Rat - A slang term used to identify the lower of the Northern populace, which the majority of Northerners are.


Humphrey woke up in a unfamiliar den and looked around to see two other wolves standing near him, looking at him menacingly. He began an attempt to stand up, but his plans were foiled by a large paw to the face, knocking him back to the hard cold ground.

"W-Where am I?" Humphrey asked, cowering in fear on the ground.

The two wolves looked away and outside the den, Humphrey sat confused and cuddled up in the corner he was in.

After about 20 minutes, an older wolf with more wolves walked in the den, the ones who found him out in the wilderness. He looked at down at Humphrey with the other wolves smirking and chuckling.

"How's that hot ass of yours feeling buddy?" One of them asked chuckling.

Humphrey raised an eyebrow and looked back at his anus then back at him to see them laughing.

"W-What are you talking about?" Humphrey asked in fear.

"Nothing" He replied laughing with them.

Blaze rolled her eyes, chuckling a bit herself as the pack leader stepped in between them.

"Enough! You! Westerner, identify yourself!" The pack leader commanded.

"H-Humphrey... my name's Humphrey..." Humphrey replied cowering away from him.

"Hmm, what are you doing in Northern territory? The treaty is very clear about outsiders entering the North" He asked him.

"I k-know.. I just was trying to get out of the west" Humphrey explained.

"Why is that, if I may ask?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

"My mate and I recently just had a... falling out..." Humphrey explained awkwardly.

"Yeah?" The pack leader asked as Blaze rolled her eyes chuckling.

"And if I go back... there's a really good chance that I will be... to put it lightly, killed" Humphrey explained.

"And why would you be killed for that?" He asked confused..

"She was the pack leader's daughter..." Humphrey replied.

"Oh, and I'm assuming her parents aren't the forgiving type?" He asked chuckling.

"Hell to the no! I'd be lucky to get kicked out or have my tail ripped off, I can't go back there!" Humphrey replied in minor fear at the thought.

"Well, we're not gonna just let you leave anyway, you belong to us now runt" He smirked as the others laughed a bit.

Humphrey gulped looking at all of them.

"We keeping him Cain?!" One of them asked strangely excited.

"Come on Cain, throw his ass back out into the woods or feed him to the rats, we don't have any use for this fucking maggot" Blaze said looking at Humphrey with minor disgust.

Humphrey looked down avoiding any eye contact, tucked his tail between his legs.

"Well, it's obvious he's an omega" Cain commented looking at him.

"We're gonna have to train his ass" One of them mentioned.

"I hear slave labor works pretty well..." Blaze muttered.

"But who will do it?" Cain asked.

"I mean, it's not like we don't have lots of slaves working for us already..." Blaze mentioned again.

"Don't look at me" The wolf backed up a bit.

"Hey guys! Slavery!" Blaze said loudly in between them, moving her paw back in forth in their faces.

They both sat there thinking ignoring Blaze, until they both snapped their paws and looked at each other.

"Got it!" They both said smirking.

"Slavery!?" Blaze smiled and jumped happily.

"Blaze, you're gonna train the new guy" Cain smirked.

Blaze immediately landed with a confused and disappointed look on her face. "Wait, wha...?"

"Yes, it's settled. Humphrey, your training will begin tomorrow, get some sleep" He said as he walked out.

Blaze then looked over at Humphrey with a menacing look, the other wolves chuckled and walked out, with the exception of the two guards who were already there. Blaze growled at the already cowering Humphrey who backed up into a corner, she smirked at that and then walked out the den with that evil grin on her face.

Humphrey cuddled up into the corner of the den, his tail tucking close to him. He sniffled as tears began to slide down his closed eyelids, he didn't care about the two guards at the entrance of the den, he finally had the tears to cry. But not tears of fear, he cried heavily with the picture of one wolf in his mind. One beautiful golden tan female wolf, the one that he had hurt so severely. He prayed that night.

Back in the West

"I'm going to fucking kill him!" Eve said in a rage as she paced back and forth in the den.

"No you're not, he's probably dead already... or wishes he was" Winston explained in an effort to calm his raging mate down.

"He hurt Kate, Winston!" Eve retaliated.

"Enough Eve! Worry about Kate!" Winston retorted.

Kate was lying down at the back of the den, drowning her eyes in tears as her sister tried her best to comfort her.

"He's so fucking dead! I hope he's being torn to shreds right now by the rats!" Kate yelled angrily as tears slid down her cheeks.

"Katey, you don't need him, he doesn't deserve you..." Lilly said, trying to make her feel better.

"Yeah Kate, Lilly's right, you don't need him. You'll find somebody else, I promise" Eve said with a small smile.

"But I don't want anyone else! I want him! I love him!" Kate retorted in tears.

"We need to send out a search party! Send some alphas to go look for him!" Kate ordered, standing up with tears drowning her face.

"Kate, it's pointless..." Winston replied.

"No, it's not! I need to find him, what if he's hurt?! I need to find my Humphrey!" Kate yelled back at her father, crying hard as she tried to run out of the den.

Eve then stopped her daughter from running and pinned her down.

"Get off me! HUMPHREY!" Kate called out of the den as loud as she could.

Eve, Winston, and Lilly all looked at each other with a sigh, they couldn't bare to see Kate like this.

"Kate, sweetheart, I promise you; we will send out search parties tomorrow" Eve said, trying to calm her.

"Y-You p-promise?" Kate sniffled.

"I promise sweetie, now please, go rest darling" Eve said with a small smile.

"O-Okay..." She replied as her mother let her up and Lilly led her to the back of the den.

Winston looked at his mate and motioned her to follow him outside, she did and they stopped and looked at each other.

"What's wrong honey?" Eve asked concerned.

"We can't send a fucking search party Eve!" Winston replied quietly, but with hint of anger.

"Why not? You know we can't just let Humphrey run to the North, they'll kill him" Eve explained.

"Oh so now you care about him, a few minutes ago you wanted to kill the guy" Winston retorted.

"Yeah, but I want to be the one to do it" Eve smiled sincerely.

Winston rolled his eyes and said, "Look, Humphrey is either dead or... worse"

"What do you mean worse?" Eve asked, confused a bit.

"I know how the northern pack is and always have been, they're crazy. If they didn't kill Humphrey, which they probably did, they might have accepted him into the pack. And if that happens... it would eventually be too late to save him" Winston explained.

"Too late for what?" Eve asked, still confused.

"He would be brought into the North, corrupted into their way of life, which is far primitive and even barbaric compared to ours. It would take time, but in the end, it is absolute" Winston explained.

"Well, it's just Humphrey. What could he do to us?" Eve smiled shrugging as she walked back into the den.

"I guess you might be right..." Winston sighed as she left him, he looked back out into the sky.

"I really hope you are" He muttered to himself as he walked back inside.

Back in the North

The sun slowly crept into the den like a thief as it's gaze hit Humphrey's eyes. He cringed a little at the sun, but soon accepted it and opened his eyes to the world again. He then saw the pack leader he knows as Cain walk inside.

"Ok Humphrey, now that you're up, it's time for your training" Cain explained as he began to walk out of the den.

Humphrey then got up to follow him, barely getting time to stretch as they walked over to the training grounds.

They made it to the training grounds and Humphrey saw a group of wolves there waiting for them, all of them he had seen before. Brutus, Dakota, Markus, and Blaze.

Brutus was a male wolf who had black fur with a white belly and brown eyes.

Dakota was a male wolf who had brown fur with brown eyes.

Markus was a male wolf who had grey and brown fur with blue eyes.

Blaze was a female wolf who had silver white fur with blue eyes.

"Humphrey, this is the pack's best warriors. I'd like you to meet Brutus" Cain said glancing towards Brutus.

Brutus smirked and nodded his head at Humphrey.

"Dakota" Cain introduced.

"How's it going tight ass?" Dakota chuckled.

"Markus" Cain said as Humphrey gulped.

Markus chuckled at Dakota's comment and licked his teeth at Humphrey.

"And Blaze" Cain smirked.

Blaze smirked at Humphrey as she picked her shiny teeth with her claw.

"They will be your teachers, and you will listen and learn from them. Do that, and you might actually be of use to us" Cain explained.

"So don't fuck up boy!" Dakota yelled in Humphrey's ear chuckling.

The rest of them laughed and Cain smirked at that.

"Alright guys, I have to go, so he's all yours" Cain said as he walked off.

"So, you're the new guy, huh?" Dakota asked smirking as he walked around him.

"Y-Yeah..." Humphrey replied looking at all of them.

"Yeah, no kidding, the rats sure had some fun with you didn't they?" Dakota licked his teeth smirking as he looked at his behind.

"Huh?" Humphrey asked, still confused about that.

They all laughed at his reaction.

"Don't worry about it kid" Brutus retorted laughing.

"Just if you wake up with sticky wet ass... don't be surprised" Markus assured him as they laughed.

Blaze rolled her eyes chuckling, "Come on, maybe we should actually train this kid"

"Fine, kid go for a run, back to where you came from before you get killed here" Dakota chuckled.

"Come with me kid" Blaze walked off as Humphrey followed with them laughing.

"Aww, come on baby, you know we were just messing around" Dakota smirked.

Blaze looked back at him smirking, "Baby?"

"Yeah, you know very well who you belong to" Dakota replied with a grin as he walked closer to her.

Blaze giggled a bit at his confidence and walked closer to him as well until they were both face to face.

"And who do I belong to Dakota? Enlighten me" Blaze asked smirking.

"Oh I will" He replied grinning as he pulled her into a kiss.

Blaze giggled and kissed him back, but a few seconds later she kicked him in the groin and pinned him to the ground.

"I think I know who I belong to baby" Blaze grinned as she held him down as the other chuckled.

"Yeah... I g-got it..." Dakota chuckled as he groaned from pain.

She grinned and got off of him and motioned Humphrey to follow her. They walked off deeper into the woods until it was just them.

"That was um... quite a show back there" Humphrey mentioned.

"Oh Dakota? Yeah, it was" Blaze chuckled.

"Are you two... like, you know..." Humphrey asked nervously.

"Dakota and I? Hell fucking no!" Blaze retorted in disgust.

"Oh..." Humphrey replied.

"Yeah, he's lucky he got what he got" Blaze explained shuddering a bit.

They eventually made it to a large clearing, Blaze looked around and saw that this place was good enough.

"Ok, now we can train. I want you to do a few laps around the pack to warm up" Blaze ordered.

Humphrey sighed and began running, once he was almost done he tripped on a rock and fell down.

"Come on, get up" Blaze rolled her eyes.

Humphrey groaned and got up and finished the last lap.

"Ok, now let's practice hunting" They went to an open prairie and saw a herd of caribou, then she began to explain to him how to hunt.

"Ok, first you have to slowly creep up on them, if they hear you, you have to lie completely still and not breath at all. Then, once they have went back to grazing, you jump on them and then kill them" Blaze explained.

"You say it like it's so easy" Humphrey said grinning.

Blaze giggled a bit at that.

"Why don't you give it a try?" Blaze asked grinning.

"Oh you're in for something" Humphrey chuckled as he slowly laid down in the grass.

He saw a decent sized caribou out in the field grazing, he slowly started to creep up on it. It stopped grazing for a second and looked up and Humphrey immediately stopped moving and breathing. After about thirty seconds, it went back to grazing. Humphrey sighed in small relief and then saw this as his opportunity, he leaped forward and landed on it's back. The caribou instantly felt the weight of him on his back and started thrashing around. Humphrey dug his sharp claws into it's sides to hold on tightly before biting hard down onto the back of it's neck. He then dug deeper into it and pinned it down, reaching his jaws over to it's throat and tore it out quickly. It died almost instantly and Humphrey had made his first kill.

"Nice, you're a natural" Blaze said walking up to him smiling.

Humphrey panted a bit with blood all over his mouth, "Thanks, what now?" he asked.

"Oh, you're not even close to done yet" She said laughing.

"Dammit!" Humphrey said smirking as they went back to training.


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