'Hear anything?' Sky whispered to me. I swivelled my eats around to see if I could catch any noise.
'Nope sounds all good to me' I replied. We tip-toed past the hole. My nose twitched and I knew that something was living in there, something we definitely did not want to come in contact with.
'Mari...I have a bad feeling about this...' I heard Sky say. I looked behind me and noticed his nose twitching too. I knew it couldn't be good. I smelt and heard it before I saw it.
'Run!' we both exclaimed. We took off down the winding path that led back to the den. It wasn't technically my den, but I like to think otherwise. We raced through the bramble bushes and into the camp, completely out of breath. Everyone looked at us like we were crazy. That's when I heard that ear-piercing screech again.
'Akita!' I shouted I needed to warn him before it was too late if it wasn't already. I ran to his en and hurriedly knocked on the rock.
'Come in' I hear him say. I rushed inside and started blabbering, not making much sense.
'Calm down Mari, slowly does it.' he said. I took a deep breath in and started again...
'Ahh, this is what I feared...' Akita told me, 'I've seen the signs but thought nothing of them, I mean I didn't think it was possible that something like this was happening...again...'.
'What do you mean again?!' I said, 'Is everyone going to be okay? We're not going to die right? Oh my gosh, we're going to die'.
'No one's going to die Mari...at least I hope not. Don't worry about it dear, I'll handle it.'
'Don't worry about it? Don't worry about it! How can you say that to me? Of course, I'm worrying about it. And you know something else that's worrying me? I seem to be the only one that can hear it! Sky didn't say a word in the forest and I heard it again when we arrived here, and no one look worried except for me'.
'Wait, you heard it when you arrived here?' Akita said, looking slightly scared, 'Oh this is bad. I must warn the other clans. Now go down and make yourself useful.'
'B-but!' I stuttered
'No buts, go!'
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