The lonely lion

Chapter three; Colby's journey

Colby's POV
~Where's mom?~ I think to myself. I'm starving and I've been waiting in the den for about two days now. ~She'll be here soon~ I keep thinking. It's dark out, so I'm trying to sleep. I close my eyes and try to think happy thoughts. I can't sleep. Im to hungry. I see the sun rising, it's almost morning. Mom said she would be home by now.. ~Where is she?~ I keep asking myself. I decide to call for her. My small roar isn't loud enough and I can barely here it myself, I'm so hungry. Mom told me never to go out of the den unless she said it was okay. But she's not here to say it's okay, my curiosity takes over.. I look outside the den, it's still somewhat dark out. I lift up my leg, and place it outside the den. ~This doesn't feel right.~ I think to myself as I take another small step, before I know it, I'm outside the den. I look up at the sky, and at my surroundings. I know I've been out here before, but it seems like a whole different world again. It's just so different without mom. I suddenly here something, I don't exactly know what they are, their heavy, their big. I see shadows, walking on two feet. I run back, I've lost the den! I don't know where I am! I'm starting to panic. I thought that maybe the large thing could help me.. I turn around again, stop, and take a deep breath. I go towards the shadows. I here voices but I can't make out what there saying. I barely even know there language. "Do you here that?" A male says. "No, Jeremiah. Let's go. Mom and Dad will be mad." Says a female. I stop dead in my tracks. They keep going. I can barely see them. So I keep going, I'm following them. I can see them more clearly now and they keep walking. I'm tired. I'm hungry. They haven't been helping me. Than I realize-Moms probably home!! I don't know where I am so I just turn around, again and start heading back. I'm so confused. I'm so hungry. I'm getting weak. ~Maybe those two-legged creatures would feed me?~ ~Nah.~ I think to myself answering my own question. So i keep going my own. I finally smell something really weird, it's a smell that Mom would come back with after hunting for me. So I followed it. I finally see a little grey mouse sitting there, bathing it's self. So from watching mom, I crouch down just like she did, and I creep towards it, than I run and pounce at it! I almost catch it but it escapes my paws. I keep running after it, and I pounce again.. And again.. And again. Than I try one more time, and I got him! I feel so proud of myself eating it. I finally feel somewhat full again.