Hidden by the Mountain

Chapter 2, Hiding in the Moonlight's Shadows

~Towards the right there is a picture of the Moonlight Shadows pack territory. I forgot to mention that the green is the neighboring forest~

Chapter 2

Hiding in the Moonlight’s Shadows

            Kamatz leaped off of the branch he was sitting on and raced back to his den in the mountain. Kahoko is alive!? But I watched her take some of her last breaths! How can this be? He thought to himself. He didn’t know if he should be happy that his sister was alive or that he should be mad that he had lived alone for two moons without knowing. All he knew was that Kahoko was somehow alive.

            He slipped into the cave and lay down at the very end where a tiny patch of sunlight shone through. Kamatz curled into a ball with his head on his paws and his long tail resting on his muzzle. Maybe everything would be easier to understand once he was well-rested.

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            A loud noise woke Kamatz. The white wolf stretched and slowly padded outside into the light of the full moon. Growling sounds came from the valley behind the mountain. Curious, Kamatz scrambled up the rocks and looked into the valley below. The Moonlight Shadows pack was fighting with other wolves Kamatz didn’t recognize.

            Kamatz slid down the mountain and walked through snow now a foot deep. He still remained in the shadows of the trees for extra camouflage however. An unfamiliar tan colored wolf crashed into him from the valley. “Move! Get out of…” the wolf started roaring at him until he looked at his size.

            “I-I-I’m sorry. I’ll l-l-leave now.”

            “You aren’t leaving,” Kamatz growled back.

            The tan wolf thundered through the undergrowth as fast as he could but in mere seconds Kamatz jumped on his back and bit down on his neck like he always did with prey. Immediately the tan wolf toppled onto the snow that was melting and turning scarlet in the warm, sticky blood.

            Kamatz hared back to the edge of the forest and watched many more wolves rush into the trees. But he was only able to kill a few of them because he would soon lose the trail of wolves that entered the forest a good ways away.

            Finally the Moonlight Shadows wolves cheered and returned to their den. Kahoko remained behind. She must have conflicted feelings to.

            “Kahoko!” Kamatz shouted out to her. The white she-wolf pelted over to him, “What are you doing here?”

            Kamatz stood up. He had gotten tired and begun to fall asleep before he saw her. Kahoko’s jaw dropped in amazement at his size. “You’re bigger than Adolf!” Kamatz looked at her for an explanation.

            “He’s the alpha male in our pack,” she explained.

Kamatz sat back down and smiled as he said, “I’m not much bigger.” He looked down his snowy pelt all the way to the tip of his tail that was about as long as a coyote.

            “Yes, you are!” She shrieked, “You’re twice my size!” Kamatz just turned around and started walking back to his mountain. Kahoko swished him a good-bye with her tail and raced back to the boulder.

            Soon Kamatz noticed he was hungry. He lifted his nose to the air and heard a starling in the branches of a tree above. It wasn’t exactly a filling meal but it would take the edge off of his hunger. After a big leap he brought it out of a branch halfway up the tree and smashed its head into the ground from the collision, instantly making his kill.