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Chapter 1:
I walked through the great open sahara, my fluffy paws making small footprints in the sand. I was a Mongoose, a small creature, indeed, but I still ate poisonous cobras. All I could see is rock and sand for miles, a dead bush every now and then. It might seem like a sad, desolate wasteland to you, but to me, it’s home. My ruffled fur blew in the warm winds as the orange sun set. A bird flew by, its wings flapping to create a lift. All was good with my life, and I wanted to keep it that way. I was never a thrill seeker. I wanted my life to be simple. And my life was simple. Just sleep, play, hunt, eat, repeat. That’s all I wanted, that’s all I got. I was looking for dinner, maybe a snake. I sniffed around, looking for the slithery reptile.Then, found it!! A King Cobra! It perked up and hissed, and we stared at each other for a while. I was the first one to make a move, I lept up and grabbed it by the neck, and bit down. The cobra whipped me with it’s tail and made me let go. It was tired already, so I tried to swat it down, but it bit my paw. I lept over its head and attacked from behind. Bite, swat, scratch, dodge, bite, swat ,scratch, dodge. Eventually, the snake tired out. I bit the snake again, and dinner was served. It actually tasted pretty good, compared to mice and birds. After dinner, I went to sleep in my little hole. The sun would rise in a couple hours anyways, and I needed to be ready, I would go on another hunt at sunrise.
Chapter 2:
When I woke up, the little bit of wind blowing into my borrow felt different and abnormally cold. I peeked my head out of the hole, and the sahara was even more empty then it was before. The sound of birds had disappeared, and the smells of mice, and even humans were gone. I had no idea what had happened: all I knew was that it was bad. I sniffed around even more, hoping that I could smell some kind of life, but I couldn’t. Everything was gone. My simple life, snakes, even the little dead bushes that I would sometimes play with. It was just sand and me. These were desperate times, I put my snout down into the sand, and ate it. It was gross, but it was either that, or starve. Sand was better then starving. What is it that humans say…ummmmm…oh! I had to pick my poison, and that was eating dirty sand. I kept walking, hoping to see some sort of dead bush or even a bug. As I kept walking, I realised the sun was bluish looking. I shook it off and kept going. I, honestly was scared. Every foot I walked my heart beat a little faster, and my stomach turned a little more, why was I the only one left?Then, I noticed something…A cockroach! It crawled on the sand and even went into a small borrow of its own! I dug up the borrow and…there was a whole nest of them! I slurped up a couple dozen and left. Maybe, just maybe, all wasn’t lost.
Chapter 3:
I walked, and walked, until I saw something else. A strange creature with large ears strutted across the sand. It was somehow smaller than me and had a bushy tail. It was clearly hungry. I watched it, was it like me? Or was it mean or evil? It was too late now, it looked at me, and soon came bounding over. I closed my eyes, I folded my ears back, and then…”Hiya there, I’m Pepper!” Why could I understand this creature? I managed to squeeze out “Hello.”. Pepper jumped up with excitement “Wowee!” You can understand me!” “I can understand you too!” I didn’t know what to think. I opened my eyes. It was kind of cute. Pepper leaped up again and shouted “What’s your name?” I didn’t have one, honestly. So that’s what I said. Pepper stood still for a second…then, “I’m gonna call you Growl, because that’s what it sounds like when you talk.” I was o.k with that, even though there was a part of me that wanted to claw this thing in the face, I didn’t. Pepper looked up at me. “I’m a Fennec Fox, what about you?” I looked down at her. “Mongoose.” She leaped up “Wow! You fight snakes, dont’cha?”I nodded. Pepper’s eyes lit up. “Can you teach me!?” She shouted. “Well, I can’t now.” I joked. Pepper took this way too seriously. She hollered out “Why not!?” Did she not know that everything was gone? I told her everything, she interrupted quite a few times, but was mostly behaved. By the end, she was already half asleep. I picked her up, and carried her back to my den. I fell asleep fast, tomorrow would be crazy.
P.S 1 constructive critique = I hug for Pepper
