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 Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:21 pm
Mkimya giggled lightly. She was far away from her mother for her not to hear. Gleaming golden eyes shone with mischief as she looked around.
The little escapade made her way away from home. She wouldn't be gone long enough for her mother to notice... She hoped. She took a hesitant step forward out of the high grass before stumbling out into the low grass where she could be seen.
It might be dangerous, but she didn't care. The Klipspringer was bent on having little adventures. She could always call out for her mother if she was in trouble. It never occured to her that her mother might not be able to get to her. She was too carefree for little 'what if's' and minor details like that.
The small fawn stared as a small bug started to float by. Curiously, she tried to catch it. Who knows what trouble she would get into by following a mere bug. Though being carefree lead her to not caring who she ran into.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:33 pm
Kukuru was on his daily stroll, and had left his usual home to go walking. Makuu was back with Chiboa and Imal, their parents, and Imal was sure more plump than usual. Wild dog pups, they were expecting.
Which was happy news! Kukuru didn't mind having some siblings to share Father and Mother with, as long as they were nice. Hey, maybe they'd even look more like himself... maybe they'd have hooves, rather than those soft paw thingies Mother and Father had.
Beaming, he looked to the sky. A big brother, huh? He'd be so proud for Imal when she gave birth. So proud. And he'd finally be an older brother!
Trotting forward, Kukuru noticed a faint scent. It was distant... quite familiar, actually. It smelt of memories... and a little...
Like... him.
He looked around, and spotted a butterfly fluttering past. Curious, he trotted towards it - and the scent.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:43 pm
Mkimya decided against standing on her back hooves as the bug went to high. "Awwww, I lost it!" the whined slightly. Something else would hold her attention soon though. She got disracted pretty easily.
She looked around for sometime to do. Alas, here comes another distraction. Something that looked like herself!
She started towards it. It couldn't be dangerous. It looked almost like her, but with horns. That, and he had different colors.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:49 pm
At once, Kukuru saw the young klipspringer, and almost fell backwards. Gosh, it was... it was...
Someone who looked just like he and his brother. Someone with hooves!
He looked closer, and gasped.
Wow, this was weird. She looked quite like his brother, Makuu. They held the same shade of grey on their pelts, although Makuu did not have the gorgeous purple markings on his own pelt. And then, there was that scent... they smelt quite alike, really, except for the wild-dog tang that was heavily scented on Kukuru.
But, as for natural scent... oh, it was weird. This girl... she was so familiar, and yet Kukuru had never seen her before. Blood had rushed to his ears, and he could hear the beating of his ear drums thundering away. He backed away for a moment, not knowing what to do, or what to say, but quickly decided on something that -could- work.
"Uh... hi?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:11 pm
"Hello!" Mkimya responded.
See? He wasn't dangerous at all! "You look like Mommy. Who're you? What's you're name?"
She paused for a second. She was a bit... hyper. "My name's Mkimya."
Blancun used a hoove to kick up some dust. His head had been hurting oddly lately. He kept hearing things. He sighed and looked around.
Blinking, he stared at two gray klipspringers. He could tell right away they were related some how. It was a sibing thing, a twin thing, or the creepy voice inside your head thing. He couldn't tell the difference anymore.
He curiously walked towards the two Klips curiously, hoping for a small chat to get his mind off of the voice.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:18 pm
Kukuru leant forward, looking into Mkimya's eyes. Gold. Hrrrmm... an unusual colour. Even if Mkimya did have her simularities to he and his brother, she had her differences, too.
"Well, you're a chirpy little thing, aren't you, Miss Mkimya?" Kukuru replied, his tail wagging slightly in a way similar to that of a wild dog, "I'm Kukuru. A wild dog, just like you. Except, you're the hoofed kind! It's rare to see someone like that around the place!"
He gave a really big, beaming smile, the way he usually did when he was happy. It was nice to meet someone like himself, and someone new.
Then, he heard crunching underfoot not so far off, and whirled around to see another, whiter hoofed wild dog. Kukuru gaped, and his mouth dropped a little in surprise.
"What is this, 'Hoofed Wild Dog Town' or something?"
Little did he know that he was near the place where he had grown up. The High Grass was just around the corner.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:34 pm
"Wild dog?" Mkimya asked. "What's that?" She blinked curiously at her brother, even if she didn't know that the gray klips was her older sibling.
"I've never seen a hoofed dog in my life..." Blancun said calmly.
"That, and we're pretty far from any towns or close by prides. It's neutral territory. Sort of," A black Klipsrpinger said with a light snicker.
Clandestin smirked lightly. Her dark red eyes gleamed.
"Where are all of you coming from?" Mkimya asked with a confused blink. I mean, three klipspringers with completly monotone colors popped outa no where!
Blanc gave a light laughed and waited to see if anyone else would answer first.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:47 pm
"We're wild dogs, aren't we?" Kukuru said, with a smile at the youngster. She was young, and so sweet. It seemed strange to Kukuru that the little one didn't know what her own kind were, but hey, she was a pup.
"I've never seen a hoofed dog in my life..." came the white klipspringer's calm reply, and Kukuru swiftly looked back and around, right into the white klip's eyes.
"Never seen a hoofed dog in your..." Kukuru, naive, raised an eyebrow, "Excuse me, but what does that make us?"
And then, another one. This time, it was a girl... taller than the little one, though, and lined with black fur and startling red eyes. Kukuru couldn't help but stare.
This was weird. Was he dreaming, or something? He was just a normal dog, after all, going out on a walk to escape the chaos of his family, to escape the preparations for the pups. And yet... he'd stumbled upon this place, and all these... these freaks, just like him, had come out at once.
"I... I don't know where you guys are all coming from," Kukuru backed away slightly, his hind legs moving backwards and his forelegs following, "But this... this is kind of freaky."
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:01 pm
"But I'm not a wild dog," Mkimya said. She sat on her rump and looked up at Kukuru. "Are you sure you're a dog thing, Mister?" The fawn used her hoof to push some dirt. She was slightly distracted again.
"That makes us Klipspringers." Blanun spoke up. He could tell the gray colored Klips was confused.
Clandestin took a light step foreward. "We come from places." She wasn't sure how to answer that completly.
"You shouldn't be afraid of it..." Blanc said seeing the gray Klips back away. "It's not that freaky, if you think about it...." Blanc glanced at his sister before stepping forward. Cladestin stepped back. Twin connections obviously.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:14 pm
Kukuru's heart beat faster. Klipspringers? No, it couldn't be... that went against all his teaching. Sure, in physical means he was different, but really... he wasn't just... prey!
Right?
Wow, he'd have some story to tell Makuu when he got home. In a way, Kukuru was slightly afraid... but then, in turn, he was relieved. He wasn't different. There were others, others who were like him.
He resolved that he was merely a wild dog trapped in the body of a preybeast. Or, that these creatures just didn't know what they were talking about. Yeah, yeah, that was it. They were just... wild dogs, driven insane by the fact that they were different, with hooves instead of paws. The poor things, they were delusional. Well, it wouldn't hurt to humour them, anyway.
"So that's why you smell like me, huh, little Mkimya?" he asked, bending down and pressing his nose against the little's ones own black one, "We have the same scent because we're... what was it again? Springklips?"
But then, the other two strangers didn't have that same scent. How very strange. How very, very strange indeed.
"Uh... I'm not... afraid, as such," he said back to Clandestin, "Just... eerrr, how to say it... surprised?"
He turned to Clandestin, not knowing exactly what to say to her.
"Places, huh?" he asked her, getting mesmorised by her crimson gaze, "What kind of places?"
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:36 pm
Blanc blinked. "You two don't know that you're related?" Blanc asked. Cladestin tilted her head as well. "I guess reletives that aren't around eachother often don't have a connection..." Cladestin said. "Or a weak one..." Blanc suggested to his sister.
"You mean I have a reletive besides Mommy and Pura...?" Mkimya asked. "How come Mommy never told us?" She paused and stood up to circle her brother. "You do look a lot like Mommy..."
Cladestin frowned lightly. She may be unusal, but she thought it was completly cruel not to tell a little one of their long lost reletives.
Blanc and Clandy completly ignored the other questions. The snow colored klips didn't mean to of couse. It's just that he was shocked that the two didn't know that they were related.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:00 pm
Kukuru stepped back. It felt as if a wasp had come and stung him on the nose, and only a white hot pain remained. However, it was not a wasp that had stung him, it was the realisation that this, indeed, could be his sister.
"A sister?" he laughed, shaking his head, "Impossible! Father and Mother haven't had any children since my brother and I," he paused, "There's no way that..."
But then, Mkimya... did look like Makuu, save for the purple markings. And... the scent, though it was distant, was there.
"It's... not true, is it?" he sized Mkimya up, his eyes wide with confusion and wonder at once, "I'm... I'm not a big brother yet. I mean... Chiboa and Imal never told me that they had another pup. Like you, I mean."
He paused.
"Your parents are Chiboa and Imal, right, Mkimya?"
He turned to the two twins, and gave them a stern look in the eye.
"Maybe we don't have a connection because we're not... connected, as such."
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:36 pm
"No, My Mommy is Chachili..." Mkimya said. She blinked and tilted her head lightly. "I don't know daddy..."
Blanc shook his head lightly. "No, I'm certain you two are realted," He said. He started to believe the voices were telling him as such, but he didn't want to say anything to his sister.
"Maybe your mother left you and your brother when you were both fawns," Clandestin said boredly. She really didn't care.
The reason you two have a weak connection, I think, is that you don't know eachother well..." Blanc stated calmly. He tried to 'calm' the grey klips down.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:57 pm
"Cha...Chachili..."
Kukuru knew the word. It was such a distant word, one that he was sure he'd never heard before, but it was so... so... familiar. He felt he knew it. He felt it.
No memories came back to him, though. It was just a blank slate, with a name, 'Chachili', scrawled in thick black letters across it. And the image of this girl, claiming to be his sister.
"Mkimya," he lay his head on the top of hers, taking in her warm scent fondly, "I'm not sure if we are brother and sister, but for now... I don't understand it all, but-"
There was a kind of warmth there, with his sister. A bond, although, in Blancun's words, the connection was weak. Makuu and Kukuru shared a connection, but he had yet to hear of one between Mkimya and himself.
Then, a sentence sliced through the bond, like a knife through butter.
"Maybe your mother left you and your brother when you were both fawns."
That hurt. Sensitive, Kukuru sent a glare Clandestin's way, and then looked to Mkimya. If she were his sister... if it were true...
No. No.
Jealousy filled his body. He'd need to talk with his brother about this, as soon as possible. This was all too much for today. All too much.
"Y...you're saying that she... abandoned us??"
No. Imal and Chiboa were Kukuru's parents. The hell with this 'Chachili' person.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:25 pm
Mkimya blinked. She didn't understand so much, but she felt something towrds the grey colored klipspringer when he touched her head. A sort of bond.
Blanc shook his head. His sister could be so cruel sometimes. Cladestin though, just glared back at Kukuru. "That's exactly what I'm saying," She said hotly.
Mkimya blinked up. "Mommy wouldn't abandon anyone, would she?" the young fawn asked. "I mean... there had to be a reason... if she did... "
Mkimya was so innocent. So innocent that it almost hurt.
Blanc stayed silent though this. He didn't know what he could do to help. He hated that feeling. Helplessness. It aggrivated him. Despite; he remained calm looking. He'd rather not have others react in harmful ways or anything.
Mkimya had paused. "...Right?" she asked innocently. Her mother was her life. Sure she left every now and then, but she wouldn't leave her mother, and her mother wouldn't leave her... right?
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