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 Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:14 pm
"Uhm, ya, sure I guess." he put his hands behind his back, his left wrist in his right hand.He seemed to be fighting with himself over whether or not he could trust these people and he had begun to bounce on the balls on his feet a bit, not to his realization. He lost the small amout of focus he had to keep to maintain his entirely human appearance and his ears, tail and one of his pairs of wings became visible, all of them seemed to match perfectly with his pale striped appearance.Even his wings had dark streaks of feathers running through them like stripes.His eyes flashed green for a moment revealing his hiding jealousy at the boys for all having good homes and families that loved them.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:48 pm
"Carefull, keep your wings and such out too long and someone might see. By the way, whats your name?" He asked tilting his head slightly now looking at Kai. He watched him slightly as he moved on his feet, chances are he was nervous or something close, Micheal had seen people do such a thing multiple times when they were worried or nervous. Either way he kept quiet about it for the moment.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:20 pm
Kai stopped bouncing at the mention of introducing himself.He hatedthis part.He'd changed the spelling of his real name but he still hated that he couldn't bring himself to change it entirely.He carefully held out his hand as he spoke slowly and carefully though out each word before he used it."My name's Kai Merra.You though will call me Kai or as my kids do Mira.I hate my name" he didn't realize he'd said the last part even though he did realize that whatever he said he'd said it loud enogh for the group to hear him.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:09 pm
Micheal gave Kai's hand a qucik shake. "What's so bad about your name? Seems interesting to me," He said with a slight shrug. "Your names somewhat uncommen, of all of us my name if probably the most boring." He said with a lauph. "I'm Micheal. Thats... Aiji and Mizuko." He paused a moment before saying the names and pointing the others out to be sure he had them right.
{{Sorry if I forgot someone. ._.}}
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:28 pm
Shuffling carefully towards the glass door, pale, frigid fingers gingerly pressed to open the door. Deep amber eyes widened slightly, a soft jingle was soon caught amongst the city sounds as the door slowly swung open.
He had heard the same noise so many times over...Again and again it would sound as children flocked in to gaze longingly at the puppies or kittens. No one ever stopped to take a look at him.
Haro understood though...no one had wanted him for a long time, not since he had been brought back to this place after ten years.
Ten years of being owned.
He didn't know why he never thought to leave after the man had bought him. It would have been easy to leave when the man was at work.
Maybe he had liked his previous home.
But he was sure he didn't like his home now.
The pet store was not a comfortable place for anyone, especially someone who was going to spend their final days there...
"Where...is the parrot?" A young worker asked the manager, peering into the small cage.
"Which one?" The owner asked idley, glancing up only after hearing the specific species.
He didn't stay long enough to hear the end of the conversation, only looking back once with a soft frown.
Pinky orange hair hung loose against his neck as he ran.
He ran and ran down the slick city streets until he couldn't, leaning down, hands propped against his knees as he sucked in damp air.
The loose sweatshirt around his thin frame rustled the small wings nestled tightly against his back uncomfortabley as he tried to regain his breath.
It was only after ten minutes or so that realization hit him.
He was free.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:44 pm
Shin turned around swiftly as he heard someone running, the sound of panting, labored breath coming nearer. He nearly jumped, but was releived to see that it was no one running at him specifically... just near him... His nerves were always on end and always had. He sniffed the air a bit, pausing. This person smelled like a bird... And his hair was odd. Shin never ate birds. He was vegetarian, which, he knew, was odd for a tiger, but he was too afraid of blood to want to eat animal products.
"Are you okay...?" he asked the other cautiously, hoping he wouldn't have some sort of hidden weapon or anything pointy.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:55 pm
Looking up after a few moments with pitiful, amber eyes, Haro attempted to answer. "...Ngh-" He could only come up with a soft sort of strangled noise...which was odd because in his other form his speech was almost always a song, sounding quite pleasing to the ear...
Straightening up, one eye closing slightly as a feather nudged sharply in the opposite direction it should've been in, the lean boy held out a hand in forced greeting.
He'd seen humans do that quite often.
Hopefully it would ease the dark haired human's mind.
[I know Shin isn't a "human" persay. x3 Haro just doesn't realize.]
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:44 pm
He blinked. "Can you speak?" he asked curiously. This must have been one of those who hadn't picked up any sort of language from his master... if he'd ever had one, that is. He took the other's wrist lightly in his hand and pulled Haro with him. "You need to stay out of sight," he whispered so only the other can hear. "If I'm correct in saying your some variety of bird?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:56 pm
Why couldn't he been seen? Haro mulled over the suggestion for a moment or two before he was pulled gently off to the side by the hand he had offered. Blinking rapidly, the teen tried hard to form a coherent sentence. His owner had talked to him often enough, sang rather, but it was a form of speech wasn't it?
He could speak.
He could, he hissed in his mind, reassuring himself.
He just hadn't for quite a long time.
"I-...I..." What was the word?
Reaching a hand up to his hair, the frustrated boy searched for the word that would affirm the other's question.
Unfortunately he couldn't find the phrase he was looking for, so instead he turned around, lifting up his sweat shirt slightly, revealing the tips of bright green feathers.
[[Sorry for the shout box, tis a habit. x_x;]]
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:02 pm
Shin pulled the other over into a deserted street. He looked at the other's stomach. "Very pretty... but if people see that they'll start asking questions..." It was like a nightmare come to life. Well, except that he wasn't bleeding. That part hadn't happened... yet. Hopefully it wouldn't at all. "Anyway... my name's Shin... What's yours? If you can remember it, that is..." he spoke somwhat distractedly and his eyes kept darting around the street to make sure they weren't being overheard.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:14 pm
Pretty...
The word instantly conjured up a wistful smile from the lean, feathered teen, amber eyes softening gently. He had never known what the word meant, but his owner had used it quite often to describe him to his many guests...he had always thought it had meant something nice.
Name...name...
His owner had always called him..."Haro," he murmured, following Shin's gaze, which kept flickering from the street back to his general area.
Peeking his head out towards the street while tugging down his shirt, the teen frowned, "Is...is s-some...some th-thing over...in-" He was having a very hard time getting out what he wanted. He knew something just wasn't correct about his speech.
"Over...Sh-shin?" Pointing towards the street, he turned back towards the pale, tall human who smelled like cats and ice. He muttered the dark haired teen's name a few more times to get the feel for it in his mouth.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:26 pm
"I'm a freak!" Kai nearly shouted at Michael."Ever since I was just a cub I've been a freak.My parents named me after was I am, a chimera.A creature built by human hands from parts of other creatures.I changed the spelling to lessen the pain of being spoken to.But my damned sympathetic heart wouldn't let me change my name entirely." he seemed to be seething under the surface, his usually silver eyes flashing red as he again became angered at himself for falling prey to such an emotion as sympathy, especially to his parents, who had abandoned him before his eyes had even opened.He'd learned to walk alone and he'd been taught to hunt by alley cats.He was a loner by choice but by nature he deeply desired someone to love him, as his parents never had.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:39 pm
Micheal was taken back by the sudden outburst and for a moment had nothing to say. "Well man made or not there are others like you having to hide becuase of it," He said though somewhat angry he struggled to keep calm, once someone started he did also. "My parents might as well have done the same, though they don't even know, the're not home long enouph or at all to find out. If you can't handle changing your name then you must want to constently have that pain follow you," he paused for a moment, in the back of his mind his sotry wasn't much in comparison but it was something. "If you call yourself a freak... you might just be," Micheal knew saying that wouldn't help but thats what he thought.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:54 pm
Micheals words did something that few people had ever doen to him before.Michael had drawn tears to Kai's silver eyes that flashed a dull blue."I cannot change what I am or what I was made to be but I am what I am.I have learned to live with that fact and I have learned to live with the fact that I may never be like my friends, the ones who knew me as a cub.We were all different, all outcasts from our families.Denied the love that we so desperately craved, that we needed to survive.And some how, by some miracle we were found and taken in by someone who did care.He chose me to take over the gang when he passed." his tears fell slowly from his eyes as he remembered the gang lord that had taken him in and treated him like his own son."I want my kids to have a better chance at life than what we did and my friends all stand up beside me and help me to support these kids.I have to go." his ears, tail and wings dissappeared again and he dissappeared into the crowd as quickly as he had appeared in the previously empty park.
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:10 pm
Watching him Micheal listened to Kai, this time he had nothing to say at all and before he was able to come up with anything he was gone. He looked around then ran off yelling back to the others. "I'll be back!" That was if they didn't follow also. He didn't run for long untill he stopped looking not seeing any sight of him. "Where the hell did he go?" He growled his head moving back and forth. He wasn't sure why but Micheal felt he had to follow Kai, he started again with a fast walk his nose twitching every so often.
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