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Lesson 7: Play Time
"No running!" the cheerful yips and clicks of the young Yautja ran out through the marketplace as usual that morning. Sunny wandered through it with only half of her attention focused on her surroundings, today was pretty peaceful for Prime. She and Doojoon wandered the streets with only a bit of curiosity for the bazaar of goods all around them. Sunny's carefree day would probably have continued had her mother, Taeyeon not stumbled out in front of her just then, looking particularly panic'd. "I said no running children!" she cried again.
"M-mom?" Sunny blinked in surprise.
"Taeyeon?" Doojoon muttered between a mouthful of some kaboob'd caterpillar, one of the new delicacies on Prime.
"Oh! Sunny-" sniffed Taeyeon quickly up at her daughter, smiling at first at how healthy she looked before her eyes glanced over to Doojoon uneasily. Like any mother, Taeyeon didn't entirely accept nor approve the lifestyle mate choice her daughter had run with…granted to mention it would be quite hypocritical since Taeyeon had mated with another species herself to have Sunny. "Doojoon? …having a nice afternoon?"
"Yes." Sunny said. Doojoon didn't answer and just took another nibble from his caterpillar kabob. Sunny lifted her foot and slammed it down hard on his own, he jerked back and quickly nodded to answer in agreement with her. "What are you…up too?" Sunny noticed her mother's particularly panicy glances to the direction she'd originally been running.
"Oh, nothing, sweetheart. Nothing at all." Smiled Taeyeon quickly waving her hand about like it would easily wave any further questions away, "Well I should really get going." She grinned once more at both of them before running off in said direction.
Sunny glanced after her before turning to look up at Doojoon. He slowly brought the kabob away from his mouth and just glanced back, "We're going after her, aren't we?"
Sunny just stepped on his foot again.
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Lexa really had to much if not enough going on today in the forest's biodom to now have to return with a ooman in shackles, parading through the city center of Prime. She did have to wonder as countless Yautja came out to see this ooman led to it's demise through the streets up toward the Elder's temples, what exactly did all of them get out of it?
The child, was barely youngling age in Yautja terminology, had she been born on Prime. Instead, due to her Earth heritage and of course her pale human flesh she was not accepted and most certainly a creature worthy of no justice or honor. Lexa followed the procession from the back as Fei and Jia walked in the front, their chests puffed out high with the head of the male prey they'd originally come for blazened high above on the tip of Jia's spear.
Lexa couldn't quite get past the smell of his rotting flesh, when she'd arrived the overral left overs of his body were burned and singed all over the clearing from some cannon blast. It hadn't taken Vk'leita or Ghardeh's return to tell her that it was actually the ooman child who blew him apart… Why? Well that was a far more interesting question, wasn't it?
Lexa walked but her mind started to go far away, far away as she recalled an incident not unlike this one only it had been during her first few hours of knowing Scar.
"P-please!" cried Sebastian his Italian accent heavily couthed with the pain of having one of those terrible creatures inside his ribcage, ready to burst forth. "S-shoot me, Lexa!" he'd pleaded, "Kill me before it does!" his head tossed back and forth, dirt and blood riddled in it. Lexa had felt the last bits of humanity leave her then…as she'd lifted that gun right at her friend. Sebastian had been a poor archetict whose only hunger was for discovery and exploration. He wasn't a killer…his fate should not be so traumatic. "…please.." Sebastian finally whispered just as Scar took his spot right behind her.
Lexa took in one more deep breath, "I'm sorry…" and pulled the trigger.
Just like that Lexa snapped out of her flashback, her eyes peered up at the Elder's temple, now they'd climbed all the steps up to it. The marketplace lay below and countless dreadlocked heads stared up after them. It was time to face the council.
The temple was as dark and dreary in the Elder's chamber as it had always been. Lexa knew it was not everyday a ooman was permitted to enter here. The child was brought around and then forced to her knees before the thrones of the four elders and the elite…
Lexa knew it was her job to speak to Scar so she rounded the imprisoned ooman child and stood before her, pulling her cloak down once more and speaking swiftly to explain the situation, "This child was in the way of our hunt-"
The eldest Elder Vor'mekta spoke with a barren laugh from his seat at the far right, "and you must come to us to know to split it's skull?" for once it was obvious to Lexa why they called this swarthy dark scaled creature 'The Demon' he truly had no interest in this poor child's life.
Lexa turned once more to Scar, hopefully her tone holding something of hope for this poor thing, "She was not part of the original hunt and has been living in the forest-" to Lexa's surprise Scar held up a single clawed hand, his face was hidden behind his hunting mask…perhaps for this meeting had been called during one of his usual hunting times.
"All creature not Yautjian in the forest…" began Scar and before Lexa could argue or find a way to show him what she so deeply desired for this child he finished, "are prey for our kind."
Lexa wanted to shout at him, why did he fail to hear her? He said such sweet things when they were by themselves but…now he seemed unwillingly to even look her straight in the eye. "But that is-" began Lexa.
"You heard the man!" cheered Jia quickly turning back to the ooman girl she'd been looking so forward to slaying. After all the damn thing had not only taken out her prey for her but it the gut's to challenge her! Her! Jia of the clanKayt'ak.
The ooman's chest rose slowly up in fear as it seemed to be unsure of what was going on. Lexa tried to desperately to think of a way to save the situation as Jia pulled her wristblades out right there and grabbed the ooman's chin, pulling it up and resting the blades against it's neck. "Gonna make a nice clear cut…" grinned Jia down at it, her black nails clawing into the space around the neck, "jerk out your little spinal cord and then I'm going to make'em into a nice ceremonial sash-" Jia's blades began to cut, blood dribbled out quickly as the ooman girl gasped for life, it was all it took for Lexa to jump forward and shout at Scar.
"Ki'cte!" the order was so loud it made even Jia's blades falter and then slip away from the ooman neck, "It maybe true-" Lexa turned to glower up at Scar, "In fact it is entirely part of the code that anything in the forest is prey…" Scar was more then likely tapping his mandibles together in honest to god wonder. His mate was now acting so damn cocky. Lexa looked around from face to crab face, she would not lose here…not another one of them. Not like Sebastian, she could control this. "unless the prove themselves not to be!"
"Huh?" Vk'leita even looked over at Lexa from his place in the back of the procession, he and Ghardeh had been looking particularly excited as Jia was about to tear it's head off.
"Unless the human or…other creature in the forest…" Lexa turned herself back to face Scar dead on, "prove themselves as more then prey…" Fei clicked her tongue and mandibles together just behind Lexa, seeming to get where she was going with this.
Scar on the other hand just tilted his head at this news, what on earth was his mate talking about? Lexa just glared up at him, You spared me, you idiot…are you going to break your own rules just because all the cool Yautja are doing it? She knew Scar was better then this, it was why he'd been made Elite Elder. He could outthink, outlive, and out hunt anyone else…
Scar tapped his throne's skulled arms and then slowly lifted one claw to tap his mask, as if thinking on all this. He then grunted and let out a long whirling growl that told Lexa a few things…she'd heard him only make that noise three times since knowing him. Once when he'd found her following him back in the Arctic, once when she'd returned to him on Prime…and once when she confided in him that she was pregnant. This couldn't be good.
"Are you saying it has proven itself above prey?" he growled, his voice held every note that she was going to be hearing about this tonight and for quite awhile after that…if she dared to stick up for her fellow man over him; well their relationship would mean nothing. Scar was agitated for these reasons and Lexa knew she had to put the flames out before he got out of hand…
"Ask Jia." Lexa said simply with a shrug. No one would hear her side of this tale anyway, but Jia…Jia hated oomans. In fact her clan were the most human hating clan on Prime. Lexa had heard of those who carried the lightning clan mark with the little dash at the top of it. The symbol for after lightning,…Kayt'ak.
Not only Scar's attention but all Elders turned to the pink yautja as she stood there, blades slightly dripping with the little neck blood it had collected. The ooman remained at her feet, head bowed by Jia's leg obiedently not moving… This alone should be favored, thought Lexa. Most oomans would be running, screaming, and grasping out for weapons by now. This child merely sat there and seemed to await the outcome for herself. Was that not bravery? Was that not…honor?
Jia's lips curled up into a arrogant smirk, clearly she'd longed to be addressed by the Elders for her talents and her family heritage but this was not the time to show off the lightning mark on her lapel. She raised a solid neon pink fist to the Elder as a sign of respect before humbly answering, "I was challenged by this thing!" she declared, "It would not stand down and so I fought it."
Elder Nat'ka'pu looked most amused by this sentiment he chuckled at the coy brutality Jia expressed, "What is that little Kayt'ak?" Jia cringed at this name because it underminded everything she was. "You were challenged by prey and thus choose to face it?"
"W…wha…was that wrong?" Jia now lost all of her cool and just sort of stared around the room with a blank apathetically unheroic or cool expression. It was clear that although she had faced it, she had lost.
Scar growled again silencing everyone as he just glowered down at the ooman child who was causing all this havoc in his throne room, "If I return it to the forest it will die…maybe not today…but soon…" he turned his attention back to Lexa, "You're merely avoiding the unavoidable."
"She's stronger than that." Lexa snapped feeling aggravated that he really wasn't getting it. By insulting this child, he was really insulting her. Had she made the wrong choice?
Their was a low whistle which of course made Scar's mood worse…far worse. The dragoness from earlier pranced into the throne room like she owned the place, glancing about it as if it were merely just another day in the neighborhood. "Ahhhh, what have we here?" Yoona grinned about, "I heard something was brought into the Elders…" she glanced down and saw Cashel cowering there. "I just didn't realize we needed so many people to take care of one tiny cute ooman-" she pinched Cashel's cheek just before spinning around and grinning up at Scar.
"May I ask what you plan to do with it?" Yoona beamed from ear to ear up at Scar who just kind of ignored her, continuing his glaring match with Lexa.
"He is considering letting it back into the forest…" Lexa explained icily, "to one day meet it's fate."
"Ahhh, fate." Nodded Yoona, "Funny thing." She glanced back again to see both Fei and Min looking pretty withdrawn from the situation…and Jia looking absolutely miserable. "Well it's probably for the best considering it would be a lot to explain how it so boldly defeated a Bad Blood."
This had Scar's attention, in fact more than half of the room looked up at Yoona who hummed innocently to herself.
"It didn't." snapped Fei, lying in the Elder's quarters and as a Yautja was against all laws of the honor code…but then again…Yoona wasn't a Yautja was she. "We saw that-" she pointed up at the skull of Bradley on Min's spear. "do it."
"no, no, no." Yoona waggled a single dark green finger at Fei as if telling a naughty child off. Fei actually pouted at this as Yoona turned back to grin at Lexa, "All you saw were blinding cannon fire, right? Burned holes in the trees? Nasty, nasty little thing isn't she?"
Yoona waved down at the child still huddling up, unable to understand what was being said about her. "Got a cute face though, hm? Really naïve looking isn't she…I guess it's like a venus flytrap! Looks pretty but once your in- BAM!" Yoona clapped her hands together fast and hard before cackling with delight.
Scar actually had flinched but now he glared Yoona down seriously, "…you mean..it…" he nodded his head toward the ooman child, "Killed…a Bad Blood?"
Yoona's eyes widened, "Oh…you haven't heard great Elite Elder?" she mock bowed so low that Vor'mekta actually hissed for her to get on with it. She winked up at him as she slowly rose back out of her bow and motioned down to the child again, "or maybe you'd prefer to ask Tichinde yourself? Unfortunately he's unconscious on a slab in medical at the moment but…you know how things go-" she just grinned cheekily at Scar.
Scar of course did know exactly how things went in medical, he'd been saved there after his hunt in the arctic. He turned his eyes slowly over to Lexa, then to the other Elders who all took this information in with wide surprised eyes and then to the one they all now stared at… the young ooman girl.
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T-their all staring at me… Cashel was horrified. Yes, she knew it had been a dangerous choice but for part of it her muscles just moved, her mind didn't think she had just…just seen…no felt that she had too. She lowered her head again as all those eyes remained on her. That Yoona person had come in and started speaking so fast she'd felt excessively lost…but now…now she just hoped it was over.
She should pay after all…she'd killed Bradley. Another human being…she was…a murderer.
Please don't kill me…please…she shut her eyes tight just listening, was there any chance at all here she would survive? Probably not. These things looks like her original captors's leaders. They must have ordered the attack on humanity so they probably hated her kind…but that didn't explain why that Alexa woman was here…
She slowly glanced up at her and it was then that Alexa looked down at her, when their eyes met she tried to speak and it came out weak but it was the truth, the only thing she could think of to say… "I want to live."
Alexa stared down at her, it would be beyond Cashel what the other older woman was thinking but had she known about Sebastian about how this completely opposite desire was all it took to make Alexa turn back to stare up at Scar with a glower and speak in a equally gruff growl. The words were lost on Cashel but it didn't matter as Alexa was merely answered with a nod and a wave of the leader's hand.
Quickly Cashel was lugged to her feet by Yoona who just grinned down at her, before spinning her around and out they marched to the door. Cashel had to check once they were outside…but yup, as she looked down she was still alive! All alive!
Alexa quickly joined them and nodded to Yoona, "Thank you." She said in english, possibly so Cashel could understand, "I really appreciated your help in there." Yoona just nodded and shrugged it off before turning back to Cashel…
"You can't get into a lot of trouble now, you hear me?" she wagged her finger down at Cashel now, "Oomans don't get breaks…ever. So this is…pretty much a miracle." Alexa nodded so Cashel looked to her again…
"W-why did they let me go?" Cashel asked curiously, truly not sure what on earth this could all mean.
Alexa opened her mouth but Yoona got out words faster, "They thought you nearly killed Tichinde as well as defeat Jia…" Cashel's mouth fell open in a long lasting horrified expression, "…oh…" Yoona paused for a second as if realization hit her as to how much of a lie this all was, "oh…and that you may have been smart enough to somehow use Yautja technology…"
Cashel slowly and much like a truly terrified character in any horror genre related movie looked up at Alexa, "I'm dead…" she whispered, "H-h-how am I going to play that? I-I just got lucky…I just-"
Alexa shook her head, "You must be really lucky if that's the case…because from what I've heard that ooman you killed was extremely dangerous-"
Cashel nodded thinking back to Bradley before suddenly freezing again, "w-wait!" she shrieked and both stared at her as she held up her hands in front of her in panic, "Wh-where is he?"
"I thought we covered this." Yoona groaned rubbing her horns dramatically, "DEAD, Cashel. He's dead."
"no." she snapped at her making Yoona actually fall quiet for a second as she panic'd and looked up at Alexa again, "T-t-he thing…t-the guy that saved me…in his cave?"
"The bad blood?" both said at once in surprise.
Cashel nodded quickly and just started to speak quickly, "Where is he? He isn't dead, right? Bradley didn't kill him, right? I saw him lying on the ground and I grabbed the cannon but I didn't think he could die- i-y-you said-" she pointed back at Yoona again angrily, "You said he was dead." Yoona took a step back in surprise at this bizarre anxious rambling and just how threatening the human girl could get through it.
"H-he's in the medic station." Explained Yoona simply, still staring down at the kid in surprise.
"Thanks!" Cashel nodded and suddenly burst off down the steps at a dead run, Yoona had to admit it was quite impressive for someone who quite honestly hadn't known if she was going to live another second.
As both she and Alexa watched her scramble to the bottom and through the marketplace, shoving past many confused Yautja at this still living girl, Yoona couldn't help but grin to herself. "what?" Alexa turned to look at Yoona, the strange dragoness creature really wasn't so bad after all.
"She has no idea where the medic station is." Yoona just laughed.
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"what…is this…" Sunny could only stare around at the place they'd followed Taeyeon too. Doojoon just sort of awkwardly hid with her behind the giant tree that didn't hide Doojoon's wide hulking frame.
The space Taeyeon had led them too was in the middle of the many Kehrites, wherein they tended to train. "I wonder how we never noticed that this was here…" wondered Sunny allowed, they'd trained in the Kehrite right there regularly and yet…
"It's relatively small." Doojoon growled and began to circle the tree before heading straight toward the small shack in the center of these buildings. It really was a hole in the wall, with a few willow trees wiring down all around it.
"What…do you think she's doing here?" whispered Sunny staring around it as they got closer and closer, her heart twittering about in her chest. This was really bizarre…was there something Taeyeon wasn't telling her? Why would her mother not be completely honest with her…why hide something…like this place?
"Oh no…" Doojoon glanced down at her, "W-what if she lives here?" Doojoon snorted at the thought and then turned back around beginning to growl. "…but why would she…she knows where my father is now, right? Why…" Sunny couldn't help but near the doorway to this truly terrible dank wooden shelter.
Doojoon stayed just behind her, eyes glancing back and forth as he took in everything around them before suddenly he spun around, hissing in rage for a fight-
Two little things were just in front of him, their mandibles clicking about showing they were indeed Yautja but…they had strange patterns on their skin and even stranger colors. Sunny slowly backed up beside Doojoon to stare down at these two bizarre children and both of them just sort of looked at each other awkwardly.
"Dtai'k-dte sa-de nav'g-kon dtain'aun bpide…" smiled the closer one, it grinned with tweaking yellow scales and little striped fur lined it's arms and feathers along the tips of it's dreadlocks.
Doojoon stared back in surprise at how pristine this strange creatures Yautjian was, "…what…are you?" he just stared down at it before Taeyeon's humming came closer to them from behind all of a sudden.
"Oh- honey…what are you doing here?" Sunny and Doojoon turned to face Taeyeon then.
"W-what are you doing?" Sunny breathed just staring at her, "what is this place?"
One of the children giggled brightly and it's dark black scales were only slightly skewed by a flesh human skin color, it was a dark caramel color on the tip of the nose and mandibles. It's eyes stared up at them, a deep bright yellow of slits…
"Say hello A'lika." She chuckled down at the little one then motioned to Sunny and Doojoon. A'lika uncomfortably just stared up at them for a minute before pointing back down at Sunny's stomach-
"Are you going to have a baby?" she asked cutely…although Sunny only stared down at it with disgust. A'lika just smiled brightly.
"there there…why don't you go play inside, hm?" smiled Taeyeon down at her. Both of them clicked happily before turning and running after each other inside, making mock fighting hunt movements at each other.
Sunny and Doojoon just watched Taeyeon smile after them before turning back to look at their expressions, "…Well…" she sighed dismally, "what do you think?"
"Of what?" Sunny grumbled, "The run down shack or you're lying to me?"
Doojoon decided to take a step back out of the line of fire, which was quite obviously the best choice. Taeyeon frowned at this, "lying? I would have shown you eventually-" just then from behind the shack emerged Kangin, his body carrying about five or ten other bizarre children hanging and swinging from him.
"Kangin knows too?" shouted Sunny. Doojoon to be safe took a few more steps back and of course Kangin hurriedly swung back around, back into the house with all the kids.
"I just…I wanted to help a lot of the children here…that were like…you." Taeyeon explained quickly. Her daughter just stared at her as Taeyeon took in one more deep breath, "…none of them have parents…that are accepted by this planet…by the honor code."
Sunny rolled her eyes, "Does it matter? You know you can't change that." Sunny's father had been a strong dragon but he'd loved her mother and now…now this was just ridiculous.
"I may not be able to change a lot…but I can give them a home…just like I gave you." Taeyeon's eyes said a lot more then her words. She meant all of this, "…and…and I was kind of hoping…" she slowly glanced back to Doojoon who was a good few meters away now. Sunny turned to look at him and he just innocently glanced to the side. K
anani quickly spun back around to look at Taeyeon's face, "What?"
"I…really need you to…maybe…grankids?" she smiled slyly. Sunny's mouth hung open and with only one quick glare left at her mother and Kangin who hung in the doorway did she turn and storm back toward Doojoon. She pulled him along quickly and away from this scene, Doojoon groaning as she pulled him back into the marketplace. His growls and grunts only made her smile though as they continued to walk along, him looking for another caterpillar kaboob, even though it would ruin his dinner appetite.
Sunny had to admit…she wouldn't hate it.
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"Hopeless…" gawked Yoona as the child had yet to give up searching for the medic station. It was really quite impressive actually, by now the sun was setting and the sky was slowly drifting away the pleasantness of the day. Soon the usual humidity would be replaced by freezing cold in the city. The ooman had managed to wander the entire left side of the city but of course that wasn't the side the medic station was actually on.
"Are you going to help it?" Yoona jumped as just beside her on that Kehrite's roof was the Demon. He must have been following her as his real name, Vor'mekta (Stalker) would articulate. "…again?" he growled gruffily.
Yoona turned to him and just sort of smirked, "Are you jealous?"
The Demon turned from her, his Elder's red cape swaying a bit in the night chill, "If you don't save it soon…return it to the biodom forest, it won't survive the cold."
Yoona rolled her eyes and turned completely to stare at the Elder Yautja's back, he was always so mysterious. "Odd…I thought you were the type to never like oomans?"
The Demon shrugged and just sort of began to walk away again, "I put up with you, don't I?" Yoona broke into a small smile, of course she wasn't a ooman but she wasn't Yautja. The concept that any Yautja could feel anything or guard a member of another species…particularly one that should be prey.
Yoona turned back to see the ooman had begun to crumble against a wall in the southern end of the city, she looked exhausted and the cold was clearly beginning to get to her. Yoona swiftly jumped down, knowing it was her job to get this thing back home.
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"Ughnnn…" Tichinde tilted his head to one side, his body hurt all over. He could feel the medical gurny underneath him. In fact it would be the second time he'd ended up on one of these from his hunting.
"So you're awake?" Tichinde peered up at the voice of Mahdne, who sat by his gurney's side in the dark black room. The medic station was as dull as ever and Tichinde knew he had to heal fast or else he'd have the Elders not to mention his ex-clan to answer too. Mahdne glared down at him, turquoise scales and mandibles towering over Tichinde as he just lay still letting the bandages and immediate first aid sweep his wounds away. "You know the Elders didn't want to heal you…"
Tichinde turned his head away from the younger Yautja, was Mahdne mocking him?
"but Vk'leita had a word with them for you…" Tichinde immediately tensed, Vk'leita? That smug bastard. The eldest of his old clan and now he just so happened to be incharge of all the decisions for him? "He was out on the hunt when you got attacked…and uh," Mahdne paused uneasily, "and since the little dignity you had was shot with that ooman…"
"Ooman?" Tichinde snarled, "He didn't stand a chance. I got distracted when Vk'leita showed up."
"Oh, well the Elders just allowed it to live." Mahdne shrugged, metals and armor clacking about as he got up, making to leave the room.
"Live?" Tichinde sat up, hissing through the pain as he glowered over at Mahdne's retreating back, "what do you mean, it's still alive?"
Mahdne just grinned to himself before leaving the room, he could hear Tichinde moving to his feet, strapping on all his armor once more, skulls and all other necessary materials. He left the medic station with barely any further regard to the remaining deep gashes in his chest and arms.
He'd kill that male, he'd kill it.
Tichinde managed to get out into the street, most younglings were inside now as the temperature dropped to extremely low temperatures that even made his scales and cold blood rise and shudder. He moved back toward the biodom which held the forest trees rising up to it's transparent circular gates. All he had to do was find it and then he'd-
"Oh, there you are." Tichinde stopped just short of the last few houses before the southern part of town. Tichinde stopped to see some strange creature, with dark green skin like his own but brown flecks through it. Her strange horns also hinted at her Llonng Sain'ja heritage. A dragon, he growled at it so pleasantly greeting him, he saw only prey and of course the kill could even intice the Elders. "I believe I found something of yours." It quickly stepped aside pushing something forward toward Tichinde so rashily his immediate instinct was to strike back-
The puny ball of flesh that slammed into his chest, strange frail arms wrapping around his waist as it clung there tightly. Tichinde stopped for a second from drawing on his wristblades to just stare down at the ooman…his "P'ayp'ayel".
It shuddered against him, possibly just grabbing out for any possible warmth at this point because of the night's brisk cold. Tichinde slowly glanced back over at the dragon, it just slyly turned away again, making to walk away like Mahdne had. "why didn't you kill it?"
The dragon stopped and turned to glance over her shoulder, "Huh?" her lips spread up into a smile, "Shouldn't I be asking you that question?" she broke into a cold swift laugh just as a striking breeze blew through the city and inbetween them. Tichinde just glared down the dragon creature before it turned once more completely to glare at him, "She's cold you should take her back to your cave in the warmth of the biodom." When Tichinde just tsked, his mandibles clacking together in irritation at being ordered around by this thing.
The dragon, Yoona just stared Tichinde down, "She's not just a ooman." Tichinde's growls faltered for just a second as Yoona snorted once more at his pitiful expression, Yautja were so thickheaded. "She's the last of her kind."
Tichinde paused then to really consider this, he hadn't thought of it at all actually. He had taken her home and thought of just feeding it till it maybe tried to strike him back. Instead it had just sort of hung about uselessly…Now though, he glared down at it as it clung tightly to his body searching for some warmth from the cold blooded Yautja as it continued to shiver.
Yoona looked dismissively down at the brave ooman girl, "She must mean something to you…" her eyes locked once more on Tichinde's slitted black ones, "for you not to kill her."
Tichinde just growled back as Yoona sighed, "Well at the very least you should play with her." Tichinde blinked in surprise at this bizarre request, "She's had a hard time…so I'd think you should at the very least make her happy."
Yoona waved this all off and sauntered off into the night leaving a very confused Tichinde and an extremely cold Cashel.
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"Playing…" Tichinde murmured a good minute after he'd resettled both of them into their cave. "playing…" he grumbled again turning to that chapter.
Oomans are gentle creatures but like any they have energy and when properly approached this energy can be mantained and used up.
If you have checked the gender of your ooman you will find they have many holes about their body. These holes are used for speech, waste, and even pleasure.
As intended you may find that touching these holes allows a great amount of enjoyment and energy to be used up by your ooman.
This is considered playing.
Tichinde, being slightly thickheaded and even less romantic slowly turned to look down at his pet. She was currently nodding off against the cave wall, nursing her throat from the bloody cut Jia had given her. Tichinde growled looked once more down at the chapter, how odd. Normally the chapters explained with great detail about how and why…this chapter was short and…odd.
Tichinde glanced over the words one more time and just decided with a snap of the cover, why the hell not?
"Grrrr-" he neared her trying to set her easy with his growling which in the end only had her jump back into the cave wall, truly horrified. His face got as close as it ever had before, Tichinde's mind kept going back to the book saying that… 'oomans were affectionate creatures' like how she'd hugged him in the city. Touching to their kind was quite normal, although it felt weird to him, a Yautja.
"Rrr…" he neared just a bit closer, letting his boulder sized arms range just above her head on the cave wall. She sunk back, trying to look anywhere but up into his black eyes.
Then a claw rose up and slowly tore away the shirt like it had last time. This time though it didn't just stop at her stitches but pressed the dark black claws down the ooman's pale stomach. Tichinde noted how it seemed to be breathing pretty fast now, although still not making eye contact.
His claw rose up a bit further and he had to pause over the lumps he would figure were breasts, "Lou-dte Kalei…" a female then…of course had he really paid any attention to what Yoona had said he probably would have known as much. With his claw somewhat grasping them she began to pull back further into the wall and simply water began to spill down it's cheeks.
Tichinde had enough sense to stop what he was doing and pull back to tilt his head to one side at her, she didn't look happy.
He glared over his back at the stupid book. Clearly it had no idea what the hell it was talking about. With a gruff growl he pulled away from it and the ooman curled up once more away from him and everything, covering her chest with her hands and just continuing to sniffle to itself.
They didn't interact at all for the rest of the night.
Ugh, that killed me a bit to write. I just wanted it to be realistic and I don't really think some alien being all on you like that would make any girl immediately okay with it. Hopefully this reflects more as sexual tension though ;-;
Again, thanks for the reviews! Keep'em coming!