Lilly prepared for the impact and pain that would come from the caribou's antlers. She knew that there was no way that Garth or Kate could make it in time to save her from this. So she closed her eyes, not wanting to know when the impact would come and lowered her head to the ground. Unbeknownst to Lilly, a shadowy figure came forth from the woods and ran straight towards the caribou that was quickly approaching her. The figure jumped straight towards the caribou managing to tackle it to the ground just as it was inches away form colliding with the white wolf on the ground. The figure quickly started mauling at the caribou's neck, blood spurting from out of its neck and onto the ground. This continued until the caribou seized to move, then the figure turned his head towards the other two caribou and angrily glared at them, who where in shock by how fast he had taken down their comrade.
"How dare you attack someone who can't even defend themselves anymore!" He angrily spoke towards them. "I wasn't sure I would even make it on time, but once I saw you go after her I knew it would be trouble. People like you make me sick, attacking someone who obviously has no way of defending herself anymore."
Lilly wondered why she didn't feel anything hit her, especially since the last thing she saw was a caribou coming at her with its antlers. And on top of that she thought she was hearing someone else's voice now. Maybe its Garth, she happily thought to herself, his come to save me. With that thought in her mind she opened her eyes and directed her head towards the direction she thought the voice was coming from.
"Garth?" She happily called out with her head fur waving in front of her right eye, which had fallen down from its usually combed back position during her struggle against the caribous.
But what she saw wasn't who she expected all she saw was a grey wolf with spiky hear and a scar over his left eye. As soon as she saw that it wasn't Garth, but this new mysterious wolf she became quite frightened. Thinking that now instead of worrying about the caribou she would now have to worry about this new wolf. But then something quickly caught her attention, it was what was besides the wolf's feet; it was the caribou that was about to kill her, laying on the ground dead from the wounds it had sustained its neck. She quickly figured that the grey wolf had something to with that, but what really surprised her was what she saw next. The wolf quickly ran over towards the caribou closest to him, slashing him across the chest and then flipped over its head giving it another scratch across the back as he landed on the ground. The caribou knew it could not win against this wolf, and with blood dripping down its chest from the wound it had received decided to run away into the woods. That just left one caribou; the wolf just started walking towards it. The caribou quickly started to back away from him not wanting to confront the wolf, after seeing what he had done to its previous companions. The grey wolf saw that the caribou was freighted by the fact that it was trying to squirm away.
Might as well end this as quickly as possible so I can get that other wolf to safety. He thought to himself as he started to approach the caribou. He looked towards the caribou and started to growl, the caribou took quick notice of the wolf's sharp teeth being exposed form his mouth. It quickly took of running in the other direction away from him.
After seeing everything that the wolf had done Lilly finally understood what the wolf had done.
He didn't come here to kill me; he came here to safe me. She thought to herself.
"Hey are you alright?" she heard the grey wolf say surprised how quickly everything had changed about him. He had seemed so filled with rage and anger when he was facing the caribous, but now here he was with a caring and soft voice. He was asking her if she was alright with a sincere look on his face. She was about to respond to him, but her vision suddenly began to get blurry and her head started to feel so heavy. Lilly collapsed on the ground from the injuries she had received from the caribou.
"Hey" Alastor called out after seeing Lilly hit the ground, he quickly hurried over to her worried for her safety.
"Come on get up we gotta get out of here" he started to gently move her back and forward trying to get her to regain consciousness. Great she fainted, he thought to himself, looks like I'm going to have and carry her back to her pack. I'm going there anyway might as well kill to birds with one stone.
Alastor started to kneel towards the ground getting ready to put Lilly on his back and carry her back to the western pack.
"Lilly!" He stopped dead in his tracks after hearing someone calling out a name; he ran towards the edge of the cliff and saw the red wolf that was teaching her how to hunt. He was quickly making his way up towards the area that they were in.
Great if he finds me up here he'll probably think I did this to her. I guess I'll have to leave her here, besides it looks like those two are friends so I'm sure he'll be able to take care of her.
He started to back away from the edge of the cliff and walk past the white wolf on the ground. Just as he was about to get out of the area he took one last look at the white wolf.
"Lilly, eh? Not a bad name." With that he started to run away from her not wanting to have an altercation with the red wolf that was quickly approaching.
Just as he disappeared over the distance, Garth came running up towards the top of the hill arriving to see an injured Lilly lying unconsciously on the ground.
"Lilly!" He called out as he ran up towards her side; he gently started rocking her back and forth. "Please be alright", he said in a crackling voice with tears in his eyes from seeing the wolf that he loved seriously injured.
He started to kneel down and lay against her side, Garth started to cry from seeing Lilly on the ground for all he knew he had arrived too late, she was dead and it was all because of those stupid hunting lessons. He stayed besides her, his head on her chest crying because he had arrived too late. He stayed like this until he heard a small thump like sound coming from Lilly's chest, it was her heart beating. With that he got up and wiped the tears from his eyes, she was still alive and it was up to him to carry her back to the pack. He crouched towards the ground and got closer to her, and then he used his snout to make his way underneath Lilly's stomach. After he was on the other side of her he began to change his position so that Lilly's head was resting on his shoulder, and the rest of her body was resting on his back.
"Just hang on Lilly every things gonna be all right", he said in a determined voice. With that Garth started to carefully walk down the path that led towards the bottom of the cliff. He wanted to get to her parents den as quickly as he could without causing her further injuries.
Lilly slowly opened her eyes; the first thing she noticed from her right eye was that she was back in her parent's den. She started to get up, but the moment she did a sharp pain traveling throughout her body welcomed her. She decided that it was no use; the pain coming from the injuries she had received from the caribous was still too great. Even though the pain had subsided somewhat it was still great enough to restrain her from standing up, so she gently lowered herself towards the ground.
"Be careful Lilly, we barely healed your wounds a few moments ago, so don't go reopening them. You need to take it easy alright." Kate said talking to her sister; she had been helping her mother heal Lilly's injuries before they had the chance to get infected.
"Kate", Lilly called out her sister's name after hearing her voice, but she couldn't see were Kate was.
"Here maybe this will help", she suddenly felt somebody's snout comb her head fur backwards. "There how's that?" As soon as her fur had been combed back she could see everyone else that was inside the den. She immediately noticed Garth lying besides her, knowing immediately that he was the one that combed her fur back. She also noticed her father and mother happily staring at her, because she had recovered from her injuries. Then she saw Kate and Humphrey also staring at her, she saw that Humphrey was pretty bruised up from the kick he had received from the caribou. She then directed her eyes towards Garth.
"Did you carry me all the way here?" she asked staring into his eyes. "Of course", he responded with a smile on his face, "you mean the world to me I would never let any harm come to you."
"Yea you should have seen him", Humphrey interrupted. "I mean he just came running down the cliff and ran right pass me and Kate, who were still on the field at that time. He just rushed right towards the den not stopping even once until he was sure you were safe."
"When Humphrey and I came in, he was lying right besides you and his been right by your side the whole time." Kate added.
"Really" Lilly said in a soft voice. "Yea I didn't want you facing this alone", Garth told her. "That's so sweet of you", she said as she gently started to rub her head against Garth's, "Thank you so much for saving my life Garth." "Just knowing your alive is enough."
"I got one question though, Lilly whatever happened to the caribou that was chasing you? I mean when I came up the cliff all I saw was your body lying on the ground, but I didn't see the caribou that had chased you all the way up there. Did you chase it away?" Garth asked.
"Ah well no, I mean what happened was that as soon as I was at the top of the cliff. Two more caribou joined the one that was chasing me. I tried to face them alone, but I couldn't do it they quickly overpowered me. Then one of them came in for the kill and I thought I was a goner for sure. But then I realized that I was still alright and noticed that the caribou that was about to attack me was on the ground. There was a wolf fighting the caribou off, he quickly got the two that were left to run away. At first I thought he was an enemy, but then he asked me I was alright and I knew that he was actually friendly. After he asked me that I fainted from all the injuries and over exhaustion. Then I woke up here." Lilly told them her whole ordeal.
"Wait so who was this mysterious wolf that saved you?" Kate curiously asked.
"He didn't mention his name to me; all I can remember is that it looked like he was an alpha, had grey fur, spiked up hair and dark brown eyes with a scar running down his left eye." She tried to describe the wolf as best she could.
"I don't like this", Winston started talking, "His no doubt a lone wolf and there is no reason he should be this close to our pack. Especially since lone wolves usually try to avoid areas were there are large number of wolves."
"What do you mean dad?" Kate asked her father.
"It just means that we need to be on alert. If he is going to come through are pack, we just need to be careful on how we handle the situation. You see most lone wolves usually just come in contact with another pack when they need food or are just passing through to get to wherever they need to be faster. But there are those rare occasions when one comes to a pack for a specific reason."
"Okay it took me all afternoon to get here, but the important thing is that I'm here." Alastor said as the sun started to set.
He started to glance around the western pack's territory; he noticed two wolves protecting the entrance to it. Well it looks like I'll have to make it pass those two first. He causally started to walk up towards the entrance.
"Halt there", Candu spoke running up towards Alastor followed quickly by Hutch. "You're not from around here, so state your reason for entering." Hutch said.
"Listen I just wana talk to you head alpha and ask him a few questions that's all, okay"
At first Candu and Hutch stared at each other wondering if they should let this wolf in.
"Should we let him in I mean he could cause problems", Hutch said talking to Candu who responded, "Sure why not I mean even if he tries something crazy it's the whole united pack against one right." "Okay but if he pulls anything crazy it's your fault." Hutch said reluctantly agreeing to let the wolf in.
"So what's it going to be can I go in or not?"
"We've decided to let you in", Hutch spoke, "But you will be escorted to him by us."
"Okay that's no problem with me" Alastor agreed and was led by Hutch and Candu to go see Winston.
"So you're saying we should watch out for this wolf?" Garth asked.
"No I'm just saying that it would be wise to have your guard up that's all" Winston said with a tired voice.
But suddenly something caught his attention it was both Hutch and Candu coming into his den, which caught the attention of every wolf there.
"What's going on is everything alright?" He asked.
"Yes everything's alright we just have somebody here that wants to talk to you, sir." Hutch said explaining the reason for their arrival.
"Well go ahead bring them in"
"Alright then", they both went outside to let the wolf know he could come in.
The wolf that was outside came walking into the den, eyes locked onto Winston who immediately recognized the wolf as the one who had saved Lilly.
"Well hello there." Alastor said in a sly voice, he had arrived at the western pack.
A/N: Next chapter it will be explained who Alastor originally wanted to kill.