Garth POV

I walk into Zane's den, and see him and Tanner snuggling, and here talk of a secret.

"Keep what a secret?" I ask.

They both pull apart instantly. "N-Nothing," Tanner stutters out.

I look at him for a moment, but decide to drop it.

"So, you ready to get back to training Zane?" I ask him.

He shrugs. "Yeah," is all he says.

"Alright, well, we start in 10 minutes so don't be late," I say walking out of the den.

Although I can't help to wonder why they were so close to each other.

While I wanted to know, it was not my business, so I figure best not to pry.

I meet up with the others and sit down.

"So, are Tanner and Zane going to join us?" Hutch asks.

"Yes, they will be here shortly," I respond deciding to leave out that they were acting strange

As we wait I look at the others around me. Kate, Eve, Winston, Hutch, and Cando.

This plan, to train the omegas with the next line of alphas, even though I know it will benefit us greatly, I just have trouble thinking that all this, this effort could be for nothing.

The rouge pack is huge. They are strong, and mean.

Although I am hoping that with as many trained fighters we will have, we will have a chance.

I sure hope we do anyways.

Zane POV

After Garth left I looked at Tanner and nuzzled him.

He remained quiet though.

I knew he was freaking out, I just couldn't understand why.

Sure Garth had seen them, but he didn't hear anything, and didn't see enough to suspect anything.

Once again I nuzzled him, but with a little more force, and he finally responded.

"Do you think he suspected anything?" He asks.

I give a small laugh, but I couldn't understand why I laughed.

"No, I don't think he does. So you can calm down," I say softly.

He looks over at me then nuzzles me. "How are you so calm about this?" He asks.

"I don't know, but the way I see it, even of they did know, I'd still be with you, that won't change Tanner," I tell him.

He lets out a sigh and nips my ear.

Shaking my head in an attempt make the feeling go away.

He laughs so I decide to nip his ear in return.

We both laugh for a moment, then, when we stop laughing I look at him.

"As much as I would rather hang out with you, we have to go train," I say.

"Yeah, well lets go, don't wanna be late," He says walking in front of me and out of the den.

I smile as we walk out of the den and towards the others.

"Look who showed up," Kate says with a laugh.

I smile at them as we reach them.

"So, what's on the agenda for today?" I ask looking over at Garth.

"Well, Tanner, Hutch and Cando will be the fight trainers, Myself and Kate will be the hunt trainers, Winston and Eve will work on teaching stealth, and you Zane will be the stamina trainer as before," Garth tells us.

"But no fighting bears anymore," Eve says to me.

We all let out a little laugh at that.

"Well, lets get started shall we," Winston says.

I stand up and follow after the others.

We find the pups, and omegas in the clearing ready for training.

"Alright, Zane take them for a run, and be careful," Garth speaks.

Then moments later I have all the pups and omegas following me down the trail.

I made sure not to go to fast, to make sure everyone kept up.

Making our way to the first stream, I stop to let them all get a drink.

"Get a quick drink, and then we will continue on," I say to everyone.

I watch as they all start to get drinks from the water.

Deciding water doesn't sound to bad I get a drink myself.

Soon once everyone had gotten a drink we started off again.

I knew that we wouldn't stop until the top, seeing as I had been the one to mark the trail.

As we run, I notice some of the... Larger omegas are starting to fall behind.

"Keep up! No slowing down!" I shout to them, and to they actually speed up to catch back up.

I smile, they wanted to get better.

Soon we make it to a rocky part in the trail.

"Be careful, and watch your step," I say to them as we head up the rocks.

I slowed down as to hopefully limit injury to anyone.

Once halfway up the rocks, I hear an oof, and look back to see someone had fallen.

I tell the other to keep going and once at the top to stop and wait.

I go over to the wolf, and it was an omega, but what I didn't like is that it was Lilly.

"Come on Lilly, we gotta keep moving," I say and help her up.

"I hurt my paw," She says with a whimper.

I look at her paw, and it wasn't bad, but she had sprained it.

"Here, hop on my back, I'll carry you," I say as I get low to the ground.

"But," Before she has time to argue I decide to just grab her scruff and lift her onto my back.

"Thank you," She says softly.

I nod to her and start off again.

Moving at a fast pace up the rocks, I quickly make it past them, and head for the top of the mountain where the others would be waiting.

Once past the rocks I pick up my pace more, since I didn't have to worry about slipping on rocks now.

A short time later we make it to the top, and like I had said they stopped and waited for us.

"What happened to Lilly?" One of the omegas asks.

"She slipped on a rock and has a light sprain, nothing major," I reply.

Everyone was quiet after that.

"Alright, lets get moving," I say as we head off, back to the others.

There were no more stops.

I was only stopping once we made it back to the others.

I was beyond impressed by the omegas.

They kept up the entire way.

It was silent on the way back, since there were no real obstacles I had no need to warn them.

Moving down the path I took in some surroundings.

I had gotten lost in my thoughts, and when I finally regained myself we were back in with the others.

Stopping I let Lilly off my back.

Almost instantly the others were surrounding her asking what happened.

"We were going up rocks, and I slipped, and sprained my paw," Lilly tells them.

"Well, at least it isn't a major sprain," Eve says.

Then they look at me.

"At what point were these rocks in the run?" Garth asks.

"Pretty early in the run, I'd say about a quarter way through the run," I tell them.

"You carried her that far?" They all ask in unison.

"Yes, but you have to realize how I grew up, that was nothing really," I say.

They all look at me once more.

"Everyone rest, stealth training starts soon," Winston says to everyone.

All the trainees quickly get water then rest in the shade.

While they were all resting Tanner and I had snuck away.

"Zane, you're insane you know that?" Tanner asks playfully.

"Yeah, I know," I say laughing a little.

He just shakes his head and nuzzles me, and I nuzzle him back.

In the short time I've known this wolf, I've developed stronger feelings for him than any other I've ever had feelings for.

"We should get back so they don't start to wonder where we are," Tanner says.

I nod and follow him back to the others.

A/N: Well there's the chapter. Hope you enjoyed it, as much I enjoyed writing it. The next chapter will be up when I have a chance to write it. Which luckily since football is over and I get home earlier, I will get more time to write, so I will try to update sooner.

Later. KidCountry Out.