Chapter 8 An Exciting Journey's End

Claudette's POV

The sun was beginning to rise we had walked through the entire night, I looked up at Dusty she and Huntly had been getting along rather well since their fight. I began to wonder what their secret was to it. "How much further?" Runt whined

"Not too much longer Runt if we keep going fast like this." Split said as we came to a road, there was a gas station on this one, it looked familiar.

"That gas station looks familiar." Dusty said Huntly looked at her a bit confused.

"There's a ton of gas stations in America probably just looks like another one you've seen." Huntly said

"No it's like I've been here before, you know what never mind let's just get these pups across the street." She replied I knew that beyond the mountain we'll have to climb is Bamph, the territory of the rogue wolves.

"I'll go first." Huntly said he looked both ways and ran across the street. He looked both way and Runt ran across with Magril, they were followed by Ed and Stinky, then by Fleet and myself. The last one to go was Dusty when we were all across we started the climb.

"Huntly there's rogue wolves beyond the mountain." Runt said

"Don't worry we'll just sneak by them." Huntly said as though he had done something like it before. The climb was slow, and it didn't help that Runt would occasionally kick snow in my face.

"Stop doing that." I told him and I got hit with a snow ball from Magril. "Hey!" I yelled before throwing one at her, it wasn't long before it all turned into chaos. Fleet and I hid behind a tree, while Runt and Magril were behind a log, Ed and Stinky were out in the open however. I pelted my brother in his side, He threw one back but missed, it was followed by all the snow in the tree falling on us. I heard laughing I poked my head out Dusty had kicked the tree, she got hit by a snow ball. The thrower was Huntly, she looked at him in surprise and threw one back. The snow ball fight gradually made its way up the mountain until we reached the top.

"Anyone know a fast way down?" Huntly asked as I saw a large log.

"We could logboard." I said before pointing to the log.

"Don't know what that is but alright." Huntly said, he and Dusty sat in the back, it was a tight fit but we all managed to fit in it. We took off down the hill, we leaned back and forth dodging trees and rocks.

"Um how do we stop?" Huntly asked

"We never figured out how to stop." Fleet replied

"Well we're about to hit a large rock." Huntly replied the impact was sudden and we were sent through the air again, except this time no train came to break our fall instead it was snow. We dug ourselves out and ran out into the field. Dusty stopped us however and told us to get down in the tall grass we did, then I could smell it the odor of my mom along with the rogues they smelled awful.

"That's my dad!" Fleet shot up and a paw landed on his tail.

"Easy there kid we didn't come all this way just so you could screw it up in the home stretch. Split could you see how many there are?" Huntly asked

"On it." Split took off and we waited I was so confused why were our parents with the rogues. When he came back he informed us that there was twelve of them all surrounding another group of wolves.

"Stay here." Huntly said to Dusty.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't worry I'll draw most of them away then you get the pups and get out of here. I'll be fine." Huntly got up.

"Huntly why do you always to make things difficult?" Dusty stood up to and Huntly kissed her.

"I'll be back I promise." He walked out of our hiding place and towards the rogues. It took awhile but eventually we saw him running through the field with most of their pack behind him.

"Alright let's go." Dusty said and we took off as fast as we could. Mom saw us along with the other wolves and quickly over took the two guards pinning them to the ground. We ran up the cliff and mom hugged my brothers and me tightly.

"Mom this is Dusty and Split they've been helping us get back from Yellowstone." I introduced her as Huntly changed courses in the field.

"Who's that?" Dad asked

"That's my fiancée Huntly." Dusty replied before Huntly ducked down into the tall grass. The rogues didn't see him and kept on running so he made his way back to us.

"We should get out of here as soon as possible." Nars said and we left the territory when we were out we stopped.

"Where have you been!?" Ed's mom yelled

"We've been in Yellowstone, we were racing when we hit a boxcar and got pushed into the train." Fleet explained.

"We've been trying to get back all this time." I added on

"We met Huntly who took us to his pack which was just Dusty and we started our way back." Stinky commented

"Alright, do you two need a place to stay or something to eat?" Dad asked

"Thanks for the offer but they really need to eat something, we tried to feed them as much as possible on the way here but there wasn't a lot of food along the way so they're probably starving." Huntly replied

"Alright at least stay for a few days." Mom said the two agreed and we headed back home. "So had did you two meet?" Mom asked as we walked through the woods.

"Actually we were probably a little bit younger than your pups when we met." Huntly replied

"We both tried to claim the save cave, what followed was ustrying to annoy the other out of the cave." Dusty added

"So you two are engaged? Are you planning a large wedding?" Aunt Lilly asked

"Well our pack is just the two of us." Dusty said nervously.

"No family?"

"None that either of us know of." Huntly replied

"Thanks again for bringing our pups home." Dad said

"Don't worry about it." Huntly replied as we walked into our own territory, Ed went back to his pack, and Fleet and Magril to theirs.

"You two can stay here." Mom showed them an empty den as our grandparents came over to us.

"Grandma, Grandpa!" We yelled out as we ran to them.

"Mom this is Dusty and Huntly they helped our pups get back." Mom introduced them and Grandma fainted for some reason when she saw Dusty.