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"But Mom why?!"

"I'm sorry Kate, but if you are to marry Humphrey, he needs to know how to protect you!"

The conversation between these two tan furred wolves had lasted all day. It was an argument over if Humphrey should go through Alpha training or not.

Humphrey walked into the den as the den as the two of them were bickering.

"Kate, I want to do the training." He said softly as possible, as to not agitate either of them and to show he was serious.

"But Humph..." Kate was distraught with a frown upon her face.

"I know I'll be gone for a couple of months, but in the end it's what's best for the both of us. If you were to ever get into trouble like with the bears you'd need someone to defend you more."

Kate only nodded and stared at the floor with a frown. Eve patted her back for comfort. Eve spoke.

"Kate, all me and Humphrey want is the best for you, even though I hate to think it, if you had pups one day, who would protect them? Humphrey. You know why?"

Kate nodded no.

"Because he's going to become an Alpha, but that won't make him any different. He'll still be the fun loving Omega you fell in love with, just stronger and more agile. He won't even need to do alpha duties, his only duty would be to protect you."

Humphrey walked up to Kate and hugged her, she hugged back and they shared a quick kiss.

"Ahem."

They both immediately stopped and blushed as they turned to face Eve.

"Alpha school starts tomorrow morning Humphrey. Winston will meet you at the packs edge in the morning. I'll give you too some time alone, but no funny business."

And with that Eve left the alpha den leaving the two lovers alone.

"Humphrey?"

"Yes."

"Do you really wanna do this?"

"I'll do whatever it takes to be with you Kate."

Kate smiled and kissed him. They both laid down, Kate curled up into a ball at Humphrey's side and Humphrey lay on his stomach with his head on his paws and his eyes closed.

(The Next Morning; Edge Of United Pack)

"I assume you've said your goodbyes?" Asked a stern looking Winston.

"Yes, of course." Replied an eager Humphrey.

"Great. Let us begin our walk. This will take us two days to make while walking, one and a half if we run. Your choice."

"Walking is fine with me Sir."

"Humphrey, how many time must I tell you? Call me Winston."

"Yes Sir. I mean Winston!"

Winston chuckled at this and began walking through the forest, Humphrey followed suit, staying a few yards or so away from Winston. Some hours into the excruciating long walk Winston broke the silence.

"You what's weird Humphrey?"

"What's weird Sir? Winston!"

Winston smiled and shook his head.

"It seems like only yesterday I took Kate on this walk. Never did I ever think I'd be walking her soon to be Omega mate to do Alpha training."

"That is weird."

Upon saying this the pair had arrived at a meadow with a small pond in the middle. The two decided to stop here for a couple of minutes to rest. Humphrey went up to the pond to drink from it. Suddenly something struck him on the back and he fell over and howled in pain.

"Oh, I didn't think I hurt the coyote that badly."

Garth extended his paw out to Humphrey for him to grab onto to. Humphrey accepted with one paw still on his side where Garth hit him.

"Garth? What the hell? What was that for?!"

Winston stepped towards Humphrey, and spoke,"Lesson one of Alpha training. Always be prepared for anything, always be on high alert."

"Couldn't you have just told me?"

"Where is the fun in that?"

For the next hour or so the three of them practiced Humphrey's senses. Humphrey would walk out into the meadow and up to pond, basically a repeat, and Humphrey would have to dodge Garth's attacks. To say the least, it didn't fair Humphrey well and most times he was hit by Garth and had to restart the process, but on the most recent try the outcome was very different.

So as usual, Humphrey walked up to the pond and drank. Garth then kept from the bushes, Humphrey out of nowhere had the sudden urge to dodge the attack. Humphrey jumped to the side and into the pond, Garth landed on his face and looked around dumbfounded.

"Humphrey?" Garth asked.

"Here! In the water! A little help?"

"Sure thing coyote."

Garth got up and extended his paw out to Humphrey for the second time today. Humphrey got out of the water and shook his fur dry like a dog. It was at this time Winston emerged from the shadows of the trees.

"Good work, tomorrow we will work on not landing in the water but for now...Excellent work Humphrey. Now it is time for the real rest."

"So I can lay down?"

Winston only nodded. With that Humphrey fell to the ground, not even trying to brace for impact, and passed out.

(United Pack; Alpha Den; Western Side)

"Goodnight Lily."

"Goodnight Kate."

A few minutes of silence pass.

"Hey Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you miss Garth? Cause I'm missing Humphrey like crazy."

"You have no idea. We only just got married a week ago and he already left, but I guess it was for a good cause."

"Yeah..." Kate said trailing off.

"You know Humphrey will be alright, Right?"

"It's not that I'm afraid he'll be safe, I mean of course I'm worried if he's safe or not, but what worries me more is that he might not be the same Humphrey I fell in love with."

"Kate."

"Yeah?"

"Remember what Mom used to say? Don't judge a wolf by its fur?"

Lily rolled over facing the den wall.

"Hey Lily?"

"Yeah?"

"Goodnight"

"Goodnight"

(Meadow With Winston, Garth, And Humphrey; The next morning.)

Winston and Garth stood in front of Humphrey, whom stood in front of the pond facing them.

"Ok for today's sense heightening lesson you shall hunt something down. By this I mean for you to bring breakfest for all three of us. If you fail to do this within the hour you will be forced to do repeat of yesterday's lesson until lunch where you will have a second attemp. Any questions?"

Humphrey nodded no.

"Begin."

With this information in paw Humphrey took off towards the forest. He began by staying low to the ground for he figured this would help his situation. After a few minutes of hard concentration he had put together his plan. Stay low and wait for something to pass by.

Humphrey waited for about ten minutes and he heard nothing nor did he see anything of use towards himself and his case.

Humphrey started to worry. Many things flowed through his head.

'I don't want to do that again'

'what if I fail?'

'what will they say?'

'what will they think?'

'no'

'stay positive'

Humphrey decided he'd have better luck if he moved to a more open area, he was right. Humphrey found a clearing with short grass, no trees, and huge buck standing there in all its glory.

The buck was huge maybe three times the size of Humphrey and it's antlers were even wider than it. Humphrey knew this was a suicide mission, but he decided that there was no shame in trying, and this was the only thing that was close to food for what seemed like miles.

Humphrey got into position and stalked it, the buck was now only ten yards away.

Humphrey preped himself in his head.

'Remember how Garth got you, he jumped as high as he could and dived at you. Now apply that to this'

He was ready.

The buck leaned down to eat some grass on the clearing floor, Humphrey took this as the best opportunity to strike and he was yet again correct. The buck hadn't even seen Humphrey coming, so when Humphrey bit into his neck the force toppled him over breaking the buck's back. Humphrey let go when he realized that the buck was now paralyzed.

The buck's eyes stared deep into Humphrey's soul, begging for mercy, and Humphrey gave it to him, by snapping his neck and ending the buck's life. Humphrey lifted his muzzle into the air and howled sorrowfully for the beast's passing.

(The Meadow; Winston And Garth)

"I wonder what's keeping him?"

"Would you like me to look Sir?"

"No, he still has some time left, and I'm pretty sure he'll be fine."

Humphrey's howl filled the air and their ears. The pair looked at one another then to the sky. They then ran towards the source at top speed. When they arrived at the clearing they were certainly surprised to say the least. It's not everyday you see an Omega carrying a full grown buck in his mouth.

"Ahem."

Humphrey turned around and dropped the buck from his mouth to see Winston and Garth staring at him. Garth stepped forward, half shocked, half nervous.

"Coyote...did you? How? What?"

Winston smiled and stepped forward towards Humphrey putting an arm around him.

"Garth, I believe our Alpha in training here has gotten us breakfest."

Winston shook Humphrey and laughed. He then bit into one side of the buck, but let it fall, when he saw both Garth and Humphrey staring at him with confused expressions.

"You two gonna stand there all day or are you gonna help me carry this back to the meadow?"

(The Meadow; Two hours later)

"Lunch!?"

"Yes, Lunch."

"But I got breakfest..."

"And now you will get us Lunch."

"But Winston..."

"No buts! Same rules as before starting now!"

Humphrey sighed and ran towards the forest. At this point Humphrey wasn't sure how much more his body could take. Training from the night before and taking down that buck took a lot out of him, but now he had to get lunch!? With breakfest he got lucky in finding something to eat, and when the buck pretty much killed itself. He pondered if the same would happen again and he'd be lucky in finding food for the three of them.

Maybe he would be. Humphrey stumbled across a rabbit hole. He poked his head and saw three fully aged snow white rabbits. Perfect! Humphrey reached his paw in to grab one. Big mistake on his part.

"Ahhhh!"

One rabbit had bitten him. Humphrey fell back and landed on the ground as the rabbits from the hole scurried away in fear.

After this Humphrey searched for the rest of the time he had left, but had no luck whatsoever in finding anything worth eating.

Humprehy returned to the meadow defeated and was forced by Winston to do a repeat of last nights exercise. This time however, Humphrey didn't mess up each time, granted he still did mess up from time to time, but not as much!

A few hours had passed and the sky began to become dark as the sun faded away creating a beautiful sunset. At this point the exercise was over and Humphrey was looking out over the horizon through the trees and at the sunset. Winston approached him.

"Beautiful isn't it?" Winston asked.

"Definitely."

"You know what else would be beautiful right now Humphrey?"

"What Sir? I mean Winston!"

"Dinner. And I know just the wolf that wants to get it for me."

"Garth?"

"Nope."

"Me?"

"Yep!"

"Oh no..."

"Oh...Yes."

I hope you all enjoyed Chapter 1! I put a lot of hard work into this first chapter and it would mean the world to me if you would review and allow me to know your opinions! Anyways...

Stay Frosty Mates!