Why do I never listen?Lena thought as she hid behind a tree, ears perked, listening,waiting for the hunter to jump at her any minute.
Lena knew she should have never walked into the small pub, or the village at all. The lights and jolly music grabbed her attention,and she couldn't resist the tempting smell of lamb chops that floated from the pubs open doors.
So, without caution, Lena quickly tucked in her ears and tail and dashed for the pub doors.
The pub smelled strongly of ale and grimy men who never washed. The stench burned Lena's nose and she mentally cringed.
Among the stench of men Lena caught a whiff of pork,lamb, and...was that sausage?
She followed the scent of meats to the bar,and behind it sat a delicious stack of variety of meats,an ugly wart faced man sat on her left, and a man dressed in a dark cloak sat on her right. Ignoring the people Lena jumped onto the bar stool in between them and smiled at the bartender that was cleaning a previously used glass.
"OI mate mind getting a gal something to eat?" The bartender stopped cleaning the glass in his hand and eyed Lena up and down.
"No money no food" The man spoke in a rough British accent, he continued rubbing the dirty rag on the glass,adding a little spit here and there.
Lena's smile faltered.nomoneyno food? Damn I'm going to have to Jack and hop, should I do it? Lena no!!!! Fuck just do it your starved!!...fuck I'm going to regret this.
Lena watched the bartender "clean" the glass. She sat on the stool fiddling with her fingers pretending that she was thinking,when she was actually watching the wart faced man finish off his drink and call to the bartender for another round.
Once the he turned around to get the wart faced man's drink Lena sprang for the meats stacked up behind the bar, knocking over some glass in the process.
A series of gasps and screams erupted in the pub,the bartender turned around to see the same young Scrappy looking girl with raggedy clothes stealing his meat,then he noticed a set of fluffy brown and white ears and tail attached to the girls head and lower back.
The bartender lunged for the hungry fox girl holding his precious meats. Lena dodged the bartender and ran straight for the pub doors, lugging all the meats she could carry in her skinny arms. Everyone moved out of her way, avoiding her claws and teeth.
"OI SOMEBODY STOP THAT PONCE, SHE'S A THEIF AND A SHIFTER!!!"
The cloaked man quickly stood up and faced the bartender. "What's she worth?" The man asked, his southern accent noticable to all in the,now trashed,pub.
"Anything you want,just bring me that shifters head" the southern man ran after the shifter, his boots jangling as he ran.
Lena howled in Glee as she sat on an old oak tree branch, her brown white tipped tail swishing around excitedly.
" Wow what a haul, great job sticky fingers you got yourself a few weeks of food" Lena congratulated herself and dug head first into the pile of meat in her lap.
BANG BANG!!!
Lena quickly shot her head from her food and flipped out of the tree ,dropping all the meat in her lap onto the dirt ground.
She landed on all fours, legs shaking from the impact, she looked up,Two bullets pierced the tree bark where she once sat. Footsteps could be heard from behind,she turned around to glare at the intruder. Her tail swishing angrily behind her.
"Oi what's your deal mate? Ya Can't go around shooting in the forest!!" The intruder chuckled.
" So you are a shifter, and a fox at that. I drew the lucky straw, that bartender would pay good money for your head little lady" the stranger began shooting at Lena laughing happily while doing so.
"BOLLOCKS!!" Lena dodged the bullets flying past her head she turned tail and ran. The hunter right behind her.
Lena jumped and dodged bullets until she found a nice big berry bush next to a tree, she dived head first into the bush and froze.
Not a tail twitched,her ears perked, listening, waiting for the hunter to jump out at any moment.
why don't I listen?