Chapter Nine; Bear Attack!

Before I start the next chapter I have just got to say that I'm ecstatic that this story has got such a positive response! Only a couple of more chapters left before the end and then I can start working on the sequel! And stay tuned for A Christmas Tale coming soon as the holiday season approaches. I can't say too much about it right now or it'll give away the ending for this story. So I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

The next morning Luna unfortunately awoke to the stench of Jack passing some gas right in her face. "Hey!" she exclaimed as he finally removed his tail away from her. "Oh, sorry love." He told her before he stood up and yawned with a stretch. Then he trotted out of his den and raised his tail to relieve some of his droppings, before lifting his leg and urinating upon a rock. Then he ran over to the watering hole and lowered his head to get a nice cold drink of water.

A few moments later he stopped to sniff the air and allowed his ears to fall back when he sensed a presence amongst him. Luna was about to come out of the den to join him until she heard him growl deep inside his throat and stopped knowing that something must have been wrong. He continued to growl until Sarah stepped out of the woods in front of him. "Sarah?" he questioned. "Jack?" she questioned him back as she slowly approached him. "Is that really you?" she asked.

"Of course it is! Where the hell have you been!? And what gives you the right to have done this to me!?" he snapped angrily with a snarl and a bark. "I'm sorry Jack, but I had to teach you a lesson, and I would have come sooner but I've been lost in the woods for days so I've been having trouble finding you." She said as both of them were unaware that the tiny wolf cub had been listening to their entire conversation. "I suppose you want me to change you back then." Sarah said. "Well for starters that would be nice." Jack said when suddenly he heard tiny paws coming up behind him and quickly turned around to see Luna standing there.

"Luna!" he exclaimed with an astonished gasp. "You promised that you would help me find my father! You're a liar!" she yelled. "Luna, please, listen to me." Jack pleaded. "No!" Luna shouted before she turned around and ran away. "NO!" Jack shouted. "Jack, who was that?" Sarah asked him anxiously. "A friend of mine, I'm sorry Sarah I have to go and find her before she gets herself in serious trouble." Jack said as for once he completely forgot about his ambition to become human again and started sniffing the ground. Once he caught ahold of Luna's scent he ran away.

"Jack wait!" Sarah cried, but it was too late. He was already gone. The sky was growing darker and grayer, Jack had never seen such terrible weather that he had seen in the last few days in his life. A low roll of thunder sounded in the distance. He didn't care though. He now knew that he was in love with the little cub and he had to protect her and let her know how he truly felt about her. Meanwhile Luna had just ran out into a clearing from the woods. She gave a loud petrified gasp and started breathing heavily and slowly backed up as a grizzly bear growled and started making its way towards her. She didn't even have enough strength to scream for help. Rain started pouring heavily from the sky as the bear stood up on its' hind legs and growled standing over her.

That's when suddenly a bolt of lightning crashed above from the sky and Jack ran up on top of the hilltop arriving just in the nick of time. That's when he closed his eyes and slowly raised his nose towards the sky. His ears fell back into place as he let out his first triumphant howl. Luna was surprised and taken off guard and so was the bear. Luna gasped again as the bear turned towards Jack with an angry growl as it started making its' way towards him. Jack finally stopped howling and charged towards the bottom of the hill holding his tail straight up in the air.

The bear fell back on all four paws as Jack ran towards it angrily showing it his teeth and barked, growled, and snarled at it. He had made up his mind that he wasn't going to show the bear any mercy for it was like he was protecting his own cub. That's when suddenly Sarah ran out of the woods and knelt down next to Luna. "Are you alright?" she questioned as Jack continued snapping at the bear. "Yes I'm fine, but what's going to happen to Jack?" she asked her worriedly. "Don't worry, he'll be fine." Sarah told her although she had never been so unsure of herself in her life.

That's when suddenly the bear took a swipe out of Jack with its' humongous paw. Jack let out a whimpering cry of pain before he fell backwards onto the ground. The bear gave out a loud snort realizing that it had had enough before slowly walking away from the scene. "Oh no." Sarah said with a gasp as she ran over to Jack. This had all been her fault. For years she knew how much that he had loved her and how much he was willing to give to find her and be with her again. Now she was sure that there wasn't anything that she could do and he was going to die because of her.