Author's Note: So I decided to get a creative, maybe mix my usual style with a bit of different styles and make an Alpha and Omega Halloween special! I would call it a one-shot but it's going to be two chapters long... Does that make it... A double-shot? Enjoy! This chapter is mostly a background for what is to come in the next chapter... That I should write right now so I can get it up before Halloween is over! See ya in a few minutes, I guess!

Enjoy Garth, Lilly, Humphrey, Kate and the Wicked Wolf Witch!

Humphrey and Kate, and Garth and Lilly were young adult wolves. They had been friends for quite some time now. Both of the couples were mates, and their relationship with each other, as far as anyone could tell, was going rather smoothly.

One nice day on the very last day of October the couples were enjoying a peaceful lunch together. The most fun conversation you can imagine was occurring between the four and everyone was equally engaged. Suddenly, Shakey, an omega friend of Humphrey's, came busting into the company. He was out of breath and looked like something had gotten his excitement level much higher than it needed to be.

"Guys! GUYS!" Shakey yelled trying to grab the attention of the four friends. "You'll never believe this!"

Humphrey turned outside of the little group he was enclosed in to see what was going on with Shakey. "Hey Shakey, what's up?" he casually questioned.

"GHOSTS! SPIRITS! AND SOMETHING ABOUT A WITCH WEREWOLF!' Shakey exclaimed excitedly and with a hint of fear disguised in his voice.

"What the heck?" Garth said, his attention suddenly sparked. "What's going on?"

"Well, it is Halloween," Lilly said as she turned her attention to the new group that was forming around Shakey. "That's what you're supposed to think about."

"And good caribou with sugary berry juice on top!" Humphrey blurted out.

Kate followed Lilly over to Shakey and then said, "Do you have a costume idea or something?"

"You guys are missing the point!" Shakey began. "Let me break it down for you.

"A few minutes ago, I met this old wolf, and I didn't catch his name. We made small talk for a few minutes and then he warned me to stay away from the 'Den of the Wicked Wolf Witch of the Western Pack' tonight because it was supposed to be supernaturally active! Of course, I asked him what he meant. So he told me this really long story about the Wolf Witch. He said something that can be summarized like this:

"'Way back when the Western Pack was first founded, there lived a young and happy female wolf named Wren. She was a beautiful jet black wolf! Her life was wonderful and just perfect! She got the perfect guy, always did well at Alpha School and seemed to have the perfect family! As luck would have it, things were not as "perfect" as they seemed.

"'Wren started having sudden emotional attacks right before she and her mate were planning to have a family of their own. Without warning, the female wolf would go into strange trances where she would stare straight into space, completely unaware of reality! These trances would end with a short, quick and sudden scream, and occasionally, if she had been in a trance for much longer than usual, Wren would growl at anyone that was near her. Even worse, Wren never had any ability to remember that she had even been in a trance. Fortunately, the she wolf was informed of her insufficient condition early on and tried to get help. But she did not find it where she thought she would! No matter what Wren tried, counseling, moral support and meditation exercises for example, she could not rid herself of the fits. Naturally, her mate was fearful for her condition. Supposedly, he started trying to get her "help from beyond" without her knowing it. So one day, Wren's mate brought a strange wolf into their den to see if he could help her. The wolf looked so different from normal wolves that Wren got the feeling this wolf was capable of tampering with forces and powers that should have been left alone! At that moment, Wren realized what her emotional attacks were: she had been receiving supernatural visions of the future and sometimes visions of what was going on in the lives of wolves she had never met! Wren perceived that there were two possibilities: she was gifted, or she was cursed!

"'Unfortunately, the strange visitor noticed the look in Wren's eyes and immediately knew that she had discovered what was happening on her own. Without saying a word, he slowly walked out of the den and grabbed a few random slabs of bark. When he came back into the den, the wolf set the bark slabs down in front of Wren…'"

Shakey stopped speaking. He looked up and saw that all four wolves were staring straight at him with wide eyes and shocked expressions written on their faces.

"Well…. Go on! Finish the story!" Humphrey stated.

"Yeah, you HAVE to finish it now! I won't be able to breathe correctly until you do," Garth said.

"I'm sorry, guys! It's just the next part is where everything gets REALLY REALLY weird!" Shakey informed the group.

"Please tell us," Lilly said in an irresistibly sweet voice. Garth smiled at his girl when she said this. He loved her ability to get wolves to agree to do something just by using her adorable voice.

Of course Shakey could not just say "no" to a little, fragile voice like Lilly's! So, he continued.

'"Well, when the weird wolf guy set the bark slates down in front of Wren, there was nothing on them. He looked straight into Wren's eyes, blinked three times and then gestured down to the bark slates. When Wren's mate looked, all he saw was a few slates of bark. When Wren herself took a look she saw… MAGIC SPELLS! Supposedly, only someone with a wolf witch's blood in her or him can see these spells. They aren't on every single bark slate, however, the strange wolf just somehow used magic to put spells on these particular ones when he blinked those three times. Shortly after this, the strange wolf vanished… right into the thin air!

'"Wren didn't touch the spells for years! As a matter of fact, she and her mate left them right where the wolf had set them down in their den! To fight any temptation that would arise, Wren buried the bark slates by throwing mounds of dirt on top of them. She and her mate then found another den and did not even dare to walk near their old one. Wren was not having any more emotional attacks or trances anyway, so why should they get involved in the evil trap of black magic?

"'Things were well with Wren and her mate for several years. But then on one fateful day, Wren's mate developed some sort of sickness. On Halloween night the disease ended his life. Wren was devastated! Her mate had died far before his old age! Even worse, she never did get the chance to start a family with him for fear that something would be wrong with her kids because of her prior emotional attacks. Now all Wren wanted was a second chance! A second chance with her mate! A second chance at starting a family! In short, a second chance on her destroyed "perfect" life! The she wolf didn't want to get too deep into it, but she decided that it would be best for her to dig up the bark slates and attempt a little, tiny, miniscule bit of black magic. Who knew what would happen? If she was good at it, she might succeed in calling her mate back from the dead! Or even better, she could reverse the sun and the moon and go back to before her emotional attacks began! But for now, she was just going to try maybe one or two "easy" spells. Things could not get any worse, could they?

'"Wren frantically dug the bark slates up from the mound of dirt in her old den! She was full of determination and a desire to fix everything! She read the first spell and nothing happened. Maybe this was not such a good idea after all. Clearing her mind and focusing as hard as she possibly could, Wren read the spell again. In an instant, she was transported to the base of a waterfall, which just happened to be the nearest source of water. Wren was only beginning with her newfound profession, so she was unable to figure out how to transport herself back to her old den. Thus, she simply walked back to the den.

"'Before long, Wren was very much deeper into black magic than she had ever intended to be. It was almost like a medicine for her, or something that seemed to ease the pain of her lost mate! With each newly mastered spell, she felt like she was one paw-step closer to being reunited with her love!

'"The saddest thing is that Wren never intended to be a "pure evil" witch. All she was trying to do was get her life back. Unfortunately, the early Western Pack wolves did not see her in this "loving witch" way. Parents believed that she was a horrible influence on their young puppies because Wren would occasionally show some of the pups a bit of her magic in order to amuse them. This in turn got some of the young wolves wishing to be a wizard or witch when they grew up "just like the nice lady Wren." Soon, the pack leader had Wren banished, telling her that her magic was a bad influence on the newly founded Western Pack. This caused Wren to become enraged! She had now lost her life, her mate AND her home! From this day on, Wren was underground, practicing her wolf-witchcraft and dark magic in small ways. It is said that she is now a ghost witch and every now and then employs her magic to gain revenge on the Western Pack. Wren was an evil witch even though it was not her original intention. And on Halloween, both day and night, she is at her peak in her practice of black magic!'

"After this," Shakey finished, "I was pretty much 'weirded out,' so I just thanked the wolf for the story and went on my way."

"That… is really freaky!" Humphrey concluded.

"Do you, um, think that, you know, the Wicked Wolf Witch of the West is going to do anything wicked or scary today?" Lilly asked with fear in her voice.

"Don't worry, Lillsie," Garth comforted. "It's just a little Halloween story. The witch isn't real, so she can't hurt any of us." Garth was not really sure about this, but he hated to see Lilly worried over something. In the depths of his heart, he really was nervous that the witch might be real and that she might be out to hurt someone… like him… or Lilly!

"Yeah, it's just a story," Kate said trying to make the mood lighter. "You know, someone just made it up for fun to tell on Halloween… like whoever it was that told that old wolf Shakey met."

"Let's just all not worry about and go enjoy the rest of the day," Garth suggested.

The five wolves agreed to this and quickly set off in search of something that would take their minds off of the rather scary story they had just heard…

BUT THEY WERE REALLY IN FOR A "TRICK OR TREAT" EXPERIENCE LATER THAT NIGHT!

Author's Note: Like I said, I'll have the next chapter up VERY quickly! I would wait to post the story until I had it ready, but I wanted you guys to go ahead and get a good background and then have the next chapter shortly afterwards. And we're running out of time for Halloween!

Please review. Let me know if you think this is a cool idea since today is Halloween and how you think the next chapter, which will be the last, will turn out! Thanks for reading!