with my legs."
"No Way!"
"Way. I swung with my legs, still holding onto the tree root and you, and once i was swinging enough i threw you up and you landed back on the edge. Once i had climbed back up i pulled you away from the edge"
"How did you get back up?" Erudin asked, amazed.

"I don't even know how i managed too" Angle grinned.
"That's amazing!" Erudin exclaimed. "What happened next?"
"Oh, nothing much, except, save adam's life" Angle replied as if it were nothing. He was loving every second of this.
Angle was about to saw how, when a wolfcame rushing by. Knocking them both down as he passed.
Getting up angle looked at Erudin.
"You okay?" Angle asked, helping him to his paws.
"yea, you?"
"Im alright"
"Who was that?" Erudin asked
"Im not sure but he seemed to be in a bit of a rush" Angle replied.
Squinting in the direction of wolf had gone, angle could dimly make out the shape of a wolf. Suddenly, glowing red eyes appeared.
Angle stared. Then his mind went blank and he could think of only one thing.
Finish off Adam.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Anilda awoke startled.
Looking around she wondered what had awoken her.
At first she thought it might have been her daughter moving in her sleep, but something didn't feel quite right.
Then she heard it. A blood chilling scream of agony. THe fur on her back stood up.
Glancing over at Hitze, who slept curled around a small fire, she stood up. Not wanting to disturb her daughter she left her there. Walking over to the edge of the mountain she squinted down. In the darkness she thought she could see a group of wolves, crowded around two.
"What's going on?" Anilda wondered.
Her thoughts were interrupted, however by the crying of her daughter.
"I still need to give her a name!" Anilda realized.
She turned around to head back and comfort the pup. What she saw when she turned around made her heart stop.
A large wolf, with white fur like hers, stood with the pup in its jaws.
As she watched, the wolf took off running.
Anilda instinctivly took off after the wolf.
Heart pounding, anilda struggled to keep up with the wolf. He had incredible speed. Anilda only hoped he didn't have as much stamina.
Driven purely by the cries of her pup, anilda pushed herself on.
The wolf looked back at her and then sped up. Anilda was surprised he could even go faster. He was already running faster than any other wolf she'd seen.
"God help me" Anilda prayed as she pushed on. Tears forming in her eyes.
Suddenly something grabbed her leg. Anilda tripped and fell. Rolling over several times before coming to a stop on her chest.
Tears ran down her cheeks as she saw the wolf vanish before her eyes.

Desperate to retrieve her daughter anilda got to her feet and ran. Coming to a stop as the mountain ended. Sloping down into the ocean.
Sobbing anilda howled in depression.
"why does everytime something good happens in my life, misfortune lies just around the corner?" Anilda pleaded

Hitze Jolted awake. Looking around he noticed something was missing. Thinking for a minute he jumped up. Realizing what it was.
"Anilda!" Hiitze called.
He could hear a pup crying off into the distance.
Without wasting another second Hitze darted off full speed.

Arriving at a crying anilda hitze leaned down over her.
"Anilda, what happened? What's wrong?" He asked
"Her. They took her" Anilda managed to say before dissolving back into tears.
Hitze gasped.
"what direction did he go?" Hitze asked
"I don't know! I chased him this far then something tripped me. He just vanished" Anilda said. Hiccuping every few words.
Hitze glanced over the edge of the mountain. Thinking there might be more to it Hitze started down the slope. I must be mad
About halfway down hitze stopped. Looking around he saw nothing. Sighing he started back up.
As he started up his paws slid out from under him. His chest slammed agains the rock.
The sound that vibrated in Hitze's eardrums was not the usual sound of something hitting stone. It sounded hollow.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

"What! She was right there" Adam exclaimed.
"Well she's gone now" Alike responded
Adam groaned. His stomach was beginning to pain him. The stomp he'd gotten had made him feel like he'd been squashed flat.
"Where would they have taken her?" Mali asked
"I don't know but we've got to find her"
"Alright, ive got a plan" Adam spoke up.
"we'll move the pack into the safe haven then, once their safe, i'll find aleu. I think i might have an idea where they've taken her"
"Where?" Several asked.
"Don't worry about it. I'll go. You will stay with the pack" Adam replied.
"Adam No. I'll go. Tell me where she is and ill go"
It was Zach.
"Zach, this is the 2nd time-" Adam started but zach shook his head.
"For the good of your heath, let me go" Zach replied firmly.
Adam watched him for a minute. Trying to stand again, and falling again, adam nodded his head. "Fine"
Uttering the words of aleu's location into Zach's ear he stood back up and looking adam straight in the eye he said "I won't let you down" Then left.
Turning back to the Shield members adam cleared his throat.
"Come on adam, lets get you out of here" Mali said grabing hold of adam's neck in her jaws she dragged adam some distance.
Without adam laying there anymore the eight shields remaining stared at the spot adam had layed.
The entire area was scarlet red.
As they looked from the blood red snow to adam they realized adam had lost consiousness.
"God, we've got to stop the bleeding!" Jon exlcaimed.
"How!?" Mali asked shocked at the amount of blood.
They racked their brains for information that would help adam. They came up blank. They had never had a situation like this. Adam's cuts were obviously very deep.
Mali looked around at her surrounding. "There's got to be something! there's always something"
All that surrounded them was snow and ice. She didn't think either of the two were going to help.
"Mali?" Jon asked. He was the closest to her. He could tell something was going on in that brain of hers.
"shush" She said suddenly.
"The only thing that can stop bloodflow was either wraping something tightly around the wound. Cutting off the circlation, or to freeze it.
Wait, freeze it. That's it!"
"I got it!" she exclaimed.
"what? what do we do?" Jon asked surprised.
"Help me get him over here to this ice" Mali said grabbing hold of adam again. The others joined in and, lifting his body, they carried him over the the mountainside which had a thick layer of ice over it.
"Set his should agains the ice" Mali said. The words muffled threw adam's fur.
Mali let go of adam and repeated her last words.

Lost, Jake, Jon, Alike, Anisto, Bailey, Lang, and Jasper followed mali's instructions. Praying that she was right.
"god help us" Mali prayed as the layed adam agains the ice.
"what now?" Jon asked
"We wait. . . And pray" Mali replied
Jon sat down, His ears falling.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

"What the-" Hitze said getting back to his paws. Knocking his paws against the rock he heard the noise again.
"It's Hollow alright" Hitze confirmed.
Peering over the end of the mountain hitze could see no entrence. Trying the other side he still saw no entrence.
"There's only onle place left it could be" Hitze breathed.

Anilda was no longer crying. Instead she lay there motionless in a kind of stupor. She knew there was a high chance she'd never see her pup again.
"I never even got to name her" Anilda thought. Emotions welling up inside her again. Her eyes watered and she felt a single tear fall down her cheek.
Hitze came back over the edge of the slope. He seemed anxious.
"Anilda, i think i know where she is"
Anilda looked up at hitze. "Hitze. . ." was all she could say.
"Come on, im not leaving you here. I need you to come with me" Hitze said pulling anilda to her paws.
As soon as hitze let go of her she fell back to the ground.
"Hitze as much as i want to believe you, i cant. . .She's gone" Anilda whimpered from the ground.
"Anilda, what kind of talk is that. Im telling you im almost certain of where she is. Please, i need you to come with me. I don't want to risk letting you get taken too" Hitze said picking her back up.
Anilda stood this time when he'd let her go.
"Alright, now come on" Hitze said and turned to go back the way they'd come.
"Hitze, you want to tell me this theory of yours?" Anilda asked, moving only fast enough to keep up with Hitze.
Hitze told her about what had happened on the slope. After he explained the hollow she seemed more motivated.
Anilda opened her mouth to say something but changed her mind and sped up.
"I hope your right Hitze" Anilda said quietly.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

"Angle are you feeling okay?" Erudin asked.
Angle had started acting really strange.
He was completely ignoring erudin and had started running away from the pack.
"Angle, we need to get back to the pack" Erudin said running along with him.
Just then Angle stopped. Turning towards erudin he growled and said "you head back. I grow weary of you presance. Get!" and jumped at erudin.
Erudin scampered away. Running from the person he'd thought to be his friend.
Angle turned back and ran towards the mountain side where the battle between adam and the nous-controller had taken place.
Glancing down at his claws, angle frowned. The sharp but short claws would barely do more than cause a few scratches.
Feeling his canines with his tongue he felt impressed.
Few pups had teeth like these. These would do fine. All it would take is to play innocent and then clamp his jaws on adams neck, cutting off his air, and within a few minutes the task would be done.
What happened to this host afterwords, he didn't care. As long as he got the job done.
Angle crept quickly closer to the gap in the mountains where he knew them to be located.
Once he'd rounded the mountain and stood at the entrence. In the distance he could see a scarlet red spot on the snow and a crowd of 9 wolves stood at the far end. One onconsious.
Adam's life would soon be over.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Aleu gasped.
Jumping to her paws she looked around her. She was in some sort of cave. Unable to make much more she squinted in the darkness. she could