CHAPTER 2

Kate's POV

"Winston!" a voice shouted. It was one of the many old alpha couples that walked into the den. Kate growled. "It's called waiting outside." she snapped. The male alpha yelped and fell over. He didn't see kate in the corner of the den. Winston walked by kate. While raising an eyebrow, he gave a slight nod of approval towards kate.

"Yes? What is it?"

"Its our son." the female responded. "We've lost him during the area scan and now we can't find him!" the female sniffed. Something was off that only kate was catching onto. That was too fake for a tear over a pup. Kate thought. She had seen this couple before now that she thought of it. She heard yelling one night from a den during a patrol and decided to investigate. They must have heard her coming cause the yelling stopped and what looked like was going to be a disaster turned out to be the two alphas laughing happily. As kate walked away she noticed the pup was at the corner of the cave. A puddle of what appeared to be tears. As kate turned around to ask the pup what was wrong, the father barked. "Hey! Out with you!" he snapped. Kate looked at the male. His jaw was clamped shut to the point where you could see his teeth from the sides of his upper jaw. Kate walked out, but before she did she growled at the male. He walked backwards and put his back against the wall. Kate remembered calling him weak.

And he still is. Kate thought chuckling. "We'll deal with the pup tomorrow, it's to late for a search party." winston raised his snout. "Oh!" the female replied. "And the area has a nice look. Perfect ponds and small dens with just enough food for a few years!" she chirped happily. There! Kate realized. She went from being so-called sad to as happy as humphrey at the moonlight howl. Her thoughts brought her back to her own personal world. She sighed as she had once again remembered humphrey being gone.

"And what are your names, may i ask again?" winston raised an eyebrow.

"Don't you remember, sir? I'm delta and this is sarah." he said pointing towards the female. "Oh yes, the ones who almost killed my daughter lily when she was a pup."

Kates mouth dropped. She had walked into the den that belonged to wolfs that had almost killed her sister. "You two are very lucky that-" winston stopped talking. He looked over to kate. "That humphrey was there." he sighed. Kate was blown away. Humphrey saved her sister and she never knew. "Wasn't our fault that lily fell of the cliff." delta grunted. Kate grew suspicious of the two. "Please excuse my other daughter kate, her boyfriend left her and now she's a bit lonely." winston looked awkwardly at kate to try and snap her out of the current position her face was in. kate's ears flopped. What her dad said was heavy. The three talked for awhile and then went their separate ways.

Kate growled at her father. "Her boyfriend LEFT her, did he now?" she snapped at winston. He began to growl. "You were scaring them." he said His voice growing deep. "Good!" kate shouted. Kate got up and started to leave.

"Where are you going?" winston growled.

"To see my 'boyfriend', what do you think?" winston shut his mouth. The only place that could relate to that would be the grave. As kate slowly started to run, she could hear winston start to talk to eve about moving the pack earlier.

I hate them. Kate thought.

Humphreys POV

"So your telling me, their moving here? When?" i asked.

"I don't kn-" fitz stopped. He saw a paper book in the corner.

"What's that?" he asked. I decided to go along with it, i was probably scaring him to much, or just boring him to death. "Humans call it a comic." i replied.

"Where'd you get it?" he asked.

"How about i bring you there tomorrow?" i asked. I hadn't been in the area in awhile, and it wasn't very busy. "Really? Cool!" he jumped around, then sat down to look at the drawings in the old book.

(timeskip: next morning.)

Me and fitz were walking up to the human road when fitz asked a question.

"What are you going to do about the pack?" he asked.

I shrugged. "I dunno, maybe act like that guy did in that 'comic'. Go around at night only." fitz chuckled. "The guy with pointy ears and the weird bat on his chest?"

"Yeah! Him!" i replied smiling.

We walked over to the shop where i found the comic in a box from the back, and fitz started laughing when he looked in the window. "Look at his face!" he roared in laughter.

There was what appeared to be a big fake human in the window, wearing some sort of thick, green, dirty, and swamp covered looking thing. I started laughing too.

"He looks like he threw up on himself!" i chuckled.

Its red eyes were glowing. It had three tentacles down the sides of its face. Sand colored too. I chuckled as i walked around the side of the building with fitz.

"Hey humphrey! I'm just gonna look at this guy a while!" i realized he hadn't left his post, and was still sitting there watching the window. "Okay but watch out for humans!"

I heard him giggling at the ugly green hands that stuck out in front of him.

As i was grabbing a few books with a blue and red webbed human on the front for fitz, i saw something sticking out of a box. I put the books down and grabbed the item. It was some sort of fabric. It was blue with some white eye covers that look liked the eyes that the human had on the book cover that i put down. I had an idea. I ripped up the mask enough so i could tie it around my head. The only thing left of the mask was the upper half, with holes in the sides for my ears. I walked around the corner with the comics, looked at fitz. He stopped laughing and yelped. "W-who are you?" he asked. I lifted the mask. "Ta-da!" i said. "Humphrey! I didn't recognize you!"

"Good!" i replied. "And neither will the pack!"

"Ah!" fitz nodded in approval with a sly smile on his face.

"You look like some sort of a savage!" he chuckled.

As we walked back, the pup surprised me again.

"Y'know, that mask might be good for something!" he said.

"Oh yeah?" i chuckled. I thought he was going to say for scaring wolves away from the den, or maybe playing a game with him, but no.

"Yeah! I bet you would make a good impression on kate!"

He said cheerfully. I winced slightly. "How's… that?" i said with a weak smile. I was trying to hold back everything in me that wanted to come out, and it looked like i was doing okay. "I bet she'd think you'd be all rugged looking, and be all 'pow!' 'wham!' and look like some major alpha or somethin'!" he exclaimed. He got up on his feet and pretended to punch a 'bad guy'. As we entered the cave, i blurted out something i wished i didn't, but did anyways. "Do you really think kate still loves me?" i asked.

He was gobsmacked. "Loves you? She'll bark at any wolf that will ask her out on a date!" his tail started wagging. "How do you know kate so well?" i asked him.

"Cause i'm her cousin!"