Riddle of the ….?
The same thing happened to Leo as it did his other three brothers, when he arrived, his head was spinning from the trip, he spent time clearing his head so that he could navigate the land of wherever he was. Under normal situations pertaining to survival, he'd have elected to stay in one place till he was found, the only problem being he was not in the middle of New York, or any city for that matter, he was in the middle of a jungle.
For a moment he started to think maybe he ended up in Usagi's world like when Drako attacked the lair that time, in which finding his brothers would be easy, one trip to the Damiyo in the battle Nexus and he's home with his brothers.
Just one problem though, he soon realized this might not be Usagi's world since in his world, it was a world ruled by anthropomorphic animals, set in a kind of feudal Japanese time line, for all he knows he could have ended up on the wasp world again, his first task; get his bearings.
He looks for a tree to climb that was taller than the ones around him, with all of don and Mikey's nature talk he knew the tallest could be judged by how big the base of the tree was on the ground when he can't see the canopy.
He finds one that was a decent size and he starts scaling it, unbeknownst to him however, he was being watched. As he gets to the top of the canopy he's surprised to find there is no hint of Civilization at all, not even any tree-houses to speak of.
This didn't set his mind anymore at ease, for all he knows he might be on a world like the wasp world, he does figure out where to go to find cover though, there was a Hill that looked like it had bored out holes and caves where he could make a shelter for himself, till he finds a way to get home, if he could find a way.
His thoughts are derailed when a twig snaps just some few feet off from where he was perched, his ninja instincts taking over, he hops from the Canopy height down to mid-height on the tree he climbed and took a hiding spot inside of the crook of a branch, slighting his hand to the hilt of his sword he waits.
No sound comes after he becomes guarded, either someone else was there and noticed him, or he was just being overly paranoid, turned out it was neither as a leaf flutters down from above him, and like an Idiot he looks up. An arrow flies out of the leaves which he evades easily enough, then he falls from the tree but this fall was on purpose as held fast to a creeper vine and swings away from his tree.
His pursuers however follow revealing themselves to be Chimps, armored up like knights, Leo started to wonder if he landed on the Planet of the Apes, screeching and howling as they chase Leo down, a few almost catch him, several others came close to shooting him as arrows clip off chunks of his mask tails.
When one swings around Leo pulls his sword from it's sheath and cuts the vine the assailant was swinging on dropping him out of the trees and clearing a path for himself.
He keeps going until his pursuers threw larger sized Shuriken-like throwing discs that cut his vines, Leo loses his momentum and starts dropping out of the sky, however he would not have a hard landing. Something or someone flies by him and catches him with another vine stopping his fall, he didn't get enough of a look the first time, but he swore it had wings, the monkeys chasing him all stop looking around all confused.
The person or creature that saved him flies by again kicking the leader off his branch, the lead monkey catches himself on a leaf stopping his fall screeching trying to scare whoever was attacking them out of hiding. The hero reveals herself by landing on a branch, opening her wings to the fullest, “you dare attack a Terran in our territory Gaule?” Leo got a good look; she was an Anthropomorphic ….....Griffin?
Her fur was the gold-tan color of a Lion, her feet raised and Digitigrade like a Lion's as well, but her toes curled out to talons like that of an eagle, and even had the fourth dewclaw of one. Her face was more feline/human than it was bird-like as well, she had brown hair as well which was odd since female lions don't have manes.
Her wings were huge too, she perched perfectly on the branch she was on not losing her balance or footing at all, “That terrapin is an outsider, my men saw him fall from the sky, how do we know that no other terrans will come here to invade our world??” his men all screech, keen and cry out agreeing with him, the girl only rolls her eyes
“You are too complacent about this like your father Talen, you haven't the stomach for killing to protect like we Sapients do!! KILL THE TERRAN!!!!” the other Sapients all call out chanting 'kill the Terran' until Talen, as she was addressed, takes a deep breath and lets out a deafening roar scaring the lead Sapient's men away.
Talen jumps the branch gripping the ape by the neck, “You will not take the life of an innocent and poison these lands with untainted blood like you have your own, go back to your moors and hills and leave my Jungle Sapient scum before I bring you to my clan to have sport with before dinner!!!”
She throws the monkey-man across the trees scaring him off as well. Talen scoffs, “Vine-swinging cowards.....just because they abuse their land instead of caring for it like their neighbors” she turns seeing the turtle was still clinging to the vine and she opens her wings and glides down towards him, fluttering them so that she could hover
“You Terran, I must apologize for them ambushing you like that, usually terrans are more welcome to our planet than this.” Leo blinks not sure if he remembered to talk, as soon as he saw her eyes; a deep Amber yellow, he found himself paralyzed.
Snapping her fingers near his face brings him back to reality though, she chuckles at the awkward warrior, “I think we've spent enough time in this jungle, what do you say we find our way back to Civilization?” All Leo could do was nod as he was scooped up by Talen and she flies high above the canopy Stopping with her wings wide open as a wind kicks up making her feathers flutter.
Leo gets a good look around now and in point of fact he does find a Civilized type of city some miles beyond the jungle, so well-blended and founded that it looked like the very jungle itself had made the city for her people. Talen then dips forward diving out of the sky and flying along the top of the canopy at a speed faster than even don's best Tech Flight Packs, “WHOOOAAAAAAAH~!!!!!!”
Leo clings to Talen's arms holding him curling inward from the sudden jolt, she looks down smiling, “You don't like going fast?” Leo looks up a little embarrassed, “It's not that, just a sudden surprise like that always gets me” Talen laughs, not at him or mocking him, but more of a laugh like she understood, thinking about it now, always jumping or getting spooked from the first jolt of a speed up is a little funny, he ends up laughing too.
