" It's so small are you sure you got the right part?" Foster asked his friend Malcolm scoffed
"I'm sure this is what's gonna make it work besides have I ever been wrong before?"
Angel, Carver, Ellie, & Foster just raised a brow
"I mean about when it counts!" all laughing
"Dad I'm telling you it's not gonna work" Alex said while his dad fixed the part he found to the machine two seconds later the lights came on
"See!" Malcolm said proudly only for a few seconds to go by until the TV starting smoking
Looking to his son "NOT a word!" Alex just laughed
"I'm going to find Angel….."
"Awwwww yeah tonight's the big date" Malcolm teased Alex blushing
"It's NOT a date! We're just hanging out Alex pointed out…..
*Meanwhile in the ape village*
Blue Eyes sat by the big oak tree close to his home "She here yet?" Ash asked sitting next to his best friend Blue Eyes just grunted
"Not yet, mother gone to get her told me to wait here for her"
"From what I hear Kali have many male wanting her even Koba " Ash just shrugged Blue Eyes on seeing his mother sat up tall & proud both he & Ash looking on as Kali followed
"Good luck" Ash signed leaving Caesar joined his son as his mother came closer with Kali, looking at his son he signed "make ape family strong," Blue Eyes said nothing but as the two young bloods met they seemed interested in one another both Caesar & Cornelia as well as Maurice looked on all holding their breaths the meeting would go well as nightfall fell the young apes were still together eating fruit under the waterfall close to the village
"Who your father?" asked Blue Eyes
"My father died two winters ago only my mother Janka" Kali said looking away Blue Eyes turned her head to face him looking deep into her eyes "Why you no chose Koba for mate?" Kali thought for a while then just shrugged "can I see you again?" Blue Eyes asked hoping it would be a good answer smiling she nodded then headed for home on the other side of the village.
Blue Eyes returned home to find his parents settling down for the night & as always his baby BROTHER right there with them.
A million thoughts were racing through Blue Eyes' mind
*I have a mate she waits for me now….. but this new one is ape also wait….what I do can't speak with mother or father…. not uncles or brother, not even Ash* Blue Eyes thought to himself *Must chose soon* & with that Blue Eyes for the first time in a long while went to sleep through the night…..
*under the willow tree*
*Blue where are you?!* Angel thought to herself it was 2.30am the same time they had met every night "Maybe he's just late or waiting for me in the hollow" Angel said to herself making her way there Angel wait for Blue Eyes to come until dawn but he never showed, three weeks past before Angel saw Blue Eyes again at the tower
"Blue Eyes?!" Angel said shocked to see him in THE OPEN during the early hours of the night "what are you doing here someone will see you! & where have you been I was worried about you" Blue Eyes looked away
"What is it?" she asked again Blue Eyes would not answer her "are you unhappy with me? Have I done something, 'cause I just don't understand…."Blue Eyes willed himself to look at her but said sadly
"Found mate…..cannot come anymore….." Angel at first didn't understand but then looked at him
"What about 'our home?' "
"Will always be our home, I not want this mate, mother…father say I must….. You always my home" with that he turned sadly away
"Blue wait….." but he was gone
Three days past before Blue Eyes saw Kali again not that he was in a big rush to see her Ash couldn't understand why his friend was so down
"What now, you always seem sad…. You lucky you have mate….I not have mate" Ash signed
"You not have mate because you smell funny" Blue Eyes teased his friend resulting in a playful shove & a hoot from his best friend
"Where is new mate?"
"Not new mate haven't asked her yet"
Koba came over to the young bloods
"where new mate?" Blue Eyes just shook his head he knew where to find her under the waterfall seemed to be where she'd spend most of her time Kali was there with her mother speaking with Cornelia & Maurice
"son…" she signed "I'm glad you came Kali needs someone to go hunting with her show best hunting place" both Kali & Blue Eyes seemed a little shocked by the idea but both went along with it
Cornelia Maurice Caesar & Janka were ON THE MEETING platform spoke
"Will Blue Eyes be strong for my daughter?" Janka asked looking at Caesar nodding after looking at Cornelia
"Blue Eyes is strong will take good care of your daughter will make good father someday"
"Remember friends it not matter what we think" Maurice signed to his friends
"It is young bloods choice if they accept each other as mates" all looked at one another in agreement….
*Meanwhile in the woods*
Blue Eyes looked at Kali she seemed at best a good tracker who didn't need his help learning to hunt Blue Eyes for the first time started to look at Kali as a possible mate although when he thought of Angel still made he's heart skip a beat
"Over there" Blue Eyes signed to Kali he spotted some elk up past the clearing Kali looked to where he pointed then made her way round to cut off the elk, Kali proved herself a good hunter as she & as the two made their way back to the Village Kali signed
"Tell me where did you learn to be such a good hunter, was it your father?"
"Koba teach me as well"