Hunting grounds

Leonn Was worried for Seffi. She was only just a pup. " You might just stick to finding edible roots while i take on small animals. It's really too dangerous. I can show you which roots to find." She said walking towards seffi. " Just push the snow away and search for plants looking like small ferns, Their roots are really good. we will just have to wash them. Okay?" She really didn't want to put Seffi through any danger until she was grown even though it was not against the rules.

" I'm not sure" Leonn said after sniffing the mushroom. She licked it to make sure. It reminds her of a sort her father showed her that you can open and suck out a sweet juice but not eat the rest. She bites a piece off to look inside it and sure enough, there was thick white liquid coming out. "These are edible. Just remember that you can only eat the liquid inside and not the actual mushroom. We were lucky to find them as i was a pup. They are delicious." She said with a cheerful mood. But it also reminded her of her family and she was once again miserable.

Leonn becomes cheerful to se how much an almost total stranger cares about her and tries to cheer her up. She also goes to fetch mushrooms and place them in the hole. " We can't live on dessert mushrooms can we? Lets take some more and then we hunt beavers and ferrets down by the lake!" She wanted this pup to have those good memories on the lakes that she never really had. Her happy mood was once again back and she was ready to hunt.

After hearing that he only needed to hunt for himself, Shadow went off the the Hunting Grounds.

In the world of hunting, Shadow had one advantage against predators and prey, excluding speed. This advantage was that his natural camouflage was aided by his small size. In tall grasses during spring through fall, he was below the grass looking like dirt. When there was snow on the ground, Shadow was even harder to see.

As Shadow walked through the snow with his muzzle up to use as guidance, he came across a small deer. It was standing looking around, before eating some branches off of a smaller bush. It lifted its head once more to be surprise by a small, white fur ball leaping onto the dear's neck. After about two minutes of being swung around, Shadow finally was able to get a good grip on the dear's neck and killed it within one bite, puncturing both major blood veins and the esophagus. Around 15 seconds after the bite, the dear was on the ground dead. Now, Shadow let out a howl that stated that he would need help dragging his kill. Laying at the leg of the dear, Shadow did what he always did when he killed big prey; he began to eat the meat and flesh off of the leg below the knee.

Noting the new and different wolf near him, Shadow grabbed the bone of the section of leg that he had been gnawing on. He quickly hid behind the dead deer. After a few moments of the other wolf just sitting there, Shadow dropped his bone in the snow and peeked up over the deer. "Who..Who are you?" Shadow asked with his head now hanging low and nothing else of his tiny body showing. "Why are you..you here?"

Leonn heard the howl from the mushroom nest and ran there to se what happened. "Stay here and pick mushrooms quietly" She whispered to Seffi. She had come to the place where she heard it and smelled fresh flesh. She saw shadow and the new wolf staring intensively at each other, not even noticing her. " Well it seems as we have a new friend!" She said to shadow, trying to make the word friend clear to shadow. " And you! We don't eat off the animal directly after the kill! We need to take it home first and then there's an order in who eats when. And you." She said turning to the new one." What might your name be and what brought you to our acquaintance?" She asked with her head up high. 'If we continue increasing at this rate, we will soon need a bigger resting place.' She thought with a plan.

Shadow hearing Leonn speak, hid even farther back behind the deer. He nodded when she said the word friend and when she spoke of the eating order. Though he still held onto the bone that he had been chewing on. 'Got to remember that I am in a pack now.' Shadow thought. Back when he was a lone wolf, he would only kill anything bigger than a rabbit when he was going to stay for a while. Now, however, he had to obey by rules of eating. This was the only thing so far that he had had problems with so Shadow felt that this pack may be where he wants to stay. "Hello, I.. I am Sha.. Shadow." Said Shadow to the new wolf. She was the size of a normal wolf, thus Shadow was uncomfortable whether or not she was a friend.

Leonn was surprised to se the newcomer leave in such a hurry and coming back frightened. " If there's a hunter around, we need to get back home quickly. Shadow, you and Elliot take the deer back and i go fetch Seffi and we bring mushrooms." She looked at them to se if they understood and ran away towards where Seffi and the mushrooms were. " Seffi. There'll be no time for beaver hunting right now. There is a hunter on his way and we need to get all the mushrooms we can pick and go home." After that, she picked mouthful of mushrooms, careful not to bite in them and waited for Seffi to finish.

Hearing the words "hunter" and "take the deer back" Shadow knew what he had to do. By the time that Leonn was running off, Shadow began to push at the back of the deer. His small stature did not help him at all with moving larger animals. Shadow then tries to tug on the leg of the deer hoping that its massive body (compaired to Shadow) will budge from the forces of Shadow.

Leonn spit out all the mushrooms, took Seffi in her mouth instead when hearing someone shout that they found footprints. 'We can't waste time on this!' She ran as fast as she could trying to lose the hunter, running a labyrinth between the trees so that the hunter would be confused of all the different prints. When she was sure that it was enough, she ran straight past camp if he would still follow, went a bit into the woods and made a turn, walking calmly. She swept away the prints with her tail and managed to get back before she fainted right on the open ground where someone could see her. Before she blacked out, she whispered "Take us to the cave, don't let them se you."