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 Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:04 pm
 Dusk was beginning to fall, the sky darkening and making the world harder for the prey animals to see and forcing them into their shelters for the night still to come to keep them safe from the predators that would surelyy come for them in their sleep.
Well, one predator anyways.
Damians black mane made the occassional whooshing sound as he moved in the shadows; he hunted best at this time of day. Tonight he had his heart set on a large boar he'd smelled not to long ago. It smelled particularly fat and juicey, fitting for a prince such as he.
However as he followed the trail another scent seemed to slam itself into his nostrils, forcing him to stop and blink in slight confusion. He recognized that scent. It made his stomach flop unpleasantly, another lion he'd have to compete with for food. And what's more than that, it was family.
"Eimhin." The orange male snarled. That part of the family was a joke, he was glad to not be born to it. "Think you can take my prey? We'll see about that." Now with more determination than before he stalked off, picking up his pace to see if he could get there first.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:44 pm
 Almost there. Eimhin thought, moving as silently as he could, hot on the trail of a boar he'd been tracking for nearly 15 minutes. He'd have the creature soon, night was beginning to fall over the isle and if he was right it wasn't aware of the lion stalking it, soon it would lie down to sleep. Eimhin preferred to strike when his pray was asleep, less of a chance of it escaping and it's guard was lowered.
However, a shuffling noise to his left caught his attention, shortly followed by a sickening scent. The scent itself wasn't bad, in fact it was one he didn't mind smelling, but it was the lion it belonged to that sickened him. "Damian."
Almost as soon as he whispered the name he saw him, his predominantly white wings catching his attention. As far as hunting went that was probably his cousins biggest fault, but if anyone was to say such a thing to the other male it wouldn't end well.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:01 pm
It was minutes when Damian caught up with the scent, seeing his cousin. He was rather easy to spot, with his bright blue wings and gleaming headgear. Why he tried hunting he didn't know, and how he survived was beyond him. He came from the other side of the family, none of them were good at anything. A bunch of misfits they were. "What do you think you're doing?" He asked in a gibing manner as he looked down on his cousin.
It was painfully easy to see that the two were related with their orange pelts and even the stripes. For that he blamed his aunt, Ilvaenya. "This is my boar, you better back off."
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:08 pm
Eimhin's eyes narrowed as his cousin spoke to him like he was a lesser being. Almost everyone on that side of the family talked like that. to everyone they met, but even more so to his small family. "Hunting. I've been tracking this boar, he belongs to me." The bright winged male replied in a hushed yet forceful tone. He knew he could just leave the thing and avoid a confrontation with his larger cousin, which would be for the better, but he couldn't bring himself to just walk away from someone who talked down to him the way Damian did. "Of all the boars on the Isle why can't you find a different one?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:18 pm
Damian smirked. He could see that he was getting on his younger cousins nerves, somethig he always found pleasure in. "I'm hunting for Lorna, not just myself. Surely you wouldn't deny her of a meal?" The larger male replied, careful to not speak louder than necessary. Hunting for himself and his sister was a lie, one that Eimhin saw right through by the way he was looking at him. "Fine, I'm only hunting for myself. But why find a different one when this one is right here? All I have to do is get you to leave and he's mine for the taking."
The black maned lion took a few steps closer to his cousin. He knew Eimhin didn't take confrontation well, at least when it came to him. Was he really so intimidating to the smaller male? The thought brought a sadistic smirk to his face. "You know, why don't we have a little contest? See who the better hunter is. Whoever kills the boar gets it." He lifted a paw and pushed down on the horn of Eimhin's headgear like one would with the bill of a child's baseball cap. "What do you say blue eyes?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:46 pm
The orange and black striped male took a step back as his cousin approached him. He always felt uncomfortable when he was around, the way he thought of himself and the way he had to have control was unnerving. And the blue eyes thing didn't help. He growled lightly when Damian pushed his horn down, having to readjust it quitely; it tended to make quite a racket if he wasn't careful. "I say get ready for a disappointment, that boar is mine."
Eimhin lowered himself to the ground, preparing for the launch. The boar was only a few yards away; it wasn't asleep yet but it was laying on the ground to get ready.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:01 pm
"Good. Glad to see some of my side of the family is in your blood." He said mockingly as he prepared himself, lowering to the ground and tucking his wings in. This was going to be a piece of cake, he was so close to his cousin that all he had to do was push him over and the boar would be his.
"Ready, set, go!" Damian said in a hushed voice, waiting for Eimhin to move first before charging forward and ramming into his shoulder, forcing him into a nearby boulder, hearing the thud of his body hitting the ground. The larger male smirked and continued, catching the boar by surprise.
He stood tall over his kill, looking back at his weaker cousin. "That wasn't much of a contest at all."
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:06 pm
As soon as the word go reached his ears Eimhin leapt forward. Shortly after that he felt the larger male ram into his shoulder. With a grimace he ran into a boulder, smashed between the two for a moment until his cousin kept running, leaving him on the ground with what would surely turn into a large bruise on his side.
Standing he saw that Damian had killed the boar. With a snarl the blue winged male walked forward. "You cheated!" He shouted at his cousin, angry at him for using dirty tactics and angry at himself for not seeing something like this happening.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:13 pm
Damian grinned and chuckled, his fangs gleaming in the moonlight. "The rule was whoever killed the boar got it, I didn't say how. If you were smart you would've done the same." His brows raised as Eimhin approached, an angry look in his eyes and snarling. "What, you want to fight for it? I'm warning you, I won't go easy, even if your side of the family is weaker."
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:46 pm
"That's it Damian!" Eimhin suddenly shouted, an underlying growl echoing in his larynx. "I'm tired of your attitude towards my family! We're just as good as you! You're not going easy on me because you think I'm weaker, you're afraid that I'll be just as good, or better." Baring his teeth and spreading his wings the smaller male charged and leapt at him with claws extended.
Eimhin was determined not to let his admittedly stronger cousin win, by any means necessary. How he'd find the means he didn't know, hopefully the horn on his headgear would come in handy. He didn't fight often, in fact this may be the first time he'd get into a real fight with anyone, and although that fact stared him in the face and almost made him hesitant to fight his cousin had gone too far with his insults.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:24 pm
Even though he had taunted him into attacking, Damian was still surprised when his cousin leapt at him. He didn't think him brave enough to do so. But what he'd said made him pulls his lips back ad bare his teeth in a fierce snarl. It was outrageoues for him to think like that! "I'm not scared of anything! Least of all you."
Instead of dodging to the side the larger male bent his legs and shoved against Eimhin's chest when he got close, forcing the air out of the other male as he fell on his back trying to catch his breath. With a snarl Damian jumped ontop of his cousin as he tried to recover. "You made a big mistake challenging me Eimhin."
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:55 pm
The blue winged male went to roll over and get to his feet but his cousin came at him to quickly, slamming his head back onto the ground as he got in his face. He was thankful for his mane, or else that would have hurt a lot more than it did. With a growl he looked Damian in the eyes. No response came to mind, which would have been fine if the other male didn't always have something to say.
Acting quickly was harder than he'd thought it would, taking a few seconds before headbutting the larger male, hoping the spike would leave a gash on him. His heart began pounding faster the longer his cousin was standing over him, as if being around him wasn't bad enough having him so close was torture. "Get off of me!" Eimhin snarled, trying to claw at Damian to get him away.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:20 pm
The feeling of his smaller cousin squirming beneath him was fantastic, it wasn't often he had leverage over someone like this and he was determined not to lose the feeling of power it gave him. Suddeny he felt something slice through the flesh on his forehead, seeing nothing but white for a few seconds as he snarled in pain and backed away, feeling the claws of his cousin scratching at him.
Shaking his head he recovered in time to see Eimhin scramble back to his feet, breathing quickly like he didn't know how to control his heart beat. Something warm started trailing down his forehead and a thick, dark red liquid fell infront of his vision. Furious that not only he had been scratched, but he was bleeding, he let out a roar that woke any sleeping prey in two miles. Staring his cousin down he remembered something. "Is it true that you like males?" Damian asked in a sadistic tone with a malicious grin, taking a step forward.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:28 pm
Eimhin smiled to himself at the sight of the blood coming from his older cousins forehead where the horn on his headgear had cut through the skin, proud that he'd actually done some damage. That small victory seemed to vanish though at the sound of Damian's powerful roar, and the fierce look as if he were going to kill him was terrifying. No one had ever roared like that around him, or to him even.
However his heart nearly stopped when the larger male spoke once more, his eyes wide. How did he find out?! The only other lion that knew was Alaoissia, and she wouldn't have told anyone about his sexuality, and as far as he knew he hadn't done or said anything that would lead someone to think such a thing. "W-what makes you say that?" Every step that Damian took towards him he took one back, refusing to let the gap between them close. His cousin was crazy and egotistical, he knew that, but that wasn't all he was. Who knew what he was thinking?
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:42 pm
"So it's true!" The black maned male said in a surprised tone though he wasn't really surprised at all. He laughed as he took notice of a place he could corner his cousin without him realizing until it was too late. "Oh it's easy to tell. We might hardly ever see each other but I can tell. You're always after your mother, trying to gain her approval. But you'll never get her respect Eimhin. Probably because you're a male. A homosexual one non-the-less. Now, I don't know how she feels about that, but that makes you more female in my opinion."
The entire time he'd been talking he managed to back him into a corner, between the boulder he'd rammed him into earlier and a thick tree. "I'm curious to see just how much of a lioness you are."
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