-A/N sorry this took awhile, been busy blah blah blah here's the chapter-

Waning rough lingo ahead, in others I swear like an Irish sailor that just stubbed his toe.

Chapter 11

they were surrounded by ten wolverines. She couldn't see anyway out of this one. Finally something entered her mind, acceptance, she accepted the situation with deadly finality, 'I'm not going to make it out of this one' she thought to herself. 'This is it, out here in the cold snow, this is were I'm going to- oh fuck it!' with that last thought she slammed her paw onto the nearest wolverine's head, she dug her claws into the back of his neck, picking him up she through him with all her might at the broken sled. Weather it was luck or if she subconsciously aimed it she would never know, but the wolverine hit a jagged piece of wood that stuck out, it impaled him through the chest killing him almost instantly.

Kade, taking her lead, charged a wolverine, tackling it into the tent were the human body still lay. Kade looked into the shocked face of the wolverine before he leaned down to tear its throat out. He quickly jumped off and backed his way into the tent, going carefully around a pole in the center. As he backed up half the attackers that were still alive slowly advanced into the tent. Their smaller bodies close the ground, their long blood stained claws leaving long marks in the dirt, snow and blood as the dragged themselves along. Kade kept backing up until he felt his tail brush against something, the back of the tent. He looked over his shoulder realizing that the tent was put up partly in the cover of a small rock alcove. He was cornered, and out numbered.

Silver quickly got into a cycle of running in a circle around the camp, clawing and biting at any that got to close, but they also returned the favor. Some foolish one tried to run the opposite direction to catch her head on, she didn't miss a beat in grabbing him and proceeding to use his body as a shield from his friends while he still thrashed about in her jaws. Eventually his claw met her shoulder, the pain burned through her as is cut into the tender muscle, now each stepped caused her agony. In her anger towards him for crippling her so she crunched down harder, crushing bones and letting his blood flow freely over he front and face. The captured wolverine didn't last long like that and quickly died, Silver through the carcass back at her followers, smacking the lead on in the face and slowing them all down a bit.

Silver looked around for Kade to see how he was holding up, she felt a pit forming in her stomach as she saw a group of wolverines advancing into the tent, undoubtedly closing in on him. She was about to turn to help when she stumbled over one of the dead dogs that lay all around the remains of this camp. She hit the ground hard, slamming her injured shoulder onto a rock. She rose slowly to her feet to see her own followers had surrounded her in a semi-circle. She suddenly had another brilliantly stupid idea, piss them even more, to accomplish this she started barking, loud enough that it even hurt her ears.

Marrok saw the hooves about to come down on his face when he had an idea, he rolled onto his front paws and tucked his back ones in tight, waiting, until the moose picked himself up to his peak height, then he lashed out with all his might, both of his paws connected with the bull moose's chest, sending him off balance on his two legs and sprawling into the snow. Marrok fell down onto his back again but quickly rolled to his paws and charged head on at the bull, who in turn slammed him with his large antlers and flipped him over his back. Marrok landed hard on his paw and heard a loud snap, followed by a pain searing up through his leg.

He ignored the pain for a moment to run back and jump the on fallen creatures back. Not wasting another moment he drove his teeth in the back off its neck again, this time he pulled back dislocating part of its spinal column. He then rolled off and ripped open its throat for good measure. Marrok laid there on his back, he hurt like hell and as his adrenaline left it was replaced by more and more agony. He looked up at the tree tops and hoped Silver was having better luck with her day. The last thing he saw before he blacked out was Shazu walking up and looming over him, with a menacing sneer on his face, mumbling something about surviving.

"I'm telling you something's not going right down there." Surge insisted yet again.

"And I'm telling you that if something was wrong either Silver or Kade would of signaled us, you know like we planned." Harv insisted

"What if they can't? What if someone or something is preventing them, maybe their dead, what if-" Harv would never find out what else Surge had to say because both of them could hear Silver barking like a mad dog and took off down the hill like two bats out of hell.

Surge was the fastest wolf in the Shadow Valley clan, reaching Silver before Harv was even half way. He jumped down by her side, letting out a deep, murderous growl at the wolverines who were shielding their ears from Silver's onslaught of barking. Silver stopped backing when she realized Surge had come, and that Harv wasn't far behind. The wolverines started to back up slightly, unsettled by the sudden appearance of another wolf

Kade was corned by four rather pissed looking wolverines, his back against the wall he didn't have many options.

"any last words wolfy?" one of the wolverines asked boldly

Kade feigned to be deep in thought before he answered with one simple word.

"Catch!" He shouted as he struck out with his paw, sending the main support for the tent flying at the wolverine who had spoken, who dumbly caught it in his mouth.

The tent fell over all of them, Kade simply cut a hole in it with his claws and jumped out while the wolverines clawed and thrashed about for a bit before they shredded the tent and escaped. In that time Kade had ran and joined Silver and Surge. All the wolverines regrouped, and slowly stalked forward in a line.

Silver knew this was bad. Surely they wolverines were much smaller and could be tossed around easy, but they were quick and vicious creatures. As Harv had yet to catch up it was three wolves against four wolver- wait two of them had vanished! Silver looked around while still keeping one eye on the advancing. She found their location when she heard a blood curling scream off to the side. Everyone turned their heads, wolves and wolverines alike, to see Harv's last moments as two wolverines tore her head off of her body. One of them picked it up in his teeth and through it at the three wolves.

Kade's eyes flared in pure rage. He let out a snarl that could of turned a grizzly bear's brown fur white. He ran at the two who had killed Harv, he swatted the first one away like a fly. It landed in the fire a few feet away screaming in pain as it burned to death. He picked up the second one in his jaws, who in turn flailed about, clawing and biting at Kade, but Kade ignored his futile attempts. He lifted him up high before he slammed him down onto the rock slab were they both stood, over and over he slammed the wolverine's body with all his might. He kept at it even after the wolverine was dead, hot tears burning his eyes and tickling down his face.

Silver suddenly remembered something, Harv was Kade's mate and the mother of his two children. Silver cursed herself for not remembering that. She turned back to the situation at hand, obviously Kade wasn't going to be able to help them in this fight, so it was her and surge against four wolverines. While she considered what would be the best course of action Surge leaned his head down next to her's.

"I got an idea, follow my lead and circle around the other side." he whispered quickly.

With that Surge started to walk sideways around the wolverines, Silver quickly did the same in the opposite direction. The wolverines all started looking at Kade still bashing the dead wolverine into the rock, to Surge growling at them, to Silver reaming silent with cool resolve. While they were all giving themselves whiplash Silver pounced, knocking one to the side and landing on another. She quickly bit down on its throat ending its life in one quick motion. Surge quickly joined her in their midst. Slashing one wolverine's throat with his claws, another jumped on his back and clawed at his eyes.

Silver ran towards Surge, grabbing the head of the wolverine on his back, and pulling it off. She then crushed its skull and dropped the body. Surge had a nasty cut over his left eye that would probably leave a scar going diagonally over his eye. The both walked over to the one wolverine that was still breathing, she was a younger one. Now that the others were dead she was quite scared. They proceeded to question her, all the while behind them Kade kept bashing the body into the ground, keeping her frightened and answering questions.

They found out that the wolverines had found the human camp after they had crashed. They came in the night. Killing all the humans and dogs, the only one who had even put up a fight was the last human, he had blasted of two shots of a shotgun in his tent, he didn't hit anything but the tent wall and was killed like the others for his trouble. They then stayed here for awhile, eating a few humans and dogs for food and using their fire they set the other tent on fire, the one with the other human male, the female and the smaller human. They kept the fire going as a trap, to entice others to come and have a look so they could get more food.

Silver nodded, taking all this information in. She had decided to just leave, let this one fend for itself here alone. But as she turned away she tried to pounce on Silver's back. Surge grabbed her back end and Silver grabbed her front, they both turned away suddenly and ripped the wolverine in half.

After a bit Silver convinced Kade to stop bashing the now very bloody corpse. But he refused to go back with them.

"I-I have nothing now. My beautiful mate is dead, I...I failed her, I do not deserve to live any longer for it. I'm just going to wait here, with her, till I die." Was all he would say with tears in his eyes.

After much trying Silver finally just lost it with him.

"fine! Stay here and rot you fucking coward!" she shouted at him

"how am I a coward? Am I not here, facing up to the fact I let my mate die!" he yelled back, standing up in anger.

"no! You standing here feeling sorry for yourself and abandoning your family! Your children! Your leaving them to fend for themselves so you can sit here and feel sorry for yourself until you die. You are a coward!" Silver growled, stepping right up to his face.

Surge was unsure what to do here. He was almost certain a fight was about to take place, but he was torn about what to do. Should he get involved? Who should he help? Should he just stay out of it? While he was thinking these thoughts Kade was standing there, a lost look on his face at Silver's words.

"y-your right." he said, looking down as a fresh tear ran down his muzzle as he realized what he almost did.

"just forget it, come back with us and be with your family, they will need you now more then ever." Silver added told him in a soft voice.

With that they all turned and headed back, there was nothing here for them any more, nothing here for anyone. Before they left though, Silver spread the fire, to consume the entire camp, to burn all the bodies and all the remains.

-A/N I'm sure you may have noticed I just didn't feel like dialog in this chapter, sorry just didn't feel like it, mostly because the next chapter will probably have a lot of it so I decided to make this one mostly action. Oh and please review, tell me were I screwed up and what you like, what could have been better, feel free to ask anything. Or if you don't want to do that for what ever reason then you can PM me and I'll try to get back to you.-