Thanatos smiled at his sister and Sai. "I'm glad you're both alright, we need to go get Fugiri and Kira in a moment, then..." Thanatos smiled wider. "Let's go home..."
Sai nods. "Lets get a move on!"
Ai felt the hatred Marybelle had for her but ignored it. It was stupid in her sense any way. Her eyes going up to her lover as they began to head out.
"So, Thanatos... How do you like my horsie for the time being?" She asked rather happily, a large smile on her face stretching from ear to ear. She pat his chest gently and purred out, "Good boy. Nice and steady strides."
Sai narrowed his eyes at her. "Just you wait..." He smiled. "You'll get your's here in a few once we get to the new place..."
Marybelle giggled uncontrollably and kissed his neck gently. She gripped her fingers into his hair and pulled slightly with her right, gesturing for him to turn. "Come on, we have to get the blankets and the stiff skin."
Sai groaned as he truned around. He quickly grabd the blankets and the stiff skin. "You are really asking for it!" He chuckled, as he headed towards the entrance. "You two ready...?"
Thanatos chuckled. "I must say sister, dear you have a good taste in Horsies..." He looked at Sai
"I know, remember when you used to be my horsie? Ma and pa used to get a kick out of watching us all the time." Marybelle grinned faintly and kissed Sai's neck once more. "Oh, I'm looking forward to it..." She whispered into his ear.
Sai narrowed his eyes at Thanatos wanting to give the finger but stops hearing Marybelle's comment. A wicked grin on his lips.
"We should be going. Kira and Fugiri might be worried since we've been gone for half a day." Ai tugs at Thanatos' arm.
Thanatos smiled. "We will return shortly..." Thanatos kissed his sister's cheek and smiled to her.
Marybelle smiled and nuzzled his shoulder in response, quickly returning her head to her beloved's shoulder. She kissed his cheek softly and rested her head against his neck again, her eyes shutting loosely.
Ai waited for Thanatos at the entrance.
Sai smiles softly down at her. "Now look what you did...I won't be able to get her off now!" He laughed, nuzzling her head.
Fugiri pulled out slowly stroking it so that she could come to him
Kira lean in pulling his swollen shat into her mouth sucking on it.
"Ahn!" Fugiri moaned as his seed spilled into Kira's mouth
Kira swallows it, licking his shaft clean. "Wow!" She gasped, with a giggle. "That was great..."
Fugiri smiles. "mmhmm...yes it was."
Kira sits up, kissing his lips once more. "You were great..."
Fugiri kissed back. "No, you were..." He smiles. "Though, we should dress, quickly..."
Kira nods as she stood up picking up her cloths and pulling them onto her form. Her eyes watching the entrance.
Fugiri pulled his clothing on and smoothed hid hair.
Thanatos walked into the cave entrance. "Kira? Fugiri?"
Kira pounce out at him. "Thanatos! You finally made it home!" she wagged her tails. "But where is my sister...?" She looked about.
"Right here..." She appeared behind them. "You two ready to go...?"
"Go where..." Kira asked.
Marybelle removed herself from Sai's back, not sure it he was heading into the cave or not. She did not want to. She sat down into the snow carefully, hugging her knees to her chest as she waited, her burns pulling open slightly and letting out a type of puss only to be soaked up by her dress.
Sai looked down at her. "What's the matter...?" He asked gently, as the wind played in his hair.
"Pft, I'm not going in there. I can already smell the pheromones from this distance." Marybelle pointed out Kira's sex drive smell, her nose wincing slightly from the smell. She readjusted herself so that her back was facing the cave entrance, sneezing lightly.
"Ha! So you smell it too!" He chuckled taking a seat next to her. "It seems we weren't the on;y ones getting busy...And not only that but you must hate Ai's sister to by the look you're giving..." He wrapped his arms around her waist.
Thanatos smiled as Fugiri walked out of the cave shortly after, he could smell what had gone on but didn't say anything. "Home, Kira, I found a wonderful new home for us all..."
"Hell no, she is such a little brat..." She muttered. "I'm telling you, there is something serious messed up in that little fox's head seeing as she thinks she can judge somebody and plaster on a fake smile, trying to avoid eye contact... such a regretful face..." She reached up and placed a hand over her head, sighed quietly. "Ah, nevermind..."
"Heh!" Sai laughed. "It was because of me why she acts that way. She doesn't trust anyone until she got all the facts correct!" He lean his head on hers.
Kira's body tensed up seeing Sai and Marybelle. "Why is Sai here!?" She asked jumping to her feet.
Ai looked at her with a sigh. "He's here with Marybelle...an
d they'll be living under the same roof as us!"
Kira's jw dropped.
"I'm amazed that you got your memory back!" He turned to looke at her over his shoulder. "I'm surprise you didn't go into a comma!"
Marybelle moved her head back and placed her hand on his cheek, turning his head so that he was staring at her. She leaned over and kissed him lovingly on the lips, her ears drooping slightly.
Thanatos sighed sadly, he walked back into the cave to gather things.
Fugiri frowned and looked at Thanatos' back.
Marybelle heard the sigh and broke the kiss early, her gaze shifting to look at Thanatos. "Brother...?"
Sai was shocked at the action that Marybelle did. He heard Thanatos and wondered what was going on. "What happen now...?"
Ai went in after him. "Thanatos...?" She placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.
Kira looked over at the entrance way a bit heart broken.
Fugiri wrapped his arms around Kira. "I know what he's thinking..." He said softly.
Marybelle got up slowly and walked into the cave after Ai, ignoring the smell. She, too, placed a hand on Thanatos' shoulder, her brows furrowing as she looked up at her brother in a bit of worry. "Brother, what's wrong...?"
"I better go before there's a fight..." Sai sighed as he stood up. He followed after them papared for anything.
Ai glanced her way not knowing why she insits to follow.
Kira looked up at Fugiri. "Why...?" She asked, nto remembering anything past that point.
"Thanatos worked so hard on finding a house for everyone and trying to make sure everyone will be warm, and sheltered, but no one can still seem to get along..." Fugiri nuzzled Kira.
Thanatos looked back at his sister and his lover, he put on a fake smile. "Don't worry, I'm just a bit excited about the move, I'm ok..."
"Thanatos, please..." She whimpered out quietly, tightening her grip and keeping him from going any farther. She pulled herself closer to him and wrapped herself around him from the side, leaving the other side for Ai if she decided to hug him.
Ai took hold of the other side of him, hugging him to her form. "You're lying...You don't seem to be happy about something as if it is bothering you..."
Sai stood in the entrance way, watching to make sure knowing how Marybelle is. His red eyes narrowed at Thanatos.
Kira sighs. "I'm sorry...it's kinda hard to get a long with a man who destroyed your village..." She hide her face in his neck.
"I understand that but..." Fugiri ran his fingers through his pink hair. "Look at all this tension...someone has to be in danger or sad for everyone to get along...it's saddening..."
Thanatos hugged them both. "I'm just worried..."
"About what, brother? If it because we don't get along then I'll apologize, promise." She insisted, her brows furrowing a bit more. The perked slightly when she looked at sigh and felt her arms just over her own, she placed her arms on her biceps gently.
"I apologize as well..." Ai pulls herself away, getting the things that were needed at the house.
Sai still stood in the shadows watching if anything serious was going to happen. A soft sigh came from his lips.
Kira nods, holding him closer to her form.
Fugiri kissed Kira's head. "Go gather your things sweetie..."
Thanatos stood there still a bit worried that things would sink, but he smiled. "Thank you both." He kissed his sister's cheek gently and hugged her. He walked over to Ai and kissed her lips gently, then hugged her.
Marybelle sighed quietly, knowing her brother was still a bit iffy about things. She turned around nad headed staright for Sai, hugging him gently around the mid of his body.
"You're still thinking this whole idea of your's is going to go to hell..." Ai looked up at him. "it's okay...Sure we have issues that we have to get through but I think personally...It's going to work out...So stop beating yourself up." Ai Kissed him before pulling away again. She was a bit angry herself not wanting to talk about it which will only put salt into the wound.
Sai gazed down at Marybelle as she hugged up against him. "You fed up at getting attention from your brother already..." He kissed her forehead. "How long is it until we get to this new place...?" He asked. "I like to be some where warm instead of agruing!"
"Nope, I'm fed up with the drama.." She mumbled irritably on the cloth of his shirt, her face flushing slightly. "And yes, I know I cause drama, too..." She added.
Sai patted her head, shaking his head slightly. "Glad you amitted to it..." His sights back on Thanatos. "C'mon you two...I'm cold and tired!"
"I'm ready." Thanatos says with his bag and a few things in his arms. Axis was beside him with more things.
Fugiri crossed his arms after picking up his only bag.
Marybelle easily walked around Sai and got up onto his back again, her chin planted in the crook of his neck and her eyes closing once more. She relaxed against his firm back muscles.
Kira nods holding her belongs.
Ai held her bag on her back standing next to Thanatos. "Ready..."
Sai smiles. "Good! Standing here in this astmosphere was making me a bit whoosie." He Headed out of the cave. "Lead the way Thanatos!"
"No, standing in the smell of pheromones made you horny..." Marybelle corrected a bit playfully, a bit seriously. Pft, he could say the same of her and she would not deny it.
"Sure! You cna say tha but I know you, you're beginning to feel it too!" He smiles.
Ai shook her head knowing what her sister and Fugiri did but she wasn't mad. Her sister isn't a child.
Kira blushes as she heard was Marybelle and Sai said. Her eyes going up to Fugiri.
"And I am not denying it." She murred into his ear, kissing the rim gently. She moved her hands and slid them up his shirt, rubbing his chest tenderly.
Sai blushed with a soft moan. "You little tease! If i have to wait you have to wait!"
"No I don't." She muttered quietly into his ear once more, purring lightly.
"Marybelle..." Sai grunted. "If you continue I won't be responsible for my actions..."
She giggled lightly and placed her chin back against his neck. "Fine.." She muttered, not wanting to scar the little girl and the young dragon for life if they were to break out into hardcore sex because of her.
"Good..." He sighed with relife think he was going to lose control.
Thanatos lead them all down the slop of the mountain and into a forest where the Crystal Ice Manor stood. "Welcome home."
Marybelle gasped lightly and perked her head up from Sai's shoulder. "Thanatos... its... its... beautiful!"
He smiles standing in the snow bare footed and with no shirt on. His bones too started to crack a he became this huge black wolf beast. He growls shaking his body after the breif change. Come! You ready!? He wagged his tail slightly.
She let out a murr as she rubbed her muzzle against his fur, her light blue fur a complete contrast of his. Ready when you are, handsome wolf.. She pulled away from him asfter laying a lick to his ear and slowlt rose to stand on her hind legs. She peered over the snowy plain and furrowed her brows, spotting what she was looking for. We race to that first cliff over hand, then back.
Sai stood on his hind legs peering in the direction she was. He nods, taking off. C'mon Marybelle! You're lacking behind! He ran in mid trot not to leave her behind. His black ears swayed in the cold wind.
She hurried after him like a gorilla charging at a tresspassor, her muzzle angled un into the air to sniff the surroundings. She caught up to him and began to trot beside him, stumbling and catching herself quickly.
He speeds up just a tad. I'm not going to go easy on you just because you're my lover... He tacked her into tthe snow. He howls in laughter as he runs off a head of her. Marybelle! Quite playing in the snow or unless you want to loose by me-Wait! He stops in his tracks. Let's wager this...If you win you can do as you please to my body with no if's and's or but's to it! But if I win...You'll have to surender yourself to me in bed each night for a whole week, even if we had sex before then...And the little things you can do to me can last long for the same amount of time...What do you say...? You in...?!
She stood up and shook the snow from her body, sneezing and shaking her head. When she heard the wager she trotted along so she could catch up with him. Once she was next to him she stopped and licked his snout gently. Alright, but to add to that wager, when.. I mean, if you win you have to take me in this form, deal? She asked, smiling gently and staring into his red eyes.
Are you serious? Alright! He runs off a head. I'll see you at the top!
Horn wolffie. She grumbled with a smile, rolling her eyes slightly. She hurried after him, howling into the brisk night air happily. She slowly began to close the gap between them, but did not because she did not want to win.
Sai looked back at her seeing that she was colosing in on him but he didn't speed up. He knows that she can go faster than what she was going now so he slowed his pae going in behind her, butting on her hind leg gently. Get a move on! You need to streatch those muscles, baby mama!
She tried to slow only to be head butted in the hind haunch. She whimpered and began to run faster, hoping he would pass her up.
He lunged out in front of her once more in mere seconds. The only thing was seen was his thick shiny black coat that shone in the moon light. His huge form stops briefly looking up at the mountain as he waited for Marybelle. His red eyes like spears in the night.
Marybelle went past him and dug her claws into the cliff, hurriedly climbing up like she were a camouflaged tarantula. Her blueish coat blending in with the white-blue snow. She leaned her head back and peered down at Sai, her ice smiling at him. I'm winning.. She taunted halfheartedly.
That's what you think! He jumps up clinging to it then relasing and runs up the sides with ease.
She giggled mentally and hurried along after him, making it over the edge after him. Now we hvae to make it back to the castle, m'love. That was the whole race course.
He nods jumping down the mountain side. He stops at the bottom waiting for Marybelle.
Marybelle jumped down after him, stumbling slightly into him before regaining her composure. She took off before him, heading back to the manor quickly.
Sai shook his head smiling to himself, taking off after her. His powerful legs breaking the snow beneath him.
She looked back at him to see if he was gaining, hoping he was, and without warining slammed into a large tree. She yelped and fell back on her bottom, rubbing her nose with one of her paws. Owwie...
He sees this rrunning over to her. Are you okay...? He licked the side of her face and nose.
No worries... This is your chance to get the lead... I'm about to get up... She said, pressing her front paws to the ground and threatening to lift herself up.
Then you're giving up...? That's not the Marybelle I- He stops eyeing her suspious like. You want me to win...don't you...?
Wow, you're smarter than I thought and it only took you the whole race to figure it out. She said sarcastically, pushing herself up and nipping at his haunches in a gesture for him to start running.
I'm not stupid...I was just blinded at the fact of sex at the end was all... He chuckled in a grunt. He slowly troted towards the house.
She trotted behind him and stopped once they were at the house. Well, looks like you won... Will you still have me? She asked, coming up to his side and nuzzling his cheek.
Sai's ears twicthed abit. Of coarse...Why would I allow such a beautiful woman-were ice wolf leave my sights. He nuzzled her cheek. He couldn't possibly let something this good slip through his claws.
She murred gently and nuzzled her head into his neck, her tail wagging slightly.(I think it'd be funny if Ai and Thanatos were to come out of their room and see the two walking by. xDD)
His tail began to wag also as they entered the crystal ice manor. (Yes, I too thing that would be funny! Just imaging the look on their faces!)
Sai growled as he sat down in the snow. His anger bubbled as he watched the snow lightly flutter from the sky. He closed his eyes loosly listening to nature as he begins to calm himself. Feeling abit better he stood up heading to the manor. He hated how he lost his temper over stupid shit but a sixth sense was kicked up once he met Marybelle. He opens the door to the crystal ice manor.
Marybelle found herself sitting in the exact same spot that Sai had sat in moments before, her claws digging into the snow iritably. She closed her eyes and laid back in the snow, her jaw clenching together tightly, tight enough to break a filling.
Sai chuckles softly seeing her in his exact spot. "I guess we have the same way of calming ourselves..." His red eyes gazed down at her as he stood a few feet away.
She kept quiet, shutting her eyes as he skin rippled over her jaw muscles as she clenched and unclenched her jaw.
He slowly made his way to her sitting beside her. His eyes focuse on the snowy peaks ahead. "I know your pissed but at least talk to me..."
"Why would she call me ungreatful....? I haven't seen him since I was five, and I'm in my twenties now, Sai..." Her voice cracked as she spoke, on the verge of tears of anger. "And all I wanted was a half hour with someone in my family....."
He shrugs. He placed a hand on her forehead, pushing her bangs back. "I haven't the clue since I've never been that perdickument...so I have no right to even speak on it..."
She turned onto her side, his hand draggign across her face until it was near her ear. She curled up slightly and rested her head on her hands.
He pulls his hand away from her, thinking that she didn't want to be touched. "Are you that pissed off...?" He sighed folding his arms across his chest. "You're really making it hard for me to cheer you up..." He shut his eyes loosly.
She sighed and pushed herself up, propping herself up with her arms. "I should've never looked for Thanatos, then none of this would have ever happened." She said harshly, stnading up and limping a few paces off, resting against a tree and rubbing her sore legs. She did not exactly mean that she wished she had never met Sai, she loves him more than she hates Ai, and she loves that she is having his baby as well.. She was just completely pissed off at this point.
Sai's eyes widen at this point. "Wow..." He stood up. "Wow! That was a punched in the mouth...I guess you didn't want to meet either nor the fact that we're having a child...Thanks Marybelle...Thanks for making me realize that I deserve to live alone..." He walked passed her heading towards the snowy forest.
"Sai!" Marybelle said, hurrying to him and hugging him from behind. She pulled him close to her form, sniffling quietly against his shoulder blade. "Please, I did not mean it like that... I'm sorry... I love the fact that you are mine and I am your's.. And I love that I am having your child.. Please, don't go..." She said, burrying her face in his shirt and back, her fingers gripping lightly into his chest.
He placed a gentle hand on hers. "Why would I do a thing like that..." His voice breakiing a bit. He rubbed her hands as he tries to calm her. "Not after you've said..." He turns holding her close. "I thought you were pushing me away...I felt as if..." He paused kissing her forehead.
"I would never... Why would I..." She could not finish either of her sentences as she burrying her crying eyes into his chest. She thought she was going to lose her lover and her best friend, her body shaking violently against his form. "I don't want to lose you...."
He held her close. "And you won't...I understand you're pissed...I am too...But it wouldn't make me leave you for any reason at all..." He lift her chin up gently with his finger, pressing his lips against hers. "My love for you is far stronger than my hatered..."
"You were just gonna leave.. Because of what I said.. I'm sorry I said that, I love you and our child so much and I would never wish this away...." She kissed his lips back softly, a few tears rolling down from the corner of her eyes and down her chin.
He sighd into the kiss not wanting to break it but he had to have his say. "Marybelle..." He broke the kiss. "I was being hot headed...I was going to cool off somewhere else if you needed to be alone...And I know you would never wish that...You were way to excited to even think of doing such a thing..." He wipped her tears away with his hand. "I don't want to see any more tears...for it is a waist on something such as this..." He kissed her lips once more.
"I'm... I'm sorry..." She said, turning her head down once more and pressing herself against his body. She shut her eyes, ashamed that she was still crying a bit. "I... I can't stop.. c-crying..." She sniffled out, placing her hands against his chest.
He smiles softly at her. "It must be your hornmones...since you're pregant you have mood swings from-Hell more to say..." He held her in his strong arms, as if not to let go. "That means I need to stay clear when you have one of these again. I don't want to accidently hurt your feeling and get bitched out then you cry and want to be hold the next." He smiles. "It's not like you'll run me off..."
"Well.. I wouldn't mind the last part.. I like being held by you...." She said sheepishly, looking up into his firey eyes with her icy ones. She leaned up and kissed his lips softly, a blush coming across her face. "I'm sorry for using such language, I usually am not so vulgar..." She muttered, looking down once more.
"As I told you it's completely normal..." He kissed her forehead. "You're just going through mood swings is all..."
"Can we go inside... I want to apologize to Thanatos and Ai... Please?" She asked, reaching for his hand and lacing her fingers tghrougfh his.
"Are you sure you are calm...?" He smiled down at her. "If so then let's go..."
"Yes... I'm sure..." She said softly, kissing his lower lip gently before slowly leading him back to the manor with a limp.
Sai couldn't stand seeing her limp. He pulled his hand from her grasped and lift her gently in his strong arms. "I think you should stay off your feet for a few days..." He smiles at her.
"My big strong wolfie." Marybelle purred out, smiling a bit. She snuggled into his chest, her tail popping from her butt and wagging quickly back and forth.
"Aw...And you're my adorable ice werewolf!" He kissed her forehead wondering over to crystal ice manor. He pushed the doors open with his shoulders.
Thanatos stormed out of the back door and roared. He punched his fist into a large icicle and sat down in the snow on the verge of crying.
Ai stood there waiting for him to realize she was there. She didn't want to bother him if he wanted to be alone but she wanted him to know that she was at least sorry and go back tothe room.
"Ai..." Thanatos said softly knowing she was there. He reached his hand out to her not looking up.
Ai jumped at the sound of his voice. She made her way to his side grabing hold of his hand, threading her fingers through them.
Thanatos pulled her down to him and held her tight. "I'm only one man I can't be with both of you at the same time when you two are fighting...I don't want to have to set this up like you two are my divorced parents..." Thanatos cried in her neck.
Ai wrapped her arms around his back, resting them on the mid of her back. "I'm sorry..." Her voice breaking. "I didn't know what came over me...I was scared!" She closed her eyes holding him tight.
Thanatos just cried. "I don't know what to do...I love you both very much, and I want to spend time with you both but I'm only one man I can't be with the both of you at once when you two refuse to get along..."
Ai blushed in embarrassment knowing she was being bitchy but she usually could compress it. She wonder what was wrong with her latly but shook her head lightly. "I'm very sorry..." She held him close. "I didn't want to seem that way...I guess it's kinda hard to let go of old habits..." She lowered her eyes. "I'm sorry for putting any pain on your heart..." She whimpered, nuzzling against his neck, tears streaming down her face. She couldn't bear to hold back the sobs any more. Her body trembled with his as she did so.
Thanatos wipped his eyes. "I'm sorry for my language, I'm just upset, I've never had to deal with anything like this before and it got to me..." He hugged her tight.
The fear of loosing someone she loved again made her body tremble. She thought she never had to go through this again but she thought in a more possitive roll than the negative. She buried her face in his well built chest as she contues to whimper. Her claws gently dug into his back.
"It's ok Ai...I'm not going to leave you, if that's what you're worried about...." Thanatos nuzzled her. "I love you..."
She smiles into his chest giving the side where his heart would be located a kiss. Her tail slowlt swayed as she lifted her head up with a small smile. "I love you too..."
"Let's go in maybe we can sort this whole mess out..." Thanatos took a deep breath. "hop on my back, I'll give you a ride..." He smiled weakly
"Are you sure...? You seem tired..." She asked wiping the remaining tears form her eyes.
"I'm sure..." Thanatos wiped his eyes clear too.
"Okay..." She stood up climbing onto his back. Her arms wrapped loosly about his neck.
Thanatos carried her into the Crystal Ice Manor
In a blinding flash of light aiden and Maxius appeared, Aiden looked around. "Maxius......where are we...." Maxius looked around. "I havent the slightest clue brother..."
Aiden shivered. "Its freaken cold......." Maxius looked at adien. "Not really.....its cool......."
Maxius sighed. "We should start to walk to see where we are......" Aiden nodded and shivered. "Ok brother..."
Aiden looked around the snow covered land. "Is there anything but snow out here?" He looked at Maxius who was looking straight ahead as he walked.
A white panther came prowling out from behind a bush, his ears laying back as it sniffed at ther ground for any sign of prey. His tail hung a bit, it curled slightly at the end, as he burried his face in the snow. Pulling back up, a small white rabbit dangled from his mouth. When it heard the crunching of snow to it's left, it turned it's head and stared at the two neko males with it's silver blue eyes. It hissed through the rabbits white fur and turned a bit, ready to strike it they tried to take it's food.
Aiden heard a slight noised looked around quickly, the bell on his neck ring softly. "I think someone or something is watching us......" Aiden put up a field of dark energy around them. Maxius pulled out his long bow and looked around from in side the shield.
The panther walked past the bushes seperating, slowly, and lookd fully at the black haired and white haired males. He tilted his head slightly, placing the rabbiton the ground and walking past it.
Aiden looked at Maxius. "I dont think its dangerous....." Maxius watched the panther. "Maybe.....put the shield down....." Aiden nodded and the dark energy shield disappeared.
The panther sniffed at their legs, slowly trailing up to sniff at their stomachs. A slight purr came from his throat as his tail flicked a bit, ears laying flat against his head. "Who are you....?" He asked, his silver-blue eyes looking up at the dark-haired one's face
Aiden looked at the Panther. "Im Aiden and this is my brother Maxius." Aiden pointed at Maxius.
"Mhm... and why are you here?" He asked, pulling his paw to his muzzle and licking some snow from his fur. He sat himself downand curled his tail around his flanks, his eyes shutting slightly.
Maxius looked at the panther. "I teleported us here by accident......" Aiden nodded.
He finished licked his paw and set it into the white blanket of snow once more. He pushed himself up and walked over to the rabbit in the snow, grabbing it easily. He came back to the two and dropped it before their feet, lifting his gaze to stare at them. "You sound hungry, your tones aren't too calm."
Maxius and Aiden looked at him. "Thank you, but no thank you......"
He tilted his head slightly and looked at them, his brows perking slightly. "Hah! You thought you could have my rabbit?! Chyeah right, nobody takes my food, but you are aloud to come back to the camp if you wish for food. I can't help but help out fellow felines." He bent his head back down and took the white furred rabbit into his mouth once more, turning away from them and trotting off to some bushes, stopping only to look back at the two.
Aiden and maxius looked at each other then followed the panther.
The panther jumped through the bushes and trotted onwards. After a little while of walking her stopped and looked back at the two felines before walking past a wall of trees and bushes, only to be greted by a small white and blue cub. He dropped his rabbit and grabbed the cub by the scruff of her neck and walked her back to the small little village of panthers infront of a cave that was in a mountain side. He placed the cub back on the ground and slowly began to change shape into more of an anthro type form. his long white hair wass pulled back into a low ponytail, a pair of baggy blue and black jeans adorned his legs and hips, a skin tight blue shirt on his chest and a fishnet glove on his right hand. He looked at the two males behind him and let his tail flick slightly. "Welcome to my home." He said simply, a faint smile on his face.
Aiden and Maxius looked at him then looked around at the place before them.
"Well, come on, don't be shy." He said, gesturing for them to follow him as he walked through the village. "Do you like your meat cooked? So many 'dignified' felines I meet do." He said, giving air quotes as he said dignified.
Aiden and Maxius looked at each other then at him. "It doesnt matter......"
He chuckled and shook his head, rolling his eyes a bit. "Alright, I'll save my daughter some time and just give you the frozen raw meat... Your jaws are strong enough for it, yes?" He asked a bit sarcastically, not really going to give them raw meat. "Kitani, go grab some meat from the house, bring it back out for me." He watched the cub run off and turn into one of the huts, turning his head back to look at the two. "So, enlighten me. What species of cat are you two? You don't look like any wild cats I've ever seen 'round these parts. You those house cats I've heard so much about?"
Aiden and Maxius both spoke at the same time. "If thats we have been called then yes.........." they looked at him and smiled at the same time.
"Hm, nice silky fur, not too thick looking though. You two must be cold." He chuckled quietly. "Twins. can't believe I did not catch it, same smile, same eyes, same height and build... Except for your hair and ears.. Ah, anyways, do you two need something to warm yourselves up with?"
They both nodded. "Yes we do......If you dont mind..."
He smiled softly and reached her arms out to a couple of panthers walking by, grabbing the pelts from their bodies which caused them to meep and hurry to the fire. He chuckled lightly and turned around, tossing the white furred pelts to them. "Ah, by the way, you may call me Glitch, Maxius and Aiden." He turned when his tailw as tugged by a pair of small hands, his gaze falling to the small child holding the meat in her hand. "Thank you, Kitani. Alex, cook this up for me, thanks." He called over to one of the panthers sitting at the fire, tossing the meat to him.
Aiden and maxius smiled. "Thank you....." As soon as aiden placed the fur around himself it turned jet black. Maxius looked at it and looked at aiden.
He placed his hand over his mouth and cleared his throat, trying to hold back an amused chuckle. "Well, dad always did want his fur to match the color of his heart, guess he got his wish, black hearted old fool. Hey, you two can take a seat around the fire if you're still cold." He headed past them and sat down on one of many rocks surrounding the fire, his tail curling up on the ground.
Aiden looked at Maxius and shrugged. They both followed glitch and sat on the rocks.
"So, tell me about yourselves." He said simply, watching the fire dance on and around the slightly browning meat.
Maxius looked at the snow. "There isnt much to tell........we are brothers.........and thats about it...." He looked at Aiden and he smiled. Aiden nodded. "We dont know why......we are here or why........"
"Okay, so what do you two like to do? Do you like to explore, play sports, hunt, ecetera?" He turned his attention to the male tiger reaching in to grab the meat out of the fire for the two house cats, barely even reacting to the smell of burnt fur of the heat.
He pushed himself up and walked over to the two, spliting the large piece of meat with his claws and handing it to them. "Eat, bear meat is delicious."
"Thank you, Jet. Who got bear meat today?" He asked quietly to the panther at his side, his eyes going to Jet when he recieved the answer. "You're getting better I see. Your nerve damage is healing up, that's good."
He bowed his head and walked away once the meat was taken by the two.
"Eat up you two." He said, patting Maxius' back gently.
Aiden and Maxius took the meat and began to eat.
"Do you two need a place to stay for the night? We have more than enough room if you do."
Maxius and Aiden smiled. "That would be most appreciated......." they both continued to eat.
"Great. Well, when you two are finished come find me in my hut. Kitani will show you the way." He bowed his head curtly and pushed himself up from the rock, stepping over it and walking down the 'trail' leading through the village, turning once he got to the end of it and disappearing out of sight.
Kitani purred and wiggled in her seat next to Aiden, her tail flicking slightly. She looked at his tail and grabbed it gently, running her fingers through the black fur. "Your tail is so pretty!" She said enthusiastically.
Aiden smiled and looked at her with his green eyes. "Thank you......." Maxius also smiled.
she got off of her rock and began to swat at his tail like she was a kitten, giggling happily. She grabbed it in her human like claws and curled up on the ground, snuggling her cheek to his soft fur. "IT'S WARM!
Aiden and Maxius laughed. "Really?"
"A-A-AND SOFT!" She purred out, her tail wagging happily. "Almost as soft as papa's!" She said happily, scooting over a bit and grabbing Aiden's tail, snuggling it as well.
They both blinked and looked at each other.
She released the tail and popped up between them, turnign her head up so that she was looking at their chins. "Do you two always stay together?"
They both nodded. "Yes....always..."
"Don't you ever get annoyed by each other? I mean, my brother used to tell me that I was annoying because I was around all the time.... Well, before he died, but anyways. Do you two even have sex infront of each other?" She asked, not thinking anything of her question.
Jet looked up at the small panther child and frowned a bit. "Be respectful, Miss. Kitani." He muttered, turning his head back down to eat his food.
Aiden and Maxius blushed slightly. "We have never had sex...........and we need each other to balance out our energies...."
"Papa only had sex once in h is life, and he said he did not like it because it was with mama... I wish I could've met her. He says I am a spitting image of her.. You two balance out each other's energies?" She asked, completely vereing away from the subject of sex.
Maxius nodded. "Its difficult to explain....but with out my brother my power becomes to powerful and with out my power his becomes to powerful........." Aiden nodded.
"That's so cool!" She exclaimed, wigglign slightly and wagging her tail. "I like you two, you're interesting."
They both smiled. "We are interesting? Well....thank you.." they both chuckled.
"Yes, more interesting that the wild cats that come around here. They're usually all the same, with merely brute strength or speed... no powers or overpowering energies." She looked over at Jet and noticed the glare to her, causing her to let off a nervous and scared chuckle as she hid behind Maxius.
Maxius looked her then smiled and wrapped his tail around her and smiled.
"Nya!" She nuzzled into his back and wrapped her arms aorudn his waist, her ears laying back against her head. "You're so tiny, though. Don't you eat on a daily basis?" She asked.
Aiden smiled and shrugged. "We eat when we can......" Maxius smiled at her warmth.
"So you don't eat everyday? That's horrible! But them again, neither does papa..." She muttered, peeking out from the white pelt of her grandmother's, looking up at the two once more. "You two could always stay as long as you;d like."
They both smiled. "Well thank you...."
"Well, us felines have to stick together. Papa's and my hut is really big, you can stay there if you want." She smiled cutely and gripped her fingers into the soft panther fur that was warming Maxius' form.
Aiden and Maxius nodded. "As long as we arnt burdens....."
"No, not at all. It will be our pleasure." She said with a nod, pulling back from the cat's form and popping up between the two once more, reluctant that Jet was giving her dagger eyes anymore.
They smiled at her. "Ok...thank you...."
"Just tell me when you are done eating and I will show you the way to the hut." She said, sittign down behind them and crossing her legs, her tail wrapping around her waist.
They smiled and nodded and finished eating then stood up. "Alright....."
"Come on then!" She cooed out, jumping up and grabbing ahold of their hands. She hurriedly pulled them along down the trail. "So, have you two ever had anybody special in your lives?"
Aiden and Maxius followed her. "Um....no........"
she smniled and turned the same way her father did, leading them to a cliff on the mountain. she pointed to the large hut over looking the whole of the landscape below the cliff. "Come on, he's probably relaxing right now!" She purred, quickly running to Iolek's hut and heading in.
Aiden and Maxius followed her.
Kitani walked out into the snow and headed back down to the village, her tail flicking softly in the snow. She waved softly to a few of the panthers, a tiger, a puma and a jaguar. "Have you ever been into a human city?"
Aiden and Maxius watched her then nodded. "Yes....we were born in one....."
"Really? That's so cool! Man, I wish one of you were my papa, that way I would've been a city cat too!" She said, clasping her hands together and churring softly.
They shook there heads. "You have a great father....."
"I know, and I love him so much.. But, he is just not as interesting as the both of you. The only two things I find interesting about him is that he leads this village and that he only likes men, but even that is not so interesting."
Aiden and Maxius shrugged and followed Kitani.
She sighed lightyl and let her ears droop as she walked past the wall of trees and bushes leading out of the village, her tail now just sliding along in the snow behind her.
They looked at her. "Whats wrong...."
"You don't like me, do you?" She asked quietly.
They both smiled. "No....we like you......"
"Well, you must be annoyed with me then... Are you?"
They both grabbed one of her hands. "We arnt annoyed by you......we promise..."
She looked up at the two taller men, her ears perking slightly. "I'm sorry for saying that.."
Aiden and Maxius smiled and let go of her. "No problem....."
She smiled lightly and walked around Maxius, gently climbing onto his beck.
Maxius smiled and held her there as they walked to the city. Aiden walked ahead slightly as a kind of scout.
"Hey, Aiden?" Kitani cooed out, looking past Maxius' shoulder to look at Aiden's back.
Aiden turned his slightly still walking forward. "Yes?"
"Does everything you touch turn to coal black?" She asked softly.
Aiden nodded slowly. "Yeah.......it does......except skin........or anything living......it only happens cause my energy need to go somewhere......"
"So if you have too much dark energy then maybe you could release enough into the snow so that you may seperate from your brother sometimes, and he the same...?" She suggested.
Aiden smiled and chuckled at the thought. "It would destroy everything........." Maxius nodded.
"You have that much? That's amazing!" She said in awe, her jaw dropping slightly.
Aiden looked at the snow. "Its a curse......." Maxius nodded. "I am the same....only my power isnt dark.......its light...." Maxius smiled.
"I wish I could help the both of you, but I'm only a child still and have no resistance to such amounts of energy..."
They smiled. "Thanks........" Aiden took a deep breath and yawned as he walked and so did Maxius.
"You know, if might take anotyher day or so to get there, do you want to start climbing the mountains today ro tomorrow?" She saked, looking up as she spotted the mountain in the distance, another right behind it but a little to the left.
Maxius looked at her. "Its up to you.....we can wait till morning if you want...." Aiden stopped.
"I think it would be better and safer if we were to wait, that way it will be a lot lighter for you two to see your footing. Can you two become cats, or are you stuck as humanoids twenty-four seven?"
Aiden and Maxius looked at her. "We are stuck like this......."
"No worries, I have a strong enough body to help you out if you so happen to stumble and start to sprawl downwards." she said, scratching her ear roughly.
Aiden and Maxius smiled. "We can protect ourself and stuff......so yeah..."
"But humanoids are so unbalanced." she said softly, nuzzling her nose into the white hair of Maxius'.
They smiled. "We do fine......"
"Well, in any case, I am still going to help the two of you in any way that I can. I hope that does not offend either of you."
They smiled. "It is appreciated......." Maxius put her down and looked around. "this is a good place to make camp Aiden......." Aiden looked around. "Right brother....."
She smiled gently and yawned into the air, strethcing out her legs. She watched them, tilting her head a bit.
Aiden put his hand into the air and a large black shield formed around them so nothing could get in.
"Wow!" She said, her eyes going wide as she watched the barrier get formed. "Thatso cool!"
Maxius created a ball of light in his hand and threw to the top of the barrier like a light so they could see. "Its very impressive.....good job Aiden...." Aiden smiled and nodded. "Thanks......I try........"
"Oh my gosh!" She exclaimed, running around the barrier, examinigin the whole of the feild. "You two are completely amazing!" She was amazed by the light suddenly formed, her pupilds becoming dielated at first, then going back to normal.
Maxius touched the ground in the center of the barrier and a blue fire formed, its heat slowly radiating gently around the inside of the barrier. Aiden sat down then laid back.
"I wish I could do that." She said, hurrying over to the fire and plopping down int he snow. "And it's blue."
The snow in the barrier began to melt and Maxius sat down next to the fire also and Aiden closed his eyes.
Kitani's ears sunk back as the snow began to melt, her tail curling up behind her. It's getting hot in here... She thought to herself, gently leaning against Maxius.
Maxius touched the fire and became smaller. "Getting warm........." Aiden fell asleep.
She found herself beginning to pant, her eyes looking up at Maxius' face. She churred lightly and stripped off her long sleeved shirt, tossing it to her side and leaning back against Maxius' arm. Since she was an all around anthro, fur covered her breasts and nipples, so she really did not care if she had to strip in public to beocme cool.
Maxius put the fire out and it began to cool down. "There....it should begin to cool down for you....." He smiled.
"Thank you, Maxius." She said, nodding her head in thanks, readjusting herself so that she was curled up next to his thigh. She nuzzled her cheek into the cool snow on the ground and letting her tail lay limp over her side.
Maxius took his shirt off and layed it to the side and layed back in the snow he looked at the dimming light that floated over head.
"Hey, Maxius?" Kitani looked over her shoulder, turning over so that she was looking at the white and black haired feline, her cheek fur cated in snow. She brushed it off with her hand and planted her face against her hands now.
Maxius still looked at the light. "Yes?" Aiden twitched slightly.
"Nevermind.. I'm guessing I already know how you two got here." She muttered, curling herself up a little more, her eyes shutting as she let out a yawn.
"Alright....." Maxius sat up and moved so he was sitting up against the barrier wall. He sat there watching her, his skin ppale like the snow, then he looked over at aiden who was completely asleep.
"G'Night. I promise I won't let you two get hurt tomorrow.." She muttered groggily, drifting off into a deep sleep.
Maxius smiled and softly spoke. "We will protect you.......I promise......." Aiden sat up and scooted over next to Maxius and leaned back. "goodnight brother........" Aiden yawned. "Good night Aiden....." Maxius closed his eyes.
The next morning, Kitani woke up to muffled chirping past the barrier and in the sky, her ears twitching and flicking at the sounds. She sighed quietly and stretched herself awake, noticing that she had a blanket of snow over her, literally. it was thick and covering her up as though it was a blanket, covering from her breasts down. She sat herself up and the blanket dispersed, her ears perking slightly. "Hm.. Weird.. Oh well.." she muttered, reaching over and grabbing her shirt and slipping it on. "No harm done.." She turned her head and looked at the two sleeping brothers, a smile on her face. "Aw.."
Aiden smiled in his sleep. "No......I dont want it....." Maxius continued to sleep.
She turned her head away from them for a moment and began to shift, her cracking and creaking bones not as loud as he papa's when he shifted. When she was done and trotted over to them and walked up one of each of their legs, laying down when she got to their stomachs and purring softly.
Maxius twitched and so did aiden.
She giggled mentally and reached her puffy tail up to Maxius' nose, wagging it slightly so as to let the fur tickled his nose.
Maxius's nose twitched then he opened his eyes and looked at her. "good morning....."
"It's fun messing with you when you are asleep!" She determined with a cat like grin on her muzzle. She removed her tail away from his nose and nuzzled her head into the white neko's bare stomach, purring softly.
Maxius watched her and smiled.
"So, Maxius. Do you have a mama or papa?" Her gaze shifted so that she was lookign up into the green orbs of the other feline, her small white mane of fur on her cheek running over his abdomen.
Maxius put his hands behind his head like a cushion and looked at the top of the barrier. "Not that I know of........"
"Oh, I see.." She said softly, crawlign the rest of the way onto Maxius lap and curling up like a small kit. "Do you know where you came from, where you were born, I mean."
Maxius looked at her. "Avalar......."
"What was the first face you saw? Aiden's?" She asked, peeking up at him through the corner of her eye with her light blue eyes.
Maxius nodded and smiled. "yeah..........." Aiden sat up and yawned.
She lifted her head from her paws and looked back at Aiden, lifting her tail and running it under his chin. "Morning."
Aiden smiled. "Goodmorning....." he looked at Maxius. "goodmarrow brother...."
"Did you both sleep well?" She asked finally, gently digging her claws into Maxius' leg as she stretched out her forearms.
They both nodded. "Of course........you?"
"Yes, of course I did. It was nice and cool, so I slept like a kit." She said with a slight giggle, smiling.
They both smiled and yawned.
"Are you two hungry?" She asked, leaning her head down and licking her paws clean.
They smiled. "No...we are fine...."
"Okay.. Hey, if I run into this barrier will it smash my face and send me sprawling back or will it let me through?" She asked, jumping from Maxius' lap and strethcing out her large and lean body, yawning up into the air.
Aiden smiled. "Yes you can go through......."
"Alright, I'll be back soon, you two." She purred out, trotting through the black field and disappearing behind the trees and the bushes.
Aiden watched her leave then layed back down and closed his eye. Maxius smiled. "She is sweet......dont you think?" Maxius said looking at aiden.
Within moments of her leave she appeared around the bushes with a plump white rabbit hanging from her mouth by the neck, it's legs kicking rapidly in a frantic attempt to escape her massive jaws. She trotted back through the black dome and laid down with the rabbit, securing it between her paws and readjusting her bite so that it's whole head was in her mouth. She bit down and pulled the head of it off, letting the head fall to the ground with it's ears twitching. "You sure you're not hungry?" She asked once more, her gaze drifitng up to look at them.
They smiled and nodded. "We are sure....go ahead...."
She looked as if she shrugged, a slight grunt coming from the throat as she took a bite of the fur and flesh. "Kay." she mumbled with a full mouth.
Aidens ear twitched and e wrapped is tail around himself.
When she had her fill of the rabbit she dug in the snow and placed the emptied bones of the mammal into the small hole, covering it back over with the snow and growling softly. "You gonna be hungry duging the journey?"
Aiden and Maxius looked at her. "No....we wont....."
"But you must eat today lest you wish to pass out from exhaustion and lack of food." Kitani argued rather meekly, her ears laying flat against her head in a bit of worry.
Maxius smiled. "We will last......" Aiden smiled.
She sighed a sigh of defeat and sat herself down in the snow, her ears sliknking back a bit more and her gaze at the ground where she had just burried the rabbit's carccuss. "Fine."
They watched her for a moment then Aiden snapped his fingers and the barrier disappeared.
She stood and headed past the two, her paws just barely leaving indents in the snow as she walked lightly. "We'de better get going, then." She mumbled back tothem.
They watched her and stood there for a moment then they both became balls of light. Aiden became a ball of dark light and Maxius became a ball of light light. They followed behind her.
"What do you wish to do to pass the miles?" She asked.
They didnt say anything as they followed her, they just floated along.
"Maxius... Aiden...?" She called, looking behind her to see the two balls of light.
They just made a jingling noise when she called their names and they floated around her.
She could not help buut chuckle softly and swat at one of them, her ears perking up as her tail flicked like tha of a cub's. She growled lightly and pounced at one, missing miserably and falling agisnst the snow. She uprred lightly and wagged her taiol.
They jingled around her as she tried to catch them then bumped into each other and made a loud jingle.
She purred and growled, pawing the air at the both of them as they bumped into each other. She dove at them once mroe and felt herself sprawl against the snow, a low purr escaping her throat of amusement.
They both turned back to normal and smiled at each other then at her.
She pushed herself up onto her hide paws and wrapped her arms around Maxius' shoulders, her claws digging into his shirt for grip as she pulled him down to the ground.
Maxius blinked and landed in the snow, his tail wrapped around her.
She growled playfully as her tail flicked, her paws now pressing to his shoulders as she stared down at him. A innocent grin, however, was on her face as she bit into his hair, released and jumped away. She lowered her upper body towards the ground, her botom pointed into the air as her tail flicked about; she wanted to play.
aiden ran and tried to tackle her but failed horribly.
She let out a low growl and ran at the darker neko, her eyes shining happily. She bit into his shirt and dragged him a bit, another growl comign from her throat/
Aiden turn flipped around and bite her on the neck.
She let out a small cry like that of a kit wrestling around with it's siblings, but instead of drawing back and trying run away from him she reached a paw up and caught hold of his hair, her talons gripping into the lockes as he paw tightened slightly. She bucked her form against him slightly as she tried to get him from her neck, her tail still flicking in a playful manner.
Aidens fangs sank into her throat as the snow became dark.
Her tail stopped flicking as she noticed the snow becoming dark around her paws, the biting hardly an annoyance to her as she turned her head and looked at this male, her lips pulling back in a snarl. Her claws removed from his hair and swiped at him threateningly, spitting a loud hiss at him.
Maxius grabbed her from his brother. "Aiden control yourself........." Aiden stood up and nodded. "My apologizes...."
She let out what sounded like a low groan and she shook her head softly. "Don't apologize, it was most likely my fault." Kitani mumbled something under her breath and turned around, her paws kicking a small rock in the snow as she headed on towards the mountain.
Maxius smiled and pulled her back into an embrace holding her tightly. "Its not your fault......I let my gaurd down.....thus....letting his power get out of hand..."
"Then it's you I should be kicking in the snow, not this poor pebble!" She stated with a slight smile on her face, her form shifting back to it's humanoid appearance in his embrace.
Maxius looked at Aiden who stood there then maxius looked at him and nodded, and Aiden turned into a ball of dark light and flew into Maxius and disappeared. "He needs time to think......"
"Hm? Is he upset or confused or something?" She tilted her head as she looked back at him, one ear drooping and the other perking.
Maxius shrugged. "I dont know........" He looked at her.
"Well, either way, we should get going. The base of the mountain is right past these trees and I've already wasted our time being childish." She looked back towards the mountain and smiled a bit. Kitani removed his hands from embracing her and pulled away from him, humming a rather happy tune to herself.
Maxius followed behind her quietly listening to her song.
She stopped hummining when the trees were past them and her gaze drifted to the mountain instead of continuing it's examination of the snow. "Well, I hope you're in shape, this won't be such an easy ride if you;re not." She said with a slight giggle, easily jumping up and gripping her claws and feet into the cracks and small ledges of the mountain. She climbed expertly up the side of the mountain, however, easily pulling herself up and over and high ledge. "Come on!"
As they entered the cold air he sniffed, smelling the location on the small town that was not far from here. He looked down at Marybelle. "Be careful...I hate if anything would happen to you...If you feel unsafe hold onto me...We're beyond the point of safty, where theifs and thugs come out and want to play..." He held on her hand tight.
"You gonna protect me, hm?" She asked, kissing his shoulder gently and holding his head gently. "I love you, Sai. You're so caring."
He smiles. "And I love you...I wouldn't want anything to happen to you...It would destory me if you end up with some other man or-" He stops shaking his head to throw the thought away. "That will never happen..." He lead her down the snowy path. His eyes focus on the path a head. He wanted to get there quickly so he wouldn't have to worry to much about anyone running into them. His beloved's beauty is enough to drive any man insane even if she's preganent it wouldn't stop any man to snatch her from him. But they won't be able to leave without leaving with any sover injuries. The man would have to come out with at least missing a few limbs trying to leave with her.
She blushed and reached up, gently carressing his cheek. She stepped infront of him and leaned foreward, stopping when her face was a mere inch or so from his face. "Sai, I would never leave you for another man, nor another women... I promise.." She closed the small space between their lips and kissing him lovingly.
Sai stops in his tracks as his lips met with Marybelle's. His cheeks holding a blush as his hands wrap around her body, holding her close to his hard form. He breaks the kiss with a chuckle. "I know but I hate to see a man try to run off with you..." He lowered his eyes knowing that the thought as stupid but his mind can't let go of it. "Your beauty shines just like the un on a cold day...And I would love when other men look at you, seeing me beside you. The look of envy on their face as we walk the streets of town but..." His eyes looked about the snowy path they were walking down. "I do not trust the things hidden in this snowy place...where everything could possibly happen..."
"Well, even if any man tried to take me away I would kill them.. And if I could not, nothing would happen and I would come back to you like a pup at night. Sai, don't worry about such things, I love you and only you.. Then I will love you and our child when it comes along, but until then just you." She moved out of his way and grabbed his hand again, smiling faintly. "Come on, I know this place makes you a but edgy with me around, so we should head on."
He nods, holding her hand tight as if not to let go. They reached a dip in the landscape seeing the cozy twon below. He sighed with a bit of relife as he saw the tiny town. He lead her into the town watch carefully as they wondered the streets of the town. "Do you see any store that catch your interest...?" He asked stopping for a breif moment.
"Actually, that one does!" She said, pointing off to a store that held dresses in the windows of various colors. The light colors are really what caught her eye, however, as she liked the light blue, light purple, white and light red. "Come on, Sai!" She said happily, leading him into the store.
He smiles at her excitement as they entered the Snowy Peaks store.
After they came back out of the store she turned her head back to the wolf and sighed quietly. "Sai, do you have enough money to spend on me?" She asked, noting that she needed new foot and hand wraps as well as more hair ties.
He looks down at her with a nod. "I saved up all my money from the time I destory a certain person's village years ago. I didn't want to spend so I did little minor jobs and hunted my own food...So yes I have plenty of money for you and the baby..." He tilted his head. "Why do you ask, love...?"
"Because I would happily buy my own clothing." She said. She looked up and spotted a first aide store and lead him to it, walking into it slowly with him at her side.
First-Aide store...? He looked confused as he was lead into Aide-Ur-Wounds.
Sai looked about the filled streets. "Where to now, love...?" He looked down at her.
"Well, we will need a crib and some toys, a walker and a set of clothes for our child. Only a set because we can come back out when we confirm the child's gender.. Wait, no, two so we can come back a couple days later.. I heard that it hurts pretty damn bad so I won't be able to walk for a while afterwards.."
Sai whimpers softly remembering that childbirth would be exertmely painful. He couldn't bear seeing her in pain but another fear gripped onto him. He's heard that women as died giving birth, either the baby dies or the mother, or worst he could loose both. His eyes lowered as he thought about these things. He really didn't want to go through any type of lost like this.
Marybelle heard his thoughts clearly and this brought a few tears to her eyes which she wiped on his chest as she hugged him. She was trying not to think of this predicament, fearing that it would infact happen, and she had kept it out of her mind until Sai thought it all and she heard it. "Sai..." Her voice cracked as she said his name, a slight whimper coming from her throat. Please don't think about that... It scares me... She thought, only thinking it because she did not wish for passerbyers to hear what she had to say to her beloved. I don't want to die.... A new flow of tears ran down her cheeks and was sopped up by his fabric shirt, her face burrying into his chest.
Sai held her close. He knew all too well about any of that would happen. "Marybelle...that won't happen...I'll try to help you in birth to the best of my ablities...So please...don't give in to the thought..."
Her tears began to slow, her hands finding their way to the shoulderblades she had so many times clawed, pierced and bloodied. "I know you will, Sai... But even you cannot stop what the Grim Reaper controls.." She muttered out.
"I don't care!" He pulled her hands into his, place them on his beating heart. "'Tis nothing but a thought that wories both parents...but it doesn't mean that it will happen..." Tears burned the wolf's eyes as he squeezed them shut, trying to fight them back.
Marybelle kissed his eye softly, her hands gripping into his shirt. She did not like seeing such a powerful man crying, it hurt her even more because she was the one who caused it. "I'm sorry... Saki.." She said quietly, placing her head against his shoulder.
"It's okay...You have no reason to say that word..." He sighed holding her close to his body. "For this isn't the time...nor place..." He put on a faint smile. "I know wiht all my heart that you will live through this birth along with our child!"
She smacked his chest and turned away from him, her arms crossing as she stared at the ground. "Then why'd you even think it to begin with?" Was all she asked, her shoulder slumping slightly.
He winched in pain as he gripped his chest. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to...I guess it was a new father thing...I really can't explain it..." He blushed turning his head towards the sky. "I just couldn't help but think of your's and the baby's safety..." He lowered his eyes. "Forgive me if I upsetted you in any type of way..."
You're gonna make such a great father, Sai. You're even worried about the baby when it's barely even a creature yet.. She uncrossed her arms and reached back at him, wanting to hold his hand. Come on, we should get going before the dresses are done.
He nods following after her with his head low and his ears pulled back on his head.
She felt the waves of sadness coming from her lover, it caused her to stop in her tracks and turn around to face him and in the process his hand wrapping around her back due to being held by her's. "Sai.. I'm sorry.. I don;t like when you're sad, please.. I'm sorry I blamed you.."
He nods not saying a word. He hide his face in her neck wanting to be close to her. His heart aching with the thoughts. A sigh coming from his pressed lips. He just wanted to be held in her arms just for a few more moments before they head into another store.
She released his hand and pulled her arms around his form, holding him close to her form. She placed her chin against his shoulder and kissed his neck in a comforting way.
A soft smile laying across his lips. He nuzzled against her skin. "You are the only thing that I want...and our child..." He wrapped his arms about her. "It just scaried me a bit is all...I'm new at this and the weird feelings that are now forming in me...Just as it is for you..."
"You have never mated with another wolf before? I would've thought you already had offspring, not that I would like the thought..." She said, running her fingers through his soft hair.
"No...I refused to mate since I was a traidtor to my own pack and friends..." He sighed again in her hair. "So I went on my own path and used people to my own will but..." He pulled from her looking into her eyes. "Until you changed my life around...I didn't want anything to do with you...but something told me deep down that I needed to love someone and protect something that is mine..." He smiles down at her.
"Well, now you'll have two things." She said with a reassuring caress of the cheek. She smiled softly and kissed his lips softly before pulling back and grabbing his hand. "Come on, Sai."
He smiles following her. "Where to...?"
"To get some baby supplies, silly."
He chuckled as he was pulled by his beloved.
When she spotted a store she grinned and pulled him into it, purring heppily.(sorry, I can't think of a good name for the store.. :x)
He shook his head as they entered into Baby's Love
She was lead out of the store, giggling lightly as she held taught to the bags in her hands. She se tthe large bear on the crib box as it followed behind her like a lost puppy, leading her beloved back to Snowy Peaks.
Marybelle smiled softly as she admired the dresses through the clear plastic bag over them, her heart thumping happily. You know, Sai, that I will be forced to wear your hideous clothing until I give birth because I could not possibly fit into these when I am a humongous cow. she said, rubbing his arm softly as the bear, crib, tiger and monkey all followed after them on the snow.
"My cloths are hideous...!?" He said it as if he was apoled to what she said. "I guess you're giving me a hint that I'm not appealing in these cloths..." He looked over at her holding the other bags.
"Well, no. You look ruggedly handsome, I look like a biker dyke." She pointed out. "Or perhaps even a bum because they do not fit well." She glanced at him and smiled a bit.
"But I think you look cute..." He smiles. "Just like a little girl!" He chuckles. "If we have a girl she would look so much like you...So beautiful in many way..." He sighs. "It's going to be a pain once she hit that age were every male would want to get with her..."
Her brow twitched as he said this, her face slowly becoming hard. "They touch her and they meet my claws..." she growled out.
"Don't worry they have two other men at the house including myself to tear that man to shreds..." He grins.
She grimmaced lightly, her eyes softning a bit. "Thank you, but Fugiri and Kira are not permitted near my child. For one, Kira is a dangon idiot when she hits her head and for two, i do not turst fugiri around such fragile creatures because of his claws. When out child is older, then they are aloud him or her, but no time sooner." She said this all with a bit of anger in her voice, still so pissed at Kira for having given her that fake smile.
"Wow! Still pissed at Kira...!" His grin fades to a frown.
She sighed. "I'm sorry, Sai.. I should just let it go, shouldn't I?" she asked, gripping his hand slightly.
He nods. "But I would think twice about Fugiri too. I'll have him look at it but I too, am a bit concern about his claws as well..." He remembered the first battle he got into it with that dragon. His flesh felt if it were on fire when his claws was in his back and chest.
"Yeah, I mean, look at what he had done to you and me when you fought with him.... It hurt.." she muttered out as they left the town's border and was in the forest just outside of it.
"For an ice dragon...his claws were like fire to my skin!" He shivered a bit. "I don't want him to accidently scratch our child...It ould cause not only panic between us but anger and the child would cry its eyes out..." His ears lowered. "That would hurt me to my heart...The I'll get piss and so on..."
"Yeah, I know wjhat you mean.. I would tear him to shreds if he ever hurt our baby." she smiled softly as she huddled against his side, laying her head against shoulder and holding his hand with both of hers.
He nods in agreement. He wouldn't stop her either, he would lay back and watch as Thanatos, Ai, and Kira tries to pray her off him. His eye lifted to the huge manor. "Nice...We're home..." He smiles up at the huge manor built of ice. He lead her to the huge ice doors, pushing them open entering into the crystal ice manor.
Ai wondered passed the manor out to the forest where she can clear her mind. She doesn't know why she's being bothered by such thoughts of Thanatos leaving her or mistrust but it could be that she has let the man who's with Marybelle into her life and he used it to get to her village. Thus, killing her family and splitting her and her sister up. She sighs sitting on a snowy rock near a cliff. She didn't want to think like that. The past is the past, like Thanatos said, and must looking on to the now and future. She lowers her eyes. I must get a hold of myself...nothing like that is going to happen...not now not ever...! She smiles to herself as she felt a bit better about her unsolved thoughts. And I need to give Thanatos some space at times...I don't need to be all in his side every moment... She slumped off the rock to the snow on the ground. Her ears slightly dropped, her kness up to her chest, and her cheek pressed agains her knee, her snow white hair like a cloak behind her as she listens to the sounds of mother nature.
As soon as Thanatos and Axis get into the back yard Axis pounces Thanatos taking him down. Thanatos laughs and rolls over on Axis wresting with him. Axis nips at his masters side tickling him. "Oi! No fair!" Thanatos laughs out loud
Ai's ears perked up hearing a voice and playful growling. She stood up slowly making her way to the other side of the cliff that lead to the back yard seeing Thanatos and Axis playing in the snow. A soft smile came across her features as she watched them play.
Thantos grabbed a stick and chucked it across the yard. "Go get it boy..." Axis bound across the yard and fell into a snow drift. Thantos burst up laughing as the dog disappeared in a mound of snow. Axis jumped out and got the stick falling right back into the drift on the way back.
Ai giggles softly to herself as she watch the two play. He's just a big kid in that body! She shook her head. Another giggle coming forth hoping the two don't notice her, she ducks down near a rock just in case.
Thanatos took the stick when Axis came back with it. He paused and leaned into the Dog's ear whispering something softly. Axis barked hapily and bound over to where Ai was and bit her skirt pulling her over to Thanatos. Thanatos sat in the snow and smiled. "Peeping Ai huh?"
Ai blushed pulling her skirt for Axis' mouth. "No..." She shook her head slightly. "I was just out here l thinking..." Her hair caught in the wind. She groans pulling it back form her face. "While I was sitting there I heard a voice so I came to check it out..."
Thanatos sat there a smile on his face, his legs crossed and his hands on hie ankles, he looked like a regular Peter Pan the way he was carrying himself.
Ai let out a huge sigh. "I'm sorry did I interrupt..." She looked down at him and over to Axis. "I didn't mean to if I did..." A small smile coming across her features.
"Not at all. come join us." Thanatos smiled and tossed a snow ball at her playfully
Ai gasped jumping back from the ball. She giggles grabing a handful of snow. "You asked for it, Thanatos..." She laughs throwing a snow ball at him.
"Yes, yes I did...get her boy!" Thanatos blocked the snowball with his arm, Axis bound up to her and picked her up on his back running towards the snow drift and tossing her into it.
Ai laughed as she jumped out the drift her hair caked on her face and body as her ice blue eyes rested on her lover. She pounced him so she was sitting on top of him. "You are a treaky one..." She pulled snow into her hands ploping onto his face. "How'd you like that!" She laughed uncontrolably.
Thanatos laughed and blew the snow on his face so it blew up into her face. "Like it just fine." He laughed and held her to him.
She squealed at the cold snow hit her face. She laughed as she was held in her lover's arms. "You are nothing but a kid I swear...!" She kissed his cold nose.
"So, you love be because I am..." Thanatos smiles and rolls with her in the snow.
Ai giggles. Her body pressed against the snow. Her long white hair blending in with the snow surronding her. "But of coarse...I can't lie about it..."
Thanatos kisses her deeply. "i love you my little snow bunny..."
She kissed him back then breaks it looking at him confused. "I'm a fox, Thanatos!" She laughed. "But I love you too, my man of ice!"
"I know my furry little snow bunny." Thanatos stuck out his tongue teasingly.
She smiles taking into her own mouth, caressing it with her own.
Thanatos smiles and wiggles the tip of his tongue.
Ai giggles relesing it. She buried her face in his chest, quickly smashing a snow ball in Thanatos' face. She squealed as she made her get away.
Thanatos meeps and grabs her ankle to make her fall in the snow.
She giggles trying to lossen his grip about her ankle. "Oh! Help!" She laughs with fake cries. "The evil man has got me!" Her tail wagging a bit with excitment. Her ears perked and her hair caked to her face to the point she couldn't see. All she could do what laugh. She hasn't had this much fun since the day he village got attacked.
Thanatos climbed ontop of her pinning her down and kissing her deeply* "mmmm..."
Ai blushed slightly as she kissed him back. Her hands ran through his hair as they laid in the snow.
Axis ran and hopped on them both. Thanatos pulled back. "Oh...dog pile..." He chuckled.
"Axis!" She giggled pulling her hair back from her face. She couldn't move since she had her lover on her along with his dog on top of her. She laughed as she tries to get free.
Thanatos moves and wrestled Axis down nipping his ear. Axis pants and growls playfully only to have Thanatos growl playfully in reply
Ai giggles at the to as they wresled about. She sighed thinking about the times before her and Kira got spreaded and how they use to play around. Her eyes watched the man she loves wrestle down his pet. Her body shivered at the wetness of her cloths and hair.
"Hun, if you want we can go in and get warm by the fire..." Thanatos said holding Axis down, the dog snapping playfully
She smiles. "That sounds great!" She giggled standing her two feet but slipped on a little patch of ice hidden beneath the snow.
Thanatos grabbed her to keep her from falling. "whoa babe..."
She sniles looking up at him. "Sorry...I guess I wasn't paying attention..."
"No harm done." Thanatos caressed her cheek holding her from behind. He smiles. "Hm. I love you." He said before nuzzling her face.
She giggles angain, placing a gentle hand on his cheek. "I love more..." She kissed his chin to his nose.
"No way." Thanatos kissed her lips. "I love you the most."
"Nu-Huh...!" She kissed him back. "I love you more!"
"Nope, I love you more..." Thanatos smiled widely
"Yea-hu!" She smiles, pulling him towards the crystal ice manor.
Thanatos patted his thigh. "Come on boy!" Axis followed them
"Well, either way, we should get going. The base of the mountain is right past these trees and I've already wasted our time being childish." She looked back towards the mountain and smiled a bit. Kitani removed his hands from embracing her and pulled away from him, humming a rather happy tune to herself.
Maxius followed behind her quietly listening to her song.
She stopped hummining when the trees were past them and her gaze drifted to the mountain instead of continuing it's examination of the snow. "Well, I hope you're in shape, this won't be such an easy ride if you;re not." She said with a slight giggle, easily jumping up and gripping her claws and feet into the cracks and small ledges of the mountain. She climbed expertly up the side of the mountain, however, easily pulling herself up and over and high ledge. "Come on!"
Maxius looked at her then at the ground and too a deep breathe and disappeared.
Her fur brislted at the base of her tail and at her neck, trailing down to lead to the mid of her spine as she watched the white-haired neko disappear. "Maxius?" She called out, looking around.
He was crouched above her on a ledge. "Yes?"
She gasped from his voice, having not expected it, and fell back onto her bottom. She looked up at Maxius and placed a hand over her heart, letting out a calming sigh. "Don't do that!" She muttered, regaining her footing on the ground and pushing herself up . She climbed up to the ledge and pulled herself over, flicking her tail slightly. "Gonna give someone a heart attack."
Maxius smiled and looked at her. "sorry........"
The waved it off and looked up to the jagged edged surface of the mountain wall. "Ya' act just like my father, you know that? He takes every opprotunity he can to scare me half to death."
Maxius looked up then looked at her. "See you at the top........"
She rolled her eyes a bit and connected to the wall, scurrying up the wall, jumping from rock to rock as her instincts allowed her to. He's most likely already up there... She thought to herself, a low rumbling coming from her chest in amusement.
Maxius watched her take off.
When she reached a ledge she sat down and took a small break, shaking the snow from her silvery hair and paws. She ran her fingers through her hair and pulled it all back into a low ponytail, purring softly.
Maxius smiled sitting next to her. "Tired........"
"Well, I suppose you wouldn't be from lack of climbing." Another rumble coming from her chest of amusement as she said this, her gaze drifting to him, smiling a bit.
Maxius smiled and chuckled. "True....."
"So, I take it that Aiden is still contimplating his thoughts?" She asked, one of her brows arching slightly.
Maxius closed his eyes then looked at her and shook his head. "Hes a sleep........"
"He was still tired then? He should've said something, we could've waited for him to rest before moving on."
Maxius smiled. "He always sleeps......."
"So is he the, more lazier of you two? Oh wait, I forgot that is you mister teleport so I don't have to climb.." She smirked and propped herself up with her hands.
Maxius smiled at her. "Hey....its faster....."
"That may be so, but think about some of the things you will miss out on. Perhaps, you will miss out on maintaingin and honing your sense of balance." she said simply.
Maxius stood up. "I have perfect balance........perhaps the best...."
She smirked up at him. "Mhm... I believe it." she said sarcastically and playfully.
Maxius smiled. "good........" He looked at her and smiled.
"Time to get going?" She asked, pushing herself up and stretchign out her legs.
Maxius smiled and held his hand out. "Its faster........."
She smiled softly and took his hand, shuffling closer to him. "Fine..."
Maxius smiled at her. "Hold on.....if you let go....youll be lost forever....."
This caused her to whimper and quickly grab hold of his body, cuddling her face into his chest.
Maxius smiled. "Im going to count to three........one.....two...." when he said three they where on top of the mountain.
She pulled her head back from his chest and peeked her eyes open, looking around catiously. She sighed softly and removed her arms from his body. "Ugh! Just like my father!" She said in an exasperated sigh, refering to him scaring once more.
He smiled. "Im serious...if you where to not be touching me during that you would be gone......" he looked around.
"S-Seriously?" She asked mekely, her gaze falling back on him.
He nodded. "Yeah..........I would not lie about that...."
"Oh..." She mustered out, her gaze falling back tot he ground.
He smiled. "I didnt want to hold your hand just for the fun of it......." He looked around.
She smirked. "Sure you didn't, Maxius"
He looked back at her and smiled. "What you dont believe me......"
"Nope." She laughed softly and walked past him, her eyes looking at the mountain a little more than two miles away, which was ot far.
Maxius smiled and watched her then also looked where she looked.
She took his hand and looked up at him. "We should get going."
He looked at her and nodded. "Ok........" He closed his eyes.
She huddled in close to his chest and shut her eyes, biting her lip so as not to whimper.
He opened his eyes and they were where she was looking earlier. "Hmm....that took a while....." he looked at her and smiled.
She released both his hand and his form, her eyes looking over the landscape. "Okay, now, we're gonna descend by foot." SHe smirked, looking up at him.
He nodded and smiled. "Ok........."
She got down on all fours and jumped down to a rock a few feet down, her tail flicking slightly as she took another leap down. She looked back at him and purred. "Come on."
Maxius smiled and put his hands in his pockets and followed her.
She took a leap before fully turning her head back to look forward and her hands slipped on a sleek sheet of ice on the rock. Kitani let out a screech as she attempted to grab another rock, but unfortunately there was none directly under her. She clawed into the wall of the mountain, her body flipping off the rock, and attempted to climb back up, a couple of her fingers breaking and her wrist jamming as the weight of her jerked her down.
Maxius quickly visualized his target then teleported up to her and grabbed her.
Kitani winced slightly and shut her eyes as she was grabbed and helped up, setting herself down on the rock covered in ice and growling at it menacingly. "Fuck's sake." She growled out, holding her arms out infront of her, examining her two broken fingers on her left and her limp right hand. Her fur bristled uneasily.
Maxius grabbed her hand and looked at her fingers. "I can fix them......" He looked at her.
She shook her head and pushed herself up by pushing her back against the slight ledge behind her. "No, I have to learn one way or another..." She mumbled, a blush coming to her face and tinting her fur a light pinkish. She sighed softly and let her ears droop, wrapping her arms around his body. "I just want off this mountain."
Maxius picked her up into his arms carrying her. "Want to go home? or to the city?"
"Neither for the time being, just on the snowy ground." She grabbed her fingers behind his back and broke them back into place, whimpering and burrying her face into his chest deeply to muffle her yelp.
Maxius set her down on the ground gently and looked at her.
The panther shoved her hands into the snow to sooth the pain in her fingers and wrist. She sighed softly and looked up at Maxius. "Thanks.."
He smiled and sat down. "Its what im here for........"
"You know, you're a really sweet guy, Maxius." She pulled her left hand up from the ground and rubbed her neck with her index finger, feeling the bit wound in her neck. "Heh... So is Aiden."
Maxius smiled. "thanks............" He looked around.
"I suppose you wouldn't happen to have any wrap or small metal rods with you, huh?" She asked, placing her hand against her thigh.
"um......no....sorry......." He looked at her.
"Yeah, should've known." She removed her shirt and tossed it to him. "Tear a few strips of cloth form that." She stood up and walked over to a tree, grabbing a branch with her right hand and snapped it off of the tree, wincing as her wrist was jerked. She mumbled something inaudible and walked back over to her spot in the snow and began to bite off big enough pieces of the branch and dropping them into the snow.
Maxius tore the shirt into strips and placed them on the floor.
"Thank you." She grabbed a couple of the sticks and held them on either side of her middle finger and reahced out to Maxius. "Could you wrap it up fro me?
"Of course......" he grabbed some of the strips and tightly tide the sticks together.
She reached back down and grabbed to more sticks, holding them on either side of her pinky. "Could you?" She asked, wanting him to wrap her pink as well.
"Yes...." He grabbed one more strip and tide it tightly around her pinky.
"Thank you!" She purred out, squeezing her right hand into a fist and rotating her wrist. "You still up to going to the city?"
He nodded. "Thats completely up to you............"
She laughed quietly and fell back agianst the snow, shuttign her eyes and stretching her arms out to the sides. "I don't care where we go."
He looked up at the sky as the sun began to sink in the horizon.
"Wanna set up camp here?" She asked, looking over at him.
"What do you want to do........." he looked at her.
"We might as well, I mean.. Not much else we can do for now."
Maxius nodded then a black orb floated out of him and aiden appeared. "what brother?" asked aiden tiredly. Maxius smiled. "We are setting up camp. Aiden nodded and a black sheild created a barrier around them.
She nuzzled her face into the snow and curled up, purring softly. "You can light the flame if you want, I won't complain."
"no.....thats ok......." Maxius smiled at her. Aiden yawned. "Im going back in brother.....I need more rest...."
"Then I'll help to keep you warm." She muttered, getting up and walking over to him. She sat down next to him and nuzzled against his side.
Aiden disappeared. Maxius blushed slightly. "No...its ok....ill be fine..."
She mumbled quietly and relaxed against him. "No."
"Ok........." Maxius took his shirt off and laid back in the snow.
"Wait, did you just blush?" She asked, shaking her head softly and looking up at him.
"Of course not......." He smiled looking up at the top of the barrier.
She gasped, not being able to hold back her grin. "Yes you did!" She giggled smally and nuzzled her form into his side, purring.
Maxius lied their looking at the ceiling, his bare skin was cold.
"You should start the fire, Maxius... You're cold to the touch." She said, running one of her fingers over his ribs, frowning a bit.
Maxius smiled slightly. "Ok......he touched the ground next to him and and a small fire formed. His skin warmed up.
She nodded softly and placed her hand back agbainst his chest, her eyes shutting as she relaxed back against his form. "You know, I won't let that blush go. It'll be something fun to mess with you with."
Maxius smiled to himself and looked at her. "Right...."
"You doubt me, Maxie?" She asked innocently, a gentle smile on her face.
He laughed and sat up. "I never said that......"
She giggled once more as her body twisted when he sat up since she was still nuzzling his side and holding onto him eith her hand. "It was implied."
He laughed again. "Oh really......." He looked down at her.
"Yes, and you know it." Kitani said, smiling sweetly at him.
He smiled at her then laid back down and turned on his side looking at the fire.
She sighed contently and placed her face against his back, her eyes shutting once more. "Good night, Maxius."
He smiled. "Goodnight.........."
She nodded and drifted off into the unconsciousness of the dream world.
~~The next morning~~
Kitani woke up and looked up at Maxius, purring softly as she wagged her tail. She pushed herself up, only to wince and fall back the small distance to the ground. "Damn..." She mumbled, rolling onto her back and sitting herself up.
Maxius looked at her and smiled. "Still sore?"
"Yes." She said in a quiet voice, squeezing her hand with the browk fingers into a type of loose fist. She gripped her other hand into a fist and rolled her wrist. "Yes." she said once mroe.
Maxius sat up and stretched all his muscles and yawned.
"Maxxie, you should eat today." She said, placing her hands back against the ground as she looked over to the neko.
Maxius smiled and shook his head. "No....im good....."
She frowned lightly and wrapped her arms around him, nuzzling her head into his side. "Please, Maxxie?"
Maxius shook his head. "No.....Im fine honostly...."
"You haven't eaten at all since we left the village, neither of you have." She said, puckering her lower lip.
"That ok...we have a high tolerance for that......" he smiled.
She sighed softly and shut her eyes in defeat. "Fine, I won't bug you about it anymore."
"If it make you happy.....ill eat alittle later......" he looked at her.
Her face visibly lightened when he said this, a low purr of happiness echoing in her throat and against his side. "Thank you, Maxius!"
He smiled. "Yeah........"
She leaned up and kissed his nose, releasing his form and standing up. Before Kitani could get out of the barrer, however, she noticed a bunny hole in it that she had not saw the previous night. She grinned lightly and laid down before it, peering into it. "Curse it all! There is a bunny and I can't get it..." She mumbled to herself, ettempted to shoved her face into the hole fasr enough to grab the rabbit.
Maxius sat down and watched her.
She pulled her head back and kicked her foot into the hole, growling when she could not get it out. She dug her free foot into the snow and began to pull, grunting; it was all pretty comical to say the least.
Madius smiled and laughed. "Having trouble?"
"I... just... Peachie!" She said through grunts and pulls, her ears laying flat against her head.
He got up and walked over to her and grabbed her leg gently. "Relax.........."
She whimpered softly and stopped her struggling. She started giggling lghtly when she felt the rabbit's whiskers as it sniffed her foot. "G-get it out, get it out!" She said in a fit of giggles.
Maxius pulled gently on her leg and her foot came out.
When it was pulled out and the rabbit went running fromt he hole she shifted onto her side and attempted to catch the rabbit, growling and groaning as it slipped through her splinted fingers. She sighed and laid on her back, her eyes shutting as she wiggled her toes.
Maxius watched her, he smiled.
"You must think I'm fucking retarted, huh?" She asked, opening her eyes and looking up at him, a bit of pain eminating from the silver blue irises of hers.
He smiled and looked at her with his green eyes. "No.......I dont...."
"I don't see why you don't." She sighed out, shutting her eyes once more and sittign herself up.
He scooted closer to her. "Why would I?"
"Well, first off, I had my foot stuck in a rabbit hole..." She said bluntly. "But I guess that's only because I wasn't watching what I was doing on that stupid mountain. Stupid mountain..."
He smiled at her and grabbed his shirt from the floor. "That was intresting....."
She forced a small chuckle and nodded. "Yeah, I suppose from where you were sitting it was interesting."
Maxius smiled. "what you think I was checking out your athletic abilities?"
"I'm athletic." She mumbled, her head dropping slightly. "Probably not as athletic as you or your brother, but I am athletic.."
Maxius smiled and looked at her then he looked down at the snow. "I never said you werent athletic........I think you are..."
Kitani reached up and rubbed the dagger on her collar with her thumb and index finger, a small smile on her face. "Really? Thats nice to say."
Maxius stood up and put his shirt on.
"Should we go now?"
Maxius nodded and looked at her.
She placed her palm against the ground and pushed herself up, grunting quietly. "Alright then, come on. I'm a bit hungry and hoping I can find that rabbit again." She purred out.
Maxius yawned. "Where too?"
"If you're still tired we don't have to go yet."`
"Are you ready to go?" He looked at her.
"Not if you're stilll tired." She said simply.
He smiled. "we can go.........."
"You're tired." She said stubbornly, crossing her arms and smirking slightly.
"Nah......we can go..." He smiled and started to walk.
She dropped back down to the ground and crossed her legs, her gaze following Maxius.
He continued to walk.
She just sat there, hoping he would come back and rest if he needed to, her fingers twisthing slightly.
Maxius was sitting next to her. "That guys cute........" pointing to where he just was.
Not knowing it was Maxius beside her, thinking he had simply teleported to a place where she could not see him she nodded. "Mhm..." She blushed at seeing him beside her, quickly turning her head away from him.
Maxius smiled and laughed then layed back in the snow.
"Get some rest." She muttered mekely, turning the rest of her body around by use of the claws on her feet.
Maxius wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close holding her. "sorry......."
She meeped quietly and looked back at him, her fur once mroe turning a slight pink tint. "For what?" She asked, uncrossing her arms.
"For doing that to you......" he looked at her.
"It deserves no apology." Kitani leaned against him and wrapped her arms around him slightly, a low purr coming from her throat.
Maxius smiled and nodded. "Ok..............."
"Now, get some rest. It's not much longer to the city." She removed her arms from him and sat herself back, turning around again to look at the landscape.
Maxius closed his eyes and fell a sleep.
She looked back at him only for a moment, long enough just to reach back and remove a strand of hair from his face. she turned back and crossed her arms over her chest, and before she knew it she too fell asleep where she sat.
~~An hour or so later~~
Kitani's eyes opened at the sound of a low growl, her head raising and her arms uncrossing from her chest to slide down to her loud stomach. She sighed softly and reached ups into the air, stretching out her arms and muscles. She yawned up into the air and readjusted herself on her seat.
Maxius sat there watching her. "Have a nice nap......."
She turned her head and looked down at him, her eyes running over his features slowly, body and all. When her eyes landed back on his face she nodded. "You?"
"I dont sleep......." He smiled.
"Then what do you do?" She asked curiously.
"Lay there with my eyes closed." He looked at her.
"Never sleep?" Kitani turned herself around to face him, removing her hands from her stomach and placing them against her thighs.
He layed there looking at the sky. "Not never.......just most of the time im not a sleep......I see it as wasting your life....when you could be doing something else.............."
"It's a way to conserve energy throughout the night." She smiled a bit and looked up into the sky, following his gaze. "Well, if you're rested then we should get going.. Perhaps I can get something to eat in the city, ne?"
Maxius looked at her and nodded. "Lets get moving then......" He stood up.
She pushed herself up with her palm and turned around, looking around slightly and heading off towards the trees.
Maxius looked around then followed her.
"It's just over that hill." She said back to him, gesturing with a point of the forehead to the hill a little ways off. "You're going to eat when we get there, I still don't like that neither of you ate for a while."
Aiden was walking next to Maxius they both smiled and looked at each other. "Right....."
She ran up to the top of the hill and stopped, looking over the city and purring happily. Her tail flicked back and forth slowly, her toes curling into the snow as her keen nose caught wind of the many different assorted meats in the town. "Hey, Aiden? Do you know how to teleport?" She asked, trying to get her mind off the food to stop her drool and stop her stomach's growling.
Aiden nodded. "Yes I do....why?" He looked at her.
She wiped her mouth with her furry hand and shook her head. "No reason, just trying to make small talk on the way to the city."
Aiden stretched and continued to walk. Maxius looked at the city.
She reached over and grabbed Maxius' arm, latching her arm in his and holding it softly as she followed after Aiden.
Maxius smiled at her and followed her. Aiden put his hands behind his head and walked.
She began to drool again as they entered into the city, her ears twitching every which way with every nose made from both inside and outside of stores. "What are you in the mood fro, guys?"
Maxius just looked around and followed her. Aiden stopped and looked around. "I dont know......"
"What scent appeals to you most right now?" She stopped and looked back at Aiden, a smile on her face.
Aiden closed his eye and took a deep breath. "That........" He pointed to a restaurant.
"So you are hungry." She said slyly, turning her attention back to Maxius before looking at the restaurant sign and reading it. "What, the Chicken house or the Veggies of the World Salad buffet?" She asked since they were both stationed right next to each other, knowing the answer just wanting to make him answer.
Aiden smiled. "The chicken one......."
"Then off we are to eat some chicken." She murred out, unknowingly dragging Maxius along behind her as she made a bee line for the Chicken House Restaurant.
Maxius walked out of the restaurant and looked around the city and aiden looked also. "Where to brother?" Aiden looked at Maxius.
"Maxius, Aiden... Is something wrong, did I offend you or something?" She asked in a worried type tone, her ears laying back against her head.
"No of course not....." Maxius looked back at her. Aiden began to walk to the gym.
"Then what's wrong?" tilting her head slightly. She licked the last of the sause from her finger and sighed. "I did offend you.. I'm sorry..."
Maxius followed Aiden and they entered the gym.
Kitani follwed after them, her ears laying against her head as she pushed the doors open and entered into the Instant Muscles Gym and Arena.
Sai growled as he wondered over to a near by tree, staring daggers at the snow. He didn't know what else to do. He accepted her brother, he gave up a lot to be with her. His body tensed up with anger as he punshed the ground. "FUCK!!"
Flinching back as she heard her lover's cry, she crossed her arms and held her elbows, her shoulders shaking as she began to sniffle quietly. She turned away from Sai's direction and ran off into the forest surrounding the manor, her body shifting unconsciously making her run on all fours. She howled into the air a holw of sadness and pain, disappearing into a gust of snow, her own body dispersing into the snow.
Sai heard her howl knowing who it was. He looked up to see that she wasn't there. His eyes filled with tears knowing her scent. He shift and ran in the forest looking for her. Marybelle! He howled out. Marybelle!
She was no longer in the forest but rather on on of the cliffs that over looked where she and Sai had first made love, her body having been made into snow and carried off by the current letting her travel fast. She was atleast ten miles away from the manor, but the call of her name from the mental connection she and Sai shared was strong.. She just decided not to respond to him because she was afraid that she would be hurt by him. She curled up, her back agaisnt the frigid wind, the last of her form being made by the snow.
Marybelle...! He called again, shifting back to his humaniod form, tears streaming down his face. He slumped to in the snow burying his face in his arm. "I was too hard on her!" He cried out. "I did it again..." He growled. "Sai how could you allow yourself lose control like that! Baka!" He leaned against a rock. His tears staining his face as he looked about the forest. Marybelle...Where are you...? He sniffled, never feeling this bad in his whole life. Even when he turned against Ai he didn't feel this way. Marybelle was basically his everything. "I'm soo sorry..." He pulled his knees up to his chest, hugging them as if it were her.
Come to the hot spring where we first made love... I may not be there, but you will be close enough for me to see you... She said, her eyes shutting as she sobbed against her furred forearms silently.
His ears perked up as he hared her voice. He nods stnding up wipping his tears from his eyes. He shifted again into his beast form and dashed off to the hot sping that they made love for the first time. He stops looking about, shifting back to his humaniod form. His body trembling abit as the cold air hit him. "Marybelle..." He whimpered, looking about. "I didn't mean to make you upset...I-I was being a complete asshole!" He squeezed his eyes shut, clintching his fists.
I just want you to know, I did apologize to Ai. She tightened the curling of her body up, not risking getting her stomach cold from atop the cliff.
That's good! Now where are you...? He look about the place for her. Please...Sweetheart...I want to hold you and make up for what happened...?
I'm just going to go back and live in my parents' castle.. I will have nobody to there to disappoint me or to disappoint anymore. She got up from her lying position on the snow, easily seen walking down the cliff now.
Sai spotted her and dashed after her. He stood in her path as she landed in front of her. His red eyes filled with sarrow. "Is that it...? Each time there is a little agurement you want to shut yourself off from the world....Marybelle...I love you...I want to spend the rest of my life with you and our children...but when you push me away...I can't..." His eyes lowered to the ground. "I know I said some harsh things...but I was only saying it because I was tired of the bullshit! Not you! Please don't leave..." He whimpered.
It's all my fault... She sighed, lowering her head and curling her fingers and claws intot he fresh layerof snow on the ground. You should be mad at me, and hate me for causing everything to happen... I'm sorry.. It's all my fault.. She repeated, her ears falling in sadness.
H warpped his arms about her huge neck and nuzzled her. "No...I can't hate the person I love with all my heart...I don't want to lose you or our children so stop beating yourself up..." He whimpered, tears making their way down his face.
She rested her jaw against his shoulder and sighed quietly, it coming out more as a shaky growl. He stood up onto her hind legs and wiped her tears away, drying her fur along her muzzle and quickly getting back down on all fours to hide her exposed slightly bulging stomach.
"Are you leaving me...?" He asked not wanting her to leave. His hands shook as he fold them across his chest to stop them. He wipped his face against his bare shoulder to dry his tears. "I've never hurt this badly before..." He whispered. "You the only one who can heal it...make the pain go away..."
I don't want to, but I will because I am causing so many problems between us all... She sighed softly and sat against the ground, handing her head as he arms shook uneasily.
"I don't want you to go either...You'll only make it worst if you leave..." He slumped down in the snow. "Does my love for you even matter at this point...?" He asked, his eyes shut loosly. "If you don't want to leave then why are you still going...? I don't want to loose you..." His ears hung low. "What are you afride of...?"
I'm afraid of everything right now... I'm afriad of losing my kids, I'm afriand of losing my brother, I'm afraid of having my kids killed by someone in the house, I'm afraid of them dying when I give birth... I'm just.. afraid of everything... Most of all, I'm afraid of losing you.. You reacted in such a way that I thought I did lose you, and it's all my fault... Her eyes began to well up once more, she reached up and wiped them with one hand. If I was a better person and let my barriers down around other women and men that live with us then I would never had said I am going back to my parents' house... I just don't want to cause anymore problems... she sighed softly as he form shifted back to it's normal appearance, her body naked from her clothing being torn from her body when she changed form. She curled up on the ground and sniffled into her arms.
Sai wondered to her side and pulled her into his arms holding her close. "I'm sorry..." He sighed. "For everything...The way your acting is normal for a female...and I understand that...but the way your talking right now is scearing me...It sounds to me that you want to leave me...It it tears me up inside." He kissed her forehead. "I can't bear being without you for an hour let alone days, weeks, months, or years...I think I would fade away...My heart would turn cold against everyone and I probalbly die in the worsts way possible...Don't leave...Don't hurt yourself or me...Come back home with me..."
She sighed softly and let herself be pulled into his arms, hardly making a move as she cried against his shoulder. "Fine.... b-but I just want you to k-know that I'm s-sorry..." She sniffled, her eyes clenching shut as she finally wrapped her arms around the back of his neck.
"I know...It's okay..." He cooed softly in her ear. "My sweet...everythings going to be alright..." He held her close allowing her to get all her cries out before heading back to the manor. His heart ached and soul screaming at him for doing such evil things as in yelling and whatnot. "I shouldn't have went off like that..."
"It was a g-good wakeup call..." She said, wiping the last of her tears away from her eyes on his shirt, her shaking stopping slowly. She relaxed against his form, her eyes shutting and her head lying to the side against her arm as if she were a sleeping child in her father's arms.
He sighs picking her up in his strong arms bridal-style. He dashed towards the manor dodging rocks and tress. He stops in front of the manor as he pushed open the doors entering crystal ice manor.
Kitani stopped and looked around hyperly and excitedly, her feet shuffling in the snow. "Hurry up Maxius...." She whimpered out, her tail flicking about. "I wanna shop.."
Maxius followed her out. Aiden looked at the ground. "I feel like a retard.......Im going to try to recover from my loses......" He turned into a ball of light and disappeared in Maxius.
"Crybaby..." She muttered letting her hands fall to her sides. "Come on Maxius, time to shop!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands together happily and jumping up and down like a giddy school girl.
Maxius nodded and smiled. "Ok......shop..."
She reached back and grabbed his hand with her good hand, leading him towards Glacial Peaks Mall.
He ventured out deep into the forest knowing that someone's been watching him. He growled in his throat as he made his way to the cliff. Where a huge shadow took hold og his neck from behind.
You are nothing...Nothing to the person that you care for... The deep voice growled out.
Sai gripped to the larger male's hands trying to remove it. His brething becoming shallow.
Be warned...You are being watched daily...and I want you to know if you don't finish off the fox and her sister...your little fuck friend is going to die... The larger hand drops his grip from Sai's neck, leaving like the wind.
Sai coughed as he tries to breath. "Dammit..." He growled. "Dammit!" He punshed the snow. He stood up looking about the place wondering where the man went off to. "I need to get home!" He ran in full speed back to the manor. He burst through the doors of crystal ice manor.
Sai lead her where he ran into the man. Ookami... Sai growls out. A few minutes passed when a huge wolf stood about six foot nine before the couple. His muzzle held a smirk.
Came back for more- He then sees the little snow princess at his son's side. Instead of bring me the dead kitsune girl you brought me you fuck partner...I don't know what to say...Did you want to exchange her for the other's...
No! She wanted to meet you...That is all! Sai growled.
I wanted to me my step father, the alpha of the pack. It is very nice to meet you, oh strong and mighty he wolf. She said, holding her stomach with one hand and bowing deeply for him. She straightened back up and smiled a genuinly sweet smile.
The huge wolf looked at her. She's withchild...A woman holding your child... He picked Marybelle up as if she were a child herself. His eyes examing her. You'll hate if anything would happen to her...
Sai's body tensed up.
Don't worry...I won't do anything unless you don't do as you were told! He chuckled placing Marybelle back on her feet. Remember Sai... He grabed hold of his neck for the second time. You don't then your children will never see the day light!
Sai nodded in agreement. You've got my word... He coughed up blood from the man's strength.
Alpha? He cannot possibly do as you ask if he is suffocated or has a broken neck. She had managed to sneak in a soft and quick hug when he had picked her up, a low murr of contentment coming from her throat as she looked up at the larger wolf as he held his son in his grasp. She would've growled, but she knew that he would either be hurt more or she would be killed, so instead she just rode on with her second emotion on seeing a father figure back in her life, love and happiness.
You're a weid one... His yellow eyes meeting with the girl's ice ones. You do not panic when you see your love one in pain... HIs grip tighten around Sai's neck.
Sai yelps in pain sounding more of a whisper as air slowly fade from his being.
No, because I promised him I would not. She said, walking closer to the older male and hugging him softly, nuzzling her cheek into his chest, that being as high as she could reach on him while flat footed.
Mary- Sai tries to call out but his step father had a hold of her by her wraists.
You're too kind... His eyes going to Sai. Be sure you get what I asked done...Or your little fuck partner would die along with the pups she carries... He drops them both with a gust of wind.
Sai falls falt on his face. His body trembling trying to get the air that it needs. He began coucghing up blood his hand holding over his mouth. His ears laying back on his head as he coughed painfully. Mary-Mary-Belle- He tries to think but coughed in between.
Well, I like him.. He is a lot nicer than my parents. She said rather fondly. She rolled her wrists and let them pop in a quiet crack, they having been grabbed the wrong way and cramping up causing her to have to crack them. She shufled over to Sai and placed her head under his chin like a she wolf showing her mate affection, only she was not, instead straightening his wind tunnel out so he could breath right.
He coughed as his lungs expaned. He wrapped a weak arm about her form. He felt as if he were weak in her eyes. His eyes closed as he rested his head on hers. You might look at me as a weak man... He sighed the blood on his lower lip fresh as he waited for her answer.
No, I don't, Sai. A pup knows their place in the presense of his or her alpha and I do not call you weak for that. She nuzzled his chest softly, careful not to hurt his neck.
His body shook slightly. I don't know if I could do it... He held her close. The things he wants me to do would ruin everything...
You mean with Kira and Ai... Yeah.. I know.. Perhaps I could try to sway him..? She aske, whimpering softly.
You can try but...That man is a hard one to crack...He would've killed me if it weren't for... His red eyes looked down at his beloved. No...He hled her close to his form not caring that he was hurting himself. He wants you! He whimpers. Only the alhpa male and female can mate...I broke that rule...I being punished... His ears hung low. I have to do something...but I don't want to take neither Ai's nor Kira's...I'll have two pissed off men on my heels! A ice dragon and a pissed off ice demon is n't a good combo with just a mere wolf... He sighed stressed out to the point where his head hurt. It's like my dream is being reacted...
Sai, I just want to protect my family... And.. and.. if it means being.. violated by my new father then.... then... I will... She hugged him back gently, not wanting to hurt him, and ran her fingers through the back of his hair.
No...I can't allow something happen that way... He squeezed his eyes shut. If it comes down to it...I'll fight my step father...
Sai... It is the way of the pack.. Submit to your greater alpha and only challenge when you are sure you can defeat him or her one on one... Please... Sai... I don't want my one true love to be hurt.. She kissed his lips softly and reassuringly, reassuring him that she would not have sex with him out of submission, but because she had a plan... This all translated with just a simple kiss lest he had been listening in on them.
He didn't know if he could allow such a man touch or even be near such a woman that belong to him. He kissed her back in a way of saying that 'be careful'. He really didn't want to give her up, not to a man as Ookami..., his step father. Promise me that you won't allow him to touch you in ways that I have to remark everything on you... A tear slid down his cheek.
I promise, my Sai. She pushed herself away from him and shifted into her beast appearance, but not before taking her clothing off, a low howl coming from her throat as she howled up at the glistening sun. Well, what do you know? She does sing to the sun still. She took off in a flurry of white and blue fur, her nose sniffing around for Ookami, her alpha wolf. Ookami! Ookami! I want to speak to you! Where are you? She called out once she was sure she was out of range of Sai's thought speech, sitting herself down in the soft white snow. She pat her stomach softly, a low murr coming from her throat. Her tail wagged a bit and she let er ears droop slightly, a low whimpering coming from her throat as if she were cooing down to her undeveloped pups.
Sai watched as she left in a dash. He lowered his ears as he made his way to the manor. Be careful, my heart...
Ookami wonders out of the shadows looking down at the white werewolf sitting in the snow. You rang... A smirk on his muzzle. What is the means of calling me...?
I wish to get to know my alpha more, Ookami. She said, bowing her head to him and laying her ears flat against her head in a show of respect.
The huge wolf smiled down at the her. His eyes looked her over in her new form. Well, I see that my son doesn't have a bad taste in women when it comes down to mates...I didn't know that you're able to turn into this form...Must be one of those days that I didn't have access to your room... He placed a huge hand on her face. You are indeed a great prize but Sai couldn'y get off the hook that easy...His punishment has just begun...
Sai pushed the doors open to Crystal ice manor entering in hope that Thanatos or Fugiri were up and about.
She nuzzled her cheek into his hand and let out a low churr, her tail thumping against a rock beside her. My father was a wolf, and my mother was an ice queen. I am their ice were princess, and your submissive pack mate that does as is requested of her.
So you would give yourself up to me even though you belong to another... A smirk owned his muzzle as he lean down to look into her eyes. Are you betraying Sai...? And if you are then what makes you think that you wouldn't do it to me as well... He growled low in his chest. His ears laying flat on his head as his eyes narrowed at her.
She licked his muzzle affectionately like a daughter would her father when he was unsure in a sort of comforting gesture, her eyes lowering to the ground afterwards. I am not betraying him, but I know the rules of the pack well enough to know that it is only the alpha's right to mate with the female, not the others unless he is let do so by the alpha himself or herself.
For a mutt you have your facts down... He chuckled standing back to his full height. His yellow eyes looking back where the manor was located. I'm surprised that he didn't try to stop you...He's a knuckled head when it comes to things that he believes that's right or whatnot. He was nothing but a troublemaker but he was the best out of the pack... His yellow eyes came back upon Marybelle. A smirk on his muzzle. I think a know how to get him really motivated for the little mission he has to part take but...that can wait for later for now let's head back to my camp... He lead the way going deeper into the forest.
Yes... I am a mutt, unworthy of having you as a father or Sai as a friend and the father of my pups... She sighed softly and followed along after him, her tail sticking back as she trotted along in a show of slight show of this being her territory, because technically the whole of the landscape was her's and Thanatos'.
They soon reached a huge gate. He looked back at her over his shoulder. For this point on you are forbidden to leave pass this gate... He pushed open the gate entering into Ookami village. Come...I'll show you around...
Kitani's tail wagged softly as she was exposed tot he brisk air of the glacil landscaping of the city, a sweet smile on her face. "Ah, come on Maxius, I don't think this drink is helping any."
Maxius looked at her. "what do you mean?"
"I guess sugar and caffine just don't keep me up any onger like they used to.. Guess I grew out of that with my destructive playfullness." She said with a small shrug, but she took another drink of her coffee anyways.
Maxius looked at her then picked her up into his arms. "You can sleep.......ill wake you when I make camp......"
She let out a small meep at being picked up, but soon relaxed against his chest and nodded. "Alright... Thank you, Maxxie."
He smiled at her. "Its what im here for....." he walked along a path out of the city.
She gave a small content sigh and began to fall asleep against his chest, her arms reching up and wrapping around the back of his neck.
His bell made a soft jingling noise as he walked. He looked his green eyes searching the snow.
She mumbled something in her sleep, her tail unconsciously coming up to wrap around her waist but since her hip was against him it wrapped around his waist as well.
Maxius smiled then looked at the sun as it began to sink behind the horizon then bagan to run swiftly and quickly. Trying not to move her.
She shifted slightly in her sleep, her ear placing against his chest, it picking up the slightly faster heartbeat as he ran.
He stopped and looked back at the city, it looked like a little dot. he set her down gently then created a barrier of light around her. He looked around.
She was awoken from being set down, the warmth against her side being gone and her tail being unwrapped from his waist. She looked up at the top of the barrier, then to Maxius, a low mumble coming from her lips as she nuzzled into her shirt, her arms pulling into the sleeves and crossing over her chest in an attempt to warm the underside of her arms.
Maxius looked around and looked over at some steam that was rising over some trees. "What is that?" he walked over and looked at a hot spring. "Hot spring?"
"Hot spring?" She pushed herself up while her arms were still in the shirt, her ears perking and her tail wagging happily. She pushed herself up and hurried along behidn Maxius, a excited churr coming from her throat. "Come on, Maxius." She said after seeing the hot spring, her tail wagging a bit faster now. "Lets go warm up."
Maxius looked at her then at the hot spring. "ok........"
Her arms peeked out from under the hem of her shirt, her fingers curling around the blue fabric and pulling it from her body. She pushed her skirt down her legs and tail and let it drop to the snow, tossing her shirt onto the fabric right after. She dived into the spring and swam back up, orm her throat from the warm embrace of the water.
Maxius shrugged then took his shirt off ten his pants and wrapped his tail around him like a belt.
She waved him in before heading over to the perimeter of the natural tub and relaxing back against the edge of it, her tail popping up from the water and twirling to make a few small water tornadoes.
Maxius looked at the water then stepped in and sat down and closed his eyes.
She sighed softly and let her head hang back, her eyes closing for a moment. She tensed slightly when her mind went back to his little comment in the mall. "So, you ready to answer my question?"
He smiled and laughed. "I did say you were beautiful.....and it wasnt because you were wearing those clothes....I think you are beautiful.....no matter what you wear....." he looked at the water.
She blushed lightly and smiled at him sweetly. "Aw, you really think so?" She pushed herself away from the edge of the spring and waded over to him, wrapping her arms around him and nuzzling against him when she reached his form.
Maxius blinked and smiled holding her close. His tail wrappinig around her.
"That's a sweet thing to say." Her own tail wrapped around his tail, her white fur mingling with his white fur.
He smiled letting the warmth of the water take hold of him.
After a little while of just sitting there and holding each other, Kitani looked up and let her ears sink a bit when she noticed the sun amost completely gone under the horizon. "Maybe we should get out and go to sleep..."
He looked at her. "You can.......i think...ill stay here a bit more........"
She nodded her head and simply relaxed her head back against chest, her eyes shutting softly. "It just wouldn't be the same with nobody to nuzzle against." She mumbled.
Maxius smiled. "Theres always aiden........" He looked at her then at the steam rising.
"He doesn't like me so much." Her ears laid flat against her head.
He smiled "but he will protect you....I promise that........" he gently touched her cheek.
She leaned her head against his gentle touch and looked up at him, smiling softly. "I know he will.."
Maxius smiled at her and kissed her forehead wrapping his tail around her.
She blushed softly and placed her head back against his chest, her eyes staring fondly at the bell on his neck. She reached up to it and wiped a bit of dirt from the gold of it.
Aiden sat at the other end of the spring watching them quietly. He has been since they got there he was hidden by the steam and shadows of the trees. Maxius smiled at her. "thanks......."
"You don't have to thank me for anything." She still rubbed the bell even though it was cleaned of the dirt, caressing it softly with her thumb.
His tail picked her chin up softly and he kissed her softly then pulled away. "Still thanks for everything........." He stood up, steam pouring off his body.
She released him when he kissed her, her blush coming back quickly. She watched him stand up, blinking slightly as she placed her fingers on her lips.
Maxius put his clothes back on then looked at her and smiled.
At the smile, Kitani shook the blush off her face and stood herself up, also getting out of the hot spring. She shook her body off and pulled her clothing onto her damp fur. "Ready to go?"
He smiled. "Always am......." he looked at her then took a quick glance at aiden. he couldnt see him but he knew he was there.
She nodded her head curtly and made her way back to the light barrier surrounding the camp and the bags of clothes they had from the mall. She sat down and crossed her legs, fingering the cross she wore on her neck.
Maxius smiled at him then followed her to the camp.
"Is Aiden still resting inside of you or is he out?" She asked when she heard his footsteps inside of the barrier.
"Hes out.........." he sat down then laid back. Aiden floated on his back in the spring watching the steam rise.
She looked back at him and smiled softly. "Get some rest, Maxxie."
Maxius smiled. "I dont need to sleep......" he looked at the top of the barrier.
"That's right, guess I forgot.. Well, either way. I'll say good night now incase a fall asleep before I say it." She reached back and rubbed his arm softly, her tail curling up around her waist.
"Right goodnight......" He smiled. Aiden looked at the stars in the sky.
She turned herself around and laid down next to Maxius, snuggling herself against his side and shutting her eyes loosely.
Maxius looked at her softly then gently pulled her close holding her in his arms. Aiden heard a voice then sat up in the water.
She smiled and pulled her hair back in a loose low ponytail, her arms reaching around him when she was done.
Maxius smiled and looked at her gently stroking the top of her head. Aiden looked around trying to find the voice.
She opened her eyes and looked up at him, hesitantly caressing his cheek with the backs of her fingers. She leaned up and kissed him softly, quickly pulling back and hiding her blushing face in his chest.
Maxius smiled at the kiss. "Your lips are soft.........." he said quietly.
"Really?" She looked up at him, her silvery-blue eyes examining his face slowly.
He looked down at her and nodded. "Yes......they are....." Aiden closed his eyes and sank into the water.
She purred and curled her tail around his waist, huddling close to him. "When is Aiden going to be back? It makes me uneasy that he is not in view... I worry about him.."
Maxius held her close. "Hes fine.....I can feel him.......he can take care of himself...." Aiden sat at the bottom of the spring.
She nodded her head and yawned quietly, a slight whimper ending it. "Alright, that makes me feel a bit better." She shut her eyes once more and relaxed into his arms.q
Maxius laid there looking at the barrier. Aiden swam back to the top and looked around. "Hm......" he got out and put his clothes on the went back to the camp.
Her furry white ears twitched and rotated when she heard Aiden's footsteps, the tip of her tail flicking at Maxius' hip as it stayed wrap around him. She turned her head to look back at him, a smile on her face. "Welcome back."
Maxius smiled at aiden as he laid down on the other side of the barrier.
"You okay, Aiden?" She asked, rubbing one of her eyes with the back of her hand.
He looked at her. "Never better........" he closed his eyes faced away from them.
She nodded softly and shut her eyes again, wrapping her arm back around Maxius' form before drifting off into a light slumber.
Aiden formed a dark barrier around himself and drifted to sleep. Maxius held her tightly against himself looking at the top of the barrier.
***
Kitani woke up the next morning to the whistling wind speeding past the barrier. Her ears flicked slightly back as she let out a small yawn against Maxius' side, a smile on her face after the yawn had passed. "Mmm... Good morning Maxxie." She mumbled out as she lifted her head and rested it on his chest.
Maxius smiled at her. "Goodmorning......" Aidens barrier disappeared and he sat up. "goodmorning brother......" aiden smiled at Maxius.
She looked back at Aiden and waved at him with her fingers. "Good morning, rag doll." She joked lightly, a soft smile still on her face.
"Yeah yeah......" Aiden stood up and stretched. Maxius yawned.
Kitani turned her head back and kissed his bottom lip before pushing herself up and sitting on her knees. She stretched out her arms above her head and bent to the side a couple of times.
Maxius smiled then stood up. "Well.....if we hurry we can get to the village before sun down."
"No mountains." She said, balling her hand into a fist only to notice that her fur was tinted a light red with a bit of a darkish tint on those fingers that were broken. She grunted lightly and popped her pinky into her mouth, licking the watered down blood from it.
Maxius grabbed her hand and smiled. "how quick do you want to get home?"
"Just.. no mountains. I could care less with how long it takes to get home." She stood up and smiled a bit.
Maxius looked around. "Well I can get you home in one teleport........" Aiden nodded.
She chuckled lightly and walked over to the two bags, grabbing them with her good hand. "Only is you wish."
He grabbed her. "Ok......we shall be home in 5....4...3....2..." Aiden jumped over and grabbed maxius quickly as they disappeared.
Kitani's hands were gripping in Maxius's shirt and hair when they arrived back at the village. She peeked her head up and looked around, making sure she was not in some infinate void or whatnot. She sighed and released him slowly, her hand cramping up slightly. "Good.. Thank you, Maxxie."
Aiden fell back. "Next time warn me when your about to go......" Maxius smiled. "Sorry......."
Before Kitani could get out a small laugh at Aiden she was grabbed by her shoulder and turned around quickly, a small gasp escaping her. "Oh, Jet... Hi!"
Jet's eyes were narrowed as he looked at her, then they shifted to look at the two men behind her, a small smirk coming to his lips when he saw the black-haired Aiden on the ground. He reached behind the panther's neck and picked her up by her shirt collar with his hand like she were a cub, bringing her close to his scowling face. "Your father has been taking his anger out on me for your disappearance, Kitani. Time to take my anger out on you." He growled out only to recieve a set of claws to the face followed by a hiss of protest.
Aiden quickly spun around and kicked Jets feet from under him.
He dropped the panther and stumbled back holding his face. "Damn it you stupid little cubs!" He growled out, dropping down to his knees and catching himself with his hands. His striped hand shot forward and gripped Aiden's leg, pulling him towards himself with a snarling muzzle.
Kitani hurried behind Maxius, her ears laying flat against her head. Her gaze turned from Jet when she noticed that the panthers of the vilage were coming out of the huts because of the ruccuss happening outside. "Domenic! Restrain him!" She called out to one of the few black panthers who in turn hurried over to the growling tiger. He grabbed him from behind and pulled him away from the black neko boy, his claws embedded into his chest and sending out waves of energy into his chest which began to sooth the ramped beast.
Aiden jumped up. "Ill fucking kill you!!!!!!!!!" Dark energy poured of his body.
Kitani flinched back from the loud outburst of Aiden, her arms wrapping around Maxius' body as he face hid into his back in a way of trying to block out the scene of Jet and Aiden.
Domenic looked over Jet's shoulder and looked at Aiden, his ears perking slightly. "Hey hey, calm down man. I've got him under control, back off." His claws withdrew from the tiger and let him dorp to the ground, a low groan coming from the orange and black face of the tiger.
Maxius looked at aiden. "Aiden.....not now....." Aiden backed down. "Sorry....."
Kitani sighed softly and released her grip on Maxius, her hands trembling a bit. "I.. I'm sorry..."
Maxius and aiden looked at her.
She pulled away from Maxius' body and turned around, her hand letting loose the bags she was holding as she was mauled by a bunch of the female panthers who cooed and whimpered. They knew what she had been threatened with, a tiger who took his anger out via sex.
Stumble!