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[Chevaleresse]

? ? ?

Without hesitation, it hurled itself at high speed, following the winged creature through the air as best it could. It reached out, yearning for the delicious food, trying to put something in its stomach before it consumed itself. It had to have that food. That was the first and currently only priority.

[Takosher]

? ? ?

It grabbed hold of the leaping thing and held it tightly to wring its neck. Its Stomach parted swiftly, opening up to an empty hole inside that it inserted the food into and closed back up. It took only mere moments, and in the next moments it did the same to the fliers.

The presence of many more trees obscured its vision, and although the warping of space displaced them, looking through them being constantly displaced was inherently disorienting. Like a green and brown kaleidoscope. Luckily, it didn't have to worry about being hungry again for a little while.

Fa Fwu

It did not simply find more. Or at least, not any if could safely ambush. They had all huddled up inaids of buildings, forming large groups that Fa Fwu might have been able to kill, but not stalk and interrogate. It overheard whispers at times, hinting that they were waiting for something before coming out. Unfortunately, it could not understand what they were waiting on.

? ? ?

It chased and chased, but the flying thing was always just a little faster. They passed everal more mountains before the flying thing suddenly diverted into a cave in the side of one. One more leap inside, and it had its hands on the bag. Inside was a delicious-looking chunk of meat, and it could smell more of that delicious mesat nearby too. Whatever the flying things was, following it had led to the jackpot.

The clanking of metal signaled the cell door being shut and locked.

The flying thing was panting heavily outside the bars, a safe distance away so as to avoid being put into the blue creature's Stomach. "D..." it gasped, holding gout a clawed digit towards the creature. "Dnagravostinae."

[Glass]

? ? ?

Mmmmmmmh. Good. Tasty.

...

Food was tasty. Food was good. What else?
Travel was good. It wanted to travel. Yes, that was what it wanted.

It walked for a little while and looked around at things.

...

Things were trees. Trees are boring. It has seen very few non-tree things since waking up. It wanted to see different things. Things that were not trees.

It walked up a tree. What was far? It wanted to go far places, different places. Where were the different things?

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Fa Fwu

Thoroughly vexed, it decided that perhaps this pursuit would be more effort than it was worth. It continued to stalk through dark alleys in vain for a little while longer, before finally finding a nook where it could easily hide itself from any prey passing on the street. As it nestled into the darkness it let the fires beneath its skin dim until they were a barely visible glow. Its ears focused on the occasional whispers, trying to gain greater understanding of what the hushed gibberish meant. 

[Chevaleresse]

Dnagravostinae

The blue creature took a fistful of food and stuffed it down its gullet, abating the gnawing feeling coming from within. That taken care of, and the rest of the find ready to be consumed at any moment, it turned to respond to the sound the flying creature had said. Mimicking their winged companion, it pointed one hand at them. "Dnagravostinae." It didn't really understand the noises, but they seemed to be important in some way. Perhaps it would lead to more food.

[Knightwing64]

? ? ?

Use the boiling to it’s advantage, swimming near fish boiling them and then eating them as a way to supercharge it’s regeneration to outpace the boiling. Gorge itself in wanton gluttony. Additionally, after swimming around a bit, it seems a landform nearby, it heads straight for it looking for more food.

[Takosher]

? ? ?

The fish in its stomach were able to fend off not only the cold, but also the boiling surrounding it, allowing it to easily swim to land. It found a quiet, dark place covered in tall boxes made of rock. It could smell all kinds of delicious things inside the tall boxes.

? ? ?

Unfortunately, as it walked around, it only found more and more trees. There was more it could put in its stomach too, but that couldn't resolve its hunger to see new things. It did discover that the ability that had saved it from burning was constantly oscillating on and off in a way that it could not control. This did not help it find non-tree things to see either.

Fa Fwu

A lot of time passed as Fa Fwu hid and it was able to learn a lot. The whispers were about it, the monster that would eat all of the helpless Brooms if they did not hide, and the "warriors" who were out searching for it. It now had a basic grasp of the Broom language, as well as the capacity to understand their fear. The way these warriors were spoken of, it seemed that the Brooms believed that Fa Fwu would be killed quite quickly if they found it.

Dnagravostinae

The winged thing laughed heartily and shook its head. It babbled something that the blue creature had no way to possibly understand (which it would later find out is essentially what was being said) and then pointed to itself. "Vodi" it said very pointedly.

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Fa Fwu

Satisfied, it got up and stretched itself out before eying the walls of the alley, and the rooftops just beyond. The "warriors" its prey spoke so highly of were of no small interest; how would something so small and flammable kill it? Yet, young as its mind was, that was a thought born out of curiosity rather than arrogance. With no real pride to protect it leapt upon the near wall and pushed off with prodigious coordination, doing the same as soon as its feet hit the opposite one. It repeated several more times until its acrobatics brought it the roof. Not only would it have a better vantage here, but it also instinctively knew that the skies would offer faster escape than the ground, should it come to it.

Thus, there it waited, perched not unlike a cat. As it surveyed the empty streets its internal fires stoked themselves, and the orange glow beneath its skin returned to full strength. Up here it was practically a beacon, and that was precisely what it wanted.

[Glass]

? ? ?

More tree?

More tree.

More tree was bad. They hit one, which was mildly satisfying and left it tilted, but it did not help them escape more tree.

They picked a direction and walked. Maybe they'd find something that wasn't the dreaded more tree.

[Chevaleresse]

Dnagravostinae

The blue thing pointed at the winged thing again. "Vodi." As if this were some great and final declaration, it then sat down to eat the rest of the food provided. This place was not cold and there was food here, which was nice. Maybe the Vodi would bring it more, or it could eat the Vodi. For now, though, it was content to munch and review what it had just learned inside the confines of whatever it had that passed for a mind at this point.

[Knightwing64]

? ? ?

Finding about new food, good food? Hunger. Need more food. It sneaks into a few boxes and indulges in some old fashioned gluttony. If there is anything sapient inside, it growls and tries to assert dominance.

[Takosher]

? ? ?

Its attempts to sneak into the boxes were met with frustration. The only openings it could find were too high up for it to reach, and the ground level was completely sealed off.

? ? ?

There was just more tree.

Fa Fwu

Fa Fwu's beacon was met with almost instantaneous response in the form of a claw mark across its face. It barely saw the thing that struck it before the claws slashed through its skin. The creature that had attacked it quickly retreated to a safe distance several rooftops away. Quickly meaning "instantly teleported". A flash of black energy had taken it back to where it had leapt from. Next to it was a much, much smaller winged creature (Fa Fwu struggled to make out further details do to the distance), two Brooms, and a long-limbed thing that Fa Fwu recognized as one of its own.

Dnagravostinae

Vodi kept talking, mostly to himself. Dnagravostinae didn't understand most of it, but it was starting to piece together what the words meant. In particular, the word "dinner" appealed to it greatly, since it seemed to indicate more food.

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Fa Fwu

In that moment it finally understood the fear experienced by its prey. What faced it was far more than it anticipated, and it realized its mistake immediately. But it knew the answer to the question that drove it up here, and that would prove valuable knowledge in the future. Its prey had others of its kind at their beck and call. Mere hours old, there was little hope for it to prevail, and it knew it. It looked to the skies but knew it couldn't safely take off without at least getting some distance first, perhaps not at all. As it weighed its options, its hair wrapped itself around its body, coating it in a thick, burning armor to protect against further attack. And though it posed immense risk, Fa Fwu found itself again indulging in curiosity, scrapping together what scant words it had absorbed knowledge of to ask its hunters in a voice that sounded like crackling flame and was eerily loud and clear over the still night air, not unlike the roaring of an inferno:

"Why...Brooms...Run, Hide, Fight? Brooms... make, create... why... no want?"

[Chevaleresse]

Dnagravostinae

The Ziszih listened to the sounds coming from the winged creature while finishing off the rest of its food. With the last morsel in hand, it paused. Dnagravostinae pointed one finger at the food. "Dinner?" it asked, attempting to confirm the data it had just gathered. If the combination of sounds indicated more food, then it would be useful, as then it could say those sounds at others, possibly to obtain food from them. Much more efficient than just eating them, especially if they were as fast as the Vodi.

[Glass]

? ? ?

whhhhhyyyyyy

moooooooooorrrrrreeeee treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

It was not pleased with more tree.

More tree does not move. More tree does not go places. More tree does not help you know you have gone places. More tree is static, more tree is motionless.

More tree is pure distillation of everything wrong with the world as whole, the being was absolutely certain of that. More tree was the definition of evil.

It pushed one of the more tree over to make a point to the more tree collective. Yes, that would show it.

...

It kept moving. There had to be not-more-tree somewhere.