Mission: The Fur and the Slaughter PT 2
The first day went pretty smoothly; Vye had slain and Sai had skinned and in no time they had more than enough furs. Though it was true that they were able to head back as soon as they had what the General had ordered, they decided to stay out for awhile longer and collect more resources so that there wouldn't be a shortage any-time soon. But for now, they took the rest of the night off to rest and recuperate. They talked, joked, and laughed before finally succumbing to the tiredness that overwhelmed them and fell asleep out in the field under all the stars.
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The sun rose and Sai found herself awoken by doggy breath and slobber. She jolted upwards and was face to face with none-other than a wolf pup. A big one, to be exact. Seeing as how it wasn't tearing her to shreds, she was confident enough that she could speak over the comm.
"Uhh...Not that I don't adore wolves but why is one here?" She patted the pup on the head and accepted the kisses he gave her as she waited for a response which came at no time at all:
"That's Asokka, he's my wolf pup that I send to be your guardian for now since Vye was injured and had to be brought back." It was Asonna that bellowed over the comm and to be honest; Sai wasn't surprised.
Sai scowled, "Injured? How?!"
This time the voice that cracked over the comm was Vyeron's; "I went hunting while you were sleeping so that you could skin them when you were awake and I was jumped."
Sai didn't know what annoyed her more; the fact that he went hunting without her or because he got jumped. Nonetheless, there was nothing she could do.
"Also, just so you know; Asokka loves attention." Asonna added.
Asokka's tail was wagging happily and he licked her hand as she tried to pet him.
"Alright, you ready boy?" She asks the pup before being answered with a bark and some more tail wagging; and with that they were off towards the canyon of Saberon.
Sai peered both ways, ran up, then hid behind a tree as soon as they had reached the caverns that the felines made their home. She crouched down and as soon as the coast was clear, she whispered to Asokka; "Okay boy, here's the deal. I'm going to really need your help here. I don't know much of any other fighting style aside from fire and a couple ice spells but if I used those I would damage the pelts.." She peers back at the Saberon before speaking to the pup once more, "I'm going to try and freeze them in place and I need you to go for their jugular, understood?" She pointed at her own jugular for emphasis.
Asokka merely wagged his tail; his tongue lolling out of his opened maw, and Sai took that as an 'understood'.
"Here we go!" Sai rushed out from behind the tree and starts with a smaller Saberon and muttered a short incantation that encased it from the bottom half of its calves down in solid ice. During this time Asokka followed the cavern walks as if he had already made himself a path at the very beginning. As if right on queue, he leaped down- fangs jutted- and laid waste to the beast's throat. The Saberon went limp almost instantly as the blood formed a fountain from his opened jugular.
"Good boy!" Sai bellowed out as another Saberon presented itself right in front of the pup. Just like before, Sai froze the beast's feet before scurrying to the corpse and beginning the task of skinning. However, unlike the previous Saberon that went down very easily; the pup had a bit of trouble with this one. Even though he went for the throat the same way he had previously; he just could not get a good grip upon it. The Saberon fought Asokka off for the time being until the pup tried a different tactic. Taking a look about his surroundings, Asokka spotted a stalagmite jutting up out of the ground near the Saberon. Sprinting forward, the pup used the side of the rock to push himself onto the cat-beast where he ripped its jugular out from the side; the sound of tearing flesh echoed throughout the cavern and canyon. Once the Saberon fell dead, the pup howled to signal that the deed was done.