Pet Tiger

Attack at Dawn

Frida softly purred as she laid curled around the baby. It was dawn and everyone in the tribe was sound asleep. All was quiet. Frida's ear twitched as she heard movement coming from inside the hut. She opened her eyes to see what was going on. The wolves outside were barking. She raised her head as she watched the male human get up and run outside. There was obviously trouble. Frida got up and looked outside to see what was going on. She saw the humans fighting a pack of tigers who snuck into the tribe.

Frida ran back inside, helping the female to her feet. She gasped as she heard footsteps coming toward the hut. Frida and the human watched as an orange male tiger walked into the hut. Frida couldn't help but stare. He was the first saber she had seen in years. He actually... looked handsome. Frida snapped out of her gaze as the saber approached the baby. Frida jumped and tackled him, allowing the female human to grab the baby and run.

Diego growled as Frida kept him pinned as the humans ran out of the hut.

"Get off me!" he growled.

He kicked her off and ran after the humans. Frida growled and ran after him. The female was running toward the river with the baby in her arms.

"Leave them alone!" Frida yelled.

Frida jumped in front of the female human ready to fight Diego. Only problem was she had never fought before in her life. She had no idea how to start. Diego reached out to scratch her but ended up cutting her charm necklace off. Frida turned and nudged the human letting her know to run away. She followed her, making sure Diego wouldn't harm her or the baby. Frida stopped when they reached the waterfall. There was nowhere else to run.

Diego smiled as he approached them. He had them trapped now. Frida turned to see Diego baring his teeth ready to attack. She turned to see the human glaring at Diego almost challengingly. She hugged the baby tight and jumped over the waterwall, into the river below. Diego and Frida gasped and looked down trying to see if they could find them. Frida ran off trying to get down to the river to help them. Diego growled in frustration, heading back to the pack.

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Diego stopped at the top of the hill. The humans released the wolves to attack the pack. Soto turned and saw him.

"There's Diego!" he said to the pack. "Fall back!"

The sabers turned and ran to meet Diego on the hill. Soto looked around for the baby and the female saber, noticing neither were there.

"Where's the baby?" he asked. "And the female?"

"I lost them over the falls", Diego grumbled.

"You lost them?!"

The sabers looked back when they saw the humans throwing spears at them. They were running the the wolves leading the way. The pack started running to get away.

"I want the baby and the female, Diego", Soto said.

"I'll get them", Diego answered.

"You'd better, unless you want to serve yourself as a replacement dinner. We'll go up to Half Peak. Meet us there. They'd better be alive."

Soto ran off leading the pack. Oscar stopped and raise his eyebrow.

"Can we trust you with that, Diego?" he smugly asked.

Diego growled lowly. He hated Oscar's attitude when it came to him. He turned away and ran toward the river to find Frida and the baby.