I stare at my paws and then look out the window to my brothers body fading into the distance, and really right now, I'm not sure what to think. I mean my family is dead, I don't have a home, and I got kidnapped. One part of me want to just rip the cage open and kill those rotten bastards and eat there throats. Although at the same time I want just shove my paws under myself and hide in a dark corner from the rest of the world.

Though really I am just in shock. Just complete shock. Well now I think about I come up with a word that describes all these mixed emotions.

Nothing...

Just complete nothing. How can I feel anything, when I have nothing to hold on to? I can't go cuddle up under my moms tummy, I can't stand by my brother, I can't run home. Everything has been ripped from me. I feel like a leaf who was trying so hard to hang on to the tree, but the wind was too powerful, now I'm just floating around with no idea where I'm going, just letting the wind take me.

'Come on Ace, try to cheer yourself up' I think to myself.

I just shake the bad thoughts in my head and look around to surroundings. Maybe if I look hard enough I'll find a way out.

I start observing more of my surroundings. All the dogs are still barking, which is starting to drive me crazy!

"Hey! Can you guys please keep it down a bit?" I ask nicely to them, but nothing happens. Just more barking. Barking, barking, barking.

After about 5 or more so minutes I know I can't stand anymore of this.

"COULD YOU ALL PLEASE SHUT UP!!!" I scream at the top of my lungs. They stay silent when I said that though the barking just gets louder.

"Ughhhhh" I mutter to myself. I just try to block the noise out but it doesn't work. I continue with my observations. I look up and see a St. Bernard pup who didn't look too good.

"Hey are you ok?" I ask.

"Yeah I'm just not feeling real..." he gurgles and a bunch of dog barf lands right on my face. It smelled horrible and it was just gross! Hey I know I'm a dog, but even that was gross for a dog! I lift my paw and wipe of the barf and it accidentally landed on a dogs back right underneath me. I didn't even know the dog was down there. It was very small, I think it was a Yorkshire terrier. He looked up with anger in his eyes.

"HEY! WISE GUY!" He yelled at me.

'Yep he's mad' I thought to myself.

"Ummmmmm are you referring to me?" I asked.

"YEAH IM TALKING TO YOU! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN JUST WIPE ALL YOUR FRIENDS BARF ON ME?!?!?!".

I looked at him weirdly trying to keep my cool "I'm sorry I didn't see you beneath me I thought it was just the ground and..." he had cut me off.

"YOU THOUGHT BUT YOU DIDNT BASTARD! LOOK WHAT YOU GOT ON ME! YOUR GOING TO PAY!!!".

Dogs were starting to stare, but I just chuckled a little "HA! How is a little yorkie like you going to defeat a german shepherd like me? You may be full grown and I may be just a puppy but I could still defeat with one paw tied behind my back!".

"OH YEAH!" The yorkie searched around frantically "SEE THAT HUGE TURD ON THE FLOOR?" I looked down and saw a huge pile of scat on the floor. 'ohhhhhhh noooooo' I thought.

"YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO JUMP IN IT!" The small dog threatened.

"Oh yeah? What if I refuse?" I backfired at the little rat.

He just stares at me evilly and starts laughing in a creepy way and states "Then I'll make you...", All of a sudden he started to jump up and started moving my cage. Each time he jumped my cage inched over little by little. I tried to push back but I had no control.

Finally the little dog took a deep breath and gave a big shove and in that same moment the cage fell, and I fell with it. My body was too heavy to keep the gate shut, so I broke the latch and fell out.

It had only lasted for about a millisecond before I was on the ground covered in scat. Everywhere around me, I could hear the dogs laughing in the background. I heard one said "Trash eating bastard!".

Was that what I really was? A trash eating bastard? It was bad enough I was taken from my family and my home but now my humiliation went with them too.

I just stood up (even though I was covered in scat) and tried to walk proudly away when a dog put his leg right in front of mine and I fell to floor getting more laughter out of those dogs.

I just run, trying not to cry, and hide in a corner between the van and the cages. I sob as I stare up from my paws, everyone, everyone there was laughing at me. The yorkie was looking down at me, he was the one laughing the hardest may I ask. Though it wasn't the kind of laugh when someone did something funny, it was a more evil, morbid laugh. The yorkie's eyes stared into my soul, and there I saw it.

It wasn't revenge he was doing this, but for dominance. I couldn't believe it. HE thought that he was in charge of ME. Ohhhhhh noooo, so wrong, soooooo completely wrong. I wasn't going to be controlled and humiliated by this little fluffy toy. The thought of it made me growl.

I barked and landed my two huge paws on the cage of where the yorkie was, his face in complete shock and I screamed "LISTEN HERE FLEA BAG!!!! I WONT JUST STAND HERE AND BE HUMILIATED BY A COWARDLY MUTT, YOU BETTER BE PREPARED TO FIGHT CAUSE I WILL MAKE YOU IF YOU DONT!!!".

I growled as deep as I could go. He finally seemed to surrender and I went back to my corner and curled up, where sleep overtook me.
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I was back in my fantasy land. Except this time I wasn't too happy when I got there. Now I could never dream of having my family and I here.

I stomped my paws on the ground and walked to... well I don't know. I really had no idea where I was going. Pretty soon I heard a group of howls, that got louder and louder. The pack ran up to me and wagged their tails in happiness with their tongues sticking out. I didn't show any appreciation towards them. I just gave them a grim look and they backed away a little.

I guess they understood the message, that I didn't want to see them or interact with them in any way at the moment. I started walking away and they all did the same. At least I thought they all did.

One wolf kept on following me. I tried to run faster, but then he would run faster. I finally then just sat down at the outlook of a cliff. Then the wolf sat next to me, staring out into the distance, just as I did.

He was a fairly average sized wolf, gray fur all over his body, and blue eyes that shined like the sky did.

"Why are you so sad dog?".

I nearly jumped in mid air, what just happened? I never said anything, unless it was... no no no, the wolves in my dreamed never talked. I try to keep my cool around him but for some reason I can't.

I try to think of someone good in response, I look around my environment and hopefully something would pop into my mind. I didn't want to ruin this moment, I was actually talking to a wolf! Ummmmm lets see here... large trees, a large flowing river beneath the cliff, a hawk spreading his massive wings over us, and a squirrel chomping on a acorn.

"Ummmm, squirrels..." I say very awkward.

"Your sad cause of squirrels?" He gave me a questioning look. Dang it, I messed that up big time, 'stupid stupid stupid' I wanted to hit myself in the head as I told myself that, though I realized that would only make me look more like an idiot.

"No no no no no no no I didn't mean it like that, I just got panicked when you talked and..."

"It's alright dog, don't be startled by my presence, to you I am a hero, a leader, someone to look up too, but in reality I'm just a wolf, no different from the other thousands of wolves that once roamed the land." He interrupted me but I didn't care, I let him continue, "though you never answered my question, why are you sad? You don't have to be afraid, I won't tell anyone, and even if I wanted too I couldn't,".

I took a deep breath "Well tonight my brother and my mom died, from.... from..."

"From what?" The wolf asked in a calm yet demanding voice.

"From humans" I blurted out "My mother was shot and my brother got ran over by a car and right now I'm being taken away from my home right now and I....I....... I just don't know what to do now! I feel so lost". I bury my face into the wolf 's leg and tears fall from my eyes. I felt a soft touch around me and I realize it was the tail of the wolf trying to comfort me.

"There there," the wolf spoke "Your family is always with you, even if you can't see them, hear them, or even scent them,".

I looked up at him and I got mad, what did this guy know of family? He's a dead wolf, maybe not even dead, just something of my imagination.

"Well...." I couldn't take the pain anymore, I had to let it out, "What do you know about family?!".

He looked down on me and gave me a grave look. "I had family once... It was a long time ago, I was so young when I lost them.".

I looked up at him with surprise, then I felt guilty. I shouldn't be so hard on him, he was only trying to help.

"Well, what happened to him?" I asked in a timid voice.

He took a deep breath, "I don't remember much, all I can remember is that my mate, thought the forest and the pack that we were hoping to lead together, she thought it wasn't a suitable place to raise pups, I went to sleep next to her one night, when I got up that morning she left, and she took the pups with her as well. I lost my family that day and haven't recovered from it since.".

"Ohhhhhh..." I respond. I guess I shouldn't just always jump to conclusions. I guess I'm not the only one, whose life was terrible, still he had a family when he was little, a place to call home, siblings. I have none of that now.

The wolf looked at me calmly, "Its ok, It wasn't your fault.". I just look at him. "Thanks uhhhhhhh.....wolf".

"Ohhhhhhhh" he laughed a little, "I never got to properly introduce myself, my name is Alpha,". Alpha, I liked that name.

"My name is Ace. Its kind of funny, I was actually named cause my mother saw a............" I stopped, my mother, ohhhhh....I just can't bare to tell him. I cry into my paws.

Alpha leaned over and he put his head over mine "Its ok Ace, I know what your going through,". That sentence made me lose it and then anger took over.

I jerked my head away from him and I have a meltdown "No you don't!You don't know anything! I mean look at you! Alpha of a pack and you still are one, no enemies to worry about, you have all your family and friends with you. How can you know pain?! How can you know sorrow, guilt, grief, loss?! You know nothing! I hate you! I flipping hate you, you bastard! Just get out of my life?! And stay out of it!!!!".

I breathed heavy from all my arguing, I looked up and saw shock in his eyes. Though there was something else. Everything was getting blurry, things around me seemed to get fuzzy.

I saw that Alpha was fading away.

"WAIT!" I called "I'm sorry, I didn't mean any of it, just please, don't make me go back there! Please! ALPHA!!!!" I shouted, but by that time the word alpha just echoed and I was standing in pitch black when I felt a force on my back.

I open up my eyes to see I'm in the corner of the van and laying on my back. I got up to see that the noise that tormented my ears and the trembling under my paws have stopped. Though it wasn't just that the van had stopped and the noise of the dogs have stopped, it was a different type of silence. The suspenseful one were you have no idea on what will happen next. I heard a slamming noise, the same one when my mother was killed...

The dogs weren't just silent they were afraid......large innocent eyes, tail between legs, the mixture of fear, anger, and shock filling the air.

I looked around fearfully and I saw a dog in a cage ahead of me "Where are we? What's going on? Why is everything so silent?" I ask quickly.

He just responded in a low monotone voice that I could barely hear "Were here..." he spoke.

I didn't know where "hear" was but I knew one thing about it...

It wasn't good...

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Heeeeyyyyyyyy sooooooo I know it's been a while sorry! I really need to work on that, I've just been pretty busy lately. Sooooooo anyways hope you like. The picture is Alpha at the beginning of the chapter. The pic is from Google images. Also please check out others I'm subscribed too, especially KodaTala ^_^ she is a great writer and just updated a chapter in her book "Every Rose Has its Thorns" not too long ago. If you like the werewolf books, this is the author your looking for! And I think that's it, see Ya :D

P.S make someone smile in your life today :) I always try to do that, Ace will have someone that will make him smile in his life in the next chapter (hint hint ;)