Author's Note: Next chapter should be the last chapter. Oh, by the way! Guest review that suggested shrinking Eve and Winston? Challenge accepted. You got it in just in time though, cause I had to close plot suggestions because I'm too far in now. Hehe...

Chapter Ten

Eventually, everyone had arrived at Lilly and Garth's den to sort out the problems experienced over the past few days. Kenny, Kody, and Robert were there, joining Winston and Eve. And of course, Kate, Humphrey, Lilly, and Garth were all there too. Eva, Robert's mate, had decided to stay far away from whatever was causing all of the trouble. "The last thing I need is to be shrunk down to that size," she had told Kenny earlier that morning with a gesture to Robert and Kody's diminished form. No one realized how wise of a move she had actually made.

"Alright," Winston began once everyone had assembled. "Let's see if we can't get four little wolves back to normal size," he finished with a joking smile at the shrunken wolves.

"Wait, where's Dad?" Garth asked Winston.

"Oh, well…." Winston trailed off thinking of the right words to say. "In the event that something goes horribly wrong and we all end up as nine tiny wolves… well, someone has to lead the pack."

Everyone gulped when he said "nine tiny wolves," for there were nine of them in total, four of which had already been shrunk and did not wish to stay that way forever.

Robert, who was in the center of the group of wolves and standing next to Kody, Humphrey, and Lilly, could not resist the splendid opportunity he had been given. "This should prove interesting," he whispered into Kody's ear. Kody only growled playfully in response.

"Hey, before we continue, has everyone met everyone?" Kate asked.

"I met Kenny, Kody, and Robert after the packs united," Garth said. "We are sometimes put on patrol or hunting parties together."

"I haven't met Humphrey… or Lilly," Kody said.

Humphrey walked up to Kody and shook his paw. "The name's Humphrey! Nice to meet you, but not so nice that we have to be this small to do it."

Kody smiled at Humphrey's friendliness and "small" joke. "Ha ha! Yeah… Next time, let's get together before we shrink.

Reluctantly, Lilly also walked up to Kody. "I'm Lilly…" she said quietly.

"Oh, nice to meet you Lilly," Kody said warmly and he extended his paw. Lilly did not shake it. He looked up to Garth for answers, and Garth mouthed out the words "She's shy" and then gave him a friendly wink.

Okay… Awkward… Kody thought.

"Okay everyone! Let's do this!" Winston disrupted the introductions occurring between the tiny wolves in front of him. He reached over and pulled out the "black box," as the wolves called it, and studied it carefully. "So, anyone know how to work this thing?"

Blank and clueless looks rotated around the faces of the group of wolves.

"Well, uh, we know that one of the berry things makes things shrink when you press it…" Humphrey stated sarcastically.

Kody looked directly at Humphrey. "I like your sarcasm!" he said. Apparently, they shared a similar taste in that category of humor.

Humphrey just shrugged it off and turned his attention back to Winston.

"If one of them makes things shrink," Kate jumped in on the conversation, "we should probably find out which one it is before we just start pushing them. That way, we won't accidentally end up shrinking everyone in the pack before we find a solution."

"And that's why she's my daughter!" Eve chimed in with a large smile.

"Okay… I guess our only option is the process of elimination," Winston said ignoring his wife's comment. "These all look the same to me, so I have no idea which is which. If no one will object, I shall start by pressing this dark blue berry," Winston held up the device and pointed to the "berry" he was referring to. He got nods and shrugs in response. "Oh boy… I have a bad feeling about this," he mumbled as he pressed the berry down.

Because the device was still somewhat broken, smoke and rays of light shot out at everyone in the den.

"TAKE COVER!" Kody yelled dramatically.

Seconds later, it was all over and everyone came out of hiding from behind whatever they had found.

"Is everyone alright?" a tiny voice asked.

"Whoops…" another small and slightly shaky voice said.

"Winston…" the first tiny voice angrily trailed off.

"Oh no! Now what?" Garth asked.

The smoke finally finished clearing and everyone was able to take in their surroundings. No one had managed to get back to their normal size, unfortunately. In fact, it appeared that more wolves had been shrunk! Winston, Eve, and Kate had all been miniaturized to the same scale that Humphrey, Lilly, Kody, and Robert were still on!

Kate saw that Humphrey was now her size. Without even waiting to see if she had shrunk or he had grown, she ran over to him and wrapped her paws around him in a tight hug. "Humphrey!" she exclaimed with joy. "I can hug you normally again! It's so good to have you back!"

Humphrey could not see her, but he knew Kate had the biggest smile on her face. He enjoyed the moment while it lasted, but knew he would have to show Kate the truth moments later. "It's good to hug you normally too, Kate!" he said a bit sadly.

"Is something wrong?" Kate asked. "You sound like you're not that happy to be big again."

"Well, Kate… Um… I don't know how to break this to you but… We're both tiny," Humphrey spilled the news on her.

"WHAT!?" Kate yelled as she dropped the hug.

Humphrey simply turned her attention to behind her, where Garth and Kenny were both observing the scene from above, as over-watching giants.

Kate's heart sank to her stomach. "Whoops…" she said using her dad's same words. Then she realized, "Wait a second! What about Mom and Dad!?"

"Over here, Sweetie," Eve's voice rang out. It sounded normal to Kate, but tiny to Garth and Kenny. It was not a tiny "chipmunk-like" voice, but rather just a tiny voice… almost like it had been boxed in and its volume had been turned way down. All of the shrunken wolves' voices sounded like this to the normal sized wolves. As for the normal sized wolves, their voices simply sounded very large and booming, as if the volume had been put on max and the voice had been let completely free. It was difficult to explain, but that was how voices sounded when one changed sizes.

Kate looked over to where her mother's voice had come from and discovered that her parents had been shrunk down as well. Eve was standing next to an embarrassed Winston and the black box was next to both of them… except it was now gigantic from their viewpoint. Kate ran over to meet her parents with Humphrey right behind her.

Humphrey started chuckling when he saw that Winston and Eve had been brought down to his level along with Kate. "Heh heh… Wrong button?" he joked.

Winston nodded his head, still looking a bit embarrassed by his mistake. "Yes, Humphrey, that was indeed the wrong button."

Eve and Kate both rolled their eyes at the joke.

"Okay, so, if you two don't mind," Humphrey began with a gesture to the two giants Garth and Kenny, "can you try to change us back to normal? We don't want Ash finding us all like this."

"Ash? Why Ash?" Winston asked.

Humphrey briefly explained what had transpired between him, Ash and Kate the other day.

Suddenly, a low growl was heard over in the center of the den. Humphrey and Kate looked over and saw Robert, teeth beginning to show, and his left eye shifting to a blood red shade. Robert had this ability to sympathize uniquely with anyone that he considered a friend. He would share their sadness and happiness normally, but whenever someone had tried to offend or hurt one of his friends, he would get extremely defensive and seek to avenge his friend and what had happened. This was exactly what was happening now that he had heard what Ash had tried to do to Humphrey, who was one of his friends.

"Bring him in here right now and I'll kill him!" Robert threatened.

Kody turned to Robert with a look of confusion on his face. "Dude! You're tiny! He'd just swat you aside like some bug! If you're going to try anything, wait until you're normal sized or he's our size. I mean, look at how big Garth and Kenny are now to us. Are you just going to walk up to them and try to kill them?"

Robert gradually calmed down. "Yeah… Maybe I better postpone that," he said as his eye shifted back to its normal brown color.

"Anyway…" Humphrey started. "Let's try to enlarge ourselves again."

"YES! And this time I PICK the berry we push!" Eve demanded. Then she leaped on top of the black box, and tried to decide on a berry. "We already used this one…" she pointed to the dark blue berry, "…and it shrank us. So maybe this one…" she finished pointing to a red berry over opposite of the blue one.

"Okay," Garth agreed. He had been watching Eve while she made her decision. "Stand back everyone!" Garth let Eve jump off of the device before he slid it over to himself and pointed it towards the cluster of seven tiny wolves. Here we go… he thought as he mashed his claw down on the red button and closed his eyes.

More flashes and eruptions of smoke filled Garth and Lilly's den. The lights bounced around off the walls and eventually were absorbed somewhere in the smoke, probably by the seven tiny wolves. Seconds later, everything had died down and the smoke cleared to reveal… NINE NORMAL SIZED WOLVES!

"Success!" Garth exclaimed as he opened his eyes. He was tackled by Lilly moments later.

"Garth! Garth!" she exclaimed. "I'm not tiny anymore! Think of all the things we can do as a couple again!"

Garth smiled at Lilly. "Yep! It's good to have you back, Lillsie! Don't go shrinking on me again!" he joked as he stood up and hugged her normally.

"Ha ha! I'll try, Garth!" Lilly exclaimed. "I'll try my best." Then she kissed Garth right on his lips, enjoying the feeling of his normal sized paws around her normal sized body and her normal sized lips meeting his.

Kate and Humphrey were sharing a similar moment of joy. "It's good to be back, Kate," Humphrey said with a huge smile on his face as he wrapped his paws around Kate and held her tightly.

"Try not to get shrunk again, okay?" Kate teased. She was simply overjoyed to have her mate wrapping his paws around her like he should be able to.

"Okay," Humphrey agreed.

Robert and Kody were also back to normal size, as were Winston and Eve. They too shared casual conversation, all four simply glad to be normal sized again.

"Well, it's good to be shaking a normal sized paw," Kody mused as he and Robert shook each other's paw.

"Same here, man," Robert exclaimed.

"Okay guys," Kenny said breaking the two up. "I want to go see if Sear'a is able to date me again this afternoon, so I'm going to leave. See ya!" He then walked out of the den and headed to go find his potential mate.

"Yes… See ya indeed!" Kody mumbled as he watched him walk away.

"What are you thinking?" Robert asked as he watched a mischievous smile form on Kody's face.

"I'll tell you a little later," Kody said as he and Robert left Garth and Lilly's den making conversation along the way.

"Isn't that sweet?" Eve said turning to Winston. "Everybody's happy to be normal sized again… and all because one of us pushed the right berry!"

"Oh… Um, good job Eve." Winston smiled nervously. He glanced over to Garth and Lilly, and Kate and Humphrey. "We'll leave those four alone," he said as he and Eve began to walk out. But they did not leave before Eve could make an "I'm watching you" gesture with her paw and her eyes. She directed the gesture towards Humphrey and Garth, and then left with a big smile on her face.

Author's Note: The end? Not if I can help it... And I can. I think the last chapter is the next one, but I may need to split it in two due to length.

Robert is from Crowwolf as is Sear'a. I don't think Sear'a will be in this story as more than just a reference name though.

Okay guys... See ya later for the last chapter of Love Knows No Sizes! I have one or two more surprises left for you, and I'm sure you all want to know a bit more about some of our characters here... ;-)

Please review! And yes LoyalWolfHumphrey, unfortunately, they did really grow back to their normal size here. You wouldn't want to see Lilly tiny forever would you? The poor girl was so upset about it... Hehe... Just stay tuned for next chapter. ;-)

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