Topic: Surviving

Moonshadow

Date: 2010-02-28 01:15 EST
It had been weeks since the little red wanderer had escaped again from her family's lair. Following a small, fleet footed hare, she'd lost her way. The snow only adding to her problems.

Cold!, shivering, she had spied a cavern, one which had proven warmer then the outside, and abandoned.

Surely her family would come when they realized she was missing. Days came and went as the hatchling hunted the depths of the cavern, surviving off of small rodents, and the occasional bug.

Neither was very appetizing, but they kept her hunger away, if only for a short time. Water was lapped from a small puddle that formed when a trickle of melting snow found it's way inside.

Days came and went, turning to weeks. Each day, she'd creep toward the entrance of the cavern and peek out, each day was the same.

The hatchling's view was greeted by the cold, white snow, sometimes it danced and swirled around outside. Other days, it just lay there, but it remained.

Maybe she should have stayed closer to her family's lair. Every day, she'd wait, just inside, for any sign of her daddy.

Matheau W Stratford

Date: 2010-02-28 09:16 EST
::At first Matheau had thought that his daughter was just off playing as was her fancy, and he waited for her to return to the home cave patiently to join he and his mate. But then a few days turned into a week and he grew worried. She had never been gone this long before. He believed in letting his daughter be independent, and letting her enjoy the full experience of life on her own, so he tried to bite back his fear and wait a few more days. Of course she would be home soon........

Now, enough was enough. He was scared, something was wrong. His daughter would never have stayed away from the home lair for this long, something was most definately wrong. He took off from the lair, moving as fast as his wings would carry him. Luckily there was still so much snow that his daughter would be easy to see from the air....He pushed aside from his mind what might have happened to her, for there was nothing that could harm HIS daughter. She was her father's child after all.

He would turn all of Rhydin upside down if he had to to find his precious daughter. He started roaring loudly, in hopes that she would hear him.* "Moonshadow!!!! Where are you, my daughter?!!! Please, please come out so daddy can find you!!!"

*It had been days since his search began. He did not sleep, he did not eat, he did not stop to rest, and his voice was growing hoarse. At last he had to stop at a small lake to drink, when he felt that his wings would collapse beneath his weight. He would not stop for long.......He would never give up, not until his daughter was safely in his arms and back home again.*

Moonshadow

Date: 2010-02-28 15:26 EST
She had been sleeping near the remains of a now smouldering fire within the cavern. Until she heard what sounded like a roar, that was daddy!

Pushing herself to her feet, she even left the bit of meat upon the rabbit carcass deeper in the cavern. There was no sign of the other hatchlings that had shared the heat of the fire.

Nor any sign of the larger male who had made the fire in the first place. Green eyes studying the cavern's walls, before toddling toward the entrance.

Another roar of her father's sounded, and she opened her tiny jaws, and gave a squeak. That was not going to work...

Sitting at the entrance, she braced herself for what would come, and darted out into the snow, not very far from the entrance of her haven.

Matheau W Stratford

Date: 2010-03-01 01:48 EST
*He looked down to the ground and he saw.......Yes! A flash of red, and he was diving down. His daughter, she was there. He landed in the snow in front of his daughter, and he immediately scooped her up in his arms, tears steamed down his cheeks.*

"Love of my heart, you scared me and your mother so badly. Weve been looking for you, we thought........You ran away, and that you hated us."

Moonshadow

Date: 2010-03-01 19:58 EST
A little chirp was given as she was scooped up by her father. Green eyes blinking up at him while she cuddled into the warmth of his arms.

Green eyes peered back to the cavern she had been staying in, then back up at daddy, a soft thrum given.

The little red wanderer was content, clinging a bit to daddy, as if afraid to lose him again. Eyes drifting closed as she snuggled deeper into her father's embrace, away from the bitter cold of the white stuff, and the blowing winds.

Matheau W Stratford

Date: 2010-03-02 11:54 EST
*He cradled his precious treasure to his breast and carried her back into the small cave in which she had been living......It was barely large enough to admit him. But he blocked the entrance off with his bulk, and soon the heat would begin to hold. He laid his daughter down carefully and curled around her, watching over her.* "My beautiful daughter, you've been through so very much, haven't you. I'll never let you out of my sight again."

Moonshadow

Date: 2010-03-02 14:10 EST
Eyes half open, peered up at daddy and she gave a soft thrumming sound. The warmth of the cavern, and her father, helping to ease her into a nap.

Further within the cavern, her father would see the small bones, and even the remains of the rabbit carcass. She had at least eatten. Though not as well as she should have.

Matheau W Stratford

Date: 2010-03-03 10:29 EST
*After inspecting the bones of his daughter's meals, as well as looking over her form, he left the cave while she napped. A little later, he returned with a small wyvern for his daughter. She may not be able to finish it, but he would make sure she ate as much of it as she could. Now he watched her as she napped again, refusing to move again unless it was to take her home, where she belonged. He knew just how worried and frantic his mate was, and also knew how happy she would be to see her daughter alive and well.*

Moonshadow

Date: 2010-03-11 00:15 EST
She'd napped for days, snuggled against her father. Finally green eyes drifted open, and a little squeak given.

Toddling toward the wyvern carcass, the hatchling peered to daddy, tail wiggling behind her. Another soft chitter, and soon she tugged at one of the fallen wyvern's wings.

Matheau W Stratford

Date: 2010-03-13 05:18 EST
*Matheau was awakened by his daughters movement and yawned loudly as she tottered away. He smiled happily down at his daughter as she began to tug at the carcass* "I imagine that you must be ravenous, my dear daughter. It must have been some days since your last proper meal.....You eat all that you want, sweetheart, and if you are still hungry, then I will go out and get you more food."