Humphrey was the first one to feel a cold rush on his face, then the rest if his body. He couldn't see anything but a shade of blue and the surface above him, but he could hardly see anything with a force pushing him against his body to one direction. His body kept getting thrown around and spinning, not being able to see anything in one place for a brief second. He felt his breath becoming tighter and smaller as he tried his hardest to swim to the surface, not before passing a fish, which slammed right into his face.
Kicking as much as he could with all his might, until he finally threw his head out of the water and gasping for air. "Humphrey!" he turned around and saw Sebastian paddling with his paws to stat afloat several feet to his right. He then heard splashing and looked to see Garth paddling as well and gasping for air as well. They all fell from the cliff top, and he was glad, even for Garth, that they were alive.
High above back at the cliff edge, everyone looked down as the three wolves fell and landed, strangely, stomach first, into the water and being swept away by the river's current. "Come on, we got to get them out!" Katelyn dashed further down the cliff edge where she saw the cliff edge coming down and connecting to the river level. Kate just stood there looking at the river and it's ragging current. She kept looking at the river until her paws started to move and took her down to the bottom area of the cliff edge.
The three wolves continued to ride down the river, and couldn't figure a way out of the water. "Guys, I'm getting tired. My legs are getting tired" Humphrey pointed out as his legs were moving slower. "Humphrey, stay with us. You need to make it out alive for your family" Sebastian said kicking his legs back and forth. "I'm trying man, but my parents wouldn't be happy with where i am now" Humphrey responded with a thrust up and splashing his paws. "No Humphrey, for your other family" Sebastian pushed himself up as he spoke. "What other family?" Humphrey asked spitting out water slipping into his mouth. Sebastian got surprised by his response. "Humphrey, don't you know? Kate's. . ." Sebastian was cut off when something lightly hit him in the back of the head. He looked back to see the tree log from earlier had split open and now became a log board.
"Well would you look at that?" Sebastian said as he grabbed onto the side of the log and pulled himself up, where he was dripping in water from his neck down. The log was then moved over by the river current and near Humphrey, where Sebastian held out his paw as far as he could. "Come on bro, I got you!" Sebastian said, where Humphrey was about to grab his paw until something flashed in his mind, Sebastian was replaced with a smaller version of him, then it flashed back to the original Sebastian. "Humphrey get up, hurry" Garth said behind Humphrey before he managed to pick him up and toss him in for Sebastian to pull him in. Then Sebastian quickly grabs Garth's paw and pull him in. "Never thought I would see myself in here again" Garth said as he remembered what happened almost a week ago at the pack grounds.
Sebastian moved over to Humphrey, who was breathing rapidly. "Hey man, are you ok?" he asked placing a paw on his shoulder. Humphrey didn't answer and faced away from Sebastian.
"Guys!" Kate screamed from the river edge. They all turned around and saw the rest of the group running with the river on land to stay close with the three wolves. "We're fine, but we need a way to get onto shore!" Garth yelled.
"How do we get them out without drowning ourselves?" Ammy asked. Where this got Kate's attention and looked at her when she said 'Drown' before looking back at the river. "We got that covered!" Everyone heard Shakey said as he Salty, and Mooch ran over to a tree with a thick long branch hanging over the river and in front of the wolves. "Mooch" Salty said. "I got it" Mooch responded back, where he ran over to the tree branch and laid on top of it, making the branch bending down even further, close to the water.
Salty climbed over Mooch and ran about to the middle of the branch, where Shakey came in and crawled carefully to the near edge of the branch. The guys were coming in closer with the log, where Shakey held onto the branch with one paw, and held out his other.
"Hurry dude, the branch won't hold our weight very long" Salty said clinging into the branch as tight as he could. The log was Being pushed even closer, the guys saw the omega holding his paw. "There's no way we will all grab onto him at one time" Garth held as hard as he could to the log sides, where he was in front. "Hey, Alphas must follow rules, and the rules first say: Alpha First!" Sebastian then places his paws onto his shoulders and pushed Garth right into Shakey's paw, where strangely he managed to hold onto him as the others floated away on the log.
"one down. . ."Shakey said as he held onto Garth's paw while he grabbed onto the branch and climbed it upside down back to land.
"Two to go!" Shakey finished. He then climbed back off the tree with Salty and Mooch and joined the rest to save Sebastian and Humphrey.
"So now that Barf's saved, I got a way to save you and buddy" Sebastian turned around and looked at the two vines hanging from a tree branch hanging over the river. Sebastian got ready to jump by getting into the ounce stance. "Ready?" he asked Humphrey. "No" Humphrey answered in a scared tone. "Go!" Sebastian jumped and grabbed onto the vines with his teeth, just as everyone came to see him getting out of the water. "That's my mate everyone" Katelyn said happy for Sebastian's quick thinking. Sebastian then pulled himself up and climbed onto the branch hanging by his armpit area.
"Alright Humphrey, don't think about it. Just jump, and jump at the right moment" Sebastian shouted over the raging water Sounds.
Everyone quickly followed Humphrey along side the river as he got closer to a set of vines hanging Out. Humphrey started to think about to make it that high but he had little since he was only 10 feet away and closing in fast. "Alright, I hope your right Sebastian" Humphrey said to himself, crouching down and saw the vines right above him.
He jumped.
In a few seconds, Humphrey grabbed right onto the middle of the vines with his paws and pulled himself up. Just in time, everyone came to see him make it as the log was washed away. "Alright Humphrey, you made it!" Ice said as he cheered and everyone else joined. "Hey come on guys" Humphrey said in a teased mood. "I'm simply a handsome omega. . . ."
SNAP!
The vines holding his weight snapped, sending him back to the water, not before he was able to grab onto a string of the vines that was still connected to the branch. "Humphrey!" Kate cried.
The female alpha snapped into action and climbed onto the branch, clinging into the bark with her claws on her forelegs and hind legs. She pushed herself up and stop, pushed herself and stopped, and continued until she finally made it to the level of where Humphrey was hanging.
"Hang on Humphrey" Kate said as she slowly stepped on the branch towards her mate. "You know me, I like to hang around" Humphrey let out a chuckle. "Not funny Humphrey" Kate said, where she was just a few feet away from him.
But just as Kate was about grab onto Humphrey's paw, Kate took a good glance down at the river, which for her was a horrible flashback.
During her training at Alpha School, she was suppose to train on water and stalking prey using a river, but a recent accident where she almost drowned, her father had to rescue her along with some help from other students. She's been scared of raging water ever since. Raging waters gave her nightmares, she would drown and she couldn't swim back up to the surface no matter how much she swam.
No one knows about her fear until now. "Kate, help!" Humphrey yelled in fear as he was starting to slip off the vine.
Kate just looked at him while back at the river below her. She couldn't handle the fear and pressure anymore. I. . .I can't! I'm sorry!" Kate cried, just as the vine snapped.
Humphrey screamed loud, just before he landed on branch hanging out off the river. (how many times have I said branch) He slammed down hard, and was 2 feet away from the current. Humphrey looks to his left and saw Garth, Ice, and Sebastian holding a branch out broken off from a tree. They pulled him in on land, and Humphrey slipped off softly and landed on the grass, gasping for air and getting over the scary moment.
Kate was getting off the tree and climbed down just as everyone went to check on him. "Can you breathe well?" Ice asked putting a paw on his back of his shoulder. Humphrey nodded.
"Humphrey. . .Are you ok?" Kate asked, everyone giving her looks about her choice earlier. "Kate, why didn't you save me?" Humphrey said dropping his ears, the same look he gave her when she announced she was getting married to Garth. That shocking disappointed look.
"I. . . I. . ."Kate could only say. "I was almost about to die, you could've saved me right there, but you didn't!" Humphrey said with a more hurtful tone in him.
"I can't swim, alright?!" Kate responded with disappointment in herself. "I can't swim because I almost drowned when I was in Alpha school, when i saw the river, I froze. I got scared. I'm sorry!" Kate cried out with a tear rolling down her cheek.
"Kate, I saved you from a mudslide, from bears, and saved you from being stomped to death in a caribou stamped, and I'm not an Alpha. Your an Alpha and. . .you couldn't save me hanging from a branch?"Humphrey said.
Then it all came quiet.
"I'm sorry ok?! I'm sorry that I couldn't do one simple thing an Alpha could do, but most of all. . .I'm sorry that I'm your mate!" with that, Kate took off running along side the tree lines along the river and into the distance.
Kate was gone.
A/N: I know, not the best moment for this kind of story. But this is something I know Humphrey and Kate would run into, problems that tear them of their relationship. Don't worry, I won't keep them separated for long. Please if anyone out there that knows how Kate and Humphrey should act, let me know. Thank you. Oh great, now Sebastian is sleeping on the edge of the pillow, he's going to fall off any second. . .and he fell.
