Chapter 7 The Zoo

A/N: sorry for the wait my accounts been acting a bit wired lately.

Humphrey's POV:

I opened my eyes to a blinding light. "Ahhg Kate what happened." I said trying to get my eye sight back. "Who ever Kate is. She isn't here." I heard a younger male voice say. I looked with my vision cleared to see another wolf and no one else. My heart sank as I realized Kate and the others were probably dead. Then the pup reached out his paw. "I'm Jared." He said in a chirpy voice. I reached out to his paw and shook it. "My name's Humphrey." I said shaking his paw. "You look like somethings bothering you." The wolf said. He looked about five months old. "Yeah, but I really don't want to talk About it. Where am I by the way." I said. "Your in the New York City Zoo." "What." I looked up and around to see humans watching me, and pointing rectangular things that occasionally would flash. "What are they doing?" I asked trying to ignore them. "I haven't figured that out yet. But I think they are just watching us." "Then what are the flashy rectangles for." I asked in a annoyed voice. "I don't know." He said in a confused voice. "Well is there any way out." He looked up. "There is one way out." He said looking at an odd part of the fence above the area we were placed.

"You see that little area were it kinda looks like hole, I bet I could fit through there. But then you'll have to trust me to get you out." I looked and found a hole about the size of my head but it was the size. "Alright let's…" "Wait! We'll have to wait until night or else they will probably kill us to 'protect' the other humans." I thought about it for a minute. They probably would shoot us if we got out. "Alright but tonight we got to get out of here." I sat down on the ground and studied the pup in front of me. He was half my height, gray fur, and blue eyes. "So where are you from?" He asked. I told him every thing about me, mostly focussing on Kate and I, the fact that I never knew my parents and about the shooting. "Wow that sounds rough." He said sympathetically. "Yeah it was. So where are you from?"

Warning Warning Warning. What you are about to read is true. All acts were done under law enforcement supervision. Do not do this at all unless under same circumstances. An explanation will be given at the end of the chapter.

Flashback

Lincoln county Wisconsin, 1 AM, Summertime, 2009.

Authors POV.

I sat in the hay door of my uncles barn at his farm. It was a sort of summer job I had over the years. But this year was different. A pack of wolves moved in and since that happened farm livestock was being eaten. We all knew it was wolves but the DNR needed hard evidence that it was them. Tonight was no different then the others that summer, I would sit in the hay door with my Winchester '86 and wait for a predator to come by. I was told never to kill it, just scare it off, that's why I had such a high caliber gun. It looked like an average night of sitting in the dimly lit barn waiting for nothing. Then I heard a horrible, Crying noise. I turned on the light to see a terrifying scene. There in the middle of the field were two timber wolves wrestling down a cow. They didn't seem scared of the light so I aimed my gun at the ground and pulled the trigger. It worked because both of them ran away. I got down from my position and ran to the cow. I got to it and saw a large puddle of blood. I knew there was only one thing left to do. I worked the action on my gun, aimed it down, and put it out of its misery.

The next morning.

I got up out of the barn to have breakfast. I walked into the farm house. "So what was all the noise last night?" I heard my uncle say from the kitchen. "Yeah, now I have confirmed it was wolves doing all that damage." "Yeah Mr. Kieveski got a picture of it happening, so we should get rid of them quickly." He said.

Two days later.

I went to the mail box to get the mail. I open the box and the first thing there was a letter from the DNR.

Several miles from the farm. (This part is not so true.)

Jared's POV:

I was sleeping in my den curled up to my mother. I was still too young to be out on my own. But it wasn't bad in here. I had my brother Caleb, and my sister Jasmine. We lived near some farms so food was never an issue. Dad had always told us how easy it was to kill farm animals and how little effort it took. He would tell us stories a lot about close calls he had, like the other day when he told us about how he and uncle almost got shot by a farmer. (Me.) Dad came by with some cow meat and left it at the entrance. We were still too young for it and relied on our mothers milk. So all in all it was a pretty easy life.

2 miles away. Kieveski's farm. (Back to reality.)

Four men waited outside in their trucks fully camouflaged. Waiting for my uncle and the men from the DNR to show up. My uncle showed up five minutes later and waited with them for the DNR.

Half an hour later.

A truck pulled in with the label on the door. Wisconsin department of natural recourses. A man stepped out and they knew exactly what to do next. They all reached in the beds of their trucks and pulled out rifles and shooting vests. They geared up and the men from the DNR gave the men five tags each, and they all went off to find what they were looking for.

Back to Jared.

"Ow Caleb that hurts." I said as me and Caleb wrestled but he just bit my ear most the time. "Sorry it's just I'm really excited, today we finally get to eat meat. Real meat." He said. "Boys settle down." Mom said from the front of the den. "Sorry." We both said. "I'm still your perfect angel right Mom." Jasmine said. "Of course you are." Mom said agreeing with her. We both looked at her and mouthed the word bitch at her. She was one mainly because she told mom about everything 'bad' or 'wrong' or 'unethical' we did. "Well when your father gets back you can have your first bite of meat." We were very excited at this.

1 mile away.

All seven men walked through the forest hoping to stumble across the den where they lived. All of a sudden. A rustle and there one was. A fully grown wolf but it was running away from them. They followed its tracks and soon enough they found there objective. No less then 30 yards away were four wolves around a hole in the ground. They all started to get in place. Leaning on trees, stumps and rocks or anything else to steady their aim.

Jared

"I think I hear your father comin-" we heard paws and heavy breathing near the entrance. "June, get the kids out of-" then a loud bang rang through the air and our father fell to the ground. Mom then gathered me and my siblings and curled us in a ball near the back of the den

Outside

The five hunters took out the four wolves out side the den easily. The men from the DNR and the hunters walked toward the den. "Stop, do not walk into that den." One of the DNR men said. He took out a flash light and light up the den. Inside was a female timber wolf, scared for life. He reached in his back pack and took out a dog catchers stick. He slipped the rope around her neck and tightened it so he could drag her out at a distance. He pulled her out but noticed three little balls of fur. "She's got pups." He said reaching for the three siblings. Jared started biting at him. But he picked Jared up anyway without a scratch. Then he picked up the other two and walked off. They got to their truck and tossed them in the bed. They closed the gate and drove off.

Back to the present

Humphrey's POV:

"I still don't know what happened to them. I just hope their okay." Jared said. "That's horrible, I hope you see them again someday." "Yeah I do too."

A/N: The reason that happened, was because they only killed cattle. They became too lazy to kill deer and was costing too much to handle.