"Matey! Matey! Get up!" cried Alpert, collapsing by his best friends body. "This isn't happening, it can't be" he sobbed. Pen Red's beak quivered as he realised the extent of what had happened to Matey….. death. "This is all my fault, he's gone and it's my fault" cried Alpert, he held Matey's body tightly in his arms, dampening the little penguins feathers.

"We have to get help" said Pen Red, tears streaming down his face. He dug into his pocket and pulled out his spy phone. He opened it, but his face fell. "No Signal" was written on the screen. "We can't get help, we're stuck out here and there's no way we'll be able to get up those rocks. Definitely not with Matey's body" said Pen Red. He looked over at Alpert who continued to cry.

" I've ruined everything, haven't I?" he said pulling himself to his feet. "If I hadn't have wanted to come out he'd still be here. I ruin everything" sobbed Alpert, still holding matey in his arms.

"We have to get some shelter, wait till the storms pass and then phone HQ" said Pen Red, helping Alpert lift up Matey.

" There'll be a cave somewhere, I've been out in the wilderness before".

The two penguins hoisted Matey's body along on a broken piece of sled tied to a bit of old rope from Alpert's pocket. Matey was stone cold and his feathers were beginning to turn pale. Both Pen Red and Alpert cried. They had cried so much Alpert felt sick and the walk was taking a strain. The wind was stronger than ever and the snow was gradually getting worse. Pen Red had more than one concern on his mind. How did he break the news to Matey's mother? How would they explain what had happened? What if they couldn't find shelter? What if they got hypothermia? Alpert was tangled in grief. The idea that he ad caused Matey's death was ripping him apart, he was not coping well at all. But an hour of pulling your best friends dead body would have the same effect on anyone……

"We need to take a rest" said Pen Red, sighting a tree near them. Alpert pulled Matey over and sat down. Alpert just sat, head in his flippers.

"Your frozen" said Pen Red. "You should put on Matey's hoodie."

"But it's his" cried Alpert.

"You need it more than him now. He'd want you to have it".

Alpert unzipped Matey's hoodie and pulled it on. He was too upset to even look at Matey.

" This will do for some temporary shelter. We'll have to stay here the night, if the storm is still around tomorrow we'll have to find somewhere else" said Pen Red. "Or someone might report us missing."

Unfortunately the tree wasn't providing very good shelter. Alpert lifted his head from his hands. "What if it gets knock over by the wind?" said Alpert.

"We'd be goners" said Pen Red. "We'll have to find elsewhere, it's too risky to stay here.

So once again they walked out into the middle of nowhere. "There has got to be a cave, there just has to be!" whispered Pen Red to himself. He had taken over the duty of pulling Matey. He hoped it would give Alpert some time to clear his head. "Could you keep an eye out for O'berry bushes please Alpert?"

"Of course" sighed Alpert.

"If we can find some we can keep them for emergency food supplies."

"Right" grunted Alpert, his mood had gone from grief stricken to gosh darn moody.

The storm had calmed slightly, still not enough to get a signal though. Pen Red was starting to worry he wouldn't even be able to get a signal after the storm.

"Hey Pen, I think I see an O'berry tree" said Alpert. The two penguins waddled over. It was indeed an O'berry tree. Just not a very good one.

"They aren't ripe yet, they'll be as hard as rocks if we try and eat them" said Alpert.

"Well we can keep them just for emergencies, if were desperate" said Pen Red. "Get as many as possible".

So after eventually filling their pockets the two headed off. "It'll be night fall soon. We need to find somewhere to shelter, anywhere" said Pen Red.

"How about there." said Alpert, pointing towards a pile of snow with a hole in the bottom. "It looks stable".

"It does look good. Ok you pick up Matey and carry him in I'll put in the sled." So Alpert hoisted Matey up and slowly stepped into the little cave, while Pen Red carried in the sled.

Both penguins sat down. Pen Red took off his hoodie to use it as a cover, as did Alpert. "We should sleep, maybe the storm will have died off before the morning.

So they both rested. Alpert stared at Matey's corpse shedding a tear before closing his eyes to sleep……