[Imagine_Ink]

Username: The Dragon Collector
Name: Raven
Gender: Female
Rank: Food Gatherer
Proof of Level: Here
Prompt: 250 words (plus 100 extra. Total: 350 words)

Raven collapsed beneath a bush, exhaustion finally overtaking her. Her tongue was dry, and her whole body ached. Raven lay there, gasping for air. The day the black mouse had left her home felt like months ago- because it had been.
She hadn’t been alone then. She had left her wasteland of a home with group of mice, not much stronger than she was now. They hadn’t thought about how dangerous the outside world was- only about getting away from the sickness and famine that claimed their home, a once beautiful paradise.
Many of the mice had collapsed from exhaustion, only a few weeks after beginning their journey. The lives of many more were taken by vicious predators or poisonous berries that they had mistakenly eaten.
But Raven had survived. She had watched as her friends suffered, and soon succumbed the dangers beyond their home.
She was alone.
Raven knew she couldn’t continue any longer unless she got nourishment. But she could only lay there, feeling her life slip away. She was helpless as she lost her grip on life and slipped into the dark void.

Raven woke to the cool taste of water.
She opened one eye, and saw a blurry figure hovering over her.
“You’re alive,” said a voice in relief. “I thought you were dead.”
Raven blinked. Her vision cleared and she saw a reddish brown mouse standing next to her. Raven rolled onto her stomach and stared at the newcomer.
“Who’r'you…” Raven slurred.
“Rose,” said the mouse. “And you are…?’
“Raven,” said Raven. “How am I still alive?”
“I don’t know,” said Rose. “When I found you, I thought you were dead. But I’m glad you’re not. I would’ve felt terrible.”
“I can’t thank you enough,” she said, relieved.
“It’s nothing,” said Rose bashfully. “Now come on. We have to get going.”
“We?” Raven asked. “Where?”
“Back to my home,” said Rose. “You’re in no condition to travel right now, and sleeping under a bush is no way to recover.”
“You want me to stay?”
“Of course,” said Rose. “Now come on. Home is waiting.”

[Placebo]

Username: Placebo
Name: Rayen (Previously Chogan)
Gender: Male
Rank: (Temporary) Builder
Proof of level: xXx
Prompt:

"Pathetic."

Chogan chattered in alarm when the mouse's juvenile form clipped his shoulder as the leader tossed the pup into his den. Chogan's crimson orbs stared balefully out at the large buck, and Chogan's lip curled in satisfaction at the flash of fear within the hateful leader's eyes. Still, the brute was quick to school his face, and his hiss slithered into Chogan's burrow. "Make sure he doesn't die."

Chogan watched on as the leader scurried off. Even from this distance, he could hear the sharp barks of the old buck and the jeering calls of his lackeys as the leader sent yet another child to his deathmatch.

The twisted knot in Chogan's gut only grew tighter as he turned to the pup curled up in the far corner of his cramped den. Chogan didn't know why it surprised him so much to see the pup was the leader's son-- must've been why the child wasn't immediately left to the snakes.

As the leader feared Chogan, so too did this little pup; but, he lacked his father's resolve. The pup cowered as Chogan crept forward to loom over him and inspect his wounds. With no oversight, Chogan's fierce gaze went weary as his scarred ear flicked. That monster... they're just children, and yet he...

Chogan swallowed around a dry throat as he turned away to gather herbs to abate any infection. All the while, Chogan could feel the young, scrawny thing's gaze track him. When he turned around to apply the poultice, the pup seemed all at once too exhausted to expend the energy to be scared of Chogan, no matter the nightmares his father fed him of the aging healer.

As the pup sagged, he seemed to become even smaller, and Chogan found his paws gentle as he soothed the boy's wounds. The pup's ears lay flat against his head, and even Chogan could still hear the echoes of the harsh buck's words. Pathetic. Who was the true pathetic one here?

Chogan scoffed. The only pathetic murid here was the buck outside condemning sons and daughters to their deaths.

{350 words- 250+100 annexed on as an extra}

[Neon sparks]

now closed

[Neon sparks]

the winner is Placebo

shout out to IKEA Lord for their awesome story!

[Imagine_Ink]

Congrats Placebo!

[crackerbox_palace]

Congratulations Placebo! I knew this mouse belonged to you as soon as I began to read your story.

And thanks for the shout out!

[Placebo]

oh wow ;0; thank you so much Lieutenant! and thanks to you all for the congrats meep, Ray will be much loved ;v;