"Honey um..." kate said in response. Ashley knowing somethings up she said "What happend?" kate shook her head at Humphrey sadly and jumped down into the den. He told Ashley to sit next to him, and she did so with caution and said "Yeah? Am I in trouble?" Humphrey chuckled and said "Why? Should you be? Ashley..." Looking in to her forest green eyes and said with tears in his eyes "Your...uhhm...Your parents and your...brothers and sisters are dead. They were killed by a bear about a week or two ago...I'm sorry." Ashley looked down at her paws in shock and stood there crying for about Ten minutes until she said "So what now, Do you keep me?" Humphrey said "Yeah, we'll keep you. Well Ashley im going to bed come down when you're ready for bed." Ashley silently nodded and continued to stare at her paws until she got sleepy. Determined to stay awake she walked down to the stream to get some water, but when she got there she saw a wolf that she thought to be Garth and drank some water but when she looked up she yelped in suprise when she saw a brown pup in Her reflection.
He wispered "Wow..." She turned around angerily and said "What are you looking at?" he backed up and said "I-I'm sorry its just...you're so beautiful." When he finished his sentence she bushed and quietly said "Thank you. What's your name?" He quietly said "Steven but you can call me Seth. Oh I meant to ask you how old are you?" she said quietly so she wouldn't wake up Kate or Humphrey "Four Months you?" he was staring at her then said "Five months. So what do you want to do?" as she yawned she said "Go to sleep" as she walked to the den but was stopped by Seth's question "Hey do you think i can stay with you?" she nodded and led him in and they both laid down next to each other and went to sleep.
Kate woke up and yawned and was shocked when she saw...Seth. She tapped Humphrey to get him up to see if the brown pup was real. When he saw Kate he smiled but stopped when Kate put her paw to her mouth and pointed at the brown pup. Humphrey shot up and slowly walked over to him and poked him. Seth just wiggled around and yawned as he awoke to a grey wolf standing over him and and yellowish wolf behind him. Seth looked around for a way to get out of there, and said "Uhh..." Then laughed nervously then looked at Ashley and lightly kicked her to wake her up. Kate walked up and woke up Ashley and said "Who's this...cause he won't say anything." Ashley giggled and said "Thats Seth I met him last night when I went to get some water and he said he didn't have a place to sleep and I said he could sleep here." Seth nodded quickley at Humphrey and Kate then ran out of the den as Kate was telling Ashley not to do that again.
Seth saw a reddish wolf and white wolf eating. Considering The other two wolves saw him sleeping next to their daughter he decided to stay away from them for a bit and meet them. He walked over and said cheerfully "Hey I'm new here so what are you're names?" Garth acted like didn't hear him and continued to eat. Lilly said "Hi im Lilly and This is Garth. Hes not a morning person like me. So you said your new here...Where are you staying?" Garth got up and walked off in to the woods to hunt. "I was with Ashley for a night but i don't know." Lilly thought for a second then said "I'll be back" as she ran off after Garth who was stalking a deer for dinner just as Lilly ran up to him yelling "Garth, Garth Come here." scaring the deer off he walked up to her and sighed sarcastically "What Lilly? Who died now?"
"No one, you know that pup that was at our den?" He nodded "I wanted to ask you if he could stay with us." He stared at her then laughed "Are you serious? You want to keep a pup that we know nothing about. He could be a killer for all we know. I mean he could have pysco parents running around here and you still want to have him LIVE with us?" She replied "Yes I do." He sighed "If i say 'Yes' will you leave me alone so we can eat tonight?" She nodded excitedly "Fine." She jumped up in joy and hugged Garth and thanked him and ran back to the den. Only to find Seth telling a story to an unamused Ashley Lilly giggled "Come here you two." Ashley the first one to bolt up and run over to her hoping for some fun. Seth the second hoping nothing bad happend. "Ok you guys wanna play a game?" Ashley nodded her head first, and Seth copied her. "So what you have to do is annoy Humphrey, Kate and Garth the first one who gets done first wins "Well im already in the lead." Ashley and Lilly looked at him and said "How?"
"Ashley you know how...this morning with your parents." Ashley remembered last night and ran off crying. Lilly looked at Seth and said "Uhhh what happend?" he shrugged and said "I'll find out." as he ran to get her he caught up with her quickly and said "What's the matter Ash?" She sniffed and said "Nothing." He knew something was wrong and realized "Their not your parents are they?" She nodded and said "Not my REAL parents" Seth looked down not knowing what to say. She put her head on his shoulder and cried silently. He put his arm around her, but she seen what was happening and stood up and said "I'm gunna go to bed, go talk to Lilly." He nodded and said "Ok Ash." As he walked off.
"Hey Lilly know where I can sleep tonight cause i don't think her par-I mean Kate and Humphrey will let me stay there." Lilly turned around and said "Yeah just a minute" After a few minutes She walked out and said "You can live here if you want." He wagged his tail and said "With you and Garth?" She nodded. "YES! I get to live close to Ash!...I mean so we can play...more" Lilly just smiled.
"It's about time we're alone" Humphrey said. "No kids no Lilly or Barf. Ahhh this is the life." He said. Kate nodded in agreement and laid down next to Humphrey and said "I don't mind having Ashley around I prefer it really...But some time away will be fine" looking at her scratch marks and sighed "I'm tired." Humphrey said "You know we could give Ashley some friends..." Kate shot up and said "How?!" He smirked and said "Well she'll have to wait a bit though like around 9 months and 5 weeks after that." She was unamused as she said "You realize we've only been together for two months and a week right, and you're already talking about pups." He nodded "Yeah so?" She sighed and said "Let me think about it." He laid back down and said "So that means a no then?"
Ashley came out of the den and saw Seth running over to her Yelling "Guess what Ash! I'm living with Lilly and Garth!" He said wagging his tail "Uh-huh" She said with out paying attention as she walked over to the pond. Garth laughed and said "Hey Love-Bird come here." Seth looked around and pointed at himself with his paw and Garth nodded. So Seth walked over and said "Yeah what do you need?" Garth smiled and said "I think you got a crush on Ashley. But thats just me." Seth blushed and looked at Ashley to see if she was looking. Then back to Garth and said "Yeah, so what?" He laughed and said "I'll help you get her, But we'll need to do some tests. Ok?" Seth nodded and said "Anything." Garth then said "Ok go over to her and see what she likes to do. We'll go from there." He nodded as he walked off.
"Hey Ash what do you want to do?" She looked up and turned around and said "How about we swim in the pond?" He got wide eyed when she said swim and he stuttered "Uhhh A-Ash I can't swim." as he lied "Oh well I'll teach you sometime. Oh i got to go see Kate now so I'll see you later." as she walked off. Garth walked out from behind the bush and said "Well what'd you learn?" Seth watched her until she got out of sight and said "Swiming. She likes to swim." Garth told Seth to follow him to a spot where he'll teach him somethings to get Ashleys attention. He agreed and followed him to a small log. "What now" he said looking around tapped him and said "Watch this" as he broke the log in to a stack then jumped down and said "Show that to her and she'll LOVE YOU." Seth nodded and walked off to find Ashley
"But Kate why can't I go in the woods?" Kate shook her head then said "Wild animals." Ashley sighed in anger "We're wild animals!" Humphrey staying out of it continued to eat his part (and some of kates) part of the deer. "No and thats it!" Kate said as Ashley said "I'm going to Lilly's" While she walked there Seth ran to her and said "Follow me I wanna show you something cool!" she followed him silently to a little log in the woods, and sat down as he showed her what Garth taught him except he fell and the log hit his leg on the way down. Ashley bolted up to his side and said "Oh...a-are you ok?" He just laughed then winced and said "No...You think you can help me like you did Kate?" She nodded and ran seven feet away from him and picked some leaves and licked the wound and put the leaves on. "There. All done. Now you think you can get home?" He nodded and after he left She sat down and heard someone say "Well you're quite the Nurse are you not?" Startled she turned around and saw a fox and said "Oh sorry didn't see you there. You look really skinny are you alright?" He shook his head and replied with "No I"m starving...Do you have any food?" She nodded and motioned her head to have him follow.
Lilly saw Seth and ran to him saying "ARE you ok? What happend?" he winced when Lilly touched him and said "I was jumping off rocks and i got hurt. But Ash was there to help me" winking at Garth he smiled. Then said to Lilly "Let him get some rest. He'll need it." She nodded as she left. "I'm going to Kate's to talk to her." As she walked off. He walked in the den and said "What happend?" Seth smiled as he said "I did what you said but i fell and got hurt but i had Ash come so she helped me." Garth smirked and said "Nice. Hey don't go anywhere" Then laughed as he walked off. Fifteen minutes passed before Ashley came running in saying "I need your help getting food! Quickly." He looked confused and said "Sure for who" She helped him and said "Never mind that just get a rabbit or something FAST! When you got it go tothe woods by the pond ok?" As she ran off so he limped to get a rabbit he caught one after a few minutes of energy wasted he limped to the place he was supposed to meet her and put it down when she nuzzled him and said "Now go away." he looked confused and nodded as he walked back to the den and went to sleep.
Ashley said "Ok come on out and eat it" The fox jumped out of the hiding place and started eating the rabbit. after he finished he thanked her and left vowing to help her later.
Meow. Hey Hellions i'm starting school soon so i'll be slow on updates but i'll release in the bundles R&R These past chapters have been deticated to my dad Rip Ryan.