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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:26 pm
Usare was bored... he'd already been hunting earlier, so his stomach was full and none of his siblings were around to bother. So he was kind of wandering about the den-area - hoping to find some other cub to mess around with.
Having gotten in a fight or two more recently, he was feeling nice and proud and full of himself at the moment... though he had no desire to patrol the borders or anything. That was work. He wanted to play.
Finding himself near the priests' dens, he blinked, and tilted head a bit. Weren't there some new cubs over here somewhere...? Smirking faintly, he started to sniff around, searching for traces of them.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:22 pm
A few traces of very young cubs would be found all around the cave entrance, freshest among these would be the scent of Xiang youngest and smallest of his brothers, though he was growing just as swiftly as they were. Currently he was curled just inside in the shade the overhanging rock cast, Xi was gnawing on an old dried lizard carcass, he had not originally caught nor killed it, but he'd claimed if for his toy now, batting it through the air or carrying it about, for now until one of his brothers tried to steal it from him.
Xi stood with the toy clutched in his jaws, then trotted out into the daylight, but froze there, alert and cautious, the scent of someone new was drifting on the air.
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:06 pm
It wasn't long at all... before Usare had come close enough that he could scent the younger cub. Tilting head a little bit, he frowned. That one looked like he should be a slave. Maybe he was...
But then, what was he doing here?
Growling softly, Usare stepped closer. "Who are you? Why are you here?" he asked, ears laid back against his head.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:03 pm
Xiang twisted his ears first when he heard the voice and then his face followed and he blinked round gold eyes up at the other male. Dropping the carcass he answered the questions in a very young voice, "I am Xiang, my mother is Ele'aine Abeni, we all live here, my brothers too." Xi had backed his ears but didn't crouch into the stone, it was nervous posture but not completely submissive. "Are you looking for her?" Many others of the tribe called upon her for various reasons, Xi wasn't sure why, but he thought he understood that she was very important to them.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:05 pm
Usare frowned at that. The son of the Ele'aine? He didn't look like a priestess's son! He didn't even really look like a demon!
"No," he answered, almost disdainfully. What would he need a priestess for, he was just fine on his own.
"I think you're lying though!" he went on. "You don't even look like a demon..." Smirking, he stalked closer. "Prove it. Prove that you belong here." Yes, he was being a bully, but he really didn't know whether to believe the other or not. A really clever slave could probably come up with such a story, and others might even believe him if he looked at all similar to Abeni's real children.
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:35 am
Xiang toed at the lizard carcass, dropping his gaze away from the older male, he had not gotten used to such looks from others yet, his brother was one thing, strangers were another. Xiang had his pride though, even as such a little thing; "Prove it?" He shook his head at the other, unsure what sort of proof he wanted. He could go and get one of his brothers, or even his mother, if she wasn't too busy or something... Xiang discarded that idea as soon as it entered his head and flattened his ears against his skull. "You're the one that doesn't belong here, if you have no need of the Ele'aine. Get lost!" The last was shouted with as much force as the little kitten could muster, which was nothing like the roar he had wanted to give, but was the best he could muster.
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:05 pm
Usare blinked at that shout. Huh... well, he had spine anyway. "And who says I don't need her?" he challenged right back. Not that he did, he was just here to relieve some boredom.
"And anyway, if I don't leave, what're you gonna do?" He paused and looked the cub up and down. "You gonna make me leave?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:29 pm
Little Xiang blinked and tilted his head a little, "You just said so, yourself, that you didn't, I..." He frowned hard, maybe this guy was trying to confuse him, or he was just being mean? "I can make you leave, if you want to disrupt mother, her work is very important to the pride and she can depend on me to protect her." Though his words were brave, Xi was still just a little lion, bristling his fur and hopeing to sound tougher than he was.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:45 pm
"Tch!" Usare scoffed at that, tail-tip flicking back and forth. "That still doesn't answer the question of how," he pointed out with a little smirk.
He was bigger than the other and he knew it - and he wasn't about to back down just because of big words, thanks very much.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:02 pm
Xiang quivered a little, trying to stare down someone bigger and more experienced than him wasn't something he had even though about before, much less attempted, even his brothers, who he always thought of as equals at least, because they were brothers, he wouldn't have attempted such. Now he tried to stand his ground, gripping the stone beneath his paws with his tiny claws, he at least wasn't backing down, but he couldn't think of anything to do to make him go... "I'll fight you?" Xiang offered, he had never issued such a challenge before, but he couldn't think of anything else.
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:43 pm
Usare laughed at that, tossing head back so his sharp little teeth showed. "Fight me!" he howled. "You'd lose in two seconds, runt!"
Then he abruptly stopped laughing, and eyed the other. "Okay... fine. If you want to fight, we can fight. But. Not here... don't want anyone to come along and stop us. So, follow me."
He puffed out his chest importantly and then headed off - out of the priests' dens and around the side of the volcano.
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:56 am
Watching the larger cub trot away, Xiang shook a little where he stood, he didn't want to leave the area, where would this guy lead him to. It wasn't that he wanted someone to stop them from fighting though, and that is probably what the other would think if he didn't follow, Xi decided after just a few seconds of debating. He ran to rush after then, hopping down the rocks with care and kitten slowness. With the challenge Xiang had not really thought through looming right before him he grit his teeth and lept making it to the rock base just behind Usare.
"If I win, you have to stop sneaking around mother's cave without reason, but if you win, what do you want?" Xi questioned with innocence, to him this fight was going to be like something he done with his brothers since they could properly stand and run after each other, a 'play fight' but they never thought of it as playing really. The trouble was what would it cost him in the end.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:20 pm
Usare actually stopped for a minute to think about that, tilting head a little. Huh... what did he want?
Then he smirked, and the tip of his tail twitched about a bit. "If I win ..." he said slowly, "You have to be my slave for a night. Then you can go back to your mommy and cry."
He laughed and picked up the pace again, clamoring over a pile of rocks.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:03 am
Xiang looked up to Usare expectantly and as the minute ticked on, he got a little distracted, the older juvenile has an interesting pattern to his coat, a matching pair of gold colored 'beetles' sat high on his forearms. Xi was caught mid-though, he'd wanted to reach out and touch one, but was stopped before he even moved to try it by the older cub's words.
"Slave? For a night..." Xiang called after Usare, his voice uncertain, the word unfamiliar to his young ears, then he lept after the other, his claws caught in cracks of the stones, that helped to keep him from slipping too far as he attempted to mirror the moves of the boy ahead of him. "Why would I cry...?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:40 pm
Usare laughed again and glanced backwards. "Cause as my slave you gotta do ANYTHING I say..." he replied darkly - trying to sound scary.
Of course he probably wouldn't be too bad a 'master' after he won - because he was confident that he would. He'd probably just make the other do things like get him food, maybe cuff him around a little.
But nothing too serious.
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