The Pups

The Pups

It has been a while, waking up without that noise, it is a pleasant feeling but you know it’s absence is cause for worrying. You enjoy the silence for a few more minutes, until you hear something, something that shouldn’t be here, you quickly wake up fully and rushes out to see what it was that made the sound.

When you get out, you see them, the strange creatures that sometimes roam the forest, you take a closer look around them without letting them see you, they are alone so you follow them to see what they are going to do, they are smaller than normal and they are missing the loud stick the bigger one always carries.

As you follow them you begin to smell a familiar scent and you get distracted by the smell, and you wonder into your own world wondering how they got them you wander without thought and breaks multiple twigs, you see that the creatures stop, you know they have heard you, everything is still, no sound is made, you are frozen in place and the same are the 2 strange creatures at least for a few more moments when they begin to walk and play again until you see where they are heading.

You see they are headed towards your children, and you rush over to try and get to them first, but the 2 strange creatures got to them first but it seems strange, they didn’t hurt them and you see something that looks like food around them all, you relax a little again but you are patiently waiting to see what they will do next, you still can’t see the big creature with the loud stick anywhere.

You see that your children are having fun with the 2 creatures and the 2 creatures have having fun with your children, they are playing until your children see you, where they run over to you, the strange creatures haven’t seen you yet but they follow your children over to you, when they see you they gets scared and they make a small scream and steps back.

You take a look at your children and see that they are good, and they have eaten well but they are dirty so you lick them clean, and you slowly lets the strange creatures come closer, you walk up to them slowly when they offer you something to eat, you smell it and lick it and you finally take a small bite, it tastes strange but good so you eat the rest that they offered you, until you hear some twigs break and you see the big strange creature with the loud stick, you quickly gather your children and run away back home.

Some nights past and the strange small creatures are back you find them at the same place as before in their little “cave”, you see that they took more of their strange food with them this time and they offer you a bigger piece than last time, still not sure if it is good but you eat it anyway, it’s cold and you haven’t been able to catch anything lately so you take whatever you can get, you and your children stay with them for most of the day until you spot the large creature with the loud stick so you run with your children back to your little spot in the forest. 

The small creatures continues to return to the same place every few nights, they after a while begin bring some more normal food for you and your children, they continue to do with for multiple moons and you begin to feel safe with them, and after almost 12 moons your children have grown bigger and you stay close to the strange creatures every time they are in the forest you are with them.

They from time to time try to move their strange paws over your head, you don’t really like it but after some moons you allow them to do it and it feels nice in a way, they scratch the top of your head and you notice that their faces are dirty so you decide to return the favor and reach up to clean them, when you reach up to clean them you hear the loud stick, and you feel hurt in your side, you fall down, looking up at the creatures and seeing the big creature with the loud stick, walking up over you with a shiny sharp thing, he gives it to the creature you were about to clean, and then, a sharp pain and nothing.