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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:40 am
AIM Log -- Felyn & Krysin
Niruzu & Katiti'Manina Katiti'manina had managed to settle herself somewhat into her new home. She was finding it difficult to get over how different it was from the Pridelands, and it made her almost want to go back home. But, her visions had led her here, so here she would be staying. That didn't mean she had resigned herself to a life of plain and boring standards. Oh no, she had a certain grumpy lion to spark up her life. She found it unconditionally thrilling to rile him up, to tease him mercilessly, and annoy him until he was pulling the hair out of his mane. She chuckled at the thought, blue eyes glinting with her usual playful malice.
Well, she knew what she was going to be up to today. She had already spent the morning almost religiously pursuing one of her visions, and it brought her to some distant remains of some sort of animal, but some of the bones were what she were looking forward to spice up a more 'dirty and dangerous' look. She was trying to figure out how to fashion one into an earring... Kat was sure she could get a meerkat or something to help her out with it. But, now that her vision had, by her standards, been fulfilled, she went on her search for Niruzu.
That poor, poor lion was going to get more than he ever wished he had. Kat was going to make sure of it, and really, the only reason she targeted him was because he was simply easy to rile up, and that was half the fun! "Niruzu?" she called out, peering into the other lion's den. If he wasn't there, she'd search elsewhere.Niruzu had taken to sulking lately. Well, sulking more was more like it, because he had certainly done his fair share of sulking, grumping, and all around complaining before that red-furred devil had come to live in the pride. Now, though, it had just been multiplied to the point that those few that used to tolerate him no longer did and his own father-in-law was avoiding him when he wasn't giving him wrotten advice about how much of a masochist he was. Niruzu failed to see the humor in this situation that the older brute did.
Speakin of the devil (quite literally, in his opinion), his thoughts were interupted by that sweet voice. Sweet, like honey right before a bee stings you for stealing it. He grunted to himself and rolled over, wishing he could just deny his existence within his den, if not for the fact that she'd alrady seen him curled up there. "Not in the mood for your s**t today, Kat," he muttered, staring down the wall like it might burn a hole through which he could escape. Not that it would do much good - she'd probably just follow him, per usual. Ah, there was a victim, moping around as usual! Eventually he was going to learn how to properly avoid her, but for now he was at her mercy, and she delighted in it. A coy smile spread across her face, jewelry shining briefly in the sunlight before she entered the other lion's den. No, she didn't much care for his privacy, and any boundaries he had set up she had ripped down with an expert flick of her claw, without a care as to the consequences. She didn't have to worry, because she knew Niruzu would never get the better of him. He was truly and utterly the victim.
"Now now, babycakes, that's not a good way to greet a friend." Oh, there was definitely fun to be had today, and there was definitely going to be a good deal of s**t flung at the defenseless lion she had singled out. Her voice oozed with innate pleasure, and there was nothing but joy on her features, which meant his should be the opposite right about now. "And here I came just to enjoy some idle chit chat."He turned to look at her over his shoulder, from where he had rolled to face his back to her and the entrance to his den. "You never come to idle chit chat," he muttered, then lay his head back down comfortably where it had been, his shaggy mane flopping over his pale paws. He had no interest in being polite to her, because he knew it was only a matter of time before she got around to being her true self - it was really just about how much she wanted to toy with him first.
The worst of it was that it reminded him terribly of someone he'd rather forget. Oh, sure, she wasn't as upbeat or as sweet as Shetani, but this situation and the similarity of it wasn't lost upon him. Maybe that's why that old foolw as so terribly amused.
"What do you want? Can't you see I'm just trying to bloody sleep?" he knew it was no good to ask though, because she didn't want anything other than to be a pest, and to be a pest required her to be around him. There was really nothing he had to offer her that would make her back off and leave him alone. The more she was around, the more miserable he became, for one reason or another.She chuckled then, low and rich in her throat at his irritable response. "Baby, baby, you haven't given me proper opportunity to indulge in idle chit chat. You can't say that!" She used endearing words, affectionate sayings to just about everyone, but moreso with Niruzu. It might have made him special, if she wasn't using it to butter him up so her taunting would be more effective. He was her main interest in this Pride, if only because her vision was tied to him. She had barely bothered to get to know the other lions, because none of them were important, not to her. She had different priorities.
"It's the afternoon, not the right time to be stealing a nap, sugar." She finished her approach, and sat comfortably down next to him. Her tail curled at her side, hugging her thigh, the end flipping idly back and forth. "I told you I just wanted some idle chit chat. You always assume the worst of me, baby." She was beginning to believe that he didn't think there was anything good about her, and she gave him no other reason to not believe that. Let him think what he wanted of her - she wanted to have her fun.
"Come on, get up. I want to see these lands again - and see if there's anything salvagable about them." She raised a black and white paw, impatiently nudging his shoulder. Knowing her, she wouldn't stop repeating that action until he got up off of his ragged butt and did what she wanted him to do.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:42 am
"Anytime is the right time for a nap," he muttered, turning his pale eyes up to glare at her, "that's why it's called a bloody nap, otherwise it'd just be sleeping." He huffed lightly at her, a sighed out breath sending a black tuft of mane in front of his eyes flopping away. "Besides, if you weren't such a pest twenty-four seven, then I might get more sleep and I wouldn't have to spend so much time napping."
He growled at the paw that was poking so hard into her shoulder, rolling over onto his other side so that he could reach out to swat at it with an irritated glare. "You've seen the lands enough, I'm not taking you out again. If you're really interested, just go find Sukari or Moo or someone." He glowered up at her with a honest, true glare of pure irritation. He wanted her to go away.
"I didn't know this pride bed laziness. I bet I've been more productive here in the last few days then you have your whole time here." Again she nudged his shoulder with her paw, toes tapping against his white and yellow colored coat. Now that she had him in his sights, she wasn't going to let him go, and annoying him by touching him would get him to move. Once he was up, it was likely he'd give in to her demands, and she'd have what she wanted. She knew how he worked, at least on the outer level. But, it was enough for her.
He swatted at her, and she drew her paw back to evade getting hit. Once his paw had fallen away, she continued with her poking and prodding at him. "I have not. I'm looking for that redeemable feature. Come on, get off your ragged a**, baby. You warned me about Sukari, and I want you to do it." Really, it was that simple. She wanted him to do it, and she would not even consider anyone else when she had came this far in her pestering of Niruzu.
"Well, I'm not from this pride, I came here same as you so I'm not a very damn good representation of what it has to offer, now am I?" he hissed out, his voice turning into a half-growl from his irriation with her. He had no problem admitting his faults - he was grumpy, irritable, good-for-nothing most of the time. He had grown a bit protective of his pride, though, and he knew he was no standard to judge it by.
He simply growled at her as she continued poking at him, wiggling in an attempt to try and make her stop, even going so far as shutting his eyes and pretending she wasn't there at all. He took it for as long as he could stand before suddenly opening his eyes and swiveling them up to look at her. "Will you bloody stop Shetani?" For a moment, he just stared at her with narrowed eyes, before the fact that he had called her by the wrong name sunk in. That only seemed to make him even more sour, and he rolled away from her again.
"Just go away."
"You've had more time to become acclimated to the ways of the pride," she concluded, disregarding his proof entirely in favor of her own. Kat suspected that he wouldn't throw that much of a tantrum if she continued doing just what she did. He might insult her, might yell at her, but he'd not harm her in the least bit. He had some sort of restriction set in place that ensured her safety, and ensured that she could almost do whatever she pleased with him. So, she continued to poke him, and even if her paw began to tire, she'd still do it until his resolve crumbled underneath the force of her will.
"...Shetani?"
The insistent prodding of her paw suddenly stopped, her toes hovering over his fur as a vision hit her hard. Pictures swarmed within her vision, her face curiously blank as she took in all that was presented to her. Never before had a vision been triggered in the day, when she was awake. They came to her in her dreams, but not like this. What she was seeing, though, she couldn't unsee, her eyes seeming to glaze over as for once nothing came from her lips. A dark lioness, black and orange, and she knew who this was. Shetani. She was important some how, important to him. But she saw more than the lioness, she saw cubs, resembling Shetani and Niruzu alike. It made sense, and it seemed at that moment the vision stopped.
She almost wanted to see more.
Kat shook her head, grumbling softly to herself under her throat. What had caused that? Him. Niruzu. "Your mate," she finally said, and that was all.
He was sincerely irritated that he had called her by that name, as he usually went out of his way to avoid saying that name at all. If she wasn't so damnably annoying, if she wasn't.. what in the hell?
The blankness of her face surprised him, the way she seemed suddenly frozen. Despite all of his grumpiness, he leaned forward to look into her eyes and see what was wrong. If she was getting sick or something, did she really have to do it in his den? He wasn't really the type that knew what to do in these situations and it really wasn't in his nature to go running to find someone who would know how to take care of her. Then, suddenly, she snapped out of it all and grumbled to herself.
He took that time to settle back down with a huff, figuring she was finally flipping her lid. Then, those two little words spilled out - and he could have seethed. "Not anymore," he said through gritted teeth, putting his head on his paws and shutting his eyes as if he'd just ignore her. He didn't even want to know how she'd figured that out.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:00 pm
She didn't notice him for a long while, even when he leaned close to inspect her. Kat couldn't compare this experience to past ones, but it consumed her, those brief flashes of images that almost seemed like memories. It left her feeling lightheaded, and even when she had spoken to him, she was still recovering. But eventually the feeling passed, and she could concentrate on the here and the now. And, oh, Niruzu was irritated. Well, that wasn't the biggest surprise in the world.
Kat watched him lay back down, observed him closing his eyes, and after a few more moments of silence she brought the subject up again. What could she say, that she was curious? Her visions usually meant something, and by habit she was going to pursue it until everything unravelled. "And cubs. Three. Two boys, and a girl?" She wasn't sure on the genders, only estimating. Her visions weren't usually clear, though this one had been pretty close to that.
"They're gone." She concluded - of course, they would have been here if they weren't gone. "So, where'd they go?" She doubted he'd tell her right away, but maybe if she pushed enough, pressed his buttons just in the right way.
Luckily for Kat, it didn't take much button-pushing on this subject to get him riled up enough to talk about it. In fact, just the fact that she was even talking to him about it was enough to make his blood boil. He sat there with closed eyes, his jaws clenching tighter and tighter until his teeth bared, listening to her prattle on and on about it. He didn't know anyone that knew, aside from Moo, and at least he had the decency not to mention this - because it hurt him just as deeply.
Finally, when he couldn't take it anymore, he simply snapped.
"I don't ******** know, alright?" his head jerked up, eyes wide with an angry fire as he pushed himself up quickly to his paws. "Two boys and a girl. The boys ran off with women, the girl wandered away, and I have no ******** idea where my mate went." He growled, turning his back to her, staring out the den. "I don't bloody ******** know, neither does Moo. She just disappeared."
He turned back on her again, narrowing his eyes. "I'm here to forget this, I don't need you dragging it back up."
There it was, the response she almost expected. The anger that had been building underneath his gruff exterior finally overflowed into the open. Clearly this was something he hadn't settled in his own mind, or his own heart. She wasn't one to play these kind of psychological healing games, but if her vision was leading her this was, she'd have to roll with it. But really, she didn't want to do this. She'd rather let Niruzu settle this on his own. She'd say a few words, though, and maybe that would be enough for her vision to be settled.
"Then don't call her your mate. She left you, your children grew up and went off on their own. Children are different, but a female, baby, she's gone. Whatever happened to her doesn't make a difference." She shrugged, watching him turn, as if the anger was preventing him from keeping still and level-headed. But in the end, she realized she probably wasn't helping him, and so rolling her eyes, she just went with what was on her mind.
"Clearly you haven't forgotten it." She pointed out, poised calmly and confidently. "Find a new girl, you can't forget it on your own, baby. You need help. That's all I'm saying."
"I didn't," he growled, tail lashing behind him, "I don't. I don't refer to her at all until some bloody nitwit bursts in here to bug the s**t out of me because she thinks she's doing me some ******** favor." He had denied her as his mate at first, but when speaking in length, it was really only calling her 'his mate' or by her name. Turns out calling her by her name hurt a lot worse. He turned away from her again, pacing across the floor of his den, feeling the anger boiling in his limbs, his head reeling.
"How would you know what it's like, hm? You're self-centered and greedy, you don't even give a damn about anyone but yourself." He turned to glare at her, trying to seem menacing in his scruffy, undersized form. "What would you know what it's like to have someone disappear forever, with no idea where they've gone or what's happened to them?" He had been coping, in a way. He and Moo, they'd been dealing with it.
It was her last comment though, for some reason, that set him to laughing. It was sad, hollow, almost maniacal in his anger. "A new girl? A new girl? Clearly you're delusional. Have you even looked at me?" He put a stress on the last words, raising his voice as he did so. "There is no new girl, there was only one." He knew there'd be no accident this time to bind him to anyone, he wouldn't get lucky. Fate had thrown him a bone, and he had ******** up.
"I didn't do anything. I don't matter. You're the one who called me Shetani." She didn't even pause before saying the name, purposefully emphasing the name of Niruzu's past mate. If it was going to be brought up, she was going to make sure this was settled so she didn't have to do anything to do with it ever again. She had better ways to waste her time, and if she ended up helping him, well, she would break a nail over it. She doubted she'd help him, rather be detrimental to whatever fragile mental state he was lingering on.
"Now, now, baby, stop trying to point the finger at me when you hardly know me," she retaliated, and maybe, just a little, there was anger in her voice. She had a family, she had people she cared about, and she was spurning them in favor of a vision that somehow had revolved around him. She would not have him making stupid assumptions of him. "My sister's up and gone with her boyfriend. I've seen her once since. My brother went off as well, to who knows where. Don't go crying on about how you're all alone in this. It's ******** annoying, baby." And by 'baby', she now meant cub.
She sucked in a sharp breath, trying to calm herself before she clubbed him upside the head for his dramatics. "Come on, baby, you're not that bad looking. I like your coat? Don't be down on yourself, it makes me sick from irritation. Go out there, scan the borders, and work whatever little charm you have left. Swish your tail, let a girl see your big balls." Clearly Kat was a romantic - no, she was just having a hard time not chuckling now from amusement at her own last statement.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:07 pm
He growled aloud, pacing back and forth again, simply ignoring what she had been saying. Well, at least, he was pretending to ignore it. Every little word she said had hit him like a slap in the face, and he wanted to lash out, scream, do anything. Who was she to sit here and tell him about his life? Who was she to say that he was right or wrong in trying to run away, that his methods of coping worked or didn't? Why the ******** was she even here to begin with?
"I'll point the finger all I want to," he hissed, turning to stare at her, "life was ******** fine until you barged in here with whatever this agenda is. I'm not sure what game you're playing, but I don't have to be a damn part of it anymore." He shook his head, baring his teeth again by simply gritting his jaws. "You don't know me, you just think you do, and I have no idea who you are or why you think making my life more miserable than already is is so important."
"I've got no future you stupid bint, don't you get it?" He growled, advancing on her, though she was right in the fact that he would never raise a paw to hurt her. He did purposefully move into her personal space though, towering over her where she was sitting as he stared down into her eyes. "I'm done. I'm a lonely, broken, scruffy rogue and I always have been. I'm just lucky Moo didn't leave me behind when his daughter did." He sighed, shutting his eyes, and shook his head. "Just get the hell out, I'm tired of playing this game with you.'
While he paced, she remained motionless, almost akin to the rocks that were abundant in her home. She wasn't going to let this get to her - she wasn't going to let Niruzu get to her. She was stronger than him, mentally at least, and when he was breaking, she was resolving to be stronger. Kat didn't worry, at least not for herself. In the end, she'd always be fine, whether it be because of her whacked out visions, or because of her own mental prowess that lay hidden underneath her trash-talking mouth.
"I'm not playing any game," she told him, because to her, teasing him was all fun and good, but that wasn't the complete reason she was around him. The gods be damned, her vision wanted her near him, and so near him she would be. "I think I'm only just making you realize how shitty your own life is. So, don't blame your shitty life on my appearance." She shrugged her shoulders again, because it was true, she didn't know him. She knew a lion who had some issues, was scruffy and only faintly attractive. He was fun to taunt and tease, but that was the extent of her knowledge.
He was moving towards her, but to her credit she didn't even budge as he towered over her, bore down on her. Kat's blue eyes flickered to meet his own, her jaw set into a line of determination. She wasn't budging. "You're stupid, baby." There was a brief pause, enough so that she could say something else, but she didn't. He told her to get out, and she sat there still, unmovable, and she wasn't sure it was a game. She just knew she wasn't going to leave.
"I don't need you to tell me how shitty my life is, I know how shitty it is, I've always known." He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, trying to make his voice calm down and the anger boiling in his blood subside. "What purpose do you have here, showing up just to remind me? And if that's not why you're here, why the ******** are you here? You don't like this pride, you don't like the lions in it, you don't like the land, and you sure as hell don't like me." He narrowed his eyes, pale eyes sweeping over her regal posture, "what do you have to gain here?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm stupid. At least I don't go chasing down lions down on their luck to tell them how stupid and miserable they are." He kept staring down at her, then swiftly turned, backing down as usual if she refused to budge. "If you don't leave, then I will. I'm ******** sick of you." He sneered as he started heading for the entrance of his den. "You're too much like her for your own damn good anyway."
She didn't flinch at each question he posed to her, her face an expressionless mask as she mulled over what she wanted to tell him and what she didn't want to. In the end, she saw no harm in telling him the truth. He could call her crazy and stupid all he liked, she would never believe him, and unlike him, she would never let it hurt her. "I don't know the exact reason I'm here, or what I have to gain from this - at least not yet." Her tongue pressed against the roof of her mouth as she mulled over what to do, what to say. "I see visions, usually in my dreams. It's how I knew you were going to be there when we first met. It's how I know you had a mate and cubs. Since I was a cub myself, I've had them, and I've done what they wanted of me and benefited from it. So, here I am, listening to the visions that include you." She shrugged, and decided that she had said enough, and he could say whatever he pleased now.
"You know I'll just follow you if you leave, baby, so why go outside and let everyone see how moody you are? You're acting worse than a lioness in heat." It was the blunt truth, something she was more accostomed to. Kat never claimed to be the nicest lioness, but she considered herself fairly decent, at least around her family. But, around anyone else, she just didn't bother with it. They got the whole package, and they were just going to have to deal with it. She stood then, making to follow him and keep good on her word.
He narrowed his eyes at her as she spoke, listening to what she had to say, which was probably a good start for Niruzu. There was a time in his life when he probably wouldn't have gived a damn, but then, he did want answers. "Visions?" he snorted, and he probably would have laughed at her, except that he knew she had no other way of knowing about his mate or his cubs. It also explained that stupid jabber about him being late when she first met him.
He did stop at the entrance of the den, as soon as he heard her stand up to follow him. She was right, if he left now, he'd jsut be making a public spectacle of this. Well, more so than he already had - the dens within the termite mounds were in close proximity and it was likely that his yelling had already roused a few others' interests. "Fine, fine. If you're waiting on these damn visions to tell you what you need to know, you can sit down and leave me the ******** alone while you're about it at least."
He huffed, striding over and flopping down where he had been laying before. His temper had died down, but his ego was bruised. He wished that goddess were here now - she seemed to fix things.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:10 pm
There, he was listening to her, which was actually rather strange, but she was pleased. It wouldn't reflect well on her to be pursuing a lion who was screaming at her all of the time. So, as he moved to lay down again, she flopped down as well, rolling onto her back, paws drawn into her chest as her eyes stared up at the top wall of Niruzu's den. Her tail swished along the floor as she contemplated what to say now that everything had seemed to die down. Eventually she drew back to the topic of her visions. "Yeah, visions. I'm a seer-type lion. I don't usually spread the word around, though. They usually happen when I'm sleeping - this is the first time a vision happened while I was awake. Weird."
She turned her head, peering at him though blue eyes. There really wasn't much she could say about him, other than that she found him fun, though she knew he wouldn't want to hear that from her right now. It'd only give him an excuse to start yelling again, and she had literally just gotten him to tone down. So, she wasn't going to start on how much he brightened her day by being her unwilling victim. She'd find some other way to amuse herself for the time being. Niruzu was, actually, getting a lucky break for now.
"They usually bring me to treasure, you know? Shiny rocks, or jewels even, necklaces, bracelets... my whole attire is contributed to them." She shrugged, not really sure what to say when she was telling herself not to tease him.
He opened one eye from where he had closed it in an attempt to sleep (did this b***h just not understand the idea of him trying to nap?) to look over at her. Well, he had to give it to her, she was at least attempting to be nice - or, rather attempting to not harass him anymore today. Who knew how long that would last though, as she seemed to take great pleasure in torturing him. He'd take what little he could get though.
"Must have been important then," he muttered to her comment about never having visions during the day, "though I can't see why. Maybe fate wants you to harass me just as much as you wish." He snorted, but there was some kind of twisted amusement behind it, as if he really and truly believed that fate would be so cruel to him. He probably did, and he had a lot of evidence to prove it.
"Treasures, hm? I'm afraid it didn't lead you to one this time," he shook his head before he laid it back down, letting his eye shut back again. "I'm afraid you'll be sorely disappointed, if you're not already."
"I think it's probably why I'm going to end up sticking around longer." A paw raised, poised over her face, and slowly she unsheathed her claws, examining in the darkness of the den briefly before allowing herself to relax once again. "You're triggering some odd visions, baby. But I'm just going to go with the flow, and if this Fate thing wants me to spend the rest of my life pestering you, I think I will kiss its feet for the go-ahead." She laughed then, softly to herself.
It would be fun to be mean to him all of the time, but even she had her better moments, moments when she didn't want to be mean, when she just wanted to talk a little and see what that felt like. Maybe she was pining for the normal conversation being at home provided her, but she wasn't sure. Kat still thought she should go back to at least notify her parents that she wasn't dead. It would be awfully kind of her to do it, which made her laugh again, because she doubted Niruzu thought she could be even remotely nice.
"I've seen worse treasures than you, so you'll have to try harder to disappoint me." Her eyes flickered shut for a brief few seconds, as if she too would steal a nap, but moments later they opened again to watch him.
He grunted at her declaration of staying forever just because her visions told her to be near him, silently praying to whatever god would listen to him for that not to happen. Fate had already been cruel enough, did he really have to put up with her for the rest of his life? "Great, just what I need, my own personal pain in the a**," he muttered, squeezing his eyes tighter as if it might blocked out the sound of her voice.
Finally, with a sigh, he opened his eyes and rolled them up to look at her. "If you're going to be here bugging me for eternity, won't you let me get some damn rest at least today?" He wasn't sure why he wanted to nap so terribly bad, but it probably was some sort of mechanism to hide from the feelings and thoughts she had stirred up when talking about his once-mate. "I'll take you out to see the lands when I get up, okay?" It was a a moody promise, but it was the best she was getting.
Seeing him so grumpy only roused laughter from her, Kat able to find true enjoyment in pestering him until he begged her to leave him alone. There simply wasn't anything better to do, anyways, and so she took her time to enjoy these moments where entertainment was found near her den's door. "Your a** was already in pain long before I got here, baby. I'm just twisting the needle that's already stuck in it," she purred with smug satisfaction, the sound rumbling sweetly in her chest underneath her voice.
But then her most blessed dream had come true! He was begging her to leave him, and now all she had to do was twist and push a few buttons and he would crumble into her paws like beautiful fat chunks of meat. For some reason, though, she just shrugged, because it made sense. If she was going to be here for a long while, why not let him have some rest? It would only make him stronger for her next torture, thus twice the fun. So, with a heavy sigh, she rolled onto her feet and glanced down at him. "Fine, fine, baby. I'll be at my den when you wake up, and if I'm not I'm probably staring at one of the termite mounds in depression." With that said, she turned her back to him and exited the den to go do some better things with her time (for the moment).
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