Voyagers of The West Star ~ Marine to Land Animal/Sci-fi Rp (Open and Accepting)

[OreoHeroz]

((Dat wolf x3))

Black eyes peered over the tree trunk as Amise rested on it. Her long tail swayed slowly underneath her, and her claws dug in into the bark. Her ears perked as she heard a loud shriek, before it faded into silence. Curious, Amise lifted her head in attempt to survey the forest, but the tree was too short and most of the leaves covered the area. Irritated, Amise leaped down from the tree and began to swivel her ears towards where the shriek had came from. Her eyes brightened as she scented the fresh scent of blood. Licking her lips hungry, she followed the scent without hesitating, her paws thudding against the forest ground. As she halted to a stop to push away the bushes's leaves, she spotted a dark figure hunched over a limp body. Tasting the air again, she realized that it was a male leopard who had killed an okapi, unless he had fought over it. Flicking her tail with disappointment, she quickly hustled out of the bushes and began to retreat back to her old tree. 

[JGree]

Slowly, Wyretta clambered back on top of the golden flower. "What a waste!" she complained to herself, rubbing her mandibles together. "A perfectly good seed and I only get a few bites in!" She cried, if insects could cry, tucking her long antennae beneath her.

Foolish weta. Her chatter attracted a greenish-brown lizard, which had been seeking a meal as well as a place to escape the heat. With her Antennae tucked beneath her, Wyretta was unable to detect the predator's approach until it was too late...

[Jackkdaw]

   Nekoda surfaced again to blow a misty spray from his blowhole and breathe. Clapping his tail with a slap against the water's surface, he dove back down again. Drifting lazily with the current, he let out a subtle sigh of loneliness. He couldn't even remember the last time he'd seen another of his kind.


     The scrapping lionesses, glanced around to notice the cocky hyena yearling trotting up to the kill. Saka giggled bravely and immediately tore off a piece of meat. One of them let out a threatening roar and immediately went after him, swatting her enormous paw at him. The hyena ducked and scrabbled backwards, turning and dashing off giggling. The lioness chased after him for a short distance, then stopped and turned back towards their kill. Saka continued loping off, giggling to himself with the small slip of meat in his jaws. He didn't steal because he was hungry. He simply wanted something to do.


           Shadow growled contently, crouching over the dead okapi and ripping into its belly area. His tail thrashed back and forth as he pulled meat from the carcass' ribcage, eating neatly. A subtle brushing noise made his ear twitch. Raising his head, he ran his rough tongue over his bloody maw and surveyed his surroundings. The scent of another leopard made him draw back his lips, but as the scent faded, he slowly returned to eating, this time slower and more cautious and aware.

[JGree]

Like a slingstone shooting from a sling, the lizard struck. Had it posessed a sticky tongue, Wyretta's life would have ended there and then. Instead, it caught the petals of the flower, destroying the golden bloom and flinging the weta into the tangle of ground plants. Quickly, it let go of the flower and lunged at Wyretta again. This time the weta's antennae felt the rush, and she sprang to the side as the reptile's snout crushed the earth beside her. Before the lizard could recover, Wyretta sent a well-aimed kick to its eye, damaging the delicate cornea.

The weta knew she was fighting for her life. The lizard snapped again, she dodged and retaliated, but she knew she'd run out of energy and the lizard would win in the end. She kicked again, raking her assailant's snout, then emitted a loud buzzing sound she hoped would scare him away. It was also her distress beacon. She hoped that a bigger creature could come along and kill the lizard, if only they could hear it.

[OreoHeroz]

Amise padded along, her tail dragging out behind her. Her stomach let out a growl of hunger as she shook out her pelt. Her ears swiveled towards a soft rustle in the bushes, and she immediately crouched down. A tiny nose stuck out as long whiskers trembled in the air, but the nose could be only seen. Amise's eyes narrowed as she determinedly slithered towards the bushes. Keeping her tail flat, she struck out a paw to stun her prey, but a loud bird call erupted from the trees, and a toucan burst out from its hiding spot. At that moment, the nose froze, before darting away into its safe shelter. Letting out a hiss of irritation, Amise continued forward, her eyes gleaming as she spotted a lizard not far off. It seemed to be attacking its prey, but to the leopard's surprise, a giant Weta bug was defending itself from the lizard. Amise wondered if she should leave the two alone, but she remembered that the lizard could be edible towards her, although it might taste horrible. Shrugging, the leopard lunged out from the bushes, clamping her paws around the lizard's body as her claws dug deep into the scaly skin. Before the lizard could react, Amise wrestled it to the ground, letting her claws pierce the tender skin of it. After she watched the lizard struggle its last, she left it alone, satisfaction flickering through her. Shaking out her pelt, Amise bent down and gave the dead lizard a sniff. Wrinkling her nose, she flicked it aside, uninterested as she turned to leave.       

[JGree]

There was a whoosh again, and Wyretta felt a great pair of paws slam into the lizard. It looked at her with betrayal, as if she was responsible for its demise. Wyretta hopped back beneath a leaf, and her antennae tucked beneath her again in fear. She was unable to sense what happened next, but she knew at the end of it the lizard was dead. His killer sniffed at the body, that Wyretta could tell, but the weta could not hear the crunching sounds that suggested eating. Would the bigger beast eat her instead? Wyretta, too grateful and relieved to consider this, chirped, "Oh, thank you! Thank you, Owner of the Great Paws!"

[OreoHeroz]

Amise turned to hear a bunch of chirping, and she flicked her ragged ear. "Tit for that," she replied, dipping her  head before padding forward, kicking the body of the dead lizard away. Heading towards the bushes, her eyes gleamed again as she spotted a tail slither into the grass. Darting forward, Amise cut off its escape before swiftly bending down to snap its neck. Thrusting it aside, she peered at the body she had killed. Giving it a doubtful sniff, she frowned. A mouse.

"Strange," she mused. "I'd never seen a mouse here before. Or I didn't pay attention to it." She shrugged and gobbled down the mouse in one gulp, her hunger satisfied. Flicking her tail, she coughed out the bones, shaking out her pelt. Blinking, she bounded away into the bushes.

[JGree]

Wyretta felt the thunder of paws as the greater beast approached, antennae twitching in excitement. She hoped that the big cat had heard her, and could perhaps converse with her more. Wyretta had always had a fascination with large mammals. She wondered what it felt like to ride nestled in their fur. If only she had a larger creature as an ally, the predators would never bother her again.

So when the great beast moved away, the weta looked up, dismay in her sightless eyes. "Wait! Please come back!" she cried, but the thundering sounds receded into the distance. She gnashed her mandibles together, frustrated. Was her voice so tiny that no creature could understand her words?

[OreoHeroz]

Amise paused for a moment, her ears straining as she heard the Weta bug's devastated chirp. The leopard shook her head, unsure if she heard correctly. Maybe it's just another bug or something, Amise thought, about to return to her tree. But something nagged at her, and she turned to pad back at the bug. "Did you say something?" she inquired, feeling foolish to even think some little insect could understand her.

[JGree]

To Wyretta's surprise, her knee-ears picked up a voice - a rather loud voice, asking if she had spoken. Elated, she replied in her clearest chirp possible: "I did! Who are you?" Feeling her way to a sturdy stem, she climbed her way up so whoever she was communicating with could spot her.