Chicken

Old Look:

can't figure out how to put a picture :(

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Art!

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Chicken, by Shinra

Chicken, by Periwinkle

Chicken, by Kao

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Lore, Wip tho (its terrible xD)

Chicken was born into a small family, right next to a human farm. He was a runt, the smallest, and the weakest. However, his family still loved him. He liked to play with the farm animals, especially the chickens. 

One day, while he was hunting with his older brother, he heard a deep rumbling. He panicked and almost ran into a giant, rectangular-shaped beast made of metal. He and his brother immediately ran home and found that their mother and father were missing. He looked all over the farm and their small grounds.

They did not return.

Still, he waited.

His brother was very resourceful and kept them alive, told him to move on, and that their parents would have wanted him to survive. 

And waited.

One day when winter was going to its beginning, Chicken knew his parents wouldn't return. He waited, for something that would never come. Meanwhile, his brother sustained them both. 

During a particularly violent snowstorm, they hid in a cave, starving and freezing as the winter had made their food sources dwindle by a great extent.

In the morning, he woke up to the sounds of a greater sage-grouse. He woke his brother up and they hunted the grouse, but he was too slow and fell behind. 

A couple of minutes later, he heard a loud whine in the distance. He hurried and found his brother's body, barely clinging to life. A dead tree had squished him and immobilized him, almost killing him.

"Go on..." his brother says, his voice quiet, trailing off into silence, broken only by a small sniffle. Chicken finds a tear slipping down his cheek, and his heart sinks at the sight: "I'll miss you."

"You too. Survive,"

"Can't there be something we can do?" Chicken tries desperately to lift the log but to avail. He swallows roughly past the sudden lump that has formed in. "Please!". 

"Go on!" His brother yells at him as a pack of coyotes are converging on them.

"Goodbye..." He replies, and with a heavy heart, he turned around and ran, ran through the entire grasslands, running until he was all out of energy in the middle of the forest. Hungry. Tired. Alone. He found an old cave that he crept into and slept for a while there. The sound of his dying brother, the last member of his family, haunting him and his last words.

Survive.