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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:14 pm
Taraxippus froze, eyes and ears set forward as he listened and watched the small movements on the other side of the brush.
His movements very slow and deliberate, he looked back at his daughters again. He wasn't sure if Shinoma's question was to herd the quarry, or if there was a herd of targets.
He mouthed slowly. 'one.' And signaled forward with his horn. Then, he nodded to Shinoma, and signaled to the left, seance, to the right.
There was surprise in Seance's eyes, but in the face of her father, and her sister, she steeled herself, looking forawrd and scenting the target. A moment later, and she was slipping around to the right, intent on keeping pace with her sister
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:10 am
Shinoma would have been able to scent if there were any more around by now, and so she gave a sharp nod at his own quiet reply. She held her breath as she did what Taraxippus requested, slithering in the undergrowth, her hooves moving in such a way that meant the falls were quieter, and as they drifted over the ground she could prevent herself from stepping on twigs and giving their prey a sharp warning to their presence.
She managed to get herself in a position whereby she could just see colt, and let out a barely audible hiss of disappointment. A grounded. Well, it was still something to kill, and she wandered how the skinny foal's blood would taste in comparison to Shyam's..
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:48 am
At first, the small foal was obvivious, tearing roughly at the ivy that crawled up the side of one of the large trees. His face showed his distaste at the bitter leaves, but he chewed them down with determination. His muscles twitched as if bothered by fleas, his tail whicking back and forth. He was making no effort to be quiet, and his own body movements, chewing, tail movements and the like were drowning out the quiet background noises that the three predators were making.
Seance's eyes flicked back and forth between the quarry and her sister, making the effort to keep pace with her. She knew that in hunting with more than one, it was about cooperation. If one tried to take the spotlight, it was more likely that the prey would escape. Especially something as clever as another soquili. She concentrated. This was a quarry. Just like she had practiced with her father. He was visible now, distracted and skinny.
She stayed about thirty feet to the right of the foal, carefully, carefully, quietly until she had passed him and the three of them had formed a triangle around the colt. Her eyes flicked back to Shinoma, an asking look. Was she ready?
Taraxippus, meanwhile, stayed back, waiting for his daughters. Every bit of him quivered with anticpitation. Waiting and listening to hear them to come back towards him.
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:37 pm
Shinoma was in the moment now, her heart had quickened, and she eased even slower through the foliage that masked her presence from the colt. She flicked the tip of one canine with her tongue, catching a glimpse of her sister, and her father, though she had to strain to see the latter. She tossed a look of her own back at her sister..was she ready? Because this mare was born ready.
Her eyes locked on the colt, ears pricked and straining for the first hint of sound and movement from her family members, and her muscles tensed as she waited to spring.
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:20 am
Seance locked eyes with her sister. She had grown up away from her, and they looked so different, and yet she sensed something deeply familiar as she looked her sister in the eyes and wordlessly signaled the attack.
The moment was electrified. Seance's heart was in her throat with such an inseparable mixture of anticipation and anxiety. This moment. The second before the attack. It was times like this that she understood the reverence in her father's voice and the intensity in his eyes.
These thoughts took no more than a fraction of a second, although it seemed to stretch on much much longer than that to her. But then, with a flick of her tail, a mannerism passed on from her father, Seance bolted to moveoment, orchid shadows flowing around her like water, blurring her form.
As planned, she charged, ears pinned back, coming at the foal from the front right as Shinoma came from the left.
For a moment, the colt froze in terror as the purple and red shapes rushed towards him like living spirits of fury. It seemed to take a moment for understanding to register and for him to remember how to use his legs.
He bolted, legs feeling like rubber trying desperately to twist themselves into knots instead of propel him forward and away from these twin monsters. His brain seemed to shut off, overcome with primal instinct and fear to get as far away and as quickly. He didn't even notice the treat lurking in the shadows in front of him...
The shadowy unicorn lurked, eyes fixed on the shape that now was moving in his direction. For Taraxippus, this was everything. The adrenaline pierced his normally stoic being. This was the moment where it could succeed or fail. Taraxippus craved control of his environment, and power over others. He desperately wanted to see his daughters make him proud. To prove themselves worthy to him. To this power that he was carefully cultivating.
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:56 pm
All was quiet - a shining, hanging second before an explosion of movement and noise. Shinoma cleared the bush standing between herself and the frozen colt in powerful leap, muscles having bunched and then released as she went forwards.
Landing heavily, she open her wings for balance, unfurling them briefly, before they snapped shut and tight against her body as she still continued to move forwards, aiming herself at their prey.
She realised that it was trying to run, terrified though it was - she could smell the fear rolling off of it - legs were trying to gather themselves in a semblance of running, to escape. She hissed through her teeth; that wasn't to be allowed, and she put on the brakes, digging front hooves into the damp sod, pivoting on the spot and bringing her rear around, tail whipping out to try and tangle around the thin limbs. It was a move her mother used well and had taught her.
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:01 pm
A strangled scream exploded from the colt's mouth as his legs finally began movin in the proper series of movements to propell him forward and away from those two horrible things. It felt like a nightmare to the little soquili, something too horrible to be true. He tried to scrunch his eyes closed, in the naieve thought that it might just shake away the monsters. He ran, blindly, away from the terrors... and into the waiting grasp of the one who had sent them
Seance ran, heart thumping in exhilration as she paralleled her sister and pursued the colt to where father waited. They were doing it. He would be so proud of them!
And then, like a cat, Taraxippus sprung towards the crashing colt hooves-first. With the speed that the colt was running, he was hit like a ton of bricks despite Taraxippus's slight build. Despite the shadowy consistancy of the stallion, his hooves were quite solid.
The colt screamed again as he crashed to the ground, the stallion pinning him like a struggling mouse. His eyes shone with obscene glee and his eyes bored down into the colt.This was his moment. The point of ultimate control over another.
There were no words as the colt screamed and screamed. He could not think to form them as pure terror translated directly to his voice
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:50 am
'Scream louder little one..' Shinoma taunted, her voice dripping with the pleasure she got in his struggles against her father, and the fear that emanated in voice and smell.
'Scream, loud and long..' she crooned, circling hunter and prey, the bloodlust still high.
'It won't matter..you're still going to die.'
She wanted to hear the last sound, the exhalation of its last breath, and smell the sweet scent of blood on the air.
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:25 pm
The air felt like it was sizzling with electricity as Taraxippus pressed ever so slightly more against the shoulder of the writhing colt until he heard a crunch of what must have been his scapula. The colt's screams shot up another octive, tears rolling down his face.
It was moments like this that Taraxippus both felt ultimate control, and yet, an almost intoxicating lack. It was the ultimate high. But today wasn't about him. Today, the pain had a purpose beyond his own delight. Reluctantly, his eyes were wrested from his victim to his daughters, first to Seance, who watched rigidly, catching her breath from the pursuit. He had hunted beside her before. He knew her mettle. Then, to Shinoma. She, was new, but he could taste her glee. Today was about the connection with this daughter. She had delighted in the chase, in the pain and control. Today it was up to her to do the deed. And beyond that, it was a gift to her of this life. To show her her value to him. A tryst of blood. There would be a day that would come - hopefully soon - where their deadly skills would be put to a greater test than a skinny foal.
"He will die, and it shall be by your hoof." Taraxippus pronounced, eyes leveled at Shinoma.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:40 am
There was a delightful snap, and Shinoma idly wondered which of the many delicate bones that had been..
'That's one..' she breathed, her tail lashing behind her, the tendrils like many small whips scouring the ground. It took a while for her father's words to sink in, simply because her bloodlust was running so high.
'Father.' she simply said. It was a great honour, and her expression said all that words could have said.
'I will take his life, but by fang not hoof. The first drops to spill are always the sweetest, and I wouldn't want to waste any.' she smiled, and then dropped her head, looking down at the struggling prey.
'I'm the last thing you'll ever see.' she said, before lowering her head slowly. Her mouth opened around the colt's throat, and then closed slowly, her fangs piercing the skin as she throttled the life from it. The blood her canines spilled flowed into her mouth, and she kept one leg pressed against the struggling body until she felt the exhalation of its last breath. Shinoma relaxed her jaw, licking the wound clean, and standing straight once more. The kill had been hers - but if they chose to make a meal out of the scrawny carcass it would be shared by all.
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Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:00 am
Taraxippus watched his daughter possessively. As she stated a differerent but equally lethal demise for the colt, his smile mirrored hers. "Then so shall be his fate."
Despite the fact he had full confidence in her ability to keep the foal - already writing in pain -subdued, he kept a hoof on him. He wanted to FEEL the life slipping from the tiny frame, every quiver and shake as his lifeblood spilled into Shinoma's mouth.
He held himself still, watching the Colt's screams die as the life left him, his eyes finally droop and his body give a final shudder.
Chest swelling with pride, Taraxippus smiled to the daughter that he had helped create - every bit the deadly killer that he had hoped for. "Perfect." He breathed when she had finally finished.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:12 am
Shinoma licked her mouth thoroughly clean, savouring the taste of the colt blood as she looked at her father.
'Did my father have a doubt?' she asked, her tone slightly cheeky, but said with rare affection for one that she looked up to and eventually would strive to be better than.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:36 pm
"None anymore." Taraxippus praised. "Your mother is a powerful creature, however she can be distant. I am pleased to see that either she raised you well or your intelligence has led you down the correct paths." Taraxippus rumbled.
And indeed, he was quite pleased. Things had gone wonderfully, and this was a glorious first step. "I see great things in store for us, my daughters."
After Shinoma had licked her chops and had the first priviledged taste of the victim, he nodded to Seance and stepped forward. "But... for now... dinner is served." He flashed a white-toothed grin and he, shortly after followed by Seance, set in to feast.
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