Honestly, revamping an old story takes a long time and I lose interest fast XD So this has taken FOREVER. I hope to get the next chapter done faster (gonna try working on it now). And if you are looking for Sladin fics, go to my other account (should be on the homepage link on my profile page for your convenience) BTW, sorry about the switching POVs. The most there is is Slade and Robin's, so its not THAT bad, but if it gets TOO annoying, let me know

PS: I may turn this into a comic 8D If you're interested and are REALLY good with backgrounds, let me know. I'll be taking care of the layout and the wolf drawings but I will need a good background artist (since I have never drawn one XD)

Slade's POV:

I sniffed the air again. Robin's scent was getting stronger. There were three human scents too. I growled low and quiet in my throat. This was bad.

"Robin! Blood Rain!"

Buster was farther up ahead. He was nearing the top of a snowy, tree-covered hill. Rocco growled.

"Where are you, you little shit!" he yelled. "We haven't got all day!"

Snorting at Rocco's annoyance, I quickened my pace. Buster was at the top of the hill now.

"Slade, you might want to come and look at this!"

My ears perked forward; something was wrong. I ran up the hill, Rocco right behind me. I reached Buster, standing on his left. Rocco came up on my other side.

"Isn't that-?"

"Blood Rain!" I yelled.

Adrenaline kicking in, I quickly ran down the hill to meet up with Blood Rain. Lowering my head, I sniffed his bleeding body and caught the scent of death. I stopped breathing momentarily as I stared down at him. My ears fell back.

Rocco and Buster caught up.

"He was shot," Buster said. "The hunters killed him."

Rocco sniffed around the area and then growled.

"Robin was here," he said. "Along with three humans. By the looks of it, they ran away with a fright."

"But how could Robin scare away three humans if he can't even scare us?" Buster asked.

I glanced at the two of them out of the corner of my eye.

"That's the point," Rocco said, addressing his brother, "he couldn't have scared them off. He might have had help."

I sniffed the air and caught the scent of four wolves and three humans. I recognized Robin and Blood Rain's at once, but the other two were unknown. They were both male, one small and younger than the other. Looking around in all directions, I searched for signs of Robin. He was long gone it seemed.

"So what do we do now?" Buster asked. "Do we go looking for Robin or-?"

Rocco snorted.

"Of course we look for him, moron," he said. "Blood Rain is dead because of him. That only leaves one option; his death."

Buster growled.

"Shut up, Rocco! You don't get to call all the shots!"

I glared at my two arguing pack members.

"You tell me to shut up one more time Buster, and I swear I will-!"

I turned on the two of them.

"Shut up the both of you," I said angrily. I glared at Rocco. "If I remember correctly, you were the one who caught the humans' attention in the first place." Rocco's ears fell back. "If you hadn't chased Robin off, he would still be here and Blood Rain would still be alive."

Rocco bared his fangs at me.

"You're the one who left him alone with me after you two talked!" he shot back at me. "So whose fault is it now?!"

Buster quickly cut in.

"Why don't you both just shut up?!" he yelled angrily. "Blood Rain is dead and you want to be playing the Blame Game now?! That's fucking stupid, you know that!"

Rocco and I continued to glare daggers and growl at each other, but Buster was right; this was no time to argue.

"We're wasting time," I said, still angry. "I want Robin found and I want him found now. Once the humans vanished, he should have stayed put until I arrived. Once we find him, he will be punished severely."

Whipping around, I walked past Blood Rain's dead body and started walking. Robin's scent was very far away, but I wasn't going to stop until I had found him. He was going to be in a lot of trouble if he didn't come back soon. My patience was running dry.

Rocco and Buster were soon following right behind me. We walked on in silence, leaving my old friend behind, dead. I growled.

'I will find you Robin,' I thought. 'When I do, you will wish you hadn't run away from me.'

Robin's POV:

"Man I'm hungry," Cyborg said. "Why don't I get some food?"

"You do that Cyborg," Beast Boy said. "I'm starving."

"I'll be back ASAP then."

Cyborg soon left. I continued to stare in the direction of where we came. Part of me was telling me to go back to Slade, but the other part was telling me to keep going.

"You okay dude?"

My ears perked up.

"What?" I asked looking at Beast Boy. He gave me a blank look. "Oh, yeah, I'm fine."

Beast Boy's ears drooped back.

"You don't look fine," he said. "I mean, did something happen to you; before you were caught between those humans?"

My eyes narrowed slightly.

"I don't want to talk about it," I said. "But I will say this; my life isn't what it's cracked up to be."

"Why?" Beast Boy asked curiously.

"Because it's just the way it is."

"Time for breakfast ya'll!" Looking south, Beast Boy and I saw Cyborg returning with a large deer dragging in front of him. He stopped before us and let the kill fall. My stomach growled and I started to salivate. Cyborg gave me the right flank. Forgetting that I was supposed to be polite, I quickly started eating. "Hungry much?"

"Dude, Cy, he eats faster than you," Beast Boy said.

I soon finished eating. Cyborg was looking at me strangely. My ears fell back.

"Sorry," I said, my ears returning upright. "Back home I had less food than everyone else. Of course, Slade rarely eats and you don't see him sleeping all that much either."

Sitting down, Beast Boy scratched at his neck, asking, "The one who gave you muzzle scars?"

Cyborg snorted.

"B, don't ask him that," he said. "It's obvious isn't it? Why else do you think he wanted to get away from those wolves?"

I stepped in between my new friends.

"I was trying to run from the humans, not the pack. You're the ones who told me to follow you. I'm even thinking about going back."

They both looked shocked.

"But why?" Beast Boy asked. "They're jerks if I ever saw one."

Yes, Rocco was the biggest jerk out of the whole pack. But the thought of someone calling Slade a jerk didn't seem right to me.

"The only jerk in my pack is Rocco," I said. "The others aren't as bad. The wolf I was with, Blood Rain, cared about me a lot. And Slade became like a father to me after my parents died." I paused. I was telling these two so much and I hardly knew them. "Anyway, I don't know what to do. Though knowing Slade, they're probably chasing after me."

There was a pause.

"Well, you're with friends now," Cyborg said. "You have to leave the pack sometime. Maybe its time for this Slade guy to let you go."

Time to let go of me? That seemed too harsh. We started walking again, the sun shinning brightly down on us. The warmth from her made me feel refreshed and strangely happy. For half the day we walked with very few words between us. Birds chirped in trees. There were so many new scents around that it was a little overwhelming. How could I have missed so much of this?

My ears suddenly perked up when we stopped for a small break.

"Did you guys hear something?" Beast Boy asked. "I heard something."

Cyborg snorted as I looked around closely, keeping my ears and nose alert.

"It's just your imagination B," Cyborg said. "I don't hear anything man."

My nose twitched. I slowly moved my gaze from the right to the left as I tried to see whatever had made the noise. My ears quickly perked up.

"Hey," I whispered, "Beast Boy's right; there's something out there. Stay still."

The three of us became alert. The sound of a twig snapping to the east forced me to look in the direction it came. Just a few feet away from us near a clump of trees, a bush shook. Cyborg jumped in front of me and lowered himself to growl at it. My claws pushed out a bit as excitement formed in my mind.

"Whoever you are, show yourself," Cyborg demanded. "Don't make me drag you out."

The bush shook again, a little more violently. We braced ourselves when a nose poked out. Soon a black head emerged and then a slim body of a full black wolf. My eyes widened slightly. This was the very first time I had seen a female wolf. Her eyes were a deep shade of purple. She had a blank look on her face as she stared calmly at us.

"Wow, you're a dudette," Beast Boy said. A calmness filled the forest around us. "I've never seen another she-wolf besides my mum way back when."

The she-wolf growled lightly at him.

"This is my territory," she said, sounding a bit angry. "So get out."

She was about to shove her way past Cyborg when I stepped between them. Her eyes narrowed slightly at me.

"We didn't know this was your territory," I said apologetically. "My name's Robin; what's yours?"

The she-wolf didn't answer for some time. When she did speak she spoke somewhat monotonously.

"My name is Raven," she said. "What do you want?"

"Just passing through," I said with a small smile. "We didn't realize we were trespassing. We're sorry about that."

Raven snorted.

"You're probably one of the only wolves that have crossed this area that weren't jerks," she said. "Anyway, finish passing through. I travel alone."

Raven walked past me. I turned and followed her with my gaze as she walked past Cyborg and Beast Boy, who glanced at each other.

Once she was out of earshot, I said, "Come on; she looks lonely. Let's see if we can make her our friend."

Beats Boy gave me a perplexed look.

"Dude, she's kind of creepy. And I don't think she'd want us around anyways. You heard what she said. Besides, we don't need any females in our manly pack. Just let her be."

Beast Boy walked past me. Cyborg glanced at me before following his friend. I snorted quietly.

"I'm going to follow her," I said. "You don't have to come if you don't want. I'll go with her instead."

Giving them a nod, I turned around and walked after her. I was almost to her when I heard Cyborg and Beast Boy catching up. She must have heard us because Raven stopped and turned around, looking a bit annoyed. I stopped a few feet from her.

"I told you, I travel alone," she said. "So stop following me."

My tail wagged slightly.

"Or, better yet, why not come with us?" I asked. "Being lonely gets kind of boring after a while, don't you think?"

Raven stared at me for a while with her same, blank look. I smiled, trying to encourage her.

I was pretty good at it, apparently, when she said, "Yes, loneliness can be. Well, I guess since I am sick of this area, I will go with you wherever it is you wish to go."

Closing my eyes, I grinned, my tail wagging.

"We would like that. Wouldn't we guys?" Looking at Cyborg and Beast Boy, I saw them trade glances. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Raven's ears fold back. "Guys?"

They looked at me.

"But she's a girl," Beast Boy said. "They are pretty weak."

Beast Boy suddenly yelped in surprise. Cyborg had jumped back, pretty much shrieking like a girl. Raven had the small wolf under her, pinning him down expertly like she had done this many times before. She pushed her nose against his, growling.

"Watch your mouth, weakling," she said angrily. "Or I will bite it off."

I grinned nervously. It looked like Slade had a run for his money on Raven. Beast Boy squeaked.

"I-I'm sorry…!"

After snorting in his face, Raven jumped over his head and began to walk.

"Are we going or not?" she asked. She passed Cyborg. "And you shriek like a girl."

Cyborg chuckled nervously. Chuckling, I ran after her to catch up.

"Let's go guys!"

Honestly, I had never had this much fun in my life. I couldn't remember the last time I had been this happy. Maybe I had done the right thing. I was very hopeful that this new life would continue.