CHAPTER 7

I awoke the next morning to find akio closer to me than he was last night, so I got up and went outside. "im sorry, tatsu. You were too nice to die." I sat at my friends grave, tears slowly falling. I looked at the others. Six wolves had died, tatsu, fuiaso, and four others I didn't know to well.

"Hey." I heard a voice behind me, I thought it would of been akio, but it was a differnt wolf. He was black, and had strange green eyes. "Are you, ok?" He asked sitting down next to me.

"Ya, I'm fine. I don't think I have seen you before, what's your name?" I asked looking at him, he seemed very nice and had a friendly gleam in his eyes. He had herbs on him for wounds he sustained last night.

"Oh! I'm pine. Your Lynn, right?" He replied. Then looked at the graves.

"Ya, may I ask a question?" i said.

He laughed "you kinda just did, but ask another." He said, then waited quietly.

"I guess I did." I laughed too. This wolf was nice, nicer than akio is. All akio does is tease me. "Have you seen three human girls anywhere in the park?" I asked, remembering Liz, Jona, and autumn. I hope they are ok.

"I think I heard them yesterday. They were yelling for someone, though I couldn't make out the name." He replied. Then stood up. "Would you like to go hunting with me, near the north border?" He asked.

"Uh, sure." I replied. isn't the north border where shi'a territory starts?. I though as we walked. "I think it's a beautifal day out, don't you?"

"Sure, though I prefer the full moon shining on my back." He replied good naturally. We arrived at the river that marked the border, I sniffed the air.

"Are we joining a hunting group?" I asked looking at pine. there are many wolf scents, but no prey scents. Huh? Why does he look sad?.

"Sorry about this, lynn." He said, then pinned me. "But my alpha wants whoever warned your pack prisoner and I know it's you." He said, before biting hard down on my side. The pain knocked me out. But before I lost consisnous, I hear him say " I really am sorry."

AKIO's pov

I woke to find that Lynn wasn't in tatsu's nest, so I walked out to find her. I wanted to say I was sorry for being so mean to her. I picked up her scent out side of camp.

I walked towards the graves, " she must be going to see tatsu's. " I said aloud. i stopped,I picked up a new scent, but couldn't place it. I kept walking. I saw her sitting infront of the graves. "Hey." I said, before a strong force hit my head. I saw a black wolf, with unusual green eyes. "Pine." I breathed. Shi's son. What was he doing here.

i tryed to move, but my world blurred then went black.

PINES POV

I had been given a mission by my father, to find the wolf that warned the pack of water of our ambush. I knew it had been the she wolf. I saw her run back to her camp. I heard someone call out Lynn and her come, so I tried adifferent approach to catching her.

I saw the alpha of the pack of water's son, akio, walking towards the she wolf. I followed, staying up wind then grabbed a branch and knocked him out, he had gotten her attention, so I used it to my advantage, I walked into the clearing and sat beside her. "I haven't seen you before, who are you?" she asked.

"Oh, I'm pine. Your Lynn right?" I said hastily. I couldn't let her find out who I was. So I talked to her, I found that I had things in common with her, and soon felt sorry for what I was going to do. But I had to, or suffer the consequences. "Want to go hunting?"

She had agreed, I took her to the border, she picked up my pack's scent, so I pinned her, why couldn't it had been another? I said I was sorry for what I was about to do, then bit down, hard, on her side. She gasped in pain, I wanted to stop, but I couldn't.

I bit harder, an. Blood squirted. She slowly lost conscious and then went limp. i licked the blood from my teeth. "Take her back to camp. Don't let her bleed out, or alpha will have your hide" I said, he wanted to torture her.

"Yes sir." The wolves replied, the dragged her back to camp, I was following behind. feeling sorry for what I did.