Chapter 1:3
Hunters; Large and Small
Soundtrack: High-Wire Stunts
You can feel your mind split in indecision between going into a threat display, while calling for your siblings to join you in said threat display, and a hasty retreat into the tall grass to hide. Mother is curling herself around you and her siblings, covering you as she hisses at the invaders. It's only when the intruders are revealed to be jade green coloured hunters, large enough that you are easy enough prey for them to hunt down and devour, that your indecision between flight or fight resolves itself to flight.
Figuring that there are too many of you and your siblings for Mother to defend all at once, you decide that getting out of sight, and hopefully away from the minds and jaws of the oncoming Jade-hunters, you rush for the tall grass. Fleeing through Mother's legs as she uncurls herself and stands tall, escalating to scream-hissing at the three Jade-hunters that enter into the clearing in front of her, you chuff-call for some of your siblings to join in the tall grass. You hear some of them join you in your retreat into the tall grass, but you can't tell if everyone of them has followed you. The number of feet softly pattering against the grass suggests that five have joined you though.
You burst from the smaller patches of the tall grass that surround Mother's nest, and the dirt mounds around her nest, towards the thicker patchs of tall grass that engulf the rest of the clearing. Two of the siblings that followed you separate and disappear into the tall grass away from your trio as they enter the tall grass. Safety in numbers may apply when your in the open, but when your trying to hide, numbers are a hindrance. You shake in fright a little as the sounds of Mother screaming her fury at the Jade-hunters for daring to intrude her nesting site and the reply of eerie chirping that seems to echo from the entirety of the jungle around the clearing.
You are accompanied by the two siblings, that didn't leave you, one a slightly heftier male with a dull, dark gray coloration and the other a more slightly male with a light blue-gray tone to their hide. You and your partners slowly make your way through the tall grass, moving in time with the gusts of wind on an attempt to avoid drawing attention to yourselves. You make it to what you assume is a good spot; far enough from the nest to not be easily spotted by the Jade-hunters, but not so far as to be impossible for Mother to find. You huddle up against your pair of companions, for warmth and comfort. You can feel the impulse to shiver. You don't though, shivering of any kind would be enough to wiggle the grass around you and give away your position to the Jade-hunters. You feel a whine begin to build in the back of your throat, but you hold it in. You hear, feel, the steps of the Jade-hunters as some enter the clearing out of sight from Mother, even as she engages the Jade-hunters in front of her.
You listen to the righteous anger Mother displays and lets loose on the intruders. Squealing resounds from one, then all three of the Jade-hunters that were distracting Mother as the rest of the Jade-hunter pack try to find and kill/steal/devour your siblings/your family/yourself. You stop to sense your further surroundings, taking in the sounds of Mother's battle against the Jade-hunters, and the squeals of the maimed Jade-hunters that Mother has left in her wake as she deals with the other invaders. The squeak of what you assume is something dying in the jaws of another resound from the other side of the clearing, all the while thuds of larger beings making their way t-.
You squeal in surprise when a Jade-hunter picks you up in their jaws. You manage to twist yourself free of it's jaws just before it can crush or maim you in a serious manner. Wincing from the scratches that cross your back, you scream-hiss and posture yourself in a threat display. Your partners are quick to join you in your posturing and screeching of death threats.
The sounds of the majority of the Jade-hunters screeching a retreat order barely reach you.
The Jade-hunter cocks its head at you, as if curious for moment, before lunging and snapping at you, you just manage to leap back and away from it. Your two partners take advantage of the brief opening that the would-be predator has given them and target what they feel are weak points. One, the smaller, light blue-gray male, pounces onto the Jade-hunters face and gets a piercing claw into position to puncture the nostrils while clawing for grip around the eyes. Your other companion, the heavier dull, dark gray male, tackles the Jade-hunter's side, knocking it over and begins leaving large slashes with his claws. As the larger opponent is toppling, the blue-gray male, adjusts the grip his piercing claws have in the Jade-hunter's nostrils to push off it's face and land away from the snapping jaws of your angered opponent. You hear one of the larger beings from earlier leap from the edge of the clearing and see them land right on top of the Jade-hunter you and yours were fighting. A large piercing claw impales the doomed would-be predator right though the eye.
Backing up, you and your companions hiss anxiously at the larger beings as you try to gaze past the bright-light shadowing the larger being. It's silhouette makes it look just like Mother, but your sense of smell easily conveys to you that this isn't her. It looks at you curiously, cocking it's head to the side as it leans down closer to observe you and your two companions. You shuffle away from the large predator as it smoothly ducks down to snap at a Jade-Hunter that you hadn't even noticed was positioned to snatch your blue-gray companion, as it turns tail and abandons the failed hunt.
From around the clearing you can hear the few remnants of the Jade-hunter hunting party being ruthlessly killed in various ways by other large beings, you look around to see if you can observe some of the carnage but the tall grass blocks out everything. Looking back at the large being in front of you, you note that is again watching you, waiting for you to do something. You let out a chuff-call so that you can take account of the locations and number of your siblings. You hear all nine of the voices that you know have hatched, which is a relief. As the tension of potential death is lifted off your shoulders, you gaze deep into the eyes of this larger being and decide to...
Choose One
[X] Hiss and posture in threat display at this potential threat
[X] Put yourself between this larger being and your companions
[X] Chirp at what you assume is Mother's pack member
[X] Go and seek Mother
[X] Ignore the large being and play with your two companions
[X] Write-In Option
QM: Alright this part is done. This part was fun, first fight scene. I think I did well for the amount of action in the fight scene and the soundtrack pick. It's my first action scene and I didn't know if I put enough detail in it to avoid ticking off the Mods so I mentioned as little gore as I could. I can draw a quick sketch of you and your companions if you would like. Oh, if anone finds grammar error and stuff like that please let me know so I can fix it.
Anyways, fan art and omakes are acceptable in case anyway wants to do those. Just thought to mention that now. Beyond all that, the rolls were as follows:
Night-Stalker - Retreat Party Number
Smugraptor - How many escape unharmed
EVA-Saiyajin - First Companion
Oh I Am Slain - Second Companion
Glitchrrr36 - Protagonist Injury Severity
Voting ends Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:00pm (EST). 
