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 Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:08 am
Yellow eyes were watching. Interested nostrils were scenting the air, gathering every bit of perceivable information they could gather. Chauvet knew what he was, knew what he looked like,and as such, confidently strode forward. Glancing in every which direction as though he were concerned of predators. What did a raccoon have to worry of a soquili? Getting within ten feet of the creature, who was nosing about only mildly concerned with the soquili and had ventured from the tree a good distance, he broke into a sprint, tossing snow about as he made for his next potential meal.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:21 am
The kirin lay comfortably in heavy snowbank as if the snow were nothing more than a blanket against his icy pelt. The only thing above the white to mark where the huge horse was napping looked like a thick branch, but was really the horn on his head. Suddenly, his wintry cocoon began to rumble with hoovebeats. The kirin's silver eyes snapped open, his body tensing. He heard scratching against where he was resting.
He shrugged free of the ice and snow to see a rabbit scamper off. The scent of blood hung thick in the air. "Molodoy...if you is waking me I vill kill you myself," grunted the soq shaking the cold from his armorlike scales. His spotted what looked like a saber through the snowfall. Pawing the ice, the giantish stallion marched towards the furry beast.
"Dis is mine land! Leave!" rumbled the blue male lowering his horn. His eyes widened with surprise as he realized it was another stallion. "What is dis?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:27 am
The shifting of the snow in swift fashion set off every alarm in Chauvet's brain, causing his body to jerk harshly to a full stop, aided by the powdery thick snow beneath his hooves. The raccoon wasn't out of mind, although, now it was shimmying up the tree nearest it. Effort wasted. But the more pressing issue stood to his left, hulking, what light bouncing off the snow now also glittering off the creature's impressive scaled armor.
Most kirin, by Chauvet's limited knowledge, were lithe and relatively small, almost deerish in physique, but this, this was massive. The hunter wasn't small by any means, he considered himself rather large, but the stranger stood several hands above him, shouting now with thick accent. Chauvet bared his fangs, maw rolling up like a canine's.
"You lost me a meal," he snarled. Confrontation was best left to words, not fighting. He had no desire to suffer injury, but he wasn't going to let the kirin off on his offense so easily.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:10 am
"I smell blood, vas dat you?" the kirin snorted tossing his head. His eyes narrowed as he bared his teeth in return even if they were not sharp. The giant of a kirin was more than willing to fight off the intruder.
Molodoy bounded to her adopted father's side, muzzle smeared in rabbit blood. Savva glanced down for a moment with disdain.
"Vhere vere you Molodoy? Screwing off again?" grunted the taller horse. The bear rolled her eyes but stood beside him in a more aggressive pose. A cloud of frost bellowed from the stallion as he exhaled heavily. His tail thrashed behind him. Molodoy began to try to circle the stranger as Savva stomped in the other direction.
"I speak again...leave."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:32 am
He didn't answer the first question, watching the kirin return his threat. It wasn't his teeth that were troublesome, it was his size, the teeth might not be able to rip and shred like his, but the kirin's body could pummel his given the chance. Chauvet wondered if that translated over to speed. The stranger's question was answered with the arrival of another character, this one not of their same species, but the appetizing scent of blood clung to the young creature's fur. A bear would be something to avoid usually, but this was a juvenile judging by the size, and given their interaction, they were fond of one another.
Chauvet gave a harsh stomp when she neared his rear, enough warning to get the point across that there'd be no playing around. He was out numbered and out weighed, but he could do his own fair share of damage. The blood drew his eye once again. No sign of her meal at least in the immediate area, but he could track whatever it was she left behind.
"Your territory wasn't marked. Anyone can wonder in. You might want to fix that," he commented, looking back at the stranger and the frosty breath escaping his nostrils in heavy clouds. "You owe me a meal."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 1:44 am
A thundering laugh escaped the stallion. Molodoy gave a confused grunt tilting her head to one side. Her 'father' was acting strange around this new horse.
"I owe YOU? I owe you nothing but your life. If tere is more you vant it von't be given. I am being....generous," growled the kirin. His muscles tensed ready to run down the other male as he scraped the ice again with his cloven hoof.
"He chase raccoon. Why not chase him?" Molodoy stated bluntly rearing on her back paws at the threat displayed to her. Savva sighed.
"Do you listen? I chase to kill threat. I offer him leave. I chase to kill Molodoy not use chase for fun. Not in da vinter."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:11 am
Hackles rose with the laugh and his body shifted ever so slightly to the right, hardly a noticeable lean. The bear was farther behind him, the stranger to his left, the only opening around the tree to the right and from what he could see in his periphery a short tree dotted slope further into the woods. Knowing of only one visible escape route without an attack first put him at a disadvantage he'd never allow had chance not found him in this situation in the first place. He'd curse whatever god he had to later.
Chauvet noticed the kirin's own posturing. Well, this was going to be difficult.
Difficult in more ways than one, it seemed. Chauvet's brows drew together in confusion, knitting together slowly at what the strangers were saying, both he and the bear, their accent quite thick. He got the threat easily enough. Leave with his life, no contest. Of course he could refuse, and there was the temptation for the cat-like stallion. He didn't budge when the bear reared despite every bit of instinct screaming at him to bolt now. Showing fear, however, wasn't optional, if anything it was more enticing as he had experienced countless times against his frightened prey.
"I crossed no territory line, so as far as I see it, you've got no claim here," he asserted, raising his head. "I'll leave, Frost Breather, but I'll continue my hunting were I see fit."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:55 am
"I am not meat eater, I not pee on things that are mine. I valk. I enlistee. I chase to kill. That is how I protect mine. This is mine. I chase to kill," Savva rumbled shaking his head in disapproval, "Molovoy need meat. If you eat meat she die. I von't let Molovoy die. She is my zolotse." His cold eyes seemed to melt for a split second talking of the bear before refreezing looking at the other soq.
Behind the other the bear slowly lowered herself onto her haunches. "I ate father. If that is all he is here for let him," she growled in a bearlike fashion. She began to use her paws to clean her maw of the red stain.
"Vinter is hard on us," Savva grunted, "If you must Meat Eater, then I follow. Make sure that is all you do. Molovoy vill too." The armored kirin moved aside slightly, head lowered more against the snow filled wind than in a threat display. He really did not want to take the energy to kill something as large as another stallion, but since he did not attack first the frost giant of a soq would allow him into his lands with an escort.
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:46 pm
Eyes shifted back and forth, back and forth between the stallion and his companion, not intending to be taken by surprise by either of them. The two's relationship was strange. Of course Chauvet had heard of some Soquili taking up companions of other species, but he didn't quite understand this level of comradeship. Using another animal to aid in hunting or other tasks, that he got, but he couldn't immediately see the benefit Molovoy got from Savva, or vise versa.
At least the bear seemed more flexible. Perhaps it was their likeness as predators that allowed her to sympathize.
"You're joining me on hunt?" he asked for clarification. "Actually hunting or standing to the side? I don't want you messing this up for me. No, this wasn't going to work if Savva wasn't joining in, even then, he might be even more of a hindrance. Chauvet ignored the fact that Savva had attempted a compromise. Give an inch and he'd take a foot. And he did literally when Savva moved, now giving the pelted Soquili a chance to take a few steps, the crunch of the snow sounding beneath his hooves.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:24 am
"Animals know I am not threat. I do not...hunt but Molovoy vill help you if you vant her," Savva snorted as he ducked his head down to nose the snow for any twigs he could eat. Sometimes the giant did partake of carrion, but it was not often as the taste of blood was not the most appealing to the kirin.
"Why do you put me up to these things, father?" huffed the bear, "If he vant rabbit I not finish rabbit."
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 3:01 am
"No, no on all accounts. I don't want your kill and I don't want you joining us and scarring off the prey," he bit, looking at the bear. Her intentions were amicable, but he wasn't going to have it. Savva tailing him was going to make this damn near impossible anyway. "And you need to be as quiet as possible." It was an order as well as a suggestion. Slowly, he started off, trotting through the snow veering toward the left.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:52 am
Savva snorted with a slightly arrogant toss of his head. His silver eyes narrowed as he felt Molovoy's heat appear next to him. He nosed the juvenile bear fondly.
"Who does he think he is?" the bear grunted bumping her "father's" flank. Savva shook his head.
"He is predator joo is not predator. That is all I know, Molovoy," the large kirin rumbled, "Go finish rabbit. I be vith him." The bear growled lowly as she shuffled off to see if a fox stole her half eaten kill of not. Savva turned to follow the stranger a few paces back.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:18 am
Chauvet ignored their conversation, hearing them clearly and understood it through their accents. Not that it mattered much to him what they thought of his behavior. He was a solitary hunter, pack hunting a foreign concept to him since he left his mother years past, and built up habits since that working with another simply conflicted with. Still, if Savva insisted on seeing him through "his" territory then he insisted that the giant of a kirin participate in a meaningful way.
"You coming? You need to match my pace if you intend to see this through," he called back at him, slowing to allow him to join him side by side.
Chauvet didn't bother glancing back at him. If Savva decided to charge at him now he'd hear him coming and had a distance ahead of him, albeit extremely short and easily gaped. Instead his nose was in the air, scenting for a direction to start his pursuit, soft billowing frost escaping his maw after every inhale.
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