Punishment by WildTotodile

Summary: This is my second “Eight Below” oneshot. This is based on the scene where Mya makes Max stay out of the other dogs’ way while they are catching seagulls to eat. I don’t own anyone mentioned in this story.

“I want to sink my teeth into you! Stay still so I can eat you: I barked at the flock of seagulls but before I could run over to them, the birds flew away.

“Max, come here” I heard Mya’s shrill bark so I headed over to her, my tail between my legs.

“Mya, I didn’t-“ I began but she cut me off.

“You caused Jerry and the others leave. Yo caused Jerry to tie our collars tighter. You caused all our troubles so you can just sit out and watch us hunt” She then turned to the others “Okay, what are going to do is I’m going to go in and you guys are going to cut of the birds’ escape. Okay?”

“Sure, Mya” Shorty replied.

:”Great plan” Dewy agreed,

All the other dogs agreed with them and went down to get the food. I grunted and sat down to watch.

As I watched them, my eyes fell upon Mya as she began to stalk the seagulls Her grayish coat stood out right in my mind. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my short life. She was lovelier than anything else in Antarctica.

I began to feel awful, not just from the lack of food but about how my actions had made us suffer. I had fought to be in the front of the sled when we traveling over the glacier and caused Doc to nearly fall into that crack in the ice. And then I had tried to see why the human were leaving in the helicopter. That made Jerry tie us up tighter and ultimately kill Old Jack.

As the rest of the team comes back with the fresh kill, I told myself that I would try my hardest to earn their trust and prove to Mya that I am a sled dog worthy of working with her and maybe starting a family together.

The end.