A Mauling

[Hendos Vector]

I woke up late, too late to get any good hunting in. But I ventured into the woods anyway. I didn't bring Frik or Frak, my bone and teeth pistols, because I wasn't expecting any real trouble. All I had was my bone armor and my swords, enough for maybe even a few wild dogs, but not what I see now.
I'd been wandering the woods for a few hours when I heard a noise I'd heard before. A low, inhuman growl, followed by a piercing shriek that I had heard before- the screech of a wild dog. I immediately hit the dirt, then I get a good look at the beast. First I see the mangled corpse of a wild dog, then I slowly shift my gaze up to find out what killed the poor dog. The following moments are terrifying. It's a huge bear, standing it must be twelve feet tall, and it has manged skin, and Foaming at the mouth. Rabies,I think. I involuntarily give a small yelp. *You idiot! I think to myself. I can only hope it doesn't see me.

Sometimes hope isn't enough.

The bear drops the half eaten dog corpse and looks directly at me. As soon as we make eye contact, it lets out a roar that may make my ears bleed. I shoot off running towards the District as fast as I can. I know looking back at it will only slow me down. I can't fight the urge, the temptation is too strong. I look back to see it charging at me, and gaining fast. I turn my head just in time to realize that I am going to plummet down a craggy cliff face and into a stream of raging rapids. I stop, but I have to do it so suddenly that As lose my footing. As I tumble over the edge, I somehow catch hold of a stray root. I dangle there a few seconds, relief flooding me. Then I hear another roar, and I look up to see thebear's frightening face peering over the edge at me.It surveys me hungrily, as if it is deciding which parts will taste the best. It begins to raise its arm to claw me. I scream at to frighten it away, but as I knew, that doesn't work. I do the only thing I can do: I let go. I land in the rapids and they sweep me away. I hit a rock, and the only thing that keeps my ribs from cracking is my bone armor, which I do feel snap. I am dragged under, and my head hits a rock. Black floaters invade my vision, and bubbles are the last thing I see.

I slowly open my eyes. I'm in a part of the woods I'm not familiar with, I'm injured, and my armor is damaged. I stroke the back of my head, which is soaked with blood and feels like ground meat. It hurts terribley, but there doesn't seem to be a concussion. Nothing else seems to be injured, which is amazing due to how dangerous rapids are. My swords seem to be undamaged, but my armor is a different story. The chest piece, which is made from the ribcage of a deer, is broken. It's missing three ribs and another two are cracked. Because of the nature of bone, the whole thing will need to be replaced. I hear the crunch of dead leaves. There is something coming my way- human or not.

[Jasmine ((AKA Jaybird))]

Theo made her way through the forest. She was only 6 but Jaybird, her adopted sister, told her to hunt whenever she could. Just then she stepped on some dead leave. 'Shoot that's gotta make the prey run' She thought. She took out an arrow just to make sure she was ready for prey. She steps out from the bush, and sees a man. She raises her arrow ready if he attacked. But he look injured. She still didn't put the arrow down, ready to shoot. "Who are you?" Theo asked in a strong voice even though she was only six.

[Hendos Vector]

"I...I.... My name is Hendos. Hendos Vector", I reply weakly. I slowly push myself up to see the face of whoever's talking to me, but I can't quite manage to stand yet. I cross my legs in a sitting position instead. The owner of the voice is a little girl, one that is from the looks of it at least eight years younger than me. I can't fathom why she would come into the woods completley unsupervised.
"You have to get out of here. It'll come come back for me. You have to go to the District as fast as you can, and never tell anyone about me or you being in the woods. Understand, sweetie?" I warn her. " Put that bow down. I'm not the threat. The threat is out there, and trust me, you don't want to meet a bear like that."

[sapphire]

Tenacity Cavuldurs

Im walking through the woods, I hear a leaf shatter as if something has stepped on it. I brush away the feeling that someone else is here, until I hear, "Who are you?"
"I...I.... My name is Hendos. Hendos Vector", I give out a little yipp, and start walking slowly toward the sound. My bow is strung and an arrow is ready for the head to peirce right through a chest and into a heart.
I gasp when I see a small trail of blood. I follow the trail with my eyes to a sort of teenagerish boy. Hes bleeding from the head."You have to get out of here. It'll come come back for me. You have to go to the District as fast as you can, and never tell anyone about me or you being in the woods. Understand, sweety. Put that bow down. I'm not the threat. The threat is out there, and trust me, you don't want to meet a mutt like that."I immedietly take out my hankercheif and rush over to him. I immedietly whip into action. I dab my hankercheif to his head and I sigh. It all brings back memories of Aura and her branch incident. I shake my head to forger the horrid memory.(OOC:in another thread). I sigh and say to the young girl, "Get me some water."

[semper]

[/i] I think, looking over at the cliff face on the other side of the river. I give a shrug and continue hunting for animal tracks, but something in the water catches my attention. A person! Startled, I stand frozen in place. What on earth was that person doing? Surely the rapids must've hurt him or her.... were they still alive? Since I'm unable to call out to them, I give a nearly perfect mimic dog bark, hoping to rouse the person, though they keep floating down the river.

'Not good..'

Turning the blade around in my hand, I take off running after the person floating down river, forgetting my original objective of hunting tracks. This person had now become my top priority. Of course, the banks of rivers aren't always able to be passed quickly. As I forced my way through tangled and thorny underbrush, the person was already nearly out of my sight in the river. I give another bark, forcing my way through the undergrowth, and by the time I break through and take off running down river, I hear more voices. Coming to a stop, I hesitate a moment before slowly proceeding forward.

"You have to get out of here. It'll come come back for me. You have to go to the District as fast as you can, and never tell anyone about me or you being in the woods. Understand, sweety. Put that bow down. I'm not the threat. The threat is out there, and trust me, you don't want to meet a mutt like that."

"Get me some water."

Was the person alive? I couldn't tell. Looking down at my water canteen hanging from my belt, I debate whether or not to give it to them. Surely they must be helping that person.... and what was this mutt that that one guy was talking about? I hadn't seen anything, let alone seen any tracks. Had he gotten a concussion from the rapids? Again, I couldn't tell. Reaching for my canteen, I take it off my belt and head towards the voices. Sure enough, there were two girls and that person I saw in the river. He was awake, so I guess that's a good thing. Stepping through the trees, I make my way over to the group, holding out the canteen for them to take. It was about halfway filled with water, so it'd save at least one trip to the river. I just hoped they wouldn't ask me questions.

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[Hendos Vector]

"What... were did all of you come from?" I say, able to stand now. Who are you?"
"My name's Theo," the little girl replied, not offering a last name. The woman helping me, who must be in her twenties, does not respond. It's this older boy I'm wondering most about. His face is mud streaked, his hair matted; it looks like he' been out here for days. "Who are you?," I ask staring directly into his eyes. He doesn't reply either.
Before I can respond again, there is another scary roar from the woods. "That-" I say to everyone, tilting my head at the noise. "That is the reason we have to get out of here."

[sapphire]

[OOC:I like drama.....]

Tenacity

I am staring at the blood, mesmerized by the crimson red ground. I don't hear anything anybody is saying. The blood reminds me of everything in my past, my mother and my fathers death. Suddenly I hear a loud, ear piercing screech. Instantly I grab my bow and load it. i point the bow at the cliff above me and there it is. The ugliest mutt Ive ever seen,but then again I'm halfway blind. I knew these woods had mutts, but this one, had an extra edge to it. It easily slides down the steep cliff. As it gets closer, with my good eye, I see the edge. It has deeply glazed over eyes. From a distance they look gray, but up close, you can tell they are blue. It brings back more memories, I sigh, remembering the only person i really trusted other than my brother and sister. Christian. The mutt was Christian, and some more. I know what I have to do so I send the arrow flying, right into the heart. It falls to the ground with a whimper. I fall with it, to my knees. Then the tears start streaming out of my blue eyes.

[Hendos Vector]

OOC: Sapphire I am SO sorry. You need to modify this and re read all the previous edited posts. It is now a huge bear because Quint just couldn't stand the idea of having a monsterous mutt in district 12 woods. He says you can't just go creating mutts for use in the RPG and that its against the rules and so on and so forth. Quote "And I could just claim there is a huge dragon deep deep in the woods of District Twelve and I could go tame it and bombard the capitol, couldn't I" Unquote. No Quint, you couldn't cause you lack the creativity or the mad skillz to do so. Anyhoo, he made me change the whole thread. I'm really sorry you already posted before i got to tell you. I swear Quint has the maturity level of a bratty five year old and the creativity level of a dead chicken. A rotting chicken.

[sapphire]

im not rewriting all thaT!!! Well, then justdrop the whole thread of just do it with semper.

[Jasmine ((AKA Jaybird))]

Theo had gone and got the water when she came she dropped the water and put her bow and arrow again. She gas seen the bear and she wasn't afraid. She ran over to the others not taking her eyes off of the beast.


Occ srry I'm late

[Hendos Vector]

[glow=red,2,300][/glow] I see the bear, too, though no one else except for possibly the little girl sees it. I point over at it. " We should run," I say fearfully. If I'd had my guns and not been injured, it'd be dead by now. But I don't, and its not.

[semper]

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After I wrote it, I looked back up at the boy; and just as I did so, I heard the roar. 'What on earth...?' I thought, slowly rising to my feet. I saw the little girl with the bow coming back towards us, making me wonder if she had seen whatever made the noise. I looked back at the boy, seeing him point at something. My eyes fallow the invisible line, and soon enough I saw the bear. I had never seen a bear that big before, which made me nervous. The only way I knew of to fend off bears was to try to make yourself seem bigger and make loud noises, but those were for black bears -- would it work for a grizzly bear? I hadn't the slightest clue. The bear certainly didn't look the least bit frightened of a group of humans.

Turning back to the wounded boy, I lightly tapped his arm and quickly wrote in the dirt:

Need to be carried?

As soon as I had finished with my chicken-scratch writing, I looked back at the boy and the little girl with the bow. She probably was really good with a bow and arrow since she was out in the woods, but against a grizzly bear that big? To take that thing down seemed to me like taking down a massive pine tree.

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[Hendos Vector]

"No...no... I can run... I'm good," I say to the boy. "We.. we should run!" I repeat, an dI begin running towards the district, sure the bear is following me.

[semper]

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For some reason, I didn't believe him. He had just fallen from a cliff and was carried down river, hitting who knows what. However, I couldn't tell him that -- first of all, because I couldn't speak. And second, he started running before I could do anything. Turning around, I saw the creature, though I wasn't sure what it was doing. I quickly turned back around and took off after the other boy, fallowing him simply because I didn't know where else to really go -- plus, I wasn't just going to leave him since he was injured.

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[Jasmine ((AKA Jaybird))]

Theo started running after the injured boy making sure to get a few shots at the creature before. She hoped she had hit it but she wasn't sure. She leaped into the trees and continues thinking of a way of how to get the others up to. She continues to follow them but jumping from branch to branch.