Tamo's xile
Ch 1
He'd been running for so long. So long, in fact, that his knuckles had nearly been rubbed completely raw. Now trudging through tall grass of the open savannah the massive gorilla sat down to rest. It had been a long night and he thought he'd finally be safe, but he was very mistaken. Merely minutes after he'd nestled down to attempt to get some sleep he heard a vicious high pitched cackle.
Out of the brush appeared four hungry and murderous looking hyenas. One of them, a male, stepped forward and spoke to the other three, "Well lookie what we got here boys." "It looks like an over inflated version of the crazy monkey the 'king' knows", another shouted. The weary traveler was on full alert now. He didn't know which was going to attack first, but he figured it better to act than wait and become breakfast. He quickly went after the smallest one of the group, grabbing him by the scruff of the neck and hurled it into a nearby rock. As the small hyena fell into unconsciousness the three that were still remaining ran, teeth bared, toward the already tired gorilla. As he tried to fight off two of the hyenas as the third snuck around behind him and bit down on his large arm. He cried out in pain and anger. With a new found intensity he flung the hyena that had bit him over his shoulder into the other two. Before they could recover he sprang up pressing his palms and feet into the hyenas' chests. "Whoa whoa whoa take it easy big guy we didn't mean any harm. We were just…playing around", the lead hyena said lying through his teeth. "Silence", the gorilla yelled, "You said something about a crazy monkey. Where is he?" "Oh that freak? His tree over that way", one of the hyenas said pointing to the east. "It would take you till the sun was in the half way in the sky to get there." The gorilla snorted a belligerent thank you. He walked off after warning them not to follow.
As the gorilla walked away the hyenas started talking to each other. "What are we gonna do? The boss will kill us!" "Why would I do that? Could it be that you are stupid? No, it can't be. I would have killed you long ago if it was for that." a sly voice said. "Or could it be that you didn't come back with any food!" the voice yelled. "Hey it wasn't our fault the giant…what was that thing again?" one of the hyenas asked. "A gorilla", the smallest one answered after coming back to consciousness. "Yeah Zira a gorilla." "You idiots tried to kill a gorilla?" Zira said laughing. After she calmed down she stared them down saying, "You had better be gone by sun rise…or else." "Or else what", one of hyenas boldly asked. "You really don't want to know", Zira responded.