White Love & others.

Emma smiled warmly to Magadan again. She looked towards White. ''Im ready.'' she said. She looked at Key and walked over to him. ''Be careful'' he said. She smiled. ''Ok, we'll be back all safely hopefully.'' she said to him, her ''mate'' as they didnt have pups and probably wouldnt. Emma bounded back over to the group. Her bangs slightly fell and she blew them back out of her eyes. White looked around. ''Ok, lets go.'' she said. She let Keenan lead the way to Eskers. White walked next to Magadan. ''Mag, this is your chance to prove yourself that you can have a high rank. I expect you will, I can see youd be good with a high rank.'' she said only to him. The others trailed behind, Emma padded ahead to her brother Keenan. Key, Indian, Dark Flake, and Snow White padded behind Magadan and White.

As they got there Keenan stopped and looked at White as she padded past. She looked around. She went down in a hunt pose. She looked around her. Seeing a large bull elk. She looked at her hunters. ''Keenan, and Dark Flake go to the back, Emma to the side, Snow White to the other side. Magadan me and you will go to the front.'' She said. She looked at Magadan, ''Youll make the final hit.'' she said. She looked at the others as they took their position. Emma attacked and was thrown off. Snow White on the other hand hung on, Emma tried again and latched on. Dark Flake and Keenan attacked and latched on. White followed them but stuck to her hiding place. Motioning for Magadan to attack from the front and finish it off.

Magadan

Magadan padded along with the rest of the pack, letting his fur brush up against and mingle with the others. Not only to be close to them, but to gather their scent and mix it with his own, so that he could be recognized as being part of their pack. As he did this and loped along with the group, heading out of the forested foothills of their home and out across the broad stretches of the Eskers, he watched the various wolves interact. Emma and Key appeared to be mates, judging by their words to one another, but he tried not to make any assumptions yet. Whatever the relationship of the others, they all appeared to be close, with little hint of any tension - and that made him happy, because his previous pack was rife with it.

As Mag lead the group towards the hunting grounds, he turned an ear for White, listening to her orders. "I'll do my best, I always do." A bit of his personality shown there, along with a partial grin. He wasn't a smug or egocentric individual, but he had confidence in himself. When they eventually found their prey and White handed out the orders, Mag quickly shifting into hunting mode. He rushed out over the sandy ground, moving wide around the elk while the others rushed in first to attack it in various places. At one point, he saw Emma go down, and felt a stab of worry in his gut - was she okay? But he couldn't stop now. He pushed his powerful legs beneath him, building up speed until he came up along side of the bull, and with a great lunge, sprang forward to grab the front of the elk's nose and moth between his jaws. The neck would have been an easier target, but then he'd also have been right in the way of those deadly front hooves. If he could get a good bit on the mouth, he could quickly suffocate the bull, and hopefully avoid any damage to himself...

White Love & others.

White looked at Magadan mostly, a hint of gleam in her eyes. She then realized she had to attack no matter what, they couldnt all do it at once. She shot forward and went under its head, under Mag to. She came dangerously close to the front hooves of the elk, she swerved to avoid them. She jumped up and latched on to its neck, sure she was risking her life for the elk. But there was one thing she knew that couldnt happen, Keenan being alpha. He would destroy the pack, he wanted power and thats what she could see in him. Emma was slightly falling, she could barely hold on with her now injured paw. She would do anything though and thats why she kept holding on. The others held on as the elk struggled to keep Mag from hooking on to its mouth. But soon failed as he had hold. White held on.

Magadan

Magadan had seen the gleam in White's eyes. It encouraged him, gave him a greater drive to prove himself worthy to her and the others. He used that drive now as he struggled to find a good hold on the elk's muzzle without getting trampled or gashed by those deadly hooves, or caught up on the antlers that could break ribs and puncture lungs. Every fiber of his powerful body was bent towards bringing the elk down swiftly, not only to show the pack that he was a capable hunter, but also because the longer they struggled with it, the greater the chance that more of the family could be injured by their prey. When finally he got a secure hold on the creature's snout, Magadan held on for all his was worth, biting down on the soft nose and shaking savagely, trying to rob the beast of breath and bring it to his knees. Through all of this, he also trying to avoid the elk's hooves, as well as keep from tripping over and hurting White after she'd sprung forward to seize the bull's throat.

White Love & others.

The others jumped off as they felt the bull getting weaker. White continued to hang on as much as she could before she felt shapr pain in her back left leg, the bull had hit her there just then with his sharp hoof. She jumped off as the bull came down to the ground she looked at it and then smiled at Magadan. She turned going towards Keenan. Looking back at the bull. She nodded to the others and then to the bull as she turned and helped drag it back. Her fur was ruffled and her back left leg bleeding, though she did not pay much attention to it. She could feel the liquid coming down. She limped as she helped before Emma stepped in and told her to step aside and let them handle it. White gave in and let them handle it walking along side them. Keenan at the back with Dark Flake she caught a few words and gave a warning growl to Keenan. Emma had taken her position and Snow White was dragging on the leg. White limped beside Mag. We may have a new beta. she whispered, eyeing Mag. Keenan stopped and looked at her. White growled and he continued on.

Magadan

Magadan was panting hard by the time the bull was finally felled. He held onto the beast's muzzle for a number of moments just to make sure it was dead, then let go and let his tongue hang from his parted jaws as he panted to catch his breath. The smile he got from White Love struck a note of pride in the young male, and he smiled back and gave her a slight nod to say 'we did good!'. After that, he took a moment to glance around at the others, first to Emma who had gone down earlier, and then to White when he saw the blood on her leg. He wanted to say something about it, but first they were given orders to drag their prey back, and he obeyed without a hitch by taking a secure hold on the elk's hide to begin tugging it along with the others. When they got back to the packlands, he thought to himself, Magadan would take a closer look at her leg to make sure it was okay. "Beta? Are you.. sure?" When White approached him and mentioned a new position, he could scarcely believe it - was she suggesting that he might be the pack's new beta? Mag's tail swayed to show his enthusiasm, though he turned an ear back to Dark Flake and Keenan when he heard whispers between the two, and caught the growl their alpha gave the pair. He was starting to wonder whether he should keep an eye on that male.