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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:53 pm
Fraga’lumura was trying to hide behind a small rock formation as she aimed a pounce at one of her brothers. Her heart beat faster every time he got closer and she winced when he moved away. But soon… soon! He’d move closer and Mura would not hesitate to jump. She was fierce, she was a huntress… she was ready!
Of course, he’d probably seen her by now. Her blindingly white coat didn’t exactly do much as far camouflage went unless her mother suddenly decided to climb up a mountain with her children but the young cub was fully convinced that no one could possibly have spotted her perfectly concealed form. She was tense, shivering in anticipation and completely focused on what was on the other side of the rock.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:58 pm
 "What are we pouncing?" Tachio asked abruptly (and loudly) right next to her sister's ear. She hadn't been there a second before, but now she was posed exactly as her sister, except there was a confused look on her face as she looked out at the world. "Oh! Is it brother? Hi, brother!!" she called out as she caught sight of him. "We're going to pounce you, okay?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:21 pm
Mura wasn’t startled. She was very startled. Enough that she jumped more than a feet above the ground and fell back down heavily, her beautiful coat suddenly a ruffled mess of hairs that stood in every possible direction. Slowly realizing what had happened - and watching her brother being alerted to her amazing plan – was all that it took for her to regain her composure… only to lose it again just a few seconds after.
“Ta-chi-ooo!” she whined angrily, raising her front paws to push her sister away. “You blew my perfect cover!”
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:34 pm
 Dru'etrosa heard her sisters voices. She had been hiding in the brown tall grass, sunning herself for lack of anything better to do. From the sounds of it, she had missed something to do, and she was curious. Mura's angry whine got her to move quicker to where her sisters sat in perfect position to pounce on one of their brothers. Only now he was alerted. "What happened?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:40 pm
"But you stand out," Tachio told her sister. "Like really, really REALLY bad! Doesn't she stand out?" she asked Dru as their sister came to them. "She's blinding white!" She smiled as if she hadn't just said something extremely rude. "Hey, hey, we can always ask him to stand still so we can pounce him!"
She turned, but their brother wasn't there anymore. "Should I go find him and bring him back to be pounced?" she offered.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:48 pm
Dru sat on her haunches. "You do stand out a bit, Mura." Dru didn't like lying, especially to her sisters. "If you want, we could roll you in mud, and then you could pounce brother our brothers. Maybe even Mom." Dru flicked her tail at the mud pit not too far away.
"No, don't, Tachio. We need to come up with a plan in order to pounce him. But we can't say or do anything that will make him more alert than he already is."
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:54 pm
“I don’t stand out! I can hide myself perfectly just like mom when she’s hunting!” The pink and white cub looked annoyed but was obviously calming down now that they had been joined by their other sister. She mumbled something that closely resembled "I didn't think of that".
“Tachio ruined my pounce.” She stated bluntly, narrowing her eyes at her sister's bi-colored ones. Her brother was now gone and her little game unable to be continued unless he returned. Still, there were already three cubs here so they had a million games they could play already.
“That might take too long… we can just pounce each other! Like one is a lion and one is a… zebra!” she stood up on the tips of her paws, tail dancing excitedly behind her. “I’m the lion! Or... we can just ambush him.” Because that actually sounded like a lot of fun. Three girls against a boy? Eheh.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:57 pm
"Dru has stripes!" Tachio said, happily joining this plan. "She can be the zebra!" she decided for them all, crouching down in order to get ready to pounce her sister. Her tail flicked happily in the air and a wicked smile pulled at her lips before she sprung--and promptly tripped over herself.
"Pouncing is hard," she said, her face still in the dirt.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:59 pm
Dru's tail flicked and hit Tachio across the nose. "Tachio would make one odd looking zebra, don't you think, Mura?" Dru really wanted to pounce now, and started thinking up plans to get their brother, but Mura was right. It would take to long. Or would it.
"Do you want to ambush him or do you want to want until night fall and pounce him then? We could always make Tachio the zebra because she ruined your pounce." Dru smiled wickedly. This was going to fun.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:04 pm
Dru sprung onto her still fallen sister and laughed. She had pounced. Clumsy, but she had done it. "That's why Mom wants us to practice on each other before we try it on the prey."
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:08 pm
Mura laughed as hard as he could when her sister’s face hit the dirt. It felt even better when she remembered the fright she’d received just a few moments before.
“Yeah, Dru has stripes…” While it was nice that no one was disputing her claim to be the lion, now she had two potential zebras in front of her! One thing was certain. Any ideas she had of grabbing their brother were quickly dismissed and saved for a more suitable occasion. “We can ambush him later.” She laughed, a wicked grin suddenly forming in her maw and she started running.
“The one who catches me is the other lion!” she shouted over her shoulder, still laughing.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:12 pm
Tachio got to her feet, taking the time to spit out dirt before looking at Dru, then chasing after Mura as quickly as she could. Her paws were a bit big for her, and she took a second to get used to running, but once she did she went flat out, chasing and laughing as she tried to catch up with Mura.
This was definitely more fun than just hiding and trying to pounce!
((Sorry guys, bedtime for me. I'll reply tomorrow!))
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:15 pm
Dru looked down at Tachio and gave her a good long lick so that the fur on the top of her head stood up oddly. She laughed, getting up quickly and ranning after Mura as fast as she could.
She would catch her. There was no other possibility. Just as she would pounce their brother once night fell. She wait it out, and at the moment she had to go faster.
((OOC: Night!))
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:30 pm
They were both running after her, Mura realized with a delighted expression.
“You’ll never catch meeeee!” she shouted victoriously, looking over her shoulder just to tease the cubs closely following after her. Even as she stuck her tongue out at them, she knew she was making a mistake. It was so easy to trip when one wasn’t looking ahead. And yet, that wasn’t what happened. What happened was that her path was slowly diverted to a tree and trees don’t like to step aside to let rambunctious cubs pass them by. No, Mura ran straight into the tree trunk just as she was turning her face to look in the right direction.
There was a loud thud, a massive shudder that ran through her spine and all the lights went suddenly out. The white and pink cub fell to the ground and stayed eerily still with a drip of blood coming out of her mouth.
(ok, we'll continue tomorrow!)
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:34 am
"Mura?" Tachio asked, pulling to a stop as she saw her sister hit. "Mura, are you okay?" she asked, trotting over to her sister to nose her neck. "Mura, did that hurt? It looked like it hurt. Are you okay?" she asked redundantly.
She was starting to get worried about how the other girl wasn't moving. "Should I get Mommy?"
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