Places to go, creatures to catch

[Cricket]

Dereka sat on a thick branch on a tree, covered by thick branches. She peaked out, separating the branches infront of her, to see if anything was after her bait. The bait was hanging off a string in another tree. Well, it wasn't hanging. It was a Tur with a long piece of string around it's neck, and attached to a limb on a tree feet away from Dereka. She watched the creature got to the farthest point on the ground that the string would let it, then go back, and forget about it, then moments later, it would do the same thing. She watched it over and over again, waiting for something larger to come out and try to snag a meal..

[Embyr]

Something shuffled around in the bushes. Two beautiful blue eyes peered out from behind, watching the dangling Tur with interest. It looked very tasty indeed. Who in their right mind would leave it out in the open for others to steal? Yet it was obviously a trap. Hunger had led this creature to drop its guard..

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[Cricket]

Dereka heard the shuffling noises, and looked at the net and rope she had laying next to her in the tree. The plan was to jump out of the tree and chase the creature with the net. She had set two pit traps around the bait, just far enough that the creature wouldn't suspect it, if it did try to run. One was in the opposite side of Dereka, where she suspected the creature would run if she did give chase, and the other was to her right, anothe possibility. She grabbed the net, and slung it over her shoulders, and waited..

[Embyr]

A full-grown Spotika with a shining white pelt and dark blue spots emerged from the bush at high speed, opening its wings and grabbing the tur in its mouth. With a blast of air it flapped its wings and propelled itself into the air, settling down in a tree just above. It devoured the Tur in one slurp, staring down at Dereka with a smug smile. While it was away from her, it was still trapped in a tree.

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[Cricket]

Derek's eyes widened as the extremely rare creature had just eaten her bait and come up ontop of a tree very close to hers. She smiled at it, and then, she got on her feet, feinted like she was going to jump down, then jumped across. She had done this before, and was quite skilled in jumping trees. She made her way quickly towards the creature, holding the net and rope on her shoulders. She grabbed another Tur, and threw it down exactly onto one of the pit traps. She guessed that maybe, if she was lucky the creature might try to escape by jumping down and she could throw the net over, or it would try to get the Tur out of hunger, and then try to make it's escape, which would just lead into another trap, since the food was located ontop of the trap. Or, the Spotika would stay where it was, and be easy for her to catch with the rope and net. She knew there were other ways for it to escape, but she guessed it might use one of the three ways she already planned out.

[Embyr]

It sensed that something was below the Tur, so the Spotika flapped its wings in a flurry of feathers and grabbed the Tur, sailing overhead and landing on another tree. It nibbled on the snack, eyes gleaming. Spotikas were known to be as intelligent as dragons when they weren't too hungry.

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[Cricket]

Dereka thought of another plan. She grabbed the rope, and tied it to an arrow. She then tied the other side of it, to another arrow. She looked back at the Spotika, and notice it had it's back to the bark. She had her back to it, then quickly whipped around, shooting the two arrows at trees next to the Spotika's tree, hoping the rope would catch the Spotika and pin it to the tree.

[Embyr]

The Spotika couldn't help getting pinned to the tree, but it had a backup plan as well. Skillfully blasting out ice from its mouth, the rope froze and it cut a small hole with its claws. This one was not to be messed with!

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[Cricket]

Dereka was already really close to the Spotika, since the creature had been struggling with the rope for a few seconds to get free. She ducked under a branch, so she couldn't be seen. Then, she held her breath and crawled silently towards the Spotika, making sure none of her body showed. She wondered if she could come up behind the creature and net it.. While she was crawling she let the last two of the Turs go, and they went to a little bit of food for them that she had placed on one of the traps. Now it actually appeared like they were wild, and she hoped the creature would fall for it, or stay where it was.

[Embyr]

With a loud groan the Spotika opened its eyes wide and shook wildly, unable to control itself. It rolled off the branch and fell on its side, more groaning escaped from its open mouth as it landed on the ground. Something was definitely wrong with it, but what?

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[Cricket]

The ground collapsed under the creature, and Dereka threw the net over the hole, so it capture all that was in it. She then jumped out of the tree and ran up to the hole, hoping the creature was in it..

[Embyr]

The Spotika let out a spasm of harsh breathing, green rings appearing around its eyes. Once it was in the trap, it didn't move at all. The only movements down there was the struggled raising and falling of its chest as it forced itself to breathe.

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[Cricket]

Dereka watched the creature with a worried look in her eyes. The first thing she thought of was profit, but then a small amount of sympathy for the creature was in her heart. She grabbed the rope and tied it around the thing's neck, steering clear away from it's mouth to not get bitten or anything else, then tried pulling the sides of the net, heaving until the thing was out of the hole. She stared at it, and at the rings around it's eyes. "What the..?" She mumbled to herself, and watched it try to breath. She wondered what to do, and the only available choice now was to take it to a lab somwhere to see if it could be healed... She jumped back down into the hole, and grabbed the two Turs, which had misfortunately landed on and killed. She picked them both up, and one twithed. Okay, so maybe the Ice-fox HADN'T killed both of them, but she had still killed one. Dereka placed the two infront of it's mouth, hoping to at least feed it. Food oftened made things feel better, no matter how bad their illness was. She just wished she knew what this creature's sickness was...

[Embyr]

Species: Spotika
Colors: White and dark blue
Gender: Male
Stage: Adult
Breeding: Whenever
Personality: Sly, sneaky, sarcastic, funny
Lineage: Unknown
Size: The size of a large dog.
Stats: Attack; 4 Defense; 2 Speed; 5 Health; 25 Power; 9 Intelligence; 12

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