Chapter 10

I woke up feeling pain in my ear.

"Get up Star. Time for your special treatment with the alpha."

said Streak. I growled and then I pinned him down. Easily.

"That's not special treatment and if you touch me again I'll kill you. No one will care."

I said.

This time he growled at me. I got up and left

tilting my head up and I nipped Streak's ears.

When I was outside the den I saw Alpha motioning me over.

"Time for some training but, I don't think you need any. I was told that you know about

the forest that we're going to live in. What is that information?" he asked.

"Oh well I was traveling in the forest before I learned about you.

There is a terrible sickness in the forest. The first symptom is coughing.

After that you die.

There are also these beings that walk on two legs. Do you know them?"

Alpha nodded. "Good because they have the metal sticks that are called guns.

They hate wolves because they think that we will eat them

so the guns shoot this little metal thing that kills you automatically.

I survived the sickness though. Every animal can catch it. So there is no prey there.

What am I going to learn today?"

"Oh well thank you for that information. Today you will learn the

correct crouch that we use to hunt. Then you can practice fight with any one that's a

trainee." Alpha said.

"I'll do Streak." I said. Alpha nodded and we left.

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(Outside the clearing)

"Show me how you hunt." said Alpha. I nodded and I did a hunting crouch like

I did as a cat.

"Wow. I never thought about hunting like that. Where did you learn it?" he asked.

"When I was traveling. I saw a wolf doing it and I copied. It helped a lot."

I said.

After I caught 9 pieces of prey (with the help of my cat senses) I was told to fight

Streak.

"Since Streak didn't do so well on offense yesterday (laugh) Star will do offense.

Let's see if Streak will be better (laugh)" said Streaks trainer Spot (laugh)

I started to think about some moves I did as a cat.

Then I leapt over Streak's head so Streak thought I was going to land behind him.

But I didn't.

I stopped right in front of him and (Easily) pinned him down.

"Nice job. You have a lot of strength. Try to pin me down." said

Spot (laugh).

I pinned him down too.

Next I pinned Alpha down too. I kept getting comments about my strength.

Then to try to make it harder Alpha and

Spot (laugh) rushed at me.

I pinned them down.

Then we kept trying to see how many of them I could pin down

when it came to 8.

At 8 I was too exhausted to move.

"Okay everyone. Time to go back to the clearing.

Star can you get up?" asked Alpha.

I tried and failed.

"Fine. Spot (laugh) support Star from the left side. I'll do her right."

he said.

Then we finally reached camp.

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(A moon later)

It was a moon later. People were wondering why we didn't move into the forest.

So Alpha started a meeting.

"Wolves of our fine pack. Many of you have been wondering why we don't move

to the forest.

Star has a reason. Star state that reason please."

I nodded and said "there is a terrible disease in the forest.

It has no name but, it can kill you instantly.

There is one symptom that tells you that you have it.

You have intense coughing and it makes you cough up blood.

Also there are creatures that live in the forest.

They are very tall and have two long legs.

They have these metal sticks that shoots this metal ball that

is so fast that it kills you. Those are called guns.

The creatures which are called humans think that wolves will kill them

so they don't hesitate to shoot the guns."

"I have something to say. I don't believe you."

said Streak. "Yeah. Why didn't you die of the sickness and why weren't

you shot by the guns?" asked Spot (laugh)

"I stayed there for a very short time and I stayed at the edges of the

territory.

Does that answer your question?" I said.

"I still don't believe you and I'm going to the forest." said Streak.

"No Streak. You're forbidden to go to the forest. The meeting has ended."

said Alpha. Grumbling Streak went to bed. I sighed and followed the rest

of the trainees.

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(Next day)

When I woke up someone was screaming.

"Streak! He's gone!" yelled Spot (laugh)

"Where would he go? We can't follow him because the rain washed his scent away."

said Alpha.

Instantly I knew where Streak went.

The forest.

He might kill a cat. Or they might kill him.

Before anyone could say a word I ran towards the forest.

When I reached it I saw foot prints too big to be a cat's

but it was the right size of a wolf.

I followed the foot prints until I saw a flash of gray (Streak)

Then I smelled blood behind me.

I turned around and I saw a dead body.

Bailey's.