Kenya

Kenya!!!!



For many years, servals roamed the land around the Serengeti. Along their sides were the faithful and brave klipspringers. Hyenas once thought they ruled the land, with the mighty aardwolves at their sides, until honorable and brave servals and klipspringers challenged their power. As long as time can tell, there has been an epic rivalry between the two sides, freedom and equality, and power and greatness.

As I leaped through the grass, high on my tip toes, my friend, Keisha the Klipspringer, bounded along next to me. She was always the clumsy one, and sometimes she worried me deeply. Once, she was trying to jump the creek, and instead landed smack in the middle of it.

I slimly dodged a few trees before my eyes widened at the sight of the water. There normally wasn't much water around here, and this was the best tasting. However something usually ruins your chance to get some..

"Oh great, look Shania. It's Harith and his minon, Aitan." Keisha spoke low enough so that I could hear. I looked up from my bent over position, glaring right from the start. Harith was my enemy, and Aitan was his servant.

"Why, Keisha, that's not very kind of you." Harith said with an eerie tone in his retched voice.

"Yeah, Keisha! You're not kind." Aitan mocked.

"Like you're kind, Harith, and Aitan, atleast I can speak for myself instead of repeating someone else's words. Not to mention you didn't even say it right." I said, my head held high. They thought they frightened me, but they did not at all. I stepped once more toward the gleaming water, and bent my head down slowly. I was not afraid of the laughing creatures that stood in my path. However, Keisha was. She did not like Harith's sharp teeth, though I've told her many times he doesn't have the backbone to do anything to her. Plus, she is pretty fast.

"Don't touch that water! It's mine!" Harith shouted.

"Yeah, it's not. Sorry to tell you, but it's nobody's!" I said.

//Boom. Boom.//

"What was that?!" Keisha asked. I couldn't think of an explanation that wouldn't sound completely ridiculous.

"Hey, hey, hey boss. I know what that is!" Aitan squealed.

Harith looked at Aitan with question, "It wasn't what I think it was, was it?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah it was boss. I, I would know. I lost my, my, er, the tip of my tail from it." Aitan studdered.

Both Aitan and Harith yelped, then sprinted away with so much fear that Keisha and I couldn't help but laugh at them.

There was a rustling in the grass, I croutched down and pressed my ears against my head. Keisha, on the other hand, stood staring right at the hunter with wide eyes as if she was a deer stuck in headlights.. Whatever headlights are. I knew it was an expression, but what did it mean?! Oh well, it didn't matter now.

I knew that our lives were on the line, but I was clueless on what to do. In what I thought was my last moment of life, I looked up to look a my best friend one last time. To my suprise, the hunter had shot, but not at Keisha or me. He held up his gun to a large animal far off in the distance.

//Boom.//

The echoing sound caused Keisha to sprint away. I followed, but the hunter whirled around and caught us in his vision. We dashed away, but the hunter was only yards behind us. I knew it was pretty much no use to keep going, it was only open space in front of us. No trees to hide behind, no caves to go in, and no safety. In my effort to get away, I realized what had actually been shot. Even if I was in another galaxy, I still wouldn't have expected this. There, behind us, I saw Harith, lying flat on the ground. He //had// come back to save us, and he had done his job. But why? Why would he risk his life for us, his worst enemies? Or were we his worst enemies? Was this all a lie? I looked at Aitan. His eyes had a mist over them as if he //was// in another galaxy. Aitan looked depressed. He was lost without his best friend. I then remembered the hunter, I summoned Keisha and ran, I remembered Aitan's sad face, and called him, trying to save his life. He quickly followed, taking one last look at Harith.

"We can thank Harith later."