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Cirrocumo flicked his tail, gazing down at Seph, Kiro and Armine below him. He could sense the older cat's slight discomfort with the fact that he was so respected. Though Cirro understood how he felt, and at the moment was a bit annoyed with the cheetah, he still respected the old hunter. He glanced at Mira, and licked her ear quickly, as if saying "Cheer up!", before crouching low, tensing his muscles, and executing a perfect leap from the tree branch, landing neatly.

Seph batted at Armine's ear "If you over slept thats not our fault. I was asleep myself before the hunt and I was one of the first to arrive" He said, letting his tail flick slightly again. After a moment he sighed and sat rather then stood, no point in wasting energy he could be using to hunt.

Kiros Altered his course so that he would not stray far from the group when Brindle arrived. He whipped around when he heard the thrashing of the Oryx and the now slightly injured brindle's orders. Kiros took off immediatly after she shouted her order, gaining on the beast slowly but surely gaining. "you will not leave this forest alive...meat." He said to himself as he continued on persuite after the animal.

"Boooyeeeeeeaaah!" Seph yelled mid leap. He dashed forward, not towards the fleeing beast at first, but straight for a tree trunk! Unlike his fellow hunter that had gone straight up a tree, instead he ran straight into it, forepaws hitting first and soon followed by the back. Using the motion in a practiced fashion he kicked off the tree heading straight for the Oryx.

As he chased after the beast he continued to jump off the trunk of each and every tree he came close enough to, the reason being that the secret to a snow leopards hunting style was not speed or stealth, but their ability to jump as far as 46 feet!

Taking another jump as he went, he managed to sail pass the creatures haunches during one of his jumps, digging his claws in, but not managing to get a good enough grip to stay on the beast.

Cirro was a tail-length behind Mira, leaping up towards the tree above him before following the oryx in the treetops. THe thick foliage made it difficult for the beast to escape, and with its limp and wound, it was slow prey. Easy prey, especially for the Pride's best hunters. The clouded leopard aimed for a tree a few fox-lengths to the right, catching onto an open branch with his claws, before dropping below to the oryx, landing on its back. Tongue lolling, the medium sized wild-cat bit down, breaking the skin and spilling blood; the great oryx slowed, enough so Kiros and Seph to catch up: The wild beast's reared its head, trying to throw the CLouded Leopard off, its great horns catching in a thick bush and trapping the beast. Cirro leapt off its back as the beast thrashed, trying to free itself.

Jasper leapt from his mother's paws, darting towards Zephre; the lion's great paw almost toppled him over but he rolled into a neat tumble, and came out standing steadily on his feet. "Aha," he grinned, tail flicking as he gazed at the blind Healer.

Kiros capitalizing on Cirro's move in on the beast lept into the air. His aim was the back of the Oryx. Unfortunately he landed a little high on the oryx diving over it's head, but not befor slashing down the bridge of it's nose. As his body fell over the beasts head, the momentum directed its head downward causeing the beast to stumbel. The oryx trampled over Kiros' body, but kiros curled up to protect himself from serious injury. Thankx to Kiros body sacrifice the Oryx was slowed almost to a stop as it stumbled to keep from falling to the ground.

Calyn had left the den, finding a small outcropping just past it where she had watched the hunt, pacing angrily. She might as well be crippled, seeing as she was useless and confined to the cave at the moment. She couldn't hunt, hadn't been able to help Brindle chase the herd down and seperate the weak oryx from the rest. Amber eyes watched the small dots at the edge of the trees, picturing it in her mind. She'd been there often enough to know what was happening, to guess what she wasn't sure of. A low growl escaped her throat, full of frustration. She jumped to the ground, ignoring how her leg throbbed at that. At least it hadn't opened. She was tackled a second later, pinned by a leopard laying on top of her.

"There's a reason you're not out there, Calyn. You'll be even more useless if you don't rest and let you leg heal. If it gets infected you might as well give up any hope of hunting again." Tami growled, streaching the truth a bit but deciding the lioness needed it. She felt the cat underneath her sigh heavily and set her head on her paws, finally submitting.