Slow and Steady [STORM]

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| Ceia walked slowly over the frozen water below her, the cold seeming to burn the pads of her feet. She moved to more steadier ground, hating the slippery feel of ice. After meeting Ilana, she was really looking forward to meeting others in the pack, especially if they were anything like her. She felt her feet slip on the ice below her, and she was quick to right herself. Ceia found it easy at times like this to remember why she hated winter. As she hit steady ground, she found a large tree and sat at the base of it, her tail curled around her front paws and her ears twitching.

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Storm hobbled into view, a slight limp in her step as she padded to the Meadow's Edge Basin. The beta didn't seem to care about what went on around her, and stranger yet she had a strange bottle with her, given to her by White Magic. She opened it up and gulped some of the strange liquid down, wincing at the taste and shaking her battle scarred head around a bit. Capping the bottle back off, the night black she-wolf sighed softly and then looked out onto the frozen water. She unsheathed her claws and cut out a small piece of the ice, before grasping it between two claws and lifting it to her muzzle, and allowing it to melt in her mouth. She looked back at her injured leg every now and then, it had healed a bit since the fight, but was still not better, and it would leave her with a limp.

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| Ceia's head snapped over to look at the arriving wolf. She seemed to take no notice of Ceia sitting just a few meters away. The other female drank down a strange liquid, and cut out a piece of ice to melt in her mouth. She walked with a limp, but had no injuries to show from it. Most likely from a not so recent fight.

"You, over there. Who are you?" she called out.

[CursedErin]

The battle scarred brute had been minding her own business, watching the light dance off of the ice and watch the birds float on by, but she was soon interrupted by a noise over her shoulder. "Who want's to know?!" called back, a rough and demanding voice. Storm's head turned to face Ceia, her monster orange eyes piercing the aire and staring into Ceia's violet sort of eyes. The beta quickly examined the other female out, keeping a growl in the back of her throat, as she always did.

Her gaze never once broke Ceia's, thinking at first she might be an intruder in Dark Donoma's pack, and more than willing to take care of her, despite Storm's limp. After all, she didn't plan on the limp being much of a hindrance for her at all, that's why she basically allowed it to be broken, only to secure her place as beta and maul Ilana's daughter, Portia.

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| Amused, her lip curled up and she grinned at the wolf before her. Despite her obvious limp, the femme seemed eager to try to put her in her place.

"I am Ceia, newest to this pack. I repeat, whom are you?" she inquired. She allowed herself to look down at the leg that the dark female limped on, and smile. "Well, whoever you are, someone did quite a number on you. Was it one of the alpha's? Or maybe one of their children?"

[CursedErin]

Storm let out another growl from her throat. "I am Storm. Female beta for Dark Donoma." she spat back at Ceia. "Trust me when I say this, but the wolf who did this.." she paused and pointed at her hind leg with her snout. "Ended up in a worse condition than myself." she finished as she glared off at Ceia. "What is it you want from me? I was just sitting here and enjoying the view.. For once." she said, her voice still rough, with anger hidden in the back of it. Slowly, she turned her head back to the frozen water.

Her eyes danced across the ice, looking for blemishes in it. She connected the blemishes with herself, the ice being mostly solid, and her pelt mostly black. The blemishes were like her scars in the ice, so it seemed to intrigue her when she could see something the way other wolves saw her at first glance.

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| Ceia's stomach clenched in excitement when she learned the rank of the wolf before her. She would eventually seek out higher rank in this pank, refusing to be second to no one but her alpha. Eventually she and the scarred female would fight, but not now, not until she was strong enough.

"I don't doubt that the person who injured you is much worse off. You seem..." Ceia hesitated to looked over the scars on Storm's body. She then took the time to notice how the other female's eyes wandered over the uneven ice. "...skilled. I'm jealous. Your scars speak experience, it makes you pleasing to the eye. Well, my eye anyway's."

Though she said it mainly to test for weak spots, her words were true, too. She was scarred beyond anything she had seen before, and still stood today. How hard she must have had to fight.

[CursedErin]

The beta didn't seem to react much at all to what Ceia had to say, it was almost like she wasn't even there to Storm. Storm knew that she would need to protect her title of Beta one day, and she didn't care when that day came, and her limp would not stop her or impede her if she didn't let it.

Storm chuckled a bit as she spoke highly of her, finishing her sentences with a bit of an accent at the end on my. "Flattering will get you nowhere with me. I don't care if you hate me, love me, or respect me, I'll treat you like I do.. Any. Other. Wolf." she said with a bit of an intimidating factor, her eyes never once leaving the frozen ice before her.

Storm had seen many battles, some even with her own sister out in the plains. Some of her many scars didn't even seem to come from wolves, perhaps larger animals that she had taken down, normally solo. The most noticeable scar, even though Ceia couldn't see it at the moment, was the scar on her face. The scar cut through one of her eyes, not only did it give her a menacing look, but it also tore the iris as well in that eye, making that eye look permanently angered.

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| Ceia got to her feet and stretched, her unusually long legs splayed before her. She stood up and smiled politely as Storm.

"Nice to know. I don't really like special treatment. It usually ends up bad."  she grinned and dipped her head in a show of respect, something that she had just been told was unnecessary, but it didn't matter. "Do you mind showing me some moves? I'm a bit rusty, and I could also use some extra training."

[CursedErin]

Storm sighed a bit as she heard Ceia talk this time. "Normally no, I wouldn't teach you anything. But since I'm more than likely sure that Ilana will have me teaching wolves to fight, I might as well. she said, looking over her shoulder to stare at Ceia. "Is there anything specific you want to learn? Or should I just go from square one?" she called out, her voice remained rough a bit angry still, but it had a bit of compassion in it and wasn't always full of hate.

Slowly, Storm stood herself up and turned to face Ceia on all four paws, most of her weight shifted forward at the moment to keep weight off her hind legs.

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| "Since i'm fairly small, how would I go about fighting someone larger than me, heavier?."  Ceia had mostly fought wolves her size or smaller. Where she was from, they didn't really grow to be much larger than Ilana.

[CursedErin]

"Use your small size to your advantage instead of a disadvantage." she replied. "I personally haven't faced a wolf larger than myself, but I have fought other skilled fighters around your size." she added. Storm looked her up and down for a moment. "You'll want to get in close and claw around before they have a chance to attack you, and then get out. Keep moving or you're as good as dead against a large wolf."

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| Ceia nodded silently, understanding how this made sense. She had seen it before while she was a loner. Some of the wolves she had fough moved to fast she barely had time to react. It certainly put her off.


"What if they are larger than me, but just as fast? "  

[CursedErin]

"Then you keep your distance, let them tire out and then you move in to strike." she said to Ceia. Her eyes never once left the subordinate as she spoke and listened. "If they manage to be smaller than you and much faster, either wait for them to come in and strike as they move, or do the same and let them tire out." she added. Most of the situations that Ceia was asking about, Storm never really had to deal with, but she had enough experience in order to teach her what she could do.

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| "Alright, what about fatal blows? Any hit's I should avoid, besides the neck area?" 

Ceia knew that some places happened to be weaker than other. A neck injury, for example, could kill you quicker than anything she had known. A simple slice or a puncture in the airway it almost always fatal, but take's it's time to kill.