Chapter 7: Memories During A Hunt

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It had been six months since Humphrey first began his training, six months of pain but he survived. He had become strong enough and fast enough to hold his own against any Russian wolf and today Humphrey would put his new skills to the test on his first solo hunt, his target an adult male bore that had taken out two hunt squads a week earlier.

The bore could be identified by it's missing eye and claw marks all over its body and because of thease features the wolves nick named it Scar.

The reason he was hunting alone is because it was a right of passage for all wolves that completed their training and wanted to become a member of a hunt squad. Any wolves that did not complete the right of passage were known as unblooded warriors and they did not hold much respect. Wolves that did complete the right of pasage were known as blooded warriors and were well respected.

The goal of the hunt was not to kill the boar but to wound it with your claws and then return with the dried blood of the boar still on your claws but if you did manage to kill the boar you were stalking you would gain prestige among the pack and maybe even give command of your own hunt squad.

Humphrey remebered when all of this was explained to him by the leader of the pack.

:FLASHBACK:

"I HAVE TO WHAT!" exclaimed Humphrey after the rules of the hunt were explained to him.

"Its ok with the training you will recieve you should come out of it alive." replied Maxim the pack leader.

Maxim was a large dark grey wolf with blue eyes. His personality and appearence reminded Humphrey of Winston.

"If you say so." said Humphrey.

:END OF FLASHBACK:

Humphrey snapped back to reallity and began looking for any trail the bore had left behind just like Anya had taught him. When that memory came into Humphrey's head, his mind started to wander again.

:FLASHBACK:

"Many male bores sharpen their tusks on the trunks of trees. When they do this they leave behind certain marks like the one on this tree. This is also used as a warning saying that their is a male in the area." Anya said as she was teaching Humphrey how to track bores.

Humphrey was paying attention intently but instead of paying attention to the lesson he was more focused on the gorgeous wolf in front of him.

"Humphrey are you paying attention?" asked Anya

Humphrey snapped out of his trance and said "Huh, oh yeah yeah im paying attention."

"Oh really, then you won't mind playing a friendly game of hide and seek to see if you learned anything at all." replied Anya with a grin.

"Not a problem." Humphrey replied proudly.

Anya left and hid while Humphrey counted to one hundred.

'Thats the fourth time ive caught him day dreaming, what is up with him, it was like he was in a trance. I wonder what has his mind so fixed on it that he can't even pay attention when im teaching a leason.' Anya thought to herself as she hid in some bushes

Humphrey finished counting and began looking for Anya. He spent half an hour looking but he couldn't find her. He had to admit defeat and so he began calling out "Anya, Anya, I giv-" but he was cut off when Anya lept from her hiding place and pounced on him.

They rolled a little bit in the snow and then began laughing so much that both had their eyes closed and didn't notice that they were touching noses. When they both stopped laughing they opened their eyes and looked into each others eyes and then without kowing it Anya said. "Wow, you have beautiful eyes." Then they noticed that their noses were touching and all Humphrey could do was smile while Anya had a look of shock.

She backed away and apologized. "Sorry about that."

"Its ok and by the way I think you have beautiful eyes too." replied Humphrey

When he said that she blushed with embarresment and then realized that she was the reason Humphreay couldn't focus. She decided to use this and said seductivly "If you can pay attention to my lessons then maybe ill give you a surprise at the end." and with that she left Humphrey burning red from embarresment.

:END OF FLASHBACK:

He snapped back to reality again and then thought to himself 'I never did get that surprise.'

He finally found the signs of a male bore being in the area and from what he could tell, it had to be Scar because the tusk marks on a tree he saw were huge.

He went into stealth mode and crept along through the bushes as quiet as the wind.

'Just like Andrey taught me.' Humphrey thought to himself as he remebered his time learning the art of stealth from Andrey.

Andrey still hated Humphrey for taking his fallen brother's place in the squad but he was forced to teach Humphrey by Nikoli and Maxim. This didn't mean he went easy on Humphrey though because everytime Humphrey made a slight error Andrey would force him to do 20 log squats.

Humphrey finally saw his prey asleep in the snow and he thought to himself 'Maybe I won't need to use those fighting techniques Nikoli and Kodiak showed me after all.' but just as he took a step forward he broke a twig hidden in the snow.

"Shit not again." Humphrey cursed silently, he then looked up to see Scar charging at him.

He dodged out of the way in time he then jumped on Scar's back and slashed at his head. Scar squealed in pain but manage to throw Humphrey off of him. Humphrey went flying through the air but did a mid air back flip so he could land on his feet. He then did a front flip and landed on Scar's back again but this time he wasn't able to stay on for very long. He landed in the snow with a thud but stood back up again, he then saw Scar charging at him again. He dodged his charge but his side was cut by Scar's tusk. Humphrey was bleeding heavly now and was out of energy, so he decided to use a trick Nikoli had taught him, he played dead.

Humphrey's eyes rolled up into his head and he collapsed on the ground. Scar approached him and nudged him with is snout to see if he was alive. No response, Scar then snorted and was about to turn and leave when Humphrey, with great speed and strength lunged at him and ripped his throat out.

Scar didn't even have time to squeal and he just slumped down in the snow, dead. Humphrey howled to signify that he had just made a kill and that he needed help from a squad to carry the body back.

After he finished howling he felt weak and remembered about his bleeding side. He looked at it and then the snow and the he blackout.

AN: Has to be the longest chapter I have ever typed so far. Shout out to He Who Is Broken aka ROaxs Destroyer of Worlds for reviewing the most "dont know why the name change if the last one was awsome but im not one to judge :)" and also shout out to cnoiles and Darkwolf2425 for being my first and third reviewers. Please review people or I might not find the motivation to continue the story, soooo yeah. bye