Chapter 8:

It was the next day, I woke up and decided to go tell Kate goodbye and good luck. I was only about 6 months old right now and this was the first day of winter and spring starts in three months. That's three months Kate will be gone, so I forced myself out of my den and started her way.

My den was on the very edge of the pack, Winston picked it out for me to live in. Winston found me unconscious near a river and took me to this pack called Jasper. This was a beautiful place with a large waterfall just outside of the pack, with flowers and vegetation stretched across the pack. My den was kinda alone, all the other dens were near Winston's den, all over there. He lived on a small mountain south of the howling rock, where every full moon, the males will ask the female to howl with them, then we all howl at midnight.

The hunting grounds of the pack is visible from his den, but it's still near the western pack. I was almost to Winston's den when his loyal friend stopped me. "Hey, Humphrey! where are you going?" Hunch asked me.

"I am going to speak to Kate before she leaves," I said back.

"Ok, but listen, little guy, Eves there to so watch what you say." He said. I just nodded and went on up, I perked around the den and saw her, Kate, looking off out into the pack.

"Hey Kate, are you nervous?" I asked as she jerked around.

"Humphrey? No, well... Maybe just a little." She said.

"You shouldn't be, I know you can do this, you'll be the best alpha this pack has ever had," I say, she looks at me and hugs me.

"Thanks, Humphrey." We just said here like this for a while until I heard whispering in the background.

"Isn't that sweet?" I heard Winston ask.

"A Little... Alright, paws off!" We let go of each other, "Kate, we need to go, we are already running behind." Eve said. Eve looks very much like Kate, but she was stronger and meaner. Not very many people in this pack like her personality, but everyone loves her and it seems Winston is the only one able to control her.

"Ok, bye Humphrey!" Kate yells before she leaves.

"Bye," I say back, but she was too far away to hear it.

"She's going to be a completely different wolf by spring, you know that Humphrey.?" Winston said.

"Ah! You scared me." I say.

"Your her size now but by the 3-month time span, she'll be larger and stronger than you. You being her only Omega friend, I'm surprised she hasn't already hit her growth spurt." He explains, even though I already knew this.

"Maybe I'm just a big Omega. Or I'm a small alpha!" I say.

"Your not an alpha and you never will be. When I found you that one night, you should have been healthy, but it looked like you haven't eaten for a week." Winston said.

"Ok, but could you just teach me the fighting? It could be like a hobby..."

"No..."

"Like karate or golfing."

"No! Humphrey, your either born an alpha or born an omega and that is that. It's the law of the pack." He explains.

"You say that about everything..." I started but was cut off.

"Alright kid, that's enough." Hunch said as he started carrying me off the mountain.

"What was that for?" I asked.

"I can't have you shouting and arguing with Winston." He said, "Just go play with your friends.

"Ok," I said, he was right, I shouldn't be arguing with the pack's leader. I don't know where my buddies are, but they're probably finding a log to do what we did yesterday.

Winston's POV:

"Hunch, do you think I should go talk to him?" I ask him.

"Yeah, you don't want him to hate you."

"He won't hate me... Will he?" I decided to go find Humphrey, I have a surprise for him he might like.

Humphrey's POV:

I was on my way to the hill we sled on yesterday, I could already see my friends halfway up, I was about to run to them until I was stopped by Winston.

"Humphrey!" Winston said.

"Huh, yeah?" I replied.

"I was thinking about what you said, I thought about it and I decided that..." He was saying before I cut him off.

"I can be an Alpha?!" I asked.

"Oh, no. But I have something you might like." He said, "Follow me." He started to walk away, and I followed him.

We were walking to the edge of the pack. "So where are you taking me?" I asked him.

"Be patient, Humphrey. We are almost there." He told me. We walked up to some tall grass and some bushes. "Walk through there," Winston said as he pointed to the bushes, I then went on in. On the other side was a large waterfall.

"Wow." Was all I said.

"Walk through the water." He said. I didn't know what he was showing me, but I trusted him and walked through the waterfall, only to enter a huge den, with a bunch of stuff in it.

"What is this?" I asked Winston as he enters.

"This will be Kate's den for when she moves out. I found it while scouting one day and since that, I have only shown it to 3 wolfs. Right now, it's my exercise den, I go here to stay in shape. I haven't been here in a while but I will let you come here anytime you want to exercise as a, like you said, hobby. Now I can't train you because your not an alpha, but you can just be a strong Omega. Now I got to go, explore if you like." He explained.

"Thank you, Winston," I said.

"You're welcome." He replied as he left.

Winston's POV:

I walked back to my den. Eve was back and Hunch was at the bottom of the hill. "What did you do?" He asked me.

"I showed him Kate's den," I said

"Why? That's your special place, I thought you didn't want Humphrey to be an Alpha."

"He won't be if I don't train him. Plus, he'll probably go there once and be done with it." I said as I walked in my den.

"Where have you been?" Eve asked.

"I was just... patrolling the borders, you know, leader stuff." I lied.

"Ok, hey, Kate's instructor said we need to visit once a month to check her progress," Eve stated.

"Ok, thats fine with me," I said as I curled up to take a nap.

Humphrey's POV:

It's the next day and I'm really sore in my legs and jaw for some reason. Probably from the exercise yesterday. I decided today I was going to take it easy and just go hang out with my friends, tomorrow, I'll go back.

I saw mooch outside my den. "Where were you yesterday?" He asked me.

"I was..." I stopped, I remember Winston telling me he only showed that den to 3 wolfs, so I didn't share that information with Mooch. "...Hanging out with Kate before she left."

"The whole day? I thought she left early in the morning." He said.

"She did, I was just sad when she left so I stayed in my den the rest of the day." I explained, and lied.

"Ok, hey, you want to get the others and go log sliding?!" He asked excitedly.

"You bet you I do!" I say as we ran to go get them, but I started to hurt from yesterday. "Hey, Mooch!" I shouted.

"Yeah, " He says as he stops.

"You got get Salty and Shakey, I'm going to get the log sled ready, " I said.

"Ok, I left it at the bottom of the hill." He told me as he ran off. I hope I can do this, my legs are killing me, it's going to be near impossible to push that log up that hill, especially by myself.

When I got to the log, I looked at it, then the hill, then I whispered to myself, Here we go.

So, how was this chapter? In the next one, Kate came back from alpha school, but then something shocking happens. (I bet everyone reading this knows what happens). Anyway, tell me what you think going to happen, and what you want to happen. Have a great rest of your day and...

Piece!

P.S.: The next chapter will be similar to the movie, but not the same.