In the next two days, the unified pack is alert; apparently the clan of the shadows would not attack at the moment because they do not know how to deal with Humphrey. Kate and Garth cannot find of a way to save to her daughter and the other females.
It's almost the sunset when Candu enters in the den.
"They're coming, approaching from the west cliff" Candu says looking at Kate, Tony, Garth, Winston and Eve.
"As Humphrey said" Kate says watching at the others. They go out and assemble with other members of their pack and walk to a point near the West Cliff. That was the only place that their enemy could not watch therefore Lily's pack will pass unnoticed.
They wait near the passage of the cliff. The pack sees that a group of about seventeen wolves is approaching to them, they walk in line. Kate swallows hard when she sees to her sister, she leads the group.
As Humphrey had said, she was not the same wolf who once lived in Jasper, her physical constitution was strong her white fur was striking, but also reflected her strength and power.
Garth was surprised to see Lily's eyes, those beautiful eyes he had once admired, now only reflect coldness and hardness. Lily's pack stops in front of Kate and others, they swallow hard.
Lily approaches to her family with a young wolf of the same age as her Ashley; his fur color is silver and he has brown eyes. They sit in front of Kate and her family.
"I did not expect to come back here." Lily finally said while she is looking at his old pack.
Winston and Eve embrace her, but they do not obtain a respond from Lily, she just looks at them until they give a step back.
"Do not do that again or you will regretted it." Lily calmly says while she is looking at her family. They look at her with fear and surprise.
"First things first, this is Kip." Lily says pointing with her paw at the young wolf that is next to her, he tilts his head slightly in greeting.
"These are Winston, Eve, Kate, Tony and Garth." Lily says introducing at the unified pack members.
Garth swallows when Lily pronounces his name with hatred.
"This is the idiot who left you for your sister?" Kip asks looking at Lily. Kate and her pack are surprised.
"How dare you? Rascal" Garth says feeling angry with the insolent wolf. He without thinking tries to give him a lesson. Winston and the others are surprised when Kip grabs to Garth by the neck and whips him hard on the dusty ground.
Lily's pack laughs just like Humphrey, Kip puts his paw on the neck of Garth and press. Garth tries to get free pushing him; Kip opens his mouth with the intention of biting Garth's neck.
"Stop Kip" Lily says looking as Kip downs his mouth to gives the final bite to Garth.
"I told you to, stop" Lily says giving a blow at Kip. She sends him to fly through the air and fall to a few feet from her, his body rolls before stopping.
Kate looks with surprise at her sister; she could not believe she had struck in such way to Kip. He quickly gets up and runs toward Lily; he sits tilting his head and puts his ears in submissive position when he arrives at her side.
"Sorry... mother" Kip says looking at Lily. Winston like his family is shocked.
"I never want to have to repeat an order, when you become the leader, you will be able to do whatever you want, even take a decision about me, if I become a burden for the pack" Lily says looking at her son, he nods slightly.
Kate looks with surprise at her sister, she could not be serious.
"Where is the father?" Eve asks while she swallows hard.
"I killed him." Lily answers impassively while her family looks at her with horror.
"He and his pack raped me once, Kip was the result; Humphrey trained me enough to take revenge." Lily says looking at her family. Winston cannot believe that her daughter had been massively raped by a pack of wolves; they look at Kip thinking that Lily should not say that.
"I do not feel anything for him; I saw how he raped mom again" Kip says as he sits and looks at Kate and her pack.
"Why you allowed it?" Kate said looking at Lily, she smiles.
"By strategy, I could kill him at that time, but it was not the right time. His pack was scattered like mine because it was not complete yet. If I would kill him, his wolves would have fled. So I let them thought that I was at their mercy." Lily said looking at Kate.
"When they were neglected, we attacked and killed them all, except one who escaped at the clan of the shadows that is led by his uncle." Lily said looking at Kate.
Lily turns her head to look at her pack.
"We will attack tomorrow night, you two get food, and take it into the dens that I showed you, the rest look for a room to rest." Lily says watching at her wolves, they nod.
"I do not want any problems with this pack. You know what awaits you, if someone disobeys my orders." Lily says watching to her pack.
They nod and walk away.
"Kip, go with them and look for a big room for us." Lily says looking at her son, he nods and walk behind the rest of the pack.
"I hope that you understand this perfectly, I do not do this for this pack, I just want to finish what I started, the son of the leader of the cascade's pack will die tomorrow and we will take the Northern Territory." Lily says.
"Lily ... our daughter and the other females..." Garth says not knowing how to ask the question that has him deeply concerned.
"Did you tell them?" Lily asks looking at Humphrey.
"I thought it was the best to let them know, to avoid further problems." Humphrey says looking at Lily, she makes a grimace to tell him to shut up for other occasions.
Humphrey laughs softly.
"I guess they already know what to expect." Lily says watching to her former pack.
"Lily ... you cannot be serious" Winston says watching to her daughter.
"Wow that's new; you are not willing to sacrifice the happiness of his granddaughter as you did with your daughter?" Lily asks without showing any emotion. That question strikes strongly to Winston and Eve.
"Speaking of that... Humphrey. Why you not spend the night in my den, I you want some action." Lily said looking at Humphrey, he smiles contentedly as Kate looks at him with surprise just like the others.
"But Kip is there." Eve said with shock and disbelief.
"Somehow he has to learn, and Humphrey's good in that" Lily said looking at Humphrey. He shrugs with a soft smile.
"Tomorrow put all your alpha alert throughout the territory , the wolves clan of the shadows will know that you are watching , they will not dare to attack without the element of surprise, and also they have no idea where is Humphrey. They will not to risk to attack." Lily says looking at Kate.
"Let's go Humphrey." Lily says as she turns and starts walking. Humphrey follows to Lily. They walk away from the pack, Kate and Garth look at each other in fear while they are thinking in what can happen to her daughter.
The next day Winston and Eve divided to their Alphas to explore the perimeter. They have instructions of be very evident. Humphrey is not seen throughout the day to increase the uncertainty of the enemy.
Kate and leaders discussed about the requirements of the Lily's pack.
"We cannot let this happen; I will not allow it, I will fight." Garth says with decision while he is looking at Kate and the other leaders.
"You will die like the rest of us. If we confronted them, they would kill us." Kate says looking at Garth.
"Are we let them rape to our daughter and the females?" Garth asks angrily staring at Kate.
"I think we can convince to Lily, her wolves feared her. If she orders it, the wolves will not dare to touch to Ashley and the girls." Kate said looking at Garth. He does a grimace not believing that Lily still had some affection for her old pack.
"In fact there is another solution." Eve says looking at Winston, he nods.
"As alphas we know that we bear responsibility, and this sometimes involves sacrifice." Eve says looking at her daughter and Garth.
"What do you mean mom?" Kate asks looking at Eve. She smiles sadly.
After sunset Kate, Garth, Winston, Eve and Tony are gathered near the northern border of the territory of the pack with the rest of their wolves. They see that Lily inspects to her pack. They are standing in front of her in a row, Humphrey is sitting near them.
Kate sees that each of Lily's wolves is veteran in fighting.
"Alright, you know the plan of attack, each one of you will enter by the direction that was assigned and clean the place. Humphrey reported that there are eighty wolves, so I want to see seventy-nine bodies here, bring me alive who you know." Lily said looking at the wolves.
"Yes ma'am¡" Wolves respond in unison.
"Kip" Lily says looking at his son; he gets out from the row of wolves.
"Your will go with Humphrey." Lily says looking at Kip.
"Yes ma'am" Kip says and approaches to Humphrey, he laughs softly.
"What is so funny, Humphrey?" Lily asks with interest.
"Nothing, I just thought that we are an interesting team, a veteran and a rookie." Humphrey says looking at Lily. She smiles softly.
"Move!" Lily said looking at her wolves; they split while Lily watches them. She starts to walk towards her point of entry into the territory of the clan of the shadows.
"What do you want?" Lily asks as noticing that Kate, Garth and Tony and her parents are following her.
"We want to help." Winston answers looking at Lily.
"Ok, but you can come if you want. If one fall, I will not stop to help him." Lily says as she continues walking. They cross the river and enter in the northern territory, Garth and others are alert and try to get overlooked.
They walk in silence until Lily suddenly stops in front of a hillock, she smiles and take a leap forward to pass the hillock. Garth and others are quick to follow her and see how she had already killed to two wolves; they did have time to react.
A third wolf looks for refuge against a rock while he is looking with terror to Lily. Eve looks with surprise as her daughter mercilessly kills him to break his neck very easily. Lily continues her path into the forest.
Three other wolves fall by Lily's attack. She stops when she releases the third wolf, the blood forms a puddle and stain Lily's white paws.
"This place is already clean, let's back." Lily says looking at the others; they look at her with surprise because they thought maybe she wanted to continue.
"Each member has its field of struggle." Lily says as she begins to walk toward the point for where they had entered.
"Do not you want to see how Kip is doing it?" Garth asks looking at Lily.
"No" Lily answered as she continues walking.
"But it's your son, is very young." Garth says as he sees Lily stops and turns to face him.
"As you saw Kip is capable to fight against the wolves of clan of the shadows, and I sent him along with Humphrey because this is his first real combat. Humphrey is one of the best wolves in such matters, and I teach to Kip in the way that I think is best for him." Lily says looking directly into the eyes of Garth.
He swallows hard to see when see as Lily's eyes are filled with rage.
The group of wolves returns to the starting point to wait.
Kate swallows seeing as the bodies begin to pile up on one another while the minute pass, many dead wolves in the clan of the shadows have their eyes open in surprise, and the more fortunate of them have a quick death without even knowing what happened.
Blood drips from their throats and form a red a puddle at the bottom of the stack, the marks left by the blood in the drag join in the stack.
The bodies begin to form a huge pile; even Kip drags a wolf while Humphrey is dragging two bodies and charges one on his back. Lily seems satisfied while she is doing a count of bodies.
Unified pack had never seen anything like this, even some wolves prefer to look away to avoid seeing the carnage that is displayed before them.
"Here he comes." Lily says as she smiles at one of her wolves is dragging the unconscious body of a young adult gray wolf. The captive wolf is dropped in front of Lily; she makes a face at one of subordinates.
He lifts his hind leg and pees on the face of the wolf for surprise of Kate and others.
The wolf wakes up while Lily's wolves laugh, the wolf looks up and at Lily, he immediately stands up and moves back, but Lily's wolves are behind him, they had formed a circle around the young wolf.
"Glad to see you again." Lily says watching at the wolf.
"It was not my fault, my father forced me" the young wolf says while he is looking at Lily, she smirks.
"You could have refused. If you would had done it, I could consider letting you go." Lily says while the wolf is looking at her with terror.
"Do not worry, I will not kill you." Lily says making an innocent grin, her wolves laugh while they are watching to Lily.
She nods as she looks at one of her wolves mounts at the gray wolf.
Kate's heart leaps when she hears the first cry of searing pain of the wolf while Lily's pack is smiling around him.
Garth and others do not see what happens, but the cries wolf give them a good idea.
Winston could not believe that Lily was so cruel with the poor wolf, as a father he wanted each of the bastards paid what they did to Lily, but this is something he never would have ordered do.
Eve is shocked by this too; she sees as Lily smiles with satisfaction while she watches as the wolf is raped by her pack. Eve hopes that the wolf will die quickly before suffering too much.
Lily after a time moves away from the group, through the wolves, Garth can see that a wolf pants while the captive wolf groans and cries of pain and humiliation.
"I guess that's all, tomorrow we will go to the Northern Territory to settle there" Lily says looking at her parents while another scream of pain is heard from the captive wolf.
"Do not be so rough with him, everyone should have at least a chance." Lily said turning his head to see his wolves. They nod and put their attention on the captive wolf.
Lily walks away to go to rest in her den. Shortly after Garth and the pack walk back to their den to not contemplate what happens with the captive wolf.