Eye Of the Leopard

[hightyto]

Authors note: Okay, i know this is a very short prologue, but hey, its only the prologue.

Eye of the Leopard


Prologue:

Black creatures loped on in the darkness, and even worse it was impossible to see the black panthers edging closer to the two young but strong leopards. Namera, the female leopard raised her hackles, daring any panther to come closer, while her mate Fahd growled angrily in defiance.
Suddenly, one of the three panthers leaped seemingly out of nowhere onto Namera’s back. Before he could think, Fahd leaped to the aid of his mate. Instantly, his outstretched claws tore at the enemy’s fur, then reaching his flesh. The panther twisted off of Namera who was already on her way to fight another enemy to counter-attack Fahd. Fahd quickly dodged the attack, but his victory was short lived as another enemy leaped onto his back. Instantly he felt claws rake into his back. He caught a quick glimpse of Namera sinking her teeth into her opponent’s throat, the panther struggled beneath her but his futile efforts to free himself become shorter and shorter as his body went limp. Fahd decided that he would try to fend off the enemy on his back because he guessed that Namera would quickly be over to help him, but she didn’t come, and she was nowhere in sight.
Has she left me? Fahd thought desperately, and then snapped back into action as he felt the cold teeth of a Black Panther dif into his flank. He twisted on the panther and thwacked it on the head sending it knocked out on the dry grassland. Before the last standing panther could attack again he leaped out of the way making the panther crash into his fallen comrade. Fahd quickly saw his chance and sunk his teeth into the cats throat and watched coolly as blood formed a puddle around the defeated panther. With a jolt he remembered that his mate had disappeared.
Before Fahd could start to look he realized that his wounds were making his walking hard, and blood leaked out from all his battle scars. But that didn’t stop him; he started his search for his beloved Namera. A shrill squeal made Fahd instantly look up from his sniffing, he recognized the scent anywhere, and it was Namera! But that wasn’t the only smell that was clinging onto his glands.
He rushed to his mates scent trail and found her curled up under some tall grass. She’s injured! The thought flooded Fahd’s mind as he rushed down to aid his mate. When he reached her, he was in for the happiest surprise of his life.
Our Cubs!

[Campion]

Well, at least I know where you got the name Namera! And I'm assuming she went into labor right after the fight?

[hightyto]

you know what namera means?

and yea, thats why Fahd was so protective in the beggingin of the fight.

[hightyto]

OK, heres the first Chapter!



Chapter 1:

Fahd raced down to tend to his mate and his two new cubs. One was a girl, and one was a boy. He began to lick furiously at his cubs fur, slowly drying them off and making them warmer by the second. Then he looked at his beautiful mate Namera with pride in his eyes. True, leopards under no circumstances ever live with a mate, it’s more like a one night stand, the father never even stays with the female or his cubs, let alone live with them like Fahd, But this was different, Fahd was different. Ever since day one Fahd had loved Namera. He had been watching her for weeks before he approached her showing his courage to a troop of baboons, one of the many enemies of the leopards believe it or not.
Once they had mated, Fahd had stayed to tend to Namera; she was starving and had little to eat in her territory, so he decided to help. One day went by with her, then another, then another, and before he knew it they were actual mates.
The reason that these two leopards had been in such deep territory of their most hated enemy, the black panthers, was because the land that they were living on was inhabitable. There was not nearly enough food for two full-frown leopards and no water in sight, and Lions were slowly overrunning it, another enemy of leopards. They had no choice but to cross through this shadowed land to cross into another territory to finally call their own, when they had met up with the three panthers.
“What shall we call them?” Namera asked with anticipation. Fahd quietly cursed himself for never thinking of what to name the cubs. But before he could even think about replying, the recently knocked out panther leaped between Fahd and the little pathetic cubs. Before Fahd could defend the female cub that was being held by the scruff of the already fleeing leopard. Namera took up the pursuit before Fahd could.
Nothing like a fierce mother! Thought Fahd as he joined in the chase at Namera’s heals. Suddenly with a jolt Fahd realized what was happening, he had heard about this before. Panthers often stole and killed baby leopards so they could never live to become a threat to them, and this was being demonstrated right in front of the parents. Snarls and hisses came from both of the leopards while snapping jaws aimed fro the panthers flank but never found their mark, this panther was to fast for Namera after just birthing her cubs, and she quickly fell behind.
As Fahd Raced past her he heard Namera say in a cold voice, “flay his skin and rip out his eyes if he harms that baby!” Fahd knew she was going back to guard the other safe cub back where she gave birth. This was up to Fahd now; he had to get that cub back!
“Stop!” hissed Fahd as he continued chasing the panther. He knew this would do nothing but it was worth a try anyways. Fahd almost stopped dead in his tracks when he saw a small tail of blood trailing the Panther. He knew it had to be his cubs bloodshed, for he didn’t give that panther a blood wound in the mouth, which was where the blood was coming from. He made himself continue on, though he knew he had a small chance of getting the cub back let alone getting the cub back alive.
This was his chance; the panther’s pace was steadily decreasing. Fahd took one last pace and leaped out with claws ready to rip the panther to shreds. He was filled with satisfaction as he felt the sensation of his claws dig deep into the panthers skin, drenching them with blood, it was almost as if he was on the hunt and bringing down prey, but this was personal.
The panther ungraciously crashed into the hard desert ground. A hiss of pure hatred and fear rippled through the panther’s throat and erupted at Fahd’s face as the cub fell to the ground in a helpless bundle of fur. Before the panther could attack Fahd quickly raised his unsheathed paw and swiped as hard as he could at the panthers throat. There was a splatter of blood and a yowl of pain in the night as a panther fell dead. Not even looking back at the panther Fahd went to pick up the baby leopard when he saw that her chest was not heaving with the baby struggle of breath, it was dead.
There was nothing he could do now; the poor cub was gone forever. He gently lifted up the cub by the scruff and began his journey back to his mate. How could he break Namera’s heart like this? After all this was her very first born of her very first litter, it would emotionally kill her.
He finally reached Namera and laid the kit down by her paws. Namera lay down next to the cub and began to gently cover the dead cub with slow licks. Fahd lay next to her feeling like his heart had been ripped out, comforting her with his own gentle licks and soft voice, trying as hard as he could to ease her obvious pain.
“She’s in the beyond now,” said Fahd, and then added, “though she never grew to be old, she lives on in our hearts,” while giving the cub swift lick to the ear. Namera looked at her mate with noting but sadness in her eyes, and then she began to speak, though she only spoke half-heartedly.
“I have to get on with this, at least we have one beautiful male baby cub with us, I have to care for it,” Fahd knew she meant it, but she had clearly not even begun to get on with the fact that her first-born cub was dead. She slowly got up and went over to tend to the one alive baby, then added, “Can you bury her, Fahd?” she said while flicking her tail pointing at the spot where she wanted her buried, “I just can’t watch it, its to hard.” Fahd understood. He once again picked up the cub and walked to where Namera had pointed. He set the cub down and began clawing away at the dirt.


“We will never forget you,” Fahd said as began to withdraw from where he had put the dead baby cub for her final resting place, “We will always love you, even though we didn’t even get the chance to know you.”

[cree]

Your story is great.

[hightyto]

thanks cree! looks like we both got some sort of Animal/big sized cat(or in a wolves case, dog) story.

[Cleve]

I like it, are you still continuing to write it High Tyto?

[hightyto]

not really, i ind of moved on to something else. sorry...