Alpha Megan and the tall scruffy haired yellow t-shirt man strode towards them fast, the reluctant rebellious pack trailing behind hem, all grouchy. Emma and Dan smiled at Rhydian's arrival but then back into their monotone face as the big scruffy haired yellow t-shirt scary man guy came up to them, sniveling in their faces. Rhydian and Maddy looked at each other, unsure what to do as their mouth twisted and turned, acting astonished.

"Well answer me you two -who is he, and where is Jana?" Alpha Megan demanded, her temper flying all over the place.

"Well I'm Rhydian, nice to meet you." Rhydian greeted, Megan raised her eyebrows unsatisfied.

"So who are you in this pack -you seem pretty human to me."

"Well I know Maddy don't I and like the rest of the pack -I sort of like human clothes."

"Ah Maddy.." Alpha Megan whispered in a wily undertone then carried on. " So are you two cousins?"

"No." Rhydian said cheerfully, Maddy had already decided to not take part in this awkward conversation and let the happy side of Rhydian take over, well sooner or later they were going to get eaten -why not change the morbid ambiance!?

"Distant cousins?"

"Still no."

"Brother and Sisters?"

"Not even a bit."

"Half brothers and sisters?"

"Not."

"Two omegas that got lost in this territory?"

"No.."

"Pack friends?"

"Nope."

"Best friends!" Megan exclaimed, running out of options.

"No." Rhydian muttered becoming quote bored of this, Megan's face crumpled into perplexity.

"So what are you two then?"

Rhydian clapped his hands together and simpered, whilst Maddy rolled her eyes. This was going to be interesting.

"Me and Mads are Alphas." Rhydian announced and his half hugged Maddy, grinning slightly. Silence engulfed them no one responded. Only the swaying of the trees could be heard.

"Well that went better than I imagined." Maddy murmured to Rhydian causing him to laugh.

"Your'e what?" The Alpha stuttered, her face blank.

"Alphas." Rhydian slowly said, laughing nervously.

"I'm sorry?"

"Me and Maddy are Alpha mates."

"What?"

"Boyfriend and girlfriend just on a deeper level!" Rhydian cried, vexed -why won't she get it in her head?

"Huh?"

"We are Alphas."

"You two are what?"

"Alphas. OK -you know where two wolves start a pack when they are ready, spend the rest of their lives together -that sort of thing." Rhydian explained flustered and frustrated, diverting the conversation completely - helping Jana escape.

"OK.." Alpha Megan murmured, trembling as black veins scampered up her arms. Rhydian clasped Maddy's hand even tighter, as Alpha Megan was getting closer -the smirking audience couldn't wait for the inevitable to happen.

"I Maddy Smith -"

"WHAT?! TAMED WOLFBLOODS!" Alpha Megan screamed, interrupting Maddy's declaration. All the birds flew away.

Triple whoops.

"Yeah we were born in the human world, well I was born in the wild then raised in the human world, then went back to the wild then left for the human world and now I am here!" Rhydian confirmed.

"You two are weak to this pack." Alpha Megan hissed, outraged.

"They weren't a weakness to this pack before!" Aran screamed. "Well apart from Rhydian, the idiot." Aran added.

"Right back at ya Aran!" Rhydian yelled, black veins crawled down his arms. Maddy rubbed her face with exhaustion.

"You two don't belong here." The scruffy haired, ragged yellow t-shirt dude bawled and snarled, Rhydian stepped out in front of Maddy protectively, not wanting to loose her or nearly loose her for again (6th, including all the times when Rhydian either wanted to leave or had to leave or needed to leave).

"Yeah and that's why I Maddy Smith challenge. You. The. Worst. Alpha. Ever -to a fighting duel -but as humans not wolves -fighting as wolves are for cubs." Maddy announced, causing even more scaly gaps around the wild pack.

"Well I accept your offer." Megan replied, crossing her arms.

"Mads, I am not going to let you get eaten by -her." Rhydian whispered.

"Relax, I know what I'm doing. I'll be fine." Maddy assured.

"You always say that then everything goes wrong!"

"Yeah but this time, we have practice, I have been fighting in here whilst you are in Stonybridge, even if Jana has beaten us over and over again. Stop stressing." Maddy said, patting Rhydian's shoulder as she reined her instincts in, the Smiths bustled their way through the snarling, spitting, biting wolfbloods to greet Rhydian, although only making light conversation as their eye s are fixed onto Maddy. Worry wells up in Rhydian's heart and his fists clench into a compact ball -maddy wasn't the only one who had to listen to the tingling.

"Come on Mads - bare those teeth!" Rhydian shouted, gaining a death glare from Maddy.

"You might want to listen to your Alpha Maddy, because I am." Megan snarled, and attempted to push Maddy down on the ground, but Maddy's skills were fast, accurate and rough.

Maddy put feet out evenly and separated her legs, even width and balance and flipped Megan over with her strength, her eyes narrowed with concentration as she firmly held Megan in that position. Before she was thrown into a tree, wild wolfbloods darted out of the way as Maddy's ear and lip began to bleed. Maddy growled at the back of the throat and pushed Megan back down on the ground causing Megan to bleed -but Maddy was no killer harmful person either. Maddy was just remembering the tips Tom gave Maddy about judo and attacking after he beat Jimi. Nevertheless Maddy gripped onto Vegans throat counting the seconds down so she didn't actually strangled her, Maddy's hand was aching after Megan had crushed it a few moments before so her endurance was failing her a bit. Maddy's claws came and blood was beginning to draw out of her neck.

"Rhydian -now!" Maddy screamed.

"Ahh oh no a dog!" Rhydian yelled, feigning a scream- everyone turned their heads towards the boy and began to transform, all feeling giddy.

Megan pushed Maddy off and ran out of the way, laughing and squealing as she imagined the thought of a dog -her cousins (of the 48% of DNA in her). Although Rhydian took advantage of that and discretely tripped a pacing Megan up; pretending to be shocked as she hit her head on a stone near by -causing her to fall into a storm of unconsciousness. Maddy won (well sort of). Cheer and laughter filled the air but this was Jana's pack, not Maddy's. So after all the excitement, cheers and taking Megan to the hollow instead; the Smith family and Rhydian take a stroll near the main river, discussing the possibilities.

"Well that was some fight!" Daniel cried.

"Yeah how did you know what to do?" Emma inquired, puzzled as she asked the two young Alphas.

"We didn't I guess it was just -Alpha tingling!" Rhydian replied.

"Alpha tingling?" Emma spluttered.

"Yes Mrs S - it is like we get that same tingling, giving us a feeling of what both of us will do next, like just now and Mads if you're not careful you're going to bump into that tree." Rhydian pointed out, and Maddy sleekly dodged it by the fur n her body.

"Thanks Rhydian, always can rely on you."

"Glad your back though pet, how long will you be staying for?" Emma interrogated Rhydian. Rhydian gulped, he wanted to stay with Maddy for as long as possible, but he only told his parents that he was staying with Shannon for a few nights.

"I don't know, I mean I can't stay. It is just too hard... If I could then.." Rhydian stuttered, but he had no excuse, he had Maddy by his side at this moment, he didn't want to think about the future. Maddy touched his arm and half smiled understanding.

"It's fine Rhydian, someone needs to stop Jeffries from having a mental breakdown, and I think Tom's jokes will kill him." Maddy seriously replied, only making everyone else laugh.

"Sorry Mads, but he's already had it."

"Ah well, he'll get over it." Dan butted in smiling.

"Yes, maybe Megan will get over her getting beaten by a tamed wolfblood." Maddy uttered darkly. "At least now I think Alpha Megan sorry Megan will be chucked out of this place and we can do whatever we choose to do." Maddy added smiling as she awaits to tell her pack the news she carried.

"Why are you so happy Mads?" Rhydian questioned, her smile transformed into a beam -it's always him.

"OK well I think we can leave the wild and leave in stonybridge again. Before all this, me and Jana were discussing somethings and we have a plan.." Maddy said...

(Meanwhile)

"Shannon, stop worrying they are probably having the time of their lives!" Tom uttered as he laid out, spread out on Shannon's sofa, enjoying the peace and the smell of god cooking -not burnt burgers.

"Yeah but Maddy could have changed, what happen if she hates us now and gone wild?!"

"Look, I think it takes a bit more than the wild to change Mads."

"We said that when Rhydian left and he came back with hate for humans."

"He came back as a lost person, relax Shan."

"OK what if Whitewood follows Rhydian and tracks Maddy down, then what?"

"She won't, Whitewood has been following us -yeah Mads made us promise that we will pretend to be conned, but at least we diverted the suspicion onto humans huh Shan? Anyway nothing is going to happen. What could possibly go wrong?" Tom questioned, but as a matter of coincidence a thumping of the door aroused the humans suspicions and cautiously Tom swung the door open -only to show Jana -wait what. JANA?!

"Jana, Shannon come quick!" Tom beckoned, as he dragged the pusillanimous wolfblood towards the kitchen, where there is a first aid kit. Shannon dashed to the kitchen and scrutinized her abandoned home for the night, and rapidly tried to find the first aid kid. Jan curls into a ball moaning and groan as the excruciating pain became worse...

"Shannon!" Tom ushered as he put Jana in the recovery position to check for any wounds on the back- plenty of deep gashes. Shannon thrusts the first aid kit into Tom hands and they cleared the table so Tom can get a better look and it may be more comfortable for the passed out wolfblood.

"I'm sorry Jana, duty calls." Tom grumbled, and he started to get to work...

(Twenty minuets later -thought I wouldn't go heavy on the violence or blood...)

Tom and Shannon finished patching up Jana and the carried her over towards the warm soft sofa, not making a peep. Shannon covered a blanket over Jana and sighs with relief, but for both humans one questioned remained in their fat brains. What happened. Footsteps clattered in the hall way and Tom and Shannon froze. Tom forgot to close the door. The hurry towards the noise, and Tom hastily grabs the nearest thing available to him -a wooden spoon. Flickering shadows get larger and more distinct until the humans see the wolfbloods -laughing?!

"What the?" Tom exclaimed, as the Smiths and Rhydian burst into fits of laughter as they witness Tom and his spoon with Shannon behind him looking like a lost cat. Maddy stepped out of the darkness and they all embraced in a hug, tears streamed down Shannon and Toms eyes as Maddy's warmth gave them the freedom to be happy. (Even if Shannon could hardly see as her glasses drooped to one side.)

"I missed you guys." Maddy sniffled.

"We missed you too Mads." Tom replies, all of them breaking apart.

Rhydian, Dan and Emma grinned in the background watching helplessly as Maddy catches up with her human friends, nearly have a normal time. So they decided to find food -well meat, after Rhydian's parents cooked him vegetarian casserole for the sixth time in a row.

"Hows Jana?" Maddy questioned as they trudged over to the sleeping sort of in a coma wolfblood all of them sat on the other sofa.

"Asleep, battered and will be healed soon!" Shannon muttered.

"What actually happened anyway?" Tom inquired.

"Well this weird wild wolfblood came, called Megan -she challenged Jana and they has a massive fight but Jana was punished and wounded, that's when Rhydian came, she escaped and I challenged Megan and then Rhydian tripped her up so get was knocked out and we won." Maddy recounts.

"That must of been interesting and scary!" Shannon evaluates.

"Not as scary as you without glasses Shan." Tom badgered, they laughed happily grinning like mad.

"Er Shan can we stay here? I think it's too dangerous to go back to our old house, seeing as Whitewood could be anywhere -it's only until we figure a few things out." Maddy implored to Shannon, as the PING of the microwave shook everyone's seats.

"Of course Mads, don't ask next time."

"So Mads, how was the wild?" Rhydian called, as he came out of the kitchen licking his lips and perched next to Maddy simpering away.

"It was - different." Maddy murmured, looking down, not looking or listening to anyone, Rhydian sensed Maddy's awkwardness and didn't press any further, since this day he hasn't said much to Maddy about the wild -why should she?

"Er Rhydian what are you eating?" Shannon demanded.

"That pie in the oven, it was cooked and Dan and Emma and me were slightly hungry." Rhydian shrugged and he looked at the spot Maddy was stil staring at, guiltily.

"That was our dinner!" Shannon squawked.

"Sorry -you got always go to Bernie's or something." Rhydian suggested acknowledging Tom's weak spot for Bernie's food...

"Maybe, yeah OK we will!" Tom exclaimed.

"Treat yourself mate." Rhydian muttered.

"Come on lets give these two ladies some alone time." Tom declared, and Shannon hit him in the leg.

"It's fine, we won't eat your trifle." Maddy responded.

Rhydian laughed and Maddy smiled and nodded her head at her human friends as they walked out. But as always Shannon gave her 'we are talking later' look as they left the building. Maddy and Rhydian sighed and they leaned back, Maddy rested her head on Rhydian's shoulder as he wrapped his arms around Maddy's waist.

"I can't believe it - 24 hours ago, me Shan and Tom were watching the 3K's have a fight, and now well now your here." Rhydian said, Maddy looked up and kissed him passionately on the lips, her eyes disintegrating into his.

"Well what can I say?"