Chapter 14

The night of Hutch`s death was one of the saddest for the pack because he was considered one of the best alphas and he always treated everyone with respect and now he was just as dead as so many others were. He really hadnt deserved to die like this he was one of Kate and Humphrey`s best freinds playing a second in command role in the pack taking groups out to hunt and occaisionally hunting with Humphrey and Kate. He had alwayd been their for Kate in alpha school and when Humphrey couldnt. the same went for Humphrey, Isbel, and his parents when they were still alive that is. The funreal was sure to be a sad one and it was sure to draw many mourners. All the members of the pack were beginning to wonder if the humans would even take notice of the thing though it was also hoped they wouldnt because humans had a habit of just dropping bombs and firing missiles at their problems, espically the Americans (we have so many bombs and missiles we have to do soemthing with 'em)

"I cant belive he`s gone" said Isbel before breaking down and crying. "We know" said Humphrey calmly "we know" Kate asked Humphrey to leave for a second which confused Humphrey for a second then he got it Kate had always been the more capiable of comforting others except for herself which she could never seem to manage. Humphrey decided to go with Kayla and Tyler to go see Hutch`s sister Luna she would probably be very upset as well they got to her den to find she had gone to sleep they wondered if she even knew about her brother`s death. Humphrey entered her den and woke her she saw the look on her face and she knew immiedatly something was wrong. She insnatly shook the sleepiness off of herself and asked Humphrey "whats going on? did something happend?" Humphrey nodded and then said "Hutch was killed tonight on a patrol with us" he continued "Luna, your brother is dead." Luna felt her legs collapse beneath her and she broke down crying Hutch had been all she had left of her family and her self she had lost her parents and now her only brother. Humphrey left her to mourn in peace he said as he left "the funreal is the same time as all the others" then left.

Wow the way that girl broke down when she heard about the murder made me laugh and want to cry at the same time though i couldnt figure out if the tears were from sadness or joy. Oh well i was doing my job eitheir way but the one thing that kept bothering me was the shadow i had seen the one telling that girl i killed to go to the plains he had sounded exactly like my voice and the shadow`s figure seemed so familiar and he was in this pack so why did he want them dead? One more mystery to my now very screwed up life i was expecting to hear the voice say "mind your own buisness and ill mind mine" but it stayed silent. I decided to at least watch the funreal in the morning at least apparently that Hutch had been a well respected member of the pack but oh well i was just following orders from Mr. Mystery voice. It heard that comment and said "the less you know about me the better" then went silent man i had to find away to keep it from hearing me "i heard that" it replied to the thought "ugh" i said then before it could say something else said "dont even fucking think about it."

As morning came about many people in the western pack began to flood the funreal grounds the place that was all to familiar to the pack. Humphrey would be the first to speak followed by Kate surprisingly Kayla, nor Winston had wanted to speak making everyone suspicious for some reason probably becuase everyone had a paranoia level like no other. (i should have so said "OVAR 9000") Humphrey began about how Hutch and he had been freinds everysince Hutch had left alpha school and how when he and Kate had taken the pack leader position Hutch had been such a help and how he had left many people who cared about him behind is this brutal death. Kate came up woth tears in her eyes and basically told the same story only she had one extra, how Hutch had been her best freind in alpha school and besides her father he pushed her to be better and he always managed to make her feel better when she got herself hurt in alpha school which had been very easy to manage for them all.

"Oh how moving" i thought to myself "he helped heal your little boo boo." My voice obviously would hear this and say "very funny mr. sma-" "smart ass" i finished for him. Then i continued "you need to find another term to call me you know smart ass is getting older ver quickly." I had caught him by surprise and it took him a moment ot respond with "sorry smart ass is all i have so live with it" and then he shut up. The funreal precession ended on the usual sad note and the burial and i must say the burial grounds were now full of bodies i counted close to 50 and yet the pack was still around that shocked me. They were smallish looking thought they had dwindeled from a little over 150 to right at 100 which was easily noticed. I wondered who and how many i would be told to kill next? I would just have to wait and find out i guess.