Chapter 16

Day was arriving as Humphrey woke up to the smell of rain "how fitting that it would rain" he thought to himself "considering all thats happend im not a bit surprised." Lillian was still asleep he looked at her she looked so much like her mother it hurt. He looked over to Wilson who had fallen asleep but appeard to be having a nightmare Humphrey walked over to him and woke him up. "Thank you" Wilson said standing up "I was having a nightmare" Humphrey looked down at him and said "I noticed thats why i woke you up." Wilson nodded and walked out of the den Humphrey went to wake Lillian up but saw she was sleeping peacefully and he sat there until she woke up under her own will. "Good morning" she said and Humphrey licked her on the cheek "Good morning" he replied she smiled a bit and just like that Humphrey was flung back into that happier time but he pushed it away and as much as he hated to admit it to himself "it will never come back that time is gone for good" he told himself. He decided to walk down to Kayla and Tyler`s den but he found that Kayla was all alone there and she was crying softly. Humphrey was suddenly confused where could Tyler be and why was Kayla crying? She noticed he was there and looked up at him he broke the eerie silence and said "whats wrong and where is Tyler?" She responded with a sniffle and said "gone" Humphrey took this in for a second and said "gone where?" "i dont know he left for the cliffs i thought he was crazy he left at midnight and he hasnt come back." Humphrey felt a feeling of dread come over him Tyler was a great fighter but he couldnt take on that thing single handedly though Winston would be an easy target for him. "Ill organize a search party we will find him." she nodded "i just hope he`s ok" "so do i" Humphrey responded but he could almost say he knew that when and if they found Tyler he wouldnt be alive. "Damn you Tyler" Humphrey thought to himself then he remembered that Kayla was pregnant and Laila had predicted that she was eithier having twins or triplets and not having a father was the last thing those pups needed.

It was midday when Humphrey dispatched a search party to find Tyler he himself decided not to go because tommorow was the full moon and he had some planning to do he knew him passing out in the cave had made a good bit of noise and he knew they wouldnt be occupying the cave systems he could only guess that they had gone higher up on the cliffs to the summits surrounding the western territory. His idea was to scout the tops of the ridges himself he had lost all hope that Kate was alive and well he was officialy going to call her dead and he had turned the search and rescue into a search and recover mission. He was upset but he wasnt in his hopeless state anymore a good long nights had cleared his mind of many many small unessacary things that were only slowing him down. He decided that they would elave the den areas around sunset tomorrow night and they wouldnt return untill the murderers were killed. Once he had gotten everything figured out and planned he decided to check on Kayla she was doing much better the crying had stopped she was no longer shaking and she could speak much more clearly. "How are you doing?" Humphrey asked "fine as i can be at this point" she said a little sorrowfully "im not going to beat around the bush and say he will be fine" Humphrey said she looked up and smiled "thnaks" she said "it pisses me off when people lie throught their teeth like that." Humphrey just stood there for a second then sat down Kayla joined him "do you think that he will be fine" he asked "probably not" she responded we all know what happens when you travel alone you get killed by that damn thing." Humphrey took what she had just said in and though he knew that hadnt happend to him or Lillian he knew it had happend to practically everyone else who had travelled alone. He told her the plan for the next day and she nodded "im coming too" she said he looked at her every cell in his body wanted to yell "no its too dangerous for you with your pups" but he didnt want to argue about something like that so he simply nodded "ok meet at the den just before sunset with or without Tyler" she nodded and got back to whatever she had been doing when he got there. He left without anotehr word.

Tyler was walking on a small narrow path heading towards the south side of the western territory but suddenly he heard a very familiar voice come from behind "Tyler well hello there" it was Kate. He turned around and she was right there in front of him but something was awfully wrong she looked mad her eyes were bloodshot and her usually nice assorted fur was very very screwed up. "What happend to you" he asked in a shocked tone "you look like you just got sucked up by a tornado and dropped into crazy town." She looked up at him and in a flash she was on top of him she bit at his throat but he was quicker than that. he rolled to the side and bit her deeply in the leg "she yelped in pain but she jumped at him again "big mistake he thought he jumped aside and at the last second caught her by another leg this leg too was cut deeply she was limping with only two good legs. He waited for her to jump him again but instead she ran off he chased her relentlessly until he was out of energy. He couldnt believe what had jsut happend Kate, Humphreys mate of 3 years at just attacked him and he had the sudden overwheling feeling she had killed Streak the growl had sounded like hers but he had sworn he was imagining things now there was 0 doubt in his mind Kate had turned she was Kate Humphreys lover and a kind mother now she was Kate the muderer and he hated her for it. "I hope Humphrey kills you bitch" he thought to himself before he turned to head back for the territory "and i hope he lets you die in your own blood."

Kayla was shocked when Tyler walked in she wanted to yell her lungs out at him for leaving so suddenly in the stormy night and yet she wanted to kiss him like she wasnt going to see him again. She noticed he had some cuts on him and she couldnt help but ask "what happend?" He looked up at her and said "what would you say if i told you Kate attacked me in the woods?" Kayla thought about that for a second and said "id say youve had too many berries or your imagining things because Kate wouldnt do that." Well then explain these cuts because thats exactly what happend to me out there. Kayla was shocked of all the people she thought who would turn and attack her or Tyler Kate was the last one she would think of. "Why would she do something like that?" Kayla asked with a bit of hysteria "i think she completely lost it while she was missing when i saw her she was not the Kate i knew as a freind her eyes were bloodshot and her fur which she usually keeps so clean was dirty and very messy." "We have to tell Humphrey" Kayla said "i know" said Garth "but we arent." Kayla looked at him with a look of shock "you expect me to keep this all away from Humphrey?!" Tyler looked at her and said "yes i do" she tried to figure all of this out you couldnt keep something like this away from Humphrey it invlovled his own wife. "Do you have any idea how it would affect him if he found his own mate had turned on us how she had attcked me and killed Streak." Kayla stopped cold when she heard him say this "she did what to Streak!?" she said with a whisper "but how he was her won son her won flesh and blood." TYler walked up to her and said "she has lost her mind completely shes not Kate anymore she an insane wolf in Kate`s body we are not telling Humphrey it is better that he doesnt find out." Kayla nodded and said "fine but we are keeping a very dangerous secret from Humphrey i hope this doesnt backfire on us." Tyler looked at her and said "well if it does we cant do a thing about it."