In the middle of the night in the mountains, a tribe is having a celebration of a new arrival. Her name is Aphra she is a small girl. She is around the age of 15.
The whole tribe is taking part in the ceremony. They all watch the new arrival with caution and mystery. She didn't look like them at all. She has brown dreadlock hair that is in a braid. Her eyes are light green and her skin is light tan. As her eyes move through a crown she spots a boy around her age looking at her with a smile.
As they grew so did their friendship and they became best of friends.
Takkar and Aphra sit on a rock, carving a small piece of ivory with a sharp-edged stone tool. Takkar is working on a small, bead sized wolf, which is nearly finished. Aphra is making a spear so she can go hunting when the next group goes out.
Takkar finishes the carving. He pulls out a necklace made of a string of similar small mammoths, and ties on the new piece, completing the necklace and hands it to Aphra.
"Thank you, Takkar. Very beautiful" Aphra said with a smile and she put it around her neck.
"not as beautiful as you".
Aphra blushed and smiles.
"You always know what to say to make me smile". Dalos is running up the sandbank and he stops at them while trying got regain his breathing. "Dalos, what is it?" asks Takkar. "The…. The Mammoths have arrived! ".
Dalos, Aphra, and Takkar splits off and runs up the sand hills to the hunting grounds. After several minutes of running lead them to the hunting grounds. Aphra tripped and hit her head on a rock and passed out.
I was knocked in the head pretty hard once I come to I see a very blurry blob moving towards me. Once it got closer my vision cleared and a Man. He has dark brown hair, blue eyes, and a beard. I see his lips move but I can't hear anything. A few seconds later I hear clearly. "Get up Aphra, Let's go" whispered the man. He grabs my hand and leads us to a small mammoth. When I looked around all I see is men in animal fur with spears.
Takkar hands me a few spears and points to the mammoth. "Aim at the chest, neck, and head," he said and crawls away and gets on a high rock. He looks down at me and nods. I nervously get The spear ready and throw it.
Suddenly, directly in front of the baby mammoth, the dark haired man leaps to his feet, waving his arms, shouting wildly.
The mammoth reared up and took off after him. His massive head Whips back and forth. Takkar stands his ground. He goes closer to the baby and thrusts his spear at the animal's face and the. The man ROLLS out of the way, barely avoiding being trampled.
Takkar blows a horn and a few dozen men come out of nowhere with spears. At that sign, other hunters leap to their feet, waving their arms and shouting. A few arrows flew past my head and it caught the grass on fire. The fire scares the other mammoths away and separates the one mammoth from the rest.
The chase led us to a narrow cliff. Men surround the creature and throw the spears and shoot arrows at it. Then suddenly, a huge cat comes out of nowhere and leaps on top of the Mammoth and finish it off.
The men look at it in fright. The cat looks around and sees me and we make eye contact. It blinks at me and lets out an angry, roar! I'm paralyzed! Takkar walks over to me slowly, he grabs my hand. We manage to retreat a Couple of steps. But then The Cat charged at us in a fury! We turn and runs as fast as we can with the cat barreling after us. We try to find refuge in rocks. Our hands get ripped away from each other. I hit my cheek and head on a branch as I run between two thorny bushes. At full speed, I dive under a fallen tree. But the raging Cat smashes right through the brittle wood.
I frantically look around for Takkar but he is nowhere in sight.
Then I hear a loud growl and I look around to see the sabretooth. He lunged at me and I ran straight. I hear a river coming up and I stop immediately at a cliff's edge then look down to see a raging river.
The Sabretooths jaws snapped shut inches behind me as I fly over the edge. I burst from the water gasping for air. I'm carried along by the current but manages to grab a limb on a fallen tree. I weakly pull myself up and just lay there gasping on the trunk. When I roll over I see the sky is getting darker. Get up Aphra and keep moving!
A few minutes later I get up and walk around till I find a small valley. I collect a few Alder Wood, Reeds, and Slates. Once I collect them I find a big vine. I cut them down with my obsidian knife. Once I do so I wrap the vine around them and drag them under a large rock ledge.
I make a bow after a few minutes and a few arrows. Once I put the bow on my back and tie the arrows to my hip I'm ready to continue moving to... well I have no fucking clue! My Brother told me when lost always look for advantage points and that's high up.
End P.O.V
40 minutes later
Aphra is hiking uphill, the lush, dense verdure of the forest now thinning to evergreens and mountain heather. Aphra is climbing higher now. Finally, she reaches the top and looks out at the land. From her vantage point, she can see snow filled mountains in the distance, plains that hold hot springs and behind her is a green and lush forest. She doesn't know where to go. Usually, hot springs mean people but lush green forest means food and also means predators.
Aphra sets her bow down on the ground and sits on a rock. She leans back against the rock and looks up at the almost dark sky. Some stars are sparkling like diamonds. Aphra yawns and stretches on the rock and her back slide down the other half of the rock.
She sees a pair of glowing eyes up in a tree. Aphra gets off the rock slowly and reaches for her bow. The creature jumped down from the tree which made Aphra jump a bit. She couldn't see the creature well but she knew it is a big animal. The beast roared, then Aphra sprints off into the thick forest.
After a few minutes, she stops and looks around. The sabretooth stopped chasing after her. Now, she can slow down a bit. She looks around her surroundings and sees nothing but forest and mountains. "Seriously..." she mutters. Aphra hears twigs nap and she whips around and faces the sabretooth. The sabretooth growls at her and she growls back. She raises the club and runs to the saber. The sabre-tooth becomes furious by her actions and runs forward. The sabre-tooth jumps on Aphra but before he could touch her she rolls out of the way.
When the Saber hits a nearby rock and tree. Aphra makes a run for it while he is still getting up. She can hear the sabre-tooth growl and then roar in rage. Her lungs and feet feel like they are on fire. Aphra looks behind her and sees the saber tooth disappear into the forest.
As She took in her surroundings, she noticed the lush green forest is now orange and burnt. Like someone was burning it on purpose. But who would do- thud! In mid-thought, she was bashed in the head with what felt like a blunt object.
When she regained consciousness, she was tied up and being dragged away. Her vision hazy, Aphra tried to figure out where she was. It appeared to be a shack, and there were weapons, food, and blood everywhere.
She I started squirming around when she hears a heavy cough and grunting. She stops when the noise stopped. Aphra looks around in the dim light room and spots a figure in the corner. She struggled a little more and finally got her hands free. The rope slides off her body and fell to the ground. She moved to the farthest corner away from the figure.
The figure moved its head and looked in her direction. Aphra gasped and tried to move farther away but it's no avail. The person gets up and slowly limps over to her. Once in the light, she sees it's an Udam. Aphra got the closest thing she could and it is a broken arrowhead. She aims it at the Udams chest. He walks over to her and grabbed her wrist lightly and put the arrow to his forehead. "skull fire burns. Please, open head to cool" said the Udam. She looks at the man with a puzzling look but did what he asked.
She raised her fist and brought it down at the end of the arrow and it began to enter into his head. She did it once, twice and a third time. The Udam gasp and closed his eyes then opens then and looks at Aphra. He nods with approval and she nods back. The Udam laid back down in the corner he was in before. " where am I?" Aphra. The Udam stopped in his tracks and just chuckled. " Wenja are more stupid then I thought," he said. The Udam turned around and looked at Aphra. " you are in a fire walker camp".
" A what?".
The Udam sighed and laid back down in his corner. Suddenly the makeshift door on Aphra far left opens and a man with blue skin paint walks in and throws food to the ground then walks out. The Udam rolls on his side and faces the food then look at her. Aphra gulped nervously. The man got off the ground in a hurry and ate the food in a hurry without leaving any for her. The Udam looked at Aphra and wiped his mouth.
He walked to her slowly. She picked the arrow back up that she dropped a few minutes ago.
The Udam reaches her and the arrow is now against his chest. He looks down at the arrow and back up to her. He swats the arrow away and throws her to the ground. She landed with a thud.
Before he could come anywhere near her a loud horn is heard. The Udam stopped in his tracks and laughed. "it's about time!" he yelled. The only thing that they could hear Is running, screams, grunts, and crying. Suddenly, there is a ripping sound. Aphra jumped when a deer skin bag is thrown to the ground. The Udam in front of her picked up the bag and pulled out arrow heads and a club.
He went to the door and busted it down with the club and walked out. Aphra swallowed nervously and slowly stand up. She poked her head out of the door and sees fire, blood, and bodies everywhere. Aphra crouches down behind a bush when she hears heavy footsteps and talking. Three Udam walked past her while dragging bodies behind them. She noticed that one of them has a pale bear on his back with a scar on his left side of his face. The one thing that stuck out the most is his light blue eyes.
Aphra screamed when she is grabbed from behind and thrown over someone's shoulder. She started squirming around trying to get out of The man's grasp but nothing worked. The man carried her to a group of Udam that had people tied up, but before she reached there Aphra bit the man's fingers so hard he threw her to the ground and held his bloody hand. Aphra quickly got up and ran but was stopped short when someone tackled her to the ground.
She notices it's the Udam with the pale bear on his back. Aphra kept kicking him and he let her go then grabs her left foot. She falls face first to the ground and hits her head. The last thing she sees before she passes out is a pair of blue eyes.
Three hours later
Aphra wakes up to yelling. She moved her hand to her head but she couldn't because her arms are tied in front of her. Her eyes open and she sees she is in a cage. She breathed in and almost puked because the smell of death lingered through the cave. Aphra Sat up and looks around the cave and sees four other cages with people in them. All she knew is they weren't Wenja. Aphra whipped her head to her left when she heard heavy footsteps mixed with light ones. Aphra sees A very large Udam she seen earlier and a little girl with freckles. She assumed she is his child.
The Udam walked over to her cage and crouched down to her level. Aphra tried to scoot away but he grabs her ankles and pulled her in front of him. He then grabs her neck and pulls Aphra face close to his and checks her neck.
"You have no mate," he said while sniffing her neck. She tried to pull away but he tightened the hold on her neck. He pulled away from her neck and looked at her. His face is so close to hers she can smell his horrible breath. She spits in his face and she is thrown to the ground. He wipes away the spit and grabs her hair. He brings her face closer to his and she can see the rage in his eyes. " go back home" he said. the small girl quickly walks out of the cave.
The udam looks back at Aphra and throws her to the ground and gets on top of her. " get off! " she yelled. She kicked him in the stomach and knee.
The first kick hit him knee and he almost fell over. The second kick doubled him over and he is on both knees while holding his crotch.
It was a heck of a shot. Aphra noticed he is in a lot of pain. She ran past him and finds a weapon she can use. She finds a short spear. She picks it up and quickly looks around. There is a big crack in the wall where she can fit through. The udam gets up quickly and tries to follow her but, he is too late. She enters the crack in the wall and disappears. The udam groans in frustration and goes out of the cave to where most tunnels lead. The bone yard.
Aphra stopped in a dead end and she sat down to rest. Her heart beat is fast and she is breathing heavily. Once her breathing slowed down she got up and started to look around for something to crawl through. She spotted a hole where she might get through. Suddenly, she fell.
Down she fell into the depths of the cave until she slammed right into the water and onto bones. A bone from someone or something else got lodged in her left thigh. The pain was excruciating. She put her hands on the bone that is stuck in her thigh and She pulled it out quick. She screamed at the top of my lungs then Aphra stumbled around trying to get up but, she is only able to make it to her knees. She slowly crawled out of the gross water and to the bank.
She hears heavy footsteps approaching. Once they stopped she looks up and sees The udam Leader. Her vision got blurry and she collapsed on the ground.