Ever since you were 8, you knew how to hunt.
Your mom regularly took you outside your village, to the woods and taught you.
The smell of dew, the sound of leaves crunching beneath your feet with weapons strapped onto your back and legs, are a comforting feeling.
One day, as you were hunting with your friend, you lose them.
[[You continue doing your own thing, because you know they are probably near->Continue to do your own thing]]
[[You go and look for them, because the number 1 rule is to stick together (the rule your mom repeatedly told you)-> Go and look]]
After wandering for a while, you plop down under a tree with your back against the trunk and settle down.
Bored out of your mind, you decide to rummage through your bag. As you fish out garbage and other questionable stuff, you find a small notepad. It's an old little thing, your mom gifted you wayyyy back. Stuffed in the spine is a pencil too.
[[Next->Magic pencil]]As you brush away the foliage and duck under branches, you can't help but notice you haven't heard them. Not even a single crunch of a leaf.
More time goes by and not a single sign of life.
''//Now//'' you begin to worry.
"Where the hell is this idiot?", you think.
When all of a sudden a huge for legged creature appears out of nowwhere.
[[Next->creature appear]]
"Holy sh-", you get cut off immediately, as this creature literally jumps on you.
You quickly reach for your dagger sheathed on your upper thigh, thinking this animal is about to kill you, when all of a sudden...
[[Next->tongue]]
A warm, wet tongue licks your face, covering you in slime.
You look up and a pair of golden eyes stare back at you. //A black jaguar//, you think.
For a second you are just shocked, but your instincts kick back in.
//Run you fucking idiot!!!//, your mind screams at you, but you decide to...
[[Introduce yourself-> introduce yourself]]
[[Ask it a dumb question that TRULY lies in your heart-> dumb question]]
[[Offer some sunflowers seeds, you shoved in your back pocket from school lunch-> sunflower seeds]]
"Hi... uh I'm ___"Do you know black panther?", you blurt. "Like marvel black panther?"
And surprisingly enough the jaguar replies.
"Are you intoxicated?", she asks with a hint of amusement and genuine curiosity. Her voice was smooth and low.
Before you can get out a reply, she keeps going.
"Did you seriously eat those weird berries that are literally screaming
"DON'T EAT ME, I'M POISONOUS."
I thought out of anyone, you wouldn't fall for that.
C'mon kid, I had faith in you."
''What do you end up saying to this mysterious jaguar who has a lot to say?''
[["Wait, I'm so confused. What berries? And what do you mean, you had faith in me?"-> confused, berries, faith]]
[["Ma'am- can I even call you ma'am, with you being a jaguar and all? But anyway- from what i recall i asked you a question first and you haven't answered, sooo?-> sass]]
The jaguar looks you up and down and sighs. "The berries, you human folk end up stupidly eating anyway. Well, I guess except you."
"Ok, but that explains absolutely nothing and doesn't answer my other question."
The jaguar sighs again.
"There are these bright red berries that grow on some trees, and they chant "Don't eat me, I'm poisonous" all day. And to answer your other question, I've seen you train out here since you were a toddler and I'm pleased with your skill. You truly have learnt from the best. Your mom, that is."
The pencil is fancy as fuck and you don't know how it got in there, but who cares it's a pencil.
//It writes nice, I guess //, you think unexcitedly, as you scribble with no care.
Something in you decides to draw a little furry monster thing. You give it ears and eyes that look deep into your soul. Lastly you add a sinister smile that spans from one side of the face to the other.
You set your pencil down and hold up your sketch.
[[Next->labubu alive]]
After a moment of gazing at the paper, you conclude that it's satisfactory enough. It perfectly embodies that "little shit energy", your younger cousins exhibit back in the villag, making you VERY pleased.
Grabbing for your water canteen
LUCK, VERS 3, PURPLE