The Fox and The Hound:
What is my purpose?
Todd sat alone in the dark underbrush of the forest as he watched his friend and his caretaker for all of his life travel back to her car, leaving him out in the wild.
It was growing dark and the clouds looked as if they were going to burst.
Deep inside he wondered why he was being condemed to this place. Yet he also knew the answers too.
The forest was his home.
It was where he was born.
It was where he was supposed to be, not on the farm.
The farm was a place that his mother, the only member of his family he could vaguely remember, left him there trying to evade the hunters who were trying to kill them.
He wasn't abandoned, but he was left without his mother or any member of his family. They had probably been killed by the hunters who were tracking him and his mother, but he was sure he would never know the whole truth.
"It's too bad," Todd thought to himself as he watched his friend leave him.
"All I ever wanted was a home." Todd thought.
The wind began to pick up. It sent a shiver down his fur coat and made him shudder.
It began to rain, and it only added to his depression.
He quickley began to look for shelter. To his dismay all he could find was a shallow tree. He began to settle down as the rain began to pick up, trying hard not to get wet.
Through his depression he managed to look around seeing and hearing some of the other animals around him scurying toward their shelters and homes.
All of them had a place to go.
He saw a squrrile run into a tree trunk.
A quail and her chicks running across a path a few yards away.
The a chipmunk leaped from a nearby branch onto the tree above him, sending the collected water on the branches down on him.
The rain splashed down on him, making him feel more miserable.
"Where am I?" Todd thought.
He felt as he were about to cry, the water was building up in his eyelids.
Rem - Sweetness Follows
Readying to bury your father and your mother?
What did you think when you lost another?
Todd thought back to the time when he was very little. Before he was on the farm. Memories of his mother, she used to sing to him in their burrow. Her warm
soothing voice made him feel safe.
"Mommy...." Todd cried silently in his heart.
I used to wonder why did you bother...
Distanced from one, blind to the other?
Listen here my sister and my brother...
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother...
Distanced from one, deaf to the other?
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows...
Todd thought back to the time when he first met Copper. They were only kids at the time, he was searching for a strange smell, and he was determined to find out what it was. Ironically it was his sent that he tracked and he led himself right to him.
They quickly became friends. However it seemed like outside forces kept them from having any relationship outside of a few minutes of play time.
Big Mama and his other bird friends tried to educate him on the dangers of hunters. Copper was born and bred to be a hunting dog, an enemy of his kind.
"It that all there is? Is there nothing more?" Todd asked himself, still trying hard not to burst into tears.
It's these little things, they can pull you under...
Live your life filled with joy and wonder...
I always knew this altogether thunder
was lost in our little lives...
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows...
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows...
"At some point in everyone's life, everyone asks a Mother, a Father, a Sister, a God...Why am I here? What is my purpose? What was I meant to be?" Todd said to himself almost ready to burst.
"What is my purpose? Why am I here? What was I meant to be?" Todd asked to no one hoping that somewhere someone who hear his cry.
It's these little things, they can pull you under...
Live your life filled with joy and thunder...
Todd at that moment began to think of all the good times that he and copper had. When he began to think about it, he remember the way he looked at Copper before Chief got smacked with a train.
Then he began to realize that Copper had some of the same questions inside him as he had at this moment.
Yeah, yeah we were altogether...
lost in our little lives...
Oh. Oh. Ah.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows...
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows...
Todd at that point began to move on from under the tree and into some nearby bushes that were more shelterable for a short while.
At that point Todd broke down in a tremendous amount of pain, that was building up within him. He cried about losing his mother, losing his friend Copper to these barriers that were set in place before either of them were born and losing his caretaker since he was an infant.
After crying for a good long while, he finally began to feel better and decided to move on trying to find better shelter for the night. But before he left the already wet and damp bush he began to think about Copper again and he began to realize some new things that he hadn't thought of before..
"Coppers got the same damn problem that I've got." Todd realized.
"He's torn between his loyalty to his master, and me." He continued to think.
"It's the same way between me, Big Mama and the others. I'm torn between my loyalty to them and my friendship with him." He realized.
"Now that I'm out of his way, he can solve that problem and I can solve mine. " Todd thought to himself.
"I guess it was meant to be this way. This my turf. The farm is his turf." Todd thought.
"He's going to come after me, that I'm sure of. I know what he blames me for. Chief didn't deserve to be hurt like that, no one should." Todd thought.
"Copper and me have some issues to work out. I know that deep in my heart, that his heart has to be good. He can't be blinded to the fact that I caused Chief's accident, by just going up to see him." Todd thought.
"He might be blaming himself for it, but I hope he remembers what made Chief the way he is. Chief has always been trying to catch me ever since I was litte, and he nearly got me too!" Todd continued to think.
"I just hope he remembers that the next time we meet. Copper, if you want me that bad, be prepared. I'll be ready for you, paws wide open or teeth bared." Todd thought to himself.
Todd than wandered out into the darkness. The rain begining to depress him once again.
To be continued....