Chapter 21 The Cub

Runt's POV

"Wait you found a den?" I asked as I walked beside Rat who was moving out of Lilly's and Garth's den.

"Yeah, Cristie wanted me to find one." He replied as we walked up to the old cave he found.

"Really here of all places?" I asked I honestly didn't know what I was expecting when I heard he found one. "Besides you and Cristie aren't even mated yet and she just got back."

"Yeah I know that this was just for future reference." He said like I should've known that. "hey do you smell that?" he asked it smelled like a lion Rat walked out and motioned for me to follow. I did and outside the cave was a mountain lion cub Rat walked over to it.

"I think we should keep it." Rat said

"No no no! That is a mountain lion and we're wolves. We should get the alphas and have to take care of it." I said but Rat picked up the little guy like he did with the pups and brought it into the cave. Why does he have to be so stubborn? I asked myself as I followed him. The little cub roared at me and Rat laughed.

"I guess he doesn't like you." Rat said I couldn't believe this was happening.

"I'm telling Cristie." I said

"Go ahead." Rat replied and I ran off hopefully she could put a stop to this madness. I told her everything and we ran back to the cave to find Rat playing with the cub.

"It's so cute!" Cristie exclaimed as she walked over to the little cub. "Well Rat if you want to take care of it I'm up for it." She nuzzled Rat before cleaning the cat's fur.

"Ugh fine you two enjoy being parents." I groaned before leaving. I walked home luckily my parents weren't home yet but my siblings were.

"Runt's what's wrong?" Claudette asked.

"Rat and Cristie just adopted a cat." I said still awe struck.

"I always knew they would have kids at a young age I just thought they would be wolves." Stinky said he actually made a joke what is with everyone today?

"Oh shut up Stinky." Claudette said

"Maybe we should go try to talk some sense to them." Stinky said and the three of us began walking to the cave. We saw Cristie laying down next to sleeping cub, this was going to be harder than we had originally thought.

"Hey Rat can we talk to you?" Claudette asked kindly he walked over to us and we walked a few feet away.

"Are you an idiot? That's a mountain lion you know those cat's that hate wolves." Stinky said

"Yeah I know and we're keeping it." He replied

"We?" Claudette asked

"Yes, we Cristie and I are keeping the cub." He said before walking back to the cave and lying next to Cristie.

"Ok we need to call in the big guns." Stinky said we left and came back with Garth, mom, dad, and Lilly. Rat and Cristie were up with playing with the cub again.

"It's kind of cute." Dad said and this was going to go south quick.

"We aren't letting them keep it." Mom said

"Yeah a lion has no place in a wolf pack." Garth backed her up.

"Well I mean we could let them keep it." Dad said yep this went south.

"Really what's the harm?" Lilly asked the two walked over to see the cub.

"We need to divide Cristie and Rat and fast." Mom said and we all huddled to formulate a new plan of attack.

Rat's POV

"Rat who's your friend there?" Humphrey asked as he and Lilly walked into the cave. The cub backed up behind Cristie.

"His name is Vance." I replied and Cristie told our cub it was okay.

"Well it's nice to see you've moved in together and had a kid faster than any wolf I know." Humphrey joked I thought it was rather funny.

"Humphrey!" Lilly said sternly and Humphrey quieted down. "Well it's nice to see everything's working out with you two if you need anything don't be afraid to ask." She said before the two left.

"Hey Rat." I turned around and the cub was on top of Cristie's head. "What are we going to feed him?" She asked I hadn't thought about it.

"Well I guess caribou." I replied

"I think he's hungry could you go see if you can get any?" She asked I nodded and I was off. Of course I had no idea how to actually hunt so I decided just to wing it. I headed to the hunting grounds it felt weird not being on the cliff that over looked them. I found myself running through the field trying to catch up the caribou it safe to say that hunting wasn't my thing but I was able to get one barely. Dragging it back to the den was a pain but I did it anyways.

"Rat you got a whole caribou!" Cristie exclaimed she was just as shocked as me. I brought it in and the cub began eating it.

"Yeah." I said and we began eating. That night Vance cuddled up next to Cristie and me and fell asleep.

"If his parents come back we have to give him back you know." She whispered.

"I know. Night." I whispered.

"Night." She whispered back and we went to sleep. In the morning Vance jumped on us. "I guess it's time to get up." Cristie licked my face and we got up.

"Morning." I said as Cristie's parents walked in to the cave they didn't look to happy.