Please take a moment to read this: There exist three packs of wolves that live in close quarters. Set in the future 300 years from now during an Ice Age, wolves are suposedly extinct. Hiding themselves as humans, the wolves try to survive. The three packs are helped to survive by a few humans and hide their camps as human middle schools. Wester Pack, led by Spencer. Coble Pack, lead by Paul. And Howard Pack, led by Melanie. Melanie grew up in Coble pack who was led by Lee Jofree at the time. Jofree tried to take over all the packs and to kill all the humans. He gave himself the ability to turn into a bear and was stopped by Melanie. She soon stopped his mate, Linda, afterward. She was then transferred to Howard Pack, who was led by no wolf then. Her and a certain group of her friends were chosen to lead Howard as...

The Guard.

The brown wolf trotted through the snow, with a tall, thick-furred white wolf beside her. The brown wolf was short with large, grey paws and a thick tail with grey stripes. Her muzzle was black and grey and she had a white oval on her forhead. Her ears were long and black-tipped. Her big blue eyes glowed compared to the white wolf's green eyes. The white wolf was strong. That was easy to see with her thick fur covering her stocky muscles. Her paws were slender and her ears were average, while she had two pale gold stripes on her croup.

"Melanie," the white wolf sighed,"For the last time, you can't just dash blindly after a rabbit. It's way too fast!" Melanie rolled her eyes,"I could've so caught it. But, no! You had to stop me!"

"You would've gone straight into Wester's side of the border!" the white wolf groaned. Melanie rolled her eyes again,"Sarah those stupid flea-brains wouldn't dare touch me! Everyone knows-!" "Yeah, everyone knows what you did to Jofree. Sheesh! Just shut-up with it," Sarah muttered, "Remember you couldn't have done it without Paul."

Melanie grew quiet, thinking of her former mate,"C'mon... we'd better get to class..." she muttered, going ahead with her head and ears low. Sarah sighed and stopped, watching her sister go ahead, "You'll get it one day little sis..." she murmered before following.

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Melanie pulled on her human cover; A short, pale girl about of the age of fourteen with long brown hair and blue eyes. She walked into the room. In it were only a few of the wolves; there was still time before they all had to be inside. So far there was only a short girl with light gold hair and pale green eyes, Sophie, and a boy with glasses and black hair with dark brown eyes, Jacob. There in the far corner were three boys. One, tall with short and extremely pale hair and dark green-blue eyes. Another was shorter, with brown eyes and shaggy black hair. The tallest had black eyes and short brown hair.

Colton, Matt and Jalin... She though and sighed inwardly. Colton she could bear. The other two were total show-offs. She walked over to where her friend, Annie, a tall girl with dark skin and black hair and eyes, had joined Jacob and Sophie,"Hey guys!" Melanie smiled. Annie grinned,"Were you outside? You've got snow all in your hair..." Melanie shrugged, "Yeah. It just started snowing. It's pretty dang cold out there."

By now a few others had entered the classroom. "No, really?" Jacod asked sarcasticly,"I never knew!" Sophie added with a gasp. Melanie rolled eyes, "Shut-it you guys!" The bell rang then, and Melanie quickly sat in her seat by Annie, behind Sophie and Oscar, a small, tan boy with brown hair and light brown eyes. Behind the two girls were Jacob and Scott, a tall boy with dark brown hair and black eyes. Beside them were jalin and Colton. Ms. Myu walked in,"Okay class! Today we are oing to talk about fighting stratagies."

Melanie grinned to herself. She knew what was coming. "So, as you all know, each pack has their own strengths and weakneses. Let's say... Coble Pack," Melanie felt Colton's and Matt's gaze on her, "What about them? What is a certain strength of theirs?"

Nearly everyone had flashed Melanie a look. She groaned inwardly and sighed, raising her hand slightly. Ms. Myu nodded to her," Melanie." Melanie gulped, "Well, Coble wolves are very fierce. They never back down from a fight, no matter what. A single wolf wouldn't back down if a whole pack challenge them, say."

Ms. Myu nodded, "So...?"

"They fight to the death. That makes them very hard to beat, but it also makes them prone to cockyness. They all have too much pride for their own good," Melanie finished. Jacob and Scott looked away; they had been from Coble as well as Melanie.

Ms. Myu nodded again,"Right. Now, anyone know about wester?" Everyone was silent, including Melanie. Wester Pack was notorius for intruding on Howard's territory. Ms. Myu sighed, "Anyone...? Jalin! What about you?" Jalin jumped,"Uh...! Um... well, Wester is really full of themselves.... and they can't fight for awhile. They're pretty fast too." Sophie nodded,"But, they're attacks aren't very strong."

"So if you can get rid of them quickly..." Melanie mused, "Then they're not very dificult." "Right Melanie," Ms. Myu said, "Now! If you look at the paper I am passing out," she said, passing a few papers around, "You will see a list of different moves..."

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The brown she-wolf lay in the top bunk of the bunk bed, head on her paws, "Man it's late," she yawned, looking at the clock; It read 11:42 PM. Annie nodded,"Yeah. And it's still snowing too!" "No way!" Melonie smiled. The ground would be covered by the morning. That meant a free day! "Yeah," Annie nodded, when a howl split the air.

In an instant all the girls were up, looking alarmed. Hannah, Sophie, Nubia, Annie, Melanie, Maddie, Carly, and Octavion and Kaitlin glanced at eachother, worried. "Who was that?" Kaitlin murmered, "I think it was one of the guys..." Octavion answered, her voice layered with her thick accent. Melanie felt ice in her blood. She knew most of everyone's howls by heart, "It was Colton," she barked softly. "He's fine..." Maddie murmered, thinking of her brother, "But why would he howl like that? shouldn't he be in the guy's bunk room?"

Almost instantly another howl was heard, this one more high-pitched. Hannah looked toward the window, "That was matt right...?" Carly nodded," Y-yeah... he sounded scared...." Melanie stood and opened the door, cold wind blowing in. Jalin rushed from the trees just then,"Matt...! Colton...! Fight, Wester...! Colton, hurt...!" The brown-and-white wolf panted. Blood flowed from a gash on his side. Melanie gasped,"Ocatvion! Kaitlin! Maddie! Let's go!"

The brown wolf sped off toward the dark forest, the three She-wolves hard on her heels. Jalin was a bit behind; his side was slowing him down. Melanie pushed forward, her bushy tail streaming behind her, and thrust herself into the open, ramming into a black wolf,"Roooow!" it howled, and ran over the border, tail between it's legs.

Melanie snapped at another wolf's ear while Kaitlin and Maddie slashed at a she-wolf's side.

Octavion let out a snarl and lept out beside kaitlin, Maddie, and Melanie,"Leave!" Melanie growled and glared at the Wester wolves, whom had all frozen at the sight of the back-up patrol. With another glance, the Wester wolves jumped the border and dissapeared upstream into their territory.

Melanie then looked over to see a long-legged, cream-colored wolf staggering to his paws with Matt's help. Colton's shoulder was shredded as was his left ear. His tail dragged in the dust and he had several bite wounds. Melanie gulped, looking her friend over,"What were you guys doing out here anyways!?" she snapped, angry at the buck wolves' actions.

"We were just making sure Wester hadn't been causing problems," Colton murmered, his already low voice even lower and raspier now because of his tiredness and wounds,"They attacked from behind." Melanie sighed, unable to stay mad at any of them for to long, "Well, Matt, you take Colton to Nurse Missy. You too Jalin. That side looks as though it could turn nasty. Everyone else, let's go."

Well? Whaddya guys think? Hm? Hehe. Well, I do admit I think I'm getting better at writing! Review!! ~Northy