Crisis
#6 of THE RETURN OF TWO OMEGAS 2: FAMILY MATTERS
The attack of the outsiders makes that the tension in the pack grows, the tension in Kip's and Ashley's family also increases and a mischief of Drew makes that everything explodes.
Kip and Drew are walking in silence slowly, the pup feels sad while tears form in his eyes, he sees that his father still growls smoothly. Kip's mind is filled with worry fills and anger.
Both get to their den after some minutes, Drew sees that his brothers are close to his mother, she licks their faces cleaning some tears that slide from their wet eyes.
Ashley gets close to Drew and licks his face affectionately.
"What happened?" Ashley asks looking at Kip. He growls while he sees the three cubs.
"Did they tell you that they were doing?" Kip asks looking at the three cubs that sniffle at the same time that they clean the tears of their eyes.
"Outsider wolves got into our territory." Ashley says while she cleans up the tears of her pups with her paws. She had listened of the attack when Madyson and Russel returned.
"Madyson and Russel were in borders of the territory, she was using one of the rabbit skins to train Russel, if I would arrived there one second later..." Kip says looking at the two pups.
They notice their mother's anger, but she also is concerned for them.
"They already understood it." Ashley says looking at her puppies and trying to calm them a little drying their tears. Ashley looks as her mate walks from one side to the other puffing with anger.
"No they didn't. Madyson you cannot lose your time in that way. Russell, you are one omega and nothing is going to change that." Kip says looking at his pups that begin to cry.
"Drew, I never want to see you in a trunk again, the clowning things of omegas are not what an Alpha makes." Kip says looking at his son that also begins to cry. Kip gets surprised when Ashley turns over and growls at him with anger.
"Clowning? You believe that we the omegas only do clowning?" Ashley asks growling and getting close to Kip. He looks at her with complete surprise when she uses one claw to pinch his chest with exasperation.
"Omegas we do not make clowning... like you we also we have duties, our duty is keeping the joy in the pack and cheer up to the glorified alphas after a failed hunt." Ashley says looking directly to eyes at Kip.
He growls with anger because he cannot believe that she be talking to him about disrespectful way and defying his authority.
"And I remember clearly how much you enjoyed using the trunk, and that was in our first date." Ashley says looking at his mate with anger. The eyes of the pups open with surprise and look at their father.
"That was when he was a young fool." Kip says in the meantime he growls.
"And you have not changed much since that time." Ashley says growling and raising her ears.
Kip gets surprised and feels that his anger grows each time in front the challenge of his authority, both growl to each other with rage, somebody suddenly clears his throat.
Ashley and Kip see that Humphrey and Garth are standing in the entrance of the cave.
"Kip, all the alpha already is assembled." Garth says looking at Kip. He nods and growls giving a last look to his mate, she growls at him. Kip gets out of the cave and starts to walk among Humphrey and Garth.
"Kip... if you hurt to Ashley, you will regret it." Garth says in casual and serious voice. Kip gets surprised for this reason and makes a grimace of disdain without feeling intimidated by the threat, Garth is not rival for him.
"And a double beating is not pleasing." Humphrey says doing a funny grimace to Kip. He opens his eyes and this time swallows hard. Humphrey is a strong wolf, Kip knows that with certainty the most experienced wolf would mop the floor with him in a fight.
The three wolves get to the center of the valley where Alpha are assembled in a circle.
"Zach Where were you?!" Kip says while he comes closer to the wolf that trembles with fear. Kip with one punch knocks down the wolf that complains by pain while Kip is standing next to him.
"Enough Kip." Lily says looking at her son. He watches her a moment before moving and sitting.
Zach has difficulties getting up feeling pain and as three check marks in his face bleed.
"Do we know something about that wolves?" Tony asks looking at the other Alphas.
"They are the Southern river pack." Kip says growling with distaste remembering those three enemies.
"I think that also they make themselves called the rippers although, but they are just a group of violent hired assassins." Eve says looking at her mate, he nods. They like each Alfa pay attention to the other packs that live close in the park.
Some are big and other little small, there are pacific ones and few others violent.
"They are not a big danger in battle, otherwise they already would have attacked with a number that surpasses us in great quantity. Each pack around us knows that it is not intelligent to challenge us... but... " Humphrey says looking at the wolves of the clan that nods.
"Let's search to destroy them." Kip says interrupting Humphrey. Garth denies it with the head and Kip growls with distaste because this seem a coward thing.
"Pursuit them will diminish our number, and as Humphrey said they are not a danger for us the adult wolves but for the pups..." Garth says seriously in his voice.
Kip's eyes open with complete surprise and his heart accelerates thinking that his children could be the targets of the enemies.
"Leaving a hole at our defenses to pursue them would be dangerous, we should increment patrolling and that pups only can move freely in the central part and more protected part of our territory. The frontiers will be completely forbidden for them." Lily says looking to each one of the wolves.
Kip and the other ones nod demonstrating their conformity with this measure. The meeting lasts for one more hour before the alpha separate to heading for her dens.
Kip walks in silence until he gets to his home and enters in the cave.
He slides in his chamber by the hole and sees that Ashley this reclining and her body curled on itself. Kip comes closer and he leans next to her, Ashley moves away a little and Kip growls with distaste.
He moves to the other side of the chamber and to let himself fall on the ground, he curls his body while he feels angry.
The next days are difficult for all the wolves of the unified clan, patrolling had doubled making that a lot of wolves feel discomfort. They all know that it is the necessary measure.
But pups feels as prisoner in their own home, in each point there is an adult that keeps watch and controls them. Drew feels annoying for this reason, his games are practically non-existent, the meeting of pups are limited to not to attract the attention of the enemies.
After midafternoon Drew had gotten tired of playing with his brothers under the supervision of his parents, his father rendered a lot of attention to them and that was something asphyxiating. He puffs with distaste while he sees as clouds move the sky and they begin to come together to cover the sky.
The pup walks on the place trying looking for a solitary place to play, he climbs one of the hill in the center of the valley. From the top Drew sees all that surrounds the territory of the clan.
Waterfalls feed the rivers that go deep into park and that give birth to the trees, stoppages and animals run here and there. His look goes over the place and feel as a light breeze stirs his fur.
Something suddenly catches his interest, there is a tree's empty trunk. Drew looks excited at the trunk, it is tall and perfect to slide on it.
Drew looks at the surroundings and sees nobody, if his father does not learn about it, there will be no problems. The pup begins to push the trunk, he growls because it is a weigh object for him.
After some minutes the trunk is in the correct position, Drew feels anxious and his tail moves rapidly excited. The cub pushes the trunk and at one bound he gets climbs in it.
The trunk begins to move downhill at high speed. Drew feels as air hits his face, his heart beats while the trunk goes down in a straight line. The pup has fun and gives howls of joy when the trunk gives jumps when going by a rock.
His forepaws hold the borders to keep himself in the trunk, but joy turns into fear when the trunk begins to hit rocks that he finds on the way.
Drew tries to control the trunk as he had seen with Shakey and the other omegas, but rapidly understands that the trunk is very large for him and for as much near-impossible to control.
"¡¡Help!!" Drew shouts while the trunk hits a rock and is going in circles uncontrollably before continuing moving downhill. A shrub suddenly moves and Kip appears jumping over it.
"¡¡Dad...!!" Drew shouts looking at Kip. He rapidly runs after the trunk jumping on obstacles on his way. Kip pants and his heart pumps rapidly taking blood to his extremities that move rapidly.
Drew turns over and sees to his father, he runs after the trunk, Kip gives a jump and bites the trailing edge of the trunk with force and tries to stop it, but the latewood splinters and breaks under the strong pressure of jaw of Kip.
He trips and falls to the ground to roll a couple of times before getting up, Kip reacts when he listen a new scream of terror of his cub. The alpha wolf begins to run rapidly and to use all his force.
Drew sees that his father runs besides to the trunk a one meter from it, the cub shouts for help when he sees the ravine that it is to some meters.
Kip uses all his forces to gain advantage over the trunk that descends rapidly. The alpha wolf finally achieves it and turns right to jump on the air over the trunk and rapidly takes his cub by the nape and take him out of the trunk.
Both fall ashore and roll side by side, Kip throws Drew into some shrubs while he extends his claws to nail them down in the ground, his body slips on the hill. His body decelerates and half part of it is hanging in the vacuum.
Kip growls while he fastens with force and the trunk passes near him before falling in the ravine. Kip holds a limb of a tree to hold himself, Drew goes out from among the shrubs and sees what happens.
"¡Dad...!" Drew says while he runs towards his father and he tries to help him. The cub pulls with all his force while Kip pushes forward his body using his hind legs.
After some moments Kip finally manages to crawl out of danger.
"¡¡What happens to you?!!" I ordered that you cannot use one." Kip shouts in a rage and anger at the cub that shrinks back in fear by the fury of his father.
"This... is enough, I do not have another alternative to give you a lesson that you do not forget never." Kip says taking his cub by the scruff of the neck charging him to walk away from there.
Drew trembles with fear while he hangs from the mouth of his father, he knows that his father is very angry as he never had seen it. The respiration of Kip is accelerated while he puffs with distaste being heading for the central part of the territory of the clan. Around twenty minutes later the wolves that are reunited in that place see as Kip appears carrying Drew that whines with fear. Between the wolves that are there the two brothers of the pup in addition to their grandparents.
Kip drops his son to the ground and goes away a couple of meters, Drew looks as his father gets close to a close rock to take a branch of a tree. The eyes of the cub and the other wolves open completely to the understanding what happens.
"Dad I... am sorry..." Drew says while he shrinks back in fear. He knew that this punishment was one of the hardest for any wolf. A urine river is visible between the legs of the pup that shrinks.
"Kip this... is... you cannot." Winston says going out from among the multitude to get close to the wolf that gets ready.
"¡Each wolf knows his place and the consequences of disobeying an order!!"Kip says growling and showing the teeth to the leader of the pack, he gets surprised.
"Thirty will be your punishment: Kip says while he catches the branch and moves himself go get in position while everyone contain the breath without knowing what to do. Kip is an alpha and the pup's father who decides his punishment.
All wolves are completely surprised and alarmed, challenging the authority of an alpha leader is something that is not well seen because a challenge usually leads to events that can create big internal problems in the pack.
Nobody can articulate a word more when Kip with a fast motion makes that the branch moves rapidly in air and a unique heard is listened when it hits its target.
The little cub surprisingly feels nothing in spite of knowing that what would happen, but a growl of pain over him makes that he open his eyes. When he raises his look he sees with surprise that his mother is over him.
Ashley feels as the whole check mark left by the branch burns with a great pain.
"What do you think that are you doing?" Ashley asks moaning with pain while she looks over the top of her shoulder toward Kip.
"What I should make, now move!" Kip says while he prepares to go on with the punishment.
"If that is you must do is OK, I just take a sunbath in my favorite place." Ashley says looking at Kip, he gets surprised and growling he gives a new blow. The sounds of lashes are heard in the meantime wolves around them look in silence and total commotion what happens.
Ashley does not move and tears run down from her eyes with each blow, her meat burns with pain, she pants and clenches the teeth without looking at her son. She refuses to frighten more to the pup showing the true pain that she feels.
Ashley's tail moves to cover the pup better, if she feels a great pain, a hit of the tip of the branch on Drew could be painful and dangerous for the cub.
Kip does not stop while he moves his snout, his concentration is completely focused in applying the punishment no matter that his objective was safe from the hits than produce injuries that stain with blood of the she-wolf's fur.
Blows finally stop when each wolf counts thirty lashes, Ashley uses his nose to push Drew outside.
When the pup is ahead of her, Ashley feels that her body loses its force and she falls on the land.
The marks left by the blows are visible due the blood that covers them, Madyson and Russel get close to his mother whining when they see that she is badly injured. Drew does the same thing and Ashley licks them with affection to calm them.
Winston and Eve help the Ashley to get up, the two alpha accompany Ashley toward her den.
Wolves make way for Ashley that limps and that moans with pain with each step that she does.
The three pups follow to their mother, when the group disappears Garth and Kate leap over Kip to attack him. The wolf moves to avoid the attack with certain facility, but a forepaw rapidly closes around his throat and squeezes with force.
Kip looks at Humphrey that looks at him in a rage.
"Little rascal." Humphrey says while he continues squeezing with force. Kip pants and tries to take a breath at the same time that he tries to get free of the grasp with a kick. The kick is intercepted by the other forepaw of Humphrey.
"Release him, Humphrey." Lily says while Kip moans with pain. The grasp around the throat of Kip slacks down and the body of the wolf falls, Kip falls seated and pants taking a breath.
A strong slap suddenly throws him down, Kip looks up and sees as her mother is before him. She has still her forepaw raised on the air, Lily does not need to say one word because Kip can read everything in her eyes.
Its mother's eyes reflect rage and disappointment, Kip feels as the marks left by the claws of his mother begin to bleed. Lily turns over and without saying nothing begin to walk away, the other wolves one by one move and leave Kip alone.
Winston, Tony, Eve, Humphrey, Candu, Salty, Hutch, Kate, Paddy, Lily and Garth are © Lionsgate
Ashley, Kip, Drew, Russel, Madyson, Aden, Cindi, Darién, Sonnie are my characters
Written by Janus Oberoth