A Son of Wolves- A Human's Adventure
Chapter 1: The Way Things Are
"If you were told something that could have changed your life or if there was some way of getting answers for it, would you take it? If there was a question and you had the chance to find the answers, how far would you go to get the answers? Would you travel next door, or would you travel across countries to get them? Some people are put into situations like this, but not all find what they are looking for. Have you ever felt like that? The burning desire to find something because it's been niggling in the back of your mind for days and when you go in search of it, the only thing you find is a dead end. I mean… for example, you lose the remote for your T.V, so you turn your room upside down to find it but you never do. So you're left with the only option but to get up and use the buttons on the side of it to change the channel or turn the volume up, and we all know how annoying that is. Or maybe a continuous streak of losing a girlfriend and you want to find out what you're doing wrong, yet you will never find out because they won't tell you or give you the chance to make it all up to them. You see, we all have faced a moment like that, a moment where we'd go with small or extraordinary lengths to find an answer, yet we never get them. Well, this story is a little more different; I didn't lose a T.V remote, or a gift or a girlfriend. In fact, I didn't lose anything, what happened to me was something that changed the way my life is today. The names Leo, and this is the story of what I went through to find what happened to my family, my real family."
The world is an amazing place, we think we know everything, how it all works and everything there is in it, but we only know as much as the world offers us. What confuses humanity the most are animals, we think we know everything about them but when we come to the peak of our knowledge, something changes and we have to start all over. There is one specific creature I'm talking about, and even more so, one specific group of them out of thousands. Jasper Park, not very well known, well…not until a few years ago that is. But this story goes way back; seventeen years back to be more precise. This "unique" creature is the wolf. Proud, assertive and highly looked up by many cultures. But one pack inside Jasper Park has become one of the most unique packs known to man. No-one knows the true reasons why, but I do.
Seventeen years ago, two wolves, and the best of friends at that, one a responsible Alpha and the other was a goofy Omega. But when that Alpha went to Alpha school, the two started to grow apart. When Kate returned, she was a fully trained Alpha of the pack and proud daughter of the pack leaders, so was known as the greatest and most beautiful Alpha in the Western Pack. The Omega, Humphrey, unbeknown to her, still had a watchful eye on his childhood friend, beginning to feel a little more then friendship towards the beautiful she-wolf. They were still friends, but the pack had laws, one of which was that Alphas and Omegas can never be in love, it was disgrace to them and to the pack should that happened, it was absurd! They can eat together, play together and talk together, but they can never, ever howl together, something Humphrey's friends constantly reminded him, but also something he denied, he always said he was only friends with her and only felt friendship between them. Howling together was how wolves found their mates, their soul-mates. If they have feelings towards someone as they do back, but of course being the same rank as the other, then they ask one of the other to howl with them at a special night called a moonlight howl. A sort of "party", where the pack who have dates, or maybe already have mates, or some go with their family and pups and some even go as friends. There they howl, the howl they hear on the inside, their inner howl is the one from the soul, and if it matches their partner's, it was destined they be together.
Humphrey ever so wanted to howl with the she-wolf he so keenly watched, but it was against pack law to do so and his friends tried to set his sights lower. On the night of the moonlight howl, Kate had a date arranged by her father, but it was not the kind of date she planned. The night prior, she overheard him conversing with the Eastern Pack leader, Tony. The two packs had been at war for years, food was scarce in the eastern pack and the western pack was short on territory. So a treaty was discussed between the two leaders. If the daughter of the Western Pack leader's were to marry the son of the Eastern Pack leader, then the packs would be brought together in peace. It was something neither wanted, but they saw the marriage of two wolves would be better then the war that would soon follow should it not happen.
So on the night of the moonlight howl, Kate was arranged to meet Garth, Tony's son, the strongest and most handsome Alpha in the Eastern Pack. Kate, admittedly admired the wolf, speechless at his look, he was, in a way, everything she wanted in a wolf. Even her Omega sister, Lily, blushed and felt light headed at the sight of the wolf. That's when Humphrey made an appearance, trying, without making it too obvious, that Garth was the wrong choice. But Kate moved him to the side and walked away with the strong Alpha, but she should have heeded Humphrey's words. Upon reaching a platform at Howling Peak, the sound of a caribou's attempt to howl screeched all the way up and down the mountain for everyone to hear. It was Garth howling, he was the worst howler any wolf had heard. Kate's second thought started to overcome her.
Meanwhile, Humphrey was sulking in the forest when Kate wondered in, trying to hide from Garth. It was then that after a sting in their rears started to see stars and the colours around them changed before they blacked out.
Humans had taken them to another place far away from home, so they journeyed together with the help of two golf playing birds back across the strange human country of America to their home. The night they were due to arrive home after many; Humphrey plucked up the courage to ask Kate to howl with him. Finding the Omega funny, she did, and their howls flew and intertwined to form one howl, their howls matched! Meanwhile back in Jasper, the same thing was happening between Lily and Garth after she was only supposed to be showing him around the Western territory. They fell in love, but nobody could know. She taught him to howl, and he had one strong and powerful voice that matched her own sweet angelic voice. But it was interrupted as the Eastern pack made their move, now tired of waiting for Kate to return home.
The two packs confronted one another, bearing down on each other when Kate and Humphrey jumped in, in the nick of time. Even though she knew that her howl did not match Garth's and she had started to develop feelings towards the Omega, the marriage was still to go ahead. The next morning, after saying goodbye, Humphrey ran away, seeking the life of a Lone Wolf. During the final stages of the marriage ritual, Kate backed away, puzzling Garth and the two packs watching. She blurted out there and then that she fell in love with an Omega, only then did Garth admit his feelings for Lily. Tony, enraged by how they were all breaking the pack's customs, ordered that the Valley be taken, and a fight broke out between the two packs. Kate stood in the centre of it all, it was all her fault. A caribou herd heard the snarls and barks and started to bolt in their direction after being spooked. Kate saw the oncoming danger and bellowed it. The packs ran to the sides of the Valley, but Winston and Tony become caught and were forced to run with the herd, unable to get to the sides. Kate began to panic, but then Humphrey came running out of nowhere with a plan to save them. They log-sledded down the valley edge and crashed it far before the leaders, giving them shelter from the stampede. The two started crawling, but Kate was hit, and lay lifeless in the floor. Out of fear, Humphrey used his own body as a shield and covered her body.
When the stampede passed, she still wasn't moving and all thought the worst. But then a glimmer of hope, her eyes twitched, then she spoke. She was alive! It was on that day they confessed to each other that they were in love. And it was also on that day the Alpha and Omega mating law was abolished, giving them the ability to be married a few days later with after that Garth and Lily who would be next in the heritage line to rule the now United Pack.
Four months onwards, Kate wanted a family, and when she came into heat she did what all hormonal and desperate she-wolves did and seduced her mate. But something wasn't right, because even after the end of mating season and they still tried, she did not conceive when other she-wolves in the pack did. Now fearing something was wrong with her, she went to her mother and pack healer for advise, but it was there she discovered some shocking news. She was barren, unable to conceive or have pups due to intense scaring in her womb, the stampede four months prior being the cause; it was a wonder to the family on that day that she escaped without any wounds. On the outside at least, they couldn't see what was happening on the inside. If she could conceive, it was be highly unlikely. Humphrey and Kate, being distraught for days, began to see that it shouldn't be something to get in the way of their other dreams and it wasn't the end of the world, but it Kate's eyes, it was.
A week after that, the couple were taking a walk when they came across a human den in the middle of the forest, the stench of Northern Pack Alpha's littered the place as well as the scent of blood. On further investigation, they found two humans, ripped open, most certainly dead as well as one of the Alpha's they could smell. Even though Humphrey seemed to be the only one with some sense in saying that they couldn't stay, Kate wanted to explore and soon they found something they hadn't bargained for. Inside the human den, they found a human pup crying away. Still being the only one who knew they couldn't stay in a place with a human who have been known to kill wolves, Humphrey tried to convince his mate they can't stay here, but Kate saw that it wasn't a danger to them; it was far too young to hurt them. But she also saw that she couldn't leave it here, it was sure to die. So against his wishes and instincts, Humphrey allowed her to take it back to the pack for judgement.
The pack was appalled and disgusted that an Alpha would put the pack in harms way by bringing a human into the territory. All agreed it should be destroyed, but Kate couldn't and neither could Humphrey. So she called her father's bluff and told Winston that if he wanted it dead then he should do it. But as he raised his paw, he soon saw that neither could he, but Tony had the guts to. He really was going to when someone screamed for him to stop, so he did. A she-wolf known to be the pack's fool and all-round weirdo stepped in saying that he was to be the one that would save the pack from the humans in the years to come. Her name was Sahara, a lone wolf before from a pack in Alaska who believed in Nature Spirits and gods, one that says silly things, yet they have been known to be true. Sahara was also known as the weird one for her fascination with humans. She was so interested by them, she knew nearly everything about them, she loved nothing more then to sneak out of the pack and study them. Heck, she might as well have been called a human. She managed to convince Tony, Winston and the pack that this human was mentioned in the stars as the one to save them, the same stars that saved them before from the humans hundred of years ago and brought them to Jasper.
Ordered by her father, Kate and Humphrey became its temporary parents, but soon that became a little more then temporary. The next morning, Lily came by, taking an instant liking to the human as the pup did to her, and slowly and eventually so did the rest of the family, bringing it into the family as one of there own under the name of Leo. As the years went by, Leo was four years old when things started to turn for the worst. Leo went to get his parents breakfast, but he was followed back by bears. He was attacked, and his uncle Garth jumped in to save him, but resulted in getting hurt as he did. The pack heard the fight and chased away the bears as Leo coward by his uncle's side and Kate and Humphrey came running from their den demanding answers from their son. In the four years that had passed, Tony never got rid of the hatred for the human, he loathed him, and so he took this as the perfect moment to be rid of him once and for all. He managed to make the pack see that the human didn't understand them, that he would one day, if he continued to stay, when he was much older would become the hunter they all feared and would kill them all. Being laughed and snarled at, Leo ran away, managing to evade his parents. The entire day his whole family was searching for him, and it wasn't until the night that Sahara found him, and directed his parents to him. That night Kate and Humphrey made a decision. It was too dangerous for him to go back to the pack or stay out here on his own, what he needed was to be with his own kind.
So they trekked for two days to the town of Jasper where Kate bestowed to him a small triangular necklace and against hers and Humphrey's parenting needs and how much they loved him, they watched him walk away where he was found by another human. They returned to the pack, telling them he had gone and wasn't coming back, Tony being more relieved then any of them. But Sahara still had more to say. She told them all that if he was the one to save them one day, he would return, but not in their lifetime. She told them over the last four years she had been searching for ingredients she remembered from her pack that made a sort of potion, something that would allow them to live a longer life, giving them ten more years of life. Winston sent orders out for the pack to take it, to wait for him to return and if he didn't, then they only believed in a pup's story, then they wouldn't have to wait anymore.
Nearly ten years later, Leo was fourteen years old; he started having dreams of wolves and being chased by them, and it was the first night he had these dreams something clicked in his head. He found his necklace again after putting it somewhere he'd forget it. He knew nothing of his childhood, not even who his parents were. He was taken into a care home; he had millions of therapy and counselling sessions to convince him he was not a wolf, but a human being. He was convinced after many years his parents suffered with a mental condition they passed down to him, making him think he was a wolf. But something deep down told him otherwise. He had a strange gift that if he looked into the eyes of another, then he knew what they were really feeling, sort of like a cold reader, only he was a natural at it, it was a gift, not a skill he learned. He could sense things around him without having to look, it confused him, but as he grew up he tried not to do it, it only made him think back to those insane times as he was growing up. The day after his first nightmare, he freaked out after seeing a news report of a construction site on the other side of town being attacked by wolves, people being hurt, one of which being killed. But he freaked more when he saw a wolf gunned down on camera and that a cull was being placed on this certain pack.
He had two close friends, Rick and Ciara, the ones who were always there for him as he was for them; they depended on one another in the care home. As two weeks passed, he started having more dreams of either running with wolves, or away from them, he started to become more aggressive, he became claustrophobic, he was becoming wilder. But what terrified him the most was not the fact that this was how he behaved when he was first brought here ten years ago, but when he looked at his reflection, whether that be in a mirror, window or water, he didn't always see his reflection, but a wolf instead. This were getting out of hand, and soon the care home decided it was too dangerous to keep him here, it would be safer for him and the others to move him out and to a place that could help him again. But he didn't want that, he didn't want to be locked in a small room, a prison. So with the help of his friends, he escaped and ran for the first place that came to mind, the forest of Jasper Park. Sure he knew the dangers, but that's the reason he knew nobody would find him in there, it was too dangerous.
He walked around for two days, admittedly feeling more at home out here then in the town. He was far more at peace. His thoughts and attraction to the place was interrupted when he was attacked by a single wolf. He wounded it, as it did back to him, but neither was going to give in. When the wolf saw something he thought it would never see again, he couldn't believe it and froze. Leo took the moment to run away, but soon more wolves were on his tail. He ran and ran as fast as he legs could take him, he was blocked off, forced to fight for his life. But as he was thrown and pinned to the ground, he knew that this was going to be it. But in the millimetres the wolf on top of him had its jaws from his neck; it was thrown off as five wolves moved the other away.
Garth ran back to the Valley after his encounter with Leo, heading straight to the leader's den where he found Winston, Eve, Kate and Humphrey. They only just made it back in time to save him. Neither Kate nor Humphrey could believe it, their pup had returned! Leo couldn't believe it, he was hearing wolves talk! Just as he thought his sanity couldn't get any lower, he's now hearing wolves talk. He refused to believe or even listen to them, it was impossible for him to be the son of wolves, but after showing him through the one way wolves know, they showed him that he once lived here and memories started to come back to him, all through the art of running. Names, memories and places in the Valley came flooding back to him, but he didn't remember one until he saw her.
They brought him back to the Valley, where they showed him into the leader's den where Lily lay dying with a gun shot wound. He had to make her better. They ran to the construction sight, Kate and Humphrey showing him the way, but they dared not go in there again, they lost good wolves the last time they did. So Leo did, finding a first aid kit and after returning and once again confronting Tony who was so "happy" to have him back removed the bullet from Lily's shoulder and she was to make a full recovery.
As time passed on, things never healed over between Leo and Tony, they still ignored each other and refused to be near each other. Leo gradually became one of the pack, spending each night with his parents who he knew fully remembered and loved with all his heart. But one day, he ran into his friends and one of the workers at his care home, Caitlyn, they came out looking for him. It was a stupid mistake to help him escape, they knew he'd run into the forest, but they then tried to convince him to return. It failed, he was never going back, but he still wanted to see them. It was a day later that the pack was attacked by hunters from the construction sight, but Leo forced them to move on, bringing light into the pack's eyes. He really was the one to save them, he did just then. With the help of his friends and parents, every few days, they started on the sabotage of the construction sight using different methods. First running a caribou stampede through, then there was the moment they ruined the water works, but the biggest by far was causing an explosion that damaged most of the structures. The manager of the site had, had enough, and so had Tony.
Tony just couldn't make the pack see that Leo was a threat, that one day he would kill them all. So he went and sought out help from the Northern Pack, the most ruthless and merciless pack for hundreds of miles around. Led by Tony's old flame and unknown to Garth, his mother, Sanali agreed to help Tony in chasing out the human with some prices and a deal. But Tony made it clear that the United Pack mustn't know or by hurt in any way, she promised, but Tony had an inkling that said otherwise. They did come back with him and they did chase Leo out, but as he first thought, they also forced the United Pack to a full retreat upon deciding that they wanted to keep their territory as their own. The United Pack ran in the only direction they knew of, regrettably straight into the construction site. They didn't pay attention to where they were running to, they just had to run and get distance away from them. There, the pack was drugged, Leo was taken away and Sahara who witnessed the whole thing and tried to stop them was shot before running away. His old care worker took him away as Leo watched his family and pack carted away and shoved into boxes.
Leo was taken to that place he was supposed to be held at before he ran away, a place for mentally ill children where he met others suffering from conditions that are treatable. But nothing was wrong with him, but the doctors and other patients didn't see that. A week later, Rick and Ciara came to visit him, he told them they had to find Sahara and make sure she was fine, it was his wish and it would bring him some peace of mind to know she was ok after he saw her get shot. So they did, and they found her alive but being pursued by the Northern Pack that had now taken full residence in the territory. She knew the humans, she had met them countless times when she went with Leo to meet them, but she was still weary of them. She led them to a bolt hole she made surrounded by flowers and other potent smelling things so her scent would be lost among them. It was there she managed to open their minds and imagination to the possibility that wolves can talk and they began to understand her. She told them of everything that had happened the last week, but also of her plan. She and Tony had been working together, he knew of her bolt hole and he was now Sanali's right pawed wolf, but he was still very much a prisoner in this new pack.
The four ran out of the forest, into the town where they found Leo who after seeing Sahara was ok and accepted Tony's apology, built the courage and skill to escape the centre. On the way back into the territory, Leo learned from his friends the pack was taken to Jasper Zoo, that they have been there all this time. They'd go there next to get them out, but what was the point in having a pack if they didn't have a home? They marched into the territory where Leo challenged Sanali to her title as Alpha of the Northern Pack. He won, but he gave her a second chase, she could have her throne of fear back, if she left and never came back, and that's what happened. The pack fled and never returned.
They made their way to the zoo, but found out some shocking news. The Untied Pack had broken themselves out of their enclosure, killed several keepers and people and were now running wild around the zoo! The four forced their way in and eventually found the Pack, well, at first Kate who when Leo called out for her didn't even recognise her son and as the Pack rounded the corner started to give chase to them. Life in the wild and then being transferred to a zoo drove them insane, they didn't recognise anyone other then members from their pack who they've been with the last week, Leo Rick sand Ciara were just other humans who put them here and the other wolves just some lone wolf that shouldn't be here in his parent's and pack's eyes. They were chased away, seeking refuge on a small rooftop which the pack couldn't reach, so they snarled and beckoned them to come down. Leo took the ultimatum and jumped down on his own, the pack bearing down on him in seconds, his parents leading the way, the blood of the humans they had already killed staining their teeth. But he made them see that he was their son and soon he was able to wrap his arms around them again and Eve was able to wrap hers around Tony's throat for what he did. He deserved it, but Leo split them up and said they'd deal with it later, that he also helped him escape and get rid of the Northern Pack.
After proving to the police blocking off the exit that it could be done safely, they walked with a convoy of them across the town and towards the forest. Or so they thought, it turned out they were headed in the opposite direction to be slaughtered. It was too dangerous to let wolves who have already killed several humans back into the wild, they had to be put down, So they ran and ran into the forest, through the construction site as they did and destroying anything they could on the way. The manager saw it once more, but this time he didn't feel hatred towards the boys and girl, but admiration. The territory was almost empty, for when they arrived Sanali was still there. She only came to apologise for her actions and to propose a treaty between the packs. They lived in another part of Jasper that didn't have much food sources, so the unbreakable deal was that the Northern Pack could use the hunting grounds and they would be their for the United Pack in future events of human attacks as well as Sanali being given the chance to see her son. It was a proud and fair deal, and when Sahara asked how she and her pack were still alive if the United Pack had been for the last ten years, she discovered that another member from her old pack now resided in the Northern Pack and used the same potion on them, but that one ran out a long time ago and it's effect were long gone, Sanali and her pack aging once more. But it was also the day that Rick and Ciara were adopted by Humphrey and Kate, they too would now need a home after running away from the care home, so now they had a family, not the ideal one, but a family it was.
The happy endings weren't over yet, the sickness that the pack had during the feeding times at the zoo ended, but Kate continued to vomit, and after analysing her daughter, Eve concluded she had conceived, Kate was pregnant and eight weeks later she birthed two Omega males and an Alpha Daughter, the boys named Jasper and Domino and the girl Skye. During the very early stages of her pregnancy, only a few days into it, Robinson, the manager of the construction site, wanted to make a deal with Leo. A deal they agreed on that instead of the site being turned into a housing estate, it would be turned into a vast field for human to come and interact with the wolves as a sort of zoo, only they can come and go as they wished. It was a done deal, but as extra a small cabin was built in the centre of it all, a place Rick, Ciara and Leo never really slept in, but hung out there just to make Robinson think they lived in there. As the pups grew up and developed their personalities, Leo taught his adoptive siblings to embrace their inner wolf, soon learning how to sense things around them, to sense someone's true feelings and to enhance their senses. At six months old, Skye went to start her first year at Alpha school. She returned at the end of spring but had to go back after summer for her final assessment. She was a full grown, soon-to-be Alpha and the boys natural born Omega's. Leo and Ciara had the ability's of an Alpha as Rick preferred the more relaxed and fun loving style of an omega.
Life was perfect, and got even better when Sahara came to them. She told them of her pack in Alaska, and that they could really make them one of the family, they could turn them into wolves. Although their family were happy to have them as humans, that they still loved them just as much, they wanted to be what they were supposed to be. So they travelled, using the train and walking after that into the cold lands of Alaska were a ceremony and ritual took place. They were consumed in what looked to be the northern light and a thick smoke, and after it cleared, instead of three humans lay three wolves. It had worked and after learning how to walk on four paws instead of two feet, they returned home to happy smiles of the pack and rest of the family and to live the lives they were made to have.
Of course they never forgot their old lives as a human, but they had to let that go. They weren't human anymore, they were wolves, they had pack responsibilities as well as family ones. But in the back of their minds, too miniscule to notice, yet it was still there, they always looked back at their human lives, almost wishing they could have it back. Leo more then the others.
Hey guys, here it is, the long awaited and desired sequel to A Son of Wolves. How do you like it so far? Nothing really to this chapter, it's pretty much just a re-cap of everything's that's happened thus far. I know many of you liked the first one, so I hope this will live up to your standards and expectations. Born and Bred shall be on temporary hold while I do this. On one last note, I only came up with the story line for this only about a week ago, so i have no idea where this could lead the family or the pack. I know the base of it, but the adventures and gaps in-between are still a mystery to me. So, please read and review and stay tuned for the United Pack's best adventure yet. Until next time. :)
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