Chapter 12:

I've only been lying down for a little while now and I've already eaten my food, but I was still hungry. Kate was gone and I needed food, the only way to do this was to get it myself, but can I hunt?

Winston told me I had alpha instincts but I have also had zero training. I decided to just go catch a rabbit if I succeed, I eat and if I fail, I have no chance of getting hurt. I walked out of my den and I wasn't long before I saw my prey. "Perfect," I told myself as I crept up on it.

Kate's POV:

We were running back to the den, Marcel, and Paddy by my side. "So what exactly happened?" Marcel asked.

"I don't know, I just went to catch some food and when I came back he was as stiff as a rock and he wasn't breathing!" I told them.

"Did you check for a pulse?" Paddy asked.

"No, when he wasn't breathing, that was enough for me to go get help," I explained to them.

"Where is he at?" Marcel asked as we reached the den.

"He's just in here." I say as I walk into an empty den, "Oh, crap. Where is he?" I asked all I saw was rabbit remains on the ground.

"Well, Kate, he must be alive if he was able to eat that." He said.

"Or, he could have been kidnapped," I say.

"He wasn't, he probably just went to find you. But if you want to leave here, the train will be here in 2 hours. If you want to go, you need to find him soon." He explained.

"Ok, well hey, you guys look for him in the sky, I'll stay here in case he comes back," I told them, they agreed and flew off. I hope Humphrey comes back, and I really hope he isn't dead.

Humphrey's POV:

I was on my way back to the den with a rabbit in my mouth, I caught this thing fairly easy. I looked up to see Marcel and Paddy flying up in the sky.

"Hey, guys!" I shout to them, they quickly flew down and stood next to me.

"Humphrey? You look totally fine, Kate had me worried." Marcel said.

"Yes, I'm fine..." I say as I let out a chuckle, "...why?"

"Kate told us you weren't breathing, but when you got to your den, you weren't there," Paddy answered.

"I was fine, I just, sleep really softly. Kate left me some food, but I was still hungry. So I went out to catch this." I say pointing to the animal.

"Ok, that makes sense..." He said as he looked at me strangely.

"What?" I asked.

"Are you walking?" He asked, crap! I completely forgot that I had a broken leg.

"Umm..." I started to think of what to say, how can one go from a shattered leg to a healed on in a day? "Yeah, why?" I asked.

"I fixed you up a little yesterday but I didn't think it worked that well," Marcel said.

"Sure it did, I've never felt better!" I told him.

"Ok, it doesn't matter, all that matters is that we get you back to the den. The train is 90 minutes away and Kate is waiting for you." He tells me as I pick up the rabbit and we make our way towards the den.

Kate's POV:

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" I told myself, it has been at least 10 minutes and Humphrey is still not here. I finally decided that I needed to reach the train. If he is fine he should find he way to me, and even if he can't then the two birds could show him the way.

I left then den and started walking towards the mountain. I can remember Marcel telling me that the tracks are at the bottom of the other side of the mountain. It didn't seem that far away, I could get there by walking assuming I don't run into any problems I should be fine.

I wasn't paying attention and I ran straight into a tree. "Ow!" I shout in pain as I back away, but this gave me an idea. I leaned against the tree and started to claw and scratch it, leaving marks on it and my scent. If Humphrey was to follow me, I left him a visual and non-visual trail to follow. Every tree I can across on my way I proceed to do the same thing, hoping he would follow.

Humphrey's POV:

We were almost at the den, Marcel, and paddy right behind me.

"So, what are you guys going to do once you make it back?" I hear one of them ask.

"I'll probably go back to my normal routine and kate will go marry Garth." When I said that, Marcel flew in front of me and stopped me in my tracks.

"Woah, Woah, Woah!" He started, "I thought you two were love birds, or wolves technically." I laughed when he said that.

"Well you, thought wrong," I told him while grinning as i started to walk, but only to be stopped again.

"Come on Humphrey, I see the way you eye her."

"You're crazy," I tell him, i continued walking.

"Humphrey, don't you tell me you don't feel anything towards her. I can see it in your eyes." He says.

"Well, it doesn't matter if i do, she has to get back and marry Garth to unite the packs," I explain to him, and he just smiled at me. "What?"

"Well, i would at least tell her how you feel." He says.

"I told you, she has to..." He cut me off.

"Marry Garth, I know, I know. But, you never denied that you had feelings." He said as he flew off into the air, and as I started to say something, no words left my mouth. I just walked down the path to woods has created us, and since our talk, i couldn't get Late off my mind, until i realized Paddy wasn't here.

"Hey!" I shout up to him, and he flew down.

"Yes, my furry friend?" He replied.

"Where are we going, and where is Paddy?" I ask.

"To the train." He answered.

"What? I thought we were going to Kate."

"We were, but we wouldn't be able to make it there in time, so i sent Paddy to tell Kate to head on down to the train and we will meet her there." He says.

"When was this?" I ask.

"About 30 minutes ago." He replied, "He should be back any time now." He says as he flies back into the air.

Kate's POV:

I was on my way up the hill, there weren't any trees around, I'm sure he could find a way to the train from here anyway.

It wasn't much further from here, I looked back to see parcel flying up in the air. I assume he's coming to me. I was almost to the top when I ran strain into a large rock. Only to find out that it was a bear.

"Oh no!" I said as I backed up and got low to the ground. The grizzly looked dead at me and let out his deepest and loudest roar.

"Rarrrrr!"

Humphrey's POV:

"Humphrey!" I hear paddy say, just as he and Marcel land next to me.

"What is it?" I ask.

"Kate wasn't at the den." He said.

"Where could she be?" Marcel asked.

"I don't know, fly up and look around for her," I tell him as I and paddy wait on the ground. We can see him looking, but no luck. That's until we hear a roar echo throughout the trees.

"Uh, Marcel, what was that?" I ask as he lands.

"I found Kate." He said worriedly.

"Well, where is she!" I said.

"On top of the mountain, about to get ripped apart by some bears."

"What!?" I and Paddy say at the same time.

"We got to help her, let's go," I say as I start running.

"Wait, wait, wait..." He starts flying beside me, "...what is our plan?"

"I... don't know, I think of it when I'm there," I reply as I continued to run up this mountain. It was only a matter of time before I found Kate. She was cornered by three bears, backing up away from them.

"Humphrey!?" I hear he say as she looked at me, but taking her eyes off the beast might have been her fatal mistake. The bear raised its paw and clawed Kate on the cheek, sending her flying my way.

"KATE!" I shout as I see her lying next to me, but what I did next was a blur, it feels like I fainted when the world around me turned red.

Kate's POV:

I tried to get back up, but could not, I thought this might be the end. I just watched as I saw Humphrey try to fight them off, the two birds landed next to me to see if I was ok. My vision was going in and out and my hearing was gone. I just watched as an Omega tried to take on the bears.

He walked up the first one, the smallest of them, and he waited for its attack. It tried to do the same thing as it did to me but missed, and when he missed, Humphrey jumped on it's back and sunk his teeth into the right side of his neck as he swung his body to the left side. He tried to shake him loose, but could not. Humphrey, while still holding on with his teeth, jumped off the bear and pulled the bear's neck to the ground in a quick motion. When he pulled the right side of its neck to the left, and further down, this broke his neck, killing the bear. How did he do that, I have never seen any wolf bring down a bear, let alone an omega!

He made his way to the second bear. My hearing was getting a little better. I could here parcel mumbling something, but could not tell what he was saying.

Humphrey walked up to the bear, the largest of the three, and he waited for its attack. He stood up on its hind legs and roared, that's when Humphrey headbutted him in the belly then pushed him off the cliff, that 2 down, what has gotten into him, not that I think of it, what happened to his leg?

"She's not responding." I hear Paddy say.

"Doesn't matter, she's going to really hate me in a second." I hear Marcel reply.

"Wait, what?" I say very weakly.

"Here we go." was all I hear before I feel an extremely sharp pain in my leg. I stood up yelling.

"Hey! She's back," he says.

"What did you do?" I ask.

"You had a leg problem, so I fixed it. Now go help him before he dies." He points over at Humphrey fighting the last one.

"Humphrey!" I shout at him, but when he turned around, he scared me. His eyes were red and were filled with hate. You could see how he felt in his face. His eyes weren't just read, but like a blood-red, a dark blood red. But just as I saw them, they were gone, washed away by the blueness of his eyes.

"Kate!" He says as he runs up to me. "How are we going to get rid of this bear?" He asked.

"I don't know, you took care of the other two," I tell him.

"I did?" He looks around, "Well I mean, of course, I did."

"Guys, you don't have enough time, look," Paddy says as he points to the passing train at the bottom of the hill.

"There's no way to get down there in time!" I shout.

"Or, maybe there is," Humphrey says as he points to the log sled behind the bear.

Humphrey's POV:

"How will we get there?" Kate asks, "We have to get through him." I looked around, and I had an idea.

"When he tries to claw you, go under his arm and to the sled," I whispered to her. She nodded. We waited for him to make his move, and when he finally did, we made our way to the sled.

"Kate, get in front," I tell her.

"What?" She asked.

"Just get in!" I yell as we both get in and I push us down the hill.

"Ok Kate, I need you to do as I say." She nodded.

"Ok." She said.

"Ok, lean left, right, right again." I looked behind us to see the bear gaining on us. "Oh crap! Kate, lean forward." I tell her as we speed up.

"Humphrey, the train." She says. The train wasn't much further.

"Ok, Late, try to ramp the rock right there so we could land in the train cart." She nodded we were steadily going down the hill.

"Ok, now, Jump!" I shout right as we ramped the rock into the train cart. We landed in a bunch of hay and we see the bear go flying over the train. I looked at Kate and she looked at me as we both started to laugh.

"We make a pretty good team. Kate and Humphrey, World adventures." I tell her.

"You're crazy." She said.

"What, come one, you got to admit that we handled our own back there," I say.

"Humphrey." She said.

"Yes," I replied.

"What happened to you?" She asked.

"What do you mean," I say with a laugh.

"Oh, Humphrey. The last time i see you, you looked dead and had a shattered leg. Here you are now in perfect shape, you killed two bears and helped me still get on this train. What happened?" She asked.

"I, uh... It's hard to explain." I answered.

"Well, Humphrey, whatever happened to you..." She stopped and hugged me. "I'm glad your safe.

How did you like this chapter? Kate and Humphrey are finally heading home, or are they? This ACT is nearing an end, tell me what you think in the comments. Have a great rest of your day, a Happy Thanksgiving, and...

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