Luicon came back from the small woods with twigs and sticks. The sun was going down so Yoruichi decided to stop, mainly because she felt like it... and to try to chat with Soi Fon. Luicon put all the sticks into a pile and watched as Yoruichi lit them with what humans called a lighter.
"That's cool!" Luicon said watching as the sticks caught fire nearly at once.
"You've.. never seen a fire before?" Yoruichi asked curiously. Luicon shook his head.
"The clans and tribes of the out lands don't know of human's inventions.." Soi Fon muttered.
"Outlands?" Yoruichi whispered, "Never been there." Soi lifted her head and glared at the black devil, she was lying. A long period of time passed before anyone spoke.
"Sooo..." Yoruichi began, "How many clans are in the Out lands?"
"Four clans." Soi muttered.
"Which one do you belong too?" Yoruichi asked with her head tilted.
"The Fong clan..." Soi said with a very small hint of sadness.
Luicon seemed to notice the tension between the two, "H-Honey is good!" he shouted causing both felines to jump. After a moment of recovery Yoruichi giggled lightly, nodding her head in agreement.
Luicon and Yoruichi then had a very large chat of how many ways honey could be put to use. Soi lost interest fast and was currently staring up at the sky. She wasn't aware that Luicon had curled up beside her and had already fallen fast asleep.
"You seemed troubled by something," Yoruichi said earning a small sigh from Soi. "Also how'd you end up in the auction house anyways?" she was asking too many questions for Soi fon's liking. A long period of silence went by.
"Oh well, guess it's none of my business." Yoruichi said with a sigh, she turned her head sideways and set her face in her palm. She kept an eye cracked open. A smirk hidden behind her palm.
"It was my fault..." Soi whispered looking up at the sky once more. Yoruichi turned her full attention to the cheetah now.
The six cheetah's slowly made their way down to where the elephant had fallen. The stench was foul after all it had been there since morning. They used caution, hiding behind boulders every so often. The group reached their meal to find it had already been mostly devoured.
Nose's flared as they smelled the area around the dead animal. Soi's ears twitched as a pebble rolled towards her.
"It was lions," Satoshi said. His eyes fell on Soi who was walking away from them. Her nose close to the ground. Soi stopped at what seemed to be a small cave covered with leaves. She eyed it up and down before slowly going into it.
"SOI! STOP!" Satoshi yelled trying to run to her. She turned around as something snapped shut behind her. She was trapped. In panic Soi smashed her sides against the walls of whatever she was in. The leaves fell away to reveal silver bars. Her brothers tried to find a way to get her out of the contraption.
A loud bang rang out causing everyone to look at where it came from. Satoshi was more frantic now, as he tried to gnaw the bars off. He managed to get one bent in half before another shot rang out. This time he told everyone to flee. He frantically bent another bar. Although he was a demon his stength wasn't as good as it should be. A weak heart made him that way.
Soi stared at her brother with a puzzled yet scared look. He looked at her before whiping his head around. He slowly got off the cage and turned around, the fur on his tail puffed up. Through failed atempts she tried to pear out of the cage to see what the hell was going on.
"Well, would you look what we got here." A voice chuckled, "Two kitties." Satoshi growled slightly.
Satoshi backed up a bit, teeth bared to the fullest. Soi was temporaly blinded by a light shining in her eyes. A human was now in front of the cage. He bent down to her level.
"It's a female." another voice said. "I put it around seven or eight." her eye twitched, although her young coat had not fully shead, she was infact seventeen.
'Stupid humans...' she thought. Satoshi turned fully on the man, lunging at him. The man yelled out as Satoshi jerked and pulled on the limb he had in his jaws.
"Take it out!" one yelled.
"I can't get a clear shot!" another yelled. Soi saw out of the corner of her eye a flash of silver, a clicking sound, then a loud bang. The sound somewhat scared her as she'd began to once more smash her sides against the bars.
A low moan came, she stopped and stared at her brother who lay on his side wincing in pain. It was happening all over again. Only this time, the white devils were to blame. The last thing she recalls is a sharp pain then darkness.
Yoruichi had let one tear slip from her eye. No one should be put through that. With a mental nod she would make sure to give this poor feline a good home, away from all of that chaos. Yoruichi would have to teach the wild demon everything she knew.
"Che... why would you care though?" Soi whispered mostly to herself. 'White devils, black devils... they're all the same... murderers...'
"I do care." Yoruichi said with all seriousness. Nothing came afterwards. The two felines found themselves falling asleep.
The dawn broke over the trees and the trio were off without hesitation. Yoruichi would try every once and awhile to chat more with the cheetah but would only receive mumbles or growls. She couldn't understand why Soi detested her so much.
"Here we are!" Yoruichi exclaimed as she stopped at two large gates made of Mithrel. She knocked on it once. "Oi! Open up!" When no reply came she put her hands on her hips.
"Guess we go in the back way." Soi followed reluctantly, her mind far from silent.
'What is this demoness problem...? Why does she persist on talking to me? Maybe...'
Soi tripped over her own feet as she was about to think something that would've made her sick. A small squeak came from her lips as she landed. Yoruichi stopped momentarily, looking back to see what the little squeak was about. A smirk appeared on her face.
"You're clumsy aren't you?" Yoruichi said extending a hand to Soi. She looked at it intently before swiping at it. Then something occurred to Soi, she could still control herself as long as that black devil didn't make an order. She then got in a pouncing position only to have Yoruichi hold up her finger.
"Ah, ah, ah," she said waving it back and forth. "That collar works even if I don't say anything. I just have to think it." Yoruichi was giggling when she saw the cheetah fuming.
"I swear I'll find a way out of this place... and away from you." Soi said glaring. Yoruichi frowned slightly before a slight tug on her sleeve bought her attention to the little bear cub. A slight rumble came from his tummy.
"Aw, you must be hungry." She said rubbing his head. "Don't worry there's plenty of food in the castle... er... if you can call it that..." she muttered the last part. Sighing she motion for the two to follow. A few moments later she knelt down and parted some bushes, to reveal a nice hole in the wall.
Yoruichi squeezed through first followed by Luicon, and a pissed off Soi Fon. They came out in an ally way. Yoruichi then proceeded to walk out of the ally. Soi Fon felt her own stomach growl but she pushed it aside. Her eyes scanned over the landscape.
Strange wooden structures were built everywhere, they differed in size and shape. Many scents mingled with others and made it hard to tell what was what. But the strangest sight was the very large and pink thing rolling around in the dirt. It looked like a boar... but it didn't have tusks. Her nose scrunched up as they passed other strange creatures.
One was short, gray, and looked like it could've been a relative of wild horses. The next one was tall with perky ears, a gray coat and looked to be underweight. Another came in various colors and made clucking sounds. One in particular made a shrieking sound causing her ears to lay back. Soi tried to ignore the noisy shrieking.
Stopping in her tracks she turned to the strange bird like thing and roared as loud as she could. The shrieking stopped and the strange bird fell off the... 'stump' he was perched on. Yoruichi covered her mouth and held her gut to stop herself from rolling on the ground in laughter.
"Wow, you shut Old Ben up quick!" she said through restrained laughs.
"It was getting on my nerves..." Soi simply whispered. There was sudden silence before someone came out of a wooden structure with a long piece of fashioned wood. The man pointed it at her, a loud bang went off. Soi's eyes widened as she recalled that sound. That sound made her want to flee but her body wasn't responding.
"That's enough, John. You'll not shoot at my..." Yoruichi struggled to find a word, "My protege." The old man pulled the gun out of her grip. Soi looked from where the black devil had been to where she was...
'How did she... and what did she just say?'
her mind yelled. 'Protage? I don't think so.'
"You best be keepin' an eye out. I find tat thing on my property, I swears I'll shoot it." he said going back inside. Yoruichi sighed heavily before looking at Soi with a glare. It was the first time since they'd been together that Soi'dseen her actually show any other emtion beside goofying off.
Not a word was spoke but Soi seemed to get the silent message. The trio walked through the buildings and strange structures. Luicon was asking what was what and how come it was there. Although Soi liked the kid there was a limit on how much chatter she could handle. Her eyes now fell onto the structure that now lay in front of her.
A very large tree that was at least seven elephants wide, how long it was who knew? It was tall enough to reach up into the clouds. Yoruichi sighed and pushed something open.
"Welcome to your new home. The castle of Pan'la." she entered the tree with the other two following with caution. Soi would've jumped out of her skin if it wasn't securely attached. A woman with the same color of skin as Yoruichi came flying down the... bumpy hill? Her head cocked to the side as she stared at the women.
At the last second Yoruichi side-stepped causing the woman who'd lept at her crash into the floor... that was strangely slippery. The body twitched before it got up swiftly, turned around with tears in her eyes.
"Do you know how worried I've been? You send Kisuke here with that terrible message, your papa and I were almost in panic!" she said in a whine.
"I'm fine mama.. er what did Kisuke tell you?" her mouth twitched as the man could come with a million different ways to break the news instead of sticking to what he was told to say.
"He said you got lost!" her mama exclaimed with those big teary eyes. Yoruichi shook her head.
"I didn't get lost mama. I had a small problem so I had to stop and catch it." she said with a grin. Her mom's eyes then fell on the small bear cub and cheetah, then back to her daughter That went on for about two minutes before she exclaimed.
"Why is there a cheetah here?"
Ok, thanx for readin' but I need a break.