At last Chapter 8 is out, I apologize for the long wait but I had a little writers block and ideas where coming out slowly. I want to thank Blackwolf4626 for giving me a good helpful idea on how to start the chapter and thanks to those that have reviewed, Enjoy!
Chapter 8: The Nightmare and a new face
Humphrey's Pov
I sat on a ledge watching the beauty of the forest and relaxing while enjoying the cool wind in my fur, I looked over to the hunting grounds and saw the hunting parties discussing their plans, after several minutes I saw them move out towards the caribou's.
I watched Garth as he got low to the ground, I couldn't help but think back to my dream, why did I have that dream, why am I starting to like Garth, when I see him I just get happier, I don't know why but it's been a while ago since I last felt that feeling with Kate, I stopped thinking as I saw they took down a caribou.
"Great teamwork guys" I heard Kate say happily.
"We couldn't have done it without me" Garth said smirking.
I saw Kate and Hutch burst into laughter and I couldn't help but chuckle at his remark, Garth is so self-centered sometimes.
"Keep saying that to yourself and you might actually start to believe it" Hutch said to Garth still laughing loudly.
I looked to the other side of the hunting grounds and saw Cando, Candy and Sweets, I could hear them argument with each other so I assumed they didn't catch their caribou, I heard Cando growl loudly at Sweets, she growled back and then pounced on Cando.
"Well looks like I finally get to do some duties after so long" I said to myself.
I started limping my way down which was pretty difficult with the cast on, when I finally got down to the hunting grounds I saw Kate and Candy in a defensive stance growling at each other but what caught my attention was the movement far in the distance behind Kate and Candy, when I focused on the movement in the distance I just froze for a split second in fear, a large caribou herd was heading towards them, I just yelled as loud as I could to get their attention.
"ENOUGH ALL OF YOU!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
I saw Kate look at me and then look into the opposite direction.
"STAMPEDE…STAMPEDE RUN!" I heard Kate yell loudly.
I was limping as fast as I could to safety but hurt my left front paw every time I put weight on it but that did not stop me, it was a life or death situation so I had to bite trough and ignore the pain, I was almost in safety but when I looked behind me I saw the caribou stampede just several meters away from me, I just closed my eyes and waited for the extreme pain to come when I suddenly felt something grab me and throw me aside, I landed on the hard ground and opened my eyes and saw Garth get run down by the stampede.
"GARTH NOOOO" I yelled starting to tear up, I closed my eyes with a few tears running down my muzzle.
"H-hump-".
I opened my eyes and looked at Garth who was struggling to breathe, I walked next to his side.
"Garth stay with me you're going to be alright" I said crying softly with tears running down my muzzle.
"H…Humphrey I'm not going to make it-" he said but I cut him off.
"No…no you're going to make it Garth".
"Remember Humphrey that I always…" he said but never got to finish his sentence as he stopped breathing.
"G-Garth?" I said with tears running down my muzzle like a river.
"Humphrey wake up…wake up!".
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"HUMPHREY WAKE UP!".
I shot my eyes open hearing somebody yell and shake me fiercely, I just grabbed whoever was next to me and started crying into its fur.
"I-it's all my f-fault!" I yelled crying.
After a few minutes of crying uncontrollably I started to calm down, I pulled back from whoever I was crying onto and saw it was Winston who I had cried on.
"Feeling a bit better now Humphrey?" he asked me patting my back.
"Y-yes d-dad" I said trying to hold back more tears.
"Humphrey don't blame yourself for what happened it's not your fault, Garth decided to risk his life for you that's a decision he made, I know you feel bad about it but you have to move on Humphrey" He said.
I nodded and looked at Garth who was a meter away from me lying on the ground still breathing thankfully, I looked back at Winston and saw his fur was soaked with tears dripping slowly on the ground from his chest fur.
"I'm sorry for making your fur wet" I said sadly to which I heard him chuckle.
"No problem Humphrey, maybe you should go for a walk to clear your head?" he suggested.
I just nodded and started walking outside, I headed into the forest not caring where I was going as long as I was alone.
Unknown Pov
I was walking through the forest heading to wherever my paws were taking me, I'm a lone wolf whose life only consulted of misery and pain I had no home, family or friends. I've been a lone wolf for a while now and I started to feel very lonely and decided it was better to find a pack who was willing to take me in and give me a new fresh start so I could forget about my horrible past which always haunted me in my sleep.
I kept on walking but stopped as I heard something in the distance I went towards the sound and as I got closer I could hear sobbing, I crouched down and crept as silent as possible towards the origin of the sound, I hid behind a bush and saw a gray male wolf sobbing in a small clearing with nobody else around.
"Huh what's he doing out here alone?" I said to nobody in particular.
I started wondering if I was on the ground of another pack but I didn't smell any border markings so he's probably also a lone wolf.
"Should I go out there and ask him or no he could be hostile" I asked myself.
I looked back towards where the wolf was at but he wasn't there anymore.
"Huh where did he go" I asked myself.
"Behind you" I heard somebody growl at me from behind.
I turned around and saw the grey wolf in a defensive position but I stayed calm and sat down looking at him.
"Why where you spying on me" he growled at me.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to spy on you" I said calmly.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" he asked me still in defensive position.
"I'm a lone wolf" I said.
I saw his face expression change and saw he was about to howl so I quickly pounced on him and pinned him, he began to struggle to get me off him but I had him firmly under my paws.
"Calm down I'm not here to hurt you or anybody else-" I said but cut off when he spoke.
"Liar lone wolves are not to be trusted" he said growling.
"If my intentions where to hurt you then I could have easily already killed you" I said chuckling.
He stopped struggling as he knew it was not helping at all.
"If I let you go will you listen to me before you howl for the rest of your pack?" I asked.
He nodded and I slowly got off him and sat down in front of him, he stood up and sat down.
"So as I was saying I'm a lone wolf and I was walking around in search of a pack that was willing to take me in" I said.
"Did you have a pack before?" he asked.
I thought back to my pack and family, my parents, sisters and brothers I held back tears as memories of them started coming back.
"Yes I had a pack but they are all gone now" I said sadly looking away from him.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked.
I just shook my head and he nodded, he stood up and motioned with his paw to follow him, I looked at his front left paw and saw it had sticks and leaves wrapped around it.
"Why do you have that around your paw" I said pointing at it.
"Oh I fell a week ago and they put this around my paw so it would heal quicker but its damn annoying" he said tapping on it with his other paw.
"I can imagine" I said chuckling.
We walked for a minute until I smelled something, border marking we were entering a packs territory, he stopped walking and sat down I was about to ask why when he suddenly howled into the sky.
After a few seconds I hear another howl in the distance.
"Ok we have to wait here until the pack leader arrives" he said, I nodded and we waited.
We waited for several minutes when I saw an old grey wolf come out of the trees and I immediately recognized him.
"W-Winston is that you?" I asked shocked.
Well that was chapter 8, first of all if anybody has an Oc that I could use for my story that would be great, the Oc has to have grey fur and has to be a male if it has that then it's perfect for my story as I need him for my next chapter, so tell me what you think of this chapter, Till next time Humphrey d Omega.
