Chapter 20: Mutt's Strange Brother
I let go of her. She looked at Akihiko and jumped towards him. He lowered his head. She landed on the middle of his head. Kistune came out from behind his leg. She jumped onto his back. He reached his paw out then said, "Let's go brother. You can ride on my snout." I walked to his paw and climbed up on it. He moved his paw up and put his paw next to his snout. I climbed onto his snout. I respectfully said, "Thank you Akihiko." I rubbed him between his eyes and over his snout.
Akihiko put his paw down and began to run. I sat down and relaxed. He growled as he looked to the side. I giant white dog was running next to him. I looked at the dog's eye. Puppy looked to the side in excitement. She jumped on the dog's head. I jumped up at stared at her. The dog jumped into the air. A gently male voice said, "Sister" I heard her yell out, "Tadashi! I miss you brother!" The giant dog tail waged the whole time. When he landed he sat down.
His tail made the sand and dirt fly in the fly into the air. He tiled his head. His ear was floppy and the fur on them were slick. It had grey, black, and a little bit of brown on the ends of his ears. His nose was black. His eyes are dark brown but light brown in the light. He had really light brown patches on his back. He had his mouth open and all you could see was pitch black. He quickly joined us again after I was able to see a little bit of his body details.
Puppy wasn't on Tadashi anymore. She was next to him on the ground running. My eyes widen with fear as I shouted, "Puppy is running!" Tadashi found me with his eyes then said, "It's okay. She won't get hurt. When we were children, mother used to let us go running with warriors in training. We were young but we were smart. We took high rank and became the best warriors." He panted as he took his eyes off of me. Puppy was still running. She had a beautiful smile on her face. She was happy.
Puppy looked up at us and waved. Kistune looked at her then waved. She smiled as she sat down. Puppy yelled out, "Keep up with us brother Akihiko. We are really fast." Tadashi ran faster along with Puppy. Akihiko gently said, "Hold on guys. I don't want anyone to fall off." He increased his speed in running. I can see saliva in the air from them both. My eyes wondered for Puppy. I couldn't see her and I started to become worry. I heard a howl and saw that Tadashi had stopped. Akihiko stopped next to him. They both kept their bodies low to the ground.
Puppy was standing on Tadashi head. She looked at me and covered her mouth. I nodded then looked at Kistune. She had her mouth covered as well. I covered my mouth but not my nose. I looked around and saw a pack of coyotes. It seems like they have been wondering around to hunt. They were panting heavily. They had different shades of grey and brown on them. They looked like they were smiling.
The pack broke up into three groups. The group in the front with two coyotes went straight. The group in the back left had four coyotes. They wondered to the left. The back group to the right had four coyotes and the wondered to the right. If the coyotes who went right kept heading straight, they would run into us. I felt Akihiko heft him body slowly to the right. Tadashi was doing the same. They kept their tails down and their heads low. Akihiko had his ears pointing up. So he could hear the coyote's paw pitter pattern in our direction. They looked at each other.
Two of the coyotes huffed as they began to run in our direction. Kistune crawled next to me and kept hold of my hand. She shrank in size and climbed into my hand. I held my hands in a cup shape. She held onto my thumb tightly. She was whimpering because she can sense the danger in the air. She could also sense her brother's anger along with Tadashi. When I looked over at Tadashi, Puppy wasn't on his head. I looked forward when I heard a loud yelp.
One of the coyotes fell to their side. Kistune held my thumb tighter, turning my thumb red. Tadashi got up and ran towards them. He extended his mouth and bit the coyote's neck. The coyote yelped really loudly. The other two groups of coyotes stopped. They look to the side or back to see what event was occurring. One of the coyotes went the coyote that was on its side. The other coyote charged at Tadashi. I can hear Kistune say, "Brother help them. I beg of you. Help them." I felt him get up and charge at the coyote that was charging at Tadashi.
He manages to tackle the coyote away from Tadashi. The coyote yelped louder. I heard a loud gun shot to my side. Kistune whimpered, "Hiro… Hiro… is over there… I don't want… To leave my brother's… Side…" We heard another gun shot, a small yelp then a whimper. He lets go of the coyote neck and stared over. He prances over to where the two coyote laid. The other coyotes scampered away. The coyote that Akihiko tackled ran away after being tackled.
He searched the bodies then lifted his head towards us. We could see Puppy standing on his nose with a gun in her hand. The dry air was becoming moist. Telling us the night was coming soon. He walked over to us. When he reached us Puppy jumped over to Akihiko's snout. Kistune lets go of my thumb but didn't return to normal size. Puppy waved at Tadashi. Tadashi gently says, "It's an honor to meet all of you. I'm glad to see that Nagasaki is okay and happy. Take well care of her Cloud. Thank you for helping out back there." Tadashi turned and started to run after the other coyotes.