It's me! The author! ..Remember me?.. Yes, I know, it's been a long time since last update, but I've been kinda busy... Especially now in christmas time :). Thanks to everyone who reviwed- and to ThatRottenAcorn: I almost forgot about the wolf! It was supposed to be in chapter 6, but somehow I didn't put that on ...

So, here's chapter 7! Please review!

A scrawny wolf limped over the rocks. The tongue hang out and there were several open wounds on his small body. His breaths came in short, shuddering gasps. The wolf managed to stagger into the wolfs territory.

"Where have you been, Grey?" a powerful voice reached his ears. It was Shadow, the pack's alpha. Shadow was named of his dark fur and speed. It was said, that when he ran, only his shadow could be seen. The pack surrounded the exhausted wolf, Grey.

"Where's Black?" Shadow demanded. Grey looked at the alpha. Black and Grey, the siblings who didn't care about each other. No one really cared anymore.

"Black's… dead", the wolf couched up some blood. "…the saber", Grey struggled for breath before falling to the ground. Moonlight, one of the females, walked up to him and nudged him in the side. Gray gasped a few times before he went still.

"Dead", Moonlight said coldly. The pack was silent.

Shadow frowned. Not that those idiots are a big loss, he thought, but still two wolfs lesser. The decision was easy: they would attack that strange herd and no idiotic saber would stand in their way.

"Listen", he barked harshly. "We'll keep tracking that herd. Now", his gaze fell on Grey's lifeless body. "Leave the body."

The pack followed him immediately. However, Shadow was more than a little shocked to find out that the herd was going to the Deadly Mountains. Even the best could die by going there.

How stupid are they, really?

"You raise me uuuup, so I can stand on mountains", Sid sang with terrible, false voice. Manny raised his trunk to hit him. Sid let out a scream and hide behind Ellie.

"You've got a very bad habit oh hiding behind our sister", Eddie commented.

Crash grinned and the possums should just jump at the sloth.

"Be quieter", Diego snapped. The herd looked at him. Diego was never one to actually raise his voice or show his emotions. Now he looked rather… nervous. He threw glances around them all the time.

"Something's wrong?" Manny asked, fearing that the wolfs were near.

Diego shrugged. "Just this place", he muttered and walked past the others. "And keep your voices low, for pity's sake", he added with a hiss. "These mountains are very unsteady."

Ellie and Manny exchanged looks. Something was definitely wrong.

Diego was growing… unsure. He felt more like a lost cub than a full grown saber. And he didn't like it. He growled and shook his head. He would not think thing like that! Well, he managed to keep himself from feeling so before they came to that place.

Diego froze as he took in the sight in front of him. Large rocks laying in a mess. A dead tree standing a few feet away. The steep cliff walls…

He knew this place. All to well. The saber couldn't move, couldn't think, couldn't breathe.

/"Look out!" little Diego fell to the ground and couldn't get up. Rocks were tumbling down from the mountain.

A voice whispered in his ears. "I'm sorry…"

He was flying through the air, watching the other saber disappear under tons of rocks.

"…D-dad?/

"Hey, Diego! Coming or not?" Manny's voice shook the saber back to reality.

"Ah, yes", he managed to say, praying his voice was steady. Judging from the strange looks the herd gave him, it wasn't as calm as he wished.

"You're alright?" Ellie asked carefully.

"Yes", Diego answered sharper than he intended. But considering anger was the easiest way to keep the voice in check, he didn't try to do anything more.

While they kept walking he tried to push away the thoughts. Tried to deny. Because under the heavy rocks were the bones of his father. Diego shuddered and closed his eyes briefly. When he opened them again they were harder, colder. He would not mourn the loss of his father. He wouldn't.

Not anymore.

The twins were – as usual- playing pranks on the others. And if they didn't do that, they played tag. Or 'Annoy the saber'". Or 'Kill the sloth', or 'Make the mammoth yell', and the list goes on. Diego hated it.

Not just the possums, but the stinking, awful, spiteful place they were in. Diego knew that animals usually remember smells better than sounds or sights. And he remembered. Oh, how he did! The thin air and the strange, dry smell.

And the sickly sweet, rotten smell of saber blood.

"Is it a long way to go?" Sid whined. His back was bowed and the goofy head hang. In fact, the rest of the herd looked almost as tired as the sloth.

"Get up on Ellie's back", Diego told him calmly. "Now", he added as Manny looked like he was going to protest. "Listen. We're getting closer to the Mountain Trail, a small path twisting away from here. But I warn you, the trail is not meant for mammoths. Be careful, and we should make it. When the path gets broader, we'll come to a lake in a low dale… If I remember right.

Manny raised an eyebrow. "I thought you didn't know this place."

Diego narrowed his eyes. "I was wrong", he said sternly and put an end to the conversation. He jerked his head towards the road that was slowly getting smaller and smaller. "Let's go", he told the herd.

A dark wolf watched the strange herd from distance. His teeth were bared and the eyes narrowed. A sly smirk reached his lips as he glared at the saber who led the herd towards the Montain Trail. Towards their dead.

"Moonlight", he barked without turning his head from the saber. The light female walked up to him.

"Yes?" she asked. Shadow didn't spare her a single glance.

"Make sure that the pack is ready to attack", he commanded. "And send a few wolfs over the mountains to meet the herd from the other side."

Moonlight's eyes widened and she stared at him in shock. "Over the mountains?" her voice was a bit higher than usual. "But, there's no chans that they'll survive that-"

"Are you doupting me?" the alphas voice was dangerous calm, but his eyes were flashing furiously.

"No, of course not", Moonlight said quickly and bowed her head.

Shadow nodded. "Good. Now, go!" Moonlight turned around as fast as she could to do what she was told. That was the good thing about being the alpha: everyone feared him and did as he told them to. Shadow's heart was since long cold.

"Wolfs", he called out louder. The smirk grew broader and his teeth shone. "We attack immediately."

Am I evil? Nah, it's not one of those reeally annoying cliffhangers, right? Probably not my best chapter so far, but still. I'm having a hard time writing wolfs, 'cuz in this fanfic they're the 'bad guys'... and I like wolfs. I'm so bad with names, too...

Blondie: Indeed, you are...

GirlFromNorth: That's called bullying!

Mysterious H: Who cares?..

GirlFromNorth: I do!

Diego: Whatever...

Manny: At least she's not hyper this time.

Eddie: Still annoying-

Crash: And short tempered.

Blondie: Believe me,I know.

GirlFromNorth: Now it's definitely bullying! *cryes*

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