Welcome to the jungle! Trees, new smells and a new body to boot! Ruse was ever growing, ever coming accustom to being alone and as per the norm, growing weary of being alone. Rana wasn't long gone, maybe a few days, though the days felt like years. She missed teh games, but knew this may be for the best for a little while. Same with her parents, they were loving, kind, absorbed the info of their games, but she was comfortable leaving the coop finally.
"Oh to be on my own!" She praised to the sky above her, ears flipped about tenderly scooping up the noises that surrounded her as her voice carried in a bellow. It was a day of fruit, all she could smell around her was the sweet juices, some rotting, dripping with unsavory mold and others fresh, clean and newly fallen. She seeked neither, rather she found a helpless bug. A treat she and her sister had shared long ago.
"Life has taken a turn, infertile, alone, grown up almost now." She talked to herself, her normal cheery mood vanishing instantly with memories, it was like a wild hurricane fluttering about her ehart. She groaned and ate the bug whole, not thinking twice about anything else before moving on.
Tamu had managed to wander his way to the jungle without meaning to. He was attempting to escape the God of Hate's constant harassment that had plagued him for days on end until the mighty giant revealed his true form to the pastel colored leopon and caused him to flee, tail stuck between his legs and hackles raised on end. He was not normally as frightened and cowardly as he was with Neltharion, but this was not just some mean lion or aggressive hyena. He was a god and could easily kill him,
"Where am I?" The timid leopon muttered loudly to himself. He heard nothing but the rustling of leaves and the chitter of the bugs that. He jumped unexpectedly when a beetle flew into his face and landed on his nose. He blinked wildly attempting to make it leave without hurting it, but saw that it was to now avail so he growled at it.
"Go! Go away bug! My nose isn't your resting place!" He insisted.
A growl, a noise! A noise that wasn't of the jungle! A leopon, smells, sounds, the familiar feeling of being home swooped over the now cozy female. She crept, sly and steady, eye's glued to a handsome fella. He was of pastels, pink and blue. She admired him momentarily, watched him move, heard him speak, suddenly he was attacked. A bug on his nose. Her ears twist to listen again then she spotted what kind of bug it was.
Plump, juicy, wings.. a bug with crunch always knew how to fly away. Her eye's were distracted, a fine taste in the creatures, the insects she had. And this one was something of a delicacy. "Don't move." She said to herself then lowered her forebody and leaned a bit. Her bottom waggled in a childish warning of pre-pounce. Then she was ready.
"ROAR!" She bellowed, not as before, this time it was fierce, strong, and had a tinge of curious passion. Her fresh body was full of life, power, and a love for that particular bug on his nose. Striking at the bug she had forgotten about the leopon. Only when she claimed her prize and sat before him munching was she actually aware of the face that may be staring, may be gawking.. may even be disgusted, REPULSED, by the sudden appetite.
"Hello.. the-there!" She said between munching, jaws pounding away at what seemed to be a small bug, she made it that much bigger! The smile never disappeared though.
Repulsed, disgusted, disgruntled. None of those words managed to describe Tamu at the moment as he sat there absolutely stunned at the fact a flying purple leopon girl had come out of nowhere and grabbed the bug that had been sitting on his nose clean off. It took him a moment before he noticed the crunching sound of the female leopon eating his no deceased bug friend and blinked at her, before going red in the face.
"H-hello! Uhm!" Tamu stuttered, attempting to regain his composure but failing epically at doing so. All he could hear was the 'crunch crunch' of the bug within her mouth and all the other squishy noises that went along with eating and he felt himself growing hungry from the odd exchange he was now having with a rather pretty purple leopon.
"You scare me..." He said simply, obviously not hiding the fact he had been pretty easily startled. He looked around from side to side and blinked for a moment, "It's like you came out of thin air."
Ruse couldn't contain it, his face. Oh how his face contorted wildly, emotions flying and moving and creeping around his face. His eye's even lit up in an obvious fear! "Yet another with a case of Rusephobia!" She proudly proclaimed, ears forward and prideful, paws positioned in a steady rectangle and claws excersized from her paws to scratch illegible shapes in the dirt without her thought.
"Such a cute look for males, fear. Fear caused by a petty female." Her eyes narrowed and smile creeped larger, she almost seemed ready to circle her 'prey'. Circle what she had already claimed as hers, that something woudl never know what he'd walked into. He wasn't careful enough. "Not quick enough to nab your own meal?" She offered slightly, a mocking grin on her face, playful orbs bouncing about him, absorbing his beautiful colors.
"You please the eyes Phobia." She named him for his fear, not by it. Something of an invented pet name. "And what are you doing out here Leopon? You don't seem very much at home in the wild. The leaves not green enough?" She asked, still standing, finished chewing, but not about to stop the conversation that had begun.
