Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey! GrinWolf's here again ( and again i'm just saying I'm still alive, so if any of you believed that I was dead or I just abandoned my tale...Is terribly wrong) I'm so sorry about the excessive delay about the production of this chapter, but in this period so many things had happened... Some really pleasurable, others not at all... And I have to deal with university, too, so... I apologize for the delay and I beg you from the deepest part of my heart to forgive me... And hoping you would like this new chapter!

Although is not very long, it's quite explicative...

No more delay, I promise! Just read, enjoy and lemme know if you like... maybe with a short review!

Muchas Gracias, Merçi, Thank you, Grazie, Arigatou, Danke... *sighs* Oh well, you got it! :D

Chapter 26: Rescue

GRIN's P.O.V.

I could see Wilson charging at me with a fury I've never seen before…But the thing that terrified me the most is that he had a sort of devilish grin all over his face, as if… He was aware of and pleased by his action.

He was going to push me off the ledge, sending me to an almost certain death… But...Why? He seemed so nice to me, so nice with others…Why would he do something like that… To me?

Right now, there was no time nor stop him nor to seek clarification…I had to act as quickly as possible…Every second was precious, every second could made a difference between my life and an horrible death…

I jumped up a little back, but I completely forgot about my injured paw…And when I applied some pressure on it, I was about to fall disastrously on last portion of the small ledge, yelping in extreme pain… I somehow tried to grit my teeth and to bare the dolour, but unfortunately I did not succeed… So I collapsed in pain on the ground, almost resigning to my death sentence.

When I was collapsing on the ground, I slipped a bit backward, finding myself dangling in the void, the only thing that anchored me to the ledge and to life was my good paw… But I felt I could not resist for long… I looked disperately down, trying to lift myself relying on protruding rocks with my rear legs, but invain… It seems rocks would collapse under my weight…

So I looked up and I could see Wilson stopped his running, almost standing near me motionless, as if in a sort of trance, keeping mumbling something to himself… At a certain point he stopped mumbling and realized that I was looking at him and he directed his gaze to me… Smiling.

He totally seemed a different person.

I decided to make one last attempt to appeal to his common sense… I screamed at him at top of my lungs, trying to shake him from the state in which he was now,

"WILSON, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? AREN'T WE FRIENDS, HUH? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?" I pratically yelled him in face, but he seemed to not be bothered at all… Instead, his smile widened even more.

He lowered his head next to my ear and began to say "Because you…Are the reason why I lost everything… Everything that was worth living… You've burned all…All I've got… And NOW…" He emitted an hysterical psychotic laugh…

I could see a lot of lupine heads standing out over the precipice, as if they were trying to figure out what was happening…

I hoped with all my heart that they understood that there was actually something wrong going on…

My eyes widened to what he said to me… I was the reason of WHAT? I just came here not so long ago… I don't really understand how could I have caused so much damage in his life… I don't really know!

He whispered in my ear "Die, you parasitic plague…And burn in the deepest pit of the Hell."

I could feel almost on the verge of tears… Those words hurted me so much… Although I've met Wilson recently, I could already tell he was going to be one of my closest friends… But why… Why is he saying me all these bad things… What I did to deserve to be treated like this by him?

…It seems that everywhere I go, I can't carry nothing but misfortunes and misery…

Maybe…He's right…

…I should end my pathetic life… Nobody would care about me if I would die…

Everyone's gonna be happier… A life less to worry about…Then I remembered.

Maya. I cannot lose her. She…She had to know what I felt for her.

I howled… I could feel something rising in me…Something I could not control… A pulse coming from inside of me, a pulse that I cannot stop…

A pulse of love.

I was feeling somehow strenghtened… But Wilson was just rising his paw in attempt to crush mine, so as to make me let go the spur of rock to which I was clinging, and make me die…

I don't know why, but I put up my muzzle

I catch a glimpse of a figure approaching us, gliding from above… A massive red wolf came crashing on Wilson, hearing a loud snap coming from his swept body, leaning helplessly under the immense mass of the wolf. The impact was tremendous.

The downard force of the red wolf made Wilson crash on the small ground of the ledge, slamming his head on the bare rock… Knocking him out istantly… But blood began to pour from his cavities, signal perhaps that he didn't fainted… Maybe he died.

I didn't recognize him immediately…But after he raised himself from Wilson's motionless body on the floor, I recognized him: it was Maya's aunt… Garth.

He grabbed me by the scruff and lifted me on the small ledge. He stared at me with a blank espression on his face, not really saying anything…Shooking his head a bit.

I…I was shocked to see the lifeless body of Winston laying there…Unmoving.

He…Although he had that strange behaviour towards me… I cannot help but feel sorry for him… I could feel tears start to flow from my eyes, and I ducked, laying my head on my paws…Sniffing and gently nuzzling his cheek , in a vain hope that he woke up…

…But deeply I knew…That he's gone.

"Why…Why, Wilson? Weren't we friends…Were we? " Bitter tears walked across my cheeks, full of grief and sorrow… I've lost a friend… I've lost… A brother.

I could hear Garth sighs from near me…But after that, he decided to… Hug me.

I was slightly shocked at first…But then I burst into tears, soaking probabily all of his fur. He said to me: "I know, I know… He was a friend of yours, but he was going to hurt you… And I, as one of the Alpha leaders of this pack, I cannot let that happen to anyone… Especially to a good fighter like you…" Then he smiles a bit.

I kept crying in his fur… Everything seemed so surreal. A moment before we played and joked…And now here I am, crying over a dead friend…

We stayed here for ten minutes, keeping wailing in his fur… While he was comforting me…

After that time, I wiped away the tears as best I could, since my paw was hurting like hell… He noticed my momentary difficulty to use my paw and asked me if I injured it.

I answered him back that I probabily broke it while falling from the cliff, in attempt to save Wilson's life…

He nodded and laid down, motioning me something I didn't clearly understand…He kept pointing on his back…

I tilted my head in confusion, asking him "Uhhh…What should I do?"

Garth rolled his eyes and said to me "Kiddo, you have to cling to my back, so I could climb that rocky wall…" He said, pointing to the high rocky wall in front of us.

I frowned a bit, but asked him worriedly: "Are you sure? Isn't dangerous carry me on your back while you're climbing?"

He gave me back a look full of safety and he said " Ha! Do you think that you can stop me? Nothing is able to stop Garth…Nothing! Stop kidding and hurry up and come here, boy!" He suddenly smiles and I nodded, visibly limping toward him.

I leaned on his back, trying to hold me to his neck with my good paw…

He stands up and began to say: "Ok…Now, let's do this!" And he began his search for a foothold to start the climb… Towards the others.