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Prinny had insisted on walking the borders. He was half looking for some sort of affirmation that he should stay. Something more than a prophecy from a lion he didn't know from another lion. The prophetic words of the male lion had kept him clinging to this land, just in case. They had kept him close to Ezem too. Well that was part of it. The other part was that he did just like her. She was nice,s he was pretty and she was willing to take him from a to b and back again. He had learned the lands of the Kizingo'zaa well, and thanks to her, he was tempted to stay.

Looking backwards he smiled at the bright pink lioness tossing his small mane from his gentle eyes. "Come on, I'm winning this race." He grins.

Ezem pads up behind him and nudges his hind quarters with her nose. "I didn't know we were racing Prinny." The bright pink, bone marked femme rolls her eyes. He was so silly sometimes. "If it's a race you want though." She grins and bounds off in front of him without a moments notice. He could chase after her if he wanted to, if he wanted to race she was perfectly willing to race.

"Hey, no fair, you got a head start!" he chuckles bounding after the lioness with his tail in the air.

As was a typical daily activity for Raiden, he was looking for something to do or someone to play with. Also, he was in the body of something small and inconspicuous, to be sure he'd spot a possible target before they spotted him. So here he was flitting about, fluttering and just being overall bird-like. He could hardly believe his luck when he spotted the pair on the borders of the Kizingo'zaa lands.

After he had been flying after them for a bit, the pink female suddenly rushed ahead. And then inspiration struck. In the form of a bird, Raiden could quickly overtake the blue leopon in the back and catch up to the pink lioness in front. He didn't mind if the blue male saw the transformation, Raiden just wanted some confusion! In moments, Raiden had changed his body again, from a black bird to... well, a blue-and-white leopon, rather identical to the one currently chasing the lioness. Only he, of course, had no means to add on the items, that was too much even for a god. So, now he was inbetween the happy couple, and he looked just like the male! how fun! The god sped up the last few paces he needed to catch up to the pink female, and prodded at her hindquarters with his nose.

"Tag!" He just loved playing with mortals!

The lioness giggles happily, she hadn't even noticed the god, she hadn't noticed him changing his form or even him over taking her leopon friend,s he certainly didn't expect to hear the word 'tag' as her butt was touched. "I thought we were racing silly." She looks back at the male who, most certainly wasn't prinny and laughs. "We were racing, who are you?" She raises a brow curiously, she was feeling confused, where had he come from?

"Wha..the…" Prinny skidded after the odd male. He was sure that his eyes must have been playing tricks on him. "Hey..hey.." he blinks owlishly skidding around in front of Ezem. "Dood, how did you do that dood?" He blinks owlishly, what had he just seen? "I think I'm goin mad Ezem, I'm sure..hum..I dunno." He opens his mouth to air his problem with the current scene but couldn't quite find the words to express his current feelings.

Ezem snorts and shakes her head "I think Prinny is wondering where you came from. You appeared from no where!" She smiles a sweetly dazzling smile at the disguised god. "I don't think I have ever seen him speechless." She giggles.

Raiden frowned as he skidded to a halt. “What? No romantic game of tag? How disappointing!” He sighed, so he hadn’t been watching them well enough. Ah well, didn’t mean he could still have some fun. “Who am I?” He asked airily, walking away from the female towards the male. “No one important. Hey, who do you think is more handsome? Me, or him?” The god asked as he stood by the real leopon, giving the pink female his best charming smirk.

“I suppose you see something new every day.” He glanced to the side at the leopon. Humh. Probably hd never seen a god working some magic before. Mortals!

She flushes a little and smiles at Prinny "No, just a little race to the borders." She smiles. The bright pink lioness sits with a flump and chuckles. "I dunno. You're both pretty handsome. Really though, whats your name? I'm Ezem and thats Prinny." She smiles a gentle smile at Prinny and winks at him. She did like Prinny a lot he looked after her, in a way and she looked after him, showed him the ropes.

Prinny opened his mouth and closed it once again letting a gulp flow over his lips. "You're not like me." He frowns a little. "Never mind who. What the heck are you?" He asks quite nervously, he had never seen anything quite so weird, he felt rattled but his curious side was coming out of him as he realised that this, what ever it was, wanted to play instead of hurt them.

"Oh Prinny he's one of you silly a lion, leopard, thing." She giggles "He's like your mirror image nearly!"

“My name?” He waited until after her introductions to give his own, so he could figure out a new name for himself. He didn’t quite want to let them know his name was Raiden, at least not yet. “It’s Grinny. Nice to meet you.” He didn’t even try to make it look like he hadn’t just made that up. Didn’t matter anyways.

To Prinny, he merely shrugged. “What she said.” Lion, leopard, thing it was, then. Worked, he didn’t feel like answering anything too directly today. “Or I could be something else, I guess. What do you think?”

Ezem chuckles happily. This guy was crazy. She wondered if there was a little residual madness floating about here on the borders? He seemed a little crazy. "Grinny? Well if you say so, it certainly suits you." She eyes Prinny curiously, he looked shell shocked and she wondered why.

The leopon frowns for a moment, he licks his lips. Ezem had told him about the pride before the madness had lifted. Perhaps his eyes were playing tricks on him. "I must have seen a bird before you..appeared…" He trails off frowning. "I guess you're a leopon, like me." He frowns at the other male, his tail flickering, he was feeling suspicious, there was something weird about this male, something he was determined to find out.

Ezem giggles "Hey, weren't we racing? You two look like a pair of statues. lets go!" She bounces off suddenly without waiting for the boys to take off.

Raiden attempted to portray innocence as Prinny regarded him, but, then again, it’s not like he was trying too hard. “It appears to be so.” He agreed, nodding. Yep, just a leopon that happens to look just like another unrelated leopon, sans items. The sort of thing you see every day.

When Ezem bolted, Raiden decided to enjoy this a bit more. Prinny had seen him transforming, while Ezem seemed to assume this was a funny coincidence. Might as well mess with the leopon a bit more. He’d probably feel tired at the end of the day with all this shape shifting… Huh, maybe he shouldn’t go through extreme lion-to-bird-to-lion transformations. Lets stick with things of more similar sizes. He bounded after Ezem, making sure to stay between her and Prinny, so he could transform once again, this time into a duplicate of the lioness, so he could turn his head and smile back at the leopon.

Truth be told, Raiden would rather avoid taking the body of a female, even though he had been one in at least one past life.  So he quickly shifted back into a duplicate of the hybrid once again, because at least he was a male. Besides, he didn’t want Ezem to see him transforming just yet! “So where’ the finish line?” He called out to her, casually.

Racing ahead the bright pink femalegiggles happily, her paws tearing up the ground "To the big tree of course!" She points her nose tot he large baobab tree ahead of them. It sat just over the border of the Kizingo'zaa and was the furthest she had ever been from home. It was a good place to race to.

"Hey stop that!" Prinny shouts as he chased after the two. Seeing double Ezem made him very angry. For a moment he didn't know which was the real one, they seemed to meld for a moment and he was gal when the male became him again. "What the heck are you dood?" he growls trying to speed up and catch the weird male. He wanted to stop him from touching Ezem again. The shape shifter was confusing him and trying to work out just what he was was starting to hurt his brain.

“Sounds good!” He replied to Ezem, and just let his body fall into the motions of running as he pondered whether or not he intended to win the race, or, if he wanted to win, how he wanted to win. He supposed he could let the cat out of the bag and just pop up magically already at the tree, but… You know, come to think of it, it might be fun if Ezem never found out he could shapeshift. Just keep this little secret between him and Prinny.

“I thought we already had that covered!” Raiden called back to Prinny, making his best confused voice. He had slacked off on his running a bit, while Prinny was speeding up, so inevitably the true leopon was catching up. But Raiden was okay with that.  As Prinny started to get closer to his tail, Raiden changed it into a large lizard-like tail, to wag it and hopefully thwap the leopon’s nose before changing it back to normal.

Soon enough they’d be reaching the tree, at which point he figured he would say his goodbyes. Which may be for the best, Raiden had been doing a lot of changing in a small amount of time. He could use a little nap.

Prinny growls snapping at the lizardy tail as it switched back and slipped from his grasp. This guy was really annoying him. He just hoped that this strange creature had no intention of hurting them. He had no idea if he could protect Ezem against this thing.

Ezem giggles racing up to the tree and pulling to a skidding stop. "I win, I win!" She turns around in time to smile at the two leopons. She sits and huffs before flumping to the ground and crossing her paws over one another. She was ready for a little nap now. All that racing was gun but tiring in the heat of the day.

Prinny pads up to Ezem and sits firmly beside her. "We're going to have a little nap here. perhaps you should go home." He snorts glaring at the weird confusing male. His nose was smarting and he really needed to get rid of this strange male so he could have a short rest and let his mind decide what it was they had run in to.

Raiden slowed to a stop as Ezem reached the tree, laughing his best I-lost-but-I’m-a-good-sport-laugh. He soon enough turned to look at Prinny as the leopon passed him, and also offered him an innocent smile. Why, Mr. Prinny, I’m starting to get the impression that you don’t like me. He only nodded as the leopon suggested he leave. Normally, the god didn’t like being told when to leave, he felt It should be up to him, not any pushy mortal. But liked that he was finishing this was a probably good impression on Ezem, while a bad one on Prinny.

“Alrighty then, I will be on my way.” He nodded with a smile. “It was a pleasure meeting the both of you. We should do this again sometime!” He doubted Prinny would like that. “I’ll be on my way, then.” And with that, he turned and started walking away. Once at a distance, standing near a bush, he glanced back and waited until it seemed like only Prinny was looking. Raiden shifted briefly into his natural form, wings, horns and all, then vanished.