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 Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:52 pm
((OOC: For anyone that wants to join after Pach and I: Please contact one of us via AIM first and set up a posting order; We would love the company but don't want things getting confusing!))
The humidity in the air caused her mane to lay flat and tail seem to sag with the weight, no matter how high she tried to lift it. That didn't seem to bother her, for Izulu still ran about the interior of the pridal lands as if she'd a fire under her butt. She'd been there, and acting this way, so long that few seemed to pay her any mind save the insects she was playing with. Snapping a few times at the butterflys as they passed by, she laughed and barked, content in her time spent among the 'family' she still barely knew. The Paki had not been about in a long time, and The Nitesh she could smell but rarely find.
To anyone else it might have seemed logical to conclude that they were avoiding her, but the thought never crossed Izulu's mind. Rather, she thought that perhaps they were playing hide and go see. Or they were sleeping; OR they'd learned how to fly and were---
Izulu, as well as her thoughts, skid to a halt and she stood affronted for a long time. THEY HAD LEARNED TO FLY AND SHE HADN'T?! How ... how rude! The Hyena gave an indignant little bark, stomping her back left foot as she straightened up and marched away from the spot she'd been standing for no apparant reason. The butterflies and dragonflys looked at one another in confusion, shrugged, and flew away.
Now devoid of her usual companions, Izulu marched her way across the valley to the waterhole and flopped down in the scraggly grass on its shore. "Rude, rude rude," She muttered to herself with a faint whine and thumped her tail once upon the soil. A beetle made an undefinable noise at her and so she licked it, sending the startled bug rolling over itself and into the shallows of the water. Izulu's face scrunched up at the taste and she lapped at air for a moment. "EEeewwwwwwww...."
Focusing on the little bug on its back, she poked her nose at the flailing legs. "You don't taste good, Mr. Thinger. Why not? Do you not want to get eatenamig?" It didn't respond, but Izulu tipped her head with her ears flopping in and out of attention as she watched it struggling. One of the legs poked her in the nostril and she giggled before she gave a great sneeze and blew the bug upright again. "That wasn't every nice Mr. Thinger!"
Once more the hyna pouted, never realizing what a strange sight and sound she made almost grown and acting this way. But, it was her, it seemed, and she lifted her neck away from the bug as she let it leave. "I'll bet the Ivy King will get you!" She taunted it.
It was then that a horrible, sinking feeling it her stomache, causing a chill despite the heat of the day. "Oh nooooo!" What if The Nitesh and The Paki had not learned to fly and gone playing in the clouds and wind and sun?! What if they had.... BEEN EATEN BY THE IVY KING?!?!"
Eyes grown wide, the Hyena tipped her head back and let out a mournful howl--regardless of wether or not Hyenas were supposed to make that noise. ... or lions, for that matter.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:07 pm
"Gerrof me.." he grumbled, opening one light-colored eye to look at the fleeing arthropod. After several rounds with the bug, he finally forced himself to his feet to stumble after it, his body not quite 'coordinated' following his sudden rise.. but that was alright with him.
Leaning down against the ground which bore -some- resemblance to his own coat in color, he watched his prey for a moment, before pouncing at the insect, snickering to himself when he landed with it under his paws, though he took care not to crush it, before moving his paws and letting it fly away.
He was mesmerized with it for a few moments, before an unfamiliar noise filled the air, causing him to flatten his ears back against his head and grumble a bit. It was too early for strange noises that needed investigating.
But it seemed as though that would be the case as was.
So the brown male was off, going to investigate the area to see if there was some strange animal out in the area (Izulus didn't count as 'strange animals' in his book..) with a bit of a half-effort.
However, when he saw the rather disheartened looking Hyena, who was still not a Hyena in his mind, but a rather... interesting Lion, he sat, tilting his head to the side a bit, to watch what she was doing, if only for his own amusement.
Not that he was being amused at her expense.
".. Well, this is an interesting sight. What's with that expression? You look like your arch nemesis has just come out of nowhere and eaten up one of your best friends or something."
Oh, how he didn't know the irony of that statement. Silly silly little Nitesh.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:26 pm
As her howl of grief, anguish and hate lapsed into silence a sound she'd not thought to hear caught her ears. Jumping to her feet, Izulu whirled to find what seemed to be a Nitesh behind her, looking somewhat bemused at her antics. That was unusual! Normally the brown lion thought her frightening or weird, but not amusing. His words only confirmed what she knew and the poor, frightened Hyena-turned-lion gave another, smaller howl of grief.
"YOU HAVE EATENEMUP MY NITESH-THINGIE!" She cried woefully, a touch of hatred mixing in an interesting fashion with her obvious anguish. After a few sniffles of her extraordinarily wet nose--even for a dog-- the Izulu launced herself at the larger creature that was her claimed and chewed upon 'best friend' (ignoring the fact that they'd only spoken once, it was still more or the same as the only other persons she'd spoken to in the pride) and leapt towards his back.
"REVENGE!!" She howled, the lightning bolt marking her fur suddenly a rather large hint towards her nature in general.
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:31 pm
He almost lept to his feet upon realizing the hyena was going to attack him, but instead held one brown paw out in front of him, in an aim to use it to keep her from charging (in the cliche cartoon-y manner, none-the-less..).
"I'm sorry, but self-cannibalism just -isn't- appealing to me, dearie." The brown adolescent stated, giving her a bit of a stare, though amused, overall, but the scenerio. "I mean, if I wasn't as big as myself, I'm sure I could have swallowed the Nitesh-not-Paki whole, but.. Nitesh-not-Paki cannot eat the Nitesh-not-Paki, if it is the same size, see?"
It was his weird twisted logic, but as a still rather young being, it was acceptable for him to ponder on such things.
Then again.
Rising to his feet once his attempt to stop her had failed horribly and resulted in a Hyena on his back, and yelling in his ear, the boy realized that his 'friend' was actually rather light, making it rather easy for him to carry her around.
"Besides. I was more likely to be eaten by the overgrowth of plants here."
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:41 am
Izulu was attempting to eat his ear off, despite being lifted and her legs being splayed on either side of his much broader back--not that she was doing much damage other than potentially soaking his ear. His words seemed to sink in after a long moment and she relinquished the 'attack' to give the back of his head a scruptulous look. "You are not a Ivy-Nitesh sent to destroys the goodness of our pride?"
His last words made her frown and she sniffed at his neck. "They ivy has not eatenmogb Nitesh and taken Nitesh's body to trick us with a Nitesh-Ivy-bad-person?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:02 am
He sat back down again once his ear had lost the source of all sogginess, laying on his side so that it would be easier to get the female off of him.
"No. I am just a Nitesh-not-Paki." he replied, shrugging his shoulders a bit. It was a nonchalant motion, that Nitesh himself did not realize he'd done, due to it's subconscious nature.. or perhaps that Nitesh had lost his ability to follow his thoughts that well.
It wasn't something anybody wouldn't hold over him, afterall.
"Besides, the Ivy must bow to the Nitesh, for I am greater than it.." he stated, not wanting to admit his reason for saying such was that he'd eaten part of a plant a while back and gotten sick from it...
Yes, only sick, not dies, thus Nitesh was greater than it. It was decent logic, afterall.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:11 am
Izulu rolled off of him, tumbling in the dust a few times until she finally sprawled on her side in it. A great giggling issued from the hyena-lion, rather than any sort of pained sound and she craned her neck back to look at him. "That's great!"
Scrambling to her feet, the Hyena-lion trotted over to him to wriggle-rub against his side and under his chin affectionatly. "I'm glad the ivy didn't take Nitesh-not-Paki! ... BUT IT MUST STILL BE STOPPED."
Bouncing away again, she turned mid-leap to face him once more and fell into an odd position with her paws out-stretched and bum wagging in the air. "YOU CAN HELP YES YES YES?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:05 pm
Oh great...
Nitesh sat down, leaning back and a bit away from the hyena-lion as she bounded about making her decrees against her worst enemy, and had now gotten volunteered on as a warrior against the ivy.
".......I guess?" he replied, shrugging his shoulders a bit. Afterall, she'd said 'can' not 'will'. So while he -could- help, it didn't volunteer him away as GOING to help... he couldn't help bit feel a -bit- guilty about leading her on to think he was going to help.
Enough to make him say that yes, he'd just agreed his freetime away to a futile hunt for the king of ivy.. a being that, in his mind, didn't really exist.
Nitesh wasn't about to say that out loud, though..
"Just where does one =find= the means to stop the ivy, though?" he inquired, tilting his head to the side a bit.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:44 pm
His suspicions were actually correct--the Ivy King was all in her head. However, if Izulu knew this she would never admit to it. Instead, she was happy in her happy little world of self delusion. One might wonder, eventually, where she had got this strange idea that ivy and other plants were pure evil, but no explanation or clues were ever offered up. With Nitesh's agreement, the hyena bounced a circle about him, then pressed against his side in an affectionate gesture. "Yay for Nitesh-not-Paki!!" She half-cheered, half-cooed.
With a lick to his cheek, the Hyena drew back to give him an odd look. "You fight with your paws and claws and teeth. He must be ripped from the ground, and his roots destroyed along with all his minnie-ions." She stumbled across the last word, as if it had gotten stuck in her throat. "MIne-ee-ons," She tried again, then shrugged, gave a grin and barked happily. "I have seen some today. Lets go practice!" The Hyena gave her tail the faintest of wags--for hyena's didn't wag their tails as a dog would--then dashed off towards the tree line.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:05 pm
Nitesh nearly stumbled onto one side at the gesture given by the hyena-lion, catching himself with his opposite leg then looking to her with a tilt of his head, his brain trying to reprogram itself with grace it did -NOT- have. In fact, he'd just plugged the yellow cord into the plug for the neon green with red strips one.
"Er..." he lifted the same paw he'd caught himself with and flexed his toes to unsheath his claws, looking at them curiously. "....Yeah.. I guess that is kinda what I have to work with.." he admitted, putting the paw back down sheepishly. He wasn't much of a fighter, but he wasn't about to admit that.
"Minions?" he repeated, catching onto Izulu's speech pattern rather easily, before she declared 'training time!' and ran off, leaving him to roll his eyes and get up to walk after her with a LOT less enthusiasm... a lot.
"Sure.. practice..." he repeated, the sarcasm in his voice all but obvious. If he was honest, he really was in the mood to go back home and sleep some more. But that wasn't going to happen.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:27 pm
"Practice is ess-een-ti-AL," She barked in return, grinning all the while as she loped circles around his lazy pace. "You do not want to go into battle ill prepared do you? It could lead to DISASTERMABOB!"
She sounded so serious it really was laughable. The Hyena bumped shoulders with him again, giggling, then suddenly stopped and gasped. Her sight was pointed towards a tree close by, and a strand of ivy growing up it. "THE INVASTION!!"
In an instant the hyena was off, showing her true speed as she ran up to and tackled the wisp of ivy--and indeed the tree itself, with a painful THUMP. Regardless of any pain the canine began to tear at the ivy with teeth and claw, her little bum and tail wiggling in a happy ferocity that only a dog could manage.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:43 pm
Nitesh winced as the Hyena SMACKED into the tree at full force, both eyes closing before he slowly opened one to see if she was still alive or the tree had been knocked down. Well, the tree was still standing, and Izulu seemed to be quite happy with the state of affairs...
AKA the chewing and deathphase of the plant of her choice.
Nitesh watched for a moment before walking over to the tree with the same casual demeanor he'd been showing for the last 3 seconds, and using his claws simply cut away the bottom of the plant, for Izulu to chew up while he dug up at the dirt to find it's root, pulling the source of the plant up to display.
"It's more efficient if you kill the source, isn't it?" he inquired, head tilting to one side before he sighed a bit. He had to secretly wonder if hitting trees gave poor Izulu braindamage. It was WORTH a presumption...
...
For all of four seconds, thought gone now.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:47 pm
Izulu blinked as the root came out and sent her sitting back on bum in the grass. For a long moment she was still with the 'corpse' of the ivy hanging from her jaw. Slowly she began to chew on it a little, as best a carnivore could, then spat it out. "Well... you ... should maim them. So they get the point. Otherwise, they could hurt you very very much while you dig out the root." That sounded logical--to her, anyway--and so the hyena grinned and bounced back to her feet and then half-over Nitesh's back so she could slobber on his ear. "Nitesh-Not-Paki is good fighter indeed!"
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:11 pm
"Well.. I'm not REALLY." Nitesh admitted sheepishly, dropping the root and pawing at it meekly for a moment, before pushing it forward to Izulu to let her do as she wished with it.
"Besides, I don't think making it suffer is gonna make it change it's mind." he explained, pondering if the plants actually had a mind to CHANGE, or if he was just saying whatever sounded best to fill in the blank with, before deciding it was too MUCH thought for him and giving up on answering the question as it was.
Nitesh pondered what else he could say about it. "And again, you could always maim them while -I- dig out the root so they're thoroughly maimed and I don't get attacked, see?" he logicked, though it wasn't really thought through as well as he probably should have thought it through.
Perhapsmaybe.
"But Nitesh-not-Paki appreciates the compliment."
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