Up in heaven with Humphrey and Guardian, the shadow decended on them until a figure stoo right in front of them. Finally seeing who it was, Humphrey smiled and greeted the wolf with delight.
"Its great to see you again brother. Its been awhile." Humphrey said to McCabe.
"Yah its been what, one-hundred or so years?" McCabe asked.
"Yah, who can tell. Time up here is all whacky compared to down there." Humphrey replied.
Off to the side Guardian looked quizzically at McCabe. McCabe saw this and wondered what Guardian was looking at.
"What, do I got something in my fur?" McCabe questioned looking down his body.
"How did you get here. Reapers aren't permitted to be in heaven." Guardian pointed out.
McCabe smiled,"I've learned a few things in my hundred years of death. Its amazing what you can learn from wolves who die." McCabe explained. "Which reminds me why I'm here. Humphrey I know exactly what happened. I picked up some wold who got possesed. He told me what happened and I knew that I had to come here immediately." McCabe told him.
"What do you plan we do. We're up here and the problem is down there. How are we supposed to do." Humphrey asked. McCabe just smirked.
"Like I said. I learned a few things from some wolves. I know a lot of things."
Both Humphrey and Guardian looked at McCabe with interstate.
"I know how to resurrect you, and everyone else."
Back on Earth Caleb walked the outskirts of his pack. He was still depressed about yesterday's happenings. Seriously, what kind of wolf was he. He could'nt defend himself and the worst part was that he always needed his friends to bail him out. He hated that. He just wished that he could at least make Tucker leave him alone.
He sat down and looked out at the darkness of the forest. He had heard stories of wolves running away into the darkness and returning years later as great warriors. He wondered if the same thing would happen for him. Could he venture out into the darkness and return stronger and finally show Tucker who the boss is.
Caleb just shook his head. That was a stupid idea. Why would he risk his life just to show one wolf that he could stand up for himself. He could only hope that Tucker would grow out of his behavior when he got older. Maybe he would mature and maybe they would become friends.
It was only a thought though. He didn't know if that would actually happen. He could only hope.
He looked up into the sky and sighed. It was time for Smitty's next lesson. He honestly didn't want to go back right now. Maybe he could just miss a day and Smitty wouldn't care. 'No' Caleb thought. He knew that Smitty and the others would come looking for him and it would just make things worse. He just decided that it would be best to just go and get it over with.
He stood up and slowly started to make his way back to the center of the territory. He wished the packs territory was a little bit bigger so he could get farther away from others and so it wasn't such a short walk back.
He wished he could be like the others. He wished that he could just shake something like this off. The others went through similar situations except they actually dealt with it. They overcame their problems and moved on with their lifes. But he couldn't just do that. He had problems getting through his troubles. But that's just him. He was always the week link of their group. He's the youngest, the weakest, the smallest and he was even befriended last by everyone. He just kind of felt like the odd wolf out.
His thoughts ended when he started to hear other voices and he knew he was back at the pack. He walked through some bushes and saw all his friends circled around Smitty. He quickly walked over to them and sat down.
"Finally, now that we have Caleb with us we can start. Now today we will talk about Humphreys greatest enemy. A terrible wolf, a spawn from hell itself. A being known as Sal. Sal is known for his ruthlessness towards others, he is also very clever. Of course, everyone has their weaknesses, even demons."
Up in the world of the dead, Humphrey was back in his den, except it was basically empty. Only him, his closest friends, his family and Guardian stood in the den. They all paced around impatiently, waiting for McCabe to return.
Humphrey had brought him back to his den and cleared everyone out. The others that were left, McCabe explained the situation to them and told them how he planned to try and fix it. At first, no one knew how to react. But then they remembered that their family was in danger. Of course they were really distant decendents, but that didn't matter to them. Family is family.
When they all agreed to it McCabe left in a hurry, saying that he had things he had to collect before he could send them back to the living world.
No one knew how they felt about this. For the past hundred some years they've been living peacefully in paridice. Going back to Jasper, going back to fight, would be very difficult to do. It was a giant sacrifice that everyone would have to make.
Humphrey and Kate were over in a corner discussing some things on this topic.
"I'm not going to let you go down there, Kate. Things are way worse then they were all those years ago. You've already gone through enough pain and grief. I'm not going to allow that to happen to you anymore." Humphrey reasoned.
"Yah, but what about you," Kate started, now having tears form in her eyes," You've probably suffered the most out of anyone I have ever known. You have gone through so much. Don't you think it's someone else's turn to take on the problems concerning Sal."
"Kate, it's my fault this is happening again. If I just ended it all those years ago none of this would be happening. None of this darkness would ever exist. I started this fight, and now I have to end it." Humphrey ranted.
Kate sighed, knowing that there was no talking Humphrey out of this. She knew that once Humphrey set out to do something and would not stop until he completed his task. At least, she thought, that if he dies she'll be able to see him immediately again.
Just after there conversation ended, McCabe came rushing back in to the den with a bag of some sorts in his mouth. He set it down and began to immediately go to work.
"We don't have much time, Sal is almost to the pack with everyone's decendents. I really don't want to be collecting all there souls today." He uttered while he continued to do, whatever it was he is doing.
He drew some sort of giant symbol into the ground and then began mixing a bunch of different types of substances together. Everyone looked towards him in curiosity. None of them had seen anything like this before.
After awhile, McCabe took a step back from the symbol in the ground.
"I'm nearely done. Now all I need is a few strands of your fur. All of you who are going that is." He pointed out.
The wolves who gave McCabe there fur was David, Andy, and I. They refused to let anyone else go. They started this and they were going to finish this. They would meet up with Smitty and the pups at the pack. They would be taking McCabe but he told us he couldn't go. He has a responsibility being a reaper. If he left his post a lot of wolves wouldn't die. It would be mass chaos. But he told us he would still help as much as he could. Being a reaper still has its perks.
Finally, after a final puff of smoke McCabe smiled. He turned to the others and gestured for them to enter the circle.
"Come on, every one in the circle. Now nothing outside of it, don't want to be reborn with a limb miss..." He was cut short when he clamped his paws over his head. Nobody knew what was going on.
McCabe stared at everyone with sadness. "It has begun, wolves are being massacred. We need to hurry."
He then said a jumble of unrecognizable words and with one last chant he blew the powdery substance he had made and it engulfed Humphrey, Andy, and David.
"Good luck my friends." McCabe whispered. The smoke then disappeared and the three were no longer there.
Minutes before this happened, David and his pack mates were listening to the end of Smitty's lesson.
"It is said that Sal will return. Remember that no matter what this wolf says, he is vicious, unwolf, and will not hesitate to kill you in a moments notice. Overall this wolf is just pure evil." Smitty finished.
"Why thank you Smitty for such the nice compliments." A wolf said coming from the trees.
Smitty faced to where the wolf was and looked him straight in the eyes. "Sal." He said.
"The one and the only, my old companion. And before you ask how I'm here, I escaped just last night. Now I'm here to rid the world of you and your friends decendents." He gestured to the pups.
All the pups looked confused. "What is he talking about Smitty." Riley asked.
"So you haven't told them yet, have you Smitty. Well you see youngsters, you are all decendents of all the old great wolves." He was going to continue, but was cut short by the pack leader coming down, he was followed by his son Tucker.
"Who are you, and what are you doing in my pack." Carter asked.
"I was talking, that was very rude of you." Sal scoffed.
"I don't have to be nice to an intruder. Now state your business here." Carter demanded.
"Carter, I find that very unwise to talk to him like that." Smitty told him.
"What can one wolf do?" Carter asked in amusement.
"Don't you mean, thirty wolves." Sal said with a wicked smile.
Soon more wolves came out of the trees and within seconds thirty wolves stood at attention waiting for Sal's next command.
"Now, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. Roger and Rickey are related to Andy, Reese is related to David, Riley is related to McCabe, and last but certainly the least is Caleb, being related to Humphrey."
there was a moment of silence, that was short lived when Tucker broke down laughing. "You're telling me, Caleb is related to Humphrey, like Humphrey the Great. That Humphrey?" Tucker asked.
Sal just nodded, obviously irritated by Tucker laughing. He took it as mockery towards him.
"I don't like you or your father's attitude. First he interrupts me, then you laugh at me." With that he disappeared in a puff of black smoke, reappeared next to Carter and grabbed him the retreated back to where he originally was. Everyone who witnessed this stared at Sal now with shock and fear.
"Looks like this will be one of the first death of many I will make." Sal said as, in front of everyone, Sal viciously snapped Carters neck. Tucker screamed as he saw his father's life taken right in front of him.
Sal simply smiled. "Kill the rest of them, make them suffer. But as for those six, they're mine." He commanded his troops. They all nodded then took off across the pack. Soon the pack was full of screams and cries.
Sal walked towards the seven with a smile plastered on his.
"This us going to be fun" He said.