A unexpected savior...? [Suravani's Oasis]

[The Bloody Son]

The boy lifted a hand to the massive steed and ran thin fingers down it's muscular jaw while listening to the woman speak. Her thin face squinted as she looked off into the distance at the warm glowing orbs and gave a puzzled question. Cell's hand slid from the horse's jaw and a few steps later, he redirected his eyes to the hill. He saw figures ... several! "It looks to be the Knash and maybe even those nasty lizar--" The boy froze in mid sentence to look off to his left.

CRACK!

Four sets of golden eyes peered from the darkest shadows in the valley between the hills and Cell gasped. He saw them through the night as outlined in purple auras - beings of the shadow; Cell usually saw them in plum. They were devouring a giant scorpion carcass before they were interrupted and began to stare ... intently. "Ereva ... back away slowly. Go tell Seya to prepare for a long night. Get the children into the under-hut..."

Karuku-tal is what the natives called them. Shadow cats that lurked in the night and they were intently watching the pallid framed boy with a nasty intent. He looked around for anything - a sheep skull, some rocks...wait.
The growls of the felines rumbled audibly and the boy moved carefully, picking up the bare skull - the moonlight casted off the bone and reflected and instantly, they were attracted. Cellius stomped and yelled at them, causing them to hiss viciously and their maws to gape revealing the razor sharp incisors.

I hope this works... The boy waved the skull. Their heads followed. With tremendous strength, he hurled the skull toward the next hill over where the men with the boulders lie and at the same instant, Cell shadow stepped toward the village. The cats eagerly watched the shimmering object and launched off - disappearing and reappearing from the shadows and into the moonlight, vanishing in clouds of smoke and reappearing five feet closer - about to come into a very ... wild surprise...