A Son of Wolves 1

by The FalconWolf

Kate and Humphrey can't have pups, so they continue to live their lives and not see it as a setback to get in the way of their other dreams. But when they are given a chance at parenthood, they are determined to keep it forever. Many years later, they are forced to return it and the chance at saving the pack from the humans. But not all is as it seems, what if the chance was human?

22. Chapter 22 The Way It Was Meant To Be

A Son of Wolves

Chapter 22: The Way It Was Meant To Be

A free territory, a part of it back, Kate's pregnancy and the chance at a new life were only the start of some incredible and unpredictable things. Life in the United Pack became less complicated, but more…well, more of a miracle to be honest. None of the family could believe that this could have happened, none of it. But thanks to the Humans they once all nearly killed at some point, they have everything back and much more. Leo had siblings, ones that have been under his nose most of his life, his mother is expecting her own, but has ensured she and Humphrey will love them all just as much. Tony and Leo's understanding was now as complete as it would get, seeing as they were in the same family, they now looked and saw one another as that. Tony even saw it in Rick and Ciara now that they were one of the pack and family. But now there was to be more.

Kate was in awe, finally, her dream, the one she wanted in reality for so long, was finally going to happen. She had finally conceived, after months of trying and years of just fooling around. She spent every morning, afternoon and night either staring down at her belly in disbelief, or watching her children already while they were learning for themselves under Leo's gaze.

Leo wanted his siblings to embrace their inner wolf like he had, to become what they were supposed to be, and they wanted that too. For some odd but natural reason, Leo always felt more connected to it in the form of running. But then again, it made perfect sense; Wolves were born to run and be free, so it was that and learning to cope in this vast wilderness that began to turn them. Learning to track, hunt, use their senses, understand to a higher level and act like a wolf was what brought them to understand. It brought them to see how wonderful it was, how right it felt to them. They too as the days wore on began to see and feel that this truly was their home. It sucked to them that Leo beat them too it as their parents first child, but they were glad they were able to do this now.

But while all this greatness was happening, they still had a watching eye on Robinson's plans, but as it turns out, he was being truthful. They watched in plain view from the tree line at the work being done. The beams and bricks were removed; giant trees were uprooted cleverly and replanted in areas around the giant clearing now. The beams were made into wooden platform like perches and climbable objects like you see a big cat in a zoo. Grass seeds were scattered and planted as well as bushes and flower patches around the area. A single, homed sized building was built where the entrance to the site one was and another cabin like home in the centre of the new clearing. Lastly, fences were built from that first building, around and across the forest's edge and back around, but a large gap was made in the fence to allow the pack free entrance and a way to exit the fenced area. It was everything Rick, Ciara and Leo were promised by Robinson.

Meanwhile, and back before it was even completed, Kate's stomach only grew larger and larger as the days passed on, and each day she'd watch it in disbelief. Humphrey nuzzled and caressed his mate every day explaining how this was a miracle, something that was not meant to be, happened! He watched in awe as her stomach grew and grew. She checked in every day with her mother and father as to what were normal, what she was to expect and the horrid information that was giving birth. She was warned about how painful it was and that Eve was blessed with having Kate a season apart from Lily. But after a month, she was given some news that made Eve seethe and Kate gulp. Her stomach was sizing to look larger then Eve was, far larger, and after examining and feeling her daughter's womb, she felt three separate firm parts, indicating three pups. She was amazed that she was carrying three of her own children, but fearful as to how she would live through the ordeal. But she was comforted in knowing that her mother would be there and her mate by her side. He was not going to miss his own pup's birth.

So as they watched the site transform into a new part of their territory, Kate only began to suffer thanks to her mate. Morning sickness was rancid, Mood swings were regrettable, her aching back and ankles were something that made her want to take it back, then the waiting after it all and the knowing she was hideous and fat looking. The morning sickness was something she was able to push through, but it always left her feeling crap after. The mood swings were the worst part of the ordeal other then giving birth she was warned. She couldn't believe the things she said. She told her mate she regretted marrying him, she didn't want anything to do with her other children, things that made her crying in a giant, furry lump after she said it. Her mate and children were warned of this stage and were told to go with it and let her get over it. Nothing she will say, she will truly mean or do. So as she came into one, either she'd walk off in a tantrum or they leave her for a moment to calm before returning and getting the full force of her apologises and cries as her mood was swung the other way from anger to depression. Her father and her pup's grandfather relieved her of her Alpha duties until she had given birth and the pups can live without their mother. Humphrey and her children persisted that she remained inside for her safety. But she refused, she could still exercise until the last day she was due, so she was going to stay on her feet until she did. It then came to the point Humphrey growled at his own mate and stamped his foot down in saying that she wasn't leaving the den, and with the help of their children, she didn't.

Leo was just as persistent with his mother and her wellbeing as he was with his siblings and their learning. Running, understanding and becoming a wolf was harder then they thought. They had to understand the customs of the pack, the Alpha and Omega statuses, the moonlight, only to name a few. But as the days wore on, they began to see things in a new light. They started having dreams at night of running free, of flying with no limits or boundaries. They kept these dreams to themselves, dismissing them as simple dreams, but only when they started seeing them as a reflection as Leo did after nearly two months did they confess to what they were seeing. When they finally started screaming when they both saw it, did Leo now see that they were ready, and it was on that day they welcomed that wolf they saw. Ciara was seeing what she thought was her adoptive mother, but with a mixed in pelt of grey and tawny brown with it. And Rick what he thought was in new found father though and through hiding under the water. And it was on that same day Leo was amazed to see how they welcomed this other side of themselves, their wolf side. They saw things clearer, they understood how Leo was how he was and how he was able to understand what others were truly feeling as they did now also. It was like an entire new world was opened up to them, and it was all theirs to run wild in. They were now one with their wolf side. They had Leo's senses, higher empathy, stamina, but also their place in the pack. Something Kate loved to see, her human daughter Ciara, another Alpha. She was the one to play fight, for some reason loved the hunt and the feeling of taking something down. Rick, a born Omega, now Humphrey had a son who'd join him and his gang more often. Rick loved the fun and games, he was far more laid back like his father compared to his adoptive siblings.

Two months she was tortured but still excited for parenthood, and it was three days after her two months of pregnancy Kate finally went into labour. Kate was sat overlooking the Valley out the front of her den when she gasped and a sudden rush of minor pain and from under her appeared this puddle of fluids. She began to panic, so she screamed for her mate who when he came barrelling out to see her face and the puddle under her as she stood up, nearly fainted. But it was their children that brought some calm and sense into them. Rick and Leo escorted Kate back inside while Ciara, admittedly to the family being the faster of them, ran for her grandparents den. She returned with them only fifteen minutes later, where Eve found her daughter on a bed of leaves, moss and anything comfortable the family could find for this moment, panting away, tears of joy and pain rolling down her face, Humphrey's paw in her grip and Leo and Rick feeling helpless. She ordered all the males and Ciara out of the den, but Humphrey refused, therefore starting an argument with his own mother-in-law. They snapped in the others faces, until it came to when Eve started to fear him in how close he was getting to her, so she lost the battle and allowed him to stay after Kate pleaded to her to let him. But other then those three, the others went outside to wait.

They could only stand and listen to their mother and daughter's screams as Leo, Rick, Ciara and Winston sat, stood and paced while they waited. Even weirdly, they started playing a game in guessing when one was out through guessing at the sounds and different tones her screaming went to. They knew there were going to be three, so they predicted the first one came twenty minutes after they were kicked out, the second thirty minutes later, and the last around the same time. After that, it fell silent and they all looked to the den entrance.

It was then that Eve stepped out with the biggest grin anyone had seen on her face before, even her mate. The children ran inside passed her, eager to see their brothers and sisters. And there they were. Kate still lay on her bed, but now with two pups nuzzling her belly and another in-between Humphrey's paws as he cleaned it. It mewled and yipped as his rough tongued ran up and down its small, fragile body. Kate looked up and smiled warmly at her children and smiled warmly and asking them to come closer. They did as well as her father on his own while Eve retrieved Lily and Garth to visit their blood nephews now. Humphrey picked up his newborn pup and placed it beside the others to suckle off its mother. Leo, Ciara and Rick knelt down beside them and stared at them in wonder while Winston padded around to his daughters head and nuzzled her.

"They're wonderful mom." Leo muttered and he reached out and stroked one gently.

"Meet your brothers and sister." She whispered back.

"What are their names?" Ciara asked.

"We wanted to wait for you before we named them." Humphrey replied. Kate looked down at her newborn children and using her tail pointed to one. A grey she-pup but with a brown back left paw, not another part of it's body had that colour, only that paw. "This is Skye; because I know she'll have her fathers Sky blue eyes." She said before deeply kissing her mate. Humphrey then looked down to one of his sons and while he bent down to lick it, he spoke.

"This is Jasper, named after the place he was born." Jasper was a good mix of grey and tawny brown. He was pretty much all grey, but with what looked like a single streak either side of brown across his ribs. It was right after he said that, that the last of the males, this one grey on his top half and outside of his legs, and tawny brown on its underside and inner legs. It crawled and stumbled over to Leo, and right as it tripped over its footing, he caught it and gently picked it up to catch it.

"What about this one?" He chuckled and lifting it up.

"We hadn't thought of a third name." Kate answered.

"Would you like to son?" Humphrey added. Leo looked at them in shock.

"Really?" They only both nodded with a smile. He looked at the pup, trying to think of something, but nothing came to him. He looked it up and down its body when he saw something he didn't earlier. On its face were three miniscule brown dots on its right cheek up close to its ear. Three dots in the shape that went in a triangle, but as the pup grows, it'll become more visible. But not only that, it gave him a wonderful idea he'd do later. He smiled at a name. "Domino."

"How'd you come up with that?" Ciara giggled.

"These dots." He said showing them to her. "Could be "Dom" for short though."

"I love it." Kate grinned.

"If you do, then so do I." Humphrey added. Feeling great about his choice, Leo set his brother down beside Kate again, and it was then that Lily came squealing through in glee at the sight and giggling away, resulting in the family doing so at her reaction, but then again, they did expect it. She hugged her sister and her brother-in-law before looking down at her nephews and inhaling their scents. She was at this stage by the time Garth came walking in with Eve, firstly congratulating the couple before doing as Lily was doing. But while they were doing this, Leo was sat a little way back with his necklace in one hand and a thin pointed rock in the other. And it wasn't until he presented it to his mother that she couldn't be any happier at what she saw he had done to it. The small triangle on it that only had hers, Humphrey and Leo's first letter on the points, now had an "S" for Skye on the top right length, "J" for Jasper on the top left and "D" for Domino on the bottom length of it. But also along the two top lengths of the triangle was an "R" for Rick and a "C" for Ciara besides. Ciara beside her sister on the top right and Rick on the left. The whole family on one small thing, but it was big in heart. He chained it back around his neck while the family watched in awe at the small additions; it was incredible how dreams can come true, even when everything is against you.

Kate was still confined to her den while she cared for the pups as the days passed by. Humphrey, thanks to the hunting lessons he had from his mate and then Garth when she was no longer able, brought food for her seeing as she couldn't leave the den. A week into their lives, their eyes began to open. Kate was laid underneath her favourite white tree that had blossomed once more with pink, purple and white flowers with her eldest daughter while the boys were out either hunting for them or whatever it was they did when it happened. Ciara had her brother jasper in her arms when he woke up and opened his eyes. She was greeted with a wonderful set of her mother's amber eyes. It was when Kate looked down at the other in-between her paws that she was greeted with two set of blue eyes staring up at her. A tear of joy fell down her face as she started cooing and talking puppy talk down at them. A few minutes later, the boys came back, Humphrey carrying three hares in his mouth, but also to be greeted by more eyes then he last saw. He dropped the hares where he froze before doing the same actions as Kate.

Another week after that they began to talk, recognise their names easily and after two months they were the most ambitious pups you would find. They new their family, their pack and friends, but that was all expected. Jasper, seemingly a born and bred Omega like his father and elder brother. He loved to crack jokes on his siblings and try and outwit his father in his games. But he never won, his father had experience and therefore knew how to win these games, but he was obliged to deliberately lose to his son every now and then. Then there was Domino, and as predicted, the three brown spots near his ear grew and became more visible as he did, it added uniqueness to him. He too was a natural Omega, so all he, Jasper and Rick loved to laugh around and seeing who could pull the best prank on anyone they saw. He was the most laid back, never taking anything seriously, which everyone knew would be his downfall, but that would be a problem when they came to it. Finally, another reason for Kate to be the proudest mother of all, her youngest daughter, another destined Alpha, that makes four now in the family, Kate, Leo, Ciara and Skye. They all already had this topic come up about how the girls would be better then the one boy Alpha of the family, but Leo only told them he'd prove it to them one day. Skye was the most adventurous, outstanding, persistent and ambitious pup, proving she'd make a fine Alpha one day and a better one after Alpha school.

But the question that was on the pup's minds was why their siblings didn't look like them, their parents or anyone else in the pack. So regrettably, it was explained to them while they were around. It was explained to them that they weren't their blood pups or siblings, that they were humans; they first adopted Leo at a young age, then Rick and Ciara a few months back. Just that led to the whole story from when they found Leo to the day they were born. But the last part of the talk was that no matter what or who they were, they were a family and they were their siblings. Regrettably, the pups didn't take to well to it and if they looked at the humans at all, it wasn't the same as they did before. They remained that way for a little over a week before they all had another talk and things were cleared up. The pups were guilt ridden that they did what they did and once again saw them as family. They weren't afraid or frightened of them or to call them brother and sister.

At six months old, it was time to say goodbye to one of them. It was time for the pups destined to be Alpha's to go to Alpha school and as much as it killed them, it was time for Skye to become what she as made to be. It was a mournful day, but as the family watched her disappear over the hill with Garth who'd be teaching them this month, Kate broke down in tears. Humphrey stood proudly as did the rest of the family, she'd be gone for four months and return after winter.

It snowed and snowed, Kate guilt ridden for sending her pup away and missing her first downfall of snow. But at least she was able to see her boys enjoy it, all of them that was. She watched her children grow, and at the age of ten months, it was time to greet their sister home. Only, when they went to find her where the other now Alpha's were, she wasn't there. But Garth had a smile, and suggested they look at home. They charged home, ignoring anyone who greeted them or asked to talk and ran up that slope and charged into the den to find not a she-pup, but a she-wolf stood inside. Skye, not yet at her fully grown stage and would have to go back next year to finish off her training, now stood opposite them. Her fur had changed, she still had that back left brown paw, but now her sides had sort of melded into the same colour, giving her a strange, yet wonderful sliver and brown complexion. She screamed for her mom and ran into her chest to cry in happiness who only wrapped her paws around her to do the same and then having her family join in around her. Afterwards she went around each one of them who welcomed her back and after that the day was filled with her tales of Alpha School and having fun like they once did.

Leo returned early after a few hours alone. He looked over the snowy Valley from the entrance of his den, but now that snow was beginning to melt. Although, it gave the Valley a striking appearance. He smiled as he looked down at the pack have fun and doing what they usually did, until… "Hey Stranger." Someone said to his right. He recognised that voice instantly and whipped his head to see Sahara walking towards him.

"Hey!" He exclaimed happily and opening his arms for her and the two hugged it out. "Where have you been all these months? We've all missed you and we were getting worried." He asked as they let the other go.

"I was around, running some errands and seeing old friends." She replied. "But I was doing something for you more importantly."

"For me?" He asked.

"For you, Rick and Ciara." She nodded.

"Well, what is it?" He asked excitedly and turning to face her more.

"I went home, back to my old pack in Alaska." She started. "I told you how up there we believe in Nature Spirits and that with their permission we can do anything." He nodded when he remembered that. "One thing they have been known to do was to transform one to look like something else. To live as what they were supposed to be." He listened keenly to what she was saying, and he couldn't believe what he was hearing. They talked for another hour until the family came running back up the slope all with grins, but they faded when they sensed the seriousness of the atmosphere around them. Sahara took the family inside and left the humans to talk. She explained it to their parents and younger siblings while Leo informed his best friends and brother and sister, and they too couldn't believe what they were hearing.

"Sahara's pack can turn us into wolves." Leo said. "They can make us fit in and be what we're supposed to be."

"How?" Ciara gasped.

"Beats me, but what do you think?"

"I thought we were going to live in that Cabin in Robinson's field. It was finished months ago and things are going great there with them and the pack, so why don't we just go there?" Rick asked.

"Think about it, Al will know we're there and he can legally take us out. If we do then we have to wait until we're sixteen before we can stay there without him or anyone else coming after us." Ciara replied.

"If we do this then we'll have a home here and we can live how we are supposed to." Leo added. "I don't know about you, but I don't think I could live in a place like that again. I wouldn't like it. I like it out here."

"Same, I'm not sure I could." Rick sighed. They all looked inside the den from where they stood as Sahara still explained everything and they family looked back and forth from her and them.

"I don't know about you." Leo said as he continued to look inside. "But this is my home, it was before and it is now. It's yours too, but I want this. No matter how it's done, but I think we should, then we really would be a family."

"I agree, I think we should." Ciara added.

"What are the chances this would work, or that this is all a major whined up?"

"I know Sahara, she would never do that." Leo answered. "If she could stop the pack from aging, then there must be a way to do this."

A few minutes later, the family were brought to a silence after seeing the three humans walk back inside. "We've made a decision." Ciara replied.

"Well?" Sahara asked. The three looked at one another one last time before looking back at their family.

Only an hour later were they all running alongside the tree heading north, all six wolves and three humans jumped one by one and clambered on board. Kate and Humphrey both new that this was the fastest way to get around, and Sahara told them this was how she got back. This train was heading north, they'd be there in a day, maybe another if they made frequent stops. Her pack territory was high in the Alaskan mountains, so it would be another day to walk there. She warned them about her return, so they were expecting her arrival with them in a few months. She walked there before, but she managed to jump on the train's return passed Jasper on her return trip to save another few months of travel.

They slept the first night with ease, midway through the next day the train stopped so they all jumped off. The wolves hid in a skip while the humans went into town and stole from the nearest shop. They needed food, so they had no choice. They timed it well, they ran out right as they were spotted and jumped on the train as it was pulling out. The humans were relieved to have human food again, something they had truly missed. Whereas the wolves found it weird and unnatural to eat something already processed and packed by the humans. But they ate it anyway. They played around in the train car that day, playing confined games of tag, truth or dare and eye spy out the carriage door until it then came to night and they crossed the Alaskan border. They waited for the right spot and the right time before Sahara gave the order to jump. They launched themselves out of the car and out, regrettably, at the wrong time. They jumped over a hill and rolled down it and flicking snow up behind and over them as they did. But they laughed, having fun as humans before it happened. They all piled on top on one another at the bottom, laughing hysterically away as a family, even Sahara seeing as she spent so much time around them for so long in the past.

They walked in search of a place to stay over night. It was cold and the humans were beginning to suffer from it, but there was no indoor shelter as they roamed the dark landscapes from fields to forests. Eventually, they had to use their imagination. It was still snowing lightly so even with warmth they'd still freeze if their clothes got damp. They found a patch of small, thin trees, and the three humans were able to bend them over and intertwine the branches in a way it was a shelter. After that they crawled inside and wrapped their bodies around and over one another, now they were all warm, dry and comfortable.

The next day, they walked on again being led by Sahara. They soon found themselves walking uphill and rapidly getting higher. They continued to play games as they did, wanting to spend the remainder of their time with their siblings before they were no longer human. That was if it worked. Just before midday, the trees thinned out and were replaced by jagged rocks and the snow deepened. Sahara howled out of the blue and it was answered with another howl closer then she anticipated. And it was an hour later they reached their destination.

They walked around a jagged corner to be greeted by an entire wolf pack the size of the United Pack, nearly one hundred wolves. Over half wore the same two eagle feathers pierced through their ear and hung from fibres from a tree like Sahara, indicating they were Alphas. But all of had these strange patterns and lines on their pelts, all with different patterns and colours. Sahara jogged ahead and bowed to a She-wolf who after licking her head, got up and the two started talking. This was the Alpha she-wolf of the pack, but not her mother. Her mother and father, the previous Alpha's, died in their sleep from old age side by side and a night apart from the other. Sahara's brother, who she didn't even know existed, took their throne as Alpha, but he too also died a few weeks before she first came back. This was her niece, the only daughter of her brother. She may be younger and family, but she was still the Alpha. She knew it ran in the family that her bloodline never had many pups at one time. To have two was a wonder in her family. Sahara introduced her friends and the humans to her. They were welcomed, offered shelter and a share of the days hunt and told that the "event" would take place this night. No-one other then Sahara and this pack knew what was in store, but they were assured that they were safe here and everything will be ok tonight.

Frighteningly, the night came faster then the family wished and the full moon was high in the sky. Sahara came for Leo, Rick and Ciara, so the family all bid their farewells until tonight. They all started crying, after all, they didn't know what to expect. They didn't know if something would go wrong and this could be the last time they see them, so they made this embrace last before they were led outside and Sahara promised them nothing would happen to them and she'd be with them all the way. They were all happy for them to be how they were, to remain as humans, but the entire family saw this was something they wanted. She led the humans across the jagged rocks and the territory and to another cave where she introduced them to an elder with the most strange patterns and symbols on her. One Leo recognised instantaneously from his history classes at school. It was a star inside a circle, the sign of the witch. But he didn't fear her, she seemed a nice old wolf. They were sat, and she and Sahara brought over some wooden bowls of what they thought was paint before the two dunked the tip of their paw in the mixture and started drawing similar patterns on their faces. Rick and Ciara went first, and seeing as the Old wolf had experience in this, she finished far quicker and moved onto Leo. They shared small talk, and asked about information about tonight, but they were only told that it was hard to explain and that they'd see soon enough. They each had several jagged circles on their left cheek inside one another and then on their right they had some strange writing in a language only known by the elder.

The pack gathered in the ceremonial place, a large place in the centre of the territory. The large space with a frozen waterfall on the side of the mountain that acted as an amazing, clear mirror that resided up a few rugged steps where the ceremony would take place. Kate, Humphrey and their children sat at the front, while the remainder of the pack sat beside them, their heads bowed and all mutter the same words in synchronisation. But it was in some language they couldn't understand. It was after a moment that the Elder followed by Sahara and the humans stepped out of the cave to the left and walked across, up the few steps and stood in a line facing the crowd. They saw their family and smiled at them reassuringly right before the Sahara joined the family and the Elder spoke while the pack continued to mutter at the same time and with the same gibberish words.

"This is all on you." She rasped. "You must pass through the grasp of the spirits, and return." She looked up when something caught her eye, the lights were coming. The humans followed her gaze and saw them approaching from high in the sky. "We will all pray for you." She added.

"What are we supposed to do, you never told us?" Ciara asked.

"Picture lightly what you want." She replied.

"And then?" Leo asked.

"Don't follow them back." Was all she answered before turning and walking away to the pack. She sat opposite to the pack and bowed her head to close her eyes, as did Sahara who started to mutter what the family didn't know to be an ancient prey in time with the rest of the pack. The elder sat still and didn't talk, but she had her head dipped while her body started swaying gently. The humans looked at one another, unsure whether they should be doing something other then picture what they want. Do they bow, or talk gibberish as well?

But then, they heard the faint sound of what sounded like rumbling thunder. They looked up and the northern lights were just passing over their heads. But they don't make noise, so this can't be then lights. What were they? It was then the elder started talking in gibberish, far louder then the pack that when she did started muttering their own words and prayers. She started swaying in bigger lunges and looked incredibly dizzy; she looked drunk if anything with her actions and words. But they only sensed this, for they were too captivated by this strange phenomenon. As they watched, they came to see that these lights weren't as high as they looked. Or so they thought, what was actually happening was that the lights were coming down to them. It was an illusion.

Only when they thought they'd seen everything, did something even more astonishing happen. Several long tendril like arms of light stretched out and down to them. They detached from them and left behind a weak smoke trail. These now seven balls of light flew down and started flying around them, leaving this mist behind them. They smiled and were left in awe at the sight, what was this? Leo poked one curiously, but only to have his hand pass through it.

He raised his arms a fraction as three of these lights started spinning around him. He laughed a little when he looked back at his family. But they weren't there it was like they vanished. It was another illusion, the humans couldn't see them, but the pack and the family could see everything, them, the lights, everything! Leo thought back to what that elder said. "Picture what you want." So that's what he did. One ball of light flew directly towards him and through his chest. He felt as though something had just filled him and left him straight after. He tried to block out what was happening so he could picture it, but it was hard when he saw something else move in the smoke. The balls flew away from him and conjoined into one large one that started to stretch out as it continued to fly around him in circles. He followed it around to his left, passing Rick and Ciara who he could still see and having the same experience, then turning to look right, but to see it turned into a smoking wolf galloping around him in glee happily. Green, purple and orange smoke still trailed behind it. He could still hear the chants and mutters of the pack as echoes that only started getting louder and louder. He began to get scared; he didn't know what was coming.

The wolf continued to run around him, so he started spinning with it so he could watch it, he didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing. It ran faster and faster around him, slowly getting closer to him. As it did he started getting this tingling sensation all around his body, all over him he started to feel as though something was moving, either something on him or in him. It was when he stopped and looked down at his hands that he didn't see hands, he saw paws under the sleeves of his coat. He looked back ahead of him and at that waterfall, there stood was that wolf he once so hated, but now came to love and welcome as a part of himself. Mist still flew around the air around them, visibility no more then a few feet, so he couldn't even see Rick who stood beside him. For some reason, Leo felt he should have opened his arms to it, so he did and the wolf turned to face him head on. He stood and waited when suddenly, the wolf charged at him. His breathing increased as fear came to him when the wolf barrelled into his chest. The chants and prayers of the pack and the elder were nearly at shouting volume. He was thrown back and onto his back by the force of the impact, it didn't come out of him, it only slammed him to the ground and dove inside his chest.

He felt a single, but tremendous wave of pain go through him as he collided with the ground, but it was over in flash. Only in one area that was. He first felt it in his head for a second, then straight after it was in his throat, then his chest, then his arms and quickly getting lower down his body. So really, the pain may have only lasted momentarily in one area, but it spread over his body, making it last longer. He screamed and writhed on the floor after he felt as though his insides were set ablaze. He thought he was burning from the inside out. That lasted longer and he cried out in agony as now the pack was shouting. But he couldn't see passed the mist, he was in pain, he was blind, he wanted to take it all back, he didn't want this anymore. After a minute of this, the pain suddenly left and he was left hyperventilating on the floor. He had his eyes open a fraction, but all he could see was the mist the northern light left behind. He was lying on his side as the shouts quietened to a complete silence and he was left lying there.

He was weak, tired, scared, everything he was told wouldn't happen. But as he lay there and his eyes starting to close, something came running out of the mist and straight at him. He recognised the white flash. "You're ok." Sahara cooed. She was quickly joined by Kate who cried heavily and lay by his face.

"Baby are you ok?" She cried.

"I'm…ok." He breathed. She cried in relief as she looked down at him. "What was that?"

"The Nature Spirits, they've done what was needed." Sahara answered.

"What?" He asked weakly and raising his head a little.

"Take a look." Sahara replied and stepping to the side. Leo looked on passed her and at the mirror like waterfall, he could see her, his mother, and another wolf lying where he was. He chuckled to himself, he was connected with his inner wolf, but there it still was, acting as his reflection. He shuffled around a little, as he tried to move, but found he was too weak too. But as he did, he felt something on his leg.

"Who is touching my leg?" He asked as he started to come around a little more.

"No-one is." Kate replied as she settled down. "But your tail is."

"My what?" He asked more awake now. She only motioned with her eyes, so he shot his head up and looked back at his furry, smaller, different and four legged body to see a grey tail rested on his leg.

"WOAH!" He bellowed and shooting up onto his haunches, only, now had had to regain his sense of balance, therefore he fell straight back over and onto his back. He tried again, but he only fell over again and screamed.

"Take it easy." Kate said pinning him down and standing on his shoulder to keep him there.

"It's worked!" He shouted. Kate stepped off him and while he lay down, he looked over his body. It was exactly like his reflection. Grey, with brown tips on his ears, tip of his tail and paws. He couldn't believe it! He looked the other side of him, two wolves that weren't there before and sat in the places of Rick and Ciara had his family around him.

"Leo?" The closest one asked.

"Rick?"

"Dude it worked!" Rick exclaimed.

"Where's Ciara?" Leo asked.

"Over here!" A girl's voice called out and he peeked around Rick and waved her paw. She was a near exact copy of her mother, Rick his father and Leo a good and fair mixture of them both.

"Ok, how the hell are you two sitting up?"

"You've been out longer then us, we were waiting for you" Ciara giggled.

"Come on, let's get you up." Kate giggled as she and Sahara helped him up and he used his mother to balance on when he was up. "There, wasn't so hard now was it?" She said as she licked his cheek. He looked back down at his paws and his tail that waved over to across them. Things were going to be lessons for the next few days.

"Where are the others?" He asked.

"Over there." Kate pointed out and waving for them to come over. They were sat where they were before with two other wolves of the pack watching over them before they came running over.

"Are you ok?" Jasper asked.

"Did it hurt?" Skye asked.

"It sure sounded like it." Domino added.

"We're fine guys." Ciara giggled as she came walking over with Humphrey help. She sat down with them all after Rick crawled over and sat with them.

"So, do we count as family now?" Leo asked.

"You were always my pup." Kate replied licking his cheek. "All of you." She added and looking around at them.

"But now we at least look like it huh mom?" Ciara asked.

"You sure do." Humphrey replied and licking her cheek.

"Hey, if we can only sit up, how the hell are we going to get home?" Leo asked.

"You'll stay here for a few days, get used to your new bodies before we head out again." Sahara answered. "You have a lot to learn now."

"Everything is so intense." Rick said out of the blue.

"It is, it's how we sense everything." Kate replied.

"Come on; let's get you guys to bed." Humphrey said.

"Oh what?" The three exclaimed. Their younger siblings started snickering to themselves, saying and teasing the others to how they were still going to be up and playing. But that only brought their downfall when they were told it was time for them to turn in as well and they needed to help their siblings to walk. So Kate and Sahara took Leo, Humphrey and Skye took Rick and Jasper and Domino took Ciara to their den for the night. But it was longer then expected; first they had to learn how to walk, how to take each individual step, prolonging their journey and making only what was supposed to be only a two minute trip, into a fifteen. But all in all, all the wolf family made it there, then they made it home at the end of the week and were greeted back by the pack with open paws. Word spread fast of how the humans were now wolves, how they were now truly a part of that strange family that once adopted a group of humans and took them in as their own. That was a story that would be passed down in time.

The family grew up as the family they were made to be. They hunted, they learned to control their new and heightened senses, they played, they ran, oh how far they ran. They family grew up; Skye finished her final spring in Alpha school and became a complete Alpha. Garth and Lily became proud parents of two pups, two girls named Collette and Grace, heirs of the pack now that Tony, Winston and Eve stepped down from the title, now giving Garth and Lily the title of Alpha male and female of the United Pack. But one thing they failed to see until the pack grew up and the elders started to sadly wither. Sahara wasn't aging. She hadn't aged a day since Leo and his siblings were given their amazing chance at this incredible life. So when her best friend confronted her, she split her guts to him. Leo discovered that she had taken a minor dose of what she had made before that slowed down the packs growth and aging in waiting for him to return, a dose that prolonged her life for another five years, she couldn't find the right amount of the ingredients to make it last longer, but she didn't want it to. She had taken it and made the right amount to in order to wait for someone, but wasn't going to say who until the right time.

The years passed on, the pack grew up, pups were born and elders died. Winston and Eve passed away in their sleep on the same night with one another peacefully and their family around them. Tony joined them a few weeks later. At the age of five, Leo finally found why Sahara had done what she did. Kate and Humphrey were now seniors, elders, and admittedly to them and their children, they had best a year left of their life. But he found out at the night of a full moon and at the packs greatest event, the moonlight howl. As he walked there, he witnessed Ciara and Rick both leave with ones whose howls matched theirs. But he ran into Sahara who sat back and watched glumly as the other couples howled, sang and danced away with one another. So he asked her if she'd like to howl with him. They did, and let's say he defiantly found the reason she did it. Their howls matched, she told him that after he had transformed, she had a feeling around him she hadn't felt before.

That night they howled to the heavens and when it came to an end, they sat where they howled, and she admitted that all this time, that for all the years she had lived she, it was Leo she had been waiting for. He had found the one for him, as he for her. They confessed their love for one another in which they only discovered that night. So when they had their talk, Leo looked down to a lower platform at his parents who looked up at him with happy smiles. Their first son, finally, found the one. He looked back at her with a smile and his tail wagging. "Ready?" He asked.

"Ok yeah, ready." She grinned. They leant into one another and threw back their heads with their muzzles mere centimetres apart and released what song they had in them into the skies, once again, matching the other. They bobbed their head slightly to dip their tone, still in unison with the other. Leo, the boy who was supposed to save them, now grown up to be the Wolf he was born to be.

"Love has no boundaries, dreams have no limits, and life has no doubts. We are who we are, and we are given only what we can handle. Embrace it, and don't ever, ever lose it."

So there we have it guys, the end of A Son of Wolves. Those who said that Sahara and Leo have a thing was true, but not until it was the right moment and not in that way. Who expected that ending? Tell you what, i didn't until three chapter before i wrote it, but that's me, i can't plan for hell or at gun point.

I want to thank my regular reviewers: Crazy/Lonelywithbadenglish2, The Dark Shadow, John Wolf, NeverUnseen, The Omega's Alpha and Valckross as well as my new followers: AlphaWolfMagnus, BoltandMaybelle24, Ice The Lonewolf, Lost and Forever Dammed, Miss I LOVE ALPHA AND OMEGA, StarLitSnowWolf, The Chriz 1995, The Lone Sheriff, Troygroomes, I'mJustLikeHumphrey, katefannumber1, Alexander, Dawn Walker Wolf, Spyrofan34, Stardust902, Multiroit1, Lumosandstripes, infernoblades99, any guest that reviewed and anyone else i may have missed out on. I apologize if i did miss you out. You people are amazing and have only just raised my confidence in writing. But i'd like a special thank you to go to someone who won't have reviewed, but wants her stories read. I'm not going to mention her name, but i know she'll read this at some point and come to me at Church wondering if i was talking about her. so yes, i am talking about you and you know it. hahaha.

You peopled are amazing, so as a request, please check out my other stories, apparently they are just as good so please do and let me know what you think. On the topic of stories, i shall be starting another very soon, a mini, Starnik side story. If you don't want to know what it's about, i suggest you skip to the next paragraph. It goes back to a few months after Lupa gave birth to her pups, Myka has just conceived and life is great. But when she reads a spell to know more about her parents passed, she and her siblings are transported back in time to the days when Scott and Rosie were young and didn't know about the Ditori. They lose their powers for reason that will be clear when you read it and need to find a way to get home without revealing their identity. How does that sound? That'll be up by my guess around Friday, but defiantly by this weekend, so i hope you'll like it. It'll be very short, mist likely only between five and ten chapter long.

I cannot thank you guys enough, an for those that won't read my other stories, this is goodbye. I don't plan on making a sequel to this, but maybe there will be in the distant future, but that is unlikely. Give yourself a round of applause while i sign off of this story. But as a small treat for my Starnik Series followers, i'm going to put up by Friday an alternative ending to this, those that haven't read my other stories won't understand it so i suggest you don't read it. See you around guys, god bless! :D

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