Hell.... [Njack!]

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hell was laying on the edge of the plateau in a spot where he could watch over the Blood Mist territory. His eyes flickered across the land, beside him a dead wolf. Her blood was all over his sooty canvas. His maw had been washed up to the eyes in the once warm blood. Her surprised look when he said she was going to die was priceless. She had begged him. Pleaded. Gotten on her knees. Nothing worked. He yawned lazily, stretched, and lay his head once more on the cold stone.
Hell was priceless.
A smirked graced his maw, and threatened to never leave. He glanced warily around once more, before laying his crown down.

[Njack]

"Dead wolf." Patch plodded up to Hell. "What this about?"

He poked the dead wolf; it didn't move. He poked it again for good measure. It still didn't move. So he poked it again. It... didn't move.

Aside from poking the dead wolf, Patch watched Hell carefully. He could smell the Blood Mist on him, and so he knew he was an ally.

"Who you kill?"

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hellfire looked up at Patch, and scowled slightly. He stretched, before getting up. "Some fae that crossed our borders and didn't get out when I told her to. Besides, I have to deal with blood lust as well. Couldn't resist her." He looked to Patch, watching him for a moment before shaking his head.

"Why?" He asked suddenly. He was intrigued by this wolves interest on why he had slaughtered the female wolf.

[Njack]

"No kill friend. Kill bad wolf." Patch nodded at the other wolf's reply, then snarled at the dead wolf.

"Why? Kill friend, I kill you, kill bad wolf, I no kill you." Patch grinned a lopsided grin, much like his lopsided body. He stumped over by Hellfire.

"You sleep?" He pointed towards where Hellfire had been lying down with one of his stumps.

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hellfire could not hide the bemusement in his eyes, yet he frowned slightly. "Me? Sleep? No, I was not sleeping, I had been..." He trailed off as a scent lifted into his nostrils. The hair on the back of his neck bristled as he shot to the edge.
Nothing. He couldn't see anything.
But the scent was still there.

Puzzled, he looked back to Patch to see if he too had caught the unfamiliar scent.

[Njack]

When Hellfire turned, he would probably catch a glimpse of Patch sniffing himself and trying to catch the stub of tail that was left to him.

Patch figured out the smell didn't come from himself after a while, straightened up, and sniffed Hellfire once. It didn't come from Hellfire either.

"Smell," Patch grunted. Then he bounded over the edge of the plateau and slid down, sniffing as he went. Follow the yellow brick road scent trail!

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hellfire bit his lip to hold down a chuckle. He couldn't believe Patch! Anyways, he turned to follow Patch, but stopped. He wasn't so sure he wanted to slide down that...did he? Hell shrugged slightly, before taking a step back and...

He jumped the edge, and landed on all for paws, sliding down the plateau like he was on a surf board. "So, there is a scent?" He asked Patch.

Patch may be different, but he wasn't stupid. Hellfire knew that much. Every one was smart in their own way, and he knew this to be a fact.

[Njack]

Patch grunted in assent, then continued following the scent trail. He snarled slightly as his face went through a lone tumbleweed in the middle of the barren ground.

"Scent. You know what it is?" He glanced briefly over at Hellfire, then continued following the scent.

It was getting stronger, Patch could tell. They had almost reached the source of the scent.

That was probably why he wasn't looking up when he bumped into the huge moose. In the middle of nowhere. That's right. And the foam around its mouth probably wasn't the best indicator of things to come, either. Unless you think it got into somebody's whippin' cream birthday cake.

But I think not.

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

He took another whiff, and then shrugged. "It smells like moose." Hellfire had ran into Patch's butt, and grunted. "What the hell?" He said, inquiring on why he had stopped. He looked up, and gasped.
"A...A rabid moose?" The moose was towering over them, and the crazed look in it's eyes didn't make Hellfire look any better.

He stuttered slightly, and said "Patch...move. Slowly." But even the vocals of his mouth spooked the moose. The moose lifted his head, and was about to toss Patch aside with a cry of fury. Hellfire cursed, and threw himself against Patch, tossing Patch and himself from the racks of the moose. Hell turned, and sucked in a breath.

[Njack]

"Yeah. Mad moose," Patch grunted, then flung himself at the side of the moose, willing his sharp incisors into the flesh of the moose.

The moose roared and flung him off, two streams of blood running from its side.

So since that didn't work the first time that well, Patch got up and did the natural thing.

He jumped the moose again, snarling angrily.

"Plan?" he mumbled, muffled by a bunch of moose fur.

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hellfire didn't answer as he assessed the situation. He growled, a sound in the back of his throat that sounded guttural.

Hellfire glanced about, and then saw where his best bet was going to be. Go for the legs. He hunkered down, and shot forward. He snapped and snarled at his heels, his fangs ripping into the tender flesh there. One of them would have to go for the throat.

Hell grunted as the moose kicked out, and nailed him right in the throat. A raspy grunt was exhaled into the atmosphere. He growled loudly, and crouched again. The neck. He needed to get it. But once there, he couldn't let go.

He launched himself forward, and his teeth sunk into the moose's raw hide, and then into the sweet muscle. His jaws locked, and he waited for Patch to make a move.

[Njack]

The moose shook its head from side to side, foam spraying as it tried to dislodge Hellfire.

Patch scrabbled up its backside, until it almost looked like he was... trying to ride the thing. He clawed it in the back, drawing small rivulets of blood.

Hopefully it would distract the thing before it could shake off Hellfire, and then it might die from bleeding from the throat.

As an afterthought, Patch leaped for its head as well, gouging into its eye with a claw.

"Come on, die," he grunted, mostly to himself.

The moose chomped angrily, but couldn't quite reach either of them... yet.

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Hellfire held on while he was shook around like a rag doll. He had to do something. Neither one could be scratched, or bite them. Otherwise, they would be infected.

Hellfire glanced around, and then dropped quickly, avoiding the jaws of the animal. He sprinted a bit away, and then turned toward the beast again. He was covered in blood. He hunkered down, and sprinted again, leaping and...

Oh, shit!

The hind hoof reached around and nailed him right in the crown, sending him flying back. He was seeing stars. He shook his head, and then attacked again, this time in his blind side. He threw himself into a front leg, and the moose buckled, before falling to the ground.

Hellfire turned, and locked his jowls in to it's neck once again, ripping at the vital spots.

[Njack]

Patch grunted loudly as he was thrown to the ground. He scrabbled back at the moose, which was thrashing around now.

Was the moose dead yet? Nah, not quite.

Claws extended, Patch dove at its head again, hoping to blind it completely. It had to be fast; he couldn't risk getting bitten.

He dug deep down - shoot, he had missed - and tore a square of skin off.

But really, Patch could see, Hellfire had done his job well. The moose was getting weaker and it was on the ground. All he had to do was hold on a bit longer and-

Patch jumped back as the moose almost bit him. Foam splashed on his claws.

[H.ell . Fi.re.|†A.lba]

Finally, Hellfire bit the most vital vein that would cause the moose to bleed out. He stumbled backwards, and said "We have blood all over us..." That was nearly as bad as getting bit.

"We need to get it off us." He growled gently, and looked to Patch. Hellfire's voice was raspy because of being nailed in the throat.

Better than having a broken neck.

"So, what do'ya say?"