I am Killz

The Hunt

Now I will skip to around 6 where I first began hunting myself with my family. We had grown I now had 3 little brothers and 2 little sisters. One of my little sisters was a beautiful brown color. She and I were inseparable to the point our mother said we might be a pair and able to begin our own pack. I never knew what she meant all I knew was I had to protect my sister with my life. It was around fall and all my family headed out me included to hunt food. I had learned the animal we hunted mainly was called a Deer. It was very easy prey and a lot of meat, but the issue was their antlers which were the part out of their head. I was with my sister and my oldest brother on this hunt. We were going after a new prey called a buck. I prowled behind my brother making sure my sister stayed behind me when my brother gave a growl which meant we were near. I made sure i lowered myself lower since I was at least a foot taller then my brother and maybe 3 then my sister. I had no claws so my mother had given me a stick that she had gnawed on to a point which I made sure I rose up to the ready for when we found the buck. My brother did another but lower and quieter growl meaning it was right up ahead. We slowed down our prowl and then I saw it up ahead in a clearing all alone drinking water from the watering hole. It was just like a deer but it was larger and it had a multiple points on its antlers. I thought it was beautiful, but I was also so hungry since we hadn't eaten in a few days that all I cared about was eating it later. I followed my brothers growl meaning launch the attack. Both he and I ran at it full speed. I was slower then my brother by quite a bit, but my sister made sure to stay behind me as our mother told her to do. My brother had pounced on the buck and knocked it over by the time i was half way there from where we were prowled. When we finally caught up it was barely fighting back. My brother gave me a nod because this was my first hunt and I was supposed to get my first kill today. I plunged the stick in the bucks chest like mother had told me to do. I watched the red liquid called blood come out and the buck stop breathing. I had not been allowed to hunt but ever since I had seen blood for the first time I have been mesmerized. I pulled my stick and licked some blood off it. My brother walked over and used one paw to get blood on one claw and marked me on the forehead in a line across my nose to signify my passing the hunt and into adulthood as he had done with mother a few months prior. After that I couldn't hold back a giant smile for it. Both my brother and sister smiled at me and licked my shoulders in happiness with me.  I licked my brothers cheek and my sisters cheek then we all worked together to get the buck home for all of the family to enjoy. After that day I went hunting daily with my sister and older brother until I was 7 when my brother told me It was time to hunt by myself, so that day I left the cave alone not even my sister was allowed with me. I was prowling around our den when I found tracks of a deer. I thought it would be the best thing to try on my first solo hunt, so I followed the tracks. I followed them going towards where we had killed the buck for my adult trial. I followed the trail and found strange creatures holding shinning items and stabbing  into the deer I had been hunting. There was 2 of them one looked near my age and one looked older.  I looked at my  stick thinking what the older was using must be a better stick. I had a feeling I shouldn't but I snuck around and the pair and tried looking at the better stick better. I noticed it held blood on it better. Seeing the blood I couldn't hold myself back. I launched and stabbed the older one through the stomach like my mother taught me and pulled it out quick and moved towards the younger as the older one was writhing in death. I then stabbed the younger through the eye killing him instantly. Leaving the stick in I turned around seeing the older still alive and writhing I picked up the new stick seeing it  was shining and covered in blood. I pried my eyes off it as I heard a new clicking sound. I looked at the older man seeing something shiny in his hand aimed at me. I cocked my head wondering what he was saying and pointing at me. Next thing I knew I saw a giant brown ball of fur knock him over and the item went flying into the nearby river. I heard a scream from the older man and then nothing. I then realized it was my older brother who had jumped by me. He looked back worried as I realized when he jumped by me his claw caught my cheek and it was bleeding from one scratch. I went over to him and licked his cheeks knowing he thought I was mad or scared. He whimpered meaning that he followed me in worry and mother agreed. He then growled happy in recognition of my successful hunt. He and I then brought back the 2 weird creatures and the deer. Later that night my mother brought me the younger ones coverings and taught me how to put them on. She told me that they should help me stay warmer since I had no fur like all my brothers and sister or mother. That night was the first night I had slept in my own section of the cave as was tradition of the solo hunting triumph and since I had hunted not only 1 but 3 my mother said I earned the position of 2nd beta right below my older brother who was the beta. (The ranking in our family was alpha which was mother beta who was my older brother then beta 2 which was now me. Us three make the choices of the family or as i now was told to call it our pack. )  I was falling asleep when I heard a slight sound at the entrance to my section. It was my sister sneaking into here to be with me. I was wondering if she was going to. I would not stop her because I had been missing her myself. I motioned for her and she pounced on the straw with me. We curled together and slept together after mere minutes of her joining me. I had been laying for hours unable to sleep prior.