Chapter 8: revenge
He used the force to scan his body. He was extremely happy with what he saw.
'GOOD! GOOD!'
He was now seven feet long and four feet tall, his claws and teeth had grown longer and sharper, his fur had become thicker and darker, and his body was also muscular, especially his hind legs. He was no longer the fragile rabbit he once was but a weapon.
He was also covered in black goo that stank. He used the force from his mind to remove the goo. Feeling the strength coursing through his body, he was confident that if he faced the creature from before, he could easily rip it apart.
He then gazed towards where the battle had taken place and sped off, turning into a blur as he dashed through the forest, leaving paw prints in the snow.
He was surprised at how fast he was going; the trees around him blurred.
Eleven seconds later, he arrived at the area where the battle had taken place.
He noticed traces of other creatures, and the corpse of the creature whom his mother had killed was gone. He found the spot where the creature's corpse was and caught a scent very similar to that of the creature.
He blurred towards the direction of the scent.
A few minutes later, he came to a stop; twenty meters in front was a cave, the scent trail leading inside. He could hear creatures within. He didn't rush in; instead, he decided to scan the cave first, assessing how many creatures were inside and how strong they might be.
The force from his mind expanded outwards, intangible, covering a radius of 25 meters.
3D images began to flash inside his mind. The cave was dark, and there were two white, cat-like creatures inside. One was big and one was small, probably an adult and a cub.
They were members of the same species as the one who killed his sister and mother. They were standing over the corpse of the creature; he sensed sadness from them.
He sensed that one of them was a special creature, but it was weaker than the one he had battled before.
With a cold expression, he walked slowly towards the cave, the force from his mind cloaking his presence.
His jet-black fur blended seamlessly with the darkness of the night. He wanted to rip them limb from limb; he wanted them to suffer.
He didn't care that they weren't the ones who had directly caused his suffering...since they were of the same species and likely related, they should bear the weight of the creature's sin....
There was no such thing as right or wrong in his mind. He had understood the natural order of the world... you're either grass or a grass eater, and he refused to be grass....
The coldness in his eyes shone brighter.
The moment he entered the cave, he stopped masking his presence. The creatures, a female, was almost the same size as him; she was only a little taller, and the smaller cub was 4ft long and 2ft tall. Sensing him, they turned around and looked at him in shock.
All they could see was the faint outline of his body and his starry eyes laced with coldness.
The female sprang in front of her cub, lowering her upper body and baring her razor-sharp teeth, while her claws sank into the ground, ready to launch herself at him at any moment.
GRRRR!
Ignoring her, he continued to walk forward at a slow pace.
Seeing him ignoring her warnings, the female creature's eyes flashed with killing intent. Suddenly the air grew even colder; three small icicles, each about four inches long, formed above the creature, then they shot towards him at bullet speed.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
He kept walking forward; just as the icicles were about to pierce him, he twisted his body in an unexpected way, easily dodging them. Then he blurred, appearing just a few inches before the female creature. His cold, indifferent, starry eyes locked onto hers, then unleashed one of the abilities of the force from his mind: [suppression]
The female creature's eyes widened in shock and terror, but before she could react, his force had enveloped her, making her feel as if there was a mountain on her back. She instantly fell to her stomach; the bones in her started breaking one by one.
He then raised his right paw and smacked her across the face, sending her body flying into the cave wall.
BAM!
The cave trembled. He appeared in front of her again and lifted his right claw, swiping at her legs one by one, disabling them.
The female creature howled out in pain. The next moment, like a demon, he appeared in front of the cub, who was frozen in fear, and grabbed it by the neck... he dragged it in front of its crying mother, who could only watch in despair with a pleading look on her face... he then did something unthinkable, something he never thought of doing before... opening his mouth wide, his eyes flashed with cruelty... he rebelled against his nature.
CHOMP! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
He devoured the kit in front of its mother bit by bit, blood splattering all over his fur; the cave echoed with the sound of his brutal act...
officially abandoning the status of prey to predator.
The female creature watched helplessly.
'Yes, yes. Suffer,' his eyes locked with hers as he devoured her cub limb by limb. Eventually, the cub was gone; not even bones remained.
The female creature's eyes had turned hollow as if she had lost her soul. He didn't rush; there was something he needed to find out. With a cold expression, he sliced open her chest.
SPLAT!
He could see tiny bits of the black particles being pulled inside of her heart.
He scanned her heart with the force from his mind. He saw a tiny transparent, bronze-colored sphere, similar to the one he had, but it was weaker, far weaker than his in every way possible.
He paused, his thoughts racing. Then He sliced open her heart, then reached out his paw to grasp the tiny sphere, but to his surprise, his paw went right through it.
It was as if the sphere was in another dimension. Then it vanished; he then noticed that the female creature had died.
He blurred outside the cave and into the forest. As his figure vanished, the cave lit up in black flames that
incinerated everything inside. all traces of him ever being there gone.