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The demon snorted lightly in response, thinking that Dark was in a slightly bad mood-which was acceptable considering he was just frozen- or he didn't think much of Inukai's abilities yet because of his attitude toward that one Imp and now the snake getting away.
---- He looked back at Dark when he said he didn't have much of an appetite because of things on his mind, which was believable..still the demon was glad that he was going to eat too. Inukai knew that everything had to eat and if Dark didn't soon he was going to either trick or drag Dark to that tavern place, he sounded like he knew the the worker so the guy there might help the demon.
----Inukai's thoughts were disrupted both by Dark's words as well as the sound of many creatures approaching, he backed up a little. Though within seconds his silver mane shifted into a shimmering red-orange and flames formed around him and grew in intensity. He carefully opened wings slightly as he growled at the approaching hoard, even his eyes had shifted like his mane to appear more as some fire demon. Inukai's illusionairy flames grew till he barked a short roar and sent the fake/real mass of flames at the snakes, if these little ones were like the big one then his attack would burn a portion of them.
----As Inukai had prepared that and attacked it seemed that he didn't move in the slightest and the ice shots didn't bother him, but that too was illusion...the real one was dodging like Dark was, though not as quickly as he focused on the illusion and got hit a few times, but it was nothing he couldn't handle.
---- '..Dark...what do snakes fear most..what preys on them..?' he asked as he only knew that these fear fire, but he figured that because of their element.. The key to attacking with illusions was finding a target's fear, fear took over most creatures rational thoughts and usually paralyzed them.

Inukai ignored Dark's mumbling till he said mongoose, the demon had seen some attack snakes before, but he hadn't been sure that was what they feared. Now that the smaller snakes were hesitant he could focus solely on maintaining his illusion of being a fiery beast, he even upped it a bit more by emitting a faint glow from his mouth as he hissed.
---- The demon glared ahead, his eyes burning, as he locked his gaze with the snake leader. He made no move to dodge, instead he stepped forward and lowered his head a little, tilting his head slightly as he growled. There was no time to shift his illusion and he planned on making the mongoose once the leader was down or if it tried to escape again.
----Once the snake was in striking range Inukai made his move and quickly lunged forward, aiming to catch the snake's throat with his own fangs, not caring if the snake could also attack still. Inukai's fiery mane seemed to lash out at the snake too, trying to wrap around the snake and burn it.
----Meanwhile behind the mass of small snakes the shadowy form of a giant mongoose began to form, but for now it stayed invisible to the snakes. He prepared that just in case they tried to flee, knowing that it would be near impossible to go after all of them.

'..Dark..!' The demon was slightly surprised that Dark protected him from the snake's bite. His jaw was slightly sore because he underestimated the snakes natural armor so trying use fangs or claws would take too long, instead Inukai shifted his fiery mane illusion to twist into a spiral that shot into the snakes opened mouth.
----Just to be safe and make sure it died Inukai also created more flames that wrapped around the snake, then the demon lowered himself tipped his head up, shooting a concentrated burst of flame through the snakes mouth to hit it's brain.
----Inukai's ears twitched and he became aware of the slowly approaching mass of snakes, he make the mongoose come alive, adding burning claws and random patches of fiery fur as it started toward the snakes.

Inukai watched as the snake struggled yet, though was obviously dying, and also kept an eye on the smaller ones as they too began breaking apart. He was slightly amused as some tried attacking the mongoose, though none of them lasted much longer and soon broke apart and burst into snow.
The demon snorted and shook his mane, dismissing his own fiery illusion as well as the mongoose, also getting off whatever snow had stuck on him. He looked at Dark as he stuttered one word and started to worry about him a little. They now had nothing around to eat plus the cave was lightly frozen over, it was definitely not a suitable place for something without fir, feathers or scales.
'..Dark...are you alright..?' he asked as he spread a gentle flame through the area they were in, snow wasn't something one could trick, but Inukai's illusions were 'real' enough to thaw the rocky walls melt the snow a good few years in either direction.
Inukai's ears twitched as he listened to the faint echo if the pouring rain, flying through that would be hard and painful and traveling by foot wouldn't be much better.. The demon huffed lightly as he thought about their situation, then looked back to Dark.

Inukai was quite disappointed that the snake had burst into ice and snow, it had been large enough that it would have fed both he and Dark easily and still have more left for later. That and their efforts went unrewarded...sure it was one less demon for people to come across, but there were always plenty others around. So in the demon's eyes it was mostly a waste of effort to defeat, if he'd been alone he would have used an illusion to get away.
Dark was right about the animals taking cover from the storm, Inukai could hear little else aside from the rain's pounding rhythm. As for the question of his hunger, a growl rumbled in the demon's stomach and he lowered his head slightly in embarrassment. '..this one..is hungry..' he replied quietly as he glanced toward Dark, grateful for the offer to ride with his the board. Inukai's wings were quite vulnerable to the rain after all, especially when it was coming down hard like now, it hurt and quickly soaked the feathers.
Both his normal form and his human form had large soakable wings, plus they'd take up more room..so to make things less awkward the demon shifted into his puppy form. He figured it'd be better to be in either this form or his human form once they were around other people anyway and trotted a bit closer to Dark, looking up at him, '..this one thinks we should go and eat.. it wouldn't be wise to stay here without food..'
The demon wasn't exactly sure about eating human-made food, but he had to eat something and so did Dark. Wandering, flying and fighting for the last few days without food was going to make the demon physically weak. Dark's nightmare had been enough to keep his demonic abilities going for around two weeks or more if used sparingly, though he wasn't too sure about constantly using Dark as a dream source if everything he dreamed was that dark..for the safety of others as well as himself.

The demon's tail fur bristled a bit when the board's eyes glowed for a moment, but otherwise didn't seem too bothered. He wasn't surprised that dark hadn't met one like him before..personally he only know one other, but that was long ago..
Inukai looked around, making a light wind shield around the two, not enough to block the weather completely, but at least make it more tolerable until they reached the city. It wouldn't be too much longer, but still..the demon didn't like being in the rain for more then necessary.
As Dark asked why the demon was unhappy about his bloodline his head went down a bit again. '...demons..don't like mixed breeds.. the two species that make the mixed breed usually ignore or kill it..other see them as weak prey since few if any help them..' the little demon paused, one ear folded back as he thought about it..
'...both parents were killed by their own kind for protecting this one.. after that..this one lived alone..' he finished, both ears folded back halfway as his head hung a bit lower. Those times were something he really didn't want to think about and often tried his best to forget..or at least buried in some dark corner in his mind.

Inukai didn't really respond much this time as Dark pet him, though he did appreciate it, no matter how he willed it it would take a little while to suppress those memories again. Even the rain took second place in his mind..or rather third since being accepted by Dark was one of few good things that helped right now.
The demon looked around slightly, but without much interest. He noticed that they were nearing their choice of place to eat and slid out from Dark's hand and sort of glided/dropped and shifted into his human form. "This one does have faith in you Dark.. You are one of few that still accept this one after learning everything." he said as he flew beside Dark, protecting his wings with a wing shield out of habit as they headed to the Dragon't Nest.