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Beads of Interest

A Trio of Foxes and the Dragon: Part Two

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Ama looked to her brother and then back to her ham, he was offering something...tasty in return for some ham. She looked a bit reluctant but she slowly slipped a slice of ham from her pile and then offered it to her brother."Okaay..." She lamented a bit as she wanted to keep the ham all to herself, but ..those cookies did look good. Her attention was drawn to Tireu and the question posed before them, she was about to speak, she wanted her own room, but then Manami beat her too it...she clamped her mouth shut glaring at her sister and sulking a bit, chewing on the ham to distract herself.

He just had to giggles as these three were so very different to Arlen that just liked to do things on his own, it was just fine with Tireu as they did have fun when they went hunting. Now he just thought to which room would be good as if they did want rooms to themselves there was space for it. "I think that I can do that. But if you want a playroom to yourselves I do have other empty rooms that any of you can claim. But if the room already has something inside it has been claimed," he said as he was going to take them to a wing of the house that wasn't being used. "Ya," Shizoku said to Ama as he took the ham from her and handed her the cookies that he had offered. Shizoku didn't care either way to were he would live as this was a nice place.

Manami's tail wagged rapidly behind her, making a loud sort of swishing sound as she watched everyone and then grinned happily when it seemed neither had a problem with them sharing rooms, it would be best! They would stay warmer that way and Manami would better be able to look after them. After all Shizoku and Ama were younger then her and needed her to take care of them!

Ama took a cookie and nibbled on it; her ears perked as she noticed how tasty it was, though not nearly as awesome as ham it was still pretty decent. She felt her own tail wag a bit at the good trade and then looked back to Tireu, a playroom? That sounded like fun, she wanted to go look around a bit...find a place she could claim as her own before Manami or Shizoku did. "So...empty means I can have?" she inquired with a tilt of her head, she of course was asking in regards to empty rooms.

"Yes it does, Ama," he said to her as he was going over a mental list to what he would need to get and thought he would have to use a little of his hoard to cover the cost of things, but he didn't mind he would find more as it was easy to get that type of stuff. "Most of the west wing are full of empty rooms. But after you all have eaten your snacks, I will take you there to pick what you want and then after that will take you shopping for things you all will need in said room," he said as is tail slowly wagged behind him and the he looked up to see that he still had his horns. Tireu concentrated a little and the horns vanished. Shizoku giggled as he saw the mans horns disappear and thought to what type of room that he would like and to what things that he might want, he thought as his wings gave a little flutter.

Manami gave a little pout when the horns vanished, "Aww! No more horns." She said, pushing up on her feet and stuffed the last few cookies into her mouth before she walked across the table and pounced from it to Tireu, hanging off of his arm, tails swishing, nuzzling against him, ears turning forward in a happy fashion.

Ama watched in silence as the man made his horns disappear her own tail swishing behind her as she nommed on her cookie in silence. She watched as Manami went to tackle Tireu and she felt mildly jealous for reasons she couldn't understand just yet. So she went to take her ham and then shoved a piece towards Shizoku's face in a rather...fierce offering of more ham.

Tireu just watched as he waited for all of them to finish. "Nope they are gone for now. Some times humans are scared of how I look," he said remembering on the first reaction of his dragon self to humans, but then here in Durem it didn't seam too strange for him to show more of his dragon self. He just had to smile when he was glomped by Manami. Shizuko stuck his tongue out at Manami as he wanted to snuggle the man. But then some more ham was shoved at him and smiled at Ama as he gave the rest of his cookies to her as he was done with them as he ate the ham.

Manami looked over at her siblings before she gave a grin, sticking out tongue at them before she giggled and set to trying to scale Tireu like he were a jungle gym in human for, "Miss the horns but... you has prettah hairs!" She told him, setting to petting his hair when she got in reach of it. Her tails wagged in delight as she got to play with Tireu's hair then grinned, "Manami will braid your hairs?" She offered, wanting to make him all pretty! He needed lots of ribbons!

Ama didn't really want the cookies but she tucked them into her kimono anyway as she may want them later. She looked to her sister as she climbed on the man, said his hair needed ribbons and she felt her ears flatten against her skull. , she wasn't sure why but she wished she had thought of that first. Instead she went to climb onto Shizoku and set herself to nomming on his ear." Want more...ham." She announced bluntly.

"Maybe one day I will show you my true form, but not right now. Yes I so, Manami but I not right now, maybe later on," he said as he didn't what to know what they would do as his tail gave a wag. "So are all of you done?" he asked. As Shizoku shifted his sister on his back to where it was better to carry her. "Just a little more," Shizoku said as he ate a little more of the ham.

Manami have a happy sound when she was told that she would be able to play with Tireu's hair later on, her tails setting to wagging yet again. It was wonderful! She got to be a pretty hair maker! Her head turned toward Ama when she offered more of her ham to Shizoku and he ever closed eyes seemed to somehow narrow a little and her ears laid back, "Not fair that you shares your ham with Shizoku... fine! Manami is not going to share our dragon friend!" She hugged tightly to Tireu and stuck her tongue out at Ama.

Ama looked a bit startled as Manami spoke to her, the hair on her tail fluffing up a bit out of anger."Mama you stolz ham from me! Shizo shared!" She snapped back looking very annoyed her ears laid back as she continued to hug on her brother. Fine. If Mana wasn't going to share dragon man ..well Shizo was hers.

Tireu just shook his head as he could see that he would have lots of different problems with all of them in the long run. Oh well it was a good learning experience for him as his mother always told him he would get back worse problems than he caused when he did finally had a family and she was right he could see it. Shizoku wanted to also snug the dragon man but then he thought that he would just have to be sneaky about it and be a few steps a head in things in being the youngest and only boy for now at least. "So are you still going to show us our rooms?" Shizoku asked Tireu. "Yes I will, Shizoku. So are the rest of you ready then?'

Manami gave a little, growling sound, ears laying back as Ama seemed to be claiming Shizoku for her own which hand her hugging that much tighter on him, growling... then lifted her head up to turn her attention to Tireu as he spoke, tail swishing, "Yes! Lets go see the rooms!" She said in excitement, nuzzling against the dragon man in a happy manner, watching the other two closely. She would not stand for Shizoku to be stolen from her and especially not by Ama who was supposed to be hers as well...

Ama wasn't quite so eager to see their rooms, it meant she would have to let go of Shizoku and she wasn't so keen on that...but otherwise it would be too hard to walk....and reluctantly she let him go after giving him a good ear nomming , she tried to perk herself up. "Yes bedrooms. Pwease." She continued going to scramble towards Tireu and cling to his leg since Manami had claimed his shoulders.

Rolling his eyes as he had to figure out how to get all of them to behave, but a part of his mind knew that would never happen and that all three of them were going to be trouble for everyone. Standing up was a chore as he didn't want Manami to fall off as he stood, but did achieved it and started to walk to the west wing as then his leg was glomped by Ama and he just has to smile and kept on walking with her there and a little more slowly now. Shizoku now felt a little left out on not getting to cling on the dragon man, but then made short work on pouncing and releacing Tireu's tail the whole way there. Once there he was tired out and would like to take a nap. "Ok here we are, choose what you want and then we can find some things to put in them," he said to all three of them.

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Playing with Arlen

It was a very rainy day and Arlen didn't feel too much like going outside and getting wet. He knew that Levi was out and Arlen thought that sometime soon he would have to go over to the beach to see if his Lord would be back. But for now he was at home wandering around trying to decide on what he could do. Tho he did like the idea of having siblings as they were lots of fun most of the time unless all three of them wanted to play with him at the same time and that was just tiring and he then would have to escape and he was glad that he was fast. Heading for the kitchen as something sweet would be nice he thought as he was trying to decide on what he wanted.

Manami, leader of the Kitsunes so long as you asked her... or him as it currently was, was sneaking along down the hallway after her older and more elusive but interesting brother Arlen. She wanted to get some one on one playtime with him which meant catching him while Amano and Shizuko were busy with other things. The many tails of the orange fox were wagging behind him and his smile was a devious one as he had acquired his target. Eyes locked on Arlen's tail. He had such a coooool tail! Mana wanted that too! As he followed after his brother he started to concentrate, hard. The power to swap from being boy or girl, that was simple! In fact doing that was as easy as breathing! Doing the copy cat thing, that was more difficult... he had to study a person for long periods of time to learn all their details. The color of their skin, their eyes, their hair... or feathers in this instance. Not to mention little quirks about the person, things others might pick up on like scars... he was working very hard and the soft, padding sound of Mana's footsteps changed to a different sort of sound that had a clicking to it as his new found claws tapped against the stone floor. Woot! He'd done it! He was the best kitsune that had ever lived!

Arlen really hadn't been paying attention to who was following him but he didn't care too much as he knew that most of the time one of the triplets would follow him around, so that wasn't new until he heard a clicking sound on the stone floor his claws would make if he didn't pull up the claws to where they wouldn't click much and to were they would stay sharp. So Arlen turned around to find that he was looking at himself but not a exact copy. He just smile and started to giggles at it was a great sight to see. As he looked him over Arlen could see just who it was. "Are you having fun Mana?

The imperfect version of Arlen starred back at him for a long moment, the biggest tell that it was a bad copy being that his eyes were closed in the same manner that Mana's eyes always were. He trotted forward and gave a grin, "Imma Raptar!" He declared, tail wagging happily before he started to trot in slow circles around Arlen, claws going 'click, click, click' on the stone as he went. He was enjoying himself far to much and it was easy to tell...

All he could do again was to laugh but harder this time. "Your not a Raptor, your just a little copy kitsune," Arlen said as he looked Mana over and thought to what this could lead to. "Well if you want to be a better Raptor then don't let your claw 'click' on the floor often it will make them dull," Arlen said as he could see that he would have a little copy kitsune following him around, but knew if he didn't want Mana to follow was to run away and that was something you cant copy. "Well I'm going to the kitchen to get a sweet do you want one too?"

Mana puffed up, "Am to a Raptar!" He said, arms crossing crossing over his chest for a moment before he started to stomp around, "Rawr! RAWR!" He said in the worst impression of a Raptor ever before he titled his head to the side, "Hrm? No clicking?" He looked down at his feet in a curious manner, starting to step more carefully as though he were trying to figure out how to walk with out clicking... of course it was just a more careful clicking sound as he walked in this slow fashion. He set to giggling a bit as he wasn't seeming to do very well at the whole no clicking thing.

"Hrm? Oh! Sweets! Yes!" He said, bouncing up and down in an excited fashion. Yes, treats! He wanted many, many of those!

Arlen just shook his head as Mana wasn't all that good at copying what a raptor does or even how he does it, so he wasn't too worried for now that anyone could see that it wasn't him, but maybe later on he just might have to. Arlen also had to smile at how he was walking slowly to not click the claws on the floor. "Well come on the," he said as he walked on towards the kitchen not making a sound. Once there he checked out the various cabinets to see what was there and what was not. But opening once of the cabinets to find a bag of hard candy and some chocolate. "So what type of sweet would you like Mana?" he asked as knew what he wanted.

There was a nod from the little raptor who happily clicked alongside his brother though a short while the sound of the steps changed from clicking to normal padding of Mana's small feet once more. He wagged his many tails as he reached out to catch hold of the end of Arlen's tail, holding onto it as they walked. He really did have a nice tail Mana thought to himself as they walked along, "Mana likes your tail, Brother Arlen." He said, giving a happy fox grin as they walked along.

Arriving in the kitchen his hold on Arlen was abandoned so he to could go digging around through the cabinets, climbing up on the counters, and he went wandering across it, looking in each cabinet, "There is lots of good foods!" He announced, tail swishing as she took down a bag of jerky that wasn't a 'sweet' but it was at least a tasty treat to be had. He turned around, plopping down on the counter before he started to eat out of the bag. He was three handfuls in when he saw what Arlen had and his smile got huge, "Oooo! Brother Arlen has candies!" Mana hopped off of the counter and trotted over to Arlen to see what he had.

Smiling as he looked to find that Mana was back to his original form as it was nice to have siblings that could copy as it would be fun prank to pull on others. Maybe he would have to do that someday to scare Tireu and logged those thoughts for later on. "Well I'm glad, Mana. I like my tail too," he replied and thought it was very cute of him to hold his tail as they walked.

"Make sure you don't scratch the cabinets too much. Tireu wouldn't like that much," Arlen said as he could remember how Tireu reacted when he accidentally scratched some of the wood around the house. He also smiled when he turned to find Mana munching on jerky and his thought were yuk at that, he liked fresh meat more bloodier the better, but oh well he thought. "I do, so would you like some of the hard candies? I wont give you too much as its sorta close to dinner time," he said as he took the bag of hard candy down and opened it up.

Mana trotted over, reaching out a hand so that Arlen could put the candy in it, "Mana is hungry enough to eat all of this stuff plus dinner!" He said in a overly confident manner, hoping that acting as such might get him more candy then Arlen was planning to share with him. He was young yet so had no consent of how much he should or shouldn't eat treats wise, especially before dinner. He just knew that the jerky tasted good and the candy that Arlen had looked good.

Well Arlen thought to what was told of him and knew that it might be a bad idea too give Mana too much of the candy. "Here you go," he said as he gave Mana a good handful of the hard candies into his open hands. Once given Arlen put a few of the hard candies in his pocket and opened one and put it into his mouth. "So is there anything that you want to do, Mana?"

Mana gave a delighted sound, pulling the candy to his and then found that with a bunch of candy in one hand and a bag of jerky in the other that he couldn't eat either, "Ahh... no..." He muttered before he plopped down onto the ground and lowered his loot to sit on the floor in front of him, "Huh? Do? We should play! Mana would love to play with Arlen." He said happily before he started to unwrap candy and stuffed them into his mouth, tails wagging happily as he feasted on the sugary treats.

Arlen thought it was very cute to watch Mana eat the sweets and jerky. Thinking to what they could do or play on this rainy day. He thought as he slowly ate some of his candy and to let Mana eat his as his own tail wag slowly behind him as he also thought and wondered if Levi had tried sweets and thought that the next time he would meet up with his lord that he would have to bring some sweets too. "Ok, so what would you like to play?"

What should they play he found himself thinking before he hopped up to his feet, stretching out all over before he gave a grin, "I think Arlen should wrestle with Mana!" He said, rushing forward to try to pounce on his brother in an eager manner. Playing a rough game like this with Arlen would be more interesting then playing with Shi or Ama since both of them were a bit soft if you asked Mana.

Thinking on that for a little as Arlen didn't want to hurt Mana if it got too rough, but he would just have to be careful if that is what he wanted to play. "That would be fun, but not too rough. I don't want to hurt you," he said as he gave his wiggled his fingers and toes and clicked his claws on the floor. "Lets also do it in one of the larger rooms too," Arlen added as he didn't want anything broken either.

Mana clung to his brother for a moment then looked at his many claws before he gave a little laugh and a nod, "Ahhh... yeah, your probably right." He said, he didn't want to get impaled on those so best that he be careful. He looked around the kitchen a moment, "Bigger room? Hmm... ok!" He didn't mind where they went so long as they got to go somewhere to play he thought as he released Arlen for the moment so they could find another place to play their game.

Arlen smiled big he as Mana clung to him for a little bit. As he was careful for the most part with his claws but when excited he tended to forget that he had them but that had mostly been when had been hunting as he didn't wrestled all that much so this was sorta new to him. "Come on," he said as took Mana's hand and walked out of the kitchen and to one of the empty large room not too far off from the kitchen. Once getting there finding that within that room was lots of pillows around and nothing that could break and though it was good. "So is this room good?"

"Pillow Room!" Mana squealed, forgetting for a moment why they were here as he rushed forward and dove into a pile of the pillows and then set to rolling around on them. What a fun room! Had he known there was something like this in the house he might have claimed it for his bedroom instead of the one he claimed he thought to himself. He gave a little, devious grin as he picked up a pillow and tossed it playfully at his brother.

All Arlen could do was shake his head as he knew that this room was recently finished with all the pillows as Tireu thought it would be fun for the triplets to play in without hurting themselves or breaking things. Then suddenly a pillow hit him it the face and stuns him for a second and the looked at Mana and saw that grin. Smiling Arlen picked up the pillow and threw it back and quickly got into the room to were he could get more ammo to throw at Mana giggling and tail waging.

Mana gave a little 'omph' sound as he got hit with the pillow before he sent it and a couple others flying at Arlen, squealing in delight. This was even better then wrestling he thought to himself as he bounced along the pillow pile, hoping if he kept moving and throwing he might hit Arlen again and might be able to dodge. It was all dependent upon luck since he was a bit slow and didn't have the best balance since he was still young.

Knowing that he could have totally swamped is brother in pillows as he was very fast and a little older to. So he kept it to a slow pace in his book but normal for others, as he got hit by more of the pillows from Mana as he kept throwing more towards Mana. As he was having a fun time, but making sure to make it far and fun for both of them.

Manami lifted up a pillow and tossed it at Arlen, at the same time he rushed forward and with a squealing sound he caught hold of his brother's, pretty tail and hung off it for as long as he could before he fell off due to giggling to hard. He was having perhaps to much fun with this game, "Manami things Arlen is the best big brother in the world." The orange furred fox said in a manner that was very matter of fact.

Arlen giggled as the pillow did hit him as he was also having lots of fun. As this was a different type of fun than he would with Tireu or Levi. But as he was giggling he didn't see that Manami was heading for his tail but then smiled when it was hung on to before Manami let go of it because of all his giggling fit. "Awww, thanks Manami. I that you are very much fun to play with and a good little brother," he said patting Manami on the head. "So besides having a pillow fight, is there anything else that you would like to do?"

Manami rolled over onto his hand and knees, seeming to be thinking deeply on that question before he hopped up to his feet, "Manami wants raptor back rides!" He squealed, throwing his arms up into the air in an excited and eager manner, "Please, please Brother Arlen! Give Manami a raptor back ride? He would like it very much!"

Smiling big as he had never given anyone raptor back rides but then he hadn't met anyone small enough that he could carry on his back before. He thought it would be loads of fun and maybe a way he could strength up when he was running around. "Ok, Manami, I will give you raptor back rides," he said with a slight giggle and a smile. As he got down on his knees to were Manami could climb onto his back. "Now make sure that you hold on tight, but don't choke me as you do and then we will be set to run at a fast pace" he said waiting for Manami to get on.

Manami gave a squealing sound, sounding excited and even set to jumping up and down in place before he pounced on his brother, climbing up onto his back and hugged on him tightly, "Yay! Let's go!" He said in delight, that Arlen even promised that they would go fast only made him that much more excited over all of this, "Yes, yes! Fast, Manami wants to go super, raptor fast!" He said, wrapping his arms, legs, and tails around Arlen so that he wouldn't fall off while they were running.

Arlen just had to chuckle at Manami's excitement to having a ride on his back and he thought it would be all fun and practice to him to see how well he could run with someone on his back, fully well that he would have to go sorta slow to being with and then go faster as he got use to the weight and could balance with Manami on his back. "Yep we will but not right at first until I know my balance with you on my back," he said to his little brother as he was latching on to were he wouldn't fall off. "Ok here we go," he said as he started off slow until Arlen was comfortable with his balance did he finally go faster, but not at top speed as he didn't know if Manami could handle it.

The fox didn't even seem to realize that they weren't going at top speed because the speed they were going at was faster then he was able to ever go on his own. It was just... amazing! He was squealing with delight he couldn't help but to hug onto his brother a little tighter, not enough to choke him but enough to convey have happy he was... if the squealing and giggling wasn't enough to tell Arlen how happy the little fox was at the moment.

Running around the castle was fun as it was a good way to see how good his reaction was to when a all or random object came into view and he had to avoid it or crash into it. Arlen was very happy that Manami was having fun riding his back as he was having fun as well. But he knew he wouldn't be able to run for much longer as he wasn't a long distance runner at his high speeds but for short distances as he was reaching that limit. Arlen started to slow down as he rounded towards the kitchen as he was getting thirsty. Coming to a halt in front refrigerator and reaching inside to get a bottle of water. "Do you want anything, Manami?"

Manami gave a happy giggle as they raced about the castle, enjoying the raptor ride to its fullest and seemed to enjoyed even more that the ride ended in front of the fridge! He clapped his hands in delight before sliding down off of Arlen's back so that he could peek inside the fridge and set to curious inspecting what there was to have before he grabbed a juice box, "Oh! Manami loves these!"

"Those are good and good for you too as long as you don't have too many of them," he said as Arlen took more sips of his water and shut the fridge to here more more of the cold air would get out. "Anything else you like to do?" he asked.

Manami sucked down his juice box in one go then started to pant for a breath before holding it up in triumph, "Did you see that! Manami totally beat that juice box! He is the master of juice!" The fox boy all but squealed, giving a toothy grin. He seemed quite pleased with himself before he gave a loud burp that had him laughing hysterically.

Arlen watched the little fox suck down the juice in one gulp and was proud of him. As he gave a giggle when hearing the loud burp. Arlen gave inhaled a little and did a burp of his own and gave a smile after he was finished.

The fox's laughter got only that much louder at the burp that came from his brother, "Oh! That was a good one! Manami's turn!" He said, gulping air so he could do another burp himself, finding the game as one that seemed to be far to much fun! He'd barely gotten the burp out before he set to giggling once more.

Tail wagging slightly at the new game that they were playing as it was interesting as Arlen also like the sound of the foxy laughter. "Well that last one was a good one as well," Arlen said breathing in more air as he let another burp out as it was a game he was good at, but then if he did it too much is breath would stink of what he had eaten yesterday.

There was an amused squeal from Manami who clapped his hands together, "Ahh... hahaha... Manami must give up before he gets sick." He told Arlen, he didn't want to end up getting sick, especially after drinking all of that red juice since it would just end up looking like something out of a horror movie if he did that now, "Manami will ask for a rematch later when he isn't so full up with juice."

Arlen's tail wagged some more as his smile gotten bigger at what Manami had told him. "Yes, yes we can and the next time we can use pop to make bigger burps and then see who can make the loudest ones," Arlen said as it would be much fun and one step in his mind before maybe Tireu and him would take the triplets hunting if the wanted it.

"That sounds like fun! Manami looks forward to when he can play that game with brother Arlen." He said, clapping his hands together in delight before he lifted them both up to smother a yawn, "Oh... wow! Manami is getting a bit sleepy it seems." He said, sounding a bit surprised by this fact, then again he had been playing rather hard, running around, throwing things, and otherwise expending a lot of energy. Not to mention that Manami was still pretty young.

"It will be loads of fun," he replied as he heard Manami say that he was tired. Arlen picked up Manami and headed for the door and to where Manami's room to put him to bed. "Well with all the fun we had I was thinking that you might get tired," Arlen said and knew that he would get tired, being young. Once in Manami's room, Arlen put him into his bed. "Sleep well little one and we will have fun another day,"

Manami gave happy sound when Arlen picked him up and he curled up against his chest, "Mmm... a little tired, yes... Manami probably needs a name." He murmured, nuzzling against Arlen, his ears laying back and for a moment it seemed as though he were already asleep until he was put into bed. He gave a little jump, looking around for a moment, yawned again, then crawled under the blankets all the way, "Manami will be happy to play again soon." He said, his voice a little muffled by the blanket and a moment later snoring could be heard from under the blanket.

Arlen gave Manami a kiss on the forehead as he drifted off to sleep. "Sleep well little fox," he said as then he walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. Then Arlen when to his own room to where he could study his stones more.

Its Learning Time

Manami looked down upon her hand work, written in a brilliant and almost eye burning orange marker before her mouth turned up into a smirk, "Manami really is the best of the best isn't she?" She said in a happy manner, tails wagging behind herself in a wild manner before she tore the sheet of paper out of the notebook and all but waltzed across the kitchen to slap it on the fridge and then stuck it there with a half dozen magnets.

"There we go! Manami's wonderful writing is up for all to see, Daddy will be most impressed with her." She said, patting the sheet of paper to make sure that it was in fact firmly stuck in place since she didn't want for it to even consider escape for even a moment before she was turning on her heel to trot over to the counter, climbing up onto it so that she could search for some yummy and delicious snacks, she was hungry and she wanted something sugary! Her tails wagged in delight as she found some cookies. Taking the package out she plopped down on the counter and set to wolfing them down, barely even bother to chew as she went about inhaling them as though she fear someone might show up and demand that she share.

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