leave me alone ch3-4
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Chapter three- finding a home
Of course this meat was a predator unlike myself. It was both wise and foolish of me to follow the female back to her lair. I was wise enough to not come close to another predators lair to be considered a threat but foolish enough to think I would be left alone. I learned something important that day. Weak predators in large numbers can and will hunt stronger predators. I was not hungry so I had no designs to hunt for more meat and that perhaps saved my life that day.
Ruua flew as fast as he could. He did not expect he would become hunted for looking upon the lair of the female. Was it revenge for the male he wondered. If that was the case then he had no right to complain about becoming their meat. But he also had no desire to be their meat either. So for the first time in his life he was the prey. Not that his predators could do much to him once he was in the sky flying away.
After a time he grew tired and began to rest before traveling again. This was his first encounter with the meat and while weak individually he learned quickly to not let that go to his head. If he is to take one then it would be one away from it's heard. It be best to avoid them all together he decided and continued moving. From flight to rest to flight to eating to rest to flight again.
If it was not one of those three things he cared little other than how the strange metal looked when he looked at it that he got from the first meal outside the cave. He soon eventually found a land with none of the predator meat he was worried about. He found a cave and marked it his and all that is around it. And then he began to grow. He had to move to hunt. Not settling in the same spot for meals. Ruua was not sure how long had passed sense he saw the predators from before but the memory and fear of them was there.
Chapter four- encounter
“ I was a newly full adult when the first predator came to my lands. What I laid claim to was vast woodland. I could fly a full day in any direction and not see another predator I considered a threat. I lived as I wished and I ate well and became strong. Strong enough to become arrogant. But never did I ignore my instincts.”
Ruua looked at the strangers on his lands edge. One meat on top of another. Both with the reflective metal that made them so easy to spot. He came to look but found this was a threat to him so he kept his distance. As he kept his distance the two came to a small lake and he watched sure they did not know he was there. As night came the other predator made fire and other things he was amazed to see. The creature had intelligence he noticed. Still it was foolish for it to also remove it's skins from both the other meat and itself. Still he watched as the predator became bare in the moonlight and entered the water.
This was his chance he determined as he came from hiding as the meat screamed in fear. The alarm was too late as he was upon the shell of the predator before it could come back to shore. He knew with all his will he should kill the meat and consume it but something with his instinct made him pause after crushing the shell. He considered this was amusing himself with his food as he heard language again. “ Oh, fuck me.”
Ruua raised up slightly surprised in hearing something like his mother once used. Somehow he felt he could use this language as well. “ I do not understand.”
The predator came a little closer into more shallow water. Ruua became more alert when it came to the point the others ankles were only submerged. “ You understood me?”
Ruua lowered his head for a slightly closer look. “ Understand no. I am in dilemma.”
The predator looked unamused by that but had no power to act upon it as they continued. “ A dilemma about what?”
Ruaa looked at the predator a little more. This one smelled like a female in heat. “ You! You came here. My lands you encroach. I see lesser predator come before. Eat fill leave. Even your kind. You hunt bigger game. Otherwise you look like other predator that came and left.”
The female became surprised by this. “ Has others came threw here recently?”
Ruua considered answering her honestly or not. This language was greatly amusing him. “ Yes, one full dawn before you enter my hunting grounds. They head toward the high peak where the sun rises and when passed the pond half way they went toward the pass between mountains."
Ruua points with his tail in front of the fire pit in the right direction to the pass. “ The path they take is safest and fastest. I seen some use it before. My dilemma over. I make decision. I wish know why you want to know these things instead try to escape?”
The female looked a little afraid not exactly sure how to answer. “ The two men. They have my sister, the future queen.”
Ruaa thought a moment. “ A bright colored one? Most dangerous of you female predators. If a queen is here more will come. I shall get you this queen you take away. No more like you come. I only allow lesser predator here than me.”