Mondos Clan Prepares for Battle Against the Mysterious Lomen Threat

Mondo' s Clan pt 5

Preparation

Malo, Noma, & Lil accompanied by Sola And Soli were dispatched to do the same job as Socar. They accounted for 15 lomen before the attack.

Authors note: On the discovery of the lomen 's bowl the estimate was given as 100 feet not as the 100 yds across that it is, the length is about 200 feet. Roughly an acre and a half.

Noma's Tribe had arrived and were spread out in the forest. I had sent Timi to call his tribe and give them the plan of attack.

The day came and the infiltration began from all sides The Steps were guarded by the Cats and Handlers. The Southeast Steps which was the nearest to the Bramble Gate was guarded by Mondo & Bruno. Backed up by Malo & Sola. Northwest or River steps, covered by Sonda & Sondi backed up by Socar & Duri. Southwest pit steps, Teal & Girl, Last but not least was Northeast pit steps, Drago & Runt.

The bowl was surrounded by all our people each one had their slings and bags of rocks. Every one had 4 or 5 spears, and at least 3 knives. There were groups of women in reserve with hundreds of simple bamboo spears ready in case they were needed..

Bruno roared and was answered by each lion in turn. That was the signal every hunter stepped to the rim, picked a target and let fly. The lomen panicked and tried for the steps only to be met by the cats and spears. We were doing what we planned total containment.

We herded the lomen to the center of the bowl. We moved down the steps cats first. Once the Cats and handlers were in the bowl our hunters began leaping the 12 ft to the floor of the bowl. Now it was to be a fight spear to club. Once the lomen were in the center of the bowl we could not reach them with the slings so this was our only choice.

We started to yell The Beast as our rallying cry. The lomen hearing that still tried for escape. Taking advantage of their hesitation the cats leaped into the middle of them . 7 Big cats can reap havoc on scared lomen. The cats would rush them and they would turn to escape only to be impaled by the spears of the Hunters. If they got past the spear men the extra women and older kids were there with the bamboo spears and slings.

The battle carried on for hours. The lomen gave up and sprawled face down. Now was the hardest part of this war. We could not leave any of them alive. Nor could we spare any of their captives. There was already stakes available here in the bowl, We secured the prisoners to these stakes.

Our medicine people, Char, Tor and Ludi Began checking over our people. We had lost 22 people and had 34 injured. We had also lost one of the cats.

Malo was one of the injured he had stepped in some blood and went down he landed on his left wrist snapping the bone. He tried to get up but was hit by a lomens club breaking his shoulder. The lomen was attacked by Sola who ripped out the lomens throat. Another lomen swung his club striking Sola in the spine breaking his back. On the second swing the club crushed his skull.

Our captives consisted of 15 lomen and 23 assorted tribesmen and 7 lomen kids. The women who were a good ways along on their pregnancy were begging to be killed the others just showed fear. The kids were the worst if you got close to them they tried to bite and claw.

We split up, part of us watched the prisoners the rest began gathering firewood and brush. The bodies had to be burnt. It was hard to make the decision of what to do with the live ones. After much talk and thought the decision was made. We also took time to bury the two open pits trying to avoid disease.

Noma' s clan would take the injured thru the Bramble gate and care for them. The lake clan and the cats and handlers would take the prisoners. Mond's Clan would set the flame to the pyre then proceed to the bramble gate.

Now that the decision was made we continued gathering the brush and building the pyre. Once the pyre was adequate we began tossing the bodies on the pyre. When that was complete we went our separate ways. I went with the prisoneers.

We began pushing the prisoners up the Northwest Steps. They had not traveled far when the smell of smoke almost over took them. They looked around and could see the blaze reaching to the sky the smell was not altogether unpleasant until you realized just what was cooking.

We walked till we were near the lake. Leaving the rest Bruno and I took five lomen on toward the lake. The lake was serene hardly any movement at all. Just a slight disturbance as a pair of eyes would rise above the surface then disappear again.

Between my spear and Bruno's teeth we convinced the lomen to take a swim. It was funny how the two eyes multiplied into twenty. After a few screams and swirls the lake was again silent and serene, although there were a few more eyes looking our way.

Three more trips and all the lomen were gone. It took 5 trips for the tribesmen & women and it took longer. I had them kneel down then I cut their throats. I did this out of respect it was not their fault they were taken. They did not deserve to be fed to the crocs alive. As I put the knife to their throats most of them thanked me.

Then came the part I really hated to face... the children. They weren't really children they were closer to being wild animals. It was still hard... but I did it.

I said goodby to the Lake Clan and departed for the river camp. I spent the night at river camp. The next morning I headed on to main camp. All the injured were already there and were enjoying the healing properties of the hot pool.

I had been thinking all the way back. I called all the handlers together and we decided our next step. Socar and Goba and Duri went back to the waterfall cave and kept watch on the lomens trail. Drago and Runt covered the River Crossing. Teal & Girl covered the dry wash. We would keep these trails covered for the next 3 months. Just in case.

Noma & Lil Would take Soli and escorts Noma's tribe home when they were ready to depart. Then it would be time for Noma to make up her mind where she wanted to be. She had made a carrier for Tiensi so she could ride on Noma' s back.

Right now healing the injured was the most important

Six days later Noma and her Clan was ready to travel. Lil was so thrilled to be going along and Soli seemed to be a bit excited as well.

Flit was a gain picked as point scout. While Noma, Lil And Soli headed out a day early and made a sweep along the width of the trail ahead This was to be a full month trip and they were going to need food. By the time the tribe caught up they would have made a few kills and have meat on the fire when they caught up. That is the way they traveled.

Three weeks out and early in the morning Lil walked into a camp and found 3 lomen with 8 prisoners. Lil ducked back in to the bushes and made her way back to the hunters. When the lomen awoke they were ringed by the hunters with spears and a very upset big cat that was roaring. Before the lomen could move they were impaled by multiple spears.

They freed the captives, and fed them and questioned them. They were from a tribe Southwest of Noma' s Tribe by 4 weeks. They said that there were 8 more lomen a day behind them. Chief Sarl left 25 hunters and lil with Soli. The others continued on to Chief Bola 's Village.

Lil and Soli made scouts along the back trail of the captives . Three days later Lil and Soli found them. She rushed back to notify the hunters. There were 8 lomen and 22 captives. The hunters made a half circle around the trail and had 5 men in the trees just waiting to drop down. Lil and Soli would be the stopper they would slip in behind them.

The first unsuspecting lomen walked into the trap. A man in a tree dropped a loop of a strap over his head then the man jumped out of the tree hanging the lomen. One man grabbed the lead pole of captives and pulled them clear as the other hunters attacked. There were 2 more lomen hanging from trees. Two more tried to turn back the way that they had come. They met Lil and Soli. Soli leaped for the throat of the one on the left and Lil drove her bamboo spear into the gut of the one on the right.

The rest of the hunters made pin cushion out of the remainder of the lomen. Lil questioned the captives as she was cutting them loose. They assured her this was all the lomen they had seen. They took all the freed captives to Chief Bola' s Village where they were fed and told of their choices..

They could all head back to their village, they could join with Chief Bola' s villages or they could join Lil on her trek back to Mondo' s Clan of which Lil and Noma had spoken quite well about. The children had decided they were all petting Soli and wanted to go where she went. Noma told Lil she would be going back with her.

The thirty captives were torn, of the 24 adults 19 were women. Eleven of them wanted to go with Noma and Lil so did 1 of the men and all of the children which were ages 13 to 7. They discussed it late into the night but nothing changed.

Morning came and the ones wishing to return to their home village was ready to go. The men were given spears and the women slings. Flit and two others offered to escort them. By noon all the farewells had been said and they left for home.

Noma and Lil decided to wait til the next day to leave. Noma' s Father and father in law tried to talk her in to staying but she was firm. She said her home was the valley. She told them she would send word back with the injured clan members. Once they were healed they would be coming home.

Their trip back to the valley was uneventful.



Mondo talked with himself and began second guessing … He had sent single handlers to cover 2 important trails this he did not like. He called Timor and Bell and sent them to take Girl and to send Teal to her husband Drago. These two spots he considered the most dangerous because of the number trails that dumped in to these two.

He was not sure about Lake side … Toma had told him at

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