A/N: IT'S OVERRRRR! IT'S FINALLYYYYYYYYY OVEEERRRR! OMG you can't believe how much I wanted to write again but stupid things like school and exams got in my way! And when they were done, I didn't like what I came up with so I deleted TWO CHAPTERS! And started again! :/

I am sorry for keeping this away from you for so long and hope you enjoy because I put some good amount of time on it melted the two parts in one bigger chapter!

and hopefully from now on till end of summer I can update more frequently. (not really summer school starts in 9 days when this is updated(T-T) but I will try! I promise!:D)

Now on with the story:

THIRD POV: UNKNOWN PERSON LOCATION: DARK KING'S CHAMBERS.

The small she-wolf quickly paced through the tunnels as the small poach of medicine on her back bounced to her sides. Her bag was heavy but it didn't stop her from moving along the corridors with such swiftness that you would mistake her with a shadow. The young wolf sped up her pace as she approached her king's quarters and quickly stopped to a halt.

The opening of the room was closed off with a big round flat rock _think of it as a small cinder_ which covered the entrance completely except for a small part which provided air for it. The she-wolf took an another step forward and raised her paw as she approached to knock on the stone made door, but froze in her place as a sudden scream of pain shook her from her place.

"great he's doing that disgusting habit of his again! knowing how this guy sleeps at night after doing it is a wonder to me!" she whispered to herself.

The wolf got up, walking to the door, but as she was about to knock on the door a loud growl came through along with it, a huge rumble cased the door to slide open to the side. It was too dark to make anything out of the insides of the room but strong stench of blood spoke clearly for itself.

"what do you want?! Why were you standing here for so long?! Should I remind you of what happened to the last wolf who dared disturb me for god damn no reason?! I ate him for lunch! That's what." the dark king shouted, showering the now terrified wolf with the remains which were still in his mouth.

"I'm…m s-sorry my lord, I-I… didn't mean to disturb your-r… meal, but y-you told to come get you when he woke up." She said stumbling on her own words.

In a blink for an eye, all his anger went away as if there was no anger to begin with!" ohm! Has he now…" he started in a much calmer voice, so clam that if you hadn't seen him while he was angry you wouldn't believe that this voice was coming out of the same mouth as the angry one.

" Well, I see no reason to keep you here Carlaya. *(A/N: info can be found at my profile, in the character section.)* thanks for keeping me up to date. Now if you excuse me, I have an old friend to meet up with." The king said with a soft voice as he cleaned his mouth and fur with a few green leaves which were next to door and started whistling a melody as he walked on into the tunnels, leaving Carlaya shocked and phased by how different his actions were from before.

'did he just use my name? wow! He never bothered to call me by my name before. Just who is this mysterious guest?" Carlaya thought as she pulled out the bits of meat and other grossom things from her fur, making it clean again.

"and get someone to clean up the leftovers, please. I don't want to return to a bloody mess after this." The king shouted from around the corner where he couldn't be seen by Carlaya.

"great! Just great! guess I got clean duty again." Carlaya sighed as she started making her way to get some more leaves to clean the room with.

As she was about to exit the unground tunnels, a voice called out to her" yo! Carlaya wait up, I need to talk to you. *pant*pant*" ace called out as he ran to catch up to her.

Carlaya stopped at her tracks and turned around, waiting for Ace to catch up to her." What? I'm busy!" she grumbled, slowly starting to walk again.

"let me guess, cleaning duty again, eeh?" Ace asked breathing rapidly.

She sighed loudly, nodding as she turned around, taking a new and shorter path to the surface. "so I figure you've seen the new inmate right?" ace said walking by her side as she hurried throughout the tunnels.

"yeah, what about him?" she asked.

"Does he seem a little … umm, I don't weird to you? I mean he suddenly started to shake and fell on the ground as we were talking for Lupa's sake! And why the hell did the king made you to lie about it as something natural? Like who even believes that? passing out from pure pressure difference?! Is this a joke?" Ace said with a shocked expression on his face.

"hold up a second, how do you know about the lying thing? I thought only I and the king knew about that!" she said with narrowed eyes.

" oh please…" he started as he put on his bossy confidence act "I don't have a whole goon squad of brainless monkeys just sitting around poking bananas in each other's noses, no, I use those with skill to be my ears around these parts." He finished with a chuckle.

"so you wouldn't need the help of someone like little lonely me to tell you anything. Right?! you have your skilled goons to fetch that info for you." she said winking innocently but when she saw Ace's confused face, she burst out laughing.

"OMG, you should have seen the look on your face right now! Hahahaha Ace you're too easy to mess around with silly." She says continuing on her series of snickers.

Ace sighed rolling his eyes as he noticed what was going on." Haha very funny. Com one, you got your laugh. now, tell me.

"okay okay…" Carlaya started clearing out the tear in her left eyes." Tell you what, I'll tell you what you want…" she said pausing to make a dramatic impression" …But, you have get some of those Special goons of yours to take over my cleaning duty and then I tell you whatever you want! Sounds like a good deal right?" she said leaning in to his face while moving her eyebrow up and down

Ace leaned back on his back to get away from her breath on his chin" sheesh Carlaya! You're always such a tease but I guess It can't be helped. Fine we have a deal" Ace said as they both nodded, spitting on thier paws and doing a spit-pawshake to confirm that the deal has been made.

"so what do want to know about him?" Carlaya asked happily because she didn't have to worry about work anymore.

"I believe his name is Humphrey, at least that's what he's told me. I want to know why did our king make you lie to him about the whole passing out incident." Ace said simply and straightforward.

Carlaya sighed slightly from disappointment. She had hoped that maybe she could mess around with him a bit more but for Ace, his duty always came first. Thus she decided to give him what he wanted and be done with it.

"awwe you're no fun Ace! Why can't you Learn some sense of humor or something?! Anyways I don't know why he wanted me to tell him that but I can tell you this when I went in to see him, I noticed something was wrong with him..." she said.

"LIKE WHAT?" ace interrupted her, not caring about her bitter words.

"humph, as I was saying before you rudely interrupted me…" she started," …one thing I noticed was that he was blind after waking up! Luckily, he couldn't see how freak ked out I was then and I managed to pull it off with a little improvise, but he talked like he was mad at something or maybe someone and had no idea that he had passed out! that's strange isn't it?" she said with a curious look on her face.

"yeah it is. Humm… just who is he? He appeared out of the blue and has caught all of our king's attention to himself. heck! /he even threw away that dead meat pup we stole from the humans not so long ago! And now he's meeting him in person. Quite suspicious, isn't it?" ace said mostly talking to himself than Carlaya.

"I suppose, Anyways, you go have fun spying on whoever you want, I want to get a nice relaxing bath near the hot springs over the valley and get all this dirt and blood out of my fur. it's ganna be the best feeling ever! Oh, and after the bath maybe I can find some of those pink followers that grow around there to make my…" she stopped when she noticed that Ace had left without even saying a Farwell.

She was galled by his action but there was nothing she could do, so she decided to make the most out of her day off and go the hot springs doing what she had planned to do.

FIRST POV: HUMPHREY LOCATION: NOT TOO FAR FROM WHERE WE LEFT SET ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS WE LEFT CARLAYA

Tunnels, tunnels and more tunnel! anywhere I went just led up to more tunnels! I couldn't take it anymore! I'm pretty sure I've see that specific rock formation at least five times and I don't know why, but I keep picking up a certain scent which is really familiar for me but somehow I can't tell who it belongs too.

I slowly stopped running in order to catch my breath. While doing so, I heard some faint stomping's coming from around the corner, I saw a shadow appear at the end of one of a turn and decided to quicky hide behind a hollow dark crack between the rocks.

I kept my breathing steady and tried to be as quite as a snake, but I couldn't do anything about my heart bit. It was pounding like crazy! It could be heard from a mile away.' damn it, if he comes any closer I will lose the chance to drop on him! it's now or never!' I thought as I crouched into a pouncing state and leaped perfectly onto his back, using my improved claws, I dug deeply into his back to both maintain my balance and to make him fall on the ground.

The wolf groaned lightly and struggled under my grip for a moment, but suddenly, I found myself being thrown on the floor as my back hit the wall behind me. it all happened so fast I didn't even notice him coming up to me and placing his paw on my throat. I whined in pain as I tried to kick him off but he did not let go.

Slowly the world around my eyes got darker and darker as if someone was blowing out the life out the bags of firefly's which hanged on the walls, one by one. First it was my toes, then It reached my limbs and I lied their struggling as my body went numb from lack of oxygen.

I tried! I really did but even with my enhanced muscles, I couldn't do much but to make him push even harder.

Soonly enough, the strength in my arms gave out as I closed my eyes awaiting my death. The only thing I was sad about was that I didn't get to tell Kate 'I love you.' one last time.

I was about to fall asleep for good when he suddenly removed his paw and air filled my lungs. I never would have thought that I'd be able to breath air so quickly! I think I cleared every drop of oxygen in air around us before my heart beat reduced to a calmer rhythm.

"Humphrey, Humphrey, Humphrey…look at you! all grown up!" he shook his head." Ohh it's been so long since I last saw you! I almost forgot how you looked like hehe but, I really dig the new eye color though hehe" He said with an amused voice.

Every single muscle in my body froze as I recombined the voice; I mean; how couldn't I not remember him before?! It was so obvious!

I looked up at the wolf,

"BUCK!HOW THE HELL ARE YOU HERE? Wait… how are you even alive?" my eyes widened.

my brain was stunned as memories of past times flew right before my eyes, the time when we were first exploring the forests near our pack along with flame and Flame accidently tripped on a rock and fell into a mud puddle and we tried to help and get him out but he was too heavy and caused both of us to fall into the mad as well! We spent the rest of the day mud fighting and oh boy! that was fun!

I smiled lightly to that memory but, shortly my smile was replaced with a frown as images of back when buck threw a rock at my face to potentially kill me thinking I was trying to make a move on Sarah, popped in my eyes and now here he was; all good and healthy unlike most of our pack who got ripped apart that day. If it wasn't for him, maybe I could save a few more wolves!

I blinked myself out of shock noticing only a few seconds have passed during my flashbak.

"why are you here Buck?! ANSWER ME!" I growled while eyeing his movements with my golden eyes.

True he was once my friend but seeing him here, moving so freely within these tunnels, I couldn't be too careful!

He was way bigger than me, maybe even bigger than Garth and judging by the scars spread throughout his body, you could say he had experience on his side but, I had my enhanced body structure and improved speed to help me.

He didn't even move an inch, just stood there looking at me with his crooked grin.

I opened my mouth to ask him again but, he cut in before I could say anything.

"geez Humphrey! You're as impatient as ever! You should've stayed in your cave. You know, this place is really dangerous to walk alone for wolves like us." He said with a cold stare.

"shut up! You and me are so not alike! You're nothing like me! you're… you're a murderer! You were the reason we're even in this mess right now. If it weren't for you, everyone would be alive today and maybe...just maybe we would still be friends!" I yelled at him as I felt some tears run down my face.

My words must've hit a soft spot because he wasn't grinning anymore; in fact, he was slightly scowling.

"huh you still think of those days, I see. Well, I can't do anything about that but I can't let you go!"

"why?" I asked.

"I need your help. Follow me, we need to talk." He grumbled.

"hah! That's funny. I don't remember you want to talk back when you were trying to get rid of me and I wasn't even trying to steal her from you! She left you just because you're a jerk who talks with his fists first. I wouldn't help you even if you begged me!".

"oh trust me I know my friend I know! you wouldn't help me! that's why I sent my solderis to capture the white she-wolf you were with! You know the one with purple eyes who I gotta is really hot! I don't know for how long my soldiers will follow my orders and keep their paws off of her." He said smirking.

"YOU FUCKING BASTARD! Let her go right now! or I'm going to kill you!" i said, pouncing on him, pinning him to the wall.

"no. help me first." He said calmly pushing my jaws away from his neck but it was too late to do anything about as my jaws wrapped themselves around his neck, slowly pushing my teeth on his skin.

" look, you can kill me right now but, if I don't check in regularly with my guards, they are ordered to kill her slowly! So I suggest you to get off and help me before I feel too lazy to check in."

' damn it! I can't risk Lilly getting hurt right now! Not after I left her without saying anything. I owe her this much at least.' I thought as I lessened my grip around his neck just enough to let him breath normally again.

"fine, I'll help you but, on one condition…" I said. He looked hesitant but nodded his head." I'll help you but after I do, you must let us go and never look for us again."

He frowned at first but, eventfully agreed." Fine, I won't have any use for you after I'm done here anyways. You can take your leave after you help me but you must never return to this place ever again! do we have a deal?" he said catching his breath.

I nodded, letting go of his neck." Let's get this over with. What do you want?" I said spitting out some of his fur which got stuck between my teeth.

"oh I don't want your help haha what made you think that I would need the help of a little omega? Oh gods no! what I need is the power within your blood." He said with laughing at first but his smile slowly shrunk to a scowl near the end.

An awkward since fell between us, with me still trying to accept the fact that Buck knew about my powers! I was shocked to say the least! But one thing her didn't know was that I was a delta and I wanted to keep it that way.

"b-Buck… how do you know about…" he jumped in and finished my sentence for me.

"your powers? Ha! That's an easy one. I am the one who sent you on that little trip to the beginning hehe. You know, the one where the fate holder and Lucifer fought and everything? Yeah that actually happened!" he said standing up, dusting himself from the dirt.

"it's sad you know! if only you had stayed in your cell; I would've come and explained everything to you and maybe things would work out. I really don't want to force you into helping me but you're not leaving with much of a choice here man!"

"I don't even want know what are you doing here nor do I care! Let's get thing over with so I can leave here with my friend."

Buck shrugged as he started walking towards one of the money paths in the tunnel as he motioned me to follow him.

THIRED POVLOCATION: HUMPHREY'S RESCUE TEAM.

Three figures ran under the night's sky, appearing when the moon shone down upon them only to dissolve in the shadows right away. They moved without making any sound nor leaving any trace as their scent was covered by the mud that was cloaking their bodies.

The trio climbed the rocky formation as smoothly as a leaf in the wind and positioned themselves in some bushes in order to camouflage.

"status report." Flame stated with the quietest voice his vocal cords could manage, because they were in enemy territory and every move they made could determine whether or not their mission would be successful.

"we are momently at the border of the northern entrance to the "Dark King's tunnel base" and we know for a fact that our goal as in Humphrey is inside the underground tunnels beneath that hill" Mark said pointing to a somewhat tall hill with very few tree around it.

Flame followed Mark's line of sight and nodded, observing various entry points and analyzing the weak points of the structure. He dropped his head in defeat when he saw no possible ways to gain entry.

If it was one thing the Dark King had done smartly, it would be picking the location of his base! It was big, without any cover but more importantly in plain sight so any intruders would have a hard time trying to sneak inside or rather try to get out.

"well, I'm out of ideas. That thing is a death wish! there is without a doubt zero points of entry that go un noticed by those guards!" Flame whispered while shaking his head as he pointed out the five-man squad who were surrounding the hill. But, those weren't the only ones protecting it, they were dozens of monkeys with sharpened sticks in the area as well! Some were even in the trees! Mark nodded in despair as he too agreed with Flame's statement.

Argentum didn't lose faith though. He peered his eyes across the plain and snickered as a brilliant idea came to his mind. His smile didn't go unnoticed by Flame who decided to ask him about it.

" what is it? You seem happier than a pup taking its first steps in the world! You got an idea or something?" Flame asked.

"yeah you can call it an idea of sorts; you see I was thinking that we can't possibly gain entry from the main entrance eh? So all we have to do is…"

" MAKE OUR OWN WAY INTO THE TUNNELS! You're ingenious!" Flame said excitedly as he liftly punched his shoulder lightly.

"yup, what could you do without me?! hehe…" he said with a small chuckle.' Man Flame's got one heck of punch! Even though he didn't use much of his strength, my shoulder's gone numb.' He thought, rubbing his shoulder to make the pain go away when no one was looking.

" I hate to ruin to moment when everyone is happy and all but there is a small problem with your plan." Mark said scowling.

"what is wrong with my plan?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"well, I get where you're coming from with all the tunnel digging and stuff, but... we can't really do that because the sound might alert the enemies of our presence and this is an infiltration/ recuse mission not an assassination one as much as I like it to be." Mark explained with a wise expression.

Flame nodded in acknowledgement as he put his paw under his chin to figure out a new plan, but was interrupted by Argentum's not so loud laughter.

" Mark you don't know so I can't blame you but, Flame have you really forgotten about my special talents?" Argentum said smiling like a maniac.

Mark gave Flame a * what's going on? What's he talking about? * look, excepting to get an answer but he was left to no avail, seeing Flame had the same confused look he had.

Rg noticed the looks on their faces and sighed" Ahh... Nerve mind, it's easier if I just show you." He said as he stood up positioning himself in way that he was facing the hill. Flame and Mark watched him as he muttered some things to himself while staring back and forth between where he was standing and the entrance on the hill. Then he placed his head on the ground sideways and listened for something.

"maybe he's listening for sounds of empty space underground?" Flame guessed. Mark shrugged," I don't know, maybe. maybe he's listening for footsteps around the area? You know to see if it's clear to make noise!" Mark replied.

"you know, I may just be waiting for you two to shush yourselves so I can do my thing!" he said, looking at them from under his tail with a frown. Flame and Mark both looked away, blushing as they shut their mouths and they waited.

After some more waiting and watching Rg doing some pretty disgusting stuff such as licking the soil and eating some dirt and spitting it back only to have his teeth turn muddy brown; they were really eager to find out what had discovered.

"well I have both good news and bad news." Rg said with his everlasting smirk.

Flame took in a long deep breath trying to avoid looking at Rg's mouth before speaking. "fine, let's hear the bad news first."

Rg nodded with amusement in his eyes as he explained." As you may have noticed, this place has only one entry from above the surface so you may easily end up thinking that given enough time, we could possibly establish a new way from any point underground but that is not true!"

Both Flame and Mark looked at him with shocked expressions but remind silent; waiting patiently for him to continue." You see under our very feet, there is a rock formation formed from hundreds if not thousand years ago around the whole tunnel system. It is made of pressured and forzen magma so there is no way to dig through it even if we had a whole year and claws of steel."

"SO WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST WE DO?! Sit here on our asses while we wait for you to grow claws of silver or something?" Mark growled with a frustrated pitched voice as he proceeded to paw the ground so hard that some pebbles flew around.

"whoa! Hold your horses cowboy! I haven't told you about the good stuff now, have I?" Rg snickered as he pointed towards some parts which were heavily covered by trees." Towards south-east, about a few hundred meters from here, there is a crack in this rock formation; I'm not sure but, it's probably a secret escape tunnel or something of sorts which would be used in case of an invasion; give or take. I think that's our best shot at going in, unnoticed of course!"

"hah! who knew your silver-head would have some other use except for being replacement for the moon" Mark said as he laughed at his little joke along with Flame. Argentum being the one a good sense of humor, joined in.

After the small laugh, the group began moving once again, only this time, they had a new Hope!

THIRD POV Lilly TIME SET: the same as Flame, Mark and Rg's time : somewhere inside the underground base.

Lilly's eyes slowly flickered open to the sound of water drops hitting the ground nearby. she groaned loudly as she turned to her side with her stiff body. Lilly looked around herself and noticed she was in some sort of cage made out of bones! Bones which looked like they be very thick and old.

'okay! Where the hell am I?! the last thing I remember is…' Lilly thought as she stood on her two front legs.' Damn it why can't I remember anything? Argh every time I try to remember, I get this sudden headache! It feels like my heads about to explode!' she frowned rubbing her left temple to ease the pain.

Lilly put all her strength into her legs and tried to stand up but her body must've been weaker than she thought because as soon as she did, Lilly lost her balance and fell down on the wet rocky floor of her cell.

"careful now! your body is still weak. Here eat this, it will give you back your strength." A deep voice said from within the darkness.

" who's there?! Show yourself." She cried out as she tried to stand up again which was followed by her falling once again.

"My name is Ace." The deep voice said as it coughed a few times. "I wish you no harm." Ace said as he walked into the dim light of cave which was provide by the lantern of fireflies." I have brought you some food, eat it." He said with a face empty of emotions as he pushes a wooden plate filled with meat into the cage from a tiny opening under a lower case of bones.

"nu uh! There's no way I'm ganna eat that! how do I know it's not poisonous? For all I know you may be trying to kill me!" Lilly said panicking as she pushed the plate away from herself as far as possible. Even though the meat seemed tempting to her; she wasn't going to take one bite out of that plate, even if it meant starving to death!

"suite yourself although, I suggest you don't starve to death otherwise you grey furred friend may come see you sooner than you expect." Ace said walking back into the shadows.

"wait!" Lilly cried out, "what are you talking about? What have you done with Humphrey?"

"nothing you should be concerned about. Now, I'll be sending a guard to pick up the leftovers and give you anything you need in a few. You better get to eating because that meat isn't getting any fresher!" Ace said from within the tunnels as his voice kept getting weaker and weaker until it sounded like a whisper.

" hey! If he can give me anything, how about a FREAKING WAY OUT?!" Lilly yelled at the darkness but that Ace was long gone.

' damn it! What do I do now? I don't know if they really have Humphrey with them but I can't risk his life either! Damn it! Pull it together Lilly! You're better than this!' Lilly stopped on her tracks, real sing she's been only panicking for the last hour and nothing else. Lilly took a deep breath, calming herself down,' okay, I need think this through logically' she said to herself looking around her cell, taking the things she hadn't noticed before.

Her cell was covered with big pieces of bones from different parts of animals; some were from caribou and dears while others were from… well... Wolves! Lilly almost puked whatever was left in her stomach at the terrifying scene before her but she held it in, not wanting to lose her light lunch and get even hungrier, she held on.

Lilly scanned the room trying to find something, anything that could help her escape this place but except a ton of bones and a few rocks here and there, she found nothing. Lilly sighed in anger as she threw the coconut plate she was handed to, over the room hitting a wolf Skelton on the back of the skull, making it snap out of place hitting the wall.

'there is nothing here!' Lilly thought laying down, coving her eyes with the back of her paws as tears dropped down her face. just then a cold breeze strokes her wet cheeks.' Wait! We are at least six feet underground; how is there any wind here?' Lilly lifted her head only to feel the breeze hit her face again!

Lilly quickly made her way to where the wind was coming form and noticed a part of the wall where skull hit the wall was broken and the wind was coming through a small crack in the wall. Lilly mentally slapped herself on the forehead. How did she not pay attention to the walls? The answer was in front of her yet she was too smart to see it.

' this wall is literally made out of soft dirt! I can dig through this and find out where this wind is coming from and if I'm lucky enough, I will find a way out of this shifty cell!' she thought optimistically as she buried her claws into the soft material only to pull them out just as fast, making the crack bigger along with it.

A/N: so guys I don't know if you liked this last part (in case you didn't notice I was trying out a new writing method) but, please leave a review and tell me what you thought of it. I am trying to squeeze in a chapter before school starts so be ready for it pretty soon-ish! Yay!

Side note: a little while back we broke the one-year anniversary guys! It's sad that this couldn't be updated on the same day but… you know what f*ck it! you have been with me this whole time! And I have been having the greatest joy ever writing for you guys! you guys are amazing! Go get yourself a cookie because you deserve it! XD

you know what I'm going to change the good bye sentence just because… I can! So…

love in, peace out!