Okay, I'm going to try and keep this A/N short and sweet. I don't own any Alpha and Omega characters from the movie. What we will see today: What is up with the Northern Pack? Are Garth, Kate, Hayden, and Troy in danger? Find out:

"So how much trouble do you think Delilah and Maggie are in now?" Hayden asked.

The four wolves were walking close to the Northern Pack border. The land was becoming less grassy, and more just dirt with snow patches that were late to melt dotting here and there. Usually, the land on Northern Pack was beautiful, like the Western Valley. This landscape was usually found in Southern Pack territory.

Troy thought for a moment. Garth answered instead, "It probably wasn't too bad. After all, it's not like they killed anyone. They just argued with the future Head-Alphas."

"But Cantu is a very strict parent," Troy put in. "He's probably lecturing them so badly, they wish Eve would turn their ears inside out."

Hayden laughed. "Yeah!" she agreed. "I bet he's going to assign them so much stuff to do tomorrow, they'll be falling asleep on their paws by sunrise tomorrow!"

Kate looked at her daughter. "What is it that made you want to see them tortured so badly?" she wondered aloud.

"Maggie insulted you!" Hayden replied defiantly. "If Grandma Eve were there, she would've been personally asking Maggie for her tail before you could say 'Holy Caribou.'"

"Honestly? I appreciate the loyalty dear, but aren't Maggie and Delilah your friends?" Kate said.

"Well…that was…was just Alpha School…" Hayden stammered, looking at her paws awkwardly.

Troy defended her. "Still, they did ruin the pack's meal from carelessness. They made us lose one more piece of precious prey. The pack would've gone hungry if it weren't for us!"

Garth stifled a snort of amusement. "Troy, we aren't the only Alphas in the pack. Others know how to hunt too. The pack wouldn't go hungry."

"Some wolves like dessert…" Troy muttered, making Hayden laugh

Kate shot a sideways glance at her brother-in-law. "Including your mate," she teased softly.

"Now is not the time to team up against me!" he growled at the same volume.

"Hush!" Hayden hissed. She had stopped and was sniffing the air. She brightened. "I scent our next meal."

Lilly ran after Hutch and into her parents' cave. Hutch held up a paw to tell Lilly to wait. He poked his head through the doorway entrance and panted before reporting to Eve and Winston. "Sir, I fetched your daughter and granddaughter."

Lilly began to walk in. "Good job keeping up with us, Loony." She suddenly stopped with wide eyes and whipped her head around to face her pup. "Wait—Luna! What are you doing here?"

Luna was confused. "Wha…I thought you needed me."

"I needed you to find your brother and father before they ran into—" Lilly was cut off as Humphrey appeared in the doorway next to her.

"Lilly," his bright blue eyes were filled with concern. "Come inside. Something's happening."

Lilly let out a tiny whimper before following. Luna followed her mother. Inside the cave, Jake, Humphrey, Winston, Eve, and Tony were sitting in a circle. Hutch was standing between Tony and Winston.

"Dad…?" Lilly began.

"Lilly! Glad to see you're here," Winston welcomed with a casually warm smile.

Lilly wasn't convinced. "Dad, what's happened? What's going on with the Northern Pack?"

Eve put a paw on her mate's. "She's no idiot. Don't pretend. Like I said, it's probably nothing."

"I don't recall that at all," Jake muttered in Luna's ear.

Winston sighed. As he looked up, his eyes seemed to fade away into something far and distant.

"The Northern Pack and Southern Pack are packs that are quite new to Jasper Pack," that part was probably meant to Jake and Luna, who weren't born when the newer packs had arrived. Winston went on, "Being less experienced with ruling, they saw last year's uniting of us older packs as a threat to them. The Northern Pack's head-Alpha is usually a calm and thoughtful wolf. But he had a pup with a Southern Pack female. No one knew at the time, so he was raised with his mother, and adapted to the Southern pack's fierce, and selfish personality all too well. Now, the Northern Alpha has died and his last breath revealed his love-life with her. So those two packs are now united as well. But the Alpha's mother is gravely ill, leaving their son to rule this new, united pack. He has been very cross with us, but we aren't sure why. A few Omegas spotted some trespassing Northern wolves. They were attacked by them."

Eve interrupted by growling fiercely.

"The Omegas fled, but we all doubt that the Northern wolves left our territory."

"Who is this new leader?" Humphrey demanded. "If he orders his trespassers to attack Kate and Hayden, I'll tear him apart, limb from limb!"

"I'll join you!" Eve jumped to her paws. She swiped her claws through the air. "Why…I'll start with his tail. I'll rip it off him and shove it up his—!"

"Mother!" Lilly squeaked. "Not in front of Luna and Jake."

Eve put her claws down and sat back down beside her mate. "I was just going to say nose. Sheesh," she muttered.

Winston blinked. He always got distracted by how violent Eve could be. He shook the freaked out look off his face. He turned to Hutch.

Before he could tell his second-in-command what to do, Luna blurted out, "But Garth and Troy are at the border! So are Hayden and Auntie Kate!"

Eve snapped. She leapt to her paws with a frightening snarl. "C'mon Winston! Looks like I'll be ripping out a few tails sooner than expected."

Winston stood up more slowly. He put a paw on his furious mate's shoulder. "Calm down Eve. Remember, your not as young as you used to be…"

Eve let out an offended squeak.

Winston turned back to Hutch. "Hutch, send our best Alphas to the border to assist Garth, Kate and their pups. But do not attack any wolves if they haven't attacked first. Make sure the patrol knows that."

Hutch nodded and began to trot outside.

Humphrey stopped him. "Wait, dad." When Hutch stopped to hear what Humphrey had to say over his shoulder. Humphrey looked at Winston. "Let me go. At least me. That's my mate, my daughter, my nephew, and my friend in trouble. If any wolf deserves to help, it's me. Please?"

Winston smiled. "Humphrey, you'll be a Head-Alpha soon. You shouldn't need to ask my permission anymore."

Humphrey dipped his head. "Sorry. Force of habit."

And the grey and white wolf ran out with Hutch in the lead. Jake whimpered and felt as though Lilly had read her thoughts. "Can I go too?"

Eve stood up. "I would rather not! I already have one daughter and two grandkids I'm worrying about. I don't want to worry about another."

"But—"

"Please don't," Eve pleaded.

Luna leaned in to whisper to Jake, "That's not fair. Granddad just said they shouldn't have to take orders from them anymore."

Jake sighed. "They just don't think we can do anything."

"I can do whatever I want to," Luna hissed. She stood up and walked out. She was surprised, but also pleased to find her mother following.

"I'm sorry we can't help them out, Luna. It's another Omega thing," Lilly said softly.

Luna stopped. Lilly actually thought she was leading the way home! Luna may have been an Omega now, but she wouldn't give up as quick as one! She turned around to face her mother.

"You think I'm going to give in to their orders? Grandpa just said you'll be the new Head-Alphas soon! And that you shouldn't have to take his orders anymore! What happened to that?"

Lilly sighed. Luna did the same. She looked at her paws, expecting a huge speech on how Omegas can't help do anything but crack jokes or something. But to her shock, she noticed her mother stand straighter, with a fiery and rebellious look in her eyes.

"You're right. I'm not a pup anymore. I'm going to be leading a pack soon. It's time I started listening to myself, and not others. C'mon Luna. We're going to do something that'll actually help someone."

Luna wagged her reddish tail. Score one for the Omegas! she cheered in her head. And go Mom!

Troy scratched behind his ear. "I think this place is infested with fleas!" he complained. "I can't stop scratching!"

"Me either!" Hayden agreed, nibbling on her hind paw.

Kate giggled. "I tried to tell you, that bush you were hiding in looked suspicious."

"Is anyone going to help me out here?" Garth called. He was standing on one side of the dead caribou they had caught. It was smaller than the ones that were usually found in the valley, but still heavy.

Kate walked over to him. "It's a shame that Garth doesn't have another big, strong male to lend a paw," she said, looking at Troy. The young wolf just continued scratching.

Garth rolled his eyes good-naturedly. "C'mon. Let's just carry it back to the pack. The others are probably starving."

"I hope you mean our pack."

Garth turned around to see a bush's branches part to reveal a muscular male pale brown and light gray wolf with amber eyes. He was closely followed by a brown and white wolf with icy-blue eyes and a dark brown wolf with darker brown stripes with blue eyes.

Kate slowly stepped backwards to stand in front of Hayden and Troy.

Garth looked at them calmly. "And exactly, why would we give your pack our hard-earned prey?"

The amber-eyed wolf pretended to think. "Hmm…maybe because it was on our territory. And we saw it first anyways."

"This isn't your territory!" Kate argued. "This is close, but it isn't."

"It is too!" the brown striped wolf snarled. He pointed with a paw to something behind the four other wolves. "That tree marks where the borderline is! And it is behind you."

"Well, maybe we crossed it by accident. You really should get back to marking them regularly," Garth suggested. "Then, we would know where to stop."

Meanwhile, Troy was busy recognizing his friend from Alpha School. He trotted up to the brown and white wolf. "Nick! Hey, buddy. How's it hanging?"

To Troy's surprise, his old friend raked his claws across Troy's face. Troy yelped with pain and scrambled backwards. Kate ran over to him and herded him away from the Northern wolves' view, sending Hayden scrambling back to avoid getting run over by her cousin.

Garth whipped his head around to look at the Northern wolves. "Was that necessary? He happens to be my son. He was just saying hi."

Nick looked at his paws. "Alpha's orders say intruders are never your friends. My loyalty lies with my pack, not somebody I met an entire winter ago," he added with a growl at Garth.

Garth turned his attention to what seemed to be the leader of the patrol. "Max," he addressed the pale brown and gray wolf. "We didn't mean to intrude on your territory. Like I said, if you got back to patrolling them regularly, we would know where the scent marker is."

"What a minute!" Hayden stomped up from behind Kate. "A tree isn't the borderline! I remember when we were being showed all the territories in Alpha School. Mom praised me for noticing that all the borders were marked with a stream or river. There isn't another river for one or two miles!"

Kate narrowed her eyes and growled at the Northern wolves. "My daughter speaks the truth. Who's the intruder now?"

Garth did the same. "We're not idiots. You didn't think we would notice?"

Max snarled. "We're just loyal to our Head-Alpha. With all due respect, Barf, we're following his orders when I say—"

"Attack!" the brown-striped wolf leaped for Garth.

"Only I am permitted to call him that!"

Suddenly, a gray flash flew over Garth's head and into the brown wolf. Humphrey pinned him down and snarled in his face.

"Hawk!" Max scolded. "Seth told you to wait until I had given the signal! You're always too ready for a fight!"

"That should be of help to you," Hawk growled. He kicked Humphrey in the stomach, which sent him flying away. Before Humphrey could stand up, Hawk was upon him, with his teeth sinking deep into Humphrey's shoulder, a little too close to his throat.

"Dad!" Hayden cried. Without thinking, she darted to Hawk and tried to knock him over by crashing into his shoulder, head-first.

The surprise managed to budge him, but not without him ripping out some of Humphrey's fur, making the former Omega cry out in pain.

Kate dashed in to assist her daughter, but Max ran in and pounced on her, pinning her to the ground. Garth ran in, sinking his teeth into Max's neck. Meanwhile, Troy pounced at Nick and pinned him down easily.

"I thought we were friends!" Troy hissed in his face.

"We are," Nick whimpered. "But my pack wanted this attack. I'm sorry."

Troy sank his teeth into Nick's foreleg and didn't let go.

Garth had tackled Max off of Kate and was wrestling with him, each male struggling to pin the other down. Finally, Max was on top. He raised his claws to wound Garth, but was suddenly knocked over by a black and white form. Hutch had him pinned down with a paw on the enemy Alpha's throat.

"There's probably others!" Hutch shouted to the three wolves that had come with him and Humphrey. The three other wolves pelted past the battling wolves and towards some bushes where another wolf would most likely hide. Sure enough, they skidded to a shocked halt to find more Northern wolves jump out and begin attacking. Garth's pack was outnumbered.

A light grey and white female jumped out and wrapped her paws around his neck. She jerked her arms downward, forcing Garth down and hitting his face. She stood on top of him, forcing his head down with a paw on the back of his head.

The female looked up to see lavender-colored eyes glaring at her like daggers. "Get off my mate," their owner growled. Claws raked the entire left side of the female's face and she jumped backwards with stinging pain. Lilly slashed her shoulder then tripped her by clawing her forelegs.

As for Troy, another Northern wolf knocked him off of Nick and as he stumbled to his paws, the same wolf rushed in and bit his neck. Troy tried to call for help, but all that came out was a choking yelp of pain.

"You leave my brother alone!" Troy was more than surprised to hear his sister's voice. He suddenly saw her bright white pelt and red tail come crashing in and head-butt the wolf off of Troy. She snarled at the wolf who was a handsome gray male with lighter gray forming a stripe from his nose and disappearing somewhere at the top of his head (you will later learn his name is Logan).

For some strange reason, Luna didn't want to attack this wolf. Instead, she turned her attention to another she-wolf who was pelting for her mother who had her back turned. Luna ran towards the she-wolf. She was a cream-color with a tan-golden colored left ear, right eye patch, tail-tip, and paws.

Luna raced up and at the speed of light, reared up on her hind legs and pushed the other she-wolf over with her forepaws. The wolf rolled over in the dirt, whimpering with pain once she was still. Luna ran over to stand threateningly over her. "Leave here right now, or I'll tear you apart!"

The creamy wolf scrambled to her paws with tail between her legs. "Okay, okay, I'm going! I didn't even want this stupid attack to happen!"

"Then you shouldn't have encouraged it!" Luna snarled as the cream-colored wolf ran back to her own territory.

As Luna turned around, she felt claws rake her muzzle. She yelped with pain and Troy was at her side as if it was his cue. Together, the two littermates fought off the Northern wolf as if fighting was something they had done a million times before.

As for their parents, Lilly was ripping some sensitive ear flesh off of Nick while Garth was raking the belly of a wolf he had pinned down. Both sent their wolf fleeing back home with terror.

Garth panted and ran up to Lilly. A black wolf had come up and pinned her down. He sank his teeth into her neck and wasn't letting go. Garth came up, sank his teeth into the wolf's ear and jerked his head backwards. The wolf let out a loud cry of pain as half of his ear was ripped away.

Garth spat it out. "Get away from my mate or I'll kill you!"

"Not if I kill you first," the wolf retorted.

Lilly looked up and saw Luna get flung across the battlefield. She landed on her side and before she could get up, two wolves jumped on her. One raked his claws across her flanks, and the other one bit her throat.

"My pup!" Lilly screeched. Her motherhood mixed with her Eve traits, which made her easily fling the black wolf off her and dashed to her daughter's aid. She bit into the neck of the one biting her daughter and flung him to where he hit his friend. Both were sent spiraling away.

Lilly helped Luna to her paws. "I'm started to have second thoughts about this," Lilly breathed.

"No way!" Luna's eyes gleamed. "I'm helping my brother and packmates! I've never felt so useful in my life!" And with that, Luna flung herself at a large male and began clawing at his chest and forelegs until he sank to the ground.

The battle raged on for much longer. The Northern wolves still had their opponent outnumbered. The odds didn't look too well for a young wolf that just got home from Alpha school.

Eve was getting nervous. She had begun to gnaw on bones and snapped another one in two. She threw the pieces into the pile of other bones snapped into two pieces before starting to gnaw another one.

Winston was worried too. "Don't worry Eve. Lilly and Luna are safe in their den with Jake. Kate and Humphrey can protect themselves and our grandkids."

"So will Garth," Tony added. He was lying at the entrance of Winston and Eve's cave, waiting just as anxiously as they were.

Finally, Jake came running up to the older wolves, panting breathlessly. "Grandma! Grandpa!"

Eve and Winston stood up, ears perked.

Jake took a deep breath. He must've run a long way. He gulped before speaking again. "The rescue party is back. They look pretty bad."

Eve whimpered. "Bring the worst ones here immediately."

Jake blinked.

"I meant tell them to come here immediately. Honestly, do you expect me to ask you to carry your bleeding packmates across the field and climb up with them on your back to get into this den?"

"Uh…" Jake decided not to answer. He turned tail and raced back where her came. Winston and Eve trotted after him, Tony at their heels.

"Tell Luna and Lilly to help," Winston called.

Jake came to a sudden halt. He turned around and looked at his grandparents. "Luna and Lilly? But…they're not here."

The three Head-Alphas stopped as well. Winston tilted his head. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, they left behind the rescue patrol. I thought you told them to, so I didn't say anything," Jake replied.

Eve's eyes widened.

"Jake, we told them to stay here," Winston said, hiding the growing panic inside of him.

"Lilly isn't the exactly among the best fighters! Where are they?" Eve fretted.

"I…" Jake shuffled his paws.

"Jake, it's not like your in trouble. Just tell us. No need to be nervous," Tony assured.

Jake looked up. "Aunt Lilly…well…"

"Well what?" Eve pressed which made Jake even more pressured.

"Well…" Jake said the next part rather quickly. "Troy and Luna had disappeared in the fight which made Aunt Lilly freak out and run away to find them and Uncle Garth followed after them. Now all four of them are gone."

Winston and Tony didn't exactly catch the first part, but the second part did make them worried. Eve heard it all… and fainted.

So? Do I leave a good cliffhanger? Chapter 4 coming soon!