Thursday, October 22, 2015

Card of Darkness- " Who Let the Cats Rule?" - p.4

     After the humans had died out, the cats and us, the dogs had lived on our own in this abandoned city. from the beginning I remember hearing about how it was divided between the two groups, each taking a side of the city under the agreement that we would live equally and in harmony, trading resources with each other and sharing some of the most important like water, which had unfortunately become a scarcity for all of us recently, or so us canines thought. It was not Until one afternoon, Jojo, the old pug who lived on the edge of town lost his way and wandered uptown to the land of those felines, he was able to stumble back but what he described caught the attention of all of us, he claimed the cats were living the luxury life and had broken our agreement of harmony and understanding with each other; somehow they were surviving the rough times. The expression with which Jojo revealed all of this was enough to convince the town counsel to take action. Plans were made for investigation. Last week everyone received the announcement- for all able bodied male and females who were willing to undergo the journey to the unknown territory of the cats, to report for departure, the big day finally came and our chosen leader, Bruce, a strong Pitbull whose loud bark caught the attention of all of us gave the first orders, “woof, woof, guau!”, we were called to line up and march out. Up the road bridges and highways we went, as we trekked farther away I looked back and saw our town in the distance, old abandoned wooden houses, roads full of pot holes, and worst of all trash, trash everywhere, polluted and gray was our world, it had been that way even when the humans were around.

As we neared the territory, Bruce barked the order of attack, the plan was for us to barge through with gnashing teeth and extended claws, destroying anyone In our path, for the first few days we were quite surprised, the way of life looked very much like what we saw at our town, emptiness, and  run down places, we even met with some cats and conversed to them about our confusion of our relationship,  But it was all a lie, as we explored further what we discovered made us the angriest we had been in a long time, what Jojo had said was true, the felines had been living in large mansions and secretly hogging up resources we never knew any of us could attain, the worst part of all was they were hiding a water supply. With that we ruthlessly attacked everyone in sight, hisses and blood was all that was to be heard of in days. Our only objective was to get to the water supply, we continued with this ferocious behavior for a few months, until the rains came. We had to camp out and meantime changed our strategy towards the cats, maybe we could get some sort of compromise, find something that they wanted in return for some water, we persisted like this but the plan didn’t  go anywhere, the cats just would not budge, meanwhile, we had acquired some other resources that we had been lacking, we would certainly have enough of something to start fresh back home, but our goal was still the water supply, without it we could not survive for very much longer. As our given time here ran out, we decided on a final attempt, and it was brutal. The attack  was more deadly than the first, as we went along we lost a lot of what we had acquired but at the same time lost many of our opponents, which allowed for us to get closer to the water source. After a long wait, we were able to find a way to connect the water source to our town while leaving the cats with supply as well, those of whom survived our attacks that is. With a successful mission accomplished we returned back home after practically a year of troubling, and were able to bring home safely new resources to build up our town strong.














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