Well sorry for the long wait guys but this chapter is here now but unfortunately I can't do any more work on this story this holiday as we are going on holiday to London today but I've stayed up just so I could bring you this chapter before we go away so enjoy.

Chapter 11 Alpha school part one: The first day

"You guys ready?" Sasha asked looking at her sister and the three other wolves in front of her "you bet" Nightingale replied, "ok let's do this" the five wolves shouted leaping into the log. Nightingale signalled to Sasha who pushed off sending the log towards the edge of the slope where it stopped with half over the edge "AIR WOLVES" they all shouted until they looked down and realised they weren't moving "umm does someone want to get out and push?" Sasha asked, just then the log tipped forwards and started to move downwards, "ok now we're moving" Nightingale shouted as the log began picking up speed.

Meanwhile just down the hill Shadow and Humphrey with Decca in tow were busy stalking a couple of small rabbits, "this one's mine Shadow thought as he leapt silently at the closest one taking it down in one swift bite before it knew he was there, turning he saw Humphrey do the same. They both sat their elated with catching their own food, they then got up and started to head back to show their parents what they had caught

meanwhile the five Omega's were desperately trying not to crash, "phew...that was close" Nightingale sighed with relief as the only narrowly dodged another tree stump "um...ROCK!" Salty shouted, They turned sharply which threw everyone but Sasha out of the log. The log continued on down the hill with Sasha in it. Sasha was trying to get control back over the log when she spotted Shadow just ahead, right in the log's path "SHADOW! LOOK OUT!" she shouted Shadow turned just as the log was almost on top of him and instinctively jumped and landed on his back in the log just in front of Sasha with the rabbit still in his mouth "Hey Shadow" Sasha said looking down into his eyes, getting lost in them. "hey Sasha, you might want to look where we're going" Shadow replied pointing to a tree stump blocking their way, Sasha snapped out of her thoughts and steered round it, straight into the path of another rock.

The log collided with the rock, sending Shadow and Sasha straight into the air, they both locked paws facing each other as they span through the air, "by the way what were you doing up here?" Sasha asked "I was catching lunch" Shadow responded "lunch? good cause I'm about to lose mine" Sasha said blowing up her cheeks "please don't get it all over me" Shadow replied "ok I'll try and swallow it" Sasha said as she swallowed it, then they both hit the ground but luckily they landed in a patch of tall grass that broke their fall.

A little while later Humphrey and the other Omegas caught up to the dazed pair, "are you alright" Shakey asked, "yep we're fine" Shadow replied getting up. walking out of the tall grass they found Winston and Kate waiting for them, "Humphrey, Shadow, come on everyone else is ready, we've got to go" Kate said "coming" Humphrey replied, "Where are you going?" Sasha asked Humphrey and Shadow "Alpha school, it lasts until spring" Shadow replied "what you're going away for the entire winter" Nightingale moaned, Sasha and Nightingale made to follow them but Winston stepped in front of them "I know you two are Shadow and Humphrey's friends but by next spring they will both be trained Alpha's with Shadow in line for future pack leader. No doubt you two will be cleaver Omegas, learn to keep the peace and remind us all to have fun." he finished walking away with Kate, Humphrey and Shadow trailing behind. Sasha and Nightingale sat there sadly watching Shadow and Humphrey walk away, then Decca along with the other Omegas leapt onto them shouting "WOLF PILE!" Shadow and Humphrey watched the Omegas wrestling for a few seconds before once again turning to follow their dad and sister.

Winston first led the three pups back up to the den where Eve and Lilly were. Lilly and Eve both said goodbye and hugged the three pups before Eve turned to Winston, "right make sure you look after them and you do remember what I told you to do if any of the other pups act out of line or hurt them...Don't you?" Eve said raising her voice a little, "u...u..umm yes dear" Winston replied as he ushered Kate, Humphrey and Shadow out of the den, then he took them through the feeding grounds and down another path that snaked its way through the bushes.

Winston, Kate, Humphrey and Shadow eventually came out in a clearing where a couple of the Weston Beta's as well as all the other pups from the Weston pack that were going to Alpha school were gathered including Sebastian, Shaun and Cando who immediately ran over and greeted Shadow, Humphrey and Kate, "so Alpha school has finally come huh" Sebastian said "yep seems to have come around quickly" Shadow replied cheerfully. Winston stood up in front of the pups "now then if you lot are all ready then let's get going" He said leading the pups out of the clearing and down a well worn path. Shadow, Kate and Humphrey were being pestered for information about Alpha school by their friends since they were the sons and daughter of the pack leaders they suspected that their parents had told them all about it, so Kate, Shadow and Humphrey told them about how Alpha school was located right in the middle of the park and took place every 2-3 years, they told them about how any hostility between the packs would cease and the male pack leader of each pack would take the Alpha and Beta pups to Alpha school. they also told them about how the wolves that trained each generation of Alphas and Betas spent the years in-between Alpha school training their own sons and daughters to become the next instructors.

five minutes later the group of western pups came across a stream "right we'll stop and have a rest and a drink here for a bit, then we continue on to Alpha school" Winston said as several of the pups crashed to the ground whilst others went over to the stream and started lapping up as much water as they could. Shadow, Humphrey, Kate, Cando, Shaun and Sebastian managed to find some shade, "you know Alpha school is going to be much easier for you than it will be for us right?" Kate commented to Shaun, Cando and Sebastian "why do you say that?" Sebastian asked "well since we're the sons and daughter of the pack leaders everyone expects so much from us, they expect us to out shine everyone else so we have that much more pressure heaped on us" Kate said gloomily "hey don't think about, I'm sure it won't be that bad" Shaun said putting an arm round her. After a while Winston got the pups moving again and the continued on, following a path that stayed beside the stream, a couple of times one or two of the pups fell into the stream or were pushed in but ap-art from that nothing of great interest happened, which suited Winston perfectly.

The Weston wolves and pups arrived at a large clearing where there were lots of other pups as well as a few adult wolves sitting, lying, walking or running around. Winston recognised Tony and Garth and led his group over to them, "hey Tony, is everyone here?" Winston asked "no, the northern pack still aren't here yet" Tony replied "what could be taking them so long?" Winston asked, "no idea, I guess we'll find out when they get here" Tony said. they waited for a few minutes then finally an old white and grey furred wolf about Winston's age appeared through the tree line, this was Felix, leader of the northern pack and behind him was his daughter, a beautiful pup whose pure white fur matched her sapphire blue eyes perfectly and behind her walked the rest of the southern Alpha/Beta pups, most of which had either white fur, grey fur or a mixture. "What took you so long?" Winston asked Felix "um well you have no idea how hard it is to find a white furred wolf in the snowy mountains" Felix answered looking down at the white furred pup "anyway these must be, Garth, Humphrey, Kate and of course Shadow" Felix continued nodding to each one in turn.

When everyone was gathered in the clearing a brown furred wolf got up on a rock in front of the crowd of wolves and pups. "Right let's get this straight I am Gareth and I'm in charge of turning you lot into Alphas and Betas, if I say jump, you ask how high. If I say run, you ask how fast. Now Alpha school will be split into four main sections. In the first section you will learn how to fight, I will teach you ways to get the edge on your opponent and ways in which to counter him, Fenrir forbid if you'll ever need it but if you ever do, you'll need to be prepared. The other three sections are about hunting and tracking. In the first hunting section you will each learn how to track and hunt individually, in the second section I will split you up into groups by packs and you will learn to hunt as a team and in the final section you will be split into random groups. At the end of each section you will all be tested. In the fighting section we will have a tournament to see who is the best, remember it's not all about strength cunning plays a big part too. At the end of the Hunting sections you will all hunt caribou for real, first individually and then in your packs and finally in your teams, any questions?" Gareth asked, no one made a sound.

"No? Good, each pack has its own group of dens; one for the northern pack, one for the western pack, one for the Eastern pack and finally one for the southern pack. The dens are also split between gender, two for the males and two for the females. Now there are some rules about sleeping arrangements, number one, I don't want to see any wolf near a den that belongs to another pack and even more importantly I do not want to see a male pup in a female den or vice versa, GOT IT?" "yes Gareth" all the pups replied in unison, "Good, ok first let's get to know each other, I want each of you to introduce yourselves, let's have the sons and daughters of the pack leaders up here first" Gareth said indicating that the pups were to come up to the rock. Shadow, Kate and Humphrey as well as Garth, the daughter of the southern pack leader and another male pup with golden brown fur with silverish grey fur on his paws and a black underbelly and ears. Shadow, Kate, Humphrey and Garth introduced themselves, Shadow noticed that when he introduced himself all the other pups had looks of awe on their faces but he had no idea why. After they had introduce themselves the white furred pup introduced herself as Sapphire and finally the male pup who was the son of the southern pack leader introduced himself as Ezekial, after the pack leader's pups had introduced themselves, the other pups went up did the same.

"Right so that is introductions over with, now on to business. Do you see that log at the far end of the clearing?" Gareth asked, the pups nodded "I am going to split you up into groups of ten and in those groups I want you to race over to that log as fast as you can." Gareth continued. Shadow, Kate, Humphrey, Shaun, Cando and Sebastian were put into a group with Sapphire, Garth, Ezekial and another southern wolf. "Hey aren't you the wolf who saved that Omega pup from that bear and fought off those Briar wolves?" Ezekial asked "wait you know about that?" Shadow exclaimed, "sure we do, you're famous, after all it isn't everyday a pup can come off best against a bear or survive an encounter with a hostile pack." Garth replied. Their group went first. The pups lined up on the start line sending biting comments back and forth, "okay 3,2,1 GO!" Gareth shouted, the pups set off at lightning pace with Shadow Ezekial, Sapphire and Humphrey all very close together, the four pups reached the log at the same time, closely followed by Kate, Garth, Shaun, Cando, sebastian and the Southern wolf. "well at least we drew, so no winners no losers" Garth said cheerfully Sapphire however looked less pleased with the result.

After all the pups had finished racing Gareth gathered them round, "okay we are going to play a game of wolves and caribou, the Weston and Eastern packs will be the 'caribou' first whilst the northern and southern packs will be the wolves. The idea is simple the 'caribou' have a minute to run and then the wolves go after them, the wolves' objective is to work as a together to take down the 'caribou', you can do this by pinning one of the 'caribou' down for 5 seconds, once a 'caribou' has been taken down then one of you needs to bring him or her to this clearing, however the wolves playing as the caribou are allowed to defend themselves and take down their attackers, if one of the attackers get's taken down then they aren't allowed to move again until another wolf on their team touches them. After 10 minutes I will howl, then each of you are to make their way to this clearing, if you get lost then there are wolves at the edge of the territory who will be able to show you the way back. The wolves playing as well the wolves win if they manage to take down all the caribou within 10 minutes however of any 'caribou' are left after those 10 minutes then they win" Garath explained "Right the Western and eastern wolves can go, the rest of you wait till I give the signal and then you can go after them." Garath continued as Shadow, Humphrey, Garth, Kate, Cando, Shaun and Sebastian as well as all the other pups from the Western and Eastern packs raced into the tree line.

Five minutes later Shadow and Humphrey had lost sight of Kate and the others and were hiding from several southern wolves that were poking around not far away, suddenly they heard a yelping noise and all of the southern wolves pricked their ears up and ran over in the direction the noise came from. Humphrey and Shadow laid low for a couple of minutes until they were sure all the wolves were out of sight before they stepped into the clearing the southern wolves had been searching through. Suddenly a group of bushes directly ahead of them rustled and Shadow swore he could see patches of white and a flash of blue amongst the leaves, instinctively he ducked and rolled to his right just as Sapphire leapt out of the bushes, landing where he had been seconds earlier. Shadow and Humphrey immediately ran in opposite directions and Sapphire went after Shadow. The two ducked and weaved in and out of the trees with Shadow trying every trick he knew to get away from her, "give it up, you can't escape the best Alpha ever" Sapphire taunted but she was concentrating too much on Shadow and didn't notice the tree in front of her until she smacked into it, "oh, looks like I just did" Shadow laughed. Sapphire recovered and prepared to continue chasing Shadow but she heard laughing off to her left and turned to find Humphrey in a fit of hysterics, Humphrey looked up to see Sapphire looking at him, "oops got to fly" Humphrey said dashing into the undergrowth with Sapphire in hot pursuit.

Sapphire was walking around through the bushes trying to find Shadow or Humphrey when she spotted Humphrey just sitting by a stream, "probably tired out from all that running, this'll be too easy I'll show him I'm the best Alpha ever" Sapphire thought as she stalked quietly through the bushes towards him, when she was just over a metre away she leapt up and charged towards him however she only got halfway before something impacted on her side, she found herself on her back with Shadow standing over her growling at her, then slowly his face cracked into a smile "heh heh heh got you, Caribou two, wolf zero" he laughed getting off her and letting her up, Sapphire tried to look disapproving but she couldn't and a faint smile worked its way onto her muzzle, a smile that didn't go unnoticed, "Wait...did I just see the best Alpha ever smile?" Shadow asked, just then they heard a howl echo out over the valley, "oh well I guess it's time we headed back, by the way that's Caribou three Wolves zero" Humphrey said as they turned to go.

Later that evening Shadow and Humphrey were in the den that they were sharing with Cando, Shaun and Sebastian. "So did you enjoy today" Shaun asked "yep sure did, I met some really nice wolves from the eastern pack and we managed to pull that water log prank on several of the northern wolves, suffice to say they weren't happy about it and we spent the rest of the game stuck up a tree with them trying to get us" Cando replied sending them all into fits of laughter. The five pups continued to tell each other about what had happened to them that day until they eventually fell asleep.

So that is chapter 11 complete. BTW a big thanks to wolfies soulfor letting me use his OC. anyway as always please review/follow/favourite this story also tell your friends about this story and send me any ideas for future chapters and if you want to use any of my OC's PM me thanks this is xXShadowTheWolfXx Signing off