Joel Welsey's Story

It was a bright and warm day. Perfect for sailing. It was one of those days that everyone just slacked off, and honestly, William was fine with it. The sails were loose and flapping in the light breeze, and the crew was snoozing, drinking, or just hanging around. William sat on thebupper part of the rigging to watch his crew carefully and make sure that they didnt completely abandon their duties. He couldnt lie though. He was paying more attention to the beautiful horizon than his crew. He heaved a soft sigh and slid down from his spot down to the deck, hitting the ground with a thud. He stood up and walked to the wheel, and sent the man away so he could join the others in the beautiful day. And so now William had control of the ship.

It had started as any other 'normal' day for him. Got up, showered took over the flying of his ship than...BAM! Once again the S'FADI was attacked. By who or what he had no idea and had to crash land on an island on a planet that thankfully allowed them to breath, but caused most of his shields to crumble. Leaving his cat ears visible and and his mental shields at barely minimal. Now here he was on an unknown world and in the middle of an ocean with out a way to get off. "Damn place. Keeping me from teleporting off this world, let alone to another more active area." he muttered as he continued to gather the wood his ship had left behind when they crashed.

"At least the S'FADI can heal now. Wonder how long that will take since Key is off line." he muttered as he dropped the last of the wood that set fire to it with his element and stood back, the wind ruffling his braids as it blew.

Stepping from the fire, Ki moved to the beach and looked out over the vast expansion of water and sighed as he lifted his head and breathed in the fresh scent of salty ocean water his ears twitching with each sound he heard coming from the tropical forest behind him, and the cries of the sea birds above.

(*)I wonder how long it will take Reaper to scout the whole area?(*) he wondered silently only to frown. (*)Or is it the world?(*). Frowning he closed his eyes and breathed in the salty breeze again, hoping to calm his rolling stomach.

Turning he made his way into the forest to hunt, having smelt a boar earlier and grinned at the idea of fresh meat. "Not to mention the chance to shift and hunt to my fullest." he said, his voice slightly husky but silky none the less as he slipped into the forest. Once inside his form shook before shifting. Instead of a 6'6" human male with gold braids hanging to his ass, stood a 12'6" saber tooth lion that stretched and leaped up into the trees. His sight and smell stronger than before and centered in on the scent of wild boar and took off, his feet barely touching the branches of the trees before he was leaping again. His ears twitching constantly atop his head, while his tail, only half of its original length balanced out behind him as he leaped and landed before leaping again.

He froze his sight on the grunting boar just beneath the tree he was on and grinned as he crouched on the branch his eyes on the boar for several more seconds before he dropped straight down onto the animals unsuspecting back and dug his claws into its shoulders even as his long fangs punctured its neck.

The boar let out a squeal of shock, and fear before a grunt of pain left it as its back broke followed by its neck as Ki violently shook his head, delighted by the taste and feel of blood flowing into his mouth and swallowed. A moan slipped from him as he swallowed again before dropping the now dead boar and stood up, stepping off the dead animal and began to clean his claws. "Damn its been to long since I've done that." he muttered as he shifted back to huma form and stripped off his shirt, tying it to his waist before reaching down and grabbed the boar. Tossing it over his shoulder, unmindful of the warm blood he could feel dripping onto his back, Ki made his way back to the beach and his camp fire.

Stepping out of the forest, Ki moved silently towards his fire, stopping bout two feet away and dropped the boar to the ground, dug a deep hole into the earthy sand, than turned and moved back into the forest and gathered some of the large banana leaves, several wild onions and some herbs and spices he recognized before making his way back to the boar, his tail lashing out just as a scythe slid out and sliced into its neck and lifted it up. Once off the sandy beach he let his claws second pare of claws to slice out and began to skin the animal starting at its neck and making his way down. All the while the blood dripped or poured into the hole he had dug.

Once done with the skinning he reached out sunk his claws into the haunch of the boar, and sliced off its head, which he tossed into the forest, before laying it on one of the banana leaves, the narrow end just over the hole and crouching down he began to slice chunks off the boar, every once in a while he would slice off a small piece and pop it into his mouth and chewed with relish, enjoying both the taste of the warm meat and the blood. Once he finished he buried the bones but tossed the rest into the forest for the scavengers that hid with in their thick foliage.

Finished with that, he covered the hole with the earthy sand, picked up the the leaf with the meat on it, Ki moved to the fire and using both claws and his scythes from his tail, shaved off several smaller branches and made a tri-pod rack that stood over part of the fire and stripped long slices of meat off a large chunk of meat, sprinkled some of the herbs and spices he found, and grounded up, onto the meat and let them smoke as he shaved a thicker piece of wood and laid it on one of the leafs. Gathering up the wild onions he found Ki stood and moved to a small fresh water hole several feet away and washed them before moving back to the fore and sat down.

Grabbing an onion he used his claws to peel off the top layer than began to cut and chop them up. Finished he untied the pouch at his waist and dug into it grinning when he felt the item he wanted and pulled out a large tin. Smiling he set it down and pulled the lid off to the scent of fresh carrots and cabbage along with potatoes. Grabbing two of each he closed the tin and placed it back into the pouch before resuming his chopping until he had a nice pile of each. Reaching for another large chunk Ki rubbed what was left of the herbs and spices he found into the meat before making a large slice into it and began to stuff the onions, carrots and potatoes into the hole and used smaller shaved sticks to close the whole and speared it onto the bigger stick and placed it onto the tri-pod to slowly cook.

Standing he stretched, his bones popping and turned towards the ocean, made his way down to it, stripped from his jeans, unmindful that he wore nothing under them and moved out into the water and washed off the blood from the boar and the smell of onions, his tail lashing in the water as he stood waist deep. Once finished with washing off the blood, Ki dove into the water and swam for a ways before surfacing and floated for several minutes before heading back to the shallows and the beach. Stepping out he shook than bent and grabbed his jeans before moving to the fire and turned the meat and let the air dry him before putting his jeans back on. As he waited Ki watched the horizon of the water and wondered exactly where he was let alone what world he was on.

After thirty minutes of sunbathing, Ki pulled his pants back on and his number 5 blue t-shirt before sitting down and turning the smoked meat before reaching for the medium done meat and began slicing it into chunks enjoying the juices that ran with the blood onto the banana leaf and using his forefinger claw popped a piece into his mouth after blowing on it. Periodically he would alternate between chunks of meat and the vegetables he'd cooked inside the meat.

Once finished he licked his fingers and his lips, savoring the taste as he stood, whispered a soft preservation spell on the smoked meat, wrapped it in several of the banana leaves as well as the cooked meat and using vines from the forest,he climbed a palm tree and tied them to it before dropping to the ground. Stretching he moved to the fire and using what was left of the leaves made a pallet and laid down just as the sun sunk below the horizon and added more wood on the fire to keep warm and any of the more curious animals away. Soon his eyes slid shut and he slept deeply but lightly, his ears twitching towards each sound he heard even as his tail flicked and curled behind him, the ball laying on the sand behind him. The fire light seemed to make the stone between his eyes glow and flicker even as the glow flickered over him adding shadows and light with each flicker of the firelight.