Sleepiness is sleepy. Long day but here is your chapter. ;p
Deb grumble away as she walked complaining currently about everything and anything. She shook her head slowly, lowering her ears so they were flat against her ears and narrowed her eyes. If Notch would see her now, the great hunter would not let this one die. She huffed loudly.
"What?" Bell said leaning over Deb's shoulder to peek into her many eyes. She made eye contact and huffed again. Deb was being ridden like a horse. Bell sat on the curve where Deb's thick neck and shoulders met; having her one good leg curve around the front of her chest where the shoulder front arm rotated, her right leg that ended just below the knee joint was curled behind Deb's armpit area. Bell had the sniper rifle ready in one hand and held her balance by holding onto the black strap that was wrapped around Deb's throat that served as her top when she was human.
When Deb had realized that the sniper was incapacitated with her lack of limb and to find the prosthetic one without a better term, out of commission, she jumped into the nearest tree grasping a hold of a nicely sized and curved branch and broke it off to make a make sift crutch. This did not do because Deb had to continuously stop for the stumbling woman to catch up. Giving up on the branch idea, Deb let the woman lean most of her weight on her as they walked but again this progress was too slow. Finally giving in Deb slumped her body down and patted her back. In almost a spree of glee, Bell wasted no time to jump onto Deb's back.
She sighed as she trotted along, she was happy that it had taken the sniper only a few minutes to get used to Deb's long strides and move her body accordingly so to not lose her balance and fall. At least this woman was versatile.
"It's not too far now, were supposed to meet up in the clearing that should be just a head." Deb nodded but stopped for a second, clearing the leaves on the ground with a slick movement of her hand. She wrote a message swiftly and kneeled so the woman could see it. The message read. If I get shot at, I'm ripping them apart limb from limb! Bell patted Deb on the head and she answered with a warning hiss.
"Hey, speaking of getting shot, how did you get shot six times and still be alive?" Bell asked and Deb shrugged almost knocking the woman off of her seat. She wrote in the dirt again. Magic and green beans.
"Green beans?" Bell asked with a positively puzzled sounding voice. Deb snickered away as she wiped the previous message clear adding a new one. What? I ate my vegetables growing up. Deb could feel the woman on her back sigh and she knew that the woman was rolling her eyes.
"Anyway." She said pointing with her hand to a spot just before them. "That's where we're supposed to regroup at. Do you hear any humans or smell them?" Deb snorted before clearing the previous message and writing a new one. What am I, your bloodhound?
"Wait how do you even know what a bloodhound is. Wait never mind. I just don't want to get ambushed by those black demons. God knows how many are left." Despite herself, Deb raised her ears and opened her nostril scenting the air. She could smell humans thick in the area and could hear their hushed almost panicked voices. Luckily that there was only one Kainde Amedha left, if Three hadn't taken care of it already; otherwise these humans would have been a prime ambush subject. She nodded her head.
"You hear them?" Deb nodded again. She could hear the woman's heartbeat quicken out of excitement. You better let them know it's you on my back. Deb wrote and the woman nodded patting Deb's thick scaly neck. She stood and slowly began to make her way to the clearing.
"You hear that?" A male voice said as the humans hushed and looked around the forest. They saw something large coming out of the bush. All of them raised their weapons but was instantly put to ease as a familiar voice sounded trying to reassure them.
"Guys, don't shoot! It's me." Bell called out and they eased for a second before bringing their weapons once again to aim as the form of Deb's intimidating figure came to view. Most of the gasped as they saw what was on the four eyed beast's back. The obviously leader of the pack of humans took a step forward and Bell waved with the widest grin Deb had ever seen on a woman's face. Ah, to be young. She snidely grumbled as the rest of the humans pulled their weapons down and circled around the beast.
"Bell." The man said, caution evident in the tone of his voice. "What the fuck are you riding?" Deb had to admit it was a reasonable question. She smiled and laughed it off as if she was simply on a horse.
"Oh, this is Deb, he" Deb gave a low snarl. "Sorry, she." Deb nodded. "Kinda saved my life and I saved her life." Deb again nodded. "and in return she gave me a lift cause my leg was eaten." The man brought his eyes to examine the new fearsome creature before him. Deb glared at him as he walked around her and heard him stop and gasp as he came to the side with the skull.
"You sure this thing's tame?" He asked but was rewarded by Deb turning swiftly, too swiftly in fact for anyone to catch her sudden movements as she shot her hand out to grab the man by the throat. Her fingers wrapped around his seemingly thin neck and she brought his yelping figure to her face and opened her mouth and roared in his face. The man did his best just to prevent himself from losing his bowls, which was good because if he did, Deb would have bitten his face of then and there.
"Mark!" Bell began to yell, clinging onto the make shift handle that was Deb's top. "Apologize! You offended her!" Another man from the crowd spoke up.
"The thing can understand what we say?" Deb nodded slowly hissing. The man shut up and Mark, the human who she held was whimpering begging her to forgive him. She let him go. He fell to the ground in a pathetic heap of whimpering man. She had beaten up plenty of Yautja males, practically to a pulp and not even one sniffled or complained of any pain. Deb had forgotten how pathetic her male kind could be. She huffed and laid her body down, allowing for Bell to climb off. She stood and found the man had stood also, having seemed to regain himself. He spoke in a low, more respectful tone. Deb was getting good at showing males how to show her the proper form of respect. She had Three to thank for that.
"I want to thank you for bringing Bell back to me. I don't know what would happen if I would have lost her." Deb nodded, not wanting to get into all this lovey romatical crap. She thought about turning to leave when a pinecone came flying out of nowhere, hitting Deb square between the eyes. She blinked and shook her head. That stung. She looked to the trees and shook her head with a hidden smile. A familiar green snake was seemingly chilling on a branch, lazily flicking his forked tongue here and there.
Before Deb could let out a chuckle, the ground shook as something invisible and enormous landed in the middle of the group of humans. They gasped and ducked to the floor as the invisible force pushed pass them to the large four eyed beast. It stopped and Deb could see the air shimmer as a large form kneeled before her, letting the cloak fall from her form, the mighty and almost unstoppable figure of Three, black mask staring back at Deb, not caring about the humans.
"Guan-Vormekla, fun playing with oomans?" Deb snarled a laugh at the female nodding her head, the great huntress probably had been watching the humans all along. None of the humans could move out of pure shock of the towering figure of Three. Deb, giving a very enthusiastic and toothy grin turned slightly and pointed the skull that was proudly displayed on her hip. "Good!" The huntress purred. "good skull." She nodded and Deb ticked away giving a gurgle as well.
Deb cocked her head to the side in a way to inform Three that she had a question before bringing her hand and making a scratching motion in front of her face.
"Your male?" Deb nodded enthusiastically. The huntress pointed to Deb's left. Nodding Deb got up and stood, a skull of the Kainde Amedha handing on her hip to the other side of the three human skulls. Deb smiled, pointing to the silver teeth on her neck, then walking over to Bell and pulling her necklace out from under her shirt, revealing the metallic teeth.
The great huntress walked to the woman who was sitting on the ground with a look of pure fear. Deb had to hand it to Bell, even though she looked as if she was going to faint, she still held as strong as possible as the cold emotionless masked face of Three examined her. Deb saw the hunter stop on the missing appendage before reaching out and patting Bell on the head, almost like one would reward a dog.
"Good ooman." She said before standing and walking to where her snake was watching this entire event with an uncaring demeanor. She plucked the obviously full reptile from the bulges that line the entire of the snake, from the branch all the while clicking and talking to it in her native language. In no way would Deb ever understand the female. In Yautja terms, she had probably lost all of her sanity a long time ago. She did after all, just jump in front of seven or so fully armed humans, without batting an eye just to say hello to Deb. Deb could only shake her head, hoping that no one would believe the humans, thinking that they were just a bunch of drunken idiots.
"No Kainde Amedha left. Male want to stay little longer. Maybe hunt other things." The great female gave a shrug or what kind of resemble a shrug. She pointed to herself and continued. "Watch ship. Have fun with male." With that the female walked away like nothing but with a slight smugness to her stride. Before she cloaked herself she called out a last comment. "Bed only." Deb responded in her usual way by rolling her eyes and groaning. That huntress was something else.
Turning around she was faced with a group of humans with very concerned, almost shocked expressions. They weren't sure what had just occurred and Deb wasn't all that sure either. Feeling the need to leave the bewilder group, Deb gave a not so friendly snarl to ensure that no one was to follow her and just calmly and slowly left out of the clearing. Nobody moved for a while, nobody really knew what the hell had just happened or if in fact it really did just happen. Right then and there, though, they all concluded that they would tell no one about what had just occurred, like anyone would believe them anyway. Deb galloped, following a familiar musk with determination.
Notch stood after just jumping off of a tree branch, looking out on the vast expanse of forest. He was usually very calm after a hunt and now was not an exception. He briefly wondered where Deb was and if she had survived her first encounter with the infamous Kainde Amedha but wasn't too worried that she was in any real danger. After all even if she did get mortally wounded it was apparent that U'sl-kwe had no hold on her. The female almost in a way seemed like a walking god and he wonder if there was a possibility that she was.
He turned at the sound of a very familiar roar and couldn't help but give a pleased purr. Notch turned just in time to see a certain four eyed creature, air borne and aimed for the hunter. He let her pounce on him and let his body hit the floor. As he fell the great creature began to shrink away and he was met by the familiar ooman with bright piercing green eyes. She pulled her mouth, showing her teeth in a way that meant she was happy or pleased and brought her head to the forehead of his metallic mask. She gave a happy almost like the sound of a chirp as she perched on his chest.
"Hi." Deb cooed and was met by a large warm talon armed hand on her back in a friendly gesture and she gave Notch an even wider grin. He patted her back and she leaned into it. With a slow and almost laid back gesture he began to communicate with his hand gestures. She sat back to watch.
I see your hunt was successful. His first gesture was roughly translated too and Deb smiled running her hand over her new necklace then to the skull on the belt.
"Yes, the Kainde Amedha were a lot more intelligent than given credit for. The creature tricked me the first encounter." He moved his gestures again. Were you injured mortally? Deb gave a curt nod.
"Right between the eyes and the bastard slit my throat and stabbed me in the chest, oh and did I mention that some human decided to use me as target practice. Shot me six times, in the chest, the rude ass!" Deb hissed. Notch tilted his head to the side. "Yeah. He is the one currently on my belt."
Deb got off of him and let the humanoid stand. He pointed to her stomach and tilted his head again to the side. She nodded.
"I better eat if I still want to heal at my normal rate." She said looking off to the distance. "I scented some deer not too far from here. I'm gonna go see if I can catch one. I haven't had deer in the longest time and really do miss the taste. If I'm lucky I might even find some fruit to, been a while." Notch gave a swift nod and sat leaning on a tree, waiting for his companion to catch them there dinner. Typical male. She thought. Leave the female to hunt for food. Them stopped to think of how lioness that was. Giving a slight shake of her head she changed and ran off in the direction of the deer trail she had found not too long ago.
A herd of deer grazed lazily on the small bits of weedy almost grass like foliage that stuck out by the roots of the large trees. Deb crouched close by, body as flat to the ground as physically possible. Her ears were flat to the back of her head and instinct was the only thing going through her head. All four of her eyes were on one particular deer, that was obviously past his prime. She pulled one arm up and placed it in front of her but the deer heard the slight movement and all of them raised their heads before the leader gave a warning almost hissing bark and they all took off.
Deb took off in a run meeting the ground with every muscle pushing off of it. The old deer was slow and it took little time to match his pace. Even if it had been healthy, Deb would have caught up with it like nothing. With a swift jerk of her entire body, she rammed into the deer, sending it stumbling but before it could hit the ground she caught it by the throat and bit down with all the pressure she had, crushing the deer's spinal cord. It died instantly.