[Breeding] Hello There

Venango had never seen such a beautiful Suchomimus before in his life…

The young adult male had heard from word of mouth that a new face had shown up in his neck of the woods, and now here he was looking at this new face from a ridgeline. She was a massive Suchomimus, as red as a pool of blood with a ragged and bright rose colored rosette that made her look like embers in the dark. The front half of her body was covered with black, with a large white stripe running from under her eyes to her hip. She has an alternate-red colored neck marking that seemed to be her version of a dimorphic marking. With a black face and red chin, she looked like the volcanic wastes. Her red eyes didn’t see him yet, her mouth blue as she skimmed the stream for fish. She must be hungry from her travels, as massive as she was he wondered what her metabolism was.

He wanted to get to know her. He wanted to be her friend. He wanted to be more than a friend, right now, honestly. He had to win her over. He wondered what flavor of Suchomimus she liked, if she liked Suchomimus at all? He was a denim blue himself with dark navy blue and black banding that was edged by a silver rim and boxed by a black frame. Venango had a small dark blue dimorphic marking on his face around his blue eyes and he had some hints of extra color on his tail where he had a half-hidden dock. He himself is average in size, slim, long, topped with spikes. He was going to go about this in an honest and reasonable way, there was a chance that she wouldn’t get with him for a night but they might still come out of it friends or at least on friendly terms.

The blue Sucho carefully marched down the ridge he was on and he slipped into the creek she was fishing from. This creek flowed down through the forest and had some reasonably deep parts, she was near a deep enough part he thinks he can make the perfect first impression.

Swimming downstream and quickly picking up speed towards the other Suchomimus there Venango began to  countdown to himself internally, knowing how much ground.. Or rather water..he can cover in so much amount of time. He was quite a fast swimmer, a very strong swimmer, and he can build up a lot of momentum in a straight line. Soon enough he took a sharp angle upwards, using the power of his tail to propel him out of the water in an awesome breach. He was proud of himself to see he timed it correctly, leaping out of the water just before he got to the black and red Suchomimus so he was airborn by the time he was in front of her face. Thanks to some modifications in his lunge, he passed by her spinning like a dolphin. This was particularly nice to look at as he looked like a spinning top with his banding of color. Just as quickly as he was airborne he was back in the water. He splashed down with a sizeable wave and disappeared from her view as he settled back under the surface of the water. Now he was pretty sure he had her attention.

The banded Sucho turned himself around and now would swim upstream towards where he knew she was standing, once he got his footing on the bottom of the creek he started to walk himself out. He didn’t walk out right at her feet, but he was within easy speaking distance to her as he emerged from the creek. He tried to look confident as he approached her, not wanting to seem nervous and definitely not wanting to seem standoffish. “Hey there, you look like a new face here.”

“I am. “ She would greet, her voice was beautiful in a very ‘strong presence’ sort of way.

She was even more massive up close. Was she even real? There was no way someone like her came out of an egg. He had to wonder, the longer he looked at her, if she was that Suchomimus he had heard others talk about. The one born of fire.

“I’m Venango. “ He’d introduce, his voice smooth and inviting. Soothing. “This is kind of my stomping grounds around here. “

“Hello Venango, I’m Pavonala. “ She’d introduce herself. Her name was exotic, a bit harder to say than his own. It fit her. “That was a nice trick you did, were you trying to show off for me?” She asked, her voice warm.

She liked it!

You could hear the smile on Venango’s voice. “I was, actually. You’re quite beautiful, Pavonala. I don’t think I’ve seen another Suchomimus quite like you.”

“Thank you, the compliment feels good. “ She seemed pleased by the compliment at least. He might have a chance with this.

“I’d like you to come fishing with me, but I don’t want you to do any of the work Pavonala. I want to treat you, count it as a date?”  He didn’t know if he was coming on too strong now, but Venango was trying his best. He was young. The Sucho was just trying to be approachable to this stranger, he didn’t know if he would see her after next week.

She seemed to contemplate this, her red eyes looking through him.

He stood in pause, unable to get a read on her past the contemplation for a few short seconds that seemed to drag on far too long. He didn’t know if he heard his heartbeat in his ears or hers.

“And what comes after our date?” She would ask, answering her question with another question.

“Well, I was hoping to take you as a mate when I saw you.. But we don’t have to do anything after our date. You can do whatever you want, and if you need shelter for your stay in this territory you’re more than welcome to use my den. “ Venango would answer her honestly. He might be a young male chasing his next piece of tail, but he was still a very  respectable and friendly Suchomimus. He was never going to force anything on her.

There was another pause and Venango waited with baited breath.

“Then, I guess we have a date. Who knows, if you impress me with our meal today I might just consider your offer and take you as a mate. “ Was her response and Venango offered her a smile in relief, he was glad he wasn’t coming on wrong.

“Follow me, then. “ He’d lead the way, making sure she was serious and following him before he would lead her downstream to an area that was more rock than it was forest. It was here that falls and pools existed and he found a nice sunny patch of clover for her to relax on before he got to work. She would see him step into the water from where she was relaxing on the clover, and wouldn’t see him again until he came up with food. When Venango did come up with food he had something quite surprising in his jaws: A freshwater stingray. It was massive, and heavy. The banded Suchomimus managed to drag it up the bank but he couldn’t get it over a rock ledge on his own, luckily for him she would move over and take a fin in her jaws to help pull it up.

“Consider me impressed.” She’d compliment.

There was a moment of quiet between the two as Venango looked at her with muted pride at the compliment before Pavonala moved closer to him to bump the tip of her snout against his before she would rub their cheeks together. The show of affection was short before she moved her attention back to the food. “Let’s enjoy our date.”

…They were going to have a nice night.