Wow this chapter was really hard to write. It is almost beyond my English ability, so if there are some please make you confused. Please tell me then I will try to make it clearer.
For Ten Years
"Why? Kate. Why you left me again and again. I know this time was not a dream. Please don't leave me." Humphrey was crying on the ground. He was sure that song was there. But when he was trying to find it, it was gone.
Humphrey felt he was very tired. He really wanted to stay like this for ever, and leave this painful world. So that he can go to find kite be together with her in another world.
"Promised me you will go on bravely and...Please don't forget me"
"I promised you"
The old promised come into his mind. He really wants to keep this promised but he was too tired now. He can't even move his ear now.
He knows this might be his end.
"You promised me."
Suddenly a voice rise next to him.
"Kat...e?"
That voice was like a spell which makes Humphrey felt he was filling up with energy. He struggled to stand up from the ground.
"Kate? Where are you?" Humphrey search the forest for her, for his exciting he saw a tan figure disappeared in the end of the forest, heading to the grave area.
"Kate! Wait for me." Humphrey started to chase her, he haven't run for a long time. he didn't know what will happened if he run under his bad physical condition, but he has no time to worried about that.
"I don't understand why they need him; he was just an old strange wolf!"
Ivy was now on her way to the grave area, her father told her that was the place where she can find elder Humphrey.
"They even change the meeting place for that wolf! I don't care he like the main den or not." she was not very happy to be sent to find Humphrey again. She couldn't understand why her father was that respect Humphrey. And when she asked him, he never answered.
"I am an alpha! One of the best! Not a messenger!" she yelled to the ground.
...At that day, I am young and you are beauty...
Suddenly, a song sang by an unfamiliar male voice has come from her front, which should be the grave area.
...We never know what worry's meaning. Our new life had just begun...
Thought Ivy can't identify who was that, but she can clearly feel the emotions that song has contained, which make her has an impulse to cry.
She couldn't understand how a song can be that influential. Just like she couldn't understand why Humphrey doesn't like the main den. So she ran to find it out.
When she got to the grave area, she saw a young hansom wolf with gray, beautiful and glossy fur. Tears fallen form his big blue eyes, but disappear before it can touch the ground. Like it too saintly to touch this world
Of course she didn't know him. But before she could ask him why he was in their grave area, that wolf started to sing again.
"Kate! Please don't run away from me!" Humphrey begged. But that tan wolf didn't stop, after a corner there were completely now sign of her.
"No!" Humphrey said quietly. But he didn't stop until he has reached the grave area.
Looking at those graves, Humphrey walked toward to a grave covered by of wired yellow plant. He planted those plants by his hand. They are the herbs which he got from a place he can't remember, and was supposed to save Kate's life.
This Kate's grave.
"Why?" he asked. Maybe was for an answer or just simplify blame himself.
"You know, I don't understand why and how did everything happened." Humphrey said. He was too losing to notice some odd things to him. Like after a long run he didn't even has any gasp.
"I don't know why. Kate, I don't know why." he said. "I have learned many many things, but there is one thing I never know."
"What is love? Why is love? How is loved?" he asked. "Ten years before you die, we don't even have born. Ten years after, we can never meet again."
Humphrey looked at the grave with tears in his eyes. This is the third time he had cry in this two days and also the third time in ten years.
When he was talking, his memories popped out to his mind. Some of them were already forgotten for a long time, and some would never forget.
At that day, I am young and you are beauty.
We never know what worry's meaning.
Our new life had just begun…
The image of the wedding in the valley has jumped out from those memories. Humphrey has already forgot about it, but now he remembered. It was supposed to be Kate and garth's wedding. But after those stamps, it has become Lilly and garth, Kate and his wedding.
...in that month, we have fun, joy, and memory. Stars above us have start to shinning. From now it just likes a dream...
Another image jumped out. They are on the howling rock, howling to the moon. Humphrey had thought that day's star was the brightest ever.
... In that year, love had led to pregnancy.
New lives make us surprise and panic.
But the sign of your left was never seem...
The most repentant thing he had done was make Kate pregnant. He still remember a week after they really become mate, Kate told him that she was pregnant. Her face was filled with joy and fear, but who can tell what will happened then?
... For ten years, too much death has be seen.
Familiar faces were all missing...
When he was singing there are phantom start to jump out from those memories. Kate, Winston, Eve, Lilly Garth, Salty, Shakey, Mooch, Hutch...and many others whose were all gone for a long time. Only him, he was the only left.
...but I was here, and waiting for a chance.
To let us meet again!
Days after days, years after years, my heart has never change; I had kept my promises then.
My love, how eager I want to touch your face!
Even in a dream is okay!...
Humphrey looked at those phantoms in front of him. They are so real just like they are really there.
...just don't leave me alone again.
He finished the song, and when his song was finished. All of the phantoms were all disappeared.
Seeing this, Humphrey lower his head, looking on the ground.
"Please...don't leave me alone again..." he said.
"Like what I said, Humphrey." a sound said.
Humphrey looked up and saw a wolf was standing in front of him.
"Kate?" Humphrey looking at that familiar and missing face. "You finally show up." he said in a calm voice, but even a blind wolf can feel how excited he was.
"No, Humphrey you are not alone. Like what I said, I had never left."
"I don't understand...I can't understand." Humphrey said. He started to walk up trying to use his shaking hand to touch Kate, but him not dare to, him afraid she will disappear again.
Kate smile and walk up and give him a hug on her own initiative.
"I won't left without you this time. Humphrey, we will not be separate anymore." Kate said.
The familiar touch, the smell, the feel and her heat made him lost the ability to think when Kate hugged him. He didn't want to move anymore. It is good enough to be with her like this.
"Humphrey?" Kate asked. She thought he will be filled with joy after he heard her. But for her surprised, he didn't have any action.
She tried to break the hug, but stopped by Humphrey.
"No don't leave me again. I can't bear it." Humphrey said.
Hearing that Kate give up struggling, she know how much he had underwent. He eventually will let go.
"Do you know how much did I missed you?" Humphrey asked.
"Yes, of course I know." Kate said.
"Then don't leave me again." Humphrey said.
Kate can sure that Humphrey didn't heard her word then.
"I won't. I will take you with me." Kate smile.
"Really?" Humphrey pulled away from Kate and looked at her. "Why don't you bring me with you then?"
"That because you can't at that time." Kate answered, still smiling.
"Then why I can now?" Humphrey asked.
"Look at yourself." Kate said.
Humphrey looked down to her body. His fur was shining and health. He can feel the power his muscles contained. It is not old and wrinkle anymore.
"You are dead, Humphrey. You shouldn't run then." Kate answered his not-ask-yet question.
"I...am what?" Humphrey asked.
"Come with me then you can understand." Kate said and gives Humphrey a kiss.
Kate turns around and starts to rise up to the sky.
Just before Humphrey think she was leaving him again, he felt he was lifted by something too.
They become higher and higher until they disappeared in the cloud.
Ivy ran up to the place where Kate and Humphrey was, but the things she only found was an old wolf lying not far from the grave. His eyes were closed with a smile on his face.
Like he was just sleeping.
NO! the story was not end yet there are still one chapter which will be the happy ending.
And yes I wrote that song. I don't know is was good or bad for you.
What do you think?
2012-7-28 5:04 pm time zone = +8
