Humphrey watched both packs clawing at each other. He wasn't surprised to see the Rogues losing the battle considering they lost so many wolves due to the war tactics used by the humans.
To be honest, Humphrey's group didn't even need to get down there and fight. All they do right now is talking about how amazing this strategy is. Humphrey turned his gaze slowly towards Kate who was standing there with a smile on her face as she watched them talking about it. Then, Humphrey gasped and felt his heart skip a beat.
He was in a perfect spot to see Kate's fur shining in the rising sunlight. If he brought a camera with him, he would totally take the opportunity to snap a photo of her. Humphrey started to form a smile on his face when he stared at her. He stood up and began walking towards her.
He was about to ask her what she's gonna do after she's done with her alpha duties until...he stopped walking. His eyes started to shake slightly. He had a memory that was not too long ago.
"If Humphrey stays here, in the freaking wilderness, he's gonna get killed by the hunters."
Humphrey started to back up. The more he thought about his decision, the more he reflected his memories back after he met Kate, and how she explained what humans are capable of.
"They can camouflage really well to the point where we won't be able to see them. We wolves believe that they are the only animal that always catches their prey, and here comes the scariest part. If they see you, or you see them. You're dead in second, and the last thing you heard is BANG. If you manage to get an injury from their attack and start running from them, they will always find you and get to you. It's like a curse."
Humphrey then sat down violently, and started to breathe in and out heavily. Kate noticed this, and start running towards him. She slid into a stop, and put her right paw on Humphrey's back before rubbing up and down slowly.
"Humphrey, what's wrong" she asked. Humphrey didn't respond to her. His chest felt heavy and his body started shaking a little bit. Then, he gasped. He realized what he is experiencing right now. Fear...
The fear that every wild animal is experiencing when it comes to humans. He remembered how scared Kate was when she told her story, and how nervous she is about facing her fear.
"Humphrey? Humphrey" Kate yelled at him while shaking his shoulder softly. Humphrey shook his head and looked at Kate in her eyes. He looked into her shaking concerned eyes. "Humphrey?"
"I'm sorry Kate" he apologized, laying his ears flat against his head. "I'm sorry...for making you worried." Kate shook her head with a smile before slowly wrapping her arms around him.
"It's okay Humphrey. It's okay" she replied softly. Humphrey hugged her back, and pressed his face against her right shoulder. Kate helped Humphrey up before looking at the rest of the group who was looking at Humphrey worriedly.
"I'll take Humphrey back to the territory. You guys stay here just in case something happen" Kate suggested. Everyone looked at each other before nodding their heads. Kate smiled, and started walking back to the territory with Humphrey leaning against her side. While they were walking, Kate turn her gaze at Humphrey who was looking at the ground. She now know that it has nothing to do with the incident earlier. She felt like she seen it before. She felt like she experienced before too, but when? She didn't want to bother him, but she couldn't bare the urge to ask him a question.
Kate sighed.
"Humphrey, can you tell me what's wrong" she asked softly. They both stopped walking, and Kate noticed that Humphrey was biting his own lip. "Humphrey?"
"I...I uhhh..." Before Humphrey can finish what he was trying to say, Kate put her paw on his left shoulder and gave him a smile.
"Just tell me a little bit. Okay" she said quietly. Humphrey smiled a little and nodded his head.
"It's just something about what me and my friends discuss..." he replied. Kate smiled and nodded her head. She didn't want to push his boundaries about what they are talking about considering that Humphrey didn't want to talk about. Whatever it was, it scared Humphrey.
Kate never ever saw Humphrey scared before. Whatever it was, it also scared her. Humphrey was the bravest wolf she knew in her life, and he would do anything crazy to save her life like he did during the mud slide. Kate shook her head, and they continued walking their way back.
It took several minutes for them to arrive at their territory. Kate looked to her side and saw Humphrey was about to fall asleep. She smiled as she stopped walking and bent down to let him sleep on his back. Humphrey then fell onto Kate's back gently before closing his eyes and went to sleep. Kate giggled when she saw his cute face on her shoulder.
"Goodnight" she said smiling lovely. She then stood up and continued walking down the path.
She looked up and saw Heather patrolling the borders. Micheal noticed it, and gasped when he saw her.
"Kate" he called her while running towards her. "Are you okay? I heard what happened?"
"Yeah I'm okay. Thanks to your brother with his brilliant plan to save me" Kate replied to her with a smile plastered on her face. Heather looked at Humphrey who was resting on her back. He began to smile.
"Well I suppose I'll escort you" Micheal suggested. Kate nodded her head, and they both began walking side by side as they headed towards Humphrey's den. When they arrived, Heather was the only one who was inside the den, sleeping on the floor. Kate walked deeper into the den before sliding Humphrey off her back gently. She turned around and smiled at him as she stared at his sleeping face.
"Well, I'm gonna head out. See ya" he said walking out of her sight. Kate continue staring down at Humphrey. She move her paw towards his back before stroking it. She then moved her face closer to his and blushed.
Kate closed her eyes and kissed his right cheek before pulling away and walked out of the den.
(Humphrey's Dream)
Humphrey was taking a walk with his family at the west side of the territory. It's been a long time for them to do this. Humphrey enjoys it a lot. It was so much fun talking with his family and catching up some stuff.
While they were walking, the area around them went dead silent. There are no animal activities around them such as frogs croaking or birds singing. Humphrey and his family looked at each other before shrugging their shoulders and continuing walking down the path. Humphrey didn't like this feeling at all. It feels like he's being watched by a ghost. He remembered Kate telling her story about her experience with humans, and the signs of humans are nearby. But the strange thing is that he couldn't smell any of them.
As they walked deeper into the forest, they started to pick up a smell. It smells like copper, and they all began to realize that they smelled blood.
Humphrey looked at his family who looked concerned. They had no idea what type of animal that was injured.
"Something's odd is going on out there" said Michael squinting his eyes.
"We need to be on high alert and investigate what's going on" Chrystal suggested. Everyone looked at each other and nodded their head before slowly walking towards the smell.
Heather started to get shivers. The forest has a really heavy feeling as they walk deeper into the forest. Whatever it was, it was a bad sign. This is a feeling that will put pressure on anyone else.
When they walked out of the bushes, they all gasped at the sight in front of them. There are three wolves lying on the ground in front of them with a crimson lake around them. Humphrey recognized them.
It was Salty, Shakey, and Mooch.
"Guys" he yelled. Humphrey was about to run up and check on them, but Salty slowly lifted his head up.
"H-Humphrey...D-D-Don't...come...any closer" he stuttered. "T-The M-Monster...is here-" As soon as he said that, a bullet whizzed from the right and made a gaping hole on the side of Salty's head.
"SALTY" Humphrey screamed before getting grabbed by Heather, and they ran back to where they came from.
"How?! HOW?! How can we not smell them" Michael asked.
"Keep running" Charley yelled. Humphrey's heart started hyperventilating. 'Is this the fear that Kate experienced before,' He wondered. Then, another bullet whizzed past him and hit Michael on the back of his head. Humphrey screamed as he watched his brother's life taken away. He stared back at his dead body with blood leaving his corpse. Humphrey started to lose the reason to live. His running pace slowly decreased while looking down at the ground, not caring about his life.
Chrystal then pushed Humphrey, giving him a sign to keep running. Humphrey snapped his thoughts as adrenaline started to flow through his body rapidly.
While he was running, he then heard gushing sounds right behind him, and didn't bother to look back considering he knew that his mom and his sister got hit. Within seconds, he felt a very sharp pain on his thigh as he screamed out in pain before rolling onto the ground.
He started to grab his leg gently and winced at the strong pain he's experiencing before looking up and froze. There, standing right above his sister was a human wearing camo clothing while holding Montana X3 hunting rifle with a scope. He then slowly turned his gaze at Humphrey with bright green eyes while putting bullets in his rifle.
Humphrey wasted no time laying there. He quickly stood up and started running away from him as fast as he could while fighting back the pain. He needs to warn the pack about the hunter. He's probably tracking him down.
If the hunter is able to reach the feeding grounds, it's over. They will never stand a chance against him, especially when he has Night vision. He ran about 20 minutes, and Humphrey then felt heavy footsteps coming right behind him. Humphrey almost fainted, and he feels so stupid.
He forgot that humans...can outrun almost any animal on this planet when it comes to long distances. The hunter started to gaining up on him, but instead of pulling out his rifle and shoot him. He ran past him, and then disappeared behind a tree.
Humphrey widened his eyes and started to look around for him, knowing that he could be anywhere.
Suddenly, Humphrey yelped. He began to roll onto the ground, and immediately stopped rolling when he felt his arm getting yanked. He looked down and saw his left paw getting crushed by a wolf trap. He tried desperately getting his paw out by opening the trap with his other paw.
"Humphrey?" Humphrey felt his heart skip a beat. He slowly looked to his right and saw Kate staring at him past the tree lines.
"KATE! RUN!" But it was too late. The hunter then appeared within the wind and aimed his rifle at her face.
During this morning, Kate was on her way to Humphrey's den, carrying food in her mouth. She can't help it but smile widely at the thought of meeting Humphrey again.
Before she could walk any further, Sweets, Candy, Brittney, Erica, and Lilac were in her way with a smile on their face. Kate didn't like where this was going. She had a feeling that they would tease her as usual, and embarrassed the hell out of her.
Kate slowly put the food down onto the ground, and started to smile at her friends nervously.
"H-hi girls" she greeted nervously. Candy only smiled and walked up to her before nudging her side.
"So...when are you gonna tell Humphrey about your feelings" Candy asked her. Kate widened her eyes before slowly looked down at the ground with blushing cheeks. She didn't plan when to confess her feelings. She's too shy to do so, and started to shuffle her paws together.
Candy giggled at the sight of her.
"You know, if you keep doing that and if Humphrey saw what you're doing. He will say 'Kate what are you doing? You look cute when you do that.' How will you react" she explained to her softly. Kate tensed up when she said that. It only made her sink to the ground with bright red cheeks that is showing through her fur.
"Please...stop" she said trying to force herself not to smile.
"Oh come on Kate. You need to confess your feelings to him or else, some other girl will steal him away from you" said Candy sternly. When she said that, Kate immediately stood up, almost hitting Candy in the face with her shoulder. She then took a deep breath before letting it all out.
"Alright, I'll think about it" she said acting seriously, but on the inside. She is nervous as hell.
Before anyone could talk, there was a loud scream coming from Humphrey's den, and Kate recognized who it belongs to. "Humphrey!" And with that, Kate swiftly grab the food and took off towards Humphrey's den.
As soon as she got to his den, Humphrey was curled in ball with all of his family member by his side, asking him what's wrong. Kate slowly approached him and noticed that he was shivering madly.
"Humphrey, what's wrong" she asked him softly. Humphrey didn't respond and continue whimpering fearfully. She sat down right next to him, and rub his back up and down.
She then bent down to his ears and started to whisper him softly.
"We can talk about this later when you're feeling okay." Humphrey slowly turn his gaze at her and nodded his head, making her smile a little. She waited on Humphrey for an hour long, which started to concern Kate.
Whatever it was, it send Humphrey in a traumatized state. Kate wanted to help him out with everything in her power in order to do so. She wanted Humphrey to be happy and spend his life out here in the wild. But for some reason, that kind of back fire when those dogs shows up.
Humphrey slowly stood up on his paws before walking out of the den with his tail between his legs. Kate gulped and slowly followed him outside. She saw him sat down and sighed.
"My friends. You know, those dogs before, told me something that I had never thought of before..." Humphrey started without looking back at her. Kate slowly walked up to him and sat down right next to him with concerned expression plastered on her face.
"They give me two choices. Either go back with them, and return where I was raised or stay here out in the wild, but there is one...*sigh* one thing that put a fear in their heart if I choose to stay here." Kate slowly started to widened her eyes. She knew what Humphrey was talking about, and it is certainly about the humans.
"If I choose to stay here, I will most likely gonna experience what you guys are going through and couldn't escape from it." Yep, he was talking about that.
"Is that what you're dream is about? Being hunted by them" Kate asked, making Humphrey gulped and nodded his head. He then put his head onto her shoulder, making Kate blushed when he did that. "H-Humphrey?"
"What am I gonna do Kate" he said sadly. Kate slowly pinned her ears against her head and wrap her right arm around him.
"We'll figure this out" she said softly before putting her head on top of his. Kate hated herself for doing this because she couldn't find a way to get Humphrey back where he came from, but she can't. She loves him soooo much.
In the middle of nowhere in Jasper, deep in the woods lies a trail where no animal have the balls to cross the trail. A f150 black truck slowly stop in the middle of the trail.
The doors opened up, revealing two figures. They started to put on the camo jacket and pants on before putting on their unique visions. One of them had bright neon green eyes while the other had pitch black eyes. The green eyed figure grab a Remington Model 870 while the other grab his compound bow and a bag. They looked into the depths of the forest before stepping in the tree lines. The hunt begins...now.
RUUUUUUNNN! Btw, there is a reason why I did not state specifically what I meant by unique visions. The colors of the eyes should be a hint for your answers. Also, I'm going to start a new story that I never thought of, and I was so jealous that NoRoleModelz has that idea before I do. We were planning to make a collab story, but for me as usual because I can't control my other side. I ask him for a permission if I could have that idea, and he said yes. I'm not gonna spoilish the story idea so, what did you guys think? What will happen next? I'm TheRavenMocker. Be a raven, mock the ravens. We'll see you guys on the next flight.
