Chapter 15: sparrow and eagles
After the pups were born the mother wolf refused to let anyone but her daughter, one of the siblings to enter the den. Curious IT began trying to enter in but would almost always get chased out, IT got a glimpse and there were eight pups in the litter squirming around.
Days pass and the number of squirming pups seems to dwindle. One by one they start dying. from eight pups to seven, from seven to six. Every time a pup dies, the mother wolf brings the body out of the den digs a shallow hole and buries it in. At first IT thought that it was due to hunger, IT and his pack started to hunt even more and brought the surplus of the meat to the entrance of the den. But still another one of the pups died. Something was wrong, and IT wanted to find out, to get a closer look IT waits for night to come, he then transforms into a mouse and goes inside.
Inside the den the mother wolf seems to be chewing on one of the pups, the pup she seems to be chewing on were screeching from pain. Curiously IT quietly inched closer. When it came close, IT noticed that the mother wolf was actually trying to remove some blood sucking ticks that were clinging on one of the pups neck. The process seems to be painful for the pups, hence the yelping noises. there were a lot ticks and it wasn't just on the pup’s neck; The whole den was infested of them.
No matter how many times the mother wolf tries to remove the ticks, more ticks crawl in from the dried forage inside and latch on to the pups. The ticks were carrying some kind of disease and it was slowly killing the pups. IT found the problem and it was the ticks, the mother wolf cleaned off most of the ticks clinging to the pups bodies and she goes back to sleep.
As soon as the wolf fell asleep, IT Transforms from a mouse into a sparrow. Immediately, IT began picking off all the ticks within reach while being stealthy enough to be undetected by the mother wolf.
IT made quick work and most of the ticks were picked off, all except those clinging onto the pups skin and the mother wolf’s fur, the ticks somehow latched on back to the pups while IT was picking off the area.
IT began meticulously removing the ticks off of the pups, IT was careful on only picking off the ticks on the pups whose mouth were busy suckling on their mother’s teat. Every time a pup lets go off a teat, IT would stop picking on the pup and move on to the next. While IT was eating the ticks off of the pups, He was also being latched on and fed on by ticks.
As IT picks off a tick on one of the pups inner ear a small part of the pups skin peeled off, the pup let’s go of a teat and yelps. The mother wolf who was sleeping on her side starts to rise her head, IT immediately turns into an insignificant cockroach and lies still. The presence of ticks under the midsection of IT became more intrusive and painful, the hole some ticks punctured on his skin widened as he turned into a cockroach, it was excruciating for IT. Still IT did not move. After a while The pup stops squeaking and the wolf went back to sleep.
IT reshapes back into a bird. The moment IT grew back in size, the hole the ticks made grew large as well, Some of the ticks begrudgingly crawls into the enlarged hole, much to the dismay of IT. IT began stabbing at them with his beak in panic.
Alarmed and panicking IT pecks away at the hole while chirping maniacally. Finally IT manages to peck the ticks out of his body and gobbles them down, at ease that the ticks were in the proper inside of his body IT looks back to the place where the mother wolf and the pups are.
Instead of the image of a slumbering wolf and her pups, a huge gaping mouth with rows of teeth between meets his gaze. Terror struck IT as the mouth start clenching with him inside, before the mother wolf's jaw shut’s tight completely, IT turns into a grasshopper at the same time jumping into the cracks between her teeth, Not even touching the ground IT transforms into a sparrow and flies away.
IT flew as fast as he could away from the den, the state of mind he was in was that of a bird that was almost preyed upon. As he flew far away the fear in him starts to subside. He starts slowing down as he got back to his senses. IT starts to make sense of his surroundings, he was high up in the air, the cool morning breeze could be felt over his beak and under his wings, it somehow calmed him a bit. It was already dawn and the sun rising up from the horizon.
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The feeling of flying was calming him more and more. IT circles around the wolf territory just to prolong the feeling further, the sense of safety. As IT was about ready to descend, Two birds simultaneously erupts out of the forest from the distance, the birds soars high, higher than IT’s altitude, IT did not mind them until they began to fly towards his direction. Both birds were exceptionally larger, the smaller one of them was four times the size of IT and their sharp talons were large enough to hold IT securely within their grasps.
Fear grabs hold of IT as the instincts of his current form were still clouding his mind and his judgement. IT’s instinct forces him to turn around and evade. The birds follows with incredible speed up one from above and another from below, it was evident that the birds that were chasing IT were faster. The bird from above takes a nosedive directly towards IT. Talons jut out as the bird attempts a grab. Talons puncture flesh and hollow bone snaps as IT get’s caught in between the sharp claws.
Desperate, IT turns into a snake and takes a bite at the leg that was grasping him. The larger eagle shrieks and let’s go. IT speedily shifts back into a sparrow and tries to fly but due to the previous damage, some of his bones were misplaced and jutting out off strange places, IT was able to stay in midair but it was evident that his movement got slower, his right wing was also bent slightly out of place with a small bone sticking out of place, the eagle turns around ready to make another attempt to strike from the front but he too also seems to have slowed down, the venom might kill him in a while.
IT notices in the corner of his eye, the other eagle tried to sneak an attack from behind, IT manages to avoid death by flapping his right wing vigorously away from the sneak attack.
A coordinated attack came from the left by the injured eagle. Since the eagle was too slow IT easily evades by folding his right wing, The injured eagles claws misses by the thickness of a feather.
The folded wing causes IT’s body to twist and veering off to the left while dropping in altitude. IT retracts his right wing and hovers in mid-air, the venom finally did the injured eagle in as he awkwardly flap in the air while losing altitude then dropping on the ground like a bomb.
The clash was still on as the other eagle manoeuvres itself towards IT in another attempt to attack and kill, the eagle goes for another dive, claws out.
IT flaps his wings to try to escape the eagles path but the eagle was too fast to evade and the momentum of the hit made hollow bones bend. IT tries to stay in the air but the injured right wing finally gives in and excruciatingly bends the wrong way. IT starts falling straight down into the ground, and lands hard, while the eagle merely spreads its wings to stop itself from falling.
The eagle circles around triumphantly, the eagle watches as its prey tries to stand. Not wanting to wait any longer, the eagle begins a final dive in order to kill and take home the prize. They prey gazes at her as if defiant to the obvious conclusion to this conflict.The moment the was a few feet away from her target, something was off, but she was already committed to make the killing blow.
Out of nowhere her prey immediately grew in size and shape, before she knew it her talons pierce fur instead of feathers’ and her head was clenched inside the fangs of a beast.
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{Last Note For This Chapter: if there's any grammar, criticism, mistakes or any other confusing stuff in the story let me know in the comment section below and I will answer it there in the comment section or on the next Chapter of the info section and do the fixes on the current chapter.I'm kinda blind to seeing any horrible sentences that need some rephrasing or any other info that I might be confusing, so I'm looking for any help I can get.}