User blog:Rexis12/Hunter and Huntresses

A mantis leaped from branch to branch, her green eyes scanning for any game she could hunt. Spotting a deer that strayed a bit too far from his herd, it was peacefully grazing underneath a tree unaware it was being watched. the mantis stopped at a nearby branch, landing crouched down. She ready her arm-scythes, the deadly green blades glinted at the small fraction of sunlight that escaped through the canopy of leaves. She bent her legs and got ready to pounce.

“RULE OF NATURE!!!” A loud scream startle both the deer and mantis. Both any could react a figure suddenly descended from the higher branches of the tree that the deer was grazing under. In its hands was a sort of pike. The deer loud out a pained yelp as the figure plunged its weapon into its neck, followed by the figure stomping his foot upon landing, breaking the poor animal’s trachea in one swift blow. Both the deer and the figure dropped to the ground with a heavy thud, the figure rolled forward as to lessen the impact a bit.

A small snarl escaped the mantis’s lips, her dinner was taken right in front of her. “Wow, look at this guy. With this much meat, I wouldn’t worry about food for a while” The figure said with a muscularly giddy voice. He went towards the deer and swiftly yanked out his pike, his gloved hands gripped it tightly and he quickly shook off any blood, he then slung it over his back and took out a small hunting knife from the pouch on his belt. The mantis saw his lips moved in a prayer life fashion, before he quickly slit the throat of the deer, despite it being dead.

Seeing as she wouldn’t get anything from this, the mantis dropped from her branch and landed softly on the ground, this alerted the figure. Whirling around and holding the hunting knife in front of him “Who’s there!” he called out, his eyes immediately locked onto her. He dropped his aggressive stance when he noticed the insect monster, he smiled and waved his knife wielding hand “Heyyyy Sarah, how are you?” he asked cheerfully. The mantis merely gave him a bored stare before she walked away.

The figure lowered his knife and scratched his head, he gave a shrug and turned back to his catch. He clasped his hands together “So, how am I going to get you back?”

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The Sahuagin slightly raised her head from water level, her blue eyes were carefully examining the hunter that had moved in her territory a few weeks ago. She remember her first encounter with him, he had set up a weird contraption that caused the fish to be trapped into a net. When he tried to retrieve she was already there, the look of shock on his was something. Though when she explained that she wasn’t going to cause any harm he was relieved. He had happily introduced himself and pointed towards his accommodations, a small shack right at the beach.

He was dragging back a deer, no doubt killed recently. He quickly brought the deer to a wooden table to the side of his shack, around it were multiple other equipment, a tanning rack, a grindstone, a weapon rack and various other items that she couldn’t recognize.

She watched with odd fascination as the hunter took out his knife and began skinning the deer. It always made her think why humans needed to go through such weird preparations before they could eat.

The hunter moved around the deer as he playfully yet skillfully cut off the skin from the carcass, all with a happy smile while humming a tune. Once the skin was gone, he flipped the knife in the air and threw it onto the table, making it stick out. He pulled the skin and pinned it at the tanning rack, for later. As the hunter worked more and more on the deer, the Sahuagin got more and more interested, unknowingly getting closer and closer to the shore.

“You don’t have to stalk me you know” The hunter said nonchalantly as he continued to gut the deer. The Shauagin merely walked out of the water, she stopped for a moment and planted her spear into the sand and walked towards the man. “Sooooo, what brings you to my process of horrifying animal mutilation?” he asked with a chipper tone. “Curious” was all she said and silence stretched, a nervous laugh escaped the hunter’s lips as he continued his ‘animal mutilation’ as he said. All the while the Sahuagin would peek from his shoulders.

“Why” the cold voice of the Sahuagin made the hunter flinch, he looked over his shoulder “Why, what?” he asked. She pointed at his ‘animal mutilation’ “Why do you mutilate animals?” she said. Her cold voice made him shiver, still he smiled and explained that humans can’t just eat raw meat willy-nilly or else they would risk getting harmful diseases.

With her curiosity temporarily sated she gave the hunter a cold “Thank you” and left. “Hey Gladys, you know you’re allowed to visit anytime you want, right?” he said over his shoulder. The Sahuagin merely grabbed her spear and nodded, before she leaped back into the sea.

The hunter sighed as he gripped his knife tighter as he stared at the rest of the deer meat “So, where am I going to keep you?”