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[ GunSniper ]

Kyle's attention snapped to the loud an with an obvious death wish. Like clockwork he moved in front of the emperor's cubs than nodded to his shadow.
"Return that parasite to the weaver." He noted to Ajax.
There was no time to banter with one who obviously had no reason behind her. The slander of the royal family in front of his cubs was enough for a death warrant.

[ Thalion ]

Shen Lung paused and turned his head as the cry of a nan rang out over the square. It was difficult to tell what was going on through his mind- his eyes were like a pair of inset embers narrowed dangerously, his jaw set, and his posture was dangerously neutral. As Kyle stepped between his family and the upstart, Shen stepped away, leaving his young ones in the paws of his mate and bodyguard.

"Seems trechery runs through the spirit carved from father to daughter." He said in a tone that was more suited to discussing the weather than it was discussing trechery. He raised a paw, cutting off Sinbad's charge as the other Tah came charging out. The larger B'alam barely managed to stop in his tracks, clinging to the ground with his claws to come to a skidding stop. Shen's chin inclined slightly.

"If the jester wishes to say something- let her speak. Seems I've done some great disservice- and I'm not afraid to confront it." He nodded up towards Xaviera, "Come, little paroo.If you have something to say- I stand here waiting."
Sinbad ground his teeth and shot a glance over to Ajax. Between the two of them they could likely bring down the pillar itself- but it seemed like Shen had other plans. The last...discussion he had with an upstart had ended in a broken neck and a bloody pelt on the boarder.

[ Radical Dreamer ]


[Jin Lung]

Jin Lung's tail curled curiously from it's respectful crook. Turning a careful ear to the yelling past the gates, his golden ember eyes were pulled from his father. Squinting, it took the cub a moment to find where the roaring was coming from. Where his eyes took a while to find the culprit, his ears were flooded with all kinds of new words. Words that were pointed and directed at his father. The unkind and scorn filled words caused the cub's body to become ridged, his hackles started to raised. His now narrowed eyes followed his ears and found the culprit.

How dare. The cub felt a new emotion start to stir inside him and burn in his chest, his little fangs parted from his maw and....

Jin Lung's father's body movement caused the cub's attention to move back to him, and take in how regally he shifted toward the entrance. He seemed unfazed by the claims and the roars....

Taking a step back, Jin Lung stumbled a little back as Kyle quickly shifted in front of him, a surprised mew escaped his maw. Kyle's movement had been so fast and sudden it was as if a large shadow was about to over take him.

Little fire claws unrevealed themselves as the cub found his feet once more...

[Jing Lung]

Jing Lung attention was torn from her cubs and her king as the distasteful and threatening roar filled her ears. In a instant Jing lung was at Shen Lung's side and where the furthest of their cubs were at. A wave of relief calmed her ever so slightly as the sight of more guards where posted and Kyle was standing guard in front of them.

Quickly the Queen's maw scooped up Jin Lung by the scruff, and took him further away from the gate. Setting him down next to his sister, Fan Lung. Lucky the others had yet to venture further then them. As all the cubs were in view and accounted for, Jing lung looked over to the Nan that made such foolish claims. Her eyes narrowed as she recognized the pelt patterns.

Like father like daughter it seemed.

Jing Lung didn't need to use her sage powers to know who this almost fully grown cub was....

The insolence of it all.

"Cubs, stay close to me." The Mother spoke finely to her cubs, all of them inculding Tenith.

[ Crucible ]

As Xeviera climbed on the pillar, Crucible turned her head and rose to her paws. "You fool." The elder quietly hissed up to the cub, before Crucible could even do anything for the sake of Xevier, his daughter was spouting off treasonous words.

Flicking a ear, Crucible's head snapped over to see Ajax's thunderous approach, as well as his large siblings. Tail flicked and the Nan relaxed herself as Shen halted their approach.

Taking in a slow breath Crucible turned to face their leader and take her eyes off of the rebel on the pillar.

The Fool was going to get thrown in prison with her father, or worse...killed

[ Sir Warden ]

Sir Warden's ears rose and perked forward a little as Amaterasu returned a warmer smile then his own. The smile on his maw grew, and his gaze brightened just a little bit more. Taking a glance over to his uncle, and aunt Sir Warden slipped away to properly say hello to Amaterasu.

Just as his paw pad's rose from the ground, Ajax's dark pelt came in to view of Sir Warden's yellow gaze. Only giving the grown cub a glance, his cousin continued on his path to Amaterasu.

Though admittedly in the back of his mind, Ajax had noticeably gotten a lot bigger then he had thought he would. He was almost the size of Sinbad, if not just as big...Adonis and Zafirah did make some rather large idols, and they all have grown to fill their large paws.

Approaching Amaterasu, Sir Warden opened his maw...

The upstart's roar and claims filled his ears, and quickly his head turned to look up at Xaveria in shook. Swallowing, his head turned to look over to see the members of his clan dart to take her down. Sir Warden looked around wildly at the others that started to move and act.

Should he do something? Picking up his paw Sir Warden paused and stilled himself as Shen himself answered the upstart's claim.

Slowly his paw returned to the ground and he released a soft breath before making a glance to Ama, before looking to their leader....

[Adonis]

As Adonis spoke to Sinbad, his attention turned as Kyle and Ajax finally showed up to the party. Resting his pariwinkle eyes on his son, they where proud. He had watched his other cubs grow and become strong fine Tah. Sinbad had even become apart of the guard and has had his own training as well.

Adonis' proud smile seemed like it could never be removed as he looked to his dark pelted son. That was however untill he heard the roars of a unknown Nan. Looking to the pillar Adonis' maw slacked and was replaced with a frown. Such words- in front of everyb'alam and their own leader's cubs....

"Sinbad." Adonis didn't even need to call for his son's attention to do something as a good Naaran he already acted. Both of his son's shot off like a bullet....

And a proud older father stood he ground and turned a eye to see Sir Warden moving over to greet the young Nan Amaratsu

Naaran would be proud of his kin.

[Nizah]

Nizah Turned her attention from Sinbad to look over at Ajax as he made himself known to the square. looking over to Adonis it was obvious to see how proud her brother was. Giving a smile, Nizah looked over to Sir Warden as he started to slink away...

Her brow raised and her crimson tail flicked with a note of curiosity. Nizah hadn't recognized the pink pelted Nan before, though Sir Warden obviously had seen her before and knew her.

Hmm...

The Nan's careful eyes slowly rose to look at the youth that climbed the pillar and started to call out outlandish....yet not fully inaccurate truths. As stupid and emotional as it was....

A breath left the Nan, and her green eyes narrowed on the youth. How idiotic....to show such a display in front of the Emperor's cubs.

Cubs should be left out of such things if possible....

Looking to their leader as he made his approach and welcome the calls and claims of the upstart. Admittedly, Nizah was a little surprised at the display, but not shocked.

green eyes looked past the gate to look and see how the Empress Jing Lung would take care of her newly woven.
[Solstice]

As Sinbad lurched forward, Solstice turned hear head just to see how quickly he acted. Her ears turned foward once more, and her golden tail shifted with a little bit of interest.

Her maw relax it's pieced lips as their owner realized what they had done. How strange...

Looking up to the pillar as the other Nan strange climbed up to the top of it and started to spew words of what the traveler would call disrespectful. Obviously the blue horn Nan held some distaste for her leader....

Eyes turned toward the gate at the gloriously decorated Shen approached and halted Sinbad's approached as well as the other dark Tah. For now she watched. None of this concerned her....

Solstice was a foreigner in a very chaotic world it seemed....

[Forge]

Forge released a breath and slowly shook his head as Xaveria started roaring about. Picking up his paws the black smith shifted uncomfortably and moved past the gate away from Kyle and Shen.

He wanted to leave....He didn't want to see what he knew was going to happen....Again.

A glance up at yahui, a breath left the gruffy Tah and caused him to turn his paws around. With a huff, he flopped down heavily in a stubborn sit.

For some reason he couldn't bring himself to leave, if that certain Nan was going to be there too.....

If something was gonna happen, it was better if he was there to make sure nothing happened to.....

A dark ear turned back and his thoughts grabbed at the pipe that rested behind his ear and horn. His thoughts and attention turned to it and he quietly worked to get it lit, with the help of the coal in the mortar that dangled by his horn.

[Ajax]

Ajax's paws halted from it's perparing leap and charge. Dark eyes darted to look at his brother before he slowly looked back up to the Nan and the pillar. His tail made a stubborn annoyed flick, as he was called off.

Slowly, powerful and ready paws back him away from the pillar. Only a few paces, in case he still needed to act.

[ Radical Dreamer ]


Xeviera's tail puffed as the two b'alam charged very quickly at her. A hiss rang out from her maw and she braced for the worse. Purple eyes flinched and to her distaste closed as she waited for impact, ears pulled themselves back to not have them ripped off.

.....

As the impact didn't come and Shen Lung's words rung out to her, her eyes slowly opened and she looked down to the two very big Tahs that held off their attack. Looking from the two Tahs her eyes drifted across the now silent crowd to finally rest on the Emperor.

Speak? She was given the chance to actually speak?

It was more respect she was given then her father had been.

Ears slowly unfolded and Xeviera rose from her crouch.

Crawling over the pillar, the Nan hopped carefully down from her perch. Looking to the two large Tahs she stepped slowly past them and approached Shen.

Taking in a slow breath, she did everything to keep her legs from shaking under-neigh her. Raising her horns proudly, her maw leveled with the ground as she looked at the Emperor.

"Y-You have no right to the throne." The Nan body spoke, even if her breath caused her first set of words to stumble. These words were most likely going to be her last....She realized she had to make them count.

" You have only been a blight on unity in the tribe and have ripped clans apart." Her body trembled, yet her words were firm. " Yet, now-here everyb'alam is gathered for -you- and to celebrate -your- new family-while -you- cause other's to barren and destroyed." The Nan's puffed tail flicked.

"A true leader thinks of the flame of others, and a follower only seeks to grow their own." Xerviera words held a seething anger to them as she looked at Shen Lung in the eye.

" You are no leader, Shen...."

[ Seruta ]

Yahui had come back at this point, taking her place back behind Jing Lung before the shouting began. In an instant, her eyes narrowed and she moved closer to Shen's side, though kept a paw step or two behind him in the process. She was their advisor. She needed a good view of the goings on to properly assess the situation and deliver the correct message of guidance to her leader... especially now with so many watching... Crimson orbs glanced briefly at Forge in the crowd and an ear flicked back as she witnessed his silent struggle. She knew he'd want no part in this, so why then was he staying...?
Idle pondering aside, her gaze shifted back to Xeviera as she drew closer. Her own tail flicked in mild irritation. Why make a stand here and now? In front of cubs?! Granted, the wayward Nan had a point. She'd been a witness to families being torn and ripped apart by his claws and now displaying his own family after so much bloodshed... Bloodshed she once praised and happily followed and now questioned.... Her tail flicked again. Brow narrowing slightly as her own chin lifted. For the moment, she had to set her own internal struggles aside and wait out this backdraft. Let the explosion recoil and smolder back down to a moderate pile of ash. Shen seemed to be doing that just fine on his own for now, but she knew it would only be a matter of time before a hidden wind would fan his flame and set him ablaze again. The trick now was to simply catch it before he would likely snuff out another light...

[ Thalion ]

Shen raised a brow. "...are you finished?"

He paused, giving the female a moment. He glanced to one side then the other. Seemed they had a full audience. He glanced down to his little ones and gave them a gentle nudge of his paw. Unfortunately, they would face this reality sooner or later. They would likely fall under the glare of a multitude as they grew. This was their lot in life. It wasn't fair- but very little was.

"The nan has a point." Shen spoke slowly. "Some of us have been blessed with new life while others have to suffer the end of it. Such is the way of the world we've been woven into. Some of us...fall into this realm alone and without a guide while others are given the privilege of a bonded pair of spirits protecting them...guiding them... leading them down the correct path."

He motioned to his cubs. "The other tribes- they were born with the Magi. Parents. These Magi are wise to the world and had the means to walk their children forward. They made them a home, they brought them purpose."

He glared up towards the upstart. "...there were those of us who were woven alone. We had to forge our own path, walk the earth and stumble our way forward. One path is rough while the other has been blazed ahead of us and made...soft."

He looked back towards his cubs. "This tribe is much like a newly-woven. We opened our eyes and turned towards the heavens- who are we? What is our purpose? What...makes us children of the flame? No...."
He growled, turning back to the upstart. "No. We weren't newly-woven. We were abandoned. We had our parents- they rejected us. Our magi left us. They left us still blind and mewing out for our parents. They left us without an identity and without the means to find it. We were but a handful of cubs huddling together for the warmth and comfort that we could provide one another. Sometimes....in these situations one of the cubs has to step forward and take the very first chance. He has to bring something back for the others to eat. He has to learn what dangers are out there- and how to deal with them. And if the world fells him- another must take his place. In time."

He lifted his horns and narrowed his eyes. "You, little one, were born into privilege. You were carved- and perhaps that's why you are oblivious... because not only do you spit in the face of those of us- but you spit in the face of the parents that paved your way. Your sire learned a valuable lesson- one that you seem very eager to repeat."

He bared his teeth. "And I will not suffer a second insult to my children. My family. My tribe. I will not let these B'alam suffer another day of uncertainty. If you, little one, are so eager to walk your father's path you may follow me, alone, outside of this city. I will not stain the work of our artisans with yet another smear against us. If you challenge one of us- you insult ALL of us." He nearly snarled the last sentence- a challenge as well as a call for support.

[ Fan Lung ]

The young nan puffed her chest out and lifted her chin. A lot of what was being said went over her head, but her father's snarl filled her chest like thunder and put a fire in her belly. Whomever that other nan was- she was clearly trying to make them look...bad. "I'll do it- father. I'll protect our honor-"

[Sinbad]

The boulder wrapped in fur was standing still as the stones around him, his shoulders hunched up and his chin ducked firmly into his chest. He was like an arrow waiting on a drawn string- it would take only the movement of the gentle hold on the string to send him off. He'd not have the capital erupt into a brawl of chaos. Not now. Now here. Not on a day that was meant to celebrate their future. His family's honor depended on this house standing strong. It was all he'd known. Yes, there was death and bloodshed- but they had carved their way out of the hole they'd been tossed into. Perhaps these B'alam would cry over fallen floofalo- but in the end they survived off their fallen prey all the same.

Perhaps that's all there was- B'alam and Floofs. Prey and predators. Fighters and whiners.

He snorted. One more word-

...then again- it'd be hitting a nan. A rather small nan. It felt...almost low.

[ Radical Dreamer ]


Xeviera stared as Shen Lung as he spoke, her purple gaze narrowed on him as he cast his patronizing tone upon her. The chin of her maw raised just ever so slightly as he continued to speak.

Slowly she took in a prideful breath as Shen admitted her words held value. Though she didn't let it go to her head, obviously he was setting up some sort of 'trap' with his fancy words. Slowly a ear turned back as he started to speak. The Tah was vary well versed and gifted with words. More so then her....

A crimson tipped tail twitched, and her gaze sore daggers as the Emperor of fancy words insulted her kin and father.


"Do you even listen to yourself? " The nantil simply spat out. All shakiness and insecurity was removed and replaced with a fiery anger in her chest.
How dare he...

Soft Violet eyes sneered wordlessly at the false king.

"You dress up your statements and actions with distracting and shiny words, Shen." Xeviera spoke plainly, not noting her litter mate in the shadows. "I don't speak as...pretty as you. But I will speak, and roar my flame regardless!" She added defiantly, refusing to be made a rendered and snuffed as a insignificant spark.

"You claim yourself as this 'savior' and brave 'cub' that took up the duty of saving your litter mates. Yet, you snuff out the very flame and life they have in them-the very one you claim not to have without a leader-Just because they don't agree with you or oppose your will in any form." She answered, her breath and chest heaved with adrenaline. Someb'alam had to say it....

"Yes. Obviously I was carved." Xeviera trusted her front paw in the ground in a stomp as she spoke of her 'privilege', and to his long allegory. "and with that I know not to kill off my litter mates or throw them in to confinement when they upset you. That is just common woven decency-Because your flame is their flame, regardless the difference of brightness. So don't tell me that I spit in the face of our tribe, Shen. When I have only brought light to what will truly extinguish the flame of our Fire." The Nan growled and her tail whipped defiantly.

"My father Xevier, stood against you to persevere our great flame that makes us fire-and I Xeviera would be proud to fallow in his paw steps." The Nan raised her head proudly(edited)

[Sir Warden]

Sir Warden remained still as he watched the argument between the two b'alam, a smaller Nan and...their towering king. Casting a look over to Armeterasu, Sir Warden took a step closer to her. Letting the fur of his pelt rest ever so slightly against her brighter pelt, as if to reaffirm that he was there.

As if that would help? The Tah seemed to subconsciously think so....maybe it did. Hopefully it did....

If she stepped away, he wouldn't take it personally. She was a solider after all, unlike him and more like his cousins. Who, looking at were a bit more bloodthirsty then he would have liked....

But they where of Naaran, their honor had to be protected.

[Jin Lung]

As Jin Lung was set beside his sister, he quickly was at his paws and beside her. His pelted puffed once more, until the look of their father befell him.

Who instantly called forth a little 'trill' from the cub.

Looking toward the Nan that opposed their father, golden eyes narrowed on her and her own narrowed purple ones.

In a blinding flash that was so instant it startled the cub as a flash of memories swept over his thoughts.

Not knowing what he saw or even about his sage powers. The sudden image, regaurdless how harmless it might have been-alarmed the cub caused him to stumbled back, and quickly loped away a few paces. Tail puffed he contuined and made quick way to scrambled away from the gate.