Weeks after Blue Eyes and Mina returned home as husband and wife, they lived together in a large hut just inside the village limits to be away from the others. Blue Eyes didn't want anyone hearing his beautiful wife moaning and whining in pleasure at night. Those sounds were just for him.

It was like any other day; Blue Eyes and the other males were out hunting while the females were making and cooking. Mina was in charge of making new blankets and baskets, seei n as how her hands were smaller than most. As she weaved the basket. she and Lake spoke happily. The two females were in much better spirits now that Blue Eyes was out of the picture in her love life. That position was filled by a dark auburn furred gorilla with kind eyes and strong arms. Mina would often tease Lake about how she wanted to hold him at nighr, but Lake didnt mind. She really did want it, but her father was an old fashioned type who feels chimps should be with chimps. An issue in the future, but they were enjoying their life now, so that's all that matters. As they continued to weave and sew, they heard someone bellow out. Smiling, the two females jumped up knowing it was the males returning from the hunt. Mina saw Rex and smiled patting his shoulder as he walked by. Rex nodded back with a smile as he made his way over to Lake, who couldn't hug him because her father was behind them, but nodded and smiled at him.

Mina looked around and saw Ceaser and Blue Eyes walking up in the back. The two males were smiling and chatting when Blue Eyes saw Mina. He grinned as he rushed to her. She all but jumped in his arms as he held her close, kissing her neck and rubbing her cheek against his. She smiled and rest her chin on his shoulder and opened his eyes.

But then something caught her eyes and she looked up, seeing a furred body pass by a tree and disappear. She went still a moment, her body tensing at the sight of that familiar fur.

It couldnt be...

"What's wrong?" Blue Eyes says pulling away, a look of worry written in his eyes.

"N-nothing..." She says, then took his hand and walked to the hut.

While she finished her baskets, he started skinning the animal and putting the meat on the fire. When she finished her basket, she sewed a strap to it and showed her husband, who nodded and clapped in joy at his wife's intelligent inventing. Then she sat down beside him and helped him cook the meat and snuggle with each other.

After their dinner, they made love once more before holding each other while they slept.

But then, as Mina curled up beside her husband, she felt something was wrong. She slowly woke, looking around their hut. She stood and moved to the door and looked outside. Seeing nothing, she shook her head and went back inside, looking around the hut. She saw the skins of the animals being hung out to dry. The door, being only straw and beads, swayed gently in the breeze behind her. The sleeping ape in her bed lay peacefully in his sleep, undisturbed while he slept.

She sighed and walked back to the nest and sat on her knees looking at him for a moment. She smiled; she couldn't be happier than she already is, unless of course she had children.

She lowered herself to lay back down, when suddenly a large rough hand grabbed her and wrapped around her mouth. She gasped through her nose as her body was pulled hard against a rough body. She could sense danger and began to fight and kick, attempting to kick near Blue Eyes as he slept, but the being dragged her away, right out of the hut. Then she was thrown to the ground hard on her side. She hissed and sat up slowly, looking up and gasped.

"Koba..."

The old scarred ape held a large knife in his hands, a gun on his shoulder, and a torch in his other hand. Mina gasped at the fierce look of pure venom in his eyes. He climbed down the stairs and sneered down at her.

"You. Your mine now." He growls as he pulls her up forcefully and takes her by the elbow, smirking silly at her.

"Lets see how your husband does against fire." He hisses as he tosses the torch onto the porch.

Almost immediately, the fire began to grow.

"NO! BLUE EYES!" Mina shouted loudly as Koba began to pull Mina away.

Blue Eyes heard his wife's screams and jolted from his sleep. He sat up just in time to see the front of the hut was on fire. He coughed and got up quickly, looking for Mina.

"Mina!" he coughs as he looks abou, but noticed some movement outside. He saw Mina being pulled away by an ape. The male turned and Blue Eyes saw who it was.

"KOBA!" he howled as he suddenly charged through the flames and towards them.

Unfortunately by the time he jumped through the flames, the two had disappeared. The flames had enveloped the hut and everything inside was burned. Blue Eyes didn't care however. He just lost his wife again.

"No...Mina..." He dropped to his knees as the other apes came around, hooting and hollering in fear. Many even wondered if the colony would burn down again.

Ceaser quickly put that to rest as he arrived, calming everyone down. The hut was far enough from the other huts that it wouldn't destroy any more. But Blue Eyes didn't care about that. He lost Mina again. Ceaser came up to his son and knelt beside him.

"Son, what happened? where's Mina?"

"Koba..." He growled. staring at the trees of the forest. Ceaser's heart lurched as he heard the apes name. He was back, and he took Mina. Who knows what he would do with her. Ceaser sighed and put his hand on his sons shoulder.

"We will find her son. I promise."

"Yes... we will." He slowly stood, his eyes gone dark.

"When we find him, I will kill Koba. and you will not get in my way." He growls low. Ceaser slowly nods hesitantly as Blue Eyes walked past him to the weapons hut. Koba better be ready to fight to the death.