Alpha and Omega Re-telling.

Chapter One: A First Hunt Gone Wrong.

Chapter One: A First Hunt Gone Wrong.

Winter came that year, cold and hard as always, blanketing the valleys in snow, freezing the rivers and streams over. A bitter winter it was for the four friends, lowest ranking members of the pack, orphans all, having to live off of what they could.

The packs were fair, but if there wasn't enough food to go all the way around, it was the Omega's who went hungry . . . Simply because someone had to go hungry, and it was the rule that the Omega's would always come last.

Finally the frost receded, and green began to return to the dead forests, the grass and soil began to re-appear from under their blankets of snow. The rocks began to stop looking so stark. Buds and leaves slowly began to re-appear on the trees.

And Humphrey and his friends were again at log sliding.

They howled in unison as they soared over a cliff that had once been a deadly obstacle to them, spinning the log in a circle, and coming down smoothly on the path they had run.

"Angle left, thirty degrees." Called Humphrey back to Salty, who still took his place behind him. They spun up the side of a mound of dirt and came around smoothly, dodging the trees as they appeared, nothing could stop them! Humphrey laughed with exhileration, he loved this game!

"Salty, give us some sail draft." The still-scrawny, though now much older, light grey wolf stood on his hind legs, holding his forelegs out to the side, the wind whistling through his fur.

"I think I taste the wind!" He said. They suddenly ran up the side of a massive rock on the side of the path and a bug whizzed toward them." No, just a bug!" He coughed, spitting the little insect out and dropping back down to his place coughing, and chuckling himself at the others, who were laughing so hard they could hardly see.

The trees whistled by them." Hey, Mooch! Get ready!" Humphrey called over the wind, they sped out of the forest and up the side of a small grassy hill." Lower the boom!" He called, just before they reached the top.

Mooch, who was still fat, despite having gone hungry thoughout the whole winter, nodded and threw his weight down on the back end of the log. The force threw them forward and up, again they howled with delight, spinning out from the log before they landed again on the other side of the hill.

"Guys," Humphrey called as they flew forward at even higher speeds than before." We really need to work on the - BRAKES!" He shreiked.

"Brakes?" The others called stupidly, an instant before they slammed full force into a massive rock jutting up out of the grass, and were sent flying through the air.

Humphrey landed first, and then Salty crashed into him, and then little, dark grey Ace fell on top of Salty, and then, with a roar of 'Wolf pile!' Mooch crashed on top of them all.

They groaned." Get your butt out of my face!" Snapped Ace at Mooch.

"What'd we hit?" Moaned Salty, squirming out from under the others.

Humphrey followed him, and then looking up, stopped." Spring!" He said, amazed. In front of them spread the valley, the valley which attracted the life-sustaining caribou that made this are area special. The jagged mountains, rising out of the earth on either side of the grassy plain on the valley floor, still had ice and snow on them, but the bottom of the valley was a beautiful bed of thick green grass scattered with a thousand different flowers.

Finally, he sighed to himself. The pack needed the food that this valley would bring, they needed it badly.

Suddenly something caught his eye, a flicker of movement down below him in the grass. He caught his breath."Whoah, look who's back from Alpha school." It was Kate.