We travelled on through the thick, cold, snow throughout the night. the harsh storm blowing through out fur and throwing ice and other shit into out fur.

We didn't want to travel in these horrible conditions but we had no choice. we were supposed to be inside a nice, warm, cosy den along north-western Alaska. but not tonight, for we had been banished.

I am a pure blood wolf, and my name is josh. that's what my parents called me. but they only turned on me aswell…well…my mother did anyway. she never spoke much about my father. apparently we were separated literally seconds after I was born. and I only had 1 other brother and 2 sisters. although I never saw my brother. he went missing when I was young.

My mother was a pure white wolf, white as snow. and she had this warm voice that made me feel safe. and I couldn't remember much about my father. only that his fur was a mixture of brown and gun metal grey.

My fur was a very dark brown almost black colour. most people mistake my fur for black so I find it easier to just call it black. although it does piss me off when people get my fur colour wrong.

My friend walking besides me, he's Juan. but I'm not supposed to be friends with him, but I'll explain that later. Juan had a light goldish brown fur with a grey underbelly.

Juan has been like a brother to me for my whole life. we always used to play with each other when we were kids. back then there was very little, if not, no complication. but as we got older and older more and more complications began to arise.

Juan was from a rival pack and when we were kids everything was in peace and in balance. but as time and time went on my pack leader, who was also my mother, got more and more power hungry.

According to Juan the same thing happened with his leaders. at least he still had his mother AND father when he was born. lucky bastard.

Eventually things got out of hand and the packs declared war on each other. but after a few months of fighting both packs decided that the war was costing too many lives and made up a new law.

We would no longer fight with each other but it was illegal to have any contact or communication to each other without prior permission. of course, that never stopped me and Juan.

Earlier this evening me and Juan met at out pack borders to hang out and talk about stuff. like we always did. but things didn't exactly go to plan.

We were talking in a nice conversation when suddenly a patrol squad from my pack jumped out from behind the bush. there was 4 of them.

2 of them pinned my to the floor and one of them let out a signal howl for the packs to come and meet us.

I signalled to Juan to run and save himself.

I could tell from the expression on his face that he didn't want to go. but he had no choice.

He tried to run but then. "oh no, you aint goin nowhere buster!" one of my guards shouted.

He jumped and pinned Juan to the ground.

They held us in the pin for about 15 minutes until both of our packs arrived.

When they arrived they let us up but they still stopped us escaping.

One of my guards went up to my mom. "ma'am, we found these wolves socialising together, but they are from the enemy pack, and therefore, this violates pack law"

"son?" I heard a voice say. it was Juan's dad, the leader of the 'enemy' pack, and his mate stood beside him. "you were destined to become pack leader, but I can't have you acting like this. if I had my way I would banish you 2 right now. but the good thing for you is that I need approval from your mother and the enemy pack leader to do that"

It pissed me off how he referred to us as. 'the 'enemy' pack' and my mom as. 'the 'enemy' pack leader' we are not so different. what's with this stupid feud?

"I agree with you love" Juan's mom said. "sorry son but as much as it pains me to admit, I agree with your father"

They suddenly turned to my mom. I knew we were going to be allright because I knew my mom would not banish me. she wasn't like that.

But then she sighed. "yes…I agree" she said in a sad, depressed voice.

"what!" me and Juan exclaimed in unison.

"you have until midnight to clear out of our territory and never come back. otherwise you will be killed" she said.

She looked at Juan's parents and nodded. they nodded back then they slowly started to walk away.

"wait…mom!...mom!...mom!" I shouted louder and louder each time, but she continued to ignore me until eventually she was out of my sight and out of earshot.

I had tears rolling down from my eyes and so did Juan. but we looked and each other and all we could do was accept our fates.

We started to head off in any random direction.

We took one last look at our packs, our territory, our childhood homes, and then continued on.

So here we are now, caught up in the middle of this snowstorm with no idea where we're going. but the only way is forwards, if we turned back we get killed.

I looked up at the sky and I gathered it was probably round about midnight. so we were defiantly out of our packs territory we just had no idea where we were going.

We hadn't eaten since more than 12 hours ago and we've been walking through this one hell of a snowstorm ever since. we were getting weak and we were getting tired.

We came out of the forest and saw some small illuminations in the distance.

We followed them until we read a sign that said. 'welcome to Nome' on it. "c'mon, lets go, it's better than nothing" I said. Juan nodded and followed me.

As pups we were always warned to stay away from Nome since we were told humans would shoot us on sight.

We walked into town and wandered through the streets. we knew that no humans would be out at midnight and no one could see us through the snowstorm. and even if someone did spot us we'd be too camouflaged by the snowstorm for people to properly see our details so they would just write us off as dogs.

We walked and walked and walked until we managed to find a door that was open a crack.

I peeked inside and saw what appeared to be a huge fire blazing.

Between the 2 of us we managed to force the door open and get inside.

Inside the room was lots of open space with a couple of shelves and a huge boiler on the left side of the room .

It was very warm and was good enough for the night until tomorrow when we could properly sort out our situation.

The door slammed itself shut from the wind and we settled down inside. And, almost instantly, fell asleep.

Next Chapter

Chapter Two: The Morning After.