Stay hidden, don't spook your prey and things would go fine, Yumi could recall that much. She was making every conscious effort to avoid stepping on anything and was moving much slower than before, so that was going for her. Wearing a low cut gray, long-sleeved shirt and loose pair of black pants didn't exactly afford her quite as much stealth as some more earthen colors might, she hardly blended in anywhere. Not the end of the world though, so long as she remained out of sight she could easily make up for that. Scanning the forest floor she gave the air a good sniffing once more and stopped in her tracks, astonished she actually had found something. At least, she though it was something. There was definitely an odor that hadn't been there before and it was fair strong, either Viral had broken wind or there was an animal nearby. Focusing her attention towards the source of the scent she moved ahead a few meters, finally managing to spot the creature in an opening. As soon as it was in view she ducked behind a tree, poking her head just around the corner to watch it. Not quite what she had expected to find on Kaesstra she had to take a moment to figure out what she would do. The animal was crawling along on six legs, and its skin was jet black and looked fairly tough. It had a long body with a thin, almost spiked tail and a short but wider head. Either side of the head had two heavy horns running down alongside of its face, the tips of which poked just beyond the edge of its jaw, and it certainly had a set of sharp teeth. The pitch black eyes it had didn't much help either, it looked kind of spooky. Swallowing, Yumi gripped her spear tightly, preparing to go after it.

She waited for the perfect moment to come out of cover and attack, and the opportunity quickly presented itself. After the creature had looked around for a few moments it turned and began shuffling away, at a speed surprisingly slow given it was hunting. Good, if it was that slow then hunting it down would be simple. Adjusting the spear so she was ready to strike with it Yumi ran around the tree, rushing headlong at the creature. It picked up either her scent or the sound of her running, obvious by the fact it began to turn around to face her. By the time it had however she jumped up over it, using its own head as a stepping board as she threw down her spear, grinning as it hit the creatures back... And bounced right off. No way, she'd thrown that with a lot of strength, how did it not go through? When she landed she looked over at the spear and her heart sank, the head hadn't been nearly secured enough to hold on, let alone pierce something. There was little time to lament her shortcoming as the tail was whipping around right at her, and being hit by it would probably put a real damper on their plans. Ducking under the swing Yumi again tried to attack, this time using her bare hands. Delivering a kick to the creatures side she managed to knock it away, but it stayed upright somehow. On top of that it did little noticeable damage and appeared to make it furious. Releasing a loud roar it turned on her once more, starting a charge at her. 

The grub babies were sort of funny to watch, but staring and laughing at children was hardly going to get them in the good graces of the locals. Kabocha would give Kai that one, he deserved to hit Choi for bringing it up. Of course that didn't prevent Kabocha from having a good laugh of it either, or bringing up his hair-brained idea of freaking out Takeshi by showing him this. "Pathetic...? Probably, but it would be so funny! Can't you just picture him freaking out or fainting? And all over some little kids!" Oh it would be so rich to see, he was near wanting to call the others into the city to try. Or better yet maybe they could try finding some baby pictures of T'charrl to show later, see how well the Prince did with that. Smirking he relented on the subject for the time being, feeling in a much better mood as they went on. "Okay then, we've got to find some food! And some Kaesstrian that will take my money!" Or exchange it, that's what they had been looking for, right? Did these people have a bank? If not they had to find some random person with loads of money to exchange, what a bother. The Kaesstrians weren't going to know this but Kabocha did have a sizable sum on him, more than just a few meals worth, so getting his fair share in the exchange might be tricky.

Takeshi wasn't wholly sure what was being discussed, all he knew was T'charrl looked down and he wanted to do something about it. After managing to spook both of the others he was smiling apologetically, giving his head a scratch afterwards in thought. What could they do on their way to the city? Hide and seek could work well, especially with T'charrl having his ability to hide and all. But that meant they had to stop moving which would be bothersome. Considering how much slower the Kaesstrian was earlier it was likely that tag was off the table as well, which left... What? "There's loads of other stuff we can do, fighting isn't the only way to have fun," he said, pointing out the obvious there, "We can... Uh..." What more did they do for fun? He and Shu liked to wrestle, but that was basically fighting. Swinging in the trees... Haku and T'charrl couldn't do that. T'charrl couldn't run as well, so basically anything involving running was out. Maybe hide and seek really was their only option. "Ever play hide and seek...? We could play that for a bit. It's not like we're trying to keep a schedule or anything, you know?"