Here's part a novel I'm writing, about two 14 year old congo-born children turning from human to leopard in Bosten.
Saba and Somba sat on the floor of their bedroom, lost in conversation.
Only yesterday they had been caught by a worried mother. She had driven into the dark abandoned parking lot of the zoo. Sneaking in she risked loosing her hybreds to a big cat rescue center, if this happened who knew what would happen when they discovered the hybreds were not just leopard but also half human!. Calling and calling for the teens she moved across the eerie darkened exibits trying not to be afraid. Forced to look and look among the various animal exibits she was releaved and terrifed all at once when she picked up mutated human/leopard pugmarks in the dry foot packed earth. Following these she cunnily avoided sacurity camras that were sationed in odd out the way places, like on an ice cream stand or under a bush. Panic reared like a stalion however wen she finely saw them.... saw the darkened forms of mutated half human/ half leopards climbing a tall fense into the Impala enclosure.
"STOP!" was all that utttered from lips beneath eyed glazed with the primal instinct to protect the young from danger.
Now here they were grounded, alone and afraid for a future of evil. They knew it was all only a matter of time before their new home would be a cage at a big cat rescue center. It would be tamed out of them, they would be spayed and neutred and live out their lives in cages, a far cry from the life Leopard Mother wanted. The leopard mother? She couldn't have been real could she? But looking back Somba and his sister had recalled strange moments when they thoght they could see her spirit in their bedroom, always they were alone, always it was at night and always for just a short time. It said that she loved them as a mother and wanted the best kind of life possible the best kind of life their rapidly changing condictions would allow. But then lugaria, Leopard grandma had come for her daugher saying the children couldn't be saved from growing up as humans. Mother leopard snarled at leopard grandma saying her lick of love was permanent and that she was sorry for breaking the jungle code of wlld and tame. Fearfuly the two glanced at the eerie miss as they ceared leavng behind a chilling sence of normality. They had left them now but maybe they would be back later for them after talking things over in the land of the dead.
"We shouldn't have done that",
" Done what?"
"Gone to the zoo, you now how afraid mother is for our safety."
" But Saba lets be reasonable Laharia, our meat messager told us to go hunting. We cannot dare to refuce the lioness if we do we'll never go back",
"Go back... where? theres nowhere for us to go but the rescue center and you know it", "Go to the jungle" was on his lips but he hid it well, the young man didn't want her to loose this resistance to their impending shocking reailty of life alone without human contact or safety. Yet it scared him, being tame was a handicap in the jungle and he wasn't sure she was really ready to have to go back.
Slience.
"All I know is that I'm changing and so are you. We are growing spotted fur and big white teeth, we live in a world of terror and confusion the spirits are good and they want to help us. But I'm scared of them and.... and you... you know it",
"They are our only hope Saba our only hope',
( To be continued, Did you guys like it.
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Saba and Somba sat on the floor of their bedroom, lost in conversation.
Only yesterday they had been caught by a worried mother. She had driven into the dark abandoned parking lot of the zoo. Sneaking in she risked loosing her hybreds to a big cat rescue center, if this happened who knew what would happen when they discovered the hybreds were not just leopard but also half human!. Calling and calling for the teens she moved across the eerie darkened exibits trying not to be afraid. Forced to look and look among the various animal exibits she was releaved and terrifed all at once when she picked up mutated human/leopard pugmarks in the dry foot packed earth. Following these she cunnily avoided sacurity camras that were sationed in odd out the way places, like on an ice cream stand or under a bush. Panic reared like a stalion however wen she finely saw them.... saw the darkened forms of mutated half human/ half leopards climbing a tall fense into the Impala enclosure.
"STOP!" was all that utttered from lips beneath eyed glazed with the primal instinct to protect the young from danger.
Now here they were grounded, alone and afraid for a future of evil. They knew it was all only a matter of time before their new home would be a cage at a big cat rescue center. It would be tamed out of them, they would be spayed and neutred and live out their lives in cages, a far cry from the life Leopard Mother wanted. The leopard mother? She couldn't have been real could she? But looking back Somba and his sister had recalled strange moments when they thoght they could see her spirit in their bedroom, always they were alone, always it was at night and always for just a short time. It said that she loved them as a mother and wanted the best kind of life possible the best kind of life their rapidly changing condictions would allow. But then lugaria, Leopard grandma had come for her daugher saying the children couldn't be saved from growing up as humans. Mother leopard snarled at leopard grandma saying her lick of love was permanent and that she was sorry for breaking the jungle code of wlld and tame. Fearfuly the two glanced at the eerie miss as they ceared leavng behind a chilling sence of normality. They had left them now but maybe they would be back later for them after talking things over in the land of the dead.
"We shouldn't have done that",
" Done what?"
"Gone to the zoo, you now how afraid mother is for our safety."
" But Saba lets be reasonable Laharia, our meat messager told us to go hunting. We cannot dare to refuce the lioness if we do we'll never go back",
"Go back... where? theres nowhere for us to go but the rescue center and you know it", "Go to the jungle" was on his lips but he hid it well, the young man didn't want her to loose this resistance to their impending shocking reailty of life alone without human contact or safety. Yet it scared him, being tame was a handicap in the jungle and he wasn't sure she was really ready to have to go back.
Slience.
"All I know is that I'm changing and so are you. We are growing spotted fur and big white teeth, we live in a world of terror and confusion the spirits are good and they want to help us. But I'm scared of them and.... and you... you know it",
"They are our only hope Saba our only hope',
( To be continued, Did you guys like it.