The Journey

[Sparkles]

The autumn is almost through, the winter has arrived earlier this year, which means the pack will be moving to their winter den sooner then expected. To get there will be the hardest journey they will ever face, with the spring's pups still so young and inexperienced in journeys beyond the ave they were born in.
The alpha of winter failed to keep the pups safe and over half of them died, along with some of the older wolves. He fought for his position, but it was taken by a younger male; Zain.

The snow has just began to fall.

[Sparkles]

Zain lifted his head in a groggy fashion to the quiet yapping that had woken him up. Upon opening his eyes, he found two of the year old pups playing in front of him. He let his head flop back onto his paws for a few minutes while he contemplated if it was supposed to be a disrespectful action to wake up the alpha in these early lights. Closing his eyes and deciding he didn't care, he was instantly swatted on the nose by the young female pup. He opened one eye and peered across to where she'd jumped back. Knowing he had to get up sometime, unlike when he lived alone and could sleep through the day when he liked, he pushed himself up on his haunches and lowered his head the the little pup's level. "What do you want?" he whispered to her, not wanting to wake up the elder wolves.
"Need to go outside" the pup whimpered a little.
It took a moment for Zain to understand and comprehend but he soon realised what she wanted and picked her up by the scruff of the neck before jumping off his elevated sleeping place onto the moist rock below and walked outside.
He placed her down and nudged her gently, thinking to himself that this was the mother of the up's job... but then remembering that even the pups knew that no wolf was allowed to leave the den until the alpha had checked everything was safe...

[dragora]

Bay unfortunatly was very hot headed, he always figured he could take care of himself and tried to prove that, often failing, he'd tried hunting the other day and the best thing he'd caught was an already half dead rabbit. He was very mad the other day, he'd snapped at the other puppys the other day, he was small for his age, his fur thick but his muscles not as developed as most, struggling to keep up was sometimes an issue, but he nevere whined about it. He rarely talked to many.

He was already outside, he was making dirt before the alpha had woken, well he wans't going to wait, he needed to go so he was going to go he wasn't far from the den anyway. He finished and stood yawning, he smelt zain and dicided to try and stay out of his way, knowing he wouldn't get along with him. He tried to creep past and back into the den.

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

Vaila heard the sound of a wolf leaving the den and opened an eye to see Zain leaving the Den, a pup held in his mouth, by the scruff. She stood, stretched and gave a long, sleepy yawn. She walked out of the dark to the mouth of the cave, shaking the dust from her thick pelt.

She could feel the chill of the morning air on her black and white fur, and the scents of trees and flowers filled the air around the den. It was fairly early, but some of the year-olds were already awake. as her and the Alpha were.

Among the year-olds was Bay, a ruffian among pups. His persistent nature often got him into trouble and that was easy to tell by the scars that marked him from head to toe. She nodded a quick greeting to him and looked again at the Alpha.
"is it safe out, Alpha?" she said, dipping her head in respect, though she would rather not to Zain.

[dragora]

bay snorted a quick greeting and walked back into the den, dodging other sleeping wolves, if they woke and were gumpy, he didn't care why should he, they were loud enough when he tried to sleep! He could take care of himself, even if he was small. Compared to the size of vaila and zain he was tiny easily beaten, but that never stopped him trying. One day he'd get himself killed with how persistent he was.

He sat down in a corner away from many wolves, one or two older wolves were by him and he just sat and watched them, not breaking a smile.

[Sparkles]

Zain nodded to Vaila, "Yeah, it's fine" he was not used to talking to wolves without an undertone of edge, but he was slowly growing accustomed to their need of a 'pack' system.

As others began to wake with the small commotion, Zain went to conduct a proper inspection of the area. He walked to a river not far from the cave, where barely a month ago the pups had taken their first drink of water, that was now beginning to freeze over. He hated to tell the pack, but they would have t leave today, or be left with no water at all. 'The mothers are going to despise me for moving out their pups so early' he winced at the thought of all those glares as he continued to pad along the path he had the previous day, that had since been covered with fresh snowflakes.
Sniffing the air above him, he caught the scent of the pack's breakfast. He uttered a quiet noise in the direction of the cave, wanting the attention of a hunting partner.

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

Vaila heard the Alphas call and snorted to herself...'a hunt?' she despised the idea of hunting with this new-comer alpha, but she always loved the thrill of the hunt.

She crept up next to the alpha "where is it?" she asked quietly, sniffing the sir and catching the scent of the roaming prey. She crouched lower to ground and flicked back her ears, baring her teeth...rady to make the kill when the order was given.

[dragora]

bay heard the call 'a hunt? i can hunt!' and he was off. He was following vaila and came to stop beside her as they stopped by the leader, He stood there a year old pup wanting to go out and hunt acting unafraid of anything! but of course he was.