Micah J. Kaden (bearsoul) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2015-11-26 02:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: cressida hallowfen, character: jack cavanaugh, character: leif ragnarsson, character: micah kaden, character: thierry gravois, location: the woods |
Thread: Don't Feed The Bear
WHO: Kaden & OPEN
WHEN: During the full moon, Nov. 25-26
WHERE: The woods
It wasn't that he had actually gotten that much fatter from all the food he'd been eating as his metabolism sped up to superhuman levels, no. The exit to the den had just shrunk, that was all. Kaden could have sworn it looked larger. The last full moon he'd fit through it, no problem. Sometimes he had to chase wolves out of this den who used it as a territory match and there'd be bloody fights and flying fur if he wasn't diligent. He came in one way and went out another once the tunnel was clear of squabbling wolves or cats or even sometimes hidden witches.
Tonight's full moon wasn't any different than the others in that Kaden had gone with the rest of the school's were population to the edge of the forest to prepare. They'd watched the moon rise over the trees, bright and glowing, and the change had come upon them. No were alive could resist the moon. It turned them with a power that couldn't be explained and the virus responded to its pull the same way the tides did. Young weres of mostly wolves, but some other varieties as well, were transformed into animals and along with the shift in form came a shift in personality. Newly turned weres, especially, had very little access to their human side during the fullest night of the moon. It was a night for the beast within.
The wolves howled and the night began.
Kaden had been in good spirits. The next day was Thanksgiving, which meant a feast of all feasts, the perfect thing the bear wanted. He had underestimated how much winter-weight he had already put on, and the unfortunate consequence of that meant he'd become stuck.
Very stuck.
Kaden grunted and growled, wriggling with his rear end in the den and his front half out, paws clawing and scratching. Just a little bit more, and he'd be free. All those layers of protective insulating fat just needed to be wedged another inch, and then... if he could just get some leverage--
There was a shift in the small hill that mounded over the den and rocks slid, the structural integrity disturbed with the massive bear's struggling. Kaden, who had been almost able to free himself from the tight spot, felt the weight of the mound press down on him and all but crush him, had he not been such a large bear. He grunted, closing his eyes as rocks tumbled down on either side of him, one particularly large one coming close to crashing into his skull. The bear covered his head and went still until the mini-avalanche stopped.
Cautiously, he brought his paws down and looked around. With an experimental budge, lifting with his rear legs that were still on the inside of the lair, Kaden felt the rocks around him start to shift again. One more wrong move and the whole thing would collapse down and crush him. Now he was really stuck. Chestnut brown fur was dusted with snow and shifted earth and he would've blended right into the landscape had it not been for the bear-sized sigh he made that puffed out a hot steaming cloud of air.
Perfect. Now what.
There was only one thing to do. Kaden called out for help. The bear howls were not like wolf howls, not meant to carry for miles, but fortunately the property of the school where the students roamed was not overly large to begin with. He summoned the pack and his human side hoped against all hopes that none of them remembered finding him like this in the morning. If they could even dig him out at all.