As Cataclysm installed onto my hard drive, I heard a thumping noise, not from my computer, but from my window.
Clinging on the screen that’s mounted on the outside of my window were two grasshoppers. Big grasshoppers, fighting over a difference unknown to myself. Ignorant of the reason, I did not stop myself from enjoying the spectacle of battle.
Grasshopper A had B in what I imagined to be a Grasshopper choke hold. A’s front legs were pushing up into B’s throat area. B swung back on his hind legs and his two front legs swung up and knocked A back, successfully freeing himself from the choke hold. Wasting no time B began using his head to ram into A’s face as A struggled to regain himself after being knocked back. B was hitting A in the body with his head so hard that it knocked A off the screen and he fell onto the roof of the lower part of my house.
I slid my chair over to the window and peered down onto the roof. B had jumped down to potentially finish off his disoriented foe. I watched as B warily approached the unmoving A. I wondered why B was being so careful, then A sprung back to life and flipped himself up and pounced onto B. A had B pinned to the roof.
I watched as A put both of his front legs onto either side of B’s head, in what I presumed to be the choke hold again. To my amazement I watched as what I thought was the choke hold turned out to be a Fatality move straight out of Mortal Kombat.
A pulled B’s head off.
“Hhhhhooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh!” Is what I had to say about that.
A then flew up to the screen where he remained basking in victory long enough for me to snap this picture of him, and his fallen foe in the background, head laying just back of the body.
