S.O.S. - Chapter 1

In her home on Angel Island, Kara-lu was nursing her new baby son in her arms, humming a soft lullaby while she stroked his face.
"You haven't cried once... you're so quiet."
Kara smiled as she watched her baby yawn, and marvelled for the umpteenth time at the six sharp teeth in his mouth. Jared looked up at his glowing mother and gave her the most amazing smile she had ever seen. he reached up and played with a lock of her hair, making her giggle. Hearing this, he squealed with delight and started batting at the same lock playfully. Kara gave him her finger, which he clasped warmly and hugged up to his face.
Hours passed by as Jared slipped into a peaceful slumber, still clasping his mother's finger, subconsciously listening intently to her soothing voice as she hummed a lullaby to him.
The peaceful moment was abruptly disturbed as Mobian soldiers burst into the house. The commander of the squadron snatched Jared from his mothers arms and held him up to his face by the scruff of his neck, inspecting him in his tiny blue blanket.
"Who are you! Give me back my child!"
Kara leapt at the commander but had several officers restrain her. The burly wolf handed the baby to a sergeant standing behind him. The sergeant was a sturdy echidna with striking amber eyes and white fur. He looked down at the small child as it was being cradled in his arms.
"There is your mission. Destroy it." The commander barked.
"NO!" Kara screamed "You cant take him! He's a guardian and he is all I have left in this world! Please, just leave him be!" She looked into the sergeants eyes as hers filled with tears that flowed down her tender face like rivers.
"But sir... He's just an infant!
The commander glared at him.
"He is an abomination of the natural order! How many quills does he have?"
The seargeant counted the baby's quills, astonished that he had remained perfectly calm the entire time.
"... Six."
Änd check his mouth. How many teeth does he have and are they sharp?"
Again, the sergeant checked. he slipped his index finger into the infants mouth and gently separated his jaws.
"Six... and yes, thay are extremely... Hey!"
Jared had clasped the sergeants fingers with tiny hands and was now looking at it intently and carefully nibbling on it, so as to not hurt him. when he had finished inspecting the gloved finger, the tiny echidna hugged it up to his face and looked up into the sergeants eyes and smiled.
"He likes you." Kara said in a broken voice.
The white echidna looked at his commander with a no nonsense look on his handsome face.
"Sir, I'm not exterminating this infant. He is perfectly harmless."
The commander stormed up to him and snarled.
"He is a child of the Devil! Kill the little blasphemy now, Sergeant!"
"No! I won't do it!"
"Fine, I will."
Bang.
Before he could even pull out his gun, The towering wolf was shot in the neck by the sergeant, who in a rage, whipped out his rifle faster than lightning, protecting the tiny Jared.
"Ba!" The baby said, sticking out his tongue at the deceased commander.
"Stand down, soldiers."
Despite their sergeants orders, the stunned mobians stood there, still restraining the distressed mother.
"Stand Down!" He said again, considerably louder. This time they released Kara, and scattered into corners of the room.
He walked up to her slowly, still looking down at Jared, completely mesmerised by his sense of calm. Tapping his nose, Sergeant Koen Smiled down at the infant and stroked his beautiful face.
"Here's your child, Miss...?"
"Lu. Kara-Lu. Please, how can I ever repay you for saving my son? he's all I have left."
"Well... Kara, what happened to your husband?"
Kara sat down and sighed, wiping tears out of her eyes.
"He was... Killed. He saved me from a bullet when I was pregnant with Jared. The bullet went straight into his heart. He died instantly, so it wasn't painful for him."
Koen sat down next to her and adjusted the baby, who was now chewing on one of the snowy white quills hanging down from his head."
"Wow... I'm sorry to hear that. It must've been terrible." He handed Kara her baby back, but had to lean down because he wouldn't let go of the quill he was playing with.
"Hm," she chuckled. "He really does like you."
"He has a beautiful face." Koen Said softly, Looking up at Kara.
Looking into his amber eyes, she smiled warmly at the kind sergeant and tickled her son under his chin.
"That's what I said."