Sherbet was in so much pain, he could hardly move anymore. Especially with the crow pecking at his ribcage.
“Owwie… huhu!!”
The hour since Jacob left had been unbearable; unable to move, Sherbet was left vulnerable to a wide assortment of natural predators, particularly rats. Occasionally, he was visited by a pigeon or two. Luckily, they subsist on a diet of grains and oats, so no pigeon has tried to eat him. He even tried to befriend a pigeon that stuck around a little longer than some of his other visitors.
“Biwbie fwiend?.. giff huggief?” Sadly, the pigeon eventually took off, leaving him alone once more.
“Huhu… come ba biwbie fwiend!.. nee huggi-owwief!! Huhu!!”
All of Sherbet’s other visitors would just take a bite or two from him and then leave. In the hour since Jacob left, various critters took chunks out of him until his ribcage became exposed and his internal organs became visible. Blood continued to trickle from numerous bite wounds and torn flesh on his body.
“huhu… wowfeff owwies… huhu…”
A crow flew in earlier and he attempted to befriend it too.
“Nu biwbie fwiend giff huggief? Gif wub an- SCREEEEEE!!”
The crow simply pecked Sherbet’s eye out and started to chew on it in front of him.
“MEANIE BIWBIE MUNFTAH TA FEE-PWAFE HUHU!! MUMMAH! MUMMAH!!”
After eating Sherbet’s eye, the crow took flight and disappeared. This crow that was eating him now wasn’t the same one as before, but its intent was the same: snack time.
Bite
“OWWIEF!! HUHUUUUU! PWEAFE GU WAY MEANIE BIWBIE MUNFTAH!! FWUFFY AM ONWY FOA HUGGIEF AN W- SCREEEEEEE!!”
The crow simply carried on eating paying no mind to Sherbet’s protests, until a shriek could be heard echoing through the block and the crow flew off. Sherbet was still crying from the pain.
“huhuhuuuu!! Daddeh!!! Fhewbet fowwy foa gib poopie bwudda fowwy poopief! Huhuuu!! Pweafe fabe babbeh!! huhuuuu!!”
For several moments, no answer came. But as pointless as it was, he didn’t give up hope that Jacob would come back. In the distance he sees another birdie perch itself on top of the neon sign of a bar that sat directly across the street from the alley.
“Nyu biwbie fwiend? Gif huggief?” What Sherbet didn’t know was the bird was actually a Bald Eagle that flew in from outside of town. It was starving and it was willing to take any vulnerable creature it could find to feed itself, including a dying fluffy that had been torn apart by rats and crows. The eagle spread out its wings as it prepared to launch itself from the sign.
“Nyu fwiend gif huggief nao?”
The eagle goes in for a dive right after jumping off the sign.
“Nyu biwbie fwiend pway?”
The eagle opened its talons as it swung in to grab him.
“Huggief?”
The next moment could only be described as gruesome for when the eagle grabbed Sherbet by the head and shoulder, one of its talons speared itself into Sherbet’s remaining eye, causing immense pain.
“SCREEEEE!! WAFT FEE PWAFE HAF WOWFEF HEWTIEF HUHUUUUUU!!!”
The eagle carried him off out of the city. Luckily for the eagle, Sherbet lost some of his weight from being partially eaten alive before being found, so he was well within the Eagle’s carrying capacity… unfortunately for Sherbet, who now was going for the ride of his life.
“SCREEEEEE!!! TUU HIGH!! NU WAN FAWW AGAIN!! HUHUHUUUUUU!!”
The eagle carried him until they reached a tree in the middle of a rural area outside the city limits. The eagle then promptly dropped him into its nest. Sherbet, unable to move due to his injuries, could only sit and experience the worst pain imaginable as the eagle began to devour Sherbet alive.
Snap
“SCREEEEEE!!”
The eagle started with sherbet’s legs, eating them one by one in a matter of seconds each as the eagle tried to satiate its ravenous hunger as quickly as it could, which didn’t bode well for Sherbet.
“Pweafe nu tak weggief!! Nee foa wun an pway wif ofa fwuffie- SCREEEEE!!!”
The eagle stuck its beak into his exposed spine, rendering Sherbet paralyzed.
“Huhu!! Meanie munftah gif hewtief nu moa!! Huhuhuuu!!”
The eagle then jabbed its beak into Sherbet’s eye, blinding him.
“SCREEEEEEE!!”
Sherbet continued to scream in agony as the eagle kept eating him. He cried in darkness as the eagle placed its talons around his head.
“MEANIE MUNFTAH GU WAY!! HUHUUU!!”
The eagle opened its beak wide.
“Huhuuu! Wan Mummah!”
The eagle dashed its head downward and with a sickening crunch, the pain was gone. Sherbet was now dinner for the eagle, who would be the only one to remember him for giving it nourishment during a moment of weakness.
In the end, Sherbet paid for his misdeeds with his life, and nature repaid him in kind by making him supper for the wild predator as the eagle carried on eating its catch before eventually flying off into the evening sky in search of its next prey.
Fin.