"A little Walk..."

[Silas]

Silas glanced about, then saw a ferret emerge from the woods, a greasy-looking rat trailing behind. Instinctively, the squirrel grabbed his swordhilt, but saw that the ferret had brown eyes instead of crimson. The ferret himself was armed with a cutlass, wearing normal traveling garb, if a bit dirty. The rat behind him looked about nervously, especially at the wolves. The ferret, while glancing about officiously, raised an eyebrow in Silas' direction. he stopped short of the group maybe fifteen paces. Silas eyed them warily as the ferret spoke.

"We do not seek a fight, wolf."

[`Tex (Snakeh)]

Vortex snarled. His eyes were flashing, from red to blue and back again. His paws were shaking. He was fighting bloodwrath. He seemed to be winning the struggle, though, but if either of the vermin attacked, they would be dead in a second.

[Kal Skirata]

Several yards away, Rankwort watched patientlly. This was unexpected. There were many beasts in the woods today. He settled in to watch the proceedings.

[Aalai]

"Well then I suggest you do not sneak up on us. What do you want!?"
Selesa snarled, eyeing her brother tenderly. That Vortex fellow was dangerous and he was gettign way to close. About to beckon him to her side she clamped her muzzle shut tight. He wasn;t a babe after all. Of course his next actions near had her throwing herself off the path and slapping him silly.

Allarin reached out and gently grasped Vortex;s shoulder. His large head shook slowly from side to side as he watched the beasts. They we=ouldn't be that hard to talk, besides they didn't smell like blood or death, just dirt. Even that smell caused the cleansly wolfling siblings to wrinkle up their noses in disgust.

[`Tex (Snakeh)]

Vortex's eyes flashed blood red for a second as he felt the wolf grab him. He jumped away, aiming a blow with his claws towards the creature, and then his eyes went back to purple again. No one, not even a badger, (well... maybe) would be able to stop the fox if he went fully into bloodwrath. And trying to hold onto him just made him angrier. Not good. But he was fighting the bloodwrath, and his eyes turned to not exactly their normal color, but an indigo-purple.

[Silas]

"Somethin' wrong with him?" The ferret gestured vaguely in Vortex's direction, speaking in a dry, condescending tone. The rat behind him managed to gather what courage he had, and stood by him, paw close to a throwing axe he had on his belt.

Silas sighed at them, but he seemed to remember the ferret from somewhere... a long time ago... He shook the thought away and focused on the present. Who did they think they were? And why were they out here? He silently asked himself, referring to the ferret and rat.

[`Tex (Snakeh)]

Vortex's eyes flashed red again for a second. "Oh, yes, there is something wrong with me," he spat. "I'm about two seconds away from turning feral - I believe you call it Bloodwrath." The last word became a snarl, and Vortex leaned against a tree, his paws shaking. He couldn't kill them... no... don't...

[Silas]

"Ah. I see. But why would you have reason to attack us? We are travelers such as yourselves. Now if you'll excuse us, we are running a bit late." The ferret then walked down the path, the rat trailing behind, both marching off at a solid pace.

Silas tried to calm Vortex down a bit, apprehensive of putting a paw upon his shoulder, instead saying, "Just let 'em go, mate. They haven't done anything." Yet.

[Aalai]

"They better not do anything worng-- Allar are you alright?"
Selesa mumbled turning to look at her brother. Whose light grey paw was now turning a deep red. The other one was tightening around the Foxe's shoulder. It took the wolf a second to turn towards his sisdter, and nod rather slowly.

His muzzle was crissed with four long,deep slases. The last one scraping of the end of his nose. The blood from the wound was obvious, and made his sister even more concerned. Yet Allarin's black eyes jsut stared calmy into hers. SLowly but surely he pulled his paw from Vortex's shoulder, and without another word trudged off after the pair of beasts.

[Silas]

The ferret and rat kept on going as Silas eyed Vortex and Alarrin with caution and worry, respectively. Sure, the squirrel has heard of the Bloodwrath, what it could do, but it wasn't supposed to be this potent, as far as he knew. He sighed, and attempted to keep Vortex from striking out at anybeast again.

OOC: After this, I might need a time-lapse thing to get to the necessary parts for my evil little plot.

[`Tex (Snakeh)]

Vortex glared as the ferret and rat walked off, chewing on his left front paw in exasperation. If he had been on his own, without the squirrel and wolves, he would have attacked and questioned the two vermin severly. If he could control the bloodwrath and keep them alive for long enough. Although the creatures had done nothing wrong, there was still something about them he didn't like.

[Aalai]

Selesa said nothhing to Vortex, but did growl deep in her throat. Neither of them would forget who had started it if a fight arose. Two much larger beasts against one didn't seem like that much of a contest. Staisfied with who the victors would be she let it slide.
"Come on, daylight wasted is time better spent."

Ahead Alarrin had his nose inclined downward, disguising his lack of ability to keep his burning nose up as tracking. of course he had never been good at deception, but it worked until the salty tears began covering his grey fur. he hadn't touched the guy, or harmed him at all!

[`Tex (Snakeh)]

Vortex felt a sharp pain in his front left paw, the one he had been chewing on, and tasted blood in his mouth. He began chewing harder, frustrated. He hadn't been able to go after the ferret and rat! His paw was bleeding heavily by now. Geez, this fox sure was messed up - Bloodwrath, stabbing himself in the side, and now chewing his paw.

[Kal Skirata]

Rankwort decided that the ferret and the rat would be easier marks and hurried through the woods. However, he snapped a twig it cracked rather loudlyl.

[Silas]

"Oi!" The rat spoke up, apparently trying to gain some sort of good standing with the ferret in front of him, but the ferret himself paid no mind to the sound, walking onwards as if he hadn't heard anything.

Meanwhile, Silas faced Selesa, gesturing with a nod in Alarrin's direction. "What's Alarrin doin'?" He asked. he wanted to get moving, to go from the familiar boundary of Redwall, ferret or no. But even then, he still had conflicting feelings upon leaving...