Howler awoke the next morning to find Darka outside the cavern,

“Don’t be scared Howler, I am going to train you to become a Hunter, follow me,” and with that Darka strolled down over the cavern ledge with Howler close behind him.

They came to an open clearing just in view of the cavern ledge, First Darka tout Howler what to eat and what not to eat and what animals are dangerous and what animals are not, then Darka showed him how to silently creep up on prey and suddenly jump out on them. They practised this on a bird and Howler failed dramatically. Then, after they had done it again and again and again and finally Howler got there. When they sat down to have a rest Darka told howler of what a dark, terrible world lay beyond the forest, and Darka told him how only the strongest and bravest could survive there. Darka had just finish telling him this when Howler spotted some orange and black stripes from inside a cave underneath the cavern ledge.

Suddenly a tiger jumped out hurtling it’s self at Howler,.Darka jumped over Howler and met the tiger in mid-air, together they crashed to the ground when Howler heard his name being called from the cavern ledge in great worry, he ran up into his mothers arms not looking back at Darka or the tiger.

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Minutes went by, but they didn’t feel like minutes they felt like hours, and after the terrifying wait Darka came limping up the cavern ledge only to collapse on the cavern floor with a deep gash down his back, and before anyone thought it could not get any worst then came the even worst news for Tarran came running and said,

“Lion’s, Lion’s are coming up on the north side and there are about 20 of them,” from that single sentence Howler could see the terror in his parent’s eyes,

Now it was early evening and the lions were closing in on them,

“Get inside,” Twilight said in a low voice to Howler,

“I’m not leaving you,” Twilight glared at Howler but stood up and in-front of him as 20 lions walked up onto the ledge and started circling them. Howler kept close to his dad but a lion suddenly leapt into the pack of wolves, that must have been a signal because all then all the other 19 lions started attacking also.

Howler was aware of the blur of lions attacking his pack, the sound of claws digging into bloody flesh and then it all went black.