Mondo 's clan


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

The men are gathering for a hunting, we are traveling to a summer camp and penury to own meat for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too dumb ... .. soon, very soon I will challenge him. He says my big feet make me clumsy.

The men are ready to hound and the chief man Tondor calls us to proceed out. Lateen has spotted a herd of Bison not to far from our pack. We will trail them and set up an ambush. Tondor tells Grog and I to proceed ahead on the right while lateen and Gorbus does the same to the left.

I ease behind a rock'n'roll with my fishgig in deal when something startles the ruck and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and flavour over my shoulder joint and see Grog swinging his club at my read/write head. My movement caused the blow to be a stunning blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a dead Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that had fallen and lay in their path and my lifeless organic structure rolled under its branches.

I opened my eyes, my pass hurt and I could hardly see. I try to stand but could not. I check and I still had my water skin. I took a drinkable and poured some over my head. Slowly very slowly I began to come to my sensation. Grog tried to shoot down 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 same but where Grog was fat mine was musculus. One day I will select him down, maybe today when I get back to camp.

I found my spear and using it as a staff I made my way back to encampment. Before I made it to the camp expanse I realized something was very wrongly, no smoke, as I rounded the boulder that marked the entrance to the box canyon where the encampment had been for month. Before me was a wasteland expanse no huts no multitude ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the ground.

The kinship group probably thought I was numb, Grog would have told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not have sex how long I was out, as weak as I felt it could have been Clarence Day. 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 viewing. I do n't live 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 up sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must possess eluded the kin group and died slowly. I took my flint tongue and began the summons of skinning it. Before I was half done I decided to build a fervidness to sustain predators away. I gathered wood and pulled out my flame stones struck them together and directed the Muriel Spark to the touchwood and in second I had my fire I fed it larger bit of wood trough I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the meat and placed it on a stone near the fire. Just by accident, a few yr ago a lump of inwardness was dropped into the ember of our fire. Some time later my father noticed the tantalizing smell from the preparation kernel he raked it out, brushed it off and took a bite. We each tried a piece of the make kernel and now often cooked our meat. I stood up from placing the core and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a current near by so I decided to just stay right where I was. I made Racks and hung musical composition of meat to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison skin and began to scratch up the hide and tan it.
I stayed there for a week and ate my fill and although I heard predator almost every night my flack seemed to keep them at bay. I found some belittled tree with straightaway proboscis about an in to an column inch and a half in diam. I cut two about eight human foot hanker then I cut small ones to make a counterpane of about three foot. These I tied to the tenacious celestial pole to get a travois. I cut a lot of thin landing strip from the Bison hide for this and more to tie the hide 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 better than he had planed, Mondo had fell right in movement of the stampede. He laughs to himself zilch left of Mondo.

Tondor regretted the loss of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the best hunter in the Clan. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him return in front end of the stampede so there was not much sense in too long of a search.

They had traveled many days to their summer refugee camp only to discover that there had been a timber blast during the wintertime and the area was aught but ashes. Tondor decided to sprain North east in hunting of new land.

Mondo 's female parent was sure that Grog was at fault for her Logos end but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would perplex her and leave her behind. So she kept her mentation to herself.
lateen 's daughter Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only 11 she had a crush on Mondo. Mondo was the grandiloquent, strongest and most handsome and Sonda knew that one day he would pick her ... She just had to rise a little bit ... well since her pectus was categorical and she was as skinny as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the poles to his shoulders and began his hunting for the tribe. It was at least a lunation to the summer pack. He had made a catapult from a couple of string cut from the bison cutis and kept the slingshot in his hand as he walked. By the time he stopped for the day he had three Rabbits and a Wisconsinite. 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 boom ... He grabbed his spear and turned, he barley had sentence to set himself as a saber-tooth Tiger launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his human knee and steadied his spear. The tiger hit the shaft and drove the fishgig into its chest of drawers the military group of the impingement carried the Panthera tigris over and preceding Mondo ripping the shaft out of his men. Mondo grabbed for his flint knife and leaped on to the tigers back and with the razor sharp flint tongue attacked the throat of the tiger. The force of the tiger landing broke the fishgig in half. The blade of the spear pierced the warmness of the fauna as it slung Mondo off its spine. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's base … suddenly. Mondo had closed his oculus because he knew he was short ... nix happened …. he opened his eye to see the Panthera tigris at his feet, then he shook.

He had no time to fall apart. He gathered wood and built a large fire. He began skinning the tiger noting the fact that it was a female and looked like it may have been nursing. Mondo staked out the tiger skin out to pull in scraping well-to-do. Then he drug the carcass away from camp. Returning to the coterie he found three kitten eating his rabbits that he had planned on having himself. Well he thought that answers the head about if the Panthera tigris had kit or not.. Mondo picked up the rabbits and stick to them on joint over the firing. He cut the Badger into small pieces and fed it to the kits. They ate their fill then curled up adjacent to Mondo and went to sleep.

The next morning Mondo went back to the tigers carcass ... it was almost white nothing but ivory 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 down the kit were playing and nipping at the badger clappers. He staked out the tiger skin and went to work on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the perch and started off it had been three days preparing the tiger pelt, the outfit played around his feet. They would take a few stairs and look back and mew. Then run to catch up then repeat, they were not for certain what to do for Mondo kept on walk. This went on for over an minute then the outfit started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a mournful cry and an answering growling .... a coyote looking for an gentle repast. Why ? Mondo does not know but he dropped the poles grabbed the half lance and attacked the coyote. Being a Coward the brush wolf ran away … well just out of scope ... Mondo scratched his headway wondering why he did some of the things he did. He walked back to the outwear and scare outfit and picked up one turned it over … it was a Male he said"You are Bruno ”. The future had tabby cat bar and was female for some rationality it reminded him of Lateen 's girl,"You are Sondi."The last one was pocket-size but male person Mondo laughed at the struggles and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the carrier and placed them on the skins. They settled down to sleep.

As the daytime passed the outfit would get down from the postman run and gambling till they tired then they would climb back up and go to sleep. Mondo began to discover a thin frisson in the air he began to care that there might be a deep snow storm coming. He started searching for a place to accommodate up and hold back it out. With the aid of his triangular bandage he had plenty of meat to stopping point so that was no worry but he did need to chance a straight pole to make into a spear. Another hour of walk and he noticed a stand of trees that had a few saplings the perfect length for his spear ... if he could find the right gem maybe he could Saratoga chip out three or four spear heads. He began to look 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 shrieking, He took his half gig and moved off in the steering of the wow. He was walking in a dry flow bed, as he walked he would blame 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 crook he saw something he had only heard about. Before him was what his dad had called lomen their physical structure were twisted as was their faces they were eaters of men. The lomen were across-the-board in the soundbox and potent and there were three of them. One of them was eating on the leg os of a man they had ripped apart. The other two were trying to pull something from under the bramble bushes next to the stone. From the screams I could tell it was a female person and that the thorns was all that was between her and these ogre. I loaded my sling and let fly hitting the eater in the temple ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the other turned toward me I let fly the John Rock catching him in the fore top dog. Before I could reload the finally 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 common soldier parts causing him to raise his head which gave Bruno the chance he needed and latched on to his throat. As the monstrosity went down I planted my half fishgig in to his chest and pressed it into his sum. I called the kit off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their milk teeth had been replaced by the beginning of their tusks, I chuckled that lomen probably was very surprised 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 scream and I said do n't ache my kitten he just wants to trifle 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 opening through the brambles. I was surprised to find there was a cave behind the brambles. The orifice was about four understructure across and tall but once in side of meat the cave it was at to the lowest degree eight fundament tall. As I entered the for the first time matter I saw was an eight year old playing with runt beside her was her mother and three other womanhood and two male child 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 incline and realized that Bruno and Sondi were escorting me. I will be good back I will get rid of the bodies and get my geartrain and then I will devolve. I drug the bodies a good ways away so vulture 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 head trip back outside to play 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 least sit down, I am not here to hurt you if you wish to leave I will not barricade you. Do what you wish."

I decided to allow for them alone and light a fervidness. I unloaded the travois and spread the the fur the kittens crawled right on the fur and Lil the eight yr old who had been playing with Runt followed him onto the pelt. One by one they began to sit on the pelt and the son 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 flack started and started some hare to roasting. I am Mondo I will finish telling my fib. I noticed that some of the smoke drifted down the ceiling line of the cave then disappeared. I lit a length of Grant Wood and and used it as a torch. I walked farther in to the cave the two boys and Sondi and Bruno followed. About fifty dollar bill feet inward we found a stream that ran along the rightfulness wall. The cats smelled the weewee and took a drunkenness. I dipped my hand in, the water was cold and sweet. We walked on for about a hundred foot the cave made a turn to the left wing and opened up to a Brobdingnagian room with a pool almost twenty to thirty metrical foot across. There was some variety of Moss on the cave walls that gave off luminosity. I no longer need the flannel mullein so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the room and could see an possibility ahead of me. When I reached the opening I was shocked to see a beautiful vale. A river flowed from out of the solid ground at the radical of the tidy sum. gaga game was abundant, Charles Edward Berry were evident as well as herb and spices all were in ken. 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 Valley trying to adjudicate its size the best shot was it was at to the lowest degree 10 miles long and 5 encompassing but would know better when I had a luck 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 fresh water and the valley had all the food we could eat. I was standing in forepart 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 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 womanhood, Pori, made the gossip we could live here and no one would know.."Moli and Star 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 right we needed the things moved to this end .We all went back together.

The maiden dark we slept on the furs it was close sleeping, in the center of the Nox I awoke with an arm draped across my body stroking my pectus and stomach.. I started to turn over when a vocalisation said shhhh. I lay there enjoying the feeling and not knowing who was doing the rubbing. That night I had pleasant dreams. And when I awoke the following morning the ladies were out gathering herbs Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a medicine woman prentice, And Lil 's mother.
The other ladies, Pori seventeen, Moli nineteen and whiz twenty five were not related to the boy, Drago and Malo were Twin Falls but not selfsame, .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 leader of the lomen called a stop. He pointed to three of his radical and speaking in a language they did not empathize. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to watch them. Their safety device pushed them down near a heavy kill tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a golf hole under the tree which led to the dry stream bed and eventually to the cave. Lil found the pickle. 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 golf hole and one at a prison term they all slipped away. The man was the final and he slipped and fell making enough interference to wake the lomen. They ran as fast as they could then Ludi saw the brambles and every one tried to slew 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 accusation and Ludi was glad to let him besides she was physically attracted to him. Mondo had checked each one of them to make for certain no one was injured. And they all stood there in reverence not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his spears he stripped the barque from the saplings. And stood the hafts near the fire to begin the drying out and hardening of the shafts. He took the stones and began working on the brand for the spearheads. Drago and Malo sat shut watching his every move. Mondo looked around and spotted the kitty following the cleaning woman and playing. The womanhood seemed to contract the comportment of the Saber-tooth computed tomography as natural. After making four spear brand and rotating the shafts Mondo decided it was time to look over the vale. He gather a few rocks and his sling and motioned to the son, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a small herd of bison, many hare, a variety of birdie and butt and sheep and many other creature. They all seemed to be solid food animals former than belittled carnivores there did not appear to be any large predators. There was no evidence of Tigers, bears or Wolf. The most serious beast he saw was bovine. One breed had horns about six invertebrate foot in length. The deer population was abundant and they counted the decimal point on a large stag as three hands plus two fingerbreadth. I thought about what I had done … into this passive valley I had introduced three top of the line predators. They may be young now but … one day. I guess I would have to train them. And let them hunt in the forest from the bramble bush entrance. I decided my estimate of the size of the Valley was penny-pinching very close but probably the vale was a bit larger. In the distance Mondo could see a dismal arena which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another way out. One day he vowed to walk all of the vale ... Then he would know.

When he and the son returned the camp seemed to be empty ... Mondo was worried, with spear at the ready he entered camp. Then he heard laugh from inside the cave. He and the male child entered the cave and was met with the sight of Star completely nude statue and the others all waist cryptical in the pool ... also nude. They saw him and the boy and waved to them, come in come in there is a hot springs in the pool. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too tardy they had already dropped their dress and were running for the water. Mondo shed his own skins to the oohs and aahs of the grownup woman. Mondo did n't sustain to do anything just take the air into the kitty. The women met him and began to wash off him even Lil tried to help but the women said no.

The catapult kept us in food and peel for apparel. There was a plant that had blades that looked like blade, the spikelet on the end of the sword could be broken off and a slender thread like piece of music about two base long could be pulled out of the steel, this made for a consummate needle and ribbon. The spikelet would reform after about two week so the phonograph needle and train of thought was constantly replaced as long as the sword was not cut. I taught all how to use the slings and they all seemed to be cancel. It was a pleasant life though I wished for more men to go after bigger plot and … I missed my mother.


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Mondo 's mother, Sharlu, did not know how much to a greater extent she could engage. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to depend for things to get wild about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to brush aside it but he to had been casting his eyes at the comeliness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to claim a new married woman, but by the jurisprudence of the tribe Grog had acted first and Sharlu was his. If Tondar ever actually saw Grog thrashing Sharlu .... He would Challenge Grog. But now was not the prison term. A sickness had swept through the Clan, Tobar the medicine Man worked with them all until he too became sick Before it was over they had lost six minor, five men including Tobar and eight women. The Clan was really hurting there was only football team men, five charwoman and ten children. Of the ten children only three were over 12 and only one was male. Some of the men were still very feeble only three huntsman were usable to feed the Clan. No Tondar thinks, today is not a good day to dispute. Grog is needed.

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

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Today Star asked to go on the hunt with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three miles from the Camp when sensation dropped to her stifle and put her brain to the priming and pulled her clothing to the slope baring her delightful butt. As she wiggled her buttocks she tells Mondo she wants a sister. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to enter her. After the quaternary miss hotshot reached between her legs, took him in hand and guided him into her velvet mitt. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went wilderness bouncing Star all over the primer. Then he felt a strange ace and he grabbed her articulatio coxae and shoved himself all the way into wizard, His expiration was like an explosion and as the feeling receded. Mondo collapsed at Stars feet, the residuum of the aurora was spent the Sami way. They finished their hunt and Star told him the other cleaning lady were waiting their turn. They had decided that their tribe needed more people. Mondo walked around the repose of the day with a big smile on his face just thinking … he would get to do this to the other cleaning woman too.

As they arrived back at coterie everyone knew that whiz had been successful and every time the other womanhood would walk past Mondo they would tweet their tail at him. Even Lil as young as she was got in on the tail twitching. Two months later all the adult female were fraught and Lil was asking her mother why she could n't be pregnant too.

Mondo was training the Cats and as they became larger he began taking them out into the forest past the Bramble gate. The computed tomography had made a thoroughly kill and I was dragging my travois with the pith and pelt down the gully when Leo IX came to a stop and I could here a rumble in Sondi 's throat. peewee was crouched in his attack manner. I made a downwardly push with my hands, I had trained them that this meant to crouch down and hold. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a line of captives .My computerized tomography hated lomen. I counted the prisoners, two men, six women and five children under dozen, two boy and three young woman. We followed knowing they would stop for a eternal rest soon. When they stopped we waited till two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my sling and bounced a rock off the guard duty temple killing him instantly. The guard duty falling awakened the other two lomen they began to lift but stopped when they felt the paws on their chest. Saint Bruno and Sondi made one slash 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 prisoner and told them not to worry about the CAT, they are tone down. I told them to survey 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 remainder of our libertine growing tribe. Even though two of the cleaning lady were wife 's of the two men Mondo was informed it was his job to get them pregnant the first metre. Because I was firm and brave and this they wanted their first born to be also. They meant first born of their new clan because one of the children, a slight missy named Rena was the girl of the married woman of one of the men. Rena was lupus erythematosus than a year old.


As month passed and the adult female 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 make another search for my Mother and Tondor 's kindred. I carried my Travois and 3 spears and Bruno and Sondi. Runt I left with Ludi to help protect the tribe. I took no food except for one meal and two pee pelt. As I departed the bramble logic gate I covered it with invigorated brambles and scouted the area to pretend sure no lomen had been around.
Game seemed to be rich and I decided to just use my sling I felt there was no reason to kill any large secret plan on the way out. No sense of packing fur both directions. I sent Sondi to reconnoiter ahead and Bruno to seduce sweep around us. By night crepuscle we had had no problems and I had killed enough small game to prey myself and the quat. I built up a fire and snuggled between the Cats and drifted off to sleep.

The next sunup we continued our trek ... the Cats seemed to be ill at ease and I noticed the quietness around us ... There is something awry ... now I need to find out what.
I tried to get the Cats to scout but all they would do was grumble deep in their thorax. I got my spear prepare and observe my Cats, I knew they would warn me of impending danger.

The hackles on St. Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six feet from me also facing toward the focal point that St. Bruno was facing. I picked up one of my spears and backed between two boulders that were about 18 inches apart. I still have no idea what I am about to face. Then Bruno thunder and is answered by a holler that chills even the upright hunter .... a cave Bear it roared out of the chaparral on all fours. When it saw Giordano Bruno it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least fifteen substructure tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Bruno attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all fours and charged toward me. I set myself with my fishgig, 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 rear. The bear reared up again, as its school principal was raising up I struck with my spear straightaway for the throat. The first fizgig did not diffuse very far but it seemed to con mix the bear. He swung his mighty paw but he hit the boulder instead of me. The Cats were ravishing the bears hind quarters then leaping aside when the bear tried to attack them. I unknowingly had reached in to my smash and pulled out the Sabre tooth tusk. Sondi takes another chunk out of the bears figurehead leg, the bear turns its heading to the English, I see my chance and I pounce. With all my might I jam the saber tooth in to the ear channel of the bear which penetrates the encephalon. Not realizing it is abruptly the bear swings back at me ... I back off, the pay roars and falls dead at my feet.
I check my Cats both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no hemorrhage is evident. I skin the bear. I took the skin and a little of the core. I really hated to leave all that meat but predators and scavengers would be all over us. We traveled on cashbox we came to a watercourse and there we camped till I finished with the busby. This took almost a week after that I would work with it after my days travel.



9 Babies

The cleaning woman at the cave began to give birth sensation was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All boys except asterisk her daughter was called Little Star. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the medicament char she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure that by the time Mondo came home all the sister will be born even little Yo'te the last to get pregnant. The men and boys kept the coterie supplied with meat. Every day one of the boy and Runt would go to the bramble gate and watch. The two men pulled their own weighting Shad was a spear Godhead and Grug was a potter he made toilet and bowls for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to neglect Mondo his potency and leadership was missed.

Tondar is worried only 3 hunters left, Himself, Grog and Hobar each has been training one of the tyke. Tondar is training Lateen's Daughter Sonda who is already near with a slingback. Hobar has the other 12 y.o. girl Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very hard to feast everyone. With as many that are still faint and grisly they were unable to incite to overwinter grounds. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air vent-hole of a about torpid vent. Heat still permeated the cave area from hot flatulence so they only needed fervidness if they wished to cook. Each hunting watch duad went out alone only time the hale group would go out on a hunting was if large game was spotted. At that time the cleaning lady who were strong enough would take Travois to help skinning and trucking of the nub if a kill was made. Sadly this was rare..



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Fifteen days later Mondo arrived at the Clans summertime cantonment he was disheartened to see the wasteland burned out field. He searched around but could not separate if the Clan had been here when the fire occurred or if the ardour was older. He stayed there another 10 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. making scouting circuit in all directions. All he could really secern was the Arabian tea were uneasy in this burned out area. Two days ago the cats had brought down a deer. Mondo cut it up and fed them big chunk of the heart and worked on the skin. He decided that in the morning he would head back. He had to admit he missed his new clan.

The future morning after a warm face around he began his trek homeward. St. Bruno began his scout and Sondi took stage Mondo could separate they were happy to be leaving this place. Days turned into workweek it had been an slow stumble except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the computed axial tomography in the chaparral and told them to be unsounded and they watched the lomen searching for new prisoner. Their olfactory modality was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to rest less than twenty footstep away. The guy did n't like it either but I was able to retain them placid. Then they decided to postulate a nap, That was more than than I or the computed tomography could take. I turned them at large, in minute there was two less lomen in these wood. It was a thing of beauty to watch them work now that they had nearly reached their wide ontogeny. Giordano Bruno was about five foundation at the front man shoulder joint and about four foot at the hind quarters. Sondi was just inch smaller not that it mattered and Runt at the cave was a full foot smaller but I think Runt was faster than his Brother and sister.

I could see the dry wash ahead once I entered it I would be close to a statute mile from Bramble logic gate. Now silence was really needed the itinerary above the dry race was made by the lomen as they carry their captives to their menage region ... Where ever that is. But today it was vindicated. 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 CAT and I followed. All I could think about for the retiring hour was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping matter, by the sentence I was at the springtime I was nude and walked out into the consortium and sank down and closed my optic. After a few suspiration I opened my eye and was met by ten char all carrying a infant. My back talk dropped receptive and I asked"Where did all the child come from ?"The just result I got was smiles. I was Home.

I stood on the depository financial institution of our river I looked across at the noble tree on the other side of meat. It has been 4 twelvemonth since we had found our valley. We had learned how to smoke our nub, there was an indent in the wall of the undermine musical passage near room sized. It was near the smoke hole, we had left some centre on drying rack in this room and the smoke from our cook fire passed over it. When we tried this meat we were surprised by the appreciation. We tried raw sum on the racks and the results were great. We were able to establish fewer orotund kills and no meat was wasted. Yes this was truly a terrific valley.
I walked into the River at this point the body of water just reached my knee joint. Along the far depository financial institution the women were gathering Berry in to pots Gurk had made. I noticed a river otter playing with the fry, 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 nigh of our major William Holman Hunt out the bramble gate. That way we had the help of the Cats, they were still not used in the vale. The just 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 mark method at the box and goal of the celestial pole we had built a fence with a gate. There were three females and 2 male there was plenty of intellectual nourishment for them and a branch off the river made body of water available. It was n't till breeding time that we found there was a problem with the mix.

The two Male fought for the right to breed. We watched the fight the larger strapper had hooter 18"long on either side of his top dog. The smaller only had one horn the other had been broken off some time earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't strike long before the littler strapper was too injured to persist in the fight. With circle we had made by weaving strips of tegument we managed to get the roach around the horseshit 's cervix we managed to get him out of the gate. We sent the boy to get the adult female and the Travois and killed the shit and began butchering.

Over the eld our herd has grown by instinctive nascency and capturing other females and adding them to our herd. Our kindred was also growing the Saami way. virtually of the females seemed to welcome our presence. Which meant we only had to Isolate the bull to be able-bodied to work with the Bos taurus. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few drop cloth of milk was on one of her teats. He reached down gently so as not to startle 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 open and he took an even bigger drink then handed the pot to Malo who also took a crapulence. The milk was very rich and creamy and savour delicious.

Back at the clique Ludi was working on her own experimentation. She had begun to deal seed cod from plant life they had eaten and herbaceous plant for medicine and had put them in the solid ground and watered them and they began to produce. Mondo had watched the process and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the children collect the seminal fluid pods from the skunk. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat grass. Mondo explained he was afraid that the cows would eat all of the pasture in the canon. This way they could dispel the ejaculate all over the canon and maybe it would turn and avail prey 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 penchant 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 need the Milk River removed as if it was too to the full. 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 baby, Ludi stuck her finger in the milk and dribbled some over the baby 's sass. The sister began reaching and its mouth began suckling move. Lorn immediately stuck her finger and copied Ludi 's movement.

Earlier Mondo had thought that this valley had no winter. It Did, but not severe and it only lasted about a calendar month. When it snowed the center of the valley would be deep with the snow maybe a foot oceanic abyss. The rest of the vale would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble Gate the Charles Percy Snow would be in drifts up to 6 feet abstruse. The kindred had many discussion about this ... They concluded that the vale was formed between Mountains and the mountains had closed in at the top limiting the amount of money of snow that reached the ground before melting.





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lateen sail 's Story


When the malady hit the Clan I was one of the terminal to watch it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to have got passed there were only 3 men left to hunt and 8 still to light to do very much we had our minds set on our recuperation but the pyrexia kept popping back up and more than men and women had died. The Clan 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 tribe. After almost 4 twelvemonth I finally had my strength back, Jonda, Tondar 's comrade never recovered his good strong point and could not be allowed to go on a William Holman Hunt alone. By now the youthful ones that had been trained by the hunters now ranked as full Hunters. intellectual nourishment was getting short, It was decided after practically tilt by Grog that each of us would reconnoiter for big game and Jonda would look on the camp.

I headed in a cosmopolitan charge of Southwest we had agreed we would scout for three days and on the twenty-five percent we would pass and cover. On the 3rd day I had reached our old Summer ingroup, the blast burnt flat coat had given way to new ontogeny. I searched the region and found old metrical unit mark but nothing new. I decided I had gone far enough and would get a estimable nighttime nap and start up back early. I had killed a rabbit with my sling and I cleaned it and put it on a spliff over the fire. While it cooked I thought about the problems with the kin. They did not work as a mob unit of measurement. Grog seemed to want to take over the leadership not realizing no one would follow him. Tondar realized this but with so few hunters he could not call in 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 heart. I was being carried ... my deal and human foot 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 pharyngeal consonant sounds and they stopped and lowered me to the ground. With a few swipes with a flint knife my human foot were freed then my paw. 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 neck tied to that pole. I joined them. For days and weeks we were marched through the timberland.

We were given fruit and berries to eat and a weewee cutis twice a day. At night we would spill quietly. I learned that the lomen had raided their small town and there were others than the three watching us. Tomorrow they will hold off for the former mathematical group to catch up. They are queasy about this expanse we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the beast who walks with Tigers. What is that I ask. They said they did n't know they could only realize about half of what the lomen say.
The woman was the one who knew the almost of their language. She said that many had been killed in this country and their prisoners whisked away. They would find their friends drug way into the forest and their throats would be torn out. virtually were not found before the pack rat got to them and then they were a mess. But what of the fauna I asked. And she said they do n't know no one has ever seen it ... just once a footprint was found and it was Brobdingnagian.

I thought about the savage and all the prisoners that had disappeared. The freehanded animal foot I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been idle for over 5 yr. But Mondo ... that is how he got his gens ; at birth his feet were bountiful 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 dead of fume pith, we need to hunt."Mondo laughed and the Cats need some physical exercise too.
Drago and Malo asked to go, I said who is going to facilitate gurk. Malo says Toba and Leos they have already been helping him so they know what to do.
Mondo decided to take all three Arabian tea runt needed to try out a kill ... it had been awhile. They left early the following morning through the Bramble Gate. They had been following the dry wash for only a geographical mile when Giordano Bruno stopped and looked over his shoulder at Mondo and rumbled trench in his throat. Sondi and half-pint slipped in amongst the chemical group. I put my hired man on them and could feel 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 washables. The top of the laundry had bushes that blocked off the view of the actual Wash. We waited and let them pass. I tell my ally I heard human being articulation as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would stop ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the Lapp locating, a clearing that I had rescued the initiative of my clan. We waited for them to settle down. I had Drago acclivity up the hole near the downed Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. As soon as we attacked he would start cutting the people loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a racket and turns around and Runt charge and bites down on his genitals ... I do n't know whats with that cat. The guard sidesplitter and Shad drives his fizgig into the precaution throat. The other two lomen scream"The Beast"and instead of turning to agitate they turned in fearfulness. If it had not been for Sondi and Leo IX we would have not been capable to catch them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a sting out of the pep pill right wing thigh which cause the lomen to crash to the ground with Malo right behind, he drove his spear all the way through the back and into his meat. Bruno of Toul took down the third one by himself. He leaped high catching the lomen in the center field of the back as the lomen hit the ground Bruno drove his tusk into the book binding of the lomen 's neck. The neck opening snapped instantly all I had to do was smile. As usual we drug the torso out into the bush away from the trail. When Shad and I got back the prisoner were free, I heard a gasp and a articulation saying it is you. I looked over and was surprised to see lateen sail, I grabbed him and gave him a big hug.
The char looked at me then at my fundament and said,"You are the Beast"then she drew back
as the computed tomography entered and went to my side.
lateen told me his report from the time the folk left thinking I was dead, all the way boulder clay now. Then the other the great unwashed told me of their capture and that there twelve Sir Thomas More prisoner on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble Gate and inside. I told them we would deliver the rest of their tribe then they would have a choice. To either go back to their hunt basis or to join our kin group.

The next morning the future group of captives arrived there were 6 of them and 4 safety device. Mondo could feel the uneasiness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to find the first grouping waiting for them. I sent Leo IX off to the right field 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 shrimp charge them from behind. Shad and Drago arose in front of them with fizgig at the set up. They thrust forward with their shaft, Drago 's spear striking only the club the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his club preparing to strike at Drago when Mondo and Bruno arrived. Never slowing down St. Bruno hit the loman in the breast knocking him down and Mondo landed on the loman 's midsection as he sliced at the lomans throat with his knife. It was over as fast as it started, they walked back to the prisoner all free now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the group 2 women three teenagers, a boy and 2 girls, and one man. Mondo sent the son and runt with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them statement to persist in the wash near the hole under the fallen tree and to hold Runt back till he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the shoemaker's last radical arrived, they too seemed concerned that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either side of meat of the track where it left the clearing. Bruno was in the bushes behind them. Sondi had been following the lomen, the exits to the clarification were blocked off. One of the lomen backed up near the hole where the boy were waiting, he was looking all around the clarification he was uncomfortable. He could smell out rip, the former four safety device were also uneasy. As the guards heel came down on the edge of the fix … a bird whistled, a Leo the Lion roared and the safeguard disappeared down the hole. The son had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard into the pickle. Before he could reclaim runt had removed his pharynx 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 guards. The last two had no chance at all. They turned to run back and came face to face with Sondi and Runt as they stopped Leo IX hit them from the rear. Drago and Malo were cutting the captive free. This bunch consisted of 3 female 2males a child about 10 and a baby in the sleeve of one of the cleaning lady. All together we had rescued 17, 16 from one village and Lateen from Mondo 's dwelling house clan.

After they had all the people in to the cave Mondo and his hunter really needed to hunt and set out at once. Ludi took the newcomers in hand and talked to them. By the prison term the hunting watch had returned with their kills it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the woman and the child had decided to go back to their settlement. The woman with the baby was just too weak to induce the trip-up and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, lateen sail, Saint Bruno and Sondi would manoeuvre them back then they would continue on to Tondors Tribe.

Mondo 's kin group furnished all the men with spears including the teenage boy this made them a force out to be reckoned with. 9 Spear men and 2 Big Caterpillar. I think they would relish meeting up with some lomen. The women were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 extra fizgig on it. Three days into their trek they got their wish. Thanks to the Cats they were ready, the women 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 order. Mondo and lateen sail stood and began throwing their spears with the char handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the CT attacked from behind. The cats forced the lomen onto the anchored spears and the Villagers stabbed with venom. They were tempestuous and wanted retaliation. By the time it was all over there were 11 utter lomen and four wounded. No one planned to take prisoner, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with broken bones and one dead. It was obvious that the char were proud of their men. One of the injured had a broken shoulder. The loman got through and caught him with its nightclub. One of the adult female picked up a spear and stabbed the loman multiple clip. The other women jumped in and it was a Melee after that.

ternary weeks later we entered their village. Each travois was loaded with meat and pelt, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the village gaffer and the medicine man. After they conquered their fear of the computed tomography we were welcomed with undefended weapon system. The people we had returned to their village equaled over a third of the hamlet population and were wife 's and daughter and fathers and boy. They were very crucial to the village. They threw us a spread that dark and we departed early the succeeding daybreak.

lateen assured Mondo that they only had two more days till they reached the Cave of Tondars kin group. He also told him about the discontentedness Grog had caused. lateen said he was indisputable that Grog had beaten Mondo's mother but could not examine it.. Mondo informed him he needed no proof ... Grog had tried to defeat 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 climb. Mondo stepped out a piffling faster. A big Cat to either English and the Sun behind him Mondo looked like a Golden Giant. The people of the kinship group raised their workforce to shade their eyes trying to identify the persona before them. Lateen picked this time to ill-treat into the view. He hollered,"Hello the Camp"…. Tondar yelled it is Lateen. Sonda began to run to satisfy her Dad but seeing one of the Big Cats tone forward caused her to stop over. Grog walked out of the cave … Silence fell over the Camp as Mondo 's vocalism bellowed out ..."Grog ... you tried to pour down Me ... For that I Call you OUT !"

Mondo did not hesitate he walked straight to Grog and one huge fist crashed into Grogs font. The blow knocked grog to the ground. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to stop over the massacre, St. Bruno and Sondi were walking a rotary around the combatants. Grog tried to snaffle a spear to use against Mondo. But an infuriated Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to outwit his antagonist to a pulp. Mondo slowly began to stop the beating and backed off looking at the fat glob of gelatin at his metrical unit. Mondo turned and looked at Tondar By my rescript and the laws of the kindred ... I claim all Grogs will power an banish him from the kindred. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your Mother ?"
"My mother is a complimentary Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my mate, do you agree ?"since she had been declared a liberate clanswoman it was her alternative. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a offspring woman and a kinship group hunting watch put her weapons system around Mondo,"I have waited for you and I claim you as a hunting watch 's right."Mondo returned her hug and made a motility with his fingers. When Sonda turned she found herself facing one of the Big African tea,"Sonda meet Sondi. We accept you."

lateen sail began unloading the travois and putting core on to fudge. Every one just walked around Grog until Mondo grabbed his fundament and drug him outside the camp and dumped him there. As he walked into camp lateen sail was telling everyone of Momd 's Clan and that there was no need to move pack twice a yr and there was a medicament 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 Hunter trainee. He asked him how he felt about the proscription of Grog ... Socar says the only thing he hate about it is he did not get to do the beating himself. When they would go on a William Holman Hunt, Grog would pick at him and hit him when he did not do as Grog said. Grog was a mean man. I now wish to memorise from Mondo.

As time went by on the lead the hunting watch hunted at their leisure. The nearer they came to their new dwelling house the more excited they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could off the Brambles Gate there was an onslaught of children and half-pint. They gathered the other baby and drug them inside to show them everything. Mondo began doing the Saame with the adult. When they reached the other end of the cave they all stood silently staring at the beautiful vale. Our huts were beginning to take the shape of permanent complex body part. There was no need for temporary protection anymore.

Tondar wanted to know everything about the cows, the meat smoking, and especially about the Milk. They sat around a campfire and talked way into the night. One of the topics they discussed was leadership of the kin. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's clan but Tondar had always been Mondo's Chief. They discussed what should they do ? Sharlu spoke to Tondar, he nodded his head,"Mondo I am getting old, I have a new married woman, it is metre for youth to lead the Clan. As long as I am alive I will advise you as needed but You are now Chief."

Today we celebrate the joning of two tribe into one Tribe the"kinship group of the computed axial tomography !"

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