Chapter 7 finally up. I don't know what ells to say but, I hope you like it.
Chapter 7 Other Places
Kate was in shock; at least she wasn't mad anymore. After Humphreys story Kate finally understood why Humphrey loved Jenny so much.
"So, you see, that's why Jenny and I have such a strong connection. It's because we are connected," he said finishing.
"Humphrey," Kate said trying to think of what she could say, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I can't believe I was jealous of your own sister." Humphrey stared at her like he wasn't happy with what she was apologizing for. Kate knew exactly what he wanted her to say. "And I'm sorry for not trusting you. I will never doubt you again," Kate promised. She then embraced the wolf that looked even more miserable than he did when he was half burned to hell.
Humphrey returned the embrace, "Kate, it's alright. I was never mad at you. I was just a little disappointed that you would doubt me with something like this. But let's completely forget about it. I hate it when I'm right."
Before Kate broke the embrace she said, "Humphrey, I just want you to know that I love you. I will always love you, no matter what happens to you, or me," she said releasing the embrace.
Humphrey looked out the caves entrance. The sun was starting to set. "Well I'll have the family reunion tomorrow morning. I just hope she'll get better."
Kate nodded and went to the edge of the cave to lie down. Humphrey followed her and laid down next to her.
There was one thing that Humphrey hadn't told Kate about after his burns started to heel as much as they would heel. Every now and then there would be some random pain that would occur all over his right side. It's wasn't pain exactly but it was a feeling that felt like acid was being poured into his burns. He was able to take it but he didn't know if it would ever get any better.
Humphrey went to bed almost immediately after he laid down. Kate stayed up for a while longer. She didn't know if Humphrey had even thought about her mother anymore but she knew that she could very much still be alive, but where was she and why did she leave?
Humphrey woke up first, but Kate woke up at almost the same time he did. She hardly got any sleep at all, but she got up anyways. "Hey, Humphrey," she paused to make sure he was paying attention, "Have you thought about your mother at all? About looking for her?" she asked him.
Humphrey had a sad look on his face for some reason, "Well of course, but I haven't gone looking for her if that's what you're asking. But my sister never found her so I guess it was probably for the best that I didn't go searching for her."
"Your sister went looking for her?" Kate asked curiously.
"Yes, it's another reason for why my sister left. She went to go look for her. Didn't I tell you that?" Humphrey thought for awhile not believing he didn't tell her.
"No, you didn't say anything ells about Jenny."
"Well, that's another reason why she left," Humphrey paused for awhile, "She still has a chance to see her mother, while I have no chance of seeing my father again."
"Well I'm sorry about that, but let's go talk to your sister. See if she found anything relating to your mother," Kate said hopefully. This wasn't just Humphrey's mother anymore. This was her mother too now.
"Ya, maybe she had a lead," he said a little doubtfully. They both got up and started heading towards Kate and Humphreys real cave that Jenny and Doctor Eagle where sleeping in.
Dr. Eagle and had slept next to Jenny all night. Jenny had had serious pains in her legs about every two hours, but Dr. Eagle would quickly put medicine on her leg and she would fall back to sleep in no time, but she hadn't gotten up in about 3 hours so the doctor thought that she was finally better.
Jenny woke up after the sun started hitting her face. Dr. Eagle had been awake some time ago but decided to keep a hold of Jenny. She blushed a little when she woke up to the doctor embracing her, but the redness quickly went away when Kate and Humphrey were at the entrance of the cave.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Humphrey said when he saw the two together, "we didn't mean to interrupt," he said as he and Kate started heading out.
"No, wait it's fine, the doctor was just keeping me comfortable," she said blushing a little when she couldn't think of anything ells to say. She quickly shook it off, again, and asked Humphrey what they needed.
"Well I wanted to ask if you found anything leading to our mother."
Jenny's face immediately fell. "Oh, Humphrey," she paused trying to fight back the urge to run away again, "I'm so sorry, but I haven't found anything, anything at all about our mother. It's like she vanished off the face of the earth," she said finishing.
"It's ok, I just wish she would have given us a sign."
Kate suddenly spoke up, "Hey, what if your day left a sign. I mean he could have put other thing on the statue you made, couldn't he have?" she asked looking around.
Jenny thought about it for awhile, "Oh my gosh! Maybe he did!" she said getting excited.
"What? How can you tell?" Humphrey asked getting excited too.
"Well, at the speed and the amount of time he was putting in he should have finished earlier that when he did."
"This is great," Kate said, "now we just need to look for anything ells on the statue that he made.
"And it's still in the same place," Humphrey said heading towards the door.
"Wait," Jenny asked, "you kept my cave hidden all this time?"
"Well, ya," Humphrey said as he was heading towards the door, "I didn't want some strange wolf getting to live in your cave, so I sealed it up and everything in side."
"I love you Humphrey," Jenny told her brother as she embraced him in a hug. She tried to walk but she stumbled and almost fell, but the doctor caught her.
"I'd take it easy on that leg for now, but walking should help you get used to it. I'll just stay next to you, just in case," he said walking on her right side.
Humphrey and Kate smiled at the two. They knew exactly what was going on. "Ok, let's get going Humphrey," said gesturing to the exit.
The cave was blended in so perfectly with the mountain that no one could ever find it, unless they already knew where it was. Humphrey opened up the entrance, knowing where all the week spots were, and then gestured for them to come in. It was exactly as Jenny had left it. Not a single pebble out of place.
Jenny and Humphrey walked right up to the statue where Jenny had found their names on the eyes. Kate and Dr. Eagle just followed close by to them. They all started looking around it, trying to find anything out of place. They couldn't find anything.
"What if it's also close to the eyes?" Jenny said getting up. Dr. Eagle got next to her just in case her leg gave away. Jenny looked really close, all around her head but found nothing either. "Darn it," she said lightly hitting the side of her eye. When she hit it, the top of her head started to move. She let go and her whole forehead fell down.
"Whoa, are you ok?" the doctor asked.
"Ya, I'm fine," she paused and looked at what used to be her forehead, "But I think we finally found a lead."
"What," Humphrey said getting excited again, "what is it?"
"It looks like a map," she paused as she examined it a little more, "but it doesn't end at an x like most maps do. This one ends at a weird symbol," she said getting down so the others could see.
She was right. The map lead to a location about one day away, but it didn't end on an x. It ended on a symbol that looked like ζ.
"I don't get it. If he knew where she went, why didn't he follow her?" Humphrey asked after he studied the map for about a minute.
Kate got up next. She had a really good memory so she would most likely lead them to whatever place the map pointed to. "Hey, there's also something ells written at the bottom of the map."
"What does it say?" Dr. Eagle asked.
"It just has a bunch of dates, and the next closest one is July 2nd."
"That weird," Jenny said thinking for awhile, "Do they follow a pattern?"
"It looks like every date is 24 days after the other," Kate said still examining it.
"24 days," Humphrey said thinking to himself, "I wonder what that means."
"Well," Kate said getting back down, "all I know is that July 2nd is Two days after Lilly's wedding, so we can leave the day after, and get there early on July 2nd to see what happened to your mother."
"I hope," Humphrey said silently. 'This is the only lead, my mother has to be there,' he thought to himself.
"Alright, so we have two days to pack, one day for a wedding and one day to travel. And all four of us are going," Kate said in her Alpha voice that Humphrey loved.
Dr. Eagle perked up, "Um, why am I going?" he asked.
"Well in case Jenny's leg starts to hurt again," Kate told the Doctor who looked slightly surprised that he was going to go with this group to find their mother.
"Ok," the doctor said plain and simply, not wanting to argue with and Alpha.
The next two days Kate, Humphrey, Jenny, and Dr. Eagle got their supplies ready, knowing that they would have hardly anytime at all on the day of the wedding.
Jenny's leg still hurt, but only when she put too much pressure on it, and at random times when she was walking or sleeping. Jenny slept in her cave, now that she could, and Kate and Humphrey went back to their real cave. The doctor still kept Jenny company every day, but he went back to his cave at night.
Jenny still missed the doctor at night even though she was sleeping. She liked the warm embrace the doctor gave her the night he slept with her, but she couldn't ask him to sleep with him. That would just sound weird.
Dr. Eagle liked hanging out with Jenny everyday, but he missed the warmth she gave off when he embraced her at night. It felt like heaven to him. He was sure that he loved her now, but he didn't know if it was too soon for him to ask her if she liked him. 'I mean come on, we just met,' he thought to himself.
Kate, Humphrey, Jenny, and the doctor had been talking about their journey to come. They also started packing everything they needed to survive for 3 days. They were pretty sure that they wouldn't be gone for anymore than that. A day to get there and a day to get back. They would leave the very next morning after Lilly's' wedding to give them enough time to get there.
Garth and Lilly's wedding was held at the exact same place that Kate and Humphrey had their wedding. It was really the only place that anyone could have a wedding. The ritual went exactly the way it was supposed to with the acceptance of their scents, the nibble on the ears, and the rubbing of the noses.
After the wedding there was the usual party and an extra after party. Kate and Humphrey hung out with each other for most of it, but there were times when Kate and Lilly talked so Humphrey decided to talk with Garth, plus he was going to tell him that he, Kate, Jenny, and Dr. Eagle were going to go look for his and Jennie's mother. Humphrey still didn't like Garth that much but if it made his mates' sister happy, then he was happy.
"Some wedding hu?" Humphrey asked starting a conversation with Garth.
"Oh, hey Humphrey. Never thought you'd be the one to congratulate me," he said turning to his new 'brother.'
"Ya, well we are complete opposites. You're an Alpha, I'm an Omega. You're buff, I'm skinny. I'm fun, you're, never mind," he said quickly realizing what he was about to say.
Garth chuckled a little, "Now I know why I hated you. But anyways, it sounded like you had something to say when you started talking."
"Oh ya, I just wanted to say that Kate, Jenny, Dr. Eagle, and I are going to be away for a couple of days. Just make sure you tell Lilly so she doesn't worry about her sister."
"Ok, sure," he paused thinking for a moment, "Is Jenny that new wolf that I've herd nothing about?" he asked Humphrey remembering that there was a wolf that showed up a couple of days ago, and not remembering any wolf being named Jenny, he made the assumption that this was the mysterious new wolf.
"Ya, Jenny is my sister," Humphrey said slowly.
Garth looked at the wolf confused, "You have a sister?" he asked a little bit surprised at what Humphrey had said.
"Yes, I do. She went looking for our mother awhile ago, that's why you haven't herd about her."
"So, are you guys going to look for your mother or what?"
"Actually ya," Humphrey said at the cleverness of this wolf. Maybe he wasn't just a showoff. "We found this map that our father left after he died that leads to a place not far from here, so we're going there to figure out what happened to our mother."
"Wow, pretty," Garth thought for a moment trying not to say anything that would insult Humphrey, "crazy," he finally said.
"Ya," Humphrey paused for a long time before he finally said, "Well, we'll be leaving in the morning, so just tell Lilly for us ok," he said as he saw Kate walking towards them. Humphrey started walking to her.
"I'm sorry," Garth said quickly before Kate was in ear shot.
Humphrey turned around confused, "For what?"
"For being mean to you when we first met and for not getting to know you better after you married Kate."
Kate was right next to him now, "Are you ready to go? We have to get our sleep for tomorrow," Kate said unaware of what Humphrey and Garth were talking about.
Garth turned around and started walking towards Lilly. "Thank you," Humphrey said just loud enough for Garth to hear. Garth turned around and smiled before he continued walking towards his mate.
"Whoa, you and Garth are friends now?" Kate asked amazed.
"I guess so, I mean we are brothers now."
"I like the sound of that, but we need to get to sleep if we want to wake up early tomorrow," she said as she walked towards their cave.
"Are Jenny and the doctor already at their caves?" he asked not seeing them anywhere.
"Ya, they left awhile ago."
When they got to their cave they immediately went to sleep. The only problem was that Humphrey's side had been getting worse and worse. The pains were more frequent and more intense but he didn't want to say anything that would stop them from finding their mother.
The next morning, as soon as the sun was shinning through their cave Kate and Humphrey got their supplies and headed towards Jennies cave. Dr. Eagle was all ready their. Apparently jenny asked him to sleep with him since his cave was on the other side of Jasper park and they where going to get together in the morning anyways.
They started walked all day with no trouble at all. Kate memorized the map and knew exactly where they had to go. They where extremely close when it got dark, not 20 minutes away, but it was to dark to go any farther so they just laid down and fell asleep. Since they didn't have anything to keep them warm Humphrey hugged Kate and Dr. Eagle hugged Jenny.
Right when the sun showed its first rays of light they got up and walked to the location that that map showed them. After about fifteen minutes of walking fast they found a cave.
"Well, I don't think she's in there but I'm sire that this will give us a clue to where she is," the doctor said.
They walked in, but what they saw was not something that would lead them to their mother. There was a table written on the wall that looked like:
Αα Alpha
Ββ Beta
Γγ Gamma
Δδ Delta
Εε Epsilon
Ζζ Zeta
Ηη Eta
Θθ Theta
Ιι Iota
Κκ Kappa
Λλ Lambda
Μμ Mu
Νν Nu
Ξξ Xi
Οο Omnicron
Ππ Pi
Ρρ Rho
Σσς Sigma
Ττ Tau
Υυ Upsilon
Φφ Phi
Χχ Chi
Ψψ Psi
Ωω Omega
With the one that said Zeta sticking out a little more than the others.
Humphrey looked at it confused, "What do you think it means?" he asked.
"I don't know, but I do know that that symbol was on the ending of the map," Kate said pointing to the block that said Zeta, "And it's sticking out slightly more than any other block," she finished walking up to it.
She was about to touch it when Humphrey stopped her. "I can risk your life. What if it's a booby-trap?"
"Well," Jenny said limping up, "there's only one way to find out," she said as she was about to touch it herself.
"No Jenny, I'll do it. You don't deserve to take the risk."
"Humphrey, I've been looking for our mother for weeks. If anyone gets to take this risk it's me," she said as she gently pushed the stone in.
The cave's entrance immediately closed. They just heard a loud THUNK and all of the lights went out, except for the blue light emanating from their right. They turned their heads to the source of the light that shouldn't even have been there, and saw a vortex that glowed blue.
They all just stared at it in disbelief. "Oh, my…" Jenny was cut off as the four wolves were sucked into the vortex. They all screamed when they went into it, and continued to scream as they where sent every witch way they could go in a vortex. The light kept changing from blue to orange to yellow, until they all hit a wall at the end of a corner of the cave they where in.
Light came through as they heard the cave's entrance open.
"What the hell was that!' Dr. Eagle yelled.
"Uhhhh, I don't know," Humphrey answered. He hit his head which made the room spin, a lot, "but why did it take us back to th same exact place?"
"I don't know it doesn't make any sense," Kate said as she got to her feet.
Jenny wasn't paying attention to anything they were saying. Even though the pain in her leg was excruciating right now since she landed on it, she noticed that there was a big change on the table of symbols. The table now read:
Ζζ Zeta
Ηη Eta
Θθ Theta
Ιι Iota
Κκ Kappa
Λλ Lambda
Μμ Mu
Νν Nu
Ξξ Xi
Οο Omnicron
Ππ Pi
Ρρ Rho
Σσς Sigma
Ττ Tau
Υυ Upsilon
Φφ Phi
Χχ Chi
Ψψ Psi
Ωω Omega
Αα Alpha
Ββ Beta
Γγ Gamma
Δδ Delta
Εε Epsilon
"Hey guys, look," she said pointing to the table.
"Oh my gosh! They have shifted!" Dr. Eagle said.
"That's not possible!" Kate said staring at the symbols, making sure she was looking at them correctly.
Finally up! I finally have enough time to type now. I've wanted to update this story for like a month, but I just didn't have the time. Please review because any review, both good and bad, means that you read it.
