Unexpected Heroes

Chapter 71 - This book is uber long!

APOLLO'S POV!
RAID!
I dash outside.
A small white sheep type thing falls into the woods.
I take after it.
I feel branches lashing at me in desperation to keep me out of the heart of their existence.
I take one to the face, and leap over a log.
I turn wolf, and try to find a sheepy scent.
I catch a scent that's close enough, and chase after it.
I slide to a stop, disgusted by what a see.
It wasn't white. Or a sheep. Or a herbavor.
It's a red tiger. It has black stripes.
I sniff it, catching the shifter scent on it.
I pick it up, and carry it back to camp.
I turn human, and borrow power from Pandora and my animal friends.
I sling it over my shoulders the way some carry deer.
It's head and forepaws drape over my left side, and the back end over my right side.
It groans when I lift it, but I place it on my shoulders anyways.

I talk to it, hoping to keep it calm, "Shhhh. We'll be okay. It's going to be okay. I'll take care of you."
It smells like mountian air, meaning it isn't anyone from the shool back home. Plus, none of them where red tigers.
I walk through the woods, and into my tent.
I congure up a Shadow bed, and set it in there.
I sigh, and notice a red substance on my cloak!
Arrgg!
Kip had given me this!
I carefully remove it, and use my powers to clean it.
I shoot water at the tiger, effectively cleaning it.
I notice it's a cream colour underneath, but red on top.
Weird.
I get some drinking water, and use my powers to guide it into it's digestive tract.
The tiger rumbles.
It opens a ruby eye, which suddenly transitions to ice blue.
It looks up at me in dispair.
I comfort, voice contorted by my helmet, "It'll be okay."
It looks at me in admiration, and flops its' head down.
It falls asleep, and I calk Pandora out to meet it.
She confirms, "Red Tiger alright. Female, shifter. Phase 3 ish?"
I nod, glad for the information.
I look at the sleeping tiger, and wonder, "I wonder who exactly fell into my camp?"