Part 7: The Reform Era (written on December 19th, 2014)
After the bitter winter, a rebirth of culture and new beliefs will unite the United Regions. To happen, it needs a spark. And this spark was the Alpha and Omega event.
Kate, the oldest daughter of Winston was a take-charge Alpha who always listened and never complained to orders. Humphrey was a laid-back Omega who always played with his friends. Suddenly, on one Moonlight Howl, they were taken by humans to a strange land, Idaho, to a park called Sawtooth National Park where they were brought to repopulate it with wolves. There, they met a duck and a goose who decided to help them get home.
Meanwhile, Tony of the Eastern Pack was getting agitated. Apparently, the packs planned to unite when Kate would marry Tony's son. If she was gone, there was nothing they could do. Tony planned to attack the main valley if Kate didn't show up. He suspected she had ran away. It was either peace or war.
On the way home, though, Kate was beginning to fall in love with Humphrey. It was not only pack law but a constitutional law for Alphas and Omegas not to mingle much. Even before the United Regions Act, it was considered preposterous since wolves began ranking themselves thousands of years ago.
When they made it home, they showed the packs and wolfkind that Alphas and Omegas could mix. It was a world-changing idea, enough for the Western and Eastern Packs to become the Grand Pack once again. And this Alpha and Omega event will lead to the Alpha and Omega Movement.
A new law was changed. The son or daughter of a pack leader may now marry whoever he or she wishes (not including Betas or other animals). But it wasn't enough. The law still stated that REGULAR wolves couldn't mate this way. And it's a problem they still face today.
The Constitutional Committee believes that ranks will be mixed up if the law was removed. Social order would break down and there would be confusion everywhere.
The age of aggression may have ended but peace is not completely here yet. But at the same time as the Grand Pack is in an age of reform, a new pack in the Regions is born.
Stormfast, the son of Owen and grandson of Bronx and great-grandson of Isaac, was a Eastern Alpha. On the same night when Kate and Humphrey got captured by humans, he fell into the Dividing River and is taken to the southern sandy beaches of the large lake that sat between the Central Region and Southern Region. Lost, he found a lone she-wolf. They fell in love and formed a new pack called the Southern Alliance or the Southern Pack. They formed a territory surrounding a river that flowed east to west called Stone's River. It is the first known pack to form in the Southern Region.
Today, there are now three recognized packs and one unrecognized pack in the Regions with their respective leaders.
The Grand Pack: (pack leader is undetermined until Kate's son, Stinky takes over)
The Northern Pack: Clyde
The Southern Alliance: Stormfast
The Kingdom of Rabbit Poo Mountain: (unrecognized)
But all these packs have a terrible problem. They are vulnerable to a terrible new threat: the Rogues. There was a reason why wolf packs settled in the northern and central parts of Jasper. That's because to the south in the neighboring park, Banff National Park, the oldest park in Canada, there is a strong all-Alpha pack.
Almost immediately after the Alpha and Omega event, many Omega-hating wolves fled thinking that this tyranny of Omegas was the last straw. They grouped in Banff, joining an all-Alpha pack bent on destroying the Regions and their way of life, especially the Grand Pack from which they've left. Without the melting pot of diseases that plagued the Valley, their numbers quickly grew. By the time the Southern Pack was actually discovered a few years later, they had outnumbered Grand Pack forces nearly 3 to 1.
As time went by, they terrorized the Regions over and over again. One time, they almost succeeded in capturing the West. They failed due to the Regions' alliances with the other creatures of Jasper, including some bears and owls.
Their leader was a wolf who called himself "King." And he soon became the main enemy of the Regions.
So... plagues, wars, and affairs are what brought these groups of wolves to where they're at today. Their pride, determination, and advancements are what makes them strong packs. Thank you for joining me into this story of the United Regions. History is made from creatures who want to make history. And with all that central Jasper has learned, they face the ultimate challenge: the future. How will they protect themselves from the outside world? How will the debate of the Alpha and Omega Movement end? And how long will these packs prosper? We will just have to wait and see…
The End... of this part of their history...