I don't know why, but I'm still writing only A&O chapters. My Halo story seems to be stuck. Oh well. Hope you like this chapter. Sorry it's taken so long to update. Please Read and Review.
"Hey, you. Get up." Humphrey poked his son Aatu.
"Wha? Wha's goin on?" he asked sleepily.
"Time to get up."
By now, the other two had woken up.
"All three of you. I need you in the main room in five minutes. We have a surprise for you."
Aatu, Sean, and Emily immediately perked up and ran into the central part of the cave. Kate was waiting for them.
"Alright you three, I need you to be on your best behavior today. Do exactly as we say."
The siblings looked at each other in confusion. What could be so important?
"Today you are going to go outside for the first time," Humphrey told them.
"Really. You're not just pulling our tails?" Emily asked.
"Yes really. Follow your mother. Do exactly as we say. Outside is a lot more dangerous than this cave."
"We understand."
Mooch moved aside, showing only darkness behind him. Kate led the three pups outside and onto the grass, where she told each of them to sit down. The sun was just starting to peek over the horizon. Emily looked up and saw the sun first.
"What is that?" she asked with wide eyes.
"That, that is the sun," Humphrey said.
"But it's so small. How does it give off so much light?" Sean asked.
"It isn't really that small. It's just really far away."
"Oh. That's cool," Sean said.
The pups continued to watch the sun rise for another thirty minutes or so. When they got bored, Sean leaned around Emily and poked Aatu on the shoulder.
"Hey, Emily, why'd you poke me?" Aatu asked sharply.
"I didn't touch you," she said.
"Yes you did. You were the only one who could have."
"I didn't."
By now, Sean was having a difficult time holding back his laughter. Aatu looked around Emily and saw Sean's grin.
"You. I should have known it was you."
Aatu leaped at Sean, knocking Emily over in the process.
"Hey, watch it!" she said.
Aatu and Sean grappled on top of each other, trying to gain control. Then Sean had an idea. Aatu may be bigger, but if I can get him over to the stream, I can dunk him. The pair started slowly to roll towards the pool. Humphrey saw what was going to happen and turned to Salty.
"I see what Sean is going to do. Just like a jokester to think like that."
"Only your son would think of it, dude."
Just then Hutch came into the clearing. He was about to stop the two cubs, but Humphrey cut him off.
"Watch. It may look like Sean's getting beat, but I can see he's going to win soon," he said.
"How? Aatu is pummeling him," Hutch asked.
"Look how close they are to the stream."
"Ah. Smart thinking."
They turned back to the cubs. Sean maneuvered to the point where he would be on top when they hit the water, then shoved Aatu in and jumped on top of him. He held Aatu under for a couple of seconds and then pulled him out. Aatu was spluttering from the ice cold drenching.
"Wha? How? How'd you get me?" he asked.
"I saw that you were just focused on getting me. So I slowly pushed us back towards the stream, and pushed you in," Sean said.
"Really? You're just going to push me in the stream and be done with it?"
"Yeah. I won. You stopped fighting."
Aatu growled and stalked away.
"Aatu, come here," Kate called.
He walked over to her.
"Yes?"
"You need to dry off."
Kate licked the water out of Aatu's fur and then looked at him. "Don't worry about your brother. He got you this time, but you can practice and be better next time. Learn from this. Now go have some fun."
Aatu trotted over to where Sean and Emily were sliding a flat rock back and forth. Emily shot it under Sean and into the grass.
"Point for me," she said.
Sean pulled it out of the grass and shot it back at her. She blocked it with her back paw and flipped over Sean's head. He leaned backwards to catch it and missed, landing on his back.
"Ow. Another point for you," he said.
"Can I play?" Aatu asked.
"Yeah. Sean, move over that way so we can form a triangle," Emily instructed.
The wolves flipped the stone back and forth, occasionally scoring points against one another. It was past noon when they tired of their game and walked back to the cave to cool off. Emily carried the rock with her.
The whole pack lay around lazily, enjoying the sun warmed rocks at the mouth of the cave. Kate's ears pricked as she heard rustling in the bushes. She, Hutch, and Humphrey sat up as a large wolf skidded to a halt in the clearing. It was Buck.
"Thank god I found you," he said.
"What is it?" Humphrey asked.
"Humans. They've moved into our territory practically right on top of our camp. Can we stay here until they leave? They're just in those temporary things.
"Humans only stay in those things for about a week max, so yeah, your pack can stay here," Kate responded.
"Thanks. I'll go tell Savage."
He ran off again, leaving churned up grass in his wake.
"This should be interesting," Humphrey muttered.
Like I said, sorry for the long update. Lot has happened in the last month. Hope you like it. Please read and review. Reviews are why I keep writing, so the more reviews (constructive, mind you) I get, the faster I will try to write.