CHAPTER 10
SABERS VS. THE HERD
The sabers on top of Half Peak were sitting there, waiting for Shira to return. When Sierra heard that Shira was planning on wanting to leave the pack at first, She became furious, but after Lucille and Bailey were able to put some sense into her, she cooled down her anger. Now she was standing there as the others were impatiently waiting for Shira to return. Hopefully, she would have the kid with her.
Soon, the striped female saber walked up to the pack. "Hello, ladies."
Sierra glared at Shira. "Well, well, well. Look who it is, girls. I was beginning to think that you wouldn't show up, Shira. After what Lucille and Bailey told me, I was starting to have doubts."
"Well, have doubts no more, my friend. In about two minutes tops, you and the others here will be sinking your teeth in revenge."
Sierra chuckled. "Excellent, Shira. Very nice. I suppose you think this revenge is more important than leaving this pack."
"What are you talking about? I was never planning on leaving the pack. I must have been talking crazy last night."
"I hope that's all it is."
Bailey gasped, making her way over to the cliff. "Look! Look! I see the sloth and she's got the kid. Can we go down there now? I'm starving."
"Keep your positions, girls," Sierra said, "Don't move until the mammoth gets here. She's the one that we need to surprise."
Shira looked to see that Bailey was starting to become crazy as she walked up to the insane saber. "I know that look, Bailey. You're hungry. You want to leave your position, disobey Sierra's command, and maul something, don't you?"
Bailey started whimpering like a kitten. "Maul! Maul! I wanna maul!"
"What are you waiting for? Go and get her."
Bailey started running off. "I gotta maul! I gotta maul!" Soon the others except Shira and Sierra started running off behind Bailey.
Sierra growled angrily. "No, I said for us to wait for the mammoth." She looked at Shira, but the only answer she could give was a shrug. Sierra groaned as she ran off.
Brooke looked to see the sabers coming after her. She tried running off, but the snow was just too deep. As the sabers were getting closer, Brooke brought out her ultimate weapon by bringing out a pair of skis as she slid away from the carnivorous creatures. She started doing whatever she could to keep them away. "I bet you're thirsty. Eat my snowballs." Brooke started throwing snowballs at the sabers, only making them mad. She began to do some tricks to escape faster. "Loop da loop. Side to side swish. Ice ramp jump. Wait! What?" Brooke looked ahead to see a ice ramp ahead as she went sliding up it and flying high in the sky. She dropped the bundle that was in her arms as she landed in the snow. Sierra and the others walked up to the bundle, only to see that it was a tiny snowman inside the blanket. Brooke laughed at the pack. "Sorry, dears. She got a little frostbite."
Sierra growled as she smacked the bundle full of snow to the side. "Get her!"
As they made their way to Brooke, they were in for a bang. "Surprise!" It was Ellie, who had a log in her truck and banged it against the sabers, who went flying off in the distance. Ellie looked to see Shira running up towards her. "Okay, what do we do now?"
"Follow me," Shira said, "We'll pick up Brooke and get out of here while we still can."
It wasn't long before Sierra came by. "Come on, Shira. Let's take this mammoth down."
Meanwhile, Brooke made her way over to a tree where she was able to find Cheril, who started giggling in delight. "That was amazing, Brooky. You are so awesome."
"Aww, I'm glad you think so," Brooke said.
"I gotta maul! I gotta maul! I gotta maul!" Bailey was running towards Brooke and Cheril. There was only one thought on her mind. Mauling somebody.
Brooke striked back as she judo flips Bailey to the ground, causing the saber to go over the cliff. Brooke laughed. "Survival of the fittest. I don't think so." She gave Cheril a high five. "We rock!"
Back over to where Ellie and Shira were, Sierra was closing in on the female mammoth, keeping her cornered up. "Don't worry, mammoth. It'll all be over soon. Besides, you won't even feel a thing." Shira couldn't take it anymore as she needed to do what was right. She stood in front of Ellie, surprising Sierra. "What are you doing?"
"Leave the mammoth alone," Shira growled.
Sierra shook her head. "I knew it all along, Shira. You are betraying us. How could you do this? After all this pack has done for you."
"You haven't done anything for me."
"You were lost and alone. You had nowhere else to go. No home. No family. You were still basically a cub. I found you and took you in. I have you shelter and a stomach full of food everyday. This is the thanks I get?"
"No. I didn't want any of this. I chose to leave my family and live my own life. This is not the life I wanted to live. If I could just go back in time, I would've never have left home in the first place."
"Why did you? What made you walk away from everything you once knew?"
Shira hesitated as she sighed. "The tragic death of my mother."
Sierra laughed. "Really? I never thought you had feelings. You know the old saying. Predators don't have feelings."
"Well, I do."
"I'm only gonna say this one time, Shira. Step away from the mammoth."
Shira stood in attack more as she uttered the word, "No."
"Fine. I guess I'll just have to take you down first." Sierra made the first move as she jumped on top of Shira.
Shira slung Sierra off her, slinging her towards a wall. Sierra ran up to the striped saber, her fangs ready to sink into her victim's neck, but Shira dodged the attack and stood in front of Ellie. She wasn't aware that Sierra was behind the female mammoth and had placed herself on her back.
"I got you right where I want you!" Sierra growled, raising her claws up to strike at Ellie.
"Get your paws off of my friend!" Shira shouted, jumping up high and pushing Sierra to the ground, "I will not let you lay a claw on her."
"You are a disgrace to this pack." Sierra sliced Shira in the arm and kicked her in the hip, sending her to the wall. Sierra hopped up and walked to her new saber enemy. "I regret ever doing anything nice for you. Now you will pay."
"Get away from her!" Ellie shouted, tying Sierra in her trunk and, with all the might that she had, smacked the evil saber against a rock wall. Sierra looked up to see icicles hanging from above her. They shook so violently that they ended up falling off and landing right on Sierra, ending her life for good. Ellie shielded her eyes and looked away. She didn't mean to kill Sierra, but she knew that as long as she was alive, She would bring torture to those that were not meant to be killed. She looked away from the dead saber as she smiled. "It's all over." She gasped when she saw Shira lying there, sore and weak. "Shira!"
Brooke had finally made her way up there. "We did it, Ellie! We stop them! In case you're wondering what happened to the others, they fell off a cliff." Brooke gasped as she saw the state Shira was in.
Shira looked up at her friends with a smile on her face. "We make a great team, huh?"
Ellie smiled. "We sure do."
"Here, let me check you out," Brooke said, handing Cheril to Ellie as she bent over towards Shira, "Does it hurt anywhere?"
"My arm's pretty cut up and my hip is sore," Shira said. Brooke checked Shira's arm. It wasn't bleeding too much, but it did need some patching up and a little bit of first aid. She looked at her hip and felt where it hurt the most. Shira hissed in pain. "Ow! Don't touch it."
"I'm sorry, Shira dear. I needed to see where it was bruised at. By the looks of your hip, it's only a sprain. I'll have to patch up your arm, though. Other than that, I can see that you're going to live."
"I'm so sorry I setter you guys up."
"We'll, you know me. As a hippie and a sloth, I'm too calm and last to hold a grudge."
Cheril removed herself from Ellie's trunk. "It's okay, Shira. You're gonna be okay. I know you'll be fine."
"It's okay, Cheril," Shira said, "You gotta stay strong. Even as a female, I know you have the potential to do whatever you think is best. I need you to help Brooke and Ellie."
"You're going to be okay, Shira," Brooke said, "I promise. Tell her, Ellie."
"Guys, I think it's best if you leave me behind. I know I'll live, but I need to rest. This is where my journey ends. If the humans get through the pass, you'll never catch up to them. It's for the best."
Ellie sighed. "I don't think it's best to leave you here alone. I'm sorry, but I left myself alone all these years. I'm not leaving you here by youself." Ellie wrapped Shira in her trunk and placed the female saber on her back. "You didn't have to do what you did, you know."
Shira rested her head on her arms. "That's what you do in a herd."
The three females and Cheril made their way to Glacier Pass before the humans got there first.
WELL, THE SABERS IN THE PACK ARE GONE. I HOPE SHIRA GETS WELL SOON. I HOPE THEY GET CHERIL BACK TO HER FATHER BEFORE THEY LOSE THEM AT GLACIER PASS.
WELL, THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE THE LAST ONE.
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