Leopard's Feud

Chapter 16 A New Blood Debt

The daughter of the female baboon Ella - the little baboon Ebe has grown up to six months old, and it is time to wean, but Ebe is still pestering her mother.For little baboons, eating insects and wild fruits is not as comfortable as sucking milk.Waking up early in the morning, Ebe searched for his mother's nipples unreasonably. He wanted to have enough milk and went to the river to play water fights with his friends.Ella refused it, and threw it roughly down the baobab tree.

Ebe wept and walked away hungry.Looking at Ebe's thin figure, Ella, as a mother, couldn't bear it.He also jumped down the tree in a hurry, trying to catch up with Ebe and nurse him for the last time.Moreover, it wants to take this opportunity to teach Ebe how to identify edible fruits and how to avoid dangerous natural enemies.On the savannah, there are always unexpected dangers coming.

However, the leopard, the real threat to baboons, has disappeared from the territory of the Jared baboon family for a long time.And lions, cheetahs, hyenas and other grassland beasts are not very good at climbing trees. As long as baboons can climb the canopy in time, they are not enough to pose a threat.The half-year-old baby baboon can already climb trees flexibly.Thinking of this, Ella felt relieved and slowed down her pace of catching up.

Suddenly, Ella saw that her daughter, Ebe, jumped into a bush at an extremely fast speed and turned somersaults, just like playing hide-and-seek.Maybe, Ebe is playing games with its little friends; or maybe, Ebe is waiting for its mother to catch up.

When Ella came back to her senses and looked for her daughter, she couldn't find her no matter what.Ella thought her daughter Ebe was still angry, and when she saw her mother chasing her, she hid in the bushes.

Ella made a melodious purr, calling her daughter, which meant——I saw my little baby, come out to feed!
However, there was no echo.

Ella searched the bush, but found nothing but a warthog's tail and a pool of blood.Ella sniffed the pool of blood, apparently her daughter Ebe.The warthog tail was mixed with a deja vu smell, which he couldn't remember for a moment.

Apparently Ebe had been killed.

Ella let out the high-pitched bark that baboons make only in extreme pain.

Companions came one after another.

The first to rush to Ella was her crippled mother, Angela.It took the warthog's tail from Ella's hand and carefully identified it. A certain smell mixed with the warthog's tail made it feel very familiar.

Angela's heart trembled.

It was Jack the baboon, Angela could tell.

Jack carried Jessica on his back, and Cammy carried Jesse on his back. The family was chasing and playing by the lake under the ebony tree, enjoying the family happiness.

Ella and her mother Angela came to them together, one after the other.This overly warm atmosphere reminded Ella of her missing daughter, and she couldn't help but feel heartbroken.So Ella turned her back and tried not to look at Jack's family.

Jack and his daughter, who were chasing after each other, had no time to stop and bumped into Angela's body.Angela took Jessica by chance, showing a very affectionate look, kissing the dusty Jessica.

It is rare for a superior female baboon to kiss the offspring of the lowest female baboon like this, and this gives Kemi a great honor.At bottom, Cammy still sees himself as the humblest baboon in Jared's pack.Cammy ran over gratefully and handed Jesse, and Angela kissed Jesse affectionately.

Even if Angela was gentle and kind, she would not be willing to take the initiative to lower her status and casually kiss the humble Kemi's children.In fact, Angela was carefully identifying with her sense of smell to see if there was any smell of Ebe on Jack's children.Angela felt that Ebe's disappearance was related to Jack, and she tried to find some clues.

Angela sat down on the ground in disappointment. Neither Jack's son Jesse nor his daughter Jessica had a trace of Ebe on their bodies.

Inadvertently, Angela looked up.

On a crooked branch of the ebony tree hung Ebe's small body obliquely.

Poor Ebe's spine has been bitten off, and there are still drops of blood in his mouth and nose, which is terrible.Howling, Ella pounced on it, holding it tightly in her arms, feeling that Ebe's small body was gradually cooling down.

Ella shoved the teat firmly into Ebe's mouth and slapped her daughter frantically, forcing her to suckle.As long as daughter Ebe's lips are still moving, it means that her daughter is not dead yet.But no matter how hard Ella tried, Ebe would never nurse again.Now, what lies in Ella's arms is just a lifeless shell, and its daughter has left it forever.

Angela chased after Jesse and Jessica in her arms.Angela looked at her daughter Ella with a broken heart.

Jack's eyes darkened and he almost fainted.

It got up and returned to the ebony tree, flew up the tree, searching for something.It seemed to be expecting to find something unusual, and afraid of actually finding something.At the moment when it was at a loss, Ella showed the warthog tail she was holding tightly in her hand in grief and anger—it was the dried warthog tail brought by Sister Leopard a few days ago. When the pig's tail was sent back, the warthog's tail was already stained with Jack's new scent.

At that moment, Jack felt his blood stagnate.

Jack stood there blankly, as if he wanted to make a sound, but his throat seemed to be choked.

Ella is crazy.It hugged its dead child obsessively, with a weird smile on the corner of its mouth, it forced the nipple into Ebe's already stiff mouth, shaking it back and forth.Such a blow is enough to drive a mother crazy.

Suddenly, Angela ruthlessly snatched Ebe's body from Ella's arms and stuffed it into Cammy's arms.At the same time, Angela gently put Jessie and Jessica in her arms into Ella's arms.

The pair of children of Jack and Cammy belonged to Ella, and Ebe, the little baboon who was killed by Jack, was exchanged, so that the balance was evened out.Seeing that she had one more child, the crazy Ella immediately happily picked up Jack's two children and ran away, and Angela quickly followed.

Jack saw his wife Kemi standing on the grass in a daze, holding the body of the little baboon Ebe, in a daze.

(End of this chapter)