Chapter 3 – Thinking of the future
Crunch walked on through
the forest, until he stopped at a peaceful looking area, not too far from the
seashores. It had some sand around, but also some long grasses, a few bushes
and palms around. And in the center of the area was a small fireplace, which
already had a spit, ready for roasting.
He went off from the area
for a moment, to prepare, skin and gut his meal before
cooking. It only took him a few minutes and he returned, to get the fire
started. He stood there for a moment, and realized it’ll take long to get the
flames going… so he grinned, and just stared at the fireplace and, just in an
almost instant, the fireplace sparked and was lit. He
couldn’t help but use the elementals now and then, which he still had in his
possession around his wrist now, instead of his neck. Though
he wouldn’t usually use them, unless he really wanted or needed to… but
sometimes ‘little temptations’ get the better of him.
He went to place the pig
onto the spit, and immediately started to cook it. He preferred his meat
cooked, most of the time. Though he could have it raw too if he wanted, but the
taste of too much blood sometimes makes him feel vicious and savage, which he
didn’t like. He left the boar to cook on one side and waited… but as he waited,
he noticed a bush to his far left. It had some berries, but no ordinary
berries. He went over to pick a few, and tried one…
“Hmm, they don’t
taste too sweet… just right.”
He said, and walked back
over to where he was sitting. Most bandicoot species are omnivorous, meaning
they like to eat either plant or meat, or insects for the smaller species. But
Crunch waited several more
minutes, and by now, the sun had risen. Giving off a pleasant glow to the whole
lighten area of the island. And now Crunch decided the feast was ready, which
he had taken off the spit to cool down. He sat there for a moment though, and
kept thinking more about the things that have been plaguing his mind lately…
“I am so lucky to
have such a good life, after all the bad things that happened in the past… very
lucky to have found even more happiness with Tani along the way, and even my
own family but…”
Crunch thought. He still
couldn’t help but feel that something didn’t seem right… despite life being
near ‘perfect’ for him.
“But…
my young. They were born from my
mate, Tani but… do they really have a future? They do but, how can they, and
their offspring, and so on really have a future for… real?”
Crunch thought more to
himself, feeling confused and slightly worried.
“Brio cannot keep
evolving animals forever… it just, doesn’t seem right. There has to be a way
around this, there just has to… I don’t want my descendants to have no way of
finding their life long partners and living on…”
Crunch then sighed, and
noticed his meal was pretty much ready. But he thought again, before moving
himself over…
“Hmm Brio… he must
give some kind of explanation. There HAS to be a reason why the Evolvo-ray
makes us into what we are, we cannot exist for no reason. If this is what evolution
will do for our species over the many years, then I will find a way to get to where
and when they will exist…”
Crunch now felt a bit less
stressed. He is deeply concerned about the future of his family though, and
doesn’t want them to come to an ‘end’, in which they have no way to ever have
their own families much later down the bloodline. Crunch wanted to find out
more about what the purpose of his and everyone else’s evolutions were.
“Sigh, I shouldn’t
worry so much about it now. I should just be glad to have such a nice home,
with the most wonderful family you can ever wish for… and also, really good
food… heh…”
He said, with a smile.
Before quickly grabbing the now cooked boar. He crunched onto the side, to rip
off the crispy, cooked skin, which he didn’t want to eat. He used his smaller
front teeth to peel off the bits of white flesh from the bones, which he enjoyed
immensely. He then tilted his head to the side to bite at the ribcage,
crunching the ribs fairly easy, to reach more of the cooked flesh. Sometimes he’d
eat some of the bones too, if they were tasty and chewy enough, and they provided
him with calcium also. It only took less than an hour for him to be full, and
he lay there on the sand, looking satisfied. With only some bones laying around from the carcass. He snoozed for a bit, but
then remembered something.
“Damn! I told Tani I’d
be back just after dawn… better head off back home now then”
He said to himself, and
quickly got up. He yawned for a moment and stretched, before walking off back
into the direction he came.
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