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 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:37 pm
((Edited an image into my last post, if you missed it, Doc. I'd wait for people, but meh, I gtg >.<))
Slowly it began to rise from the ground, shaking off the dirt and decaying leaves he had gathered about him, "No usssse in that now. When I'm up, I'm up." With a long yawn he lifted onto his hind legs and stretched to his entire height, arching his back as he stretched and worked out the kinks from sleeping on the side of the road, for nowhere else was accepting. His form towered over the others, and the horns that addorned his head and the claws upon his massive hands, each tooth within his gaping maw looking as a dagger ready to tear at the flesh. His fur was faded, but was once obviously a blood red, and despite his fearsome visage, his eyes held the light of intelligence, confirmed by his ability to form sentences and actually enunciate rather well, despite his lizard origins.
He hunched over once again, coming back down to about the norm height for a rather tall man, "Now that I am awake, what issss thissss conversssation that hasss awakened me?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:01 pm
"Well..." He decided to tell the truth, "We come from Fulmine Manor. We are looking for a convoy that was headed to Isle De Gambino. It never came back, and we have had no word from it since it left. I would like to recover the items they were going to trade, as they are rather expensive."
Bolt felt like he was talking to a human, he had been around so many strange beings that he was used to it, although this one obviously was completely different then anything he had ever seen.
"But no matter. Is there anything we can do for you?"
Also, the puppy that was behind them ducked down in fear of the creature. It was afraid of being eaten.
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Keioko Matsukaze Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:24 pm
Keioko smiled warmly at Bolt, then the creature as they exchanged non-threatening words with each other. She soon folded her arms within her wide haori sleeves, waiting for her turn to speak if she was addressed. Meanwhile, a breeze of air flew past her and with it the scent of a dog was carried. Now it had caught her attention, knowing that it wasn't this creature.
She turned and walked down the path, sniffing silently as she followed the scent of the dog. She paused near a bush and glanced down at the small brown-black Russel terrier, raising a confused eyebrow and crouching down in front of it.
"Hey, what're you doing here?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:17 pm
The great beast scratched his forehead, and despite his sharp claws did not actually pierce the skin, "I've been laying herre forr sssome time. Need to ssstrretch my legsss and my musssclesss. Might I accompany you? People that don't run at the ssssight of me arre few and farrr between. Besssidesss, sssuch an expedition ssseemsss sssimilarr to what I usssed to do back home. Ssssearrch and rressscue, when not taking ssstealth missssssssssionss."
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:20 pm
Bolt thought Keioko was talking to either Mr.Gibe or the creature himself. He said, "We would be honored to have you aboard. My name is 'Bolt'. What is your name?"
The puppy looked at Kei and whimpered, unable to talk but able to think. It thought, these people couldn't possibly want to trust the big monkey-lizard.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:28 pm
 As the conversation ensued Killey calmed his 'trigger' finger and waited to see what would happen next. He kept a close eye on the creature for awhile but couldn't help to look over to Kei as she spoke to the dog. He grinned as the dog whimpered, it was quite a cute animal. He began to wonder whose it was. After a short moment of useless daydreaming he returned himself to Bolt and the creature's conversation. It looked like the creature would be joining them. He waited to either be introduced by Bolt or introduce himself to the creature along with the group. Wait a second, he hadn't introduced himself to anyone yet, had he? Poor manners, I guess chivarly has died out. Oh well, he'd redeem himself as soon as the creature finished his own introductions.
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Keioko Matsukaze Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:36 pm
"You know that isn't the nicest thing to call him right?" She said to the puppy. Was she reading it's thoughts? Keioko grinned to herself and stared at the puppy with her cat-like eyes, blinking cutely every now and then. Keioko wet to her knees and bent over, her elbows on the ground and her head in her hands. Her devil-like tail twitched like a cat's would, excited and curious at the same time. Man she was in a good mood.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:23 pm
The puppy stood straight and touched its nose to Kei's, sniffing as if checking her out. It thought, she seems okay. It squinted it's small black eyes, it's brown and black body complimenting it's whole self, giving him a devilish appearance. Also, his paws looked too large for his body and he looked clumsy yet cute at the same time. It barked something, which, roughly translated, meant, "I need finding master. Help find master?"
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Keioko Matsukaze Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:47 pm
Keioko smiled and giggled gently, picking up the puppy and standing, holding it in her arms as she walked back to the group. She then paused and stopped walking next to Doc, watching Bolt speak to the large creature with a small, content smile on her face.
"I'm not sure, who is your master?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:54 pm
The puppy whimpered, "Master stand on legs like lizard thing... Master pet me and show teeth when happy. Master smell like those." It meant Bolt, Mr. Gibe, and Killey, meaning that it's master was a male. "Master travel through forest to big water. Master lose Randy when Master see monster. Me Randy." It communicated through whimpers and barks, but understood that Keioko somehow understood him.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:22 pm
He bowed his head and gestured hide, for he could not bow formally, "Mossst call me Kane, all biblical rreferrecccesss assside, howeverr, my trrue name isss John-athan Hunterr, Exxx-Paladin of the Brrotherrhood of Sssteel. It isss a pleasssure to meet you, Bolt. Who arre thessse otherrsss and thisss cat-like mutant?" He didn't mean it like it sounded, but he was more used to mutants and genetic experiments like himself than any sort of magical or mythical being. That and the fact he did spend a few years in a desert by himself.
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:26 pm
"Was he part of a caravan?" She kept watching and listening in to their conversations until:Kane "...and thisss cat-like mutant?"
"I'm Keioko Matsukaze, and I'm not a mutant, I'm a demon... Kane-san."
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Keioko Matsukaze Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:11 pm
Kane looked confused as he looked to her, "Demon? What isss thisss de-mon? Sssome sssorrt of genetic experriment not unlike myssself? You ssseem ssstuck between girrl and cat. Do you need ssstimsss or chemsss? If you could find the een-grreed-i-antsss I could make ssstim sssshot forr you." He still didn't seem to entirely understand, offering aid where it was unneeded in his ignorance.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:38 am
With a slight smile, Bolt put an arm around Keioko and replied to Kane, "She is part of an ancient group of warriors." He tried not to make it too complicated, unknowing how knowledgable he was about such things, "They do look like cats, but she's not a mutant. She was that way from birth."
The puppy quirked it's head to the side, as if saying "What? I don't understand." But then it barked, in a language that few knew, "He was with group of people. They walk around and run away from big monster."
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Keioko Matsukaze Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:04 am
Keioko smiled and nodded.
"However, not all of us take after cats. I just so happened to take a liking to felines during childhood, and I'm guessing my parents also slightly resembled them, so I then decided what I wanted to resemble. The cat-girl stereotype does kinda peeve me off." She then laughed gently. "I'm probably older than everyone here put together, yet I look like a teenager."
She hugged the puppy slightly and replied to it. "Well, that group of people is called a caravan. So basically, what you're saying is that a huge monster came and the caravan split up, everybody running away and leaving you here?"
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