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 Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:41 pm
Crazy lionesses in trees, horny leopards, non-stop chattering wild dogs, how much did a guy really have to endure?
A white and black form made it's way into the Pridelands' territory. He didn't come with any intention of causing trouble, but knowing that these lands welcomed strangers, and seeing as his stay was to be temporary, Zuko.... "Roho", saw no harm in hunting here. They had more than enough herd beast to go around, and afterwards he could pay a visit to the watering hole and have a little rest.
Or, maybe he'd do things in the opposite order. It really didn't matter, except that the watering hole was closer.
He eased into a stretch, lying down by the water's edge before rolling onto his back. This... was the life right here.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:01 pm
((horny leopards XD))
After a successful hunt, he decided it was time to head to the water hole and clean himself up. Rule number one, always keep one's self presentable whenever he can. After a hunt he always cleaned himself up if he got dirty, which he always was. Sweat was not much of a problem, it was the dirt and blood that just got to him. His mane was growing out and it stopped that itching. It slowly started to fall over his eyes, something that he knew would happen, his father had it. And what seemed to stick out about it is that he had two random strands of hair that stuck up like his father did. He pushed it aside as he had gotten used to it.
He rounded the hill top and looked about for the water hole, he vaguely remembered there was one here. But where was it? Crimson eyes danced from one area to the next until a patch of tall grass caught his eyes. If he remembered correctly, that is just a few ways from the water hole. Smiling in his confidence, he headed on down there.
As he approached, well long before he did, he noticed that there was someone there. Scent gave it away. He appraoched with caution but his body showed no sign. It remained strong, puffed chest and head held high as he walked in. Across the water hole was another feline, one he knew well. They were everywhere really.
"Hello there, stranger."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:38 pm
((See? Brash. xd ))
Before Zeki fully reached the watering hole, unbeknown to him, Zuko's eyes popped open in an expression of zombie like irritation. Oh that would just be his luck.
For all the times he'd wanted companionship and friends as a kid, no one was around. Now he needed some damned time alone to think and he couldn't find it ANYWHERE, rogue lands, jungle, graveyard, why did he think that an overpopulated place like the Pridelands would be any quieter?
Well, not all was lost, maybe he was just being overly pessimistic and dramatic, as he denied he had any tendency to be. Maybe this fella would let him be.
He didn't answer, rolling over to face away from the other instead with a flick of his tail.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:53 pm
He tilted his head and moved a little closer. Seeing as he moved, he must be alive. There was no blood in the air but his own. Zeki's paw stepped into the water, bathing himself was going to come first. No one was going to interrupt his bath unless it were a female. They always had priority. He smirked and shook his head as he slowly licked his wet fur, one eye opened on the male cheetah.
"Just laying around will give you aches when you wake up," he spoke before moving to his other paw.
After finishing, he moved from the water and into the grasses, away from the cheetah to shake out his fur of loose drops of water. Drops got everywhere and the shake itself made his fur fluffy again, more so that he had to pat it down to the proper appearance. Satisfied he headed back.
"Name's Ezekiel, Zeki if you please. Could I ask what you are doing here? A water hole is usually a place for others to drink, not to just laze here," The Pride Lander sat himself down a ways from the male, giving him space.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:33 pm
He wouldn't mind being proven wrong if just once it was beneficial to him to be so. Too bad that was never the case, though.
He exhaled roughly, pulling a paw lazily over his closed eyes.
"There people go again, ruining a perfectly good 'relationship' between strangers by introducing themselves. Now, unless you're secretly an attractive female under some goddess' spell, I really ain't interested in holding up any conversation with you. The weather's ********, I'm not from around here, none of your business, and you can call me Dirt for all I care."
Tsk... what a snappy reply! Well, no one could say that Zuko didn't at least try to be prepared.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:41 pm
Zeki scoffed. "Alright then, I guess your name is Dirt." he smirked a bit. He showed the utmost respect toward females even if they did not give it back. However, it was not the same with males. Some being rude and others being obnoxous that it just becomes plain obvious that they do not desire his respect. He looked over the male closely wandering if he was wounded or something but it just seems that he just wanted to find a place to be alone.
Unfortunately for him, being one who done rude, he was going to recieve it too.
"Well, apparently you're tone deaf since I am a male," he replies, laying down closer to him. "And Goddesses are hard to come by, I have only met two, one being a rather, well, lack for a better word, b***h, and the other being very a humble. Neither hid themselves," he added, flicking his claw idly. "And I only introduced myself becuase it was the respectful thing for others to do when meeting someone, but I guess you wouldn't know anything about manners, now would you, Dirt?"
Relatively equal of a rude reply, at least by Ezekiel's standards who has never sworn before.
"If you want to be civil and a little more respectful, perhaps we could find out what is bothering you," he spoke, a little more calmer. "I am not a bad guy, Dirt, unless you want me to."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:51 pm
Zuko would have almost been surprised by the rude retort that countered his own brash response, but he was actually well accustomed to it, hell, preferred it! It made encounters so much more interesting, especially when he could let off some steam in the process. His aggression levels were high, something he'd gained from that b*****d father that he so hated to remember.
So it might have seemed a little odd to anyone that the male did a one-eighty in response. One moment he was being as rude as one could get, to the point that you had to wonder if he didn't have some foreign object shoved up his--
To this. Paws crossing over his upper belly as he began to laugh, rolling onto his back and then to his other side again.
It took a few moments for him to calm down enough, but once he did he smirked, chuckling and reaching up a white fore-"arm" to scrub the tears of mirth from the corners of his eyes.
"Oh man, and here I'd heard all Pridelanders were prude, stuck up, proper 'aristocats' in training. You're not half bad, 'Zeki'." He snorted, sitting up.
Strange, how a dose of his own medicine seemed to do the trick to right his mood.
"Call me Roho, or you can keep calling me Dirt, I don't care either way."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:05 pm
Zeki shrugged as if he did not care. "Dirt, Roho, hell, I'd call you Spots if I wanted to. But if you insist, I guess Roho is your real name," he insinuated. With a smirk as well, how he has changed since his youth. Being an adol has changed his ways of viewing things, females being the best thing ever and males, just another face unless you could get their attention.
"Whoever said Pride Landers were always goody goody, then they must have been morons. I could name three that are tail holes in the bunch," Matishou was the most prominant one that stood out in his head. Looking back on it, he was a jerk, saving his own hide rather than his. The dark male was just as rude as this cheetah was, probably worse. There seemed to be no respect in his behavior. That's one tail hole.
"Gonna tell me about what the hell is botherin' ya or are you just gonna pipe up and lay here all day as the sun baked you?"
Normally, he did not talk like this, but it seemed to get the male's attention and it got him to talk. As time passed on, the old Code from his youth was being rewritten. He seemed to care not about not swearing. He stopped showing respect toward males unless it was given. It seemed like it was no longer there in his heart. The only thing he really followed was his Code to charming the ladies now.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:10 pm
"Nothing I think you know much about." He replied with narrowed eyes, the hint of a smirk still present to show he wasn't being purely malicious when saying this. "Woman troubles though, since you want to know so badly."
How Zeki responded would determine if Roho had another laugh or not. He didn't believe in following any code, except that because of his own personal experience he would never mistreat a woman. Talking crudely, using foul language, those were different stories, but he'd never take advantage knowingly, or hurt one purposely. They didn't know it, but the two of them had world's in common without having a thing in common at all.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:15 pm
"Women troubles? Well, it seems someone cannot get a good night with one, huh?" he laughed. Though, he should not be one to speak being a virgin himself, but that will change some day. At least one code rang in his head by the quote of his great great aunt Sarabi, the late queen of the pride lands. He vowed, no matter what, that he would not mate to produce cubs or mating in general until he was an adult. And only one female stuck in his mind that deserved that, how she felt about it was the only thing concerning him. But something that should be thought of on free time. He got closer.
"So what sort of troubles are you havin'? Can't please her well? She isn't willing? Can't find one that suits you? Or maybe you did something that you didn't want to do?" that sounded familiar with Ezeoha and another female he could recall. With a smirk, he shrugged and sat back down.
"I know my ways around females, nose to tail and everything in between."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:23 pm
This got another derisive snort from Zuko, or "Roho", rather. He found this portion of the conversation to be far fetched, hard to believe.
"Pfft. You're too young to be talking like that." He glowered, noting that the boy, while definitely old enough to have the urges, didn't look like he'd even had his neck ruff long enough to be talking like that, unless he had one hell of a role model at home. "None of the above. And I have no trouble getting them. It's figuring out what the hell it is one's ulterior motive that's driving me crazy."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:28 pm
He stopped there in his tracks.
"Ulterior motives? Like, you think a female had used you?" He touched briefly on the subject with Uncle Kinari when he was younger but, it was cut short when Ger came in and the subject quickly changed to how to defend one self from an attack from the flank. That resulted in a had swat to the side that sent him rolling. Now that he thought about it, he was curious how a female did that to a male.
Going back to the first comment, he brushed it off lightly, but not without a reply.
"I have you know that I was taught when I was young about all of this. Only because that is all that my Uncle seems to know. With two different mates and a good six cub family, I think he knows what he did and is doing. He taught me so I think I know a good deal. So back to your problem."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:55 pm
Zuko did not answer verbally, but cast a glance at Zeki as he confirmed his suspicions. He was now certain it was high time he go back and have a chat with that female. But first...
"Oh...? So you're referring to your own situation as a problem now?"
He hadn't said it directly, but by saying "back to" and emphasizing "your", it was as good as spelled out for "Roho", though he was really more in it for the tease than actually thinking Zeki had a problem.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:07 pm
"What? No! I mean your problem with this female. You said you were having women troubles, you are here to think about it, right? Well, maybe I could be helpful in some ways. For sakes, at least I am offering to help!" he scoffed. He was willing to help, in turn he will learn about this one's mistake and not do it himself.
"My only problem is actually finding females that aren't tied down or ones that are around my age. Tell you the truth, it is sort of hard," he shrugged and sighed. "But I do have a female in mind that I would not mind being with. Hell, if I could I would buuut there are just somethings I won't tell."
With a scratching of his head, it seems that he was gonna get through. He could not force the male to tell him what his issue was. Then again, if he experienced himself then he would learn more. Luckily, he will never.
"So that's it? You're not gonna tell me, huh?..." he paused and shrugged. "Well, then all I can do is give you advice. If you think she slighted you, go talk to her."
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:41 pm
"Well, kiddo, that's probably because you're living in a pride, full of protective mommies and daddies trying to keep their darling daughters away from the likes of you and me, who would be all too happy to woo away their innocence in one way or another."
The cheetah replied with this as he stood up, giving a half stretch. He opted not to comment on Zeki's attempt to help. Gratitude was not something that this male was very chummy with.
"Thanks for the 'advice'. Later." Nothing he hadn't come up with himself, but he didn't intend to nitpick over details. Weather the attempt to help was genuine or not, he didn't feel like verbally spitting in the other's face either, so he simply left it at that. With a final stretch of his legs, "Roho" moved past the adolescent, ready to venture off somewhere that he'd either catch a meal or catch some quiet. Either would suit him just fine.
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