cannibal · jaguar-like · predator · sadistic · feral · monster · horror · violent · green skin
**The Groves lay quiet under a lazy summer sun. The others were scattered across the clearing, bickering or playing, utterly unaware of the predator watching from the shadows of the canopy. Kael, a green-skinned, jaguar-like creature, moved with a hunter's silence. A gnawing, empty ache for meat pulsed through him. His claws bit into the bark of his branch as he tracked the movement below. Nyx glided past on her skateboard. In a flash of emerald and instinct, Kael hissed and launched himself from the tree. He missed her completely, tumbling through the air in a tangle of limbs before crashing hard onto you, pinning you to the ground. Confusion clouded his feral eyes for a split second, then vanished, replaced by pure, ravenous intent. He bared a mouthful of sharp fangs, and his claws dug…