When I was born, I always look at the sharp spike in the ceiling of the cave. Waiting for the water to drop and catch it with my tiny paws.
Like other of my siblings, we play each other but often hitting each other's faces with our fluffy tails and tiny paws.
While our mother watch the entrance as she waiting for our father's hunt.
For a past few months, we grew large, flexible and even stronger. Ready for the first hunt as our mother made us followed her to go outside the cave.
Right then, I've feel the cold in my fur. As if giving a blessing to a little leopard myself and watch the forest below the mountains.
Following our parents, we saw a deer eating a grass where it hidden below the snow. This also notice by our parents as both of them look at each other.
Even without growling, I knew that our parents agreed to kill this deer and teach us how to hunt.
Right under the bushes, we watch our parents go, we watch how they hide in the snow, blending it that almost impossible to find.
Little by little, our parents crawled without noise.
Soon enough, they attack the deer who was so surprised that his body freeze. While our parents was already in nearly reach.
As father almost near the deer, the deer move only to ambush by our mother to the other side.
Of course, this deer won't let itself to be killed by two hungry leopard.
Using his horns, the tip of his horns glow like a light in the darkness as he charge a head.
Our mother on the other hand showed his large claws and ripe his head off cleanly.
But unfortunately, the deer dodge it and only half of his face has claw marks, bleeding right through his face.
Although our mother miss his prey, our father didn't let him go as he pounds at him releasing a moon crescent shape cutting the deer's head off.
As soon as the deer was killed, we ran towards our parents, rubbing our faces in their body and eat the deer's carcass.
For over a year, we trained to hunt, kill, fight other predators in the snow mountain. Even the wandering humans below our territory.
Life is good until one of my siblings died in human attack.
They hunted him and took his body somewhere else as our old mother roar in grieve.
Of course, in the snow leopard's way of life, if your time to died. You need to kill everyone before death claimed you.
And my siblings did so killing five humans that attacked him. Making him so proud that he smiled after his death.
Few more years and I, a snow leopard finally old enough.
Leaving my parent's home, I wandered around the snow area, hunt as many as prey to eat. Attacking the group of humans who dares to entered my territory and finally.
I have a family of my own.
Of course, life is not always a happy ending as I once returned with a carcass in my mouth.
My home was invaded by humans.
They killed my wife, took my newborn children while I wasn't home. Fear grip me as I saw the blood in the entrance of the cave. Once I saw inside.
There is nothing left inside our home.
I roar in anger.
I cry in grief.
I hunt for revenge.
After eating the whole meat of the large bull for my family. I went for a hunt using the scent of the humans dared entered my home.
For more than a mile, I didn't stop running and searching in the forest. Smelling the scent of the humans and finally, the human town was Already in my eyes as I took a short break.
For me this is not a hunt anymore.
It's war.
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POV Khan
Watching this gate is not an ordinary task and am not exception to it.
If only I won the bet, I might be inside the cottage with a warm fire. But luckily for me. Am not the only poor bastard in this hellish snow storm.
"Hey kid are you alright!"
As I ask him, this kid was shaking to the bone as he covered himself with thick cloak.
"I..... Am old.... Man. Achoo!"
As he sneeze, it more like his brain was almost got out from his nose.
Shivering from the cold.
"Seriously kid, if you can't handle the cold, you can just go inside. Captain can understand that."
"As if that old man will let me inside! Do you remember the time Timmy drag me along with his stunt?!"
"Oh yeah I forgot, you two almost blowed up the warehouse."
"Exactly!"
As he said this, it almost gave me a chuckle.
"Anyway we sh-."
Boom!
Before he could continued. A large foot squash him like a fruit. As his blood splatter everywhere including my face.
The moment I saw the kid got killed, fear grips my heart as I stared towards the monster in front of me.
A very large snow leopard that almost higher than my own house.
This monster who become famous in the mountains was staring at him with his predatorial gaze.
"No..... The wh-."
Splash!
Before I could continued, my body was send flying and crash in the cottage where other guards are resting.
I saw the surprise look of everyone including the captain who was busy playing cards on the table.
As my eyes was starting to close, I heard the roar of the angry leopard who came to destroyed the town.
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POV snow leopard
After killing the two humans in front of me. Several more humans come out in the house like ants.
Taking a deep smell. I smell the scent of my wife's scent at the man wearing a thick monster hive. He must be the one who killed my wife or Probably a scent she left after giving birth.
Looking at him like my prey. I can see his fear in his body.
Giving a large roar.
The human's panic and I take a run. Killing every humans with my claws.
Blood spill everywhere, humans escape and probably calling for help to other humans.
But my raging roar probably alerted the whole human pack as I rushing towards him.
"Call the mages!"
"No! Hel- ack!"
"Run for safety!"
"Someone tell this to the marquis!"
Ignoring the humans that running around. I finally reach him. Scared and also pissing himself like any monsters I met when they know their death is near.
Looking at him with my eyes, I begin speaking with a few words I know when I watch the humans talk to each other.
"We... Ish..... Me..... Child?"
For the first time, the human's face change into shock.