I Am A Second Female Lead - Chapter 21
Another month has passed by. It’s time again for Sheri to go out. Sheri didn’t bother exploring the forest due to the unknown beast. Her mission is to stay alive, so she doesn’t go and wander unless like right now she needs to hunt and gather some vegetables. If staying in the cave makes her alive then let her be coward. The whole months she’s not slacking of getting her body strong. She never idles due to the world she’s in is dangerous.
She prepares everything as usual and went cautiously outside the cave. After gathering some fruits and plants, she set up again another trap. She climbs above the tree waiting for her trap to catch something.
While waiting, she heard below a roar. She looked down and immediately hides between the branches. A leopard and a tiger can be seen they, hiss and growl toward each other. The leopard was protecting the one he or she hunts and the tiger wants it.
“Give or you’re dead.” the tiger said.
“No, I hunt it first, go and look for your own food,” growl the leopard.
Sheri saw and was amazed at how big those creatures were it looked like they were talking with an unfamiliar language.
“So be it then.” The tiger hiss. He instantly jumped at the leopard and start targeting the neck of the leopard. The leopard was also trying to defend her self. After a fierce battle, the leopard was injured, and the tiger gets the price. The tiger went away with the prey leaving the injured leopard. The moment the leopard injured and falls on the ground, she shifted to human-like and become a woman. She has long white hair and a white tail with black spots. Sheri was surprised to witness the transformation. But something is odd why is that the female leopard stomach is big.
Sheri knows an injured leopard can’t harm her. So she jumped down from the tree. The injured leopard looked at her, and on the verge of crying. Sheri can see her pain and it seems she’s losing her life anytime soon.
“Help me, my baby please save my baby.” the leopard was asking Sheri.
Sheri doesn’t understand what she is saying but looking at her it seems she’s trying to give birth.
“Please help.” The leopard woman pants while talking.
With instinct, Sheri approached the female leopard and went to see between her legs. A small head is coming out.
“Damn” Sheri curses and was in a panic.
She brings out her first aid kit and some of the clean blanket and some water. She doesn’t care if the leopard recognizes it or not, it’s important the life of both of them the mother and the child.
The female leopard was groaning in agony while giving a push. She aggressively pushed and a baby leopard came out. Sheri immediately catches the baby, cut the umbilical cord and wraps it with a thick blanket, and again she pushed. Sheri caught another baby, cut the umbilical cord again and wraps it with a blanket. The female leopard was sweating and panting slowly.
“Please take good care of my baby.” The female leopard in between terrible pains begs Sheri.
Sheri looked at the two human leopards babies who are crying and looked at the female leopard. Sheri can’t understand what she’s saying, but she moved fast. Sheri knows she has to give the first aid toward the mother.
She secures the two babies near to their mother and promptly does the first aid toward the female leopard. She gives her the dextrose to replenish the water she lost and directly gives her a sleeping shot to alleviate the pain. She sutures her wound in her neck. It’s a little bit deep the cut but she can see with the help of the advanced instrument she has, she was able to stop the bleeding. She wrapped the neck with gauze and after handling the female leopard she starts cleaning the two babies. The two cubs where crying and she doesn’t know what to do. The mother is injured she can’t give them milk.
While sweating she hears a rasping cough nearby. Sheri knows that’s a leopard rasping cough is calling for its mate. She left the two cubs on their mother’s side wrapped in a thick blanket. Before leaving, she injects an antibiotic to the female leopard to not have any infection. And then she climbed back toward the tree.
She doesn’t know if the medicine will have an effect on her but she’s crossing her finger.
A big leopard came toward the female leopard and immediately transformed into a man. Follow by another 4 big leopards, and they all transformed into men. The other leopard who came first looked at the female leopard and gradually approached it. Sheri can see the anxiousness of the man.
On the tree, Sheri was sweating while looking at those 5 burly men. They are all tall and robust. No matter how good she is in fighting she can’t fight them all.
“Aurora” his almost chocking voice while approaching the female leopard. He was so anxious his mate was injured. He placed his finger in her nose and a wash of relief came toward him. The rest of the men were silent. When the two cubs start crying, all of them were on panic the big white hair man pick them up and hold the two cubs, gently rocking them.
” Shh, little ones your mother is ok. Delo, we better go.”The white hair guy said toward the man who is kneeling beside the woman. Delo agrees, his mate is weak and it’s risky especially if a tiger sees them. He slowly carried the woman and all of them went away.
Sheri observed all that happened and didn’t come out for a while. She didn’t understand what they were saying, but she figures it out they were the family of the female leopard. She descended the tree after a few minutes and walked where she hid her trap. She was happy to see 4 grown rabbits inside.
She carried them and walk back toward the cave. 10 meters away from the cave she stops and makes sure to remove her clothes and change into a different one. She gathers a grass nearby pound them with a stone and smears them all over her body. No matter what she doesn’t want they will found out where she at.