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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:33 pm
Well, this was a memory revisited. He hadn't been here in too many turns of the mood to count. Back before even his mane had completely grown in.
Reclining on an elephant skull, the stress of his weight apparent enough with the few cracking noises heard, his golden eyes scanned the area. He remembered something odd being here once... a hyena? Or was it something else? His mind tickled the idea of a cheetah, but that was too hard for even him to imagine. What would one be doing in a dump like this?
Oh, speaking of hyena...his grin curled as he saw the poor thing creep ever closer to him. This would be some mild entertainment for a while.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:36 pm
Tukutu was mindlessly wandering through the graveyard again. Things had felt a little too quiet to him lately. While he knew that the band called Maziko were gone, it still seemed too empty. The random skirmishes kept everyone on their toes, and alive. Now....now everything seemed dead. Even though he was aging, he knew that to keep the pack alive and together, they needed something to fight together against.
While thinking about this, he wasn't thinking of what might be looking above. Perhaps a regular scout, or even Mafa if she was feeling up to one, but never someone he hadn't seen since he was young and impulsive. Instead, he mulled to himself, trying to remember who he had seen lately, and what to do about their stalled numbers. They were vulnerable, too vulnerable to keep him content with his life.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:40 pm
Dath picked at his teeth with his claw before calling down to the hyena. "Hey, you," he said with a deep grumble, timing his movements skillfully. He folded his wings along his back just as the miserable beat was looking upwards, watching the reaction and recognation he was looking for. Good.
"Still living in this miserable place?" he asked, not expecting a real answer. It was obviously a yes. A place where only hyenas would bother living. Even if his memories were correct, since there were no other species here, it was proof that only the scum could live in a dump like this one. Who would want to live in a place where all the elephants went to die, anyway?
"How pathetic." He snorted, and went back to picking his teeth.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:48 pm
Tukutu couldn't help but make a hissing-like sound at the god, something like a growl but not completely forming. He knew he would die if he issued a full challenge, but he could at least display his displeasure in seeing the beast again.
"Why don't you leave if you hate this place so much?" he said harshly, his hackles raising as he lowered his body into a defensive position. Those wings meant that he could get pounced on no matter where he went, and so he stood his ground, just where he was.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:00 pm
Dath laughed, though it wasn't a very pleseant one. "Oh? So these are your lands, are they?" He knew that he didn't specifically say that, but then it was obvious with how irritated he got that he certainly felt an attachment to the lands. Dath would never undsertand just why mortals would get so attached to a piece of dirt.
"I never said I hated it," he said with a shrug of his shoulders, his wings fluttering outwards. "I merely said that I don't understand it. You fight so hard to survive here, when my kind could live wherever we wanted. Including here."
He threatened the hyena, but knew that the fool would still stand there, proud of what he had claimed was his. Really, Earth should be offended, but he doubted that she would be. Some gods were just too weird for his taste.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:09 pm
Barring a little fang now, Tukutu bristled at the god. He knew he was putting his life on the line, but he couldn't help it. The damned thing must think he owned everything to treat him so poorly.
"We live here by choice, nothing more." He snapped his jaws. "As you live by choice in the air, lingering in places where you are not wanted." Hopefully that would drive a hint home to him, but Tukutu wasn't a complete moron. If anything happened, there would be no warning. He would have to bluff his way out of this. Somehow. All he could think about were those few he was thinking about just before this. The members that he didn't think too much about, but he would rather they survive as they wished than this thing coming to finish them off.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:22 pm
Dath laughed, though there was less malice in it now. He was humored by the reaction he got out of the hyena.
"I hope you realize that I really don't care," he said while folding his wings again. "I merely like to irritate mortals like you, and it seems like I certainly got under your skin. I'm honest when I say I don't understand why you live here. Nothing lives here outside of you hyenas. You have to bring everything in, unless you want to survive on rats." He hissed at the end, having an aversion to the little beasts. Useless even more so than watching a lion eat fish. Really.
"You obviously think these lands are yours, so defend them well."
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:27 pm
"They are our lands," he declared. "No one else has wanted them, and even those that tried to survive here failed. We still stand strong, and all your taunting won't change that." Moron. He wished to do more to him, but he was no match against one lion, let alone one that was larger and stronger. He'd die before he hit the ground.
"Strife and struggle is all we know, since your kind and kin love to torture us and leave us to the scraps of the world." Normally he wasn't so angry about lions, but lately as times had grown a little tough for him, he was greatful for a place to put his anger. Lions.
"We will stay here, and survive even past the point of lions. We know how to survive where they do not."
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:30 pm
Laughing again, the God stared down at the hyena. "I'll remember those words when I stand over your dead body, knowing that I will always survive. Kin or not, I have no alliance with lions, but your kind are most amusing. I hope you prove some truth in your words. It will be interesting to see, as you sit here and starve yourself over pride."
His tail flicked behind him as his jewelry shuffled with his movements. "You are just like them, keeping your pride in front of all. Oh well, it seems that all keep their pride over anything else lately. For good or for worse, you will all meet your end, in the end."
He closed his eyes, lowering his head onto his forepaws. He went silent, but his ears and mind were still ticking away.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:33 pm
Tukutu glared at the not still form of the god. Why did they have to do s**t like that? It was obvious just with their wings that they were not mortal, so why seem to appear out of no where, and then do the same when they were done? He wasn't done arguing, but perhaps it was for best. He would need to let the scouts know to be a little extra careful. Though he didn't necissarily care about any of them, he didn't want to see any needlessly die. There was no point to that, except for more of them to struggle with the fewer minds and the more holes to cover. There was no way in judging if the Maziko would try to return.
Snarling again at the god, the hyena retreated. These wouldn't stay as his lands, but as Mafa's. He's make sure of that. And even willing to spill his own blood for that. As long as it wasn't a god doing so, for if it was, even he knew that there would be little hope.
Trotting back, the thick dust that covered the land hid him more quickly than normal, and he disappeared between the bones of the graveyard.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:36 pm
Though it was very hard to tell, Dath had continued to watch him through barely open eyes. Snorting to himself when he knew he was alone, he shook his head. Why did they feel such loyalty to one another? Dath was always a loner. He knew that he had family there, a family of sorts, but he felt no attachment to them. Instead, he wished that they weren't there. Sei, always in the way, always bothering him. Always above him. He didn't know if his parents existed, but he didn't care. He wouldn't want to know about them. He didn't want to risk the chance of feeling the need for attachment.
His tail flicked in irritation as he debated on what to do next. These lands were getting boring. Something needed to shake them up. He was still storing power from when he had cursed that damn daughter of his. Why didn't that goddess have to die? Now there was too much of his blood out there. The mortals would die, but those gods would always be attached to him in this life.
What to do indeed. He needed more thought on it, and so he would need to find another area to torture. The more he examined and harassed mortals, hopefully the more he would be able to figure himself out.
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