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Prompt 2

Aine was a proper cat and always followed the rules. Don't get dirty and make sure you are always presentable.
It was a partly cloudy day and it was prefect for exploring. Aine was out and about admiring the flowers. She adore the beauty of flowers because they remember her of summer. Aine was also called the Goddess of Summer. While she was admiring some roses she came across a beatle. "Yuck!" Aine frowned as for she disliked bugs because most would eat the flowers. She contintued on through the forest until she almost ran into a spider's web. "Ewww." Quickly, she moved out the of way the web. She glared at the spider she saw dangling. After that close call with the spider's web there was still some time to look at some flowers. As she apporached her favorite place to admire flowers she saw a butterfly. Aine lured the butterfly on to her hand with a flower. "Here is something I like, a beautiful butterfly to be my friend." Aine headed home with a new friend.

Prompt 1 (reposted for dice roll)
Api looked around rather displeased before peering down at the sound of his stomach growling. He hadn't had a decent meal in days, just nibbles of bread that didn't have mold on it...or fruit that hadn't rotted completely. Sort of nasty, yes, but one must do what they can in order to survive.

Several of his kind, along with himself of course, had gathered in the clearing to discuss what they must do about this shortage of food. There were discussions to neighbors and friends so far, but no one had stood up to address the whole crowd yet. Api was getting annoyed, and hungry, so he huffed to the center and shouted a very loud "HEY!!"

As heads swiveled and mouths shut, Api finally smiled, though it was sort of a sly smile. "Ok you lot," he said. "I have been listening into your conversations and assessing the situation. You all say you don't have much to offer as food. That's ok. Just bring me a pot of water to the clearing, and light a fire around it, and I'll take care of the rest." He then sort of rolled his eyes and vanished into the woods, and while the others found this behavior rather odd, they were too hungry to argue, so they went to do what the cat had told them.

When Api returned, there was a large black kettle in the center of the clearing, water simmering away. All looked at him as he approached the pot, a smooth stone in his paws. Acting like he knew what he was doing, he plunked the stone into the water and looked at it pleasantly. A few of the more scholarly Fluffy Cats immediately knew what he was doing, and went home quickly to grab the few things of food they had to help the story along.

When asked what he was doing by some of the more clueless cats, Api would simply reply in a sarcastic tone. "Why, making stone soup of course!" A few moments later one of the cats that had flew away returned with some vegetables.

"Stone soup itself is indeed a tasty treat, but it tastes better with these in the pot," he commented, giving Api a wink before placing them into the water. Then, one by one the cats who knew the story returned, saying similar things and placing what little food they had into the water. The other cats soon took suit, going to their own homes and getting what little food they had and then rushing back to place it in the pot of stone soup.

Now there was a large pot of wonderful smelling soup in the clearing. Api was quick to serving himself a bowl, digging in.

"Tasty~" was all he said before stuffing his mouth again. And all the cats feasted on the wonderful stone soup, and had decent meals from it for days afterwards.

Prompt 3:

The moon shone brightly overhead as Syr watched in fascination as the fur-less and wing-less anthros entered the giant, brightly lit cave. They seemed to come in two varieties, one of which was plain black and white, heavier built and tall, while the other was colorful and graceful, covered in sparkly things that her paws itched to get a hold of.

Flying quietly down to one of the side entrances to this vast cave network, she peered into an unlit side cave, where most of the space was taken up by a strange box with drapes around it. Eying the only entrance (a small hinged door made of glass which was only slightly ajar) dubiously, she slipped a paw under the door and opened it wide enough for her to slip in. Once getting completely through, the door closed all the way with a click noise, trapping her in the cave. Frowning with annoyance, she glared at the door, then batted it a few times. The door rattled, but remained closed. Shaking her head, she looked around the room, searching for another way out. A glimmer from something on table to her left caught her attention, and she sidled over to it.

Halfway to her new source of interest, there was a sudden movement from under the drape covered box, and a very fast green streak barreled at Syr.

"minemineminemineminemineminemineMineMineMINEMI-YEOWCH!!" shrieked the blur until it ran face first into Syr's flicked tail, doing three barrel rolls in the air before landing in a surprised pile several feet away. Beady red eyes blinked for a moment, then the creature bounced back up and charged again. Syr calmly swatted it to one side, causing it to somersault into a wall, winding up feet in the air and large floppy ears skewed to each side.

"May I help you?" Syr asked, quirking an eyebrow at the strange critter. It wasn't a fluffy either, although its ears seemed similar to one she'd heard called "Wiz". Smaller and slighter than a fluffy, the creture looked more like prey than predator, if you could ignore the sharp pointy teeth and beady red eyes.

The creature looked at Syr in bafflement. "You're not supposed to hit back..." it muttered, not taking its eyes of the large blue fluffy as it righted itself.

"If you attack me, of course I'm going to hit you back." Syr commented, eyes going from the hunched green creature to where she'd spotted the glint of something shiny. "What did I do to you anyway?"

"You come in Grunny's house. You take Grunny's things!" the green creature said accusingly.

Syr shrugged in response. "Are all the things here yours?"

"Well... er... no..." Grunny admitted.

"Then show me something that's not yours, and I'll take that instead. I'm looking for shiny things, like what the furless blessed ones wear." Syr stated, motioning roughly towards the front entrance with a paw.

Grunny's expression was awash with relief. "Oh, Grunny can show you lots of shiny things that aren't Grunny's! Follow me!" it exclaimed, hopping rapidly to and through another doorway. Syrillian followed more sedately.

Grunny led Syr into the next cave, which was dominated by many large boxes covered in smaller boxes that glittered softly in the moonlight. Syr's eyes widened in anticipation as Grunny hopped up onto one of the large boxes and nosed open one of the smaller. Syr jumped up next to him, and looked inside. Nestled delicately in the velvet lined box was an exquisite platinum torque, studded with thumb sized star sapphires. Syr tried very hard not to drool.

"Not Grunny's!" Grunny stated matter-of-factly.

"Nope." Syr agreed. "Mine." Picking up the torque in her teeth, she hopped down and sauntered out of the room into the hall.

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Lieutenant Robert Thorne stifled a yawn. He was supposed to be guarding the master's wing, preventing any of the guests from the party from venturing too far into his master's private domain. When he opened his eyes after the huge yawn, he had to blink several times before it registered exactly what he was seeing. How the heck had a large blue winged cat gotten there? The cat turned and met his gaze, curiosity flickering across the strangely intelligent oculars. "Mrne" it said around the incredibly expensive torque in its mouth, then spread its wings and flew out the open window.

Slack jawed, Lieutenant Thorne watched as the blue speck sped into the darkness. "Gotta stop using those G-Corp products... they make you see the STRANGEST things..." he muttered, scratching at the goatee he'd paid several month's salary for in Gro-gain. "Next, I'll be seeing green killer rabbits..." he broke off as Grunny hopped into view. This being the straw that broke the camel's back, Thorne screamed in terror and fled into the night, forever haunted by dreams of winged cat thieves and green rabbits with sharp, pointy teeth and beady red eyes.

Prompt #2
It was a long afternoon of reading and laying deep in the trees without much to do. This was the kind of afternoon that Mesaishaem had been longing for since Areikyl came into his life. It wasn't that he minded Areikyl but sometimes she was a little high strung... and then of course.. soon after she into his life he had had two wonderful children. However, now they were grown and he finally had some much needed time to himself..

As Mesaishaem was nestled into the crook of the tree he noticed something buzz over his head. He frowned as his eyes shifted up but seeing nothing he just shook it and went back to flipping the pages of his book. And then there... there was the buzz again. Growling, he slammed the book shut, pushed down his glasses when he noticed a slender insect with a blue twinge to two sets of wings. Musing, with a tilt of his head he inched closer, crawling over the branch until his nose was within an inch of the beautiful bug. Being so close he could see the bulging spots on the head where eyes were located and then he realized he wanted closer... but as he inched forward the bug raised its head and flew off into the air.

I wonder what bug that was... He thought to himself as he pulled off into the tree, grabbing a book out and began to flip through it until he found a picture that matched the bug. "Ah! A damselfly!" He grinned. Jumping down from the limb, making sure that his book was tucked carefully under his arm, he jumped down from his tree and began to walk through the forest to see what other interesting insects he could find. As he moved through he spotted multiple butterflies; swallowtails, monarchs, some that he identified as sulphurs.. He also found beetles, flies and even many spiders such as jumping spiders, wolf spiders and even a golden orb weaver!

Mesaishaem felt pleased and marked each one off in his book, he even caught himself a spider and a butterfly to bring back to his tree. And once he got there he settled back into his little nook, deciding to take a nap after a long day...

wow there sure was a lot of activity here in the last few days! I should keep my eyes open for things while I'm out.

There seem to have been some changes to the forest lately and I don't want to get lost. can someone tell me where exactly i am?

*climbs to the top of a tree* wow you can see for ... forever from up here




Round 2 will start shortly thre will only be one prompt this round and don't forget to roll... i'll rool in the thread for those whos doesn't feel like working

Round 2, Prompt 1

Mesaishaem sighed as he was out yet again in another part of the forest. This almost seemed like his daily routine anymore. The days were growing shorter and he was growing increasingly bored now that Arei was an adult. His days were filled with sleep and reading, quietly watching over his children from time to time. Still... something hung tightly in the air..

He jumped down from his branch, landing on the ground. Musing, his eyes searched the heavens above and he saw the rain heavy in the sky. He managed a small smile before shaking it out, he didn't feel very happy this day. He slammed his book shut and began walking when he saw a strange print on the ground. He paused and began examining it. Of all the books he had looked through nothing had ever given him a clue as to what this could be. Well, what else could he do? It was time for an adventure!

Mesaishaem grinned as he dropped to all fours, beginning to search around for any clues as to what could have left such a large print. Without thinking of his own safety, he began following them until he paused, hearing a high pitch squeal. He gasped, pushing himself up against a tree as his eyes blinked to see beyond the bushes. And then in the distance he saw a strange clothed animal, he moved closer... and closer until he saw his daughter standing there. He gasped, "Fortune! Get away!"

Fortune turned, staring at her father for a moment with wide eyes. A heaviness was welling up in his stomach when the creature turned. And then in one movement it reached up... and off came it's head! Staring at his father from a large orange dragon costume was his son, Ksarigha, "Hey Dad! Fortune and I were practicing for the talent contest, what do you think?"

Mesaishaem felt his stomach finally began to calm. "It was wonderful Son, you did a great job on the costume." He stated with a smile.