Chapter 2
Dawn's POV
When Dusk woke me up I was shocked at first, but then I relaxed when I realised it was him. I saw his brown and White fur blowing in the wind, noticing how good he looked for the first time. I then looked around and noticed the snow-covered landscape surrounding us. "Where are we?" I asked him. "I'm not sure" He replied, glancing around, unsure. "We need to find something to eat, I'm starving" "me too" I replied", a little too anxiously – I hope he hadn't noticed. Dusk began to walk down the hill toward a large group of trees which looked like they may have some small animals living in them. As I walked along behind Dusk, I began to notice the cold – it was freezing, so I quickly moved right up next to Dusk to share his body heat. He obviously took this differently (you know what I mean) and looked at me with an expression that told me to back off. "I'm really cold" I explained, "you seem to be much warmer than me – can I please stay here?" He sighed and replied "I suppose so" He then looked ahead and carried on walking, so I started too.
As we neared the entrance to the trees, I noticed it was much darker than outside. A shiver went down my spine but i assumed it was the cold. After being in the silent forest for almost 3 minutes, I glanced at Dusk who was looking behind us. "I think we should speed up" He said to me quietly, "Ok then - do you think someone is following us?" I asked, feeling fearful of anything that was there. "I think so – but don't turn around just keep walking…" He replied to me. I did as he asked, but soon noticed eyes watching from all around me in the shadows and we began to slow right down and eventually stop when we saw eyes directly In front of us. I moved much closer to Dusk and began to push my body against his – mostly from fear. Then a pair of blood red eyes moved toward us from the shadows. As the black wolf approached us I noticed all the small scars across his body, and the large one that cut down across his right eye down to his nose. He stopped a meter away from where we standing; looked at us with seemingly merciless eyes and said simply, "Why are you in my territory?" "We were brought here by humans; we didn't know this was your territory." Dusk replied, I was much too scared to say anything to him. "Well the rules are that if you cross our territory you are killed." He said coldly, and then his pack advanced towards us, I moved even closer to Dusk and looked into his eyes. He looked so scared; it made me feel even worse. Suddenly one of the wolves was pulled out of the way, all of the pack looked to a wolf in the shadows that looked almost as big as garth. Dusk nudged me and sprinted out through a gap left in the ring of wolves, I quickly ran after him. After running for 10 minutes we escaped from the woods and just sat there, panting and sitting in the cold snow.
Later on that day, after they had rested for a while, Dusk and I saw someone approaching from the forest – we quickly got up and got ready to run, but when the wolf didn't try to attack us we relaxed a little. "Are you the wolf that helped us back there" I asked the large wolf, "Yes I am" he replied, "Your welcome" he said after not getting a thanks. "Oh yeah, thanks for helping us back there" Dusk said quickly to the wolf. "What is your name?" I asked him, "My name is Zeff" he replied, looking off into the distance dramatically as he said it. I examined him for the first time – he had dark grey fur with a silver tint to it and his eyes were a beautiful hazel colour. "Who were those wolves?" Dusk asked. "That was Volk and his pack, as you may have noticed, he isn't a very nice wolf" Dusk and I looked at each other with expressions that said "obviously". "Do you know where we could find some food?" I asked Zeff, "We're really hungry…" Zeff considered this for a moment and then eventually said "I guess I could give you some today and tell you where to hunt for food tomorrow" "Really?" I asked hopefully, "Sure" Zeff replied, "It's no trouble for me" And with that he began to walk towards a large mountain, I looked over at Dusk, who looked at me at the same time and nodded to me, I nodded back and we began to follow Zeff, side by side.
