Master Kagroo
By: biacebaolck
"Face it, kid." The fox in front of her snarled. "Ye couldn't hit me at all with yer stupid arrer if'n ye even TRIED te hit me." She said nothing, but drew another arrow and notched it to her bow.
Her master realized what she was doing. "She's not even AIMING for him." He growled to himself. Indeed she wasn't. She let the arrow fly and it struck the fox. The fox died right then and there.
Her eyes widened and she plopped down on her bottom and wailed. "I killed him! I only wanted to scare him away! Waaaaaa-" Master Kagroo whipped at her with his whip while she was still in mid-cry to shut her up. She did, staring up at the menacing stoat above her.
"Ye killed him and that's that. No point in cryin' over it. Cryin' won' bring 'im back te life, idiot. An' fer goodness sake! Yer 10 seasons now! Quit whinin'!" He turned and limped away, blood pouring down from his thigh. Backlash's eyes widened.
"He did that to you?" she asked, softly. He said nothing, but continued limping away. She stared at the carcass of the dead fox and scrambled up, not wanting to be left behind. "Wait for me, Master Kagroo! Please wait! Wait! Please!" In her desperation to catch up to her master, Backlash caught up, quite quickly.
"Yer a dunce wit weapons. When we gets back, yer goin' te do 400 pushups."
"But Master-" she wailed again.
"500 pushups then. Don't try to get out of this. An' don' think ah'm goin' soft on ye just because ye saved my life. We need te develop yer upper body. It'll help you climb better on a rope and it'll help you use a weapon better."
She groaned, but said nothing more. Once her Master's mind was made up, it could not be changed by anybeast but himself.
"Backlash!" she snapped awake. She looked down from her perch in the branches of an oak tree.
"Whatsa matter?" she asked, drowsily. Honour stopped her footpaw angrily.
"You're the matter! You're supposed to be watching for vermin, not sleeping!"
"If I did 400 pushups, would that make you happier?"
"NO!" Honour yelled.
"How's about 500? They always were your favourite number, Master Kagroo."
"Master Kagroo! Do I look like a Master Kagroo to you?"
"Yep. Now goodnight." Backlash covered her ears and closed her eyes and fell asleep, leaving a very angry Honour to try and wake her up.
Somewhere else, in the Dark Forest Gates, the real Master Kagroo was chuckling at his student's antics.
"500. That always was my favourite number." He muttered. "And I suppose ye still remember me as a teacher." He noticed something on the horizon. "Wake up, ye idiot!" he roared. "Wake up!"
But Backlash slept on, unaware of the consequences. And the crowd of vermin loomed nearer and nearer, nobeast knowing that except the vermin themselves.