Only New Life, Can Defeat Death

Well, I have more ideas on this story than my other story 'Aftermath' and I'm updating so here you go with another chapter. Hopefully I could get my mojo back and update 'Aftermath'.

Winston stood with his body shaking from seeing Humphrey in this condition. He hasn't recovered from his accident from Eve and yet here he is. The one pup his daughter truly love and would give anything to be by his side through good and bad is now on the floor, bleeding and beaten beyond recognition. Winston howled almost immediately, alerting the wolves that were on patrol before Winston assigned them in the morning, running and sliding to a stop behind their pack leader.

Among the wolves were Eve, Danny, Felipe, Ashton, and Wraith, the others were just panting due to the long run they had to travel to get there. All the wolves were looking at Winston, waiting for a response.

"Winston, what is…?" Eve stopped when she smelled something that was awfully too familiar. Blood. And it was too much to be coming from one wolf, or so she thought.

"No… no no no no." Eve said suddenly, shaking her head side to side. Humphrey's body was limp, bloody, and massacred. Eve ran to Humphrey's side in an instant, looking over him but seeing too much blood spilling out of his body.

"Winston, it's too late. He's gone." Eve said with sorrow in her voice. Everyone around her gasped, some taking a few steps back and most turning their heads away from the gruesome scene. Eve sat down with her body turned away from Humphrey's, looking down and shedding a few tears.

"Winston, what happened?" Eve asked. Winston was sitting with his legs shaking violently as if they would give out at any second.

"I-I… Phillip. I saw Phillip run…" Winston was cut off from what he was saying as Eve lifted up her head and starred at him with killer intent in her eyes and her teeth bared.

"This is your fault Winston!" Eve snarled at him, making the wolves around them turn their heads to the two pack leaders.

"No Eve, It wasn't…"

"You did this too him!" Eve growled as she stood up. The wolves around them started to speak among themselves and Winston could hear exactly what they were saying.

"It is his fault."

"He should have sent out a search party.'

"Humphrey's dead because of him." All the wolves then turned back to Winston, seeing him stand up quickly and he began to take steps back.

"No, no it wasn't me, I saw Phillip run from here." Winston protested.

"But you didn't stop him when you saw him run like he seen a ghost, did you?" Eve barked.

"Eve, it wasn't me! I went to go search for him! I did not do this to him!" Winston yelled back, but still continued to back up.

"Yes you did." A new voice came from the forest trees behind Winston, making him divert his attention from the blood thirsty wolves in front of him to see who it was that was behind him.

Winston then saw Felipe walked from behind the trees and he had a serious look upon his usual happy-go-lucky face.

"You did this Winston, I told you to send out a search party for Humphrey, but you didn't listen. You wouldn't even care to listen to others then yourself. You rather do thing your way and not even care to listen to those around you. Not even caring for anyone else then yourself, just like you have always been since Alpha School." Felipe said as he stood in front of Winston, blocking his way forward from escaping.

"Felipe, I've always known what's best for this pack. When I see something that is not right I make it my problem to make sure that it doesn't happen again." Winston defended himself.

"Well, apparently Humphrey's death is your problem and fault then because you said that you've always known what's best for this pack. You saw Phillip running so you knew something was not right but yet you didn't take any extra precautions when you noticed that an extremely injured wolf was gone from your place and…" Felipe was caught off when Winston silenced him.

"ENOUGH!" Winston shouted, making his friend stay quiet.

"It's… It's not my fault." Winston whispered to himself. He turned and faced the wolves that were behind him, snarling and growling at their own pack leader.

"It's not my fault. I didn't know that Humphrey would die. I didn't know Phillip was running from Humphrey's body or what not. How could I have known that Humphrey would die!" Winston shouted as he looked at all the wolves before him. Eve walked up to him and sat down.

"This wolf before me isn't worth to be my mate." Eve began, making Winston gasp.

"This wolf, this, selfish, undomesticated, thing, isn't one of us. This wolf deserves to be killed for the death of a pup." Eve continued, and finished as she placed her paws on his neck. Winston couldn't move, he was stricken with fear and force him to let Eve kill him.

Winston felt the pressure on his neck, but was waiting for her razor claws to rip his throat out, but it never came. All that happen was him seeing Eve before him with her paws on his neck and then there was slight pressure.

His wind pipe was slowly being pressed on and forcing him to breath in as much air as he could. His eyes were blurring little by little, but could still make out some good details on Eve. Seeing her eyes filled with rage like he had seen so many times when someone would anger her.

Then, he saw paws come from the back of his head to the side of his cheeks, gently grabbing and slowly turning to the side. When his head turned to the farthest point, the paws continued without stopping of twisting his head. Right when his neck was about to snap from the twisting, Eve's paws on his throat tightens and he blacked out.

Winston woke up to find himself under a tree within its shade. The sight of the sun barely escaping trough the tree branches and leaves high up above, casting little warm filled rays from the sun onto Winston's face. He laid on his back, facing the tree tops and he sighed, happy it was a dream.

"Wait." Winston said suddenly. He rolled to his side and stood up, grunted ever so slightly when he felt a small pain in his head. He looked around and saw that he was just meters away from the Feeding Grounds and that there was a skid mark where he was that lead to a tree.

He chuckled to himself lightly as he shook his head side to side a little.

"I was in such a rush to find Humphrey that I tripped over a small root." Winston's play time soon ended when he remembered not seeing Humphrey in his den and that was the reason why he was out and looking for him. He took off in a sprint, carefully looking down to make sure he wasn't going to trip and knock himself out again.

He wasted a good 2-3 hours knocked out because when he woke up this morning, it was around 7 o'clock and now it was around 10. Anyway, as he was running he came upon a scent. He was glad he found this scent, but was scared too because the scent was that of blood.

He followed the scent and came upon a small stream. Upon coming to the stream, he slowed down to a small jog and looked around. All he saw was the rushing water and some salmon jumping out the downstream heading up.

He looked around and was trying to follow the scent, but it disappeared and he was left without any sings of blood except from earlier. He looked up and down the stream, seeing nothing but a few grey rocks, but one rock particular caught his eye.

Winston walked towards the rock and saw blood on it, a good amount on it. Suddenly, it hit him. Winston threw back his head and howled, alerting the wolves that could hear to head to where he howled. Why was he howling? He's going to send a search party.

"Im not going to make that nightmare a reality." Winston whispered to himself.

"Wh-What night-ma-mare?" Came a raspy voice from nowhere. Winston shot his head up and looked around, seeing nobody.

"Hello?" Winston called out, turning around and looking deep in the forest as far as his eyes would let him.

"I-I'm in the tree abo-above you." Came the raspy voice again, but Winston would listen to it and see who just it was. Winston looked up, but to his surprise, there was no one.

"Stop playing games with me, where are you?" Winston called out as he turned to face the stream.

"In fr-front of y-you."

Winston looked down and saw Humphrey on his stomach with blood on his back and sides, seeing blood flow into the stream and down.

"Winston, we heard your howl, what is it?" Came Jake, and along came were Eve, Danny, Felipe, Ashton, and Wraith.

"Humphrey needs help now. Eve, you take care of him while the rest of us get the supplies you need." Winston ordered and he backed up. Eve nodded and walked towards Humphrey, gently rolling him over on his side that had the least cuts and peeled off what was left of the bandage from before.

Humphrey whined slightly as he felt the sticky sap cling to his cuts and not let go, but Eve quickly pulled them off, removing the scabs and letting the blood flow quicker. Blood was seeping out his wounds and was staining the bank crimson red and the water took the red color downstream.

"I need some leaves and the sap from those trees up ahead." Eve ordered as she pointed to the trees across the stream with her muzzle. Winston and Wraith jumped across the stream and began to claw the tree trunk, getting the bark off and using it to put the sap that seeped out in the pieces.

When that was done, they both jumped back over to where Ashton and Danny had just came with leaves in their mouths.

Everyone left Eve alone with Humphrey so she doesn't have anyone to bother her. Winston and the group of wolves were all waiting downstream and were talking among themselves, mainly just one question in common.

"How did her get out this far in his condition?" Wraith asked as she lapped up some water, but soon regretting it when she tasted the iron taste of Humphrey's blood.

*Gagh*(That thing Lilly does in A&O when she sniffs the bones of the caribou, but Wraith coughs and spit's it out)

Wraith spits it out and coughs heavily, trying to get rid of the taste.

"Well, I'm not really sure how he got here, but I got a feeling I know who does." Winston answered with his face serious.

"Who?" Everyone asked at the same time, interested in who it might have been and that its something knew to learn.

"Phillip." Winston answered blankly.

"Phillip?" Wraith asked as she raised an eye brow.

"Whoa, hold up. You saying that Phillip drag Humphrey out here?" Danny asked.

"You ever heard of premonitions?" Winston asked the group, receiving nods.

"Well, I'm not blaming Phillip but I had a dream." Winston began to explain his dream to the wolves, instantly gaining their attention.

(Eve/Humphrey)

Eve was working on Humphrey, mainly just patching him up. After about 10 minutes of Eve cleaning and placing the bandages on Humphrey's sides, she stopped and walked in the stream, cleaning her paws from Humphrey's blood.

Humphrey was lying on his stomach facing the stream and saw Eve began to clean herself in front of him. Humphrey looked away from seeing Kate's mom wash herself in front of him. After Eve was finished washing herself, she walked out and shook her fur dry.

The drops of water hitting Humphrey's face and making him shake his side.

"Eve, where is Kate?" Humphrey asked, starting a conversation.

"She's with a friend of mine. Why?" Eve asked as she cast a glance out the corner of her eye to see him struggling to get up.

"I *ugh* I need to talk to h-her." Humphrey answered as he finally stood up completely. Eve sat down and watched as she saw him walk away into the forest. She didn't really care about him, and actually wanted him gone from her presence.

"Only 3 more months." Eve thought to herself as she shook her fur one last time and headed to her husband.

When Eve arrived she saw her mate and the others following behind and had the look of desperation in ther eyes.

"Eve, where's Humphrey? I need to talk to him." Winston asked as he approached his wife.

"He just left. I was washing myself and he was just… gone." Eve lied. Winston walked past his wife and began to sniff for his scent, but Eve though ahead. She had put a special kind of herb on Humphrey that masked his usual musky scent.

"Listen up." Winston called to the group.

"I am now sending out a search party for Humphrey. We need him and he can't be far. We need to find him quick and no questions. Now move out." Winston ordered as the group disperses in different directions and he and Eve in one direction.

(Humphrey)

Humphrey was limping slightly, his sides burning from the herb Eve had put on him and his heart rate was increasing. His mouth felt dry and his vision was doubling.

"Got… to… keep moving." He rasped out as he continued to walk towards what he believed to be the feeding grounds. Luckily, he was right and he walked out into the Feeding Ground and stopped to take in his surroundings.

He sat down and was panting heavily. He turned to the side and threw up. His stomach felt a little relieved and his mouth wasn't dry anymore. His vision began to clear up and soon, he was back to normal except the pain he had. Apparently, your body would heat up to get rid of any viruses or sickness you have, that is why you have white blood cells and antibodies… alright no more science stuff, back to story.

Anyway, Humphrey limped to the closes den he saw and poked inside, seeing a couple asleep.

"Why are they asleep when it's practically noon?" Humphrey thought to himself and he pulled his head out, but heard something.

"Humphrey?" came a soft voice from inside the den. Humphrey turned his head and saw Kate with her head up, showing over the sleeping couple. Humphrey smiled and pulled his head out. Kate jumped over the sleeping wolves with ease and ran out the den to see Humphrey sitting.

Her excitement overflowed, causing her to run and tackle Humphrey onto his back with her on top. Humphrey was about to cry in pain, but was silenced when Kate connected their muzzles. Humphrey couldn't hold it in but his cries of pain went right into Kate's mouth.

Kate pulled away and buried her head in his chest, nuzzling him and kissing his cheeks repeatedly.

"Please don't leave me again. I was worried about you." Kate said into his chest.

"Kate? Where did you go?" came another voice, but was more masculine, so it meant it was a boy. Kate head instantly rose and faced the den entrance, seeing dark grey paws exit before a solid grey pup exit.

"Kate?" the pup called out as he turned his head to the side, but stopped when he saw Kate on top of Humphrey.

"Oh, what do we have here?" the pup asked with anger sight in his voice.

"Oh, Phillip, this is Humphrey. You know the one I told you about." Kate answered as she got off Humphrey, letting him get up. Humphrey groaned a little when he rolled over, his weight shifting.

"Oh, yeah I know him. He was the birthday boy." Phillip responded plainly. Humphrey sat down next to Kate, but didn't take his eyes off Phillip. Something about him reminded him of something.

"Well Phillip, me and Humphrey are… good friends and I would like you to meet him officially." Kate covered up. She was almost going to say that they were together, but something told her not to say it… not yet at least.

"Hey, Phillip, I'm Humphrey. Nice to meet you." Humphrey greeted, extending his arm out. Phillip just put on a fake smile and reached out, but right before Humphrey was going to grasp it, Phillip pulled back.

"Sike." Phillip said as he placed his paw down. Humphrey saw his paw, and on it was some type of grey fur stuck to it.

"Good one Philip, but I think your butt is shedding, so I rather not shake." Humphrey joked, making Kate giggle. Phillip looked at Kate and then to his paws, seeing the grey fur that didn't belong to him and quickly brushing it off.

"Yeah, but the summer is coming to an end, and winter's coming up so it should stop." Phillip replied as he got the last of the fur out of his paws.

"So, what were you guys doing?" Humphrey asked.

"Oh, well I was just waking up and Philip came back from the bathroom about… I don't know, when did you come back?" Kate asked.

"Er, uh, I came back like a few hours ago. I went to the bathroom and hung out with my friend a little before coming home." Phillip replied. Humphrey sensed a little bit of worry in his voice, but put it aside.

"SO, what did you guys want to do?" Kate asked. Humphrey put on a thinking face and began to, of course, think. Phillip, on the other paw, looked past Kate and Humphrey and saw Winston running and looking around.

"Crap, he might be looking for me, got to get out of here." Phillip thought to himself.

"hey, while you guys think on something to do, I got to use the restroom again. Darn fruits make you go constantly." Phillip lightly chuckled before he left in such a rush that dirt clouds were formed behind him.

"Alright see you…" Kate couldn't say anymore until Phillip was just a dot in the forest before he disappeared.

"I don't remember him eating fruit." Kate thought to herself, but decided on deciding what to do in the meantime.

"Kate!" Kate heard her father call her name. She turned around and saw her mom and dad come running and stopped in front of her.

"Kate, me and your mother would like to speak to Humphrey for a moment." Winston explained and he looked at Humphrey.

"Is there something I did?" Humphrey asked. Eve walked up to Humphrey and sat down in front of him, making him nervous.

"You can say that." Eve answered plainly.

"Look, I didn't mean to watch you wash yourself. I couldn't move and you walked in and washed yourself in front of me. I didn't mean to look." Humphrey apologized with his face down and his face went bright red, along with Eve's.

Winston looked at his wife with his eyes wide open and Kate looked at Humphrey with her eyes wide open.

"Eve!"

"Humphrey!" Winston and Kate shouted.

Whoa, well this is interesting. Phillip is running, but the dream Winston had was just a dream... right? Could that dream be real? Like I said in Aftermath,"I have a reason for all my doing." Well, that is it for this chapter. Also, some news that needs to be announced. Author: REX and REY have posted a story named: Repairing a Broken Heart. This story is really good and he told me about it. It was all done by him and it seems really good because he told me a little about it. I encourage all you readers to read it and Review it for it is his first Fanfiction Story and it it truly important to him. Also, don't forget to review my stories, it seems as if you guys aren't liking them anymore because of the lack of Reviews, anyway, I wish REX and REY good luck on his first story. Peace.