fox trot

CH17. Elf

MC .POV.

I slowly walked over to the fallen branch to find a young elf stuck under it she was struggling and trying to get the branch off but her face turned to terror when she saw me approaching and became more desperate to escape, she wriggled and squirmed trying to pry herself free I took another few steps forward and five other elf jumped down from the trees to defeat her, they are all so much smaller than I remembered them to be I'm twice if not three times taller than they are.

The elf all pointed their weapons at me as if to warn me 'Back off', two of the three elf began trying to help the stuck young elf who looked to be only around fifteen or sixteen years old, the two elf weren't having any luck with the tree branch so I put out the fire on my body and stepped forwards the elf became more guarded I then gently pushed them aide as I slowly crept towards the trapped elf.

They all started to panic they probably thought I was going to eat her I lowered my head slowly and sniffed at the elf a few times then felt a small prick in my back leg, one of the elf had stabbed me with a dagger it was small and dull so It didn't go that far into my hide and barely drew any blood but it still hurt so I swung my head around and snarled at the one who stabbed me and blue got right in his face and hissed at him he stumbled back and fell over, then I went back to the young elf and sank my teeth into the branch on top of him and lifted it of the girl with little effort.

This texture. This weight. The length. By the gods, ITS PERFECT! The perfect tree branch was now in my grasp and I couldn't resist the urge to begin playing with it, I've played with many branches but this one really was perfect it glided through the air beautifully and the sound it made when it hit something was a satisfying thwack, I pranced around with this branch in my mouth and my tail wagging like a puppy who just got its first toy today was a good day.

"Red, RED! What do we do about them?"

Blue had to yell to get my attention and right now I couldn't care less about the elf I have an amazing branch.

"noffin, dell leaf Soomer or layer"

(Nothing, they'll leave sooner or later)

My words were hard to understand since I was talking with a stick in my mouth but I thing blue understood what I was saying, I readjusted my grip on the branch and headed back to the bent over tree living a line in the dirt with my stick as I walked and stopping a few times whenever the other end got stuck in the branches above, I skipped along happily then white pointed out something strange.

"Um, why are they following us?"

The elf were following us, when I stopped and looked at them they all hid behind the trees did they think I didnt know they were there? Oh well I'll leave them be for now so I turned my head and continued walking, the elf followed me all the way home and set up a small camp relatively close but not to close and laid down the teenage girl who had been trapped under my branch they had taken turns carrying her all the way here and one of her legs looked badly injured it was bleeding a lot, I put my branch down and laid down on a large flat toped rock that was bathed in the afternoon sun and was right next to the bent over tree I sleep under it had been warmed by the sun and was very comfortable the light filtering through the leafs makes the ends of my fur look like it's glowing, I placed my head on my paws and rested my eyes while the elf still wary of me treated their friends wounds.

I stayed there until the sun no longer shone on the rock, blue and white were fast asleep and the elf had patched up their friend while also making soup? Im not really sure what that is anyways I've noticed in the bushes surrounding us a large beast has been circling around I can only assume its another demon bear, whenever it got to close for comfort I lifted my head abruptly facing the direction of the bear scaring it and making it back off, the elf seem to be using my reactions and only guarding when I move it looks like this is the reason they followed me in short I'm their danger detector its pretty risky to use a fox as a danger detector and the elf are counting on the fact that I'm not hungry right now.

The bear came closer again I sat up this time was different the bear wasn't backing off looks like it intends to attack this time oh well more food for me, I stood up lowering my head and growling the elf started to panic thinking I was growling at them as I slowly walked over their camp towards the bear being extra careful of where I put my paws so I don't knock anything over, the bear charged out at me it was smaller and weaker than the other bear so I didn't bother lighting myself on fire and went straight for its neck it fought back desperately living a Nasty gash on my shoulder, that's defiantly gonna scar anyways after the bear gave me a few small scratches on my face I finally killed it and dragged it back to my rock to eat.

The elf had calmed down when they realised I wasn't after them but the bear they all sighed a breath of relief but became confused when I started eating the demon bear its common knowledge that demon beasts taste horrible, what priceless expressions.

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-Akira