A Wolves Life

Shadow and Lightning

Days went by that turn into months that change from summer August to fall November. Creek has gone, and Angel, too. Only Crow, Mishka, Shadow, Yazi and Lightning are left. Crow is now fifty-eighty moons old, Mishka is fifty-five moons old. Lightning is now twenty-nine moons old. Shadow is twenty-six moons old. Crow and Mishka mated almost two months ago and have left for a den to  raise thier own pups. Shadow is at the age to leave and start a pack of her own. 

Shadow:

I sniffed the cool crisp air, fall I thought. Its time to start a pack soon, mate and have pups. Pups, that would be nice. Little pups to follow my paws and to jump and play. To love and nourish little pups would be nice. Sniffing the air once more, scenting for prey, the scent of fat juicy hare reached my nose. Rising to my paws from the grass that would soon be frozen in the cold white snow and ice I tracked the hare to a small  tangy smelling bush. Darting  forward at my prey it leaped away making me just miss it. The hare sped off with me in pursuit, the hare is fast with me gaining on it. All the sudden a blur of brown fur came from the side and caught my hare. My eyes narrowed and I glared at the  wolf who caught what was rightfully mine, the scent told me it was Lightning. Lightning looked up to me with my hare limp in its jaws with a bit of blood its snapped neck. Lightning took the hare and placed it in front of me and took a step. "For you"

Lowering my head and looking at Lightnings eyes. " Thank You"

Lightning licked my cheek and trotted off, I picked up the hare and walked way to eat my hare. Later on Lightning came back with a small badger. I set my head down ready to go to sleep when a cold wind blew through the trees. I tucked my legs and paws up a bits and covered my face with my fluffy tail.

I was somewhat awake and felt something warm beside me, I didn't care what it was, I was sleeping and warm. Although I was still curious though, keeping my eyes closed my nose twitched, it was Lightning. Still not caring I decided to just keep on snoozing. All sounds and smells ignored, the cold wind didn't bother me, sleep was peacefull. Sleep is peacefull all untill you wake up and have to get up. The sun was setting, time to get up, there goes peace and quiet. I opened my eyes to see Lightning still there, I noticed the breeze that blew through the trees was still cold and started wishing I could sleep some more. I liffted my head and realized that lightning was already awake. Lightning liffted his head to mine and licked my muzzle.

"Good night"

I licked his muzzle back to say good night to him to. I got up and breathed in the cold night air. Time to hunt. I got up to find a good source of water. Took a while till I found a large lake, the lake glistened under the moon. Soft quacks and honks from the ducks that were still there, these ducks will be gone soon for winter. I would need the fatty meat to survive well in winter I thought. I crouched down, tail lowerd and crept up to a sleeping duck. I lept with a silent spring,  a bit startled it let out a cry of alarm as I snapped its neck. The surrounding ducks awoke and started squaking franticly as they rose up into to air fleeing. I jumped and snapped at as many wings and necks of the ducks as I could, one was injured but continued to fly away. I snapped the neck of one, and injured another that struggled to rise into the air only to stay on the ground flailing about panicking in terror. I  snapped the neck and looked happily at the three ducks that lay limp and twisted on the ground. I ate one and dragged the other two back the the area I slept. I was very satified with what I'd caught, I got  back  to were I had been sleeping and dug a bits in the ground and put the leftover prey there. Lightning came back to the resting area with a fat vole in his mouth, thats a good vole but even fat voles aren't that filling I thought. I picked one duck up and layed it by Lightning.

I showed my teeth a little to smile at him, Lightning licked my muzzle and nuzzeling me.      

"Thank You Shadow"