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 Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:40 am
(( open to anyone, sibs or strangers - preferably cub or juvie, though anyone is welcomed of course. ))  She had done it. She had conquered her fear of the outside world and those itty bitty bugs that seemed to jump all over the place. Nissa, a stronger cub now, was prancing back and forth through the grass, looking for more crickets to squish beneath her paws.
She had learned, not too long after her first meeting with the little bugs, that they were actually quite easy to stop. She was unawre why they stopped, having no concept of death in her young mind, all she knew was that it did.
Maybe her paws made them sleepy, or blocked out the sun so that they thought it was night. Either way, Nissa was having a great time leaping on them. Her ears could pick out their awkward little songs and she used them to practise her stalking technique. That was until she got bored. With a great sigh she slipped out from the tall grass and stretched her lithe body. She would be a strong girl in time, strong physically and mentally. She was a determined young girl, ambitious and brash.
So, flicking her head and tail high she strutted out across the ground.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:39 pm
 The little goddess had hidden herself in a small rock grouping to practice. It had taken a lot of tries, but finally she'd gotten it to work. Her first real attempt at disguising herself had worked! The last time she'd hidden her wings had actually been her family's visit to the Pridelands, to see the queen, her mother's friend. This time she was setting out all on her own.
All of a sudden she felt a familiar pull, and glanced around before realizing it was the trace of another nearby. She tucked her ears to her head and focused, able to identify them as mortal, at least, and probably about her age.
With her unusual tattoos and accessories still in place, Elly crept closer towards the sound that had caught her attention.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:48 pm
Nissa paused and glanced around. It may have been that she had heard something, but it was unlikely. No, instead she was simply making sure that her mother wasn't following her again.
She was still young, only just having recently entering her juvenile stage, but she was beginning to show a stubborn streak stronger than most adults possessed. It was also becoming more and more noticeable that her mother and she were clashing. They argued about every little thing and if there was one thing Nissa didn't like, it was being told what to do. She had a mind of her own and a stubborness to ignore what anyone else said.
Beside, she didn't want to play that boring pretence game that her mother kept insisting she practice. Why pretend to be something you're not? She was not a seer, didn't really understand what one was, so why even try? She just wanted to be herself but so long as her mother was there, that was never going to happen.
"Don't do this, don't do that." She growled, the sound squeaky and unpractised. "Don't do anything fun." She looked at her paws, covered in dust and...insect goo. "She'll probably tell me off for that next..."
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:55 pm
So it was a mortal after all, or so it appeared, and one only a few months younger than her, it seemed?
Elly listened to her ramblings with a small smirk, dry, mulling on the irony. Moving to crest a particularly flat and tall rock, lying down with her paws hanging over the edge casually.
"That's the one thing mom's are good at, isn't it?" She called down, seeming to have been watching the other for what one could assume had been a while. What a sight she must've been with those strange trinkets on her paws, neck, and that strange plume of a mane atop her head. Suddenly remembering, she made sure to peek back to see that she'd hidden the wings on her tail as well, the odd growths were sure to look odd to any normal creatures. "Don't you just love it?" She asked sarcastically, sneering a little.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:00 pm
She craned her head up and blinked her eyes. It was had to register emotions in those eyes, partly because she had learned to harden them. However, for a moment there was a brief twinkle of awe. This lioness was...was...amazing! Her eyes went straight to the spiky fur between her ears and an almost longing expression flickered across her face.
She was so awestruck that she barely registered the words until she realised that in fact, the stranger had said something.
"Pah, my mum...my mum is a lying, two-faced..." No, that was probably too much. As much as she disliked her mother she was still her mother and that deserved some credit. "Yes, life would be so boring without them."
She blinked, shook her head and then smiled. "I'm Nissa, who're you? You sure do have a cool style!"
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:12 pm
Unknowingly Elly could empathize. She might resent her mother's rules, and she might act like an ungrateful child, but she did still care about the older goddess, and she'd defend her to her last breath if she had to. No one was allowed to bad mouth her family except for her, the way she saw it, and she tried to maintain that same attitude for her friends. Strangers, on the other hand, were completely fair game, but already she was taking a fast liking to this girl. Her ego had swollen a little bit, maybe she was enjoying the admiration a little too much...?
"Thanks. I'm Elly. Short for Chamchela, though..."
She wouldn't mind if Nissa called her that, and if only the other knew, Chamchela only gave her full name to the few people that she considered equals of some sort.
She got up then and easily climbed down the rocks to stand in front of the other. She was probably closer to adolescence than Nissa, which might explain the height difference, but she was still more or less a child, and a child that liked attention, at that. Instinctively she went to stretch her wings before remembering that Nissa couldn't see them, oh right... she was practicing "blending in".
... Well, sort of. Elly would always stand out, but being mortal for a few days would be interesting.
"I like your markings, they look pretty cool..." She drawled with a grin, gesturing with a paw as if Nissa wouldn't know what the girl was referring to. "Were you born with em' or did you get someone to add em' for ya?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:29 pm
"Nice tah meet'cha" She watched as the lioness slid down from her place on the rocks, still finding herself looking up to her. The female was so intricately patterned! There was something about Elly's appearance that screamed rebellion.
Nissa had finally met someone who could understand what she was going through. She smiled and gave her banded tail a flick. She was actually very proud of her markings, for they told stories of her ancestors.
"Born with 'em." She replied. "My grandfather was blue, I got his colours. The markings, well, I guess they may have come from my father-who-doesn't-exist." Wow, going into her family could get rather complicated so she decided to change the subjects.
"What do you mean, "add"? How can you add markings?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:42 pm
"Really? One of my friends is all blue too, now HE'S got some cool markings." She grinned wickedly, still amused when she recalled her mother's reaction to the god of war, and "worse" still, Elly pleading to be trained by him. In the end she'd come around under the pretense that Mrost wouldn't teach the cub anything harmful, but anyway, that was behind them. It was only further irony that Nissa's grandfather was the son of the lion that Elly spoke of, not that the two would probably ever realize it.
Oh, Elly was proud of what few markings she did have, but she'd always felt she was a little plain compared to the mortals and her mother, even her brother, whose wings seemed to be formed of the clouds of his domain rather than feathers as were hers. She supposed that was just one more thing she had to thank her father for.
She snorted dismissively. "Yeah... my father supposedly doesn't-really-exist either..." She'd never met the male she decided must be quite smug with himself after leaving her mother with cubs, yet something else she resented him for. He'd hurt her, she could see it whenever Kiva looked into her own eyes, or when she watched her only son. And though she also pretended to dislike her mother's choice of mate, at least he made her happy.
"Yeah, they're called tattoos, or, body paint." She smirked, lifting the one leg (and flicking her tail, which was also marked, along with her neck) that she'd gotten stained. It was painted with dark brown feather patterns, winding around the shape of her leg. "See this? I got them stained into my fur. I'm gonna get more of em added when I get a little older. There's a whole pride that does this kind of thing, and by the time they're adults you can barely see their normal markings under all the tattoo marks." She laughed, remembering her first time running into one of those "Ela", as she called them for short. He'd been a broody thing, cursed by another of her own, but Elly didn't mind his bad attitude in the least.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:42 am
"What's up with that, huh? I mean, sure, males can't be expected to live up to our standards, but why leave a female to deal with that stuff alone? Damn, if a male did that to me I'd hunt him down and put the cubs on his lazy a**." She grinned and twitched her ears thoughtfully. The idea of cubs seemed odd for someone so young. In fact, Nissa didn't ever plan to give herself up easily to another male. He'd have to earn her respect first and that might never happen!
Nissa observed the delicately marked foreleg with interest. The markings were beautiful and so realistic Nissa wondered if maybe they'd been etched into her fur somehow. "Stained in..." The word wasn't new to her. When she rolled in mud, her mother had kept saying that she'd stain her fur. She'd always thought of stain as a bad thing but now she wasn't so sure.
"Does it hurt? Or is it like rolling in mud?" She sat and peered up at the other curiously. "And where can I get one from? If the Ela can do it then surely I can too!"
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:57 pm
"I know, seems like almost every guy I meet is an idiot or a jerk." Well, Mrost was definitely neither, and Zeki was -okay-, and Trigger.... well, she liked the fact that he clearly recognized not only potential, but a goddess when he saw it, but, she wasn't too sure about him still. "When I find my father he's going to -wish- he'd put his common sense to better use." She sighed, shaking her head with a glower. She'd be glad to change the subject back.
"Nah... doesn't hurt. It's almost just like rolling in the mud, 'cept it works different. I dunno, I could probably just bring you to the lion that did them for me...?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:59 am
She nodded, sensing the dislike between this lioness and her father. Nissa felt as if she had truly met a kindred spirit in Elly. Finally, there was someone in the world she could look up to and call a friend. Well, atleast, she hoped she could grow to become Elly's friend. It would be sweet to have such an awesome looking friend. She tried to imagine her mother's face if she found out that her daughter was hanging out with friends other than those deemed suitable for her.
Hell, Nissa knew that you couldn't judge someone by appearance and Elly was proof that you can judge someone just by looks. She looked quite intimidating but she had a good heart.
"You would really do that for me?" Nissa gaped, waving her tail slightly from side to side. "That'd be really awesome. Mum would totally freak! It'd be worth it just to see the look on her face." She grinned mischieviously. "Hey Elly, d'yah live near here?"
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:35 pm
"Oh, sure." Elly smirked, disdain for her father quickly forgotten. "But you have to tell me -exactly- how she reacts when she finds out." She added with a wicked little grin.
Then came that question, and for a moment Elly wasn't sure how to answer. Crap, she didn't think of that, did she? Oh well, it'd be easy enough to make something up.
"Oh... well.... sorta. See, I travel by myself so I don't really live anywhere." She admitted, glancing at Nissa, curious if she bought the story. Since Elly wanted to blend in for a while and all it was necessary to pretend to be normal... Was a traveling cub normal...? "... I mean, my grandmother stops by now and then but other than that she's usually off doing her own thing. She's the one that took me to get all this stuff, and the inks. I should get going and find her again so I can ask about yours, actually, so I'll catch you later, Nissa, meet me back here in a week!"
Chamchela didn't wait around, she gave Nissa a parting headbutt to the shoulder, then turned and bounded off in the general direction that she had flown in from.
Her first encounter directly with a mortal on her own in disguise, and it was a total success. Hah. Eat THAT mom, and she'd said that Elly was too young for disguises yet! That would sure show her! Elly couldn't WAIT to tell Teuli about it.
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