adam asked once he caught up with him.
"I just want to let you know that tomorrow we leave this territory. The Frieden pack have allowed us safe passage threw their territory but we have to be careful when we are in the red land territory. We could be attacked at anytime. After our last attack from this pack i want to let you know more about them. There's a reason it's called red land" Jon explained.
"I already know the reason. There was a war-" Adam started but Jon cut him off.
"Not just A war Adam. THE war. This war is the reason wolves are divided into packs and our lands are divided into territories"
"Jon, you've told me this story a hundred times over. I know it by heart now. I know how the war lasted ten years and the final batle was the bloodiest battle in history. Over a hundred thousand dead wolves and at least sixty thousand injured" Adam went on. He didn't feel like listening to Jon tell the story again. "But my point is what has a battle that happened over a century ago got to deal with us crossing over it?"
"Adam there's alot more to the tale then that. You've got the basic understanding of the battle but it goes deeper. Much deeper. There are more than just wolves in the Red land pack. There's an entirly different race with the pack"
"What's so different about the race?" Adam asked intrigued.
"The race has the power to control things. Posses things. Once they want something done it gets done" Jon explained.
"So your saying this race has the power to control the minds of others?" Adam asked
"as crazy as it sounds, but yes" Jon replied
"I can't believe im listening to this. Jon maybe you didn't notice but Anilda is gone. She's lost. She's pregnant. And She doesent even know where the pack is headed" Adam exclaimed.
"Adam, believe me we've sent a search team to look for her. I can assure you, Anilda will be back with us by tomorrow morning. I thought it'd be best if i told you the risks of crossing into the territory though. I wanted to put you on your guard" Jon said walking infront of Adam.
"Alright, if there is this special race with the red land pack, is their anything we can do to protect ourselves?" Adam asked
"Not much is known about the race since everyone who has met one was killed or drivin insane. But only one thing we're sure of is that they need to make eye-contact in order for them to use their abilities" Jon replied shivering slightly as a sudden blast of cold air blew on them.
"You know this for certain? This isn't just some educated guess is it?" Adam asked
"This is for certain. As long as no eye contact is made with them we're safe from them but the thing is they look exactly like the rest of the pack. So Its impossible to tell which one is a regular wolf and which one has a special power" Jon said suddenly.
"So where did this race come from?" Adam asked
"Im not sure but i know this. The only reason we lost that war is because of this race. They were able to turn our own troops against us and even make them kill themselves" Jon replied

CHAPTER THREE

Panting, Anilda pushed her way through the tangle of plants, thorns, bushes, and tree branches. Shivering the whole way since everything was covered in snow. Every now and then a thorn vain or a tree branch would swing back and slap her in the face. An execptionally painfull slap happened when she pushed several tree branches out of her way with her side and one of the branches had a thorn vein wrapped around it swung back and slapped her in the face. Anilda felt the stinging pain as the thorns sank into her skin and the force of the slap caused her left eye to blur temparerlly.
Finally when she had made it through the tangle she sat down to catch her breath. She had mud splattered all over her side when she slipped on the frozen ground and landed in a mud from the melted snow. She had several scratches and cuts from the thorns. She was extremely thirsty and a trail of blood ran down from her left eye.
But she had been able to satisfy her hunger. The woods was full of game. Anilda hunted every animal she could manage until her hunger was satisfied.
How long have i been gone? Will the pack have sent the search team yet? Anilda wondered
The chilling wind blew on anilda who shivered then stood back up and continued on. Hoping she was headed in the right direction. Relying on her scence of direction and smell.

An hour later anilda caught a scent of a wolf. When anilda put her nose to the ground, she could smell several wolves.
"The pack must have been here!" Anilda exclaimed. Her hopes of finding the pack again soaring back up. Following the scent was all she had to do now.At least that's what she thought.
Just as she started to follow the scent she spotted two wolves. Neither one looked very friendly. Both had a grin on their faces. One wolf was teel and the other had several scars visible through his aqua blue fur.
The two wolves advanced on Anilda grinning.
"Who's first Al?" the aqua blue wolf asked with a snicker
"Be my guest lex. This one's cute. I wanna see her moan first" The teel wolf said continuing to advance on Anilda.