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Hunter snarled and leaped away when the bear roared and tried swiping him with its massive claws. Aylen silently slipped behind the bear and bit it's heel, tearing a peice of the Bear's flesh off. The bear let out a roar of agony and rage as it quickly turned around to try and attack its smaller opponent. When the bear turned it's back on him, Hunter jumped forward, sinking his teeth into the bear's hind leg and then jumped away with a chunk of bear fur and flesh. Aylen let out a howl of victory as the bear let out a roar and half-ran, half-limped away from the two wolves.

Hunter looked at the black she-wolf and snorted. Aylen licked her chops which were still covored in the bear's blood. "Bear learned not to mess with us." She growled out. Her brother simply stood up and started walking in the opposite direction, away from the bear. Aylen looked at her brother and walked after him until they were walking side by side. "We should get out of here before some other.... hunters see us." Hunter spoke quietly but firmly. His ears flicked backwards listening for any sounds of someone or something following them. Aylen growled uneasily and lowered her head as she launched herself forward, leaping through the snow, and shortly afterwards she was followed by her brother. They ran like that a few hours, stopping when they came to a stream.

Hunter could see his breath in the cold weather but focused entirely on the ground. There was blood. A blood trail in Aylen's paw tracks. He growled and took in a deep breath. His sister smelled slightly of blood from the bear but if you dug deeper you could smell her own blood, under the bear's blood scent. "Where are you hurt?" He growled out.

Aylen looked up when she her brother. She was hurting but she was ignoring it ever since they left the bear far behind. "They bear caught me it's claws when you bit it's back leg. It's only a scratch." She whispered out and turned to the right. Hunter snarled when he saw the wound on her left hindleg. It was about five inchs long and it was deeper then it should be. "I was a fool. You smelt of the bear's blood. I was too blind to see your wound and or smell your own blood. You should have told me!" He snarled out. He was angry his sister didn't tell him, and that she hid it better then he ever could, but he was really worried. He lost one sister and he didn't want to lose another.

"Hunter, I'll be fine. Been worse, before. Didn't you say we had to go farther?" Aylen asked as she started licking her wound. "We should be, but now that your hurt we won't be going any further." Hunter turned as he spoke and started smelling the ground, and walked past a couple of trees. He stopped when he saw a bush big enough to hide a full grown wolf. "Here. You will hide her until I come back with some prey." He didn't give Aylen anytime to argue with him, because he turned, leaping away through the snow.

Aylen growled and glared after her brother. She looked at the bush and slowly made her way toward it. When she was close enough to push herself into, hiding herself within the bush.

Carefully placing one paw in front of the other, Nova slowly made his way along the bank of the stream. The air was crisp for the summertime, much colder than it would have been back where he came from, but his fur effectively took of the edge of the chill. He wondered if autumn would come soon, and if, where he would settle down for the winter. He didn't like trudging through the snow every day, it would be much easier just to wait out the season in one spot.

His ears twitched slightly as a distant sound snapped him out of his thoughts, but after a moment without hearing it repeat, he dismissed it. Probably just some territorial howl from some arrogant wolf nearby. He had been journeying along the stream bank for a while now, and his earlier meal was beginning to fade. That was probably one of the toughest realizations that occurred to him in the months after leaving his pack, that he would have to feed himself. Of course, it wouldn't be that bad if he was proficient at all at tracking, but he lacked any such skill, and it was often by luck that he stumbled upon any suitable prey.

His nose suddenly picked up a familiar smell. Blood. And somewhat fresh. It was somewhat faint because the scent was being water downed by the moisture of the river, but it was indeed there. He marveled at his luck. A wounded prey just on the other side of the river, he judged. Nova looked for a suitable place to ford the river, and after finding it, crossed without hesitation. Didn't want whatever was there to move on. Already anticipating the meal that he was about to discover, Nova trotted along, nose in the air. One might figure that it would have been awfully easy for him to waltz right over to the source, but the scent wasn't strong, and the moisture in the air didn't help at all. Not to mention that the wind was dead calm, preventing the smell from being blown into his face.

Tracking never was fun.

Kiba yawned and panted from the mile run. She felt good today, She fixed her eyes on the horizen, the sun was meerley seeting, perfect time for moose to rest their heads, and the wolves to awaken. Kiba ran off towards the sunset, she emerged to a place where the elk gather every 5 years, for breeding. Kiba looked at the first stars in the pinkish night sky. Her green eyes were about to glow at the night sky, at this moment, it felt like all worries in her life had washed away, and her life was perfect right here at this moment. She turned to the stars and she rolled on her back, she was rolled in the grass, giving her a strong scent. Kiba was on her side looking deeply at the sun. She looked lifeless. She shut her eyes, like it was all a dream.

Aylen opened her eyes when she heard something outside the bush. The silver specks in her black eyes glittered as the sunlight reflected off of them. She lifted her black muzzle to see a average sized grayish looking male wolf wandering around beside the bush. Aylen knew it was best to ambush the wolf before it found out she was wounded. She slowly and silently moved into a crouch and locked her eyes on the strange wolf. After a few minutes of observing the stranger she launched herself at the brute.

Aylen felt a burst of pain in her left hind leg but she ignored it as she continued her attack. She used her size and weight to push the wolf over and roll him onto his back. She bared her white pointed teeth down at the stranger. "Who are you and what do you want? If you lie I'll snap your neck!" She snarled.

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Hunter bolted out of his hiding place and after a newborn elk, that was barely learning out to stand. It was weaker then it should have been and was born at the wrong time of the year, but was that was the way of nature. Take the weak and live the healthy ones that will make more prey for the wolves. But before he could get close enough to he tripped over something that he didn't see before in the snow. He snarled and jumped to his paws and turned on the thing he tripped on. He blinked. It was a white she-wolf and instead of attacking her, he snarled, "Watch it!!"

Then Hunter turned and bolted after the now running away herd of elk, but the newborn elk and it's mother were still there. He stalked around the mother, watching her every move, waiting for an opening to attack the newborn elk. Then he saw it. The mother elk was slow to get in between him and the baby but he was fast when he darted toward the elk and bit into the back of it's neck. He jerked it backwards and felt the tension in the baby elk's muscles go limp. He lifted his head with baby elk in his jaws and slowly dragged it toward Aylen's hiding place.

Kiba jumped and instinctively bared her white teeth and her black claws shot out. She saw the wolf drag the calf. Kiba ranned over to him, with her tail up and her green eyes staring deeply into his eyes, "What are you doing here!? This is my territory!" She bared her teeth, then looked at a bull elk running towards the wolf. Kiba ran to it, tried to jump up and snatch it's neck, But the elk reared up and slammed Kiba towards the ground. Kiba's head was bloody, and she was unconscious for a short amount of time though. She smelled the blood on the ground, she didn't feel like standing up, but she had to. Kiba strained all her energy and tried her best to stand. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She walked away to a hidden area, whilst holding in the pain of a deep head wound.

Completely taken by surprise from the sudden attack, Nova was thrown off balance as the ambushing wolf through him to the ground. From this position, she obviously had the advantage at this point, for he was off his feet and she was on hers. He started to figure she was here to claim whatever prey was injured around this brook, when he noted the wound on her leg as he was assessing her.

Surprisingly cool headed for the situation, Nova responded simply "I was simply here to grab an easy meal, however I had no idea the prey I was looking for had such teeth and temper." He used that moment to roll himself to his feet in one quick motion, placing himself a couple meters from her. He waited for a hint of malicious movement, at which he would make his move to defend himself if needed.

Hunter dropped his prey and growled at the small she-wolf. He was bigger then her and probably had the advantage in a fight with her. He bared his own teeth at the white wolf, but before he could say anything he saw the bull elk coming but he had no fear of it. All of a sudden the she-wolf darted toward the bull and Hunter watched as the white wolf get injured and walk away. He looked back down at the dead baby elk at his paws and growled as he picked it back up in his jaws and started pulling it back toward his sister's hiding place. When he was half way there he decided that he was being rude, and hid the dead elk in a bush and walked back to where the white wolf ran to. It wasn't easy tracking her but he did it, as usual.

He growled and sat down watching the she-wolf from a distance. "Hmm. Seems to me that your lost, and not me. My qustion is why are YOU here?" Hunter asked in a warning growl, that sounded smug and confident. He wasn't afraid of the she-wolf, mostly because she was wounded and was probably having a hard time staying alive.

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"I was simply here to grab an easy meal, however I had no idea the prey I was looking for had such teeth and temper." Aylen let out a warning growl and limped backwards when the stranger got up and moved away. She layed her ears flat against her skull with her tail held high. "Don't mock me, scavenger." She spoke angrily. When he told her he was looking for an easy meal that sickened her a bit. He didn't really seem like a hunter but a scavenger and among most wolves being called a scavenger was an insult.

Aylen wasn't going to let her gaurd down in front of some wolf. Then all of a sudden she smelt it. Blood. Elk. Hunter. She growled at the wolf and started limping toward the smell. it wasn't long before she found the baby elk Hunter had killed. She knew Hunter had killed because it had his scent on it. Aylen threw herself at the food and started digging into it.

Watching the stranger carefully, Nova could not help but to smirk at the intended insult. What was heathen about survival? If he could expend less energy killing something that was already injured, wouldn't he do that if spending the whole day hunting yielded the exact same reward? Some wolves simply had too much arrogance to realize that a meal was a meal, and it didn't matter too much where it came from. In the end, he would be the survivor.

Surprised at her sudden movement, Nova stood at the ready for the expected attack, when he realized that she was backing down. Satisfied, he watched her for some time and was about to turn away when he saw her lay down and start eating something on the ground. Circling her, he saw that it was a baby elk, obviously dead for some time now. Nova couldn't help note the irony of this wolf and let out a small chuckle. "For one so eager to call others 'scavengers', you don't seem to care about eating a carcass you found in the middle of nowhere." he commented, and turned to see the small signs of how it got there. The grass bending back into shape, the broken twigs, and the displaced leaves on the ground showed the trail where the elk was dragged along. Maybe there was more food at the other end.

He didn't care to try and force the elk from the injured she wolf, for one it wasn't a very wise move as he didn't really want to be shown fighting over the carcass when it's supposed owner returned. Besides, he wasn't hungry, he had been planning the cache the food until later, for like most animals, he only ate when he was hungry, not for enjoyment.

Starting down the trail, he turned his back on the hypocritical wolf to show his lack of fear for her, and started down the trail.

Kiba didn't look back. She knew she was a very easy target, so she kept on walking. The blood was leaving a trail, she didnt care. She suddenly fell to the ground and yelped loudly, while pawing at her injury. She rubbed some water from the puddle onto the wound. Kiba howled of pain as she layed there. She needed to rest, but the bad thing was, she was in the middle no where, vulnerable to be eaten.

Hunter watched the white she-wolf walk away, ignoring him. "Suit yourself." He growled out and walked away, but stopped in his tracks when he heard the stranger fall and howl out in pain. He sighed and looked up at the sky and growled. "Heavens, Why me of all the wolves here?" He turned back and walked back to the she-wolf. He wasn't going to help her but give her advice. "If your wise enough you'd follow my scent trail back to... my sister."

Hunter bounded away from the strange she-wolf and off to find his sister and the baby elk carcass he left for her. When he got to where he left the hidden food, he found his sister already munching out on it, but there was something wrong with the picture. She didn't smell like her normal smell. Another wolf was here. He started sniffing the air around the carcass and his sister who was focused on eating. "Who else was here?"

Aylen looked up with a blood stained muzzle. "A stranger. Brute. I won. Do I have to mention anything else now?" She growled out as she started swallowing a chunk of steamy meat. Hunter checked on his sister's wound and let out a small whimpered which turned into a concerned growl. "Are you okay? If only... Lyra was here. She would know what herbs to use it make you better." Before he left Aylen reply he pounced on the food and started swallowing chunks Aylen couldn't swallow whole.

Kiba closed her eyes and sighed, She had nothing else to be so she went along, she forced her body up and raised her nose to find tge scent. It wasn't long before she found the scent. She stuck her nose to the ground, and then found a female wolf, and the same wolf that told her advice. She was in sight, but kept her distence. She sat down in place, trying her best to not look like a threat.

Eventually, the trail that Nova had been following disappeared altogether, but when he looked about, he saw no signs of elk that he had hoped to see. "Blast" he muttered under his breath. He wasn't in the mood to try and see which way they had scattered to, for they had a good enough head start that it wouldn't be prudent to try and stalk them. Taking stock of his situation, he looked about, taking a precautionary sniff of the air. The forest looked no different than any other plot of forest he had yet to be in, but his nose told him something else was about. The irony scent of blood hung low to the ground, and when he looked for a source, he spotted an uneven trail of blots of red upon the forest floor. Considering it to be another chance at good fortune, Nova began to follow what he supposed to be an injured prey, though with a deliberate amount more of caution this time around.

As he followed, he heard a sharp yelp pierce the air, and recognized it as wolfish. Perhaps it was a wolf in trouble taking down the said prey he was tracking. Maybe he could jump in to help and share the reward, or simply overpower the predator to take it all for himself. Either way, he padded quietly and quickly through the under growth, until he came to what had been the source. It was a small clearing with a puddle in the middle that had a fair amount of blood. The scent was definitely wolfish, and more likely a couple. And fresh. Had he stumbled upon a pack? He had been planning on resting out the season in the area, and didn't want to have a bunch of brutish neighbors. Perhaps he should investigate.

He followed the path of the two wolves carefully, stealthily. That was one advantage of a smaller frame, no bulk to carry tromping around in the forest. It was strange, he could have sworn he was going in a circle, until at last he realized, he was. From a secluded vantage point downwind, he noted three wolves, and of course, he recognized one of them from before. Intrigued at the small group, he watched.

Kiba's head popped up as she caught the scent of a fourth wolf. She followed the scent and found the male wolf and snarled. Her tail was up and her eyes her fixed deeply into his eyes. She didn't say anything, hoping her body language is saying it all.

The language of the approached wolf was easy to read, Nova only wondered how he was discovered so easily. Maybe he should go jump in the river to wash of his scent. "Easy, I was just passing through...besides in your condition do you think you can really back up such threats" he said in response to her growl, adopting a smirk that played across his lips. All of these arrogant northern wolves were fun to play off of, nothing like his pack down south.

Kiba looked at him akwardly, "You reek." She commented. Kiba hardly talked, because she's usually shy. "If these other wolves see you, they'll tear you up, your scent is pretty strong." Kiba looked at the tree. "My advice would be to either rub against that tree or jump in the lake." Her emerald eyes fixed on him. "Just saying."

Shaking off the remark and swallowing an instinctual growl, Nova replied after a brief pause. "Ah so she speaks at last. So hard to understand all your growls and glares! Tell me, my dear, how a small pack like yours survives out here. Surely you can't defend yourself with such small numbers." Nova commented, fishing for a response to find out if this group was related. He glanced over her shoulder at the two other wolves, and back at her. With two out of three of them injured, the times around here must be tough. Maybe this wasn't the place to wait out the season.

"No, no, no, we aren't a pack, i was just injured. I'm a lone wolf, sir, and i tend to have great defence, when i'm focused though." She folded down one ear covering the wound, so she looked like a cute puppy. "Every wolf gets their bad days." Kiba nodded a goodbye and returned to her seat and layed down.

Hunter looked up when he heard a strange sound. His black eyes landed on the white she-wolf that was wounded, but there was a stranger with her. A brute. He looked down at his sister Aylen and realized she hadn't saw or heard them but instead of going back to his meal, he sat back, keeping an eye on the two strangers.Intresting... Even though Aylen's not going to like them... He thoughts silently and nodded his head slowly at the thought of seeing Aylen's reaction to them. It had been months since they had been among there own kind. Since Aylen was hurt he couldn't take any chances. They had to at least make a small pack until his sister gets betten then they could leave.

Aylen was chewing on a bone when she saw Hunter's gaze on something in the distant. She looked over and her hackles raised up as she got to her paws with her tail lifted and her left hind leg on the ground. She felt the pain but it didn't mean anything to her, but finding out why Hunter wasn't doing anything. "Other wolves." She spoke flatly to her brother. "I know." Hunter replied. Aylen glared at the brute she called brother. "Well? Aren't we going to drive them off?" She asked. "No. I've been thinking. We won't get anywhere with you being injured. We need help. A pack."

Aylen's glare turned into a stare of astonishment. "Who are you and what have you done with my brother?" She knew Hunter and this was odd. He never wanted to join or make a pack of his own, but now... He's Changing. Hah! My own brother the one who hated packs wants make one... Aylen thought angrily, as she turned and started walking away, with a slight limp. Hunter turned and watched his sister stalk angrily away. He stayed where he was and sighed.

Aylen tensed her muscles and jumped over the small stream, but instead of landing on her paws, she stumbled and fell into the snow. She whimpered when a burst of pain shot up her left hindleg. She looked at her leg and saw that it was bleeding now, but it was worse then before. Aylen was angry and sad, but looked up at the sky and saw a cloud the shape of wolf legs spread out as if it was running. "Oh Lyra. You shouldn't have left us so early."

Kiba saw the she - wolf and walked over too her. "Ouch, thats gotta hurt." She looked up at the trees. "If you let me, i could help, i can't cure it but i can stop the pain." Kiba ran up to a pine tree and jumped up and got a branch (The tree was low) several pinecones fell down. She smushed two with her paws then found some grown grass and combined it along the pinecones, She looked around and saw leaves from a rare tree. She too got that and combined with the mixture. "Here, if you eat this the pain will quit. Let me try to find a blue flower with red thorns" And it didn't take long before she found it. Kiba took it to the injured wolf. "Again if you allow me then it could reduce the bleeding." Kiba ate some of the pinecones herself, and rubbed a blue petal onto her head wound.

"Just be careful not to let those bad days turn into last days" Nova responded as he watched her trot a short distance off, and took in a breath of crisp air. There was nothing unusual for the time of day, except of course for the wolves that were hanging about. So they weren't a pack, but no one seems too keen on attacking at the moment. Nova accepted the air of neutrality, and decided to go quench his dry pallet with at the brook.

Heading through the trees toward the sound, Nova came upon the cool stream. Taking a few quick gulps from the surprisingly sweet water, he noted the tracks of the earlier she wolf and her body on the other side, laying upon the ground. Her injury must be getting to the best of her, he knew several wolves who lived in sorrow after getting hurt, as their prideful minds cannot deal with their useless bodies. He watched as the other wolf journeyed over to give help, a generous act, and watched to see the outcome, mindful that the forth wolf might be lurking about.

Aylen snapped her teeth at the white she-wolf. "I don't need it! I can take care of myself!" She gritted her teeth and stood up, and limped away from the stranger white wolf. She was in pain, and she deserved it. The black fur around her fur was starting to get matted, but she didn't care. Aylen limped away until she found a burnt tree that was still standing. She walked up to it and sniffed the tree bark and decided she would stay there. Slowly she lowered herself to the ground and curled up with her back against the tree.

Hunter watched the scene from the kill sight. His gaze went to the white she-wolf and the strange grey brute. He walked over to the stream and let out a small growl. "You can take what you need from the kill, if you agree that we... could start a pack." He spoke to the Grey wolf and white she-wolf. "If your tryinging to help, she won't accept. Aylen's doesn't like help." He said those lost words to the she-wolf and sat down looking at his reflection in the water.

"A pack.... mmmm i gotta think about it." Kiba said to the male wolf. "Not with that brute of a wolf." She thought while looking at the she wolf who refused the medication. "i think not. I need to learn how to defend myself, besides i want to make my own pack, so i don't want to intrude yours. By the way, the name is Kiba." Kiba ran into the water to cool off. "Thanks for the offer." Kiba said as she started to trot off.

It was surprising the things that one could learn just from observing. From the conversation, Nova learned that while there is a mutual want to start a pack between the two wolves, Kiba and the male, both of them wanted to be the leader. He also learned that the other she wolf was rather aggressive to any one who didn't seem to be her...brother? He figured they were related in that way. Must be dealing with some sort of demons on the inside.

Making a pack would not be such a bad idea, Nova mused. It would be nice to, at least for a few seasons, to enjoy the security and companionship that came with it. Plus he didn't have to track all his food himself. "I may be willing to concur to starting a pack, although I would like to know why half of the wolves here are injured, is there some abnormal danger in this area I'm not aware of?" Nova asked, directed at the male. "I am Nova, son of Arid by the way." he added, seeing that Kiba had introduced herself.

Hunter looked at the white she-wolf at a side glance. "Who said I wanted to lead." Then He turned his head to look at Nova. "I may be willing to concur to starting a pack, although I would like to know why half of the wolves here are injured, is there some abnormal danger in this area I'm not aware of?" Nova asked. Hunter snorted. "She got hurt by a elk and my sister just got hurt when we ran into a bear. Far from here."

Aylen watched her brother talk to the brute called Nova and the white she-wolf known as Kiba. She lifted her head when she heard the name. An ache inside her chest started and she let out another sad whimper. She knew another Kiba, someone important. She sat up and watched the strangers and sighed. "Fine." She spoke softly, barely above a whisper.