I Was Crazy Once

(Last Chapter)

"She's here, and she won't stop."

*Crash, crumble, thump*

(This Chapter)

No sooner has Kate heard a different voice coming from the inside of the den, she felt the dirt wall give in and crumble. As soon as she felt the dirt leave her paws, she closed her eyes and waited for the oncoming impact of the ground. Not sooner has the thought of processing who the other voice was, she hit the ground. The sound of compacted dirt falling was all she was able to hear. As the dirt collapsed and finally settled down, there was no dust due to the dirt not being dry, but just clumps on the ground. Kate laid on the ground, groaning in pain as she fell on a dirt clump on her chest. She rolled over and gasped for air, regaining the air she lost.

"Oww." Kate groaned as she lifted herself up off the dirt ground and putting a paw up to her chest, trying to breathe correctly again. She laid on her back, eyes tightly closed and baring teeth, trying to cope with the pain where she fell on her chest. She could feel the suns heat beating on her golden fur. She could have gotten up really fast, but was afraid to. She was scared of the consequences. Never had she been in trouble, and since she was now an adult wolf, the consequences are a lot more, should we say, crucial. The consequences for pups would be less harsh, just like more of being grounded or having them apologies with a crowd around so the embarrassment would teach them to not do it again.

"Heh… heh ha. To-told you." Kate heard a voice. She opened her eyes and the bright sun overhead made her immediately close them and having her roll over so the sun won't bother her. Kate laid on her stomach, barely putting any weight so it won't hurt as much. She opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was the huge dirt clumps covering a grey wolf, but couldn't recognize who it was. She blinked her eyes, making sure she wasn't seeing anything.

"Never tho-thought I-I see the da-day." a chuckling voice came from the compacted dirt. Once the sound of the makes voice reached her ears, it didn't sound familiar. If anything, it sounded like the wolf was either dead, or his voice has been dried out for months on end. But hearing the voice cause her to pause, but she came to and immediately started to grab the dirt clumps and fling them aside, trying to get the wolf underneath out. As she was moving the dirt, she heard more chuckles from the wolf, but paid no attention and continued to free the wolf.

As Kate was trying to life the last clump, she found it to be heavier than the rest, and she couldn't move it. She began to get even more worried, scared that she won't be able to free the wolf trapped underneath it. Fear stuck her, and she decided to forget going easy on the rock, and decided to give it a good bite and tug. But wasn't expecting what would happen. She was frustrated, so she quickly bit the rock and pulled to the side, but immediately was presented by a yelp of pain, then chuckles. Kate thought it was just the rocks rigged edge hurting the wolf, but stopped when she felt blood touch her paws. She immediately stopped and let go, but stood with horror and watched what she had done. It wasn't a dirt rock that was stuck on top of the wolf, but the fur was so filthy, it looked just like a rock. It was even as stiff as a rock. What happened was that Kate's frustration blinded her from being careful, but when she snagged the dirt rock, it was actually fur she grabbed. But the worst part was that she literally ripped the wolf's flesh downward. Now, she stood with tears in her eyes and blood in her mouth and on her paws. She ripped the wolf's back flesh almost completely off, leaving it to be attached by only a couple of inches near the tail.

Kate couldn't stand what she did, especially since she did it to a wolf. The small amount of blood on her paws was now an increasing pool as it flowed through cracks in the ground and on the dirt rocks.

"Every…. Flower dies. I….. am…. Flower…. I will…. Die….. Hahaha." The wolf laughed as his body was shaking. The same dead voice it had made Kate shiver and she fell to the ground crying. She wanted to help, but all she did was increase the wolf's death by 80%, almost tearing out his back. Kate stood up quickly and grabbed the wolf's flesh in her paws and placed it back in the original place, and pressed on it, receiving a slight whimper and more laughter.

"I-I'm so-so sorr-sorry." Kate cried as she placed more pressure on the wolf's back, but the blood was leaking heavily from the wound. She looked around, but couldn't see anything. The tears in her eyes were stinging as salt on a fresh wound, and the sun didn't help one bit. She thought her life would end if the wolf she was desperately trying to save died as well. She knew her chances of saving the wolf is decreasing every second she paused and not do anything but apply pressure on its wound. She didn't know what to do; she didn't even know if she should even continue to help because it didn't even seem to help. The wolf just continued to laugh, his body shaking left and right from the pain traumas flowing through his frail body. Kate looked down on the wolf, seeing his body almost covered in blood, and the nasty, stiff, brown colored fur was now being stained with red. Kate saw the wolf as being a darker shade of Garth's and a lot thinner and a lot more fragile on the body structure. Kate's tears were literally pouring off her muzzle and mixing with the river of blood on the wolf's body.

In the back of Kate's mind, she knew there's another wolf somewhere around her, most likely underneath the ruble, and that got her attention and lifted her head. She turned around and looked at the dirt clumps and finally saw a body of the wolf. His chest heaving and she could hear his pants.

"Please! Help me!" Kate yelled at the wolf. She saw the wolf's tail lift off the ground and drop suddenly. She was somewhat happy, knowing that the wolf was still alive. She tried to call him, but right as she was about to, she heard the wolf grunt and roll over.

"Damn… what the hell?" he groaned as he lifted his head and looked around, seeing lumps of dirt all around him. He continued to look around, but stopped when he saw a tan wolf that seemed to be shouting at him, asking for help.

"Help me please!" Kate yelled again, her voice cracking. The wolf shot up from the ground and ran to Kate, almost pushing her out of the way when he saw what she was standing over.

"What did you do to him!?" he screamed at her, immediately taking her place and put his paws on the wolf's body. Kate fell on her stomach and covered her eyes with her paws, crying heavily into them with no end.

"I-It wa-was an acci-accident." Kate's voice muffled through her paws while she stuttered.

"Come on, don't you die on me." The wolf grunted as he put more pressure and began to look around.

"Look, I need your help or he's going to die. I need you to run to the nearest tree and gather tree sap and find a bush. When you find the bush, pluck its leaves. I need you to do it now or he's going to die!" the wolf shouted, making Kate run away, only leaving him to hear her cries of sadness. He turned back to the wolf, and saw how bad the wound was, and he cringed at the sight of it.

"Come on," he said out loud, "you suffered that one heartbreak worse than this. You can survive this." The wolf encourage, trying to keep his friend alive.

"No." came the raspy voice of death.

"She ki-killed my he-heart. Killing m-me woul-wouldn't matt-er to he-her."

Sorry for the late update. My computer crashed so I had to restart it so it would be back to where I opened it from the box. All my data was deleted. Sorry.

What do we have hear? Kate tore some wolf's back almost off, and ran away? Will the injured wolf be identified? Will he live? What will happen to Kate? Who will answer or think of answering these questions? Find out in the next chapter of, "I was Crazy Once" Also, I will try to update my other stories.