[PRP] Hunting Birds (Nuru Moyo, Euanthe)

[Leasano]

The summer sun beat down on Euanthe's mint fur. She looked over towards her fellow hyena friend Nuru. She pitied him for he was covered in all black most likely sweating up a storm or in his case panting. "Be quiet!" She whispered to him. If he continued to be his annoying clumsy self then they were going to lose their lunch... again! If things had went right they would have been chewing down on a delicious hare by now. Nuru just had to run out scaring their pray away because the 'bees' were attacking him. What did he think was going to happen after he rolled around in the honey? She sighed to herself.

The bunnies were all gone now thanks to his little stunt. Lucky for them Euanthe had a back up plan for food. They were going to catch birds. Birds were always the hardest to catch since the had the upper wing. They could fly and hyena's were land animals always stuck on the ground. Catching the birds would involve stealth and speed. It would also involve patience and quiet with she knew Nuru would not like doing, but they had to if they didn't want to starve.

A few birds began to up lift into the air catching onto the fact that they were being tailed. Only about five remained but they only needed to capture one. It seemed easy enough. She waited in till the wind died down. When hunting it was about luck, and the weather. They prayed down in the grass lowering their breathing as if they weren't even there. She hushed her voice. "We jump out on the count of three.' She got into stance. "One." She placed her right leg firmly on the ground prepared to push off. "Two." Her back legs bend trying to gain great strength for the leap. "Three"

CaliWolfe

 

[CaliWolfe]

Nuru whined and moaned annoyingly. He couldn't return to the pack without lunch, that was madness! Thankfully for him this minty colored girl named Euanthe decided to assist him, even after he may of sort of accidently caused her to get a possible, highly unlikely, itty bitty concussion. Wasn't his fault the stupid cliff was there. Why couldn't they be like flies and just move out of the way when Nuru bit at them. Oh wait, that wouldn't have helped, they still would have just fallen flat on their faces.

But now at least that wasn't a problem. Bird catching was easy, fun even and-
"Three!"

Wait what?! "Uh... Uh, three! Nuru pounced up from the spot he had been sitting and very inelegantly started to prune himself from any lively bug infestations his fur might contain. When Eua started counting down, the male wasn't even looking in the proper direction. So when she said "three!" the signal to pounce, suffice to say he wasn't prepared. He ran awkwardly, nearly tripping lousily over his own four feet, and jumped while making chomping noises to try and crunch down on a bird's wing.  

[Leasano]

Euanthe managed to chew down on a bird’s wing catching it on her first try. She was quite proud of herself for showing this skill. She pushed on the birds next with her paw breaking its neck putting it out of its misery. She turned hoping to see the Nuru had succeeded to and to no surprise…he had failed. She smirked as she watching him managed to trip over his own feet. His head hit the ground straight on.

He looked up with a goofy smile. He began to mumble on about how he was okay and not to worry but Eua just laughed. ”How did you manage to do that?” She giggled a little more.

”Well we got lunch anyway.” She held up her prize so that he could see. She dropped it to the ground and began to eat. The rest of the birds had flew away in fear of getting eaten themselves.
 

[CaliWolfe]

Nuru had rolled around playfully, just being his silly, normal self as the female ate. He was used to feeding working like that, females ate first, then female puppies and then male puppies and then males. So even if he was starving Nuru didn't get to juicily bite into food until after everyone else. He was okay with that! It was just how life worked. Or did it work like that? He nipped at a itch on his rear and then turned back to Euanthe as she licked her lips free of blood.

"Hey, hey, leave some for me!" He moped, but his mood changed swiftly with a tail wag as he switched back over to laying on his belly. The hyena crawled forward with his head as low to the ground as he could get it without actually eating dirt. His tail wasn't tucked underneath him as it would normally to show submission- instead he playfully began to n** at the tips of the bird's wing. "We need more birds for my pack." He said. His pack would be very angry if he returned without even a little bit of food.

Leasano

 

[Leasano]

”Fine if I must.” She pushed the bird over towards him so he would be able to begin eating. She was quite proud of herself for being able to catch the bird, but catching another that would be another story. His pack would most likely be quite big and if they needed to catch food for them too then they would be at it all day. Even though she knew both of them would be trying to get food she highly doubted that Nuru would be able to catch even one. If he managed to she would be surprised.

”How much would we need to catch?” She asked him not wanting to do the mental math of guessing the number they would require. Wind began to pick up. This meant if they were to continue it would be even harder to chew down on one. The wind would make it easier for their pray to escape from their grasp. What’s the harm in trying.

CaliWolfe

 

[CaliWolfe]

Nuru made a humming sound as he himself tried to calculate the exact amount of birds they needed to return to his pack. There weren't that many hyenas for a pack per say, but there were quite a few mouths to feed. Oh, and some puppies had been born recently, that was always exciting. Puppies automatically increased the amount of mouths they needed to feed by... A lot more. He honestly didn't know by how much more, he only knew it was obviously more. Like anyone of the street couldn't figure that one out. "Um... Err... Fifty two... Hundred. Million. No just a thousand is good." He started mumbling incoherent speak as Nuru's hyena brain attempted it's bet at math. "No, no, just one hundred. For just fifty." In terms of feeding the whole pack, Nuru deduced that fifty birds would be enough. Oh.. But he couldn't catch even one bird, how was he suppose to catch fifty?

"Just three more and I'll be able to go home." He nodded to Eua confidently. He had seen one of the other hunters return home once with half a gazelle carcass and the whole graveyard shrieked with pleasure. If he brought a couple birds, in his mind, it equalled out to the amount of half a gazelle carcass. Even if it obviously wasn't even beginning to equal out to that amount.  

[Leasano]

She nodded. ”Okay only three that’s not so bad.” She looked around remembering that all the birds had already flown away which meant that they would have to go out and look for them again. She sighed to herself. ”We will have to go look for the birds…” She said obviously disappointed in her announcement. She began to walk after smelling the air for the scent of the birds. Nuru just followed her along. She was thinking that maybe he would actually be able to catch one it wasn’t that hard. She would be proud of him IF he could.

She sniffed quite loudly enough for Nuru to know what she was doing. She didn’t want him to think that she was just mindlessly standing there doing nothing of importance such as he was. She knew that they were going the right way for each step they took the delicious aroma of their swirling blood filled her. She could almost taste them. She had to remind herself that the birds were for his pack and not for her own enjoyment. Nuru was pretty nice. He always had others in mind even if he mostly failed to complete the missions he sets out on.

Since Euanthe was there they were more likely to be able to catch the three birds. They had already gotten one what was the trouble in getting three more. Her footsteps slowed as they neared their pray. She began to crouch in order to not be seen. About seven of ten were there. She looked towards Nuru. ”Okay we are going to catch them again.” He looked out of it. He’s probably not listening. She smacked him snapping him out of his own world. ”Were going now try to get one.” She whispered to him. She ran out alongside with Nuru surprised that he actually came on time. She once again got a mouth full of feathers catching another.

CaliWolfe

 

[CaliWolfe]

And once again Nuru had managed to fail. He didn't faceplant this time, but Nuru had scuffled along and trailed a particularly fat bird he was intent on saving for himself later. As far as minty was concerned it was for his pack, but Nuru wanted to eat food too- and there was just no way he was passing this one up to the females!

He had his narrow gaze of bright orange eyes focused on his idea of prey and when Euanthe gave the signal he charged straight towards it. A rabid growl mixed with his own scruffy bark came loose as he leapt high into the air in preparation of his meal flapping away. He had jumped too soon though, and the bird slipped out of reach. He had then continued to jump repeatedly until successful he grasped the leg of a bird who flew a little too near Nuru's teeth.

"Gothcha!" He hissed through clenched teeth, lowering his meal to the ground and putting on of his paws on it's soft and fragile throat. The bird cawed in panic and Nuru was quick to push out the fire in it's eyes as he crushed it's spine with his foot. The joys of being a hunter and able to retrieve food also had some unpleasant necessaries involved. But Nuru didn't mind, he was doing his duty for the sake of the pack! Killing was part of his job and quite frankly Nuru hadn't worried to much about it, he didn't exactly know his prey was capable of speaking.

Leasano

 

[Leasano]

To Euanthe’s surprise Nuru managed to catch one. He seemed more experiences at it then he had originally. If anything he could have been mistaken for a skilled hunter. ”You got one.” She grinned at him. He seemed as though he wanted to devour it right there. She admired his restraint of saving it for his pack.

It was getting later and later as they were trying to catch more in order to feed lots of mouths. The sky soon became an orange colour. Euanthe took notice in the fading day. ”It’s already quite late.” She said surprised. “I didn’t think we were out here for that long.” She looked at all of the pray they had captured. If she had to guess there was most likely about six of them. Including the one she caught earlier that would be seven birds they managed to get together.

She looked at him proud of them. ”We got quite a bit.” For some reason she couldn’t wipe the smile off her face. Nuru made her feel happy, and just warm. It was a strange feeling but she quite liked it. ”I didn’t think we would catch that much.” She figured that he didn’t expect to get as much as they did either. It was a big accomplishment. ”What shall we do now?” She titled her head in question.

CaliWolfe

 

[CaliWolfe]

As the day had longed on Nuru also did not take notice to the amount of birds they had managed to capture. Although, it was perfectly understandable that dusk had begun to crawl its way across the landscape by the time he did take heed of it. The birds were so darn hard to catch, and birds weren't completely stupid like Nuru had imagined to himself quietly. They were smart, and no same flock was going to stick around while two deadly -and hungry- hyenas lurked around every corner. It would have been suicide to do such a thing, with the dark pelted one jumping like a cat and the light colored one lunging by surprise.

That wasn't to say they wouldn't find luck elsewhere. In fact they had collected six more birds from varying areas.

Nuru would leave first through the day long hunting session. Already by this point afternoon had peaked and shifted on it's way, so the hyena had to be quick in his efforts. He would slither through the grass trying to be as inconspicuous as possible with his black neck fur sticking out amongst the cool green savannah grass. Finding a small group of three or four straggling birds sticking by Nuru would pat on the ground to earn the attention of them, being awkward in all his gesters as he was. Euanthe would then take from behind, hidden as well as lizard on a leaf she would spring through the air and tackle one to the ground. Nuru would then come charging out and n** on any birds who still happened to not take flight.

Rinse and repeat.

Now he tired looked at Euanthe. He was panting between breathes, utterly exhausted from his effort (however little) he used throughout the better part of the day. Ah yes, it had truly only been a day. And yet he felt as if he had known her forever. In reality he knew next to nothing about Eua as did she about him. Yet... Yet.... "Let's go see the moon." He suggested. When she looked confused he rose from the grass and shook out his fur. He was dusty and didn't like being dusty since it made him sneeze.

"I mean when it finally comes up. I've never seen a moon not in the graveyard before." It was pretty sad now that he thought about it. Only had he ever viewed the orangey yellow blob softly resting on a endless fog littering the skies above him. Never had he seen how big the moon really was, nor how beautiful it was often praised for being. Oh, except for maybe once when he was little. The fog cleared enough that night to see a star twinkle along with it's brightness. Hmm, oh well now he was attempting to fix that wrong.

"So what you say? Let's go do that?" Of course, he knew what her response was going to be.

Leasano

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