It was not like he wanted to do this but he had no other choice. It was an act of desperation and from the way he saw it this was how life worked. Only the strongest would survive and he refused to go down like everyone was expecting him to do. Shallow would do whatever it took to keep himself alive to prove to the cats who had left him behind how wrong they had. The first attempt to steal food had been unsuccessful. The cats down at the river had not been sharing and Shallow had barely gotten away but not without new fresh scars to remember them by that would remain for the rest of his life. Now he was smarter having learned from his previous mistake. This time he wouldn't ask for food he would steal it right under thier noses just like a rogue. If playing dirty was the trick to survive then so be it. No one would take in a rogue like him anyway.
Shallow had been hiding himself while trying to mask his scent after rolling in some filthy puddles. Anything to make this into a victory. He would wait until he spoted a young cat who couldn't be much older then he was, and he would follow them in the dark until he watched as they hunted down a mouse. It wasn't much food for the starving kit who was nothing but skin and bone at this point but that mouse would be the first meal he had eaten for weeks. Maybe he even could be spareful so it would last for two days at least. Just thinking about it made his hunger almost unbearable. He knew very well he was losing strenght for each hour that past. He wasn't even sure for how much longer he would last if this contunied. This might be his last chance before he grow far to weak to even be able to stand on his paws any longer. It was now or never. Whatever the end game would be Shallow knew if he failed today he would die anyway so he couldn't lose. Didn't matter what he had to sacrifice or do... it was him against the world. No one would look out after him, only himself would.
The three-legged kit stalked himself closer using the enviroment around him to keep his present hidden. He come crawling into a bush as close he could come to the apprentice who stood there with pride shinning in thier eyes over thier first...kill to bring back home to thier clan. If Shallow wasn't starving he might have felt bad over what he was about to do but he had to keep his head straight, to remember this was how life worked so he had to adapt and evolve with it.
Shallow made his move as the cat turned thier back against them. He jumped out from the bush to lunge himself at them to knock them over. It was enough of a shook for the apprentice to drop thier mouse over the unexpected ambush. Shallow would take this rare opportunity to his advantage as he hurried himself over to pick the mouse up in his mouth and then...he ran as quickly his three legs had the strenght to carry him, all while the apprentice shouted behind him that a rogue had just stolen thier prey.
He was jumping over branches, running through bushes as he tried to get himself to the border there he would be safe and sound with his food. Unfortunately he wasn't fast enough and one of the warriors had been following his trace...Before knowing it the air got knocked out of him as something bigger and more powerful knocked him of his paws. Shallow flew to the ground, landing painfully on his side as the ribcage took a hit. He cought in discomfort all while clinging tightly to the mouse in his mouth, the only thing that keept him alive.
" Give back our prey you rogue thief!." the warrior would snarl as they come for him, and Shallow barely got away as he rolled out of the way and tried to get back up on his paws again to flee. But he was tripping over his own paws as he tried to stand again and the warrior caught up to him. They pinned them down underneath them as they stood over thier back and forced thier head down at the ground. " Let go of the prey, scum!." The warrior snarled in warning as they keept on pushing down on his head. Shallow clenched even more tightly down at the mouse until he let it go...only for him to somehow break his head free enough so he could bite the warriors paw that hold him down. The warrior hissed and retreated thier paw, and Shallow like a eel crawled himself free aiming to reach the mouse but the warrior kicked it away right under thier nose. Head swung with it as he tried to locate where the mouse had landed and it was then the kit felt fresh pain across his face as the warrior just had used thier claws as a weapon against them.
With a hiss of suprise Shallow retreated back feeling stunned for a moment as blood run down his face. It didn't took long before his eyes started to search for the mouse again and to his horror witnessed the warrior almost had reached the mouse!. Shallow stumbled over his first steps forward as he run again with exhaustion to reach the mouse before the warrior did. He throw himself over it before he swiftly turned and lashed out a paw at the warrior while hissing at them. Even the warrior looked shooked over this until they was back at thier defense again. " Tsk, you rogues really don't know when to give up, do you?!. Just give me the mouse back already and be gone brat!."
Shallow answered to this by standing up again on his much shaky legs much himself beyond his own limits. Using his own body as a shield Shallow was ready to protect his food. Sliding the claws out Shallow looked ready for this fight to esculate into something real nasty. He really was ready to die to protect this food he had stolen, at any cost.
The warrior and Shallow locked eyes and stared right into the others eyes, both planning thier next move....
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