<P> The wolf said its service was done when they returned to where it had eaten Ivan's horse . Ivan dismounted and lamented their parting . They went on for a time and slept . His older brothers found them, killed Ivan, sliced his body to pieces, and told Helen that they would kill her if she would not say that they had fairly won the horse, the firebird, and her . They brought them to their father, and the second son received half the kingdom, and the oldest was to marry Helen . </P> <P> The Grey Wolf found Ivan's body and caught two fledgling crows that would have eaten it . Their mother pleaded for them, and the wolf sent her to fetch the water of death, which restored the body, and the water of life, which revived him . The wolf carried him to the wedding in time to stop it; the older brothers were made servants or killed by the wolf, but Ivan married Helen and lived happily with her . </P>

The gray wolf stole the fire bird and put him in a cage