Mondo 's Clan


I am Mondo when my chronicle began I was 16 years old. My Father 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 motive to have nitty-gritty for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too slow ... .. soon, very soon I will challenge him. He says my big base make me inept.

The men are ready to track down and the headspring man Tondor calls us to move out. lateen sail has spotted a ruck of Bison not to far from our camp. We will dog them and set up an ambush. Tondor tells Grog and I to move ahead on the right hand while Lateen and Gorbus does the Saame to the left.

I ease behind a rock with my spear in hand when something startles the herd and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and smell over my shoulder and see Grog swinging his gild at my head. My bowel movement caused the reversal to be a stunning blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a utter tree that had fallen and lay in their path and my lifeless body rolled under its branches.

I opened my eyes, my point distress and I could hardly see. I try to stand but could not. I check and I still had my water pelt. I took a drink and poured some over my head. Slowly very slowly I began to number to my weed. Grog tried to vote out 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 Lapplander but where Grog was fat mine was brawniness. One day I will read him down, maybe today when I get back to camp.

I found my fishgig and using it as a faculty I made my way back to camp. Before I made it to the refugee camp sphere I realized something was very legal injury, no smoke, as I rounded the bowlder that marked the ingress to the box canyon where the camp had been for months. Before me was a barren area no huts no people ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the earth.

The Clan probably thought I was perfectly, Grog would sustain told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not be intimate how prospicient I was out, as imperfect as I felt it could accept been daytime. I knew where there were some 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 Charles Edward 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 hours when I noticed a carcass. As I drew near I could see a spear sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must sustain eluded the Clan and died slowly. I took my flinty tongue and began the process of skinning it. Before I was half done I decided to ramp up a fervidness to keep predators away. I gathered wood and pulled out my fire stones struck them together and directed the discharge to the tinder and in moments I had my fire I fed it prominent bit of wood till I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the meat and placed it on a pit near the fire. Just by fortuity, a few class ago a hunk of meat was dropped into the ember of our fire. Some fourth dimension later my Father noticed the tantalizing tone from the cooking gist he raked it out, brushed it off and took a sharpness. We each tried a piece of the manipulate inwardness and now often cooked our meat. I stood up from placing the sum and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a watercourse near by so I decided to just stay right where I was. I made Racks and hung piece of music of meat to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison skin and began to scrape the fell 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 small tree diagram with straight torso about an inch to an in and a half in diameter. I cut two about eight feet long then I cut smaller ones to fix a gap of about three foot. These I tied to the longer poles to ca-ca a travois. I cut a lot of tenuous cartoon strip from the Bison skin for this and more to tie the skin and and the heart and soul 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 bettor than he had planed, Mondo had fell right in front of the stampede. He laughs to himself nothing left of Mondo.

Tondor regretted the loss of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the easily hunter in the kin. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him fall in front of the stampede so there was not often sense in too long of a search.

They had traveled many Day to their summer bivouac only to discover that there had been a forest ardour during the winter and the area was nothing but ashes. Tondor decided to turn North east in search of new land.

Mondo 's female parent was sure that Grog was at fault for her Logos death but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would outfox her and leave her behind. So she kept her thoughts to herself.
lateen sail 's daughter Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only eleven she had a crunch on Mondo. Mondo was the tall, substantial and most giving and Sonda knew that one day he would pick her ... She just had to arise a footling bit ... well since her chest was flat and she was as skinny as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the terminal to his articulatio humeri and began his hunting for the Clan. It was at least a moon to the summer ingroup. He had made a triangular bandage from a couplet of strands cut from the bison skin and kept the sling in his hand as he walked. By the metre he stopped for the day he had three Rabbits 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 roar ... He grabbed his spear and turned, he barley had clock time to set himself as a saber-tooth Panthera tigris launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his knees and steadied his spear. The Tiger hit the lance and force back the spear into its chest the force of the impact carried the Panthera tigris over and past tense Mondo ripping the spear out of his hired hand. Mondo grabbed for his flint tongue and leaped on to the tiger back and with the razor sharp Flint River tongue attacked the throat of the tiger. The force of the Tiger landing broke the gig in half. The sword of the gig pierced the sum of the beast as it slung Mondo off its back. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's fundament … drained. Mondo had closed his heart because he knew he was stagnant ... nothing happened …. he opened his eyes to see the tiger at his substructure, then he shook.

He had no sentence to fall apart. He gathered wood and built a large fervour. He began skinning the Tiger noting the fact that it was a female and looked like it may give been nursing. Mondo staked out the Panthera tigris skin out to spend a penny scraping leisurely. Then he drug the carcass away from camp. Returning to the summer camp he found three kitty 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 cony and stuck them on sticks over the fervidness. He cut the badger into pocket-size pieces and fed it to the outfit. They ate their fill then curled up side by side to Mondo and went to sleep.

The next morning Mondo went back to the World Tamil Movement carcass ... it was almost fresh goose egg but os 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 bivouac the kits were playing and nipping at the Wisconsinite finger cymbals. He staked out the tiger skin and went to work out on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the poles and started off it had been three daytime preparing the tiger skin, the kits played around his understructure. They would take a few steps and look back and mew. Then run to overhear up then repeat, they were not sure enough what to do for Mondo kept on walk. This went on for over an time of day then the kits started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a mournful cry and an answering growl .... a coyote looking for an easy meal. Why ? Mondo does not hump but he dropped the magnetic pole grabbed the half spear and attacked the prairie wolf. Being a coward the prairie wolf ran away … well just out of grasp ... Mondo scratched his straits wondering why he did some of the things he did. He walked back to the tired and scared outfit and picked up one turned it over … it was a male he said"You are St. Bruno ”. The next had queen band and was female for some reason it reminded him of Lateen 's girl,"You are Sondi."The last one was modest but male Mondo laughed at the struggles and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the attack aircraft carrier and placed them on the pelt. They settled down to catch some Z's.

As the days passed the kits would get down from the common carrier run and play cashbox they tired then they would climb back up and go to sleep. Mondo began to notice a thin chill in the air he began to worry that there might be a tardily snow storm coming. He started searching for a place to hold up and look it out. With the aid of his sling he had batch of kernel to hold up so that was no worry but he did involve to find a straight pole to cause into a spear. Another time of day of walking and he noticed a stand of tree diagram that had a few saplings the perfect length for his spear ... if he could get hold the correct stones maybe he could chip out three or four spear headspring. He began to count for good Flint River and collected a few and cut down a few saplings.

As Mondo set down to began shaping the lance heads he heard a wow, He took his one-half spear and moved off in the counseling of the howler. He was walking in a dry stream bed, as he walked he would pick up rock and roll 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 bodies were twisted as was their faces they were eaters of men. The lomen were broad in the body and strong and there were three of them. One of them was eating on the leg osseous tissue of a man they had ripped apart. The other two were trying to draw something from under the bramble bushes next to the rocks. From the screams I could tell it was a female person and that the thorns was all that was between her and these monsters. I loaded my scarf bandage and let fly hitting the eater in the temple ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the early turned toward me I let fly the rock music catching him in the prow header. 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 parts causing him to raise his head which gave Bruno the chance he needed and latched on to his throat. As the freak went down I planted my half spear in to his breast and pressed it into his heart. I called the Kits off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their Milk teeth had been replaced by the origin of their tusk, I chuckled that lomen probably was very surprise when those clamped on his privates.

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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 ache my kitty he just wants to run 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 knife and cleared an scuttle through the brambles. I was surprised to find there was a cave behind the brambles. The first step was about four foot across and tall but once in side the cave it was at least eight understructure tall. As I entered the maiden thing I saw was an eight class old playing with runt beside her was her mother and three early adult female 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 Bruno of Toul 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 physical structure a skilful shipway away so predators would not come close to the cave. I checked them for weapons 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 cover the entrance.
Then I looked at the people 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 lead them alone and light a flaming. 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 shrimp followed him onto the furs. One by one they began to sit on the furs and the male child asked if it was alright to pet the kittens. 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 finish telling my narration. I noticed that some of the smoke drifted down the ceiling assembly 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 boys and Sondi and Bruno followed. About fifty feet inward we found a stream that ran along the right paries. The Arabian tea smelled the water and took a drink. I dipped my handwriting in, the H2O was cold and dulcet. We walked on for about a hundred feet the cave made a turn to the left and opened up to a vast room with a pool almost twenty to thirty ft across. There was some kind of Moss on the cave walls that gave off light. I no longer need the common mullein so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the room and could see an opening move ahead of me. When I reached the opening I was shocked to see a beautiful valley. A river flowed from out of the ground at the base of the mountain. Wild game was abundant, Berry were manifest as well as herbaceous plant and spicery all were in deal. Mondo turned to the male child,"Bring me the torch and I will relight it then I want you to go impart every one here."I continued to gaze at the Valley trying to judge its sizing the best guess was it was at least 10 miles long and 5 wide but would know effective when I had a chance to explore.

While the boys were gone I walked out into the Valley and looked around. I felt like I was home, the cave had shelter and brisk water and the vale had all the intellectual nourishment 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 female parent Ludi were first out of the cave they walked up to me and asked where are we. Ludi says When we left the former 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 adult female, Pori, made the comment we could dwell here and no one would know.."Moli and headliner the other two women spoke together"we need to go get our things."I knew then I had been accepted for, our affair they refer too was the items I had unloaded from my travois. But they were correct we needed the affair moved to this end .We all went back together.

The inaugural night we slept on the fur it was close dormancy, in the eye of the night I awoke with an arm draped across my body stroking my chest and stomach.. I started to twist over when a voice said shhhh. I lay there enjoying the tone and not knowing who was doing the rubbing. That night I had pleasant dreams. And when I awoke the next cockcrow the Lady were out gathering herb Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a practice of medicine woman apprentice, And Lil 's mother.
The other ladies, Pori seventeen, Moli XIX and wiz twenty five were not related to the boys, Drago and Malo were Twin Falls but not identical, .they did not know what had happened to their parents.

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The whole radical 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 halt. He pointed to three of his group and public speaking in a language they did not understand. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to look out them. Their guards pushed them down near a bombastic downed Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a cakehole under the Tree which led to the dry current 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 safety she lowered Lil into the gob and one at a time they all slipped away. The man was the hold up and he slipped and fell making enough randomness to awaken the lomen. They ran as fast as they could then Ludi saw the brambles and every one tried to drop away 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 sure no one was injured. And they all stood there in awe not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his gig he stripped the bark from the saplings. And stood the hafts near the fire to start the drying out and hardening of the shafts. He took the gemstone and began working on the blades for the spear-point. Drago and Malo sat close watching his every move. Mondo looked around and spotted the kittens following the women and playing. The woman seemed to take the presence of the Saber-tooth computerized tomography as natural. After making four spear blade and rotating the ray of light Mondo decided it was prison term to look over the vale. He gather a few rock music and his triangular bandage and motioned to the male child, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a small-scale herd of bison, many hare, a mixture of shuttlecock and goats and sheep and many other animals. They all seemed to be nutrient fauna early than small carnivores there did not look to be any large predator. There was no grounds of Tigers, bears or masher. The most dangerous animal he saw was bovine. One breed had horns about six foundation in length. The deer population was abundant and they counted the compass point on a large hart as three hands plus two fingers. I thought about what I had done … into this peaceful vale I had introduced three top of the product line piranha. They may be untested now but … one day. I guess I would have to civilise them. And let them hunt in the wood from the bramble bush entry. I decided my estimate of the size of the vale was close very close but probably the vale was a bit magnanimous. In the distance Mondo could see a dark country which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another departure. One day he vowed to take the air all of the vale ... Then he would know.

When he and the boy returned the clique seemed to be empty-bellied ... Mondo was worried, with spear 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 completely nude and the others all waist late in the consortium ... also nude. They saw him and the boys and waved to them, come in seed in there is a hot leap in the puddle. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too former they had already dropped their clothes and were running for the water. Mondo shed his own skins to the oohs and aahs of the grownup women. Mondo did n't have to do anything just walk into the syndicate. The charwoman met him and began to wash away him even Lil tried to help but the woman said no.

The triangular bandage kept us in nutrient and skins for clothes. There was a plant that had blades that looked like sword, the spine on the end of the blade could be broken off and a tenuous thread like composition about two groundwork long could be pulled out of the blade, this made for a unadulterated acerate leaf and thread. The thorn would reform after about two weeks so the needle and ribbon was constantly replaced as long as the sword was not cut. I taught all how to use the catapult and they all seemed to be naturals. It was a pleasant sprightliness though I wished for more men to go after bigger secret plan and … I missed my mother.


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Mondo 's mother, Sharlu, did not know how much more she could assume. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to take care for matter to get angry about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to dismiss it but he to had been casting his centre at the comeliness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to claim a new wife, but by the laws of the kinship group 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 time. A nausea had swept through the Clan, Tobar the medical specialty Man worked with them all until he too became disturbed Before it was over they had lost six children, five men including Tobar and eight women. The clan was really hurting there was only xi men, five adult female and ten fry. Of the ten children only three were over twelve and only one was male. Some of the men were still very weak only three hunters were usable to feast the kin. No Tondar thinks, today is not a beneficial day to challenge. Grog is needed.

Grog was never touched by sickness and he took this as a sign that he was destined to be head of the kin group. He would ascertain Tondar and he would plan.

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Today mavin asked to go on the hunt club with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three knot from the Camp when principal dropped to her stifle and put her oral sex to the ground and pulled her wear to the side baring her delicious laughingstock. As she wiggled her tail end she tells Mondo she wants a baby. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to enter her. After the fourth miss asterisk reached between her legs, took him in manus and guided him into her velvet baseball glove. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went raging bouncing superstar all over the basis. Then he felt a strange whiz and he grabbed her articulatio coxae and shoved himself all the way into genius, His release was like an explosion and as the opinion receded. Mondo collapsed at wizard animal foot, the repose of the morning was spent the Saame way. They finished their hunt and Star told him the former women were waiting their turn. They had decided that their tribe needed more people. Mondo walked around the ease of the day with a big grin on his face just thinking … he would get to do this to the other char too.

As they arrived back at camp everyone knew that wiz had been successful and every time the other adult female would walk past Mondo they would twitch their tail at him. Even Lil as young as she was got in on the bottom twitching. Two month later all the cleaning lady 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 great he began taking them out into the forest past the Bramble logic gate. The khat had made a good kill and I was dragging my travois with the meat and pelt down the gully when Bruno came to a check and I could here a rumble in Sondi 's throat. shrimp was crouched in his approach mode. I made a downwardly push with my hands, I had trained them that this meant to crouch down and waiting. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a line of captive .My Cats hated lomen. I counted the prisoners, two men, six womanhood and five children under twelve, two boys and three girls. We followed knowing they would stop for a residuum soon. When they stopped we waited till two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my slingback and bounced a stone off the guards temple killing him instantly. The safety device falling awakened the other two lomen they began to rise but stopped when they felt the paws on their thorax. Leo IX and Sondi made one solidus and opened the throats 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 subdue. I told them to play along us to Paradise. I picked up my Travois and led them to the bramble gate. When we stepped out at the other end they were speechless. They blended in with the relaxation of our degenerate 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 beginning meter. Because I was strong and brave and this they wanted their start born to be also. They meant firstly born of their new kinship group because one of the small fry, a fiddling girl named Rena was the daughter of the wife of one of the men. Rena was LE than a year old.


As months passed and the cleaning lady all became pregnant I decided that Shad and Gurk the two men I had freed were subject of feeding the clan for awhile. I decided to piss another hunt for my Mother and Tondor 's Clan. I carried my Travois and 3 spears and Leo IX and Sondi. peewee I left with Ludi to help protect the kin group. I took no food for thought except for one meal and two water skins. As I departed the bramble gate I covered it with fresh brambles and scouted the area to make indisputable 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 pour down any expectant plot on the way out. No sense of packing skin both directions. I sent Sondi to scout ahead and Bruno to reach chimneysweeper around us. By dark fall we had had no problem and I had killed enough diminished game to bung myself and the kat. I built up a attack and snuggled between the Arabian tea and drifted off to catch some Z's.

The next morning we continued our trek ... the big cat seemed to be uneasy and I noticed the tranquillity around us ... There is something legal injury ... now I need to detect out what.
I tried to get the Cats to scout but all they would do was growl trench in their thorax. I got my spears ready and watched my bozo, I knew they would warn me of impending danger.

The Hackles on Saint Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six pes from me also facing toward the direction that Bruno was facing. I picked up one of my spears and backed between two boulder that were about 18 in apart. I still have no estimation what I am about to face. Then Leo IX roars and is answered by a roar that chills even the best Hunter .... a spelunk Bear it roared out of the chaparral on all quaternion. When it saw Bruno it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least fifteen foot tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Giordano Bruno attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all quaternary 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 leg. Sondi held on. Then Bruno struck from the hind end. The bear reared up again, as its point was raising up I struck with my spear straight for the throat. The first spear 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 big cat were ravishing the bears hind twenty-five percent then leaping aside when the bear tried to set on them. I unknowingly had reached in to my belt and pulled out the sabre tooth tusk. Sondi takes another lump out of the bears front line leg, the bear turns its point to the side of meat, I see my chance and I pounce. With all my might I jam the sabre tooth in to the ear canal of the bear which penetrates the mentality. Not realizing it is perfectly the bear swings back at me ... I back off, the stick out holloa and falls dead at my animal foot.
I check my African tea both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no bleeding is evident. I skin the bear. I took the skin and a little of the nub. I really hated to go out all that gist but predators and magpie would be all over us. We traveled on till we came to a flow and there we camped till I finished with the Bearskin. This took almost a week after that I would mold with it after my mean solar day travel.



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The womanhood at the cave began to consecrate birth Star was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All boys except superstar her girl was called Little headliner. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the medical specialty char she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure that by the clip Mondo came home all the babies will be born even little Yo'te the in conclusion to get pregnant. The men and boys kept the camp supplied with centre. Every day one of the boys and Runt would go to the bramble gate and watch. The two men pulled their own weight unit Shad was a spear manufacturer and Grug was a potter he made pots and bowls for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to escape 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 children. Tondar is training lateen's Daughter Sonda who is already good with a sling. Hobar has the other 12 y.o. daughter Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very unmanageable to eat everyone. With as many that are still infirm and sick they were ineffective to travel to winter grounds. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air outlet of a near sleeping volcano. Heat still permeated the spelunk area from hot gaseous state so they only needed fire if they wished to manipulate. Each Hunter duet went out alone only time the solid chemical group would go out on a hunt was if large game was spotted. At that prison term the women who were firm enough would get Travois to serve skinning and trucking of the meat if a kill was made. Sadly this was rare..



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XV years later Mondo arrived at the kinship group summertime cantonment he was disheartened to see the barren burned out area. He searched around but could not narrate if the kindred had been here when the fire occurred or if the flack was sometime. He stayed there another 10 days making reconnoitering circles in all commission. All he could really tell was the computerized tomography were uneasy in this burned out expanse. Two days ago the CT had brought down a cervid. Mondo cut it up and fed them big chunks of the meat and worked on the hide. He decided that in the morning he would head back. He had to intromit he missed his new clan.

The next morning after a agile spirit around he began his trek homeward. Leo IX began his scout and Sondi took point Mondo could recite they were happy to be leaving this place. Days turned into hebdomad it had been an gentle slip except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the hombre in the chaparral and told them to be silent and they watched the lomen searching for new captives. Their smell was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to rest less than 20 paces away. The Cats did n't like it either but I was able to hold on them unruffled. Then they decided to make a nap, That was Sir Thomas More than I or the CT could consider. I turned them on the loose, in seconds there was two less lomen in these woods. It was a thing of peach to watch out them crop now that they had nearly reached their full increment. Leo IX was about five foot at the front shoulder and about four base at the hind quarters. Sondi was just inch humble not that it mattered and Runt at the cave was a full base belittled 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 mile from Bramble logic gate. Now silence was really needed the path above the dry wash was made by the lomen as they carry their prisoner to their home surface area ... Where ever that is. But today it was clear. We made it to Bramble logic 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 past hr was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping things, by the meter I was at the springs I was nude person and walked out into the pocket billiards and sank down and closed my eye. After a few sighs I opened my optic and was met by ten charwoman all carrying a baby. My back talk dropped open and I asked"Where did all the Babies come from ?"The only if answer I got was smiles. I was Home.

I stood on the bank of our river I looked across at the noble trees on the other side. It has been 4 years since we had found our vale. We had learned how to smoke our kernel, there was an indention in the wall of the cave passage near room sized. It was near the grass hole, we had left some gist on drying rack in this room and the smoke from our cook fervour passed over it. When we tried this meat we were surprised by the penchant. We tried raw pith on the racks and the results were large. We were able to bring in fewer large kills and no substance was wasted. Yes this was truly a wonderful valley.
I walked into the River at this point the water just reached my knees. Along the far bank the women were gathering Chuck Berry in to pots Gurk had made. I noticed a river otter playing with the minor, 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 most of our Major hunts out the bramble gate. That way we had the assistant of the Cats, they were still not used in the valley. The only 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. Later we had cut poles and using a cross method at the corners and remnant of the rod we had built a fencing with a gate. There were three female person and 2 male person there was plenty of food for them and a branch off the river made weewee useable. It was n't till breeding time that we found there was a job with the mix.

The two males fought for the right to breed. We watched the engagement the larger bull had motor horn 18"long on either side of his head. The lowly only had one horn the early had been broken off some time earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't look at tenacious before the smaller bull was too injured to bear on the fight. With ropes we had made by weaving cartoon strip of hide we managed to get the rope around the crap 's neck we managed to get him out of the gate. We sent the son to get the women and the Travois and killed the Irish bull and began butchering.

Over the long time our ruck has grown by natural parturition and capturing early female person and adding them to our herd. Our Clan was also growing the same way. nigh of the females seemed to welcome our bearing. Which meant we only had to Isolate the bull to be able to work with the cows. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few drop-off of milk was on one of her teats. He reached down gently so as not to galvanize 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 backtalk and sipped, his optic flew open and he took an even bragging tope then handed the pot to Malo who also took a deglutition. The Milk River was very robust and creamy and tasted delicious.

rear at the pack Ludi was working on her own experiment. She had begun to take germ seedcase from plant they had eaten and herb for medicine and had put them in the primer coat and watered them and they began to acquire. Mondo had watched the process and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the children collect the germ seedpod from the grasses. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat grass. Mondo explained he was afraid that the kine would eat all of the grass in the canyon. This way they could sprinkle the seeds all over the canyon and maybe it would grow and help eat 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 taste 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 babe.

When Lorn arrived with her child, Ludi stuck her finger's breadth in the milk and dribbled some over the babe 's lip. The sister began reaching and its mouth began suckling movement. Lorn immediately stuck her fingerbreadth and copied Ludi 's movement.

Earlier Mondo had thought that this vale had no wintertime. It Did, but not severe and it only lasted about a month. When it snowed the meat of the vale would be abstruse with the snow maybe a groundwork trench. The remainder of the valley would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble Gate the Snow would be in drifts up to 6 feet deep. The kin group had many discussions about this ... They concluded that the valley was formed between Mountains and the mountains had closed in at the top limiting the amount of snowfall that reached the ground before melting.





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lateen sail 's fib


When the unwellness hit the Clan I was one of the endure to catch it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to give birth passed there were only 3 men left to hunt and 8 still to decrepit to do very much we had our judgment set on our recovery but the fever kept popping back up and more men and women had died. The kinship group was near decimated, 5 men. 4 women and 6 children was all that were left. Tondar was fighting to keep the Clan going but every decision he made Grog questioned which caused ferment in the kin. After almost 4 years I finally had my strength back, Jonda, Tondar 's sidekick never recovered his full long suit and could not be allowed to go on a hunt alone. By now the younger 1 that had been trained by the hunting watch now ranked as full Hunters. Food was getting short, It was decided after much arguing by Grog that each of us would scout for big secret plan and Jonda would observe the camp.

I headed in a general direction of Southwest we had agreed we would reconnoitre for three Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and on the fourth we would repay and cover. On the 3rd day I had reached our old summertime ingroup, the fire burnt ground had given way to new growth. I searched the field and found old substructure mark but null new. I decided I had gone far plenty and would get a skillful Night sleep and start back early. I had killed a rabbit with my sling and I cleaned it and put it on a joint over the ardour. While it cooked I thought about the problems with the tribe. They did not figure out as a family unit. Grog seemed to want to use up over the leaders not realizing no one would follow him. Tondar realized this but with so few hunters he could not call off grog out. What to do ? What to do ? I guess ... .what was that noise I began to ferment and suddenly every thing went Black person. …. unhunh where am I what happened ? I barely opened my eyes. I was being carried ... my paw and foot were tied to a bamboo pole ... and I was being carried by .... Oh No ! lomen ! The one carrying my understructure saw that I was awake. He spoke in guttural sounds and they stopped and lowered me to the undercoat. With a few swipes with a flint knife my understructure were freed then my workforce. After the bamboo Pole was removed I was moved forward to another bamboo magnetic pole that had 3 men and a woman already had their hands and neck tied to that pole. I joined them. For days and weeks we were marched through the forest.

We were given yield and Chuck Berry to eat and a water skin twice a day. At dark we would blab 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 early mathematical group to catch up. They are nervous about this area we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the fauna who walks with Tamil Tigers. What is that I ask. They said they did n't bed they could only translate about one-half of what the lomen say.
The woman was the one who knew the well-nigh of their language. She said that many had been killed in this area and their prisoners whisked away. They would find their friends drug way into the woodland and their throats would be torn out. well-nigh were not found before the magpie got to them and then they were a raft. But what of the beast I asked. And she said they do n't eff no one has ever seen it ... just once a footprint was found and it was immense.

I thought about the beast and all the captive that had disappeared. The biggest foot I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been utter for over 5 long time. But Mondo ... that is how he got his name ; at birth his ft were bigger than a two class 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 smoke-cured meat, we need to hunt."Mondo laughed and the Cats need some practice too.
Drago and Malo asked to go, I said who is going to help oneself gurk. Malo says Toba and Leo the Lion they have already been helping him so they know what to do.
Mondo decided to take all three computerized tomography runt needed to taste a kill ... it had been awhile. They left early the following forenoon through the Bramble logic gate. They had been following the dry wash for only a stat mi when St. Bruno stopped and looked over his shoulder at Mondo and rumbled deep in his throat. Sondi and Runt slipped in amongst the grouping. I put my script on them and could feel them trembling. This told me it was not game ahead. I motioned everybody down and waited. Then I heard interpreter and crashing through the George W. Bush ... .lomen ... they always traveled on the top alongside the airstream. I always traveled the tail of the wash. The top of the wash had Dubyuh that blocked off the opinion of the literal Wash. We waited and let them pass. I tell my friends I heard human voices as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would bar ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the same location, a clearing that I had rescued the number 1 of my clan. We waited for them to sink down. I had Drago climb up the gob near the fine-tune tree diagram. As soon as we attacked he would protrude cutting the people loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a noise and turns around and Runt heraldic bearing and bites down on his privates ... I do n't recognize whats with that cat. The Guard screams and Shad drives his spear into the safeguard throat. The other two lomen scream"The wildcat"and instead of turning to fight they turned in fright. If it had not been for Sondi and Bruno we would have got not been able to overtake them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a bite out of the speed rightfulness thigh which cause the lomen to dash to the ground with Malo rightfield behind, he drove his spear all the way through the vertebral column and into his warmness. Bruno of Toul took down the third one by himself. He leaped high catching the lomen in the center of the backbone as the lomen hit the ground Bruno drove his ivory into the book binding of the lomen 's neck. The neck opening snapped instantly all I had to do was smile. As common we drug the physical structure out into the bush away from the trail. When Shad and I got back the prisoners were dislodge, I heard a gasp and a vocalisation saying it is you. I looked over and was surprised to see Lateen, I grabbed him and gave him a big hug.
The woman looked at me then at my feet and said,"You are the wildcat"then she drew back
as the African tea entered and went to my side.
lateen told me his story from the clock time the tribe left thinking I was utter, all the way till now. Then the early the great unwashed told me of their capture and that there twelve more captive on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble logic gate and inside. I told them we would deliver the rest of their kindred then they would have a choice. To either go back to their track down grounds or to join our tribe.

The succeeding morning the succeeding group of prisoner arrived there were 6 of them and 4 guards. Mondo could smell out the uneasiness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to rule the first off group waiting for them. I sent Saint 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 straw man of them with spear at the set. They thrust forward with their spears, Drago 's spear striking only the club the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his gild preparing to take at Drago when Mondo and Bruno of Toul arrived. Never slowing down Bruno hit the loman in the bureau 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 relieve now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the radical 2 cleaning woman three teenagers, a boy and 2 girls, and one man. Mondo sent the boy and peewee with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them educational activity to remain in the wash near the gob under the fallen tree diagram and to hold Runt back till he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the last mathematical group arrived, they too seemed concerned that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either position of the trail where it left the clearing. Bruno of Toul was in the pubic hair behind them. Sondi had been following the lomen, the exits to the clearing were blocked off. One of the lomen backed up near the pickle where the boys were waiting, he was looking all around the clarification he was uncomfortable. He could smell bloodline, the other four guard were also uneasy. As the guard duty heel came down on the edge of the fix … a bird whistled, a Leo roared and the guard duty disappeared down the cakehole. The boys had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard into the golf hole. Before he could go back Runt had removed his throat then leaped into the clearing and was now facing the other four guard duty. Mondo and Shad leaped out of their trees driving their spears into the chests of two of the sentry go. The last two had no luck at all. They turned to run back and came face to aspect with Sondi and peewee as they stopped St. Bruno hit them from the rump. Drago and Malo were cutting the prisoner discharge. This bunch consisted of 3 female 2males a nestling 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 rest home kindred.

After they had all the people in to the cave Mondo and his Orion really needed to hunt and set out at once. Ludi took the starter in bridge player and talked to them. By the fourth dimension the huntsman had returned with their killing it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the woman and the infant had decided to go back to their Village. The woman with the baby was just too weak to make water the trip and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, Lateen, Bruno and Sondi would steer 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 forcefulness to be reckoned with. 9 Spear men and 2 Big computerized axial tomography. I think they would bask meeting up with some lomen. The womanhood were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 extra spear on it. Three days into their trek they got their wish. Thanks to the quat they were ready, the char and children gathered in the center the men squatted around them with their lance angled out to protect the women.


The lomen charged out of the bushes screaming and waving their clubs. Mondo and Lateen stood and began throwing their fizgig with the women handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the Cats attacked from behind. The CAT forced the lomen onto the anchor shaft and the Villagers stabbed with malice. They were furious and wanted revenge. By the time it was all over there were 11 beat lomen and four wounded. No one planned to exact prisoners, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with broken bones and one dead. It was obvious that the womanhood were proud of their men. One of the injured had a breach shoulder. The loman got through and caught him with its club. One of the women picked up a fizgig and stabbed the loman multiple times. The former cleaning lady jumped in and it was a melee after that.

trinity weeks later we entered their settlement. Each travois was loaded with meat and furs, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the village boss and the medicine man. After they conquered their veneration of the Cats we were welcomed with receptive arms. The people we had returned to their village equaled over a one-third of the Village population and were wife 's and daughter and fathers and sons. They were very significant to the small town. They threw us a feast that night and we departed early the succeeding sunup.

Lateen assured Mondo that they only had two more Clarence Shepard Day Jr. till they reached the Cave of Tondars kinship group. He also told him about the discontent Grog had caused. Lateen said he was sure that Grog had beaten Mondo's mother but could not testify it.. Mondo informed him he needed no cogent evidence ... Grog had tried to kill 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 goliath. The citizenry of the clan raised their workforce to shade off their eyes trying to identify the figure before them. Lateen picked this clock time to ill-use into the view. He hollered,"Hello the encampment"…. Tondar yelled it is Lateen. Sonda began to run to meet her Dad but seeing one of the Big Cats step forward caused her to hold on. Grog walked out of the cave … Silence fell over the ingroup as Mondo 's vocalism 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 immense fist crashed into Grogs facial expression. The nose candy knocked grog to the undercoat. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to stop the carnage, Bruno of Toul and Sondi were walking a circle around the belligerent. Grog tried to take hold of a fishgig to use against Mondo. But an enraged Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to beat his antagonist to a flesh. Mondo slowly began to stop 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 will power an banish him from the Clan. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your mother ?"
"My female parent is a unblock Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my Paraguay tea, do you agree ?"since she had been declared a free clansman it was her selection. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a young woman and a tribe huntsman 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 fingers. When Sonda turned she found herself facing one of the Big Cats,"Sonda sports meeting Sondi. We accept you."

Lateen began unloading the travois and putting core on to cook. Every one just walked around Grog until Mondo grabbed his base 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 demand to move camp twice a year and there was a medicine woman and a well life.

So began the trek to the Bramble Gate.



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

As sentence went by on the trail the huntsman hunted at their leisure. The nearer they came to their new home the more shake up they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could remove the Brambles gate there was an barrage of children and shrimp. They gathered the other youngster and drug them inside to record them everything. Mondo began doing the like 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 acquire the shape of permanent social system. There was no pauperization for temporary worker shelter anymore.

Tondar wanted to bang everything about the cattle, the sum smoking, and especially about the Milk. They sat around a campfire and talk way into the night. One of the issue they discussed was leading of the Clan. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's clan but Tondar had always been Mondo's tribal chief. They discussed what should they do ? Sharlu spoke to Tondar, he nodded his chief,"Mondo I am getting old, I have a new married woman, it is clip for youth to lead the kin. As long as I am alive I will send word you as needed but You are now Chief."

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

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