Shaddows flashed threw the forest only visible under the glow of the full moon. Shades of Grey, white, black, brown, and rustic red moving silently even though the ground was covered with a thick layer of fresh white snow. The soft October wind chilled them even threw thier thick coat though none of them showed any hint of being cold. A river flowed somewhere off the south maybe a mile or two up ahead. The scent of fresh prey were long gone. All of them hybernating now that winter had started. But there was another scent in the air...the one they were looking for...

       They pack moved as one. Slowly stalking their prey following their alpha without question. So in sync that it almost seemed military. Each one moving in just steps behind the other. They watched thier leader for signs  that were soon to come. Suddenly the alpha stopped and lifted his snout in to the wind....

          There is was....

              The sweet metallic scent of enemy blood!

     Instantly he shot forward with the others only seconds behind him....The feel of the oncomeing battle causing adrenaline to sear threw their veins like acid urging them on to the fight of a war that had been going on for nearly eight five years now. None of them willing to back down. Their laboured breaths barely sounded as they raced forward no longer needing to be quiet. They could smell the scent of their injured prey getting closer.

        They crashed threw the underbrush to find their prey at the base of the river that had been scented earlier. Two wolves and a man stood to face. To fight the pack even though they were all badly wounded. The man looked out of place with the other wolves. To find he wasn't even frightened of the beasts around him was more than most could claim to have. but there was somthing familar between them.

          A second man came from the underbrush just behind the pack and stood in the middle amongst the eight wolves surrounding him. His exotic silver-green eyes narrowed at the sight of the younger man. "What are you doing in our territory Tynan!" The elder man growled stepping toward the younger man, the snow crunched under his hiking boots with each step.

         The younger man let out a soft chuckle, "Adriel, you haven't changed...Still think that you can be alpha material when all you will ever be is a weak substatue!" The younger mans dark silver eyes glittered, " So weak in your mistakes that you haven't even told them about a child that wasn't supposed to be born...." He looked around at those around the elder mans feet in contempt.How he hated this place.

       "What are you talking about?" Adriel arched an eyebrow at Tynan, crossing his massive arms across a broad chest. The wolves at his side growled a warnings from deep inside their throats.

       "I've found out some very critical news lately....it seems the "incident" you had after Emma's death turned into something more than released grief..." Tynan's eyes seemed to glow as Adriel faltered. "She's very beautiful.... I might just have a little fun while i'm at it...." He grinned and looked at the others, "And so close to her awakening that its almost mouthwatering..."

      "You must be stupid if you think i would fall for somethign like that." Adriel snorted then unfolded his arms, "You won't leave here alive."

        "Does the name Lexi Corvin ring a bell, Adriel?" Tynan snorted back at him standing his ground even though he was badly out numbered. A smirk crossed his lips as the elder man faltered and he knew he had him.

       "She bore a daughter seventeen years ago..after you went back to The Guardians....Tynan didn't wait for Adriel's reply, didn't have time to because two of the wolfs flanking Adriel came at him. It was seconds before they reached him but Tynan out smarted him and stepped back into the rushing river flanked by the other two wolves and was swept away.

     "Damn...." Adriel ran a frustrated hand threw his hair, his mind already racing with what Tynan had said as his memories of her came back to him. He blinked and looked up at the others around him, "Head back to Kalen..."

      The thought of explaining this to his brother, the alpha, didn't disturb him more than the thought of how it would effect his son...Wyatt.