"Catch"
Teru threw a dead rabbit in the direction of Bai. The fox caught the rabbit with his mouth and ate it. Then Teru turned and threw a dead rabbit the other way
"Here Catch ! I don't understand why you still keep your distance, I am already aware of your presence "
Long spewed fire at the rabbit and then casually caught it in his mouth and ate it. Long then laid down and looked bored towards Bai and Teru.
"Can I have some fire too?"
Long looked at Teru and spewed fire on a pile of dried branches and within a few seconds there was a fire.
Teru sat down in front of the fire and began skinning the dead rabbit. Bai laid down behind him and throat irritated at Long
'Master I don't understand why you are so kind to that murderous dragon. Have you forgotten what her mistress did in the west during the war '
Teru stung the skinned rabbit on a stick and put it over the fire and sat down with his back against Bai's fur.
'Precisely because I know what her mistress did in the west during the war, I am being nice'
Bai growled at Long, who laid casually a little further away from them, as if she was one of them.
Teru rubbed Bai's fur. Teru knew he could not blame Bai since Kaida had brutally slaughtered several foxes and their masters during the battlefield in the west, and not only foxes had she butchered. Both snakes and wolves were not safe from her.
'Bai you know very well that Kaida not only inherited the fire from her father and mother, but also from the dragons and her ancestors. It is better to just work with them, if they were not a match for her when she was eleven years old, do you think they are now that she has six years more experience?'
Bai looked down at Long again, then lowered his head and closed his eyes.
'Okay master, you know that I always follow orders'
Teru stood up and picked up the rabbit that was ready and took a bite. With the rabbit in his hand, he walked to Long. He stopped in front of Long.
Long opened an eye and growled a little, then closed her eye again.
Teru shook his head and thought that both dragon and her mistress were equally arrogant. Anyway they were in their right because they clearly knew what their qualities were.
"I assume you keep your mistress informed if you would be so free to report that it's too late to save Kueng and Chen."
When Long heard his words, she opened her eyes absurdly and stood up and this time roared loudly towards Teru
Teru raised his hand and slowly moved them up and down
"Calm down, I don't mean they're dead. But Liula has a healer of the snake tribe who is good at making mind-control pills. If we had been a month earlier we could have find them. I was cast away by Liula and I don't know where all the hiding places are. I know they have someone from the wolves tribe who is a master of formations and as long as you don't know the way, it is just like traveling to the elders"
Long growled and laid down again, it was clear that Long was in contact with Kaida at that time because of the way her attitude changed.
'Master I have a message from the king of the foxes tribe'
Teru looked surprised from Bai to Long and then back. He grinned and realized that Huli and Kaida were a very good combination.
'What is the message?'
Bai looked nervously at Teru
'He would rather tell you personally master'
Teru looked irritated in front of him and was in a battle with him self to see if he really wanted to receive the message from Huli.
He thought for a moment, then he walked to Bai and put his hand on Bai's head and closed his eyes.
.....
"Why did it take so long Uncle Teru?"
Teru opened his eyes and swallowed. He saw all the foxes of the foxes tribe walking around in a harmonious atmosphere in a large area. He looked towards where Huli's voice came from.
Huli sat on a small island in the middle of the area on a throne made of the fur of foxes who had traveled to the hereafter. Every time a fox went to the hereafter, the chair was filled with his fur.
Around the island was a lake made from the blood of the royal foxes of the foxes tribe. The blood of the royal foxes provided protection for all foxes and every fox that was born was baptized in the blood.
To reach the Island, Teru had to cross a bridge made of the bones of the foxes who had fought worthy on the battlefield. A bone from every fox who dignely travels to the hereafter was added on the bridge.
Teru hated being in the fox tribe's realm of thought, especially because he knew he had to go to the island to receive the message from Huli.
When he finally stood in front of Huli, he bowed and tried to disguised the disgust on his face.
"Mmm king of the foxes tribe, i'm submissive to you it's not correct to speak to me so informally and because of my actions i'm no longer your uncle"
Huli stood up and put his hand on Teru's shoulder
"As long as you and my aunt are not officially separated from each other, you will remain my uncle. But we are not here for that now. It is time for you to return to the North, you have had your pleasure, but first tell me everything you have come to know "
Teru Sighed
"Liula managed to get Kueng under control by giving him mind control pills on a regular base. According to the information, he is now no longer able to get into Chen's place of thought because of the protective layer that Kaida has put around it. In addition, the period to take over the title of mother of the dragons have expired and the first possibility to take over the title will be again in about five years. You should ask more details about this to your lovely wife. I assume that Liula and her supporters will remain silent over the five-year period as the protective layer that Kaida has installed would weaken after five years "
Huli frowned
"Five years is a long time and that means that we have to be in suspense until then, but it also gives us the opportunity to prepare well. I propose that You travel to my father or to Ryoichi, we will be able to use your talents well to train the warriors. I have the feeling that in five years it will be a battlefield that we have never seen. Especially if they have so much patience to wait another five years"
Teru looked at Huli in surprise
"With all due respect but I am still a traitor to the foxes tribe and my war crimes are not small. I am sure that both Okuri and Ryoichi will not thank me for what I have done, as well as the people of the fox tribe."
Huli turned and sat down on the throne again
"You are indeed a traitor to the Fox Tribe, but both me and the warriors in the Fox Tribe know very well what you did to help us win the war. Do you really think my aunt or the people who grew up with you didn't notice the clues you left behind? If you had really betrayed us, wouldn't it make more sense for you to have kidnapped my aunt or niece to join Liula? Everyone knows how valuable a seer is. Yet you keep insisting that none of your children is a seer and my aunt has always remained safe. And from what I saw during the war you only wounded your opponents but never killed them."
Before Teru could answer, Huli disappeared from the fox tribe's realm of thought and Teru was back in the forest.
He went to the fire and threw earth on it so that the fire went out. He then wiped away all traces of him being there and walked to Bai
"Mmm it's time to head back north"
Teru jumped on Bai his back and headed north followed by Long.