Winston POV
Giving the trainees some time to rest after their run, I wait until I decide they have rested for long enough.
"Alright, for stealth training today we are going to play a game," I finish as the others all move in to listen.
Everyone looks at me and I smile.
"A game? What kind of game?" A alpha pup asks.
"Hide and seek. One seeker while the rest of you hide. The seeker will have one hour to find everyone. Silence is key here, and to make things even more interesting even the adults will join in. Once you have been found you will return here, and wait for everyone else," I say.
"Sounds fun, but who is the seeker?" Humphrey asks.
"Well, since you seem so eager to play, how about you?" I ask him.
"Uh... Winston... I uh... I..." He stutters.
"I'll take that as a yes, in 5 minutes you may start searching, everyone else, you may hide now, but remember, silence is key," I say as we all disperse.
Just after I watch everyone else go into hiding I look at Humphrey.
"You'll do fine, just trust your instincts," I say as I walk into the forest to hide.
Humphrey POV
As I watch Winston disappear into the forest I sit and wait.
Five minutes sure does feel like a long time to wait.
After I figure it has to have been five minutes by now I begin to look for the others.
I realize as I walk searching I can smell the trails of the others.
Quickly getting on a scent trail I follow quietly.
As the scent gets stronger I slow my pace and get low to the ground ready to pounce when I have to.
After following a scent for a while I see someone.
Slowly I sneak up to get a better look.
It was Kate.
I crouch down and when she turns away I pounce.
Landing on her and pinning her down I smile.
"Gotcha," I say with a broad smile.
She looks surprised.
"How did you find me?" She asks.
I smile at her.
"For an alpha you sure did leave behind a good scent trail," I say.
"Maybe I did it on purpose, so you would find me," She grins at me.
Laughing I let her up.
"Well, I'm go to find everyone else," I say.
She smiled and nuzzles me quickly.
"Good luck," She says as she walks towards the clearing.
After watching her leave I start sniffing the ground for another trail.
A short while later I find another one.
I follow the trail a short ways and see a wolf.
Crouching down I slowly approach ready to pounce.
As I ready to pounce the wolf looks at me.
Upon seeing it's face I realize it is not part of our training.
It was a lone wolf.
I freeze in fear.
I was not expecting to stumble across a lone wolf, and it is looking right at me.
Waiting for it to look away, all I can do is watch it.
Then I hear something very faint to my left and see Winston sneak over to me.
"Humphrey, follow me," He says and I nod.
Both staying low we begin to sneak away.
But both of us freeze as I step on a stick and the sound echos around us.
The lone wolf's head snaps around and he looks right at us.
"Who's there?" His raspy voice asks.
Neither Winston or I move a muscle, or make a sound.
Once we are sure he is not looking any more we start to move again.
I take special care in making sure I didn't step on any more sticks.
After we make it about one-hundred yards away we stop moving and stand up.
"Winston, who was that?" I ask shakily.
"I do not know, but I've never seen or heard of a lone wolf in this area, it is strange," He says.
I just nod, not knowing what to say.
"Well, get back to training, I'll count this as you pinning me, nice job with Kate though," He says with a smile and walks away.
Taking a moment to myself, I look around and start searching once more for the ones hiding.
(Time skip- An hour later)
By now there were only a few left in hiding.
The only ones I knew of for sure that were still hiding were, Zane, Tanner, Eve, Hutch, Can-do, Garth, and Lilly.
I had pinned everyone else as far as I knew, but I also knew finding the others would not be easy.
Zane POV
Tanner and I took this chance to slip away and have a fair amount of time to ourselves.
Once Winston said we had five minutes to hide Tanner and I both went off together to find a good place to hide and not be found.
Diving in a pond to cover our scents we went to find a hiding place.
We knew anywhere on the ground really would not be a good hiding place so we looked for big trees or caves.
After searching for about five minutes we knew we had to find somewhere and fast.
As we search for a little longer we find a very big tree with a flat spot that was high up where the branches spit off the trunk.
Both of us quickly ascending the tree to the flat spot.
It was easily big enough for at least three more wolves, but we had it to ourselves.
Laying down close to a large branch near the edge I was soon joined by Tanner.
As he laid down next to me, he snuggled up closely.
I smiled as my nose was filled with his scent, and his soft fur was pressed against me.
"Tanner, how long do you think we have?" I asked him.
"I don't know, but don't really care, not as long as I'm with you," He says.
I smile at that.
"Same here, but after some time we will have to get out of this tree and split up so he can find us both at different times," I say.
"Yeah, but for now, it's just me and you, and I like it that way," He states licking me cheek.
Smiling at him and his cheesy ways.
"You are so cheesy you know that?" I ask playfully.
"Yeah, I know, but you like my cheesy ways," He smiles back at me.
By now we had readjusted so we were facing each other to be able to the others face.
Falling into a comfortable silence I can't help but want to kiss him.
I want to kiss him so badly, but not being sure if it was still to soon for that I suppress the urge.
I can feel heat in my cheeks, but my dark fur hides it well.
As I look at him, suddenly our muzzles mere inches away from the others.
Before I know what is happening our lips are pressed together in a kiss.
Soft and gently, yet so passionate at the same time.
The most perfect kiss I have ever had.
Then it was over. We broke apart and just looked at each other.
I myself knew I had found a new favorite thing to do.
"That, was the most perfect kiss I have ever had," I say breaking the silence.
"I never thought a kiss could be so good, and perfect," He says with a broad smile.
I return the smile to him and nod.
"We will be doing that more often now, I can tell right now I'll never be able to get enough of your kisses," I say.
"Oh and I'm cheesy," He laughs.
"Yeah you are, but I am too," I state, my voice laced with happiness.
Giving off a small chuckle he stands up.
"We should probably head off, it's been quite some time," He says walking towards the edge of the tree.
Standing up myself I agree.
"I know, but I don't wanna go," I whine.
"Quit being a baby," He laughs.
I nuzzle into him and he returns it.
"Alright, guess I'll see you later," I say as I force him out of the tree.
As ready to get out of the tree I smell something. Looking towards the scent I see Humphrey.
"Better run, Humphrey is coming," I tell him as I climb up into the tree tops.
Watching as he takes off I smile as Humphrey begins to follow his scent.
As I watch him he stops and looks up, directly at me.
I look back at him, not sure if he sees me or not.
I see his mouth move but can't hear what he says.
Then my eyes widen as he starts trying to get up the tree.
Crap! He found me.
As he gets into the tree and starts up the branches I jump.
Landing not so gracefully I take off running.
After I get a ways off I stop. I look back to see if he was there, luckily he wasn't
After moving around for about an hour, I slowly move towards the clearing.
Once I can see it I see everyone.
Humphrey caught everyone, but me.
"Alright! The game is over, Zane won seeing as he was never caught," Winston announces.
Upon hearing this I step out into the clearing.
Everyone looks over at me as I walk over and join the group.
Watching Winston I zone out as Tanner sneaks over and sneaks a kiss.
Wanting to kiss him, I am disappointed we can't because the others can't know.
"You are dismissed for the day," I hear Winston say.
Then before anyone can stop us to talk Tanner and I are to the den we are sharing.
As we enter I look to make sure no one is in there, then when I see the coast is clear, I turn to him.
Smiling as we are at the back of the den seconds later.
Both laying down facing each other.
A wide grin now across my face as I lean in and gently kiss him.
He returns the kiss, and it deepens slightly with passion.
This kiss just as perfect as our first.
I can't help but to think he could be the one.
The one I will be with forever.
As we the kiss begins to deepen more we are interrupted by a cough at the entrance to the den.
Neither of us moving other than to look at the entrance, we had been caught, so scrambling to get apart would not work.
My face hot with not embarrassment, but nervousness.
Why do we always get interrupted? It's just not fair! I shout mentally as I look at the wolf in the den entrance.
A/N: Well there is the chapter. Hope you enjoyed it, it was fun to write for you all.
Later. KidCountry out.