The hunters smerked seeing shadow on the ground and the one said "let bring him back alive." the others nodded. One of them taped shadows mouth shut and started to drag him along the way to there cave.

Alex woke up and looked at Hazel 'what is going on"

"I'm not going to tell you because then you will protest." she snapped. "Get on my back, we have got to go!" she scooped up Umay and Celest and Tyson seemed to be able to run, so she stepped out of the cave.

Alex nodded and climbed onto her back

The hunters were getting closer and shadow wasn't doing very good. He had lost alot of blood and when he had growled at one of the hunters they had hit him in the face and he couldnt see well now

"Tyson, you can be a strong wolf and run, right?" he nodded. "If you get tired, Alex will pick you up." she scooped up Umay and Celest who were still half asleep and ran off to the emergency cave that was across the forest. Tyson felt like prey, he didn't like this feeling.

Alex got worryed and asked "where is shadow?"

The hunters soon got to the cave and yelled when they found no wolves. They then turned to shadow and started to kick him out of anger since they found no other wolves.

"He's fine." I hope. Tyson sensed his mother's worry, and he was filled with a new wave of energy.

Alex nodded and hoped that she was right

Shadow's fur was soon covered in blood and the hunters stoped. They soon started to make camp there and tied up shadow even thought they broke every limb and he could not stand at all.

They finally reached the emergency cave. She ran in and gently rested Umay and Celest on some moss. "you get some sleep Alex." she said absentmindedly. She licked Tyson's head and said, "Thank you for running all that way."

Alex sat down next to Umay but was still worryed about Shadow.

The hunters soon were laughing around a camp fire and he was still unable to move and still coundn't see well. He whimpered again but got a face full of boot for it.

Soon the cubs were asleep, and Hazel knew very second Alex was asleep too.....

Alex soon fell asleep still worryed about Shadow

Shadow cough when he got hit in the face and some blood came out of his mouth. he wondered how he was still alive since he knew that almost every bone in his body was broken

Hazel slowly got up and ran toward the den. She saw all of them beating up Shadow, now a broken mess on the ground. She was horrified. She climbed to the top of a small tree where it would echo. She howled nice and loudly, and it echoed throughout the camp.

The hunters looked aorund wondering where the sound came from. One of them pointed in a direction and they hurryed off with there guns.

Shadow layed on the ground and he smerked slightly when he heard the hwol

Hazel jumped into another tree and howled again. This time louder, so it was like they were getting closer. she was also doing the hunting howl, the I-found-prey howl.

the hunters soon dissappered in the forest still looking for a wolf

Shadow smiled slightly when he heard the howl again. But then thought about if he was going to even survive another day. He could not walk, could hardly see anything. All he could do was talk a little and listen.

After the hunters left, she jumped down and looked at Shadow's form. "what did you do now?" she asked, putting a leaf on the bleeding to make it stop. She wondered how she was ever going to get him to a safer place.

Shadow smiled and coughed a little bit then said "I did nothing, I was trying to warn you." he said softly and looked at her.

"You could have had enough sense to climb a tree before you howled." she said, sitting by him. "Since your a geninous, how can I get you out of here?"

Shadow smiled slightly as she sat her up. Then realized that nothing hurt as bad as it did before and he didn't feel as broken before. "I have no idea" he siad softly but he sounded stronger then before

"Hmm. something is working. You certainly sound better." she said, laying her paw on his head. "I wonder how that happened."

Shadow shrugged "I have no idea." he siad as he looked at where there use to be cuts and found none

"Okay, since I have no idea what is going on..." she sniffed him. "Try getting up."

Shadow nodded and slowly got up. Surprisingly nothing hurt and nothing was broken anymore "okay I am freaked out."

"Same. But we need to get back to the den, soon it will be dawn and you need some rest." she put her tail on his shoulder. "Just tell me if you get tired."

Shadow nodded, still amazed that he wasn't on the ground.