Capítulo 2: Ch 2 : Growing Up

After 5 years Cetanu had grown to half the size of his mother, that's 4.5ft, let that settle in... 'I'm now the size of an average 8 year old Ooman, oh, I mean human. It's hard to keep some of my old habits and traditions when I'm constantly being taught how to live by being honourable to other Yautja and to the things I hunt.' Cetanu thought to himself.

But because of how quickly he had grown, both in height and skill, he had attracted a lot of attention but not all of it was the good kind.

As it turns out Cetanu has an Ooman ancestor and that's why his and his mother's mouths have lips, but that is looked on with distain and that's because most, well, really all Yautja see Ooman's as a lower and weaker species then Yautja who are all stronger from birth.

But Cetanu didn't mind it really, having lips, I mean, he liked still having lips just like from when he was an Ooman, 'I'm sure I would have found it really hard to eat food without lips to stop all the food in my mouth from ending up on the floor. I still don't understand how the others eat like they do, using their mandibles to keep pushing food into their mouths like small hands? That was hard to watch the first time my mother ate a bloody piece of what looked like deer on this planet.' Cetanu thought as he tried to keep the contents of his stomach down.

Anyway, talking about his Ooman ancestor, well the other young pups are taught by their parents to hate him because of it, but honestly I don't think that's the only reason, his mother is strong, and I don't mean that just because she is a Yautja huntress, no, she's even stronger then even them.

She is a lot taller then the normal 7 to 8ft female Yautja and she hasn't finished growing yet! She became a full huntress and fully blooded a lot younger then most because of how strong she was for her age, and since she was technically an adult she had Cetanu much younger then most, she did end up crippling his dad after he was conceived though, he's off somewhere hiding in his shame so Cetanu's never actually met him.

Which was fine with him really since he was never close to his first father anyway, only with his mother. And it's only because of how caring his new mother is that made him except her as his mother.

It's the Yautja way to respect and calm the females when they get into a rage, the males do this by taking the hits and purring to them, turns out Cetanu's old man couldn't take the hits very well.

But to have even become her mate he had to have been a great hunter to impress her with his collection of skulls and with his strength, but that doesn't even seem to compare to her monstrous strength.

'Speaking of the other young pup's, I'm currently surrounded by five, 3 to 4ft Yautja pup's, they're all the same age as me, but where my skin is mainly black with red stripes theirs is pale green's and brown's with slightly darker patches of the same colour, the only other difference is of course the lips I have.' Cetanu thought as he looked at the pups around him.

"What the hell is this?" Cetanu says in a monotone voice while looking around at the other young pup's that are circled around him, "We are Yautja! We fight honourably, not ganging up on one opponent! You say I'm not really a Yautja... Well, what about all of you?!" Cetanu screamed at them, spreading his mandibles wide in rage and showing his teeth at the same time, he had enough, even if they were child in his eyes, so was he! Technical!

That got to some of them, if there was one thing that's important to a Yautja it is honour, now most of them couldn't even look Cetanu in the eyes because of their embarrassment over what he said and how it rang true within them.

There was a few that started to step back in fear of Cetanu's rage and were looking over to the tallest of the five for guidance, he seemed to be the leader of this little rag-tag team of future bad-bloods. Which are the Yautja's criminals, no honour, they hunt easy prey and they fight dirty and unfairly against stronger beast's, but worst of all they see females as only things to pleasure them and not as the barer's of life like they are... but I'm going off on a tangent.

The leader just kept looking at Cetanu with hate in his eyes, "Shut up! I'm enough to teach you a lesson!" The leader growled at Cetanu as he crouched slightly with his hands out by his sides, his claws ready to rip into him.

All Cetanu thought in that moment though was, 'So predictable, at least don't telegraph your actions like that, you're just going to give me time to intercept it and counter.' And he did just that, before he even leaped at him, Cetanu was in motion, keeping low so when the pup leader did leap at him, he would be in a position to make his move.

The pup leader did just as Cetanu thought he would and jumped at him intending to cut into him with his claws, with a wide swing as well, idiot, Cetanu let the first swing pass right over his head harmlessly, before the pup leader could try a second swing Cetanu grabbed his wrist and twisted it into an odd angle, with a crack from his wrist and a pain filled hiss from his shaking mandibles maw, he was out of the count for a bit, at least until Cetanu took care of the eager pup's around him trying to please their leader.

With the pup leader holding his wrist on his knees in front of him, Cetanu grabbed his dreadlocks and held him up right in front of him, like a meat shield, blocking the first pup's attack which actually hurt the pup leader making him scream in pain even more, some Yautja he is.

The first pup panicked when he realised that he had just attacked the pup leader and so he didn't pay attention when he suddenly had the pup leader's head bashed right into his face. The forehead was the hardest bone in their bodies, just like how it was for more creatures, so it must have hurt both of the young pups.

Leaving those two to nurse their injuries Cetanu turned to focus on the three pup's that were left to take care of, Cetanu gave them the Yautja's equivalent of a smile with his mandibles and lips which seemed to unnerve them further.

With a strong first kick off the ground Cetanu rushed straight up to his third victi- I mean opponent. The pup was definitely panicking seeing Cetanu deal with the first two pup's so brutally but he is a Yautja even if he is a pup and so he had his hands and claws out ready to attack, not that it would make a difference to Cetanu.

Cetanu quickly smashing a clenched fist right into the pups teeth, probably breaking a couple of them as he passed by onto the last two.

They had finally caught onto the fact that Cetanu was stronger then them and so they were now working together to beat him, they had moved around him while he was taking care of the other pup's, so they were now in a position to rush at him from both his front and his back, and the only way Cetanu could tell that so quickly is because of his trained sense's, his mother had fun beating that into him.

Cetanu crouched down, he could tell that they thought he was trying to dodge their attack so they both speed up, just like he wanted, Cetanu made his move when they were both close enough, jumping straight up with a spin he did the split's in the air, making both of them run right into his feet with some added force from his spinning kick.

While Cetanu continued his spin until he landed back on the ground the other two weren't as lucky, spitting out some blood as they passed out, flying away from him as they hit the ground hard and with what sounded like bones being broken, 'I guess I pack more of a punch then I thought.' Cetanu thought as he watched them both fly away.

"Well, wasn't that fun, hahaha." Cetanu laughed as he looked on at the passed out and groaning in pain Yautja pup's, 'No it wasn't.' Could be heard quitely coming from somewhere around him, 'Maybe it's just my imagination' Cetanu thought to himself with a smile.

He then walked over to the pup leader who was still holding his broken wrist but he now also had some scratches across his forehead from when Cetanu used him as a shield and he took the other pup's attack, "You said something about teaching me a lesson ... do you still think you're able?" He asked the pup leader in a cold voice.

He wouldn't even look up at Cetanu, crying silent tears as he looked at his broken wrist in despair, he knew that this injury might effect his battle prowess in the future, so in reply to Cetanu's question he just shook his head and lowered it even further to the ground showing that he was being respectful and submissive to Cetanu.

"Good. Let's keep it that way." Cetanu hissed at the pup before walking away, not even looking back at the five whimpering pup's he was leaving in the dust.

Unaware to all the pups there, their fight, if you can call it that, was being watched by many eye's, there was both female and male Yautja's camouflaged in the tree's and in the grass around where it happened, camouflaged using the standard cloaking technology all Yautja have, and they had all taken a deeper interest into Cetanu, the common thought was that he would be one to watch in the future hunts.

But one unique thought stood alone, 'I want to test myself against him.'.