ORIGIN

I…was hungry.
I was always fucking hungry. It seemed my main drive in life was to kill, eat, sleep. Then repeat, endlessly. Oh, I didn’t mind the process. Honestly, I found great enjoyment from killing. I was obviously satisfied with eating. And sleep was rather relaxing. I was just growing irritated with the repetitiveness of the process. I wanted something new. Something exciting. My issue was probably that I was eating the same damn thing every meal. I might be a cat, but there was only so many mice and birds I could eat over such a short period of time. I wanted something A, that tasted better than a mouse, B, that had more meat than a bird, and C, that was somewhat of a challenge to actually kill. I mean, I could step on a mouse and it died. I wanted a good wrestle to the death or something. I knew I had all these muscles and dammit I was going to use them. I wanted to get stronger. I wanted to prove I was the top cat in these parts…or soon would be. I knew I had to grow. And growing meant eating. And eating meant becoming stronger. And becoming stronger meant more skillz and bigger food to kill. This all made sense to me.

So, here I was. Exploring. Hunting. Not the nice kind of hunting where you know exactly where that one bird will fly because they fly the same damn pattern every day. No, the kind where you have to go way beyond where you’ve ever been before and hope for the best that something shows up you can eat. It was a bit of a gamble, especially because I had no idea where I was or if there was game around at all…let alone water. But I wasn’t just going to sit around and do nothing. I should probably sniff out some water soon. Maybe later. At the moment, I was pacing the inside of some bizarre stone structure. It wasn’t alive…but it seemed this stone had simply pushed up from the ground, creating some kind of oval circle shape thing. It took me about a half second longer than it should have to realize I was currently at the bottom of the structure. Which, was bad. If there was some hungrier larger thing above me, I’d be trapped. Hey….hey now. That’s a good idea. With that idea, I, as best as a mildly uncoordinated panther cub could, climbed up the structure until I was at its peak.

“Boo-yah.”

Oh…wait, maybe I shouldn’t shout victoriously if I wanted to surprise my dinner…

@Vazi

Beast lingered a bit behind, pale seafoam eyes wide at the sight before him. There was another cub! Just like him! Only--black. It was his opposite, dancing and pouncing, and the lion cub took a few hopeful steps forward before being stopped by the jarring bark of Vazi's angry voice. Beast jerked to a halt, turning to peer forward and up at the stag. For a moment he'd thought that maybe his guide lived here, that the black cub was another of his sons, and someone for Beast to play with. Maybe he still was? Maybe he was like a brother that Vazi was bringing him to, but who had done something wrong in his dad's absence? The white lion gave a soft mew, questioning and squeaking, and took another few tentative bounds forward, halfway toward the black leopard. But Vazi was pawing the ground, and the cub hesitated--nearly falling over in his newborn uncoordination--and looked between the two. He let out another plaintive, confused squeak, barely out of the way should Vazi choose to charge. ______________

@Dorian

DUSTIN LINK

I'll open my HEART and I'll find the WAY

After having hatched, he was confronted by weird feathered creatures and a huge dog that he wasn't so keen on. Thus, he had fled and had ended up in a tunnel leading out to the sparkly cavern. Blinking his hetero chromatic eyes, the chimera cub wandered into Orion with a look of awe as he took in the beautiful shimmering colours that lit up the caverns from the quartz. This light wasn't as harsh as it was in other areas of the cave and he looked around quite happily at what he was seeing here.

A cry of booyah resonated off the walls and into his satellite dish ears. There was another living thing! Of the same age as Dorian, he too mewled excitedly at the creature's exclamation. Not having yet been introduced to many gembounds other than those he'd met briefly within the Bone Bound and his hatch mate, he had yet to experience any harshness. A flick of a tail and he watched as Dorian scaled the throne from the edge of the room, but a beast with a set of branches atop his head came striding in and he yelped.

Rather than running, he stood his ground in the entrance way but wasn't sure how to make heads or tails of what was happening. Another cub, similar in colour to him but almost identical in appearance to the other big-cat babe was also there. He seemed to be listening to the stag creature and he wondered if he should as well. Crinkling his nose, he spoke directly to Vazi, "Is this your room then? I didn't see anyone." Unaware of the error of his ways, as Vazi so vehemently declared he merely stared innocently at the trio as they fought pettily over this decrepit place.

I'LL STRUGGLE TO WALK WITHOUT FADING AWAY

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@Vazi @Beast @Dorian

He stared blankly as the black cub charged, and he tensed, thinking to meet him spring-for-spring in joyous play. But then a blur of darkness and Vazi had shoved him aside, and he tumbled upright, peering confusedly back. The angry voice, again. Beast cowered down, flattening large round ears, but immediately assumed that Vazi had been protecting him. Vazi was his guide and guardian and even though he lost his temper, he was only looking out for Beast. Or maybe the strange black cub had broken some protocol. Vazi didn't like bad manners, Beast thought. He cowered down, out of the way and silent as his guide had taught him to be, crushed to the ground out of sheer fear and submission--waiting to see what Vazi would do. When the stag struck at the black cub, Beast's pale eyes widened--and then he covered them with large white paws, unable to watch any such violence unfold. He let out a pathetic, mewling cry of fear, too, for good measure. ______________

@Dustin , @Dorian

DUSTIN LINK

I'll open my HEART and I'll find the WAY

Jeez. Everything here seemed to heat up rather quickly and Dustin's eyes grew wide as Dorian appeared to leap at the deer, completely miscalculating and heading towards the other cub. Almost face-pawing at how much this situation had escalated, he watched as Vazi went to strike out at Dorian and he hissed fur bristling. "No need to fight!" Not wanting to sit back and just let this all play out in front of him, he charged forwards to assist the two feline babies. With his own feline babyness. Not entirely sure where he was aiming to go with his running, he decided to focus on the white cub as he couldn't do much to stop a full grown 600lb stag.

Avoiding the spindly legs as he tried to make a wide berth around the two fighting creatures, he ran up beside Beast and pushed him with his front paws, "Come on! We got to get out of here." There was fear in his voice but he was determined to get everyone out of here safely without there being need for skulls being cracked open and blood spilled onto the nice floor of the throne room.

I'LL STRUGGLE TO WALK WITHOUT FADING AWAY

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@Dorian @Beast @Hasira