Chapter 3: Omega Hostage

Upon their return to Jasper, the group, now composed of Kyle's pack, hid just behind the tree-line, out of sight of King and his Rouge Wolves. Or so they thought.

As they were talking amongst themselves, trying to figure out what to do, a small group of Rouge Wolves came out from the forest behind them and attacked the group. In the chaos, a smaller group came out from behind the bushes, grabbed Humphrey, and took him as their hostage.

"Kate!" he shouted as he was being dragged away.

Kate turned around to see him being carried off and hurried to go after him but was stopped by the Rouges. Their numbers were too great and to go after Humphrey now would be suicide. As hard as it was to accept, they had no choice but to wait for King to make his next move. Needless to say, it probably wasn't going to be a good one.

The wolves dragged Humphrey through his home and as he looked around at it, all he saw was destruction and ruin. Most of the dens were completely destroyed and the pack was utterly deserted. The only wolves in the territory now, were the Rouges. He was brought up to the den he shared with Kate which King had now made his own. He was thrown down in front of the rouge leader in pain.

"We're so glad you were able to join us," King said. He then turned to his henchwolves. "Leave us."

They respectfully lowered their heads and then turned and walked out. Once they were gone, King leaned down to Humphrey, but stopped when he noticed his bloodied side. King stopped for a moment.

"Oh? What have we here?" he said as he pressed a paw on Humphrey's obviously painful bullet-wound.

Humphrey grimaced in pain as King harshly pressed down on his injury.

"I believe we can make this work," he said. "Always good to have a little bit of leverage-" King suddenly gave Humphrey's wound a hard jab, causing him excruciating pain."When things don't go the way I want them to."

He leaned in close to whisper into Humphrey's ear, continuing to press down on Humphrey's side.

"Your pack is mine now," King said, now beginning to put his weight on Humphrey's wound instead of just pressing on it. The pain was becoming unbearable and Humphrey screamed in pain.

"Your little runt took everything from me. Now I'm getting even."

King put even more of his weight on Humphrey's shoulder, but he knew he could do worse. And, of course, he did. King gradually put more and more weight on Humphrey's shoulder, that he eventually lifted his other paw off the cave floor, now using only Humphrey's injured shoulder to prop himself up off the ground.

This was the last straw for Humphrey and as King stood on his shoulder, putting all of his body weight on his wound, Humphrey let out a bloodcurdling scream that echoed throughout the valley.