Father's Hatchet

The Whole Village

Micheal's P.O.V~

We met back up with Zach a few hours later, for some reason Elijah scoffed when he saw him waiting for us. "You should have gone ahead" Elijah hissed, "Why so you can be alone with the weird teen back there....." Zach whispered, I don't think I was supposed to hear that part. I kept my head down and walked past them, Elijah groaned and turned away from Zach and then turned around to walk ahead of me. Zach continued to walk behind us, kicking at rocks and sticks as we came across them on the path. I don't know how long we walked but my hip began to hurt, a lot, it was also starting to get dark. "We should be down for the night Eli" Zach said, I could tell he was also tired. Elijah, however, seemed to walk on, not tired at all, "No need, I'm fine" Elijah said brushing him off, Zach gave him the bruh look and groaned.

Elijah shot him a look and sighed, Elijah stopped and turned to me noticing I started limping, "Assuming you want to stop to?" Elijah sounded annoyed, so I contemplated saying no, but I glanced at Zach and noticed he looked exhausted, so decided to nod for payment of Zach letting me attempt to run away.  Elijah scoffed, and sat the bags down, going into the woods and coming out with a handful of sticks, he settled down in a clearing on the right of the path. I swear I blinked and there was a fire, Elijah was urging it to grow, feeding it small sticks and as it grew giving it bigger ones. Elijah shoved a log near the fire and pulled me to sit down on it, he disappeared again after threatening Zach to not let me run away again. Elijah came back with lots of stuff and began building a nest, I watched as he did so curious, Zach began building one of his own, I sat there watching feeling a little useless, but I quickly shook that feeling off and looked away.

I was brought out of my thoughts by Elijah dragging a large log and slamming it into the ground messing with it to see if it will move. When he was done he grabbed a thick vine off of his shoulder I didn't even notice and tied it to the log before ordering me to come to him, 'Did this fucker think that he was going to tie me up?' I didn't budge, Elijah was quick to snap my arm up and drag me over to the log while I tried to pull away.  He quickly tied the vine around my waist while I flopped down on the ground trying to make it harder for him. He backed off when he finished tying it and I immediately got up and glared at him, he glared back and I backed up tripping over the nest and falling in. I heard Zach laughing as I fell, Elijah chuckled in amusement and turned to his bag, pulling out the dead snake from earlier.

I gagged expecting there to be a smell, but I didn't smell anything. Elijah shot me a glare and reached into his bag pulling out the berries from earlier as well. "You can eat this then" Elijah chucked the bag at me, I caught it and sat it next to me, Elijah took out some kind of hunting knife and began to skin the reptile. I turned my head away in disgust wishing I could block out the sickening sound of it's skin being cut and ripped off. A few minutes go by and Elijah shoves a stick through it and holds it over the fire, Zach, who I didn't even notice left, came back holding two rabbits. "You are not feeding him meat? He's gonna need protein", "I think he's an herbivore" Elijah said referring to me. Zach walked over to me and grabbed my face pushing my top lip up to show Elijah my teeth. "No...he's an omnivore, like us, see he's got flat teeth and two sharp canines" as he spoke he touched my back teeth and front teeth pointing them out.

As soon as he let go I closed my mouth and began spitting on the ground, "EW!" I yelled, "Well....good job little brother, your getting smarter, I didn't think to look at his teeth, as for you pup" Elijah turned to me, "You need to get used to being handled" I rolled my eyes and mocked him under my breath, bad decision. Before I knew it Elijah was on the bed and I was bent over his knee, "Give me one reason I should lay you out~" the way he said it sent shivers down my spine

Zach's P.O.V~

I watched as Mike rolled his eyes and mocked Elijah under his breath as if we couldn't see him, my brother was quick to shove the snake on a stick into my hands, sit on the bed, and bend Mike over his knee, threatening him. I looked away struggling not to laugh as Mike strang out, stuttering and trying to come up with an excuse for Elijah, his eyes wide and blush spread across his face, "Careful Elijah I think he likes it" I said noticing the blush. Elijah smirked, "I will give you to the count of three....I swear to god" Elijah retorted, "I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Mike whined "Eh not good enough, Zach turn around" I did as Elijah asked and heard a sharp smack across, what I can only assume was the teen's behind. I tried my best to stifle a laugh as I turned and saw Mike scooting back and trying to cover his face, which was a deep crimson. Elijah got up as if nothing had happened and grabbed the snake from me, putting it back over the fire to cook before turning and speaking to the male trying to hide under the animal fur blanket.