The Majestics

Chapter 1 - Part 2 (Teaser)

A squirrel and two mice had escaped her grasp during her day of hunting. The sun was three fourths of the way through the sky, traveling its path as it has for many moons.
  She had caught a single mouse and put it under a bush a little bit away.
    She was crouching and hunting a mouse now.  She stepped on bare patches of dirt and wet leaves so the mouse wouldn't hear.
    Her tail was hovering over the ground as she padded lightly closer the mouse.
    The mouse had found a morsel of food and was nibbling silently on it, oblivious of the predator hunting it.
   She was a tail length away at this point and was getting ready to launch herself at the unaware mouse.
     She bunched up her hind legs when a foul stench her her nose bluntly. Fox!
     She ignored the smell and tucked her paws tighter under her chest and launch herself off her haunches.
    She was already soaring through the air when the mouse saw her, but a second to late.
     Smokey unsheathed her claws and landed clumsily on the mouse, paws pounding on the leaves and ground. Her claws penetrated its tender flesh and she flipped the mouse easily as she spun over it. The mouse landed half a tail length away and she lunged for it, no sense in being quite now.
   Right as her paw sunk into the soft flesh of the mouse, she saw a flash of red.
      The ugly, overwhelming stench of fox rolled over her as she bent down to nip the spine of the mouse that was trapped under her paw cleanly in half. It was a messy kill but it was good food and she was starving.
      Smokey saw another flash of red and she looked in the direction of the color.

      But nothing presented itself. Unsurely, She bent over and bit down on the neck of the mouse and looked up, the mouse dangling limply in her jaws.
   The smell of fresh prey made her mouth water.
     Then a force barreled into her side, knocking out her breath. 
      Smokey lay on her side, mind reeling at what just happened. The mouse lay inches away.
      Then bright red, hot pain tore at her bottom right leg, twisting and turning her whole body with it.
     Dazed, she looked down at what's was ravaging her leg as she feebly swatted at it with her other paw.
     The fox!!
      Smokey unsheathed her claws and slammed her left bottom paw into the attacker's snout.
    There is no way a mere kit could fight this massive fox, She thought to herself as the fox backed off in shock.
     Smokey jumped up, slight wincing as she placed her right leg. Arching her back, she hissed at the fox.
      The fox reared back and lunged, grabbing her tail.
      The fox yanked her tail as hot, searing pain flashed up her spine.
      She gasped in pain and spun around as the fox let go of her tail.
       She lunged at the fox's back and clawed down its flank, stumbling when she landed.
    There is something wrong with my paw, She thought.
   The fox barked in pain and reared back and turned on her.
    Her ears ringing from the sharp, loud bark, she tried desperately to backup and get away but the fox charge into her, biting down on her back.
    The fox savagely tore down the side of her spine and clawed her side.
    Smokey bent around and scratched at its eye, wounding the skin and eye. The fox backed up and whimpered. Haha!, she thought triumphantly
    The fox, bleeding from his eye and several other places, started to turn, picked up Smokey's mouse and started to run, clipped a tree and ran into the bushes.
"Cowardly fox-heart!!" Smokey yowled into the bushes with no response.
     She was bleeding heavily along her spine and was limping from her back paw, her tail dragged limply behind her. Her fur was colored a deep red and was matted. Pretty sure I tore a claw, she winced.
    She tried moving her tail but pain flashed through it, moving only a tiny bit before limply falling to the ground again.
     Smokey staggered in an attempt to find something that would stop the bleeding.