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 Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 7:41 pm
 Giza was in a good mood. More growth spurts. She was almost as big as Kyra now... and because she seemed to grow more quickly than Doto did, she was willing to bet she was getting bigger than he was! Weird how that kind of thing still made her happy, even though she was a teenager now. She couldn't help herself. Doto was her friend. She liked to pick on him. It was just how she worked.
"Doto? Hey, Doto? Where are you?" She called, feeling musical and amusing. A good mood. Well, she was almost always in a good mood. Doto just made it better. She hoped he wasn't skipping out on their session that day... it happened sometims, and it was always a dissapointment she found. Especially since even in her own family, she had yet to find someone with as much in common with her.
She sighed, sitting down and looking around, "Doto? Come on! I wanna play!" She called. Though their 'playing' had never exactly been what they did together. But she always liked to think about it that way. She didn't like to think that they would ever stop playing, or even doing, the things that they did together.
She grinned, her evil grin, marching around and looking behind trees, purring away, "Come on... I found you a preasent..."
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:15 pm
 Doto was in a pretty good mood. He had been getting along with his siblings recently, which was strange but not entirely unwelcomed. He did like them, in some strange way, and knew he was protective of them. Blood was strong, after all. Important. The more time he spent with Giza, the more she spoke about her own family and how close they seemed, in an intricate and complicated way, the more he came to realize that he felt the same way.
He particularly enjoyed teaching his sister about torture. Skinning rabbits had never been more fun, save when he and Giza did it.
Padding up to their usual meeting place, Doto caught wind of Giza's voice and wondered why she was so happy. He spotted her and drew closer, and then realized what had happened in their time apart. Another growth spurt. More teasing. Goddamn it.
"A present, huh?" he said, slinking up behind her. He had been working on his stalking, and his foot falls were almost effortlessly silent now. Almost. He grinned at her, red eyes narrowing at her expectantly. "It better not have anything to do with our sizes, or I'm going home early."
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:30 pm
Giza spun around, a huge grin on her lips as she swayed over, "Oh, come on... I'm not so childish. Besides, you'll only be a jerk when you grow again..." She stuck out her tongue again, but then smiled. "Just one joke though. Shorty. OKAY! I'm done!" She promised, though as per usual, she got a good laugh out of her single joke. She had a lot more mean ones lined up... but she didn't like being made fun of by him either. And he was better at it. And she didn't really... well, not really, want to torture him. She always wanted to torture people she loved... just a little. But she knew they probably wouldn't like it very much. So they'd just have to find other creatures to torture, that was all.
"But that is hardly the point! I've found a big suprise today." She told him, giggling under her breath, "Because I'm big now... I've found something we couldn't catch before." She held out her paw to him, "Come on! I want to show you, and teasing is just no fun at all!"
Well, that was a lie. Teasing was half the fun. But he knew what she was getting at anyway. Her father had been showing her some new tricks of the trade... it had made catching her latest little treat much easier. She had taken it completely by suprise, poor thing. It was more than twice Doto's size. She never could have caught it, even a few months before.
"Come on now sideburns! Use your stumpy little legs and keep up!" Okay, she couldn't resist one more short joke... But she would stop after that one!
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:44 pm
Doto hated that she was older than him. But when they were adults it wouldn't matter. He squinted at her, allowing her the ONE joke, but swearing to himself that it would be the only one. No more freebies. After all, he wasn't defenseless, and he would take no prisoners if he had to defend himself. He enjoyed a good verbal sparring match, anyway. He was relieved, though, when she changed the subject.
He tilted his head. What had she caught? He grinned, unable to feign disinterest. Though with others he was quite capable of being disconcertingly impassive and aloof he found himself at the mercy of his instincts around Giza. He couldn't fake very well around her, mostly because he knew he didn't have to. And because he knew she would just catch him if he tried. So he had long since given up on it.
"Well, take me to it, then!"
Oh. That was it. He would show her 'stumpy little legs'. He followed after her with a growl, biting at her feet as he fell into step beside her. He wasn't trying to just n** her. If he caught her toes, he'd chomp them. That'd teach her, for sure. But she managed to allude him.
At least for now.
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:58 pm
Giza grinned, pulling her toes out of reach. "Come on now! Don't be naughty, or I won't give you your present." She told him, sounding very matronly, for about ten seconds before she gave into her excitment. She was proud over her catch for one thing... and she could hardly wait for Doto to see it! The look on his face would be priceless... well, maybe if she had caught a lion or a real predator, it would have been better. But this was pretty damn close. She'd have to wait until she was an adult to catch a really big lion... something that they could really take their time with.
She grinned, walking for a few minutes before she arrived outside a small alcove of trees. She stopped aburptly outside of it, and held out her paws wide, "NOW! Watch and be amazed my friend, because this is no small rabbit or old gazelle I've found for us! This is a real treat. The best kind of treat!" She was so excited. Giza just had to build it up... she had to make this good, or it would be no fun at all!
Well, she had been having a great time anyway... but it had to be a big one or else-
...then the small alcove of trees squealed. Loudly.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 1:11 pm
Doto growled and shook his head. He would get her back. He told her. One joke. She was pushing it, but he was having fun despite himself. He knew she wouldn't take it too personally, what ever he did, and that they could get away with being a bit more rough on each other. They were friends, after all, and they were both predators... as well as distinctly individual fans of violence and pain.
He watched her as they near the alcove, tilting his head and looking bored. He knew it was going to be something interesting, though he was not yet decided if it was going to be good or bad. Something he'd like or something he'd be mad about. Either way, he liked that she seemed so proud of herself.
"So what is it, already," he said, rolling his eyes and shaking his head. He was getting a bit impatient, and excited. He couldn't help it. She was making it sound like something amazing. But he kept himself looking impassive, to the best of his ability, only his eyes grinning.
He looked up at the sound.
"What is it?!" He said, feet wide apart, tail high. He really wanted to know, looking at her in excitement.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:06 pm
Giza smiled. She wouldn't take it too seriously when Doto got her back... after all, he was her friend. Besides... she would be bigger than him for a while yet. She didn't have anything to worry about for now. And besides, maybe her preasent would make up for the little jokes. She liked to think that it would.
"Have you ever heard the expression 'squeal like a pig'? It turns out..." She grinned, her grin that said she was getting ready to maim something for life. "...that expression is a really good descriptive one. But I just had to check and find out." She pulled down some of the shrubs around the alcove, revealing a simply HUGE male tusked wild boar.
How she had managed to tie it up with vines was something she would never reveal... but it had taken her around five hours. First finding it. Losing it. Finding it again. Chasing it around, pinning it, trying not to get goared on a tusk, and then managing to tie it up. It had been so hard that she had almost given up. But then again, she had always been very goal-oriented. And she wanted bragging rights for life, quite frankly.
"I just like to look at him..." She mentioned, tilting her head and grinning.
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 10:12 pm
Doto's jaw dropped a bit, and he looked at Giza like he was expecting some sort of trick to unfold. Some random lion, maybe one of his own siblings, jumping out of colored grass that looked suspiciously like a wild boar and saying 'haha, got you, you idiot!'. Or something. He couldn't really believe it, even though he was staring at it, and it took him a moment before his grin appeared.
"That," Doto said, punctuating his sentence pointedly, "is the coolest thing I've ever seen."
He tilted his head in the opposite way of hers. His head might have bumped hers, if he was a bit bigger. He noticed and straightened up, trying not to bristle. Focus on the awesome in front of him.
"That is the coolest!" He repeated, bouncing to his feet and taking a few steps closer. His red eyes focused on the creature, flashing sinisterly as he looked back at Giza. He was serious, a dark expression making his grin that much more potent.
"It's great to look at," he concurred, purring, "but I think it might be even more fun to play with."
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:30 pm
Giza laughed, purely giddy as she watched her only friend admire her work. That had been the expression she had wanted. Something that would really brighten her usually stoic young friend's face. Now he looked positively glowing at her gift to him. "I know, right? I thought you'd like it." And if he hadn't, she seriously would have considered killing him after all the work it had taken to get the damn thing.
"I didn't know they could get so big... but this one was the best I could find." She mentioned, watching Doto tilt his head. She beamed. This was so much better than making fun of his height!
The boar twisted and squaled in it's bonds, trying to get away. But Giza had made sure -totally sure- that she had it safely secured. She didn't want Doto, or herself, getting hurt now that she had it. Giza had never really gotten the whole 'thrill of the hunt' thing. She liked her meat much better trapped, so she could shoot it like a fish in a barrel. Whatever that meant. She had heard her father say that once or twice...
"Oh, I sure hope it will be more fun to play with..." She grinned, walking forward and purring loudly, "because that's what I got it for. Not just for show, you know what I mean Doto?" She grinned.
She glanced around, then spotted what she was looking for. A long sharp branch she had broken off a tree. She rolled it towards Doto and smiled, "And I'm feeling so very generous... I'll even let you take the first swing at it."
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Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:36 pm
"This thing is huge. Monstrous. I think you picked a winner here, I really do. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen!"
Doto was not the kind of guy who gave out compliments for fun. He did not enjoy speaking for the sake of hearing himself, and often kept his thoughts to himself because he didn't care to know what others thought about it. The less conversation he encouraged, the better. But he was truly impressed with this capture, and he was excited.
He also knew Giza deserved to hear every word of praise he could give her. She was really the only person he knew that did.
"Oh, I know what you mean," he said, growling in anticipation. He looked at the boar with his cold, red eyes and contemplated all the things they could do to it. He wanted to see how much skin he could peel off before it broke or tore. But he would let Giza decide what they did first.
He looked at her when she said 'swing' and blinked, then looked down at the stick. Grinning, he picked it up in his teeth and moved closer to the boar, looking up at it and judging how hard he could swing the branch in his mouth. He wondered if the big thing would even feel it. He whapped it against the boar's skin as hard as he could, even lifting himself to his back paws to do it. He put his whole body into it, and the boar made such a terrible noise it hurt the young lion's ears, shaking the trees.
"HA!" He exulted triumphantly, dropping the stick.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:24 pm
Giza grinned and laughed happily, clapping her paws together as she watched Doto take a swing at the boar. She had to enjoy this, because she didn't know if she would ever be able to get this kind of reaction out of her friend ever again. He was usually so quiet and reserved... her opposite, but at the same time, the same way she was. She wanted to do something that would make him excited... what would have been, for her, making the usually talkative lioness speechless. But this was just what she had wanted.
She giggled when he hit it and made it squeal, leaning over Doto's shoulder and whispering, "Fun, isn't it? I can see why you like to watch though. It's just as much fun as doing it." Well... maybe not, but just this once, his expressions were pretty priceless. It made her giddy. Or... giddier than usual. And she always needed to get in a good mood lately. Her father never really stopped being serious... not since her brother left...
"Try poking it again. It's really sharp..." Giza mentioned, poking the stick with her nose and looking up, "But make sure you don't get too close... I thought about pulling off it's tusks, but I thought that might take some of the fun out of it. Don't you?" She asked, tilting her head to the side.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:34 pm
Doto turned his head in her direction as she spoke, grinning at her low tone and closeness. He nodded. Watching was something he had grown so used to doing. It pleased him, taking note of the pain in others, and knowing what caused it. He always thought he liked that as much as actually causing the pain himself, because without watching first how would he ever know just the right pain to cause? But that wasn't entirely true.
He couldn't help but take a deep thrill at causing pain, with absolutely no idea if it would work. To just plunge in and discover for himself what was the most torturous thing he could do to a creature. It made him love hanging out with Giza even more, because she understood all of this as well.
"No, you were right to leave the tusks. It's more enticing, knowing it might escape and gore one of us to death. Or close to it. Danger makes everything more delicious," he said darkly, every syllable a growl. He picked up the stick again and jabbed it into the boar's flesh, ducking low and backing up just in case as the boar squealed and writhed. He grinned, his teeth sinking into the branch.
"Here," he said, word muffled by the stick he was now offering to her, "your turn. See iph you can make somephing good fall out."
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:02 pm
Giza laughed and grinned, "Piggy in a trap... waiting for something fun and yummy to drop out of it." She mentioned thoughtfully, taking the stick and keeping out of reach from the boar's tusks. She was glad she had left them in... and also had been too tired to make the attempt. Maybe she would try and take them off later... test and see if you could rip one off with your bare paws. Now that would be something impressive! Maybe she would bring it back and show her father. She was sure he would be impressed with what she had done...
Giza smiled and drove the stick him, ducking under the boar as it flailed and tried to gore her. But she was faster, and it was still caught in her trap. She shoved upwards, jabbing it and making it bleed. She wasn't sure she would be able to get up far enough to knock something out though... but at least she was getting all the right reaction too it.
"Only way to a man's heart Doto..." She grinned, stepping back, simply buzzing with pleasure, "Is to shove a long stick up into his ribs. Don't you think?" She simply purred with happiness, looking at the blood on the end of the stick.
She needed a shiv... like the stone object her father carried around and had been tecahing her to use. Now that was good for cutting into things. Perfect really...
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:26 pm
Doto watched her, then watched the boar. He was almost cheering for it, in a way, because he wanted to see what Giza could really do. He hadn't seen her catch it, after all, but he knew she was capable. He believed her. Still, it was thrilling to see her moving now, in some kind of danger, and skirting it effortlessly. The watchful lion absorbed it all, his red eyes following her without blinking, taking note of every slight twitch of her muscles, as well as keeping track of the movement of the boar.
The noises it made only made him grin wider, teeth bared.
"I think that is exactly the right sentiment, Giza," Doto said, laughing at her. He thought the sound was strange. He didn't laugh too much. It was a growl of a sound, not high pitched or wild. Level. Controlled. Doto.
"When it's tired of bleeding, I want to see if we can get some of that skin off without ruining it. Might make interesting decorations. I've heard about lions who wear hides of the animals they kill. I don't see anything wrong with wearing the hide of animal that's still alive."
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:27 am
Giza grinned, dancing around the flailing boar until she stood in front of it, watching it flail forward and try to impale her on it's sharp tusk. She ran forward, her paws -and claws- resting right beside it's tusks, which she watched thoughtfully, as the beast flung it's head around, trying to throw her off. She jumped back a little, grinning. Those tusks would make excellent shivs... maybe not as good as the sharp rock her father used... but they would do...
"Oh..." She mentioned, looking back at Doto, grinning, "I can see it now... it's big, there should be enough for both of us... a little pelt for you and me to wear, to show what damage we can do to a creature... and still leave it alive..." She grinned wildly, more and more caught up with the idea. She could show her father. Show that she was his best and most powerful daughter... better than her kidnapped brother... better than her sisters could ever be... She would do him proud.
"I think we'll each keep one of it's tusks to show off... and wear it's skin for fun, to show our strength to some of the adults who aren't smart enough, or strong enough to catch a boar on their own..." Giza grinned, walking around the boar again, very much a predator, "Far beyond all hopes and expectations..."
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