she said then recover her seriousness “Now let us pay our respects to our new Alpha male of the pack: Lykos” at this Aleu’s left hind leg step back while her right foreleg took a step forward then bowed down to him with her tail tuck between her legs and her eyes closed with a smile on her face then soon all the wolves in the pack bowed down in respect each of them silently prayed to the spirits that Lykos’ will lead the pack wisely.

Lykos was surprised that he’s the Alpha male which is a big responsibility probably the biggest responsibility he had ever had or experienced, he look down at Aleu then nuzzle and lick her forehead, Aleu open her eyes then look up and saw Lykos smiled then winked at her “At ease, my packmates, rise” he said in a commanding voice then all of them stand up and look at the new Alpha male. “Since Dalton was unable to fight to become the Beta of our pack, the competition for the Beta position will continue tomorrow afternoon now since his also a leader for the hunters, I’ll be the substitute leader for the hunter wolves, healers I expect that your medicines are ready to heal Garth, Dalton and Shade. Now all of you are dismissed. Hunters come and follow me we’re going to hunt now” he said then eight nine wolves follow him. Aleu watch as she saw her mate ran with the hunters from the pack.

A month passed…

The sun was now positioned on its highest point signaling that its already noon, Aleu lay in the den with her head resting on her forelegs, three small figures were on her white light-gray white belly, that sometimes some wolves mistaken it as white color, one has the same color as their father and the other two were dark gray but the other one has black markings on his back that almost reach the pup’s leg, the black marking runs from its mane up to his tail, then the other has a gray face and a light gray marking on his muzzle and the pup’s underbelly with a gray line at the top of the pup’s muzzle, then the black one has the markings of their father but has a same color of Aleu’s underbelly. 

Aleu was waiting for her mate, who was gone hunting with the hunters from the pack, at this she felt useless before` Lykos rejoin the pack, she was always sitting in the ledge watching her packmates doing nothing that sometimes she notice one of her pack members were frowning at her but she ignore them she thought that they were just jealous because Nava nor the white wolf, Aniu chose them to be the rightful heir for the pack but she was wrong they were mad at her because she didn’t help the hunters in hunting. She sighed then a tear leaked out from her eyes.

A cute cry coming from Aleu’s belly, she raise her head to look what’s the matter, it was the gray wolf pup with black markings and a light gray underfur with a black mane, the wolfdog pup crawled towards their mother’s chest, Aleu smiled down at the gray wolfdog pup, she covered the other pups from her stomach with her slightly thick wolfdog tail. She put her head on her forelegs then pull the pup to her face gently, she was about to fall asleep when she heard the snow crunch outside the den, she immediately snarled the pups cry from their mother’s protectively snarl that echo in the walls of the den. Then a black and gray wolf appeared in the den’s entrance, Aleu calmed down as soon as she sniffed the wolf’s scent it was her mate: Lykos with a large part of meat in his jaws, Lykos walked inside the den with a curious look on his face *what are those three figures* he thought then as he walk closer he noticed that thos figures were pups! Lykos immediately drop the meat front of her then look at at the pups “Aleu who own these cute and cuddly pups?” Lykos asked “They are our pups, Lykos” she said with a warm smile, Lykos drop his mouth open in surprise, disbelief and happiness. “That means we’re parents now?!” he look at her, scared that he can’t do his duty to the pack and to his family both. “Lykos don’t worry” she said and put her paw on his as if reading her mind, “don’t worry we’re in this together, right?” Aleu said then Lykos smiled weakly and look down at the pups.