Flynn
Hellion Mafia
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Post by Flynn on Jul 15, 2010 15:42:11 GMT -5
It was winter in the jungle, though looking around one couldn't really tell unless you lived here. It was early morning, the sun had only been up for a while, the weak rays had not even made it to the bottom of the jungle floor. It was cooler than it had been in the past mornings, and a little beast was having trouble warming up.
The small wolf, only about 25 pounds and about 15 inches tall, shivered slightly as he sluggishly moved through the undergrowth. He was a myou, his second soul was that of a shrew, a hot blooded rodent that needed energy and quickly. The gray mass of fur moved with his nose pointed to the ground, searching. Pink forepaws, looking slightly like small hands moved foliage and bits of dead tree out of his way.
Beady black eyes scanned for movement now and then though past that they were pretty much useless. He was incredibly near-sighted. His nose and ears were what he relied on to keep from bumping into something nasty. He stopped his scuttling and turned over some rotted bark. Yay! Some cold grubs squired sluggishly in the cool, almost dry air. The wolf-shrew snapped up the little bits of energy with little hesitation, his red capped fangs squishing the treats with satisfaction.
He saw a mushroom, he narrowed his eyes and studied it a bit carefully, sniffing at it and checking what he assumed was the color. Once he knew what it was, he snapped it up as well, sure that it was not a poisonous one. He was moving toward the Trail, snapping up bits of plant and insect now and then, slowly gaining energy. He hated mornings like this, where it was so hard to get moving before his high metabolism kicked in.
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Post by rosella on Jul 15, 2010 16:01:07 GMT -5
As the sun beat down on the girls in the early morning, one of them started to move. However you wouldn’t know they were girls unless you looked at places you shouldn’t. The females where Myou’s and they where dangerous. Why? Cause they are snake ones, Venomous snakes. the one stirring was a king cobra, her eyes slowly opening and her tongue flicking out to taste the winter air. Oh she was hungry and she wanted food…now.
She growled from her wolf muzzle before standing up and dragging herself off the rock that she had slept on. “Issssabelllaaa” She hissed softly as she moved forward, her body twisting like the snake her second soul was. “Letsss hunt.” She pawed at her sister before slithering off at her slow pace of winter morning. Her paws treading lightly on the snow covered ground. She didn’t stop as she moved, her eyes closed as she relayed on her snake senses to find food. As it was winter she would go blind if she opened her eyes so she used her heat vision thanks to her snake part.
Her tongue flicked in and out as she looked for food, finally she found a warm spot. She flicked her tongue out again as she stood still the image of the warm creature was red, the body surrounded by blackness and yellow for those that where to cold and where the warm one had tread. She hissed softly to herself as she turned to see where her sister was. “Elllllaaaa I have found one for ussss.” She hissed gently for she did love her sister and wouldn’t hurt her. She turned back to the warmth that was just around a couple of trees. “You take the high ground and I take the lowwww” She hissed again quietly before she moved. She knew her sister well and her sister would either listen or she would follow with. Either way she wouldn’t get in the way of the kill.
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Post by isabella on Jul 15, 2010 16:14:22 GMT -5
It was a cold morning, and Isabella shivered in her sleep. Being cold-blooded had definite disadvantages. This was one of them. The black mamba wolf twitched her narrow ears as the one beside her stirred. Her sister, Rosella, was the other of the Viperwolf duo. A large King Cobra myou, she was fast and strong and good to depend upon. Ella opened her eyes just slightly as her sister spoke.
She nodded slightly in agreement and then hissed quietly. "Yesss, Rosssella, letsss." Yawning for a moment, she got to her feet and crawled off the rock, rueful to leave the warmer surface to step onto the cold jungle floor. Her moves were more sluggish than usual, but Ella could still keep up with her blood sister. Her eyesight was much the same, and her thermal sight made things visible in the dim of morning. Many small creatures, such as squirrels and others, were tucked among the blue and green colors of the colder spots, a read beacon. But no, those would not do. The two were part wolf, after all. They needed something a bit bigger. Just then, Rosella spoke of seeing their prey. Isa turned her head in that direction and saw, too, that she could see it.
"It'sss another myou, sssister." She murmured quietly, as too not scare it. "Worthy prey, yesss?" Isabella only nodded silently as Rosella gave instruction. Sure, she was okay with that. As her sister slithered forward, Isa made her way up quietly and quickly as possible. Isabella crept over the branches, careful as ever and sliding between branches, leaves and vines. Soon, she was just above the myou, and a few more quick movements and she'd be within striking distance.
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Flynn
Hellion Mafia
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Post by Flynn on Jul 15, 2010 16:34:25 GMT -5
Flynn stopped. Something was not right. The birds that annoyed him so much in the mornings were dead silent. There was a red flag going off in his head. He didn't usually feel this way...it was the prey instinct becoming very much alert. He quickly swallowed the large lizard he had been munching on. He sniffed the air. There was a strange scent floating off the heave air of the jungle. It was menacing. It was wolf, but there was reptile. The lizard he ate?
The shrew in him was even more high strung that normal, Wolf! Wolf!....there is something out there....we need to move! Flynn-wolf replied in his mind 'I don't know shrew....that might make it worse...'
They were in a tight spot, if there was a predator, they had no way of knowing where it was. He strained his ears, listening. Did a bird take flight? He glanced up in the trees, listening and sniffing and straining to see movement. He felt uncomfortable being under the trees, he knew of a place a little ways up the path that opened a little. With out a second thought, he bolted toward the small clearing on the Trail. He had buried a marker there earlier in the week.
He was on high alert, listening and smelling, his two most powerful senses. His little heart pounded as the adrenaline quickly warmed up his body. He was on edge and he opened his mouth in a menacing hiss-growl, showing his oddly shaped teeth and the red stain of his toxin.
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Post by rosella on Jul 15, 2010 19:43:09 GMT -5
Rosella watched as her sister disappeared into the trees. Oh yes this was definitely worthy prey. She smiled to herself before slithering forward, slowly and silently. Her tongue flicked in and out as she moved thru the obstacles in her path. She knew her sister was in place as she came within striking distance of the shrew Myou. However before she could strike from behind a bush the creature took off.
She hissed her frustration and moved forward, pulling her legs to her body and slithering fast after the creature. As she was still trying to wake up and she didn’t know the area she wasn’t as fast as she normally was. She growled as her prey stopped in a clearing and showed her his teeth. She laughed, the sound seeming to fill the air with the vileness of her spirit.
“Oh come now sssssshrew. We aren’t done yetttt” She hissed at the Myou as she moved around the creature, rearing up on her tail and letting her hood flare out. Now that she was awake she could open her eyes and see the creature for what it was instead of just the heat signatures. “You look tasty. Don’t you think ssssssisssster” She yelled the last one over her shoulder, never looking away from her prey.
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Post by isabella on Jul 15, 2010 19:59:44 GMT -5
Isabella blinked as the shrew shot off, and then took off, fast after it. But not as fast as she could've been later in the day, of course. She was soon on a branch, concealed by thick vines and leaves, nearest the clearing. She let her ears fall back as she zeroed in on the hot spot of the little myou, and tasting the air with her tongue, figured it was getting fearful and a little aggressive.
About to lunge, Isabella stopped as her sister proceeded to make her presence quite known, even calling out to her. Isabella winced. That was about as subtle as yelling "Sneak attack!" right when you were trying to perform one. The only good thing was that Rosella had called out behind her, so that would distract from Isabella's real position, from the side.
Readying herself, Ella pounced down the branches of the tree and then did a quick leap towards the shrew. Trouble was, she lost speed not only by the morning cool, but by almost tripping on a vine in her early dash from the branches. She outstretched her claws and opened her jaws wide, revealing her venom-charged fangs, ready for the strike.
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Flynn
Hellion Mafia
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Post by Flynn on Jul 16, 2010 7:49:04 GMT -5
'Shit' was the combined thought of the two souls. He had not expected two predators. He had to think quickly. He was half the size of them, small and scrappy. Snakes. They were snakes. Something even a tenacious shrew feared. Or at least one of them was a snake, he had not seen the other one yet. But he knew it was out there.
He heard the bumbling movement to the side and jumped sideways out of instinct. Combine a wolf and a shrew that had learned to coexist with minimal argument.....you get the best of both worlds. Reflexes and survival. Though he might not have the full stamina that a full wolf did. He hoped that the same thing went with the snake girls.
"You're trespassing!" he shouted as he darted for the trees. Surely there was a bolt hole he could use. Something he could fit in and they couldn't. Despite being nearsighted, he knew his footing. If he were to run, he had to run towards the heart of the packland. His ears kept the locations of both the hunters, it was hard to judge their speed, but if he were to zig and zag through the underbrush long enough....just maybe. He tried to keep trees between him and them, he knew he could not dig fast enough, so he had to just hold out.
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Post by rosella on Jul 16, 2010 12:31:47 GMT -5
Okay so Rosella wasn’t always the smartest bunch of coconuts. She had announced her sister was around but eh they could take this myou in their sleep. When her sister came out she watched and stifled a laugh at her sister getting caught in the brush. It was morning so she should be happy it wasn’t her but still it made her giggle a little bit. As the other jumped sideways he actually brought himself closer to her. She didn’t want to kill just yet instead she wanted to maim. She reached out with her wolf claws to bring blood and to hopefully stop him from running out of their reach.
She felt her claws rake along and smelt the blood. She wasn’t certain where she had hurt him only that she did. She licked her claws as she tasted the shrew blood mixed with the wolves. “Mmmm tasssteyyyy” She growled as he started to run again. She folded her body again and started to slither after him as fast as she could. She wished she had the speed she could have if she was full snake but she didn’t. She growled and hissed at the same time as she moved after him, following him once more with her heat vision instead of her normal sight.
As the other spoke of trespassing she laughed. “Tressspasssing huh? We do not carrre.” She hissed as she moved. He was fast and he knew the area but they where faster and there were two of them. Rose’s eyes glistened with their snakeish light as she moved, following his movements with her own. She was a snake and was used to going zigzag so it did not slow her down. She just hoped her sister would be fast and could perhaps go and cut him off.
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Post by isabella on Jul 16, 2010 15:32:45 GMT -5
Isabella landed where the Myou had just been a moment before, and watched with narrowed eyes as it shot off into the trees, her sister hot on it's tail. Ah, a chase. This might be funner then she thought. Ella could pick up the distinct smell of blood, but couldn't depict the creature slowing down. So he was just scratched, eh?
Muscles rippling, Isa shot up the trunk of another tree and darted through the branches, her expert limbs making easy work of the trip. Surely, she could've gone faster. But the day was cold. She made a point to concentrate on the chase, and she saw a break in the foliage above ground. Taking a turn, she leaped and landed, turning. She had come ahead of the shrew, and now had cut it off. The little morsel was simply put, trapped. Ella turned her head to face it, her head reared back and her fangs bared. Just one strike, and it'd be over for the little creature. She took a step forward and lunged.
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Flynn
Hellion Mafia
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Post by Flynn on Jul 16, 2010 15:45:35 GMT -5
Flynn flinched as a claw raked him across the shoulder. It just added fuel to the fire of prey panic in his mind. He sprinted, something he rarely did. He was very glad he had managed to get some semblance of a meal before hand. He ran for the trail again, he had to cross it to get to where he knew there was a hole. However, the sisters were hot on the chase.
He heard the other one behind him, boasting as she went, good at least he could hear where she was. He leaped over a fallen branch and made for the clearing. He saw a mass fall in front of him with a distinct 'thunk'. The other sister! He put the breaks on, attempting to stop and turn to go the other direction at the same time. He lost his footing, but not his momentum. His flailing threw up a cloud of debris and chunks of earth. Perhaps fate was kind and that would distract or blind the mamba.
Now he had the problem of vertigo and gravity. He careened on the ground, his attempt to turn had thrown off his trajectory just enough to skid past the second snake. His claws groped for anything to cling to, may it be snake or tree. It all happened so fast, he really didn't know what was going on.
Would the first sister see the fumble in time to stop? Could he get his footing in the chaos? The seconds ticked away!
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Post by rosella on Jul 16, 2010 16:58:21 GMT -5
Rosella followed the shrew myou as they moved thru the forest. She moved over the grass as the cold air bit at her scales. She was upset about losing him in the first place but they would get him. Her feet pounded at the ground as she heard her sister land in front. However she wasn’t prepared for the sliding of the dew covered ground. She hissed in irritation as she flailed, skidding straight into her sister. However her upper body went around the shrew and they managed to trap it between them.
Problem though was they were trapped in each other to. She hissed in frustration as she tried to get untangled from her sister as well as keep the shrew in her clutches. She growled as she moved, never before had prey been this… idiotic!
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Post by isabella on Jul 17, 2010 17:02:15 GMT -5
Her bite-and-lunge tactic missed yet again as the little thing turned hairpin and ran straight into her sister. Isabella fell forward, and after a great amount of grief and twisting, found herself in a knot with her sister, the little shrew trapped in between. Isabella adopted a flat look on her face. "Ssshrew, you'd better tassste good for all thisss grief." She stated simply, trying to stay calm. If she got angry and upset now, catching the thing would be all the more difficult.
Working next on untangling her head and neck enough to get a good bite at the Shrew, she suddenly found that somehow, her tail was wrapped around her neck. Great. Just great. This took away a great deal of Ella's patience and she then began hissing softly. Oh yes, this Shrew had better be worth it.
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Flynn
Hellion Mafia
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Post by Flynn on Jul 17, 2010 20:19:53 GMT -5
His beady eyes were wide and terrified, he felt the scaly bodies pressed against him. This was perhaps the most physical contact he had had with anyone in years. Let alone females. It was shocking and almost revolting with the irony of it all. He squirmed, his scrawny body writhing to stay away from the nasty fangs of the she-devils.
Then he realized it. They could not get him at present. Perhaps he could show them what shrews were capable of! He wrenched around and snapped his jaws at the closets bit of flesh that wasn't his own. He hoped that his own neurotoxin could inhibit at least one of them. He bared his fangs, his bottom jaw was exposed with the elongated teeth of the shrew, where most of his toxin laid. He snapped madly, while scratching at anything he could get his claws into. Blindly and feverishly.
"Hate to disappoint, ladies, but I probably ain't worth it!" He snarled between snaps, trying to give himself any chance possible.
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Post by rosella on Jul 19, 2010 16:17:22 GMT -5
Rosella hissed her frustration as she moved, wiggling in different areas to get out of the tangle they were in. “Sssshrew your going to dieeee” She growled and yipped as she felt the teeth in her tail. However it was the tip of her tail and the tail piece came away with the bite because it was so small. She growled and reared up, managing to untangle herself.
“You are Dead!” She growled and hissed as she reared up, her hood flaring and her fangs showing as they dripped with her venom. “Your mine.” With that she went in for the strike. She wished to kill and he had hurt her tail. It was just the tip and it would probably grow back but it still hurt. Fortunately she wouldn’t get poisoned by his toxins.
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sylvester
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Post by sylvester on Jul 20, 2010 16:53:51 GMT -5
The jungle around him was silent. The absence of singing birds, and buzzing insects was like a trumpet in Sylvester's ears. His teal eyes slowly scanned the foliage but nothing seemed amiss. Just the horribly obvious silence. The not far off he heard some tussling, and some hissing. His fur stood on end, and the air around him started to sizzle and crack with electricity. He faintly heard Flynn's voice...he sounded stressed. Sylvester growled and jumped forward, rushing to his comrade's defense.
His eyes lit upon the two females, the air around them immediately started to crackle with energy as he took in the site. "What the hell is going on here?" He demanded, but did not wait for answers leapt forward to sink his fangs into the female about to bite Flynn. His fur was charged with static so as he moved closer to the female a finger of static jumped from his pelt to hers. Without thinking about it, he put more energy into the little bolt making it a bolt of lightening enough to knock her back.
He stood in front of Flynn growling, eying the females. "Who the fuck do you think you are?!" He spat, jets of lightening shooting off his upraised fur.
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