Midnight felt eyes on her, and looked up to see Ace watching her. She smiled shyly at him and stood. She shook leaves from her black fur and walked towards him slowly. "Hello," she said softly, tilting her head.

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Trance crept through the grass, watching a deer. The doe was oblivious to him, as he stayed upwind of it. The pack would love this, he thought to himself as he lowered his head. Snapping, he shot towards the doe, but the sudden crashing spooked her. Trance stopped and shook his head. Oh, well. There's always more. He liked to look on the bright side of things.

Ivy skipped through the open field, trying to find a fresh deer carcass. She shook her head slowly, no luck. She was starving. She decided that she should tresspass into the Midnight Runners Territory to see if they had food. She would have to be very careful. They had two guards. A chill ran down her spine and she headed toward the territory.

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Ace was so busy looking at Midnight he didn't notice that he was talking to her. He widened his eyes and blushed. Did she see him look at her? He jumped up and puffed his chest out, to look strong. "Hi!" He yipped.

Puma woke up with a start, and raised his head. His eyes scanned the territory, looking for Loners venturing too close. He didn't see anyone, but he could feel it so he stood up, and walked around. He padded over to Accalcia. "Hey. Don't you sense that someone's here that's not allowed to be?" He whispered to her.

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Davine watched her brother walking toward Accalcia and smiled. He was serious about his job, just like everyone else. Davine got up, and padded towards Ace and Midnight. "Hey guys, anyone sick around here? Lovesick maybe?" Davine looked at Ace and smiled. "If you are, I'm over here!" and with that, she bounded back over to where she was sleeping. She sat down.

Ivy reached the outside of the territory, to see many olves there. She gulped and slouched down to the ground, Into the bushes in the territory, and continued on her way. The food file was close by. She squinted. She knew that the wolves knew she was there. One guard was talking to another wolf suspiciously.

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Ace jumped when he heard Davine's voice. He blushed again and said "Uhhh... Hi Davine." He knew that there was something about Davine that he didn't quite understand. He was nice to him; Almost as nice as she was to her brother

Puma walked over to Ace. "Hey Ace. There's another wolf here. Can I jump at it?" Puma yipped. Without waiting for an answer, he bounded offf to the bushes, but stopped when he realised what the wolf would be after. Food. He bolted over to the food supplies, and stood firm. He could see the wolfs face, with unblinking eyes, following every move he made. "Come one step closer, and I'll have to attack!" He growled at Ivy. "I'm a guard and I can do what I like to Loners." He circled the food, all the time staring at that one bush.

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Davine heard her brother growling out something to some wolf, but why? She went over to him and saw why he was growling. A Loner wolf. "Go away. Now." Davine yelped at Ivy. Davine gave up, and walked away. "Hey Midnight, come here for a second. Please." Davine yipped at Midnight.

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Trance straitened up, ears twitching. The scent of an unfamiliar she-wolf had reached him, and he knew she shouldn't be there. He knew he didn't always take his job seriously, but he should at least warn the guards, if they didn't already know. He padded towards Puma and Accalia to see that they were already speaking. "You too?" he asked. "There's a loner here, isn't there?"

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Midnight looked over at Davine and felt herself blush. Ducking her head, she watched Ace from the corners of her eyes. As Davine bounded away, she raised her head a little. "So..." she murmured. "That was weird."

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Ivy bolted up out of crouching position to to two wolves standing at the food pile. The male threateneed her. No. One. Threatens. Her. She snarled at each wolf and, just to get them angry, took one step closer to the wolves. She needed that food, and she'll do anything to get some. Even if she had to fight for it.

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Ace looked over to see Puma already going after the wolf.He looked at Midnight and smirked, "I'll be right back" He shook his head slowly and ran over to them. Then he saw the wolf. That loner... was his long-lost hated sister. He stopped snarling and his mouth gaped open. His eyes were furious. Then he let out a very loud warning bark and charged at Ivy, and bit her leg.

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Zack stoped skipping around when he noticed the camotion near the food pile. He tilted his head whatching wondering what would happen. He tenced up realizing the loner in the bush. The fur on his back stood on end his eyes locked on the bush. He hated loners they freaked him out and he wasn't afraid to say that. His head was still along with his tail that almost never stoped flicking about.

Renn had finished her rabbit and was now licking the blood off her paws and muzzle. There was allways some still around her mouth but she didn't like getting wet so she forgot about it. She stood up and streached out her limbs with a wide yawn and jumped off the slab of stone and began to walk around. She walked into a field of green grass that liked to tug at her fur. She walked through it and found a nice warm place in the small field to warm up. She layed down on her side and s=closed her eyes a smile spread on her face her tail flicked slowly as she drifted off to sleep.

Midnight blinked and looked at Davine, hearing her name called. She nodded and padded over warily, watching the loner the entire time. "What is it?" she asked.

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Trance shot towards the loner, growling, but paused and almost lost his balance. Ace looked...shocked. Something was wrong, he knew immediately. He looked at each of the wolves around him in turn, confused and unsure whether to attack or not.

Zack just watched everything unfold before him. He didn't want to attack if he didn't need to which he figured he wouldn't need to after all it was one loner against a pack. It would most likley run off like the coward it is and go scavange on some dead carrcas. He still was standing though just incase this was like some super wolf but again her highly doubted that.

Renn was totally oblivious to the happenings in the pack terriotory. She was in a calm peaceful state just laying in the feild basking in the rays of the warm sun. She was thinking about what to do today. She shook her head, "that can wait" she told herself with a content sigh. She opens her eyes to look about the field. She gets up onto her stomach and swivels her ears to listen. She hears noise coming from the direction of the pack territory, "Their problem" she said looking around before getting up.

Davine watched Midnight come over and smiled. "Some Loner that Ace and Puma recgonise as some relative of Ace's. She wants some food, don't you think?" Davine got up and padded slowly around to the bush which the loner was in. She walked behind it and jumped in. "Ggrrhh! No one growls at my brother!" Davine jumped at Ivy. She slammed herself on top of Ivy. No one stood a chance against the Med. Wolf. Ever. She stuffed some Dozing Water into Ivy's mouth. "There! Go to sleep, now. Please!" Davine purred into Ivy's ear. She should fall asleep soon, Davine thought soothingly.

Puma just stopped when he saw that Davine was on top of Ivy. He turned around, and glancing that Midnight was sitting where Davine usually sits, he walked back to the food pile and munched on a dead rabbit.

Zack layed down once the loner was down. He hummed to himself as he lay in a ray of light the sun causing his fur to shimmer. He lay his head on his paws watching a river move near him. The water was crystal clear and made bright moving lines on a near by rock as the current moved along.

Renn padded back to the woods her fur getting a bit to warm for comfort. She walked a long the wolf packs border not daring to step paw in it. She knew what would happen if she did. She took in the scents of the pack and a slight smile lit up on her muzzle. The smell brought back wonderful memories of her past. The smell unfortunatly also brought back the memory of why she left the pack she was once a part of. She shook her head and padded away.

Midnight laughed to herself, watching Davine's display agaist the loner. Standing, she padded towards the others. "That should keep her down for a while," she commented. She looked at Ace. "Do you know her? Who is she?"

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Trance bust out laughing, catching his balance as he stumbled. "Nice, Davine," he choked out. "You can always count on the med wolf to deal with a loner, I guess."

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Ivy was in some sort of world. She looked around, curiously. She was in a field ful of dandilions and flowers. She smiled and rolled around in the flowers, happily grinning. She suddenly jerked up at the sound of her deseased mother's voice. "Ivy." She said emotionlessly, dissaprovingly shaking her head back and forth. "Mother?" Ivy whispered. This HAD to be a dream. (( It Is. ))

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Ace looked down at his sisters sleeping body, and just stared. He heard Midnights voice, and bolted his head up to look at her. His face was expressionless."Uh... yea." But he didn't say who she was. He just walked away slowly into one of the dens. He layed down and rested his head on his paws, just staring into mid air.

Ivy was striding toward her mother. But then... She woke up. She opened her blue eyes and lifted her head up. She shook all of the leaves off as she got up. She looked around and sees all of the wolves calmly just... doing their thing. But she couldn't see Ace. Instead of looking for him, she just retreated from the territory. She ran fast. She reached the outskirts of the forest. It started to drizzle, but she just laid there, emotiomless, and confused bacause of what just happened, And her dream.

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Ace jaid there for hours. Why did she just bound after her and hurt her? He slumped to his side. His stomach started to growl, but who cares. He looked outside of the den and watched the wolves pass by.

Midnight shook her head, laughing softly, as Davine ran after Trance, who was darting away from the medicine wolf. As Davine left the chase to snack on a deer, she looked around for Ace. She didn't see him. Worried, she followed his scent to a den, and hesitantly crept inside. "Ace?" she called softly, not sure if he wanted to be alone or not. "Are you okay?"

Renn padded around the forest aimlessly going where her paws took her. She found a stream and walked along beside it for a while untill it turned into a pond. A crystal clear pand. There were a few boulders in the middle of the pond the part of them that was underwater was covered with moss. The gree algie swayed with the current of the circulating water. Renn jumped to one of the boulders and circled on it. She layed down and watched the swaying plants at the bottom of the pind. The place amazed her but yet she could help feel lonely and bored. She didn't know anybody besideds the wolf pack but that would be suicied to enter their terratory.

Zack smiled as Davine chased after Trance then turned her attention to some prey. He turned back to the river thenstood up shaking his fur as him mouth opened into a big yawn. He turned to the others, "So who's up for a hunt?" he asked cheerfully. He was truthfully quite bored and didn't know what else to do. His tail flicked behind him as he awaited a reply.