Times were scarce its been a week and Garrett has barely gotten by in these frozen lands kelbi were scarce popo we're being either a hunted to extinction through a tag team of grimclaw tigrex and deviljho gluttonous wrath forcing them to move on kezhu was monopolizing the baggi in the area by hanging from the cave roof before extending its neck and swallowing them whole not to mention the barioth they have clashed twice in this week over some leftover popo carcass before being immediately chased off by deviljho approaching and ravenously devouring the carcass whole tusks and all.
Now Garrett was up against the wall he now only had a few options which was either hunt down that kezhu kill the barioth that has been messing with him notoriously for the past week or the safer/less drawn out option go hunt some baggi and try to sustain himself off of them which was going to be his best course of action as he ventured outside of his little cave territory he started walking around looking for baggi suddenly he heard the sounds of ravenous eating he follow the sounds and what he saw it might be his ticket for a nice and long meal it was a lagombi eating blue mushrooms.
Without wasting any time he ran forward and body checked the lagombi as it did a halfway U-turn after being startled it pushed forward using its hind legs slamming directly into his stomach sending him sliding back he struggled to regain balance as his claws weren't made for the snow the lagombi did another charge but he jumped over and spun around slapping it with his tail sending it sliding and flying across the ice as lagombi regained his footing.
It did the signature standing on his hind legs and roaring but Garrett was starving I didn't have time for those shenanigans rocketing forward he's slammed into its legs causing him to fall forward on its face as Garrett made a very slippery turn around going for a second attack lagombi did a U-turn drift hitting him in the face with his back legs sending him sliding all this back-and-forth physical combat gave him enough static to do the lightning cloud attack as he started gathering Thunder bugs before jumping forward and slashing across the stomach leaving a massive wound as lagombi recoiled with a blood visibly pouring out from its wounds he launched forward been on Twitter neck and started thrashing around as it died from blood loss and physical trauma immediately Garret had to return to his territory before deviljho or that grimclaw tigrex caught a whiff of the scent immediately booked at full speed.
Back to his territory returns were kind of difficult because of the snow immediately he threw the corpse up in the cave and climbed up to start eating Garrett forgot one thing it was still bleeding all the way here which was going to be a major problem immediately after breaking through The rubbery skin he started devouring the fatty rich meat vigorously meanwhile where the fight had taken place deviljho picked up the blood sent it was now following the trail mid swallow he heard footsteps and growling with light treads in the snow he seen it briefly a green hump barely out of the corner of his eye.
Last time Whatever was going on with that grimclaw tigrex saved him but now he had to think of a way out on his own there would be some inconvenience or convenience to save him this time he had to get out of this by himself he turned back to the carcass it was half gone already you've been eating it for 15 minutes no he had to make a choice of sacrifice which could be a meal that could last him for two days or throw whatever remains outside and spare himself from being discovered it hurt him but survival was way better than fighting over food at least he would live to fight another day that was the most important thing in a world full of wyverns and dragons.
Immediately grabbing the top half of the carcass by the ears he swung it with all his might as it spiraled through the air and landed a couple of meters away in the snow deviljho immediately ran towards it and swallowed it whole.
And continued on its way completely forgetting about the blood trail and everything Garrett was extremely proud of himself he just saved himself he would get to fight another day but the problem was trying to keep it up in this world only those on top of their game made it past the age of two in both monster,human and wyvern Ian terms all of them had one thing in common and it was knowledge and only the strongest or the most resourceful survive long enough that was the way of the jungle your trickster and get what you need through those means I'll be the strongest and be uncontested in almost every way this was the way the world works and that would sadly never change there was the fortunate there was the unfortunate I was the strong and then there was the weak and eternal cycle that may never be broken by the bones of time but then again who cares if you can eat if you can sleep you can survive that's all that matters in this world.