following the heavy bear's paws within the soft ground, sapphire walks as quietly as possible, there are broken bushes and tree branches all over the place, and the bear seems to be panicking not caring about its tracks, making it extremely easy to follow.
minutes pass as Sapphire follows the trail of the sparking bear, she finds it lying on the ground, still breathing.
Sapphire walks up to the bear and prefers to slit its throat.
"m, mum, where are you?"
"fuck, I thought it was an adult... I need to do this quick."
She slits the bear's throat and the top of its spine, trying to kill it quickly, she takes a couple of minutes to dismantle the bear slightly, taking the frank mana core from within and taking the largest amount of meat she can before leaving swiftly.
{eaten an F - rank mana core, +10 to recovery}
"I can't stay here now, great, let's leave the rug... actually I'll take it with me for a bit, I'll use it as a backpack or whatever.
Sapphire ties the pelt around herself in a way so it can hold items, she picks up as much as she can.
After packing for a couple of minutes she can gather everything but fills up her makeshift bag. (she leaves the poisonous bugs a stick to climb out of the hole she put them in.)
she travels aimlessly through this Forest, until coming across a stream she hears, deciding she's travelled long enough she settles down semi-close to the river, setting up her things near the bottom of a tree, she collects sticks and makes s not-very good tipi like structure.
"fuck this, I'm climbing the tree."
As sapphire rests for a couple of hours.
waking up from her nap, she heads to the river to get a drink.
taking some sips, she sees not too far from her three things.
The first is the river itself, the second is a puppy within the said river, and the third is a person floating alongside the puppy.
...
Sapphire "I'm not taking the bait."
....
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Sapphire "fuck fine, I'll save the puppy."
As she quickly takes her only clothes off before going into the river, thankfully somehow being able to swim, she reaches the puppy not long after and flips onto her back, putting the puppy onto her stomach.
as she starts Lily pad Dali g back doing her best to keep the puppy afloat, she is lightly grabbed by the unknown person within the river.
SIfphire "If you awake, save yourself."
Only for the light grip to weaken further.
Sapphire "That's great, this is fantastic, what I always wanted... I guess I'll take this person with me for now, If I feel like they're evil or tricking me in any way... I get rid of them." She thinks to herself.
she shakes herself off, doing her best to get dry, puts her clothes back on and brings the two creatures she for some reason saved to her badly made tipi thing, putting the puppy down softy, the person not so much, she just made sure her head did not hit the ground... to hard anyway and makes a small fire to hopefully help the puppy dry quicker.
Sapphire then heads out to find some sort of food for the puppy and comes back an hour later with a medium deer carcass.
cooking some of it for herself and preparing so,e for the small way dry puppy, and waits.
After around 2 minutes she decides to quickly tie up the person, now getting a good look at the person, they are female, around Sapphire's age, so 14? ( totally haven't forgotten:/) they have golden hair, going down to the middle of their back, torn fancy clothes, this being a dark blue, with golden fancy lines around the edges with the emblem on the side, the emblem resembles a rose, an empty dagger holster on her leg.
After tying her hands with sticks sapphire twisted along with vines, sapphire left the golden-haired girl flopped next to a tree.
after an hour the puppy woke up and got into a defensive manner.
Sapphire "Don't worry, I'm the one who got you out of the river, here is some meat, you'll need it."
the puppy lowers its guard slightly after being able to understand sapphire.
The puppy waits for Sapphire to take the first bit of the deer meat, proving it is eatable.
proving the food she made is actually edible she eats some first before providing it the the puppy, who then eats it happily.
Not long after the golden-haired girl wakes up, she tries to move, only to realise her hands are tied.
The golden-haired girl starts to panic thinking she has been captured by whoever caused her to be in the river, and starts to constantly, and frantically look around.
spotting sapphire eating.
golden-haired girl" AAHH, BEAST DON'T EAT ME!"
golden-haired girl" SNOW, STAY AWAY FROM THE WILD BEAST IT WILL EAT YOU."
Sapphire" SHUT UP!"
"T T the beast speak common," the golden-haired girl says shocked.
"I should of let you drown," Sapphire said irritated.
golden-haired girl " w what, how dare you speak to a lady like."
Sapphire "You're no lady girl, now shut up, it getting dark."
"Why would that matter?" The golden-haired girl says with authority.
Sapphire" Do I really need to explain why... fuck sake, we are in a monster-filled forest." Sapphire said getting more irritated.
"Said the monster." The golden-haired girl said pettily.
Sapphire jungles towards the golden-haired girl, extending her claws.
Sapphire clips the golden-haired girl's neck p, making her bleed slightly.
"do you want me to slit your throat girl?!" Sapphire said with anger.
the puppy once more getting defence, growling and about to pounce at Sapphire.
"tsk, whatever, no wonder someone tried to drown you." As Sapphire retracts her claws going back to her food.
"t that's not what happened I."
I don't care, you were lucky, that's the only reason you're alive, you were extra for save the puppy, now shut up before you attract monsters.
around 30 minutes pass before Sapphire offers the golden-haired girl any sort of food, but the golden-haired girl rejects it.
A small amount of time later sapphire ears move slightly, reacting to something in the distance.
"pup stay hidden," Sapphire whispers, before climbing the tree nearby.
"Hey, where are you going beast, get back here." The golden-haired girl says irritated
A large black wolf can be seen coming from the outline of the fire, stalking closer to the golden-haired girl.
"hey beast, stay away, I, I don't taste nice... beast, get back and protect me... girl, girl please come back, I don't want to die here, please!"
the wolf gets closer, not seeing any danger, but still on guard as it can smell two other creatures that are nearby, not wanting to leave such a free meal, it circles the golden-haired girl multiple times, attempting to find where the others went before eating its free meal.
finding nothing even after searching for the more prominent smell, it decides to finally go toward the golden-haired girl.
As the wolf starts to get ready to pounce on its meal, a high-pitched growl can be heard as a small, white puppy comes out from a small hole, underneath the tree next to the wolf's prey.
seemingly trying to protect the wolf's prey, the larger black wolf bats the puppy away with no effort, causing the puppy to yelp in pain and go a few feet away scraping the ground.
snow, the small white puppy, didn't give up though, it did its best to protect its owner who looked after it for all its not-too-long life, as snow stood up with a lot of effort once more, blood seeping down its once pure white fur.
doing its best to growl, snow keeps toward the black wolf, and lands on the wolf's leg, digging into its leg, the nest it can.
sadly it's not enough as the wolf shakes snow off with little effort, and a small amount o blood trickles down the wolf's leg.
Leaving the small puppy for late, the wolf turns back to its prey and leaps towards it, teeth bared.
crunch
the sounds of bones breaking can be heard.
As the golden-haired girl sits still, only to see what the sound is by opening her eyes, what she sees is the wolf's head and neck caved in, with sapphires on top, pulling her claw's feet out of the wolf.
"What, the pup would have been sad if you died like that, it also did its best to protect you, I don't want it sad, so that's why you're alive.. got it? Now shut up and go back to sleep, if you want I'll put you in the tipi, but be quiet." Sapphire told the golden-haired girl, visibly irritated.
the golden hair girl nods, so Sapphire picks her up with a bit of difficulty and almost throws her inside her badly made tipi.
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hello everyone, sorry for not uploading I just didn't know how to continue the story from where I left it, hopefully, it does not come off as too forced.
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