Mother Love

MOTHER'S LOVE

The trail was fresh and she followed. Almost two days without sleep, drink or eat. But she knew at the end she will get her reward, and that was the only thing that matter now. After all, what else was left for her but vengeance?
Those thoughts renew her fury and determination and follow on.
Close! Now she was sure. That damned creature wasn´t too far.
Anxiety and excitation got her while she was moving.
There it was the beast, with the remains of its last butchery!
At the moment returned to her mind the memories of that ill-fated day, when she returned to her home, just to find her spouse dying and her children brutally murdered.
- This is your last victim.- she said.
And so she attack, with all her pain and rage, blind to the danger or consequences, with only the wish to avenge her family.
The monster barely noticed her presence, just when the fatal hit arrived.
The beast fell with a great wound on his throat. Blood flowed freely, staining the ground and her skin scarlet.
- Too easy.- she thought.
Her rage not calmed, she continued to attack one and again, until the body of the creature was nothing more than unrecognizable bloody remains.
Then came some satisfaction.
But at once she was invaded by another very different feeling; emptiness. That was all that remained and she knew. She was lonely. Until that moment she understood how much she had lose and allow herself to cry. Tears run until she gave in to tiredness and fell asleep for hours.
Waking up just served to remember her misery and started walking aimlessly.
The sound of a near river remind her she hadn´t eat or drink anything and approached to ease her thirst. She drank from the clear waters as if would never stop doing it.
Suddenly, a strange noise caught her attention. Something moved behind the rocks, hiding from her view and decided to investigate.
Her surprise was great when she saw them. Two cubs, sons of the same stock of the creature who destroyed her family, maybe his own childs'.
- I´ll destroy them.- she swore.- Them and their cursed breed.-
She approached with death written on her eyes.
The cubs saw her and smiled. A smile so sweet and innocent, that suddenly she felt she couldn´t go on. She couldn´t do it. She saw her own sons reflected on them; so lonely, so defenseless.
- I can´t kill you.- she admitted.- I am no monster.-
With tenderness she came near and fed them.
- I´ll take care of you.- the she-wolf said.- And I will call you Romulus and Remus.-

THE END