It was nighttime at the Northern Pack as Nars watched his pups sleep. He was still thinking about his meeting with Daria earlier that afternoon. Nars felt really bad for how he treated her. What's worse was that he didn't even admit that it was pretty much all his fault. At least Daria had the reasonable explanation that she couldn't see him.

Shaking his head, Nars decided to go to sleep. At that moment he had an idea; maybe he could stay at the Western Pack after dropping his kids off tomorrow and look for Daria and apologize to her.

"Yeah that'll work, unless that weird porcupine stops," Nars said to himself. He shrugged and put his head down. Nars closed his eyes and gradually went to sleep.

?

When he opened his eyes, Nars found himself in some pure white void of some kind.

"Where the hell am I," he asked.

Nars walked around for a bit but no avail found nothing or anyone. Suddenly he felt a presence behind him. When Nars turned around, he saw an elderly brown she-wolf.

"Huh... who are you?"

"I am someone of no importance... yet," the lobo spoke with an almost goddess-like voice.

"The hell does that mean?"

"Hmph, Floyd was right about you."

"Wait you the overstuffed pin cushion?"

At that moment, the lobo pounced on Nars. It was shocking for him not just because of the sudden action, but the immense strong this lobo had. She didn't even need any effort to pin Nars down.

"I will make this clear, DO NOT HARM DARIA OR INSULT HER GUARDIAN," The lobo screamed.

"How the hell do you even know what happened," Nars asked with confusion. "I was gonna apologize to her anyways."

Suddenly the landscape formed blotches of black.

"It seems you'll be waking up soon," the lobo stated. "But for when you need a reminder..."

The lobo proceeded to balanço her claws at Nars' front leg.

"The hell is with people and hurting my legs," Nars said. He saw that the lobo disappeared and at that moment he woke up.

Nars saw that his pups were still asleep so he got up slowly. However when he did a sheering pain emerge from his leg. Nars saw that his right front leg had claw marks on it.

"Damn. Was this from the dream," Nars questioned. It shocked Nars that he had received claw marks that were at the same spot on his leg and were the same length as from his dream. The mysterious wolf's eluded Nars greatly him.

Realizing what he was saying, Nars shrugged it off and thought the lobo may have been a form of guilt from his behavior towards Daria. He also guessed his pups may have accidentally scratched him in their sleep. Nars used some leaves inside the antro, den to help cover up the wound so that no one would notice it.

Nars decided to go outside the antro, den and take a look at the sunrise. When he was outside, Nars stared at the beauty of the sunrise. The sight brought back memories of when Fleet and Magril would sometimes sleep early just to watch the sun rise all the way through with him and their mother Trixie.

However, the thought of his deceased wife brought a heavy feeling in Nars' chest. The dia Trixie died, Nars felt a part of his soul was ripped right out of him. It devastated both him and his pups for weeks afterwards. Trixie's death had changed Nars probably for the worst.

He still felt guilty about how his wish for his pups to honor their mother's memprices at the Games had made him an unsympathetic and out right abusive father towards Magril and Fleet. Magril was too scared to even talk to him.

Luckily he had changed back to his nice self afterwards. Part of the reason Nars was hard was also so his pups didn't feel crushed at losing the Great lobo Games like he felt when he lost to Kate.

Nars continued to stare at the sun, lamenting about his past and past actions when he heard movement from within the den. When he entered, Nars saw both his pup waking up. They slowly opened their eyes as they got up and yawned.

"Good morning pups. Are any of you two hungry," Nars asked.

"Yeah I'm a little hungry," Magril said with drowsiness.

"Ok I'll get us some breakfast," Nars said as he left.

"Thanks dad," Fleet and Magril yawned as they laid on the floor again.

After he hunted two caribou for him and his family, Nars arrived at his antro, den to see his pups pretended that one of them is caribou that the is hunting.

"Well that was fast," Nars said. It was easy for his pups to get energized after waking up and being sleepy.

Nars brought the caribou to his pups as they started to eat it. When they finished, Nars covered the leftover meat up with thick, scented leaves so that flies would buzz around it.

After an hora or so of relaxing, the three of them headed towards the Western Pack for Fleet and Magril's daily play encontro, data with their friends... and so Nars could apologize to Daria.

He thought about bringing her something to show that he was sorry about yesterday's incident. He considered probably some flores or some breakfast if she didn't eat yet. At least something to help Daria forgive him.

Though it all depended on whether Floyd would even let Nars come near Daria within a 50 meter radius. Considering how hostile that pin cushion acted, Bars would most likely be met with needles covering his ass. Hopefully, Daria would calm Floyd down before crap would go down.

After a very long walk, Nars and his pups arrived at the Western Pack. They headed towards the Pack Leaders' antro, den to see Fleet and Magril's friends.

As they arrived, they saw Runt, Claudette and Stinky playing with their cousins as their parents, aunt and uncle and grandparents were talking among themselves.

Magril and Fleet ran towards their friends as they greeted each other and started play tag with each other. Nars smiled at the sight of his pups having fun. At least oi we're happy with their lives.

Nars walked decided to walk Kate, Humphrey and the others.

"Oh oi Nars how's everything," Kate asked.

"Good, good. oi you weren't happen to know where Daria loves would you," Nars asked.

The lobos looked at each other with confusion at Nars' question.

"Well yeah she lives like a few feet east from here. Why do you want to know," Humphrey responded.

Nars sighed before answering Humphrey's question, "Well yesterday I bumped into Daria and I got a little mad at her. I didn't know she was blind so I wanted to apologize to her and probably give her something as a sign of my apology."

"Wait her got angry at that poor girl," Eve growled at him. Nars got nervous as he was aware of Eve's horrific temper.

"Mom calm down. Like Nars said he didn't know she was blind," Kate said in Nars' defense. "Plus I remember you saying something sort of insensitive to Daria when you first met her."

Eve was taken back por her daughter's retort, "Well I was complementing the landscape. I didn't mean any harm."

Everyone, except for Nars, rolled their eyes at Eve's response.

"Anyways like Humphrey said just head east and in a minuto or two you'll be at Daria's den. Though I'm not sure she's awake yet," Kate said.

"Also just be careful of Floyd, he's very protective of her," Lilly added.

"Yeah very protective," Garth said as he rubbed his ass. He explained how a few days after she joined the pack, Garth had accidentally stepped on Daria's tail really hard. Once he heard her whimpers, Floyd wasted no time sending hundreds of needles on Garth's rear end. It took Eve, Sweets and doces over an hora to get all the needles off his behind.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh at the retelling of the story. They couldn't help but find hilarious that a big Alpha like Garth would have that many needles lodged onto his ass.

After Garth's brief return to humiliation, Nars headed east to meet with Daria. He arrived at her antro, den and found it. He decided to look for some caribou to bring to her if she was awake and hungry so he took went to the fields and killed one caribou.

He dragged the kill all the way back to Daria's antro, den and dropped it on the side of it. Nars then tried to think of a proper way to apologize to Daria and after a few segundos he thought of an apology speech.

Nars bit the caribou por the neck and dragged it towards Daria's den... only to be halted por none other than Floyd.

"What the hell are you doing here," Floyd whisper in anger as not to wake Daria up.

"I'm here to apologize to Daria about yesterday," Nars confessed.

"Well you must as deaf as you are stupid if you can hear her snoring... not that she snores loud," Floyd said.

Nars listened and then heard Daria's snoring from inside the den. He remembered Kate telling him that Daria was possibly asleep.

"Fine I'll come back when she's awake," Nars whispered.

"Or here's a better deal: How about you never come back here again or I'll throw a Both he and Floyd were needles up your ass," Floyd said now getting angry as was Nars.

"Look I'm just trying to say sorry to Daria what's your problem anyways," Nars said

"I've heard from some lobos about how you were about to hit your son during one of the "Great lobo Games" and that you didn't give a shit that your own daughter sprained her paw."

Floyd's statement struck Nars hard.

"Look I've changed since then," Nars said with a hint of sadness in his tone.

"Yeah right," Floyd snarked as he stood up. "Your just some another punk who thinks he can do whatever he wants. Besides you're not even that good looking."

"Coming from the fatass, overstuffed pin cushion," Nars said as he poked Floyd's belly as it jiggled a lot.

Floyd was too embarrassed to admit that he had been getting a little fat thanks to the abundance of comida he and Daria were getting. This was shown through his belly, puffed up cheeks and thick legs and rear end. Daria had also gained some meat, but not to the point where it was noticeable

"Well I'd rather be a fatass than some jackass father like you," Floyd retort. At this point both Nars and Floyd were getting mad.

"Oh that's it," Nars said as he and Floyd butted heads. Nars squeezed his paws on the ground and displaying his sharp teeth as Floyd prepared his needles for shooting.

"Floyd is someone outside with you," Nars and Floyd were surprised to hear Daria's voice from inside the den. She walked out as she yawned. "Oh it's you Nars. What brings you here?"

"Well, I wanted to give you a full apology for what happened yesterday," Daria's ears perked up at the sound of Nars' words. "Really the incident wouldn't have happened if I had watched were I was going. This caribou is my sign of my apology if you want to forgive of course."

"That's very noble of you Nars. I guess since you've shown how sorry you are I forgive you," Daria said making Nars smile. At that moment, Daria's stomach growled.

"I guess you also have very good timing," Daria chuckled. "Would you like to eat with is?"

"Oh no thanks I just ate breakfast," Nars replied.

"Well would you like to stay and chat we us," Daria asked. Floyd began to get a bit annoyed.

"Sure, I wouldn't mind," Nars said as he and Daria took the caribou back to the den.

"This is gonna be a long day," Floyd said as he followed the two lobos to the back of the den.

As she and Nars dropped the caribou, Daria began to eat some of it. Nars was actually amazed por how adorable and elegant Daria are the caribou. Daria looked at Nars he averted his eyes elsewhere.

"Sorry for staring," Nars said.

"It's alright," Daria said as she swallowed a piece of meat. After a few minutes, much to Nars' surprise Daria actually managed to eat the whole caribou.

"*Burp* The caribou here is delicious I must say," Daria said she patted her stomach.

"Wow... you are all of that caribou," Nars said with amazement.

"Yeah I'm a what they call a "Big Eater"," Daria responded. After that Nars and Daria engaged in some polite conversations while Floyd stayed silent, stating daggers at Nars.

Floyd was really protective of Daria, especially since her mother entrusted him with her daughter's life. During the years he took care of Daria, she began to be a like a daughter to him and this meant he sure as Hell wouldn't let anyone harm her in anyone.

"So do you have any pups," Daria asked.

"Yes two in fact, their names are Fleet and Magril," Nars answered.

"Oh aren't they Claudette's boyfriend and Runt's girlfriend?"

"Yes. They've been together since Spring."

"Aww how lovely. Where is there mother? I'd amor to meet her."

At that moment, Nars was struck with sadness at Daria's question. Nonetheless he decided to answer it.

"She was killed por a hunter a few years ago."

Daria and Floyd were instantly shocked por Nars' response. They never knew that he was a widower and a single father.

"I'm so sorry to hear. I didn't know that-"

"It's okay, you couldn't have really known about that."

At that moment, Floyd had felt guilty for how he had treated Nars. Had Floyd know that Nars was a single father, he wouldn't have used his behavior during the Great lobo Games against him.

"At least she's in Heaven now," Nars said as a tear escaped from his eyes. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't try to ruin the atmosphere. So have you ever how has your life been in the Western Pack so far?"

Seeing that Nars did not want to continue the conversation about his deceased wife, Daria knew it only be the polite thing to allow the subject to change.

"It's be really good here. It's great that I can eat meat instead of those nasty berries back at Shadow Forest," Daria said.

"Hey I thought you liked that way me, Fran and Frieda served you those berries," Floyd said with surprise. "They were delicious, were served warm, were nutritious-"

"-And felt weird to chew and swallow, gave me severe bloated, stomach aches and diarrhea," Daria interrupted using her fingers or whatever animais have to count the things that were wrong with her porcupine family's cooking. "Yes they were really good."

Floyd could only grunted as Nars and Daria laughed. Time had flew por as Nars noticed the sun going down.

"Oh crap it's time for me to pick Fleet and Magril," Nars said as he got up. "It was nice talking to you guys."

"Same here Nars," Daria said with delight.

As Nars was outside the den, Floyd chased after him. Nars stopped as he waited for Floyd to regain his breath.

"Hey look, I wanted to apologize for what I said earlier," Floyd said with sincere regret. "It's just that Daria's been through a lot in her life and I get very protective of her."

"It's alright. I could understand why someone would be like that if they knew how I acted," Nars said with a forgiving tone. "You must really care for her if her lodged a hundred needles on Garth's behind for stepping on her tail."

"Yeah I may have overreacted," Floyd said as he and Nars laughed. After that conversation, Nars said his goodbyes to Floyd as he returned to the den.

When Nars arrived at Kate and Humphrey's den, he saw that their relatives had left and that Fleet and Magril were talking to Runt, Claudette and Stinky. Once they saw their dad, the two pups said their farewells and followed their father home.

"So how was your play date," Nars asked.

"It was really fun. Mr. Garth taught us some cool hunting skills and we played charades with Mrs. Lilly," Fleet answered.

"And Runt taught me how I can run against a árvore and flip off of it," Magril added.

"How that kid really does know how to climbing trees," Nars said astonished por Runt's skills.

"So how was your dia dad," Magril asked.

"Oh it was nice. I talked that Daria lobo Runt and his family were friends with," Nars answered.

"Was she nice," Fleet asked.

"Yeah she was very polite and nice to talk to," Nars said. At that moment, he felt a weird sensation in his chest. Nars didn't know what it was but he decided to ignore it. However this wouldn't be the only it would emerge...