Valiant(Editing)

Chapter 4; Akela

My shoulder wound along with my other minor wounds had stopped bleeding and hurting a lot. However, my leg wound, where the cougar had bitten, was still bleeding.

I kept licking my red wound, hoping that the blood would stop bleeding. No matter how much I licked my wound, the blood wouldn't stop bleeding.

As I cleaned it even more, I could start to see the deep wound that the cougar had made. It was covered with red blood, a deep bite mark that the cougar had marked on me. I also knew, from the looks of it, that the scar wouldn't be disappearing anytime soon. 

I was not only in pain, but in anger at myself and frustration. I should've hunted instead. I shook my head with an upset frown at the thought. I wish that I didn't go for the elk carcass, when I could've hunted without a problem.

The wave of pain suddenly shocked me back into the moment of discomfort, instead of anger and frustration. The pain increased as the blood continued to flow out. The more that the blood bled out, the more that I weaker. I have had wounds, but not like this leg wound before. The ones that I've had before were minor, and not as intense.

After awhile of licking my bloody leg wound, I figured that it would've stopped flowing out by now. Yet, I was wrong. It did not stop and was nor nearly as close to stopping.

This wound would take days, even weeks to heal, just enough where I could run normally again. That was, if I would ever be able to use this wounded leg again.

I thought I might take a nap so that I would have some energy to use if I needed it for later today. I then stopped cleaning my bloody wound, and rested my head down on to my paws. 

I forced myself to close my eyes, even though I didn't want to. I was tired, however the pain only made me not want to try and nap, for it was extremely terrible.

The pain in mostly my leg made it difficult for me to sleep. I would close my eyes then shock back up when a big wave of pain fell upon me. This would happen every now and then.

I laid down with my eyes still closed, struggling to fall asleep. It felt as if I were hopeless that I would ever be able to fall asleep with this amount of pain. That was until, moments later, I fell into a deep sleep.

In my deep sleep, I had a dream. I have had this dream many times which made it nothing new to me.

There I was as a pup, playing with my best friend named, Accalia.

We'd always play tag as pups, it was a common thing that most pups would play at the time.

I would jump on her and giggle, "Tag you're it!" and she would do the same.

We'd laugh and wag our tails, letting out yips of happiness. However, when I played tag with Accalia, we'd both have to pause and catch our breaths. We did this, along with other pups for one reason in particular; There wasn't  enough food to go around the pack and feed everyone properly. This made it exhausting to run around and play tag.

Some days we would be able to eat a meal, and some days we didn't. Some pack members would get more food than others. This famine caused riot and anger, with hunger making everyone fight over food.

Yet one time, while me and Accalia were playing and taking breaks to catch our breaths, Alpha and Beta got into an argument about how they were going to feed everyone fairly, with very little elk to hunt and no carcass to eat.

"I hate to argue with you, Alpha, but that plan will only cause broken hearts and sorrow."

"Well what are we suppose to do other than that? We either go through with this plan, or we all die!" Alpha argued at Beta.