chibicandy01's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Chapter 1 “Go do something with your self girl as I tend to her” Sighing with fatigue Sabriel soundlessly followed her father’s order this time and left the hut as fast as she could. Her feet hurt from standing around all day in that cramped hut worrying about her friend Kailyn. Feeling guilty that she couldn’t help more with the birthing she walked off to a path that would lead her to a stream . She could just feel the perspiration drip down her forehead as she thought about how hot and how high the humidity was. Right now all she wanted was to take a nice cool swim out of this heat in her favorite part of the stream where a little alcove of rocks shielded it and gave a little privacy. Finally, seeing the blue water she hurriedly took her thin doe skin dress and leather sandals with laces off.. The water was wonderfully cold and she felt better than she had for days. She swam for a while and then when her skin started to wrinkle she decided to get out. As she was putting on her sandals she thought she heard a howl of pain. Sabe listened a little bit more and then when she heard nothing she went back to tying the laces of her sandals thinking it must have been her imagination. Just before she was about to leave the little alcove by the stream she heard something again except this time it was a loud noise like an animal in a lot of pain. Realizing that she just couldn’t leave without helping the poor animal out she went in the direction she’d heard the noise coming from. Underneath a tree she saw an oddly shaped cat with what appeared to be scales instead of fur stuck in a hunters trap. Bending down she looked at the animal and tried to gauge if it would attack her and how would she get it out of that trap without getting hurt in the process. ********************************************************* Zche was tired of everything. This was it he was going to die in a stupid human’s trap without even dying honorably by fighting. Well he really didn’t care about any of that honor stuff but still it seemed like a waste to die so boringly … So in a sad pitiful effort he tried to call for help. But the only sounds coming out of his mouth were just animal gibberish and he decided it was useless to try to talk anymore. So he laid his head down on his paws and felt the teeth of the trap dig deeper into his tail and chest. Why is it that I have no memory of why I feel thatI should be able to speak? He looked at the blood oozing out of his tail from where the steel still bit into him thinking that he actually had no idea what he was. At least I know my name is Zche, he thought bitterly even then realizing that it didn’t matter cause he was going to die anyway in this trap. Stretching his claws out he tried to pull himself out but it just hurt too much. He felt like there was something that he was supposed to remember something important but he couldn’t focus because he was starting to get dizzy even though he was laying down. When the pain started to make him go numb he tried to screech for help once more but finally sleep claimed him and he drifted into the unconscious world. Sabe saw the creature lay its head down as if it was giving up and when she saw how badly hurt it appeared to be she felt a deep saddness for the little guy. So she grabbed a branch off the ground and walked of to the trap and tried to peel the teeth apart. The cat thing made a pained noise and then went limp making Sabe worried that it really would die before she could help it. So fearing for the worst and not even questioning why she would do this for an unknown creature she grabbed the sharp teeth with her hands. She pulled, feeling the sharps cuts it made on her hands biting her lip from the pain, she got it apart and then swiftly pushed the metal bar into place to keep the trap from shutting again. Reaching down she slowly tried to pick up the little creature, once again not thinking that it could attack her, but feeling like it wouldn’t hurt her. Walking back to the stream she carried the little creature and tried to figure out what it was. The closet that she could tell was that it was a dragon like cat but those species didn’t intermingle so then she was at a loss to explain what it was. She was glad it wasn’t green and slimy because then she’d probably have not been able to touch it. Not that she would have been scared of it but she just didn’t like slimy things like that. Anyway, Sabe wasn’t going to linger on her musings because the little guy still hadn’t woken up. So putting her hand to his chest she could feel a slight breath coming out and then she rinsed his wounds off and wrapped them with the strips she had ripped off earlier. After the ministrations to the little guy was done she looked at her bloodied hands feeling the sharp pains of all the cuts on them. She lowered her hands in the cold water and wished now that the water was warmer because the cold made her hands hurt even more. She rinsed the blood off in the water and then wrapped them with a few more strips that she had tore from her dress again. Her dress was in bad shape and would probably have to be used as rags now. Sighing she thought off what her father would say when he saw what she had did. Well, she hoped he’d understand that she just couldn’t leave the little guy in the trap to die. With that knowledge she picked up the still sleeping creature and carried him to her home thinking that he would have to stay with her until the guy got better. He did look really like a cute dragon kitty when he was asleep. Hopefully, Kailyn, at least would understand but she is about to have a babe so there really is no way to judge.
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