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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:57 pm
The swamps were a place to call home. The rivers, the lakes, the ocean however...
Those were the places that called to him.
The never ending darkness that swept out before him as his hooves pressed into the sand, he felt no hesitation as the cold water broke over his legs. Each step pulled him, each ebb and flow of the waves tugged him further out. Till he was in just deep enough to duck his head under the salt water and slither in under the current.
The icy waters were nothing less than a refreshing breath to him, eyes open without issue as his tail pushed him further beneath the surf. The sandy ground fell away under the deepening waters, and Typhoid followed it, pushing himself further and further into the darkness.
Now and then he was required to surface, an unfortunate byproduct of his sire being a land-dwelling creature. His mother's blood, and whomever bore the kelpi blood before her, at least was enough to grace him with powerful lungs and tail--and his affinity to water.
Beneath the moonlight, Typhoid hunted with almost foal abandon, strong jaws snapping up fish that he would catch here and there, drifting back briefly to the surface to catch another lung full of air before descending back to where he felt most comfortable. It was a domain he preferred, a domain he wished to remain in.
The reef was alive, yet under the moon, he felt it took on a stronger breath of its own. A stronger presence. Or...
Curiosity peaked, he swam on. Boldly. He felt no fear as he nosed his way this way and that around the reef. He knew his blood, his heritage. In his mind, the shadows and crevices of the reef held only curiosities or food. Not fear.
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:54 pm
There was something amiss in the reef today.
It had been quite some time since anyone had paid a visit to her home. Sedna had chased off enough 'visitors' at this point that most knew to stay away. She didn't react to the disturbance right away, mostly because it seemed so different to disturbances usually found in her ship-wreck reef home. This seemed more menacing...
She figured this presence might just leave given time, but as he grew closer and closer to her own hiding spot, a space where she hand many of her own treasures, she decided a confrontation was unavoidable. Her glowing blue eyes blinked open and she swam out from her little home. She wasn't scared away by the sight of the kelpie, if anything she felt more comfortable in seeing his appearance.
"Your presence here is no longer welcome. You have caused too much blood in my reef." She had a very monotone voice, intentionally. She didn't really like to show much emotion, she preferred to see how people reacted just to her words alone. Her appearance helped to back it up a bit.
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 9:35 pm
The reef was alive with more life than simple fish. Typhoid floated easily in the water, watching as the blue body of the other kelpi came into view. Her coloring was perfectely suited for the aquatic world around her. A red eye remained trained on her at all times, even as he otherwise kept his body lax and unaffected by her presence.
Her words... amused him though. Still, he kept his voice calm and almost mimicked her monotone as he responded, "Only spilled what I then consume. I am no more a threat to your reef than you are." He paused, head cocking in a mirror of his father's habits as he added, "Unless you expect me to believe one as yourself denies the body meat."
She certainly looked fascinating, but Typhoid held back, waiting to see what he could pick and nudge at. Of course if talking did nothing, he wasn't against a more physical approach to determine just what lingered in his path.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:54 am
Sedna swished her tail back and forth lazily as she racked her eyes over the invader. He was very dark, and yet he still seemed to blend into the reef around them. He certainly effortlessly floated around. If there was one thing Sedna could respect about another, it was their ability to weave through the water. Still, he had an appetite that her reef couldn't quite sustain. Or more like, he didn't keep the balance of the fish around him. She gave a heavy sigh.
"Of course I eat meat, so I look like a herbivore to you?" She would occasionally snack on something simpler, but she did eat fish a majority of the time. "You are a threat when you just eat whatever swims in front of you. There is a balance here. This is no...ordinary reef."
She had no doubt she could defend her reef, but with more and more venturing out lately she was worried something might slip in. She had been so reluctant to confront this intruder, imagine it it came to be more at a time. Her looks could only scare off so much, she doubted this gentlemen in front of her was going to leave without some....serious convincing.
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