Harvest

Warning: This chapter contains content that might make you cry. You have been warned.

A leaf later (Aka a day)

I move and turn in my dreamless sleep. I give up trying on trying to sleep good and open my eyes. Light shines, making me smile. My mussels hurt from all the walking I did yesterday, but it was a small price to pay. Now I can rub it in my brothers and sisters faces! Excitement fills me as I get up and stumble some off the log because of my sore mussels. This make my smile brighter.

"Mother!" I yell and look around. Usually she is up way before us. I look around again, but don't see her any where. She might be out hunting. She never has enough time when we are awake.

This gives me the perfect time to wake up my siblings! They wont believe it and will ask mother. She will tell them I did and they will all be jealous. I can hardly wait. I rush as fast as I can to the log, and peek my head inside.

"Wake up!", I yelled. It was to dark to see inside, but I could smell. The sent was rotten, and even worse than potty. I move away from the foul smell.

"Mother is going to be mad that you didn't potty out side!" I yell again trying to get them to come out. They must still be asleep. "Wake up!" I yell even louder.

They must be hiding because they went potty. An idea formed in my head. I stick my claws into the log and climb up it. My mussels where protesting but this is a log I climbed every day and I can do it today. I pushed my self upwards with a deep breath and sat for a moment at the top of the log. It was harder than I thought but I did it!

The feeling of success swept inside of me again and made me smile. I am growing up. Soon I will be like mother and be all grown up. I may just be a little one now but even mother was a little one once. She told us that a few leaves ago as a story of history. I stand up and relies that to know to feel success again I needed to get my siblings in trouble.

I looked at the log and searched for something specific. I spotted it and walked to a large hold in the log that was blocked by a peace of a rock that came from a cliff behind the log, blocking one opening. Their was only one way the rock could come out of the log, and that way was stupid and dangerous mother told us. It was the way I would try now. Mother will be mad at me, but even madder at my siblings for taking a potty on the floor.

I walk over to the rock, and jump on it. Nothing happened, so I tried it again and again. Once more I tried and got an reaction. The rock sunk in the log half way. One more and it will go through. I jump with all my might, and the rock fell through.

I smile for a second, but that second comes to an end. Light swarm in revealing the truth. The truth that Leif said. The truth that my sibling not coming out told me. A scream come out of my mouth. The truth I've known my whole life.

"Mother!", I scream desperately. The inside of the log was stained red. I started to shake.

The first one I saw was laying on the wall. Blood stained her pure white coat. Four long, deep, cuts went up her belle. My legs give out from under me. Blood fell out of her mouth with a drip. That wasn't what killed me inside. It was the look in her eyes. The dead look in them was killing me slowly, but the fear in them finished the job. The fear in her, my sisters, beautiful dark eyes killed what ever happiness I had inside.

My vision swarmed as I saw more. The next one was a brother, he was lying on the floor, but the same look was in his eyes. My eyes couldn't focus as I seen another one, another brother, different cuts, eyes just like hers. I try to scream, but no sound comes out. Another one, and another. I looked until my eyes burned from the staring. Then I seen another, and my eyes refused to shut. They all had the same look, death and fear. I start to wonder who's blood is who's.

"Please wake up", I beg. I look at my sister, the first one I seen and stare in her dead eyes, "Please!" A scream tears out of me again, but I don't hear it. My head falls down, but before I can scream again, a shadow covers my sister. I look back up with a sad smile.

"She did this!", a voice screams. I look at my sister, but she didn't say thoughs words. No, her mouth is forever filled with blood, and coat stained red. I look up, and my body seems to snap out of the shock it was in

"Brother?", it was first a whisper, but his grey coat is unmistakable. "Brother!", I yell, "Pet!" He turns, and walks from the hole that I could see him through. "Wait" I run to the exit, but before I leave from it, I turn and look at them all. No words came through me lips but, "Please"

I wait no longer and run out side, the wind blowing strong now, making my black coat move and go every which way, letting me see the blood on my paws. My heart hurts again as I know that their blood would always be their, even if I can't see it. I force my self to look up, just to see my brother run east. I run after him, but with his speed and head start he was far away.

"Brother!", I yell and chase him. He runs out of the clearing and into the woods. I am not afraid as I would be before. I have nothing to loose now. When I was in the woods, I only seen a blur in the distance go left. I follow him, and almost catch him when he make a sharp turn north. Leaves make much noise in the to quite forest, only proving that the truth happened. I ran as fast as I could determined now.

-Boom!- A earth shaking noise made me stop, but also succeed in stopping Pet. His eyes where filled with a rage that I've never seen before, and a yell tore through his lips when he seen me. Before he could speak the top of a tree fell in the space between us. Our eyes met, his dark brown ones meting my green ones. I begged him to stay, that he was the only one I have left, the only one to live for all with my eyes. His told me that he knew this.

He hissed in rage and ran. I felt my hope die along with everything else. He didn't care. I had to find him. I climbed up the tree, ignoring all the noised around me. That was my mistake. Their where no noised before. I was almost down on the other side when it happened. Something huge and monstrous picked me up, squeezing me. I could see that I was being lifted up, and hisses. I regretted it. What ever this thing was it covered my mouth forcing me to gasp and bite what held me.

One of the things pulled back, and the other spun me around the other way to face it. I recognized it as soon as I seen its face. Mother told many stories of history about them. It had short brown blond hair, which had much white in it. Hair is what they called the fur on their faces. It's nose was big and eyes where brownish grey. The fur that was on its face was long, what mother called a beard. It wore some type of blue and grey striped material on its head and body.

"Hey little thing. No need to be mean.", It spoke deeply in a foren langue that I could not understand coming out of its mouth. We mostly speak with our minds unless we scream or hiss. I forced my body to move any way it could, but the creachure hands as mother told me where stronger than me, and didn't even flinch or show that it effected it in any way.

"So fiesty", The human said, "You'll be perfect for her" He started moving to a huge clearing faster than I have ever seen before, but this seemed like its walk. I almost try and fight again, but what good would it do? It wont wash away the blood on my paws. It wont stop the fear from showing in their eyes.

He goes to another human and speaks, "I'm heading home Jim. Found a present for my wife's and I's anervesery." The human who he talked to was shorter than the first, and much more bigger in the wast area.

"Night Jesse! And good luck", The second human said. He made a deep sound that must of been a laugh to the humans. I wish for a moment that I could understand what the humans are saying, but then I remembers again that it wouldn't matter. My brother is gone. Everyone is gone. I have nothing left.

The human went to a weird machine that I can only describe as a beast. It was wider than any human could possibly be, and was as big a a dear. It was dirty, but still had some what of a shine to it. I could tell it was made of metal because of the scraps that we find and mother tells us to never touch. Everything from the humans was evil.

Humans were a complicated species. Some acted cruel and evil to us, and others acted nice. Mother said to never trust one even if it seems nice. The nice ones are the ones we had to watch. Mother never told us why, but that we would end up in slaves in the end.

I suddenly become mad. How could I think of them? No, they should never be thought of. The fear in my siblings eyes haunted me, reminding me that finding mother and Pet where the only things that mattered any more. I see her dark eyes again as a sound brought me out of my deadly trance.

The human had a made a peace come off of the beast and sat inside of its mouth, and I followed still in his hands. He sat me down in a huge peace of leather the same size that he sat down in, and started doing things to complicated for me to understand. It was the same with the beast, many weird shaped devices where every where. A noise came out of nowhere and the beast started to shake. The human then made the beast move.

How did he tame the beast that was bigger than he was? This was the scary thing about humans. They could tame and destroy anything they wish. The only way the could be destroyed is death of old age but with their life span it would be effortless to wait or other humans. It was their one demise.

I didn't have to fight to stay awake. Her innocent eyes made sure I did't get any sleep. The fear in them chilling me to the core. No, sleep would only bring nightmares. Not nightmares of my siblings. It is the one thing I am blessed with. I would only sleep to face their murderer. Only one could of made that happen. Only one had enough power to kill them in their sleep as they wake up, leaving them sleeping but eyes open. Only one could create a harvest that consumed my family and the whole forest. The Night Demon.