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 Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:42 pm
Chakavu'roho loved the rouge lifestyle. The ability to travel when and where he pleased. He was able to meet new characters and never had to worry about being tied down or have commitments. Life just seemed... less stressful that way.
However, at the moment, Kavu almost wished he had a pride to lay low in. He didn't have many contacts, though. Especially ones that he could ask favors of. He was finding himself rather in a predicament.
Looking back, he probably knew something was weird about that lioness. She was loading a baboon into a catapult, for Mkodi's sake. why hadn't he just kept walking? But NO, he had to go and ask and now he had this lioness on his tail. He didn't even know her name and he was ducking around like a hare trying to avoid becoming someone's breakfast.
Perhaps he had outrun her, though. He hadn't seen any sign of her for almost two days. He was in a rocky area on this drizzly day, so he had plenty of cover. At the very least, the weary purple lion figured he could afford a small rest.
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:03 pm
If Renzi had to pick her biggest weakness, she would have likely said something to the effect of, "I'm too much greater than everyone else." Her ego was not that shallow; it wasn't a well you could toss a stone into and had to wait for minutes for the splash. So why? Public opinion? No, not that. The reason was only a fool would reveal such a huge, glaring weakness.
Renzi couldn't run fast or very long. It made hunting a horrible inconvenience and was mostly to blame for why she was so thin. Getting thinner, too, by now her ribs were visible. In addition, having could-be subjects know if they fled, they wouldn't be caught, was not a good thing. If the cheetah she had met yesterday would have known she could both run faster and longer than Renzi she probably wouldn't have helped her try to recapture her dearly beloved, yet wrathfully hated escaped baboon.
At the time she thought that a bad thing. Now, she knew it wasn't. Not only had the cheetah failed in the capture, what she had done was make Renzi look like more of a fool to the hell spawn monkey. That didn't settle well with her. King of speed, please. King of faceplants maybe.
So Renzi learned never to trust anything purple again, because things that were purple--like that lion and that cheetah--were destined to destroy her own fate by any means they could. This wasn't over. She'd catch that beast.
Fate wanted her to.
If it didn't, why would it lead her to this purple male once again? Renzi may not have been fast, but when she had to, she could be as quiet and sneaky as any above average hunter you would find. Slowly, oh so slowly, she slithered forward.
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
"You!" the female wailed and sprung forward, in the hopes of pouncing the home wrecker of her plans.
So... maybe she was only a little like a good hunter.
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:33 pm
"GAH!"
Later Kavu would refuse that it ever had happened, but with the sudden shock of hearing that one particular voice, he jumped a few feet into the air. He whirled around, his usually composed face holding an expression somewhere between disbelief and terror.
He stared at her for a few long moments, unable, once again, to speak. Kavu could never remember another who was so able to render him speechless. This lioness brought out a different side of Kavu, one he wasn't very comfortable with.
Finally, with a crestfallen look on his face, he slumped to a seated position.
"You."
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:00 pm
Renzi took failure like a winner. She didn't so much pounce him as one of her paws kind of, sort of grazed his fur before she smashed face first into the ground. No harm done! Nothing more than a minor set back!
She shot back up with no hint of a grimace. Those scratches on her face now had to have been annoying along with painful, one would think. They'd be right. The cuts were not life threatening but bothersome. Just not bothersome enough to distract her.
"You!" she repeated, in more of a booming voice than the first time, which was saying something. It was deja vu when she circled him. Around and around and around. She gave him the eye. Not just any eye. The new and improved version she'd mastered just for this moment. There was no running this time.
"You lost my baboon. I slaved my entire life to capture my enemy and you granted him escape."
A sinner if there ever was one!
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:45 pm
If someone were to take a still of Kavu's face at the moment, and then caption it, no words would be as apt as "Oh s**t."
Not only had the crazy, nameless lioness found him, but she was angry. And vengeful. And clumsy.
He winced as she stumbled, reappearing with several cuts on her face. Those couldn't be pleasant. Despite his apprehension toward this lioness, he couldn't help but be somewhat concerned.
"Uh, are you alright? Those cuts look rather painful."
He spoke in tense, short sentences, his mind rapidly trying to find a way out of this one.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:51 pm
The actions of their first meeting would be a visual broken record for this one. Renzi got in his face, not just close, but closer than before. She spoke not just serious, but more serious than before. All she said before stepping back was, "I will end you."
When she did move away, it wasn't by much. She looked ready to pounce if he made any wrong moves this time. "If you try and get away, I'm going to pounce you. If you still get away, I will hunt you down until you find a way to bring justice for your crime. Every waking moment you'll worry if I'm behind you. Every thing you do, I'll be there, watching. Is this something you want to have to explain?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:23 pm
Kavu stared at her. This lioness sure could bear a grudge. He thought for a moment, trying to imagine what life would be like having her follow him around constantly, like an irritating, crazy, talking shadow. It was as about an unpleasant an image as he could summon.
Grimacing, he focused back on the current bane of his existence. Something was bugging him, surprisingly. One would figure you didn't need to know the name of your crazed stalker, but Kavu wanted to know what this lioness was called.
"What's your name?" he blurted out suddenly. Not exactly the best response, or the best time to ask it, but it wasn't like he could take it back. So he waited for a response.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:40 pm
Renzi could monologue with the best of them because she was never short of something to say. She hadn't spared him a second of silence when he made the mistake of not answering fast enough. "Your children will speak of me, and your children's children. My ghost will forever haunt your family, searching for the life's work you let--"
What the hell?
The lioness was thrown off her game like someone had tossed her out of a moving train. She saw no harm in answering. It was just a... random question. "Renzi. Why?"
If he wanted to blackmail her, she'd have to do it first.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:36 pm
Renzi. What a oddly pleasant name, for someone so crazy.
"Er, no special reason. I just found it odd that after all of this, I didn't even know your name. Renzi. It's a nice name."
He still stood tall and tense, a confused look plastered on his face.
"I'm Kavu," he stated awkwardly, feeling that he at least owed her his name in return.
He didn't know quite what to say after that. He didn't want to say something to anger her further, and he had managed to derail her train of thoughts. So he remained silent and let her make the next move.
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:05 pm
"My mother is a nice individual," Renzi said flatly. Her gruff tone shouldn't be mistaken for sarcasm, she did agree her mother was a decent one. Senna was pretty up there on the batshit scale, too. Like mother, like daughter.
Giving Renzi your name was like handing her a gun to point at your head and fire. Your fate depended on if there was a bullet in it or not. Finding a purple lion was tough. Finding a purple lion whose name you knew? Easier. Easier said than done, but still easier. Not that she had any plans of allowing him escape now.
"Well? What are you going to do? I demand you do something or I'll never forgive you. If I never forgive you, I'll haunt you until I die. Then after I die. Don't think I won't."
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:55 pm
Now that he had offered her his name, he was starting to think he might go by a different one. Kavu wasn't the only way to shorten Chakavu'roho. Perhaps he could go by Roho for awhile. It had a certain ring to it. He made a mental not of not telling this Renzi his full name. He needed something to keep from her.
"Er.... so what exactly is it you wanted me to do? You never did quite explain that. I certainly believe you about the haunting me until the end of time thing, I just need to know what great thing I can do to avoid said fate."
The string of words was delivered slowly and quietly as Kavu deliberated over each word. At the end of the speech he remained silent and waited for a response. What exactly did she expect him to do?
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:04 pm
"Well, let's see here."
Uh oh. This couldn't be good.
Renzi proceeded down the list of his crimes against her. It was a short list she made stretch on. Someone listening in who didn't understand her words, only her tone, would have thought Kavu had just done something completely, unforgiveablely horrible.
What? He had!
One.
"You let my baboon loose."
Two.
"You cost me the moon."
Three.
"You made me hunt you down after you ran away the first time."
Annnnd four.
"And now, you can't even THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU SHOULD DO!"
Good thing they weren't on a mountain or they'd surely be dead.
"You may think you've gotten away with it, but oh no. One day!" As the lioness took off, the last two words could heard being called over and over.
One day!
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