A/N: Eh, I didn't like this chapter as much. But I will let you be the judges. Oh, and if you have time, you should check out my other fanfic, "The Middle Of Nowhere". I am really enjoying writing these. Thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: Still don't own SWAC…

The pack walked on for a long time. Sonny had taken the lead again, and was bouncing around looking at everything closely. By this time, she was the only one with energy – even Zora was lagging.

"What I wouldn't give to stick my head under the fro-yo machine right now…" Grady whined.

"My feet hurt." Tawni complained. She favored each one of her white paws in turn.

"Do you hear that?" Sonny's ears perked up.

"What, the creek?" Ferguson asked her.

Everyone paused to listen.

"No, it's louder then the creek… come on!" Sonny shouted excitedly and bounded forward.

The group grumbled and padded after her slowly until they caught up to where she was stopped, gaping at the sight before her.

"It's… beautiful!" She said quietly.

In front of her, the hill sloped down and ended in a lake. The creek met up with it on their right. Ahead was a large grey cliff, and from the top of it, a waterfall poured over. Behind the cliff mountains were visible in the distance. Everyone was speechless.

Suddenly Grady broke the silence. "Banzai!" He shouted and pelted past them before pouncing into the water.

"Wait up man!" Nico barked after him and followed suit. Soon everyone was taking advantage of the much needed break, and was splashing around in the lake. They all caught on to swimming easily – a simple doggy-paddle did the trick. Sonny was the first one back on shore though.

Chasity squealed as Nico splashed her, but was happy to join into the game. She seemed easy-going, and enjoyed having fun more then the other Falls people. Tawni and Skyler were… flirting? That is until Zora popped out of the water between them and scared them half to death. She swam away cackling. A voice broke Sonny's thoughts though, and she turned to see who it was.

"Think theres a cave up there somewhere?" Chad pondered, looking the cliff over.

"I don't know." Sonny replied, following his gaze before her eyes lit up. "Want to come look with me?" She grinned happily and her eyes were pleading.

He caved. "I suppose, but if we get attacked by some other wild animal, you're on your own Monroe." He smirked.

"You're such a jerk Chad." She told him. "But come on anyway." She wasn't about to pass up company, even if it was Chip Drama Pants.

She padded over to the Cliff, on the side where the rocks were the lowest, and hopped onto the first one. After a few hops, the ground smoothed out, and wove up the cliff. Eventually they were on ledges with plenty of room. The two walked side by side with a comfortable distance between each other, and between them and the edges of the path.

Chad stopped momentarily to look down. They were maybe fifteen feet off the ground, and everyone was still playing in the water. He turned back, and saw Sonny was looking down directly above him, grinning. He grinned back up at her and closed the few feet in a single bound.

"Show off." She rolled her eyes and continued on the switchbacks.

They were maybe fifty feet above the lake now, and the waterfall was roaring close to them. Suddenly the path wove to the back of it. There was a ledge above it so that the path was still remotely dry. Sonny disappeared under it.

"Woah! Check this out!" She called, and Chad was soon at her side again.

Directly under the waterfall was an opening in the rock. It was the mouth of a large cave. Sonny stepped forward, but Chad stopped her.

"What if theres a bear in there?" He asked, worriedly.

"I don't smell anything." She told him.

"Oh, so now you can suddenly smell animals huh?"

"Well, I smelled the badger before I went in there…" She mumbled.

"Wait, what? Why'd you go in then?" He gave her an odd look.

"Portlyn…"

"Oh please, you know shes an airhead." He couldn't believe she risked her life just to prove a point.

"Well I didn't know it was a badger, it just smelled weird." She explained. "And I'm starting to remember everyone by their scents."

He looked at her strangely. "What do I smell like?" He asked skeptically.

"I can't describe it. Everyone just smells different." She blew off his questions and padded into the cave.

It was very roomy, much bigger inside then the mouth was. The floor was dirt, and the ceiling and walls were smooth rock. In the back corner there was a tunnel about three feet from the floor. It was just big enough for one wolf to fit in it. Sonny wanted to check it out, but decided there was someone better suited to do so.

"Isn't this awesome?" She barked excitedly as she bounced over to Chad who was inside now as well.

"Yeah, not bad." He commented. "Should we go get the others?"

She smiled. "Sure." Then bounced out, but something caught her eye.

Most of the ledge disappeared when the water hit it, but there was a certain part that didn't. It was further ahead of the cave mouth, so she padded over to it. She couldn't see through the water, but poked a paw through, and smiled when it hit rock. Her body soon followed her paw, and she was standing on a ledge – about six feet wide and six feet long, that had appeared from nowhere in the middle of the waterfall. It over looked the lake, maybe forty or fifty feet above it, and Sonny saw everyone still swimming and relaxing. The sun warmed her now wet fur, and she smiled.

"Chad, come look at this!" She barked loudly over the roar of the falls.

"Where are you?" He called.

She forgot he couldn't see her from the other side of the waterfall, so she turned and poked her head back through it, freezing in an instant as her nose bumped into Chad's. They stared at each other, brown eyes and blue eyes locked, shocked for a moment. If either of them could, they'd be blushing tomato-red at the moment.

"There you are." He spoke, his voice higher then usual. Sonny disappeared behind the water again.

"I'm not going through that by the way, my fur will get wet." He called out to her.

"Chicken." She barked.

"Am not!" He whined, reluctantly poking through.

He sat next to her and looked all around.

"Isn't this amazing?" She asked excitedly.

"Eh, it's a'ight." He said simply.

The view truly was amazing. You could see the tops of trees, and the mountains all around, and it all reflected into the lake below them.

"Let's tell the others to come up here." Sonny said.

"Wait, I want to try something." Chad spoke up. He stepped forward, looking down. Suddenly he pointed his nose upward and let out a long howl. Sonny stepped next to him, and found her self joining in. Below them, one by one, everyone else joined too, until there was a chorus of howls filling the air.

They finished their own notes one by one, until everything was silent for a moment. Sonny was looking at Chad with a smile.

"That was unexpected." She teased.

"For some reason, I've wanted to do that ever since we got into this mess." He shrugged. She giggled at him.

"How'd you guys get up there?" Ferguson called from below. Everyone was looking up at them.

"The rocks over there" Sonny motioned with her muzzle. "They turn into a path. We've got something to show you guys though!"

"On our way!" Zora barked eagerly and bounded out of the water. Everyone followed the pup, shaking off as they stepped out, and climbing onto the rocks one by one.

Sonny went back through the water and headed down the path to meet them.

"It's amazing up here!" She yipped excitedly, turning and leading them up the cliff. "What do you think?" She asked as they arrived in the cave, where Chad once again was poking around.

"This is perfect!" Skyler said, looking around.

"I vote this becomes our temporary home!" Nico spoke.

"We even have our own swimming pool!" Grady was wagging his tail.

"What will we sleep on?" Tawni asked, noticing the complete lack of anything even resembling bedding.

Everyone looked back and forth – Tawni had a point.

"Wolves sleep on dirt." Zora said pointedly.

Tawni squealed. "Ewww! That's gross!"

"We'll find something comfortable, Tawni." Sonny tried to reassure her. "We just might need to suffer for a few days."

Tawni looked horrified, and began to pout.

"So is it unanimous then?" Chad finally spoke up. "We stay here?"

Everyone murmured in agreement.

"So, we can check shelter off the list… and theres water right outside. So what about food?" Skyler was the one to speak.

"Can't we deal with that tomorrow?" Portlyn whined. "My paws hurt!"

"I think for once, Port is right." Ferguson mumbled. "The sun's close to setting anyway."

"Yeah, let's get some sleep." Chastity murmured.

Nico and Grady whined. "But we're hungry!"

"After everything you two ate early, I don't know how you can say that." Sonny told them.

"Aww, c'mon Sonny, you know we can't do anything without food!" Grady whimpered.

"You'd have to eat it raw anyway."

They made a face. No one was happy with that idea yet.