The blessings of spring have made the forest thrive, along with the animals residing within. Trees are growing leaves, birds are singing on perched on top of branches while picking off any caterpillars within their reach. Traces of snow has long been melted and turned into water to further nourish the ever-growing plants and a lot of herbivores along with their offspring which were born right before spring were now wandering around forest, foraging on those plants. The river has thawed and is now flowing freely again and the forest is once again teeming with life.

Within that forest a mother wolf aggressively kicks out all of her pack members out of the den. The pack members began scrambling quickly, not one wolf wanted to fight and the pack members immediately left the den. It was a very strange action for the mother wolf but there was a reason, the pack has new members coming and the mother wolf needed some space and so she kicked out all the members.

Since the den was off limits for the moment the IT and his pack minus the mother wolf, moves to a small clearing near the den beside the river. Since the river is now flowing freely again and teeming with fish, there was a constant flow of food. Food isn't a problem anymore.

But still IT and his pack frequently circles around the territory, mainly due to IT wanting to look for different kinds of creatures to hunt and eat.

There were a lot of different varieties of animals the pack hunted down, killed and ate, but most of them were either herbivores or something significantly weaker than that of wolves. There were beavers, moles and squirrels. Sometimes they caught some wild cats and foxes. The were a lot more varieties that IT ate like insects that normal wolves don't even touch, overall IT and his pack were thriving.

But during one of the hunts, IT and the pack discovers a dead mutilated boar around the bountiful territory,its belly was wide open and its guts were strewn around the opening, most of it's backside and hind quarters were ripped off and eaten. This sight was normal for IT and his pack after every hunt but the problem is, is that the pack weren't the one that hunted it, another predator was lurking around. The boar was old and weak, that might be  one of the reasons why it got killed, the predator is opportunistic. there were also claw marks around the trees surrounding the dead boar and the claw marks were deep, a large animal must have done this.

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IT sniffs around and catches a scent, it was the stuffy scent of a beast and it was alone. The scent also wasn't that of the wolves, it was that of a different animal, the scent was that of an predator that IT hasn't come across yet, the grey wolf also catches the scent but he too wasn't familiar with the beast.

Curiosity takes over and IT, the gray wolf and the pack follows the scent. they followed the scent and leads to the river, the beast must've crossed the river to go to the other side. IT crosses the shallow river and tries to find the scent again, IT isn't able to do it as the river washed off the scent of the beast once it crossed the river. The beast was either smart or just lucky, it either knew that it hunted on marked territory or just passed throughout the river by chance. The beast left a paw print on the other side of the river thought. IT takes a look at it and compared the print with his paw. It was large, three times larger than his paw and four times  wider. The beast is huge.

 IT searches around the area for more signs of the beast but nothing other than animal droppings were found, that confirms it, the beast is smart.

Having no further clues IT and the pack stops the search and goes back to the clearing near the den. However as they came back to the clearing, tiny cries and squeaks were heard inside the den. The pups have just been born.

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{Last Note For This Chapter: if there's any grammar, criticism, mistakes or any other confusing stuff in the story let me know in the comment section below and I will answer it there in the comment section or on the next Chapter of the info section and do the fixes on the current chapter.I'm kinda blind to seeing any horrible sentences that need some rephrasing or any other info that I might be confusing, so I'm looking for any help I can get.}