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The blond surfer looked across the water to where he could see Leviathan floating at the surface for a short time before he sank under and a sigh escaped his lips, "What am I going to do with you." He murmured to himself, half wishing that Kyata or Crevan were here.

The best thing in life is...

A plan that goes accordingly he thought to himself as he watched the man that was sitting across from him. Roll seemed to be happy, not only happy but it would appear that having food giving to him in mass quantities had him forgetting all about why he'd been upset in the first place. As such the sea dragon was quite pleased with himself. It seemed that it was important to learn about those that you were dealing with on a regular basis, so that you could manipulate them, to be able to make them do what you wanted them to do. Everyone it would seem was motivated by something... for him it was his instincts as a dragon. He wanted to fight, wanted to hunt, to protect his territory, to steal more then his fair share of women, treasure, and he wanted to be in control. For Roll the man wanted to do nothing, he loved to laze about, to have fun, didn't want to work, he was easily dealt with...

It were as though his eyes were finally opening for the first time. Before all he'd thought about was the most basic rules of Kidnapping Princesses and Fighting Knights, before now he'd never really considered why he wanted to do such things. It made sense though now that he thought about it. The princesses were important, they were the bait... and the bait brought to you a knight, a knight was the strong arm of any kingdom and by destroying them one proved their strength. He wanted to strong... and as such that was why he was doing all of the things that he was doing. The only problem was that the one time that he'd found a real knight, though he seemed a bit confused by not traveling with a real princess, he hadn't finished him off. Gera... he was a mark against Levi, the metal creature needed to be dealt with he thought to himself. He didn't deal with him he would always be a constant reminder of his failures.

His tail thumped in a slightly agitated manner against the tiled floor under it as he ate, barely chewing, as his mind was on other things. How did one battle with a shape shifting creature that was made of metal? More importantly why did one fight with him... while he knew he had to fight him since he was the only one that he'd backed down from thus far he was having a hard time finding his motivation. Goldie wasn't a Princess and as such she didn't hail from a kingdom, as such destroying her knight wouldn't bring him fail and wouldn't make him anymore feared. He had to find his Princess... he knew that the metal boy was a knight and he had a Princess out there. He had to get his hands on her and while he was loath to do so he would destroy her if it meant bringing the knight to him.

He set to purring in a happy manner, tail lashing.

"You seem to be in a good mood, whats up?" Roll asked, watching the way that Levi seemed to be glowing due to whatever was going on in that strangely wired brain of his. He wondered if he should be worried as he never seen him looking so happy before...

Levi blinked a couple times then grinned, "Just thinking that there is a knight out there I want a battle with, as such the only way to lure him out is to find the princess that he is hiding from me. Its not Goldie though, Goldie is no more a princess then you are." He stated as though it were the most simple thing in the world before he was back to wolfing down his meal.

Roll merely starred at him for a long moment... then sighed, shrugged, and decided to go back to his meal. He didn't want to even know where he came up with his weird ideas.

Levi looked thoughtful for a moment, using the stick he wrote in the sand with to scratch at the underside of his chin, thoughtfully. He wondered what he should do about this new information that had come to light. Thus far he'd been rather... catch and release with his princesses, he'd captured them, talked with them, and always let them go because it would seem that he was to nice and that they didn't have knights that were nearby that would come rushing in to save them. He should take one of them and keep her instead of considering keeping the one princess out there that actually did have a knight of her own.

His brain seemed to be malfunctioning on him. He would blame the fact that he was hungry, a bit tired, and had been out of the water to long. Those factors all mixed together were making him stupid... he had to finish this journal entry quickly, so he could get into the water and relax.

With General Arlen: Part Two

(( Warning: Scene contains blood, gore, and hunting/eating of deer))

There was a chuckle from the sea serpent, "Yes, she was quite amusing... did a lot of shrieking and flailing... ahahahha..." It was to amusing to him how they had reacted to him, it had made him such a happy dragon to have that princess along with her friend both screaming, struggling, and begging, it was how princess should react when in the presence of a powerful dragon like himself. He found himself looking up at the trees as they approached them, trying to find the one that he would be able to best hide himself in. It would need to have low branches, lots of leaves, and be sturdy since he was on the heavy side. After a time of inspection he pointed, "I think that one will work." He said, pointing to one that had everything that he wanted of a good hiding spot.

Arlen looked at the tree that Levi had pointed to as it was a very good tree to use. "I think that you are right," he replied as he walked over to the tree and started to look it over and judge distances from other trees to were he could herd the deer without worrying too much about him hitting the trees if he was running at full speed. "Why don't you get already and comfortable while I go and look for some deer and spook them back here and you will hear me coming as when deer are scared they make lots of noise when they are running away," he said to his Lord before he zipped off at full speed to find some of the deer.

Levi nodded, watching as Arlen raced off at a speed that he couldn't match on land before he made his way up the tree. Luckily it wasn't to tough to get himself up into the branches when he concentrated on the task, among other things climbing was new to him but he was able to do it. He coiled himself up in the branches and got comfortable but ready at the same time, his entire body tense but ready, eager for the hunt and to see what a deer looked like when it wasn't deer royalty as that last deer he'd seen had been. He was grinning in a devious fashion and doing his best to keep from drooling, knowing that a fresh meal of meat he'd never sampled was on its way.

It didn't take Arlen too long to find some deer and some nice sized ones too as he herded them towards to were Levi was going to spring the trap. It was a little hard to keep the three deer from all running off in different directions, but he did manage by running all around them and scaring them or swiping at them just inches from hurting them. The three deer bounded towards the tree that Levi was currently in as Arlen had stopped chasing them but stayed near to keep them were he wanted them. There were two bucks and a doe so very tired out from there running as they had slowed when getting near the tree as Arlen didn't follow them but they were still very alert to there surroundings as the deer knew Arlen was still around.

Levi looked down from the tree as the beasts got close and his eyes got a bit wide, they were larger then he was expecting after meeting their princess he thought to himself. Larger though meant that they would have more to eat from them though... which one though, it depended on them, depended on which one was foolish enough to come close enough to him so that he could drop down upon it. He was looking toward the doe though, half hoping it would be her. It would be far easier for him to take her down due to her lack of antlers. He shifted carefully, moving closer to the edge of the branch he was on, waiting... waiting... and much to his delight it was foolish doe that came to his tree, basically coming to hide almost under him.

He shifted again, carefully... and he dropped down on the female, his weight staggered and stunned her for a moment and that moment as all he needed to wrap his arms around her neck and his coils around the rest of her. It was pure skill if you were to ask Levi and his overly large ego...

Waiting patiently and making sure the deer didn't leave before his Lord make the kill, but once he saw that a target was chosen and in the process of being killed did Arlen run at the other deer to scare them of to were they couldn't be any trouble, but the two left were more then happy to leave this place and run as fast as they could away and Arlen watched them go as he walked up to Levi and waited for the doe to die before they both feasted on the warm red meat. Arlen was starting to drool a little at what he knew was coming soon.

It didn't take to long for the struggle to be over, if nothing else Levi had a powerful body, able to crush the wind and life out of her. His lips curled up into a grin and the end of his tail gave a twitch when he felt her go limb under him and collapsed. He pushed up so he could look down at the deer before grinning, "Excellent!" He said, clapping his hands together in delight before looking over at Arlen, "Come, General Arlen. Let's feast." He said, clapping his hands together in a happy manner.

Arlen gave a happy sound as he came over to the kill and with one of his claws on his hand he disemboweled the deer in one sweep of the claw and then pulled them all out to discard them and to make sure that it wouldn't in time make them meat taste bad. "So what part of this kill do you want to try first my Lord?" he asked with one of his hands bloody as raised the hand to his mouth to lick some of the blood off.

Levi watched Arlen deal with a part of the animal in a manner that seemed important and he made a mental note to remember that move were he to hunt one of these things again. He turned his attention his General then asked in a thoughtful manner, "What are the best tasting parts?" As he'd never had a deer before he would ask the advice of one who seemed to know about them well enough to know how to hunt them and how to deal with them after the hunt.

Giving a thought on what was the best parts and it was just a mater of preference. "Well when I'm out hunting with Tireu, he says the liver and the heart are one of the best parts, but I don't like the organ meat all that much as the liver has a too much iron taste to it. But if you want to try them you can," he said as he had made sure when he pulled out the guts that the heart and the liver were resting on top of the rest of the guts and not the ground and picked them up to show Levi what the two organs looked like if he decided to eat them and put the back down on the guts and back to the main kill. "I like the haunches of the deer," he said as he pointed to what he was talking about and lifted one of the back legs and separated the leg with it haunches from the main body, exposing some of the bleeding red meat as he showed it to Levi and waited for him to decide before he ate. "Also the hide and especially the fur are not fun to eat," he added as he tried it once and it wasn't very good tasting if a lot was eaten.

He tilted his head to one side, looking the two pieces overly closely before he gave a nod of his head reaching a hand out to take one of them, "Might as well try them." He said, sniffing at the meat for a moment before he gave it a bite. He tilted his head to one side, chewing on it, "Hrm... this isn't to bad." He told him, chewing, then swallowed, "Mmm... not bad." He looked over at the other one, sniffed at it, then bit into the second part. It was really iron rich as Arlen had said but, "I rather like this one." The liver was far better then the heart but he wasn't one to waste food so he ended up wolfing down both pieces.

Arlen has to giggles slightly as his preference of not really liking those organ meats is that Tireu most of the time ate them quickly before they got too cold as he really like his meat hot. After Levi had eaten the liver and the heart, Arlen handed him over the leg that he carved up for him to eat. As he went back to the rest of the deer to carve up the other leg and started to eat with much gusto as he was use to eating his share of the kill fast as to were if he didn't then sometimes it would be taken from him.

Levi smiled as the next piece of meat was handed over to him and he set to munching on that as well, he was going to end up stuffed full by the time he was done eating but he didn't care the meat was soooo good! He didn't even notice that he was purring as he ate, so content and pleased at the moment that the strange habit he had was rearing its head. Good, so good, "Your a fantastic General, Arlen." He praised the raptor.

"Thank you, Lord Levi," he answered as he paused from eating and smile as he heard the purring his lord was making as it was interesting but he kept that information to himself as he helped himself to some more of the meat, but to make sure that he left enough of it for as much as Levi wanted. They could always leave the rest of the leftover meat for the scavengers of this forest and come hunting another day. "Another day we will have to go hunting again but for something different that time around," he said between the mouth fulls of meat.

He gave a chuckle, hands patting his full belly, "That sounds nice though I don't think I will be able to eat another bite for some time." He said with a chuckle, rubbing his hands over his belly, purring a moment before he relaxed back on his coils and set to licking his hands clean of the blood that clung to them, "We will need to figure out a way for you to come hunting with me as well." He told Arlen, it would be fun if they could figure out a way for him to do water hunting... though it would take a bit of thought on Levi's part.

Arlen gave a little burp as he was now fit to burst with all that he had eaten and wanted nothing more to do now was to be lazy and sit in the sun. "Well that is good and it will be lots of fun," he answered as he thought it would be birds that they would hunt next time, well it would be him mostly as they were really fast and hard to catch or at least some of them were, as he thought of his favorite birds to eat. "That we do, but we will figure it out in time I'm in no hurry, when careful planning is always the best way to go," Arlen said as he rolled a bone between his teeth before spiting it out near the carcass. As it wasn't totally picked clean and he did think to bring some of it home, but thought better on it as it wasn't as warm as Tireu liked so he just might have to kill something before he when back home as he licked some of the blood of his hands and fully well knowing that he would need to wash up before heading into town or get questioned about the blood on him.

"That is true, I don't want to risk anything happening to my precious General." He murmured, Arlen's safety was more important then a bit of water hunting after all. Levi would figure it out, after all as the Lord it was his job to be able to figure out how to bring the raptor to the watery realm. He pushed himself up on his coils with a bit of a groan, feeling quite heavy and languid at the moment. He found himself wanting to go curl up in the warm sands on the beach to nap.

Arlen a small purr as it was nice to be needed by someone other than the ones that were taking care of you. "That is very nice of you, Lord," he replied as he thought a good nap would be so nice. "Why don't we go back to the beach and take a nap. As I ate too much and want nothing more than to nap off some of what I have eaten," he added and hoping that it wasn't too bold for him to say that to his Lord.

Leviathan couldn't help but to chuckle, "You read my mind, General Arlen, I was thinking about the same thing." He told him, rather pleased to hear that they were even thinking along the same lines, "Yes, lets go get us a nice nap in the warm sand." He agreed, stretching out before he led the way back toward the section of beach that he had claimed as his territory. The end of his tail was swishing, a pleased grin on his face. He was a very, very happy dragon at the moment and it was easy to tell.

Arlen had to giggle as it was funny to think that they were thinking the same thing too. "Lets, Lord Levi," he said as he followed his lord to his territory to were a nice nap in the warm sands awaited them as his own tail swished behind him as he walked.

When they arrived Levi plopped down in the sand, uncoiling himself so that all of him could soak up the sun, and he gave a purring sound, the end of his tail swishing. He shifted a bit to wiggle into the warm sands of the beach and he smiled in a toothy way, "That's nice." He murmured, watching Arlen to see what he thought of the nice sandy napping spot.

Watching to what Levi was doing as he really hadn't had taken a nap on the beach, but he did like to nap in the sun especially after eating so much food. As soon as his lord was settled he choose a spot not too far from Levi as he dug a little pit for his butt to make sure that he didn't get to warm and sat down in it and wiggled around a little to get the sand to settle around him. "Yes it is," he also murmured as he closed his eyes and drifted off.

The sea serpent Lord was quite pleased that the General seemed to enjoy his territory and the warm sands on the beach he watched him for a moment more as he started to drift off before Levi let his own eyes sink shut and was soon dozing himself. It had been a good day and there were only good things to come ahead, it was a good day to be a dragon.

A Skill of Sorts

Levi was rising up on his coils, stretching out, and was about to move away from the journal entry that he had written out when he recalled something that he wanted to add. He turned to look toward it then froze, starring at the water with wide eyes as it had already had erased what was written there... and when he looked at it the water seemed to freeze as well. It was a stand off of sorts before the water started to slowly creep forward, swirling inside of itself to devour the words that had been written down, then moved back out into the ocean and he quickly chased after it. The dragon starred down at it, watching the way it moved naturally then looked at the spot that it had been... given the height of the tide at the moment it shouldn't have reached out as far as where he'd been writing he thought to himself. It shouldn't have been able to stop moving on its own as either... and most certainly not swirl in such a manner.

"It... erased my..." Now that he thought about it all of the other things he'd written out in the sands had been dealt with in a similar manner. He'd never once had to bother with erasing it. He moved back a short distance, squatted down, and wrote out in the sand once again.



He finished writing then scooted back, waiting, watching... then his eyes got wide again as the water moved forward quickly, devoured the words, then scooted back once more to where it belonged. He puffed up then scooted closer to poke at the water with his finger then just starred at it. That was... odd. Why was the water doing that? It was erasing the words he put down, the important things that he wrote out that could fall into the hands of the enemy, the ocean was erasing all trace of them.

"Amazing." What an amazing thing, what loyalty he had gained in the water he thought to himself before he set to work testing it further, wanting to test the limitations of this new found gift. It took him the better part of the afternoon but he figured it out. The water only acted in such a manner upon the section of the beach that was his territory, outside the drawn lines it didn't react at all. It could also only reach forth so far though it did try its hardest it couldn't reach out more then ten feet from where it should be and even then it was stretching it.

"I accept your loyalty, and as your Lord I will do my best to protect you." He vowed as he stood at the edge of the water, looking out over it. Since the attempted drowning of that one man some time back the number of people that came to his beach was little to none, that meant less people polluting it, less people leaving behind their garbage and raising his ire. It must make the ocean happy as well. Grinning Levi headed forth into his territory, grinning in delight. It was a wonderful day to be the Lord of the Oceans he thought to himself as he disappeared beneath the waves.

A Fateful Meeting: Part One

Deimos had started off in the same way that he always did, he got snacks together for himself and Gigan, bottles of water, a bowl to pour it for Gigan who they had learned couldn't drink out of the bottle, as well as the most important items being his notebook, pen, and map. They were going to the blank spot on the map today, to see what was there that could be added of importance and he was both excited and frightened. He really was having a lot of fun when it came to filling in his map, not only did he feel accomplished each time he could add something new to the map but it was helping him to get out and about more, helping him to face fears even if it wasn't helping to get over them. He as sure that it was going to take more then just a few walks here and there to help him to get over any of the fears that were on the long list in his mind.

He looked down at his bodyguard of a cat and gave him a smile, "Alright, we are going to a new place today which means that we are going to have a bit of a walk ahead of us. I have snacks as well as water plus I have some money so we will be able to buy lunch if we find a place that looks good as well." He told Gigantes who eagerly nodded, tail lashing behind him in a manner that showed he was pleased. He loved these walks more then anything else since it always meant good food as well as visiting some interesting places. The food was always a huge bonus as well, there were always good places to stop for some sort of delicious treat or another and all of the walking kept those treats from making Gigan fat.

It was early yet, he had decided that if he wanted to get back in time for dinner it was best that he headed out at a decent time, so here he was at seven in the morning, heading out from home toward that blank spot, "Alright, this should prove to be a lot of fun." He told Gigan as they headed out, locking the door after themselves, the key getting put into his bag as well. The two of them went across the screened in porch, down the steps, and on his way.

The walk was a nice one, the direction that they were headed had an open look to it, the farther out they were went the less people there were, the less houses as well, there wasn't a whole lot to note here but it was rather pretty. He looked over at Gigan before giving a happy sound, "This place, its so pretty Gigantes! I wish that I had a camera or something, that would be..." His eyes went wide, "Oh! That's a good idea! We could get a camera and put a picture of the places that go with the marks on the map in our notebook Gigan!" He said, sounding breathless and excited. It was a most wonderful idea but he would need to talk with his parents, he wasn't sure how much a camera cost and he didn't want to ask for something that was to expensive from them... he would feel guilty doing that, the last thing he wanted was to do anything that would cause them to be upset with him. His worst fear after all was losing his family so he didn't want to risk something that could cause that.

He shook his head to clear that line of though, not wanting to think about it even the list, "Shall we keep going?" He asked, moving along with a smile on his lips.

Gigan looked from side to side, rising up on his hind legs for a moment to get a look around at what had his friend in such a giddy mood and decided that he might be right. After all there were lots of things here that he could smell, birds were around as were some rodents, they would all taste quite delicious if he could get his paws on something... not in front of Deimos though as he didn't want the boy to be afraid of him. The cat gave a purring sound before he trotted along after him, tail swishing as they headed along. If he saw a chance to slip away he was going to get himself a tasty birdy to make a meal of he thought to himself a very cat like manner. The tough part being just that, he didn't want to leave Dei alone to long... so he would have to see what happened from here.

As they walked along as strange sort of sensation started to prickle up the boy's back though he wasn't sure why. I twas... as though... someone was starring at him? He wondered why someone would want to stare at him so hard that he could feel it... was it his hair? Perhaps the fact that he was talking a cat? What if was a bear that was wanting to eat him?! He set to looking from side to side before he looked down at Gigantes, "I... think something is watching us, Gigan." He whispered to the cat.

The dark colored, one eyed cat puffed up and gave a little hiss, his ears laying back. That someone was watching them and upsetting Deimos was enough to put the cat into a bad mood. He looked from side to side, sniffing at the air... then seemed confused. He could smell something... odd, something that didn't make sense. There was the scent of the ocean, something they were far from, mixed with something he could only describe as reptilian in nature but... more, not just a lizard or something but something he would describe as... almost grand. Grand and dangerous, he gave a hiss then went charging toward where he smelled the being to try to take it on...

Deimos's eyes got huge and he reached out, trying to catch hold of his cat but missed as he went charging by, "Wait! Gigan come back!" He cried out after the cat before he found himself trying to follow after him as he rushed off into the tall grass...