Bad Singer
Chapter 7
"Playing around"
A view from Kanavu.
I sighed and returned to den. Aleu was unconscious and was resting on ground. I stepped in and saw every pup sleeping. I didn't mean to wake up them and to get them to know anything. But I knew the one life thing- male is over female. Male chooses female, not vice versa. I didn't want to hurt Aleu, but I had to. She was too uppish and like over me for too long. She had to learn her place. I watched Josh. He was the right one. He slept a little over other pups and was sleeping calmly. Beleza sometimes twitched, but it was normal. She always twitched at sleep, as far as I could remember. But looking at Roy and Kola, it wasn't normal. Kola was like worried, and she was twitching and sometimes moving her legs. Maybe she heard something? No, impossible. Maybe in sleep she heard something? Yeah, that's possible. But looking at Roy… it was crazy. He was moving his legs swiftly, like running from somebody and he moved all his body, everything, and sometimes he yelped, barked and whined. Roy always was the one who at least in sleep looked like dead, and I had to nudge him to know he's still alive. Definitely he had heard something. Then I turned head. He was talking in sleep. I erected ears and tried to heard something. Don't! There was a little and silent cry. Hurt! It was more silent, almost whispering. It was hard to heard something. Mom! The last one word to my ears sounded like Mhob! But I thought and analysed it. Certainly it was mom. Don't hurt mom. And it was as certain that he have heard and seen something. It was getting dangerous. That little pup maybe told something to Kola? I shook head and watched them. Josh twitched leg. I saw Roy calming down, he was moving, yes, but not so much. I was worried, and then I nuzzled him and put head on him. Normally he doesn't feel anything until the light touches his eyelids, but now he suddenly opened eyes, and it looked scary. It was midnight and for a moment he just senselessly stared at me, but when recognized and his eyes became clear; his face turned into grimace what were definitely fears. He was paralysed at first, but then he screamed without sound and swiftly jumped out of my paws. Roy was fastest pup of all litter, plus he was in fears. He sprang on his feet and jumped towards the den's opening, swiftly he jumped out of den. I couldn't call it neither running nor leaping- it was something more. Roy was jumping like a deer. I sprang on my feet, and ran out of den; saw him running towards the scarce forest. I barked and then understood what he's going to do.
STOP!!! ROY STOP!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!
I shouted something random, and then I didn't saw him anymore. I ran to river bank and saw him shaking, like waiting to jump. He shook one time. I ran how fast as I could to him. He shook twice. I was almost to him. Some meters. Roy shook last time and then jumped in air, in fact jumping from cliff, wanting to kill himself. I grabbed his withers at the last second, and brought him up. Was I so disgusting to suicide? I thought about what I said last night. How much have he heard? I sighed and then trotted towards the den. It was about sun to rise. I felt him not controlling his movements, he was limp. My hold was light, wasn't it? I dragged him to den and put him down. He was unconscious, of course. I pushed him to other pups, and then I looked at them. Beleza twitched her foreleg. Josh was calm. Roy wasn't even moving a muscle- he was unconscious. And Kola… Yeah, Kola. Where was she? I looked around. Where she was? It was getting weird. First Roy, then Kola. I looked around, and saw Kola running in the entrance. She was tall, to my chest. Kola growled and jumped on me, trying to fight, but failed. I pinned her down with one leg. She barked, trying to wake up other pups. I couldn't resist. I slapped her and growled back.
QUIET!!!
Kola stared at me, wounded. Then she growled again, but quieter.
You frighten out Roy and killed mommy! Her voice rose. You are nothing but… She was almost shouting. MONSTER!!!
I almost started laughing. I just showed Aleu her place!
No, it's ok, mommies alright. I tried to calm her.
No, she's not, I saw her dead… on the clearing!!! Kola cried out. She was scared to death.
She's ok, just she overreacted.
So you killed her?
No, she will wake up, but little later. Don't believe anything she says, she hit her head on tree. I made clear.
She didn't.
Oh yes she did!
Ugh. But what happened? She was interested in.
Well, we talked about some inside-pack things, about positions, and she was overreacting, she didn't knew her place as female. I teach her that, and then she ran in tree. Females have to raise pups, not packs. Think- she could drown the pack, if I wouldn't point out, but she overreacted. I threw light upon this incident.
Uh-Huh. Kola nodded and then there woke up Beleza. She shook her body and came out in light. Kola was brown with grey jowl, face and under body. Beleza was almost copy of Aleu, just more passive and heavier. Then Josh woke up and came to play with others. He was biggest one of the litter; he was all black with icy blue eyes and black nose. Yeah, not completely like me, but most likely. I nuzzled him and licked his face. He struggled and snorted. I smiled, and then licked all pups but Roy, to be fair. Beleza wasn't reacting, she never reacted. She wasn't silent and she wasn't loud, she wasn't sad and she wasn't happy. She was mediocrity. I sighed. Kola was completely different. She was loyal, happy, loving and with good leading skills; she could calm down anyone. But I thought that Josh would be better leader. I sighed. The choice was hard, and I knew it. After few moments I saw Aleu coming. She batted eyes and wanted to attack me, but was too weak. She snarled and then got in den. Other pups looked at us and then continued playing. It was unusual, yeah, but it was our thing. I ran to pups and barked.
Hello my puppies!
Hi, dad!
Hey!
Then Beleza jumped on my head and tugged my ear. I shook her off and lightly held her to ground with my paw. She laughed. I felt a little pain in my butt. I yelped stagy and shook it, and the biter fell off. There was laughing. Meanwhile, Beleza got up and jumped on me again, this time avoiding paw. Kola ran and bit my paw, causing me to yelp for real, and at same time, Josh leaped in my other paw, and I fell down. I yelped quizzically, and pups laughed. Josh jumped on me.
Pinned ya!
Yeah, kiddo. But not for long!!!
I roared and moved my torso, so he was under me.
Who is pinning who down now, Josh?
We laughed and then I laid down. Pups started chasing my tail, and I ran forwards. They chased me, and I laughed. It was long time since I was playing these pup games.
Hey, I wanna play hide'n'seek! Beleza prescribed. We chuckled and I nodded.
I'm ok with it!
I counted, of course.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten…forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty! Ready or not, here I come!
I walked in nearby bushes. Of them like jumpy doe out leaped Beleza. I scratched tree three times, saying.
Scratches for Beleza!
Beleza grunted and sat by tree. I chuckled and then started scouring through the nearby territory. I didn't even heard a little scratches on tree. There was chuckles and I saw Josh and Kola watching me and laughing. I looked at Araw and smiled.
It's lunchtime, let's go sleeping!
No! Please!
Yes. Go now.
Waah!
Pups suddenly saw a rabbit and started chasing it. I rolled eyes.
Five minutes!
Then I walked to our den and leaped in. I looked at Aleu and she pinned me down.
You killed Roy! She barked.
No, female, I growled and got her down. He was just too afraid and now's unconscious. And now you're gonna pay for pinning. I humped her back.
A.N. Yeah, Again- if you like this story then review. We're repeating, but it's your only chance to get something improved. We know it's getting rude and brutal, maybe too much angst, but before 6th chapter In Nitrous thoughts was a big fluff and blah blah. But it was fluff ONLY because Becca traveled to England, and now she's back. She's getting the story in some frames right now..
