I do not own any of the characters from Alpha and Omega, I just own my O/C, Armstrong.
Stephon is a O/C owned by Sgt. Stephon-Zeta, Glacier is a O/C owned by Darkeh123 and Cole is a O/C owned by AaOWaSaCD4ever
Alpha and Omega: The Accepted
Lou's POV
It was just after David's speech that he and a few other wolves ran over to our little group. It felt to awkward, it seemed like all of these wolves knew each other and we were left out of the conversations.
Everyone made a walk way for David as he passed by, they must either really like him or really admire him. Either way it had me really curious to know why he actually had this gathering, I doubt all of these wolves are from the same pack, there was way to many of them!
"Hey Sweetheart! Did you catch my speech?" He asked, walking up and hugging me.
"Yeah...I saw that..." I replied, sighing.
"You did a great job by the way David" Conrad added, smiling at him.
"Thank you, Conrad! What did you think of it, love?" He asked, his tail swaying gently back and forth.
Why did he have to put me on stage when all of his friends are here?! It felt so embarrasing knowing that his friends were here watching as he called me 'Sweety' and 'Love'. I have a feeling he was doing this just to get me to blush, well it worked.
"...It was good..."
He stared at me for a while, not doing anything out of the ordinary, his tail was still wagging gently before he slowly hugged me again, kissing my cheek as he did so.
"It means so much to hear that from you" He informed, hugging me.
The hug itself lasted for a while and seeing as how touched he was by my words I took the liberty upon myself to hug him back and when I did he flinched, was he expecting something else?
"Oh, how rude of me to forget, Sweety, everyone, these guys are my friends" He backed up, showing off the first friend of his, the only female in the group.
"This is Glacier!" He introduced, pushing forward the female a little.
I have to admit that she was rather attractive, her fur looked like snow. Pure white. The only part of her fur that wasn't white was her paws and tail tip, they shined silver, but what was the most noticeable trait about her was her two different colored eyes. One was blue and one was green! I've only seen that before in Sirius and his mother!
"Hello, nice to meet you guys..." She started then looking at me and turning to David "This is the one that you fell for?"
"He seems a little small" Another added in.
I rolled my eyes, I was expecting that at some point today but I didn't think it would be this soon.
"Yeah he is, he's so cute!" David said, going behind me and kissing my cheek.
I growled at him, yet that still didn't phase him in the slightest, to be honest, I think he was starting to like it.
"But watch out for Glacier" He whispered in my ear "She loves to play pranks"
The first thought that came to my head when he said that was that she, Lucas and Marcus would probably get along amazingly. I could already see them all causing havoc together.
"Glacier? Nice name..." Marcus claimed, stepping up and looking at the wolf.
"Thank you, and may I ask what is yours?" She asked politely.
"Marcus, these two are my brothers, Lucas and Sylus" He introduced, pointing to his brothers to which they responded by raising their hands when their names were called.
Great, its already beginning...
David then moved from behind me to infront of me again, going and pushing forward another wolf but I don't know what was wrong with him, he seemed just so...awkward...like he didn't want to be here for some reason. His eyes were half lidded closed, as if he were somewhere else entirely in his head. His arms were close together, his right paw holding his left arm in place.
"This shy little guy is Marshal, say 'Hello' Marshal" David motivated, nudging the wolf forward as it showed his black fur, black as the night.
"H-hello..." He muttered just faintly enough for us to hear.
His fur is what I pictured Armstrong's would look like if he were younger because I must admit, he looks pretty old for someone of his age, that black fur of his showed the hints of gray more noticeably, to the point of which he looked older than his actual age but this guy didn't have his eyes and he's a lot more shy than the Armstrong I know.
Looking back, I could tell Sirius was thinking the same thing, he knew his god-father's appearence better than me but even he saw some simularities other than his fur.
"Marshal huh? Nice to meet you...! I'm Sirius!" Sirius said, stepping up and then pushing Conrad forward "And this is Conrad!"
Conrad hesitantly held out his paw, joining in with Sirius who already had his paw held out
Marshal looked at the paw, same look, his eyes not even changing in the slightest before slowly undoing his arms and shaking Sirius' paw then Conrad's.
"Nice to meet you..."
David smiled at the introductions, I think he liked what he was seeing as far as his two friends getting along with us but he looked around as if there was someone else he was looking for, probably was, just two friends didn't seem that much for someone of his popularity.
"Where is Samuel?" He asked, looking around.
I knew it...
"Sam was walking around here earlier, he's probably playing around with someone he doesn't know" Marshal muttered putting his arms in the same postition as they were before.
"Eh, oh well, he'll show up eventually but as for now..." He turned to me and put a paw around my waist "We get to spend more time with each other..."
I growled, my eyes rolling. I met his friends, and now I feel even more embarrased being around them with his friends here. But the weird thing is that they don't seem phased about this at all! How many times has he done this before?!
Drake's POV
Sirius...
I stared at him the whole time, during that wolf David's little speech, he seemed so intrigued about the whole thing and he was covering Conrad of all things. Did I have competition? No...not with Conrad of all people!
If anyone I should be worrying about its that David character! Stupid wolf suddenly shows up out of no where and then I already confirmed that Sirius thinks he's attractive...
I guess I do have some competition, Conrad and David...more or less. Then, when his friends came, he seemed so intrigued about the wolf that looked like Armstrong that for once today I saw an evident smile. It made me a happy...if only I could have that same effect on him..
"S-sirius..." I whispered into his ear.
I heard him growl a little as he turned to me, his eyes making him look agrivated beyond belief and it hurt me that I make him so unhappy.
"What do you want?" He asked, looking at me for a while before turning back, to look at all of the wolves that were here.
"Can I talk to you for a bit? In private?" I requested, almost ready to plead with him to come with me.
"No, I want to stay here" He objected, looking back again.
"Please? It will only take a second..." I replied, adding a little whimper.
"...Fine, but it better be good Drake" He growled.
I gave him a nod and walked away from the so called 'party' and lead him deep into the brush where hopefully no one would see or hear us. When I felt comfortable enough, I stopped and looked back at Sirius, he refused to make eye contact with me.
"What did you want, Drake?"
"I wanted to ask you out on a date..." I replied, smiling at him.
"...You're kidding me right?"
"Nope, if you don't want to get back together then I want to start from scratch with our relationship...if you'll let me" I informed, smiling "And if I remember correctly, I asked you out on a date the first time we went out"
"Well, you did, but I'm not sure..." Sirius replied, looking away "I'm still really mad at you!"
"I understand that, and I'll take whatever punishment you decide to give me" I replied, smiling at him.
Sirius exhaled, then looking away and tapping his paw on the ground, thinking. At least he was thinking about it! Thats more than I've gotten him to do in forever!
"I-I'll think about it Drake...okay?" Sirius offered, looking at me with a stern face.
"Thank you" I smiled, my tail not ceasing to wag behind me.
"Don't get any ideas, I'd said I'd think about it..." Sirius reminded, turning his back to me and beginning to walk away while I followed him.
"I wouldn't have it any other way..."
Armstrong's POV
"You sure we can't tell them that we're leaving?" Salty asked, thinking about Gail "I'm pretty sure they'll kill us if they found out what we were doing..."
"If we told them they'd just tell us to stop worrying, but no one has seen them in two days, not even Lydia! Thats why we're going to find them!" I responded, looking back at him.
"Then why did we have to bring him?" Salty asked, pointing at my brother as he stood behind him.
Leon growled, he hated hearing someone talk to
"He wanted to come along for Drake" I answered, waiting for Cole and Cyrus to show up.
"Drake? Why Drake?" Salty questioned, turning to Leon.
"Hey, he may not be my son but I still care for the kid!" Leon responded.
That was obvious, Drake was trained by both Hutch and Leon to be an amazing Alpha, if you ask me, it worked! Leon was really close to Drake ever sense they met, I don't know how, but Leon actually let Drake play with him when he was just a pup but other than that I haven't seen him interact with Drake much, although that could answer my question on where Drake might live, he always find some kind of temporary den whenever Candu and I visited him.
"Still, I've never seen you actually confess that you care for someone other than Hutch and Armstrong, does he mean something to you?" Salty informed, then adding a smirk and winking at him "Or is it that you've gone soft?"
With a growl from Leon, the conversation ended and we were back to the silence that existed back before Salty spoke up. It wasn't long before Cole and Cyrus walked up but as usual Cyrus wasn't doing any walking what so ever. He was being carried by Cole.
"Do I even have to ask?" Leon questioned, clearly irritated at how lazy Cyrus was being.
"My paws hurt...and why did we have to get up so early? I'm tired..." Cyrus complained, whining as he was put down.
His whining didn't last long, as soon as he was on the ground he laid down and put his head on his paws before closing his eyes and trying to drift off into sleep again.
"He was passed out by Humphrey's den when I found him, but luckily Humphrey gave us the O.K to go look for the kids" Cole explained.
"We'll have to thank him when we get back..." Salty responded.
"Okay then, no one saw you leave?" Cole asked, exchanging looks with the rest of us.
"Candu was passed out next to me but I got him to roll over so I could leave" I confirmed.
"Gail was still sound asleep when I left so I don't think she'll know I left until later" Salty answered.
"Byron was out hunting early with Hutch so Leon and I are covered" Cole said, nodding to Leon as he did the same.
We all turned to Cyrus, waiting for him to answer but by the time we did so he was already asleep, his tongue hanging out of his mouth while laying on his back. Leon, of course, got irritated by this and walked up to him, shaking him awake so fast that Cyrus jumped up.
"W-what?!" Cyrus gasped, looking around.
"Did Emma see you leave?" Salty asked, rolling his eyes.
"Nope! I was like a shadow!" Cyrus replied, smiling as his tail wagged.
"Then we're set! Lets go!" Leon said impatiently, already beginning to walk.
"How are we going to find them?" Cyrus asked, looking at the ground and then us again "No tracks"
"We're going to follow the trail, Lou never leaves the trail, he's afraid of getting lost" Salty responded.
"Good thing to, otherwise it'd be almost impossible to find them" Cole said, smiling.
I smiled, it felt like another journey, like the one that we all went on to go see my parents and if it weren't for that journey I never would have met Sirius, Conrad, Drake or Cole for that matter! Hopefully this journey won't end badly, not like the last one. We might be going to unfamiliar territory and hopefully we didn't run into any problems.
Yet, I couldn't help but be scared for Sirius. He was always getting into trouble with other pups when he was young because of how he looks and how his friends are treated, but I know Drake won't let him get hurt.
Sirius...
Where did you go?!
And better yet, why is Drake with you?!
Lou's POV
"This is the den that we'll be staying at?" I asked, looking inside and seeing how cool it looked!
It was so huge! Bigger than any den I've been in by far! It practically had its own bathing area, a huge little pool of water over to the side that looked like it could be either a drinking pool or a bathing one, either way, I wasn't going to use it like both.
"Yup, you think its big enough, Sweetheart?" David asked, tilting his head "I could get one for you and I alone if you want!"
He smiled, his tail wagging at the comment he just made like he liked the idea he had just made and knowing him he was probably going to try and convince me to go with him.
"Yeah, its big enough!" I responded, moving away from him.
"Okay! Everyone! Come on in!" David called out
Looking behind us as a horde of pups came running into the den, all of them growling and playing with each other, jumping on and tackling the others. I smiled, watching the pups as they played, remembering how I used to do that with my friends.
"Brings back memories huh?" Conrad asked, standing next to me.
"Yeah, it really does"
Conrad was the only one with me besides David and the pups. Drake and Sirius walked off somewhere and The Brothers went to go hang out with Glacier, probably to go cause some havoc somewhere. I was glad Conrad was with me though! He was better than nothing or having the two trouble makers around, plus he didn't get into fights like Sirius or Drake would. He was quiet and I liked quiet.
"Okay kids, settle down, its time to go to bed..." David spoke up, trying to calm down the riled pups.
"But David! We're not tired!" One of the pups argued.
"Yeah!" The rest agreed, followed by their own arguments.
"Kids, all of you need your sleep!" He said then continuing on "If you go to sleep now I'll take you all down to the lake and you guys can go swimming"
The pups cheered, all nodding or agreeing with him and with that they all settled down, huddled up and curled up next to each other, going to sleep just as fast as they entered the den and started to play.
"Wild bunch aren't they?" Conrad chuckled
"Yeah, but they're all good kids at heart, they just need to get the wild out of them" David replied, watching the pups sleep.
"...What are they to you?" I asked, my curiosity getting the best of me.
David's eyes turned to me, his head still in the direction of the pups and for once he had a serious look towards me. It felt as if he was a different wolf.
"W-we heard that they were orphans..." I continued.
His eyes turned from me to the pups again, the same expression stuck on his face.
"They are" He replied.
"Do you mind if I ask why you're taking care of them?"
He looked at me again, the same stern look that he showed seconds earlier. It was different from his usual love struck look of idiocracy that he shows but still. It was different and I didn't really like it.
"They're all war orphans, all of their parents died in wars with other packs" He answered bluntly.
"War orphans?" Conrad asked, dumbfounded.
I looked over their faces, seeing how peaceful they slept and thinking about the horrible historys they all probably had. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have grown up with out my parents...
"Yeah, I found all of them wandering around, most crying or starving, trying to look for food or the warmth of a family" He replied, looking over all of them as well.
"T-thats terrible"
I agreed, staying silent until I looked up at David and asked him another question that was bugging me.
"W-why are you taking care of them?"
He closed his eyes. Standing still and not speaking for a while before walking out without another word.
I felt horrible, needless to say. I brought up the question in the first place and I provoked the conversation to the point where David didn't feel comfortable answering. I knew Conrad felt awkward but not as bad as I did right now.
"He's an orphan to..."
I turned around and saw that a few of the pups were awake and staring at us, faking being asleep as they responded to us.
"What?"
"His parents, they were also killed because of war, David doesn't talk about it much but thats the reason he takes care of us..." One of them answered "He doesn't want us to feel the loneliness he felt..."
I felt so bad now...
Why am I such an idiot?!
I looked out of this dens entrance, hoping to see David still walking away so I could catch up with him but when I turned he was no where in sight. I looked down, a feeling of despair dropping down on me. It felt like I was being torn apart by guilt! I laid down where I was, Conrad right next to me as he put a paw on my shoulder.
He knew how I felt and he was trying to show he knew how I was feeling but still it was eating me alive right now! Laying down, I managed to close my eyes but I knew that I wasn't going to be able to get much sleep tonight...
"David..."
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sorry for not updating in so long, its not like me to take this long for an update but I was having writers block and I made this chapter extra long in hopes of making up for my laziness but I doubt it helped, sorry once again but please review! It helps with inspiration!
Until Next Time!
