A/N: Newest chapter enjoy.

Chapter 10: A journey of war

"Alex, you promised me you wouldn't blame Robert! It isn't his fault!" Barge yelled, angry that she had said that to Robert, but more for her safety of when he wakes up.

"Well it is his fault! If he hadn't run off and left her at the bottom of…" she didn't get to finish her sentence as she suddenly felt herself hurled into the air and hit the ground hard. And above her, just a few inches from her face was the madden eyes of Robert, whose claws were a hairsbreadth from her throat.

(Robert's P.O.V)

"I will tell you this much, she wolf. I love Eva with a passion that could burn this whole world to the ground if it was ever released. I had killed every single Blood Crawler that was on that ridge because I viewed them all as have killing her because I had thought she had fallen to her death. And you think you have the right to accuse me of leaving her to die? The only one whose going to die today is you!" I said, angered beyond reason, ready to pull my claws across the terrified wolf's throat, but before I could I felt something hit me heavily on the side and pin me down, Barge.

"Not going to happen mate, sorry. Now calm down or I'm going to knock you out again, and Alex I'll talk to you later." Barge said sending her a glare- he never been so angry at her before, though most of it was because she had been so close to death. Sabrina helped her up, but was also giving her a glare as she led her away from the others.

Once they were out of sight Barge let me up saying "I'm sorry Robert but I couldn't let you kill her…I love her too much." Barge said with pain in his voice.

"How is it Eva is alive? No, better question, how is it she's Eva's sister?" I asked nobody in particular. I was mad as all hell that I wanted to kill something, and then I saw a pinecone. I took it in my mouth and crushed it in my jaws and spat out the splinters, a few getting stuck in my gums causing them to bleed but at the moment I didn't care. I then looked to all of my friends, calmed down a little and the pain from the splinters distracting me from the anger and asked my oldest friends "How?" I wanted to know everything.

Both Barge and Dante sighed and then Barge said "It's war in Alaska mate." He told me gravely and like I should know this.

"What?" I asked not understanding. "Ever since our clan got destroyed the three other clans came together to fight off our old enemies…there back." He looked at seeing if I would understand and after a few seconds…I did.

The Harrkorians… A clan known for its brutality and cruelty for friend and foe alike, they were worse than the Blood Crawlers. Years ago in my great grandsires time there had been four clans who were under their harsh rule. They were the Wolf Hearts, the Shadow Wolves, The Blood Crawlers, and the Ash Hounds. The fifth clan had been the War-eye clan, who had escaped being forced under their rule because of our ferocity in battle… but it had been the uniting of the other four clans that had brought the War-eye into their war. The War-eyes territory lay on the eastern borders of the four clans, while their western borders lay next to the Harrkorians eastern border, because of this the other clans were capable of convincing the War-eye to join their union and to help free the packs, because with the union packs as a buffer we didn't have to worry about large scale attacks to our clan.

And we had been successful in that we forced the Harrkorians to surrender and to give a good portion of their land to the other clans. After that the Blood Crawlers became greedy and tried to seize more land for themselves but we forced them back. Since then we had to deal with them, but the other clans had been close allies and even the Shadow Wolves became so close of allies that they- and we in turn- had free range on each other's territory. In fact my friends Malcolm and Drake were half Shadow Wolves and half War-eye…and the sons of the chieftain of that clan.

But the Harrkorians were still a threat that had to be watched and now with two of the five clans that had been instrumental in their destruction gone they would most likely be back…and it would appear that they are.

"Their back?" I said wanting to be sure, my voice only showing seriousness now, all anger gone. "Yes and they have a new leader but none are sure of who he is. But from what we've been told he's a very powerful wolf… or at least the Harrkorian's version of powerful since this new leader killed the last one." Barge told me.

"And they are bombarding the other clans constantly with attacks. And the Wolf Hearts leader is being very uncooperative." Dante said with some feeling.

"What do you mean? The Wolf Hearts are one of the most loyal clans out there." I said slightly confused. The last thing I had known about the Wolf Hearts chieftain- Drull- was that he was an honorable wolf but was true to his allies and would hear considerations, especially when it meant keeping his people alive.

"Drull died, Roland is the leader now." Barge said with contempt. Obviously he had a very low opinion about the wolf.

"And let me guess, you are hoping that I will come to help you guys in the war… and take care of this Roland character?" I asked but was pretty sure of the answer. Barge and Dante both looked at me pleadingly and for some reason I was willing to help. Then the reason came to me in crystal clarity. Eva would be in this war, and my place was with her, to be with her again.

"Alright…I'll help but I'm only doing it to help Eva." I told them. They looked relieved because they probably thought they'd have to try much harder to convince me to help them in the war. Besides I had a feeling as to who this 'new' leader of the Harrkorians was. And I had warned him.

"So when do we leave?" a voice said and I turned to see Kenny and Sear'a ready to help me in this. "You guys don't have to help me and my friends. This is personal for me." I said not wanting to see them get hurt.

Sear'a then stepped forward… and slapped me! The motion caught me so off guard that I actually moved a couple of paces back. "What was that for!?" I yelled.

"To knock some sense into you that's what! Robert your friend too and were going to help you no matter what, got it?" she said with a steeliness in her voice.

"Alright, I was just making sure. But yea when do we leave?" I said looking to Barge, I also noticed that Alex and Sabrina came back, Alex with her head down avoiding my and Barge's eyes, but I ignored both of them. If I would be working beside that wolf I'll have to fix the disagreement with her. She was Eva's sister after all.

"I was thinking the day after tomorrow so we can take the train back to Alaska." Barge said. We all nodded, it was a good timing in that it have us time to say good bye to any friends and family and gave me time to tell Winston what we will be doing as well.

"In two days then." I said with conviction.

"In two days." The others echoed and we all went back to our respective dens, with Sabrina, Alex, Barge, and Dante staying at my den. The next few weeks are going to be hectic. I thought as I drifted off to sleep.

(Time skip 2 days)

We were on the train heading to Alaska. All of our good- byes to our friends were said and the three of us were getting caught up to speed on everything- me from Barge learning of what was going on in the north, and Kenny and Sear'a making friends with Sabrina and Dante, though they were ignoring Alex for the most part.

I have to make my peace with her at some point. I thought to myself, and decided to do it tonight before we got off to help the clans.

(Later that night)

I noticed that Alex was up along with me and she looked over at me uneasily. I got up and walked over to her and sat down next to her and sighed.

"You know I'm not going to hurt you. But why did you say that?" I asked both keeping my voice soft so not to wake the others and to keep myself calm as well.

She sighed and relaxed slightly- but only slightly, "It was because I thought you had known full well that she was alive and had left her willingly to die…or forget about her because you didn't care about her." He said and then added "But after how you reacted to me saying that…I do believe now that you do love her." She said with some kind of feeling, what it was I wasn't sure. Alex, maybe a little pompous at times but knew when it could get her killed…or hurt someone she loves. She thought looking at Barge. And she knew the fault was hers.

I then looked outside of the car that we were in, and noticed that we were coming up to our destination.

"We better wake up the others; I'll get Dante, Sabrina, Kenny, and Sear'a. You get Barge, I highly doubt he would punch you." I said with a somewhat mischievous smile and was rewarded, as I walked to the other to wake them up, with a sarcastic "Sure, give me all the dangerous jobs." But I could hear the smile in her voice.

"Hey wake up you lot!" I said somewhat loudly and they all stirred and I told them we'd be arriving in five minutes.

That's when we hear Barge, after Alex nudged him saying his name softly to wake him up, mumbled "Hmm Alex…Keep going." And we all turned our heads over to the two of them and saw a similar expression that you get when you think 'What the heck is he dreaming about?' look on our faces.

"Barge!" Alex yelled and he woke up with a start, looking around until his eyes finally rested on Alex.

"What were you dreaming about?" she questioned; I couldn't help but think Do you really want to know? He smiled and I swear I thought he got redder, of that was possible.

"Nothing!" he said. "Oh really? , Because you said in your sleep 'Hmm Alex… Keep going.' So what were you dreaming about?" she questioned again.

"Ok! I was dreaming you were feeding me caribou." He said with a smile. "What?" she said, she, along with the rest of us had been thinking along different lines of what he was dreaming about and at his statement I was holding my sides in silent mirth, and as I glanced side long I could see Dante suppressing a smile.

"Alright, he-he, we're nearly there so we jump now. Let's go." I said with a broad smile and heard Alex say "We'll talk about this later." She said to Barge.

We were all lined up to jump and as I saw a flat, but slightly inclined area, I yelled "Now!" and we all jumped and landed without any problem.

"Ok, now is all we have to do is link up with the other…" Barge was cut off by a war howl followed by the wolves fighting!

"The battles already on, let's go!" Sabrina said with the rest of us following right behind her into the fray.

The peace of the night was shattered, the war was on!