RoM - Danielle and Riot

An artpayment for aKingu and Jackewa. I hope you two like it ^^

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"We will get them. Trust me." mutters the young blond woman a second time this day into her purple scarf. "You will see. I promise." She is talking to her trustworthy brown halfmane Tokota lady Danielle who seems a little underwhelmed with their results lately. Three times by now they did try to hunt down a herd of wild caribous. But when ever they come closer the giant animals just run away jumping around the trees and all sticking together as one big mob. The hunters just don't have the chance to actually focus on one of the animals to cut them off the herd. Maybe they should have brought Sirena with them. The other Tokota of Shelly is a talented hunter and it would have made this task so much easier, if they brought her with them, to have two Tokotas to chase the herd down.
But no. Danielle has to do it alone as well, without help. That is the whole reason of this rite. To prove that they are able to make it alone! So Shelly gives her Tokota the signal to slowly follow the caribou herd so they can act when the time has come. But time passes to their disadvantage and it started to snow some minutes ago and it get's worse and worse. Wind blows snow from the ground and makes the vision even cloudier.

Suddenly Danielle stands still and Shelly looks up from her thoughts. The caribous still walk some feet in front of them, but the brown halfmane doesn't move anymore. "Hey, Danielle? Is something wrong?" She asks her furry friend, seeing the ears of her Tokota twitch in all directions. Then from one moment to the other a shadow comes out of the trees. A moment the blond girl can't even see what it is, but in the next moment she realises an older man on another bigger brown Tokota has passed her and is running towards the same herd she herself is following. "Oh no, you will not get them!" She screams furious. They worked so hard to track the herd down. She wouldn't allow a random guy to just pop out of nowhere and turn all her work to nothing. So she gives out a whistle and Danielle jumps back on track and follows the foreign hunter. Danielle is thanks to her lighter build a little faster than the bigger male and so she can catch up to them. When they run nose to nose Shelly looks up to the man and puts down her scarf a bit, so he can understand her. But to her surprise the man reacts faster. "There is a field nearby. We need to force the herd to run there. If they don't have any trees to get between us and them we can tackle them down. You go from the right, I go from the left." He yells and then lets himself and his Tokota fall back to change the direction and run to the left. Shelly is speechless, not sure what to think of that. But before she think about it she instinctivly does what the man sad.

And indeed, after a short chase the two Tokota lead the herd onto a big snowy field. The wind here is stronger then in the woods and the snow falls harder what makes seeing more difficult. The blond girl pulls up her scarf again to cover her face, then looks around for the strange man. She can't see him because of his bright clothes, and she is quite sure, that he can't see her of the same reason. But thankfully their Tokotas are both dark brown and can be seen like shadows in the snow. Shelly leans forward to Danielle's ears and pets her behind them. "Now it counts. We show them what we are made off." And so Shelly lays down on the neck on her Tokota and Danielle gives everything to run faster and faster. Because of the thick snow the caribous have problems to run fast and they are paniced because now there are two animals that try to hunt them down. They have no idea where to run or which one to look at to keep being safe.
Danielle finally catches up to the caribou herd and places herself in the mid of it. The male brown Tokota runs a bit behind her and together they cut off two animals from the rest of the herd. A seemingly younger dark male caribou and a brighter female with dots on her back. Just with hand guestures the two hunter get to communicate with each other and eventually the Tokota get to tackle their prey. One last bite from both carnivores and the caribous are done for good, while the rest of the herd disappears in the white foggy snow.

The two handler climb out of their saddles and Shelly watches the man, while he walks up to her. "Well done. You don't do that your first time, do you?" He asks with a non-chalant grin, while Shelly shakes his hand. "Thank you. No, I don't. Neither do you, don't you?" She responses and the man chuckles softly. "Nope. I am doing this quite a while to be honest." The young woman looks at him and tries to estimate how old the man infront of her is. But she can't say for sure. "How ever. Thank you for helping me." She says and the man chuckles again. "No need to. I wasn't completely selfless. I need one of the two caribous for myself." Shelly turns towards the corpses and looks towards their two Tokotas which snuffle on each other. The wolves seem to be okay and none of them is very playfull nor aggressive. "This is Riot, by the way." The man behind Shelly says out of nowhere and she turns back to him. "Oh. My girl's name is Danielle." She response and gives the man her hand again. "And I am Shelly." She introduces herself and the man cracks a smile. "I am Draven. Nice to meet you." They both shake their hands again before walking towards their prey. "Which one do you want?" The young woman asks and Draven messures the two caribous with his eyes. "The doe is a bit bigger and heavier. But the male has antlers. So I guess they are both of the same value. I prefer the female, because I am more in need of the meat." Shelly nods slowly and thinks about that. "I have use for the antlers. So I am fine with that." She response after a while and both the handlers take their time to fasten their prey on their Tokota's tack. Then they climb back in their saddle and turn to each other. "Well. It was nice to meet you, Shelly." Draven says and Riot gives out a loud bark as if he wants to say good bye as well. Danielle answers with a short nod of her head and a whip of her tail, while Shelly smiles at them. "The pleasure was mine. Good return." She says before turning around and both hunter pairs walk on their way home.

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RoM participants:
Link or thumbnail of import sheet:
Registered name and ID number: Danielle 2486
Trait and class you are entering: Wild trait - Hunting
Prestige breeder or Pack leader?: Prestige breeder
Handler name: Shelly

Link or thumbnail of import sheet:
Registered name and ID number: Riot 2019
Trait and class you are entering: Wild trait - Hunting
Prestige breeder or Pack leader?: Pack Leader
Handler name: Draven
Training images and/or bonus images:

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Art © MurosNiceSide
Breed © Tokotas 
Character © aKingu (Shelly + Danielle), Jackewa (Draven + Riot)
References © Lakela (Danielle), Sikaris-Stock (Riot), LucieG-Stock (Caribous)