This story is my first try, well, at anything great. The OCs are mine as I don't own any of the A&O characters or locations. This story takes place in the beginning of summer, after Sawtooth. Let me know of any spelling typos or misspells.

Heavy panting, not so distant growling and snapping, and the falling tears of the chased.

"Keep running sis!" One of the running wolves shouted.

Although they were both tired beyond belief, the adrainaline and the will to live was keeping them afloat as they kept running, ducking and turning and jumping over the various forestries they no longer called home. But a jump was soon misjudged as one of them soon came toppling down.

"Kai!" The she-wolf shouted as she reverted back to the heavy breathing body.

With the adrainaline gone and the cramping pains from the nonstop running were coursing in, getting up was a hard task, especially when the growling and snapping were getting louder with every second.

"Come on Kai, you have to get up, we need to keep moving." The she-wolf ushered.

He started coughing, trying to stand up, eventually succeeding, but not being able to run, as his limbs were cramped, as well as hers too.

"Sarah, go, leave me here." Kai told.

"What!? No, I'm not leaving my brother here to die." She protested.

"If you stay, you're going to die just as well, and our family just can't end like that." Kai said.

"But-"

"Just go!"

Sarah started to pour her eyes out.

"I love you Kai, and I will never forget you." Sarah managed to get out before running off.

When she was out of sight, Kai smiled, and said, "Heh, love you too sis."

He looked back, and saw his pursuers appear from out of the bushes, laughing and snarling.

"Oh I'm going to enjoy this." One of the other wolves said.

With Sarah

Watching from some nearby bushes, she saw as one of the wolves jumped at her brother, tackling him, and then all of them started to join in. She couldn't bare it, and looked away, and started running in a direction, crying her soul out. Not paying attention, she fell over a small cliff, tumbling down the side and eventually landing flat on the ground. She didn't move, she covered her eyes with her paws and started to bawl.

"Kai! I am never going to forget you!" She shouted out, at presumably no one.

After sitting there for about twenty minutes, she had finished her crying fit and started to move. She was tired and hungry, having not eaten before this all happened. She hung her head as she walked, still sad. Soon enough, Sarah found a small den. She sniffed it out and presumed that nobodies been there for at least weeks, as a faint scent of fox was present.

She hasn't noticed, but it was already night. "Better than nothing." she thought aloud. And went into the den, making a comfortable spot, and plopped down. Due to the heavy crying, she was out like a light. In her luck, she had a nice dream of her and her brother playing tag as pups.

The next morning...

Sarah awoke to faint voices, she couldn't make them out, but was scared either way, as she didn't know who they were.

Sarah could make out one of the voices, "What do you see Runt?" One shouted.

"Nothing! But I swear to you, I seen another wolf around here!" The other shouted back.

"Oh Runt, stop with your games and let's go before mom and dad-" The third was cut off.

"Wait..." The first voice came again, "...I smell something,"

'Oh no!' Sarah thought.

After taking another sniff, "Yeah, I smell," He gasped, "...another wolf!"

"What?" The second voice, known as Runt, shouted.

"Runt, we have to get mom and dad, hurry." The first voice shouted.

"Alright!" Runt shouted back.

And Sarah couldn't hear anything else. She was paranoid, having a self conversation with herself.

"Oh no, oh no, I've been known, they are going to find me, and probably kill me or chase me away again. Or maybe they are nice and would allow me to stay with them, or, or or- or I don't know! Kai, I wish you were here right now." She stopped.

She heard the voices again, but this time, two new ones were with them.

"You three better be right about this." One of the new ones said, this time more clear, and could tell that this one was a another she-wolf.

"I know I'm right, I've never been wrong about a smell." The first voice said.

"He's got a point Kate." Another new one said, this time male.

"Wait... That smell again."

Sarah was back in paranoia. She wanted to run, but was too scared. Should she gave them a chance or hopefully run and escape? This self debate took too long as the voices were now closer.

"This den, its where it leads."

"Hello, anyone in there?"

Her brain got the best of Sarah. She ran.

Speeding past the strangers, almost like a blur, they were taken aback a little by the speed.

"Whoa!"

"Hey wait!"

They all started chasing her. Sarah looked back, and saw that there were more than the voices she heard. Wide eyed, she just ran as fast as she could, as this scene was like a Vietnam flashback.

"Hey slowdown!"

She didn't hear, as her memory was too in control.

"Wow, she's fast."

Tears started streaming down her face, but her memory and tears ended abruptly as she ran into the cliff side she fell from. She was fazed, but not out. The others caught up with her and surrounded her. She awoke from the fazed state and saw this, in which she backed into the wall, trying to male herself seem as small as possible.

A female of golden fur walked up to her, "Alright, one, you are fast, and two, we aren't going to harm you, we just want answers." She said.

Another wolf walked up, this time he was gray, darker fur than the others, which probably meant he was the oldest and in charge.

"To start off," he started, "What is your name?"

Sarah hesitated, and was still scared half to death, but she eventually found the courage to speak.

"S-Sarah." She said.

The golden wolf spoke again, "Alright Sarah, where are you from?"

This question caught her a little off guard, as she didn't really want to say where from, but she knew they were going to pressure her as she was a stranger and a trespasser on their territory.

"U-um, a rouge p-pack, travelers, w-we don't s-stay in one p-place o-o-often." She managed to sputter out, she was still scared as there was a lot of wolves around her, and she didn't know the capabilities they had.

"Alright sweetie, calm down, we aren't going to hurt you. Now the last question we have is why you ran?" The golden wolf said.

Sarah was a little scared still, but as the golden wolf spoke, she spoke with soft words, and her eyes were sincere, indicating no hostility, so she calmed down a bit more.

"I ran because..." Sarah stopped as she didn't know them and didn't want to spoil a chance at a new pack life, so she came up with something for now, "...because I though I was in more trouble."

'Ah great, I screwed this up.' She though.

"More trouble?" The older gray wolf stated.

"U-uh, forget I said that." Sarah improvised, which seemed to work.

Suddenly, a black wolf jumped down from the cliff side, and started growling and snapping at the strangers, in which they all started to return the favor.

"Sarah, stay behind me, I'll deal with these people." The black wolf said.

"And who might you be?" Another gray wolf asked, his fur brighter than the others, and somewhat younger.

"I'm none of your business, now back off!" The black wolf said.

"We don't want any trouble." Another golden wolf said, fur brighter than the others, and looked younger than the other two.

"Then let us go peacefully, let's go Sarah." The black wolf told.

Sarah didn't follow him, actually, she ran behind the two older wolves, cowering for her life. The strangers looked at the black wolf in suspicion.

"If you are a protector, then why is she running from you?" One of them asked.

"She's being ridiculous, get over here." The black wolf said.

"I'm not going with you, you attacked us!" Sarah shouted at him.

"Attacked you, I did nothing of the sort! Now come on."

"He's lying, he attacked me and my brother," coming to realization, "And what happened to him?

He started laughing, as Sarah started to come from behind the older wolves.

"Touché, it was our job to chase you off, but we didn't like you two anyways. And your brother," he stared laughing again, "let's just say, he isn't going to be tired ever again."

To hear his words were like Excalibur stabbing her straight through the heart. She charged after him, "YOU BASTARDS!" And tackled him to the ground, as the rest of them stared in shock. She bit at his neck, only to fail and be kicked off into a nearby tree. The rest ganged on him and chased him back up the cliff side.

"Just a warning, if me or Polar sees you, you and your brother are going to have a family reunion."

He said and laughed as he scurried away.

They all turned back to Sarah, lying unconscious at the base of the tree.

'...he isn't going to be tired ever again...' Rang through her head as she slowly fell into dreamland.

More like nightmare ville.