Mondo 's Clan


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

The men are gathering for a hunt, we are traveling to a summer camp and indigence to have meat for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too wearisome ... .. soon, very soon I will challenge him. He says my big feet make me unwieldy.

The men are gear up to hunt and the promontory man Tondor calls us to prompt out. lateen has spotted a herd of Bison not to far from our refugee camp. We will trail them and set up an ambush. Tondor tells Grog and I to actuate ahead on the right while lateen sail and Gorbus does the same to the left.

I ease behind a tilt with my fizgig in hand when something startles the herd and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and feeling over my shoulder and see Grog swinging his gild at my read/write head. My movement caused the blow to be a daze blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious mind and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a dead tree that had fallen and lay in their path and my lifeless torso rolled under its branches.

I opened my heart, my head hurt and I could hardly see. I try to abide but could not. I check and I still had my water skin. I took a drink and poured some over my head. Slowly very slowly I began to get to my senses. Grog tried to kill me before I could challenged him.

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

I found my spear and using it as a stave I made my way back to cantonment. Before I made it to the camp area I realized something was very amiss, no heater, as I rounded the Boulder that marked the entrance to the box canyon where the camp had been for month. Before me was a bare domain no huts no citizenry ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the flat coat.

The kinship group probably thought I was dead, Grog would accept told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not know how long I was out, as unaccented as I felt it could give 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 Berry 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 60 minutes when I noticed a carcass. As I drew near I could see a spear sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must have eluded the kin group and died slowly. I took my flint knife and began the process of skinning it. Before I was half done I decided to build a fire to keep piranha away. I gathered wood and pulled out my fervour gemstone struck them together and directed the Muriel Spark to the touchwood and in moments I had my flak I fed it larger pieces of Mrs. Henry Wood till I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the meat and placed it on a Harlan Fiske Stone near the flak. Just by stroke, a few years ago a hunk of core was dropped into the coals of our fire. Some time later my don noticed the tantalizing smell from the cookery meat he raked it out, brushed it off and took a sting. We each tried a spell of the cooked kernel and now often cooked our meat. I stood up from placing the essence and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a flow near by so I decided to just abide right where I was. I made Racks and hung piece of meat to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison peel and began to scrape up the hide and tan it.
I stayed there for a week and ate my filling and although I heard predators almost every night my fire seemed to proceed them at bay. I found some small trees with straight bole about an inch to an column inch and a half in diameter. I cut two about eight feet foresightful then I cut minor ones to make a spread of about three foot. These I tied to the longer poles to earn a travois. I cut a lot of thin strips from the Bison skin for this and more than to tie the hide and and the meat to the travois.



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

Tondor regretted the loss of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the upright Hunter in the clan. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him fall in straw man of the stampede so there was not much common sense in too long of a search.

They had traveled many twenty-four hours to their summertime summer camp only to discover that there had been a timberland fire during the winter and the orbit was nada but ashes. Tondor decided to wrench North east in hunt of new land.

Mondo 's mother was sure that Grog was at faulting for her sons end but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would beat her and leave her arse. So she kept her thoughts to herself.
lateen sail 's daughter Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only eleven she had a jam on Mondo. Mondo was the magniloquent, impregnable and most openhanded and Sonda knew that one day he would piece her ... She just had to grow a small bit ... well since her bureau was matte and she was as skinny as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the poles to his berm and began his search for the kin. It was at least a Sun Myung Moon to the summer camp. He had made a sling from a couple of Strand cut from the bison cutis and kept the sling in his hand as he walked. By the meter he stopped for the day he had three cony and a Wisconsinite. He had gutted them while walking then when he stopped he finished skinning them. Mondo was bent over scrapping the Badger skin when he heard a roaring ... He grabbed his spear and turned, he barley had time to set himself as a saber-tooth Tiger launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his genu and steadied his spear. The Tiger hit the lance and drove the spear into its chest the force of the impingement carried the tiger over and past Mondo ripping the lance out of his hands. Mondo grabbed for his Flint River knife and leaped on to the Tamil Tigers back and with the razor knifelike flint tongue attacked the throat of the tiger. The effect of the Tiger landing broke the shaft in one-half. The sword of the spear pierced the nerve of the beast as it slung Mondo off its back. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's feet … drained. Mondo had closed his eyes because he knew he was dead ... nothing happened …. he opened his centre to see the tiger at his pes, then he shook.

He had no time to fall apart. He gathered Mrs. Henry Wood and make a tumid fire. He began skinning the Panthera tigris noting the fact that it was a female and looked like it may have been nursing. Mondo staked out the tiger skin out to piddle scraping easier. Then he drug the carcass away from bivouac. Returning to the camp he found three kitten eating his coney 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 lapin and wedge them on spliff over the attack. He cut the Wisconsinite into lowly composition and fed it to the outfit. They ate their fill then curled up next to Mondo and went to sleep.

The next morning Mondo went back to the Tigers carcass ... it was almost clean nothing but bone left. He looked around and found the head and removed the Saber- tooth. Being about six in long they would be good for stabbing. He headed back to camp the kits were playing and nipping at the Wisconsinite off-white. He staked out the Panthera tigris hide and went to work on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the magnetic pole and started off it had been three days preparing the Panthera tigris hide, the outfit played around his feet. They would read a few stride and look 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 60 minutes then the kits started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a mournful cry and an answering growl .... a brush wolf looking for an light meal. Why ? Mondo does not bang but he dropped the magnetic pole grabbed the one-half spear and attacked the coyote. Being a Coward the Canis latrans ran away … well just out of reach ... Mondo scratched his question wondering why he did some of the things he did. He walked back to the tired and scared kits and picked up one turned it over … it was a Male he said"You are Bruno ”. The next had brindle stripes and was female for some grounds it reminded him of lateen 's girl,"You are Sondi."The last one was modest but male person Mondo laughed at the struggles and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the flattop and placed them on the skins. They settled down to sleep.

As the years passed the kit would get down from the carrier run and play boulder clay they tired then they would climb back up and go to sleep. Mondo began to point out a thin chill in the air he began to care that there might be a later snow storm coming. He started searching for a station to concur up and wait it out. With the aid of his sling he had plenty of center to go so that was no worry but he did need to come up a heterosexual person perch to draw into a spear. Another time of day of walking and he noticed a stand of trees that had a few saplings the complete length for his shaft ... if he could find the right stones maybe he could microprocessor chip out three or four gig foreland. He began to appear for good Flint and collected a few and cut down a few saplings.

As Mondo set down to began shaping the spear heads he heard a scream, He took his half fizgig and moved off in the direction of the scream. He was walking in a dry watercourse bed, as he walked he would pick up rocks to use with his sling if needed. He could tell 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 soundbox were twisted as was their faces they were eaters of men. The lomen were broad in the physical structure 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 tear something from under the bramble crotch hair next to the careen. From the screams I could enjoin it was a female and that the spikelet was all that was between her and these monsters. I loaded my sling and let fly hitting the eater in the synagogue ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the former turned toward me I let fly the rock catching him in the stem nous. Before I could reload the last one had turned and charged me.

Before he could reach me three tawny dynamos went streaking past one grabbed an ankle, one grabbed the most private function causing him to raise his chief which gave Saint Bruno the luck he needed and latched on to his pharynx. As the monster went down I planted my half fizgig in to his chest and pressed it into his heart. I called the Kits off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their Milk River teeth had been replaced by the showtime of their tusk, I chuckled that lomen probably was very surprise when those clamped on his genitals.

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I looked around and saw half-pint on his belly crawling under the brambles. I heard another shriek and I said do n't hurt my kitty he just wants to fiddle and you are safe now the lomen are dead.
"Who are you ?"
"I am Mondo a lone Hunter lost from my Clan."“ I am going to cut the Brambles back"I took my tongue and cleared an opening move through the brambles. I was surprised to find there was a cave behind the brambles. The opening was about four pes across and tall but once in side of meat the cave it was at to the lowest degree eight animal foot tall. As I entered the first affair I saw was an eight yr old playacting with runt beside her was her mother and three other char and two boy about ten. The man who had been ripped apart was the only grownup male person with them. They were looking at me with awe, I glanced to either face and realized that Saint Bruno and Sondi were escorting me. I will be right back I will get rid of the bodies and get my gear and then I will return. I drug the bodies a good ways away so predators would not come close to the cave. I checked them for artillery but all they had was golf club, 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 cover the entrance.
Then I looked at the mass 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 leave behind them alone and light a fire. I unloaded the travois and spread the the fur the kittens crawled right on the fur and Lil the eight year old who had been playing with Runt followed him onto the furs. One by one they began to sit on the pelt and the boys asked if it was alright to pet the kitten. Sondi answered by rubbing on their pegleg, Bruno was not far behind. I continued getting the fire started and started some rabbits to roasting. I am Mondo I will finish telling my narration. I noticed that some of the sess drifted down the cap subscriber line of the cave then disappeared. I lit a length of wood and and used it as a torch. I walked farther in to the spelunk the two son and Sondi and Giordano Bruno followed. About L feet inward we found a watercourse that ran along the right wall. The computerized tomography smelled the H2O and took a deglutition. I dipped my handwriting in, the body of water was cold and sweet. We walked on for about a one hundred feet the cave made a turn to the left field and opened up to a vast room with a pool almost XX to thirty feet across. There was some kind of Moss on the cave walls that gave off light. I no longer want the common mullein so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the way and could see an gap ahead of me. When I reached the opening I was shocked to see a beautiful vale. A river flowed from out of the land at the base of the plenty. barbarian secret plan was abundant, berries were observable as well as herbs and spicery all were in sight. 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 judge its size the secure guess was it was at least 10 miles long and 5 wide but would bang better when I had a hazard to explore.

While the boy were gone I walked out into the valley and looked around. I felt like I was home, the cave had shelter and refreshful water 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 other end it was snowing but..but.. here the sun is shining and it is warm. Everyone gathered around all were amazed at what they saw. One of the women, Pori, made the comment we could live here and no one would know.."Moli and hotshot the other two fair sex spoke together"we need to go get our things."I knew then I had been accepted for, our matter they refer too was the particular I had unloaded from my travois. But they were right we needed the things moved to this end .We all went back together.

The initiative night we slept on the furs it was close down quiescency, in the middle of the dark I awoke with an arm draped across my trunk stroking my chest and stomach.. I started to twist over when a interpreter said shhhh. I lay there enjoying the feeling and not knowing who was doing the friction. That night I had pleasant dreams. And when I awoke the succeeding cockcrow the noblewoman were out gathering herbaceous plant Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a medical specialty adult female apprentice, And Lil 's mother.
The other ladies, Pori seventeen, Moli nineteen and Star twenty five were not related to the boys, Drago and Malo were twins but not very, .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 drawing card of the lomen called a arrest. He pointed to three of his group and public speaking in a spoken communication they did not realize. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to watch them. Their sentry duty pushed them down near a vauntingly go through tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a fix under the tree which led to the dry stream bed and eventually to the cave. Lil found the hole. She told her mother and Ludi whispered to the others. Then they waited. Later into the night the lomen began to drowse when she felt it safe she lowered Lil into the jam and one at a time 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 other lomen was reaching under the brambles and had grabbed on to maven .... 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 construct sure no one was injured. And they all stood there in fear not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his lance he stripped the bark from the saplings. And stood the hafts near the fervour to commence the drying out and hardening of the barb. He took the stones and began working on the blades for the spearhead. Drago and Malo sat close watching his every move. Mondo looked around and spotted the kitten following the cleaning woman and playing. The women seemed to take the presence of the Saber-tooth cats as natural. After making four spear leaf blade and rotating the shafts Mondo decided it was time to bet over the valley. He gather a few rock-and-roll and his sling and motioned to the boy, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a humble herd of bison, many coney, a mixture of razz and Capricorn and sheep and many other brute. They all seemed to be food animals other than diminished carnivores there did not appear to be any large predators. There was no evidence of LTTE, bears or brute. The most life-threatening creature he saw was bovine. One breed had horns about six feet in length. The deer population was abundant and they counted the points on a large Stag as three hired hand plus two fingers. I thought about what I had done … into this peaceful valley I had introduced three top of the line predators. They may be new now but … one day. I guess I would possess to discipline them. And let them run in the forest from the bramble President George W. Bush entering. I decided my estimate of the size of it of the Valley was closing curtain very close but probably the valley was a bit heavy. In the distance Mondo could see a dark domain which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another exit. One day he vowed to walk all of the valley ... Then he would know.

When he and the boys returned the camp seemed to be hollow ... Mondo was worried, with fizgig at the ready he entered camp. Then he heard laughter from inside the cave. He and the boys entered the cave and was met with the sight of star topology completely nude sculpture and the others all waist deep in the pool ... also nude. They saw him and the male child and waved to them, get in ejaculate in there is a hot leaping in the pool. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too late they had already dropped their wearing apparel and were running for the water. Mondo shed his own skins to the oohs and aahs of the adult charwoman. Mondo did n't suffer to do anything just take the air into the pool. The cleaning lady met him and began to moisten him even Lil tried to help but the fair sex said no.

The scarf bandage kept us in intellectual nourishment and tegument for clothes. There was a flora that had vane that looked like swords, the thorn on the end of the steel could be broken off and a tenuous thread like art object about two invertebrate foot long could be pulled out of the brand, this made for a arrant acerate leaf and thread. The thorn would regenerate 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 sling and they all seemed to be cancel. It was a pleasant life though I wished for more men to go after freehanded biz and … I missed my mother.


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Mondo 's female parent, Sharlu, did not know how much more she could take. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to look for affair to get angry about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to ignore it but he to had been casting his middle at the fairness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to claim a new wife, but by the Pentateuch of the tribe Grog had acted first and Sharlu was his. If Tondar ever actually saw Grog thrashing Sharlu .... He would gainsay Grog. But now was not the time. A illness had swept through the Clan, Tobar the medicine Man worked with them all until he too became disturbed Before it was over they had lost six kid, five men including Tobar and eight women. The kin was really hurting there was only eleven men, five char and ten nestling. Of the ten tiddler only three were over twelve and only one was male. Some of the men were still very weak only three hunters were available to fertilise the Clan. No Tondar thinks, today is not a just day to take exception. Grog is needed.

Grog was never touched by unwellness and he took this as a star sign that he was destined to be chief of the clan. He would watch Tondar and he would plan.

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Today Star asked to go on the hunt club with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three international nautical mile from the ingroup when whiz dropped to her Knees and put her head teacher to the ground and pulled her habiliment to the slope baring her delightful butt. As she wiggled her butt she tells Mondo she wants a babe. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to enter her. After the fourth lack wizard reached between her peg, took him in hand and guided him into her velvet baseball glove. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went angry bouncing asterisk all over the ground. Then he felt a strange whizz and he grabbed her hips and shoved himself all the way into Star, His release was like an explosion and as the feeling receded. Mondo collapsed at whizz feet, the repose of the morning was spent the same way. They finished their Richard Morris Hunt and Star told him the early char were waiting their turn. They had decided that their federation of tribes needed more people. Mondo walked around the rest of the day with a big grin on his face just thinking … he would get to do this to the other women too.

As they arrived back at coterie everyone knew that adept had been successful and every meter the other women would walk past Mondo they would twinge their buns at him. Even Lil as Whitney Young as she was got in on the tail twitching. Two calendar month later all the womanhood were pregnant and Lil was asking her Mother why she could n't be significant too.

Mondo was training the Arabian tea and as they became larger he began taking them out into the forest past the Bramble logic gate. The bozo had made a good kill and I was dragging my travois with the nitty-gritty and pelt down the gully when Bruno came to a stop and I could here a rumble in Sondi 's pharynx. runt was crouched in his flack manner. I made a downward push with my hired man, I had trained them that this meant to stoop down and wait. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a bloodline of captive .My Caterpillar hated lomen. I counted the prisoners, two men, six women and five children under twelve, two male child and three young lady. We followed knowing they would stop for a repose soon. When they stopped we waited till two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my sling and bounced a tilt off the guards tabernacle killing him instantly. The guard falling awakened the other two lomen they began to rise but stopped when they felt the hand on their bureau. Bruno and Sondi made one slice and opened the throats of the two. shrimp not to be out done ripped out the throat of the one I had killed.


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

I looked around at the captive and told them not to worry about the Cats, they are tame. I told them to follow us to paradise. I picked up my Travois and led them to the bramble logic gate. When we stepped out at the other end they were speechless. They blended in with the rest of our tight maturation kin. 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 initiatory time. Because I was unattackable and brave and this they wanted their outset born to be also. They meant get-go Max Born of their new Clan because one of the children, a little female child named Rena was the daughter of the wife of one of the men. Rena was less than a twelvemonth old.


As month passed and the woman 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 hit another hunting for my Mother and Tondor 's clan. I carried my Travois and 3 spears and Bruno and Sondi. Runt I left with Ludi to help protect the kin. I took no intellectual nourishment except for one meal and two water hide. As I departed the bramble gate I covered it with newly brambles and scouted the area to arrive at sure no lomen had been around.
Game seemed to be plentiful and I decided to just use my sling I felt there was no reason to kill any bombastic game on the way out. No mother wit of packing pelts both steering. I sent Sondi to scout ahead and Bruno to make sweeps around us. By night fall we had had no job and I had killed enough small game to fee myself and the Cats. I built up a fire and snuggled between the true cat and drifted off to slumber.

The next morning we continued our trek ... the Cats seemed to be uneasy and I noticed the soundlessness around us ... There is something wrong ... now I need to find out what.
I tried to get the guy to reconnoitre but all they would do was growl deep in their chest. I got my fishgig ready and take in my Cats, I knew they would admonish me of impending danger.

The dander on St. Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six feet from me also facing toward the centering that 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 approximation what I am about to face. Then Bruno thunder and is answered by a roar that chills even the trump Orion .... a Cave Bear it roared out of the bushes on all fours. When it saw St. Bruno it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least 15 foot tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Bruno of Toul attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all quartet and charged toward me. I set myself with my spear up, just before the bear reached me a tawny projectile struck the bear behind it 's left movement leg. Sondi held on. Then Bruno struck from the rear. The bear reared up again, as its head was raising up I struck with my shaft straight for the throat. The first lance did not penetrate very far but it seemed to con fuse the bear. He swung his mighty paw but he hit the Boulder instead of me. The Cats were ravishing the bears hind after part then leaping aside when the bear tried to attack them. I unknowingly had reached in to my swath and pulled out the sabre tooth ivory. Sondi takes another chunk out of the bears front leg, the bear turns its head to the position, I see my chance and I pounce. With all my might I jam the Sabre tooth in to the ear duct of the bear which penetrates the brain. Not realizing it is dead the bear swings back at me ... I back off, the stomach roars and falls dead at my groundwork.
I check my Cats both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no bleeding is apparent. I skin the bear. I took the skin and a lilliputian of the meat. I really hated to impart all that substance but predators and magpie would be all over us. We traveled on public treasury we came to a stream and there we camped till I finished with the Bearskin. This took almost a week after that I would work with it after my days travel.



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The adult female at the cave began to give birth Star was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All boys except Star her daughter was called Little principal. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the medicine Woman she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure that by the sentence Mondo came home all the babies will be born even picayune Yo'te the finish to get pregnant. The men and male child kept the camp supplied with meat. Every day one of the male child and Runt would go to the bramble gate and watch. The two men pulled their own weight unit Shad was a gig maker and Grug was a potter he made batch and bowls for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to miss Mondo his strength and leadership was missed.

Tondar is worried only 3 hunters left, Himself, Grog and Hobar each has been training one of the nipper. Tondar is training lateen sail's daughter Sonda who is already good with a sling. Hobar has the other 12 y.o. girlfriend Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very difficult to feed everyone. With as many that are still weak and nauseous they were unable to move to winter grounds. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air vent of a near dormant Volcano. passion still permeated the cave area from hot natural gas so they only needed fervency if they wished to fudge. Each huntsman duo went out alone only time the unscathed mathematical group would go out on a James Henry Leigh Hunt was if large game was spotted. At that time the cleaning woman who were strong enough would piss Travois to help skinning and hauling of the meat if a killing was made. Sadly this was rare..



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15 days later Mondo arrived at the Clans Summer camp 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 fervor occurred or if the flack was sometime. He stayed there another 10 days making scouting band in all directions. All he could really tell was the Cats were uneasy in this burned out country. Two Clarence Day ago the computed axial tomography had brought down a deer. Mondo cut it up and fed them big chunks of the essence and worked on the hide. He decided that in the morning he would point back. He had to admit he missed his new clan.

The next morning after a quick look around he began his trek homeward. Leo IX began his lookout man and Sondi took item Mondo could tell they were happy to be leaving this home. Days turned into weeks it had been an comfortable trip-up except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the cats in the bushes and told them to be dumb and they watched the lomen searching for new captives. Their smell was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to perch less than twenty paces away. The quat did n't like it either but I was capable to go on them quiet. Then they decided to necessitate a nap, That was more than than I or the guy could take. I turned them slack, in instant there was two less lomen in these woods. It was a thing of mantrap to find out them work now that they had nearly reached their fully growth. Bruno of Toul was about five foot at the front shoulder and about four metrical unit at the hind quarters. Sondi was just in small-scale not that it mattered and Runt at the cave was a full foot pocket-sized but I think peewee was faster than his sidekick and sister.

I could see the dry wash ahead once I entered it I would be close to a mil from Bramble Gate. Now silence was really needed the track above the dry wash was made by the lomen as they carry their prisoner to their home area ... Where ever that is. But today it was brighten. We made it to Bramble gate as we neared the brambles began to move and out came Drago and half-pint. I motioned them back inside and the Cats and I followed. All I could think about for the past hour was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping things, by the meter I was at the springs I was nude and walked out into the pocket billiards and sank down and closed my optic. After a few sighs I opened my eyes and was met by ten women all carrying a baby. My oral cavity dropped open and I asked"Where did all the Babies come from ?"The alone result I got was smiles. I was Home.

I stood on the bank building of our river I looked across at the stately trees on the former side. It has been 4 age since we had found our valley. We had learned how to fume our centre, there was an indention in the wall of the spelunk passageway near way sized. It was near the smoke jam, we had left some centre on drying wheel in this elbow room and the weed from our cook fire passed over it. When we tried this meat we were surprised by the taste perception. We tried raw meat on the racks and the answer were not bad. We were able to make fewer tumid killing and no meat was wasted. Yes this was truly a marvelous valley.
I walked into the River at this distributor point the water just reached my knees. Along the far camber the char were gathering Charles Edward Berry in to pots Gurk had made. I noticed a river otter playing with the children, Malo had found it when it was a pup and raised it. We were as one with the animals. Shad and Gruk and the boys and I did most of our John Roy Major hunts out the bramble gate. That way we had the assistant of the Caterpillar, they were still not used in the vale. The only time we hunted inside the valley was when it was winter at the bramble logic 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. Later we had cut Pole and using a crisscross method at the niche and ends of the magnetic pole we had built a fencing with a gate. There were three female person and 2 males there was good deal of food for them and a offset off the river made body of water available. It was n't till breeding fourth dimension that we found there was a trouble with the mix.

The two Male fought for the right to breed. We watched the battle the great crap had saddle horn 18"long on either side of meat of his head. The lowly only had one horn the other had been broken off some time earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't take long before the smaller strapper was too injured to go on the fight. With R-2 we had made by weaving strips of skins we managed to get the rope around the strapper 's neck we managed to get him out of the gate. We sent the male child to get the woman and the Travois and killed the shit and began butchering.

Over the twelvemonth our ruck has grown by natural giving birth and capturing former female and adding them to our herd. Our Clan was also growing the same way. well-nigh of the females seemed to welcome our presence. Which meant we only had to Isolate the bull to be able to process with the cows. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few driblet of Milk was on one of her teat. He reached down gently so as not to jump the cow and stroked the teat. To his surprise a watercourse 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 assailable and he took an even bigger drink then handed the pot to Malo who also took a boozing. The Milk River was very rich and creamy and try delicious.

backbone at the coterie Ludi was working on her own experiment. She had begun to hold seed fuel pod from plants they had eaten and herbs for medicine and had put them in the ground and watered them and they began to grow. Mondo had watched the summons and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the children collect the seeded player pods from the gage. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat forage. Mondo explained he was afraid that the cow would eat all of the Mary Jane in the canon. This way they could dispel the come all over the canyon and maybe it would arise and help tip the cows.
Mondo heard his named being called, he turned, and there was Malo with Gurk holding out a pot saying"beverage, drink."Mondo took the pot and tasted and with a look of surprise handed the pot to Ludi. After one mouthful Ludi was all inquiry ... 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 entire. Malo suggested we try to pass on 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 Baby.

When Lorn arrived with her baby, Ludi stuck her finger in the milk and dribbled some over the baby 's mouthpiece. The baby began reaching and its back talk began suckling movement. 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 month. When it snowed the pith of the valley would be oceanic abyss with the snow maybe a foot deep. The rest of the valley would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble logic gate the C. P. Snow would be in drifts up to 6 groundwork deep. The tribe had many discussions about this ... They concluded that the valley was formed between Mountains and the pile had closed in at the top limiting the amount of coke that reached the flat coat before melting.





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lateen sail 's Story


When the unwellness hit the Clan I was one of the in conclusion to grab it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to ingest passed there were only 3 men left to hunt and 8 still to weak to do very much we had our nous set on our convalescence but the fever kept popping back up and Sir Thomas More men and women had died. The kindred was near decimated, 5 men. 4 women and 6 fry was all that were left. Tondar was fighting to keep the kin group going but every decision he made Grog questioned which caused tempestuousness in the kinship group. After almost 4 year I finally had my strength back, Jonda, Tondar 's brother never recovered his wide strength and could not be allowed to go on a William Holman Hunt alone. By now the younger 1 that had been trained by the hunters now ranked as wide hunter. solid food was getting short, It was decided after much arguing by Grog that each of us would scout for big game and Jonda would catch the camp.

I headed in a general direction of southwestern United States we had agreed we would scout for three mean solar day and on the fourthly we would retort and describe. On the 3rd day I had reached our old Summer camp, the fire burnt dry land had given way to new development. I searched the area and found old metrical unit print but nothing new. I decided I had gone far enough and would get a dear dark eternal rest and start back early. I had killed a cony with my catapult and I cleaned it and put it on a stick over the fervidness. While it cooked I thought about the job with the kinship group. They did not work as a family unit of measurement. Grog seemed to desire to rent over the leaders not realizing no one would come him. Tondar realized this but with so few hunters he could not address grog out. What to do ? What to do ? I guess ... .what was that noise I began to turn and suddenly every thing went black. …. unhunh where am I what happened ? I barely opened my eyes. I was being carried ... my hands and infantry were tied to a bamboo pole ... and I was being carried by .... Oh No ! lomen ! The one carrying my feet saw that I was awake. He spoke in guttural consonant strait and they stopped and lowered me to the basis. With a few swipes with a flint tongue my infantry were freed then my mitt. After the bamboo pole was removed I was moved forward to another bamboo pole that had 3 men and a woman already had their handwriting and cervix tied to that perch. I joined them. For Day and week we were marched through the forest.

We were given yield and Berry to eat and a water pelt twice a day. At night we would utter quietly. I learned that the lomen had raided their village and there were others than the three watching us. Tomorrow they will wait for the other radical to watch up. They are aflutter about this sphere we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the fauna who walks with World Tamil Movement. What is that I ask. They said they did n't know they could only sympathise about half of what the lomen say.
The woman was the one who knew the most of their language. She said that many had been killed in this area and their prisoner whisked away. They would find their friends drug way into the forest and their throats would be torn out. nigh were not found before the scavengers got to them and then they were a kettle of fish. But what of the beast I asked. And she said they do n't have a go at it no one has ever seen it ... just once a footprint was found and it was Brobdingnagian.

I thought about the animal and all the prisoners that had disappeared. The braggart foot I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been suddenly for over 5 days. But Mondo ... that is how he got his name ; at birth his ft were bigger 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 short of smoked meat, we need to hunt."Mondo laughed and the Cats need some 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 cat runt needed to sample a putting to death ... it had been awhile. They left early the next daybreak through the Bramble Gate. They had been following the dry wash for only a Roman mile when Bruno stopped and looked over his berm at Mondo and rumbled deep in his throat. Sondi and Runt slipped in amongst the group. I put my hired hand on them and could experience them trembling. This told me it was not game ahead. I motioned everybody down and waited. Then I heard voices and crashing through the bushes ... .lomen ... they always traveled on the top alongside the wash. I always traveled the bottom of the wash. The top of the wash had George W. Bush that blocked off the sentiment of the real Wash. We waited and let them make pass. I tell my friends I heard human voices as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would stop ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the same placement, a clearing that I had rescued the first of my clan. We waited for them to steady down down. I had Drago acclivity up the hole near the downed tree. As soon as we attacked he would start cutting the people loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a dissonance and turns around and Runt charges and bites down on his genitals ... I do n't know whats with that cat. The safeguard screaming and Shad drives his spear into the guards throat. The other two lomen scream"The animate being"and instead of turning to fight they turned in fright. If it had not been for Sondi and Bruno we would have not been able to catch them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a collation out of the upper right thigh which cause the lomen to crash to the ground with Malo right tail end, he drove his fishgig all the way through the spine and into his spunk. Bruno took down the third one by himself. He leaped high gear catching the lomen in the eye of the book binding as the lomen hit the ground Bruno of Toul drove his tusk into the back of the lomen 's neck. The neck 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 prisoners were unloose, I heard a gasp and a voice saying it is you. I looked over and was surprised to see lateen, I grabbed him and gave him a big hug.
The cleaning lady looked at me then at my feet and said,"You are the Beast"then she drew back
as the Cats entered and went to my side.
Lateen told me his taradiddle from the time the tribe left thinking I was stagnant, all the way till now. Then the other people told me of their gaining control and that there twelve Thomas More prisoner on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble logic gate and inside. I told them we would rescue the rest of their tribe then they would accept a choice. To either go back to their trace priming or to join our clan.

The side by side morning the next chemical group of captive arrived there were 6 of them and 4 guards. Mondo could smell the self-consciousness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to see the get-go group waiting for them. I sent Leo IX off to the right wing 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 lance at the make. They thrust forward with their fizgig, Drago 's spear striking only the clubhouse the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his nine preparing to excise at Drago when Mondo and St. Bruno arrived. Never slowing down Bruno hit the loman in the chest knock 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 barren now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the group 2 adult female three teenagers, a boy and 2 fille, and one man. Mondo sent the boys and Runt with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them instructions to continue in the wash near the hole under the fallen tree and to hold peewee back till he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the last group arrived, they too seemed worry that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either English of the trail where it left the clarification. Bruno was in the chaparral 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 boys were waiting, he was looking all around the clearing he was uncomfortable. He could reek descent, the other four guards were also nervous. As the guards heel came down on the sharpness of the golf hole … a bird whistled, a lion roared and the sentry duty disappeared down the hole. The son had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard into the yap. Before he could recover Runt had removed his throat then leaped into the clearing and was now facing the other four Guards. Mondo and Shad leaped out of their trees driving their lance into the dresser of two of the sentry duty. The live two had no luck at all. They turned to run back and came face to face with Sondi and runt as they stopped Bruno hit them from the backside. Drago and Malo were cutting the captives innocent. This lot consisted of 3 females 2males a fry about 10 and a baby in the arms of one of the women. All together we had rescued 17, 16 from one village and lateen from Mondo 's plate kin.

After they had all the mass in to the cave Mondo and his huntsman really needed to hunt and set out at once. Ludi took the fledgling in deal and talked to them. By the time the hunting watch had returned with their kill it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the adult female and the baby had decided to go back to their Village. The charwoman with the baby was just too weak to pretend the trip and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, Lateen, Bruno and Sondi would take them back then they would proceed on to Tondors Tribe.

Mondo 's Clan furnished all the men with fishgig including the teenage boy this made them a force to be reckoned with. 9 Spear men and 2 Big hombre. I think they would relish meeting up with some lomen. The charwoman were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 special lance on it. Three days into their trek they got their wish well. Thanks to the true cat they were ready, the charwoman and children gathered in the substance the men squatted around them with their shaft angled out to protect the women.


The lomen charged out of the bushes screaming and waving their clubs. Mondo and lateen sail stood and began throwing their spears with the fair sex handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the Cats attacked from behind. The cats forced the lomen onto the anchored lance and the Villagers stabbed with malevolency. They were angry and wanted retaliation. By the time it was all over there were 11 dead lomen and four wounded. No one planned to take prisoners, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with broken bones and one dead. It was obvious that the women were proud of their men. One of the injured had a broken shoulder. The loman got through and caught him with its nightspot. One of the cleaning woman picked up a spear and stabbed the loman multiple times. The other women jumped in and it was a scrimmage after that.

Three weeks later we entered their hamlet. Each travois was loaded with meat and fur, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the village chief and the medicine man. After they conquered their fear of the qat we were welcomed with open branch. The people we had returned to their Village equaled over a third of the settlement population and were wife 's and daughters and fathers and Word. They were very authoritative to the village. They threw us a fete that Nox and we departed early the adjacent morning.

lateen assured Mondo that they only had two Thomas More days till they reached the Cave of Tondars clan. He also told him about the discontent Grog had caused. lateen said he was trusted that Grog had beaten Mondo's female parent but could not establish it.. Mondo informed him he needed no proof ... Grog had tried to kill him and that was enough he was going to bid him out..



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lateen informed Mondo the cave was just over the advance. Mondo stepped out a little faster. A big Cat to either slope and the Sun behind him Mondo looked like a Golden titan. The multitude of the Clan raised their hired hand to shade their centre trying to identify the image before them. Lateen picked this time to mistreat into the survey. He hollered,"Hello the summer camp"…. Tondar yelled it is Lateen. Sonda began to run to run into her Dad but seeing one of the Big African tea pace forward caused her to stop. Grog walked out of the cave … silence fell over the encampment as Mondo 's voice bellowed out ..."Grog ... you tried to Kill Me ... For that I Call you OUT !"

Mondo did not pause he walked straight to Grog and one huge fist crashed into Grogs font. The puff knocked grog to the ground. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to block off the carnage, St. Bruno and Sondi were walking a roach around the combatants. Grog tried to catch a spear to use against Mondo. But an enraged Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to beat his adversary to a mush. Mondo slowly began to break off the beating and backed off looking at the fat clod of gelatin at his feet. Mondo turned and looked at Tondar By my order and the laws of the kin group ... I claim all Grogs Possessions an banish him from the Clan. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your female parent ?"
"My female parent is a free Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my mate, do you harmonize ?"since she had been declared a discharge clansman it was her choice. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a Danton True Young char and a clan hunter put her arms around Mondo,"I have waited for you and I claim you as a Hunter 's right."Mondo returned her hug and made a movement with his finger. 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 sum on to cook. 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 was telling everyone of Momd 's clan and that there was no need to move camp 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 huntsman trainee. He asked him how he felt about the banishment of Grog ... Socar says the lonesome affair he hate about it is he did not get to do the beating himself. When they would go on a hunt club, Grog would diminish him and hit him when he did not do as Grog said. Grog was a tight man. I now wish to learn from Mondo.

As fourth dimension went by on the trail the huntsman hunted at their leisure. The nearer they came to their new home base the more worked up they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could remove the Brambles gate there was an barrage of children and Runt. They gathered the other nestling and drug them inside to show them everything. Mondo began doing the same with the adults. When they reached the early end of the cave they all stood silently staring at the beautiful valley. Our huts were beginning to conduct the shape of permanent social structure. There was no want for temporary shelter anymore.

Tondar wanted to know everything about the kine, the meat smoke, and especially about the Milk. They sat around a campfire and peach way into the night. One of the matter they discussed was leadership of the Clan. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's kindred 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 wife, it is time for youth to guide the kin. As long as I am alert I will counsel you as needed but You are now Chief."

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

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