The Last Maoar

Chapter 5

The lunch ladies cooed and petted and did what women did to Zaq. He loved every minute of it. Then, he 'threw' them off

"Food! Food! Food! Give me food!" he screeched.

"Okay! Okay!" I said, trying to calm him down. The women looked at me weird.

"You understand it?" one asked.

"He's the one who hatched him." Naiek put emphasis on the word 'him'. The women looked up and seemed to notice him for the first time.

"Who are you?" one asked.

"Lunch ladies, meet Naiek. Naiek, meet the lunch ladies." I explained.

"Hi." he said.

"The prince!" one whispered to another.

"Now that everyone knows each other, Zaq is hungry." I said.

"Oh, right this way." one of the women went to the back and brought out a huge bundle of food.

"This should be enough for-" she stopped talking because Zaq had launched himself from my hands toward her. She was smart- she dropped the bundle of food.

Zaq couldn't fly yet, but he still flapped his wings to get to the food. When he reached it, he tore into it like he's never eaten before. Which, in a sense, he hasn't.

"Whoa! Watch it!" Naiek said as a piece of spaghetti went flying past his head. Zaq didn't respond except to fix an eye on him and continue eating. After he finished with the food, he fell over and went to sleep.

"Wha..?" a lunch lady asked.

"He's tired. Every baby animal goes to sleep right after they eat." I told her, then went to pick Zaq up.

"Food good." he murmured when I picked him up.

"He said the food was good." I told the women. They smiled. We left.

"So, what are you going to do with him?" Naiek asked.

"He's mine. I'm gonna keep him." I told him.

"But Mr. Caqk said you have to give him away."

"I'm not doing that. Zaq wouldn't like it. I don't like it." I really didn't like the principal.

"You'll get in trouble."

"So? I'm the only one who understands him."

"You have a point."

By that time, we had reached the classroom.

"Perfect! Just in time. Sami, you can start telling us about your object when these two sit down." We sat down. I put Zaq on my lap.

"My object is the toe bone of an adult Maoar." Sami held up a huge white object as big as half her arm.

"That's a toe bone?" Maria asked,.

"That's how big Zaq here will get." Mr. Harv said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you a little detail about Maoars. If the mother dies while the baby is still an egg, the egg just needs an animal to keep it warm. It will still hatch. In this case, Comm brought the dead egg back to life. But I have no idea why the Maoar is black."

"Maybe because it's the weakest one. You know, like Comm." Set said. In a flash, Zaq was on Set's desk holding his shirt in one claw. (He doesn't have any front claws, so he's holding him with his back claw.)

"Say that again! I dare you!" no one but me could understand Zaq. Everyone was frozen. No one has ever seen anything move that fast.