Aradia is sleeping pleasantly in her cave. A meowbeast had taken residence in the cave too, helping Aradia survive. Both of them are happily asleep. The meowbeast is curled up around the small burgundy, keeping her warm and protected.
It is the early night hours of one of the warmer seasons. A soft wing is whistling peacefully outside. Nothing at all seems to be the cause of the meowbeast waking up so suddenly.
The creature lifts its white head up, gazing out into the peaceful night. Tiny Aradia murmurs a bit in her sleep, and she stretches her arms a bit.
As part of their waking routine , the meowbeast licks at the burgundy's hair. The wiggler lies there, and even though it isn't her cup of tea, she doesn't go against it. The Megido enjoys the attention, never had any attention when she was a grub.
After a few minutes, Aradia tries to crawl away from her self-appointed guardian. The creature wraps her large paws around the two sweeps old wiggler, keeping the little troll there. She doesn't try again to run and curls up in the warmth of the large creature protecting her. The meowbeast went back to the licking of the small one's hair.
Footsteps so swiftly appear in the ears of the two. The creature's head shoots up in a single movement, staring out into the cave entrance. Another troll, tall and lean, stands there. The meowbeast growls at the troll, noticing fins on both sides of the head.
The troll walks up to them, and Aradia lifts her head up in confusion. She sees the tall and obviously an adult troll, and the small wiggler hides in the fur of the creature that cares for her.
The meowbeast hisses at the troll that continues to walk towards them. A grin appears across the face of the looming threat. The Aries huddles as closely as she could to the lusus. The creature swipes out with a huge white paw with four claws extended to hurt the adult. They jump away, a knife showing up in their left hand.
The meowbeast stands on its paws, standing over the little Aradia. The troll looks to be quite a bit taller than even the large creature. Aradia doesn't move from her designated spot under her guardian.
I all seems so sudden to Aradia. The troll dashes forward, knife prepared for the strike. The meowbeast raises its paw, and it extends its long, sharpened claws. The arm swops under the chin. The claws raise and slice at the forearm. In the same moment, the knife is dived into the neck of the meowbeast, and the claws go straight through the forearm of the adult troll. The knife had gone through the windpipe and multiple blood vessels, kill the meowbeast instantly.
The lusus falls to the ground, bringing the troll with it. Aradia runs away to the back of the cave, frightened of the troll. The adult rips the claws out of their forearm, bleeding violet blood. Olive blood is slowly surrounding the meowbeast.
The burgundy blood hides in the shadows of the cave. The violet walks over to the small wiggler.
"stay away fr0m me!" she shouts at them, fearful of what they'll do to her.
"Oh, little one, don't fear me, yet," a small, somewhat comforting voice says to Aradia. She shivers at the voice and curls up into a ball, trying to be defensive.
The violet blood picks her up, a screechy high-pitched yelp erupting from her throat. Very slightly, a smirk is pulled onto the lips of the violet blood. They walk out of the cave, Aradia weakly growling at her kidnapper.
