A roar resounded through the jungle, sending flocks of birds into flight and smaller land-dwelling critters scampering off in whatever direction they'd been facing. With irritation drawn across his maw, his eyebrows furrowed and his jaw set into a clench, Niruzu was obviously displeased. He'd been wandering through this jungle for a days, trying to find a way out, but never getting anywhere. He was going in circles, and probably thanks to that girl twisting his head up over directions whenever she got the chance.
"Damn it all!" he growled out loudly, one paw rising to strike at the head of a looming flower, knocking it off onto the ground and leaving the stem naked and bare. He sneered at it, grinding the indigo petals into the dirt of the earth, and turned tail. He sat down on a log, glowering at the jungle as if it were its fault he was lost.
"Prob-lambs?" Said irritating voice asked from... above. She was sitting in a tree, unnatural as it was, sprawled across a thick limb in the most lazy gesture imaginable. She hadn't climbed up there, but had rather followed a path of fallen lumber and rocks and interconnected limbs... but he didn't need to know that. All that he could see was that she'd somehow managed to get up there. Maybe it was magic.
Shetani smiled at him, the expression drawing her face into a devilish mask of amusement. "Oi thought'ye'd bay long gone b'nao."
He sneered as he followed the direction of the voice's origin. He didn't need to see her to know who it was, though mild interest tickled his mind as he tried to discover how she'd gotten up there. Maybe she could climb - he'd heard and seen stranger in his travels. "Don't mock me, you brat," he hissed, turning his eyes away from her as he continued to study the jungle.
"You damn well knew I was lost, you've known it, and you're just here to be a pain in the a**," it was the truth, to him at least, and all he could really do was grit his teeth and bear it. She could follow him easily, she knew her way around better, and damn if she just didn't generally get through the jungle a lot quicker. He thought that she was amused with him being lost and frustrated - he probably would have bet on it.
"Mock?" Her ears lifted to try and affect innocence. She didn't pull that off terribly well, though, "Oi nevah! Iffin oi wan'ed ta say tennythin' t'ye oi'd've say'd h'it. Thoou.. ye do be brangin oop ah gud phoint thar. Oi did nao h'it, dinnit Oi? An' Oi did vahry well warn ye ginst goin' hoff on yer h'own. Seems ta me ye moight jus' be owe-in me an apologay."
He snorted at her attempt at innocence, batting another flower head off its long stem and dragging his claws over the more rosey color of it until the petals weren't much other than little shreds. "Keep saying it, love, and maybe someone'll believe it one day."
His eyes widened slightly in outrage, however, and he shifted his gaze back up to her. "I'm not apologizing for s**t," he said quite loudly, pushing himself up onto his feet and waving one paw at her, "I told you I had to bloody leave, and you just laughed at me. I'm not apologizing for s**t." He drew out the last words, emphasizing them with a jerk of his paw in her direction.
This time she managed innocence quite a bit better--though it still rung horridly false.. and more than a little bemused at the entire situation. "An Oi b'live Oi say'd tha' Oi'd lead ye ooot. Iffin ye asked m'noicely. AN' meant't, a'cos."
He snorted at her, cutting his eyes up at her darkly, considering her with quite the pissy gleam of his eyes. "You never said that. You just said you wouldn't because I didn't mean it. Didn't mention a damn thing about leading me out if I did." He shrugged his shoulders, flopping back down upon the log he'd taken up as a perch. "Besides, I'm not good at being nice."
"No' bayin gud a'som'tin ain't no 'xcuse fer no' tryin." She replied back with her usual teasing tone. Shetani's tail flopped happily behind her, perfectly happy up high on her branch. "An' ye jus' don' listen, cuz ye don' wanna listen."
The last was pointed out quite literally with her paw. "Ye decoided Oi cud bay o' no 'elp t'ye, only an annoyhence, so's ye refuse ta' listen o' bay civil."
He snorted and turned his back on her, laying atop the log and facing the opposite direction, staring at the trees before him. "I listened, it's what you said. Besides, how am I supposed to understand what in the hell you're saying half the time anyway?" It hurt his head to concentrate on her words - like his brain was running up hill constantly with a stone trying to hold him down.
"I asked you for help, and you wouldn't help me, so what else am I supposed to think? All you did was stand around and mock me," he hissed it, but at least he had stopped calling her names.
"'cuses, hex'xcuses." She shook her head sadly. Her golden eyes remained trained on him, that same amused smile on her face.Oh but this was fun. "Well mayhap I dun wan'ye t'lave. Den agin, mayhap ye don'rally wanna nider... O'ye'dive been h'able t'do h'it. Ye came close affor, b'turned 'way adda last sec'nd." That day had actually been particularly amusing for her, though she'd not alerted him to her presence then. He'd come within a few feet of the border of the jungle... it had merely been blocked from view. If he'd gone around a well placed boulder he would have been free. She had laughed herself to sleep that night.
He hissed as he threw a glance over his shoulder, "why in the hell would I want to stay in this god forsaken jungle?" He growled and clenched his teeth, narrowing his eyes at the shredded petals beneath his paws.
"Wait, you've been following me?" he yelled it quite suddenly, pushing himself up to his paws, staring at her with his pale eyes. "You've been following me and you didn't even have the bloody decency to tell me if I was close to getting out or not?" He shook his head, sneer growing more pronounced, "you really are a twisted little brat."
"Purty much." She agreed to both charges with a demonic grin. Well.. it was in her name, after all. She giggled, tail lashing from side to side. In the end, it was probably a very good thing she was so far up above him.
He groaned at her, thrashing his tail against the log beside him, cracking away pieces of rotting bark. "You're annoying," he hissed lightly, turning and starting to walk across the clearing as though he might leave. He couldn't stay forever, could he? Sitting around wouldn't get him anywhere anyway. "Glad I could be so damn amusing," he muttered before he got too far, knowing she'd hear it.
"So'm Oi!" She caleld after him with another snicker. Poor dear, maybe she should take pity on him?
..... Nah. "'Ave fun in de jungal, luv!"
