Chapter 18 : " Patrol "
As the sun began to rise above horizon Enna had already woke up and walked to the river to take a drink before coming back to her nest and crouching over me.
"Wake up Sky. You need to prepare for today's patrol" she said licking back of my head to wake me up faster.
" yawn alright I'm wakeing up. Please stop. Stop it mom!" I giggled and her licking cause me to tickle.
"Hehe ok I'm stopping" said Enna standing up.
"How you sleeped?" she ask me after I slowly picked myself up from the nest.
"Realy good mom, as always" I said wagging my tail.
"Good to hear that" she replied.
"Go eat and drink as much as you need. It might be long patrol for you. It takes Kalash almost half a day to check the area there since it's hard terrain" she added as I walked passed her.
"Ok i will" I answered as I walked towards river to take a drink.
When I was done eating and I was ready to go I informed Enna that I'm already leaving.
"Mom, I'm going on patrol already"
"Ok, just look out over yourself" she replied and nuzzled me before I started my first patrol.
I walked outside the forest and up the hill to take a good look at the path I will be takeing.
Before me was a grate forested area with small river that was creating small waterfalls. Looking further up the path I could see forest changeing to swamp area.
'Oh grate! It will take me ages to go there and back not even mentioning that i need checking the area if anyone was trespassing on ouer territory' I thought to myself walking down the steep hill.
I walked pass the waterfall and walked close to river looking around for movement in the forest. It was so quiet and it was calming yet at the same time it was puting me on edge. I was once again a loner, but this time I had expirance on my side.
The terrain was realy hard to walk through it thanks to slippy rocks and wetlands area I was walking so slow.
After over an houer I finally had a dry ground underneath my feats and I finaly could quicken my pace.
I started to look around more for any footprints or any other sign of trespassers.
I was walking around for a while before moving into the swamp area.
It took me almost two houers to get there.
'Eh there is nothink here. Why would anythink want to be here after all? It's so hard to walk here' I complained when I entered the forest surrounding the swamp.
"Oh shit!" I yealped falling on a muddy ground after slipped.
"Grrrr just grate!" I growled as i tryed to stand up.
"How is Kalash even walking here?!" I said asking myself.
I was almost fully covered in mud. I hated it. It was makeing my still quite fresh wound over left shoulder covered in thicc layer of mud which cause it to hurt badly.
I need to find some deep enough pond to clean myself there.
I walked around to see if I can find any water source with no success. The water out there was too shallow for me to clean up.
As I go deeper into the swamp I found footprints I never saw before. They were huge!
"What kind of monster leaves that big footprints?! It's even bigger then rex's footprints" I said to myself as I walked closer to it to inspect it.
I slowly started to panic I did not like the fact I found that footprint.
'I should get out of here and tell that I found those footprints' I talked to myself in head as I turned around.
I was about to leave when I heard stomps in a distance so I decieded to hide I a near by bushes and see if that's the owner of the footprints.
'If that's a rex it must me giant' I thought as I waited to it to show up.
After a while footsteps began to grow louder and louder, Whatever was doing the noises it must have been big since I still could not see even if I heard it clearly.
Minutes passed by and I finaly saw a shadow of whatever was makeing the noise.
"What are You?!" I wispered to myself as I tried to make out the outline of the creature.
I only saw a snout which was realy long but thin and full of teeths. Now I knew for sure I don't want to be anywhere close to whatever that think is.
'It's so tall! I could have sworn it's bigger then Kalash!' I said to myself in mind as to not bring any attention.
'Worst think is if I will try to move away it will hear me this swamp ground is makeing so much noise' I thought trying to form a plan.
'Hummm perhaps if it walks back I could sneak out and hopefully make it out of here to normal dry ground' I started to think not paying too much attention to whatever that creature is until I heard it walking somewhat close to my spot.
'Oh shit! When did it came here I did not even heard it' I said to myself seeing it so close.
'Good that I did not got rid of that mud it would see otherwhise'.
I used that moment to take a very close look at that creature.
I never saw it before it was realy tall and had some strange think on it's back. I thought that it's jaws and teeths were scary looking until I saw it's arms and claws.
'Holy Theri! Those claws are huge! I thought that Kalash's claws were big but those are even bigger' I said to myself shivering from fear.
Luckily whatever this abomination was, it started to move back into the swamp.
When I could not hear it's footsteps anymore I finaly relaxed a bit and stood up from the ground.
"Pfff. That was way too close" I wispered letting the air out.
"Let's get out before it comes back" I thought outloude as I started to slowly back away keeping an eye on the spot where I saw that creature for last time.
Unfortunately as I was trying to sneak out I slipped and fall in mud again brakeing some sticks.
'Fuck! I hope it's too far away to hear this' I thought as I tried to pick myself up as fast as I only could.
I only could hear my heart beat in my ears as I started to panic looking around trying to locate that creature if it heard me.
Time pass by and there was nothink. I moved quite some way from the place I was hiding behind rocks that surrounded the tree.
I was about to relax being sure that creature did not heard me I saw it appeared just next to the bushes I was hiding before.
'How did I not heard it ?!' I said surrprised taking few steps backwards.
Then that creature did what I was afraid of. It walked through the bush and saw my footprints.
'Oh Fuck! Oh Fuck! Oh Fuck! Don't come here!' I started to back away even more nearly crying out of fear.
Unfortunately it looked down and saw my footprints, the it inhaled deeply to catch my scent.
"I know you are here! You think you can just walk in and out with out me finding You?!" said male as he started to walk towards my hiding spot.
When I saw that I turned around and tried to run away but mud was makeing it harder to move.
"Oh there you are" grlowed male.
I desperately tried to run but I slipped on the mud. As I was trying to regain my balance is looked behide to see that creature slowly walking towards me.
I then understud that if I will try to run I will end up falling into the mud again so I tried slowly walking away instead.
'Dame it he is gaining on me' I said to myself as I saw him getting closer and closer.
'Come on so close to normal dry and stady ground and then I can run away with not trouble unless he is fast' I wispered in my head as I saw clearing from swamp.
As soon as I made it to the hard ground I started to run. I looked behide me to see that creature realy close to me.
"Come here!" he yealed as he tried to shorten the distance between us.
The only think I could do was trying to run faster.
As we covered quite the distance I started to feel hot air on my tail.
'How ?! How did he catched up so fast?' I said to myself trying to run even faster.
Not long after I was running out of energy. Fortunately not only me. That creature alsaw slowed down, but just as I slowed down to regain some stamina that creature lunched itself towards me in incredible speed.
"Leave me alone!" I yealed as I began to run.
"No chance" I heard male saying from behide.
Just as I looked behide me to see how close he is my gaze was met with a claws striking towards my face.
Time slows down as I tried to dodge attack, unfortunately I was not fast enough and I soon felt how claws are makeing contact with my skin. The pain was indescribable.
The claw attack was soon followed by his head ramming my side and sending me flying.
I saw my whole life passing by my eyes as I was sure when I will fall to the ground that beast is going to tear me apart.
Soon after I hit the ground. The peeping in my head was so loud that I could not hear anythink beside it.
When that creature was makeing it's way to me I struggled to stand up and try to run again but i got pinned down to the ground by his feet.
In my blurry eyesight I saw three other creatures running up towards me. By then I knew I'm finished even if I will somehow escape from underneath that creature's feet I won't be able to run too far away.
I just closed my eyes accepting my defeat but the the creature that was pinning me down with it's feet wasn't doing it anylonger. I opened my eyes and I saw those three other creatures attacking that bigger one ... or at least I thought so since my eyesight was still quite blurry.
Out of the exhaustion, fear and the blood lose I passed out.
"Is he alive?"
"I have no idea"
"Yea he is alive! See he is breathing"
"Help me drag him out of here that spino can be back here at any moment"
"Alrigt Maka"
I started to slowly regaining consciousness I open my eyes moaning.
"Ahh my head"
"Maka, Miakoda, he's awake!" I heard a male voice close to my left side. I tried to look in the direction of the voice but I could not see anythink with my right eye.
"W-what's going on?! Why I can't see anythink on my right eye?! Where am I?!" I panicked as the presents next to me tried to calm me down.
"Hey dude chill out! You are safe here!"
"Give him some space Ragnor" said another male voice this time I heard it from the left.
I looked in direction of the voice that stood in the entrance of the cave I was in. There was another creature present behide that male.
When my eye adjusted and both figures walked closer I could not belive what i saw.
"N-no way. A-are you an allosaur ?! I asked with a mixed emotions of fear, anxiousness, curiosity and happiness.
"Wasn't that obvious?" asked a male. He was black in general. He alsaw have brown mixed with orange collor going from claws on his legs and front limbs which looks like if they were on fire. His crust is white as well as strips on his tail. He was definitely older then me.
"W-well ... not for me" I answered.
"Who did you expected then?" asked male.
"I don't even know" I answered.
"What were you doing there anyways?" he continued asking questions.
"I-i was on patrol" I answered unsure of what those three planned on doing with me.
"Where's your pack then huh?! there is no other allo pack in this area" questioned male growling from time to time.
"I-i-i ..." I tried to speak up.
"I don't have pack anymore" I spoke up.
"Why? Did you got casted out of it?" he asked growling even more.
"N-no. I-I lost it. When I was just a juvenile whole pack got killed by rexes. I was the only one who survived" I explained.
"Then who you patrolling for ?" asked male.
"Maka I think you know enough" said female standing next to him.
"No Miakoda! I want to know what that 'loner' was doing close to our territory!" he growled looking at the female.
She alsaw looked to be older then me. She was darkbrown while her belly was white turning into creamy and black spots across her chest. Her head was darkbrown in color, nearly black. Her crust was black.
After this Maka and Miakoda stoped arguing male looked at me and said.
"Speak now!"
"I-i did it for my family that took care of me after I lost my pack" I answered shivering in fear.
"Maka ... I think you are pushing him to much. He just woke up. Let him rest." said the second male.
"I just want the pack to stay safe Ragnor" said Maka. Ragnor was alsaw an adult. He is mostly bright gray in color but his upper jaw and head is black and his lower jaw is drak gray. He alsaw have a black strips going of his back and on an tail and his crust is bright gray.
"I know Maka. Just keep it cool. He is not a threat, he is younger and injured. What can he do against all three of us" replied Ragnor.
"What's your name anyways?" Asked Miakoda.
"I'm Skylen Xander but the family I stay with call me Sky in short." I replied.
"Nice to meet you then Sky. This is Maka my mate and that's Ragnor our pack scout and i'm Miakoda" female said.
"Nice to meet you as well" I replied.
"Anyways what happen to my right eye I can't see anythink with it. D-did I lost an eye?!" I asked afraid of worst.
"No it's only covered for now so the wound would heal faster" answered Miakoda.
"Now rest we will see how it looks like tomorrow since its almost night" she added.
"Th-thank you for saveing my hide from that creature" I said.
"No problem" said Ragnor as Maka and Miakoda already left the cave.
Then Ragnor just layed next to me and said.
"Rest now. Alpha Maka and Alpha Miakoda might have more questions for you"
"O-ok" I answered trying to fell asleep.
After a while of calming down I was finaly able to close my eyes and sleep.