Friends?

They have been herded along but not badly and Dante feels these animals are smarter than most others or perhaps he just feels calmer being away from humans. The one with him on the other hand has become an entirely new problem. He isn't sure what is wrong with them as they flip from scared, horny, insane levels of joy, and melancholy utterly randomly.

Once they are back the father leads them in and Dante whistles softly seeing at least twenty of these cats. They are various sizes but all are as big unless bigger than Ta. He stops and looks to the family as they all look to him. "We stalked this pray as a lesson for my son. However while it went for the bait of the other, it isn't like the rest and makes food appear from air."

One moves and as silver flickers along their coat they look like a shimmering night sky and Dante can't help but admire it. "What do you speak of? Food from the air is a foolish comment for an adult to make."

The smaller cat now moves and pushes on Dante as he looks over. He drops the part of the eel it was carrying and paws it and looks to Dante. "Oh I get it." Dante moves away from the others and thinks as he smiles "Time for revenge you damned fish."

All of them jerk and some growl out in shock as a large fish suddenly starts flopping around next to him. Dante smiles and laughs a little as he walks away from it as several of them now attack to kill it. The father looks to their leader as the leader watches. "He is indeed different however why my son did you bring him to our home?"

Dante feels he needs to risk it so now walks towards the dancing night sky and as he gets closer Dante holds out a hand. As they all look to him he nods and smiles as he motions. He watches this one and after a moment of him doing a demonstration of hands touching before he holds it out, he does.

Dante looks to him calmly and readies himself. "Hello." Dante skids along the ground from the sudden swipe as he rolls and lands on his feet crouched. "Well that didn't go as planned."

The rest look to him as he just swatted it away but shockingly the creature survived and is ready for a second attack. "Something is very wrong and we need to kill that thing."

As they go to move Dante hisses deeply and glares. "Oh now it's on." He goes forward as two of them jump at him as he swings low as his leg flies out. Using his spin he times it and sends a shot up. Her body jerks sideways like she was hit by mountain as her hip explodes and she lands in a heap unable to stand. The other one lands turning as their face caves in after his heel slams off the top of their head causing them to slam into the stones below.

Dante turns now and roars as he faces the rest who are now watching for an opening. Dante on the other hand moves over towards the one he kicked as the other isn't awake any longer. She tries to move and collapses again as he reaches her and grabs her face as she turns to bite. "Stop and I can heal you. Fight and I will kill you all!"

She freezes staring at him as others watch her as he moves taking something from the air and lifts it. "What is that? Are you trying to kill me?" Dante does a quick swat as she gags opening her mouth and pours it down her throat. She goes to roar at him but she stops and looks down her body as she can feel her bones healing. "What is this?"

Dante turns and looks around as he keeps a hand on her. "Tell the rest to stop attacking me before I lose my calm and bring out my family." she lifts her head back to him before she roars out and he can see most stop their aggressive postures "Thank you. I am sorry to have hurt you but you did attack me."

She is just laughing like a loon and stares at the sight before her. "Oh hey while you are at it, mind asking bears to join too?" he looks over and blinks as she suddenly shifts into another one "How about we make some little monsters on one's back?"

He decides she is broken and not worth his time. Looking back to the suddenly over thirty felines he feels this requires a smart touch. Looking back to her he motions and she moves standing now as her leg has healed up. She steps closer and he puts a hand on her. "Tell them this please. I am Dante and humans call me God of Beasts. I am a child of Silver she is a Titan sized constrictor. I am allies to wolves and tigers plus the snakes. My family is not of one species but all those that will stand with me."

She moves now walking to the others repeating it as she steps next to her mate and nuzzles him. "Honestly I feel he may be very dangerous but still." she looks to him "He is still holding back even with all our fighters here."

The leader who watched this nods as he was right, he had heard his voice. Walking forward as he stops seeing him walk over and lift the head of the other one. He gives it blue stuff this time unlike the golden stuff it gave the other. Once done it seems to look it over before walking up to him again. It holds out a paw looking to him as everyone else looks to the two and he does it again. "What do you want here?"

Dante looks and nods his head. "I want to go home but we got tangled up with each other." he smiles and shakes his head "I offer you an exchange, I will give you one of those massive water snake bastards." he shrugs "He wanted to eat me and that pisses me off but he is still alive so you will need to kill it."

He looks to him for over a minute before he speaks. "You will give us such a feast and what do you get?"

Dante smiles some as he looks to him. "I want a guide to get me past your lands and headed towards my home. If they stay and join my family or not is their call as I just want to go home."

He can tell the honesty of this one and moves looking around. "This one offers us an exchange, a great beast to kill and eat." he looks around "All it asks is for one of us to guide them from our home." as several speak up he listens "He offers to allow who joins him to become a part of his family of mixed species."

Dante is watching this and really wants to pet a few of them but honestly, right now that isn't important. As the leader comes back he holds his arm out and it steps closer and puts its head against him. "We have several who will join you and wish to join your family. They have come to the age they wish to explore and expand beyond our home. Do you accept them?"

Dante looks to him and nods with a smile. "I would accept all of you if you wanted but now tell them to get ready since he is a prick and full of life. I will help if you are willing."

He roars out and after several responses he lowers his head. "Show us your fangs, little predator."

Dante smiles as he walks away from the rest and as they get ready he readies himself. Suddenly the snake is there and looks around as it moves some startled and looks down as Dante grins. "Now ready for round two, food?"

He goes to respond while even shaken he doesn't break easy when suddenly his body is being ripped open all over the place. He goes to lift his head as something digs into the side of his face and jerks harshly down and he sees the little fish has a tentacle attached to him. Going to lift and thrown it away suddenly a large feline is next to it grabbing the tentacle jerking as he slams into hard stones. His final moments of thought are the soft voice hissing in ecstasy as it chews on his still beating heart.

He looks around as the fight has caused damages but never has the family eaten one of those snakes close to this size and the hunt while brutal was still a hunt. Half of them suffered wounds from the giant beast but this strange predator is helping them all heal. He finds a few are following him and nods as this is a predator worth aligning themselves with.

Dante sighs as finally his shoulder is back in place properly having had it pulled out a few times during that fight. He would have stopped using vials if the fight wasn't so close to killing him even with them. Now as he walking along with the two who flank him it feels much like his squad is with him. They don't touch but are speaking with their kin and if something comes up one does touch to direct him to another wounded member.

She is sitting there with tears in her eyes as she watches the view and looks down seeing a message. "To all rescue ships. Bone Breakers need immediate rescue. I repeat we are down to just three members and our transport is destroyed."

She lifts her head and looks to Dante and blinks as she calls out. "Three of the others are alive and calling for support. Support will likely be a couple of hours, shouldn't you go save them?"

Dante looks to her and thinks a few moments before he gets a smile and nods his head. "Sounds good but hey can you tell me how close are you to Mary?"

She blinks and asks who that is and when he says she nods. "Oh the butcher chick, we do jobs for her a lot but for the most part we don't care about resource people just those who are like us."