Zane POV
As I awaken from my pain induced black out, I feel a warm body sprawled across me.
After trying to figure out what happened I remember the pain and then the darkness, but not this warmth.
Then my eyes clear and I see the form of a wolf known to me as Tanner laying over me.
I shift and see his eyes open. When he sees me awake his face shows relief, and joy.
He slowly stands up, and I stand not long after.
"Ugh, my chest hurts." I say.
He shows looks of worry but I try my best to let him know it's nothing with a soft smile.
"Tanner, I'm fine, really." I say, but he doesn't look convinced.
"We should get you back, so if this does happen again you can be properly looked after." He says.
I sigh. "I'd really jut prefer to hang out with you more Tanner." I say.
He looks conflicted. Almost as f he is trying to decide what to do. "Fine, but if it happens again we are going back." He finally says.
I smile lightly then look around. "Well, wanna hang out here, or... Actually, we should go back. We still have to train the the others, and how long was I out?"
"Yeah, we do need to get back for that, and you were out for about a day." He says.
I nod then start back towards the others. Soon after starting Tanner was by my side assisting me in walking.
We walk in silence the entire way back, but unlike an awkward silence, it was a comfortable silence. It felt good.
Soon we were back and that comfortable silence was broken by happy shouts from the trainees.
Then Winston walks up to me and Tanner.
"Is everything alright? You were gone for quite some time." He states.
"Yes, just a little inconvenience. Nothing major." I say.
Then I look at Tanner to see him nodding in agreement.
"Well, at least you are safe." Winston says.
So after that, Tanner and I go to my den. Once there I lay down, and a little to my surprise he lays down next to me.
"You lied." He says.
"Yeah, but you went with it." I shoot back.
"I was only going wit it so I wouldn't have to explain what happened." He defends.
"Well, I lied for that same reason." I laugh.
We go quiet afterwards, but once more it was a comfortable one.
After a little I doze off.
Tanner POV
As I lay with Zane I notice him fall asleep. This time it is a lot easier to watch after him, because I know it isn't because of pain.
After a while I decide to get up and go see if anyone needs help training.
After I leave the den, I walk around but nobody needed help.
I was about to o back to Zane's den when I see a group of trainees struggling. I walk over and notice that there are 4 alpha pups.
"You need help?" I ask. They all stop and look at me. The first to speak up was a black alpha pup. "Um, if you don't mind it be nice." He says.
I give a small smile. "What do you need help with?" I ask.
"Well, we are sparring, but none of us are doing very good." Says the alpha pup.
"Hmm, well, lets see what you are doing first. So spar and I will see what I can do to help you." I say.
So that pup, and and a greyish one start sparring. I notice that they are just jumping at each other, but not trying to actually attempt any technique.
After they get done they all look at me.
"Well, from what I saw, all you are doing is jumping at each other. You need technique. I'm not much of a fighter, but I do know enough. So when you are sparring or fighting, don't just jump at each other. Watch your opponent. See how they move. watch for weaknesses. Use those to your advantage. Then don't just jump, charge, swipe, claw, anything you can do to when sparring pin your opponent. When fighting do everything you can to kill your enemy." I say.
"Thank you." They all say.
Then once more they spar. I stick around to see if they do better.
After watching for some time I see that while they still jump at each other quite often, they were still watching each other, and trying to charge, swipe, claw, at each other.
Then once I see they were doing much better, I turn and leave.
I walk to Zane's den and see him still asleep so I lay next to him and fall asleep myself.
Well there's the next chapter. Sorry it took so long to get up.