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Chapter 17: Predator vs. Predator
Tomada continued just staring at the eagle with angry eyes while the eagle got up and refocused his attention to look at the slightly smaller predatory bird in front of him. The eagle was surprised as to why a predatory bird would save a macaw, but the eagle kept a straight face on as he spoke to Tomada.
"Who are you and why did you disrupt me?" The Harpy Eagle demanded to know.
"How dare you hurt my friend, you are lucky I didn't do much worse to you." Tomada replied, keeping his cool.
"Friend? Macaws are not friends, they are our dinner, and they should be treated as such." The eagle returned.
"I'm not like most of our kind, I'm not a killer like you are." Tomada replied. "Well not anymore at least." He added under his breath.
"It's called survival, maybe you should try it, now if you will excuse me, I gave a macaw to eat up." The eagle tried getting past Tomada, but Tomada simply blocked his way.
"You want to eat him, you are going to have do so over my dead body." Tomada informed the eagle, who simply just laughed right in the falcon's face.
"Seriously? I'm much bigger and stronger than you, you think you can kill me?" The eagle continued chuckling.
"Yes, I do." Tomada replied in a determined tone.
"Very well, this will be interesting." The eagle said and charged at Tomada, the fight between predator and predator beginning.
Just like with Alex, the eagle hit Tomada's stomach, but since Tomada was much tougher, this had less of an impact and Tomada recovered quite quickly, then delivered his own strong punch across the eagle's face, hitting his beak. The eagle felt his beak with his wing and some blood was present. Tomada quickly followed this up with a headbutt on the eagle's forehead, knocking him over to the ground. The eagle was shocked by Tomada's strength and looked at him.
"Not too bad for a falcon right?" Tomada taunted the eagle.
"This only just got started." The eagle replied and got up, preparing for more.
Tomada got into a defensive stance and the eagle charged again, this time flying a bit above and using his sharp talons, aimed down on Tomada's face. Tomada saw this and managed to dodge out of the way mostly, but the eagle's talons still stung his shoulder area, making a little cut as Tomada screeched in anger. The eagle flew past and came back around, Tomada turning around and preparing himself more, he suddenly flew up in front of the eagle and with his talons, he kicked the eagle right in the belly.
The two came down again to the forest floor and both of them panted, catching their breaths from the fight and checking their injuries so far. When they were both a bit refreshed, they continued the fight. Meanwhile with Alex, he used the time to try to move to somewhere where he can lay down on a tree trunk and check himself.
"That eagle, god this hurts so much." Alex cursed at the eagle while struggling to move with only one good wing to lay on the tree trunk.
As soon as he got into a comfortable position, he relaxed and tried to not think about the pain as all he could do was hope that Tomada would kill the eagle and both of them would be safe. He decided to at least think happy thoughts, happy memories he shared with Lily while sitting on the cold, wet forest floor and laying on the hard bark of the tree trunk.
Back with Tomada and the eagle, the two continued fighting each other, the eagle was slowly winning over Tomada and it looked like the falcon would lose in the end. As Tomada put another punch in, the eagle took that chance, to grab onto Tomada and holding onto him, he slammed the falcon head first into a tree trunk, disorienting Tomada. The falcon rubbed his head with his wing and got back to it.
Tomada had multiple cuts and bruises all over his body, some of which showed some red liquid wanting to come out. However it's not like Tomada did his fair share of damage to the eagle, the eagle being in the same condition as the falcon. And with Tomada, he was not only saving his friend, but he had a family to come back to, which the eagle most likely did not have.
"Give up already, I can tell that you can't take much more of this." The eagle taunted Tomada again.
"You will never get me to quit, this is going to end with you dead at my talons!" Tomada yelled out.
"Suit yourself." And the eagle came at Tomada with his beak wide open to bite Tomada.
Tomada dodged the attack and with his talons, he scratched the eagle's back, making the eagle screech in pain as Tomada looked at his talons, the bottom of which was covered in the eagle's feathers and some wet blood. Tomada knew he just grounded the eagle for good, and since Tomada still had his wings in good order, he used that to his advantage to attack from above.
The eagle crashed on the ground and turned around to see Tomada diving down from the sky at him. With lightning speed, Tomada had the eagle pinned to the ground, with his talons around the eagle's neck. The eagle was grasping for air and looked up at the ever so angry falcon.
"Looks like I win and now you die." Tomada said determinedly.
"No, please show mercy, I'm grounded for good anyway." The eagle wanted to live .
"Sorry, I don't show mercy to killers." Tomada replied.
With his sharp beak, Tomada cut up the eagle's neck and and dug his beak in to make the wound bigger and bigger, to the point that it was disgusting to look at and blood came out in puddles. When Tomada was done, the eagle was clearly dead as the eyes became still and the eagle stopped shaking in fright. It was done.
Tomada felt the blood on his beak drip down onto his belly, mixing with some tears that Tomada let out. Tomada sighed as he knew he just, once again, killed another bird, but he could live with this dead body because this eagle was, after all, a ferocious beast. After looking at the eagle with the ripped open neck, he remembered Alex, who was probably in a lot of pain.
"Alex! Where are you!" Tomada yelled out while taking flight to find his macaw friend.
"I'm over here!" A familiar voice called out and Tomada followed the sound to find the Scarlet macaw against a tree trunk.
"Alex, are you okay?" Tomada asked as he landed in front of the macaw.
"I am now, thanks to you, my wing is broken and I can't fly." Alex reported his condition, but hid the deep, bloody gash with his good wing. "Wait, did you…" Alex started, referring to all the blood that was present on Tomada's beak.
"I did what I had to do." Tomada simply replied. "Come on, I'll carry you, lets go back to the hollow."
Alex took Tomada's wing with his' and painfully got up while hiding his serious wound from Tomada's eyes. Tomada carefully held onto Alex with his talons and the two headed back to Tomada's hollow with his family. As they were flying through the still rainy night, drops of blood flew off from Alex's wound, along with the raindrops to fall the forest floor. Alex was losing blood, but he didn't want to bother Tomada and his family any longer with him.
As they got back to the hollow, Sorrel was waiting in the entrance for her mate to come back and when he did, she gave him a loving hug.
"Thank goodness you are back! I was getting worried!" Sorrel shouted.
"Yeah, sorry, it took much longer than expected." Tomada replied, a bit sad at making his mate worry. "I killed an eagle."
"I can tell, your beak is in a mess." Sorrel looked at the blood drying on Tomada's beak. "How's Alex?"
Before Tomada could reply, Alex answered for him.
"Well, my wing is broken and…" Alex started, but he felt dizzy and lightheaded as his vision became blurry as he looked at the couple. "You guys are getting blurry…" Alex last said before completely falling unconscious and falling down.
He would have fallen completely out of the hollow and onto the forest floor if Tomada did not catch him in his wings. Alex's wing holding onto the bloody wound opened up to reveal the deep gash along with dark red blood on the part of the wing that the wound was covering.
"Alex, wake up buddy, wake up!" Tomada shouted, trying to get Alex up.
Alex's mind just slipped into darkness and the last thing his mind pictured was Lily and her beautiful face. Alex's mind spoke for Alex and it said the same exact thing Alex thought his last words would be…
"I'm so sorry Lily."
Well… You guys know that I don't die, but… it's the question of how does Alex wake up…