Team Storytelling: Over!

[magnadearel]

Entrants: DavyJnah (Blue), SSBrosB (Purple), magnadearel (Pank)
Sisters' Names and Meanings: Dilshad(Blue)-happy heart, Janan(Purple)- heart, Gulisa(Pank)- little heart
What's Happening Here?!:

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Janan sighed as she paced around their little den that they lived in. Something had been bothering her lately and she was trying to figure out what. She felt stressed and tired quite a bit in the past few days, though that could have been from not getting enough food. She and her sisters were having a hard time finding food more and more.

But lately should couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed at her siblings. Dilshad had been getting on her nerves, more than usual lately, and Gulisa tend to shoot down any ideas that Janan had for finding more food. It was, aggravating to say the least. Janan felt like she had been taking care of two cubs for a while now and she was going to burst out in anger at some point.

She felt like she was the only one who actually wanted to fix their problems and try to make their lives a bit easier, but when she was ignored and dismissed, she couldn't help building some resentment towards her sisters.

And today was no different. She had been pacing around, trying to come up with some ideas as to where they could look for food while her sisters had volunteered to go out hunting. How successful they would be would have to be seen.

Dilshad was never always all there. Even from a young age she looked up to her sisters and leaned on them for everything. Though she wasn't all there in her mind there were moments where she was more in tune with things. She understood her sister Janan was annoyed but for what, she had no idea. Gulisa though always seemed to be bristled by something and that she didn't understand either. She loved them both dearly and never wanted anything bad to happen to them. They were family, shouldn't they stick to each other and love each other?

Now Dilshad didn't get angry very often but when she did it was a temper tantrum. A temper tantrum that cubs would throw. Was that maybe why they were irritated? But they loved her, so why would they be angry with her.

"Janan. I'm hungry." She groaned as her and Gulisa came back from their 'hunt' empty pawed. The purple female was the one she always turned to, the smartest one of the group. The one who was most clever. She would always side with Janan over Gulisa just because well she looked up to the purple female more than the pink one. Plus also a better hunter than herself. She relied heavily on her sisters to do the hunting for them.

She was not feeling particularly generous toward her sisters. Gulisa felt a bit left out that they weren't triplets. No her sisters were the twins. True it took a close eye to notice the difference, but her eyes were right above the difference and she saw her muzzle every day. It was like constantly rubbing the fur along her spine the wrong way.

If she was grumpy, then her sisters should be grumpy too! Misery loved company. Janan was always bossing and telling them what to do. Like her ideas were so great! The bright pink cheetah huffed. To get away from her bossy sister, she'd said she was taking Dilshad out hunting.

It was dubious at best. Poor Dilshad was simple. The conclusion was foregone when they returned from hunting empty pawed. Gulisa cast a glare at her blue sister who instantly sided with Janan as soon as they got back.

"Well if you hadn't ditzed off we would have had that gazelle and a feast!" She snarled back.

Janan heard the steps of the sisters approaching and could tell that they had not caught anything. No surprise there. She thought to herself as she looked in the direction they were coming from. She sighed when she heard Dilshad’s whine about being hungry. They were all hungry and a whiney sister wasn’t helping the situation in the least.

Gulisa seemed to be in a bad mood too, so of course that would be passed onto the other two. Janan sighed. Couldn’t they go at least a few days without something coming up? She would have left them long ago if the sisters hadn’t been so reliant on each other.

“We’re all hungry Dilshad. Whining about it is not going to help anything.” She tried to ignore her sister’s tantrum. She couldn’t really say anything about Gulisa, it was difficult not to be upset when not only you failed in the hunt but also in getting food.

“Well, I wasn’t expecting it to go well anyway, so I thought of some other places we could go to try to catch food. An easier place might be that watering hole to the west or to the east there should be a lot more gazelle and lots of running room, though we would have to work together to be able to tackle one of them…”

Hunting had never been her strong suit, though if she really tried and focused she could probably get a kill. It was having relied on everyone else for her entire life that she didn't want to really work for it herself. It wasn't as if she didn't try, she just got caught up in all the motion when out there. Something would catch her eye and she'd go from what they were doing to that. One of these days she might get left behind or something terrible, hopefully that day would never happen.

"But I am the most hungry." She grumbled as she made her way to the purple one, getting further from Gulisa. She was always mean. "I did my best. I tried." It was mostly true. There had been a flutter of wings off to the side that had distracted her from the hunt. "Food! Food!" She exclaimed when the smarter cheetah said they might try something simpler. Simpler always worked for her.

Gulisa just knew Janan was going to try to push her ideas onto them once again. After she gloated how they'd failed. Of course she'd fail with Dilshad along. That one was more use scaring up prey then catching it. She growled at Janan as the purple female started in.

"Thinking! All you ever do is Thinking! Why don't you get off your rump and help us like you use to do in the old days?" There was that faint memory of all three being happy and well fed, working together to hunt down prey. Times of long past tickled her memory and she shook her head to dislodge them.

"Ha! I'm hungrier than you Dilshad. I was the one who was actually doing the running." She spit scathingly at the blue. "You barely even tried and expected me to hand the whole gazelle over to you." She was at the end of the ropes with her twin sisters. Gulisa grouchily eyed the way the pair started to team off as soon as all three were together. Why did she have to be so different!

”Being hungry isn’t a competition Dilshad!” Janan snapped at her sister and rolled her eyes. They really needed to get their act together. She was at the end of her rope!

She glared at Gulisa. “Why don’t I go out and help? It’s because when I go out lately you seem to try to ruin the hunt on purpose! I tell you the strategy and then when it starts working, you decide to do it the way ‘you’ think would be best and then we fail! We need plans! And we need to stick to them too!”

Janan’s eyes rolled once again when Gulisa tried to compete in what seemed to be a ‘hunger contest’ that had just started. They needed to cool their heads and try to come up with a better way to go about this! The watering hole was looking like a much better idea now. Janan only somewhat noticed her twin going closer to her, though since Dilshad usually stuck next to her it wasn’t anything that she truly thought about.

“Enough you two! We’re all hungry okay?! It’s a fact of life, it’s kind of hard to live out here without feeling hungry usually and so we need to come up with a way so that we won’t be going hungry all the time, right?!” She was yelling now, which she really didn’t like to do as it hurt her throat a bit, but this wasn’t going to last if they couldn’t even get one kill in.

When the female yelled at her she cowered. She hated being yelled at and especially when it was Janan who usually never did. Everyone was stressed and being put to their limits now. She had to do better. She could focus on what it was that they needed to do. Right? They had to get food. Her stomach growled menacingly to remind her that she was starving. As were her sisters.

The female's mind seemed to progressively get worse over the years. As if she didn't develop like her sisters did. She did try to follow Janan's orders when they were given she just sometimes got very distracted by all the other things in the world.

"I will do my best the next time we go out for a hunt. I promise." Though she said this every time she really did try to make the effort each time. "I'm sorry." Her head dipping as she felt tears starting in her eyes.

She puffed up outraged Janan would accuse her. "Me ruin the hunt?! When I'm as hungry as you all? Maybe you just can't see your plans aren't all that great! Bet you didn't think of that!" She was yelling too. If she hadn't been so pink her cheeks probably would have been red.

Gulisa was about to turn on Dilshad too when the blue female started apologizing. She clamped her jaws shut with a snap. Dilshad was trying for the pity plea she was sure. But those tears. The pink cheetah stood ridged for a moment then gave a growl.

"Oh stop Dilshad! Lead the way Janan and we'll go over your stupid plan. But it had better work this time! And you Dilshad, don't get distracted!" She grumbled and muttered, giving in without really appearing to give in. Her sisters more often than not got on her nerves, but they were still her sisters.

Janan huffed a bit at her sisters. Well, at least they were willing to try again, but that didn’t mean it would go over well. They were still all mad at each other and if they didn’t want to mess up this hunt they would have to do their best and they couldn’t do that while they were fighting with each other.

Well since Dilshad already apologized, Janan figured she should too. She looked at her pink sister. “I’m sorry Gulisa, I’m not trying to be better than anyone else, I just want us to get things done the best way possible, in my opinion, so that we can focus on other things. It’s hard to do that when you’re starving all of the time.” She wasn’t sure why Gulisa seemed to be so harsh on either of them but Janan would do her best to try to appease her sister anyway.

Janan then looked at Dilshad. “Sorry for yelling at you Dilshad, I know you try to do your best. We just need to figure out what you can do and how that can help us while hunting. We’re all hungry right now and we need to concentrate on that more than anything. Then we can play a bit after we’re done eating, all right?”

Well, that was the best she could do. They would still have things to work out, nothing was ever resolved that easily, but hopefully it would calm her sisters down enough so that they could concentrate on hunting some food. She was really hungry!

As soon as Gulisa yelled at her again she flinched, tears slowing as she blinked them from her eyes. She'd do better. Yes. This time she'd really help. Hunter focus. Hunter focus. She repeated to herself. Once Janan apologized she started to perk up again, happy at least one of her sisters was taking it easy on her.

"I'm ok now." She sniffled. "I will focus. I can do this. We will catch something like we have done before." Each word made her feel more empowered. Like she could do this and help her sisters out. They were a family, they had to have each others backs through thick or thin.

The blue female went to her pink sister and reiterated what she had said, "I'll do better for you Gulisa." Then she grinned. Yeah. They got this, just like they used to.

She eyed her smartest sister. "Maybe ask for feedback once in a while. I have ideas too you know." It galled her that her ideas were never asked for. Dilshad never had ideas, so she didn't count. Gulisa snorted while Janan stated the obvious to their ditsy sister. It had to be stated to her.

It surprised her when Dilshad came up to her. Ruffled, the pink cheetah cleared her throat. "Yeah yeah. Let's get a move on it before Janan starts lecturing us again." She nudged the blue cheetah on the shoulder and got her moving in the correct direction. This hunt would be different. They could fight after they had full bellies.

 

[Eos Galvus]

Entrants: Das Tor (Purple), Redbud-Tree (Blue), NovaCracker (Pink)
Sisters' Names and Meanings:
Cocomi (Pink): Invented name; root word is Cocoa meaning chocolate
Cocobi (Blue): Invented name; root word is Cocoa meaning chocolate
Cocobu (Purple): Invented name; root word is Cocoa meaning chocolate
What's Happening Here?!:

Once upon a time a cheetah couple, close in their twilight years, had only three daughters - two twins and their sister, in their only litter.

To each cub they gave a similar name, to encourage love and closeness - Cocomi, Cocobu, and Cocobi. Their cubhoods were happy and sweet; and during this time Cocobu and Cocobi became close; always doing things together, leaving Cocomi to spending time with their mother and father, And as cubs and teens, this was fine -- in a close, loving family, this was a way to ensure nobody was alone. Still, one day, age came, and with age, came death, taking their father and mother close to one another, leaving the sisters alone.

And to that end, the sisters agreed to stay close. They began roaming, going everywhere, but Cocobi and Cocobu were always together, bonding and cuddling, hunting and living as if naught was wrong.

Cocomi, however, grew lonelier and lonelier, but said nothing, until one day Cocobi found Cocomi laying by herself, looking quite sad.

The next day, Cocobi told Cocobu she wanted to spend time with Cocomi instead.

"Are we not sisters?" She asked. "Why should Cocomi be so lonely?"

Cocobu did not understand - they were twins and had always done everything together, but Cocobi insisted.

Cocobu left that night, seeking to find her own way and left Cocobi and Cocomi to themselves. The pair were wracked by grief, missing their wayward sister. Cocobi and Cocomi each blamed themselves, leading to quarrels and finally, the pair split.

Each sister was nwt unhappily alone, for a long time.

One day three sisters came to an oasis from three directionds for sun and water and prey, and each, seeing their sister, bound together, rubbing and loving, and forgiving as they rubbed and purred.

Cocobi admitted it was wrong to not include Cocobu in time with Cocomi. Cocomi admitted she was missing company and she was sorry to not tell her sisters, and Cocobu apologized for being so jealous.

They were together again, squabble over, and would never part again.