The Animal Inside

Sam

I woke up and my mom was gone. I saw breakfast on my moms branch. A young Thompson Gazelle. I balanced all the way over to the gazelle. it was not my moms kill. It had a bigger bite range. I looked around. I saw my mom. She was at the back if the tree. I climbed down the tree and jumped down In front of her.

"mom what's wrong?"

"I fell out of the tree when a vulture pushed me over."

"is everything OK?"

"no" she looked at me " I broke my paw"

I looked at her paws. Her back left paw was swollen and black and blue.

"can you climb back in the tree? You will be safest there!"

"no Kat its my hind paw I use those the most climbing up a tree."

"are you hungery I'll catch a Gazelle or something?"

"that would be nice." and with that I was off to get mom a gazelle.

I stalked in the tall gras the his my spots. I picked out a fawn. The fawn pranced around less than 50yards away totally blind to me.

The gazelle got closer and closer until she was 10yards away. She was far away from the herd and I pounced cutting of her oxygen and suffocating her.

She was dead. i dragged the  gazelle to mom.

"i got it for you."

i dropped the animal in front of her and she dug in. i heard a threatening growl. Another leopard maybe the leopard who killed the gazelle in the tree.

I growled back and so did my mom. Then a growl came back as respecting.

It was a younger male and he respected my mom.

then a male leopard walked out of the bushes.

"I'm Sam."

"I'm Kat with a K and this is my mom."

"cool, wow your paw!" he walked over to my mom. I got on guard. "does it hurt?" he asked.

"very badly."  I gave Sam a glare..