Chapter 10

It time for the wedding, all of the wolves from both packs arrived for the ceremony. At least all but Humphrey.

"Hey Kate I don't want to interrupt, but have you seen Humph? We were going to sit together." I asked the beautiful alpha

"Um, Humphrey came by earlier and gave me this flower as a parting gift."

"He left?"

"Yeah, he said that he was going to try the 'Lone Wolf' thing." Kate said

"Oh, ok. I'll just see you in the valley then." I said as I walked away

"See you in a bit Sam." Kate said after me

Kate's P.O.V

"Well, it's time." I told myself as I headed down the hill towards the valley were Sam was waiting to walk me the rest of the way

"You ready Kate?" he asked as I approached

"You bet."

We then walked over to the mating stone in the center of the valley and Sam went over and kneeled down next to my mom

"You ready?" Garth asked as I walked up to the stone

"Yeah" I said trying to get rid of the strange feeling that I was doing the wrong thing

"So do you want to start or should I?" Garth asked

"Let's start together." I said as we approached each other

First we accepted each other's sent, then we nibbled each other's ears, than just as we were about to rub noses to symbolize our matehood, I had to stop and back away

"Kate, what's wrong?" Garth asked

"I-I can't." was all that I could say

"What?!" Tony said "Why can't she marry Garth?!"

"Quiet!" Winston said as he walked over to me "Kate, why can't you marry Garth?"

"Because I fell in love with an omega." I said as I saw Sam stand up and slowly walk over to the far side of the stone

"What?! She can't fall in love with an omega! It's against pack law! This isn't our custom, this isn't our way!" Tony yelled "Take the valley!" as he lunged towards me with his large teeth blared. And when he was just about to tackle me, something tackled him sending him to the ground. When I looked I saw Sam wrestling with Tony.

"Sam!" I yelled

"Run Kate! Get out of here!" he yelled as he picked up Tony and tossed him into the path of another Eastern wolf. "No one's going to hurt Kate!" he yelled as he picked up a branch and stopped another wolf from tackling me.

Then I felt the ground to shake rapidly. Then I looked and saw a stampede of caribou charging towards all of us in the valley

"Stampede!" I yelled "Stampede!"

"Quick! Everyone to the sides of the valley!" my dad yelled

"KATE!" I heard Sam yell as he ran towards me, picked me up, and ran his hardest to the side of the valley away from the caribou

"Thanks Sam." I said when he put me down

"No problem." He answered

I then looked out and saw my dad and Tony trapped in front of the heard

"Oh no!" I said as I ran above the valley. As I ran I didn't watch where I was going and I crashed into a grey wolf that was coming the other direction

"Humphrey!" I said as we stood up

"Kate. What's going on?"

"My dad and Tony are trapped in front of a stampede! We have to do something."

"There, the log board." Humphrey said as he jumped in "Come on Kate!"

Sam's P.O.V

I saw Humphrey crash into Kate and jump onto a log board as Kate followed suit. I then watched in horror as they sped down the hill and launched into to air and landed right in front of Winston and Tony. Then I saw as Kate and Humphrey were sent into the caribou when they crashed and were slowly moving their way to the shelter that the log board provided. Then just as they were about to reach the log, Kate was hit by a caribou causing Humphrey to jump on top of her to shield her from the rest of the heard

"NOOO!" I yelled as I started to sprint down the hill. Then I was tackled by Kate's mother, Eve.

"Sam there is nothing that you can do." She told me

We then watched together as the rest of the heard left the valley. Once the last caribou had left the scene of Kate's injury, I broke away from Eve's grip and ran in a mad sprint towards Humphrey who was crying over Kate's still body

"I loved you." I heard him say as he stood up and let out a long, deep, sad howl. No sooner did Humphrey start to howl than did all of the others join in. Including both Winston and Tony

After about five minutes of howling, Kate's body started to shift. She then stood up and looked at Humphrey

"Humphrey?" she said weakly

"Kate, I thought I lost you." He replied

"No." she responded, "is everyone staring at us?"

"Um, yeah. Yeah they are."

"Darn. Because I wanted to tell you something." She said as she started to whisper into his ear

"What? Ok, um, I have something to say to you." Humphrey said as he started to whisper into her ear

"I think this could work." Winston said

"Well…" Tony said "Alright."

Then Garth ran up to Kate's sister, Lilly, and rubbed noses together and Kate and Humphrey followed suit

"To Howling rock everyone!" Eve yelled "it's time for the party!"

As I watched all of them walk away I stayed in the valley trying to decide where my next place to live would be. Then I heard Kate from behind me

"Sam?"

"Yes Kate?"

"Where are you going?"

"Oh I think it's time for me to take my leave." I told the happy alpha

"No, you can't leave." She said "you are to stay and be a part of the pack"

"Are you sure?" I asked

"I'm sure."

"Thank you Kate."

Kate and I then walked together to howling rock were all of the wolves were having a party for the newly-weds.

"Kate! Sam! Over here!" Humphrey said from the base of the large monument "Kate, Winston said that the two of us get to lead the howling tonight." He said proudly

"Really?" Kate asked "that's fantastic Humphrey! Let's get to the top so we can start it off."

"Great idea Kate! See you later Sam, I'm going to go have some fun." Humphrey said as he ran off with Kate like a small child at the candy store.

"Have fun Humphrey." I said to myself as they left and filled the night air with their beautiful harmonization. "Humphrey sure is one lucky wolf"

"He sure is." Winston said next to me. "I understand that Kate wants you to be a part of the Eastern/Western Pack."

"She did say so, yes." I answered

"Well, as long as you help out with the Alpha duties in the territory, I don't have a problem with you staying."

"Thank you sir."

"Hmm…Call me 'Winston'."

"Alright, 'Winston', it's great to be a part of your pack