At Howling Rock, Garth showed Lilly his howl. It was so bad that a bird fell from the sky, unconscious. Lilly told him to keep practicing. A few tries later, Lilly saw the problem. "Take a deep breath," she instructed, putting her paw on his chest, "and howl from right there. Then I'll join in." She looked into his eyes with love. "From the heart, Lilly?" Garth wondered, but he did as she told him and howled.
His howl was much better than before, and he found himself attracted to Lilly. Lilly had already fallen for Garth the day she first saw him. They howled together in a wonderful duet for a while. Just as they stopped howling, Garth heard a twig snap and saw his father Tony coming with his pack. Lilly ran to tell her father that the eastern pack was coming, but Garth had to face trouble. His father was furious with him. " You know the law, Garth," said Tony, in a low angry tone. "Howling with an omega is forbidden," he said looking his son in the eye to show that he meant business. Garth tried to tell him why he was howling with Lilly, but he was ordered to get back with the other alphas.
Winston and Tony's packs met in a rocky valley, both ready to fight. Suddenly Lilly's sister Kate appeared with Humphrey. They had been taken by park rangers and sent to Idaho to repopulate, but had found their way home, and wanted to help the packs. After a big welcome, Tony looked at Kate with a small smile and announced to the packs, "She came back to unite the packs into one!" Kate looked at her father, who wanted Kate to do the right thing to bring peace to the packs. "Yes, I came back to marry Garth and unite the packs!" she said. Lilly's heard the news with sadness, and her heart began to break because she loved Garth and wanted to be his mate even though it was forbidden.
The next day, the two packs gathered in the valley to watch the mating ritual of Kate and Garth. Lilly held back her tears. Kate and Garth started the mating ritual, first accepting each other's scent, then nibbling on the other's ear, but when they were going to rub their noses together to make them mates for life, Kate hesitated. "Kate, what are you doing?" asked Garth quietly. Kate confessed to every one that she was in love with an omega but did not give his name. Winston was confused, but Tony was furious. "That is against pack law!" he yelled. Garth stepped forward and announced to his father, "Dad, I also am in love with an omega," he said with courage and love. Lilly's heart grew warm as Garth walked up to her and nuzzled her, but this brought trouble.
Tony was more then angry with this turn of events and blamed Winston for his son's actions. "What have you done to my son, Winston?" Tony asked with a growl. But before Winston could answer, a wolf with burning red eyes, a scar on his right eye and three scars on the left side of his face jumped between them and greeted Winston. " Hello, Winston, it's been a long time since I was banished from your pack," said the wolf with a glare. Lilly hid behind Garth because she knew the scarred wolf very well. "Razor, what are you doing here?" asked Lilly, staying behind Garth. "You know why I'm here, Lilly, and that's to have you as my mate," said Razor with a evil grin. Eve, Lilly's mother, growled at Razor. "She's not marrying you, Razor, and if you take just one step toward my daughter I'll rip out your eyes and shove them down your throat so you can see my claws tear your carcass open, and then I'll use you for a rug!" yelled Eve, and both packs backed off, but not Razor.
Razor just howled and then a grizzly bear came out of nowhere with some wolves. The bear swatted Eve unconscious, knocked Garth away from Lilly, and ran off with her. Garth, Winston and the western pack tried to rescue Lilly, but Razor's wolves stopped them. "That's more than they can bear," joked Razor, as he and his followers left the territory.
Garth didn't understand why Razor took Lilly. Winston explained, "When Kate went to alpha school, I put Razor in charge of keeping an eye on Lilly to make sure that she would stay out of trouble," said Winston. "But little did I know that he wanted to be leader of the pack and had gathered up followers. Then he tried to kidnap Lilly, but I discovered his plan and banished him and his followers," he said.
"Razor came back to get even with you by taking Lilly," said Garth baring his teeth. "Later he'll come back to take the valley and kill all who stand in his way," he said, as his father came up beside him and confronted Winston. "Winston, we're going to take what is ours and..." said Tony, but Winston cut him off. "Look, Tony, we were all born in the same park, but on different sides. The valley is big and there is food enough for all. We can have peace. We should think of our children's future and happiness," he said. "Now I have to fight a different enemy." Tony agreed with Winston, and made peace with the western pack. Just then Humphrey came and told them where Razor was headed with Lilly. "Their heading for Alaska and that's not safe territory even for Canadian wolves, but Razor was banished to Alaska so he knows the territory quite well," he said catching his breath.
Winston had to find a way to save Lilly from Razor. Humphrey had an idea. "Garth must go alone to save her, because Razor could see the whole pack from a distance and ambush us. But a lone wolf could follow them without being seen," he said. Garth agreed. "I'll go find her because I love her and my fight is with Razor," he with a growl. "Besides, my dad and Winston could not make the journey back and forth, so that's why I should go and find her," His dad did not want him to leave, but said goodbye to his son because he knew this was what Garth wanted. "I know he'll be alright because he's the best alpha I ever trained and he has his mother's spirit to guide him," said Tony with tears in his eyes as his son disappeared over a hill . Garth knew that he might not see his dad again, but he had to find his true love.