Thanks for the assist

He had lost his brother's trail a long time ago it felt like, but he had confidence that he'd run into him eventually. A brother's intuition was never that far off and he'd had an enjoyable time making his way this far none of the less. Navy-tipped paws carried him along the bank of a fairly large river while he wandered this area that was new to him. He had been slowly cross crossing his way down though Boreas from the north for a while, taking in the sights of the lands that his grandfather had told them about as pups. He occasionally crossed things he recognized from the stories and it was interesting to see how closely they matched what their grandfather had told them or maybe how much they had changed over the years. The forests in the north, the mangroves in the east, it all seemed weirdly familiar even though it was his first time seeing it all first hand.

As he followed the river further south he made sure to steer clear of the other packs as he went by. He'd caught the scent markers of a couple, but he didn't necessarily want to tangle with one of them until he got a better lay of the land. His brother had set out for this place way before he had so surely he would know who was worth trusting by now. Finding Romulus was going to be top priority and after that maybe he could do a bit more exploring and getting a lay of the land. Even the places he had already seen he wanted to go back and look at again purely because he didn't take the time to really enjoy it the first time around. He was too focused on tracking and looking for Roman's scent to pay much attention to what was really going on around him.

That became even more evident when a loud roar startled him and made him spin around, landing face to face with a crazed looking lion. "What the fuck...?!" he muttered, tripping over his own paws as he stumbled back away from the large cat, but it seemed like it could hardly see him. Half of it's face was covered in some kind of strange crystals that were sticking out every which direction and everywhere that the crystals broke through the skin was also oozing some gross, glowing liquid. The one eye that wasn't covered in crystals seemed kind of unfocused and glassy, like the lion wasn't really even here even though it was physically standing in front of him. Upon further inspection he realized it was also soaking wet like it had just come out of the river behind it and that confounded him even more. How did it manage to swim across such a big, fast moving river?

In the moments that he spent ogling the infected predator with wide, confused ruby and emerald eyes, it suddenly lunged for him before he could manage to jump fully out of the way. He tried to doge it, but its large paws ended up knocking into his shoulder and shoving him off of his feet, sending him crashing to the ground with a thud and a grimace. The lion loomed over him. It wasn't even pinning him down, but instead just standing with one foreleg on either side of him, breathing hard and dripping that glowing ooze on him. His lips pulled back in a snarl and he growled as he twisted to be able to kick his hind legs into the lion's stomach, knocking the breath out of it a bit and making it stagger, but not enough to get it off of him.

WC: 619
Total: 619 / 1500

"Remus Armada"