Hi everyone! It's just me again... I know this chapter wouldn't be too much happy or too much long, but... I tried to concentrate all the feelings I got now into a single shot, trying to not stretch too much the gist... I don't know why, I've got a strange thing that led me to get slighly influenced from events... I would do anything into fixing things, but there are some things that I cannot do...

How could we live in a world where a single word could trigger a whole conflict?

How it's possible that one's status could affect a whole mass's status?

How it's possible that nobody do nothing to improve the situation, but let the situation be like that, for a long time?

Maybe it's just the fact I'm too good, I really care about people, maybe too much... I don't really know.

After this not-really-so-little outburst, I let you enjoy the 24th chapter. Peace and love.

Chapter 24: Resolution

WILSON's P.O.V.

I gave to the world my last howl, filled with bitterness and despair, holding out my muzzle to the white disk that stood out in the sky, faintly illuminating the valley below… Wind rustled steadily in between trees surrounding me, crashing into my fur and messing me up…My tears were carried by the wind, pushing them towards and inexorable fall from the cliff…It was as if even nature also wanted to encourage me to put an end to my sufferings… I finished my howl, and then I began to slowly walk toward, to the cliff, while keeping my wet muzzle up in the air… I wanted to be carried by the hypnotic power to the moon, wanting to being wrapped in a sort of momentary unconsciousness, in such a way as not to feel any pain due the tremendous fall…I wanted the moon acting as a painkiller…To kill both my emotional and physical pain… Slowly I approached the precipice, I soon realized that ground was lacking under my feet…

At this point, nothing seemed to matter me anymore…I let my last words float from my mouth, as I were almost begging to the moon that I was able to fulfill my last desire…"Maya, I love you…I'm gonna protect you wherever I would go, from Heaven or even fighting against demonic hordes in Hell…I'll always be with you…"

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In the moment before I began my descent in the bottom of the valley, I could feel something sharp carving into my scruff, trying to grab me for the scruff… I have not moved, petrified from the impending fate that awaited me…I put aside all my will to live, trying to get comforted by the moon… I didn't say a single word about that…

I was back on dry land, not caring to look at my "saviour"… For me it did not matter who he or she was… He or she didn't have any right to do that…

I was lost in my world now…Words…Thoughts….Emotions floated in it, shuttling between heart and mind, stabbing and tearing into both of them…I could feel tears be about to open a way through my eyes…

Until something shocked me and brought me back to the present…

…A kiss.

My eyes widened to a point that I thought was impossible… I focused my view on the wolf in front of me… My eyes twitched a bit…I cannot believe to what was happening to me…

Well, actually all made sense, now…

FLASHBACK

It was a late autumn day…Winter was almost upon, and that would mean only one thing: soon I would be separated from some of my dearest friends, which would leave to begin their training as future Alphas… I could see Pia and Maya were both excited and sad about that at the same time…I couldn't do anything but try to reassure them, embracing both of them with a smile, knowing that they would definitely come back… I was slightly sad, too, due to the fact that we could not spend more time together like the old days… But I have to always show the positive side…What kind of Omega I would be, after all?

I was playing with Burton (he was brawny and powerful even at that age…Every pinning was a crash…), Lance (insupportable as he is now), Maya and Pia.

We were having a little fun, playing tag and running back and forth throughout the forest…But our enjoyment was short lived, due to a recall howling coming from the main ground… It was finally time to part ways…To cope with their fate…

We stopped suddenly our playtime, and quickly we gathered all together to give us a goodbye… I could see Pia and Maya almost on verge of tears…Yeah, I could guess no one likes goodbyes… But seeing my friends in that condition made me grieve…Especially Maya…I wanted to give her anything to see her smile again appear between her lips at least one last time…

So I decided, according to my funny side, to give intentionally one last moment of fun togheter… I pretended to stumble over a medium sized rock… I began to stumble until I almost reached them gathered in the middle of a small clearing, and I almost ended up top of them… Indeed, I involuntarily crashed on Pia, making both of us roll on the grass, until she found herself on top of me, with our muzzles almost connected, others behind our backs… In a fraction of a second, I could feel something wet moisten my muzzle… I…I couldn't believe what she did…She…She licked my muzzle…

Surprise, anxiety, awkwardness, confusion, fright…All these emotions began to make their way in my mind…My face pale and flushed at the same time… I don't really know how to react to that...Sudden action.

I suddenly heard a burst of laughter coming from the rest of my friends in the clearing, and I couldn't help but smile too, knowing that I had succeeded in my attempt… Pia let me stand up, and smiled to me, while others were just focused on laughing

"Well, I observed you before and I know that you did that on purpose… I know what you wanted to do…Take that just as a…Way to thank you…" She then winked and I tilted my head, not really knowing what to say her… So I thanked her silently with a smile, and she smiled me back…

I though all of that as a friendly demonstration of affection, not really knowing that there was something deeper under…

Until now.

Back to WILSON's P.O.V.

I found myself staring at Pia, breathless…I could see her eyes still closed, savouring the kiss…I could see tears floating down her cheeks… I never thought she cared about me like that… I had never realized that… What a fool I've been…

While I was thinking, I didn't realize she opened her eyes, and then I felt a sharp pain on the left side of my muzzle, with a force that made me almost move back… And then I realized she clawed me…Her eyes still wrapped in a blanket of tears…But I knew I deserved that…

I cannot help but look down, not having the force to look at her straight in her eyes, due to my previous great foolishness…

"YOU!" Pia said in a quite menacing tone… I don't even know if she had heard what could be considered my last words…

"I know…You love Maya…" She began to say, sighing and sniffing slighlty.I instinctively lowered more my head, almost reaching the ground… "So she heard me" I thought.

She continued speaking "It was not your earlier remark that made me understand that…The ways you looked at her, the ways you acted when she was around you…I couldn't help but be extremely jealous of her for the fact that you devoted so many attentions to her…I wanted to be the object and the subject of your desires…"

But then she lifted my muzzle, making me look into her eyes… And she continued "Please, don't ever do such a thing…Even If you don't accept me in your life, remember at least that there's someone who will love you forever...Wholeheartedly." And she kissed me again, this time more intensely and passionately…

My mind was a mess…A whirlwind of emotions came crushing into it, not sparing anything… I was completely enveloped by doubts…It was really the right thing to do? Had I to take advantage of that opportunity, to live a more decent life? But, above all, could she make me forget once and for all the love that I felt for Maya…

I pulled back from the kiss, and whispered to her…"I'm sorry, It's just…I can't."

Then I turned back and decided to jump.

GRIN's P.O.V.

Pia said she would handle that, and she ran after Wilson, with a confident expression, trusting that she would be able to understand what was wrong with him… She said us to not giving that much importance, and to begin having fun without them, stating that they would definitely met them later…

I looked at Maya, asking her what she wanted to do…She thought about that for a couple of seconds and then decided to go and enjoy others at Moonlight Howl…

While we were almost halfway, I noticed that the more we walked closer she was getting more and more to me…I could almost feel her ormolu-like fur brushing mine…

But that moment was abruptly interrupted when we suddenly heard a howl…We looked at each other…We knew well that tonight is going to be a night in which lots of howl will be freed in the air, but… That howl was load of sorrow and hopelessness…And was directly coming from Wilson and Pia's direction…

We began to get worried, and decided to run back, where Pia and Wilson would be…But we arrived in time there to see only the last part: Wilson breaking his kiss with Pia and turned quickly to jump into the cliff.