Mondo 's kin group


I am Mondo when my story began I was 16 years old. My Father was killed by a cave bear 5 twelvemonth earlier and my Mother was claimed by Grog .... Grog hates me.

The men are gathering for a hunt, we are traveling to a summer encampment and need to throw heart for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too slow down ... .. soon, very soon I will challenge him. He says my big fundament make me clumsy.

The men are prepare to hunt and the caput man Tondor calls us to go out. Lateen has spotted a herd of Bison not to far from our bivouac. We will hang back them and set up an trap. Tondor tells Grog and I to locomote ahead on the right while Lateen and Gorbus does the Lapplander to the left.

I ease behind a rock and roll with my shaft in hired man when something startles the herd and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and aspect over my shoulder and see Grog swinging his cabaret at my top dog. My movement caused the blow to be a stupefy blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a abruptly tree that had fallen and lay in their path and my lifeless body rolled under its branches.

I opened my eyes, my head injury and I could hardly see. I try to remain firm but could not. I check and I still had my water skin. I took a swallow and poured some over my head. Slowly very slowly I began to come to my gumption. Grog tried to kill me before I could challenged him.

Grog was about 5'tall and weighed about 200 lbs. I on the other handwriting stood at 6'and weighed about the same but where Grog was fat mine was muscle. One day I will involve him down, maybe today when I get back to camp.

I found my shaft and using it as a staff I made my way back to camp. Before I made it to the pack field I realized something was very wrong, no smoke, as I rounded the Boulder that marked the entrance to the box canyon where the camp had been for months. Before me was a free area no huts no masses ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the flat coat.

The kin probably thought I was dead, Grog would consume told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not sleep together how long I was out, as fallible as I felt it could have been days. I knew where there were some Charles Edward Berry vines near by and I went to them that at least gave me a bit of nourishment.

After I had eaten my fill of the berries I made my way back to where the stampede had occurred. I followed in the Bison 's wake. I do n't know what I was expecting but … where else was I to go, I had been following for hours when I noticed a carcass. As I drew near I could see a shaft sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must make eluded the Clan and died slowly. I took my flinty knife and began the process of skinning it. Before I was half done I decided to build a fire to retain predatory animal away. I gathered wood and pulled out my fervidness endocarp struck them together and directed the sparks to the tinder and in moments I had my fire I fed it larger pieces of Sir Henry Joseph Wood till I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the pith and placed it on a stone near the fire. Just by fortuity, a few old age ago a hunk of gist was dropped into the coals of our fire. Some time later my Father-God noticed the tantalizing look from the cooking meat he raked it out, brushed it off and took a bite. We each tried a slice of the cooked meat and now often cooked our pith. I stood up from placing the gist and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a watercourse near by so I decided to just appease right where I was. I made Racks and hung while of substance to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison peel and began to scrape the hide and tan it.
I stayed there for a week and ate my fill and although I heard predators almost every Night my fire seemed to keep them at bay. I found some modest trees with uncoiled luggage compartment about an column inch to an inch and a one-half in diameter. I cut two about eight substructure longsighted then I cut smaller ones to make a spread of about three ft. These I tied to the longer poles to make a travois. I cut a lot of thin strips from the Bison tegument for this and more to tie the skin and and the nitty-gritty to the travois.



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Grog set looking into the campfire thinking about how his architectural plan to get rid of Mondo had worked so well, he laughed to himself. It was even dear than he had planed, Mondo had fell right in nominal head of the stampede. He laughs to himself nothing left wing of Mondo.

Tondor regretted the departure of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the honorable hunter in the Clan. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him fall in nominal head of the stampede so there was not lots horse sense in too long of a search.

They had traveled many solar day to their summer cantonment only to notice that there had been a timberland fire during the winter and the sphere was nada but ashes. Tondor decided to turn North east in search of new land.

Mondo 's mother was sure that Grog was at fault for her sons death but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would beat her and leave her behind. So she kept her thoughts to herself.
Lateen 's daughter Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only football team she had a puppy love on Mondo. Mondo was the marvelous, strongest and most giving and Sonda knew that one day he would plunk her ... She just had to grow a trivial bit ... well since her chest was flatcar and she was as skinny as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the celestial pole to his shoulder joint and began his search for the kin. It was at least a moon to the summer camp. He had made a slingback from a duad of strands cut from the bison skin and kept the slingback in his script as he walked. By the time he stopped for the day he had three coney and a badger. He had gutted them while walking then when he stopped he finished skinning them. Mondo was bent over scrapping the badger fur when he heard a holla ... He grabbed his fizgig and turned, he barley had fourth dimension to set himself as a saber-tooth Tiger launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his knee joint and steadied his lance. The Tiger hit the spear and drove the gig into its chest the force play of the impingement carried the tiger over and yesteryear Mondo ripping the shaft out of his hired man. Mondo grabbed for his Flint River knife and leaped on to the tigers back and with the razor sharp flinty tongue attacked the throat of the Panthera tigris. The force of the Tiger landing broke the spear in half. The blade of the spear pierced the affection of the beast as it slung Mondo off its back. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's feet … dead. Mondo had closed his eyes because he knew he was dead ... nada happened …. he opened his eyes to see the Panthera tigris at his feet, then he shook.

He had no time to fall apart. He gathered forest and make a large fire. He began skinning the Tiger noting the fact that it was a female and looked like it may hold been nursing. Mondo staked out the Panthera tigris skin out to make scraping easier. Then he drug the carcase away from clique. Returning to the camp he found three kitten eating his rabbits that he had planned on having himself. Well he thought that answers the question about if the Tiger had kits or not.. Mondo picked up the rabbits and stay put them on peg over the fire. He cut the Wisconsinite into lowly man and fed it to the outfit. They ate their fill then curled up next to Mondo and went to kip.

The next aurora Mondo went back to the tigers carcass ... it was almost clean naught but bones left. He looked around and found the head and removed the Saber- tooth. Being about six in long they would be beneficial for stabbing. He headed back to bivouac the kit were playing and nipping at the badger ivory. He staked out the tiger peel and went to process on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the poles and started off it had been three days preparing the tiger cutis, the kits played around his invertebrate foot. They would contract a few pace and attend back and mew. Then run to catch up then repeat, they were not sure what to do for Mondo kept on walking. This went on for over an hr then the outfit started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a mournful cry and an answering growling .... a coyote looking for an slow meal. Why ? Mondo does not know but he dropped the poles grabbed the one-half spear and attacked the brush wolf. Being a Noel Coward the coyote ran away … well just out of grasp ... Mondo scratched his read/write head wondering why he did some of the thing he did. He walked back to the tired and scared kit and picked up one turned it over … it was a male person he said"You are Bruno ”. The next had tabby cat stripes and was female for some reason it reminded him of lateen sail 's girl,"You are Sondi."The last-place one was humble but male Mondo laughed at the battle and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the carrier and placed them on the skins. They settled down to catch some Z's.

As the days passed the kit would get down from the carrier run and play till they tired then they would climb up back up and go to sleep. Mondo began to notice a slight chill in the air he began to worry that there might be a late Charles Percy Snow storm coming. He started searching for a place to hold up and wait it out. With the aid of his sling he had pile of meat to last so that was no worry but he did need to retrieve a neat pole to give into a shaft. Another hour of walk and he noticed a stand of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that had a few saplings the gross length for his spear ... if he could encounter the right rock maybe he could silicon chip out three or four shaft heads. He began to look for ripe flints and collected a few and cut down a few saplings.

As Mondo set down to began shaping the spear up head he heard a shriek, He took his one-half spear and moved off in the commission of the wow. He was walking in a dry stream bed, as he walked he would piece up rocks to use with his sling if needed. He could enjoin he was getting close by the grunting just ahead of him. As he rounded a bend he saw something he had only heard about. Before him was what his dad had called lomen their torso were twisted as was their faces they were feeder of men. The lomen were across-the-board in the eubstance and strong and there were three of them. One of them was eating on the leg bone of a man they had ripped apart. The other two were trying to attract something from under the bramble President Bush next to the rocks. From the screech I could tell it was a distaff and that the pricker was all that was between her and these monster. I loaded my slingback and let fly hitting the eater in the synagogue ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the other turned toward me I let fly the Rock catching him in the bow head. Before I could reload the end one had turned and charged me.

Before he could reach me three tawny dynamos went streaking past one grabbed an mortise joint, one grabbed the most buck private parts causing him to farm his head which gave Bruno the prospect he needed and latched on to his throat. As the monster went down I planted my half spear in to his chest of drawers and pressed it into his sum. I called the Kits off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their Milk teeth had been replaced by the beginning of their tusk, I chuckled that lomen probably was very surprised when those clamped on his buck private.

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I looked around and saw Runt on his belly crawling under the brambles. I heard another thigh-slapper and I said do n't injure my kitten he just wants to play and you are prophylactic now the lomen are dead.
"Who are you ?"
"I am Mondo a lone Orion lost from my Clan."“ I am going to cut the Brambles back"I took my knife and cleared an hatchway through the brambles. I was surprised to recover there was a cave behind the brambles. The opening was about four foot across and tall but once in side the cave it was at least eight human foot tall. As I entered the first thing I saw was an eight year old playing with runt beside her was her mother and three other women and two boy about ten. The man who had been ripped apart was the only adult male with them. They were looking at me with fear, I glanced to either side and realized that St. Bruno and Sondi were escorting me. I will be right-hand back I will get rid of the bodies and get my gear and then I will return. I drug the bodies a right fashion away so predator would not come close to the cave. I checked them for arm but all they had was clubs, which I had no use for.

I drug my travois inside the cave and made numerous slip back outside to bring in firewood. Then I drug the Brambles back to encompass the entrance.
Then I looked at the the great unwashed still standing in the same place that I had left them.."Please at to the lowest degree sit down, I am not here to hurt you if you wish to leave I will not stop you. Do what you wish."

I decided to give them alone and light a fervency. I unloaded the travois and spread the the pelt the kitten crawled right on the furs and Lil the eight year old who had been playing with peewee followed him onto the furs. One by one they began to sit on the furs and the son asked if it was alright to pet the kitten. Sondi answered by rubbing on their legs, Bruno was not far behind. I continued getting the fire started and started some rabbits to roasting. I am Mondo I will eat up telling my write up. I noticed that some of the fastball drifted down the roof line of the cave then disappeared. I lit a distance of forest and and used it as a torch. I walked farther in to the spelunk the two boys and Sondi and Bruno followed. About L animal foot inward we found a stream that ran along the right wall. The guy smelled the water and took a drink. I dipped my hand in, the body of water was dusty and odoriferous. We walked on for about a C animal foot the cave made a tour to the left and opened up to a vast elbow room with a pool almost twenty to thirty feet across. There was some kind of Moss on the cave rampart that gave off brightness. I no longer demand the torch so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the room and could see an opening ahead of me. When I reached the opening I was shocked to see a beautiful valley. A river flowed from out of the primer coat at the radical of the mountain. Wild game was abundant, Charles Edward Berry were evident as well as herb and spices all were in slew. Mondo turned to the boys,"Bring me the blowtorch and I will relight it then I want you to go bring every one here."I continued to gaze at the vale trying to guess its size of it the Best hypothesis was it was at to the lowest degree 10 miles long and 5 wide-eyed but would sleep with better when I had a prospect to explore.

While the male child were gone I walked out into the vale and looked around. I felt like I was house, the cave had protection and fresh piss and the Valley had all the food we could eat. I was standing in front of the cave with my arms lifted up towards the sky as the others stepped out of the cave. Lil and her mother Ludi were first out of the cave they walked up to me and asked where are we. Ludi says When we left the early end it was snowing but..but.. here the sun is shining and it is strong. Everyone gathered around all were amazed at what they saw. One of the woman, Pori, made the gossip we could hold up here and no one would know.."Moli and Star the former two women spoke together"we need to go get our things."I knew then I had been accepted for, our matter they refer too was the items I had unloaded from my travois. But they were right we needed the things moved to this end .We all went back together.

The first Night we slept on the furs it was close sleeping, in the eye of the night I awoke with an arm draped across my body stroking my breast and stomach.. I started to twist over when a voice said shhhh. I lay there enjoying the flavour and not knowing who was doing the rubbing. That night I had pleasant dreams. And when I awoke the next forenoon the lady were out gathering herbs Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a medication char prentice, And Lil 's mother.
The early dame, Pori seventeen, Moli XIX and star twenty five were not related to the boys, Drago and Malo were counterpart but not identical, .they did not know what had happened to their parents.

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The whole group had been tied together after being captured by the lomen. They had been walking for hours when the loss leader of the lomen called a halt. He pointed to three of his group and speechmaking in a language they did not understand. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to watch them. Their sentry duty pushed them down near a great devour tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a hole under the tree which led to the dry stream bed and eventually to the cave. Lil found the fix. She told her mother and Ludi whispered to the others. Then they waited. Later into the Nox the lomen began to snooze when she felt it safe she lowered Lil into the hole and one at a prison term they all slipped away. The man was the last and he slipped and fell making enough noise to awaken the lomen. They ran as fast as they could then Ludi saw the brambles and every one tried to slip under them when the lomen grabbed the man and literally ripped him apart. One of the early lomen was reaching under the brambles and had grabbed on to Star .... That is when Mondo arrived and took out the lomen. Mondo took charge and Ludi was glad to let him besides she was physically attracted to him. Mondo had checked each one of them to make certain no one was injured. And they all stood there in reverence not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his shaft he stripped the bark from the saplings. And stood the helve near the flaming to set about the drying out and hardening of the slam. He took the stones and began working on the blade for the spearheads. Drago and Malo sat conclusion watching his every motility. Mondo looked around and spotted the kitty following the women and playing. The women seemed to learn the bearing of the Saber-tooth cats as lifelike. After making four spear blade and rotating the shafts Mondo decided it was time to look over the valley. He gather a few sway and his slingshot and motioned to the boys, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a minuscule herd of bison, many rabbits, a variety of birds and butt and sheep and many other fauna. They all seemed to be food animals other than small-scale carnivores there did not appear to be any great predators. There was no grounds of Tamil Tigers, bears or wolves. The most serious animal he saw was bovine. One breed had hooter about six ft in length. The deer universe was abundant and they counted the points on a boastfully Stag as three hand plus two fingers. I thought about what I had done … into this peaceful vale I had introduced three top of the line marauder. They may be young now but … one day. I guess I would have to train them. And let them hunt in the forest from the bramble President Bush entrance. I decided my idea of the size of the Valley was unaired very close but probably the valley was a bit heavy. In the aloofness Mondo could see a dark area which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another exit. One day he vowed to take the air all of the valley ... Then he would know.

When he and the male child returned the clique seemed to be discharge ... Mondo was worried, with shaft at the ready he entered clique. Then he heard laugh from inside the cave. He and the male child entered the cave and was met with the sight of principal completely nude and the others all waist cryptic in the puddle ... also nude. They saw him and the male child and waved to them, come in in come in there is a hot springs in the pool. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too late they had already dropped their clothes and were running for the piddle. Mondo shed his own pelt to the oohs and aahs of the adult fair sex. Mondo did n't have to do anything just walk into the pool. The women met him and began to wash him even Lil tried to aid but the women said no.

The slingshot kept us in solid food and pelt for clothes. There was a flora that had vane that looked like sword, the thorn on the end of the blade could be broken off and a thin thread like composition about two feet long could be pulled out of the sword, this made for a stark needle and ribbon. The prickle would see the light after about two weeks so the needle and thread was constantly replaced as long as the sword was not cut. I taught all how to use the slingshot and they all seemed to be naturals. It was a pleasant life though I wished for more men to go after self-aggrandising game and … I missed my mother.


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Mondo 's female parent, Sharlu, did not recognize how much more than she could take up. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to look for things to get angry about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to disregard it but he to had been casting his eyes at the comeliness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to exact a new wife, but by the jurisprudence of the tribe Grog had acted first and Sharlu was his. If Tondar ever actually saw Grog beating Sharlu .... He would Challenge Grog. But now was not the meter. A malady had swept through the Clan, Tobar the medicine Man worked with them all until he too became throw up Before it was over they had lost six children, five men including Tobar and eight char. The tribe was really hurting there was only eleven men, five adult female and ten minor. Of the ten tiddler only three were over twelve and only one was male. Some of the men were still very weak only three hunting watch were available to prey the Clan. No Tondar thinks, today is not a in force day to challenge. Grog is needed.

Grog was never touched by illness and he took this as a planetary house that he was destined to be principal of the clan. He would ascertain Tondar and he would plan.

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Today Star asked to go on the hunt with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three miles from the coterie when superstar dropped to her stifle and put her head to the ground and pulled her vesture to the incline baring her delicious backside. As she wiggled her rear end she tells Mondo she wants a sister. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to come in her. After the fourth miss champion reached between her ramification, took him in helping hand and guided him into her velvet glove. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went wild bouncing Star all over the background. Then he felt a foreign superstar and he grabbed her hips and shoved himself all the way into lead, His discharge was like an detonation and as the tone receded. Mondo collapsed at headliner groundwork, the rest of the aurora was spent the Saame way. They finished their hunt and Star told him the other womanhood were waiting their routine. They had decided that their tribe needed more citizenry. Mondo walked around the rest of the day with a big grinning on his case just thinking … he would get to do this to the other women too.

As they arrived back at inner circle everyone knew that Star had been successful and every time the former woman would take the air past Mondo they would tweet their tail at him. Even Lil as Loretta Young as she was got in on the tail twitching. Two months later all the woman were pregnant and Lil was asking her Mother why she could n't be pregnant too.

Mondo was training the Cats and as they became larger he began taking them out into the forest past the Bramble gate. The African tea had made a good kill and I was dragging my travois with the meat and pelt down the gully when Bruno came to a occlusive and I could here a rumble in Sondi 's throat. peewee was crouched in his attack mode. I made a downwardly push with my hands, I had trained them that this meant to crouch down and wait. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a line of captives .My Cats hated lomen. I counted the prisoner, two men, six woman and five youngster under dozen, two son and three little girl. We followed knowing they would stop for a rest soon. When they stopped we waited till two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my scarf bandage and bounced a rock off the sentry go synagogue killing him instantly. The safety device falling awakened the early two lomen they began to rise but stopped when they felt the paws on their chest. Bruno and Sondi made one cut and opened the pharynx of the two. Runt not to be out done ripped out the throat of the one I had killed.


I released one of the captives and instructed her to release the others while I got rid of the lomen.

I looked around at the captives and told them not to worry about the Cats, they are tame. I told them to trace us to Paradise. I picked up my Travois and led them to the bramble gate. When we stepped out at the former end they were speechless. They blended in with the remainder of our firm growing Clan. Even though two of the women were wife 's of the two men Mondo was informed it was his job to get them pregnant the for the first time time. Because I was strong and brave and this they wanted their number one born to be also. They meant first Max Born of their new kindred because one of the nestling, a little girl named Rena was the daughter of the wife of one of the men. Rena was less than a yr old.


As months passed and the women all became pregnant I decided that Shad and Gurk the two men I had freed were capable of feeding the clan for awhile. I decided to pee another search for my Mother and Tondor 's kinship group. I carried my Travois and 3 fishgig and St. Bruno and Sondi. Runt I left with Ludi to help protect the clan. I took no intellectual nourishment except for one repast and two water skins. As I departed the bramble logic gate I covered it with fresh brambles and scouted the arena to make for sure no lomen had been around.
plot seemed to be plenteous and I decided to just use my sling I felt there was no understanding to kill any orotund game on the way out. No sense of packing pelts both focusing. I sent Sondi to scout ahead and Bruno of Toul to take slam around us. By Nox fall we had had no problems and I had killed enough minuscule biz to prey myself and the CAT. I built up a fire and snuggled between the Cats and drifted off to catch some Z's.

The following morning we continued our trek ... the Cats seemed to be nervous and I noticed the tranquillity around us ... There is something wrongly ... now I need to find out what.
I tried to get the African tea to scout but all they would do was growl inscrutable in their chest. I got my spears ready and find out my Cats, I knew they would warn me of impending danger.

The Hackles on Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six foundation from me also facing toward the direction that St. Bruno was facing. I picked up one of my spears and backed between two boulders that were about eighteen column inch apart. I still have no idea what I am about to face. Then Leo IX roars and is answered by a bellow that chills even the best hunter .... a Cave Bear it roared out of the bushes on all IV. When it saw Giordano Bruno it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least fifteen foot tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Bruno attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all tetrad and charged toward me. I set myself with my spear, just before the bear reached me a tawny missile struck the bear behind it 's left front end leg. Sondi held on. Then Bruno struck from the rear. The bear reared up again, as its head teacher was raising up I struck with my spear straight for the throat. The initiative spear did not fathom very far but it seemed to con flux the bear. He swung his mighty paw but he hit the boulder instead of me. The cat-o'-nine-tails were ravishing the bears hind stern then leaping aside when the bear tried to attack them. I unknowingly had reached in to my bang and pulled out the Sabre tooth tusk. Sondi takes another clump out of the bears front leg, the bear turns its foreland to the slope, I see my probability and I pounce. With all my might I jam the cavalry sword tooth in to the ear canal of the bear which penetrates the brain. Not realizing it is absolutely the bear baseball swing back at me ... I back off, the support roars and falls dead at my fundament.
I check my Cats both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no hemorrhage is observable. I skin the bear. I took the tegument and a little of the meat. I really hated to leave all that marrow but vulture and magpie would be all over us. We traveled on till we came to a stream and there we camped till I finished with the busby. This took almost a week after that I would work with it after my days travel.



9 Babies

The char at the cave began to have birthing ace was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All boys except ace her daughter was called Little Star. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the medical specialty Woman she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure enough that by the time Mondo came home all the baby will be born even minuscule Yo'te the last to get pregnant. The men and boy kept the coterie supplied with nitty-gritty. Every day one of the boy and Runt would go to the bramble gate and sentry. The two men pulled their own weighting Shad was a spear up maker and Grug was a ceramist he made pots and lawn bowling for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to miss Mondo his strength and leading was missed.

Tondar is worried only 3 hunter left, Himself, Grog and Hobar each has been training one of the tike. Tondar is training Lateen's girl Sonda who is already dependable with a catapult. Hobar has the early 12 y.o. girl Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very unmanageable to feed everyone. With as many that are still weak and demented they were ineffective to prompt to winter land. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air vent of a good dormant Volcano. Heat still permeated the cave area from hot accelerator pedal so they only needed ardour if they wished to cook. Each Orion pair went out alone only time the whole group would go out on a search was if large biz was spotted. At that time the women who were strong enough would stimulate Travois to help skinning and truckage of the core if a killing was made. Sadly this was rare..



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Fifteen daylight later Mondo arrived at the Clans Summer cantonment he was disheartened to see the barren burned out area. He searched around but could not tell if the tribe had been here when the fervency occurred or if the fervour was older. He stayed there another 10 days making reconnoitering R-2 in all directions. All he could really separate was the computerized axial tomography were anxious in this burned out area. Two days ago the cats had brought down a deer. Mondo cut it up and fed them big chunks of the substance and worked on the hide. He decided that in the first light he would channelise back. He had to admit he missed his new clan.

The next morning time after a promptly look around he began his trek homeward. Bruno of Toul began his scout and Sondi took point Mondo could distinguish they were happy to be leaving this office. Days turned into weeks it had been an gentle trip except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the cats in the bush and told them to be silent and they watched the lomen searching for new captives. Their sense of smell was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to repose lupus erythematosus than twenty footstep away. The Cats did n't like it either but I was able to keep them lull. Then they decided to contain a nap, That was Sir Thomas More than I or the Cats could take. I turned them loose, in second base there was two less lomen in these woods. It was a affair of beauty to look on them work now that they had nearly reached their full ontogenesis. Giordano Bruno was about five fundament at the front shoulder and about four metrical foot at the hind tail. Sondi was just in smaller not that it mattered and half-pint at the cave was a full phase of the moon foot minuscule but I think half-pint was faster than his comrade and sister.

I could see the dry wash ahead once I entered it I would be close to a mile from Bramble Gate. Now silence was really needed the path above the dry wash was made by the lomen as they carry their captives to their home domain ... Where ever that is. But today it was clear. We made it to Bramble gate as we neared the brambles began to move and out came Drago and Runt. I motioned them back inside and the Cats and I followed. All I could think about for the yesteryear hr was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping things, by the clock time I was at the springs I was nude and walked out into the pocket billiards and sank down and closed my eyes. After a few sighs I opened my centre and was met by ten charwoman all carrying a babe. My rima oris dropped assailable and I asked"Where did all the baby come from ?"The only answer I got was smile. I was Home.

I stood on the bank of our river I looked across at the formal tree diagram on the other face. It has been 4 years since we had found our valley. We had learned how to fume our meat, there was an indention in the wall of the undermine transition near room sized. It was near the smoke hole, we had left some meat on drying single-foot in this room and the green goddess from our cook fervency passed over it. When we tried this sum we were surprised by the taste. We tried raw meat on the racks and the solvent were bully. We were capable to make fewer large kill and no meat was wasted. Yes this was truly a rattling valley.
I walked into the River at this point the water just reached my articulatio genus. Along the far bank the women were gathering Berry in to pots Gurk had made. I noticed a river otter playing with the tiddler, Malo had found it when it was a pup and raised it. We were as one with the brute. Shad and Gruk and the boys and I did near of our John Roy Major hunt out the bramble gate. That way we had the help of the Cats, they were still not used in the valley. The exclusively time we hunted inside the valley was when it was winter at the bramble gate. Soon not even then.


Malo and Drago had herded 5 of the bovine creatures into a box canyon and had taken brush and blocked off their escape valve. Later we had cut poles and using a crisscross method acting at the corners and remainder of the pole we had built a fence with a logic gate. There were three females and 2 males there was mountain of nutrient for them and a branch off the river made water usable. It was n't till breeding time that we found there was a job with the mix.

The two male person fought for the right field to multiply. We watched the engagement the larger bull had trump 18"long on either side of his headland. The smaller only had one horn the former had been broken off some time earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't take yearn before the smaller Taurus the Bull was too hurt to continue the combat. With ropes we had made by weaving airstrip of tegument we managed to get the rophy around the bull 's neck we managed to get him out of the gate. We sent the boys to get the cleaning woman and the Travois and killed the Samson and began butchering.

Over the old age our herd has grown by natural birth and capturing other female and adding them to our herd. Our Clan was also growing the Same way. Most of the females seemed to welcome our presence. Which meant we only had to Isolate the bull's eye to be able to work with the cow. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few drops of milk was on one of her pap. He reached down gently so as not to startle the cow and stroked the teat. To his surprise a stream of milk shot out. He had Malo bring him a pot. He directed the milk into the pot filling it to the top. He lifted the pot to his lips and sipped, his eyes flew open and he took an even bigger toast then handed the pot to Malo who also took a drink. The Milk River was very rich and creamy and tasted delicious.

Back at the pack Ludi was working on her own experiment. She had begun to take seed fuel pod from plants they had eaten and herbs for medicament and had put them in the solid ground and watered them and they began to grow. Mondo had watched the process and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the children collect the seed seedcase from the Mary Jane. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat grass. Mondo explained he was afraid that the cows would eat all of the grass in the canyon. This way they could sprinkle the seeded player all over the canon and maybe it would arise and help feed the cows.
Mondo heard his named being called, he turned, and there was Malo with Gurk holding out a pot saying"drink, drink."Mondo took the pot and tasted and with a look of surprise handed the pot to Ludi. After one discernment Ludi was all questions ... What is it, where did you get it, can you get more ? Gurk explained what had happened and that the cow seemed to want the milk removed as if it was too full phase of the moon. Malo suggested we try to give some to Lorn 's baby since Lorn had dried up and had no milk for her baby. Mondo hollered at Drago to get Lorn and her sister.

When Lorn arrived with her infant, Ludi stuck her fingerbreadth in the milk and dribbled some over the baby 's sassing. The baby began reaching and its mouth began suckling front. Lorn immediately stuck her finger and copied Ludi 's movement.

Earlier Mondo had thought that this vale had no winter. It Did, but not severe and it only lasted about a calendar month. When it snowed the plaza of the valley would be deep with the coke maybe a metrical unit trench. The eternal rest of the vale would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble gate the snow would be in drifts up to 6 fundament late. The kindred had many discussions about this ... They concluded that the vale was formed between great deal and the mountains had closed in at the top limiting the measure of nose candy that reached the ground before melting.





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lateen 's Story


When the sickness hit the Clan I was one of the live on to catch it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to have passed there were only 3 men left to trace and 8 still to watery to do very much we had our minds set on our recovery but the pyrexia kept popping back up and more men and women had died. The tribe was near decimated, 5 men. 4 adult female and 6 children was all that were left. Tondar was fighting to keep the kin going but every determination he made Grog questioned which caused unrest in the Tribe. After almost 4 years I finally had my strength back, Jonda, Tondar 's chum never recovered his full strength and could not be allowed to go on a hunt alone. By now the younger ones that had been trained by the Orion now ranked as wide Hunters. Food was getting short, It was decided after much arguing by Grog that each of us would scout for big game and Jonda would observe the camp.

I headed in a general direction of Southwest we had agreed we would scout for three days and on the quaternary we would return and describe. On the 3rd day I had reached our old Summer inner circle, the fire burnt ground had given way to new increment. I searched the region and found old foot prints but nada new. I decided I had gone far plenty and would get a just nights sleep and bulge out back early. I had killed a lapin with my scarf bandage and I cleaned it and put it on a stick over the fire. While it cooked I thought about the problems with the clan. They did not work out as a family social unit. Grog seemed to want to call for over the leadership not realizing no one would watch him. Tondar realized this but with so few hunters he could not predict grog out. What to do ? What to do ? I guess ... .what was that noise I began to turn and suddenly every affair went black. …. unhunh where am I what happened ? I barely opened my eyes. I was being carried ... my manpower and feet were tied to a bamboo magnetic pole ... and I was being carried by .... Oh No ! lomen ! The one carrying my feet saw that I was awake. He spoke in guttural sounds and they stopped and lowered me to the ground. With a few swipes with a Flint knife my feet were freed then my hands. After the bamboo pole was removed I was moved forward to another bamboo perch that had 3 men and a char already had their hands and neck tied to that perch. I joined them. For days and week we were marched through the forest.

We were given fruit and berry to eat and a water peel twice a day. At night we would talk quietly. I learned that the lomen had raided their hamlet and there were others than the three watching us. Tomorrow they will wait for the other chemical group to overhear up. They are flighty about this orbit we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the beast who walks with LTTE. What is that I ask. They said they did n't know they could only understand about half of what the lomen say.
The cleaning lady was the one who knew the most of their lyric. She said that many had been killed in this surface area and their captive whisked away. They would happen their friends drug way into the forest and their throat would be torn out. Most were not found before the magpie got to them and then they were a mess. But what of the beast I asked. And she said they do n't know no one has ever seen it ... just once a footprint was found and it was huge.

I thought about the beast and all the prisoner that had disappeared. The biggest infantry I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been utter for over 5 geezerhood. But Mondo ... that is how he got his name ; at birth his substructure were bragging than a two year old. Mondo means Huge ... naugh it could n't be. But … what if ....



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Shad came to Mondo,"We are running myopic of smoked pith, we need to hunt."Mondo laughed and the African tea need some physical exercise too.
Drago and Malo asked to go, I said who is going to help gurk. Malo says Toba and Lion they have already been helping him so they know what to do.
Mondo decided to take all three cats runt needed to try a kill ... it had been awhile. They left early the following first light through the Bramble logic gate. They had been following the dry wash for only a mile when Bruno stopped and looked over his shoulder at Mondo and rumbled deep in his throat. Sondi and Runt slipped in amongst the mathematical group. I put my hand on them and could feel them trembling. This told me it was not game ahead. I motioned everybody down and waited. Then I heard vocalism and crashing through the George H.W. Bush ... .lomen ... they always traveled on the top alongside the washing. I always traveled the bottom of the washing. The top of the wash had bush that blocked off the view of the actual Wash. We waited and let them pass. I tell my Friend I heard human interpreter as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would stop ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the Lapplander location, a clarification that I had rescued the low gear of my clan. We waited for them to finalize down. I had Drago climb up the hole near the shoot down tree. As soon as we attacked he would come out cutting the people loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a noise and turns around and Runt rush and bites down on his crotch ... I do n't experience whats with that cat. The Guard riot and Shad drives his spear into the guard duty throat. The early two lomen scream"The savage"and instead of turning to fight they turned in fearfulness. If it had not been for Sondi and Leo IX we would have not been able to catch up with them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a bit out of the speed right field thigh which cause the lomen to crash to the ground with Malo right keister, he drove his spear all the way through the book binding and into his heart. Bruno took down the tertiary one by himself. He leaped high-pitched catching the lomen in the center of the back as the lomen hit the priming St. Bruno drove his tusks into the back of the lomen 's neck. The neck opening snapped instantly all I had to do was smile. As usual we drug the bodies out into the bush away from the trail. When Shad and I got back the prisoner were free, I heard a gasp and a voice saying it is you. I looked over and was surprised to see lateen sail, I grabbed him and gave him a big hug.
The cleaning lady looked at me then at my feet and said,"You are the fauna"then she drew back
as the guy entered and went to my side.
lateen sail told me his story from the time the tribe left thinking I was numb, all the way till now. Then the other people told me of their gaining control and that there twelve more captives on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble gate and inside. I told them we would rescue the residue of their clan then they would cause a option. To either go back to their hunting grounds or to join our clan.

The next daybreak the next mathematical group of prisoner arrived there were 6 of them and 4 guards. Mondo could smell the uneasiness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to find the showtime group waiting for them. I sent St. Bruno off to the rightfield and instructed him to roar. When he did the lomen panicked. This was what Mondo was expecting, as t he lomen tried to runaway Sondi and runt charge them from behind. Shad and Drago arose in front of them with spears at the ready. They thrust forward with their lance, Drago 's spear striking only the gild the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his lodge preparing to strike at Drago when Mondo and Bruno arrived. Never slowing down Leo IX hit the loman in the dresser knocking him down and Mondo landed on the loman 's midsection as he sliced at the lomans throat with his knife. It was over as fast as it started, they walked back to the prisoner all free now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the grouping 2 women three stripling, a boy and 2 female child, and one man. Mondo sent the boy and Runt with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them instructions to remain in the wash near the hole under the fallen tree diagram and to hold peewee back till he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the lastly group arrived, they too seemed concerned that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either English of the trail where it left the clearing. St. Bruno was in the scrub behind them. Sondi had been following the lomen, the exits to the clearing were blocked off. One of the lomen backed up near the hole where the boy were waiting, he was looking all around the clearing he was uncomfortable. He could smell blood, the other four precaution were also uneasy. As the guards cad came down on the boundary of the hole … a bird whistled, a Leo roared and the guard disappeared down the cakehole. The boy had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard into the fix. Before he could recover half-pint had removed his throat then leaped into the clarification and was now facing the early four Guards. Mondo and Shad leaped out of their trees driving their lance into the chests of two of the guards. The last two had no chance at all. They turned to run back and came facial expression to brass with Sondi and Runt as they stopped Bruno hit them from the stern. Drago and Malo were cutting the captives disembarrass. This cluster consisted of 3 females 2males a child about 10 and a baby in the arms of one of the women. All together we had rescued 17, 16 from one small town and Lateen from Mondo 's habitation kinship group.

After they had all the people in to the cave Mondo and his hunter really needed to hound and set out at once. Ludi took the newcomers in hand and talked to them. By the time the Hunter had returned with their kill it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the woman and the babe had decided to go back to their Village. The fair sex with the baby was just too weak to make the trip and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, lateen, Bruno and Sondi would guide them back then they would continue on to Tondors Tribe.

Mondo 's Clan furnished all the men with spears including the teenage boy this made them a military unit to be reckoned with. 9 Spear men and 2 Big bozo. I think they would relish meeting up with some lomen. The char were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 redundant spear on it. Three days into their trek they got their wish. Thanks to the computed axial tomography they were ready, the women and tike gathered in the center the men squatted around them with their shaft angled out to protect the women.


The lomen charged out of the George Herbert Walker Bush screaming and waving their cabaret. Mondo and Lateen stood and began throwing their spears with the women handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the cat-o'-nine-tails attacked from behind. The cats forced the lomen onto the cast anchor shaft and the Villagers stabbed with malice. They were angry and wanted revenge. By the time it was all over there were 11 dead lomen and four wounded. No one planned to consume captive, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with give bones and one dead. It was obvious that the char were proud of their men. One of the injured had a crushed articulatio humeri. The loman got through and caught him with its nightclub. One of the women picked up a gig and stabbed the loman multiple meter. The other woman jumped in and it was a scrimmage after that.

Three weeks later we entered their village. Each travois was loaded with nitty-gritty and pelt, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the Greenwich Village headman and the medication man. After they conquered their fear of the computed axial tomography we were welcomed with open weaponry. The people we had returned to their small town equaled over a third of the Greenwich Village population and were wife 's and girl and fathers and sons. They were very important to the Village. They threw us a feast that Night and we departed early the side by side morn.

lateen assured Mondo that they only had two more days till they reached the Cave of Tondars tribe. He also told him about the discontentedness Grog had caused. lateen sail said he was certain that Grog had beaten Mondo's mother but could not prove it.. Mondo informed him he needed no substantiation ... Grog had tried to down him and that was enough he was going to call him out..



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Lateen informed Mondo the cave was just over the rise. Mondo stepped out a little faster. A big Cat to either side and the Sun behind him Mondo looked like a Golden monster. The mass of the Clan raised their manpower to shade their optic trying to key out the image before them. Lateen picked this time to ill-treat into the view. He hollered,"howdy the pack"…. Tondar yelled it is lateen sail. Sonda began to run to meet her Dad but seeing one of the Big Cats step forward caused her to stop. Grog walked out of the cave … Silence fell over the Camp as Mondo 's vox bellowed out ..."Grog ... you tried to kill Me ... For that I Call you OUT !"

Mondo did not hesitate he walked straight to Grog and one vast clenched fist crashed into Grogs grimace. The setback knocked grog to the ground. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to stop the mass murder, Bruno and Sondi were walking a circle around the combatants. Grog tried to grab a spear to use against Mondo. But an angered Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to beat his antagonist to a pulp. Mondo slowly began to check the beating and backed off looking at the fat chunk of jelly at his feet. Mondo turned and looked at Tondar By my decree and the legal philosophy of the Clan ... I claim all Grogs ownership an cast out him from the tribe. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your Mother ?"
"My mother is a free Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my mate, do you agree ?"since she had been declared a free clansman it was her alternative. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a young charwoman and a clan Hunter put her arms around Mondo,"I have waited for you and I claim you as a hunting watch 's right."Mondo returned her hug and made a movement with his fingerbreadth. When Sonda turned she found herself facing one of the Big Cats,"Sonda meet Sondi. We accept you."

Lateen began unloading the travois and putting meat on to fix. Every one just walked around Grog until Mondo grabbed his feet and drug him outside the camp and dumped him there. As he walked into camp lateen sail was telling everyone of Momd 's kindred and that there was no need to travel clique twice a year and there was a medical specialty woman and a good life.

So began the trek to the Bramble Gate.



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Tondar spoke with Socar who had been Grog 's Orion trainee. He asked him how he felt about the banishment of Grog ... Socar says the only affair he hate about it is he did not get to do the whacking himself. When they would go on a hunt club, Grog would minimize him and hit him when he did not do as Grog said. Grog was a mean man. I now wish to learn from Mondo.

As fourth dimension went by on the lead the hunters hunted at their leisure. The nearer they came to their new home the more energise they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could murder the Brambles Gate there was an outpouring of children and runt. They gathered the other children and drug them inside to show them everything. Mondo began doing the Saami with the adults. When they reached the early end of the cave they all stood silently staring at the beautiful valley. Our army hut were beginning to contain the shape of permanent wave social organization. There was no need for temporary protection anymore.

Tondar wanted to bang everything about the oxen, the meat smoke, and especially about the Milk. They sat around a campfire and verbalise way into the Night. One of the topics they discussed was leadership of the Clan. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's clan but Tondar had always been Mondo's Chief. They discussed what should they do ? Sharlu spoke to Tondar, he nodded his head,"Mondo I am getting old, I have a new married woman, it is meter for young person to pass the Clan. As long as I am awake I will give notice you as needed but You are now Chief."

Today we celebrate the joning of two Clans into one tribe the"tribe of the Cats !"

But what of the lomen and what is at the end of the Valley ?