The Truth
Ch. 4 Black
"Time to get up Humphrey. It's time for you to go in the machine again." I heard a female voice call me up this time, so I instantly woke up being alert, but when I took one step up something hurt me really bad, so I laid back down taking in the pain that was caused. I look down then seeing a bit of blood coming down my neck.
"This must have happened while I was sleeping." I whipped it off and smelled it, but it had the scent of my father. I checked my face, and I had three claw marks, it also had the scent of my father. "Damn the machine actually transmits the damage to me when something happens to me. I need to be careful." I thought to myself
Then I looked up and saw a woman, and knew it was Christa. Sighing with relief I followed her ,in pain, to the room where they kept the machine. I found Vernon in there making last minute touches to the machine.
"Oh Humphrey I see you're wide awake," He turned around to see me, and back to the machine. "Just give me a second let me screw this last one in, and... Done." He turned back to me and placed his arm toward the machine. "After you."
"I never knew you were a gentleman Vernon." I hopped into the machine as they started me off like every day.
"In 3, 2, 1, push." As they pushed it again turned pitch black, then brightness white.
"Ugh no matter how long I do this i'm never going to get used to the damn brightness." I thought to myself, as I placed my arm up to cover the brightness.
"Alright Humphrey you can stop doing that now," Vernon placed on his webcam, and announced me the new updates to me, as I placed my paw down. "Alright on to the new updates, so they are. I can now see what you're doing from first person, and third person. I can now speak with you more, than just speak to you for about 30 seconds while you're in there, and other wolves can now join you. Those are the updates we just made, so what about them, would you like to have another wolf join you?"
"Umm." While I was thinking about it an idea hit me. "Yeah sure, but I need a specific wolf."
"Sure Humphrey what does this wolf look like?"
"First let me tell you something," He looked at me with his webcam, while I placed my arm up lifting my index finger. "What type of moon is it today? Is it going to be whole or the full moon?"
Vernon then thought about it today, and gave me a 'wait a minute' sign. He got out of his chair and disappeared, as I heard a door, open and shut close.
After sometime I heard the door open again, and before it could shut Vernon came back to the chair he was in. "It will be a whole moon today like the time we got you."
"Alright perfect. This wolf is very special to me, her name is Kate. She is an amber wolf, with brown lovely eye's, she'll be wearing a purple flower, on the side of her left side, she'll probably be with a white wolf, if not she'll be with a flaming brown wolf." As I explained her appearance he had a utensil in his hand while applying pressure on a piece of white square.
"Alright Humphrey we'll get the hunters to get to work on that."
"Make sure there will be three hunters because if she's with the flaming brown wolf then the hunters will be in deep trouble," I warned him. "Don't hurt Kate, and only bring Kate."
Vernon smiled and replied, "Will do Humphrey, but lets get down to business first." He placed his finger down on the same button as last time. "Ready?"
"Always." I replied as he pressed the button. This time I didn't feel that much pain. I guess i'm getting used to it." I thought to myself, as the scene changed to where I was last at.
My body formed back into the little pup I was yesterday. I then heard a voice inside my head, "Alright Humphrey we stopped the memory for a bit, just to test out the first person and third person. Alright Humphrey if you could be a kind wolf, can you look to the right please?"
I did what I was told, "Perfect, and time for the third person, now can you jump for me please?"
And again I did what I was told too, I didn't like it, but he was going to bring Kate for me, so I wanted to make sure I got her here. "Perfect, now we will continue the story now."
The breeze then hit me, so I knew that the memory has started. When the memory started I heard footsteps outside. "Humphrey? You in there?" The voice sounded familiar, so I smelled the air to make sure it was her, and it was.
"Kate?"
She walked in joyfully, and she had a brightened face on her. She walked up to me and hugged me tightly. "Oh Humphrey I was so worried. Please don't run away like that please."
As she hugged me, and loosened her grip, I wrapped my arms around her as well. "I'm sorry Kate I promise not to leave you alone again." We hugged each other even more tightly.
"Humphrey I think we should do the ritual." As she suggested that she looked at me.
I looked surprised at what she said and looked at her back. "Do you really think this is what we need?"
She closed up her nose to mine, like if she was going to rub noses with me. "Of course Humphrey I would never do something that would harm us both."
I nodded my head, and closed the gap between our noses. Surprisingly she didn't pull away, or even try to, instead she enjoyed it, and it was with passion. While we continued thoughts came through my mind. "Does she really feel this way, and is she doing the ritual to forget about the love we used to have?" When we both pulled away, the thoughts headed towards the back of my head forgetting about them.
"Humphrey, when we finish the ritual, do you promise that you will remember this day, and in the future we will be together?"
"Some day, or some way I will remember this," I replied to her pulling her in for a hug. A shedded a tear, and rolled all the way to Kate's shoulder. "I promise you Kate... I promise."
We stayed silent as we continued our hug. "Alright Humphrey lets go to the pack. You need to forgive the whole pack, for what you said," She saw me go into a depressed feeling, as she placed her paw under my chin, and pulled my head up. "But don't worry i'll be by your side i'll never leave your side."
I smiled of what she said, and agreed to go with her to the pack. "Alright Kate lets go."
We started walking back, and through the woods we went, towards the western pack.
After a while of Kate and I talking we arrived at the western pack. "Where home." Kate announced.
"Yup were home." I looked around, trying to remember where my father was. "Give me a sec Kate." I walked up to the den where I used to live with my family. I searched inside, but no sign of my father. I walked outside to where Kate was at. "Hey Kate do you know where my father is? I need to apologize to him."
She looked at me worried, so I also got worried. "Hmm about that, we kinda kicked him out of the pack, because of what he did to you." I checked the marks that happened to me last night, and they became scabs.
"What? Do you know where he left?" I asked being surprised.
"Oh relax Humphrey look what he did to you. Just let him be a lone wolf." When I heard that from Kate I got kinda ticked.
"Kate look at me just because he did this doesn't mean that he hates me I need to find him. I'm leaving even with or without your help." I started sniffing the air and got his scent, and ran into the direction he went. "Tell this to your father."
As I turned my head I saw Kate running toward I believe was the alpha's den. "I'm coming dad. Just wait for me."
As I ran I thought of what he did to me. "No matter what you did to me. I will always love you." After a while of running a view made me come to a complete stop. What made me stop was a scary view of a swampish place.
I stared at it with a scared face, until the image of my father flashed in my head, then the scared little Humphrey I knew turned into a brave little wolf.
"I'm coming dad even through this deep swamp." The swamp slowly started to turn into a misty place. I couldn't see anything, because of the mist I started to walk slower, because if I got hurt then I would have probably be dead.
So as I walked through I heard water splashing, and other kinds of noises. I looked up to see crows on top of a tree, while I heard them crowing and looked toward where I was going, I saw an object that looked like a wolf. "Dad?" I thought to myself. Then I whispered it.
"Dad? Is that you?" The random wolf, or whatever it was turned his attention to me.
"Who's there, and i'm sure i'm not your dad." The random wolf exclaimed.
"My name's Humphrey i'm a pup." The wolf turned it's head and walked towards me.
"Alright Humphrey the pup what do you need from me?" As he came closer I saw who he really was. He wasn't my father or any wolf I knew.
"I just came here to find my dad." The unknown wolf smirked.
"The names Black, and i'm a male," He picked me up and placed me on his back. "I'll help you look for your dad, because I know what it feels to be alone. Trust me kid no one knows how to be more alone than me."
"So Black do you know where we're going?" I asked hoping he'd say yes.
"Of course, if I didn't do you think i'd still be here?"
I started thinking about it, but I knew he was telling the truth. "I guess your right, anyways if I may ask what brings you here?" I asked being caution.
"Well pup if you need to know then i'm alone because my pack was attacked, and while they were being attacked I decided to search out for a mate." I could hear the happiness he had in his voice and asked another question.
"Why do you seem happy?"
"I'm happy, because we won the war, and none of the pack members died. Well I might not have found a mate, but I will soon." He smiled. I was happy for what he explained to me.
"Well if you keep your high hopes like that then you will definitely find one, but remember you also have to find a female around other wolf's territory." His smile stayed on his face, and just nodded.
"I know pup, you swear like I don't know," We continued until we found a small dug up den. "Well where here, at my newly built den." As I walked inside I could tell it was recently dug up.
"You were serious? So you're a nomad?" I asked.
"Yup, but if you want to search for your father you gotta rest up, so you could have some energy," He walked outside, and sat down. "I'll guard the outside while you get some rest, you have a big day ahead of you. And plus all that running probably made you tired."
The sun was going down quickly, and I told him something. "Why don't you come sleep by me, plus you're helping me look for my dad, so why not right, both of us need our max energy." As he thought about it he gave me an answer.
"Well I guess your right. So scoot your butt over." He joked, we then both started laughing and I scooted a bit more into the den.
"Good-night Black."
"Good-night Humphrey." I smiled and rested my head on the floor, until I heard a voice in my head.
"Alright Humphrey, it's time to take you out. Ready?" I nodded my head yes, and the scene became white as my body started to transform back into my regular form.
As I looked up at Vernon I noticed something on his neck I didn't notice before. "Hey Vernon quick question what happened to your neck?" I questioned.
He placed his hand on the wound, and replies. "I was attacked, but I don't remember by what, anyways lets take you out."
When he pressed the button again my vision turned pitch black again, and then my eyes slowly opened. I hopped off the machine, and walked back to my room, while I was exiting the machine room I heard Vernon say, "You can stay up for a little bit more it's kinda early to go to sleep today. So you can hang out in your room." I kept walking, and ignored what he said.
Finally I arrived to my room happy to be there the door closed behind me, as the light turned red. I jumped onto the bed, and laid down being careful with the scabs that I got from my father. Slowly I started to lose my vision into darkness.
Thank you so much for reading this chapter of The Truth, but what awaits Humphrey the next day? Anyways hope you enjoyed and if you have any oc's you'd like to place into the story send me them in a p.m. Later. And no I didn't forget about Sebastian, he will be in the next chapter. Date: 06/24/2014 Time: 05:06 A.m. Later readers.