Yup. The chapters in this one will come like clockwork! This one's got a gory death scene. Children cover your eyes.
Dusk had settled. All was quiet. Well… almost all. Our wolves were still awake… and hungry. They sat across from one another, moping and unwilling to stoop low enough to eat another animal raw. What other choice did they have?
Kamui shifted slightly under Fuuma's cold gaze. If he went on a hunt, he could get away from those eyes, if even for a little while. On that note, Kamui got up and walked away, toward the forest beyond.
Arashi looked at him curiously. "Where are you going, Kamui?"
"To find food. Where else?" He answered without breaking stride.
"I'll go with you. Better chance of … um … catching something." Subaru scampered after the black wolf, happy to get away from another set of eyes.
Yuzuriha and Inuki followed, just to have something to do.
For hours, our four furry friends wondered. Being quite inexperienced in the art of killing the innocent, they easily give up their quest and settled for just being away from the group. That and getting use to their new bodies. They praticed jumping over and around things, leaping from log to rock to rock.
Yuzuriha already knew everything about dogs and wolves, so she got used to being one pretty easily. Subaru and Kamui, however, had no idea what they were doing.
"So you say that smell could be days, even weeks old!" Kamui knew almost nothing so decided to use whatever knowledge Subaru had from Biology. At current, they were investigating the secent of a bobcat.
"That's what the book said."
Kamui brought up a brilliant question. "What did it say about hunting techniques?"
The white wolf stopped in his tracks. What did the book say about hunting? "Lets see….. wolves hunt in packs and…. work together to bring down large game, I think."
"Like what?"
That Subaru couldn't remember. "Uh……. um….. in the movies they hunt caribou, I think."
"Wolves hunt anything from squirrels to deer to beavers to moose. During hard times, they even eat berries and nuts." Yuzuriha to the rescue. "But they can't eat chocolate. The caffeine could cause seizures and brain damage, blood poisoning and death." She dragged out the syllables in the last word in attempt to scare her pack mates. She forgot one important factor.
"There's no chocolate in the forest, Yuzuriha." At least Kamui knew that.
The young wolf was about to fire back when Subaru silenced them.
"What is it?" She asked in a whisper.
"A deer…"
She followed his gaze to a young doe grazing on some shrubbery about 50 meters away.
"And we're going to kill it?!"
"Either that or starve to death." The white wolf crouched low and began to sneak as silently as possible toward the deer.
Kamui followed, although he didn't agree with this either, Subaru had a point. He'd rather not starve to death. The two stalked the deer to the best of their ability. Kamui copied Subaru's every move and Subaru copied all he could remember from the Discovery channel. When the deer looked up, Subaru knew they had been seen, or at least he was. Kamui's dark coat helped him blend in to the surrounding darkness but he stuck out like a sore thumb. With little ideas left, the white wolf sprinted out of the bush, keeping low the ground still. The black wolf followed but Yuzuriha stayed behind. She refused to kill a helpless animal.
Weaving in and out of the trees, the wolves stayed right on the deer's heals. Kamui sprinted right up next to it and instinct took over. As the deer tried to cut him off, the black wolf reached out with a paw and, using the dewclaw for leverage, grabbed hold of the doe's left front leg. The poor animal was sent sprawling to the ground. Now it was Subaru's turn. Without hesitation, he clamped his jaws on the doe's back and bit in as hard as he could. Crimson blood flooded his mouth and squirted on to his white face and paws. Finally, a sickening crack. The doe was immobilized.
Now that it's back was broken and legs were useless, Kamui let go and prepared for an attack. With a snarl, his jaws came down on the doe's windpipe, and, within minutes, they had made their first and only kill.
Kamui began to lick the blood from his muzzle and teeth, finding that, to this body, it didn't taste half bad. A little sticky though.
"Nice move with the dewclaw." He turned to find Subaru sauntering over to him. Now he was overwhelmingly bloody. His face, paws, and chest were covered in the stuff. Kamui wrinkled his nose at the sight.
Subaru grinned a bit sheepishly. "Must of hit an artery. Did you know that blood can shoot up to 30 ft out of an artery?"
Kamui chuckled a bit. "I could have guessed." He motioned back toward Subaru, referring to the blood all over him.
The white, now red, wolf shrugged and turned back to the fallen deer. "What do we do now? Do we go back and get the others or do we try to drag this thing to the clearing?"
Kamui jerked his head up in surprise. "You're actually going to eat this thing?"
"Well we killed it, didn't we?" Subaru looked over his shoulder. "It's only right that we eat it. We should honor its sacrifice and use as much of the body as possible. That's what the Indian's did."
Just then, Yuzuriha came trotting through the bushes. She squealed and jumped back at the bloody mass before her. "You killed it!"
Subaru knew this was coming and was ready with a response. "We hunted it, Yuzuriha. There's a difference. To kill something is end its life unjustly and without reason. To hunt something is to sacrifice one thing to allow another to live."
She didn't want to admit it, but he was right. It was either them or the deer. Be that the case or not, she still couldn't stand to look at it. Its bloody back, its matted fur, its dark, soulful eyes full of desperation. "I'll go get the others then." She finally blurted out, trying not to puke. Without looking back she sprinted back to the clearing where the rest of the pack waited.
The wolves ate soundly that night. However, many didn't enjoy it.
One day they'll get used to life on all fours......
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