Hello to those who read the first chapter, sorry it took so long to update but I decided to take an English class to improve my writing etiquette, then shortly after I posted the note that I did I started to have medical problems which will hopefully be resolved shortly. But anyways here's the second chapter.
Humphrey P.O.V.: When I came too I could hear a loud noise, not quite loud enough to drown out the other noises but pretty close. I slowly opened my eyes to find nothing but darkness which led me to panic for a second thinking, where am I? What is this place? What happened? Once my eyes adjusted to the light I saw that I was in some sort of metal box and I could tell that I was moving in some sort of machine because I could feel my stomach roiling. As I was thinking about where I could possibly be I started to hear a loud banging noise so I called out "hello, is anyone there?" The banging noise stopped and was replaced by a female voice saying "hello? Did somebody just say something?" at this point I noticed some light leaking in near the top of the box so, I jumped up and put my paws on the side of the box. Once I had done that I saw that I was just a little too tall to look out of the holes in the side of the box so I decided I would duck down to see if I could see the creature I was talking to. When I looked around I could see another box that looked similar to mine and said "hey, there are some holes near the top of the box, jump up and put your paws on the side of the box so you can look through the holes and we can talk, ok?"
I heard some rustling in the box next to mine then suddenly I saw two bright green eyes appear in the holes across from me. It was too dark to see the rest of her features, we both silently looked at each other for a minute until she said "thank god that you're here, I was scared that I was all alone, do you know where we are?" "no I don't I'm sorry, the last thing that I remember is running away from humans" I replied looking around seeing boxes stacked everywhere "yeah me too" she said "well anyways what's your name? Mines Humphrey" I said smiling and looking back towards her as she replied "my names Imani, I'm from Yellowstone national park, what about you?" "well I'm from jasper national park, it's nice to meet you Imani , although I wish it was under better circumstances" I replied " it's nice to meet you too Humphrey, do you have any idea what's going on?" she said " umm, yeah I kind of do, this has happened to me and my future wife before" I replied thinking back to the time me and Kate had been taken to Sawtooth national park " last time, we got shot with darts by the humans and taken too Sawtooth national park in Idaho to reproduce" she then said " hey Sawtooth is pretty close to where I live I've actually been there before I think" she then stopped talking and I saw her eyes go wide as she realized what I had said, then she stuttered out "well u-uh w-were not going to do t-that a-are we? I mean you are getting married right? Heh" I chuckled a little bit and said "no, we aren't going to do that, when we get to where were going the humans will release us, when that happens we have to run as fast as we can to get somewhere safe" Imani looked back at me and asked "what do you plan to do when we reach a safe place?" "I am going to try to find out where we are then I will try to find my way back to jasper" I replied thinking about Kate and what she could be doing " that sounds like a good plan. If we get released together do you mind if I come with you?" Imani asked, I replied asking "what about your home in yellow stone?" she flinched and squeezed her eyes shut then sighed and said "there's nothing for me to go back to in Yellowstone, my old pack is filled with horrible wolves and honestly I hope I never see any of them again" I looked her and cocked my head a little bit thinking about what she said and then replied "do you want to talk about it?" she looked at me and said "I-I don't know if I'm ready yet, maybe another time it's still so fresh in my mind, ok?" I nodded my head and said "okay if you want to talk about it we'll probably be together for a while so just let me know" Imani smiled and said "thank you Humphrey that means a lot to me" I smiled back and said "anytime, but for now I'm really tired so I think I'm going to go to sleep for while, ok?" she nodded and said "ok, goodnight Humphrey" after she said that I dropped off the side of the box and circled a couple times, then laying down with a sigh I started to hear a beautiful humming sound realizing this was Imani I just put my head down on my paws and listened until I drifted off to sleep.
Kate P.O.V.: It was twenty minutes until the wedding and Humphrey was supposed to be here 40 minutes ago, everybody I had asked had told me the same thing, that they hadn't seen Humphrey for hours, I was FREAKING out. I was looking around from my vantage point on a cliff overlooking the feeding grounds when I saw Lilly making her way up towards me, as she got to the top of the cliff she said "any sign of Humphrey?" I looked at her and replied "no, but he's got to be here somewhere right? I mean it's not like he could've gone very far right?" after I said this I looked back over the area I was searching and sighed then said "Lilly do you think maybe you could help me look around for Humphrey" she looked at me and replied "yeah ill help you look" I sighed then turned and started walking back down the cliff then said "thanks Lilly for helping me look for Humphrey" she turned and followed me replying "your welcome Kate anything to help my sister" I turned my head and let out a small smile directed at her.
We walked silently through the forest scenting trees and bushes and many other things to try to get Humphrey's scent, after a while of this Lilly finally broke the silence and said "Kate can I ask you a question?" I turned my head to look at her while we were walking and replied "yeah I guess" "ok" she said and let out a sigh " I know this is going to sound mean and you might hate me for what I'm about to say, but it needs to be done so here goes" Lilly said stopping and looking directly at me "look there's only 5 more minutes before your wedding I think if Humphrey was going to be there then he would have been there by now" she said before pausing for a second to collect her thoughts and continuing on "seeing as he's not there yet makes me think that maybe he got nervous and decided he didn't want to go through with the marriage and maybe he left jasper so he wouldn't be ridiculed for backing out of this marriage" I gasped and yelled "Lilly, he wouldn't do that! He loves me! He would never even think about doing that!" Lilly sighed and said "but Kate there is a very real possibility that that's what he did" as I turned and walked away I said "Lilly I don't want to talk about it, he would never do that!" I said as I tears started to fill my eyes "but Kate!" Lilly started but I cut her off before she could continue by yelling "NO!" and started running with tears in my eyes Lilly started running after me and yelled "Kate wait!" but with me being an alpha and her being an omega I easily lost her. I ran and ran and ran not thinking about where I was going, just letting my paws take me wherever they wanted. When I finally stopped it was dark out I looked around for a second before I realized I was in front of the den me and Humphrey were going to move into when we became mates, I walked into the den and headed towards the back where I plopped down on the ground and started crying. "where are you Humphrey" I mumbled softly as exhaustion took over my body and plunged me into a deep sleep.
Humphrey P.O.V. in the dreamscape: as I fell asleep to Imani humming, I saw a very bright blue flash and appeared in a forest, I look around and think to myself "well this looks familiar" when I got here I noticed there was something off about this place and when I tried to look out the corner of my eye all I could see was really blurry images. I almost immediately felt an immense feeling of sadness around me. I took another glance at my surroundings, picked a random direction and started walking. As I was walking I was taking in my surroundings when suddenly I saw a golden mist like substance moving quickly through the forest. I quickly followed this mist and as I got a little closer I called out "hey, wait!" as I said this it stopped, turned and then took off at a faster pace than before leaving me to run as quickly as I can after it. Once I had followed this mist for a while watching It move through the trees erratically I saw a large den coming up, when the mist got next to the den it stopped for a second then slowly entered the den, went to the back and lowered to the ground slowly dissipating, when it got to the ground it fully disappeared.
Once it was gone I could hear a muffled voice calling my name, when I heard this I was pulled up and back to awaken to Imani screaming "Humphrey, wake up, Humphrey please!" I jumped up and yelled back "what's going on Imani?" I heard a thumping noise and then Imani said "they're moving me Humphrey" and sure enough just as she said this I felt my box shift and start to move "Imani!" I yelled jumping up onto the side of the box and looking out the holes "They're taking me in the same direction as you, just try to calm down okay!" I said trying to sooth her and dropping back onto the floor of the box as the humans put us onto one of their machines, marcel and paddy once told me that they were called cars or in this case being a bigger machine they are called trucks, just then I heard Imani ask in a fearful voice "are you still here Humphrey?" I looked toward the sound of her voice and replied reassuringly "yes I am, don't worry it looks like they are going to take us to the same place" just then the car started making me jump and Imani let out an involuntary scream. Once the machine, I feel more comfortable calling it that, started to move one of the first thing I noticed was the rush of extremely cold air coming through the holes in the top of the crates. The machine drove for a long while and throughout the ride Imani and I both were silent but once the machine finally stopped, Imani asked me "can you please tell what to do when they open the crates one more time please?" so I explained the plan to her one more time as the humans unloaded our crates from the machines and put them on the ground.
It suddenly went quiet and the door slid open in front of me What I saw amazed me, tall pine trees with snow so deep it looked like frosting, I had never seen anything quite like it. I took two cautious steps forward then ran as fast as I could in the deep snow towards the trees when I got into the trees I turned around to see an orange she wolf with a white underbelly, socks, ears, and tail tip. I also noticed that she had very bright green eyes. I figured this had to be Imani because there were only the two boxes that held me and Imani as far as I could tell, also they were the only two wolves in the area "Humphrey?" she said questioningly, so I turned the rest of the way around to face her and said "yeah it's me, I take it your Imani?" "yeah" she replied and looked around then walked a little closer, I looked around then up and realized it was starting to get dark so I said "well its getting dark, I think we should find shelter for tonight" I was still looking at my surroundings, I saw a snowy hill with pine trees I front of us, to the left there was a mountain about 50 km away, to the right was cliff and we already know what's behind us, so I walked up to the cliff and looked out over the area, what I saw was a large valley with a lake towards the middle surrounded by none other than more pine trees! Imani walked up to the right side of me and looked around then asked "well which way should we go?" "definitely not back the way we came" I replied letting out a chuckle and receiving a giggle from Imani "let's go up that hill right there and look for a den" I said pointing towards the hill with my paw "then tomorrow well head down into that valley right there and see if we can find any wolves that might be able to help us" I said, turning and starting to walk up the snow covered hill. "yeah that sounds like a good plan" Imani said as she turned and started following me
Imani and I were about half way up the hill when I saw a tree with a large hole underneath it, I walked over to the tree and stuck my head inside the hole scenting it for bears and large cats but all I found was a faint trace of old rabbit. "hey Imani" I said, pulling my head out of the hole "I found a place to stay for the night" Imani looked over to me and said "nice it was starting to get hard to see out here" then she started walking over to me, I looked back out to the forest then back to Imani saying "it's too dark to try to hunt right now so, I think we should wait till tomorrow then we will try our luck, ok?" Imani got to me and said "do you know how to hunt?" I smiled nervously and said "uhh… no I don't, what about you? Do you know how to hunt?" she looked at me sheepishly and replied "no but it can't be that hard, I mean the alphas do it every day" I turned back to the forest, looked back towards Imani and said "we are in for a hard time if we don't figure it out pretty quick" "yeah" she replied then said "come on Humphrey let's just get some sleep, ok?" and with that she turned and went in to the den, while she was walking I couldn't help but notice how good she looked perfect curves and totally fit almost like an alpha, I caught myself staring as she walked into the den then thought to bad I'm getting married which elicited a slight laugh from myself, speaking of getting married, I wish Kate was here, I turned and looked up into the stars thinking about what she could be doing right now and what she thought had happened to me. After a while of thinking I was startled by Imani's voice saying "Hey are you okay Humphrey?" I looked back just in time to see her poke her head out of the den then she tilted her head slightly and said "you look a little lost there Humphrey" she then let out a little giggle which caused me to blush and turn my head away then said "yeah I'm fine I was just thinking about my hopefully still soon to be mate" as I finished I felt her put her paw on my shoulder, I turned and saw her with a concerned expression on her face" are you sure? Do you want to talk about it?" she asked gently rubbing my back slightly "no I'm okay thank you though, let's go and get some sleep, we have a long day ahead of us" I replied hoping she would let it go which she did " okay come on then, the den you found has two huge piles of peat moss and I hear that peat moss is incredibly soft" she said. I replied saying "ok, let's go" I turned and headed towards the den, Imani followed me in and said "if you ever need to talk about it I'm sure well be together for a while so… just let me know okay?" She then smiled at me, I gave her a half-hearted smile and said "Thanks Imani I'll remember that" giving her a wink then saying "goodnight Imani" she replied quietly "goodnight Humphrey I'll see you tomorrow" before turning over and going to sleep. I looked at her for a while going over today's events in my mind, then I looked over at the entrance of the den and said "I love you Kate, I hope you still love me too" with that I turned over and let the darkness of sleep embrace me.
Once again thank you for reading my story, I hope to see some good reviews :) also thank you to S-Techno he has been really helpful and I am very grateful that I got a chance to talk to him thanks ;) I will leave you here for now and the next chapter will come out a lot faster than this one did once again thanks for reading and have a nice day!