Reaper slinks through the jungle silently through the night trees. His tail slowly curling around the branches as he crawls. Reaper has one goal tonight, to blackmail Jol. He slowly climbs down the tree that Jol, dawn and their pup are against and wraps his tail around the pup they have and quickly scurries up the tree. This way he may hold that for randsom for the soul stone.
Dawn's ears swiveled as she heard her daughter begin to cry out. She yawned lazily and stretched, then moved her muzzle towards her stomach where her pup had been sleeping. When she didn't feel a tiny body... and realized the crying was coming from ABOVE her, her head snapped up. The pup was gone, and the screaming was coming from the tree. She was on her feet before she even thought to wake up Jol.
"Hollow? Hollow where are you?" she called up into the tree. The glow from her back becoming brighter in an attempt to light up the underside of the tree.
Reaper climbed higher into the trees to avoid the light of Dawn reaching him and lighting up the whearabouts of the pup. "Bring me the trickster's soul stone in the jungle on the outskirts of Amon's colony. Do not bring him with you, I just want the stone, nothing else." He talked down to her before climbing through the trees puppin snuggly wrapped in his long tail close to him.
Jol snarled awake at the sound of Hollow's cries and Dawn's concern. His feathers ruffled as Reaper's callous message reached them.
"BRING HER BACK or I'll tear your THROAT!"
Jol hollered after him, following by foot to the best of his ability the creature that had grabbed their child.
He ran directly for the nearest colony of his own kind knowing that they would back him up against a single cloak. Assuming the other was smart enough to stay away the odds would be in his favor.
"Not before you get surrounded by hundreds of my kind. All who would LOVE to eat you for breakfast!" he yelled back down to Jol. Coadles were fast but not as quick as feathercloaks. He would have the advantage of flight to get ahead as soon as a particularly tall tree or cliff presented itself which would be soon if Jol didn't find a way to make it into the tree tops to leap across the vast network of branches and vines.
Dawn chased after Jol as he tore through the forest. She didn't see who or what had their child, but it was clear that Jol did. She followed after them the best that she could.
Despite the coadle's threat, he tore after him between trees and over small streams. Why Hollow, why her? This silk bastard was going to pay for this-
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