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Chapter4: Sarge's last stand

Karma ran as fats as her puppy legs could take her. Sarge was right, they never should have messed with humans! What was she thinking?! She knews those... those... dogs didn't smell right! She went through all that trouble to meet those two jerks and what did they do? Stab her in the back. All that trouble for nothing. Now their parents would probably know they snuck out because of the gunshots, and they weren't exactly trying to be quiet as they all ran for their lives across the meadow. Once they got back to the pack hill, each of them went their different ways to their dens, and slid to a stop and flopped over exhausted, just as their parents arrived. "What happened?! I heard gunshots! If those humans were after you, I'll..." "Calm down Sarge! This is no time to panic. Now let the kids explain to us what happened. Go ahead guys."

"Hello? Is this animal control?" Randy spit into the phone receiver. "Yes it is sir, how may we help you?" "Yes, I'd like to report three little varments attackin' my poor dogs out there, this place ain't safe to start a new city in with those dang wolves runnin' around like crazy! Howlin' at the moon and growlin' and whatnot!" "Uh huh, and what would you like us to do with these, 'varments' sir?" "I wan' you ter lock 'em up and get 'em away from my dogs! Dang things scared the willickers outta my lil' Shadow!" "Uh huh, and where will this be?" " On the outskirts of Nome, Alaska. Just pick those darned things up and do whatever yahs want with 'em!" "Allright sir, we'll pick those wolves up soon. *sigh*, rednecks." The man hung up.
"Well Maud, looks like we got our wolf problem outta our hair, now we can set up camp here and start adiggin' fer oil." Randy walked outside with a shovel and jammed it into the permafrosted ground. "Hehehe, yessiree, not gonna be a single dang wolf around here after I'm done. When I strike that oil, I'ma gonna be so rich, I'ma gonna have all those dang varments locked up ferevers!"

Nitro motioned for the pups to speak as they looked up at the adults with innocent looks on their faces. "Umm..... we.... had a nightmare! Yeah! So... we went out looking for you.... and.... ended up going towards the human village a teeny tiny bit, and they all freaked out on us! Then this HUUUUGE big mean human started chasing us with that big bang thingy, so we ran back!"Karma nudged the other two and motioned with her worried smile and shifting eyes to follow along with the story. "....... You went down there to play with the dogs, didn't you?" Nitro glared at them. "We're sorry! we just wanted to go play with them because we were so bored and we wanted to cheer them up because they're cooped up with humans all day!" Blitz pleaded. "How many times have I told you, never go near humans! No matter what! Now who knows what they're going to do!!" Just as Nitro shouted this final scolding at the pups, a loud roar was heard overhead. A large metal thing with whirling blades flew over the pack hill, causing everything to blow over. Sarge knew exactly what this strange thing was, the same thing that had killed his wife, Deputy's mother; a helicopter. "Run!!" The pack bolted across the hills, swerving left and right out of the way of the chopper. Nitro, the leader, used every trick he knew to outsmart the helicopter, but no matter what it followed them right on their tails. The adults were allready starting to get a bit tired as the pups started to fall behind from exhaustion. Their steady sprint turned into a lathargic jog as they ran for dear life from the copter. Suddenly, the copter sank low, and the door opened. A hand reached out grabbed at Blitz. Blitz, instead of running faster, bit at the hand and attacked it. His futile strength was no match for the human's hand. It scooped him up and threw him into the helicopter. Deputy was next to go. The run was too much for a puppy his size. He gave up out of pure fatigue and let himself be captured. "Deputy!!" Sarge shouted. Sarge ran back and attacked at the hand.He sank his jaws deep into the human's arm, blood gushing out and trickling down his finger tips like little red streams. The human pulled the copter up higher in the air and shouted in pain. He beat Sarge over the head with a crowbar until his face was a bloody mess, but he did not let go. His wife had allready sucumbed to the evil of humans, he was not going to let his son go too. Eventually his grip satrted to loosen. His weight was too much for him to hang onto much longer. With one final attempt to get his son back, Sarge grabbed into the human's flesh deeper and got a better grip. "GIVE..ME..BACK...MY...SON!!!" He growled through a mouthful of mangled arm. With one last blow to the head with the crowbar, Sarge could not hold on any longer and fell from the helicopter, 20 feet in the air. His head banged against a tree with a loud thud, a splat of blood marking where he hit. There he lay on the ground, unmoving and silent. Sarge's last stand. Even after Sarge's couragious attempt to save his son, the helicopter sunk down closer to the ground, the hand reaching out towards Karma. Karma ran as fast as she could. The sight of Sarge being defeated like that in his last attempt to hang on to the last bit of happiness he had burned in her mind, perminantly scared there for life. She was going to avenge him, she wasn't going to stand there and run like a coward! If she was going with the human, then she might as well put up a good fight! "You hurt my friend! i'm not letting you get away with that!" Karma sank her tiny fangs into the human's finger. She heard the flesh break a little with a satisfying pop, and felt the victorious taste of blood in her mouth. The human snarled and tried to shake Karma off. He threw her into the helicopter, banging her against the opposite door with a clank, and then everything went black.....

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