The rain drizzled gently over the forest as the apes gathered above the elk. Ceaser, leader of the apes, stared down at them with calm intent. His son was perched beside him, gazing at the relaxed face of his father as the other apes poised, ready to attack when he says.
'Now, father?' He signs, but Ceaser stills his son's hand to wait.
After a few minutes, he raised his fist, letting out a loud roar. The noise scared the elk and they took off, scattering across the field. After setting off to chase them, Ceaser followed with his son in tow, chasing the elk towards Koba and a few others so they could trap them to make the kill easier. Soon, the elk were pinned down by the hundreds of apes hooting and hollering at them, and after they got a few of them, the rest of them jumped down and dragged the carcasses away, heading home with their new bounty.
Blue Eyes, seeing a half injured one, motioned to his father, who shook his head and told him to wait as he inspected a strangely looking tree; there wer deep gashes in the cool bark like something had sharpened their claws on it. This sent an unsettling feeling in his stomach as he looked around, his hand tightening on his spear.
Blue Eyes kept his eyes on his elk, but dearing it would get up and run away, he slid down the small hill and poised with his spear, ready to kill it as it yelped and whined in pain.
Suddenly he heard twigs snap and a large brown grizzly bear shot out of the nearby bushes roaring at the young ape. Blue eyes shrieked as the bear knocked him across the valley floor with his large paw, scratched him deeply in his chest and beside his eye as he did, sending him across the ground with a shriek and a thump, alerting his father. Ceaser shot up and rushed the bear, jumping on the bears back attempting to stab it with his spear. Unfortunately the bear whipped him around and he barely landed on his feet in front of his son.
Ceaser roared at the bear, but the bear snarled back unfazed as it swung at Ceaswr, knocking his spear out od his hands in the process. Ceaser began to shout loudly to alert some apes, but what happened next startled him.
Before he could call out to Koba, the bear let out a quick whine in pain and dropped to the ground in front of the apes. As its head fell, the two apes saw something ontop of the bears back, feet planting in the vears back. It was a human woman standing on the bears neck with a machete embedded in its fur, standing on his back and panting heavily, her dark brown hood covering moat of her face and her long hair covering her face and neck. Her dirty blue jeans were torn and her boots were filthy, along with the rest of her. she wore fingerless gloves and had a pack on her back.
The two were frozen in shock as the woman jumped from the bears back with a huff and pulled her hood off. Ceaser was surprised at hoe pretty she was, and young too.
When ahe moved to the front of the bear, she looked over at them, as if looking then over to see if they were hurt. After nodding, she removed her blade and wiped it on the animals fur, putting it back. She cast a glance at them once more before Ceaser shook himself from his stupor when she bent down to the beast's mouth and pry it open. He stepped to her and with the noise of his footateps, she looked up.
'Thank you, you saved my son'. He signs to her and she stared at him, confused. she cocked her head as she raised an eyebrow at him, clearly confused. He assumed she didn't understand and spoke.
"Thank you." he says. With his words, she blinked in surprise, but smiled and nodded to him. As she was turning back to the bear's mouth and pulling a large tooth, looking it over, Blue Eyes slowly inched towards her. She was actually really pretty... for a human.
"Can... you...speak?" he asks her and she shook her head. Ceaswr nods as she stands and dusts her pants off, stuffing the tooth in her pocket as Blue Eyes came up and thanked her himself.
"Thank...you..." he mumbles and she smiles nodding.
When she smiled at the ape, the sun caught her golden-brown hair, and his eyes widened. Her eyes were the same color as his, only hers was a deep blueish gray with speckles of brown in the middle of them. Her skin looked soft and was pale with a small line of freckles donning her nose. Her body was thin as if she was malnourished, but she had curves underneath the bulky coat, pants, combat boots and a dark green tank top.
She begins to leave again but Ceaser stops her, putting his hand on her shoulder. She turns back confused as he let her go and signed, speaking at the same time.
"Are there...others?" he asks. She shakes her head slowly, her head cast downwards. her face grew sad and Ceaser deduced they must have died.
"Family?" Again she shook her head, looking up at them. Blue Eyes gasped at the tears in her eyes, threatening to spill over.
"I am Ceaser." He says holding his hand out for her to take.
She stood there confused as to what he wanted, but he kept motioning her over. For a minute, she looked at him before looking into the woods behind her, then sighed through her nose and turned back. She put her hand in his and he shook it slowly.
"Ceaser." He says again, pointing to himself, then pointed to Blue Eyes.
"My son, Blue Eyes." He says.
The woman smiled at the two and pointed to heraelf, shuffling in her pocket and pulling out a little keychain. She held it out in front of her and Ceaser took it.
"Mina..." He read aloud, looking up at her. She nods, pointing to herself with a smile.
Ceaser couldnt help but smile back at the young woman; her smile was contagious.
"Will you...come woth us?" He asks.
Her smile faded into confusion and looked back behind her again. That must be where she lives. She looked back at him and then at Blue Eyes, Then nodded. Ceaser nods and picks up his spear, walking by. Blue Eyes followed behind his father and Mina followed him. Blue Eyes looked back now and then to see the human walk slolwy behind, almost leisurely. It was as if she had no cares in the world. She was happy. For a moment, Blue Eyes watched her as she walked happily behind him, her hands laying on the straps of her bag and her hair tossed to the side of her hair.
He turned back when thr group of apes waiting at the gate, all hooted in relief at the return of their king. Koba walked up and clapped his hand to Ceaser's shoulder in noy, but he froze when he saw Blue Eyes being followed by a human.
With a weapon!
Immediately Koba launched himself at her, his spear at her face.
When she saw a wild ape rushing her with a spear, she acted on instinct, pulling her machete out just as his spear came doen, barely missing her head. Her machete was sharp, sticking to the wood of the spear as the scarred ape glared at her. She glared back as she took a fighting stance, shoving him hard away from her as held out her machete. He was about to attack again, when Ceaser's voice bellowed across the forest.
"No!" he boomed, holding his hand up. Both Koba and Mina froze, looking at the ape as he walked to Koba.
"She saved us. Not like the others." He says softly to his friend.
Koba turned back to Mina, who was putting her machete away, her face gone still and solemn. Koba huffs before shoving past the other apes, who were all glaring at the female.
Ceaser made a quick sign to the other apes who stood around them all, saying she is to come with them. The apes weren't happy, but let her pass behind their king, spears ready in case she decides to attack hin. She could tell some were unhappy at the thought of a human in their colony, but didn't argue with the king. She kept her gaze straight ahead as they made their way through the woods and to a huge structure built into the trees of the forest, almost unseen, and filled with more apes.
She stopped when she felt a hand on her shpulder. Ceaser motioned her to stay and she nodded, standing still as Blur eyes walked up beside her and stood beside her. She nodded to him as she crossed her arms, waiting for Ceaser.
He stepped onto a hand made platform and stood on the large flat boulder in the middle of the yard and silenced them all with a wave of his hand.
"human is not threat. She. saves ape. She stays in woods. Do not harm." He ordered and the apes all howled in both protest and agreement. He silenced them again and looked at her.
"Do not come here. Unless asked. Go." He says and she nods, turning and walking out the entrance, sending a nod Blue Eyes' way and sent a glare past Koba while leaving the ape colony.