Find my Lion Cub (Deniel)

"Alright, well first off.....I think we-" Deniel was interrupted by an extremely harsh screech of a bit, and out from under the cliffs, came one of the raptor birds that Deniel saw before. There was only one, and this was probably the one that ran away from Deniel, which made sense because he hurt the other two really damn bad. A sliced off wing and leg could do that to a bird......Deniel reached for his sword Nidhogg and drew the blade, looking at the giant bird. Right now, he felt somewhat like a knight on a horse facing a dragon. But......instead it was a nephalem on a moose facing a bird. It sounded extremely stupid now that he realized it, but that was the least of his concerns.

Deniel reached for his sword Nidhogg and drew the blade from its scabbard. He always held on to the scabbard, but this time, he put it inside his belt loop so he could hold on to the moose's antler with his left hand hand, and hold his sword in his right. The bird came straight for him, and the moose charged back. Deniel held tight on the moose's antlers, and sent out several air pressure attacks at the bird before they got too close. The bird was smart, and this time it wasn't going to fall for Deniel's surprise air pressure attacks. It swerved away from each attack, and Deniel realized it was futile. He stopped cutting the air in front of him, and let the moose charge at it.

That's when Deniel realized that he had no experience with this kind of stuff, and if he kept going, the moose would probably go straight off the edge. "Stop!" Deniel called to it, and the moose obeyed him, going to a complete stop. What Deniel forgot about was that it was going at almost its top speed, and that sent him and Scotty flying from where they were at, in the air and vulnerable. The raptor bird finally closed in on them, and reached out its razor sharp claws to grab hold of them.

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Deniel used his Nephalem Storm attack by flapping both of his wings at each talon to make sure that he wouldn't get caught. His attack worked, as the raptor bird let out a small screech of pain and stopped his attack. This gave Deniel the opportunity to fly straight under it and behind it with his Nephalem Wings. He was sure glad that he had these things. He remained at an elevation above the bird, which recovered itself and looked back at Deniel. If it had an angry look, this sure as hell was it. "Come on!" Deniel edged it on and looked back at Scotty. "Hold on tight, little guy!" Scotty obeyed Deniel and held on to him a little tighter with its tiny lion paws.

The bird came charging straight at Deniel, and Deniel flew straight back at it. The bird mistook Deniel's action for an action of surrender as it opened its mouth wide for Deniel to fly straight into. Deniel wondered if this thing was stupid or just plain stupid, because he had already flown above its mouth, but it still kept it open. Once the bird was right below him, Deniel flipped his body over in the air and sent the hell of his boot straight down at its back. This caused the bird to significantly drop in height, but recover itself overall. Deniel could have finished it right there, but he wanted to enjoy this fight a lot more. He had never used his wings too much in battle to fly, and this might be the first time in a long time that he will get the opportunity. "Is that all you've got!? Come on, this is my first time flying, surely you can do better than that!"

This angered the bird furthermore as it looked up at Deniel. This was its territory, its sky, and here was a stranger that hadn't even flown before kicking its ass and taunting it at that. The bird let out a screech and flew at top speed towards Deniel. Deniel smirked and flew right back at it. This was Deniel's mistake, for this bird got tired of losing. When Deniel held out his blade to try and stab it, the bird flew right past him in a quick evasive maneuver to the side, and then it turned itself right around and clenched on to Deniel and Scotty with its talons. Then, it swung itself around and threw Deniel straight for the ground. For the first time, it actually hit him.

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Deniel landed harshly on the ground, face-down to keep Scotty safe. This attack really hurt, but it wasn't nearly enough to defeat Deniel. Deniel placed both of his hands to the side and pushed himself up, spitting the dirt out of his mouth. "Scotty, you okay?" Deniel glanced back at the lion cub to see it clinging on to him in fear. Luckily, it was completely unharmed. "Good." Deniel got back on his feet, and grabbed Nidhogg which had flown out of his hand and landed next to him. He looked up at the bird, which was flying in the sky, looking down at him. It was its sky, and Deniel was no longer going to defeat him in it. "Come on! Think you can defeat me! Just try!" Deniel taunted the bird one last time, knowing that his next attack would guarantee him victory.

The bird, still angered at Deniel's arrogance, did exactly as Deniel said and charged down at him at maximum speed. Deniel just stood there and got in a weird stance. He held his katana straight down, with his hand above his head pointing it down. He could see his own reflection in the blade. Deniel stood absolutely still, and the bird opened its mouth to swallow Deniel whole. The impact between the bird and Deniel created a small dust cloud, to where nothing could be seen. Once it was cleared, Deniel's blade, Nidhogg, was keeping the bird's beak wide open while it struggled to clench down on the sharp object. The bottom of the inside of its mouth started to bleed, but it wasn't going to stop, for its anger had overcome its common sense.

Deniel finally finished this battle off by aiming his next attack straight inside the bird's throat. He flapped each of his wings once and sent out two of its Nephalem Storm attacks right in its mouth. Each attack hit inside of its throat, which caused the bird to try and screech out, but its vocal chords had almost been damaged. Immediately after the attack hit inside its throat, something far worse came up inside. A small tornado brewed up inside of its mouth, and it ripped and shredded its throat apart, struggling to be free from the restraint. Deniel took his blade out of the birds mouth and let it close its beak finally. If its vocal chords were still there, it would scream in misery as its final moments came by.

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The giant raptor bird struggled to make its way to the cliff to try and hide in its cave. Hide from the monster that tore its throat apart. It's life was fading fast, but it tried to cling on to its last moments. When it reached the edge of the cliff, it looked back in horror to see Deniel standing right behind it. It tried jumping off to take flight, but instead, Deniel kicked it off the cliff. In its last, agonizing moments, it tried to flap its wings to fly into the cave, but its string of life had been cut, and it fell motionless into the sea. Deniel looked right back at it. The battle had given him so much satisfaction, but he had little respect for his opponents. Deniel spat down at the edge of the cliff and walked back to the alpha male moose. It looked straight at Deniel, as if trying to say "Was that really necessary?"

Deniel just stared back at it with a face with only one expression: wrath. "Yeah. It was." He said to it and mounted on its back once again. The moose somewhat reluctantly took off. It didn't like seeing other animals of nature being killed so mercilessly, but Deniel DID do it out of self defense. "Head back into the forest and take a left for a while, I'll tell you the next directions." The moose did as Deniel told it to do and headed back into the forest, and took a sharp left after a few steps of entering it. After a few minutes of running, Deniel finally gave it more directions. "Alright, now take another left and keep going straight. We should end up at the shack soon." Deniel suddenly took notice to his back. His wings were gone, and that must have also meant that his eyes were back to normal, too.

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The moose ran moderately towards the direction Deniel told it to. Deniel was silent, and thinking about his actions. He saw how the moose looked after he killed the moose without regret and mercy. He was wondering: Was that the same with every other job, too? Did all of the people he kill really have people that cared for them or even considered their deaths? He remembered the first time someone had actually cared about, or even questioned his motives. It was during his first C ranked job, which involved him guarding someone's house. He killed each and every person there without mercy, and then took his payment and left. Now that he looked back at it.....it was a very demonic and unholy thing to do. Sure, he didn't torture them like sadists that he despises, but he killed them without second thoughts.

And then, there was the time in which he other creatures, the Vulcan, without regretting that either. In fact, he mocked them when they were all about to die. He remembered how the women he saved had a bit of fear in them when they saw him kill each Vulcan, and how the last one called him ugly and scary. Now....he was questioning whether or not killing things was the best motive. He was letting his demonic side get the better of him, and is that what he really wanted? He turned to the angel side of his mind, and all it seemed to tell him was: "You dealt justice. Justice does not regret." They were both seemingly as evil.

While Deniel was having his thoughtful moment, Scotty was enjoying himself. He liked the ride, and he was happy that he was finally going to go home to his owner. He went from Deniel's shoulder down to the moose's head where he got a front-row seat of the ride, and he let the wind blow in his face.

His demonic side didn't care, his angelic side didn't care....and he doubted the Nephalem part of his brain would show concern to. Deniel was slowly tearing his own mind apart, and he didn't even know about it. Finally, his train of thoughts was interrupted when the moose stopped in front of the small shack in which Deniel had originally come from, and Scotty's home.

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Deniel dismounted from the moose and Scotty hopped back on his shoulders once again. He approached the shack and knocked on the door several times. "Comin'! Comin'! Hold on a second, yo!" Deniel waited several seconds, and then the owner of Scotty, Yu, opened the door. The second Scotty saw Yu, it jumped straight from Deniel's shoulder to Yu. Yu opened his arms for Scotty to jump in the second he saw it as well, and they were both overwhelmed with happiness. Despite his doubtful thoughts from before, the scene that everything he did so far was all for this gave him a bit of comfort and joy. He couldn't help but give a small smile upon seeing Scotty lick Yu's cheek several times, and Yu laugh from enjoyment. "Dude! You found him, you found him! It's my Scotty! I can't beleive ya' did it, dude! Thank you so much an-" Yu finally turned his attention away from Deniel and Scotty to see the Great White Moose standing behind Deniel.

Yu walked straight past Deniel, approaching the Great White Moose. "What is it?" Yu looked at the moose and slowly hesitated to touch it. "Holy cow, dude.....how in the world did you get this thing to come back here? I mean......DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW RARE THIS THING IS!? Not only that, it's the alpha male of the pack!" Deniel stared at Yu, then the moose, then back and Yu, and then back at the moose in a bit of confusion. He wasn't too surprised by the fact that Yu knew what it was, but he was surprised that he could tell it was the alpha male. "I've never seen this guy away from its pack! I mean...seriously dude.....how did you get it to come down here?!"

From what it seemed, Yu knew exactly what this creature was, and also which one it was. He might have seen it before, but to know it just by looking at it. He must have seen it more than one time. "You know this thing?" Yu touched the fur of the alpha male, and then turned to Deniel. "Heck ya I do! And every time I see it.....it tries to kill someone or destroy something! And yet, here it is, all calmed down. Deniel.....don't tell me....."
"I rode it here."
"HOW THE HECK!? YOU GOTTA' TELL ME 'BOUT THIS DUDE! YOU GOTTA!"

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Moments later, Deniel was once again sitting in front of Yu, and this time, Yu had Todd in his lap. Deniel dismissed the Alpha Moose to leave moments ago, and Yu invited him inside for some tea as Deniel explain the story. Deniel took a small sip of his tea and explained the story from the beginning. "Well, as soon as I arrived at the cliffs, a group of kind of......bugs attacked me-" Yu immediately interrupted Deniel once he mentioned the bugs. "YOU SURVIVED AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE THE HA-ABWERA BEETLE!? HOLY COW THAT'S AWESOME!" Deniel stopped what he was saying and looked at the guy in confusion. "Uh....." Yu realized his rudeness and cleared his throat, calming down and sipping his tea. "Sorry man. Go on."

"A-anyway......after defeating the group of beetles, out of caves from the cliffs came these giant......birds that wanted to rip me to-" Once again, Yu interrupted Deniel. "YOU CAME AWAY FROM THE RAPTOR BIRDS IN ONE PIECE! THAT IS AWESOME! DUDE, YOU'RE AMAZING!" This time, Deniel didn't need to make a noise, for Yu realized his rudeness in interrupting him again. "Oops! Sorry, again! Go on!" Deniel sipped his tea once again and cleared his throat. "Anyway, after defeating the birds, I finally met up with that giant moose you saw. We fought it out for a bit, until I suddenly caught hold of one of its antlers and mounted on it. It tried to shake me off, but eventually I ta-" A third time, Deniel interrupted him. "ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!? YOU LIVE THROUGH ITS WRATH, AND THEN YOU TAME IT! HOW THE HECK DO YOU DO THAT, DUDE!?" This time, Deniel wasn't going to take his apology for interrupting him.

"Anyway! After taming this moose, it took me to its pack where your lion Scotty was! We rode back to the cliffs and I defeated another Raptor bir-"
"YOU DEFEATED THEM TWI-" Deniel had enough of the interruptions, and wanted to finish this story and get going.
"ANYWAY! I BEAT UP THE LAST ONE AND RODE THE MOOSE BACK HERE AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE NOW!"

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Yu was mind blown from the story. Deniel casually sipped his tea, while Yu yelled out of control. "WOOOOOOOOOOOO! THAT IS OOOOONE WIIIIIIIIIIILD STORY, DENIEL! YOU ARE SO COOL, MAN! SO COOL! DEFEAT THOSE BEETLES, THEN THE RAPTOR BIRDS, SURVIVE THE GREAT WHITE MOOSE, AND THEN EVEN TAME IT! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE! DENIEL, YOU ARE SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOL!" Yu was almost spinning out of control, trying to wrap his head around all of this. In all of his years living here, he never saw anyone do any of this stuff. Deniel didn't seem to think it was too impressive, and finished the rest of his tea. "THIS WILL MAKE FOR A GREAT STORY! I'LL TREASURE THIS STORY FOREVER! I AM SOOOOO LUCKY TO MEET YOU, DUDE! REALLY I AM!"

While Yu continued to yell, Deniel tried to get his attention. "Yu......." Yu was too busy yelling, and he didn't hear Deniel. Deniel tried it again. "Yu." Yu was now running around in circles the table, and so was Scotty. The two sure as hell had a lot of energy, Deniel admitted. "Yu!" Yu still didn't hear Deniel, and Deniel got a tad bit annoyed by all of this. He held out his foot to the side as Yu went around the table, and Yu tripped right over it, falling flat on his face. Finally, Deniel had his attention. Yu looked straight up at Deniel with excitement still on his face. "YEAH MAN! WHATTA' WANT!? ANYTHING FOR THE GREAT BEETLE SLAYER/RAPTOR KILLER/GREAT WHITE MOOSE TAMER! ANYTHING!"

Deniel stood up from his seat and held out his hand. "Can I have my payment now so I can get going?"
"OH YES, YES, YES! JUST A SEC, DUDE!" Yu reached inside his pocket and took out Deniel's payment. Deniel took it and headed straight for the door. "Deniel." Yu called to him, and his voice finally sounded a tad bit calm. Deniel turned around to look at him. "Yeah?" Yu stayed silent, looking serious. Then, he smiled and held up his thumb at Deniel. "Nice work, man! Thank for all of ya' help!" Deniel somewhat returned the smile. "Yeah....." He said and opened the door, walked outside, and closed it behind him. "Mission complete."

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