In The End

Onyx had returned from her trip around Auster back to settle in with her family and soon Bronze would be heading on his own way. And she tried to tell herself that was okay because that's what she had been doing after all. But really, it wasn't okay. She could be happy with her siblings finding their way in the world, but she would turn around and find nothing for herself. As strong and as proud as she may be she was finding a sense of failure in her life. The rest of her family could understand, and they were raised to overcome anything or lose everything trying. So secluding herself was the best option. She just didn't want it to be that way. She was sure too that her parents wanted her to thrive somewhere, or at least feel happy to feel like her life could mean something. It was becoming harder to live with as the days went by.

She had gone out from her den in the pines not really in search of anything but deep down there was. A scratch at a hope that she'd come across just what she needed. It was down at the lower slopes of the sound that edged more on the eastern lands that she was in her more aimless wandering, head held a bit low, lost in her own thoughts. She wouldn't even know of the snow leopard that was stalking her until it jumping out in attack. Silly on her part, she was usually quick to catch up on these things. But these days she was finding it harder to focus. She was equipped with her skull and armor while it was the only things she truly owned other than a few pelts back at home and she also never really knew when she would find the opportunity to jump into a spar with someone. This she supposed was no different but this snow leopard was out for blood clearly. She acted quickly, turning on her paws as it leapt forward, the drastic directional change in her body making it miss completely but of course it wasn't ready to give up just yet. It threw out a few swats at her and rather than use her now more familiar antlers like anyone else may have, she snapped forward and bit down on the cat's paw right from midair before twisting her head to throw it on the ground and under her. She honestly wasn't much of the killing type, like she didn't really enjoy killing things but she was at her wits end and this was the best opportunity to get some of her frustrations out.

"Onyx"