As the trio were walking out of the town as Dillon let out a grunt of annoyance as he gritted out “Seriously what was the lady’s problem you weren’t hurting anyone and she just decided you were a threat off the bat it just pisses me off”.

Axel sighed as he replied, “You gotta understand that she was just trying to protect that town even if it seems unfair to you”.

“B-but she- fine” Dillon groaned out in defeat.

Ziggy then piped up “I mean at least we’re not dead and the situation wasn't much worse than it was. I mean all three of us could have died”.

“You have a point…” Dillon sighed as they walked past the last house of town and began to follow the trail back to the forest.

Ziggy stopped behind them as he looked towards the dark opening of the forest as he nervously swallowed down some spit as he asked.

“A-are we really going in there?”.

Dillon and Axel turned around to face Ziggy looking at him in silence before saying in unison.

“Yep pretty much”.

“Are you sure it’s safe?”.

“Well, it’s safe in the fact that if you follow the path you won’t get mauled by random Timberwolves”.

Ziggy let out a nervous laugh in response as he continued to follow behind Axel and Dillon as they walked past Fluttershy's cottage, the three then entering the dark entrance of the forest while Ziggy kept himself very close to them.

once they passed the entrance the path they began to follow the path they were using before as Ziggy tried to keep himself from tripping over the random roots sticking out of the ground as he groaned out, “How the heck do you guys even see anything I can barely see anything in front of me let alone anywhere close to me…”.

“Just stay close to us Ziggy” Dillon responded.

“Was already doing that but ok” Ziggy muttered out as the three continued to walk through the path Dillon and Axel having no trouble navigating in the dark.

While they were walking Dillon and Axel’s ears began to twitch as they heard movement In the distance.

“Axel, you hear that?” Dillon asked as Axel nodded in response.

“Yeah, I do, let's just keep our wits about us alright?” Axel replied.

“Got it” Dillon nodded while Ziggy listened to them confused.

“Is something happening?” Ziggy asked as Dillon quickly replied saying “Don’t worry about it Ziggy”.

“O-ok” Ziggy replied as he went silent before hearing Dillon ask him a question “ So Ziggy how long have you been here exactly”.

Ziggy just shrugged in response “Honestly I wouldn’t be able to tell you I just remember waking in the morning somewhere else and finding that town....”.

Dillon and Axel look at each other before stopping as Dillon asked “So you don’t know about the grinders that attacked last night?”.

“Wait, they attacked last night!?”.

“Yep,” the other two replied in unison as Ziggy groaned in exasperation before asking “what else did I miss?”.

“We’ll inform you once we're back at the cave” Axel replied hearing the noise he heard before immediately grabbing Dillon and Ziggy “Hey what’s the Big Idea!?” Dillon shouted out in confusion before getting silenced by Axel who then jumped into the trees.

They then hear the growl of multiple wolves who began to pass where they once were, Dillon and Axel looking down towards them in silence while Ziggy looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown not knowing what they’re looking at.

Once they were gone Axel jumped back down, placing Dillon down on the ground as he kept Ziggy over his shoulder.

“We should hurry back to the cave” Axel stated towards Dillon who nodded as they began to run through the path Ziggy shouting out “Why are we running!?”.

They don’t respond as Ziggy felt Axel jumping over multiple things as he bounced up and down on his shoulder unable to see anything other than some random small bits of light in the distance.

“What’s happening damn it!?” Ziggy then shouted out in confusion.
“We’ll explain later, Ziggy!” The other two shout out as he sees a light coming from behind as he glances to see an opening out of the path.

Dillon and Axel jump through the opening landing down on some grass, Axel then placing Ziggy down on the ground.

Ziggy covered his eyes reflexively before moving his hand as he saw the lake and cave in front of him, “Welcome to the lake Ziggy” He heard Dillon say before seeing him hold his hand out towards him.

“Good to be here” Ziggy replied before grabbing Dillon’s hand as he was pulled up from the ground.

They then begin to walk towards the cave while Dillon began to explain something to Ziggy “before we actually catch you up we’re gonna introduce you to mom”.

Ziggy looked towards him confused “Mom?”.

“Yeah he means mom, he has adopted” Axel pipes in from in front of them.

“Wait by who?” Ziggy.

“You’ll see in a moment” Axel replied

“If you say so” Ziggy replied as he closely followed them to the cave.

He follows them inside as he hears Dillon speak “Were back mom!” while Ziggy looked past Dillon to see a wolf in front and multiple pups in front of them.

Ziggy looked on towards them in silence before immediately shouting out “Huh!?”

Y-yeah I was adopted by a wolf” Dillon responded with a chuckle

Ryka, who was listening to what they were saying, decided to pipe into the conversation asking “Dillon, Axel who is this?”.

“Oh this is Ziggy mom” Dillon responded as he pulled Ziggy forwards.

“You can understand her?...” Ziggy muttered out to Dillon who nodded in response as he noticed some of the pups running up to him and surrounding his legs.

“Yeah we can since we got made a part of the pack it's the reason why I have these ears and tail same with Axel,” Dillon said as he pointed to both ears and tail.

“Oh ok,” Ziggy replied, hearing Ryka bark again before hearing Dillon respond to her.

“Yeah he’s a friend apparently he’s a part of the team im in are you okay with him staying with us”

Ziggy heard another bark as Dillon just jumped up shouting “Yes!” before turning back to Ziggy who looked completely confused “She said you can stay!”.

Ziggy who had been silent just showed a nervous smile before saying “o-oh that’s nice I'm gonna sit down now” as he fell backward, fainting.

“Oh, you think that was too much for him, Axel?”

“Probably” Axel replied before picking up Ziggy and shaking him lightly, stirring Ziggy out of unconsciousness.

“Huh what where am I, oh I'm still here”

Axel then placed Ziggy back on the ground slightly patting him down as Dillon said “you okay buddy?”.

“Yeah im fine just a bit jarring but Im fine” Ziggy rambled on before noticing Axel and Dillon looking outside they’re pupils slightly constricting as they both took out their weapons.

“What’s wrong?” Ziggy asked in confusion.

“Enemies take out your weapon” Dillon quickly replied while Ziggy quickly summoned his axe as the three slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave.

“The heck did you guys hear anyway,” Ziggy asked.

“It’s most likely those wolves from earlier,” Axel replied.

“You mean that growling I heard when you grabbed me and Dillon?”.

“Yep,” Dillon responded as he stepped out of the cave before suddenly rolling out of the way as two wolves lunged towards him.

Axel and Ziggy immediately run out as multiple other wolves run out of the forest surrounding the three.

“Hey, Axel, you think these wolves are the same ones we fought earlier today?”

“Most likely” Axel responded as one of the wolves lunged towards Ziggy attempting to bite only for him to block it with the flat part of his axe as he then reeled it back and swung it back forward hit the wolf straight in the muzzle as it was knocked back into the forest.

“I'm guessing this is the pack of those wolves that were harassing Ms.Shy as well?” Dillon asked.

“Most likely”

“Who’s Ms.Shy?” Ziggy asked.

“We’ll introduce you to her later” Dillon quickly responded before kicking away two wolves.

The rest of the wolves begin to rush the three as they begin to dodge their attacks as Axel brought up his longsword and swung towards a small group of them launching them in the air as Dillon jumped and kicked two away before grabbing the other two spinning around before launching them away.

Ziggy who was surrounded by another group was about to be dogpiled by them only to disappear from his position only to appear above them.

Ziggy clutched his ax tightly in his hands as he turned it to the flat side of it as he twisted around before swinging forward, hitting each wolf away as he launched them towards the trees, the three hitting against nearby trees and others getting launched back into the forest.

“Nice one Ziggy” He heard Calvin shout before seeing a wolf getting launched past him before more began to funnel in from the forest.

Dillon, noticing this immediately shouted towards Ziggy, “Ziggy launch me!’.

“Got it” Ziggy shouted back as he reeled his ax back as Dillon dashed towards him, the boy jumping onto the flat side of the ax as Ziggy swung, launching him forward, Dillon launching into one of the wolves as slams his leg on the top of it’s his head making it slump to the ground as he used its body to launch towards one of the other wolves.

Ziggy and Axel suddenly near the other wolves as they began to quickly dispatch them the two landing their hits as they flowed through the wolves while Ziggy just used his Axe to smack them around not wanting to kill them, Axel used his greatsword to slash around them making them fall to the ground due to the cuts he had afflicted them with.

Dillon landed on the ground after knocking into one of the last wolves on his end as he kept his sword out, being careful to look at his surroundings just so he wouldn’t get a surprise attack from his blind spot before hearing a low growl come from the forest.

Dillon immediately went into a defensive stance as he let out a growl himself before the wolf he knocked into the trees came lunging out towards him, letting off another slash only for his mom to tackle on top of the wolf as holding him in place with her teeth, his neck Dillon immediately stopping as he said.

“Dang mom, nice save”

She only nodded in response before motioning for him to help Ziggy and Axel seemingly saying that she’ll keep this one in place as it tried to move only to let out a loud whine as she dug her teeth harder into him.

Dillon nodded in response “Alright!” as he ran to help Ziggy and Axel immediately jumped to where the two were.

Ziggy just held his axe out as Axel and Dillon hop on the flat side of it again as Ziggy launched the both of them in the air.

Axel immediately held his hand out towards Dillon who grabbed it as Axel spun the boy incredibly fast before launching him towards the ground as Dillon slammed the hilt of his sword and his fist into both the wolves heads a plume of dust covering the area before slowly dissipating as it revealed Dillon holding both the wolves in a restraining hold.

Both of them let out a whine as Dillon and Ziggy began to restrain them with some vines before grabbing the one that his mother had pinned and doing the same.

The wolves look at the four in concern for their own lives as they see nothing but a crazy child, a stoic monster, a threatening Timberwolf as well as a scardy cat who hits hard.

“Alright we're gonna ask you some questions and you three are going to answer them, am I clear?”

Dillon asked, only getting silence in return as his mother let out a large snarl towards the three “Answer the question!” as she placed her claw on one of the wolves' necks who immediately spoke fear clear in his voice.

“Crystal clear we’ll answer your questions just please don’t hurt us anymore!”.

“That's better, thanks mom” Dillon spoke as she only nodded in response as he asked his first question.

“Alright, why did you attack our home?”

The wolf responded quickly by saying “If a pack attacks another territory and wins the battle they get the territory and allegiance of the pack that had lost the battle”.

“And you thought you would win this?”

Axel had asked next as the wolf just nodded in response while Ziggy just looked on in utter confusion because he couldn’t understand anything the wolves were saying.

“Why were you trying to “get more territory” then, it’s literally just the three of you,” Dillon asked them while having a brow raised.

“When you have a lot of territories you have a lot more authority than packs that have smaller territory we didn’t want to be forced into another pack so-”

“You decided to do that yourselves huh?”

“Yeah,” the wolf responded.

Dillon immediately motioned for his mom to talk as they walked to the side of the cave.

“What is Dillon?” she asked as he asked.

“What should we do with them mom should we let them go or have them y’know”

“Have them become a part of our pack?”

“Yeah since they lost, wouldn't it work like that?” Dillon asked before the both of them heard Axel speak to the three wolves out loud.

“Well since you lost the battle wouldn’t that mean you're a part of our pack now?” Axel said as he motioned towards himself and the others.

The wolf cursed under his breath before asking, “Who's your alpha?”

Axel just looked at him confused before turning back to where Dillon and his mother were, Dillon and her overhearing what he asked and the boy just shrugging in response.

“Wait, mom who’s the alpha because the only wolves in this place are you and the pups”

She sighed in response before answering his question, everyone other than Ziggy hearing her answer, “There is no alpha here, there hasn’t been one for while”

The wolf let out a gasp, “What, how have you been surviving so long on your own then?”

“By the best of my ability for the wellbeing of my pups”, she answered quickly before turning around and walking into the cave.

Dillon immediately spoke as he walked back towards the three wolves, “Alright change of subject now that you three are a part of our pack you’ll be responsible for helping gather food and protecting this place am I clear?”.

“But we didn’t want to be made a part of another pack” one of them protested before seeing Dillon give him a piercing glare.

“If you didn’t want to be made a part of another pack you shouldn’t have tried doing it to us, that doesn’t seem fair to us don’t you think?”

The three nods as Dillon uses his sword to cut the vines that were binding them, “Alright now get up and get to work!”

The three immediately stand up, two of them turning to walk away, their heads and ears lowered slightly, the third one pausing for a moment as the two pass him.

The third wolf then suddenly turned charging back towards them, his teeth and claws bared as he jumped towards Ziggy again, his jaw moving towards his neck.

Dillon and Axel immediately pin the wolf to the ground with their respective swords as Ziggy fell back in shock as he had his hand on his neck.

The wolf looked up in anger still thrashing around as he tried to force himself free to bite at the nearest person he could. “I will not follow any pack who doesn’t have an Alpha leading it. You hear me! I’ll kill each of you before I let that happen!”

He looked up to see Dillon and Axel looking at him with a piercing glare before feeling their swords slowly begin to pierce into him, as blood slowly began to get drawn.

“Wait!” They hear from inside the forest as one of the other wolves comes out as he makes a suggestion for them. “If you mark him by biting him on the ear he won’t have a choice but to follow you, you won’t have to kill him!”

Dillon and Axel stare at him in silence before staring back down at the one that tried to attack Ziggy.

“No! Don’t you dare! Don’t you dare!” the pinned wolf shouted as he tried to free himself.

They stay like that for a moment before feeling Dillon pull his sword away as the wolf heard him say, “hold him down Axel”

“N-no i’ll do it” The wolf quickly interjected as he helped keep the wolf down.

“Let me go! Why are you helping them! You were the one who wanted to take control of them! Get off me you traitor!” the pinned wolf shouted, still trying to get free.

“It's better this way than dying my friend, you’ll thank me for this someday...”

There's only silence to be heard before Dillon opened his mouth showing his fangs, the wolf's eyes widening in terror as he screamed, “No! Keep away from me! Don’t do this!”

“You brought this upon yourself” Dillon responded before immediately biting into the wolves ear who let out a loud yelp as he felt a tearing sensation on his as he looked up to see the chunk of his ear in the boy's mouth before seeing him spit it out before wiping his mouth of any blood that was there.

“No…” the wolf quietly whispers before saying through muffled sobs, “I hate you. I hate you all.”

“Be glad you're still alive I would have killed you if your former alpha didn’t say anything” Dillon replied to the wolf.

The Wolf didn’t respond as he looked down still sobbing quietly, “I will never forgive any of you for this.”

“I didn’t want to do any of this if you had just listened you wouldn’t have gotten hurt I would have had to resort to this” Dillon then goes silent before referring to the other wolf “You”

“Y-yes?” the wolf quickly replied.

“Take him with you and get to work alright?”

“Yes sir” the wolf replied as he helped the other one up on his feet as the two slowly walked into the forest to start gathering food for their new pack.

Axel and Dillon looked back to Ziggy who was just sitting there, his hand still on his throat as he asked “What the hell is happening right now?”

Dillon and Axel just pick him up both their arms on his shoulders as they both say, “We’ll explain it to you in the cave buddy”

The three walked into the cave as they sat themselves down, Dillon having his hands on his face as he let out a stressed sigh.

“You okay bud?” Axel asked as Dillon let out a wavered breath.

“I didn’t want to do that but he forced my hand, he was about to hurt Ziggy it's like I was a completely different person…”
“At least you were able to stop him and didn’t have to kill him” he heard Ziggy reply as he looked towards him.

“I guess so” Dillon responded before feeling something nuzzle against his cheek as he looked to see his mom in front of him.

“Not many people are ready to make those decisions Dillon, Im proud of you he may resent you for this but he’ll still live his life”

“Y-yeah I guess also what did you mean that there is no alpha, what happened to one before?”

She had a dejected look on her face as Dillon then stated “You don’t have to tell me if you're not ready to mom”.

She looked like she was trying to find the right words to say but failed to do so as she nodded towards him “Thank you, Dillon”

Dillon only nodded in response as he brought his sword in front of him as he stared at it in silence “I just hope I don’t go too far one day” Dillon thought to himself before hearing Ziggy speak.

“So can you guys explain to me what happened earlier because I sadly don’t speak Timberwolf”.

Axel just nodded as he spoke first “Those three wolves tried to take over our territory which is the lake by fighting us and if we had lost which we didn’t we would have been forced to join their pack as a result”.

Dillon then interjected as he stated, “But since we won their part of our pack now but one of them not liking the arrangement decided to be defiant and try to attack one of us and the one he chose was you”.

“That's why that wolf went for my neck because he didn’t want to be told what to do by us?” Ziggy asked as Dillon responded, “Yes and no he didn’t want to be in a pack that didn’t have an alpha and decided to be defiant, his former alpha knew not to do this and helped us in marking him basically making him a part of the pack without his choice in the matter”.

“Is that why you bit a chunk of his ear off?”

“Yeah pretty much” Dillon replied with a nod.

“Wait what does the bitten ear thing mean anyway?,” Ziggy asked in curiosity.

“The former alpha told us that it means the wolf is forced to follow the individual who marked them that way until something changes but other than that he won’t have any choice but to follow you, get what I mean?”.

“Yeah I think I have an understanding of it,” Ziggy replied before muttering, “yeesh…”

The two then heard Axel yawn as he said,” I'm beat, I'm going to sleep” he laid on his side, and not so long after the two hear him let out a low snore.

Ziggy and Dillon look to the outside of the cave to see that it’s nighttime before Dillon stated “yeah might as well get some rest for tomorrow then” as he laid himself against the wall of the cave.

Ziggy was still awake as he saw the three wolves from before return with food as they left it at the entrance of the cave Ziggy seeing the wolf from before as he swallowed some spit out of nervous panic as he looked away when it glanced towards him, as they laid themselves outside the entrance of the cave as they fell asleep as well.

Ziggy just took off his jacket before he used it as a blanket and laid himself down as the cave was just filled with silence as all of them were asleep.

1 Hour Later

Everyone was asleep in the cave other than the Omega who was looking at Ziggy in interest as she thought to herself.

“Should I make him a part of the pack fully, I mean it would get rid of the language barrier so he isn’t confused whenever Dillon or Axel speaks to me or other wolves”

She then backtracked muttering to herself, “But would he want me to do that though he does seem like a very meek boy and doesn’t seem to like fighting or pain for that matter maybe if I do it now when he’s sleeping it will be quicker and less of hassle”

She stood herself up and walked next to his sleeping form as she brought her paw up and she moved his jacket out of the way.

She looked towards him in silence before thinking to herself “You know what screw it, he’ll get over it in the morning” as she inched her mouth to his arm.

A loud pain-filled scream then echoed throughout the whole forest as birds flew out from the trees in the distance.

Author's Note

sorry for taking a long time to update was busy with a lot of stuff including school and I was having a ton of writer's block, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and have a nice day or night