The whole herd was silent in shock.

"... What?," Diego finally managed to say.

He was very pale. Perla looked down scanning the ground for a few seconds before looking up.

"What happened?," Diego asked.

Perla sighed.

"It happened 4 years ago…,"

Nina was running through the forest carrying a tiny Perla in her mouth by the scruff. She was only half the size she was now. She kept looking behind her fearfully, running as fast as she could. She ran by a cliff near the ocean. She ran to the side of the edge and jumped into one of the bushes. She put Perla down.

"Alright sweetie. Just stay here and don't come out until you don't hear anyone except me," Nina said.

"I- Yes mommy," Perla said.

"Good," Nina said.

She ran out of the bush. A pack of rival sabers came to the cliff. They pack started fighting Nina. Perla curled up on the ground on the other end of the bush, shutting her eyes tight and covering her ears with her paws, trying to keep the sound of the growling and roaring from the fight. There was splash and then it was completely quiet. Perla peaked out of the bushes. The pack was gone but Nina was nowhere to be seen. Perla looked all around the cliff for her mother.

"Mommy?," she called out.

There was splashing. Perla looked down. Her mother was in the ocean and looked very injured.

"Mommy!," she called down, tears were in her eyes.

A friend of the pack Nina was from managed to hear Perla. He ran over to where they were and got Nina out of the ocean using a log. She had cuts and bruises all over her body, they looked very deep. Nina looked very weak. The saber put her on his back.

"Come on little cub. I can help your mother get better," he said.

He carried Nina and Perla followed.

One day later…..

Perla was still with her mother.

"I….. love….. you…. very much….. Perla," Nina said weakly.

"I love you too mommy," Perla said.

Perla went outside and found a nice shell.

"Mommy would love this," Perla said and went back to the cave.

It took sometime for Perla to get back, since she keep having to put the shell on her back when it fell off. When she went back to cave, the friend looked sad as she left the cave her mother was in.

"What's wrong?," Perla asked.

The saber sighed. He took her into the cave and guided Perla to listen to her mother's heartbeat.

"I'm sorry sweetie. I am so sorry," he said sadly.

Nina's heart was no longer beating. Perla dropped the shell and ran out of the cave crying.

"Little cub!," the saber called out.

He ran after her. Perla stopped running once he got into the forest, but she was still crying very badly. The saber put a paw around her and pulled her closely.

"It's alright little cub. Just let it all out," he said.

Perla looked up with tears still in her eyes and rolling down. She nodded and kept crying.

The next day…..

Perla woke up.

"Um… excuse me?," Perla said.

"Oh good morning. Feeling better?," the saber asked.

"Yes. Um… I've been thinking and I think it's better if I just go out on my own now. There's no one for me here anymore," Perla said.

The saber was quiet for a moment.

"OK. If that's what you want. At least, stay until breakfast and until I can either teach you to hunt or until I can see how well you can hunt," he said.

"Alright,"

So after the saber hunted them some deer that they ate they went into the forest to see Perla's hunting.

"Alright, you just stock the pray until your close enough to jump onto it with a small jump so it can't get away. You just start biting it until it's dead, and then you eat. Try on something small a rabbit maybe," the saber said.

"Alright," Perla said.

Once they found a rabbit Perla tried to hunt it. It took a few tries and a few different rabbits for her to get it right but she managed to do it. after that they went back to the cave.

"So I guess this is good bye," the saber said.

"Good bye, Mr. Hunter," Perla said.

"Good bye, Perla," Hunter said.

And with that Perla walked off, to make a living on her own.