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It was a pleasant evening. Not a cloud in the sky. The waters of the small lake before Kunar were crystal clear. ...And quite reflective.

Kunar sat at the water's edge, humming a tune to himself as he fixed up his mane. Usually, a word like "beautiful" or even "pretty" wasn't meant for use with the male gender. One normally associated words like "handsome" or just "hot" when it came to males. But not this lion. This lion was pretty. One would have to look closely as he could easily be mistaken for a female. And he liked it that way.

Kunar was far from vain, though. And far from prissy. Kunar looked like a femme and fought like a male. Most especially when defending his brother. For now, the gutsy male was making ready to move on. He'd gone out far to hunt and had ended up spending the day beneath the earth somewhat farther than he would have liked into unknown territory.

Was he worried? Nope. Not for himself, at least.

Waves of hate. At first diminished, then growing. Whoever they came from was coming closer. Closer. Close enough to bash at his psyche. A scent now. Acrid, musky, dark. Male. Angry. The waves paused a moment. Confusion. Then rage. Pure rage. Kunar didn't need to turn around to know the male was there. Ready to attack.

Whoever he thought he was, he didn't know what he was dealing with.

"You know. You're being a real scumbag. Attacking an innocent from behind when they have done absolutely nothing wrong." He didn't even turn around. Just raised his head and tilted an ear towards him. His voice was low, musical, but husky in tone. One would hear this voice and think of silk sheets and candlelight.

Kunar's words meant nothing, in fact they fell upon deaf ears. Why should Razier care of his innocents? He had slaughter countless villages including their women and children without so much as a backward glance so why should he care now? This was what he wanted...no needed again for normality to fall back into place with him. He needed the kill, the bloodshed and the screams.

His steady pace and quickened in it's pace but he moved around so that he may see the face of his prey. Him doing this had nothing to do with what had been said to him about attacking an innocent from behind. He simply wanted to see Kunars face so that he could see his eyes shine with that fading light that often came before ones death. When Razier saw the face of his prey he went still as if a force was keeping him to that spot.

There he stare at the face of Nori. Of course, he knew that the lion before him was not his lost love but that's all he could see. This male looked much like him and no matter how hard he fought against himself, no matter how much he mentally screamed at himself to attack the male, he simply couldn't. He wanted to rip the male before him to shreds but he just couldn't move any closer to him and so with a frustrated and somewhat pained roar, he lashed out at everything else that was around.

A local rock was maimed by his claws. A local tree and the family of birds that were nesting in it's branches were melted away when a stream of his acid breath was sent its way. The way his body continued to lash out made him appear completely insane and incapable of sensible thought but that was the least of his worries. Why could he not attack!? Why did Nori's face plague him? Was he projecting his image to keep his spawn safe? Damn it! Damn it all!

His thrashing had continued, even after Kunar reappeared before him. However, just as the blade end of Razier tail came slicing through the air and threatened to strike Kunars face it came to an abrupt halt mere inches from Kunars face. No, he could not harm that beautiful face. He couldn't allow a pain expression to taint it. Carefully he moved his tail away and fell to stare again. Kunar's voice and the glow in his eyes drew forth a single word from Raziers lips and the answer he needed.

"Nori...my treasure...."

To combat the trance that the dragon fell for, the mask he wore that resembled a purple eye began to glow and then Razier should his head to clear his thoughts. Heh, so that's what people felt when they fell into a trance from his gaze. That's what Nori felt when he had first met him. They felt security, so much so they opened themselves to any and gave up precious information so freely without thought. He had to find some way to remove this accursed heart of his. Only then would he be free of these useless and troublesome emotions.

"Clever move charmer..."

His voice was deep, smooth and rich. Enough to seduce any female or male that did hear it even if that was not his goal but his tone was empty of any emotion as if he'd somehow managed to bottle them up and discard them, though that wasn't the case. He wanted to move away, to get the male from his sights but something told him that this would not be such an easy task when it came to the lion before him. He could tell that while he looked so much like Nori, he was more demanding.
So he would change the subject.

"Why have you come onto my lands?"

"You would be correct in that assumption."

Still nothing, though perhaps now it was because he was emotionally drained for today. If he could even become enraged from this point on would be a miracle in itself. He continued to watch Kunar and nearly quirked a brow at his boldness. Had things been different, he would have been the sire of Nori's children. If things had been different, Nori's brood would have the privilege to see the face of the dragon lord who had learned to love. But things were not different and he was just going to have to deal with it.

"I see...well like Nori you have a pardon. You may walk my lands and use them for it's bounty as often you like but do well to avoid the caves and the locations filled with flora. Those are restricted."

His tone left no room for argument. He was to be obeyed, plain and simple.

"Yes, I am fully aware of what you are to Nori. Kunar..........I will remember that young charmer..."

Without a second thought he moved passed Kunar to continue his previous task. Hunting but little did he know, he was headed in Yaru's direction. If Kunar decided to join him then so be it.

You've got to be kidding me... Yaru whimpered, frightened enough by what he'd felt from this male. He'd been listening in on the encounter through his connection with Kunar and could feel the reasurrance from his brother's words give him the courage to finally move, though why the hell Kuni was curious about a guy who'd nearly killed one father he couldn't quite fathom. In fact the idea that this guy almost was his father made him shiver. He much prefered how things had turned out.

Carefully, he gathered up the rune stones into a pile, and swept them into his little pouch. He took a deep breath before sitting up, giving both his brother and the powerful male a view of his deep purple mane as he tucked the pouch away and turned to face them.

It took all of his will (and a good deal of reassurance from his brother) to keep his calm as he faced what looked to him to be a nightmare. How can you be so sure you can handle this guy, brother....?

::Because no one hurts my brother.::

"Oh? Sounds horrid. Hope the bastards died in a gutter." He nodded sagely.

Everything was fine... until Yaru came into view. The moment Razier tensed at the sight of his brother he drew up his power. He was ready when the huge male charged. He bolted with his preternatural speed, standing before Yaru with his fangs bared and fur standing on edge. His eyes were glowing red with power, the earth shook beneath them and the clouds turned dark up above, lightning striking all around them. Animals in the area all went silent as they sensed the Carpathian's presence.

"Back. Off. Scumbag. No one. Hurts. My. Brother." He growled.

While Razier could not bring himself to hurt Kunar because of his resemblance to Nori, that wouldn't stop him from being rough with the male. He was still spawn of the enemy. With Kunar in the way, that ended his attempt at goring. However Razier would not let up on his attack. Turning his head to the side a bit, the horns missed Kunar completely with a whip of his strong neck, he rammed the side of his head towards Kunar to knock him out of his way. Immediately he spun around, whipping his thick scaled tail Yaru's way.