Re: Snowstorm [M] (Stormsong)

[Stormsong]

Savanna bounced up to them. "Can I come too?"

[Blackberry]

Rook glared at Savanna. "No!" he spat. "You're weak and dumb. And you're a mommy's pet!"

[Stormsong]

Savanna sat down on the ground, tears coming to her eyes. "But.... But...." she stammered.

[Blackberry]

Breeze glanced at Rook. "Can't she come?" Breeze asked. Rook glared at him, but Breeze added, "She'll make a good lookout."

[Stormsong]

Savanna looked at them expectantly. "Pleeaaasssse!"

[Blackberry]

Rook hissed in annoyance, but Breeze said, "Sure, Savanna!"

[Stormsong]

"Yay!" Savanna leapt up to Breeze and rubbed against him purring. "Thank you!"

[Blackberry]

Breeze gave his sister's cheek an affectionate nudge, but Rook snarled, "Come on, then! We need to find some prey." He sneered at Savanna. "Unless you want to stay here and tell mom!"

[Stormsong]

Savanna huffed and puffed her fluffly chest. "I won't tell Mom, as long as you are nice to me."

[Blackberry]

Rook growled. "Deal," he said through his teeth. "But if you do tell mom..." He unsheathed his tiny claws. "Let's just say you'll be missing some fur!"

[Stormsong]

Savanna arched her back and hissed.

[Blackberry]

Breeze looked at the hostility between the two and said, "Come on! Let's go hunt!" Without waiting for an answer, he bounded away from the den. Rook glared at Savanna before padding after his brother.

[Stormsong]

Savanna giggled and bounded after Breeze.

[Blackberry]

Brook sniffed the air. Something hot and tasty filled his nostrils, and he grinned at Savannah. "Do you smell that?" he asked in a tiny whisper.

[Stormsong]

Savanna sniffed. "No," she whispered back.

[Blackberry]

"Try again," Breeze enthused. The smell was mouth-watering. Besides, he wanted to prove to Rook that Savanna wasn't useless.

[Stormsong]

Savanna sniffed again, her ears pricked. "Oh! I smell squrriel!" she whispered excitedly. She bunched her muscles anxiously.

[Blackberry]

Breeze smirked. "You got it!" He didn't know what a 'squirrel' was, but he knew they were small, brown, and had giant bushy tails, and could get up a tree quickly. "You go that way," he instructed in a light whisper, flicking his tail. "Go around it and block off the escape route." He had not the slightest idea what he was talking about, but he had heard the discussions mom and dad had sometimes about hunting.

[Stormsong]

"Okay," she said and padded off in the direction he pointed to. Her orange pelt blending in easily with the undergrowth.

[Blackberry]

Rook decided to watch and see if those two mouse-brains could catch the squirrel. Breeze leaped from the bushes, snarling at the squirrel. It ran right in the direction of Savanna, who Breeze couldn't see.

- - -

Dutch yawned and looked up. His ears pricked and he heaved himself to his paws. "Savanna?" he called. "Rook? Breeze?" The clearing in front of the cave. He pawed at Mailou. "Mailou!" he said, his heart beating hard in his chest. "The cubs! They're gone!"

[Stormsong]

The squrriel barrled towards her and she pounced from her hiding place and onto it. She dug her claws into it but the fat thing kept kicking and squeaking. "Breeze help me! I can't hold it!" she called.

[Blackberry]

Breeze leaped and grabbed the squirrel's throat in his jaws and bit down with all his might. "Is it dead?" he asked.

[Stormsong]

The squrriel twitched twice before it lay still. Savanna let go and poked it. "I think so."

"What!?" Mailou was on her feet in an instant. "Where did they go?"

[Blackberry]

"Let's take it home!" Breeze said eagerly. "Hold on," Rook growled, stalking out of the bushes. "You caught that? I don't think so."

"I don't know!" Dutch gasped. He left the den and sniffed the faint scents of their cubs.

[Stormsong]

Savanna huffed and placed her tiny paw on the squrriel protectively. "What do you mean?" she growled.

Mailou followed after Dutch sniffing the tracks as well.

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