It's Just A Bar Fight
Chimera
03-05-2021, 04:02 PM
As the seasons changed from winter to spring, Viper's heat season came to an end. It wasn't like she didn't feel the difference, more like she ignored the stranger feelings she didn't understand. If anything she was a little more irritable during that time and while she wanted to believe she was in fact never "born", she didn't add the feeling up to her birth season. But with the spring was supposed to come life and warmth, especially after such a harsh winter. And instead the lands of Ardent remained frozen in time it seemed. While the winter gave plenty of snow storms, the spring had put a layer of ice over everything. Viper was accustomed to the cold, not that she was really a fan of it. But it was where she had lived most of her life up until a year or so ago. A young wolf learning to survive in the harshest environment. While she may not have had the brains for most things, she had learned how to do things differently while self taught. Hattori had expected more tracking parties while the prey numbers were scarcer by the day. Teaming up Chimera and herself while they seemed notable for the job. Others were to be paired together and even Viper and Chimera too would probably be paired with someone else in a few days time. Viper wouldn't speak on their patrol and scouting. Barely even seem friendly by staying beside Chimera. It wasn't anything personal while she was starting to believe that her voice would only get her into trouble and now she was using it less and less. Surely Chimera would like the silence, but if for any reason he chose to speak to her she would acknowledge. The Fern Gulley would be in a deplorable condition, though while somehow beautiful over the crystal landscape. Not that Viper was even stopping to smell the dead roses. Any healer who came here for their own purpose was sure to be found in a pit of devastation as the entire herb supply was decimated. While it could have been possible there were remnants of plants hidden deep under the ground, seeing the Gulley like this would make almost anyone believe an apocalypse was among them. While the plains were blanketed in a solid white, it was easy to spot a few of these strange turtle creatures off in the distance, though it didn't seem like they were in a large herd or anything. Just about three of them were spread out in a small radius of each other. Perhaps they were looking for some forage or maybe even smart enough to dig for it not that they would find much that survived under the snow and ice. Viper would only turn to Chimera for a moment before the pursuit, wondering if he would have any ideas. As Viper thought about it they were still a fair distance from the new creatures, so they had to be much bigger than she was anticipating at first glance. And one of them had a spiky ball at the end of it's tail like a weapon. Total Word Count: 525 Words Word Count Goal: 1500 words |