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 Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:53 pm
The beetle disappeared beneath a rock before he could catch it. Cirdan crashed into the ground, his claws retracting as he slammed into the rocks. A groan escaped him and he rolled onto his side, covering his ears with his paws dramatically. "Not again," he whimpered. This was the fourth time that beetle had bested him. No matter where Cirdan travelled, that beetle kept appearing, only to vanish once he tried to catch it. Yet before long, Cirdan would always see it scurrying across the dirt, and he would try again. That beetle with its fast legs and slippery moves kept outwitting him no matter what he did.
He stumbled to his paws and shook his head, trying to regain his balance. The collision had done a number on his head, and now everything looked rather fuzzy. In fact, it looked like the ground in front of him was pale like clay... and also bumpy like dirt. He dipped a paw into the strange substance, and several pale grains clung to his blue fur. Cirdan shook his head and turned his attention past the ground and into the distance, where large ripples travelled across the largest body of water he had ever seen. His whiskers curved downward as he plopped onto his haunches, his mouth hanging open as he stared at the water. "Holy stars in the Savannah! The entire world could drink outta that watering hole!"
It was the first time he had ever seen the ocean. Not that he knew what it was, of course.Cirdan has wandered into their territory on accident... and is now completely lost.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:16 pm
 Akilah skipped along the edge of the water, she loved the ocean. She grinned as the wind blew through her red colored coat. Suddenly her ears perked up as she saw movement. What was that!? Prey!? She crouched down….ears folded back as she creeped ever closer to her chosen prey…a little grayish brown mouse. While it was just a mouse, to her it was her chosen prey and she was going to catch it! She was low in the already short grass as she came closer…and closer…then…AH! She leaped at it, but the mouse had heard the cub coming and was one step ahead of her as it avoided her, causing her to crash into the sand. ."Uuuugh, stupid mouse! Get over here!" she shouted as it giggled at her and the chase began!
She chased it through the sand and rocks, trying to outrun it. But the mouse was faster, and she could see it vanishing in the distance. "Oh no you don’t!" she shouted as she leaped over a large rock at it, only what she was about to ram into wasn’t the mouse, but a cub! "Oh no!" she screamed collided with the strange cub, rolling over him and into the sand next to him. She groaned, getting to her feet as she shook her head, then gave him a dirty look. "Hey you! Watch where you are standing! Dummy!" she shouted at him. Akilah wasn’t one to just apologize, instead she decided to make it his fault.
She took a moment to examine him…well he didn’t look familiar. What was it? Some sort of cheetah? But it had a lion’s tail? Akilah rarely met hybrids, so she wasn’t quite sure what to make of this one. She lowered her head, walking around him in a circle. "Hmph. Just what ARE you? And what are you doing here? I haven’t seen you before!" she shouted at him as she stopped and growled a little bit. She was a little antsy over missing the mouse, and without her brothers here to wrestle with she decided to settle for this strange creature. She wasn’t mean or anything, or really trying to threaten him. It was more, testing him to see how he would react. And letting him know she was boss here! At least in this small part of the territory…sorta…well until the pride leaders showed up, she was boss! In her mind at least!
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:34 am
Cirdan gaped at the large body of water. He flicked his tail across the ground, swishing particles of dirt and sand across the rock. It was the largest watering hole he had ever seen. Five hundred million trillion animals could drink from it and never go thirsty. It looked even bigger than a watering hole, really, but he had no idea what that could be. All he knew was that it was the biggest, well, anything he had ever seen in his young life. Birds soared in the distance, their screeches carrying across the water to him. Their white wings sliced through the air as they dived down and skimmed their beaks against the water's surface. They returned to the sky with huge fish caught in their mouths. It was too far away to tell, but Cirdan had the feeling he could live off one of those fish for an entire afternoon. Maybe even a week or two! Where had he arrived, this strange world where the water and fish were so large? It was like a world filled with giants. He glanced over his shoulder back toward the treeline. Maybe he should have been paying more attention to where he had been going.
A loud voice echoed near him, but the words were scrambled and nonsensical. One of the birds must have moved closer to him. He ignored it, instead staring at the treeline. His mother had told him something as a young cub... like paying attention to his surroundings or something. Cirdan didn't remember. She had told him lots of stuff, and he had barely listened. So obviously it couldn't be that important. He shifted his weight fully onto his haunches, raising his nose to sniff around. Maybe there was someone who could give him directions, or something large enough to catch and eat for the afternoon. He thought he could smell mouse, but it was faint and a strange smell kept interfering with his tasting the air for prey. In fact, the more he sniffed, the more the salty scent burned his nose. He clasped a paw over his muzzle, trying to block out the bad smell while he searched for prey or other lions. Nothing. A sigh escaped him. It was hopeless to keep trying - the smell from the water and fish kept distracting him. He resigned himself to watching the birds and the fish once again, laying down and tucking his paws beneath himself. It seemed like he would just have to wait until that smell disappeared or he got used to it.
Another cub slammed into him, a blur of red and white fur. Paws tumbled over paws as they rolled across the ground. Cirdan toppled over onto his side, bracing himself with his paws to keep from tumbling too much. He ducked his head, and the moment he stopped rolling, he slapped his paws over his face. He squeezed his eyes firmly shut, the paws protecting him as best he could. "AH! Don't hurt me! I don't taste good-" he paused as he sneaked a glance at the animal. It was large and orange and... furry. Which meant that it probably wasn't one of those giant birds trying to eat him. Cirdan lowered his paws from his face. "You're just another cub," he said sensibly. "I guess that means you won't try and eat me."
Reassured, he stood to his paws. The cub was another lion, one with dark patterns over an orange and sandy pelt. He opened his mouth to say a proper hello, but then she started shouting at him and stuff. "Hey! I'm not a dummy!" He reached forward and tried to prod her shoulder with a paw. "I didn't not watch where I was going when I ran everywhere! I think it's more your fault you hit me than mine." Something about his grammar, the way he had said that, sounded odd to him, but he brushed it off. The cub would know what he meant.
"What am I? I'm me, of course! A cub, just like you!" He flicked an ear toward her. "That's such a funny question. I didn't ask you what you were, did I? That's because it's obvious, silly!" A gust of wind ruffled his pelt, causing him to shiver. It seemed almost colder near this big body of water than anywhere else he had ever been - or at least the wind made it feel that way. He seemed oblivious to both her attempted aggression and her puzzlement about his appearance. That, or he was too pleased to see another animal that wasn't a mutant-giant-thing like the fish seemed to be. "I don't know what I'm doing around here. Hey - isn't that the biggest watering hole you've ever seen? Holy hopping antelope, the whole world could drink from it. I bet it has the biggest crocodiles ever."
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:06 pm
When he started to freak out shouting 'don't eat me!' Akilah gave him a strange look. Why would she eat him? Cats didn't taste good right? Surely they couldn't! But when he said she was 'just another cub' Akilah lowered her ears and head, letting out a growl. "Excuse me! I am not 'just another cub'! I am Akilah! And I am bigger and stronger then you! So you should fear me!" she wasn't really that much bigger, if at all. But she puffed out her chest, holding her head high to make herself look bigger to him. She wasn't going to let some..whatever he was get the better of her! "And how do you know I wont eat you!? Maybe I think...whatever you are is tasty! Or maybe I will just make you my servant!" though it was just a bluff. Her pride didn't believe in stuff like servants or slaves. She just wanted to see how this strange creature would react.
"Yes you are a dummy! Just standing there like an idiot! I could have been a hyena out to get you! Or a bird of pray trying to eat a little helpless cub! You should watch your surroundings! Dummy!" she said again, circling him as she watched him with curiosity. The body of a cheetah, but the tail of a lion. He must be a hybrid, but Akilah still so rarely saw one that she was very curious about this odd creature. "It is not my fault! You got in the way of the hunt and let my prey get away! Because of you it has escaped! It's your fault!" she shouted at him.
"Well duh your a cub. But I mean what are you? What species were your parents?" she asked him. "And it is not a funny question! I am obviously a lion. A great a noble creature! And you are obviously some sort of mixed breed. I didn't ask what age you were. Just your breed." she said as she stopped circling him to stand in front of him. What an odd creature he was indeed.
When he spoke of the 'watering hole' Akilah let out a laugh. "That isn't a watering hole! You can't drink it. Its the ocean. Its full of salt and fish. You can try to drink from it if you want. But you wont like it. And it will make you sick. Watering holes are never that big. And they don't have salt" she said. That's what she had been told by older members of the pride. Akilah had never tried to drink it herself. Well, she did one but spit it back out. She never drank enough to get sick. She was just told that would happen. "You talk funny. Anyways, there aren't any crocodiles there. I heard there are some that live in the ocean, but not in these parts." she said, obviously feeling this cub was an idiot for not knowing such obvious and basic facts!
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