A/N: I do not own anything.
Chapter 8 escape
Humphrey and Jared sat in a zoo exhibit waiting for their chance to run away. "Come on go down." Humphrey said in hope that it would become dark soon. His hope became true when last sliver of light went under the horizon. "Alright let's get out of here." Jared said. "Got it." Humphrey said as He jumped up and got a foot hold on the fence and started to pull himself up. He made it over the fence and saw Jared was almost over. He looked around trying to find a way out and saw what looked to be a gate a couple hundred feet away. They both started to walk over to it. They passed other habitats with other animals wanting freedom to, but they knew that their was nothing they could do. They were only fifty feet from the gate and moved slowly to avoid detection, but not slow enough. "The wolves are loose!" They heard someone shout. Humphrey felt a dart hit his ass. Then it all black after that.
Humphrey woke up to find himself back in Jasper. Jared wasn't their though. But someone was. "Hello Humphrey." He was stunned at who he saw. "Kate!" He ran to her as fast as he could. He got right next to her closed his eyes and hugged her. But when he opened them, she wasn't there, nor was he in Jasper anymore. Just an empty kennel with news paper in the bottom. A god awful noise was playing through out the tiny area the kennel was in. But something caught his eye.
Top headline a National park in Canada calls for a wolf hunt. Rangers of Jasper park says the wolf population has grown extensively over the years and are starting to starve to death because of food shortages. Due to unfit hunters in the packs. One ranger says, "Action must be taken to prevent such horrible deaths." However some wolves will be spared to repopulate the area and other areas, one of these wolves that has been reserved to be saved and will be brought to the New York Zoo.
He couldn't believe what he just saw. The reason he had been moved and his friends killed was because humans thought their was to little food. Then he heard stirring next to his kennel. "Jared is that you." "Yea what happened." He asked. "I don't know. But what's that noise."
"We're in an airplane."
"I don't know what that is."
"It's a human machine that can fly."
"Bullshit."
"Why don't you believe me."
"Only birds have wings." This went on for another hour before Humphrey gave in. "So how do we get out." "That depends on how far you are willing to pay for your freedom."
"I will do anything to see Kate again."
"Good, cause we might die."
"Alright see that little ball stuck to the side of the wall?" He looked an saw a magnetic ball stuck to the wall. "Give it to me." He reached out and grabbed it and put it in front of Jared's cage. He then got an uneasy look. "Are you sure because their is no turning back if I do this?" Humphrey nodded and Jared threw it up into the cockpit. It traveled into a crack in the cockpit into the engine and stuck to the battery shorting it out. The instruments in the cockpit all failed and radio was down. The plane fell out of the sky. Every second Humphrey was frozen just waiting for either fresh air or death. He made his peace until the plane crashed into a farmers field. Every one inside was knocked out on impact.
Half an hour later Humphrey's POV:
"Ugh what happened?" I said waking up. I opened my eyes and they started to burn like hell from the sun. I gave them a moment to adjust and waited to move around. I looked to my right and saw Jared completely passed out from the crash but he wasn't dead. I picked him up by his scruff and started to carry him away from the crash. We made it about five hundred feet from the crash when I saw a rail yard. Because just and hundred feet to go, stopped in its tracks was a familiar orange and black locomotive with the large CN logo on its side and the sides of most of its cars. I put Jared in one the boxcars and jumped in after after hoping the train would leave soon. I decided to take a nap while we waited. I closed my eyes and went to sleep.
Humphrey's dream:
"Kate." He looked and saw his beautiful mate to be. Even with the 'small' draw back. "I miss you Humphrey." She said in a saddened voice. "I miss you too."
Sawtooth national park
"I miss you too." Humphrey said. Kate had been taken to sawtooth after the wolf hunt along with Jayson, Mary, Lilly and Garth. But she hadn't moved an inch since she got to a pre-built den. She just laid down all day. She fell asleep awhile earlier but she hadn't gone a second without thinking about Humphrey. She was now in the same dream he was. "Oh Humphrey I wash I could know you are okay." Kate said. "I wish I could see you in real life. Not a just in my dreams." Humphrey said. "Wait this is my dream not…" Then she wondered if she and Humphrey were some how in the same dream. "Humphrey if you can actually hear me I am in another national park called Sawtooth in Idaho." Humphrey was about to talk but he woke up. He knew where he was to go now and had a mission to do so.
A/N: If you don't live in the Midwest or Canada you probably don't know that CN stands for Canadian National, it's a railroad company that is almost every where in Wisconsin. I'm not if there as many trains in the rest of the Midwest but they do run from Michigan to Louisiana and then coast to coast in Canada. Also sorry if this chapter felt a bit rushed.