Chapter 2) Hunting

(Unedited)

Season 1 ~ Episode 1

Law knows he's famous on the Ark for his violence toward, well everyone. But that wasn't all he was known for, before he was locked up Law had the highest scores ever for the Earth Skill classes.

He'd even made recommendations on how to improve the classes but they weren't taken serious as he was just a child even if he was right.

So after Law set up his tent and put his claim on it using his name, he decided to put his Earth Skills to the test, by taking stock of what he had and made a plan on how to move foreword.

Soon enough Law had a plan

Creating a bow was surprisingly simple for Law, most of the trees around were young, nearly under 100 years old. So the branch's were strong, flexible and alive. So getting a straight branch that's about 1.8 metres long is simple.

Next step was carving out the bow using the knife he got from the dropship. Even if it took him an hour or so,

due to inexperience mostly, the bow was carved and just needed to be stringed.

So with some fishing line he found within the dropship, that was ever so graciously gifted to them by the council, Law strings the bow by measuring out the correct amount and tying the fishing line to the makeshift bow.

Now all Law needs is some arrows and he can hunt some food. The arrows a easy enough to make, carve out the shape from a straight but small tree branch. Then Law carved the tip of the branch into the arrow preferring not to use a sharp stone due to lack of materials to tie it with.

Nexts was strengthening the arrow by heating it over his now dead fire. Law then carved the notch of the arrow and with that the arrow was finished.

Law repeated the process and ended up with 7 arrows, which he kept bundled together in a makeshift quiver he made from tying two ends of a shirt together.

With his bow and arrows finally completed Law left the camp around the dropship to practice and hopefully hunt down some food.

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Law found the forest peaceful, he could hear the sound and chirps of various animals and insects. It relax's him a little to know that there is other living things out there. Law begins his exploration of the forest, mentally mapping out everything in his mind.

That was one thing Law always took pride in, his mind. He's always had great memory, before he hit 13 he had the entire Ark mapped out within his head even the restricted sections.

So while exploring the forest Law keeps track of everything, the types of trees, the different sounds, the animal tracks he spots. He keeps track off all until he spots a small earring in the distance that would suit his needs.

The clearing looks to be a few metres long and wide, it's perfect for what Law needs. Now he just needs a suitable target, he doesn't want to use a tree as a target, that would damage and destroy his arrows he needs something else.

There

Law spots a tree that has some sort of fruit growing on it, they would make useful targets. Different sizes and shapes, heights and angles the fruit are perfect targets.

Putting his makeshift quiver down he takes an arrow notches it on the bow string and prepares to draw back. The notch is small enough so the arrow thankfully won't fall off so Law raises him arm and aims at the fruit.

He places three fingers underneath the notched arrow and slowly draws back his bow. Law knows that without fletching and a sight that hitting the fruit would be difficult but he's nothing if not determined.

And so with everything lined up, Law looses his first arrow.

The arrow skims the fruit just about nicking it, Law huffs clenching his teeth. He can see where the arrow landed a bit further down the clear so he'll get it later.

Grabbing another arrow, Law lines up another shoot at the same fruit. This time when he looses the arrow it hits the fruit but the arrows loses momentum halfway through the fruit.

A smile grows on Laws face seeing that he hit his shot, sure he'll have to climb the tree to get his arrow back but it doesn't matter.

Law continues to shoot the last 5 arrows he has, and when he's finished he lets out a laugh as he stares up a the tree. Six different fruit have arrows stuck within them, Law can see his aim has gotten better with just these shots as the arrows slowly started to hit closer to the centre of the fruit and by the last one Law shot it dead centre.

Grabbing his arrow that's on the ground a distances away Law put it back in his quiver before climbing up the tree to get his arrows back. The climbing of the tree is easy Law nearly flys up it, he shimmy's along the branch's pulling his arrows out off the fruit one by one.

He thinks about taking a fruit and eating it, but decides not to. The fruit is to unrecognisable better not risk it for now.

But with his arrows back Law hops off the tree and lands in a crouch, he loads up his quiver grabs his bow and goes hunting.

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Law's breath is steady, slow and controlled as he silently approaches a small mammal that is called a rabbit. It doesn't look like the ones before the bombs. It has three ears and two tails but other than that it looks fine from what Law can see.

He watches as it sniffles around in the grass, slowly lining up his shot. He draws his bow all the way to his cheek releases a soft breath and fires.

There's a thunck and a squeal as the rabbit is speared through the neck with Law's arrow. Law steps out of his bush he was in and collects the rabbit a grin on his face.

Law ties a fishing line around the rabbit and hooks it onto his belt loops and begins to hunt for more animals.

In the next few hours all Law manage to kill was a few Squirrels that he's tied together and hung over his shoulder.

The tracks Law is currently following are bigger than those he's seen previously, Law believes them to belong to some sort of deer like animal. It's hard to say are the radiation could change the way some animals look meaning a deer could be the size of a Mose or vice versa.

Law follows the tracks of the mammal, they slowly get fresher and clearly meaning he's getting closer. But his ears begin to pick up a strange sound, the sound of running water.

Law heads towards the potential water source and in no time at all he sees a small, fast flowing river. Law simply stops and watches the water flow, having never seen so much water before.

Approaching the river Law puts his hand in it allowing the water to flow pass his hand, a laugh bubbles up from Laws throat. "Incredible"

Taking off his bag Law takes out the metal bowl from his bag and fills it with water, he remembers that fast flowing water like the river in front of him would be fine to drink so he does.

Law relishes the feeling of cold water doing down his throat, he sits at the edge of the river shrugs off the rabbit and squirrels, then rest beside the river.

For a few minutes Law does nothing but admire his surroundings, the trees, the river, he can even see a bird nest not to far away.

But he can't sit still for long, pulling out his carving knife. He picks up his prey and hangs them on a tree then slits the throats of the animals so he can bleed them out.

Soon he's cutting down the stomach of each of his kills and pulls out the insides and guts of the animals. The dumps them all in a pile on the side, while ignoring the smell and blood staining his hands.

On one of the squirrels the smell is particularly bad and Law sees that the insides of the squirrel has busted open. Law inspects the meat but decides not to risk it a the meat might be tainted and shouldn't be eaten.

So he leaves it hung up, mostly because he hopes that over night or in a couple days the squirrel corpse might attract a predator. Law needs to know what type of predator he's dealing with if he's going to be hunting regularly.

As long as it isn't something like a bear or a pack of Wolfs, Law believes he should be fine to hunt in this area without any real danger.

Before Law leaves he gets his metal bowl and fills it with water, pulls out his spare one. Places one on top of the other and ties them together, sealing them shut so he can take some water back to camp.

Anyways with all his game gutted Law makes his way back to the dropship having decided to skin the animals at the camp near his fire. Plus is starting to get dark it shouldn't be too long before it's pitch black.

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