[center][h1][color=FF4500]Velari[/color][/h1][/center] [hr] [b]Day 1, Week 1, Cycle 1 Springtime, 21 C°, Sunny[/b] Safe to say, the two groups of Velari had both awoken to what initially had been much confusion. Thoughts, words, concepts all so alien to them somehow and yet so familiar...yet all washed away as primal instinct and a dumbfounded silence eventually took over in the end. Knowledge they had never known before began to cause many things to take shape within their minds, and before long they began a scramble to get organized and ready to survive. The tallest Velari in each of the two groups had begun to bark out orders to their kin, after asserting some amount of control post-chaos, and it hadn't taken long for the others to fall in line. Shortly thereafter, the soft flutter of Velari wings would be visible from the myriad of beasts on the dark and dense rainforest ground as these new arrivals took to the air. A few moved to inspect the area from the air in all directions and seek signs of their own kin, some others began to simply seek out wood and suitable plant materials for making homes, and others more began to scour for something...edible, whether it was moving around eating things or just growing out of the ground. All in all it began to cause a bit of a stir in dense, wet grounds that the Velari had awoken in, all as birds and small scaly flying things, small lizards, beasts big and small, and all were being awoken or already moving about with the rising sun. However... [hr] The crack of wood and spring of tree branches rang out into the air, alongside a mighty, screeching roar of anger that could send chills down one's spine. The young Velari's heart was racing almost as fast as her wings were beating in the air, with the sticky hot and humid air of the rainforest feeling like it was clinging to her very lungs. Leaves were whipped to the side as she darted through with all of the haste of a prey animal in flight, and flecks of moisture seemed to whizz by her at top speed as her pupiless white eyes glanced around for a guaranteed path to safety. Mere moments ago she'd been attacked by a large primate-like creature, larger in height than her, having four eyes, being covered in greenish-black hair that almost camouflaged it, and bearing most of all frighteningly pronounced lower canine teeth. It had come charging with a mighty roar and large fists, its lanky but muscled limbs swinging about as it had gone in for the kill outright...only for her to narrowly dodge in time due to being in the air. Even now it pursued her seemingly to try to make her a meal, even as she was darting away as fast as she could with her butterfly-like wings. She most definitely regretted wandering from her group of gatherers to investigate some odd sounds, but had at least felt she had a good reason to disappear. She had found some odd fruits near where this primate had been as well. One taste had told her it was sweet, and while its bright blue rind has been thicker...the flesh of it had been mostly sweet and ever so slightly hot to an extent when eating closer to the seeds. However, the decayed bones of dead prey animals hanging from branches or around the bottom of those fruit trees should have been a sign to her of something not being right here. [color=green][b]"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"[/b][/color] The roar of the beast was so close she could feel it now, sending smaller creatures into a frenzy of panic as it was swinging along after her. She glanced back instinctually at this, noting the moving mass coming up on her, though at the same time did not notice an upcoming branch. [b]CRACK!!! SNAP!!![/b] The Velari's body crashed into the tree branch, after having darted lower to try to lose the larger predator in the underbrush, snapping the branch and sending her finally crashing down to the ground. It had been a low enough flying altitude, and a thin enough branch at least, to ensure she didn't snap like a twig on impact. Even the brush and plant life acted as a cushion for her fall in this case. Yet...the sudden halt of her flight from danger would pose its own far greater dangers now. The young gatherer scurried to her feet, and instinctually grabbed the now sharp and pointy long tree branch that had broken off due to her impact. The sound of her heart now seemed to ring in her ears, however, thumping away as her eyes widened in an instant with fear. There was no time to move. No time to run. It was here. The great primate came crashing down near her onto the forest floor, lightly shaking the ground around it from the dramatic but intentional impact. The beast stood up tall as it looked down upon her, all four of its its entirely black, with white pupils no less, eyes now glaring down at her with ravenous hunger and a very much murderous glint in them. The shaggy hairy exterior of the beast seemed to sway almost like tree branches as it moved, before the beast licked its meaty chops and began to pound its chest with a scream of dominance. It had slain many prey that ran from it before. It had eaten them, and the fruit of the tree it lived in, many a time before. This..insect...thing...female...whatever it was, it would soon become food as well anyways! [center][color=red][i]Such was the foremost Law of the Jungle, after all: 'Eat or be Eaten'.[/i][/color][/center] Not hesitating, as it had sized up its target to be flimsy and frail and easy to kill, the hulking creature leapt forward at its next dinner with its mighty jaws opened up wide-! At the same time, the young Velari's 'fight' instincts and some inkling in her mind pushed her to roar back and protrude her pointed branch out with its back end on the ground-! [color=red][i][b]*SQUELCH*[/b][/i][/color] ...What? [color=red][i][b]*CRACK*[/b][/i][/color] How could-?! [color=red][i][b]*THUMP THUMP... THUMP THUMP... THUMP... THUMP... ...*[/b][/i][/color] [color=green][i][b]"Ah...Ah....Ahhh...[/b][/i][/color] Eventually silence once against settled over the rainforest floor...save for the distant chatter of the smaller creatures that had long fled from the immediate area out of instinct. Yet now a sticky, dark red liquid began to pool about on the ground, staining and coating and pooling about the uncaring the flora and fauna and refuse in a disgusting gush of what once was the lifeblood of another living thing. Indeed, the way of the jungle was a harsh one...and a lesson from which none, not even those at the highest levels, would be preserved from. The corpse of the mighty ape slumped to the side, now leaning against a tree as its wide open eyes gazed out with a glassy and empty gaze. Its heart had already stopped beating, though, and the last breath had already left its large lungs in what almost seemed like a hushed and quiet whisper. The air that had once been so thick with tension, so thick one could cut it with a knife, seemed to suddenly yet softly dissipate as quickly as it came. Amidst all of this, the young Velari gatherer collapsed to her knees on the ground. There was no care that she kneeled in the blood of her pursuer, yet as she felt her breathing begin to slow she pulled up a hand in front of her eyes. It was her hand...and yet it was not her blood that stained it. She slowly began to stand once more, the beat of her heart returning to normal, before slowly looking to the sharp stick still stuck inside of the primate's corpse. After a moment of contemplation, she then pulled out the stick out and held it in her hands once more. Some fragment of organ and heart and muscle and such was stuck to the end, lifeless yet still warm and covered in blood...but the gatherer then took a wary yet curious bite of the severed flesh. Her eyes widened at the taste, even as she chewed it all slowly before finally swallowing it. After some moments that felt like an eternity, however, the young Velari then looked up at the sky once more. This was all a place so very strange, and yet under the rays of the sun it felt more familiar somehow. But...they, she, would not be prey here. They would not be the hunted, as she had been. Indeed, they would be something more! They were mighty! She was mighty! Raising her blood-soaked weapon above her head, the young Velari felt a surge of energy wash through her, rising and cascading and shooting up to the point that- [color=FF4500]"OOOOOAAAAAHHHHH!!!"[/color] The young gatherer-...no, the young huntress now let aloud a cry of victory at the top of her lungs and with all her might. In a sense one could see it as her somewhat mimicking the odd sounds of her former pursuer, and yet it was her own cry and voice all the same. Soon it would draw others to her location, others of her kind and people. Soon they would return to the fruit tree that was once this predator's lair, and take apart the body of this mighty beast as well as take its well-protected harvest. [center][color=FF4500][i]...Such was the Nature of Civilization: For to the victor, thus went the spoils.[/i][/color][/center] [hider=Velari RP Details Hider] [b]Time Passed[/b]: None, this is the the first day! [b]Time Until Next Turn[/b]: 3 months [b]Events/Developments[/b]: [list] [*]A young Velari gatherer got lost, and with some big luck and an overconfident foe slew rather large rainforest primate, probably omnivorous but also definitely dangerous and a bit too cocky in the case of this individual. A new fruit in the rainforest has been discovered as well, and ideas and thoughts of what to do with this are going about. Maybe could find some young of the primate and see what they want to do with it. Whatever the case may be, the Velari have made their arrival into this new world. [*] [*] [*] [/list] [/hider]