Only New Life, Can Defeat Death
Sorry for not updating in so long, had a lot of homework to do. Amazing that at first, I was updating like crazy and now I update like, once, maybe twice a week, due to homework. I guess it's just the benchmarks and STAR testing going on, huh? Well, enough small talk and on with the story.
The blood puddle was slowly growing in size, making it reach Eve's limp body in seconds. Eve landed hard, but not too hard to cause too much damage, just going to be sore, but the wolf she tackled was in more pain. Winston sprinted to the bottom of the slope, seeing some wolves of the Western Pack watch in awe. As Winston approached the two wolves that lay on the ground, he noticed that the wolf Eve tackled was a pup, and was breathing like he was in a desert.
Eve shook her head side to side softly; not wanting to shake too hard and her vision become blurry. She stood up and placed her left paw on her chest, taking in deep intakes of air from losing it when she fell. When she got her breathing back to normal, she turned and looked for the wolf she tackled. She turned to her left when she heard a small whine of pain and small kicking. When Eve looked, her face fell in sadness, seeing a pup on his side, whimpering in pain and his paws moving slightly as if he was walking, but on his side. Blood reached Eve's paws and she knew it was a tremendous amount of blood loss and the pup would eventually bleed to death if not healed quickly.
"Eve, we need to get him to our den. No objections." Winston ordered as he lifted the pup by the scruff of the neck, but only to result in a loud cry of pain from the pup. His cry of pain was so loud that Winston was forced to gently lay him back down, though it was hard when he felt the pups' body shake in his grasp.
"No time, you need to work on him now or he might die." Winston said with worry and concern. Eve walked up to the pup and gently rolled him over, seeing a branch jabbed in his side, cutting him open and piercing his side, the blood running slowly, but gradually out his body. The pup whined and yelp in pain when his body weight was shifted, relieving the pressure from his wounds, but he was losing the fight to stay awake.
"Mom, what happened?" Kate asked as she walked friskily through the increasing crowd of wolves that were now interested in what was happening. Kate froze in her tracks, seeing her mom, quickly pull the branch out of a dying wolf pup, hearing the agonizing screams of pain from the pup. As Eve pulled the dead branch, it snapped from its old age and most of the small branched pieces were still embedded in his side. Eve tossed the broken part of the branch aside and continued to pull the rest of the shattered limbs out of his body. Wolves looked towards the dead branch and saw the dead twisting tree that was right below the edge of Winston's den, its main branch broken off and clearly seeing that it was missing.
Kate had tears in her eyes, seeing the wolf she desperately loved so much in pain and ran next to his side. Winston stood up and tried to get her away, but she cried, rejecting her father's demands. Winston ordered Luna to pull his daughter away so she doesn't get in his wife's way of saving the pup.
"Let me get to him!" Kate shouted as she tried t break free from Luna's grasp on the scruff of her neck. Humphrey's vision was blurring and the last thing he saw was a blurry image of Kate being taken away from his presence.
"K-Kate…" he said in a raspy voice, his vision died out and his body went limp.
(6 Hours Later (Winston's Den))
Eve was pouring water over Humphrey's bandaged up body, cooling his body and cleaning most of the dried blood that would easily come off from just pouring the water onto his fur. Eve had removed the last of the branches broken limbs from Humphrey's side in seconds after he lost consciousness. After that, she lifted him and ran up the slope to treat him there. The rest of the time, Eve was mixing herbs and liquids together like mad, trying to make a strong enough medicine to clean and protect the wound while also stabilizing the loss of blood, reducing the amount lost. She had to go back and forth and slowly pour the mixture in his mouth and on his wound. Humphrey's body would instinctively twitch when it felt the medicine being placed on his wound. Eve had to place a good coat of tree sap on his wound to make sure the herbs she placed stayed intact and finished it off with wrapping of leaves.
This took six hours and it was well past noon, leaving everyone who saw or heard what happened, and a mystery on the pups' current condition. What made this worst was that, while Kate was at Luna's, she heard some adult wolves saying that Eve did it on purpose, knocking Humphrey over. Some said that he was dead, that she killed him instead of helping him.
This brought even more tears to her eyes and she wanted to run, but Luna sat at the entrance of her den, watching Kate cry her heart out from the rumors of Humphrey's condition. Luna felt terrible for keeping Kate here and not letting her see Humphrey, but if she disobeyed Winston's demand and Kate ended up killing Humphrey from either hugging him or anything, she would be blamed for the cause.
"Kate, I don't like to see you this way, but you know for a fact that he'll be alright." Luna lied, trying to calm the depressed pup before her.
"H-he's,*sniff*, al-alive?" Kate sniffled, trying to stop crying so she could hear clearly. Luna put on a fake smile and walked towards her, wrapping her in her arms and holding her from the side.
"I heard Fabio and Raylene say that he's alive, but is resting." Luna lied once again, but she had to do this from seeing a pup in so much pain from losing someone.
"Is he a close friend to you?" Luna asked, trying to gradually get away from Humphrey's condition and on with another subject. Kate sniffled a few more times and wiped her tears away before answering her question.
"Ye-yeah, were close friends." Kate lied a little, she couldn't tell her that they were in love for some reason.
"I see, but hey, look at the bright side. When he recovers, you two can play around with one another." Luna said, cheering Kate up a bit. Kate nodded and felt Luna's grasp let off her somewhat, giving her a chance to escape, and she took that chance. Kate darted from Luna's side and ran towards the exit of her den. Luna was puzzled at first, but realized that she had to get her back so she took off. Kate had the upper paw; she could just run all the way to her parents den, since she was small enough to run under fallen logs and debris.
Luna had a bit more trouble. She had to jump over and dodge the fallen debris, but was much faster than Kate. Luna was gaining on Kate and noticed that they were already entering the Feeding Grounds, heading towards Winston's den. Kate's adrenaline kicked in, making her run non-stop up the slope and nearly sliding off the cliff of her parents den when she turned left. She ran in the den, but was pulled back away from an unconscious Humphrey and into the air.
Winston saw his daughter rush in and was quick to get her back from Hurting Humphrey beyond recognition. Kate tried as hard as she can to loosen her father's grip by squirming around, but couldn't. Luna came bounding up the slope and stopped instantly when she saw Winston's concerned face.
"Sir, please, it was an accident." Luna tried to apologize. Eve heard the commotion and walked up to where Winston was holding Kate. Kate saw her mom coming and tears were now falling off Kate's cheeks the closer her mother got. She wasn't crying that her mom was there, or that she might be punished, but the fact that her mom was covered in Humphrey's blood from carrying him up to their den.
"Let me go! I need to get to him!" Kate yelled as she reached her paws up and started to push her dad's mouth away from her, trying to get free. Winston put Kate on Luna's back and pushed Luna outside, making sure that Kate was stalled before she could run in.
"Kate, Humphrey's alright, but he needs to rest. You will be able to see him by tomorrow morning if he wakes up." Eve explained, trying to calm down her daughter. Kate jumped off Luna and ran towards the den, trying to get as close as she can to him.
"Kate, you need to calm down, you are going to hurt him even more." Winston explained. Kate couldn't hold it anymore and broke down crying in front of everyone.
"I have to get to him. I can't let him go, I need to be with him." Kate cried as she placed her head in her paws, soaking them. Winston and Luna stayed outside as Eve went back in and started to check up on Humphrey, seeing if his heart rate was back to normal, checking if he was still breathing in matter of fact.
As Eve approached Humphrey, she took note that his heart rate was well and that his sides were bleeding slightly from the bandage gap that was formed when it soaked up the blood. Eve carefully cut the leaf bandage and pulled it off Humphrey's wounds, accidentally peeling off the sap that held the herbs and medicine intact. Eve tossed them aside, but wouldn't get loose from her paw and swung it rapidly.
The bandage flung off Eve's paw, but accidentally flinging it towards the entrance of the den. As it flew, it tipped Winston's ear and landing in front Kate. Kate still had her head down, but the bandage landed and slid to her paws, letting her know something approached her. As she lifted her head, her gaze fell upon the bandage, stained and full of Humphrey's blood. Kate was frozen in fear, her heart rate skyrocketing and her eyes wide open. Winston quickly kicked the bandage away, and it fell of the edge of the cliff they were at.
Kate buried her head in her paws once again, crying her heart out of seeing the blood of the one she loved. Winston laid next to his daughter and brought her into a hug, comforting her and dismissing Luna. Luna nodded and left in such a hurry, trying to get out of there. Winston continued to comfort his daughter, promising everything was alright.
As Winston continued to comfort Kate, the sun was already out of sight and letting the moon take its chance to fill the night with its silver glow. Kate eventually fell asleep in her dads embrace, the small patter of her breaths ruffle Winston's rough neck fur. He looked in the den where he could see his wife working furiously on Humphrey, but it didn't seem right from where he was standing.
He saw Eve run to one side of the den, back to Humphrey, and run back to the side of the den, and back, repeating this over and over again. Winston became concerned about Humphrey and his current condition, but he couldn't leave Kate's side for she will wake up. He laid beside Kate, patience gone from him and he needed to know what Humphrey's condition is.
"Eve. Eve." Winston called out in a whisper, trying not to wake Kate up from her sleep. When he got no response, he called a little louder.
"Eve. Eve what's going on?" Winston asked, fear striking him as the thought of Humphrey being dead. Winston still didn't receive and answer, and was about to call out again, but he saw Eve walk out of their den, a tired expression on her face along with Humphrey's blood bathing Eve's paws.
"He's fine, but he will be unconscious for a while." Eve explained as she laid by Winston and quickly fell asleep outside with her family. Winston felt Kate snuggle close to him, getting warmer and curling up in a tighter ball. Winston's family was sleeping outside for the night, but it didn't matter because his den was keeping Humphrey's body from the cool winds that past by every once in a while.
"It's the best I can do for him, but he deserves so much better than this." Winston thought to himself before he let out a yawn and laid her head down and fell asleep with his family outside.
So what'd you think? I'm stopping the humor of this story and continuing on with the suspense and stuff like that. Just a heads up about that, and I will try to update my other stories as well. I just had an idea on this story and I didn't want to lose it so I updated this one first. Please Review and have a good one.