Feral Child

Chapter 9

The guardians were lucky that they stumbled across an abandoned cabin not far off from where they met off with Jack. It must have belong to a family before they moved or something got them. Bunny was laying on an old cot, while North tried to bandage the wounded Pooka up. They were lucky that the family left some first aid tools behind. Tooth found some herbs that were great for fixing wounds and decided to fix up a batch for Bunny.

Bunny knew what the group was all thinking. "Alright, out with it"

"There's nothing to say Bunny" North tied the last bandage on before getting up to help Tooth. "But I am kinda curious about those Pookas. They didn't seem very....." How could North put it polity.

"Like a couple of mindless animals" Bunny put his arm over his eyes. "Their Nethers"

"Nether?" Tooth asked. She always thought there were only one kind of Pooka that Bunny used to talk about it when they first met.

"There were always two kinds of clans in the Pooka world. One, the Eders and the other the Nethers. Eders were my kind. We were a league of philosophical warriors. Highly skilled in martial art. We were brilliant, logical, and a tunnel-digger extraordinaire. My kind were nothing like those Nethers." Bunny tried to sit up slowly. He could hear Tooth fussing over him to sit down. "I guess you could say we were more human than Rabbit. But Nethers are the complete opposite. They like the wild and rather stay wild than be in civilizations. We figured that they would soon thin out do to human fear. But as you can see, so did my clan too."

Tooth felt sorry for Bunny. She knew exactly how he felt when the grownups of the village became greedy and killed her mother. That's why they try to protect the children. So they will grow into fine and caring adults.

North rubbed his chin at the thought "But this Pooka. He is very strange. "

"Ya," Bunny could feel the herbs of Tooth's kicking in. "He is most definitely not a normal Nether. He's too cunny, smart. No even a normal Nether Pooka would fight like him."

"It could be possible?" North knew that Bunny would not like his idea. "That maybe your two clans became....."

"Not on your nelly. Both clans hate each other. There's no way that they would come together and form...that"

"But it is possible" North thought that it was likely that two species came together and had babies. Like nature intended, but Bunny kept arguing that was impossible. It was like saying that a duck should get together with a hawk because they're the same species.

Tooth told them they should stop there bickering a focus on the task on hand. That they should focus on getting Jack.

"Shella, Jack is probably more wild than we thought." Bunny let out a huff at the thought of how Jack looked. "He probably thinks he's some kind of wild Pooka than a spirit."

"Jack looked smarter than that." Tooth turned to North . "You saw him. He was walking on two legs. Tell me, what kind of animal, beside Bunny and I, walk on to legs"

North was about to protest but got what she meant. Maybe there was still a way to get Jack back.

"Don't worry" Tooth and North looked back at Bunny who laid back on the bed. "Once I'm back to normal I'll go and get Jack"

"What do you mean? Why is it only you who can retrieve Jack?" Tooth crossed her arms over her chest as she asked the Pooka.

"They think I want to mate with him and by my guessing they want me to fight for his hand. If I can beat that leader, I'll be able to get Jack and we'll be back in our own time soon" Bunny closed his eyes as he tried to get some sleep. He could feel his wounds healing right away. He guess it must be from all this magic and belief in the air.