A Son of Wolves
Chapter 21: The Complete Pack
The chaos outside the zoo only escalated now that three children what looked like being chased by wolves just ran into the zoo where an entire pack of them are loose. Animal control had just arrived, but they were still waiting for the armed police. Until they arrived, no-one was going in, and nothing was coming out. But now there were new developments, three children that couldn't protect themselves, now in a fenced area with a pack of wolves that have already killed were inside, they had to do something. The police were gathering zoo staff and regrettably, anyone who could handle a gun ready to go in and save these children if they hadn't already been found. The public had been pushed right back and away from the gates, constantly being advised to go home, but they wanted to see these things go down. The sheriff of the town briefed his men and anyone else who was helping, twenty seven people ready to go in. This was it, the moment they should have killed those wolves the moment they first started causing trouble back in the wild. But then…
"Sir!" One member of the firing line called out. The sheriff looked around and that one man pointed out down into the zoo. He walked up to them and looked down the long path. Three children were walking towards them rather casually; the same three they saw run in earlier. It was a miracle they were still ok. But why were they walking? They should be running if they are in danger.
"Kids, come on get out of there!" The sheriff shouted down to them. They didn't answer, but they did keep moving towards them. But too slowly for his liking, they needed to be faster. "Come on, qui…" He didn't get to finish until he was something that could be the end of the children. A wolf came walking around the corner behind them, then another and another until the entire pack with their pups came walking around behind them. But halfway down that road, the pack stopped while the children walked on. The firing line gripped their guns a little tighter and a sweat ran down their foreheads.
"We can get them out!" Leo yelled as they continued to walk to them.
"What?" The Sheriff asked, puzzled.
"We can get them out and back into the forest." Ciara replied. The manager of the zoo walked towards the line after hearing what sounded like a negotiation plan.
"We can't do that kids!" He yelled to them. "They're too dangerous."
"We have a plan, we can get the safely to the forest where they belong without anyone getting hurt." Leo said as they stopped not far from the firing line. "Just give us a chance and we can do this without anyone getting hurt. Or do you want to be known as the sheriff that cut down an entire pack of wolves and the manager who let it happen?" They two men looked at one another and the others who were listening looked back at them for an order. It was like some mental conversation they were having. Do they let them go, trust these kids in saying no human or animal will be hurt? Or do they grab the kids and shot the wolves while they're there.
"Orders sir?" One of the firing line asked. The sheriff looked down to him and then back up to the manager.
"What do you want to do?" He asked. It was the manager's choice really; it was his animals after all. He looked at the children, he didn't know how they could get them out, but he didn't have any idea how he could either. He wasn't going to be responsible for the deaths of all those wonderful creatures behind them. They must have done something to get in there, find them and walk back here with them without being hurt. So, what harm really could it do, if they could get them out of there and keep everyone safe?
Al was driving around Jasper looking for the children in his care. He was now beyond mad and worried. He was furious with Leo for locking him up and Rick and Ciara assisting in his release, but now all three of them for running away like they did. He wasn't going to go after Leo in the forest and running away with what looked like wolves again, but he lost sight of Rick and Ciara a few more blocks away. So he ran back to the care home, retrieved his car and started driving in hope to find them and catch them this time. He cursed himself; he should have known they were sneaking out to see him this morning. And Caitlyn said they were still asleep. The few words that kept running around in his head constantly…"She was so fired". She disobeyed and lied to him, let the children in his and her care be put in danger and let them interfere with Leo's recovery. So now he was clearing up her mess, he'd deal with her later.
He turned onto the high street, but as soon as he did, several police officers on motorcycles and a few in cars pushed the traffic to the sides of the road for something, or someone. Al was forced onto the pavement by the law; he stepped out and looked over his car as they passed at walking pace. But following not far behind them was something that made his jaw drop as well as everyone else watching. Leo, Rick and Ciara, followed by a pack of nearly one hundred wolves behind came walking through. They saw Al gob smacked and all cheekily waved at him, he was far too in awe to do anything.
"Ok your plan to walk out the front was pretty good." Rick chuckled after looking back ahead.
"I didn't see any other way out, so what else was there to do?" Leo laughed as well.
"How you doing mom?" He asked. Kate and Humphrey trotted up to him.
"Why are they staring at us?" She asked looking around at the humans who started taking photographs at the one in a life time spectacle.
"Well do you usually take the pack for a walk around the town?" He asked back to Winston who only smiled when seeing what he was on about, Kate smiled as well and giggled. Suddenly, there was a great weight on his back and something climbing up him. He looked over his right shoulder just as Sahara peeked her head over and held tightly to him and he put an arm around her to hold her steady. He was basically giving her a piggy back.
"This here, is just too cool!" She giggled.
"You and humans." Humphrey chuckled.
"Hey, without me, you wouldn't have raised such an amazing wolf here." She replied rubbing Leo's hair. They all started laughing, this was amazing, they were going to be free! The pack territory was cleared out and abandoned; they were heading home again with all their pack once more. But as Sahara's laughter started to subside, she noticed something. She inhaled the air around her and breathed in the scents coming in towards her as the breeze gently blew into her face. It wasn't only the scents that came to her that wasn't right, but a feeling as well made her uncomfortable. Rick, who walked on Rick's right and beside Sahara still on his shoulder, somehow sensed something wasn't right with her.
"What's wrong?" He asked and gaining the attention of the others.
"What's that way?" She asked pointing directly down the road.
"The old quarry, why?" Ciara answered.
"Well, the park is that way." She replied pointing down a road to their right. They all looked down it; they could see the forest all the way the other side.
"She's right." Rick said. "We're going the wrong way."
"So where are they taking us?" Leo questioned as he looked back to the police leading them. He placed Sahara back down and jogged faster to one of the officers on their bikes. "Hey, the forest was down that road back there, why are we going this way?" He asked.
"Orders are to take you this way, it's faster." The officer replied. Leo sensed something in his voice. It wasn't honest. He slowed it down and walked back to the others.
"They aren't taking us to the forest." He whispered to them after waving for his grandparents, Uncle and Aunt to catch up.
"Then where are we going?" Eve asked.
"The quarry is this way, but why go there." Rick questioned.
"I don't know, but I don't like it." Ciara replied. Suddenly Leo was hit with why they were going this way.
"The quarry has that fenced off area right?" He questioned. "They're taking them there and they're going to shot them." He said wide eyed.
"What?" Tony gasped.
"You killed too many times; in there eyes you're too dangerous to be let go. They'll have to put you down." Leo said as he started looking around. He noticed in every police vehicle they were holding a rifle, shotgun or pistol, this wasn't a freedom act, this was an elimination.
"What are we to do?" Kate asked as Humphrey pressed himself closer to her.
"Spread the word back that we're going to run, and don't stop until we get to the forest." Leo whispered back to Tony who nodded and told the wolf behind him who carried it back and so on. They waited a moment until the word was spread and there was an opening they could take. "Whatever happens, don't hurt any of the humans." Leo added as a road to their right started to come. He started moving that way and towards an officer on his bike blocking the way. Suddenly, he pushed him and the man fell of and the bike crashed down. "NOW!" He bellowed. Winston howled for a split second and the entire broke into an all out sprint with Leo, Rick and Ciara leading seeing as they knew where to go. Wolves grabbed pups of their own and of others so they could move faster and provide them protection. They jumped over the fallen bike and bolted down the road sticking closer together. Kate and Humphrey ran right beside their pup.
They ran down the end of that road and veered right down another after seeing it was a dead end. But then a quick left and down a wide alley in which they all clambered into. "Where are we going?" Winston asked as they ran down the alleyway.
"To the forest. Unless you want to be shot grandpa?" Leo questioned back. The erupted out of the alley and turned left, but there was a road block waiting for them. They slid to a stop while the pack was still coming out.
"Go back!" Ciara screamed, so they ran the other way. But once again, another road block stopped them. Across the road was another Alley, they didn't have a choice.
"This way!" Leo called out as they ran again into it. They sprinted as fast as their legs could carry them, but it was a fatal mistake. On the other side was a dead end, a wooden fence blocking them from moving. "NO!" He bellowed in annoyance as they crashed into it in an attempt to run through it. It creaked, but it didn't come off.
"What are we going to do?" Kate asked desperately.
"Rick, help me." Leo said as they took a few steps back. Rick saw his plan and agreed, right before they ran forwards and slammed into the wooden fence, it creaked and cracked, showing it was old and breakable. They stepped back and did it again, cracking it again, but it was taking too long and soon the authorities would be behind them and close them in. "Dad, Garth help us." Leo said as he rotated his shoulder around in pain. They nodded and stepped to their side to help.
"After three..." Rick said. "One, two, three!" And they ran full steam at the fence and at the same time collided with it. This time they creaked and Garth burst all the way through it. But the hole wasn't big enough.
"Quick get the planks off!" Leo said frantically. Garth ran back over and they all started pulling the planks away and off. Ciara helped seeing as she had thumbs for a better grip and only moments later did they get them all off. "Everyone through!" Leo yelled.
"Move it!" Winston shouted and running through with the pack just behind him. Rick ran on through while Leo and Ciara guided the pack through the hole and ripping away sharp pieces that got in the way. When the last wolf ran through, the police started coming through, so they made their exit.
The alley finished just after the fence, and before them was the stretch of field just around some tree and the forest on the other side. It was a straight shot home. But upon closer inspection, it wasn't a field, and around the trees, they found the one place they hated more then the zoo.
Stupidly, they ran into the construction site, but they stopped at the entrance while Leo and Ciara moved back up to the front. "What do we do?" Tony asked looking back into and through the gates of hell and looking at their version of hell itself. Leo looked back at the police coming after them, what choice did they have?
"Run through, destroy anything on your way if you get the chance." Leo replied.
"What? Leo!" Kate exclaimed.
"We don't have a choice mom. It's these human, or those ones!" He replied pointing back to what looked like an army coming after them. "Destroy anything you can, but don't hurt anyone!" Leo ordered as he then turned and ran.
"Come on." Eve added and running after him with the pack in hot pursuit. Kate ran after her son as she charged through the gates and into the site. Instantly they were seen and heard, so workers started screaming, yelling and trying to get out of the way. To Leo's surprise, there hadn't been much work done to the place since they burst into it last time. Support beams for buildings were up and bricks were being laid, that was as much that had been done. But while they were here and running for their lives, what harm would it do to complete a spot of sabotaging do while they did? Leo ran straight for an barely even started structure and with Rick and Garths help, managed to push the beams down and over, causing them to fall onto the next beside it, therefore knocking that over and then the one beside it. It was a domino effect, and it did that to the eight structures side by side, two of which had nearly been completed. All that was left was rubble on the floor. The pack stated breaking things and pulling bars off objects and breaking what they thought would prolong their activities here. But for once, they managed to do some serious damage.
Robinson was holding a meeting when he heard the crashes and clangs, so he came bursting out of his office block, but at the wrong time. Leo ran into him and the two fell into the dirt. Robinson was left winded, but that seemed to clear when he saw Leo. "You?!" He exclaimed and then trying to grab him. But Leo slithered away.
"I win Robinson, not you!" He snarled as he ran away and disappearing into the trees with this pack and friends. He watched as the boy who came running into his site constantly to ruin everything ran away again. But this time, he smiled, not because he had a plan for him, but a plan for his dogs.
Leo ran in the midst of his pack as they ran around and jumped over objects towards. He looked around for his friends and family as he did, well, mainly his family, it wasn't hard to spot two humans running with them. But he didn't spot them the entire run back to the Valley. They came bursting out of the trees and sliding into the open space that was the Valley. The smells of the Northern pack still lingered from this morning, but they didn't exactly trust in that, they'd wanted to be certain they were indeed gone for good. They all panted heavily and Leo caught up to his friends who were hyperventilating beyond relief. But they didn't feel safe yet, not until they were certain they weren't being followed, everyone was here and the territory was clear. Leo stepped out a little more and looked around carefully. This morning they were crawling around everywhere and he saw them run away. They were defiantly gone. He turned around, but he was slammed into the ground by his mother and his face licked quickly. He laughed as she did while she kissed and licked him all over his face. The pack started laughing and cheering with one another while Humphrey trotted over to his family and joined in with their affectionate embrace and licked his mate and son while they all laughed it around. "Oh Leo we love you so much." Kate giggled after pulling her head back. Leo sat up quickly and pulled his parents to him with an arm each.
"I love you too." Lily then came running over and put her arms around them, followed by Garth, then Winston and Eve finished off the family embrace. It was when Leo opened his eyes again and saw his friends standing around awkwardly and was released and ran over to them and embraced them also. "Thank you guys, for everything."
"You're our friend; we couldn't let you do this alone." Rick chuckled as he and Ciara hugged tighter.
"So these humans helped you then son?" Winston asked as he approached.
"Yes grandpa, these are my friends Ciara and Rick."
"I'd like to thank you for what you did." Winston smiled.
"You're welcome sir." Rick said with a courteous bow and Ciara follow suit as still a sign of submission to the Alpha.
"What are you going to do now?" Leo asked. "You can't go back or Al will have you moved somewhere."
"They can stay here." Kate said as she came walking over.
"What?" The three exclaimed.
"You helped us, and in return, I'd like you to be a part of the pack." Winston smiled.
"We all would." Tony added.
"You mean…" Leo questioned as a smile grew on his face.
"They can stay with us." Kate smiled. Leo cried in happiness and embraced his friends and then his family, spinning his grandfather and then his mother in the air in glee. They all laughed and two new humans were new a part of the pack.
But while he was spinning his mother, something flew into his senses, something that made him feel uncomfortable. While still holding her, he looked across the Valley clearing, but his eyes rested on a black wolf sitting slap bang in the middle and watching them. Kate followed his gaze and after he dropped her, she pointed him out to her mother.
"Winston." Eve said and pointing the wolf out to him.
"Who's that?" He asked narrowing his eyes. The whole pack looked on as they too started to sense something strange and then resting their eyes on the wolf watching them.
"Is that…" Tony started.
"Sanali." Leo growled and walking off towards her.
"What?" Winston gasped. "I thought you said they were gone?" He questioned while he, Eve, Lily, Garth, Tony, Humphrey, Leo and Kate walked over towards her.
"So did I." Leo grumbled. "What are you doing here?!" Leo demanded as he neared.
"I came alone, I swear." She answered with a smile and getting to her paws.
"We don't trust your promises, especially me." Tony growled.
"And I don't blame you." She sighed. "But I am here alone, my pack are heading home but I stayed."
"Why?" Eve growled and they all stopped a few feet away from her.
"I am indebted to him." He said pointing to Leo.
"Me?" He asked.
"You beat me in the challenge, but you let me keep my pack and my life, I am in your debt." She answered. Leo looked around at his family; he saw in their eyes that she was being truthful. He had the chance to take everything away from her, but he didn't, he gave her another chance and returned her life.
"Fine, leave and you are out of my debt." Leo replied.
"I was thinking more along the lines...of a deal." She grinned.
"What?" Garth gasped. "Get lost you psychotic bitch! You don't keep your deals." He growled. Sanali smiled at him, her son, right there and carrying her ferocity, her eyes, but Tony's fur. How was it she only inherited her eyes? In a way it was a little unfair, but she loved him, no matter what he thought of her. She did ask Tony not to say who she was, so he must have kept that promise.
"Garth, enough!" Lily snapped and thwacking him around the head good and hard.
"What deal?" Winston asked sounding interested.
"I've seen what can become of this, unique, pack." She answered while she started pacing back and forth. "You are weak, I have strength, you have prey, we don't. You have land, we don't, and you have my son! And I don't!" She then said a little more angrily and pointing at Garth. "I think we can come to a truce over this. I want our packs to be allies, not enemies."
"What did you say?" Garth asked stepping forwards. Lily tried to hold him back thinking he was going to attack, but he slipped easily out of her omega paws.
"Garth I'm you mother." She replied. His eyes widened and he whipped his head around at his father who only nodded. He didn't understand. "You have your father's fur, but my eyes and, fiery, temper." She giggled.
"It's not true, my mom died after I was born."
"That's what you told him?" She asked looking around to Tony. He only shrugged his shoulders. She sighed. "Life was dangerous in the Northern Pack, so I brought you here my son."
"I'm not your son." He snarled, this time Lily jumped in front of him and forced him back. "My mother is…"
"Right there." Tony finished. "I'm sorry son, but she's right there." Garth couldn't believe what he was hearing, he knew it was true, but he didn't want to believe it. His own mother, he was led to believe was dead, now here in front of him, the leader of the Northern Pack, who invaded their territory and chased them out to be severed to the humans. He wasn't sure how to feel. She looked back to Winston.
"I want our packs to be allies Winston, this is a truthful offer and one I want completed. You need strength for allies and we need prey, our pack is starving. We will be at your beckoning call in exchange for the usage of your hunting grounds every now and then. Do we have a deal?" She asked holding out her paw.
"You get straight into it don't you?" Winston chuckled.
"I want this badly, my pack needs this." She said desperately. "I want to see my son again; I want my pack to be safe and healthy and our pups. We can help you with your human problem whenever you need us."
"I do hope you're not talking about me." Leo chuckled.
"Dad do it." Kate smiled. "This can work out."
"She's right dear; this is good for all of us." Eve added and coming to his side. He looked down at her paw. He met with her jade green gaze and smiled. He took her paws in his.
"We have a deal." Eve spun around and howled the news to the pack who all howled and cheered in celebration with one another. "Would you like to stay tonight? We can find you a den."
"Oh no thank you, I need to get back before the pack come back looking for me and to tell them about this." Sanali smiled. "But I'll be sure to visit my son." She then walked over to him and licked his cheek. "You did a good job Tony, thank you."
"Can I just ask…?" Sahara said after walking over from the pack and gaining Sanali's attention. "How are you still alive? This pack is because of me, so how are you?" She smiled.
"This pack isn't the only one that has a few strange wolves that wear eagle feathers." She giggled before walking away towards the trees.
"Hey!" Garth called out. She froze and looked back at him. "I'll see you around mom." He smiled. She returned it before continuing walking.
"Well guys, shall we get back to what we usually do?" Humphrey asked after a moment of watching Sanali disappear into the trees.
"How about we go to our den and plan out a moonlight howl tonight, we must celebrate." Eve suggested. They all agreed and after Leo motioned for Ciara and Rick to come, they caught up and they all walked with one another. But when they did, he had one brainwave of an idea, one that could solve so many problems.
"Hey mom dad." Leo said making them walk back to him "I had a thought."
"Which is?" Humphrey asked.
"Well as I'm adopted…"
"Well spotted genius." Kate giggled.
"Seeing as I'm adopted, and Ciara and Rick are looking for a family, I was kinda thinking…"
"Would we take them in?" Kate finished.
"What?" The two humans exclaimed.
"I was already thinking that." Kate giggled again.
"We already talked while we ran here." Humphrey added. "If you're going to stay here, then you'll need a family. We would very much like you to be in ours."
"You can't be serious." Rick gasped as they all came to a stop and he others walked on.
"Deadly." Kate laughed at their reactions. "Would you like that?"
"Would we?" Ciara exclaimed. "Of course we would!"
"Who wouldn't?!" Rick added.
"You'd better start calling us mom and dad then." Humphrey chuckled. Kate jumped up onto Ciara and licked her cheek and then reaching over for Rick and while still on Ciara, did the same to him. Humphrey repeated the process. "Welcome to the family guys."
"A weird family." Leo added. The two humans ran over to him and they all wrapped their arms around one another. "Now you really are my family." He said letting them go and walking on. Only, Kate didn't. She ran full steam ahead of them, passed her parents, sister and brother-in-law and up the slope and disappearing over the edge. Humphrey, being worried ran after her, quickly followed by his children and met with the rest of the family at the top where they found her vomiting into a hedge beside the den. Most looked away to give her some privacy, but Humphrey and Eve were by her side. She was done not long after and she wiped off her muzzle.
"Honey are you feeling ok?" Eve asked as she turned back around.
"I am now." She replied and spitting again to get some of it out from between her teeth. "Are you guys still throwing up?"
"I haven't for a few days." Garth answered.
"Last I did was yesterday." Lily replied.
"It can't be that bad meat doing it to you then." Garth proposed.
"Honey what's the matter?" Humphrey asked.
"Must be a bug, I'll be ok." She replied and flashing him a reassuring smile. Only Eve, she wasn't satisfied, she knew there was something more to this, and maybe Kate didn't know. She inhaled, but surprisingly she didn't smell what she was looking for.
"You're not in heat." Eve said.
"So?" Kate asked and looking back at her bewildered.
"I am." Lily answered. "So are all the other she-wolves."
"I was in heat before we were taken."
"Trust me, I know she was." Humphrey chuckled. Only Eve didn't see this as funny, she was, if anything, happy. She was seeing something she thought couldn't happen, something that could never happen. There was only one reason to suggest why she wasn't in heat, only one. She reached under her daughter and prodded her belly. Kate's eyes widened and she froze while looking at her father, as well as everyone else who didn't know what to think.
"Err…mom? What are you doing?"
"You're stomach is firm." She replied while sitting back up.
"What?" Kate gasped.
"Kate…you're pregnant." She smiled. Kate didn't know what to say, or think. She looked down to her belly and placed a paw over it, indeed, it was hardened, directly over the spot her womb was. She looked back up to Humphrey, then Leo and then back down to her stomach.
"How?" She muttered.
"I never said it was impossible, just near." Eve smiled.
"Oh…my…god." She muttered again. "Humphrey I'm pregnant!" She screamed and tackling her mate. A tear fell down her face while he pushed himself up and kissed her deeply. "This is amazing!" She cried with a tear falling down her face.
"I'm going to have siblings." Leo smiled.
"You mean "we"." Ciara added and shoving him playfully.
"Mom that's great." He laughed and running up to her. "Can this day get any better?" He laughed loudly and embracing his mother and father.
"Just wait until tonight at the howl, it's shall be the greatest one yet!" Winston announced.
"I think we should head home." Humphrey said after her was released from Leo's grip. "We need to show our children around."
"All of them now dear." Kate added and licking his cheek.
So, all in one day, Leo escaped from the children's mental home, he connected with his inner wolf, he and Tony came to an understanding, the territory was reclaimed, they befriended the Northern Pack, the United Pack escaped the zoo, Kate and Humphrey were reunited with their pup, adopted two more, Kate discovered she was pregnant and her and Humphrey's dreams were not completely shattered as they once thought. They did some damage to the construction site, again, Garth discovered his mother, again, but the greatest part of the day, was that now they were a pack again, under the protection of three humans. It wasn't only Leo; it was also Ciara and Rick that were foreseen to save the pack. Leo was destined to be given back and meet them and therefore bring them back to join in on this prophecy. It wasn't just him, it was them as well that was written in the stars.
They were taken back home, irritably, finding the smells of the Northern Pack lingering. But they didn't' care too much, the scents would go in time, they were far too happy and joyful to think about the negatives. There wasn't much to show them, seeing as it was all in one room. They new the back area, but they were just as happy to have their own home and a family. What made the parents and Leo laugh was when the discovered they'd have to wear the same clothes for a while until they find a way to get fresh ones. And it didn't help the fact they already reeked of sweat from the amount of running they had been doing all day. But they were shown the pool, so they had chances to bath and clean their clothes. Kate was glad to have a girl in the den rather then two boys. Although she did enjoy it, calling them "her boys". But now she had three boys and a girl.
But now she was expecting more. She spent most of the afternoon either making out with her mate, staring down at her belly and wondering how many were growing in her or watching her children playing across the Valley. She still couldn't believe it. Fifteen years of trying to have pups and it never worked, but now, she was blessed with them. A ninety eight percent chance that it wouldn't work and she'd never conceive, but now she had finally been granted her dream to come true. The dream of carrying her mates pups. She will love them with the same love she had for Leo and the same she'd grow for Ciara and Rick.
Leo couldn't contain his excitement. His mother was pregnant, he was going to have brothers and sisters, his best friends were now his siblings, what was there not to enjoy about this day. He wanted to show his brother and sister around the territory, the dangers and where what liked to lurk and feed. But what he really wanted them to do was connect with their inner wolf. He wanted them to hear that howl like he did, to embrace what they were meant to be. They were meant to be here, how else could they really explain why they wanted to come here and see him before. To how Kate and Humphrey warmed up to them so quickly. But really, it was how they were able to understand what the pack was saying. Their imagination is like that of an open minded wolf pup, much like Leo was. That was the main reason why everything was how it was. It would take time though, he wouldn't be able to make them see and feel like he does in a day. But he wanted that more then anything, as did they. They wanted to know what it was like to sense and feel things like he had been doing to them all these years. They wanted to embrace their inner wolf.
But he didn't have much time to teach them before they were called back. They weren't far out of the Valley when they heard a howl, but this one coming from Winston, and it was an alert and to get to him fast. They ran again, and it wasn't long until the emerged out of the trees that they came across a funny sight. The pack was gathered around the small rise, Winston and Eve stood over it, but it wasn't that, it was the fact there were three humans stood in the middle of it all. And not only that, it was Robinson. Leo ran over, regrettably as to not let the pack rip them to shreds and as much as Leo would like that, he wouldn't.
"What do you want?!" Leo demanded as the pack made room for him, Rick and Ciara to walk through.
"How did you know we were here?" Robinson asked.
"We saw you." Ciara replied. "Now what do you want?"
"We wanted to let you know of our plans." One of the other suited men replied and shifting his tie around in nervousness. The siblings and pack all saw the cold sweat proving fear was in them drip down their foreheads.
"Plans?" Leo questioned. "The plans we're going to stop until you leave? What is there to talk about?"
"All I'm here to do is show you this." He said reaching into his jacket and pulling out a piece of paper. He handed it to Leo who quickly took it and stepped back. He unfolded it several times before seeing what is was. "It's our latest plan for the site; I've decided to take a different approach." Leo showed it to Rick and Ciara; they weren't sure what it was. It looked like a giant fenced off area, with the odd tree dotted around, with platforms and only a single building. He looked up at his parents who walked onto the slope to get a better look down.
"What is this?" Rick asked.
"We chose to abandon the plans for a new street." The third suited man replied.
"Instead we want to build a new part of the park." Robinson finished.
"A what?" Winston gasped from over the rise.
"What do you mean?" Leo asked.
"We want to build an enclosure, where your dogs…" He was growled and snarled at from all sides the moment he said that word. "Furry friends…" He added. "An enclosure where they are free to come and go as they wish, but also for the public to pay to come into. We want to start a project to integrate this pack with the outside world."
"This is a win, win scenario." The second suit replied. "You can have that part back, but so do we." Rick was about to say something when Robinson beat him to it.
"But that's not all." He continued. "We can see you've been trusted by this group, so we'd very much like you to work with us on this, work there when it's done and we'll even build an outdoor accommodation for you three to live in. How does that sound?"
Leo, Rick and Ciara just stared back at him with loose jaws, whereas the pack didn't understand a word of it.
"So let me get this straight." Said Ciara. "You want to build a field, with fences, but they can go in and out when they like? But the public pays to come in?"
"So a zoo pretty much, but bigger, just for them and they can leave whenever they like?" Rick added.
"Precisely." Robinson smiled with a nod. "What do you say?" Leo looked around at his family over the rise for an answer. It was like some sort of chat just by looking into the others eyes. He saw and knew anyway how much they wanted that part back, but they didn't want the fences or anything that they experienced at the zoo. But this was as close as they were going to get to getting that territory back. Winston nodded after a moment and he looked around the pack who did also in agreement.
"We'll do it." Leo smiled. Robinson held out his hand.
"No more sabotaging?" He questioned. Leo chuckled and took it to shake.
"No more." He smiled. "But let us know when it's done."
Guess what guys, only one final chapter after this one. Then it's the end of A Son of Wolves. So, it seems Tony isn't the only one who had a change of heart. Now the construction sight want to sort this out. Kate is pregnant, what are the chances of that? Very slim, that's what. Now she can have her own pups instead of someone else's. Rick and Ciara have a home now, Kate and Humphrey must have a thing for humans. But i'm far from finished, i still have a few plans and a major finish no-one would expect, and a short alternative ending for my Starnik series fans. :P Until next time guys. :)
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