Tiger Food?

The tiger moves through the trees at breakneck speed trying to get away with its snack while Haydée screams for her mother to save her. Fear grips her heart but she does not stop screaming, knowing that the noise will help whoever is coming, to find them better. Tears stream down her cheeks and suddenly, her mother appears in front of them. Relief floods the girl at her mother’s approach but they are shifting, the tiger turning in an attempt to bypass the towering wolf and escape. A sound, unlike anything she has ever heard before, erupts from her mother’s lips as the pup blinks wide, terrified eyes.

Bellamy lunges in, attacking the tiger with a ferocity that Hay has never seen in her short life. Pain is inflicted on the attacking feline and it opens its mouth to yowl which releases Haydée in the process. Small body tumbles to the ground, rolling into the underbrush where she comes to stop, slightly dazed. The sounds of her mother fighting the tiger helps to sharpen her mind and the pup rolls over and gathers her paws under her. A wave of dizziness strikes and she shakes her head to clear it, sending blood to splatter against the bright green leaves around her. Her neck is on fire and she idly thinks that she is losing a lot of blood for such a small being.

Tilting her head back, the pup releases a call for her father and for fighters to rally on her. Not wanting to leave her mother fighting the tiger alone, Haydée emerges from the underbrush and finds her mother is bleeding from her foreleg. Anger takes hold and she launches her small form toward the fight, racing in to jump up and bite a clawed paw that is aiming for her mother. The tiger seems unperturbed by her attack and merely shakes her off his paw but it gives her mom an opening. She falls back to the earth, darting away and back into the foliage as she readies for her next attack. Hopefully, they can end this fight soon because she is suddenly very tired.


"Haydée Kedieo"