Say Cheese!...Um, what's cheese?

The sun was barely up, and Nyeusi felt someone nudging him awake. He batted at them, muttering about a few more minutes and rolled over and snuggled closer to the other warm body he had made his nest beside. Which was Johari of course. However, the cheetah was persistent.

"Nyeusi, get up!" The voice said grufflly, and once again nudged him. "Wake up before I get a leaf of water to splash on you."

With those words alone Nyeusi was instantly awake, and he looked up to the pale pelt that was his mentor's. "I'm up, Yakuti." Nyeusi yawned and got to his paws stretching.

He followed his mentor out. The day before it had been his group with the afternoon Hunting Patrol. And now, it was their turn on being the morning Hunting patrol. Nyeusi hated getting up so early. He wished they hadn't switched with the other group every other day. In fact, it might have been bearable if he and Johari had been in the same group. But they weren't, and that made Nyeusi even more grumpy.

He was at the back, grumbling, and looking down at his paws when he noticed something. Everything was quiet around their group. He looked up and saw that the other's hadn't noticed it yet. Taking an uneasy look around, he saw a glint of something bright reflecting from the early sun's ray's. That wasn't normal. "Yakuti! Isiyo! Fupi!" He called as he raced up to them.

They all paused in the walking, and looked to the tall tyro. "What's wrong Nyeusi?" His mentor asked him, and Nyeusi looked to the area where the sun was still glinting off of.

"There's something over there. And it's not natural." Nyeusi informed him.

Yakuti and Isiyo looked to each other, before silently coming to a decision. "Nyeusi, you and I will go check it out. Isiyo, you stay with Fupi. And stay low." Yakuti told the other tom, who nodded in agreement.

Nyeusi nervously followed his mentor, ear's flickering in uncertainty. Why didn't they return to the tribe. As they got closer, they could see it was one of those furless monkey creatures. He had heard others call them 'humans' but honestly, furless monkey creatures sounded better. And he was looking into something. Curiously, the two approached him, stopping whenever the strange creature moved. And they heard... Clicking sounds. Mentor and Tyro looked to each other, then back at the black thing.

Nyeusi stepped closer, neck outstretched to sniff at the creature and it's contraption. It didn't look like any of the Traps, or even like those boom sticks. It was square with a long round piece  on it's one side. The creature had it's face up to it. Such strange beings. But he wasn't harming them. Yakuti signaled for the other two to come forward.

And for a while, they investigated it. Sniffing, batting softly, and even licking it to see if it was edible. And the creature even held it's clawless paw out. Nyeusi was the only one brave enough to sniff and let it run it's soft claws in his fur. It actually felt nice. However, Isiyo finally reminded them all that they had to hunt. And so, they started back to go on their hunt. But not before Nyeusi stopped and looked back at the creature, who was smiling and he heard that soft 'click' again over and over.

'I guess not all of them are bad...'