Flying without wings (Graal, Midnight, open)

[thunder]

Thunder ran. it was easier for her to collect her thoughts when she ran, but this time it was also to blow off some steam no one but Thunder knew about.

Her speed was vicious and was rapidly accelerating. Her eyes narrowed as she rushed up towards the cliff edge and a smile crept its way onto her face. This was going to be fun.

She simply ran off the edge laughing. Anyone below might be scared, or might not. "Vento! Correre vento!" She said joyfully as she went down.

Thunder hit the ground with a roll scaring quite a few small animals. She stood immediately and was about to run, but was stopped by the scents that came to her nose. Graal and Midnight.

She turned in a circle, she couldn't see them. Thunder shook her head and began trotting arund the cliff so she could get back up.

(Now we watch Graal disapprove of her childhood favorite game.)

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal smirks from behind the shrubs beneath the cliff edge, knowing the shadows would hide his creeping form from the large, juicy hare.
Gathering his haunches, he closes his eyes, his nose flaring and his auds twitching,
"Is that-"
The thought is interrupted by a scatter of pebbles falling straight onto his head, and Thunder barrels down in front of him, the hare bolting quick as lightning down into a burrow.
But he couldn't find it in himself to admonish her, he was already sated, and only wanted the hare for sport, leaving the carrion for the scavengers, she was flush with happiness and the thrill of a good run, and he couldn't bear to break that feeling.
"Although, she COULD have hurt herself."
He shakes his greying muzzle, dismissing the thought,
"She's not old like me." he thinks, chuckling quietly as he steps through the bush, rustling loudly as the branches snag his cast, irritating his aching rib.
"At least it's getting better..."

[Midnight]

'Okaaayyy……' Midnight thought looking at Thunder. 'Interesting hmm…' she thought evolution. Sighing it away, she was faced with dying from the cliff or Graal killing her. 'Lets not risk it,' she thought. Just for fun she walked calmly up to Thunder, stopped, then tackled her and try to pin her.

[thunder]

Thunder froze and for less than a second it seemed the world slowed down. Then suddenly her reaction was like that of an arrow out of a bow. She sprang forwards then turned sharply with a spray of rocks from her right.

She was tensed and ready to go off in an instant. Her fur was fluffed and a snarl lay upon her face. All this was dropped in an instant as she simply plopped down. "So now you show yourselves." She said plainly. Hm... her moods were shifty enough before... Thunder sighed. This was getting tiring. Relaxed and cheerful one instant then the next poised to kill my friend. What is going on? Oh I know-

Thunder cut off her own sarcastic mental remark as a buck with huge antlers stormed over to them. She cocked her head for a second then realized its intent. Again, she was poised to go off in an instant but this time it was even more threatening. At least it was to most. Instead of the fluffed fur and snarl she simply bred her teeth and slinked forwards like a panther up against an oponent it deemed weaker than itself. It was a pretty big threat, acting like you could take something out with one easy blow when you really couldn't do it that fast.

It took the bait, stepping back frightened. then it regained its senses charging forwards to prove to the nearby female deer just how strong it was. Thunder shook her head he pose changing again as she darted to the side at the last second and it crashed into the wall.

Thunder simply plopped down again, that buck had its horns very stuck and wouldn't be getting anywhere for a wile.

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal grunts and recoils as grit sprays his face, closing his eyes for an instant, and then, it was over.
"Did I just see that?" he thinks, "Or was she ready to kill just then?"
he shakes his head again, refusing the image of Thunder's teeth in Midnight's neck.
"Stop doing this. It only hurts..."

He glances cautiously at the beast with it's antlers stuck in the wood of the tree before him.
"Still as fast as ever I see." he chuckles, then smiles,
"Do you think it's the same buck we let go all that time ago?"

[Midnight]

Midnight wasn't a fool, and was ready when Thunder went on the attack. Her hackles were up, although she was scared.
The buck surprised her just as she was about to calm down. All the excitement was too much, and she crept over to Graal's side and snuggled against it.

[thunder]

"Doubt it. Look at the markings." She said, seemingly completely relaxed. Realy her mind was racing, she took note of every-little thing, the speed everyone was breathing at, the horrible sound of part of the buck's antler breathing, and just how shifty she was. There was quite a list of things she was processing at the moment.

She wanted to keep running, to be lost in the wind and burn, but she couldn't, not now at least. Since she was already laying on the ground simply looking at it to mask just how crazy things were inside her head wasn't that hard. The buck huffed and puffed tugging desperately.

"Mi dispiace andare via..." She began quietly singing, it calmed her enough to stop on the first line and simply look around as she normally did. She did this then laid her head down on its side there really was no point in trying to fight the seemingly random swing of her moods.

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal chuckles, nuzzling Midnight's neck softly,
"Hey, Ash Drappa-pup, what's gotten into you?" he asks, a gentle smile on his face as he looks between the two females.
"Everyone I love is here..." he muses, licking down a stray tuft of fur on Midnight's head.
"But her eyes betray her again. No matter, what will be will be."

Turning to Thunder he nods,
"Das es ken, and this buck is likely a year or so older as well, not to mention the size of its-" he says, stopping in his tracks as she begins to sing.
When she stops after the first line, Graal cocks his head.
"Her voice...
"Don't stop..." he asks. "It's-"
"Her voice is-"
"Beautiful..."

[Midnight]

Midnight was about to say 'Nothing, it just scared me's, but apparently her singing was earth-shiftingly important, so she let it be. It wasn't that she didn't think Thunder's singing was pretty, she just didn't understand Graal's reaction. He had odd reaction like that a lot, she reflected. Instead, she rolled over on her back and pawed Graal until he would play with her.
.

[thunder]

Thunder's face screwed up in confusion. How would he understand at all.... She unscrewed her face and lifted her head up. She looked at Graal confused then shook her head and continued "Ma sapevo che era una bugia. Quanto tempo perso dietro a lui. Che promette poi non cambia mai..." Her voice fell into the pitch easily but she was still confused, what did it matter? The song was meant to calm and to allow one to ponder their own mind through the words, it would all be lost on them.

But a request was a request, and she was named for sound high and low. "Strani amori mettono nei guai.. Ma in realtà siamo noi. Strani amori che fanno crescere e sorridere tra le lacrime. Quante pagine, lì da scrivere. Sogni da lividi da dividere!" The song was faster paced now and louder. Still it did its job, the calm of it filling her, and allowing her to not only sing but to understand some of the problem with more clarity.

She stoped, it was the middle of the song but a loud snap was heard as the buck pulled free. And oh was it mad. She was too. Thunder's mood shifted once again and the calm and meaning of the song left her. She stood tail lashing threatingly, this was getting to be to much. She growled, the low haunting sound was different than that of anyone or anything she had heard, and she knew it. It reverberated and echoed nicely enough. Wait till you hear what's next, she thought as it stepped back from her the second time. Its anger returned quickly enough and it charged her. All Thunder did was bark, it came out just like that for which she was named, thunder the bang sound that was hard on the ears. She care? Nope.

Still it persisted, the shattering of the top half of its antlers enough to make it crazy. At least it gave her something to vent on. Or maybe not. It was out with a quick snapping bite on Thunder's part and she pushed it over to Graal and Midnight.

[thunder]

(Kicker? You there?)

[thunder]

(Post again so we can delete these)

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal stands, amazed at the vocal talents of Thunder and in love with her voice, the smooth words caressing his attentive ears.
"Such a voice, so pure, so powerful... Her voice lilts like a spirit from the Golden Forests, and it's even relaxing her, who couldn't resist that?" he muses, eyes half closed.
SNAP![/b]

Graal's nose twitches, and he swivels to glare at the beast, an annoyed, and very, very hostile snarl tearing from his throat, menace rippling from his bared teeth.
"Drappa es gút Suntar, voh es Liira, sort voh es ash estan." he growls, taking a step over Midnight, protecting his surrogate sister with a wall of hardened flesh and fur.
(( "She is a good singer, you are a prey animal, so you are our food" basically saying "You interrupted her, we'll kill you." ))
"My Thunder... She's lost that calm she had. She's angry again, she dropped her guard for an instant and this happened, it's too much!" he thinks, readying himself to pounce at the stupid buck.

BANG!

The sound echoes through the clearing, shaking Graal's bones, his heart skipping a beat as he stumbles back, ears ringing, before he recovers his stance, accidentally putting his weight on his front right paw as he pounces at the buck, agony tearing through his side as his teeth clamp on it's wind pipe, crunching down. His mouth fills with crimson nectar, all pain forgotten as he concentrates on killing it before it can get close to either Thunder or Midnight.