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 Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:46 pm
Mkinaifu sat in a little field, not too far from the beach. The beach grass seemed to sway in perfect harmony with the crashing waves nearby, and the scent of seawater was heavy here. Fu was lost in thought, however... About his siblings, about the world, and about the constant quiet murmurs he heard from all around. What was all of this... this world. And why did it have so many lions in it? Why did the world need heroes to protect others? And why did his mother push so hard to try to get him to hang out with people outside of his family?
If Fu had it his way, he'd avoid them entirely, but something in him sought the approval from his parents, and to get it, he needed to interact with others. Yet here he was, on his own again, doing exactly what his mother told him not to do. He would enjoy it for another moment or two, though.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:56 pm
 She's been sniffing around for a while now, Noomi had. Her father had brought them to a new pride and told them that it would be their new home and so, to get a better feel for this new home, the little cub decided it best if she explored out on her own. She was young and already rather independent anyway, and her father said it was fine so long as she didn't wander out too far away, and so here she was. The sound of the crashing waves and the smell of salty water had caught her attention, ultimately leading her to the beach. The pale cub took a seat, eyes squinting out into the distance to see if there was anything she could do here.
Aha! There was someone else here, she saw. Omi smiled and sauntered over, a little excited to meet someone new. "Hiya!" she called from a bit of a distance. She closed it quickly though, and plopped down happily beside.. whoever it was. "What'cha doin' here all by yerself?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:05 pm
Fu's ear twitched backward quickly at the sound of a voice- he must not have heard her because of the waves. His whole head followed until he was staring right at her; a little tan cub sauntered out from the grass. Considering how far in they were, chances were good that she wasn't a rogue, but she was a little bigger than him, a bit of an age difference, presumably. Buuut... That mark on her eye, that was a little freaky. He stared at it, half expecting the dragon there to start squirming around, but much to his contentment it didn't.
His ears folded down flat to his skull and he took a big gulp before mustering up the nerve to speak or move. "Uhm, hi," he said timidly. "I was... Well, I don't know what I was doing. Just thinking, I guess?" he offered as if there was a right and wrong answer. He wanted to get up and go somewhere further away to continue to be by himself, but... Well, no. He had told himself that after a little bit more pondering, he would go try to make a friend or something- something he could proudly report back to his parents! And here the opportunity was presented to him, he didn't need to go looking.
"What are you doing here all by yourself?" he asked back at her. "You... You are by yourself, right?" He asked, looking around behind her and to his sides to ensure there wasn't going to be an ambush.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:29 pm
The little cub giggled at his initial reaction to her suddenly showing up. He seemed to get caught up with her little serpent, and her smiled widened. She loved it when people noticed. "Unless I was followed I guess I am alone, yeah," she replied, then shrugged. "Just wandering around I guess. My daddy says not to go too far, but wandering's okay with him."
Thinking? Did anyone ever really just.. sit and think? Well that's kinda boring right? She didn't say anything, but she made a little face when he said it. Kind of surprised, kind of.. weirded out? "Well..." she started, unsure what to ask him since he was doing something that sounded like it was a really private, personal thing. "Then what were ya thinking about?"
Oh well. She found someone to talk to, and he was nice enough albeit a little shy, so she wouldn't pass up the chance to possibly make a friend. Omi grinned at the thought, then turned toward the ocean, her tail curling around her where she sat. "That's.. big water." The cub paused and thought about it a little more, then corrected herself. "Huuuuuge water!" she laughed and looked back at the other, not really sure where their conversation was at that point. She got caught up in her own thoughts; it happened a lot with her.
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:47 pm
Ah, so she came with a father. But he wasn't here with her immediately. That made sense. He supposed he came with a father too, he wasn't too awful far from here. And he was relieved to hear that she was alone, though he didn't truly trust it. He kept his ears peeled, trying to detect some additional cub.
"I was wandering too, then I got here. Well, I don't guess it was really wandering- it was kind of more like... Trying to find the beach, but not knowing how to get there," he said, tearing his stare off of her face and turning it to the water. "It's easy to find, though, if you follow your nose," he said, giving his own nose a wrinkle as he mentioned it.
"Ah, I was thinking about these voices. You hear them too, right?" He said, turning back to her. "Uh... The muses, I'm just trying to think of how to ever straighten them out... Or even understand them. It's all such a muddled confusing murmur," he said, hearing them even as he spoke. It was always a low murmur, but it was a murmur nonetheless. "And about the world," he said quietly, hoping that that wouldn't become a topic of conversation. The latter was a deeper, more complex topic for the boy, so he decided to leave it at that. It would be difficult to put his thoughts into words anyway, at this point.
He was slowly de-tensing, though not entirely. He very rarely did. He still paid close attention to the girl before him. "It's the biggest I've ever seen, and the smelliest," he said with a nod. "I..." distracted by the voices, flaring up for a moment before going back down to their normal muttering. "It is. Have you ever been in it?" he asked. He himself had obviously seen it before, but he'd never had the boldness to go try it out. He didn't really want to with this girl, though... She hadn't earned his trust. She could well push him in deeper than he wanted. He would maybe... Maybe go stand and let the waves wash over his paws. Now that he thought about it, he kinda wished the topic hadn't come up, and he hoped that she wouldn't try to get him to go far in.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:47 am
Yeah, that was pretty much how she wound up there as well. Omi grinned at that, a little amused that they found it the same way. Granted they were doing very different things - him thinking, her wandering - now that they were there. His question caught her attention though, and she narrowed her eyes in confusion. "Voices?" she asked, utterly clueless. She never heard voices. Thankfully. She'd be scared out of her wits if she did, she was sure of that. Omi was the sort to believe in the things she saw, meaning if she didn't see whatever it was that was talking to her she'd likely go crazy, either from fright or from being unable to confirm that someone was indeed talking to her.
"I don't hear any voice," she said, sounding rather relieved. She wrinkled her nose as he continued to try and explain what it was he had been thinking about before she interrupted him. It all sounded so.. confusing indeed. "Guess I got lucky?" she said once he was finished, though she really didn't know how that made him feel. He might have also added something after the 'muddled, confusing, murmur' bit, but she missed it.
Instead her focus went back to the ocean and how he described it. Big and smelly - got that right. The cub smiled widely and turned to face the large expanse of water, standing and walking a few steps toward it. "Big and smelly!" she repeated, laughing. "No, I haven't," she turned then, and replied with a small frown. "I wanna though, but I don't wanna get in trouble with my dad in case he says I can't go in."
She puffed out her lower lip at that and plopped down where she stood with a little huff. "Puu.." she sighed, looking over at the male. "Have you?" she asked, half hoping he'd say no so they'd be in the same boat. She.. really wanted to go in! But she probably couldn't until she got her dad's permission. Omi didn't like it when her dad scolded her. What cub enjoys getting an earful, after all?
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:31 pm
"You... You haven't heard the voices? I'm sorry," he said with a strange look on his face. For as long as the young lion could remember, he could hear the voices. He couldn't always make out what they had to say- in fact, it was rare that he could. Maybe at night he could understand them, when all was quiet, but certainly not normally. They rarely acknowledged him, it was like he was eavesdropping. Sometimes he thought it rude, but only when he paid attention to what was said- after all, how could overhearing a droning be considered eavesdropping?
Then he remembered what his mother said. Maybe they weren't talking to her because she was too young. Sure, he was pretty young too, but he could remember hearing them forever. "I'm sure they'll talk to you before too long... And... well, they're not mean, these voices." They weren't to him anyway, he supposed you could get a mean muse. Were there cruel muses? Certainly not here- the rule here was not to hurt anyone. He guessed that that didn't exclude the possibility of being picked on by a muse, though.
But what muse did that? He was confident that most muses, if not all, were nice.
He watched her turn her focus. "Oh, I've not been in there... It's hard to see what's in there, let alone smell what's in there," he said, giving the ocean the look one would give a dark unfamiliar forest filled with evil glowing eyes when given the choice between that and a safe field of grass and flowers. "Mom lets us if she's around, and we've been down here a few times, but I don't like to get too close to it," he said, turning back to the cub with a little shuffling of his front feet. Would she think him weird? She probably already did. He hoped that wouldn't lead her to do anything crazy to him.
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:58 am
The voices seemed interesting now that he brought them up. Omi was curious, but who wouldn't be? Still, the other didn't seem to keen on sharing his experiences with them and what they told him and all that, so after his apology she frowned just a tad, not entirely sure what exactly he was apologizing for, and simply shook her head. "You don't have to say you're sorry," she said, offering him a cheerful smile to get his spirits up a little. "If you're right about the voices we'll have more in common over time, right? Cheer up!" With that the cub nudged him a little, laughing lightly.
Her attention went back to the ocean then, squinting to see if she could see even further. It seemed interesting too, actually. Alluring even, if one was so inclined to stare long enough at it. The crashing waves, even the scent was rather pleasant to her. Of course her current company didn't seem to feel the same way. Everyone was entitled to their own opinion. "Howcome?" she asked him, wanting to know why he felt that way. "I think it's kinda nice. I bet it's even prettier at sunrise or sundown. But then..." and she paused and looked back at it, her eyes catching a collection of rather pointy rocks off to their far left. "Well, maybe having a grown-up around would be a good thing. Just in case, y'know?"
Even still, a cub's curiosity was oftentimes insatiable until they learned their lesson the hard way. Noomi was no different, and even making her last statement she could feel the tug of the unknown pulling her toward the tide. It wasn't a feeling she could shake, so with renewed energy she got up and starting moving toward it. "Hey, c'mon!" she called back to him. "I wanna get a little closer! Plea~se! We won't go in, I promise!!"
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:23 pm
Fu offered a tentative little smile in return. "Well, alright, if you say so. And yeah, that's the case, we should both hear them someday. Well, rather, you should, and I'll keep hearing them," he clarified, brow furrowing. "You'll like them when they talk to you, you'll never be lonely again," he said. He rather liked the muses, he couldn't wait until one claimed him. According to his parents, he would hear them, but he could stop talking to them and get some quiet time if he needed it. And still, they would always be there to bounce ideas off of. The ideal and perfect friend.
His eyes bugged out when she nudged him, but he calmed back down when nothing happened as a result beyond him swaying. He really hadn't expected that, and as far as the young lion was concerned, he wasn't on a touching basis with her- not when she could have easily done it to corral him into the water. Or to get that dragon to finally peel off of her eye and infect him.
Suspicious though he was, he let it go. Mkinaifu knew that if someone's going to get you, they're more likely to do so knowing that you're scared of them. He wished one of his siblings were here with him, but then he would probably leave her with them and have nothing good to report to his parents. He was stuck.
"Well, uh... If you go in there, all sorts of stuff could happen to you!" he said, almost as if he was pleading her not to go in. "You could get eaten by about a buhzillion things- like the earth. Who's to say there's not some form of really big hole in there? You could get taken out, you could be nibbled on by fish, you could get bitten by flies and have no way to get away if you were dragged out," he said, speech speeding up as he talked. His mind had run away with all of the different disasters that could befall one who went above their bellies into it. He'd seen his mother go in there, but she was out of her mind!
He managed to pull himself out of the catastrophies and continue, "But, from a distance it's nice, I don't mind it from here," he said, staring at it. "But yeah, a grown up would be good," he supposed that a grown-up could save them from being taken away by the waves, but he didn't want to put his trust into that.
He watched her approach it, slowly and then picking up speed, it seemed. "I, uh..." he gave it a quick thought. Would she try to push him in? Undoubtedly. He stood no chance, either, if he got pushed in. But, he guessed, he could get closer and stay far enough away that he'd have time to shriek before she could do anything too serious. "I guess I can," he said, trying to disguise his fear with a smile. His eyebrows hinted otherwise and he started to pad forward towards it. "But I'm not going in, I'll hang out on the sand, okay?" he asked, taking a few quick glances around to see if his parents were around. They weren't. But he was sure they would hear him if he needed them.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:25 am
She could tell he was nervous. Easily, actually, but reluctant as he was he still went along with her. Sort of.. kinda.. well not really, but he did get closer. That was something! Her smile widened as he kinda-sorta caved at her request and, despite all his warnings, the cub still approached the water with the intent of at least getting her paws wet. There was no way she'd jump right in, especially if her dad weren't around to save her if anything happened. From what the green cub said something would probably come out of the big water and eat her or something like that, and young as she was Omi was pretty sure she liked being alive so that was the last thing she wanted to happen.
The tan cub giggled as she felt the tide run over her paws. The water was cool, refreshing.. welcoming. She fought the urge to jump in though, the other cub's voice clear as day in the back of her mind. "Hey!!" she called back at him, realizing only then that she had yet to ask his name. "Um.. what exactly do I call you?" She wasn't sure he would hear her voice over the crashing waves, but hopefully he would.
And again without waiting for an answer Omi started splashing around, running a short distance back and forth. Frolicking, you could say, and though she was doing it alone it was a heck of a lot of fun. If she'd noticed that got caught in a riptide she probably wouldn't have been so carefree. Slowly but sure she was getting pulled further and further from the safety of the shore, but she was a little too busy having fun to notice that the water was gradually getting higher. Gradually, ever so gradually.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:34 pm
"Well, uh… My name's Mkinaifu, but most call me Fu for short," he called from the sanctuary of the shore, unsure of what to keep his gaze most focused on, the girl or the waves. The waves could always come up and bite at his toes, even if you were higher on the shore- you never knew. A huge wave could come out of nowhere! He did hope that the sea wouldn't claim him as his muse… But he supposed he should be happy for anything to take him.
Something strange was happening to her… Something very strange indeed! The sea, it was eating her! "Hey, HEY!" He called, more extreme panic starting to set in as he started to pace back and forth along the shoreline. "You should… You need to get out of there! Can you hear me?" he called, hoping she could hear him over the splashing. "You should get outta there, you shouldn't go in that deep…" While he didn't know her name, either, it was of little concern to him now that he noticed what was happening to her with the pull of the ocean. Whatever it was, it didn't look good- what would he do if she was getting pulled out? He wasn't even sure he could swim!
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:00 am
"Fu, huh?" she called back. "Well I'm Noomi, or Omi for short!" she introduced herself mid-frolick. She went on with her little playtime in the water for a bit longer until she heard a frantic calling from the shore. When the cub looked back she tilted her head somewhat, not really noticing that she'd gotten a bit farther than she was just minutes ago. Squinting her eyes, Omi could see that her new friend was pacing, and looked extremely worried about something or other. Sighing, she returned to shore with little difficulty and sauntered over to him, bits of sand sticking to her now wet fur.
"What?" she asked, as the waves had drowned out whatever he'd been saying earlier. "I couldn't really hear you.. did you say something about eating? Are you hungry?" Omi asked as she took a seat. "You should've said so earlier! I kind of am too.. wanna go find some food?"
Omi didn't even wait for him to answer. Clearly she was unfazed from her near-drowning experience, no doubt because she was oblvious to the whole situation, as she hurried back toward their jungle home. "C'mon!" Quickly the little cub scampered back into the thicket of tress and shrubbery, her apetite getting the better of her as she went on ahead of Fu.
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