AN: I am officially naming this chapter and the next one after my dog Gus. I honestly think he was the best dog someone could ask for. He almost never barked unless he saw another dog, cat, or any other animal. He was a pure bred golden retriever who was very nice and loving. He always wanted to play with everyone he saw. But he's in a better place now.
R.I.P. Gus the dog.
Age:7. Born: July 5th, 2007. Died: Sunday January 25th, 2015.
I was laying in the playroom with Audrey and Shadow when salty shaky and mooch came in. "HUMPHREY" they all yelled. "What. Do . you. Want." I said. Half asleep. "We wanted to say hi to our buddy." "Oh yeah?" I said. "We'll I bet you can't catch me. I said running out of the den. I ran really fast and made it to the top of the falls in 30 seconds flat. It took them 5 minutes.
"Told you" I said. "No fair, your technically an alpha now, maybe even more." "I know I'm faster, stronger, more awesome than before, and can hunt." I said with pride. I ran back down at a slower pace so they could keep up. And when I got to my den, which by the way is right above the pond below the falls, and jumped in the pond. I had been working on taking out all of the sharp objects and was on the last one. I got it out and threw it aside.
Everyone stared in awe at the newfound strength. I ran to the top again with shadow. "Ok you wanted to try this right?" I asked. "Yes I want to because you did it. Your my inspiration to everything." I walked even closer and then jumped. He jumped after me and we fell. We eventually got to the bottom and before I hit I grabbed shadow and we hit. I threw him towards the top of the water and he swam to shore. I sank to the bottom and hit another sharp rock that I missed. It turned my chest scar into an X shape.
I came up gasping for air. "I think that I missed a rock." I said to shadow. "What makes you think that? He said getting afraid that I ripped off a limb of something. "Well, I didn't break anything but I did get this." I said coming out of the water showing the X on my chest. "Seriously, dad, you need to stop getting scars." Shadow said. "I know but it makes me look more awesome."yeah, you got to admit it does." I said.
time skip 45 minutes
i was in my den getting pounced on a lot by Audrey and shadow when Winston came in. "Humphrey we need you to show us your hunting technique again but this time in front of the whole pack." "I don't know..." I said sarcastically. "Come on dad you can do it you did it before." Audrey said. "I'm just messing with you, of course I'll do it."
We walked to the hunting grounds and I was stalking a caribou. Everyone was watching me, even mom and dad came to see. I was stalking two caribou right beside each other. I waited until the right moment and rammed both of them off there feet and ripping there throats out at the same time. I dragged both caribou to everyone where they were sitting and staring in shock, except mom and dad who came up to me. "That has been a family hunting technique ever since this family started." "I thought about that so I thought my kids to do it." Then they started staring in shock.
"shadow, Audrey, come here please." They came up to me scared that they might be in trouble. "I want you two to sit here for a minute." "Please don't hurt us." Audrey begged. "I'm not going to hurt you, I want you to show the pack the hunting technique I've been teaching you." "They got really excited and went in a bush next to a caribou. "1...2...3."I heard them whisper. Then they jump out of the bush and ram the caribou off its feet. Then shadow rips it's throat out and they drag it to me. "Did we do it right." "You did great." I said.
We walked back to my den and they laid down. They were tired from hunting. I was sitting alone when Kate came rushing in with a really happy face. "What's your deal?" I asked. "So it turns out I was pregnant and... I have a pup now." She said. I just looked at her with a weird face. "Um... How is that possible?" I said. "Well... I have no idea." She said. "You didn't do it with someone else, did you.?" I said. "No. And also he looks like a combination between us." She said while showing him to me. He was a golden color with five grey stripes going down his back I but I couldn't tell what his eye color was because he hadn't opened his eyes yet.
"that's kind of weird, but ok." I said. "But what about your mother?" I said. Then right on cue she jumped on me. "HOW DARE YOU GET MY DAUGHTER PREGNANT!" She yelled while tearing open the scar on my face. I howled in pain and shoved her off. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" I yelled at her "EVEN SHE DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS." Then eve's expression changed from a look of pure anger to a look of pity, at both of us. "Oh my god I'm such an idiot." She said.
Then Audrey and shadow started to cry from being woken up. Or we thought that's what it was. "Please leave now, eve." I said. She left while I ran to shadow and Audrey and tried to get them to stop. Then everyone started to hear the crying and came to see what was up. Everyone was sitting outside as I tried to get them to stop crying but then I figured out that they were still asleep and they must be having a nightmare. I couldn't get them to wake up so I did the first thing that I thought of. I ran out and jumped into the pond with them. They woke up when they came in contact with the water and I threw them to shore. My cut was bleeding heavily and it stung like crazy. I began to feel dizzy. I eventually passed out in the middle of the pond and sank to the bottom Where my back was punctured from the rock I missed.
Audrey's P.O.V.
"DAD, IT WAS HORRIBLE, YOU DIED IN MY DREAM!" me and shadow yelled. But then we realized he wasn't there, he was at the bottom of the lake. "SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!" We yelled. Garth came and jumped in and swam down to him. He came back up with Humphrey's body but just popped up his own head first. "He is in a very bad condition and passed out from blood loss. He said while pulling his body to shore. "Just like in our dream." Me and shadow said. They took his body to the healers den and covered the entrance with a large boulder.
we ran to the alpha den den and ran inside crying. "What's wrong?" Winston said. " we were Having a night... Nightmare and he couldn't get us to wake up and it was horrible!" We said and broke down in tears. "Where is he now?" Winston asked me. "In the big den covered by a big rock." We answered. "Thats the healers den. They only put the rock over the entrance if... Someone might die in the healing process." Eve said getting surprised. "But I only cut his face th-" "WHAT" we said. "Like I was saying... That's only enough to make him pass out." "Well lucky for you he passed out in the pond and he has a huge red circle on his back." I said. Everyone got scared looks on there faces and ran to the healers den. They had just removed the boulder and had sad looks on there faces. "is Humphrey okay?" They asked. Shelby, the healer, answered. "Humphrey. is. dead."
