Rough and Tumble Games

Amy D
Between the heavy thud of his stone paw and the clakking of his hooves, anyone would doubt it was a Kitsusagi wandering the halls of the cabin. Hellboy was all too aware of the strange noises his body caused, so today, he'd take refuge outside, where the grass and dirt dulled the weight of his paw.

He'd dragged his jacket off backwards and laid out so he could sunbathe for a while, resting on his side as his three tails flicked and swayed.

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"Luuuuunnnncccchh?"

A little fuzzy head poked over the top of the grass before the two gloves paws reached throw the tall foliage to part it and peer at what secrets hid on the other side of it. Bugs, dirt, rocks.... but not lunch. Awww.....

"Hmm.. she's not here either." Rythmn decreed, seeming to be looking for someone, before she stepped through the grass to continue her elusive search for lunch.


Just thinking the word 'lunch' made her hungry. She had to hope she wouldn't want to eat Lunch when they could finally play formally!!

"Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnch~?" she called again, scrambling to climb on top of a rather large rock (at least by comparison) to see if she could get a better view of the.... wait.. what was -THAT-?

Ducking back into the grass immediately, Rythmn went rummaging through it before her head finally poked out to take a better look at the sunbathing kitsu she had spotted.

Geeze, sitting in the sun like that for so long had given him a SUNBURN. That was going to hurt.

So, being the good Samaritan she was, Rythmn trotted out to give Hellboy a friendly peice of advice: Which entailed her leaping up onto him and rocking back and forth in an attempt to roll him over:

"Jeepers, mister. You should roll over or else your sunburn'll get worse!" she stated, not taking any mind that an actual sunburn would have hurt on contact.

Amy D
It wasn't often Hellboy could find something nice enough to smile about in his dreams, but he had somehow managed it this time. It was a shame it was so short-lived. As if the encouragable kit had physically burst his dream bubble, Hellboy started, his tails and limbs flailing.

"Hey hey hey! What're you doing?" he asked, irritated but maybe a little too stunned to resist what she was doing.

Hellboy was successfully rolled over onto his other side, revealing more red fur.

"There...you've conquered me...satisfied?"

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"WHEE!" The rolling action flung Rythmn off of the large red male, before she scrambled back to survey her job proudly.. just to find the obvious: He was red all over.

HMMMM.

Again crawling onto him, the light-colored teen plopped her rump onto him to survey the BRIGHT red fur. Sure she'd seen -red- fur (afterall, mommy was covered in it!), but.. this was...RED red fur.

HMM.

"... Wow... you're -really- red, Mister... you should stay out of the sun to let your first sunburn heal before you go off trying to tan again.." Rythmn observed, her brain not really translating that he was NATURALLY that color.

What kind of kitsu was red like that anyways?

Amy D
Hellboy looked at Rythmn, quite lost for words. He probably would have scratched his head with a paw, if he hadn't just rolled over.

"Yeah...this isn't sunburn kid," he wrinkled his nose and looked at her. "This is what happens when you're born in a really really hot place."

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"A really hot place?" Rythmn repeated, folding her little limbs and doing as best she could to balance, wobbling forwards and backwards a bit before stabilizing herself using her trio of tails.

"My daddy said that bad people go to a really hot place..." she stated, observing Hellboy for a moment, before going on, "And you don't seem like the kind of person who would go to the really hot place. So your attempt to dissuade me has failed."

Woo! She just got to use another one of her 'big words'.

Now if only she'd used 'dissuade' correctly. Then she'd be able to go boast about it to grandpa!

"'sides, I'd imagine that if you were born in a really hot place, that's still a burn."

Amy D
The amount of thought required for Hellboy to counter-attack the kit's logic was evident on his jarring face. She'd got everything right - there was a hot place where bad people went to, and maybe he wasn't a bad person. But the rules changed if you were born there...

And she was right about the burn too.

"You have a point...and I'm not a climbing frame..." he said, wriggling to his feet and then chucking Rythmn off.

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"EEP!"

Rythmn rolled on the ground when she was tossed off of the larger kitsu, frowning a bit as she popped RIGHT back up to her paws, pouting at him. "Geeze, mister. You coulda just asked me to get off and I woulda. Don't need to be so ROUGH with me." she explained, lifting a paw and jabbing it at him in a semi-accusing manner, before doing her best to get in his way and crawling underneath him to impeded on his ability to walk.

"'sides, where are you gonna go? It's not like there's much here in the way of entertainment if yer just gonna wander away from me."

Again moving from her place of post (for all of seven seconds) she took a few steps out in front of the large red kitsu, dropping into a 'scuffle' position, bum high in the air. "You should play with me!"

Amy D
He did feel a bit rotten for just rolling her off his back, but any feelings of guilt were quickly replaced with 'what the...?' as she darted about and generally made a nuisance of herself.

"Gah! I wasn't...wasn't rough...its how life is, kid," he said, constantly trying to manouevre around her or to keep.

That resulted in Hellboy going in circles a few times. He never was very agile, especially with that heavy paw.

"And I'll find something to do...can't you keep still!?" he stopped to face her, sort of huffing...or panting out of breath.

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"Play. With. Me." Rythmn repeated, sitting up into a less-playful and ... moreso a practiced sort of refined position, wrapping her tails about her body to rest by her paws. More of her grandfather's work at making sure she, to quote, 'matured properly'. (Something about having a couple of odd kids he didn't want repeated..).

The teen would have let it stop there, but her mind seemed to ping a suggestion at her, and she quickly added; "Please? I would really enjoy it if you would, Mister." GRIN. COMPLETE WITH THE STEREOTYPICAL SPARKLE.

Click 'subtitle' on remote, down to 'Rythmn's Smile'.

Subtitle reads: 'Or else I'll never let you sleep again.'

Not exactly that big of a threat on her part, but she'd been rather successful in being a nuisance thus far, she could probably manage to do SOMETHING.

Amy D
"You wouldn't like how I play..." he feebly tried to form an excuse.

He could be brutal when we wanted to be, but in all honesty - he would take it easy on a girl AND a youngster. But she didn't know that, and it might buy him some time before she figured it out that in reality...he was a big softie and nothing like his demonic heritage would suggest.

Then there was the smile. How could he resist that smile? That childish, sweet smile? Hellboy sighed and his resolve melted.

"Okaay...okay...what game did you have in mind...?"

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BEAM!

Rythmn seemed rather proud of her victory over HB, despite having to have used her 'feminine charm' in order to gain it. Oh yes, she liked this guy's weakness to her very much so.

"I'm more curious as to this 'playing' you're claiming I wouldn't like~" she cooed, standing up again to give him the best bambi-eyes she could muster (which didn't exactly look innocent coming from her) in order to pry a bit. Afterall, when you came from a family with a history of violence, nothing was surprising.

"'cause if you play like Uncle Desh, I might have to bite your snout." she added in warning. "So no matter what we play: No trying to eat me."

... Sad she had to have that rule.

Amy D
Of course, Hellboy had fallen into the trap of assuming that this 'innocent' teenager was normal, had a normal family, and played the kind of normal games like tag. Rythmn's little warning cut off completely what he was about to say.

"Your uncle...tries to EAT YOU?" he asked, quite visibly shocked.

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Pawjab.

"Hey. Answer my question before you ask me anymore." Rythmn stated, ruffling her single bang, before she paused for a minute. "Well.. he's more like a -great- uncle. He's -daddy's- uncle." she added in an undertone, correcting her earlier label of relation.

The white kitsu waited for about .3 seconds, before she rolled her eyes and decided it was probably better for her to actually explain her great-uncle to Hellboy.

"Okay, he's just a -little- off kilter. Yes, he tried to eat me. He tries to eat -everyone-." The gloved kitsu explained this while waving a paw about in a sort of 'no big deal' way, before shrugging.

She then mustered her best bambi-eyes again. "But what kind of game would you play that I wouldn't like?" Smilesparkle.

Amy D
BONK!

"Hey," he pouted, too quickly for anyone to have noticed, and rubbed his nose with his normal paw. He rolled his tongue around his mouth idly as he listened to Rythmn explain her 'uncle.'

"Yeah...he sounds charming..." he said, voice dripping in sarcasm. In comparison, Rythmn seemed pretty normal.

Hellboy was beginning to regret his non-demonic attitude to life now, thinking he might have just swatted this kid away or walked straight past her if he was less caring...oh god, not the EYES again!

"I tend to play...rough...games that aren't nice for little girls," he said, now a little patronising.

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Now -that- was a challenge!

"Oh? I'd like to play one of these games you speak of." she grinned, starting to bounce. Bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce

*BREATH*

bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce.

In fact, Rythmn was taking in stride the opportunity to be annoying, starting the circle the red kitsu at a rather leisurely, while not exactly -slow- pace. Around and around and around and around.

"Unless you're -afraid- to play with me because I'd WIIIIIIIIIIIIIN." she added, grinning.

With her mother, playing 'rough' wasn't much of a threat to her.

Amy D
Hellboy was internally aghast. He wasn't exactly a HUGE Kitsu, and here was this teenager half his size challenging him to a rough game. He physically winced, not enjoying the thought of having to charge into this kit and bowl her over.

Anung, however, was grinning. He felt ready to rise to Rythmn's challenge. Pity he hardly had chance to play.

"I'm afraid of nothin'," he said, smiling for the first time since he was pounced by this kit. "Fine, we can play extreme tag. You have to knock the other player to the ground to tag 'em."

Raising his stone paw, he smooshed it onto Rythmn's head, not too hard though.

"And you're it!" he charged off.

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GASP! Rythmn rubbed the side of her head after it was tagged, her brows furrowing together and her mouth forming a perfect 'o'. THIS WAS WAR. Tag. Something. Whatever it was, she accepted this challenge, bouncing a couple more times, before using the bounce as a springboard to start bounding after him, her limbs moving in a rather comical and awkward motion.

It was a surprise she didn't land on her face. "I'M NOT IT FOR LONG!" she announced as she started to chase the large kitsu down, though if he'd put enough effort into it, he could have gotten away rather quickly. Obviously she didn't know this.

She tumbled a bit, but caught herself quickly, while she kept up her pursuit, not having had the thought that Hellboy was -much- larger than her tiny little less-than-90-lbs body, which would probably -not- be able to knock him down.

RYTHMN COULD STILL TRY THOUGH!

Amy D
It had entered into Hellboy's head a while ago to trick Rythmn into playing Hide and Seek, so that he might be able to just ditch her somewhere in the forest and resume his lazy afternoon. Of course, that was ruined when Rythmn was obviously curious about his 'rough' games.

But this was actually turning out to be fun. He heard the scuffle of paws on ground, and looked back briefly to see Rythmn pick herself up from the floor. He chuckled and smirked...and ran smack into a tree-trunk.

"AAAGGHHHHH!" he bellowed and stumlbed backwards, almost like a cartoon character. All that was missing was the floating stars. "Aaacccgggghhh..."

She was catching up! Quick, quick, where to go!? He weaved round the tree and continued to run and run, headed back for the clearing to avoid anymore trees.

"I can run like this all day y'know!"

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Rythmn actually paused at the rather -LOUD- sound of -SOMETHING- smacking into a tree, causing her to look around, ears perked up. "....??" That had only been the most death-sounding noise she'd ever heard. -THUS- she was curious to see if anything had died.

However, all she found was Hellboy, running off again. Where did all the death go? Perhaps there was no death for her. She could only cry if she missed all the death.

"HEY! NO YOU CAN'T!" she chimed up in her own defense, running off after Hellboy has fast as her little legs could take her, though in comparison, it wasn't as fast as Hellboy's longer legs could take her. But she'd catch up!....Somehow.

Hmm.

Trying to think and trying to run didn't mix well with Rythmn's plan, however, as she took another tumble, mid-thought.

Amy D
"Yes I can!" he bellowed as he continued to pound his paws to the ground.

Obviously, his stone paw was incredibly heavy and unwieldly when running, but it made the COOLEST sound as it thumped on the dirt. He heard Rythmn take yet another tumble and used it as a chance to take a breather. He did have good endurance, but until his life was threatened, he could be a lazy git.

"I told...ya you...wouldn't win," he chuckled in-between breaths.

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Rythmn panted, laying on her back while tilting her head back to look at HB, grinning. "I....so....will.." she said in reply, taking several breaths after this, before hopping back up to run over to attempt to tag the large kitsu.

While she did crawl up on him before he could get up, Rythmn found herself standing on him, not 'tackling him down', like the game had specified. She rocked back and forth a bit, before she frowned a bit. "Dangit! I'm not big enough to properly tag you!" she complained, the realization that she was tiny in comparison to him NOW taking hold.

Oh, how she lost at life.

"Dammit!" she cursed, again rocking back and forth in an attempt to knock him down, still failing. "This so isn't fair..." She complained, instead giving into her normal habit to try and bite his ear.

Amy D
Hellboy made to start running again, as if Rythmn was any kind of threat, when he realised too that she was too lightweight to properly knock him down and tag him. So he just stood there, like the rock his paw was made from, letting poor Rythmn try her hardest to knock him down by means of massaging his back until he fell asleep.

Now what to do...

After a good laugh at her expense, Hellboy sighed and then did a bit of play-acting. He stumbled and staggered to one side, as if Rythmn had suddenly gained the weight of a killer whale.

"Oh! You got me!" he feigned a physical struggle against her.

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"EEP!" The sudden tumble would have probably sent Rythmn FLYING into the distance (Team Rocket!Style) if she'd been any lighter, but instead, she just hit the ground in surprise, her paws digging into the ground to catch herself, digging dirt and whatever else into her toes.

She quickly licked her paws clean, as well as possible, before trotting back over to her 'victory' grounding of HB, grabbing one of his ears to tug on it for a moment, before giggling and running off.

"Tag! I win!" she beamed as she attempted to run 'fast' in order to gain space between him and herself. Oh, how she'd boast that she'd tackled an adult kitsu down to her siblings later.

Rythmn 1, Beat 5 , Rest of Siblings 183902389.

She was -so- on the way to catch up. THEY'D BETTER WATCH OUT!

However, being short of attention, Rythmn stopped running after a moment to look behind her to actually check and see where her playmate actually -was-. For all she knew, he was just watching her run off.

Amy D
Indeed, Hellboy did just watch her run off for a short distance. This was so he could 1) catch his breath, 2) reassure himself that he wasn't being too much of a push-over, and 3) hope that if he never actually tagged her back, she'd declare victory and then wander off.

Although, it was fun to see her so happy and excited to be the one running away this time.

With a heave, he stood up once more and began with a gentle trot, his stone paw thudding on the dirt, gradually getting faster and faster in pursuit.

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Rythmn grinned when she saw him coming after her, pleased that he wasn't just jumping ship -and- that she'd kept her playmate for at least up until that moment. "Hee! I'M GONNA WIN!" she called out, not exactly taking in point that having a problem catching him would make it hard to run away from him.

NO MATTER!

Turning away again, she went and started running off again, giggling with her three tails wagging behind her, somehow managing to multi-task her many appendages. WITHOUT FALLING.

"WHEEE!" She also yelled, having fun, despite the fact that 'old kitsus' weren't supposed to be fun playmates.... at least her daddy, uncle, and grandpa weren't. Stupid old people and not playing with her.

Just meant that HB > Her family.

Amy D
"I'm gonna catch you! You're not fast enough!" he teased as he was practically at her heels, face full of flailing tails.

Actually, he was holding back a bit, just to let her have her moment of glory. Then, he started to pull up beside her, his large legs galloping compared to her little limbs, his huge stone paw thunking on the ground. His intentions were to nudge her with his backside, just enough to make her stumble or something.

But thats not what happened...

In a blur, Hellboy just suddenly threw all of his weight into a body slam. Thank god he missed or he would have flattened Rythmn.

He was overshot, and just missed Rythmn by an inch, perhaps catching her with his leg or one of his tails as he skidded into the dirt.

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Rythmn let out a loud screech as she felt the red kitsu move past her, nearly taking her out, causing her to halt suddenly, fur bristling as, for a few moments, she attempted to find whatever it was they were trying to attack her! Eeek!

When she came to realize that she wasn't being attacked again, she looked to Hellboy, leaning back away from him a bit, ears flattening. ".... What just happened?" she squeaked, flattening against the ground. While she didn't mind 'rough' games, she -did- mind nearly getting completely _PWNED_.

Padding through the dirt to peer at HB after his -lovely- skid across the ground, she nudged him with her nose, ears perking a bit. "Hey... are you okay?" she inquired, sitting down, head lowered a bit.

"Mister?"

...

She wasn't sure if she should giggle at his 'flying' or if she should run away screaming.

Amy D
It took a while before Hellboy began to stir again, but that wasn't because of his flying headbutt into the ground. Anung had reared his ugly head for a brief moment, picking poor Rythmn as his target. Now, Hellboy had to fight back his demonic blood and just wake up.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuggggh..." he groaned, sounding worse than he looked. He was completely unscathed, as was usually the case.

He did have a mouthful of dirt though.

"Bleh...pfft...uk..." he pulled faces at the horrible taste.

Hellboy stood up quickly, a little dazed and his head feeling quite heavy. Where his stumps should be there was instead two curled horns.

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Rythmn watched Hellboy as he spit the dirt out of his mouth, ears perking up a bit as she leaned forward to look up at him with the biggest 'oooooh' eyes that she could manage without having to rip off her eyelids (ow, that would hurt).

Indeed, even a semi-dense Kitsu like herself was fully observant of the large horns which had just "KAPOOFED" onto his head, her eyes going all sparkly. "Oooooooh.. " she purred, tails wagging a bit, before she attempted to paw at the pair of horns, balancing as well as she could on her hind-legs. Dang, if he had his head just a -little- lower she could -totally- grab them.

Sighing in defeat and hoping she'd have a better chance later, the white-furred teen sat her rump back into the dirt and looked up at him hopefully.

Shiny horns. Rythmn wanted horns.

Her staring in awe was quickly followed with an oblivious grin and with the inquiry of; "What happened to your head?"

Amy D
Hellboy looked a picture of total bewilderment as Rythmn made 'ooohs' and 'aaahhhs' at his horns, unsure of what she was looking at. Did he have something on his face?

"My head...?" he asked, puzzled.

Then he started to feel them. The extra weight. The stiff neck. Hellboy reluctantly raised his normal paw to his head, absolutely torn at their regrowth.

"Nevermind, it doesn't matter," he replied curtly. He scanned teh area for a decent sized boulder or anything that was incredibly sturdy, so that he might break them off.