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 Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:47 am
Having padded a few ways away from his den, enough to make it not so obvious that it was a trap, Vihrea had dragged a carcass of a waterbuck to a fairly empty clearing. He made sure to disguise his scent by rolling in the blood of the animal, but had to resist ever so much to eat the thing. A smirk played across his maw. He had sneaked away from a sleeping Vuxta to pull revenge on the bird that attacked them both that day. "Juuuuust you wait birdie." he repeated to himself every few minutes during the preparation. His heart was racing and he cast a quick glance at every passing noise.
Once he had everything set up to look like something had become disinterested in its kill, he padded downwind and took a hiding spot in a thick grove of bushes. His green eyes peered out of the leaves, blending ever so perfectly. His body was crouched low and his muscles were tense...ready to spring. Of course, he hoped this would attract the right bird after all. He hadn't stopped to think how many other things might come and inspect this lovely rotting meal until now. A few curses also ran through his head.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:10 am
Since her encounter with the two lions Aotpo hadn't had much to eat but a few scraps of flesh from a young dead rabbit. She was starting to get desperate to say the very least. She was desperately scanning the earth for a carcass or a predator she could stalk until it made a kill. So far she's had no such luck.
But then something delightful tickled her sensitive nostrils. Blood, rather fresh at that! She turned her beak towards the source of the scent and took off to the sky. She was determined to find this dying beast before any other scavenger could. She soared quickly and consequently found the carcass only minutes since she smelled it. The vulture stayed suspended hundreds of feet above, just circling, scanning the area for threats before she decided to land. But she was as impatient as she was desperate.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:22 am
Success! Well...almost. At least Vi had managed to lure the desired creature to his trap. But she was hesitant. He watched as she circled in the sky, his eyes following her exact movement, his gaze seeming to zoom in like lenses upon her features, or what he could see of them.
His body was now even tenser as he waited just as impatiently as the bird. In his mind he chanted for her to land, his heart pounding so hard in his head he wanted to just burst out in a bellowing roar and sprout wings of his own to snag the creature, but by some manner of luck he waited. He had too. He had to remain patient if he was going to get what he came here to snag.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:29 am
The eagerness consumed the vulture much too quickly. She folded her wings against her side and let herself fall gracelessly towards the her meal. She would get her fill and then some before the other scavengers chased her away. Her life rather depended on it. Besides, she needed the energy if she was going to devise a plan of revenge on the lions. Mostly the female, but if the male was hurt in the aftermath it'd be that much sweeter.
A veracious grin split her beak and before she knew it she found herself buried within the fresh wound of the carcass. Blood and flesh slid down her throat as she tugged viciously at the meat. Even within the first few seconds of eating she felt some strength return. But she was oblivious, letting her guard down as her entire head was stuffed within the wound of the beast.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:38 am
Vi nearly pounced right then and there the second she descended and began to tear into the flesh, but he still waited. His sore paws ached for action, but he had the perfect moment planned. He let her relish in her meal while she could. He let her become completely absorbed in the smell, the taste, and the flavor until not one but all her senses were null and void. He gave her several long minutes of bliss....until he would strike.
Tense muscles now loose and free, Vihrea charged from the bush with ease, power, and silence of a natural born predator. He made no roar, no sharp breaths. The only sound he made was the thundering of his paws against the earth, and the swoosh his stout body made as it sailed through the air, paws and claws outstretched to bag his prize. He aimed so carefully so that he had pinned the bird into the ground by the wings, her feathered belly flat against the blood stained earth. He said nothing so as to soak in her shock and surprise, and also to marvel at how awesome he was right now.
Yeah...that thought totally ran through his head...more than once.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:55 am
Po's dark blue feathers were now black with blood, faintly glimmering red in the light of the faint morning sun. She was not aware of the lion hidden in the shadows not too far from her meal. Even if she was suspicious of any danger, she was confident she could fly away before she was made a meal herself.
It didn't take long for her senses to dull out, soon they were nearly nonexistent. But as her breakfast hushed away the pang in her gut, she had the instinctive urge to look up from the carcass and scan her environment. She did just that, fiery eyes piercing through the foliage only ten pawsteps away from where Vi was hidden. She tilted her beak in his direction, still oblivious... but not for long.
In an instant the lion burst out from the darkness and pinned her against the soggy earth. Her reaction was as delayed as her motionless breath as she tried to comprehend the event. Clarity was quickly restored and the bird let out an horrendous screech, over-sized wings futilely thrashing against the big cat's bulky body. She was possessed with fear and shock, her movements were mindless as her primitive instincts tired to save her life.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:05 pm
Vihrea grinned as he flexed his claws in and out of his feathery grip. A few tore out with the flexing but he didn't care. He leaned his jaws close to the bird and nipped in her ear. Not trying to bite her, just to create enough of a sound to silence her wretched cawing and stop her movement. It did take all his strength to keep her pinned, but he wasn't going to let go that easy. "Gotch'yaaaaaaa." he taunted in a deep sing song like voice.
A chuckle escaped his throat, but one mixed with a roar of pure adrenaline rush. "Now that I have you, lets have a little chat." he said, positioning himself so that if he needed to, he would sit on the bird to keep her from further protesting. "What's yer problem with Vuxta, hmm?" he eyed the thing, flexing his claws again, this time feeling flesh beneath them. "Oh...and give me straight answers mmmmkay?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:28 pm
The voice wasn't all that comforting, but Aotpo was slowly pulled from her desperate trance regardless. She was nose to beak with the big lion, only this time he was the one up above... and herself below. Not a pleasant place to be, she was learning that quickly.
Aotpo hissed through her jagged beak as her hateful eyes bore into his skull. "It's a private feud." The whisper was nearly serpentine, but Po made certain it was audible and her spite was strong. Chunks of flesh and blood sank away from the corner of her mouth as she tried once more to jerk away. When the attempt failed she gazed back at Vihrea, meeting his playful eyes with her malicious ones.
"You'll regret this, you pathetic lard of lion." She aimed the tip of her beak at his vulnerable eyes, the best place she learned to snag some meat in desperate famines. She struck at him repeatedly, relentlessly, until the paws and claws loosened from her.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:43 pm
Vihrea let out a roar as the bird struck him in the face with her beak. He had managed to turn by some dumb luck so that she avoided his eye, but now his cheek ran red with blood and stung from pain. And she wasn't stopping either. Digging his claws thicker into her wings, he let out a roar and opened his jaws wide, snagging the bird around the neck, but not hard enough to severely hurt her. He still wanted answers. He growled deeply and non stop, his way of letting her know she better speak and speak quickly.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:07 pm
Po's desperate attempt to escape was a failure, and she paid for it with her breath. The lion's maw clamped around her neck, restricting any words from making their way out of her beak. But she did manage to wheeze, and the sounds formed into barely audible words as she struggled to get air in and out of her lungs.
"She tricked me... made a fool of me..." A proud vulture such as Aotpo would never be caught begging or pleading, but the poor bird was reaching the end of... something she didn't want to find out about. She gave one last weak struggle before going limp and waiting for the big cat to decide her fate.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:16 pm
Vihrea thought for a moment as he listened to the creature. His tail swished too and fro and his grip remained firm. When she was done speaking and quit moving, Vi was almost shocked. Had she given up that easily? Oh yeah, whose the lion! Vi was!
He shook his head, forgetting she was still in his grasp. Victory thoughts would have to wait for later. Releasing her neck, but not her wings, he cocked a smirk at her. "Oh deary me... poor little birdie." he said with a slight chuckle. "Looks like you've wormed your way into another foolish position. Vultures don't learn...do they?" he mocked in a fake thinking manner as he tilted his head up to pretend to be lost in thought before bearing his gaze back down on her. His eyes bore into her own. "Now you listen to me, pest. If you value whatever life you have, leave that lioness out of it, and we won't have any problems.... got it?" he said but didn't wait for an answer. But just for good measure, he lifted a paw and sternly...but somewhat gently, gave a warning fwap to the creatures head as he let it go and nudged it to take off. "Go on... fly back to your meal." he said, and stood his ground ready to attack her again if she tried something foolish.
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