(Read the prologue and chapters 1 & 2 first)

Rouke needed answers. He was a smart wolf, after all, that’s why he was the alpha. He knew he couldn’t just depend on his pack’s strength to save them always, and he had to talk to Nosa’s pack and find out the most about the enemy before it could attack.

Rouke set out the next day to talk to Nosa’s pack, Lok at his side, and Jaz trailing slowly behind, his tail between his legs and his paws dragging with every step.

“Lighten up Jaz,” Lok smiled trying to cheer him up. “There’s still hope!”

“No there’s not!” Jaz grumbled, “You were there yesterday, and you saw the Argy carrying Nosa!”

Lok let out a soft growl, warning Jaz he was still a lower rank and to not raise his voice at the higher ranking wolves.

“She’s gone,” Rouke sighed, “Don’t give him false hope.”

The three got to the edge of Nosa’s packs territory and Rouke let out a howl to alert them of their arrival.

Not too long after, three solemn figures slunk out of the shadows, their heads lowered in grief.

“Greetings wolf kin.” The pack’s alpha, Hark sighed. “You must’ve heard of the tragedy the occurred last night.”

“Its true?” Jaz whined, “She’s really gone?”

“Yes,” the beta, Luno sighed, looking away.

“Was it wolf trappers?” Rouke asked, skipping to the point of their visit.

“It was huge- an Argy swooped from the sky! It just picked her up- something weird was on it’s back!” Lana, who wasn’t much older than a pup, and was the youngest in the pack, blurted.

Luno and Hark growled slightly, warning Lana to let them explain, but she ignored them and continued on.

“It was huge! It just took her and flew away- but it came back later and hovered overhead as if looking for-.”

Luno turned and snapped her jaws in front of Lana’s nose so that she backed away and went silent.

Her jaws still hung slightly open as it she would start speaking again any second.

“It had some thing weird on its back, and we do think it could have been a human…” Hark sighed looking up at the sky as if talking about the Argy would bring it and human back.

“Yes,” Luno said, “And it did come back and fly around overhead as if looking for the rest of us. I hope you don’t run into that terrible beast like us.”

“Thank you,” Rouke said, “We will need to head back to our territory soon.”

“Good luck on your journey back,” Hark nodded.

“Yes, and stay safe from that Argy,” Rouke nodded back before setting of with Jaz and Lok behind him.

(Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 first)

Rouke woke up and looked around the cave. Lok and Jaz were still sleeping, tired after their big prey they had caught earlier.

Suddenly Rouke heard a loud a burst of howls. He knew that howl anywhere. It was one of the wolves in there neighboring pack, a pack of four.

He ran to the entrance of the cave, Lok at his side in an instant, and Jaz wandering slowly in their direction.

“What’s happening?” Lok asked, alert.

“Nosa from the neighboring pack is in trouble,” Rouke said, turning to Lok.

Jaz suddenly darted to the cave entrance. “Are you sure it was Nosa?” He asked, suddenly alert too. Nosa was Jaz’s sister, and they had chose different packs when they were old enough to leave their birth pack.

Rouke growled at Jaz for doubting what he had heard, and Jaz backed away.

Nosa howled again, but it grew fainter every second. Lok suddenly pointed with his nose to something in the sky.

“That’s her, Alpha. I think an Argy has her, but there’s something on its back.” Lok said.

Jaz crawled to the back of the cave and whimpered, knowing there was no way to get his sister back now.

Rouke left Lok to go comfort Jaz, and stepped outside the cave to think.

Maybe the wolf trapper stories weren’t rumors after all…

(Read the prologue first)

Rouke and his pack had just taken down a rhino with no trouble at all.

“Anyone injured?” Rouke asked, not expecting any of them to actually be hurt, but he had to double check.

“Nope!” Jaz said, tilting his head and letting his tongue flip out the side of his mouth in that strange pup-like way of his.

“Me neither,” Lok said, and they both waited expectantly for their alpha, Rouke to take the first bite of the prey.

Rouke stepped up and took his share of the prey and the waited for the others to finish eating to.

“We’ll leave the rest for the Argys,” Rouke sighed, watching the big birds circle overhead.

Rouke padded off and listened to the sounds of Jaz and Lok trotting behind him.

He looked back to see both of their heads bent down in a whispered conversation, and he turned back, waiting for them to fill him in on the conversation.

“Well, what is it?” Rouke said expectantly.

“Nothing of concern,” Lok said, “Jaz just heard rumors of some sort of, creatures taking wolf and locking them up in pens…”

“Your right it’s nothing of concern,” Rouke said, not doubting their pack’s strength for a second.

“Nothing we can’t handle!” Jaz grinned tilting his head in that odd way of his once more.

The three of them howled and then trotted back to their cave at the base of the mountain.

(Read the prologue and chapters 1, 2 & 3 first)

It was the middle of the night, but Lok couldn’t sleep. He had always admired the stars, so he went out to a clear open area to gaze up at them.

Jaz and Rouke were asleep in the cave, but Lok couldn’t help getting the feeling of being watched. He growled and spun around once, seeing a shadow flit through the trees.

He guessed it was an Argy. “I don’t got any prey, you nasty bird,” he snarled, but before he knew what was happening, the Argy swooped in behind him and grab him tightly with its claws.

Lok struggled, bit and howled, waking up Rouke and Jaz, but they weren’t fast enough, and they rushed out of the cave just in time to see the Argy lift off the ground and fly out of jumping range with Lok in its talons.

“Lok! No! Lok!” Jaz whimpered, running to the spot where the Argy had lifted off from.

“We can still chase it, Alpha,” Jaz whimpered, pawing at the ground.

Rouke’s head buzzed with decisions.

“Lok’s smart,” he growled. “That Argy doesn’t know who its dealing with, and I’m sure Lok will escape whatever high nest its taking him to.”

“But, Alpha-“ Jaz started, then backed up when Rouke snarled.

“I know, if its the trapper, it could be harder to escape, but going after him will only worsen the problem, now at least. We waited to long to make a decision.” Rouke snarled.

Jaz looked back at the cave. “Is it still safe here?”

Rouke shook his head. “Hark had some nerve keeping his pack where they were, but it’s not safe for the two of us here now, now that it saw us, and the cave entrance.”

Jaz nodded, his cheerful puppy-like attitude gone.

“Nosa, and now Lok,” Jaz whimpered.

“Stop that, your not a scared pup. We need to be tough now that it’s just two of us. We’ll go to our spare cave for now, until its safe again.”

Jaz raced back in the cave and grabbed the only item he had ever owned, a stick he and his sister would play with when they were pups, back in his old birth pack.

It was broken in half. Nosa had kept the other half to remember him.

“I don’t know why you have to carry that,” Rouke sighed, “But let’s go, before that scavenger bird comes back.”

Rouke was a strong wolf with unusual pink fur. He was also the alpha of his pack of three, which he proud of indeed. The beta of the pack was named Lok, and the gama was Jaz. Rouke knew that though his pack was a bit smaller than most, they were one of the toughest packs in their part of the artic, and all other nearby packs had heard tales of how they had victoriously takes down Rexs and Mammoths, but nothing prepared Rouke for the wolf trappers.

(Read prologue and chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4 first)

“It’s no wonder we used this as the spare den,” Jaz huffed, looking around the cramped cave.

“Be glad we have anything,” Rouke growled. “That stupid wolf trapper is more trouble than we thought.”

“And now its got Lok too,” Jaz whined, pawing at the stone floor of the cave.

“No time to sit around and complain,” Rouke sighed, “We need prey still.”

Jaz was up on his paws in a second. “A Whooly rhino, or maybe a anklo?”

“No,” Rouke said, “Have you forgotten we’re a pack member short? The best we can catch is a megalosaurus right now, if even that.”

Jaz frowned. “Am I the beta now at least?” He asked.

“No!” Rouke snapped. “Your still gamma, so don’t forget your place. Lok might not be gone yet.”

“But you said Nos-“ Jaz started, but cut off when Rouke growled at him.

“Just follow me now, gamma,” Rouke snarled, “We need food now.”

The fierce winds whipped as the two of them walked out of the cave. Rouke glanced nervously at the dead trees, never trusting them to be strong enough to withstand the harsh winds of winter.

“Alpha, I think I see a meg-“ Jaz started to say, but a dead tree trunk was torn out of the ground just that moment and hurtled towards them.

Rouke jumped on Jaz, pushing him out of the way. Everything went so fast, and the next second, he felt a terrible pain on his back leg, and tried to move it, but the tree trunk was now stuck on his leg pinning him down.

“Help me up!” Rouke howled, “Jaz, where are you?”

Rouke heard the screech of an Argy and whipped his head around, trying to spot it.

“I’m not dead yet!” Rouke snarled. “Try your best bird!”

An Argy swooped over head, the now recognizable figure of a human on top of its back.

“Dive Maal!” The human commanded the bird who swooped down towards Rouke.

Jaz jumped over the log from behind, ramming the Argy right in its head.

The Argy, confused, swerved and ran right into the dead tree, pushing it off Rouke’s leg.

“Let’s go Alpha,” Jaz said, trying to help Rouke up.

“Go, go, I got this.” Rouke growled, shoving Jaz away.

The human had rolled off the bird when it crashed and had now climbed on top of a rock. It was holding something that looks like a curved stick with a pointy stick attached to it.

The human pulled back on a string and then let go, and the pointy stick came sailing towards Rouke.

“No!” Jaz howled, jumping into front of the stick, then limply rolling until he came to a stop by the big log.

Rouke growled, ready to fight, but a second Argy swooped up behind him and grabbed him tight, it’s talons digging firmly into his skin.

Rouke looked down to see the first Argy, with the human now on its back again, pick up Jaz, who was now hanging limply from its talons, almost lifeless… or maybe he was now lifeless, and the human had killed him with the pointy weapon.

The was all Rouke needed to power him to start fighting again. He bit and scratched at the Argy, letting out howl after howl, but it was useless and he was carried helplessly farther and farther from his cave and his territory.

(Read the prologue and chapters 1-6 first)

Something drew Kifin over to the left corner of the trap room. He usually stayed in opposite right corner. He considered it his “territory”. Staying too long in the trap house could make you search for old wolf traditions in the strangest place, like owning a territory.

Kifin knew when he saw the pair of wolves what had brought him there.

He had seen one of the wolves before, the thin, sleek one. But the other one, sitting tall and proud, Kifin had never seen before, but he could tell that wolf had been the alpha of his pack.

Kifin approached the two wolves slowly, his tail held proud, not wanting to show weakness.

“What do you want, pup?” The sleek wolf asked, his eyes studying Kifin.

Its true that Kifin was not much more than a pup, but he growled defensively. “I’m not a pup. What are you doing here.”

The alpha wolf snarled, “Wolf trappers, the same reason as you, but probably not the same way as you. You weak little pup probably barely put up a fight. I would have taken them down if I hadn’t been injured!”

Kifin growled, but watched the alpha wolf admiringly. “I fought! How did you get injured, you look fine now?”

The alpha wolf studied the pup, his eyes showing skepticism.

The sleek wolf stepped forward, clearly his role in his pack had been a beta.

“Tree branch fell on his back legs, pinning him! He fought so tough, he almost took down both Argy’s.” The beta wolf said.

The alpha wolf snorted. “If it wasn’t for Jaz, I wouldn’t have been able to do any fighting. Don’t lie to this pup, Lok. Gama fought braver then me.”

“I know Alpha, but you fought once Haz moved the log, and Jaz wouldn’t have been here if you hadn’t pushed him out of the way of the log.”

“Where is your gama, Jaz?” Kifin asked, leaning in curiously.

The alpha snarled. “Humans have him.”

“He’s in the healing place,” The beta, Lok explained.

Kifin could tell the beta wolf had been in the trap place longer. Kifin, the oldest pup in his pack, but still one of the youngest wolves in the pack had been the only one taken by the trappers so far.

“All my pack is still back in their territory. They are good at camouflage.” Kifin explained. “I have two sisters, my mother, my father who is alpha, and his brother, the beta. We also have a pack elder.”

“I see…” Lok smirked. “The male pup thought he’d prove how tough he was by hunting alone, and got himself caught? Hmm?”

Kifin looking around, seeing many other male adolescent wolves. “You got that story from others I’m guessing. How’d you get here though?”

“They caught me off guard in the middle of the night.” Lok growled.

“Where your pack come from?” Alpha wolf huffed. It seems like a big pack.”

It’s a pack of 7, but once my siblings and I leave it will be a pack of four again.” Kifin said. “We come from the North side of the mountain. When me and my siblings leave, we might just start of pack, just the three of us.”

Lok and Alpha chuckled.

“Trust me, we all say that.” Alpha laughed.

“Young pups…” Lok smirked.

“I’m not a pup!” Kifin insisted.

Lok looked at alpha. “You know, we are just a pack of three. We could maybe take in a fourth sometime.”

Alpha snorted. “That would tak a lot of convincing to make me accept this little pup.”

Kifin sighed. “I’m strong you know!”

“Sure, I’ll think about it,” Alpha sighed, rolling his eyes. “Run off now pup!”

Kifin growled again, but reluctantly trotted off to his own little corner.

(Read the prologue and chapters 1 - 5 first)

Rouke woke up to a wolf’s snout in his face.

“Back up Jaz!” He snarled at his only remaining pack member, but when he opened his eyes fully, it was a different pack member who was standing in front of him.

“Hello Alpha.” Lok said, his tail dancing excitedly behind him. “And it’s just and insult to call me Jaz!” He joked.

Rouke studied Lok, holding back relief and happiness from being reunited with his packmate.

“We’ll it looks like you didn’t get dumped into and Argy’s nest for lunch anyways,” Rouke grinned.

Lok grimaced. “Thankfully,” he sighed. “I spent the first few minutes thinking of all they meal they might make me into,” he joked, “And Argy’s are terrible cooks! It’d totally be a waste.”

Rouke shook his head, ready to take matters more seriously now.

As the world suddenly came more focused around Rouke, he became aware of many wolf rushing past him, howling, barking, scratching at walls around him.

“Walls!” Rouke snarled, jumping to his paws. “Where are we, and where’s Jaz?”

Lok took a step back. “It’s a lot to comprehend Alpha. You know the trappers aren’t rumors now… and that’s where we are. In one of their trap-houses with so many other wolves. There’s no cages either, we just run where we chose in here, but it’s a trap room still and we can’t get out. I spent the whole night guarding you from getting crushed in this cramped place!”

“There’s no ceiling,” Rouke pointed out.

“We’ve tried jumping out…and forming big piles to climb out, but nothing works in here Alpha!” Lok sighed. “…They drop us in through the roof, except they put most of us to sleep during the ride so we don’t see the way.”

“How foolish of them!” Rouke snarled. “I could find my way back to out territory from anywhere in the Arctic!”

Lok nodded.

“Where’s Jaz,” Rouke asked, searching for his final packmate in the crowd.

“Not sure…” Lok said, studying the room. “Did he come here with you.”

Rouke’s eyes suddenly widened. “I think those trappers killed them when they shot him with the pointy sticks!”

“No,” Lok sighed, “That’s what they use to knock us out. I think he’ll be fine… He’s probably in the place where they heal wolves now.”

“Then we may only hope, and plan for an escape.” Rouke sighed shaking his head.

I was with my little cousin playing multiplayer, and we were on a boat, and I decided to go to herbivore Island, telling him it was safe, and only herbivores, but we were almost to the island, then I see weird tentacles sticking out of the water. I was confused for a second, but then I realized what it was and was like “Ooooooh no, never mind, we are not going there, not safe at all.”

(Read the prologue and chapters 1-7 first)

Jaz’s head was spinning. All he remember was the Argy’s, and fighting with Rouke, but he wasn’t sure what happened after.

The room around him was dark, almost like a cave, but he could tell the walls were square.

Jaz growled, turning his head left and right, sharp scents coming from all directions, and he could just barely make out a unfamiliar chattering sound that he guessed came from a certain creature he had only heard once before, humans.

Suddenly, the roof of the room lifted off, so unexpectedly, Jaz yelped like a little pup.

An Argy’s head appeared over the lifting roof, and he realized it was carrying the roof away.

Seconds later, he heard the clunk of the roof being dropped, and the Argy returned to Jaz’s cage, perching on the top of the wall.

Jaz saw a human on its back, pointing and chattering to humans down below.

The human tapped the Argy’s side with his foot, and the Argy lifted off the wall, quickly swooping down to to grab him with outstretched talons.

Jaz’s legs were still feeling sluggish, but he tired to drag himself over into the corner to avoid the Argy.

The Argy swooped in from behind him, it’s sharp talons wrapping around his sides.

It lifted him into the air and carried him through the sky the short distance from the medical cages to the trap house.

It glided above the roofless trap house, flying just high enough so the other wolves couldn’t jump and reach it.

The human tapped the Argy’s side again and it dropped Jaz almost as suddenly as it had grabbed him.

Jaz yelped, crashing down onto a few other wolves below him, though it wasn’t a high enough distance to hurt him or the other wolves below him.

He shook his head, trying to get a hold of the situation when another wolf that he landed on the tail of turned around and snapped at his side.

A loud bark split through the crowd of wolves and the wolf that had snapped at him backed up.

“Leave him alone!” A familiar voice growled, and sure enough, the owner of the voice and accompanied by another familiar wolf stepped through the crowd, Rouke and Lok, accompanied by another smaller male wolf traveling more distantly behind.