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The babbling river was a good distraction. It seemed to talk to you, in it’s own strange way, as it flowed over rocks and carried debris on it’s winding journey. Not that Onyx would ever think these thoughts, deliberating on nature was rather Phantom’s job, not hers. This spot was merely an escape for her, when her family became too much for her to bear. Phantom’s obsession with opera had once again caused her easily flared temper to rise, and she had been banished by Void for striking her surrogate-brother.
Twining herself around the rungs of the bridge, Onyx pouted as she thought about how unfair life with a genius was, and how put-upon she was to put up with his insane warbling as he composed yet another piece.

Onyx was not a happy girl at the best of times, but A’ni help anyone who crossed her path today.

It was going to be a long day. Void’s version of punishment had everything to do with loss of essential privileges, like music and treats, and nothing to do with grounding. It was good and bad, but Onyx resented the treatment. She was a full-grown serpenti! She deserved some respect. She sighed, frustrated at her lot in life.
“Hey, you okay?” Asked a male-sounding voice, snapping Onyx out of her reverie. Looking around sharply, she saw another serpenti looking at her from the bride.
She liked his tail-patterns, but the mark on his eye and his skin tone reminded her of Phantom. Regurdless, this male was now in her face, and was going to pay.
Setting her good eye on the intruder, Onyx glared her fiercest glare, and snapped “What is it to you, boy?”She flipped her hair back over her shoulder in a flippant gesture of superiority.

“Obviously, if it was any of your business, I would tell you.” With a frown, Onyx crossed her arms. This boy was more irritating than Phantom, and she had the slight feeling that he had just insulted her.
He was staring at her. Raising an eyebrow in response, her frown deepened.
“Is there something about me that you find displeasing?” She quipped, “Do you have a problem with me?”

“Oh, ha ha.” Onyx smiled wryly at his sarcasm. “You really have a gift with that tongue of yours, don’t you? First you flatter, then you scorn.” She was strangely warming up to this serpenti, despite his sarcastic gift. She felt that he was a kindred spirit, and that sort of thing doesn’t happen every day.

A moment passed, with only the happy sound of the brook below, and the whisper of trees in the wind to relieve the tension that was brewing in the air.
Onyx sighed. “It’s just my brother.” She remarked evasively. What was the harm in telling this random stranger anything?

“No, Phantom is too... strange to be successfully nice. He’s too paranoid. He’s an opera singer (among other things) and he was warbling at two o’clock in the morning. So I hit him. And you know how that always ends up.” She cocked her head to one side. “What’s up with you?” She said bluntly, “This seems to be the best place for mopers, so what’s your story?”
Now that she was being ‘nice’, she might as well see what’s up with this guy.

“By the way, I’m Onyx. What do they call you? I very well can’t keep calling you random stranger, can I?”

Her mouth twitched into a slight frown, and she barely repressed the urge to glare at this strange serpenti. “Alright, Random Stranger, That’s fine.” She flipped her tail around, curling it against her body like a cat would. “Relaxing, right. Spastic mum? Sounds about right. I guess there’s more than one crazy family here in the world.” She looked at the stranger more closely. “Hey... random stranger? Your markings seem awfully familiar. Are you one of Itachi’s spawn?” Itachi and his brood seemed to breed like rabbits around here.

Onyx frowned, giving the other serpenti a weird look.
"What do you mean, what about me?" She asked, slightly suspicious. "If you mean, what parents do I have, Void tells me that I'm a 'gen zero' whatever that means. Apparently I have no parents." She said smugly. "Less people to boss you around."

She quirked an eyebrow at the male "You sure you have no idea? You must have some clue." She was being nosy, she knew, but this serpenti interested her.

Onyx smiled ruefully. "Yes, I'm a freak of nature." She shifted her position, flipping her tail around again. "Well, I guess I still have Void." She looked into the distance, biting her lip gently.

"Huh. I see, a secretive mother then." She looked at him. "I'm a nosy serpenti when I'm not biting peoples heads off, I guess." She said vaguely.