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Her prey was only inches away, and coming closer.

Dulcinea hunkered down further, tail lashing behind her, ears pressed flat against her skull. A rumbling growl wanted to escape, but she held it in, not wanting to alert the object of her attentions to her presence. After all... when hunting and stalking, one had to be quiet. She inched forward, a little closer... a little closer... and POUNCED!

The beetle had, however, been aware of her for quite some time, and had been watching and waiting for her to make any suspicious movements. As soon as she leapt forward, he took to the air, avoiding her attack and flying away. With an angry cry, she began to chase after it, through the Savannah grasses, jumping up into the air in her attempts to capture it.

Ambush! was all she could think as the other pup suddenly came into her line of vision, startling her rather badly. Retreat was necessary, so she scrambled behind a clump of grass, her curious nature keeping her from going any further. At the other pup's question, she blinked, then burst out. "Hunting, duh. What'd it look like I was doing?" She peeked out of her grass clump, and then sighed. "Awww... you made me let it get away!"

Suddenly, she had an idea, and her eyes lit up, ears perking forward. She jumped forward, landing right in front of the young male, tail whipping back and forth. "You have to find me another beetle." she informed him arrogantly. "One that looks just like that one. Then... we'll both hunt it. Whoever gets it wins."

"She wants you to get one, because she can't find a new one herself!" A young pup joined the two. He came forward, sitting infront of them. His head high in the air, feeling rather confident. The back of his body was a chocolate color, and the rest resembled a blueberry. That sounded like a good little snack right now.

Demetri was a larger pup. He was the biggest one in his litter. Which only gave him more reason to be cocky. He was your average pup though, believing he was invincibly, that boys were better than girls, and of course that he could never do any wrong. Though the young one shouldn't have been this sure of himself. This was his first time away from his family.

Chetanzi looked anxiously back and forth between the two argumentative pups and flicked his ears worriedly. "Hey guys, you don't need to fight about it," he said, trying to keep the peace. "It's just a beetle, I'm sure we can find another one. Why don't we all look together?" Chetanzi smiled nervously, his eyes roaming back and forth between the two pups. "I'm Chetanzi, by the way."

Chetanzi reminded the female pup of her papa, when her mama and her aunts got together and bickered, and he tried to keep them from wrecking the cave. "Hmph." she snorted, putting her nose and tail up into the air, watching Demetri from the corner of her eye for another moment. Oh how she longed to pounce on him...

She reigned the urge in, and instead sat back on the ground, pawing at a nearby rock. "I'm Dulcinea." she grumbled, clearly unhappy that the fight had been cut short. "An' yeah. We can all look for the stupid beetle together, as long as big blue stops being an idiot."

Demetri sent a glare at Ducinea. Big blue, psht! What kind of nickname was that? "Lead the way if you know where you're going." Demetri told his fellow male pup, having slight doubt in the fellow. He just didn't seem like a leader, where Demetri was born to be a leader. "Oh, and try to keep up." He told Ducinea, assuming they would be running to the place.

Chetanzi, doing his best to ignore the tension between the other two cubs, turned away from them and crouched down on his haunches, getting ready to go. "Making it a race, are we?" he called back to them, grinning. "You don't know what you're getting yourself into, I'm pretty fast. Pay attention to where you're walking, though, the path's not easy." The angelic pup rolled his shoulderblades, feeling the instinctual itch to fly where his wings would sprout when he was older. "If you two are done bickering..."