It felt as if he had walked for miles, the ground was rough and loud beneath his heavy paws, his jet black fur speak and wet against his skin as the rain fell through the treetops, but what got to him most of all was the sounds, Antonio had good hearing as a human, but as this cat?, It was near unbearable, the snap of every twig, the breath if every animal, the fall of every raindrop, he could hear it all, but then one sound caught his attention, coming from up ahead, the sound of running water.
Charging out of the treeline, Antonio was relieved when he came face to face with a clear clean river, walking out onto its banks he could feel the rough stone on his pads
"Well at least I won't die if thirst now, just gotta figure out how this drinking thing as a cat works" he sighed, supprised once again that he was capable of speech, leaning his head towards the water he dunked his muzzle into the river, immediately recoiling and gasping for air, he couldn't breathe with his whole muzzle in the water
"Well shit, this could be a problem" Antonio groaned, when he remembered something, cats drank using their tongue, it was worth a shot right?, Bringing his face down again he stuck out his tongue, plunging it into the cool crisp waters and pulled it back into his mouth.
"Well that wasn't too hard, scratches dehydration off the list, now to deal with-"
He stopped dead when he heard something break through the treeline on the other side of the river, his muscles tightened, a sudden hunger overtaking his senses, like a ravenous beast that needed to be sated, energy crackled all over his fur, causing stripes of a familiar white light to appear across his body, his eyes now balls ow white hot fire
SKILL: Shadow movement, ACTIVE
Came that female voice once again, when Antonio looked down at his feline form he was shocked and surprised to see his midnight black form disappear into a black smoke, he took a step on the loose stone bank, no sound, then another, no sound again, it was like he had turned into the wind!
"This is fucking awesome!, With this I can go anywhere like a ghost no one would know I was even there" he grinned, his mind racing with the potential of this skill, when the source of the sounds emerged onto the riverbank, a large white wolf, easily the size of a horse, with two horns above his eyes pointing forward, one broken in half with a scar over his milky eye, he looked old he looked healthy, he looked...
"Delicious" came Antonios voice, gruff and sadistic in the wind as his jaws came down on the canines windpipe, he could taste it's flesh on his fangs, the heat of the blood that gurgled from his throat, with one paw now on the wolfs head and his maw around his neck, Antonio gave a shove with his paw and heard a satisfying crunch of bone, releasing the beast from his mouth it dropped dead at his feet.
Antonio felt good, strong, powerful, he had just taken down a predator twice his size like it was nothing, he could still taste the iron of the wolf's blood in his mouth, and now he hungered for more, emerging from his smoke like form he began to drag the body by the neck away from the river and into the woods, stopping when he heard the breaking of the brush once more, looking back he saw three more wolves emerge from the Forrest, all three a deep black and smaller than the one he just killed, no horns either, all three whimpering in his direction.
"Easy, easy, Il make you join your friend here if you make me" Antonio growled at the wolves, they simply whimpered more and lowered their heads to the ground, seeing that they would pose no threat he picked up the carcass once more and tracked into the woods, finding a clear opening and began to feed, ripping into the wolf's soft belly and tearing away chuck after chunk.
SKILLS: Domination, Pack leader, Smell, Earth manipulation LV 1 ACQUIRED
"So it seems that all I need to do to get new skills is eat different creatures is seems" he said, polishing off a leg bone of the wolf's back thigh, when he heard it again, the whimpering if those wolves again, they were sat there on the edge of the clearing, looking down at what was left if the wolf he got up and moved away from the body, having eaten his fill, the three wolves cautiously moved towards it, before diving into the boddy, scarfing down as much as they could while they had the chance.
Suddenly that black text appeared Infront of Antonios vision; USE SKILL: Pack leader?