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 Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:57 pm
A white klipspringer looked up at the sky. It was mid-day, where the sun was at it's highest point. He left his sister to the shade and went on ahead of her.
He smiled lightly. He knew he was wandering into a potentially dangerous area. He just hoped that no lion was hungry. He could smell the scent of lion think in the air.
He hesitated for a second as he wondered lightly if he should just walk right into a lion infested area without protection.
Going against his hesitations, he walked on into the area.
The Pridelands
He welcomed himself there for the time being. He's have to go back to his sister once the sun lowered itself.
Blue eyes darted for a second, to see if her was in any danger. Seeing as he wasn't, he ventured on into the place.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:05 pm
Hantu was on hunting training. It was her duty, as a noble daughter of Kit and Ash... and she had long decided she'd learn how to hunt. She'd thought about it a lot, actually... whether her body could take the strain of pursuing a fast moving animal, whether she could be sly and cunning enough to bring an animal down. As of yet, she'd only been fed meat by her parents, and the other pridelanders that had gone on patrol.
She trotted on, muscles rippling under her smooth, grey coat. This was it - she was going to become a hunter. Maybe today, even. Her ears perked up, and she straightened her shoulders, walking tall. An aura of confidence oozed from her - today, she was not just slow, shy, quiet little Hantu.
Today, she'd become a lioness.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:28 pm
Blanc's ear flicked lightly. He was confident that no one would attack him. There was a large chance he could be killed, but there was also a large chance he would not.
He started through the high grasses. It would probably be safer there anyways. He was calm, though. Calm as can be, though he was in danger.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:39 pm
A little blue pup weaved her way through the grass, tail erect and muzzle in the air. 'Sniff, sniff,' she went, catching all the scents she could with her little nose, 'Sniff, sniff.'
Seemed like there was prey about, although Chirarah wasn't particually hungry. Nor was she the type to hunt prey for herself... she was more of a scavenger, a thief. Of course, she took after her father in his younger days, and was the splitting image of him. Minus the fact that she was female, of course.
But her little, twisted mind still ticked with ideas.
Grinning with delight, she wondered what she'd find in the Pridelands. Maybe someone with loose pockets, someone that she could rob for food or herbs. It sounded like a good idea, and the best way to get a snack... food was hard to get in a family of fifteen, as meat had to be rationed between she and her fifteen other brothers and sisters. It was much better to make a living with dishonesty, she'd reckoned, and where better to find some suckers than the Pridelands?
She peeked out from the grass, and saw a figure out up ahead. Tall, and pure white, with azure eyes. She blinked. A preybeast, huh?
Too bad preybeasts didn't carry around meat.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:08 pm
Leini boredly wandered away from the sleeping Inyoni. She wasn't tired after there trek at night, and she was bound to find her brother. She knew she shouldn't go too far.
But she did anyways.
She sniffed around, following new scents into a place she had never been before.
Cusiously, she sniffed out a scent. One of a wild dog. She followed that scent towards the dog.
Her scense of smell was as good as good as her fathers.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:16 pm
Chirarah's eyes brightened as she watched the white klipspringer. Shame. Sure, he was lunch on legs, but a little one like her couldn't possibly bring such an animal down. She, after all, was still very young.
Still, she made a lazy attempt, and leapt from the grass... latching onto the stranger's leg, and gnawing it as best she could.
"Nnnn," she growled, trying her best to pierce the skin, but giving in almost straight away, "Oh, forgeddit."
With a shrug, she let go of the creature's leg.
"Gawd. I'm better just plain ol' stealin'," she mumbled, and gave the creature a look, "Sorry about that."
She turned, ready to wander off, when she saw a pair of soft, green eyes peering out at her from the grass. Then, a pair of red ones, coming from the other direction. She swallowed. Was this a gathering of some sort, or something?
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:31 pm
Blanc looked down as he felt bites on his leg. They weren't even enough to pierce his skin. He huffed at the wild dog. "You need something?" He asked softly after nodding to the apology.
He shook his leg from the weird feeling that tingled there after being used as a chew toy.
Leini stepped out of the grass and blinked at the younger wild dog. She never really saw a wild dog that was younger that herself.
"Hallo," she said with a slight grin.
Blanc looked at the newer wild dog that came into view. He paused for a second. This dog was older then the other.
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:28 pm
Chirarah blinked, and jumped back in surprise as the girl with the red eyes emerged, this time more clearly, from the grass.
"Ah, hey," she shrank back for a minute, daunted by the wild-dog's larger size - this stranger was definately older than herself. However, these feelings only lasted a fleeting moment, before the silvery-blue wild-dog was back to her paws.
"So, uh... 'ave you come to talk, or just to stand in fronna' me and block my way home? Because I've got better stuff to do than attempt to catch preybeasts that don't move and 'ave tough skin, or talk ta' you. We'd have nothin' in common, see?"
Sometimes, understanding the little lady was as hard as learning a different language. She often practiced lazy English... Chirarah, of course, led a life of being lazy, and using her thieving, sly mind instead of her mouth.
Hantu poked from the grass, emerging as quietly as she could. As she jumped into the open, her pads met the ground with a soft, 'plip', and she stood tall and straight, and as lady-like as she could. Her shoulders sagged a little, and she tried not to show too much disappointment. It seemed that the blue pup had also caught the scent of the klipspringer, and by now the prey animal would be too alert to fall for another predator's fangs.
"Good afternoon," she said to announce her prescence, pale fur standing out against the dry, orange earth.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:44 pm
"Ah..." Blanc said. He was surrounded by young one. Three to be exact. Two young wild dogs and a small lioness that was still a cub. He wasn't in any real danger. The smaller wild dog couldn't even bite trhough his skin.
Leini glanced at the lioness as she came through the brush. She tilted her. head.
"Um... Is this like a gathering place or something..." Blanc said lazily. He was just going for a walk, now he was surrounded by youngins! It was crazy.
"Beats me. I'm not from around here," Leini answered softly. She was sitting now, completly relaxed.
Blanc looked at the older dog, only barely acknowledging her. He looked to the lion. Lion's had heavier scents in the area. He figured she would know where they were. "Where am I anyways?" he asked the lioness more than the dogs.
Leini sighed and leaned back on her hanches, so she was balanced only on her back legs.
She started to speak to the blue and white dog. She looked almost like Inyoni but darker. Shehad a hint of her scent. She had smelled something quite like it before.
"Well..." She said. "You should learn how to hunt..."
But who was she to talk. She was only just learning herself. She knew some of the basics, but not much.
"I won't block you way home... Miss... um..." She looked up then back to the younger dog. "What's your name miss?" She asked.
It was an odd habit... using 'miss' even when the dog was younger than herself.
She was still balanced on her back legs and rump. He paws were against her chest, only pawing at the air when she was about to fall forward.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:03 am
"We're in the Pridelands, sir," Hantu said, her voice gentle and polite, despite the fact that she'd been tracking this creature down to kill on moments beforehand, "Not a gathering place of such, but rather a place where many do come. It's a popular, famous place... ruled by kings, royal families and the Pridelanders."
She puffed up her chest, feeling proud. And she was one of them.
Meanwhile, Chirarah, talking to Leini, blinked. Conversation, huh?
'Well,' she thought, shrugging, 'I guess I got nothin' better to do. Might as well make some chatter before I return to the savannah.'
She sat down on her rump, following the older dog's example, and her eyes glistened mischieviously.
"The name's Chirarah," she growled, crossing her paws to look a little more 'cool' than usual, "Though, I'm notta' Missus, just Chirarah. I'm no fancy pance dog that likes to be addressed like tha'."
She tilted her head. Sure, she wasn't the most friendly of creatures, but she hadn't any hostility towards the elder dog. She was just a little shifty at heart. Ever the opposite of the sweet, polite little Hantu.
"Your name?" the silver-blue dog grunted, raising one eyebrow and awaiting Leini's reply.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:12 pm
"Well... This is kind of awkward, but not unheard of for me..." Blanc said softly. "Talking to a predator anyways. What's your name young one?"
He had heared Chirarah's name, so he didn't really acknowledge her. He wasn't that nice when creatures wanted to eat him, but he cooled his temper before it even rose.
"Alright then. My apologies..." Leini said. "Name's Leini..."
Blancun listened in on Leini's name. A name he would probably learn more about in the future.
Leini was still balanced up right, but almost fell. She pawed at the air and tried to stand all the wa up on her feet. "You son't smell like you're from around here..." Leini said to Chirarah.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:36 pm
Hantu dipped her head in agreement.
"Awkward is the right word," she said, her eyes glistening, though she felt no guilt for what she had been setting out to do, "After all, I'd been tracking you down for food. I'll make no secret about that. If I were older, I'd be attempting to bring you down now, sir."
She addressed the animal with formalities - she was now in no position to be rude, and she didn't feel as if there were a difference of intelligence between prey and predator beasts... to her, they were all equal. However, she understood the philosophy of the Great Circle of Life, and to Hantu, prey were to eaten without guilt, unless you knew them well.
Relationships between predator and prey, however, hardly crossed Hantu's mind. She cared nought for the creatures, really, but saw them as friendly, smart food.
Chirarah, on the other hand, had turned a blind eye towards the lioness and the klipspringer, and was focused on Leini.
"I don't smell like it, 'cause I'm not," she growled plainly, scratching her ear with a hind paw, "I've actually strayed from my parent's den, actually. Still a young one, I am, but that doesn't make me any more stupid than that prey animal over there."
She cast a cold eye in Blancun's direction.
"Gosh, they're harder to catch than 'ey look."
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:52 am
"Well, it's just my luck that you aren't older then," Blancun siad calmly. "I suppouse I should leave now before I get attacked again..."
Blancun looked at the sky after taking a small step backwards.
Leini let herself fall back down to a sitting posistion. "Never said you were stupid, Chirarah. No one is stupid... He was just on a walk..." She said.
Leini laughed lightly. "Well, I don't know how to hunt... I'm still learning to do it right..."
Leini smiled and her tail wagged a bit.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:22 pm
Hantu nodded.
"Maybe you should," she said, lightly, "Although you know, with so many creatures about, I highly doubt you'd be attacked again. At least, for today..." she cocked a grin the klipspringer's way. Ah, how interesting the life of a preybeast was - full of fear, full of grass and full of... of...
Well, something else. Hot air, probably. She'd study more about them, one day.
"Well, if you're heading off," she said, dipping her head once more, "I apologise for stalking you. However, you'll need to watch your back."
The little lion had another thought, but she didn't say it aloud, for it was in bad taste. Surely, if she came across a creature like Blancun in her older years, she'd finish it off quickly and cleanly. That was her goal, and she'd feel no remorse. Right now, all she could do was look and slightly salivate.
Chirarah, on the other hand, was as rough and gruff as sandpaper on skin. She tilted her head at Leini, and asked, eyebrows raised:
"Say, do you know that klipspringer?"
The pup hesitated, and spoke again.
"Ah, I see. So that's why you're not killing him. Because you... don't know how?"
The conversation was very awkward. Hantu couldn't help but feel sorry for Blanc - the subject, surrounded by all these chattering predators.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:50 pm
Blan nodded. "I'll make way beack to my sister," He turned away from the lionessand started towards wence he came.... sorta... he was a bit off, but for a reason.
Thoughts raced in the white klipspringers. He could have died right there... Then...
He didn't even want to think of all of the things that could've happened.
He fidgeted. He wasn't far from the lioness and the two dogs. Not even a few steps away. He shook it off. "I may see you again, but then, I shall be more weary of you, lioness..." he said and walked off, more alert.
"I dont know him, but I don't eat klipspringers... it's a family thing..." She paused. "I hope you aren't pals with any birds..."
"but, Aye... it's a family thing. I get it from my father... I wouldn't kill a klipspsringer unless I was on the brink of death..."
Leini said and looked up at the sky as she saw some birds pass overhead.
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