Okay, fishing it is then.
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After spending more fruitless hours searching for the elusive bowmaster, Jadugarr huffed angrily and gestured for Smiley to follow him.
They made their way through the forests to the east, where a great and mighty creek trickled into the Worthless Oceans. However, they had somehow managed to pass by it without seeing it, and so were quite a fair distance past its alleged position when they turned back.
Not long after they did, several growls emanated from the nearby scrub. As the pack of wolves closed in, one broke free of the group and charged at the two kentaurs, bent on sinking its teeth into juicy flesh.
Jadugarr jumped back from the wolf as it made a lunge for him, and then struck it with two quick lashes from his whip, tearing open small strips of the wolf's hide.
As blood seeped down the wolf's leg, Jadugarr opened up another gash in one of the other legs before Smiley charged at the wolf, causing it to jump away.
Jadugarr left that wolf to his jingling companion, and set his eyes on the rest of the pack, which was moving closer with every moment.
Just as Jadugarr struck open the nose of a wolf which had the intent of attacking Smiley from behind, the jester delivered a powerful kick to the first wolf, crushing the wolf's liver to a pulp.
Another lash tears open a gaping hole in the second wolf's belly, and yet another rips terrible wounds in the creature's stomach and kidney. With this, the wolf is overcome with internal pains and collapses to the ground in a heap.
Smiley, in the meantime, stomps down hard on the first wolf's left front leg, smashing the bones and shaping the leg into a most peculiar shape. The pain from the shattered leg bone, and that of the bone fragments piercing nearby muscle cause the first wolf to join its companion in unconsciousness. Two down, more to go.
Bringing his arm back in a sweeping arc, Jadugarr then snaps his whip into the face of the third wolf, tearing out an eye (Jadugarr congratulates himself inwardly for increasing the range of his effectiveness) as well as rupturing the wolf's windpipe.
Not to be deterred by this setback, the dark gray wolf gurgles what might have resembled a snarl under other conditions, and then locks his jaws into the jester's left bicep.
Smiley, taken aback, stands up on his hind legs and swings his right hand around and into the wolf, smashing into its upper body with a resounding crunch.
Smiley then uses the momentum from falling back towards the ground to tackle the wolf onto the ground, allowing Smiley to punch and kick the wolf to his heart's content, bells tinkling merrily with every thudding crack of a connecting fist.
Jadugarr leaves Smiley to this task, and walks the perimeter around the three prone wolves and one slightly deranged kentaur, looking for more wolves.
Not finding any, he makes his way back to one of the unconscious wolves and wraps his whip about its neck, strangling it into a permanent slumber. As he does so, Smiley grins wildly and plunges his elbow into the wolf's skull, crushing it into fragments and turning the brain underneath into an oozing gray paste, spraying flecks of gore across the jester's crazed face, speckling his namesake smile with small dots of red.
After having experienced the joy of switching the positions of beater and beaten, Smiley bludgeons the first wolf's upper body into a heavily dented form, causing its innards to burst out from the pressure.
And then Smiley begins to work over the wolf which Jadugarr is currently strangling. Jadugarr attempts to explain the situation, but Smiley appears not to hear and continues punching the comatose canine.
Another fearsome punch causes the wolf's lower body to splatter into a similarly insubstantial mass as the upper body of the first wolf and the head of the second wolf. Jadugarr would need to keep an eye on this outwardly innocent kentaur...
Jadugarr gives a disgusted grunt, and loosens his whip from the dead creature's neck. And with that, the two adventurers moved on.
As night falls, Smiley suddenly runs off into the darkness beyond Jadugarr's vision. Running after him, Jadugarr finds him locked in combat with (and vomiting upon) a large mountain lion.
Several clawmarks decorate the jester's flanks, and chunks are being ripped from their native locales by the cat's massive jaws. It then tears apart Smiley's previously crushed lower body, causing him to pass into unconsciousness.
Jadugarr, seeing this, tries to quicken his pace in the hope of saving some remnant of his eccentric kinsman. As he runs towards the large cat, it tears off one of his legs and stands triumphantly over the prone jester.
Things begin to look very dire for Smiley, as he is quickly being disassembled into his component parts by the predator.
Jadugarr reaches Smiley and begins to lash at the large cat's body, but it will not be deterred by the light smacks of the whip. And, with sickening finality, it slashes a mighty claw with its viciously curved claws and severs the jester's head from his shoulders, sending it into the air to land a few feet away, bells jingling for the last time as the lopsided hat miraculously manages to stay on Smiley's head as it rolls along the grass, and finally comes to a stop.
With a howl of rage, Jadugarr lashes the cat with wild abandon, tearing it to bits with his vengeance-fueled strength.
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May he always be remembered.
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