feel the same way he does for her?

Max growled irritated. No, I said! Ashlee's the one for me! He couldn't help it for some reason though. He wished he didn't believe it, but he had to face the truth. He didn't love Ashlee, it was someone else...

"Max, wake up!"

Max opened his eyes and saw Orlaith & Dewayne looking at him dead serious. He yawned. "What is it, guys?" he asked, stretching his legs out.

"No time for chit-chat," Dewayne growled. "We have to go now! I'll explain later." Dewayne & Orlaith turned around, and headed for the entrance of the den.

Max's ears pricked. He looked around the den also, and saw everything was empty and he was the only one inside. He knew something out there was dead serious, and he didn't come in time, something bad would happen.

He got up and ran after Orlaith & Dewayne. He saw that they were the only three together. "Why can't you just tell me while we're running!" Maxwell barked after them.

Before Dewayne could reply, there was a loud bang, and he collapsed in the snow.

"Dewayne!"

Dewayne winced with pain. He took a look at his leg, and saw it was bleeding. "Crap..." he thought out loud. He looked and saw men with long rifles, walking towards the three wolves. He began to pant with worry, and he looked at Orlaith & Max.

"Maxwell, Orlaith, run!" Dewayne cried.

"No!" Orlaith cried. "I'm not going to leave my friend to die!"

Dewayne growled. "Just go, Orlaith! I don't want them to hurt you!"

Orlaith growled. "When you get hurt, I get hurt, and that means that I love you, and I will never let anyone hurt you!"

Maxwell blinked in surprise at Orlaith & Dewayne. He never knew they were that close. He winced when he saw Dewayne's expression, which was shocked and surprised. He looked at Orlaith. "Don't worry, Orlaith," he said softly. "I'll carry him, you go now."

Orlaith nodded, and turned around, running off.

Max looked at Dewayne, and then got him onto his back, and began to run off. It took a while for them to get out of the forest. They jumped over logs, dodged other trees and shots from the hunters and their rifles, until they finally reached the end of the forest, and the humans decided to give up.

Max panted, and set Dewayne down. "Where are the others?" Maxwell asked.

"There behind the waterfall near here," Dewayne replied.

Maxwell replied and began to walk around the edge of the woods. He paused, his ears twitching, when he saw the waterfall Dewayne had been talking about. Maxwell walked up to the waterfall, and walked right past through it.

He shook his pelt and looked around, seeing he was in another den, with Blue Pack waiting for him. "Guys, what's going on?" Max asked, laying Dewayne down.

"Hunters invaded, and all of us ran, but we forgot about you so we sent Orlaith & Dewayne to fetch you," Dara growled softly.

Max nodded. He laid Dewayne down when he saw Ashlee rush over to him. Ashlee began to nuzzle and lick him all over. "Max, are you alright!" she asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm fine, Ashlee," Max smiled warmly, and nuzzled her back. He peeked over at Angela, who was watching them both. It was hard to read her expression though. It seemed like she didn't care, but he wondered why she'd just stare at them.

"How long will be staying here?" Amaya asked, she and the other wolves looked over to Brayden.

Brayden sat down and thought. "I'm not sure. We might stay here forever if the hunters won't leave us alone," Brayden sighed.

All of the wolves looked at each other with worry, and anger, and confusion, and other expressions, that didn't look happy at all, like maybe even sad.

"Then where are we going to hunt and get our food!" Julie asked, with panic in her tone.

Brayden sighed again. "Well, like it or not, no discussion, I guess we'll have to hunt fish for now. At least we won't have to walk such a long way since we live right beside the river..."

All the wolves didn't look too pleased, but they knew that they couldn't argue with the alpha, and knew if that's what they had to do to survive, it was what they had to do.

Brayden looked outside of the cave, making it a little blurry to see since the cave was behind the water, and saw it was getting dark. "It's getting late now. We should all get a good rest," Brayden suggested, walking over to a spot in the cave, and laying down and resting his head on his paws, quickly falling asleep. Everyone & Maxwell did the same.

Maxwell was thinking about the cave. He wasn't use to a new home, but he knew it was for the best, and he would do the same as Brayden. He sighed. This is going to be a long night...

'But, Brayden -'

'No buts! You have broken my daughter's heart, and you will be banished from this pack!'

Max looked around in shock and fright, seeing his own pack surround him and growl and bark at him. Max growled at them and began to bark back, trying to defend himself.

One wolf, Dara, attacked his back while Lynnette, the other wolf,
attacked him by the throat. Max shook them off, but all of the
other wolves began to attack.

Max shrieked with pain, panicing as he could smell blood, and could feel his legs and back being torn open. His world began to go black.

Maxwell woke up with a start, panting. He looked around, and saw that he was still in his own cave. Max felt like crying, because of his nightmare, but he didn't want to wake anyone up. He looked at all of the other wolves sleeping, and noticed that one wolf was missing.

Angela!

Maxwell jumped to his feet quickly, and rushed out of the den. He stopped when he saw a lonely wolf figure hitting and splashing her paw into the water. Max walked closer to her.

"Angela...?" Max asked in a quiet tone. He froze when her ice blue eyes stared at him, with no emotion.

"What do you want, Max?" Angela sighed.

"I... I just wanted to see what you were doing. I had a nightmare, and I couldn't go back to sleep," Max replied.

"Oh," Angela muttered. "Well, I'm just thinking about stuff, and staring at the lights in the sky."

Maxwell's ears pricked. What lights in the sky? he thought. He looked up, and saw the aurora boealis in the pitch black night. "Whoa..." he said quietly, half talking to himself. He padded up and sat down beside Angela. "I never noticed."

Angela smiled warmly. "Yeah... it's beautiful, isn't it?"

Max stared over at Angela. "Yeah... beautiful..."

Angela looked over to Max and saw him staring at her. "Uh... Max?" she asked. "What are you staring at?"

Max's eyes went huge, and he shook his head. "Oh, sorry, I didn't mean-"

"It's alright," Angela interrupted, putting on a sweet look. "I don't mind at all..." Angela leaned over and licked Max's cheek.

Max shivered both with excitement, and fright. Half of his mind was telling him to don't do it, and the other half was saying that it was alright, and it wouldn't do harm. Max was confused and unsure what to do. It felt so wrong, yet it felt so right.

But he couldn't stand looking into Angela's beautiful eyes and telling her off. He began to nuzzle her, and she nuzzled him back. Angela looked into Max's eyes, and Max looked into her eyes.

Angela stood up and began to run off, not into the den, but into part of the woods.

Max smiled, and chased after her.

Max slowly opened his eyes, seeing it was morning. His ears pricked and he sat straight up, seeing that he wasn't in the den. He looked beside him, and saw Angela sleeping right next to him.

Maxwell gasped loudly. "Oh no!" he yelped. He looked towards some bushes, and saw Dewayne & Dara come out. They both gasped as they saw the scene.

"Max! Angela! What the hell are you doing!" Dara growled.

Max gulped and shivered, Angela woke up, and gasped, seeing Dara & Dewayne. They both knew that they were in deep trouble.

Chapter Five

Max had his tail tucked in between his legs and his ears lowered, as he walked through the pack with Angela, Dara, & Dewayne, while the other wolves in the pack glared and sneered at them.

Max looked up, and his fur raised on end, when he saw Brayden waiting for them, and he didn't look too pleased.

"Max!" Brayden snapped, running him to him and smaking him across the face, making him cry out in pain. "What were you thinking! Cheating on my daughter like that!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," Max whimpered.

"Nonsence!" Brayden snapped. "At first I thought you were loyal, but now I find that you are a piece of crap! A little bug that's waiting to be squished on the wall! You and Angela are banished from this pack!"

Max growled, not frightened anymore, and instead, angered. "Fine!" Max snapped. "I don't need this stupid pack! I guess you've got enough members now." Max snorted, and walked away. "Come on, Angela, let's go!" he called for her.

Angela glared at Brayden, and turned around, following Max, and ignoring all of the pack member's stares.

Once they were out of pack territory, and out in the open, they both stopped. Angela looked over at Maxwell. "So, where are we going to go now?"she asked.

Max sighed. "I'm not too sure..." He looked up at the sky and saw it began to darken quickly when it was still only morning. A snowflake fell from the ominous clouds, and landed on Max's nose, making him sneeze. Then thousands of more flakes began to fall.

Max looked over at Angela. "There's going to be a storm tonight though, so I think we should find shelter as soon as possible." Max looked forward, and began to lead the