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Torrential downpours cause localized flooding and many upset cats. Along with these frequent rain, from gentle drizzles to heavy rainfall, there seems to be a flux of Magicka drawn in particular to water sources. Occasional jet streams of warm air make narrower tunnels harder to navigate. On occasion, the rain intensifies, becoming howling storms with sleet or large hail. However, the temperatures overall are a little warmer, with snow and ice in temperate caves somewhat receding.
Sep 05 2016, 03:04 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 03:18 AM by Serendipity.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 100% RESTORED TO 100%
i don't know what you've been told
but, this gal right here's gonna rule the world
_____________
The boar wandered right over to her, standing with her in between his forelegs and the gal paused in her grooming to look up at him. Her eyes were narrowed and whiskers stood out straight as she glared up into his face... or what part of his face she could see. Of course, she couldn't help but flinch when he reared back and stomped. For a moment she believed he would stomp on top of her but was relieved when he did nothing of the sort. Her momentarily lapse in bravado returned when she realized he wasn't going to stomp on top of her though she shrank back again, ears feeling hot all over and belly turning flips when he said she was "pretty" again. Why was he saying such things?! He was being a jerk but then he turned around and called her pretty! She didn't know how to react! "You... you... Shut up!" She yelled at him.
A new scent hit her nose, tickling it with a sweet aroma of... fruit? No. These were mushrooms? Was that his power or something? To grow himself a meal? That was... pretty neat, actually. Not that she would tell him that! Nope! She wouldn't give him the satisfaction. Not that she ate mushrooms anyway, she liked bugs and meat! After shaking herself off she rose onto her paws, sniffed the mushrooms but then turned and scraped mud over the ones he'd left alone with her rear paws. With a "hmph" she shuffled off about a foot away to scrape in the mud. "I don't need yer mushrooms! I can find my own food!" Her claws scrape-scrape-scraped in the mud but at first she found nothing. Afraid she was going to look silly in front of the big pig she doubled down with her face in the mud until she managed to pull out a large worm.
Triumphantly she turned back to him, brandishing the worm in her maw with a grin as she said, "See? This tastes much better than stupid ole mushrooms!" Why was she being so mean? She didn't normally act this obnoxious... it was just that stupid pig! Him and his constant snorting, and stomping... and... and... calling her pretty. Her stomach was still fluttering nervously and it made her lash out with abandon.
Sep 05 2016, 03:28 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 03:30 AM by Boaris.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 89% RESTORED TO 100%
The boar furrowed his brow, or whatever the boar equivalent of that was. He huffed and stepped over to her. "Well if you prefer bugs, you missed a juicy one.. Right.. about.." He lifted his front right leg up high above the small critter. "There!" He snorted, bringing his hoof down with the intent to smack her annoying face back into the mud she had just been digging in.
"Speech looks like this." Thoughts look like this.
i don't know what you've been told
but, this gal right here's gonna rule the world
_____________
Ah, gee, wasn't she so clever? Finding her own little grub to eat while all he had were stinky ole muchrooms! She put on a shit-eating grin while she watched him wander over to her but that grin was knocked right off of her face as she realized too late what he was about to do. She tried to duck out of the way but couldn't as she was caught on the back of the head with the hoof and forced face-first into the mud. "Mphf!" She grunted as mud was pushed into her mouth.
Frantically she flailed around, digging at the mud and twitching and pulling trying to get out from underneath her assailant's hoof. Finally her head popped out with a wet sucking sound. Besides, frazzled and muddy fur she was alright. Though, quite pissed. With a snarl she rose onto four paws and glared at the boar. "Why you freakin' pig!" She lunged then, teeth bared as she tried to bite at the guy's ankles and cling on. If she managed to hit him she would certainly take some shaking to get off.
Sep 05 2016, 03:52 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 03:55 AM by Boaris.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 89% RESTORED TO 100%
When she bit him the boar hardly noticed the pain, thanks to the layers of mud and dense fur and muscle on his ankles, but her growling proved problematic at least. So, he did what came naturally. His legs all buckled forward his front ankles tucked in under his gut as it rocketed towards the ground. Assuming the poor liogoose didn't release him, she'd be squished into that hole she'd dug for bugs and was subsequently pushed into once already.
"Speech looks like this." Thoughts look like this.
Sep 05 2016, 04:02 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 04:04 AM by Serendipity.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 81% RESTORED TO 100%
i don't know what you've been told
but, this gal right here's gonna rule the world
_____________
And let go of him she did not. No. The young liogoose was far too stubborn to release her uncomfortable, muddy grip on his leg. She just tried, in vain, to dig her teeth in further past the fur and mud which ultimately resulted in her being squished beneath him and into that hole she'd dug before. Panic washed over her as she frantically tried to get out of the hole but couldn't as her oxygen was cut off and her legs were pressed into the earth.
More as a reaction to the suffocation and her body reaching out for anything her magicka was tapped into. From her silent squeals and screeches from underground some garbled incomprehensible primitive noises reached out from where she was and seemed to play from somewhere off behind her. She couldn't pinpoint the sounds exactly from where she was but she knew that they were up above her and hopefully close enough to the boar's ears that they would scare him away.
Sep 05 2016, 04:07 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 04:20 AM by Boaris.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 89% RESTORED TO 100%
Freaked out by the whisper in his ear, the boar stood and attempted to kick the little female demon into the water. His leg buckled hard and his huge body plunged into the ground with terrifying momentum from a movement that sprained and threatened to snap his leg. As he was driven into the ground at a downward angle, the poor Liogoose beneath him would also be dragged by the weight of his body. His stumble ended with a resounding splash into the river, which unlike when her small frame was thrown in, would probably echo heavily in the nearby caves as if a boulder crashed into the water. As the foam raised to the surface of the lake and the water churned in his wake, he tried to kick his wounded leg to begin swimming (An instinct which would've worked had he not hurt his ankle), but he could not rise. Beneath him the pressure from the water enveloping him so suddenly pinned the small creature to his gut, rendering the two helpless without outside interference.
"Speech looks like this." Thoughts look like this.
Sep 05 2016, 04:22 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 04:57 AM by Makyna.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 92% RESTORED TO 100%
It was starting off to be a normal day in Cetus, she awoke on her usual root to find her two children in place... Two. Not three. Serendipity was missing as was usual. An annoyed growl escaped the golden feline's throat at the realization. Why could the tiny liogoose not stay in place? Why did she always have to test the limits of the cave and her patience? Things were dangerous as they always had been and yet Serendipity seemed to just laugh it off and go her own way. Just like today.
The lioness rose to her paws and after a brief stretch and a terse "stay here" to her other children she set off, following the faint scent trail that Ser had left. It was obvious that the tiny gembound wasn't playing around Cetus with her friends... she'd gone on some silly little adventure without notifying her first.
There would be hell to pay for that.
Out of Cetus she stalked, ears pinned and eyes narrowed to slits as she reached out with her mind and attempted to bridge a gap into her daughter's mind. The connection was tenuous but it was there and the lioness wasted no time in filling the child's mind with the anger and disappointment she felt at her running away before she asked, 'If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times! Don't run off without telling me first! Now, where in the All Mother's name are you, Serendipity!' The reply back was weak, hardly there as the magicka cast was weak. She could tell that her daughter was sorry and also... In danger? "Mom, I--"'Where are you?! TELL ME RIGHT NOW!' She didn't care if she sounded harsh, she need to find her child now if she was in danger. She'd rip whoever had hurt her in two!
The lioness snarled as her daughter sent her an image of a river, the one in Polaris. Wasting no more time she took off at a run straight towards Polaris and burst into the place within a few minutes. Quickly she ran towards the river and saw... a boar floundering about in the waves. 'I'm in here, Mom! With... him!' She cut the tie then, having enough information to know what to do. Fearlessly she lunged straight into the water, right towards the boar and with a curt, "Hold still!" She grabbed his coarse neck fur in between her teeth and began to drag him back out of the water.
Once on shore she dropped the boar unceremoniously onto the ground and turned to inspect him. Serendipity said she was here... Where was she? "Serendipity? Serendipity?!" Her voice sounded slightly panicked as she called out to her daughter. Had she been too late? Who was this? How had this happened? Was this where she disappeared to everyday? To gallivant with some clumsy pig?! Her icy blue gaze turned onto him. "Did you cause this? Did you hurt my daughter? What happened? Why was she with you in the water? Who. Are. You?" She snarled, eyes boring into him with rapid fire questions hardly giving him a chance to get a word in. She could see that it was some child, some stupid child just like Serendipity. Youth were fools, they didn't think! What had they been doing? Playing? They probably didn't think something terrible like this could happen! Idiots! Stupid, idiots! She roared in frustration, voice booming to the ceiling, "ANSWER ME!"
i don't know what you've been told
but, this gal right here's gonna rule the world
_____________
One moment she was lying underneath the boar, suffocating in a hole and the next they were both being catapaulted into the water. At least, that's what it felt like to her. She was being tossed and thrown about violently in the water, sucking in dreadful amounts of the stuff as she was vacuumed into the pig's gut. Was she going to die? Was this it? She felt regret at having not listened to her mother's words... and here no one would even know what had happened! Sucked into a pig's stomach and drowned... What a way to go!
And then... She heard her mother's voice in her head. The disappointment and anger flooded into her, making her feel lower than a pig's belly. However, she answered as best she could and frantically she could feel her mother coming closer. They would be saved! She wanted to say as much but the water was making it hard to do so... making it hard to think She sent out one last desperate thought as she felt her mom come in closer.
When she was sure that she could hold her breath no longer they were dragged from the surf and onto the shore with the boar. She could feel herself sliding off of the pig's gut and hear her mom's frantic calls. She wanted to crawl out and say she was okay but then those rapid-fire questions came. The worry, fear, anger in her mom's tone made her shrink away and crawl closer to the pig's stomach in fear and shame. That roar! That terrifying roar that her mom only used when she was pissed. Oh no... She was toast.
Her mouth clamped shut as she tried to hide whimpers in her throat but she could feel the cough coming, the cough the expelled water and ousted her position to her mom even as she tried to hide further in the pig's rough belly fur. Her cover would no-doubt be blown.
Sep 05 2016, 05:05 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 05:15 PM by Boaris.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 89% RESTORED TO 100%
The boar tried to roll over to hide the liogoose from this giant frothing madlion. Unfortunately for him, his leg was still injured and he found himself rolling over and exposing her completely while also squealing in pain. Still he definitely met her gaze, his pupiless orange eyes meeting her icy orbs. Who did she think she was? Yelling at him! He was almost as big as her! Adults were stupid, always thinking everyone younger than them was stupid. At least he knew someone was smarter than him, but if she didn't then she wasn't. "Why don't you take the pretty girl and leave you bully." He squealed angrily, looking up at her. He was probably too agitated to feel the right amount of fear over his hurt pride and hurt ankle. "
"Speech looks like this." Thoughts look like this.
Sep 05 2016, 06:02 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 05 2016, 06:15 PM by Makyna.)
MAGICKA LEVEL 89% RESTORED TO 100%
The only thing keeping her from flying at him was the fact that he was a child. She knew that he didn't know any better. She was just some angry adult encroaching on his fun with her daughter. Yelling and screaming wasn't helping, it would only make things worse. She had to calm down, calm down and think rationally. But what if she was dead? The cave would be taking away her family again. Destroying it and dooming her to a life of solitude and misery. Slowly the ache in her heart was leaving but only after she gained her three darling new children... to lose even one of them...
She heard the cough, her ears twitched forward as she stared down at the shifting boar as he revealed her daughter to her. There she was! Serendipity! A sound like a little strangled sob escaped from her throat and she attempted to reach her magick out to her daughter but failed. Her head shook as she stepped forward and gently grabbed her daughter by her miniscule neck scruff and dropped her onto her back. "I thought I lost you... Don't ever do that to me again. I don't know what I'd do if anything happened!" There was terror laced with the relief in her words as she brushed her nose again her daughter's auburn fur before turning back to the boar. What had he said? Bully? Not just that... pretty?
The lioness glared down at him, the times of living in Pisces with Cancer flashing before her eyes. Pretty... Did he honestly think her daughter was pretty? Did he... favor her? The thought of that, of Serendipity going to find what she had with Leon --her heart clenched at his name-- it filled her with... fear. Love. The cave would tear it away, rip it apart and leave you gasping for air when your other half was dead.
Or had abandoned you...
Her voice was a growl as she spoke to him, this young creature who probably had no idea what love was nor the emotions that it brought. "Pretty? Do you know what that entails? Are you aware of the implications it brings? I don't think you are. " If he was there was no way in all of the caves he would have said such a thing in front of the "pretty girl's" mother. If she was wrong though she would deal with that appropriately. The lioness' tone was icy as she stared down at the fearless pig. He was a large fellow but that did not deter her, she'd seen larger and scarier in this cave so a mere overgrown child did not bother her. "I am no bully and I will not leave until I get to the bottom of this. My family was in danger and I came to help as a mother is supposed to do. Now, both of you, tell me what happened. Now." This was not her son but she would treat him as the child he was. Both of them had obviously done something that lead to this simply because she knew her daughter and could see the scuffle marks in the mud.
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