Just slothing around
Yurei - Spring seasonal prompt
03-20-2021, 11:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2021, 11:59 AM by Casso. Edited 1 time in total.)
He glanced toward Yurei when she muttered something about hoping it wouldn't kill them and he smiled softly, leaning toward her to give her cheek a reassuring lick. "Don't worry about that, my love," he whispered. He nodded toward the large, lumbering creature and added, "Look how slow it is... we could easily out run it." Now whether he was going to be able to bring it down or not was going to be another question entirely. He thought that surely if he had been able to kill a large bear this shouldn't be that difficult, but he had been surprised before. The size of it was the only daunting thing about this strange prey animal - the more he watched it slowly move from one tree to another the more he felt sure that he would at least be able to out pace it. "Stay here," he instructed her, giving her another affectionate lick before slinking off through the trees to get closer to the creature and position himself behind it. Casso quietly crept up behind the giant, sloth like creature. Luckily the air was still so he didn't have much worry about it catching his scent. Once he was close, he darted up along side it with a snarl, leaping up to reach its neck and attempted to bite into its skin. His attack startled the beast and it tried to scramble away, reaching out toward one of the near by trees and attempting to hoist itself up the large trunk with its massive claws. Casso tore at its neck, but the fur was thicker there than he had anticipated so he wasn't able to get a good drip on it there. Seeing that it was trying to escape, he shifted his attention to the creature's limb that was up on the tree, doing a hop and biting down hard on the limb right around where its wrist would be. The creature made a pained sound and fell back from the tree it was trying to grip, taking Casso down into the snow with it. He didn't let up on his grip on the sloth's limb until it was on its back in the snow and then he moved quickly to get back to his paws, darting toward its neck again before it could get up as well. He made a hard bite into its throat, crushing his jaws down around the delicate area, before ripping away a chunk of flesh and hopping back out of the way to avoid a swipe of its large claws. He backed away as it struggled for a moment longer, attempting to stand and climb again before falling back down and eventually going still as it continued to loose blood and darken the snow around it. He gave a satisfied sigh and grinned, happy that Yurei didn't end up needed to patch him up after all. He had honestly been expecting to have to turn a fellow predator into their meal so he had expected more of a fight when they came out here, but this had been a lucky find. Now came the strenuous task of getting this thing back to the pack... He turned around to call Yurei over, but before he could he spotted a trio of very tall wolves watching them from the trees. He stopped and watched them, his two toned eyes watching them warily. "Yurei, come here," he called, not letting his eyes leave the strangers while he tried to sort out if they were friend or foe. With such a large prey animal he expected to draw some attention from other hungry predators, but this abnormally large wolves were certainly not what he was expecting. Once his mate was at his side where he could block her off from the strangers if he needed to, he called out to them, saying, "Can I help you?" What seemed to be the leader of the small group of these towering dire wolves came forward, giving him a curious glance. "Perhaps," she replied, casting another look toward the creature he had hunted. "That was an impressive hunt." "Thank you," he replied uncertainly, still making sure that he was mostly in front of Yurei as the stranger drew closer. "My sisters and I could make use of its pelt and some of the meat. Could I interest you in a trade?" A trade? That possibility hadn't even crossed his mind. If anything he had thought this large wolf would try to fight him over it the kill. He gave Yurei a glance that spoke to his surprise before looking toward the stranger again. "I suppose there's enough here to split..." He looked toward his mate once more, asking, "Is there anything you need or would want to trade for, my love?" His only concern had been getting something for them to eat and this more than accomplished that task so if there was anything that would be most useful for the healer that would a more interesting trade in his mind. WC: 842 Total: 1982 / 1500 Done! |
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