Treasure Hunting for the feast

Nico’s eyes widened when Jack decided to attack by slamming into its eye.  His friend would get swallowed like that!!  It did do the trick of getting it to not watch Nico however the giant lizard was trying to eat Jack.  Nico jogged farther behind it and attempted to bite its tail to steal its attention.  The scales were thick and solid with hardly any damage done with the bite.  It did cause the gator’s tail to swipe out so that Nico barely dodged getting hit by it.  The back end was almost as dangerous as the front!

Nico was about to go in for another attack when he heard Jack’s suggestion. “Don’t let it swallow you!” It was half joke but half serious.  Jack could end up dead with one wrong step.  Nico hadn’t put much thought into the fact he could end up in the same position.  Nico ran around to the side of the gator that he’d seen the most sparkles about.  

A frustrated snarl came from his throat seeing one of the alligator's legs where a strap of some sort was poking out of the sand, a bit farther off he could see the opening of a sack the sparkling had come from.  No surprise there was blood on the bag.  Someone had chosen the wrong path to take with their sparkly things.  There had been another sparkle farther off but he’d start with this.  Nico had to wait, impatiently until Jack pissed off the gator in another direction.

Nico ran in, grabbing at the strap, trying to pull it free but the bag was locked into the clay.  With a fight between a wolf and alligator right next to Nico he dug with frenzied paws to unearth more of their treasure.   Nico jerked again on the sack and it started to budge.  Just a bit more! Glancing up he noticed Jack wasn’t dead yet.  Good.

"Niko"