Chapter 6

This one's a fairly short chapter, due to it being 10:00 at night!

                                                   CHAPTER 6

Please read prologue and chapters 1-5 before reading this chapter.

“WARRIORS!” Hummingbird yelled. “This may not be our camp and our home, but these are wolves that need our help! We must defend them!”

The words he spoke echoed in River’s mind. Her leader and his pack were strong and brave. These were two qualities she did not have. She was a newer warrior and had only fought three battles. All of them she had left with scars. According to the troubles happening, this looked as if it wouldn’t be any different.

Hummingbird was the first to run down to the camp, followed by all of the rest streaming behind him like a group of fish in a shallow pond. It took her a while to gather her nerves, but soon she was running right with the others.

The snow underpaw was very slippery and hard to run in, not to mention the heat of the flames that somehow didn’t melt it. Many warriors were having a hard time running too.

When she reached the camp a quick gaze around told her that the Black Creek wolves were winning. White Snow warriors littered the ground like prey in the kill pile back at camp. They were outnumbered and horribly loosing. It was the time to act.

Hedge was the first to spring. He crashed into a black scarred wolf with long and sharp claws. But Hedge was known around the forest for his sharp claws too. He was able to pin the warrior down and slash his claws across his showing belly. The wolf howled in pain and reared back, only to slip through the snow and fall unconscious.

River had been so distracted by Hedge’s expert fighting that she hadn’t seen the dark brown she-wolf sneaking up behind her. The warrior hit her back and brought her to the snow. River yowled in pain as she felt claws hit her exposed back. Bringing up her paw she thrust snow into the face of her attacker. The she-wolf fell back and into the crowd of fighting wolves.

Shaking the blood from her pelt, she turned her head to see Hedge locked in a battle with a silver wolf twice his size. She ran as fast as her paws could carry her to help Hedge, but was swept away by the cold wind blowing the fire.

The silver wolf had Hedge pinned to the ground. With a twisted snarl, he lashed his claws into Hedge’s chest. Instantly Hedge went limp as his eyes widened.

“HEDGE!” River yelled.