Author's note: Instead of writing another horror-themed story or continuing old ideas (such as that Balto/A&O crossover story) right now, I am going to write this to show what I'm hoping will happen (to an extent) in Alpha and Omega 5: Family Vacation, which is set to be released in the spring of 2015. I will be keeping the tone that we know from the first two and the fourth. It will be dark and have some adult humor, but it's not going to be any more than what we have in the movies. Though the adult humor will be low, compared to the movies as well. My fanfic will be kind of a mix of the first two and fourth A&O movies, in terms of what content can be expected in this.

For right now, I intend for the story to be kept a K+ rating, but I don't intend for it to go over a T rating, if it even does go THAT far. It may end at a K+ rating, for all I know. It will feature characters from all of the sequels (Princess and some other rogues from A Fleet, Nars, and Magril from A Daria, Lois, Floyd, and maybe Freida/Fran from A&O4) since my biggest complain of the sequels is how they haven't brought any of the likable A&O2 or A&O3 characters back yet. I'm sure we'll see Daria in A&O5 (the movie) but I'd like to see more of Princess, King, the rogues, Fleet, Magril, and Nars in it as well (such as how they'll all be in this fanfic).

Prologue

It was wintertime in Jasper Park, Canada, and snow was all over the landscape. But snow and cold weather such as this was not something that kept the wolves in their dens, especially the puppies and adolescents from the three different packs.

"Don't go too far from the den, pups," a beautiful female wolf called as her three children ran out of the den. While they could no longer be called pups or puppies—they were almost into their adolescent stage of life—it was now habit of their parents to call them that. It saddened yet pleased the two parents at the same time, to see that their pups were growing up. Soon, they would be old enough to leave their parents' den and begin their search for mates to start families of their own with.

"Mom!" the youngest complained. He was the only Omega out of the litter of three. His name was Runt. Appropriately so, as he was literally a runt, being a wolf who was smaller than average and the smallest in a litter at the same time. But, despite his size, Runt had the most attitude of the three—he was the most stubborn of them all. He had a dark gray coat of fur, even darker than that of his father. "We're just going to play in the snow is all!"

"Live a little, Mom!" the oldest said. Her name was Claudette. She was an Alpha and the largest of her three siblings, in addition to being older than both of her brothers. Claudette could also be the most argumentative one. She had a yellow-orange coat of fur, similar to her mother, except it was a slightly brighter hue.

"Can't our parents ever accept that we're growing up?" Stinky complained to his siblings in a whisper. An Alpha like Claudette, Stinky was the middle child. He had a gray coat of fur, but it was lighter than that of his father. His fur was more silvery than it was gray. Stinky was also a bit sarcastic, as was Runt, but he could be bitterly sarcastic at times. And that side of him showed more than it did in his little brother. "They acted just like this when we explored Shadow Forest and only because it had been haunted!"

Shadow Forest was a once dark forest, hence its name, located near the border of the united Eastern and Western Packs' Territory. It had once been haunted with the ghost of a wolf, later learned to be the mother of a blind Omega called Daria, who had been driven from her pack only because of her disability. Daria's mother was killed, but she had survived thanks to a porcupine called Floyd, as well as the other critters who lived in the forest, including two gossipy porcupine twins called Freida and Fran. When Kate, the mother of the three pups, had take Daria to find her pack and meet her mother, they had learned from Lois (Daria's sister) that she had never made it back to the pack. And that the rules of the pack were the same. A battle had ensued with the Alpha male of the pack at Rabbit Poo Mountain, with two of his Alphas. Kate and her husband Humphrey had protected Daria, as Runt had led her deeper into the forest. But the head wolf, for his real name was unknown, had gone after them. Daria would have been killed if it had not been for Runt yelling "Daria is in trouble!" to draw her mother's ghost out and take the head wolf away. No one had seen that wolf sense and they assumed he was taken to a dark place where he could no longer hurt Daria. Kate and Humphrey, as the pack leaders, had accepted her into their pack, as an Omega only so she would not be required to go on hunts like Alphas and Betas were. A blind wolf would not last on a hunt and her being an Omega was for her own good. It was something she had agreed with immediately, knowing that her hunting would be a bad idea.

"Let them play in the snow, Kate," the male said. He was an Omega called Humphrey. The mother of the couple was an Alpha called Kate. Together, they were the leaders of the united Eastern and Western Wolf Packs. "They never had the chance to last year because of King's pack of rogues. Besides, when did harm ever come from playing in the snow?" he added good-naturedly.

Humphrey was referring to how, the winter before, former Eastern Wolves, ones who had gone rogue, had taken Runt from his parents. King, the Alpha male of the pack, formerly known as Slash before going rogue, had intended to use Runt as bait to draw all of the Eastern and Western Alphas from Jasper, to Banff, so his Alphas could conquer the combined territory of the Eastern and Western Packs. King and his mate Queen had intended to add that to their own territory in Banff, even if they were well over a hundred miles apart. However, there had been one wolf whom King and Queen had not expected to ruin their plans. Princess, formerly known as Terra before going rogue, had disagreed with her parents for kidding a wolf pup. She had taken Runt away from where King had ordered him to be kept, while Humphrey had distracted her father and the other rogues. But one rogue had spotted her, alerted King, and they both almost died in the battle that had followed. But Princess and King both survived, and she had returned to Banff with the intention of only learning whether he was dead or not. But she was captured per her mother's orders and no one in Jasper had her from her since.

"Well…" Kate began almost sarcastically.

"Kate," Humphrey laughed. "Let them be themselves this winter. It will be their first one not having to deal with the rogues."

"You're right," Kate agreed. "And let's join them." She then kicked up a bunch of snow into Humphrey's face before laughing at her mate good-naturedly. They always play fought and taunted each other in ways like this, as it was common among wolves to have fun in this way when it was required to be serious. Such as on a hunt or defending territory.

"I've always say that you're an Omega at heart, Kate," Humphrey told her, almost laughing, as he shook the show out of his fur.

"And I've always said that you're an Alpha at heart, Humphrey," Kate countered, with the same good-natured tone. "Daria knows that very well, after what you and I did for her months ago," she added in a slightly more serious voice.

As Kate and Humphrey went to play in the snow with their growing up pups, none of the wolves knew what sort of adventures would be in story for their pack next spring.