Blaze

"Get out or get fanged," -Blaze

Appearance
Blaze has speckled blue grey fur, with one bright blue and one brown eye. She has wide paws, and broad ears. She also has a white strip that goes from her eye brow and down her cheek, to her lip, and goes around the whole lip. She has pointy teeth. She has a black freckly dappled long nose. Her teeth are yellow.

History
Blaze  is a female Australian cattle dog. She was in the second book of the series Dogs of the Drowned City  in the book  The Pack.  At first she had an attitude, only because she was defending her den, which was a bus. Shep later talks to her. She thinks Shep is kind and calls him "Shepherd." After this talk, Shep takes a liking to Blaze. Later on, Shep and Blaze have a walk. She tells him about her past, herding at the farm with her owners. It seems that Shep might've fallen in love with Blaze, and she had fallen in love with him. She finds a house that the dogs could settle. She constantly calls the small dogs yappers, which Callie hates. She tells Shep to make Blaze stop, and he promised he would. Later on, Blaze called Callie a yapper. She complained to Shep that she should stop calling her and the small dogs yappers. Shep tells Blaze to stop calling Callie and the other small dogs yappers. Blaze growls she would stop and what Callie and the other small dogs would rather be called. Callie seems pleased by Blaze asking that. She wants to be called small dog. Blaze agrees and the two become okay friends afterward. One day, she is with Callie and Dover and Shep. He thinks he's a great hunter and doesn't need to go through training. Dover allows Shep to go alone. Shep goes off, and after frustration of not catching anything yet, Blaze steps in and helps Shep. She seems to be a skilled hunter. Later on, Shep comes back and says that he had killed a water lizard. She seems interested in this, and Shep brings her to the water lizard. Then, the water lizard's gone! Cats had eaten it. This comes to the point that she thinks Fuzz had betrayed the pack and bringing cats here. Shep thinks she's right and exiles Fuzz, making Honey and Fuzz run off. Then, Shep comes to Blaze saying he did the wrong thing. Blaze says he's the alpha and he could do whatever he wanted. He says she's wrong and Shep runs off to find the two. Blaze is angry about this. Later, when Shep returns, she tells Shep that the dogs voted for another alpha, and that Blaze was the pack's newest alpha. She also told him that Zeus's pack had killed Virgil and Higgins. Shep said Honey had died also. Oscar had returned too, barely alive. When Blaze is thinking on how to attack Zeus's pack, Shep has a smarter idea on how to attack him. While the plan's doing okay, humans return and shoot darts at dogs that makes them pass out. Blaze was taken away. In the last book, Blaze doesn't appear but is mentioned. In the last book, The Return, Shep is determined to save Callie and Blaze. Shep is successful to save Callie, but she breaks the news to Shep that Blaze was taken away in a winged-Car(helicopter) and that he wouldn't be able to save Blaze, but Shep kept her in his memories, meaning he still loved her, although he never said he had loved her or she loved him, it was hinted that if they knew eachother longer, they'd be long-lasting mates.

Trivia

 * Shep seems to have strong feelings toward Blaze, even after she had been a hot-headed alpha. He was determined to rescue her and Callie. Blaze also seems to have really strong feelings toward Shep, even giving him a nickname "Shepherd" and calling him the alpha of the pack, and even trusting him to tell him the whole story of her past as being a farmer's dog. She also helped him with hunting.