Humphrey's Backstory

This plot is quite different than anything I've ever seen in fan fictions or in various discussions about Humphrey's parents, and it's a bit far fetched, but hopefully it's at least interesting or sparks a creative mind to write a story.

Humphrey is born early to a pair of alpha parents, and they fear that he won't live due to his premature birth. Ever since they first discovered that they were going to be parents, they planned on their pup being a proud, strong alpha, but when they discovered that he was going to be an omega, their plans changed. Humphrey received his name for the new plan that his parents had set for him. They could sense that a war was imminent between their pack and the Eastern pack, and they did not want him to follow their example of hatred. They wanted him to be a warrior for peace, and henceforth named him Humphrey, which is translated as "Peaceful Warrior."

Humphrey grew up as any omega pup would, but when he reached an age of about a month, his father, Malachi and another wolf, Damon, with whom Malachi had a tense past, are discovered to be missing. It is at this point that Humphrey meets Kate, through Winston and Eve, and Kate acts as Humphrey's voice of comfort when the worry about his father grows too much to bear. Nobody in the Western Pack knows what happened to Malachi and Damon. They just disappeared without a trace, but they were both tranquilized by contracted poachers and sold to an underground dog-fighting organization where they would literally have to fight for their lives.

Back in Jasper, there is still no sign of what happened to Malachi and Damon, and the stress begins to take its toll on Rose, Humphrey's mother. She becomes involuntarily bulimic, as the stress of having to raise a pup on top of having a missing mate caused her to eat too much, which would then lead her to vomiting. Humphrey, despite the situation with his father, is beginning to take a liking to Kate at this point.

Time rolls slowly by for Malachi and Damon, and not once did things ever get better for them. They had been isolated and tormented by the humans, then forced to kill other dogs simply for sport. Damon seemed to like this, but Malachi was deeply bothered by what he was being forced to do. Eventually, Malachi and Damon are scheduled to meet on the field of battle, and finally the two are crated up in the same room. The two of them get to talking, and eventually Malachi manages to work out an escape plan.

Back in Jasper, over a month has passed and with still no sign of Humphrey's father, so, with regret, Winston legally declares him and Damon dead and they dig out a pair of empty graves for them. Rose and Humphrey are both devastated by the news, but Rose had nobody to help her through this, as her rock was the one she had lost, so she did not cope nearly as well as her son.

A week later, Malachi and Damon meet out in the ring to fight, but in actuality, they begin to set their escape plan into play. However, just when it seems as though they are going to escape, Damon betrays Malachi and leaves him mortally wounded, then escapes with his life. Malachi will later die of his wounds.

Rose's condition gets worse and worse every day, to the point where eventually she loses her mind and Winston declares her unfit to continue to raise Humphrey, so he has him legally taken away from her, and has Rose admitted into the pack's den for psychiatric care. Humphrey detested the arrangement and refused to go, but he is eventually removed forcefully and taken to temporarily live in Winston and Eve's den until foster parents could be arranged. Multiple times he tries to sneak out to find his mother, but he is always caught. Eventually, Winston arranges Humphrey to live with Jack and Mary, two wolves whom Winston knew were incapable of having pups of their own due to infertility on the behalf of the female. Humphrey initially resents the arrangement, but eventually comes to call Jack and Mary his parents, though they never have the same bond as he did with Malachi and Rose. When Humphrey is older, he is allowed to visit his mother in the psychiatric ward, and he does so as often as he can throughout the course of his life, but unfortunately, about two months before the events of the first movie, Rose passes away.