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 Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:46 pm
It had been an unusually rainy night on the open savannah.
Not that Eshe particularly minded the rain, really; in fact, she had embraced the "exciting" change of surroundings in her usual cheery fashion and simply used it as an excuse to go out puddle-hopping in the middle of the downpour.
Water felt best when it reflected the stars, she'd professed to her soaked (and probably miserable) companion... which was a little silly considering that the whole sky was blanketed in ugly gray clouds even through morning. It was only when the LIGHTNING really started kicking in that she'd finally yielded to reason and sought shelter, and even then she delighted herself with sticking paws out through the water curtain pouring off their rocky awning and conversing with the open air.
How thrilling, this thing called Mother Nature was! Perhaps all the spirits and things were just so excited that they'd stirred up the crazy weather?
... Her pleasant sentiments, however, had not been shared by certain other lions.
No, when it came to rain, Artyki flat out loathed it. Yes, loathed it with a passion-- and her unending hatred for it had managed to swell dramatically throughout the night as she layed there on her back, practically upside down and leering off into the muddy blackish yonder until her she couldn't keep her eyes open and longer....
Or hell, maybe the sleep had really just been induced due to lack of oxygen because she had a GIANT a** OF A LION WEDGED ON TOP OF HER AND CRUSHING HER INSIDES.
The night had sucked either way though, and her dreams reflected that sentiment accordingly. Muddled and full of muffled little pawsteps, she felt a kind of disturbed paranoia and near horror watching it, face crinkled up in a frown as the first rays of hazy light worked through the morning cloud cover--
"Oooh, is that some kind of special yoga posture?"
Fjkgoadskfadjlklf;akfla'f;asfdsl;!!!! OH GOD WHAT!?
Aaand of course the disgruntled off-black lioness awoke to a sugary-sweet foreign voice and a pair of oddly colored EYES staring at her outside the den, STARTLING from head to toe with a choked hiss and jerking to her feet--
... Only to be rudely reminded that she was stuck beneath her DAMNED UNWILLING COMPANION.
s**t.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:20 pm
Yaxha had been trying to stay nice and dry when the rains had come, but seeing as the disaster magnet had gone romping happily outside, he'd been forced to come along as well.
And he'd been drenched.
Needless to say, it wasn't a pleasant experience by any means, instead having settled for being wet and miserable while Ira'Quinh had gotten out of hand. Baaaahh!
However, they'd eventually gone back into shelter where Yaxha could drip-dry the night away and then be dragged out (unwillingly) into the sun of the savannah to hopefully not be sent flying or mauled or drenched by Eshe's antics.
Which had consisted of Eshe shoving her nose into someone else's den.
And of course for him to practically yank her away from the 'stranger danger'.
Dude had practically jerked awake when his head had been bashed up against the top of the little den Tyki's brilliance had gotten them both stuck in the night before.
And of course this prompted some hissing and attemptive clawing into the surface that had smashed his head up against the rock before he noticed the heterochromic female (she was rather non-descript otherwise, actually 'Black and white'. Not that he was much better by much) who was almost immediately torn away from him by the dark male accompanying her.
"............Actually, we're stuck."
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:37 pm
Oh, poor Yaxha, always getting drenched and messy and altogether woebegone for the sake of his dearest, darling, absolutely BLITHE companion!
And now there she went, shoving her nose into the dens of foreign lions who could've easily mauled her-- and might very well have done so if they weren't wedged into place, the curious little hippie just blinking and inclining her head to one side as both Dude and Artyki answered her at first with a chorus of funny grumbly hissy sounds.
Hmmm, perhaps they'd just sat like that for so long that their muscles were getting all stiff and uncomfortable? Seemed perfectly logical in her book!
As for Artyki, she'd been damn near ready to snarl a nice DX GO AWAY, NOSY HIPPIE type statement before she was cut off by a friendly laugh from the obnoxious source of haaaaaaet (who didn't even seem to perceive a shred of 'danger' when her companion yanked her back, smiling at him sweetly).
"Stuck? Oh, goodness, goodness, that's not very good for thinking straight if you can't change positions..." Just the sound of that sing-song voice was enough to drive the latter lioness up the wall-- but wait! "Yaxha, do you think we should assist them? I mean, It seems dreadfully unaccommodating to relaxation to be in quarters that cramped... Must be a terrible vantage point for cloudwatching, too..."
Oooh, so maybe the ditz could have her uses!
And then the grouchier duo would be free to maul them once they were pulled out!
.................
... If they were successfully pulled out, that was.
(But alas, little did they know that Little Miss Heterochromia was a master of wielding dumb luck in situations like this.)
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:03 pm
Or if the bigger male would have allowed them to maul the female (Yes, Dude could tell from there that he was smaller than the brown lion). Which didn't seem likely to him. No, it seemed to him that if he tried he'd be jumped before he got close enough for it.
Which was enough for Dude to know to back off.
While Yaxha was oblivious (stupid infectiousness of the female companion of his) to the fact he was apparently so daunting!
He?
Threatening?
WHY WOULD HE EVER BE THAT? Because he was a big boy and would someday have big sons (? More than one? Or perhaps a hoarde of oblivious little girls?) Not that he had any reason to father anything at this point in time.
"It really would only take the male moving his front legs so the young lady could move a little to free up his hind quarters.."
Dude scoffed. Wasn't that easy!
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:20 pm
... God, from the way that big green lion said it, one would've thought moving was the easiest thing in the world for the stuck couple! HA! WHAT A BIG FREAKIN' JOKE THAT WAS.
Because it was totally that simple to get out of this frustrating mess and they'd totally just been staying this way for so long because it was fun or something. Good lord, judging from the blithe HAPPEE on that heterochromic lioness's face, she probably thought something along those lines, too. How utterly disgusting (and frustrating)!
"... Well, you heard him, Male," Artyki groused, obviously in just as bitter of a mood as she'd been drifting off, if not moreso. "Move those front legs, wouldn't you?"
As if Dude probably even could! Tch, count on a couple of idiot strangers to start acting like they could solve the problem they'd been dealing with for too many hours now!
"Yes, that'll do just wonderfully, I think!" Eshe had added on happily, tail flicking with sedate cheer. "And I'm certain I can lend a bit of assistance if you'll just humor me for a s-- ah! I know!"
What happened next was probably doomed to give Yaxha a minor heart attack and DID get a SNARL of surprise from Artyki when she suddenly felt a pair of jaws snagging her by the scruff and PULLING. Just jfa;fa;jlgfdka!!!
"LET GO, YOU OBNOXIOUS OVERSTEPPING-- OW!"
Oh, if only she could've been at a proper angle to CLUB THAT HIPPIE IN THE FACE WITH HER CLAWS, but alas, such was not the case, and she was just getting tugged and pulled like a piece of stuck meat.
... A hissing piece of stuck meat.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:36 pm
Not that he was very.. 'green'.
Either way, Yaxha indeed had to step in when Eshe started pulling, nudging the side of her face with his own cheek. "Gentle, don't start pulling on anybody until we're sure what we're doing is working.." he advised, before looking into the small den to see what it was that was exactly going on, before looking to Artyki.
"Mmm, she looks like a strong enough young lioness to handle some more gentle rough-handling. However...."
He looked to Dude and Dude cringed.
"What?"
"You're going to have to lay yourself down on top of her so your shoulders aren't pushing up against that roof.." he advised, causing the red and striped lion to look down at the female underneath him and sneer a bit. Nuh uh, no way. Do not want!
"No can d-"
Oh hae, looked like Mr. Yaxha was just going to look to Miss female companion to do it for him: "Give him a good jab to the stomach, yes?"
Oh ho ho, offering Tyki candy to get out of the hole!
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:52 pm
"Hmhph?" Eshe's questioning noise was admittedly rather hilarious when muffled through the fur on Tyki's neck-- and her smile was just as silly before she loosened her hold, still maintaining a light grip and a ready crouch for when she was given the go-ahead to TUG WITH ALL HER MIGHT.
Because certainly, a lioness as robust as Tyki could handle it with aplomb, right?
And hey! Now Yaxha was smartly baiting her with violence-- good strategy! Any excuse to kick Dude in the gut was worth taking, right?
... Though the sour female actually hesitated when it came to following through, sneering and hissing warningly right back at her gut-squooshing captor and really wanting NOTHING MORE than to return the favor of mangled innards, but at the same time... oh, hell no she did NOT approve of being LAID ON.
Not while she was on bottom, anyway! Dominance was unacceptab-- CRUNCH Fjklafdkajso;fljksadjg;;afjdsla!!!
It was right then that Eshe bit down on her nape and she snarled, the first reaction being that of violence towards the closest body-- which of course was Dude-- and shot her leg RIGHT INTO HIS ABDOMEN.
HARD.
The paler lioness had instantly began to yank with all her might right that second too, ignoring the shrieks and snarls and hisses and groans all the while and just tugging merrily, tug tug tug!
Surely, this plan had to work, right? They'd be out in no time at all!
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:57 pm
Annnd There went the red male, DOWN DOWN DOWN!
Yep, the male had half-crumpled from the force into his stomach (ow ow) before the brown lion had seized him by the mane (slash-neck) and practically yanked him out of the uncomfortable position, throwing him on the ground with very little...
...
..
'Gentle handling' as it was. Nope, Dude just got to curl up on the ground while his insides bruised a little bit and Yaxha moved over to bump his head against Eshe's shoulder.
"She can get out on her own from here, Ira'Quinh."
His Ira'Quinh. His. Certainly not in a romantically 'GUSH GUSH' manner yet, as falling THAT insanely in love with someone right off the bat was a little...
...
... Over the top, but she was his companion, so keeping her alive was definitely a plus. Especially considering the noise that the red and striped male he'd just tossed was making at him.
Hmmm. Might be wise for him to move soon, now wouldn't it be?
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:29 pm
yes, down down and DOWN RIGHT ON TOP OF HER, which sent Tyki into a veritable rage of flailing and hissfitting beneath the body that seemed to REFUSE budging with all its weight-- only dislodged a few seconds later when Yaxha stepped in before Eshe tore her out the remainder of the way, only relenting at her little boyfriend's gentle suggestion.
... Because the darker lioness could already tell there was something obnoxiously affectionate and close between the two, even from just the five minutes they'd been together in front of her.
"Hmm? Oh, of course, certainly; I wasn't meaning to restrain her unnecessarily in the slightest, I just--"
"OFF! OFF OFF OFF!" Aaand of course that was the cue for the DISGRUNTLED ONE-- finally free (...ish) to reel around in a rage and swipe at her-- ... only to find that so many hours of lying motionless on her back had done WONDERS for muscle control and just sent her teetering RIGHT BACK OVER AGAIN when she made her lunge, into a nice span of still-slick dirt.
... More or less face first. And then lay there seething in a tingly-muscled, circulation-failing HEAP OF PUFFY FUR.
SHE HAD NEVER BEEN SO HUMILIATED IN HER LIFE!
"......." Eshe, seemingly caught off guard by this, just watched the display with a blithely perplexed look on her face before, ridiculously enough, she smiled. "Well, that was certainly exciting! I'd watch your step for a while yet, though; long periods of inactivity tend to be rather unfortunate when it comes to sudden movements thereafter..."
But hey, for all the suffering, at least they were finally free?
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:53 pm
And of course the female's attempted lunge at Eshe had brought Yaxha closer to her side to play the 'BIG SCARY PROTECTOR' for her. Awww, how sweeet. The big brown lion wanted to make sure his Ira'Quinh was unhurt!
Which she would be while the Bonsai-cat duo sort of... unmolded themselves from the image of each other.
Which Dude was attempting to do by standing and trying to get the feeling back in his a**. Seriously. Ow ow ow. Oh god, he couldn't feel his tail, was it broken?? No, it seemed to move just find.
Owow..
a** was asleep, a** was asleep..
..
And Yaxha was getting a good laugh out of it, actually, leaning against Ira'Quinh's side with a slight smile.
"Should we hang around and make sure they don't roll down any hills or do you think we should move on, Ira'Quinh?" SHOULD WE RUN THE HELL AWAY BEFORE THEY CAN FEEL THEIR LEGS AND MAUL US BOTH DEAD, MY DEAR?
Goodness.
Dude could feel them both radiating affections as well. Strange duo.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:24 pm
Funnily enough, too, Eshe had just taken Yaxha's defensive posturing with her usual, blissful lack of awareness, figuring that he'd just been compelled on a random impulse to sidle over and returning his little gesture with a sweet smile and a light shoulder bump. Mmm, such a good day this was!
And perhaps they'd be able to make friends of the funny bonsai lions who couldn't seem to walk straight!
... Though the other lion seemed particularly over the top with her language right then for some odd reason! Whew, that was quite a vocabulary she had at her disposal! She could've been a sailor if she'd walked on two legs and been human!
"... I think the company would be just dandy for a while," he agreed vigorously to her partner's former suggestion, gaze swinging back to the clumsy duo of whom didn't seem to be fairing well in their walking attempts. "Hmm, quite a funny manner of walking they're going about, too... Almost like a dance, if you squint a little..."
Yes, and she would dance right over and BLOODY THAT GIRL TO PIECES! thought Artyki sourly, though the lioness, as it stood... couldn't stand, and was busy trying to will her entire right SIDE to wake up.
No, seriously, both legs on that side were numb and she couldn't feel them and they WERE NOT RESPONDING, and thus she was half-propped and unable to get back to her feet and just sort of leering up from a hilariously crooked FAIL perspective of... FAIL. ARGH.
"..............."
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:33 pm
And Dude was walking all funny zig-zag-esque as well, like a drunken zebra or something, making sure to hobble as far away from Tyki as needed, before he'd practically trip over himself again.
fjdklfj;askld.
Oh, Yaxha was ever so amused by it all, but hearing Ira'Quinh label it in comparison to a 'dance' was actually unexpected on his part. Not entirely, as that was her sort of thing, but he never would have really equated it to a dance. Ah well, whatever she wanted to think of it as!
"Mm? Well, a... sort of interpretive dance, if you need to call it one.." he corrected, and Dude hissed in his general direction before practically tumbling (probably hilarious to his co-victim) before he got up again, attempting to stretch out his back legs. TRYING TO FEEL MY LEEGGSS..
AND MY GUTTTSSS.
AND MY DIGNITTTYYY. Because being trapped too long with a female could have led to.. ohhh, potential unwanted little situations? Though he was sure such things were impossible considering how they'd been positioned, but still. Oh god, he didn't even want to think about that any further now that he HAD thought about it.
EWW.
DO NOT WANT!
"Do you two plan to just sit and make commentary on us?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:18 am
... Oh god.
Oh god.
In a hilarious and coincidental twist of fate the very same thought had crossed Tyki's mind in almost perfect sync as she floundered willing her side back to life, flashing back to that terrible dream with all the little paws and the screechings and hissings and yowlings of DO NOT WANT and earning a cringe to end all cringes because she WOULD HAVE RATHER DROWNED HERSELF IN A RIVER THAN...
Just NO.
But she assured herself that that couldn't possibly have happened despite the night long proximity and shook it off with a sour hiss, attempting (and failing) once again to leer down their resident 'spectators' from the crooked half-stand.
"Really, it's rude to stare, you know..."
"But your movements are so fascinating!" Eshe chirped blithely, tail waving behind her in much the same manner as a pleased, slow canine. "Is it fun, moving like that?"
"... Like trying to devour a porcupine from the top down, sure."
"Oooh, I can't say I've ever tried that particular, myself. What's it like?"
"..............."
Okay, from the way she spoke, the hippie lion SEEMED vaguely intelligent, but was she still that STUPID?
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:20 am
"..." Dude couldn't believe it had been said either, and judging from the look on her male companion's face, he couldn't believe it either. What with all the 'Ohae, we're gonna make a face!' facing, it was....
....
.....
Special. Very very special. Yes. But Yaxha sighed and bumped his shoulder againt Eshe's. "Painful, I'd imagine. And difficult to manage otherwise." Yes, because he knew fully well that the attempt would end up in a nice batter of 'OW MY FACCCEEE' even without attempting that particularly dumb idea himself.
He didn't need to get his face numbed by such a thing.
Though it would have brought Dude much pleasure to see any of the three in front of him get spined-up by a Porcupine. MUUUUUCCHHH pleasure. Especially after having to be stuck in a place that had made his butt feel like unfeeling.
He could have been prickled right then and he wouldn't have known. At least if it was in the butt he wouldn't have known.
Nnngh.
"We can handle ourselves, you know.."
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:31 pm
"Difficult? Oh, I'm certain it could be managed with some careful plans and a bit of clever brainstorming!" Eshe had even gone far enough to propose, which was of course probably headdesk worthy to poor Yaxha (if desks had existed on the savannah) and earned a GROAN of frustration from Artyki, who was hoping now more than ever for the leg strength to get up and MAUL MISS HIPPIE TO PIECES.
Finally, she'd just had to give up and drop down to her stomach instead, figuring that, if nothing else, better to be even and FLAT on the ground (...ewmud though) than crooked as hell with her butt in the air and two legs not working.
Not that either position was really more dignified than the other.
"The male is right," she hissed, however, having latched onto the rather 'impersonal' title out of partial spite and scowling bitterly. "We're very capable of handling ourselves, little girl."
"... Awww, but wouldn't you prefer a bit of good company while your legs and rears and muscles all get back up to snuff?"
"... No?"
"Oh, come now, come now! That's not a good way to be able things!" Poor Yaxha was probably due for a small HEART ATTACK too when his partner left his side to go trotting over right within swatting distance of the other female, smiling as broadly as ever with tail still flicking. "I think it's always better to savor the rare company of a friendly stranger or two! Much more interesting that way, I believe... and perhaps with a bit of assistance, you might stand a bit less crooked?"
".........................."
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