Chrystal and Charlie watched their son as he walked through the crowds. Humphrey had never ever seen this kind of way to unite the packs. Forcing people to spend their lives with a stranger is completely wrong. What if they fell in love with someone way before this? He felt like this is not even the right way to do it.
He finally got through the crowds and glared at the two leaders.
"Sir, is it okay if I say something to you guys" asked Humphrey calmly.
"Yeah sure, what do you have in your mind" Winston responded. Humphrey sighed and looked at Kate, and this bright reddish wolf named Garth looked very sadden by this.
He knew that this is the right time to say this.
"Soo, you're planning to get your daughter married. Is that correct?" Winston nodded his head and it almost made Humphrey growled because he can't believe it's actually true. "Is there another way? Or have you ever thought about your daughter's life and how will it affect her?" Everyone in the pack widened their eyes at Humphrey's statement.
It made Humphrey smiled knowing the fact that it is wrong to put someone's love on the hands of a stranger that they hardly knew or ever fall in love with. Not only that, it should put some sense into them.
Then, Tony started to laugh as he walked up to him.
"Ha, that's a funny joke you little omega. There is no other way. The only way is to have the offspring of the leader getting marry to another. Besides, it is their responsibility to save both packs from starving." Most wolves started to agree with him, but Humphrey shook his head while he chuckled.
"Well you look more like a bad father to your son then. What if he falls in love with someone else and wanted to be with her? Do you really want to make your son unhappy or what?" This question caught him off guard. He didn't really expect that, which only made Humphrey's smile bigger. "Go on and ask your son." They both looked at Garth and Garth had a little smile on his face.
Tony walked up to him and sighed.
"Garth...Do you have anyone that you like" he asked him. Garth looked around and only set his eyes on Lilly. He knew what will happen if he said yes.
His father would probably asked who, and the only thing that feared him the most is the fact that if he said he's in love with an omega; he will surely separate between both of them where they are not allowed to see each other. He gulped and said nothing else.
Winston then looked at Kate and asked the same question. The only problem about her is...she wasn't sure if she fell in love with him or had a crush on him. It's either one of those two, but she does have feelings for him.
This wolf is no other than Humphrey. The one that save her like most of the times and change her point of view towards humans. She was surprised the fact that she had feelings for someone who she only met for four days.
Kate wasn't sure if she should rely on her responsibilities or not, but she knew she will broke the biggest pack law in history. Pretty sure most of the wolves in the pack will consider him as an omega.
Kate didn't respond cause she was too scared what will people think of her. Tony smiled and looked at Humphrey.
"See. None of them respond, so they have a responsibility. I suggest you to get out of our way or else we will think of a punishment for you." Humphrey realized that he completely forgot about Kate's story when she encounter with a human. He remember the consequences when you attack a human's pet.
He smiled and glared at Tony.
"I would like to see you try and see what will happen" he said feeling extremely confident.
Kate widened her eyes knowing what's going to happen if Tony actually going to injure or kill Humphrey. If he did, she can imagine a human will literally pop out of nowhere and then obliterated everyone else in sight.
Kate jumped into action and started pushing Humphrey away from the crowds.
"Kate, what are you doing" Eve growled at her angrily when she saw her touching him.
"Don't worry mom, I just need to...to uhhh...explain some stuff with him" she replied smiling nervously. They watched at them very confuse on what's going on between both of them.
Humphrey continue to glared at Tony until he was out of sight when they disappeared in the bushes. "Humphrey I gotta tell you something" she said shuffling her paws.
"Yeah sure what is it" he asked her softly.
"You really need to hide your identity or who you actually are. Don't give them any clues that is related to human kind of stuff. They will get really suspicious about it" Kate explained as Humphrey stared into her eyes. He didn't have a chance to tell her how beautiful she is or if he wants to tell her about his feelings about her.
For the past four days, he didn't really expected that he started developing feelings for her. Kate started notice that he was staring at her, making her blushed madly.
"Ummm Humphrey, what are you staring at" she asked very softly.
"Well...Kate...I was just um..." He still have his eyes locked on her, and so did Kate. They continue to locked their eyes for a minute before the rustling of the bushes interrupted their gaze.
"Kate, I want to know what is going on here" shouted Eve as she came through the bushes like its nothing.
"N-Nothing mom I swear, I was just explaining to Humphrey what's going on" she lied while smiling.
"You sure" Eve asked another question while squinting her eyes.
"Yeah yeah I'm sure. There's nothing happening here" Kate claimed as she push her mother away from him. Humphrey tilted his head to the other side before seeing Charlie and Chrystal coming through the bushes.
"What was that about" his mother questioned him.
"Oh uhh, nothing important" he replied to her smiling nervously. 'Great, tomorrow is gonna be one of a nightmare in my life time.'
The next morning, Kate was getting ready for her "wedding." She stared down at the hunting grounds and notice a lot of wolves gathering up around the wedding rock. Lilly was right behind her combing her tail with a pine cone.
"Wow...that's a big crowd" she said smiling a little.
"Yeah...good times" Lilly mumbled before continuing her job.
"So I heard you and Garth had spend some time together." Lilly immediately tugged Kate's tail when she said that. "Ow...Lilly" she winced when she looked at her.
"Sorry" she apologized.
"I'm sure he's perfect material" said Kate sarcastically. Lilly immediately straighten her back up and growled as she crunch the pine cone into bits of pieces.
"Well if you like that sort of thing " She stated before spitting out the pieces that was left in her mouth. "Big...Brawny...Perfect" she said dreamily.
"Hm." Then, Kate noticed something about Lilly's mane. "Lilly you have your fur back."
"Sorry. Ugh, I know" said Lilly sadly as she messed her mane up again before walking into the den.
"But...I like it" she said walking towards her until Winston walked up the slope.
"Are you ready Kate" he asked. Kate sighed and only nodded her head. Today is the big day for her to get married and unite the packs. She thought about what Humphrey said. The way he said was a true peace talk. More like a true omega because omegas are known to break fights. But he is very much likely different from the others.
It seems like he knows a different way besides marriage; and the way he looked at her looks like he wanted to save her. Then, she realized something. Humphrey must've got the idea from "them."
"Kate...Kate" Winston called out and Kate snapped out of her thoughts. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah...I'm fine" she said walking past by him. When she reach at the bottom of the slope, she was greeted by Humphrey who was holding a flower with his mouth. "Oh...hey Humphrey."
"Hey Kate. Just thought of something that I should add to your beauty you know" he said putting it behind her ear and onto her mane. Kate walked over to a small pond to look at her reflection. The flower was bright purple mixed in with pink. She smiled dreamily and slowly gazed at Humphrey.
"Thank you." Humphrey sat down in front of her and sighed.
"So do you think you can help me get home. You know, getting back with my..." Kate widened her eyes when he said that. She looked over at his family, and realized that he wanted to leave.
"But...you have a family here."
"I know. But I think it's best for me to return to my dad who raise me. I'm pretty sure he's worried sick about me. You didn't want him to roam around the forest and frighten this pack right."
"Yeah...I...guess so."
"Kate. It's time to go" her mother called out. Kate sighed and stood up as she walked towards her mother. She looked back at Humphrey and noticed that he was staring at the ground. It looks like Humphrey was sad about something.
It made her ears laid flat against her head and continue to walked down the hill with her mother.
When they all are at the bottom, Kate continue to stared down at the ground. She felt like what she is doing right now is wrong. In fact, Humphrey was right. She does have feelings for someone else, and it's him. She looked back at the group and noticed Humphrey was falling behind. He was doing the same thing and locked eyes with her. Kate can see a little bit of tears in his eyes, which makes her drop her head and gazed down at the ground again.
She noticed that they were getting close to the wedding rock, making her look up and plastered her fake smile on her face as she increased her pace.
She met with Garth at the wedding rock. Tony walked over to Winston.
"Tony" he greeted him and Tony greeted him back with a nod before sitting down right next to him.
"So...Uhhh...You ready to do this" Garth asked Kate nervously.
Kate chuckled before saying "Yes."
"Good." Garth looked over her shoulder and stared at Lilly.
"Are you okay" Kate asked him smiling nervously.
"Haha you bet. No paws on this end. Ready to go go go" he said crouching down and notice his dad is telling him to get him and start the wedding. He did what he was told to. "So you want to start this thing or me?"
"We'll start together" Kate suggested.
"Start together." And with that, they both took a step to the side to take in each other's scent.
"So what's happening" Humphrey heard from his left and saw three wolves. Two wolves were holding support for the other one as he watched over the crowds.
"They're accepting each other's scent" said the wolf on top. "Oh OH and now the nibble on the ears." Humphrey looked at Kate and noticed that they finished nibbling each other's ears. Humphrey can't take it anymore. He stood up and walked away leaving his family behind.
Chrystal looked behind and saw him walking away.
"Humphrey where are you going" she asked him, but he didn't say anything back to her.
The wolf that was on top of his two best friend gasped.
"And finally they will rub noses...to symbolized that they are...mates" He started crying on someone's tail before she yanked her tail back and the wolf realized who's tail that was. He chuckled nervously before focusing his attention back to the wedding.
Kate and Garth slowly leaned forward, and Lilly started to sniffle as tears start to sting her eyes. They got closer and closer before Kate widened her eyes when she realized something. She immediately pulled her head back and Garth sniffed before reaching his paw out to see if Kate is there, but she's not.
Garth opened his eyes and saw Kate was backing up.
"Kate...what are you doing" he asked.
"I..." Kate looked back at her parents and they were confused by her actions. "I...can't." The crowds were shocked at what they just witnessed.
"You can't HEHEH" Garth realized that Kate was looking at him weird, and he needs to composure himself. "I mean, you can't."
"What is this Winston? Why can't she marry Garth" he asked angrily.
"Quiet" Winston commanded as he walked over to Kate. "Kate Kate, why can't you marry Garth?"
"Because...I...hehe...I uhhh..." Kate wasn't sure how to respond this. She wasn't sure if she should called Humphrey an omega, but she decided to go with it since it fits him perfectly. She slowly looked at his father nervously. "Fell in love with an omega."
"AN OMEGAN" Winston was shocked by Kate's response. Eve gasped so hard that she fainted. Winston didn't know that his daughter falls in love with an omega. In fact, she didn't even see her hanging out with any omega when she was a pup. But the fact that she just admitted that she is in love with an omega, he had no words to say.
Then, Tony started laughing as he walked up to the wedding rock.
"An alpha falling in love with an omega. That's against pack law" he demanded.
"Dad." They all looked at Garth, and Garth had a huge smile on his face. "I also am in love with an omega" he confessed as he walked towards Lilly. Lilly gasped and smiled at him.
"WHAT" Tony yelled making Humphrey looked back. He was almost at the top of the hill until he heard a lot of commotions. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SON WINSTON?!"
"An Omegan? Alpha and Omega" he asked not believing himself what just happened. Eve slowly stood up as she grabbed her mate' shoulder for support. "Eve...help me out." Eve then fainted again, and Winston immediately looked at Tony.
Tony growled along with the Eastern pack.
"This...is madness! This isn't our custom. This isn't our way" he demanded angrily. "TAKE THE VALLEY!" Wolves from both sides start charging in as they fight in the middle.
Humphrey widened his eyes on what he just witnessed today. He started to growled when he saw Kate was trapped in the middle of it. As much as he hate it and regretting what he is about to do, the only thing he can is to alert his human dad. Just then, he heard a lot of rumbling sounds from the north.
"STAMPEDE! STAMPEDE" Kate yelled.
"EVERYBODY! RUN" Winston screamed.
"TO THE SIDE OF THE VALLEY" Tony commanded everyone. Everyone ran to the side of the valley and watched the stampede of caribou plowing through the valley. Winston and Tony ran to the Western side until Tony's back cracked and he whimpered. Winston looked back and ran after him.
"This darn disk in my back" he complained. Winston raised his paw up high before slamming it down on Tony's back. Tony immediately straighten his back up along with a loud crack.
"Come on" he said continue running to the west side until a Caribou push him. Winston and Tony looked around and notice that they are at the front of the stampede.
Kate ran up the western hill side as fast as she can. The flower came out of her mane and she stopped at the top of the hill and gasped.
"Oh no. They're trapped" she said. She looked forward and saw Humphrey. "Humphrey." Humphrey looked to his left and notice Kate running up to him.
"We need to help them" she claimed pointing down at the valley. Humphrey noticed the leaders were running fast as they can to outrun the caribous but it was no use. "WHAT DO WE DO" Kate screamed when she saw a caribou gaining on Winston.
'What will humans do when it comes to this situation' Humphrey asked himself in his mind. The only thing he thought is when they made that thunderous ear splitting bang to scare off any animals...but then...he remembered something.
"Well, I don't know Humphrey. We might need to go back and ask my parents about it. But first, we need to get rid of that collar" she said nipping on it.
"H-How did you know what it is" he asked nervously while blushing on what she is doing.
"My teacher told me" she said smiling a little before she struggled to get the collar out.
"Why are you taking it off?"
"Because it has human scent. So if my pack start to smell it, they will literally freak out."
Humphrey widened his eyes. He then ran into the forest and Kate followed him.
"Humphrey where are you going" she asked.
"Getting my collar."
"Why?"
"Remember what you said about my collar having a human scent."
"Yeah."
"If we bring it near to the valley, the stampede will literally scatter to places and avoid hurting your dad."
"Wait what? Are you sure that's gonna happen?"
"Oh I'm sure Kate." They both ran as fast as they can to the other side of the mountain where he left his collar. Humphrey saw a red collar and smiled. He ran faster and faster until he grabbed and they both ran back.
"Kate. Keep an eye out on your dad and keep telling him to run as long as possible" he mumbled. Kate nodded her head and increased her pace. She felt like her heart was about to burst out of her chest. She ran even faster and began to feel the burn of her legs. When she got there, she widened her eyes and noticed that the stampede was literally right on their tail.
"HUMPHREY PLEASE RUN FASTER PLEASE" she begged him loudly as possible for him to hear it. She desperately waited for him and hopefully she caught a scent of him and his collar...and she did.
The stampede immediately stopped when the scent strike them in a blink of an eye. Everyone smelled that scent. The forest got completely silent. Kate looked around and saw the fear in everyone's eyes. She can't blame them. This pattern is always been the same ever since they start terrorizing every animal. Especially Bears and Cougars.
Kate heard one of the story that one of the wolves heard from them. There's a female adult Cougar and she was on a hunt to get food for her cubs. When she spotted a human with its back facing towards her, she immediately charges at the human. But unfortunately, she didn't see what was coming.
Out of nowhere, this human transformed its hand to a large claw like its nothing and stabbed her in her rib cage with her cubs watching from the bushes. Every time when she heard this story, it made her shiver.
They can't see them if they have any claws, or teeth, but the fact that they can transform their hand to a one long thick claw and kill their prey from a distance with a strange object of theirs is what made them afraid.
Kate snapped her thoughts back to reality when she heard a lot of commotion down at the valley and saw a lot of caribous panicked.
"WHERE IS THE MONSTER" one of them yelled looking around.
"He could be anywhere..." Then, they start to hear jiggling sounds. Kate smiled and knew it was Humphrey's collar making that.
"SCATTER" one of them shouted, and they went all over the places avoiding hitting Winston and Tony. Humphrey ran out of the forest line and noticed that there are no caribous in sight.
"Huh..where'd they go" he asked. Kate widened her smile and walked over to him before hugging him. Humphrey widened his eyes before smiling and hugged her back.
"Kate what's going on" her mother asked as she walked up to them. Kate immediately broke the embrace and took away Humphrey's collar out of his mouth and into the pond. Humphrey let out a hollow gasp as he stared at the pond.
"Nothing mom" she said smiling. Eve raised one of her eye brow before shrugging her shoulders and walked away. Kate looked over at Humphrey and nudged him a little bit. "Don't worry. I mean if you want to dig a hole and cover it up and marked it. You can."
"Alright, I'll just dig a hole next to my parents den" he replied running towards the water and grabbed his collar before running to his parent's den.
Kate sighed dreamily as she stared at Humphrey.
"Ooooo I think I know who it is" said a voice. Kate gasped and turn around to see Sweets and Candy smiling their faces off.
"N-No it's not him I promised" she claimed nervously as she began to blushed madly.
"Then why are you blushing" Sweets asked her. Kate couldn't handle it anymore. She starts running to her parent's den screaming in embarrassment. The girls started laughing before walking away. When she got there panting heavily, she looked around and saw Humphrey digging a hole. She then sighed and watched him before going inside the den.
Meanwhile in the middle of Jasper's campsite, a Dutch Shepherd was watching a human freaking out about Humphrey. Then, out of nowhere, Jade tackled the Dutch Shepherd with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"WE NEED TO FIND HIM SARGENT!" she screamed fearfully.
"Okay okay, but we need to figure it out where he is. If my dad is here, we would've find him by now" he said. Sargent's father broke his femur while chasing after a criminal, and it went badly as the criminal turned around and start beating him up until they have to shot him down when it grabbed his duty pistol.
"Ugh, I'm so worried about him."
"Jade, we got Kiana okay. Me and her will find him eventually."
"What are you guys talking about" a female voice asked.
"Oh hey Kiana" Sargent greeted her with a smile. Kiana is a Karelian Bear Dog with bright brown eyes. "We were just talking about finding Humphrey."
"Oh...poor him. He must be scared out there" she said.
"That's what I'm saying like it makes my stomach sick just thinking about it" Jade added while she held her stomach.
"Holy cow what's up with the commotion." A Kangal walked out of the truck and stood beside them.
"Oh hey what's up Hummer. How's your day" Kiana asked him.
"Oh it went good till my dad is too damn busy working out" he replied as he looked over and watched him doing bench press with a huge log. Suddenly, there was a gust of wind and Sargent caught a whiff of Humphrey's scent.
"Okay, we need everyone here. Where are they" Sargent questioned.
"Max is currently eating his dinner. The siblings are playing a game of tag, and Storm and Lightning are having a race" Hummer responded to him.
"Tell them to come over here." Hummer nodded his head and he did what he was told to do so. Max is an Alaskan Malamute with electrical yellow eyes. The siblings are Siberian Huskies. Titan is the oldest one. His fur markings are really unique, and it looks like he was wearing a mask for his eyes, but had white eye brows on it with blue electrical eyes.
Ace is the second oldest. He had all white fur and icy blue eyes. Sky is the oldest sister. She had black and white fur with brown eyes. Then, there's Jacky, the youngest brother in the family with a unique fur marking as well except it looks like he is wearing a mask without the eyebrows. Remy and Kylie are twin sisters and the youngest one in the family. They both had black and white fur with white tips on their ears, and legs.
Storm is a female Gray Hounds, and Lighting is a male Gray Hounds as well. They are somewhat brother and sisters but they are not related. Storm has hazel eyes and Lightning has yellow eyes.
"So, why are we here" Storm asked Sargent.
"Well I've been thinking that we should sneak out and find Humphrey" he suggested and everyone gasped.
"Dude that is way to damn dangerous" said Titan.
"Yeah, and how are we suppose to know where do we come from" Lightning added.
"And how are we gonna find Humphrey" Sky asked.
"Well...we got Hummer. His biological parents are known to kill wolves one on one, and maybe three of them. We have Kiana. She has really good reactions and give a bear or a cougar a hard time to strike her. We got you guys" he said pointing at the huskies. "You guys can empower them with numbers. Max looks like a wolf and strong as them. Storm and Lightning can outrun them and alert our parents."
Everyone widened their eyes when Sargent give them about their advantages in the wild.
"But what about you" Jade asked.
"Well you all know of my stories before I became a police dog. I'm pretty sure wolves, bears, and cougars are an easy enemy. Only humans will give me a hard time to fight." Everyone smiled and agreed about his plan.
"Okay, tomorrow at night. We'll sneak out and find Humphrey."
THINGS ABOUT TO GET LIT OMG. So, I wanna to explain about the inspiration of Sargent's character. I got the inspiration from Riley the dog from Call of Duty Ghost, and Levi from Attack on Titan. I want to make a chapter of him being a badass character. Same thing with the other dogs as well. Probably somewhere in Chapter 12 or 20. So far, I am not having any satisfaction to write this story because I want to keep on making and publishing amazing chapters for this story lol. I promise I will focus on writing chapter for other story for now on. What did you guys think? What will happen next? I'm TheRavenMocker. Be a raven, mock the ravens. AND WE'LL SEE YOU GUYS ON THE NEXT FLIGHT!
