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Post by K on Sept 13, 2008 16:06:37 GMT -5
Lily was confused. She had no contempt towards the... uh... gryphon as Demon called her. The tigress understood the search for more. She searched for more at one time in her life until she realized, after many years, that more was something very easy for most to obtain. Not her though. She had to kill her 'more' to protect it from something horrible. Eventually the gryphon would either obtain her form of more or she would realize that 'more' wasn't actually the 'more' she thought it was. Either way, you could not really tell somone what it actually was. She liked Demon much better as a lion and she playfully bumped Demon once he was done with his transformation. "I fell no contempt Dreamer. I hope for your sake you will find what you are looking for. Some die in the search for more. In body and in mind." She said calmly and slightly sad too.
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Post by Itsaki on Sept 13, 2008 16:19:46 GMT -5
"I am glad you feel that way, Lily. I am not searching for the 'more' you may belive I am. My mother wanted me to be a guardian when I was older. I was appalled. We gryphons generally despise violence, yet she wanted me to be a guardian for a human. She even trained me until I ran away. I never knew why she wanted to turn against her own people's beliefs, her own people's morals. I later found that she wasn't a gryphon. She had been dead for many years. She was an illusion, a dream. I never wanted to belive it, but I always knew it to be true. So now I search for something that can give me answers, why I dreamed my own mother, why I never knew she died. I search for more answers. "On my quest, I ran into a pair who said thay know you. I know it is you because they said a bitchy tigress and a kind and gentle black lion. Personally, I have not experienced you being bitchy, but they were very insistant. They said thay wanted to thank Demon, and to well, not thank you. I knew it was you because you two are the only black lion and tigress pair I have ever come across. They were a couple of small black panthers. I don't know if you are the ones they spoke of. "But anyways, I simply wish to join you, if you don't mind."
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Post by K on Sept 14, 2008 7:28:02 GMT -5
Ah, more in terms of answers, it was still a form of the more that she knew. Ouch. The truth hurt and she knew she was deserving of the title, "bitchy." She didn't mind, she knew that was what the panthers would have thought, she wasn't bitchy that much though, mainly just to the little female, which she had, like the gryphon, been very defensive against. If she ever saw them she would have liked to make amends.
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Post by Shu'al Raethir on Sept 14, 2008 13:23:11 GMT -5
Demon looked back at Dreamer, then at Lily. Judging by the expression on her face, Demon nodded slowly. "I see no problems with you joining us. You have your own wings, so there will be no problem." He turned and faced the water again, eyes on the hippocampus pod. "Mayhap we will see the panthers again someday and convince them that Yuri is not so bad." Spotting a hippocampus that looked big enough to feed all three of them, Demon quickly took dragon form again and shot into the air. He circled the pod, which was still oblivious to his presence until it was too late. The leader whistled a warning and they began to dive, but Demon was already in his own dive, back claws aimed for his target like a bird of prey. Like a bird, he seized the hippocampus he had been aiming for by the neck and hauled its flailing body back to the island where he dropped it with a yell, "Kill it quickly or it will return to the water and heal." He dropped to the ground himself and became a lion again, feeling drained from the repeated transformations. Demon refused to let his exhaustion show, however, and just started walking back to Dreamer, Lily, and the hippocampus, its gorgeous blue and green scales glistening in the sunlight, its black horn lashing towards anything that came near it as it tried to go back to the ocean by dragging its body with its fore hooves (Not hooves, but rather flippers, like scuba diving flippers) like a seal would.
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Post by K on Sept 14, 2008 23:53:39 GMT -5
Lily stared at the floundering creature all of two seconds. Then her instinct kicked in. She charged swiftly towards the sea creature, dodging agiley the flailing apendages. In less than two seconds, she had closed the gap between herself and the prey. In about a millisecond she thought the best way to kill such a creature. She decided the good old neck clamp would do the trick. She bit into the creature's neck, breacking it, the creature stopped flailing immediatly. "Dinner." She called out playfully. The blood of the creture was very strange, certainly fishy but something else to. Whatever it was, she had never tasted it before. She wasn't certain whether she liked it or not, but her years of surviving erased the inability to eat something she didn't like the taste of. She looked to the gryphon. Did gryphons eat meat? They looked like they did and Demon got prey enough for three, but they apparently were non-violent. Who could think of an entire species that did not enjoy conflict? It was a natural occurance of Life that one day, you ran into conflict. There was no avoiding it. Only embracing it. That is what she had learned in her life. She didn't think poorly of the gryphon, she just thought it was very strange. And protecting humans?! In her land they certainly did not need protection from anything. She had heard of a land where human kind had alomost killed of tigers like herself, where the humans had overrun the world. Not like in her land. In her land humans were just a nuisance something to be killed if they got on your territory. They were tiny creatures with ineffectual guns and knives. She despised them, well most of them anyways. Maybe. Maybe one day Demon could visit her land? She didn't know if there would be anything there that would interest him. It was a pretty simple place compared to Damon's home land.
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Post by Itsaki on Sept 16, 2008 9:42:22 GMT -5
Dreamer appraoched the hippocampus, tearing off both of its arms, setting them down beside her, then tearing off part of the flank, setting it down on the arms. It wasn't much, she would probably need to hunt again the next evening. She tore into the flesh, spitting out most of the scales. She didn't care much for scales. She tore apart the fishy meat, eating large chunks. She soon had the flank meat eaten and both arms clean of all meat, the flippers were a bit stringy, in no more than twenty seconds. She then turned back to the others, bowing her head. "Thank you for the meal." She sat back on her lion haunches, sand sifting over her talons.
((Note: Dreamer is about seven feet tall, ten feet long, about 700-750 pounds, she needs to eat a lot... That's why she will need to hunt again. She eats about the equivalent of a horse (and sometimes a horse)))
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Post by Shu'al Raethir on Sept 16, 2008 13:46:52 GMT -5
Demon, now a lion, ripped into the area where a thigh would be if the creature had back legs. Ignoring the scales and simply eating them, Demon ate a good amount- not enough to gorge, but enough to restore some of his energy. With eating done, he tossed himself down on the harder ground off the beach and began to bathe himself meticulously. "You're welcome." He replied simply to Dreamer. Blue eyes were only partially opened as he bathed, ears held in a relaxed, off to the side position and his tail coiled along his side.
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Post by K on Sept 16, 2008 23:37:50 GMT -5
Lily finished of what was left. slowly beggining to enjoy the unusual taste. Lily walked a short way from the unfortunate hippocampus carcass and flopped down to bath. She had no where to be at the moment so she lay their and entertained herself, waiting for the darkness to take her to her late lover.
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Post by Itsaki on Sept 17, 2008 7:55:35 GMT -5
Dreamer stared at this strange ritual. She had seen other cats do it, but never quite understood it. They licked themselves in order to clean themselves? She guessed it was a positive thing to have feathers, all she had to was fly really fast or get in the water. She flew into the air, circling the forest at the edge of the beach trying to find a good place to nest for the night.
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Post by K on Sept 17, 2008 12:42:51 GMT -5
Lily finished cleaning all of the fishy blood off herself. It was getting dark. Lily drifted off to sleep a bit earlier than usual.
Lily was back with Streak again. She always was with Streak at night, or maybe, Streak was always with her. Streak purred. "Hello again my love. I see Demon has been taking care of you. That makes me very happy and you seem to be happier too." Streak said in his lovely voice. "Yes. I am happier. I am seeing things I have never seen before and going places I thought impossible." Lily replied rubbing against Streak lovingly. "You are still holding back though my love. You shouldn't waste time thinking about how you feel, you should just embrace it." "I don't know how I feel Streak, I don't know how I should act, many thoughts run through my head and I don't know which one will be right. Which one should I act upon Streak?" "Lily, you know I can't choose for you. You know in your heart what you want you just need to forget the logic and let your heart guide you." "Streak. I once went by my heart and it only got me hurt. What would you have me do? Would you have e get hurt again? Would you have me got hurt badly this time, enough so that I give up? I gave up my heart so I wouldn't die Streak. Sometimes I wish I hadn't, I wish I would have just joined you!" Lily's voice was filled with some old pain and some new. "Lily, do you really think the hurt outweighed the love we share?" Streak sounded a little hurt. "Yes Streak! I died when you did!" Lily shouted. She left before she was called back. Streak shook his head, he new she would be better eventually. At least, he hoped she did.
Lily awoke with a growl on her throat.
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Post by Shu'al Raethir on Sept 17, 2008 21:25:55 GMT -5
Demon slept like a rock through the night- his magic had been drained pretty hard, and to completely recover, such sleep was necessary. He remained asleep even after Lily had awoken, head on his paws and his hind legs curled beside him, tail flipping causally. He didn't awake until late morning, finally raising his head with a huge yawn. "That was good rest." he stood and stretched so deeply that his chest and belly nearly touched the ground, then he sauntered over to the carcass and nibbled at some meaty bits. "Good morn, Yuri. I wonder where our Gryphon friend Dreamer has found herself this morn." He stepped back and licked his lips, gazing at Lily. "I trust you slept well?"
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Post by K on Sept 17, 2008 23:49:14 GMT -5
Lily was still pretty grumpy but her mood brightened a bit at the sight of Demon awake. "Who cares? If he wants to follow us then he will propably find us. I don't think we should wait up. If he really wanted to be with us he would get up earlier." She said half playfully half, grumpily, which was an unusual mix to hear from herself. She was sitting on the ground, entertaining herself, which meant staring off into space. "Lets get out of here ok?"
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Post by Shu'al Raethir on Sept 18, 2008 0:00:47 GMT -5
Demon laughed slightly, "Dreamer is a lady gryphon, not a male. She might not appreciate being referred to in the masculine form." He laughed slightly again, then shifted form to dragon. "We can wait a moment for her while I stretch out these muscles of mine, then we can be on our way."
Demon stood as tall as he could on his hind legs and extended his wings as far as possible. The brute was a rather impressive sight to behold overall.
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Post by K on Sept 18, 2008 4:41:40 GMT -5
Lily did not mind that she misnamed the gryphon. It was just a slip of the tongue and she wasn't there to hear anyways.Lily wanted badly to get on with the journey but she was not looking forward to being in the air again. BBut she wouldn't let that show, especially if the gryphon would be there. sh wasn't going to show weakness to a complete stranger no matter how they hated conflict! Lily looked Demon's unusual dragon form over agian. It was very powerful, very fierce, very reptilian. certainly not how she saw Demon, well, powerful was correct and sometimes fierce, but never reptilian. She saw Demon as cuddly, nice, intense. And... What else? What did she think? She gave up, it was to early to be thinking about confusing things. "Well, "Well I don't care what our she-gryphon tag along thinks. I don't care what any one thinks." She was lying of course, she did care what some people thought. "We will be there by midnight Demon? You won't have to stay transformed once we get there will you?" Lily asked, sounding a little worried.
((apologizes for any misspelling. I couldn't see what I typing becuase it's in a class and I have to keep it hidden.))
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Post by Itsaki on Sept 20, 2008 2:35:46 GMT -5
"Oh, you don't do you?" Dreamer said as she walked from the trees. She had fairly sensitive ears, all Gryphons did. "Maybe the panthers were right after all. The dragon is right, I prefer being called what I am. A female. I am not a male, I don't care if you care or not. I apologize if I am intruding on you two. I saw the dragon and got excited. I guess I never thought that I would be a pest. I have been wandering for many years searching for someone like me, and I thought I might have actually found someone who liked me. I see I was mistaken, yet again. Well, tigress, I apologize for intruding."
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