Finally it's here chapter 4! I know it took long and I'm sorry for the wait but had small writers block, I want to thank The-crazy-lone-wolf77 for helping me with this chapter, other than that Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Hostage
Humphrey's Pov
"Y-y-you!" I said shaking in fear.
"Well we meet again" he said.
"W-what do you want from me" I asked backing up towards the back of my den.
"The less you know the better, now you can choose either the easy way or the hard way, doesn't matter to me" he said smiling.
I started to think and was about to howl for help when I saw Andy and Fay walk in with Kate on Andy's back.
"K-Kate?" I said tears starting to form in my eyes seeing her motionless on his back.
"Don't worry she's alive but that's if you come with me without causing us anymore problems" he said demandingly.
"I'll do anything just please, don't kill her" I said begging.
"That's how I like my hostages weak and pathetic" he said smirking.
"Andy put her down in the den" he said.
I saw Andy nod and he walked inside and set Kate down inside the den a small distance away from me, I was about to stand up and walk towards Kate but he growled and I just stood where I was.
"Now you will do as I say if you don't listen I will come back to finish you mate understood?" he said growling.
I nodded and looked over to Kate and noticed her tail slightly move which meant she was starting to regain consciousness and Andy noticed it.
"McCabe she's starting to wake up" he said sitting down next to Kate.
"Great this is only getting more amusing by the minute" he said smiling.
"Argh…what happened?" I heard Kate say as she started to regain consciousness.
"Kate you ok?" I asked making sure she was fine.
She was about to respond back but then she saw Andy, McCabe and Fay and she immediately went into a defensive stance and started growling towards them.
"If you don't leave now I will make sure you pay with your life" Kate growled fiercely towards McCabe.
I heard McCabe laugh before he gave a sign to Andy.
"Kate everything ok" I heard Garth yell from outside.
"Great looks like I get to have my revenge sooner than I thought" I heard McCabe say.
"Andy finish her off, I will deal with our new visitor" He said towards Andy.
I saw Andy crouch down and get ready to pounce on Kate, they were circling each other until Kate pounced but Andy easily dodged it and rammed Kate into her side which sent Kate flying into the den wall, Andy was heading towards Kate but I decided to take advantage and pounce on him to help Kate.
I pounced on him and bit into his right-back paw and kept it firmly in my jaws biting as hard as I could, I heard him yelp in pain and Kate stood up and rammed him, he fell on the ground but stood back up fairly quick.
"I was going to take it easy on you but now you've asked for it" He said growling.
"Kate what's all the-" Garth said running into the den but stopped as he saw us.
"GARTH BEHIND YOU" I yelled quickly.
Garth looked behind him just in time to dodge McCabe who tried to pounce on him from behind.
"McCabe" Garth growled fiercely going into defensive stance.
"This is going to be fun" was all he said before Garth pounced on him.
McCabe dodged Garths attempt and stayed on his spot.
"Is that all you've got" McCabe said smirking.
Garth turned around and pounced again but McCabe was expecting it and got low, right before Garth was about to land he stepped aside, unsheathed his claws and scratched Garth across his side before Garth could turn around and launch another attack McCabe ran full speed against Garths side, Garth fell to the ground gasping for air.
I looked over to Kate and Andy and saw Kate was losing she had scratch marks on her back and sides and was panting, Kate ran towards Andy but he just got low and pounced on Kate while she was running, Andy grabbed her left-back paw and bit down to which Kate yelped loudly and fell to the ground.
"Sleep well" Andy said before knocking Kate out by hitting her on the back of her neck.
My blood boiled with anger and I blindly pounced on him growling with my teeth bared but he easily countered my pounce and pinned me under him.
"Didn't think so" he said to me.
"I will tear you limb for limb and feed you to the bears" I said furious struggling trying to get free.
"Hah…sure you will, just in time for you to see your friend die" he said laughing lightly.
I looked towards where I last saw Garth lying and saw he was lying in a small puddle of his own blood with his neck in McCabe's jaws.
"Please take me I'll do whatever you ask me but don't kill him" I said with a few tears.
"He killed my parents and now I will revenge their death!" he said starting to put pressure.
I started thinking fast I needed to do something to save him before it was too late, he needs me so if I die he has nothing.
"If you kill him I will kill myself and then you got nothing" I said quickly hoping he would let go of Garth.
He stopped and did as I hoped, he let go of Garth, he grabbed Garth by the scruff with his jaws and threw him against the den wall head first then he walked back towards Garth.
"I will be back to finish you off" he said before knocking Garth out cold.
He started walking towards me, Andy let go of me and McCabe grabbed me by my scruff with his jaws and threw me outside of the den, I landed with a loud thud I saw him ran towards me and he punched me in the abdomen.
"You're lucky I need you or else I would have killed you when I first saw you" he said growling angrily.
I heard a howl that I recognized as Winston's howl.
"Great more fun coming our way" I heard McCabe say.
"What now McCabe? We have to get out of here before they come" I heard Andy say to McCabe.
"Andy knock him out and let's leave" he said towards Andy calmly.
I was dazed and disoriented from the hit and in a lot of pain, I saw Andy approach me.
"Sleep well" I heard him say before everything turned black…
McCabe's Pov
I heard Andy say 'sleep well' before he knocked out the grey wolf, I found it amusing every time I saw Andy knock out somebody.
"Why do you say that each time you knock out somebody Andy?" I asked him laughing a bit.
"Say what?" he asked me confused.
"Good bye, sleep well and so on" I said smiling.
"Oh…I don't know it's becoming a routine now I guess" he said smirking.
"Ha…well pick him up and let's leave before more company arrives" I said.
And with that said Andy put the small grey omega on his back and we ran into the woods where Fay was waiting for us.
"What took so long?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"No…the question is why did you decide to wait here?" I asked raising my voice.
"You know what you're doing is wrong, that wolf on Andy's back has nothing to do with this" she said in a silent growl.
"But you don't u-" I started but got cutoff by her growling.
"Don't give me that McCabe, I know more than enough to know that that wolf is just a regular wolf trying to live a normal life but you try to wolfnap him just so you can get your revenge on those that have hurt you in the past by making a deal with that monster from the north!" she yelled growling.
"Fay-" I said but got cutoff again.
"What did I ever see in you" she said angrily walking away.
Winston's POV
I was running to the northern side of the territory where Humphrey and Kate live, I had sent Garth twenty minutes ago to get Kate because she was gone for over ten minutes already while she said she would be back in a few minutes but now Garth hasn't returned either.
I howled but did not get a response so I decided to head out there with Hutch and a few alphas, we've been running for several minutes until we reached the den, the first thing I smelled was the smell of blood in the air, I ran inside of the den to see Kate lying on the den floor motionless and Garth at the back of the den also motionless in a puddle of blood.
"Kate" I yelled running up to her.
I looked at her side closely and saw she had several scratch marks on her side with a little blood coming out of them but nothing severe, I saw her breathing and was assured she would be fine.
"Cando" I yelled.
"Yes sir" I heard him say walking next to my side.
"Take Kate towards the healers den and wait there for me" I said standing up and heading towards Garth.
"Yes sir, you help me get her on my back" I heard him say addressing another alpha.
I walked next to Garth's side and saw he looked bad, he had three long cuts at his side that where bleeding, he had blood coming from bite marks around his neck and was breathing irregular.
"Hutch help me get Garth on my back he needs to get taken care of fast or he will not survive" I said to Hutch who was next to me.
I saw him nod and I crouched down so he could help me lift Gath on my back, once he was on my back I started running towards my den where Eve could attend to his wounds.
I have been running for several minutes and was going up the slope, once I got all the way up I ran inside where Eve was just sitting, she saw me with Garth on my back and gasped.
"Winston what happened" she asked me worried.
"I don't know Eve I saw him lying like that on the floor of Humphrey's den together with Kate-" I said but she cut me off.
"Oh no is Kate alright" she yelled worried.
I put a paw on her shoulder and looked up at her before saying "Eve don't worry Kate's fine she has only a few scratches".
I saw her nod and she calmed down before looking at Garth wounds.
"Winston get me a bowl of water, some large leaves, tree sap and blue berries" she said while still examining Garth's wounds.
I nodded and ran outside and saw Hutch waiting in front of the den, I motioned for him to come with me.
"Need me to help you find the items sir?" he asked running alongside me into the forest.
I nodded and we started searching, I couldn't help but wonder where Humphrey could be, he was not in his den so where could he be?
Fay's POV
I have been walking up front back towards the northern pack, we were walking for what felt like hours but actually was thirty minutes, the walk was in complete silence not that I did not like it, we still had to walk for several hours before we would reach the northern pack with that grey wolf, I felt bad for him why would a wolf as cute and nice as him need to be dragged into all this and why that monster of the north needed him for I do not know but McCabe has been so obsessed with revenge on those that have hurt him in the past that it's starting to get the best of him.
When I first saw him I immediately fell for him, his black fur with those red stripes in his fur that made him look great and oh those muscles made him look sexy, when I first met him he wasn't like this he was a lot calmer and open but all that changed when he decided to join the pack, he lived together with Andy alone in the forest for quite some time from what he told me but when he confessed his love for me he went to speak to the head alpha of the north and since then his behavior changed, he became serious and started talking about revenge to those who have hurt him in the past.
He once told me about his past, about his life in the western territory and about Andy's life in the eastern territory, he lived a happy life until his parents got killed but he never told me anything other than that as he would turn around and walk away every time I spoke about his past, I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Andy speak.
"McCabe he's waking up" he said stopping.
"Put him down" McCabe said.
I saw Andy crouch down and slowly letting him slide off his back on the ground, I looked to the grey wolf whose name I still did not know and saw his tail starting to move.
"Arg…" I heard him groan.
"Well hello sleepy head, had a good sleep?" I heard Andy say towards the grey wolf.
I saw him sit straight and rub his head, he started growling towards Andy who laughed at the wolf's reaction.
"Hah…no need to be so hostile" Andy said chuckling.
"Enough…we don't have time for games, you walk up front" he said growling towards the grey wolf.
He stopped growling and nodded, he passed me and I smelled his scent boy did he smell good.
Humphrey's POV
I was walking in complete silence, the other wolves close behind me, I started thinking back to Kate and Garth hoping they were ok, what do they need me for, why me I never asked for this, all I wanted was to live a happy life with Kate but now I get dragged into this, I thought back to the meeting I had with Winston and Tony, McCabe and Andy lived with us but I never noticed them before and why where they now heading towards the north and what did McCabe mean with he killed my parents when he was about to kill Garth, so many things I did not understand and so many unanswered questions but asking McCabe or Andy wasn't an option but that female wolf whose name was, I thought, Fay, she behaved differently from Andy and McCabe.
Why was she here, what was her purpose, she has been quiet most of the time, maybe if I could get her to talk she could give me answers to my questions but how, how am I going to get her to talk with these other two keeping an close eye on me, I stopped thinking as I saw we had reached an canyon, at the bottom of the canyon there is a fast running river.
"There's a fallen tree over there, we could use it to get to the other side" I heard McCabe say.
We walked towards the fallen tree, once we arrived McCabe motioned for me to go first, I looked down the canyon again and started to backup as I was afraid of heights.
"What's wrong" McCabe said growling.
"I'm afraid of heights" I said to which he laughed loudly.
"Hah…I'll go first then since you're too much of a baby" he said.
He stepped on the tree and started making his way to the other side with Andy a distance behind him, I saw the tree shift a bit and make cracking sounds as they made their way to the other side, once they reached the other side he yelled over to me and Fay.
"See wasn't that hard, you go first and Fay you go behind him to make sure he doesn't make a run for it, not that he will make it far if he does so anyways" he yelled over to us.
I started making my way on the tree shaking with fear as I slowly made my way towards the other side with Fay close behind me, I looked down and unsheathed my claws and I just grabbed hold of the tree tightly as I froze up in fear.
"Don't look down" I heard Fay say behind me.
"I'm going to die" I just yelled back still holding the tree with my claws.
"Relax, take a deep breath and go step by step, slowly" I heard her say in a soft voice.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, I opened my eyes again and slowly retracted my claws and started walking towards the other side.
"Good slow and steady, whatever you do don't look down" I heard her say.
I suddenly felt a strong wind and the tree shifted a bit, I grabbed hold of the tree before I could fall off.
"RUN" I heard Fay yell behind me and I didn't think twice as I started running towards the other side.
We almost made it to the other side when I felt another powerful wind push the tree, the tree fell down but McCabe was able to grab me by the scruff before I could fall down, I yelped in pain as I felt something hurt my tail, I looked down and saw Fay holding on my tail with her jaws.
"Andy quick help me pull them up" I heard McCabe yell.
But before Andy even got the time I slipped from McCabe's grasp and started falling down towards the fast moving river, I closed my eyes and prepared myself for the impact with the water, I took a deep breath right before I felt I hit the river and everything went black…
Chapter redone, Humphrey d Omega.