Chapter 26 : " One Of Us part 2 "
It was already few days since I joined the allo pack. During those days I was on a patrol with Ragnor and Cesar and I tryed my best to help them out with searching for food and getting it back to nests but I was still feeling like Cesar looked at me like on an anchor since he kept saying I'm slowing then down. But lately this has changed for better and I was feeling more useful.
I started to go for solo patrols and they were mostly uneventful but this was about to change.
When I was checking the area around the place they call wash I spotted a spino. Fortunately he haven't spot me but he was heading towards ouer territory.
I runned up the hill to make it there before it to warn others about incoming danger.
Luckily I made it before it up the hill and as soon as I made it to meadow I called out for Maka.
"Maka ! I have spotted an spino ... and it looks like it's comeing up here!" I said panting a bit.
"Where exacly?!" asked Maka, tensed.
"I-I moved down to the wash to look around I spotted it there and it moved up the river and then started to walk uphill" I replied looking behide me if it's not already here.
"Alright. How big it was?" asked Maka comeing closer.
"Not sure how big it gets but it was around half the size of the one that attacked me back then near the swamp" I answered.
"Are Cesar and Ragnor back from hunt yet ?" I asked.
"Unfortunetly ... no they are still on hunt. Hopefully they will be back soon, but for now it's only you and me." Answered Maka.
"What's going on?" asked Miakoda comeing up to us.
"Sky had spotted a spino and it looks like its comeing this way." replied Maka.
"Keep others away and safe. It looks to be a young one we might be able to handle it." Added Maka.
"You know I won't let you go alone" said Miakoda.
"First of all who said I'm going anywhere and second I won't be alone." He said looking at me.
That got me tensed, since I never fought that creature and my last encounter with it was almost fatal if i wasn't saved by the pack.
But my thoughts about that creature faded away when I heard Maka saying a bit angry and annoyed at the same time.
"Mia. Go. To. The cave."
"Grrr fine ! But don't do anythink stupid!" replied Miakoda.
" sigh alright, Sky, you have to help me defend the pack. " Said Maka looking at me.
"Sure think Alpha! I'm waiting for orders." I replied trying to sound brave even if my legs were shaking.
"Good. We will wait for it here, no need to atract it here, maybe it's not even heading this way." Said Maka.
"Find some place to hide and we will wait for it." He added shortly after.
"Got it." I replied walking to the bushes on a left while Maka went to the right.
We waited for what felt like eternity but it didn't came so we decided that we are safe and it's not comeing here.
"Alright. Looks like we are lucky today" Said Maka.
"I was afraid it will realy come here" I said happy it won't happend.
"It's not like we wouldn't be able to handle it. I just don't like them hanging around my territory." Added Maka.
Just as we managed to calm down a bit we heard stomping behide the hill.
'eh me and my luck ... ' I thought as I started to back away.
"Stay your ground Sky!" Ordered Maka when I was backing away with tail low, practicly between my legs.
"Y-you sure want to f-fight it ?" I asked, stuttering.
"I'm sure we have to defend the pack, and hope the others will come back in time since I don't actually know how big it is." Replied Maka to which I swallowed some saliva and tried to not look scared.
We waited for a short while and we saw its spine picking above the hill then it's head and rest of the body, and to that sight Maka sigh in relief to which I looked at him surprised.
'Why is he now relieved ?!' I thought to myself as he spoke up.
"We can take it out by ouer own. We just need to make sure that while one is being chased by it other will be trying to get it atention be switched to him and we will continue doing this untill we will exhaust him." Said Maka explaining his plan of action.
"Go first, make it focus it's atention on you and then I will attack it from behide." He added shortly after.
I was stunned. I didn't want to go there and face it so I looked at Maka with eyes filled with fear.
"Come on Sky, you will be fine I'm right behide you. Just remeber to attack it when it will start to run after me." Said Maka reassuring me.
"O-ok Alpha ... I will do my best." I replied trying to gather my strength to do first step.
"Just don't let it get too close to you" Added Maka.
I moved towards it, trying to remind myself of all expiraince I gained on hunts and when I faced a rex.
'Show him what you got Sky! Show him you are worthly packmember !' I said to myself in head, encouraging to fight my fear and show my teeths.
When the spino wasn't expecting me I runned out of the bush I was hideing behide and I slashed its left leg with my claws making it follow me. Soon after I did so Maka came in and he jumped at spino's right side and bit it few times as well and cutting very deep with his claws and then jumping out and running away. That was the time for me to attack it, so I did just that. I runned up to it , bite it's leg and slashed it again and start to run away as soon as that spino tried to get me. Then Maka did the same as I did, but ... the spino was still following me.
'Oh no ! it realised I'm slower then Alpha !' I said to myself trying to run faster.
"Alpha help !" I yealed as the spino was gaining on me.
"Just keep going I'm on it!" Replied Maka from behide and he was trying to attack it's left side.
Even after Alpha manage to get few realy painful and deep cuts on it body it wasn't going to stop. I begin to panic as he was getting dangerously close to me.
'Its time to figure out plan B' I said to myself as I was dodging incoming attacks from spino.
'I could go to the forest and pull of the same trick I did with a rex. Hopefully it will fall for it as well.' I thought as I change direction and runned throu the forest.
"What are you doing Sky!" Yealed Maka after me worried that this idea of mine will cost me my life.
I did not even replied as I was trying to now not only avoid spino's claws and jaws but alsaw a trees that seemed to be growing out of nowhere.
'Shit that could be bad idea' I thought as I was haveing hard time figuring out what to do next.
'There ! Those trees will do the trick' I thought to myself makeing a tight U-turn behide it, but it looks like the spino figured it out and was ready to strike me and I bearly dodged it missing my left side by few centimetres. I kept on running while I haven't noticed that Alpha used that to his advantage and somehow topped a spino over and was standing with one leg on it's forearms and other on it's body biteing it's neck.
I imideitly stoped and came back to him when I saw it on a ground and as I made it there I tried to help by trying to fit my jaws there as well to bit it's neck, but the beast wasn't about to give up and it tried to bite me.
"if you want to help keep it's jaws shut." Ordered Maka.
"H-how ?!" I asked surprised.
"Just close your jaws over his and don't let go." explained Maka biteing deeper into the neck of a spino.
I waited for a moment when spino would have it's jaws just to keep them like that.
After a while of struggling it finaly was out of breath thanks to Maka cutting it's only way of breathing.
"You can let it go Sky." Said Maka parting his jaws and leting the neck go.
"Well done Alpha-"
"But don't do that again. You could get yourself wounded or even killed!" Said Maka clearly angry to which my smile and tail wagging of happiness turned into me makeing myself be as low as posible.
"I-I'm sorry Maka." I Said out of fear.
"Don't be sorry. It would be you that could get killed out of your stupidity. What happend , happend and you can't change it. Just try not to risk as much." Replied Maka more calmly.
"I was just trying to play a trick on it as I did on a rex and jump on it's side while it would be trying to get me but i think it just figured it out." I said, explaining what I had in mind.
"Still you did not thought of possibility of that failing. The fact it worked once dose not mean it will always work." Replied Maka.
"S-sorry Alpha ... " I said, still low to the ground.
" sigh come on, stand up and go get others here to eat we will drag the body leater on." Said Maka.
Leater on after Ragnor and Cesar came back from hunt they only bringed two avas, but it still be enought to make pack full for few days.
The next day Ragnor came to my shelter, while I was resting, which surprised me abit since noone else was comeing to me there beside that one time when Miakoda did so.
"Sky, Alpha wants me and Cesar to take you with us for patrol around the teritorry." said Ragnor when he stoped outside my small hole between rocks.
"Oh ... Alright let me just go and drink alittle and i will be ready." I replied getting out of the shelter.
"Ok, do so. We will be waiting for you at the edge of forest." Said Ragnor and he moved away while I walked to the pond at lower part of meadow.
We soon moved out in direction of that giant river. We walked along the side of it and after a while, we spotted somethink blackish running into the bushes.
"You guys saw that ?" I wispered.
"Yea we did" replied Cesar.
"What could it be ?" I asked.
"I don't know. Looked more like carnivore then herbivore. Stay frosty." Said Ragnor.
"Should we aproche it ? It looked to be smaller then us." I asked.
"Maybe we can. We will go from three sides." Ragron started whispering the plan of action, but just as he did so we heard movement in bushes and a silient voices saying.
"Come back here and stay still or else they might notice us."
"What if they are form ouer pack"
"Shh be quite"
We looked at eachother and when I wanted to look in the direction of the voices Ragnor stoped me.
"If you will look there they will know we heard them. Let's act like we haven't heard them and casually move towards that spot and then we are going to see who are they." Said Ragnor to which me and Cesar nodded.
We moved towards them and when we got close Ragnor spotted then in a corner of his vision and he said.
"Those are allos!" then he came to stop and turned his head towards them.
"Come on out we are not going to harm you." He spoke up to them and soon after an adult male and female came out and behide them two younger males.
"What are You doing here ?" asked Ragnor.
"We are lost. Ouer pack got attacked and we think we are last one who made it out" Said adult male that looked to be the oldest of the group.
"Can we come with you ?" said one of the younger males.
"Hash Trikk!" said female.
Trikk looked to be the youngest of the group. He had black body with brown pattern and white underbelly. he alsaw had blue stripes on the back from tip of his head to the very end of the tail.
And the female that hashed young male is looking practicly like me, black back and blue crest, the only difference is her underbelly, its grey-ish and alsaw she didn't have the blue stripes on her tail like I do.
"Maybe they have meat and they can share" said second young male.
He is an adult but a bit younger then me. He has dark green skin colour, and his crest have a slight red tint to it. When he turned his head to his sister on his right I saw that his left eye has some scratch marks over it.
"Zeke shut it!" said older male.
He looks to be older then that female. He is mainly dark grey-black with white-ish stripes and white crest. When he got closer I saw that he alsaw had some bite marks on his tail.
"And who are you two, since you already said names of your younger companions." Said Cesar.
"I'm Anadormi and this is Taiinu." Spoke oldest male.
"Alright. Sky" Said Ragnor.
"Yes ? What is it ?" I answered.
"Go back and inform Alphas about ouer trespassers and the situation while we will stay with them." Said Ragnor.
"Alright, on it." I said and I runned back to the teritorry.
As soon as I made it I almost stormed into Alphas cave.
"Alpha ... We have found ... trespassers ... four adults allos ... three males and ... one female ... they ask for shelter ... Ragnor and Cesar are with them." I said as I nearly collapsed to the ground.
"Alright Sky, where are they?" asked Maka.
"The giant river somewhere before the spot where we found avas back then." I answered as my legs were shakeing and I bearly stood up.
"Alright I will take it from here. Go take some rest you earned it." Said Maka moveing past me and out of the cave.
I only manage to turn around and go outside the cave and I collapsed on the grass.
"Ahh much better." I said to myself as I was starting to relax and rest abit.
"Sky why are you laying outside ? You could just lay where you were standing." Said Miakoda.
"W-well it's because it's not my cave, a-and I shouldn't be inside for another reasons then following orders or to, just like as I did before, to inform you about somethink." I answered.
"So what? Do I realy need to give you an order to stay in the cave for you to do so ?" Asked Miakoda giggling.
"W-well ... basicly yes. B-but I'm already laying here outside." I said.
"So ... you will now disobey my order huh ?" she asked still giggling.
"N-no ... what's your order Alpha ?" I asked.
"To come in and get comftable" she answered.
"B-but ... fine." I said picking myself up and walking in but as soon as I did I layed by the entrance.
" sigh at least there is progress heh" said Miakoda snorting with laught to which I lowered my head and looked at the flor.
After a while of resting Maka came back with Ragnor and Cesar, and after them those four allos. I walked outside the den and walked towards my shelter but I got stopped by Cesar.
"Wait up Sky. Alphas will have a little talk and it will involve you." he said.
After Alphas finished talking, Maka came out and said.
"Alright, me and Miakoda decided that since we don't have additional caves around, Ragnor, Ramsay and they offspring will move and share cave with Cesar and Kaasari while you Sky and ouer newcomers will sleep in Ragnor's cave for now. Depending of what will happend later on will decide if this is going to stay like that or not."
I got quite surprised at that, I will have an actual cave to sleep in, not some space in rocks that's only a bit bigger then I am.
Later that day Ragnor and his mate were moveing to Cesar's den and they cave were empty, and when I passed it as Ragnor was leaving he said to me.
"Make yourself at home" then he went towards his mate.
"Thanks Ragnor." I responded and walked in.
I went to eat before going to the den as it was soon going to be sunset I met those allos. They were eating like if they haven't seen meat in days.
"Slow down guys You can eat how much you want." I said as I joined them
When I finish eating the group of newcomers haven't done so yet so I decided to wait for them and guide them to the cave they will stay in.
After they were done eating I stood up and said.
"Come, follow me I will show you where you will sleep tonight."
"Thank you ... hmm ... what was your name again ?" said Anadormi.
"I'm Skylen Xander but you can call me Sky in short." I replied.
"Alright, thanks for helping Sky." he said.
"Not a problem" I replied as i led them to the cave.
When we made it to the cave the younger Trikk and Zeke were almost jumping out of happiness since they probobly haven't sleep in that comftable den for at least a while.
"Ok pick your spots and I will lay somewhere close by" I said makeing myself comftable near the entrance while they settled down on some moss that was laying down there.
I was about to go to sleep when I heard male voice.
"Why don't you sleep near us ? It's your den after all." said Anadormi.
"Well it's not mine den you and me got a premision to stay in it since there is no more caves around." I answered.
"Oh ... But that doesn't mean you can't sleep on a moss with us." continued Anadormi.
"Alright, if there is a place for me I will lay beside you." I said standing up.
Soon after all five of us were sleeping on the nest of moss.