Hunt-Unwanted company

The two males sat back and watched Lana flaunt herself as she pranced her way over to where they were with a large cream colored goat in her mouth. The female greying brown was obviously more proud than ever. She was making her way up there with the big boys and Wolborg couldn’t help but take pride in his once pupil doing so well. His eyes inadvertently looked at Nuksi who was looking at her in a way he didn’t like. The other males blue eyes looked to be what he’d heard Shirou say on several occasions ‘undressing her with his eyes.’ Wolborg had never quite understood the phrase very well, but for some reason he suddenly did now. He cleared his throat in a loud and obnoxious manner. He watched the tawny blink quickly and look at him before turning away.

“Oh my Aippaq. Do you have crush on her?” Wolborg questioned in a loud whisper while leaning towards his rival.

Nuksi looked from side to side as he smiled in a funny manner. His ears were laid back against his head. Wolborg couldn’t help but notice the way he refused to fully meet his gaze.

“I..have no idea what you’re talking about.” the tawny somewhat stuttered.

Wolborg felt anger slowly building up inside himself. He’d made advances on the pretty female before, but she hadn’t been interested in him the least bit. The tundra piebald wouldn’t dare let this guy become her companion before he could. They’d been on a hunt together for two days and Nutsy here barely knew the girl. Wolborg found himself making a loud ‘humph’ sound without meaning to. Nuksi turned to say something smart, but was cut off as at the sound of Aidyn squealing with excitement and Vinheart making the same high pitched noise as well. Their blue gazes looked to see an extremely large marked brown dire with accents walk towards the girls. Both of their jaws dropped at the sight of the regal looking male. Even the two of them found him to be slightly attractive.

Nuksi snorted as he watched the women coo over the male and couldn’t help but become extremely annoyed at the awed look on Lana’s face as well. If her tail wagged any faster it would fly off her bum. It was surprising no one had been blugdened to death with it yet. His blue eyes looked over to where Shirou stood alone and unimpressed like they were as well. He watched Wolborg approach the young man and push him.

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Jasper sat back and enjoyed the attention as the two women swooned over him. He raised his head high and grinned like the cheshire cat. Attention was his forte and he loved every minute of it. A greying brown female caught his green eyes making his grin turn into a full fledged smile. He rolled his shoulders and shook his barbary mane as he made his way over to the smaller tokota.

“Hi.” he replied smoothly.
She looked from side to side not sure if he was speaking to her or not then feeling quite stupid afterward since she was the only female in the group. Lana stepped back and looked the brown male up and down. He looked like a giant fluffy fox. It was an interesting look for a male but she wasn’t sure if she liked the fluffiness or not.

“Um..hi.” she told him back.

There was an awkwardness in the air that was making her feel very uncomfortable. Her light brown eyes looked past him over at Wolborg and Nuksi who seemed to have a dark cloud over their heads. She was absolutely clueless as to what the heck was going on.

“What’s your name pretty girl?” he asked trying to get a conversation going on.

“Laana.” she said slowly still lost and confused.

“Very pretty. My name is Jasper. I noticed you hunting earlier and I was impressed with your kill.” he commended her.

She couldn’t help the smile that broke out across her face. Pride and excitement filled her chest as she puffed it out at him. It was an awesome feeling to know that someone had been watching her accomplishment.

“Thank you! This is my first hunting trip and I’m very happy to be doing so well! Wolborg was a huge help and Nuksi knows all the right spots to search.” she rambled to him.

His ears perked at Wolborg and Nuksi’s names. He looked over his shoulder to eye the tundra piebald and tawny that sat quietly behind him. His green eyes narrowed at him in menacing manner and then switched back to pure innocence as he turned to look at Lana again.

“How’s about you let a real male show you how to hunt?” Jasper asked in a purr like manner.

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Nuksi stamped one of his feet as he heard the dire ask Lana on a hunt. She was already on a hunt for Aippaq’s sake!! His ears laid flat as he growled at the larger male. He trusted nothing about this guy. This Jasper was up to no good.

“Oh Jasperrrr.” Shirou mocked the two women. “He’s so handsommmmeeee. Yuck. Seriously. She falls all over a tokota, but a guy works his butt off to please and barely gets acknowleged.

The tawny and piebald found themselves sorting and nodding in unison at the absurdity of it all. At the same time they were also thankful that even the human man didn’t like the dire either.

“You guys look way better than he does.” Shirou continued.

“I like this guy.” Nuksi told Wolborg.

“You’d be an even bigger moron than you already are if you didn’t.” the tundra piebald replied.

Nuksi growled at him in an annoyed manner, but Shirou continued to talk and make fun of the dire making it hard to be angry. After about five minutes of the raven haired man talking crap the dire suddenly turned around and snarled visciously at them. The two male tokotas stepped in front of him and snarled back with just as much ferocity.

“Nuksi!” Vinheart scolded “Don’t be like that to him. You boys need to calm down.”

“Oh please.” Shirou cut in. “He started it.”

“Shame on you! How can a tokota start a fight with you?” Aidyn asked folding her arms out in front of her.

Nuksi watched the man face palm himself with aggravation. His ice blue eyes were blazing with rage. All of them were tired and hungry which was most likely part of the reason for short tempers, jealousy aside.

“I thought we were out here to hunt.” he said changing the subject.

The tawny male chuffed at his female handler as a means of showing he agreed with the man. She raised a brown eyebrow at them before looking over her shoulder at the dire whose attention had gone back to Lana. Sighing Vinheart pinched the bridge of her nose hating what was about to do.

“Shirou is right. We need to get back to work we’re wasting daylight.”

“I’m sorry what was that?” Shirou asked cupping his ear and leaning towards them. “I didn’t quite catch that.”

“Don’t think I won’t stab you in your sleep.” the brunette snapped at him. “You better savor this moment because you most likely won’t get another.”

Shirou chuckled as he turned to Wolborg and scratched under the piebald’s chin. Nuksi raised an eyebrow wondering if the man knew just how much his life truely was in danger should he continue to anger the woman. He turned to watch at Aidyn whistled to Lana who seemed to more than grateful that they were leaving. Everyone saddled up and headed in the direction of an open field that had recently had a few goats in it. Vinheart and Aidyn waved good bye to Jasper who looked at them confused that they were leaving him behind. Nuksi smirked at the brown as they headed out. He received another green glare in return, but he ignored it and headed out with the others. The sun was beginning to set when they reached the small valley and to everyone’s surprise it was littered with goats. As far and wide as the eye could see there were goats. White goats, cream goats, albinos goats, large goats,...they seemed to go on and on.

“Jackpot.” he heard Vinheart say.

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Wolborg found himself with an adrenaline rush unlike anything he had ever felt before. His heart pounded deep in his chest as his mouth watered. He was more than ready to sink his teeth into a few of these guys and take his anger out on the prey. His ears twitched as he listened to the three humans converse with one another on a plan of attack. They all split up and and assumed their stations waiting for the signal. The tack that adorned their bodies was removed and his muscles clenched with anticipation. His blue eyes wandered in the direction he knew Lana to be and wondered how she would handle the mayhem that was about to take place. He didn’t have time to think about it for too long though this was their chance to bring in one final good haul to support everyone back at home.

His paws padded on the ground as he walked above the goats eyeing them as they grazed peacefully. Up ahead Lana was getting into position to chase them into a dead end. The plan was for him and Nuksi to make sure nothing escaped. He watched as the greying brown female got into place and was about to make her move when all of the goats suddenly panicked in unison and took off running at her. The female stood her ground growling and barking at them ready to take them all down if she had to. His blue eyes looked to see Jasper in the fray. The jerk had messed up their hunt. He threw his head back and howled signaling to Nuksi that Lana was in danger before leaping down into the herd.

He ran alongside them and clamped his jaws around the neck of one of the bigger ones in a way of intimidation to hopefully sway the others to turn tail. The large goat went limp in his grasp but its kin failed to stop. Out the corner of his eye he saw Nuksi snapping his jaws around a small one and flinging its lifeless body around at the others to scare them.  Both of them were working hard to multi-task so to speak. The large brown dire appeared next to him with a smile on his face.

“What’s the matter small fry? Too much for you to handle?” Jasper asked between breaths.

“You are a moron!” Wolborg gnashed his teeth together. “You’ve put her in danger! So help me if anything happens to Lana I’ll rip you apart.”

Jasper laughed haughtily at him before smacking a goat to the side with the back of his claw. His blue eyes watched the goat fall backwards unconscious on the ground. They had stopped running and were now staring another down. The tundra piebald puffed out his chest and rose up on his tippy toes to meet the green gaze of the dire.

“Either kiss or help out stupid!” Nuksi cut in yelling at Wolborg.

He snorted at Jasper and turned away running back into the midst of the herd. It took a lot of his energy to push through. Bruises were welling up all over his body as he was hit repeatedly. Wolborg couldn’t help the yelp that escaped his throat as a horn rammed into his thigh. He tripped and fell into the path of the on coming goats and closed his eyes as an enormous goat lowered its head at him. There was a loud thud and he opened one eye to see Nuksi standing over him.

“Get up Wally you’re better than this.” the tawny snapped at him.

Wolborg narrowed his eyes and stood up careful to not put too much pressure on his leg from the pain. He growled at Nuksi who smirked in response before leaping over him. Watching his rival travel through the sea of prey he followed the other males movements. The sight of a greyish brown blur made him holler for Nuksi who turned around and they ran to the side of the valley where there was little to no danger. Lana stood before them huffing and gasping for air.

“Are you guys alright?” she asked.

He watched her brown gaze look to his hind leg and worry suddenly filled her facial features. She strained her neck to look but he stepped aside to hide it.

“What happened?” Concern filled her voice

“Its nothing.” he replied.

“That jerk wad brown scared the herd!” Nuksi snarled. “If anyone is allowed to kick this guys butt its me!!”

Lana frowned as the words reached her ears. He wasn’t expecting her to narrow her eyes angrily. He dang sure wasn’t expecting her to shove her way past the two of them. The biggest surprise was when she roared more than growled scaring the goats into submittion to where they stopped running and simply just backed away in fear crowding together. Then when she stood in front of Jasper and confronted him he and Nuksi both about fainted from shock. Lana went off on the brown male and cursed him up and down. A goat stood too closed and she stomped it to the ground during her fit of blinding rage. Jasper stood back looking at her and then at them not fully sure of what to do.