racking her brain for anything that could provide shelter. She'd found a conclusion. It was at least half a mile off but it was the closest thing she could think of.
"Hitze ive got it. Mulgrave Hills"
Hitze closed his eyes for a minute then opened them again.
"It's got to be at least half a mile away"
"I know but its the only thing i can think of right now. Besides we're gunna have to pass it on our way. Come on" Anilda explained and continued on.
Hitze followed right beside her. Cursing under his breath as he felt the constant shower of snowflackes land on his fur and melt.

"Hitze i can see them. The hills. Straight ahead!" Anilda yelled back to hitze.
Hitze followed the direction anilda was pointing with her paw and saw them. The massave lumps in the earth reaising into the sky.
"Come on, its not doing us any good just standing out here"
The two hurried for the hills. Fortunatly for them the wind was blowing from behind them now. Pushing them towards their destination rather than away from their destination.

CHAPTER TEN

Zach, Adam, Angle, and erudin, now at the bottom of the slide, looked up.
"Im open to ides to get back up there" Zach said.
"Im working on it Zach" Adam said. His left hind leg he kept in the air. It was too painfull to put any weight on it. The deep cut, still oozed blood. Adam tried to ignore the searing pains now stabbing at his leg.
"Adam why don't you try numbing your leg. Just stick it inthe snow for a few minutes" Zach suggested.
Adam took the advise gratefully and, painfull at first, adam's leg slowly began to numb.
Angle suddenly pulled on adam's fur. Looking down to the pup adam saw the pup was pointing at a cave.
"Zach, i think we just took a major shortcut" Adam said recognizing the cave "Look!"
Zack looked in the direction adam was looking and saw it too.
"Okay. Great. Now, how do we tell the rest of the pack?" zach asked
Adam pondered this in his mind. The shortcut had saved them at least 10 minutes. One any other situation like this adam would have simply gone the long way around, informed the rest of the pack of the shortcut, and took the shortcut again but with the state of his leg. . .
There was only one thing to do.
"Zach you stay here with erudin and Angle. Im going back up" Adam instructed and stood back up. Swaying slightly before regaining his balance.
"Adam, no. You stay ill go" Zach said running in front of him and stopping him.
"Zach are you refusing to obey a direct orger?" Adam asked raising an eyebrow.
Zach stopped in mid-sentence. Then grumply returned to the two pups.
Zach watched as adam headed off at a brisk pace. His left leg still held in the air.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Finally reaching the Mulgrave Hills anilda and Hitze took shelter behind one of the massive hills. Scattered boulders lay around them and jenna found herself wondering how they got there.
Suddenly the boulder closest to them burst into flames. The work of Hitze.
"You know it pays to have someone like you around" Anilda laughed
"There there are the downsides" Hitzed said and his body erupted in flames again. Anilda backed away from Hitze.
"alright don't over do it" Anilda replied and laid down to rest. Sho only then realized how hungry she was.
With nothing to take her mind of the panges of hunger in her stomach, anilda decided to try to get some rest.
When she awoke the sun was still up. She was relieved. She didn't want to have to make another trip in the dark. Hitze was snoozing ontop of one of the boulders. Flames engulfed the rock and his body. As Anilda watched this she noticed how much this looked like a cremation. It creeped her out a bit.
Laying back down anilda took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
SNAP
Anilda's eyes shot open. "What was that?" anilda wondered as she stood up.
Looking around she saw only the boulders and hills of her surroundings. There was a crunching noise of rock scraping against rock. Then screams of agony right behind her. She felt an intense heat almost singing her fur. Turning around she saw the burning body of a wolf. It's entire body engulffed in flames.
Anilda swallowed. Looking up she saw hitze raise up from the boulder and jumped down. Extinguishing his flames as he did.
"Are you alright?" Hitze asked as he approached her.
"yea. You got him before he even touched me" Anilda said nodding her head.
"Come on lets get out of here" Hitzed said and they hurried away from the flaming body.

CHAPTER TWELVE

Adam could feel the blood in his leg start flowing again. The agony resumed within his leg. Worse than before.
Panting, adam pushed on. Up the slick hill. He wondered how the pack was reacting to losing their guidance. Fearing the worst adam pushed harder. Hurriying as fast as he could go with only three legs.
Feeling his paws slide out from underneath him adam fell onto his chest. Coughing adam got back to his feet and dug into the ground with his claws. Giving himself more traction.

The pack was frantic. More than half were huddled together the keep warm they lost all hope of escaping the storm, but a small amount of the pack was panicking. Only ones who had remained calm were the five sheild members.
"What do we do now?"
"What is there to do? We're gonners"
"Hay, don't talk like that. We have to use our heads. The answer isn't going to jump out at ya" Alike said
"Guys! over here i think i found something!" Lang's voice called.
The entire pack including the shield members turned.
"yall stay here, we'll be right back" Bailey explained holding up a paw. Bailey then turned and headed to the group of shields.
His jaw dropped when he saw what Lang had found.
A drop of at least 3 to 5 feet then a giant ice slide that went down the mountain side itself.
Bailey who had always had a fear of heights, backed away from the edge.
"where did this come from?" Jake asked
"No idea. Just then they heard panting. They looked at one another to see if one of them was making the sound then a voice rang out behind them.
"Jump"

The five members of the sheilds turned around.
"Adam! Where did you, what are you. . ." Alike seemed lost for words.
"No time to explain. Just jump. Stay to the right of the ice though" Adam said quicky and nudged them towards the edge.
Adm rushed to the pack and yelled at the top of his lungs "ATTENTION!"
The noise of the pack dropped instently.
"We have to jump. Just behind me is a giant ice slide which goes safely down the side of the mountain. No harm will come to you unless you are on the right side of the ice slide. Straight down from there is the cave. Now come on. Follow me!" Adam explained walking bacwards towards the edge.
"How do you know this?" Jake asked from his left.
"Ive been down it before" Adam replied simply.
This seemed to convince the shield members. "Alright follow us. three of us will go ahead and they yall go. The last three of us will take up the rear" Lang annouced. "Bailey,Jon, Jake, you three go first. Me adam and alike will join you at the rear"
Bailey,Jon, and Jake walked to the edge and jumped. The pack gasped.
"Im not commiting suicide" someone shouted.
"Its either this risk or you die" Adam said.
With that the pack began jumping down and sliding down the mountain side in a single file line. Once one jumped the next wolf would wait a few seconds then jump as well. Finally the last wolf jumped over and adam started towards the edge.
"Adam wait i need to tell you something first. Go ahead Alike." Lang said leading adam away from the edge. Alike watched them curiously the jumped.
Alone now Lang spoke up.
"Its about anilda"
Adam waited. "Go on" He said when lang didn't continue.
"We got word while you were gone that she was killed. Inside the Morte Burge"
Adam's jaw dropped.
"Im sorry, run that by me again. I didn't quite get that"
"Adam Anilda was killed by the flame wolf residing inside the morte burge's murdurous depths" Lang explained.
Adam didn't say anything. He just walked back to the edge and jumped down. Sliding down the ice again.
Unable to comprehend what he'd just been told adam shook his head. "No, She's ok. She's NOT dead" Adam said trying to convince himself it was true.

As Adam slid off the ice and stopped in the snow he looked up at the moon in the sky. "Anilda where are you?"

"Adam, we just figured out where that slide led us too. We're now officially in Red Rock Territoy" Jake said approaching him.
"That must mean we're not too far off" Lang said from behind Adam.
Adam looked back at Land then nodded his head in aggrement.
"We're bound to reach it soon" Adam said, acting excited.
Sighing adam decided he had time to feel depressed later. Right now he had a pack to get to shelter.
"Jake, is the cave full now?"
"Yes, we were just waiting for you to lead the way" Jake replied
"Wait. What about the pup erudin?" Adam asked
"He's safe along with his parents inside" Jake replied.
Adam took a deep breath and walked to the front. "Alright listen up. We've got 3 caves left. Fortunatly they are all close. Follow me" Adam anounced once he reached the front and headed in the opposite direction of the cave. Eastward.
In the next eight minutes, four wolves had collapsed. Their bodies heavily frostbitten. Adam felt an urgancy to get the task done as quickly as possible. Adam found the fourth cave within one minute after the forth wolf collapsed.
"Get the ill in first" Adam instructed the wolves as the headed for the cave.
Adam took the time to numb his leg again. The pain was enough to bring tears to his eyes. The pain dulled as his leg froze. His leg turning numb.

Half an hour later the pack was now safely in the caves spread over the entire 'De Long Mountain'. Adam knew the thoughest part now would be gathering the pack again. While they waited for the storm to subside adam worked on a plan to get the pack back together.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Panting Anilda and Hitze ran. Following the Agashashok River. Once the storm had blown itself out Anilda and hitze had started again. Anilda's only concern now was the village just off the river that made most of its profits from killing and selling Wolf fur. The