After All This Time

Chapter Twenty-One

I awoke later that afternoon with the feeling of hunger taking over my body. I opened my eyes and shape shifted into human to eat, because my stomach is smaller in that form. After I had finished my meal, I realized that it was my last piece of meant, so I decided to go hunting.

I shape shifted back into my cat form and jumped down from the tree and started to explore my grounds for some animals.

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Luther walked up behind Five and hovered over his shoulder. 

"Shes too young for you, and you already have a girlfriend."

Five glanced at Luther before he continued to look at the dancer on the stage.

"Nice to see you too, Luther."

"What do you want?"

"For you to stop hovering like an ambitious stripper and sit down with me."

He hesitated for a few seconds before he sat in the chair next to Five.

"How long have you been here?" Five turned his head.

"A year, thanks to you."

"I'm sorry Luther. I know that couldn't have been easy."

"I thought everybody was dead." Luther growled, before he looked at some drunk man bothering his boss. "I gotta go." Luther stood up to walk away, but Five grabbed his arm and pulled himself up.

"Luther wait. Look I get it, ok? I know what it's like to be stuck in time... thinking this is how you're gonna live out the rest of your life. On the run, and not knowing if you are ever going to see the people you love again, and to be in an unfamiliar world. But Luther, you're not alone. We have to find the others because the world ends again in 10 days. I have no idea how to stop it."

Luther just stared at Five before one sentence left his lips.

"I don't give a shit."

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I had been searching for food for about 2 hours now. 

Nothing.

No deer, no otters, and not even a bird in sight.

These past couple months had been harder to keep up with food. I was lucky if I saw a scrawny deer once every 2 weeks. I had searched all around my grounds to see if there was anything, but no. So I decided to go even deeper into the forest to find some sort of meal for next week. I had just eaten so I could last a while.

I set foot into the unexplored parts of the forest that I had never stepped foot in. But I did have a mental map of where I was going so I didn't get lost.

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Luther walked away just for Five to stop him and pull him aside.

"The hell is wrong with you, Luther? I just told you the world's gonna end in 10 days."

Luther shrugged and tried to walk away again. "Yeah well, you're always saying that."