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"Well Sayan. That was just a preview. After we are done with this infernal drought, they will come back. And they will want to play. I just can't say no to them. We owe them our lives." Sybil expressed, knowing that she had to be eternally grateful to the big marine animals, even if that meant spending their entire lifetime being their live chew toys.

"You're right.," Sayan said realising much the same thing. He glanced at the others-- suspecting that they had all had a long day. After all, they had to deal both Shadow and the orcas one after the other.

Crocux didn't care about Shadow but something about Shadow did bother him. his family dealt with nut cases like Shadow before, some not as bad and others worse then Shadow. but in the end before they died their last words were normally to curse others never to wish them happiness. Crocux suspected that Shadow may have begun reforming but would never know for sure. and not knowing is what bothered him about it. but his mind was else were. he didn't even realise it but he was walking towards the water!

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Quote: Felines

"Well Sayan. That was just a preview. After we are done with this infernal drought, they will come back. And they will want to play. I just can't say no to them. We owe them our lives." Sybil expressed, knowing that she had to be eternally grateful to the big marine animals, even if that meant spending their entire lifetime being their live chew toys.

"You're right.," Sayan said realising much the same thing. He glanced at the others-- suspecting that they had all had a long day. After all, they had to deal both Shadow and the orcas one after the other.

"I just hope you don't feel forced to go through the game. Remember that their happiness is my responsibility. I know how exhausting an activity like that can be. Orcas are just such big animals with so much energy." Sybil said with a chuckle, imagining that they looked like nothing when compared to them. She looked briefly at Crocux and imagined he was going to take a little swim to appreciate Light Beach.
"Don't go so far!" she yelled at the crocodile, still not noticing the danger under all that pleasant conversation.

he then realized he was dangerously close to the water and started to move away.

Sybil didn't payed much attention to Crocux's behavior, thinking that he was just listening to her advice on not go too far. Since it was almost dark, Jhen's dorsal fin was very well camouflaged in the water, so the civet didn't know how dangerous it was to remain there. The only probable reason why nothing has happened to any of them was because he still couldn't decide on a target.

Crocux only moved a few steps away then stopped. he layed down to think leaving himself completely venerable to Jhen.

What is he doing? Sybil said in her mind, confused with Crocux's behavior. She didn't stop to look at the water since she was more concentrated on the crocodile and Ravage, who was nearby. She would have invited Crocux to her and Sayan's conversation if she still wasn't angry with him.

OOC: Remember I, AJ went through the same thing. I don't look so good either. The female orca went wild with me.

AJ: As Rose picks me up and carries me, I don't even twitch. Bits of fur are missing from my coat, I am soaking wet and I am very, very, sore. The game was fun, but extremely rough and tiring.

A mouthful of teeth emerges from the ocean, wide open and ready to devour the croc. Starving and having lost control of his own instincts, he is a wild animal with his instincts ruling him. His eyes flare in the light of the setting sun. He looks like a starved savage animal now, even his eyes are wild.

Crocux thought he heard something and turned to see an open mouth coming at him. he didn't attempt to get out of the way and he actually welcomed it. even if it was for his own servivle he didn't want to hurt any member for the pod in any way.

Sybil was knocked into reality when she looked at the mess of water splashing to where she saw Crocux. It was then than she saw the dorsal fin, and knew that not all the orcas left. She couldn't see who it was, but she assumed it was somebody who wanted to play.
"Hey! Hey you! The game is over!" Sybil yelled, as she headed towards Crocux even with all her pain, when she came to a sudden stop. That looked very different from the usual game. All that shaking, all that dragging, it was far more brutal and violent than the way the orcas usually do to them. And it took just a one second glance for Sybil to notice... whoever that orca was, he or she was using teeth. That was a genuine hunt! Sybil was at a loss on what to do, so she simply screamed...

the teeth perced Crocux's venerable belly and blood was being flung as he was being shook around. he was yelling in pain from the assult but didn't fight back.

When the water started to see the water's crimson color, she really started to panic. When Jhen shook and Sybil saw him by the side, it was them than she recognized him.
"Jhen? Jhen! Please! Don't do this!" Sybil begged the orca, taking a look to his very painful state. He was so incredibly skinny, even more so than Jet, and she could see that his eyes were empty and without emotion. There was no doubt that all his instincts were asking him was food. What she was fearing during the whole drought was coming true.
"Crocux! Come on! Try to escape!" Sybil then said to the crocodile, not understanding why didn't he even struggled...

Further away from there, Cairo had heard Sybil's scream, but it was so distant that he didn't know it was from her, nor even that was a scream at all.
"Did you hear something?" he asked Jet, looking at the shore to see if he could catch a glimpse of anything, but Light Beach was so intense that night, it was hard to focus on anything else...

Crocux was hurting but even though he heard Sybil he didn't try to fight back. he didn't care if he was hurt or killed, he didn't want to hurt anyone.

Jhen starts to drag Crucux farther and farther away from the shore. Normally Jhen if he was himself he would be ashamed and let go of Crucux, before swimming away, but he was lost, lost to his instincts. He is starving, his visible form shows everyone, just how desperate and lost he is. There is no response to anything that Sybil is saying. Jhen's hunger is overwhelming. If Crucux lives through this, Jhen just may die from hunger.

When Sybil saw no response, she understood why. Even in all that struggling, she could see Jhen's ribs, knowing that the drought has hit him harder than anyone else's. It wasn't his fault what was happening. He needed something in his stomach if he was to survive. Being founder and owner of the Haven, it was Sybil's responsibility to ensure the survival and safety of it's residents, so even in all her panic, she paddled towards those color-changing waters, right into Jhen's eyesight.
"Come on Jhen. I know you're still in there. If you need to take somebody, please take me!" Sybil said, being just about two feet away from him. That could be it for her, but she didn't care. Crocux was far meatier, but he would require more energy to take down. But she was already exhausted and was much more helpless, which she hoped was enough for Jhen to get his attention on her...

Back at the ocean to where Cairo was speaking to Jet, the huge orca was becoming desperate. He couldn't see what was going on, and Light Beach was enough to get the attention away from anything else. He swam to the shore, but he was to the far left of that deadly struggle, so all one could hope was for him to hear all the splashing...

Crocux didn't fight, he didn't want to hurt anyone, especially the orcas. he owed them his life, especially Cairo and wanted to show him that he wasn't someone he should hate.

Crocux knew this but he was doing that to be a good friend. he didn't want anyone hurt because of him. "No Rose! I can't! I wont fight my friends! I don't want anyone hurt because of me!"

It didn't take long for Cairo to hear Jet and the source of his noise, and he was horrified at the sight.
"Jhen! Jhen! STOP IT MAN!" Cairo yelled, getting behind him and starting to pull his tail. He refused to believe that one of his fellow orcas would actually turn against their land-dwelling friends, the very same event that Sybil and so many other warned him so much about.

Sybil was extremely relieved to see Jet and Cairo trying to help, meaning that Crocux could be saved and she wouldn't probably need to do the sacrifice. But even with all that, she could see that it wasn't being enough, and Crocux not struggling was making it harder for everybody. Jhen was hungry and beyond reasoning, so she knew she had to act fast.
"Listen Jet! He is way too hungry. He won't see reason. Bring him something to eat. If the pod is still here, tell them to help you!" Sybil urged, knowing that Cairo's distraction could be enough, and that all that Jhen needed was food. But since he still wouldn't let go of Crocux, Sybil took the incredible risk of biting him on the nose, hoping that would be enough for him to open his mouth and set Crocux free.
"CROCUX! FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!TRY TO GET AWAY!" Sybil begged, while still biting...

Crocux yells "NO! I WONT HURT MY FRIENDS I REFUSE TO RUN THE RISK OF HURTING THEM! I OWE THE ORCAS MY LIFE AND MY BROTHERS LIFE AND I DON'T WANT TO LIFE WITH THEM FEARING ME! I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME I WONT FIGHT MY FRIENDS!"

Sybil hear Jet, and still biting down, she yelled;
"JET, GO! YOU'RE WASTING TIME!" she said muffled, knowing that the more time Jet took to find food, the harder it was going to be to stop Jhen. She has gone through hunger too in her past, and knew what a horrible feeling that was.

Some of the warblers that were taking palm trees as their homes with so many trees destroyed, could hear the commotion. They couldn't see well at night, but they heard all the splashing and the yelling, and knew that something very wrong was happening.
"Let's gather the keas. One of them must inform Sozen!" one of the residents said, knowing that it was bad whatever was going on, and Sozen could help. But none of the warblers could stand the cold, so a couple of them headed to the kea's tree so that they could find the eagle and investigate what the heck was going on...

The warblers were going to take several minutes to reach the kea's trees, and the parrots themselves were going to take more to reach the high mountain. And due to the fish being so extremely scarce,the hunt was taking too much time...

Jhen, however is no longer there. Sybil, a hurt but alive Crocux, Rose and a quiet Cairo. Jhen dropped Crocux after snapping back to normal. Pushing aside Cairo, a hurt, distraut Jhen swims away, with river of tears cascading down his face. He vanishes into his home, a vast and enormous underwater cave/cavern. It is likely that he will not be seen again for sometime.

Sybil was flung away during the struggle, bit when she came to stop Jhen once more, he wasn't there. Cairo lost his grip. Sybil then saw Jet and another orca with the fish. It was too few of them, but at least it would quenched his hunger. When she didn't saw him returning, Sybil called:
"Jhen! Jhen please! Come out! Look! We have food here! Come on!" she yelled, feeling very sorry for the poor, scrawny orca. There was no doubt that if he didn't eat anything soon, he could die of starvation...

"Cairo, take Crocux out of here!" Sybil ordered, with Cairo hesitantly obeying.
"Alright, but please get somewhere safe!" he said to the civet, not wanting to risk Jhen targeting her now instead of the fish. He then gently grabbed the injured crocodile and beaching himself, placing him on the sand and as far away as possible from the water as he could.

Crocux lied their badly hurt but alive. "I wont hurt an orca. I refuse... to... fight... my... friends..." he passes out from bloodloss.

Cairo was quite furious with Crocux for not fighting back. He beached himself quite far to try to get him far.
"You crocodile, don't do this! Sybil has suffered and witnessed too many deaths to handle another, so you better get over this! You hear me you selfish fiend!" Cairo said furiously, evidently caring more about Sybil than him.

"JHEN!" Sybil continued calling, feeling tempted to grab a fish and wave it at him to attract his attention wherever he was, but knew how incredibly risky that was in his state.

Crocux was already passed out though so he didn't hear a word he said nor could he respond.

Cairo was becoming desperate. He knew Sybil wouldn't stand somebody else dying, in a place she founded to bring happiness and protection.
"Come on! HELP! SOMEBODY!" Cairo yelled desperately, his thunderous voice rumbling around the island. The warbler Lumos, who also lost his tree to the war, heard his plea.
"Mr. Cairo? What's wrong? I thought..." but then he saw Crocux.
"Oh no..." he whispered, knowing that looked very bad.
"Some warblers are going to the keas to find Sozen." Cairo explained, but knew that would take some time.
"Mr. Cairo, stay here with him! I'll go to Hunted island and find Whirlpool and the crocodile's chimpanzee friend." the warbler said after hearing Rose, flying immediately there. Cairo stayed with Crocux, but couldn't stop worrying about Sybil...

Jhen does not come. He is too hurt and distraut to even allow himself to be seen by anyone. He attacked and nearly killed a friend. Both Jet and Cairo know where his home is. A member of the pod knows something that could, potentially help the healing. Having seen the markings on Jhen's body and seeing matching ones on Jet, they know that Jet is Jhen's father and Jhen, is Jet's only child. If ever there were I time to speak up, its now.

Ellen, who was coming in response to the pod's desperation and Jet's sudden recruitment of one of the members, arrived at the scene. She then saw Cairo and Crocux's state, and after Sybil explained everything to her.
"I'll help Mr. Jet give him the fish. You miss Sybil..." she said, pushing her to the sand, not wanting to risk Jhen losing himself again. She then grabbed a fish and accompanied Jet in trying to feed the skinny orca. They could bring him along with the pod, but in that state, he wouldn't stand the journey.

The warblers found the keas, and expressed their concerns. Cole was the one who volunteered, being the strongest and the fastest, so he headed to the mountain as fast as he could. Lumos arrived at Hunted island, and informed Barloc about what was happening.
"Alright. Come on, I'll get Whirlpool." he said, upset with all that trouble for a predator. The only problem was the transportation. Somebody had to take Whirlpool there. So while Barloc went to look for Whirlpool, Lumos flew towards the ocean to look for an orca to give him a ride...

Jhen solemnly eats, but does not speak. He politely nods to Jet and turns away not even able to look Jet in the eye. His eyes are void of all light and facing downward looking at the beautiful water and cavern that make up his home.

Sybil trusted that Ellen and Jet would take care of the poor orca. She was now very concerned about Crocux.
"Come on! Come on Crocux! Don't do this! Come ON!" Sybil said, furious about Crocux not struggling. It was like he wanted to die, without caring what harm that would do to his family and friends. First Shadow, and now Jhen.
"Look Crocux, if you get through this, I promise I will get you the biggest, juiciest yellow tail you have ever seen!" Sybil expressed, hoping that a promise like that would motivate him to live. Cairo was confused on what a yellow tail was, but didn't voiced his opinion.

"Hey Sozen! SOZEN! Cole yelled while heading to the mountain, knowing that the eagle's home would take him time to reach, so he believed that the echo would be enough to get his attention. He didn't know what was going on, but whatever it was, the warblers seemed concerned about it.

Back at the ocean, Lumos found the pod and explained everything. Dagger was the one who volunteered for the ride, since his mother was already helping, he wanted to help too. He headed to Hunted island, while the pod still waited for Cairo to lead them. It was now very late and Light Beach was active, so that at least entertained them... but they were getting hungry. They haven't eaten since the morning, and the ones that played the game spent much energy on it. If they waited long, they would risk being unable to overpass that unforgiving current...

Jack heard the commotion and came to the beach. he hadn't gotten the chance to go back to Haunted with Whirlpool yet since their patents were still their. "what hell is goi... oh no Crocux not again!" he rushed over to the croc and examined him "honestly bro I thought you were done with putting yourself in these situations? dear god not again" since Crocuc was on his side Jack tried to get him on his back. "well Sybil don't help or anything!" Shi thought she heard something and went to the entrance of the cave to see Cole coming. She knew it had to be urgent "Sozen! Cole's coming! I think something happened again! come quickly!"

OOC: Where was Jack? If he was up the mountain, he couldn't have heard the commotion.

As Sybil still tried to wake up the croc, Cole finally managed to arrive at Sozen's home, panting severely for flying too fast and save time.
"Hey... come to the beach... I think... something... happened..." he said between breaths, being incredibly exhausted.

Soon to arrive was Dagger with Whirlpool, who got over his depression earlier by returning to the thought that he was needed. He brought bandages and antibiotics to prepare to cure Crocux, but it was hard for him to imagine how a strong looking reptile could be so injured. He was told that he was very hurt, but still didn't know it was precisely an orca who caused such wounds...

ooc: actually he was buisy trying to get Sunflame to somewere safe so he could rest. in the time he was gone he managed to find a place out of the cannons range and was sleeping in one of the few intact trees when all this craziness with Jhen happened.

Shi didn't like the sounds of it "somethings happening at the beach and I have a bad feeling about it. we should go their now."

Crocuc was out cold. "you can't wake him up Sybil. he's passed out from blood loss again. now help me get him no his back so we can treat him."

OOC: You should have specified that earlier.

Sybil helped Jack as best as she could, horrified that after so much time, it happened, what she and the others didn't want to believe; one of their orca friends actually attacking one of them out of hunger. What horrified her more was that AJ was the one originally vulnerable at that shore. If Jhen attacked him, he wouldn't have survived, but then again, Crocux got the margay out of the way, making Sybil suspicious.
"Jack, Crocux got AJ out of the beach and then swam to the ocean. And when Jhen attacked, he didn't struggled..." Sybil explained, now believing that Crocux knew about Jhen hunting them and that all that was a suicide attempt...

Dagger was arriving, but he couldn't see what was going on. He was swimming rather slowly due to being tired playing so rough with Sybil, but soon, he was forgetting all that. He didn't want to believe that what the warbler told him about his own species attacking one of their Haven friends was true...

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Sozen quickly ran to the cave entrance. "Cole what is it?"

"I'm not sure... the warblers didn't... specify..." Cole explained, now having a bad feeling like Shi.

ooc: he wasn't taking Crocux anywere since the place Sunflame's at is at the opposite side of haven. the reson I didn't specify was because really A no one asked and B he wasn't around during the fight at the beach otherwise he would've tried to comfort Shi.

Jack was surprised that Crocux didn't struggle "he didn't struggle!? that isn't like him. did he say anything while you guys tried to save him?"

OOC: So they are just changing his position?

"Something about not wanting to hurt anybody..." Sybil explained, that being the only words that she heard the crocodile say in all that violent shaking.

Just at that moment, Dagger arrived with Whirlpool, who brought his items and immediately went to examine the injured croc. In his life he has seen wounds like that. Sybil, although remembering the incredible rough game Dagger made her go through, she greeted the young orca with a nod, much to his embarrassment. He didn't seemed cheerful or playful as he is always seemed, he felt so ashamed, as if it was him that caused those wounds. He didn't moved from that spot, wanting to be helpful somehow.

ooc: to his back, that way sand wont get in the wond and to try to lower the rate of blood loss.

Jack face palmed himself "dear god. okay who was the last one he talked to before this?"

Cole tried to lead the way, but his wings were cramped with the amount of strength he used to arrive there.
"I can't Mr. Sozen. My wings... they are tired..." he explained. It really took a lot to exhaust a kea like him.
"It's at the beach. You know the way." he then said, needing to rest.

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Jack face palmed himself "dear god. okay who was the last one he talked to before this?"

"I don't know. I talked with him in the morning. I'm not sure if he talked to anyone else afterwards." Sybil explained, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle. She then remembered how Crocux stupidly faced Shadow that day, and was starting to believe something horrible.
"I'm not sure Jack... but... I think Crocux doesn't have the will to live. Just this morning when Shadow arrived, he tried to confront him with cannons and all, knowing that was a deadly move." Sybil explained, wondering if the crocodile was trying to act like a martyr or something.

But Dagger seemed really restless as the conversation took place. He as pacing along, very nervous. Cairo wasn't there, having left to find food for Jhen to prevent another attack, but Dagger remained there, and he wasn't happy with something...

Jack shook his head "no I saw that fiasco. that was him just being stupid. judging by what he said he must have spoken to someone recently and hurt him, wether if they ment to or not doesn't matter. knowing him it sounds like he was trying to prove something. he'll live though. see all those scars on his belly?" gesturing to his heavily scarred belly, "that's proof that he went through worse then this and with way less medical help before. he'll live but who ever got him like this is going to get a pice of my mind."