"A pack of 30 wolves are waiting at the border" Martyn reported his tan fur shining in the depleting sunlight.
"30! They outnumber us two to one" Hannah exclaimed shaking her head in disbelief.

The Yogpack only has 17 adult members and with Kim and Kaeyi protecting the pups there was only 15 wolves to fight Liam's much larger pack, so they were extremely lucky that Sips, Strippin and Rythian were in the country or they would only be fighting with 12 wolves.

"I've never actually killed another wolf before...." Ross said in the background looking at the floor, shifting the dirt with his paw.
"But we have no choice" Lewis said solemnly addressing the whole pack, "I'm sorry I must ask this of you but our pack, our pups, our lives are on the line. Liam will not back down, so who will fight by my side?"

Slowly one by one the pack members stepped forward, ready to follow their alpha into a battle they may not return from.
Anya shook on her paws as she took the step to indicate that she would follow Lewis. Smith could feel Anya's fear but as he went to comfort her, she lifted her head and stood tall, the fear replaced with true determination.

"Let's move!" Lewis instructed, the pack lining up side by side, their sides rubbing together, keeping each other strong.

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Reaching the edge of the territory the line of wolves stopped at the entrance to the Pine meadow, because across the meadow stood the pack of 30 that was to be their rival in battle.

The sun had set long ago so the moon would provide the spotlight for the battle. In the darkness of the tree line all that could be seen of the enemy wolves was their bright golden eyes and bared teeth.
At the centre stood Liam, his black wolf form similar to that of Parker but Liam was a lot larger, matching the size of Rythian, the Yogpack's largest member.

The breaths of the wolves frosted and fogged in front of them, the autumn leaves giving the battlefield a coloured floor.
Hearts raced, growls echoed, lips pulled back to show white canines.

With the howls of Lewis and Liam the packs charged forward, friend and foe, there would only be one winner in this battle.

While Liam's pack split and ran individually with bloodlust in their eyes, the YogPack kept as a unit, side by side.

"TOGETHER!" Lewis shouted in the attempt to keep his pack strong.
"TOGETHER!" The rest of the pack repeated, the thunder of paws making the ground shake.

The meeting of the two packs was like a train crash, bodies bashing against one another, fur torn, teeth bared, blood beginning to pore.

After the initial impact, the Yogpack broke apart, smaller teams separating off to fight the disorganised enemy.

"ANYA ON YOUR LEFT" Ross shouted just as a wolf darted at Anya from the side, but Smith had already seen it, he jumped Anya and ripped the enemy's throat with his teeth.

"Oh god..." Smith said is shock watching as the life drained from the first wolf he had ever killed.
Anya knew how Smith felt, how all the Yogpack felt, but in this life or death situation it was either kill, or be killed.

Anya, distracted by Smith's first kill, yelped at an enemy wolf attacked her hind leg, his sharp canines ripping through fur, skin and muscle.
Growling Anya spin on her paws and grabbed the wolves neck before clamping her jaws shut shattering the wolves spinal cord, dead.

"This isn't right" Anya whined looking into the lifeless eyes of the wolf.
Hearing Lewis' howl in the background Anya rushed to the alpha male's side, where they advanced on several second rank males of the enemy pack.

Even though they were outnumbered, the Yog-pack fought back with force that matched that of twice their number. The Liam's pack were unorganised, they tried to fight as individuals and not as a team making them easy to pick off, one by one.

Some injured wolves ran, tails between their legs, they were not loyal to their alpha, no wolf should desert their alpha!

Anya fought on, fresh bite wounds littering her body. Fighting alongside Hannah, the two took on a beta male, his body covered in scars from previous battles, his brown fur matted and face mangled.

Hackles raised, teeth bared, Anya and Hannah threatened the male but he wouldn't back down, continually snapping at the already injured females.

"We need to take him down!" Hannah growled her voice pained as the male took another snap in her direction.
"But how?" Anya asked studying the wolf's size, how could two small wolves kill such a brute of a wolf.

"Neck!" Hannah ordered but just as Anya connected with the males neck region, he lunged forward taking Hannah with him, the tan wolf completely covered as the limp male flattened her.
"HANNAH!" Anya shouted releasing her jaws from the wolf's bleeding neck.

Frantically Anya tried to push the body from Hannah's small frame, but she couldn't move the sheer size of the dead wolf.
"HELP! HELP!" Anya howled and instantly Rythian, Martyn and Duncan were at her side, trying desperately to push the wolf from Hannah.

Eventually the wolf corpse rolled over revealing Hannah underneath.
"Hannah?" Anya said warily walking slowly towards the still body of the alpha female.
"Hannah?" She said again nudging the tan wolf's neck in the attempt to stir her.

"Owe.... And I thought Duncan was heavy..."

"Hannah!!" Anya cheered as Hannah stirred, weakly lifting her head to smile at the wolves, her tan fur covered in mud.

"AHHH!"
Anya's ears pivoted towards the scream and her stomach dropped.
"SMITH!" She shouted running to where Smith stood, his front right paw held up as it dripped with fresh blood.

Limping backwards Smith tried to back away from the wolf that had bitten his leg, and with the other members of the pack fighting their own battles Anya had to rush to help before it was to late.

Sliding to a halt in front of Smith in the soft wet mud, Anya stood hackles raised and teeth bared at the wolf that threatened to hurt her mate.

"HA! Finally! The Blue eyed Mutt appears!"
Confused by this voice in her head, Anya tried not to let down her guard.
The wolf looked down on Anya, his golden eyes glowing with recognition.

"Anya get out of here!" Smith whined but Anya stood her ground.

"You can hear me can't you?" Liam growled and Anya slowly nodded.
"Alphas can communicate out of their pack link, and after you killed my brother his alpha status fell to you" he explained his voice calm but then his eyes sparked with a darker side to the enemy alpha, "And now it's finally time to avenge my brother's life".

Anya barely dodged out the way as Liam launched himself at her. Anya yelped as flashbacks to Parker's death hit her, but this time she hadn't had time to counter attack and now she feared for her life, Liam chasing after her, snapping at her tail.

"COME HERE MUTT!" Liam shouted making a shiver run down Anya spine, if she was to die.... She didn't want to go like this....
Anya looked across the battlefield as she run, wolves lay dead as others fought on. Looking up to the sky Anya knew the Moon and Stars looked down on her, their light pushing her to keep running, to keep fighting, to put an end to this loss of life.
It had to end.

<><Authors Note ><>
This is the first part of big finale, it was going to be one chapter but it got well over 2000 words so I've spilt it into two.
Second part will be out tomorrow morning as I still need to finish it.
~Leigh