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but shi wasn't just angry, she was also confused. She was told that the family had a monguse for a friend and knew that they were trouble makers from what she was told but this, rhis was just crule. "i hust don't understand how someone you say is so nice would think it's ok to humiliate anyone like that and not even give a damn about how they would feel. It's not right."

Sayan instantly awoke, alerted to the growling. No.. not now. "Rose... if you can hear me, this isn't you.," he said trying to reach the tiger. He tightly gripped Rose, holding her in place.

Sybil could sleep deeply for just a few minutes, but then she just couldn't anymore. She wasn't tired anymore. She looked at the moon and could deduce it was about three in the morning. She closed her eyes again to take advantage of the dark that was left, but it was no use. She then figured that a little stroll along the beach was just what she needed. So, being extremely careful, she got down the tree, cautiously walking beside the sleeping croc, and heading to the beach. The woods were quiet and peaceful, and there was no sign of Rose or any struggle beyond, so she believed that indeed, Sayan was the one to watch over her.

"No. You will remain here and you will remain calm. You can and you will fight through this... I know you can.," Sayan said not loosening his grip. He looked at the tiger right in the eyes and spoke in a calm but confident manner, hoping to reach the inner gentler side of Rose.

Sybil didn't hear the struggle at first, but now that it was accompanied by yelling, she could hear the echo through the quiet foliage. She didn't understand the words, but she recognized the voices.
"That's... Sayan, and Rose... oh no." she said, having a very good idea on what was going on. She was about to run in to help Sayan, but what could she do? If Rose saw her, she would probably start chasing her... but Sybil wasn't going to be calm if she didn't do something. So instead, she climbed a tree, and ran towards Sayan's den, jumping from tree to tree, from branch to branch, k owing that the height of the foliage was a much safer place than the ground. Rose could climb trees to a certain degree, but was too heavy to jump from branch to branch.
"SAYAN!" she called, letting him know that she was on the way and ready to help however she could...

Guardian and Crocux woke up hearing Sybil yelling. Guardian left the tree and said "stay here." and snagged a lizerd heading off to Sayan's den knowing that that was were the problem was. Crocux wanted to go with but listened to his dad trusting that he knew what he was doing.

Sybil arrived to Sayan's den, about twenty meters high from the commotion. She didn't know if she was risking making things worse by letting Rose know that she was there, but she had to try to talk some sense into her.
"Now Rose! Is this the behavior of a future leader? Come on! You're better than your own instincts!" she said, having known Rose for a little longer than Sayan, so she hoped that her voice could come to some advantage.

Sybil felt ignored, so to get Rose's attention, she started to look around the tree she was standing on. It had dry, pear-like fruits around them, and she grabbed a small one and threw it below, aiming at Rose's head. In the struggle however, it just managed to hit one of her ears, which Sbil hoped was enough to get her attention...

Sybil wasn't sure what was angering Rose, if it was Sayan's tight embrace or the fact that she was being prevented from doing what nature was intending her to do. There was only one way for her to know if what she was saying to Rose was working.
"Let her go Sayan. Lend her some space." she said, knowing how extremely risky that was. But she was ready to get away in case things got ugly.

Sayan nodded and released his grip on the tiger, instantly stepping back. "Get ready!.," he warned not sure what to expect.

Sybil's fur stand to an end. Seeing Rose like that hurt her a lot. It was exactly as Barloc warned her. But she knew it was because she wasn't eating well during the day, and she now had the appearance of an adult, she was still too young to go against her instincts.
"Sayan. Go to the storage! Fetch her something to eat. Or try to catch anything you can find! Or if you find Sozen, tell him to carry you there! Go now! I'll keep her distracted!' Sybil suggested, knowing that the mountain's storage was roughly an hour away if Sayan kept running, and that was still too much time. Sybil had no other choice than to use herself as bait, make Rose concentrated on her alone to prevent her from roaming around the forest and endanger the other Haven residents like with Stripes.

As if on cue Guardian arrives with the lizerd in his mouth. "Hey! Rose! Catch!" and he threw the lizerd at her.

Sybil soon pulled her ears out of frustration. What was Guardian doing there?
"No no no! Guardian! Get out of there!" Sybil said in a strained voice, knowing that a tiny little lizard wasn't going to be enough to satisfy a tiger's hunger.

"No!," Sayan yelled. "Get out of here Guardian! It's not enough!," he said urgently upon the cobra's arrival.

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Sage walked back to her cave.

Sybil just knew it. Natural prey or not, Rose was simply too hungry to care.
"Oh heavens why do these things keep happening to me?" she said, looking up, as she was about to do something incredibly stupid. She has done things like that in her past and survived, but now she felt like she was overdoing it, but she owed it to Guardian. Closing her eyes, Sybil threw herself from her tree, landing directly on Rose's back! The civet wasn't very heavy but both gravity and height made her weight like a sack of sand, which she hoped it was enough to slow Rose down, and not hurt her.
"Now disappear! Run!" she urged the cobra, getting off Rose and proceeding to do the same, running to the nearest tree because she knew her life depended on it...

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Sage walked back to her cave.

Nearby, Kali, who didn't return to Hunted island, was sleeping on a nearby tree, unaware of the newest animal's presence. She looked all afternoon for Rose, but got tired in the process and stayed there for the night. Barloc wasn't worried, since he believed she was in another part of Hunted island running some late errands, which was very common in her. Her hearing wasn't as good as Sybil's so she had no idea that what she came to investigate was happening at that very same moment...

Guardian raised from the ground hissing with his hood open wide, a cobra's signaure intimadaition tactic. i did not think this through. he thought to himself.

Crocux had a bad feeling that his dad went in over his head again. Luckly he cought a few rabbits while waiting for his dad to come back. He got tired of waiting and deciding to cheack on him he picked up the rabbits and started Galloping to the cave hoping everything was all right.

Sayan, meanwhile, started running to the food storage as fast as he could. Rose needed food-- and fast. The last thing he expected was for someone to run towards him.

Before Cocux could stop himself he ran into Sayan. Thanks to his strong jaws he didn't drop the rabbits and with a full mouth he said "sorry" and kept going soon reaching the area.

'Cocux?!,' he thought wondering if the gator had also heard the incident. "Wait! It's not a good idea to go back there!.," he warned but soon saw that he had brought food.

He came back with the gator, prepared for anything at this point.

It was a horrifying situation for Sybil. The one she chose as a successor was now chasing her, seeing her only as prey. As she climbed the nearest tree, the nervousness was making her slip too much, and when she noticed that she was barely making any progress getting up, in her panic, she started to randomly kick with her back paws just in case Rose was gaining on her.
"COME ON ROSE! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THIS!" she yelled, still blindly kicking. She didn't know where Rose was, or that Crocux was on his way, since all she was looking was up that tree, which she saw as her only salvation.

Sayan arrived ahead of Cocux, using his speed to get between Rose and Sybil. He was prepared to defend the civet until food arrived. "Stay calm! Cocux is arriving with food!.," he said.

The cobra relaxed but crocux barrald through giving chase going after Rose. He leaped to tackle her hoping that he could stop her long enough so he could get her to eat before things got worse.

OOC: Kali is resting at a tree near Sage's cave, which is inside the forest and not near the beach.

After Sybil continued climbing the tree, she noticed that everything went quiet, and when she gathered the courage to look below her, there they were. It was Crocux, Sayan and Guardian, but there was no sign of Rose.
"Sayan! Where is Rose?" she asked, wondering why he wasn't heading to the mountain like she told him to, and fearing where Rose could have gone.

"Don't worry, she got her senses back. Crocux here brought food, but she ran once she had realised what she had almost done.," Sayan said. "Are you alright?," he then asked.

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"Don't worry, she got her senses back. Crocux here brought food, but she ran once she had realised what she had almost done.," Sayan said. "Are you alright?," he then asked.

Sybil returned to the ground, relieved that the commotion was over.
"So it is Crocux who saved me this time?" she asked, completely ignoring Sayan's question. When she approached the group, she was walking strange. The fall hurt her quite a bit, but she didn't noticed.

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Rose then came to her senses. She stopped growling and hissing. She was only mear feet from Sybil. Rose quickly backed away and ran away crying. She soon came to the cave where Kali was resting nearby. "It's getting worse. I nearly hurt my mentor and best friend." Rose then curled up and cried.

"Rose?" Kali asked, not recognizing the tiger. Her voice had changed a bit since she last saw her, and she couldn't see very well in the dark like others.

Crocux nodded and went after Rose not wanting to leave her alone and hungry. Guardian went up to Sayan and said "yea same here, but are you ok?"

"Don't worry... I'm fine.," Sayan said. He then noticed Sybil's leg. "We should take a look at that leg though...," he said looking at Sybil.

"Calm now young Rose. It's only me." Kali assured, placing herself against the moon so that Rose could see her silhouette. She even raised the feathers of her head so that Rose could see she was a cockatoo.

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"Don't worry... I'm fine.," Sayan said. He then noticed Sybil's leg. "We should take a look at that leg though...," he said looking at Sybil.

"What?" Sybil asked, but when Sayan mentioned the word leg, it was then that she could feel the pain, but it wasn't that much. It kinda felt like a stuck needle.
"Oh it's alright Sayan. It's not broken or anything. Just a bit bent from the fall." she assured him, already going through similar injuries in her life. If it was indeed broken, she would have been agonizing.

"Certainly miss. I'm so glad you remembered." Kali said with a big smile, enough to bring some light into the heart of those that knew her. It was quite miraculous how different she was from her bitter husband.

Crocux neared the cave Rose is in and did his best to be noisy so he wouldn't scare Rose.

Guardian grew worried and examined it more closely wanting to make sure it wasn't broken. He was glad it wasn't and said "well the fun just doesn't end around here now does it?" smiling good naturedly at Sybil in his attempt to try to be funny.

Sybil took notice on what he was trying to do, and she was glad. But now, there was a more important matter to discuss.
"Look now, the reason Rose is behaving like this is because she doesn't eat enough during the day. She's trying to save for the drought, but that is something she in particular can't do. She's just too young to fight her instincts." Sybil pointed out, knowing that if the drought hasn't even hit completely yet and she was already behaving that way, she couldn't imagine how disastrous could be when it was at it's peak.
"Look Sayan, every night, you just have to make sure she has eaten enough before she goes to sleep to prevent these rampages." she suggested, hoping that was enough to keep her instincts at bay.

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Rose looked away still crying.

Kali heard what Rose said before she made herself be seen, so she had a good idea on what happened, especially after her husband Barloc gave several warnings to her and others.
"Do you need to talk about it?" she asked, believing she could comfort the young tiger like she has done with her daughter and nephew many times.

That's exactly what Kali suspected, but she was certain there was something she could say to make her feel better.
"Well, I'm pretty sure Sybil doesn't hold any grudges against you. She's too kind for that. And she understand what you're going through. This drought is awful, but you guys have faced worse than this." Kali assured, knowing that the Haven residents were sturdy survivors that have faced the cruelty of life.

Crocux went up next to Rose and set the rabbits infront of her and said "your young it isn't your fault. You not experienced enough to keep your instincts under contol yet. But you will in time, for now eat up, the last thing we need is another episode happining."

Kali gave a loud gasp when she saw Crocux, that sounded like a muffled scream. She wasn't expecting a crocodile to come out of the blue like that, but after she saw him speak kindly to Rose and offering her food, she could see he was just a new guest to the Haven. She couldn't speak due to her surprise, having quite a trauma around reptiles after Shadow seized the cockatoo tree months ago, yet she waved at him in politeness.

Crocux smiled when she wave and said "hello, i'm Crocux one of the newer resadents of Haven. What might your name be?"