Chapter 5 What's in a name?

Alex got up and slowly walked over to a heap lying on the snow near the edge of the trees. He was very nervous and jumped at every sound. When he got there he saw the remains of an Elk that the wolves must have killed that night. He looked it over and saw that there was nothing left. It was sorta gross to even think of trying to get any meat off of an old carcass that wolves had killed but at the moment he really didn't care. Alex picked up a bone and looked at it. The bone was broken and had a sharp tip at the end. He looked at it for a moment then a thought came to his mind. He clasped it in his hand like a dagger.

"We could use this," he said to himself. He looked around and found the head a few feet away and was relieved to see that it was a male and had a nice set of antlers on it. Alex managed to brake one off with great difficulty but was happy that they had some sort of weapons other then pots and fire. As he was walking back he came to the place were he had see the strange creature the tracks were very large, too large for a wolf and not the right shape for a bear. Something was in the snow next to one of the tracks; it was a necklace with dog tags on it. Alex picked it up and looked at it. The tag was old and rusted with dints in it.

"Privet Owen Jameson?" Alex whispered reading the name indented in the metal. He looked at it. The rest of the writing on it was all scratched out and rusted over. Alex had a confused frown on his face wondering how it got there. He put it in his pocket and headed over to where Asazi was.

When he got their Asazi was standing next to the fire.

"There you are," she snapped, "Where the hell were you I want to leave this place!"

"Don't worry we will leave soon," Alex replied.

"We better," she walked over to him and punched him in the shoulder.

"Ahh! That was my bad shoulder," Alex moaned holding his shoulder in pain.

She looked back at him, "Oops."

Alex just rubbed his shoulder and glared at her. "Look what I found," he exclaimed holding the necklace in his hand. Asazi walked up to him and grabbed it. She studied it over reading the name engraved in it.

"Umm," was all Asazi said, as she gave it back to him.

He put it back in his pocket and put on his backpack and started to walk towards the small clearing in the woods.

"We should go the other way," Asazi said.

"Why?"

"I just think we should it looks a lot easier then the way you were going to take," Asazi said quickly.

Alex looked at her trying to see what she was up to. "Alright," he said cautiously looking at the rocky path that she suggested.

His feat crunched as he walked across the snow. The sun was starting to come out and the world that was surrounding them revealed itself. Mountains were in the distance covered with snow and trees. And just behind them colors of red and blue and purple were splashed across the sky clashing together to for a picture in the sky. But the grey clouds still loomed in the distance and it was making Alex worried. When a storm hits up here it hits hard. Asazi was walking slowly in front of him her steps were slow and rhythmic. Alex was thinking about the necklace and how Asazi seemed not all that surprised about it like she new who this Owen was. And why she seemed so sure about going this way. She knows more about this then she is letting on Alex thought. Suddenly he saw her feat give way and watched her fall on some ice. He ran up to her almost falling himself.

"Are you alright," he managed to say in between his laughing.

"Think that was funny?" she said getting up. Brushing snow off of herself.

"I'm sorry but it was a little funny," Alex said walked past her looking forward concentrating on the road ahead.

Something hit him in the back on the head. He stopped and looked around and saw Asazi standing there with another snowball in her hand.



"Your lucky I don't have my cross bow with me," Asazi said sarcastically.



Alex bent down to pick up some snow to make a snowball when he heard something cracking. He looked down and saw the ice braking underneath his feat. Alex had no time to react, before his feat broke through and his body was engulfed in the cold water. He looked up and saw the surface disappear as the water covered his head.