Hi guys! Sorry I took this down. It wouldn't stop giving me uploading problems because my computer is epically stupid! (That explains how the first chapter appeared twice). I'm going to try it again. Hopefully, the next chapters will be up sooner this time. :)

Garth walked towards where the Alphas usually hunted the caribou. On the way there, he heard someone call, "Hey, Barf!"

Only one wolf called him that. Garth turned around to see a gray fellow trotting over to him. "Hey, Coyote."

Humphrey laughed. "So, what's up? You never visit your new in-laws?"

"Yeah…sorry about that. Lilly and I've been sort of busy. You know…" Garth held a paw in the air as if he was measuring how tall an invisible wolf was.

"Don't I know how that is!" Humphrey rolled his eyes good-naturedly and laughed.

"How are yours?"

Humphrey put a paw to his neck. How could he say it nicely? "They keep us on our paws. Would you and Lilly mind coming over to lend us a paw sometime?"

"I'll think about it."

"Keep in mind, they're more work when their eyes are open and can fully run unlike last time you saw 'em," Humphrey warned.

"So are ours," Garth reminded him.

"Oh yeah. At least you don't have three!" Humphrey joked.

"And I don't want one more either!" Garth joked back. "Well…I guess I better get back to hunting."

"And I should probably get my squirrels back to my family."

Garth laughed. Humphrey wasn't exactly the best hunter. Without Garth, Kate probably would've starved while she was pregnant.

"See 'ya around Barf. And come visit your siblings-in-law sometime!" Humphrey called to Garth as Garth ran off to begin his hunt.

"Hey beautiful eyes," Garth's voice echoed off the walls of his and Lilly's den. Lilly sat up. "You're home!" Lilly exclaimed and pressed her neck to her mate's.

"Oh! Excuse me," Lilly muttered as they pulled apart. She blew her hair out of her left eye and then smiled at Garth.

"There they are!" Garth breathed. Seeing her lovely lavender eyes always took his breath away. And whenever it did, Lilly would blush.

"Would you mind lending me a paw with the two?"

"Sure. But first, I brought dinner," Garth said excitedly. He turned to get his prey and drag it in. It was awfully heavy.

"Let me help you with that."

A smaller version of Garth two white legs (and the other two were red) came in and helped Garth bring the meal inside.

"Thanks Troy," Garth told his son after the caribou had been dragged to the middle of the den.

Hearing her father's voice, another pup ran in. She was snowy white with a bushy, brawny-colored tail. She pounced on her brother. "Look how good I've gotten on sneaking up on Troy, dad!" she squeaked as she sat on top of her littermate.

"Good-job Luna," Garth praised.

"Why don't you two go burn off some of your energy before keeping it all bottled in this little cave?" Lilly suggested.

"Okay mom," the pups said at the same time. They raced each other outside.

Garth chuckled with amusement. "Lilly, you'll never guess who I saw on the way here."

Lilly pricked her ears and gave an 'I'm listening' look.

"Humphrey."

"Oh!" Lilly gasped. "We haven't seen him and Kate in forever!"

"I know," Garth agreed. "That's what we were talking about."

"You'd think now that the packs are united, we'd get to see each other more."

Garth nodded. "I think it's the pups. They left us too busy to visit anyone."

"Same with Kate and Humphrey," Lilly replied.

Garth sighed. He sniffed the caribou carcass and began to eat a few bites for an appetizer. Lilly shuffled her paws nervously. "What's wrong Lilly?" Garth asked, concerned.

Lilly looked down. "Well…with summer almost to an end, the pups will need to start preparing for Alpha School…"

"That's right!" Garth remembered. "I better start teaching Violet how to land after leaping better."

"Garth…" Lilly was searching for the right words. "When Alphas have pups with Alphas, most likely, all the pups become Alphas."

"Yes…" Garth slowly nodded. He didn't understand what his mate was trying to say.

"And pups to Omega and Omega parents usually all end up Omegas …but…when there's one Alpha and one Omega parent…?"

Garth's ears drooped. "Only one of our pups is going to be an Alpha," he realized.

Lilly looked at him with pained eyes. "How will we know which one to send?"

"We'll just have to pick," Garth concluded after only a few seconds.

"But what if we can't decide? What if we start to fight because of it?" Lilly fretted. She feared getting into a bad fight that would break them up.

"We'll just have to choose calmly and decide by acting our age," Garth assured her. He rubbed his nose against hers and he gestured for her to follow him outside.

"We'll have to observe them. Whichever shows more Alpha qualities…well you know," Garth told her once they were halfway to where the pups were playing.

"I just feel so judgmental doing it this way," Lilly said sadly.

"Don't worry. They'll understand," Garth tried to comfort her. "I know because they're your pups."

"Luna! You messed up my concentration!" Troy growled after his sister had pounced on him.

Luna jumped off of him. "Oh please! You don't have the brain capacity to concentrate on stuff!"

Troy growled. "I was going to jump all the way to that rock," he pointed with his nose. "And you ruined it!"

The two siblings were standing on a cliff. It had paths to other cliffs, but they were extremely narrow. The side that the two young wolves were standing on had another rock jutting out between its cliff and the next. Since it looked like a huge bathtub, it was called Bathtub Cliffs.

"Why should we have to walk across that dangerously narrow path when we could just jump from one rock to another?" Troy sounded like a commercial advertiser.

"You could never make that," Luna scoffed.

"Watch me," Troy retorted. He crouched at the edge of the cliff and concentrated on the rock that jutted out. He braced himself then leaped with a grunt. He almost slipped but recovered just in time. "Told you!" he called to his sister.

Luna rolled her eyes. "Show-off," she muttered. "If you can make that jump, than I can do it even without slipping!" she yelled.

"I'd like to see you try!" Troy challenged before leaping to the next cliff.

"Go ahead and see," Luna taunted back. She copied what her brother had done before leaping and concentrated harder than ever before. Whenever she leaped, she had trouble landing on her paws afterwards. Luna jumped. Her forepaws aimed for the top part of the rock. Instead, they landed on the side. Luna let out a yelp as she slipped but quickly got a claw snagged on something on top and pulled herself up, panting.

Troy laughed. "That slip was worse than mine!"

"You know what? Its hard because it just rained," Luna excused herself.

At the bottom of the cliffs were Garth and Lilly. Lilly had winced. "That was bad," she moaned.

Garth put a paw on hers. "Troy looks like he can handle the Alpha moves better. I think we've reached a conclusion, Lilly."

Lilly looked down. She was so sad that her fur fell over her left eye again.

Garth tried to comfort her with a nuzzle on the cheek. "Come on. We're going to have to break the news to her sometime."

"I wish it was never," Lilly muttered.

"You know what your dad would say: that's the law of the pack."

"The new law," Lilly added. She and her mate stood and walked to the incline that would let them out. As Garth called for the kids to follow, Lilly muttered, "The stupid law!"

The family was finally eating their meal. Lilly was doing a good job appearing casual, but inside her heart was breaking. She would soon have to break the news to her daughter. How could she deny her pup of what they both had always wanted?

Troy ripped off a huge chunk of meat and was attacking it like Humphrey to a bag of wolf-proof donuts.

"Careful, Troy!" Lilly giggled with amusement. "I don't want my pup to start choking."

Garth came over and clawed the chunk into smaller pieces for the young male. "Thanks dad," Troy said quietly.

They continued to eat, but with more silence now.

After a while, Garth elbowed his mate gently. She looked at him with pained eyes (her fur was pushed back again). Garth nodded. It was time.

Lilly shuffled her paws nervously. So Garth went first. "Hey…kids? Do you know what you're going to have to start preparing for now that summer's coming up?"

The two pups beamed. "Alpha school!" they chorused.

Lilly nodded and forced a smile.

"Troy, Luna…" Garth tried to think. "As you know, you're mother used to be an Omega. Because of us and your aunt and uncle, the pack was able to work around their old law about Omegas mat—I mean…! Falling in love with Alphas."

"That's how we were born," Luna said proudly.

"Right," Lilly nodded.

Garth cleared his throat before going on. "Well kids. According to Pack Laws, if the Alphas marry Omegas, the only condition is that…well, not all of our pups can have one rank…"

"But…" Luna's excited smile faded as did her brother's. "That means only one of us can be…" there was a hint of fear in her voice.

"Can be an Alpha?" Lilly finished. "Yes. I'm so sorry," she added with a look at her paws.

Troy and Luna looked at each other and back at their parents. "How will they decide which of us to send?" Luna pressed.

"We'll have to decide," Lilly answered.

Troy stood up. "Then watch us! Luna, you and I will compete!" he declared. "You can choose the one with more Alpha skills!"

"Yeah!" Luna agreed.

"But we already—" Lilly was interrupted as the two siblings fled the cave and ran back to Bathtub Cliffs.

Lilly fought a whimper. "Luna's going to hate us," she whispered.

"Luna would never hate us," Garth argued.

"Now she will. Oh Garth. She really wants this! How could we do this?"

"Troy wants this too," her mate pointed out. "One of them will have to face this weather we want it or not."

Lilly sighed with defeat and reluctantly walked out of the den and after her pups.

Troy braced himself before leaping towards the 'faucet' part of the cliffs. This time, he landed without nearly slipping.

Luna rolled her eyes. She called to her parents who were watching from the bottom. "Watch this! I'm much better!"

She braced her hind legs but right before she leaped, she looked down. The fall was intimidating, but not deadly. Getting a little nervous by the drop, Luna took a deep breath and jumped. This time, she missed the top again. Troy didn't have enough time to help her before she fell altogether. She landed with an 'Oof!' on her back. She rolled over and quickly stood to face her mom and dad.

"That wasn't fair! It was raining, so of course I'm going to slip!"

"It was pouring down and I can still do this!" Troy called. He turned to face the next cliff and jumped. He landed perfectly on his paws. "Mom, Dad, can't you see we're just wasting time at this point?"

Lilly could only watch ruefully as her daughter ran past her, up the incline behind them, back to third cliff, and braced herself to jump again. Same results.

"I'd like to hear your excuse this time!" Troy challenged.

"You promised you would go easy on me," Luna muttered.

Garth stood up. "Luna, you're mother and I have agreed—"

"No!" Luna cleared her throat as if to cough the firmness away from her voice. "I mean…just give me a minute. Once I get into a good routine I'm sure I'll—"

"Luna," Lilly paused to brace herself for what was about to happen. "We saw you and Troy playing earlier. I would give you over a thousand chances to try again but fate wants you to—"

She stopped as she heard Troy noisily coming up behind them. Luna walked closer to her parents and Tony came up to stand beside her. Their expressions were opposites. One worried and one growing excited.

"So it's true then?" Troy asked.

Garth stood up. "Yes Troy. It looks like you'll be the Alpha."

"What?" the two said. One was shock the other was ecstatic.

"I don't believe this!" Luna squeaked.

"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!" Troy repeated over and over. He ran up to his parents and nuzzled them both. "You won't regret this! I'll make you both proud! I promise!"

"We believe you!" Lilly could barely hide an amused giggle.

Meanwhile, Luna was shaking with anger. "You're all against me!" she snapped.

Lilly stood up. "Luna, we're not against you. It's just the way of—"

"It's all your fault!" Luna yelled at her father.

"Luna, this is no one's fault," Lilly tried to calm her down.

"No! It is his fault!" the young she-wolf screamed. "It's his fault for falling in love with an Omega! How could you be so stupid?"

The three wolves gasped. Luna's tears started to stream down and she sped past them to escape the cliffs enclosing her with her family.

Lilly gasped as if someone just punched her. Then the tears started to leave her eyes too. Garth tried to comfort her, but his eyes were following Luna as her reddish tail disappeared over the cliff's wall.

"I'll get her," Troy said. He licked his mother's cheek in comfort before racing after his littermate.

Garth watched Troy gratefully. Now, he could focus on comforting his mate who believed her own pup hated her.

"Luna, wait!" Troy yelled breathlessly.

Luna ran despite being out of breath too. She was going so fast that by the time her tears fell, they would hit her flanks. I don't care she thought. What are they thinking? I run faster than him! I'm swifter than him! My flips are better than his! My bite is almost as scary as grandma's for pity's sake! Just because he can land better than me, they think he deserves more? I just don't believe it!

Luna finally couldn't run anymore. She had reached the hill where Humphrey watched Kate hunt and finally stopped at the edge.

Troy ran up to her. Luna hesitated before turning to face her brother.

Troy panted before speaking. "That wasn't fair, what you said to them. They can't help who they fall in love with. In fact, if they hadn't had fallen in love, neither of us—"

Luna interrupted him with a scoff. "Neither of us would exist, yeah I know that! Do you think I'm happy I said that?" she demanded. "Do you honestly think I wanted to make mom cry? Do you think I would ever blame anything on dad? No. I blame all this on the stupid pack! Why do they have to make such stupid laws? Why can't we just all be Alphas?"

"I don't know. But we just need Omegas, okay? And have you even seen yourself? You're humorous, you like turtles, and you even play with squirrels! You're a natural Omega!"

"Don't ever say that!" Luna screamed.

"Luna, you are overreacting! Just accept this!" Troy begged.

"I am an Alpha, just like you!" Luna yelled.

She snapped. She lashed out a paw and hit her brother's face. He yelped in pain and held a paw to his left eye. When he removed his paw, a deep scar was left behind.

Luna gasped. Tears threatened to spill again. "What have I done?" she whispered to herself. "This is turning me into a monster!"

She turned and jumped off the hill. She ran away from her brother. This time, he didn't bother following her. Luna ran despite being blinded by tears. Why can't they understand? I only want to be with my brother! If we're separate ranks, his duties will keep him too busy to pay attention to me. But Troy was right. She needed to accept this. But she needed to do it alone.