Where do we go from here?

[Midnight]

so i guess the posting order got a little messed up (by me) n so i guess this is it: Song and quen, Fen, Midnight, thunder, and Graal.

[Ragnar Fenris]

Fen managed to squeeze himself in with minimal damage to his body. Once inside he watched the pup make fire.

"Even so, you are both half frozen and half starved. Before we 'go exploring' you two need to sit down and let me heal you. After I've healed you I will go back out and hunt. Does anyone else have a wound or feel sick? It'd be best if I healed you all at once so as to preserve my own strength."

[Midnight]

"Nope, I'm good." Midnight said at the reply to Fen's healing offer. "And no, I haven't explored these caves yet, maybe Thunder has. After all, she led us here." Midnight streched again, and walked to the edge of the cave. The storm was dying down quick. "If the storm stops soon, does anyone want to go for a walk? I know it weird, since it's so cold, but....... I don't know." she mumbled the last part. She glanced at each one in turn, wondering which would want to.


OoC: i can change the storm dieing down if yous guys want. :)

[thunder]

She huffed and stuck out her tongue at Graal. "I would have a problem with that why?" she asked him turning to the others. She scrunched up her nose at the scent of fire but listened. "I'm good to but a hunting party sounds like a good idea. Midnight could stay and watch the pups wile we go hunting. I think it would be a good idea for Graal and Fen to go after big game wile I hunt speedy small things that love the ice and water. That is if you all agree. If you don't you can make a plan of your own." She said sitting down and looking at them all.

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal nods, "I can hunt alone, or with Fen, it is up to him, I am Sikla here, he is Dragga." he says, standing.
"Bear, Elk and even Varg cannot stand against me, I can hunt on a level so instinctive, I am almost Fenris himself." he brags, stretching his wide shoulders.

While he was not lying, he was not entirely telling the truth, he had not, in fact taken the Varg in a head-on fight at full strength, instead, he had attacked the creature during it's transformation back to human form, poisoned by Vulfen trickery and injured with silver powder. The kill still shamed him some, although he never showed it.
"Of course, if you'd like, Midnight, you can take my place and I will care for the cubs, you needn't worry about them with me."

[kmin66]

"We can watch ourselves quite well, thank you! And we're really not pups, we're older than that!" Song said, bristling slightly. She itched her back again, noticing in a rather detatched way that there was a lump where the itch was. Feeling that she might have been a bit rude, so she made up for it by saying, "I can hunt, if you want. I'll be fine." She shot a look at Quen, daring him to say something about getting up. If he did, he knew that she could easily tumble him back down and sit on him. "I would appreciate the healing offer, Fen. Do him first, though. Please," she added hurriedly. "Thunder, are you sure the cave is safe? I could bring a fire-stick and check it out with you." Quen opened his mouth to say something. She guessed (correctly) that it would be something about going with them, if they went, and kicked him lightly. "Otherwise, I could sit here and... um, sit here... Hey, what's that wierd smell? (Ooc: I referenced it in my last post, if you were wondering.) It's almost like..."

[Ragnar Fenris]

Fen placed his paw on Quen's back and let out a breath, his paw grew warm and a soft light began to flow from his black pelt. The light fell to the ground around the big wolf like snow and remained until he stopped letting the power loose. Because of how close the pups were they both would have been healed, however direct contact was more effective and allowed for further healing.

Once he had finished the healing he turned to the rabbit he had brought with him and tore it apart, eating the pelt and the bones, leaving only a small blood stain. His legs shook, and his vision swam. He was suffering from malnutrition.

"Graal, according to my mother I am like unto Fenris myself. That's why she named me Ragnar Fenris. She new what I was before I did. My name means, quite literally, Justice Warrior and Destructive Wolf. When it comes to Hunting, between the two of us we should be able to bring in a whole herd of Elk. Maybe we'll get lucky and find some long forgotten beast and bring that home." He spoke too much for his own comfort but he was half delirious from the hunger. "I'm sorry, the healing, I have to eat a lot after I use it. But it isnt as bad as Arctic Lullaby, I'd freeze to death if I used that right now."

Of course Midnight Serenade would be worse, there was not enough thawed water to sooth his throat.

[Midnight]

Midnight was surprized when Fen started shaking. She thought he was like a wall, anyone would think twice before attacking him. But it was like he was falling down. Then she smelled it. The cubs had been talking about it, but now she realized it was.... she actually didn't know what it was; it just smelled dangerous. "What is that?" she said sharply. "I can't tell, I've never smelled anything like it. It was coming from the back of the cave, but just to be sure, she shepereded the cubs to Fen's side; even in his weakend state, he was still a formidable opponent. Midnight lept out of the cave and sniffed the air, her tail curved. No, it was defenetly in the cave, and she rushed back in, scraping her side in her haste. Midnights hackles rose when she sensed it coming closer.


((OoC: kmin, not sure if you wanted it to be anything specific, but i couldn't think of anything. D:))

[thunder]

Thunder took in the scent and sighed. She simply trotted over to a tree and uprooted it. "I'll just be taking this outside." she said in an annoyed manner. She took it out and threw it far away shooting it a glare. Before checking to see if she had swallowed anything. She trotted back in. "Yew berries also known as Death berries they don't do any harm unless you eat them which I'm pretty sure none of you did." She sat down when she finished speaking. "Back there are various herbs and antidotes for poison. It just seems that one such poison decided to grow." Her ears flattened for a seconde but she was relaxed.

[cptkickercutleg]

(( I'm gonna miss next turn as Graal leaves them for a time ))

Graal slips out of the cave while the others are talking about the odd smell. While he had smelled something akin to it before, he had no doubt the others could manage it. Meanwhile, he was off to find something to eat, maybe an Elk, or, if he could manage it, maybe even a bear! As his mouth began to salivate, a half hour or so after he began stalking from the cave, a familiar smell reaches his nose, something like inside the cave, but stronger...

He stops in his tracks.
"I've been walking through that smell for some time now..." he realises, eye widening and ears pulling back.
"It smells like the flower of home..." he shakes his head, now wasn't the time to be reminiscing, if it WAS like the Paradise Flower, he'd have to hurry back.
"Drappa, Pups, I have to get back to see if they're okay!" he growls, sprinting along the forest paths tearing past animals which, earlier, were his main objective, but now, the others were more important, in danger, "Thunder..."

[kmin66]

Oh, his back itched SO bad. It was killing Quen that he couldn't muster the energy to sit up and scratch his back. Thankfully, Song reached over and scratched it for him again, then scratched her own back.
Yew berries? Song had never heard of them, but mentally filed the information as something that might quite possibly come in useful sometime. Looking at her back again, she noticed the lump on the right side, and looking the other way, the left side. Mosquitos couldn't be THAT big, she thought. She looked at Quen's back, and noted that he, too, had large lumps on his back, in relatively the same locations. She wondered what they were, other than itchy bumps. "So the smell was just berries? It really smelled like a... well..." She didn't know how crazy they would think she was here. Back home, it was a regular occurence for this sort of thing to happen, but she didn't know if demons frequented the land here quite as much. Shuffling her feet and looking down, she muttered, "I thought it was a demon." Quen looked at her, silently agreeing. She was glad someone had the same mindset as her. "Back where we came from, demons were really common, and that might sound crazy... alright, it does sound crazy, but it was normal there. I was sure... well, it... um... I just thought..." She sighed, and mentally kicked herself for her stupidity. "I thought... something, I don't know," she finished. Then, she scratched her back again. "Is there some sort of mosquito here that leaves lumps this big?! They itch so bad! ((Ooc: I'm having them develop wings. I couldn't think of any other way than the lumps.)) Have we gotten some sort of disease?" she asked, suddenly worried. What if it was terminal? Would they die? She looked around. Where was Graal? Suddenly, she had a terrible thought. Had he poisoned them, and then slipped off into the night? He looked like the sort that might act all kind and caring, and then turn on you in seconds. She tried to dismiss the thought, but it kept coming up and bothering her again. Was she going to die?

[Ragnar Fenris]

"If it was a Disease my spell would have healed it. Your scent is strange though. You could be a hybrid of some kind. I've had encounters with half demons, and if demons are as common as you say, it's possible you've had demons mix with wolves in the past. By the way, I smell sulfur, not Yew." Fen sat down to keep from falling down.

"Even if you are descended of Demons, there's no reason to panic. There are worse things to have in your bloodline, trust me. I'm the son of a murderous, traitorous, monster that isn't worth the air he breathes."

[Midnight]

Midnight listened to them talk. She shuffled her wings; it helped her think. She was glad Thunder was here, otherwise they would be scared for nothing. She looked over at the mention of ichiness, then relaxed when Fen said it wasn't diesese. Then she realized her own wings sometimes got ichy, but that was a while ago, when she had first started to use them. "Oh," she said, distraced by the growing sense of horror only she seemed to notice,"your uh, your growing wings." It grew until she thought she would scream or die. Her pelt crawled, and she was terrified; but she had no idea why. Wait, where was Graal? She sank her claws into the ground. Someone should have gone with him..... suddenly, she thought she felt his thundering paw steps, but it looked like she was the only one who noticed it. Instinctivle she drew the cubs closer to Fen and herself. She hoped Graal was ok and would come back soon. Midnigh had a feeling he knew something.

[thunder]

Thunder felt just about ready to ram her head repeatedly into the wall. "I'm going for a walk." she said taking care to keep the irritation out of her voice. She headed out into the storm. Not a walk but a run and a climb she corrected in her head. She broke into a sprint and took to the trees later. This would clear her head and give her time to think. When she noticed Graal she yelled out to him "Seems your enjoying your run." and continued going ears back as she ran in the opposite direction he was running in.

[cptkickercutleg]

Graal, nose coated in yellow pollen, sprints past Thunder, not hearing her over the thundering of his paws, the roar of his worried thoughts, and the pounding if his heart.
"I have to save the pups" he thinks, panic racing through his blood.
He clambers into the small cave, anxious to see how the pups were doing.
"Song! Quen! Are you okay!?" he barks, legs shaking, unused to such a long sprint.
Seeing their baffled faces, he looks around, still smelling those flowers, those sweet smelling, deadly flowers.
"Oh..." he thinks, realising his mistake.
"The flower pollen."