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 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:53 pm
Fleur yelped, confused, but followed Sahra as quickly as he could with his shorter legs, grasping her hand to go over the railing with her. "What did we do?" he asked, clueless. Surely just getting close to the cage so they could see better was not worth getting so angry about...was it? Fleur stumbled on the way over the railing but managed to right himself before falling on his face, panicking as the zookeeper drew closer and starting to emit a foul odor which, when he realized what he was doing, only upset him more.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:56 pm
Sahra was as clueless and confused as he was, even though she really didn't want to admit it, at least not in a straightforward sort of fashion. She crinkled her nose, "I'm not quite sure," She mumbled, jumping up onto the lindworm’s back, "We weren't hurting anything, or defacing public property, or letting anything out, so I don't see what the problem is..." The cheetah pulled the boy back up onto her dragon's back, giving him the signal to go. She certainly didn't want to stand around and wait to see what that stupid lady would do if they didn't move on.
"Alright I'm going!" Ephrem said, speeding off. This time he wasn't so careful about his speed, he was of course trying not to top his speeds like he did with Sahra, since the boy was no accustomed to such high speeds. But the lindworm did go at least twice as fast as they had been going before, if not more, in order to escape the wrath of the evil woman in blue.
"Come back here you kids! HEY!" But her voice was now starting to be drowned out by the distance set between them, not to mention the calls of larger animals all around them. Elephants, hoofstock, everything imaginable.
"Well wasn't that interesting, hopefully we lost her." The cheetah mouthed, as Ephrem slowed a considerable amount speed wise. "So what do you want to do now, Fleur?" She asked curiously, it was his turn to pick, after all, she couldn't forget her manners.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:02 pm
As Ephrem slowed, Fleur tucked his tail firmly between his legs as he tried his best to tone down the odor creeping away from him before Sahra and Ephrem smelled it, terrified they would not want to be around him any longer if they did. "U-Um..." he stammered around his concentration. "Do...do they have skunks here?" Maybe, if they did smell it, he could blame it on other skunks if they could find them here at the zoo.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:15 pm
"Oh, is that what you are? Hm, cool, I'm sure we could find some somewhere around here. They seem to having something of every type of everything one could possibly think of." Stopping to take a breath, Sahra seldom spoke out of turn, at least when not around her sister, Gabby, who nearly provoked such behavior out of her. She clenched her fists, loosening her grips on Ephrem, and began looking around at the different exhibits. "Be on the lookout for a skunk exhibit Re! We're on a mission now; we have to find our destination."
Ephrem liked the way that sounded, which was apparent when he slowed by a considerable amount and began to prance along like some important figure. His head was flickering about like flame, alert; his eyes were scanning every single simplistic detail of their surroundings. "Okay!" She chided happily.
Ephrem and Sahra had both either ignored the smell or not noticed it, both of their minds where set on one subject, not that it would have bothered either of them immensely, anyways. "I wonder what area they'd be in?" Sahra leaned up against Ephrem's neck, "We've been to the West side of the Zoo already, and I've been to Most of the Southern area, I think, I didn't see any there. What about you Fleur? Where have you been already?" Maybe that would help them to figure out where to start searching, and where they didn't have to look.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:37 pm
"Um..." Fleur thought about that. "We just got here, so we haven't seen much. Just the seals and things." He tilted his head. "I think they'll be with the forest animals though." He knew skunks lived in the forest though that was still rather vague.
"They'll probably only have striped ones though...I'm spotted." He did not like that fact much - it made him feel like he was not a "proper" skunk though it did make him think of something. "What are you?" Fleur asked, realizing he had forgotten to ask before.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:45 am
"Seals, huh? Yeah that area. Well, we know now not to go the west, south, or anywhere in between." Stopping a moment, she wasn't quite sure what direction they were going in now. Well, they were coming from the West at first, but had turned off to the left not to long before, so they had to be north bound now. "I'm pretty sure we're heading due north, if I am not mistaken. Seems neither of us have been around there yet, so we'll just have to take a look.
Ask they progressed at just above your average walking pace; Sahra looked over at what they were passing. She tilted her head, ears flopped outward; the feline was amused, almost smug. "Dogs." She blatted in a whisper, only loud enough for herself to hear, "How'd I'd love to see their head ground up." After her incident in the mall long ago she had taken a dislike to most canids.
She was incorrect to a stand point; they were like dogs, but domestic in no way. They were Wolves, of what kind, who knew, they didn't stay long enough to see. "Well, those kinds of animals dwell in forested areas, so maybe we are headed in the right direction. Look, there's some deer, or elk, or what ever. So I think we are definitely heading in the right direction."
Ephrem grinned and nodded heavily, swinging his entire front portion of his body that was elevated up and down. It was obvious he agreed. "Srra's a cheetah." He answered the boy, before Sahra herself had had a chance to answer, "An African kitty, fluffy-kid."
"I don't know about the kitty part..." She proclaimed, still amused.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:25 pm
"Africa?" Fleur asked, paying less attention to the animals around them and more attention to Sahra's tail in front of his face. "Where's that?" He reached up to lightly bat at her tail, his attention completely captured. There were so many different kinds of tails on these "classmates" of his at D-Corp! Valens had one that was all hair, Sahra and Cadentau had a long one that was hair and bone but completely different colors, and Del's had no hair at all. How many other kinds of tails were there which he had not yet seen?
Something caught his eye, and his attention was finally torn from Sahra's tail as he looked up to see a large building across from the wolves' exhibit. He squinted at the sign, still not very good at reading just yet, but he thought it said something about small animals though there was a very big word he had no idea what it meant - noc...nocturnal? What did that mean?
"Maybe they're in there?" Fleur offered. He knew skunks were small animals at least.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:08 pm
The cheetah was seeming to prove that she had a one track mind, or at least in the matter at hand. She didn't particularly notice that anyone was bothering her precious tail, her mind was to caught up in scanning her surroundings and mapping out the zoo in her minds eye. With a hoarse voice she said: "Africa, um, I don't know. I always thought it was just a name, not a place. But I could easily be wrong." Under her breath, she sighed, shrugging in proclamation to her own statements.
Sahra's ears flickered, listening to hustle and bustle of the various animals in their enclosures around them. "Over where?" She turned her head to peer over her shoulder, eyes looking in question towards the boy. Her eyes carefully followed his gaze, blinking as her gaze meet the building and it's sign. "Nocturnal? Are skunks nocturnal?" The feline truthfully had no idea, she was assuming, how ever, that the boy did. So, she entrusted the information in him with out an answer.
"Let's head over there, Re!" One clawed finger pointed in the direction of the building.
Ephrem's slither fastened slightly, more out of excitement than anything else. Completing their so called 'mission' excited him with no lengths end. "Okay!" He spat joyfully.
It wasn't long before they came to the front of the building. Sahra felt as comfortable on her dragon friend as she did on her own two feet, but she wondered how Fleur was fairing. "Alright back there?" She asked, bemused. Her mind seemed to be overly focused on something else again, this time, the doors of the building. "Guess we should go have a look, see!"
Mew had eventually realized that her child had run off. She was rather accustomed to it by now, and it didn't particularly bother her. The child had an easily angered dragon for defense, and surely that would scare off most people who would even consider trying to hurt her, or abduct her, or any other list of things that could happen. She still wasn't worried. But she was growing rather bored, so, she headed off in the general direction she believed they had gone, heading towards the forestry related animals.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:15 pm
Fleur peered up at the large doors of the building, his tail twitching slightly. His "accident" with his natural odor had drifted away by now thanks to Ephrem's weaving around the zoo, so the skunk was almost completely relaxed again, and as he rode Ephrem, he realized he was becoming more comfortable tucked on the dragon. He only hoped he would be this comfortable on his own.
"Skunks are nocturnal," he answered a little late. "So they're probably there, yes." He was not nocturnal, himself, but he did know he could see very well in the dark and knew the building would be dark to put the nocturnal animals at ease. He just hoped what he read about cats' night vision was true so Sahra would not be too uncomfortable inside.
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