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 Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:21 pm
 This time, the leopard was in no danger of being left behind. He was quick, agile, and moved through the trees as easliy as most moved across the ground. One might almost think he was a monkey as nimbly as he moved were it not for his feline build.
Running to the end of the branch he jumped high to the branch of another tree far above him, his smaller frame allowing him to jump much higher than most other cats. He lept from branch to branch, barely touching down before leaping again, never missing a step. When he reached a particular long winding branch, he slid rather than running down it, jumping any obstacles he came across.
When he reached the end of the tree slide, he coiled and jumped, jaws latching onto a large vine overhead. His momentum carried him forward, swinging out until he reached the peek and jumped from there into the river below with a great splash. Now -that- was Keone's idea of fun.
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:12 pm
Cloud and monkey? Funny mix. The dark female dosen't really turn her head to look at him though, there is no need to, hewas fast, the leaves gave his position away. And he also passes rather quickly ahead of her, but that makes things fun. Almost at the end, she grabbed a vine and leapt out, but this vine was a tad different, in the middle of the swing, a branch intercepted the path, and thanks to Karama's weight, it swung upwards, higher above the rive, and she let go to not go back into the trees. sense this had caused her back to be facing the waterbelow, she had to spin, and turn her head away to dodge a fleeting bird.
She outstreched her font paws, and let her hind ones swing higher into the air, while pulling her head back. Her paws brocke the waters surface for her, while the motion in the water easly scared off any snake that might be around, anything that can make -those- splashes had got to be dangerous! After moments, she brocke the surface once again, only this time, to get her head out of the water.
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:13 am
Keone scrambled to get out of the leopardess' path, and while he managed to avoid being landed on, he did not escape being pelted by the droplets of water she sent flying in every direction. Until that moment his head had stayed relatively dry, but now it was as drenched as the rest of him.
He shook his head, sending the loose water splatting away from him. In midshake something caught his eye and a smile spread across his maw. He had seen his favorite fish, and after the stampede he was in the mood for a snack.
He took a deep breath and dove below the water, powerful strokes propelling him forward toward his target. Amazingly the fish hadn't seen him yet, or at least hadn't thought he was a threat. A moment later, white paws surged through the water, talons extending to hook the fish and close around it.
Kicking with his hind legs, he swam to the surface, inhaling a deep breath as his head broke the water. Not bothering to swim to the shore, he ate the fish right there, biting into it as he held it tightly in his paws. He looked up at Karama between bites and grinned.
"Want one?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:19 pm
She dosen't really mind when he makes additional water spread around by shaking his head, she was wet anyways, why bother? Her back seems to create a small island behind her, while her paws paddle slowly so she can remain above the water, but not fast enough for her to rush forward, though she did move, in a slow pace.
"No thanks. "
She isn't hungry enough, thats her rule, only eat if your very hungry. Or hungry enough toeat a gazelle, wich she wasen't even close to.
She does though, dive down into the water after taking a deep breath. She went as far down as she could, slowly releasing the air so it didn't pull her up. The fish had hidden around rocks and leaves, but as she approached, they'd emmediatly try and swim away.
Locating the most, she went back up for air, before returning, content they haden't left.She swims around, making them move further out. Fish hearding, quite amusing, no? Purpously, the female leads the towards Keone, maybe she might even have them.. Tickle him? That would be fun.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:30 am
" 'kay.."
The leopard shrugged and bit into his fish again, happily eating what the leopardess didn't want. Keone hunted differently, rather than waiting days between meals until they were ravenous like other predators, he hunted and ate daily, eating whenever the mood struck him. This was probably how he had managed to thrive off small prey and fish rather than larger game. But whatever worked right? So long as you weren't wasteful and didn't take more than you needed, the balance of life was maintained.
Keone had been too occupied with his fish to notice what Karama was doing. After devouring the entire fish, he paused to take a drink and it was then that he noticed more fish near him than usual. Well that was odd...
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:24 pm
eone's white colors made him stand out less then the dark pelt that Karama had, making him look almost invisible, with their senses directed to what was currently chasing them. All she had to do, was swipe a paw into them to make them go bezerk, and rush up toward Keone, supposing that leaping out of the water now was a best option. Again, in panic, they failed to notice Keone untill they'd actually bumped into him, then spreaded, enough of sticking together, every fish for themself!
And as they fled, she simply dodged to the side, before peeking her head out of the water, grinning, fish herding was fun.
.. And that was rare for Karama.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:20 pm
Keone jumped, startled as he felt multiple fish run into him. He thrashed about in the water, at first not know what it was, and then at not knowing what had caused the fish to storm him like that. Fish didn't attack...then something must have scared them. What could scare fish? Snakes could scare fish...SNAKE?!
When that thought hit Keone he thrashed more, scrambling to reach the shore, sending water flying everywhere around him. It wasn't until he had nearly reached shore that another thought hit him. Wait a minute, Karama had been where the fish where. Oh, now he got it, the fish had been fleeing from her. Well okay then, two could play at that game.
The small leopard smirked as he swam back into the deep water. Taking a deep breath, he dove and swam toward Karama, her tail in his sights.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:04 pm
She had to clamp her jaws shut so that she woulden't break laughing-- his suprized face was priceless. Especially when there wasen't a danger, she didn't blame him for being suprized about the wildabeast, if you play the rong card, now, those could kill. But fish were so innofensive, that they made the situation much funnier. She dove into the water again, kicking her legs to move deeper, maybe there were more fish in there? She noticed that Keone had got back into the water, bt haden't really thought he was planning 'revenge'.
But once in the water, she coulden't help but let some of her air escape when thinking about the male's face-- oh so funny.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:37 pm
Having grown up in the jungle and spent so much time in the water, Keone was quite an accomplished swimer, capable of holding his breath for a fairly long period of time. This gave him a slight advantage in his plan and plenty of time stalk Karama.
He stayed still where he was, only moving his paws enough to stay underwater, a broad smirk on his maw. Eyes darted mischeviously as he focused in on his target, diving lower so that he was well below the leopardess and could move unnoticed.
When he was directly under her, the leopard made his move. He kicked with his hind legs shooting toward her like a shark, jaws opened he chomped down on her tail. It wasn't a very hard bite, the water resistance saw to that, but still it was enough to be felt and hopefully enough to startle her as she had him.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:38 am
She blinks, almost emmediatly pulling her tail back, this obviously wasen't a snake, too many teeth. And a crocodile woulden't aim for her tail, oubviously Keone. But all she does is grin, so he wanted to play too? She swings around, but knows better than going for the tail, its an obvious traget, Instead, she goes for something he can't escape -- his left ear. He'd only get away from that attack if he surrendered her tail. To move like this, she did have to give quite a twist, but her tail was, at least, long as a leopard's should be, wich made this movement much easier than it'd be for a hyena, with a short tail.
To give more balance, she outstreches a paw to push against the male's shoulder, not to get him off her tail, but so she dosen't spin around in the water.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:44 pm
Well that certainly wasn't the reaction Keone had expected or hoped for, and when she caught his ear he yelped and quickly dropped her tail to scramble away. Despite his attempts to sneak up on her, she had still known it was him, in fact it seemed she had statled him more than he had her.
The leopard now treaded water a few feet away, only his nose, ears, and eyes vissible above the surface. Well that was a disappointing failure, so this would be harder than he thought. Hmmm...maybe he had a better idea.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:42 pm
Karama didn't even bother to try and keep grip, allowing his ear to just slip out of reach, before contently swimming back up to the surface for air. She grins in his direction, though not knowing of his exact location. He coulden't fool her-- no, she was too smart for it! An ear flicks back, before she dives into the water again. She goes deep, and reaches the bottom, wich makes it easier to move, she could just.. Walk, of sorts. Unfortunatly, breath wasen't eternal, and she woulden't be able to stay long.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:20 am
Green eyes focused on the leopardess for a moment, following where she had gone below the surface. When he was sure she couldn't see him, Keone swam toward the shore, gathered a piece of vine and some appetizing looking bits of water plant (well at least appetizing to a fish) and put them together to make a rather crude fishing lure.
Covering the lure with his paws so it wouldn't be damaged before he was ready to use it, he took a deep breath and dove into the water, staying in the dark shadows as he krept up on Karama. His plan was to attach the lure to her tail to make the fish go after it, however it remained to be seen if it would work or not.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:40 pm
Her air having finished, by the time Keone was returning, she was heading towarss the surface to breathe. Unfortunatly, his plan would fail, she'd curled her tail around a hind leg to prevent any other 'attack'. Though, now she has no more interest in the water, Keone woulden't fall for the same trick again, so all she does is paddle towards the bank. She dosen't apperently notice Keone, or if she did, she didn't even /care/. Though, when the water slowly starts groing shallow and her paws reach ground, she stops, tail uncurling from her leg, straight just above the water for balance. She'd need it.
There was a rather large snake, slithering across the shallow water's surface as if it were ground. It wasen't poisonous, poisonous snakes didn't tend to like water. But its large, large enough to take a leopard her size down if she wasen't carefull. Damn, Keno is underwater, he might not notice the snake, and he sure is smaller than she. Better scare it off, then. She gives a low snarl, and thrashes a paw around in the water in an attempt to startle it, showing her pearly whites, hers were a little more intimadating, maybe?
It dosen't seem to get the same idea though, and just advances, head now raised, showing it would bite. Great, why were snake so difficult? She outstreches her left paw, to work as bait, and when it moves forward, she just swipes at the hed with her other paw, knocking it away, but at the same time loosing blance. It was now mad at her, so she could run out of the water and it'd follow, that'd get it away from Keone, correct? Fortunatly, the snake took longer to retaliate when in water, giving her the chance to just leap over and move towards the shore, while looking back to make sure it was comming.
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:08 pm
Keone muttered, growling to himself at being unable to catch Karama. It was a good plan, he was sure of it, but why wasn't it working? Well he could always try to attach it to her paw instead. By now he had lost sight of her, and kicking with his hind legs he swam for the surface for much needed air and to locate the leopardess.
His head broke the surface with a gasp as he inhaled fresh air, green eyes scanning for a hint of Karama's location. It was then that his jaw fell, eyes wide in terror as his gaze fell on that which he feared most. S...sn...SNAKE!!!
The small leopard swam furiously, scrambling to reach the shore, to escape. When his paws reached land he ran, ran as hard as he could. When he was some distance away he suddenly skidded to a stop, ears falling back at the thought in his head. Karama was back there, he couldn't leave her alone, what if the snake got her. But there was a snake, he hated snakes. What was he to do?
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