Ottawa: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Rye: *stares blankly at wall and hums*
Yami: Great, that song's going to be stuck in my head all day now. Disclaimers and warnings still apply if you haven't figured that out already.
"Okay? How do we avoid that?" Bakura asked, glaring at her, his tail flicking in agitation.
"Well for one, calm down. Your tail is one of the biggest give aways you have, so think of this as developing a poker face for your ass." She hissed, placing a paw on the moving tail and holding it down. "Let's say I'm a dominant and I show interest in your bitch..."
She walked around Ryou, who looked up and watched her cautiously, his own tail flicking with interest.
"Note how I'm circling him and he's watching, but even if his face is blank or his eyes show caution, it's his tail that's telling me that I peaked his interest, so now I'm going to test the waters and see if the bitch will attack me or stay neutral or even consent to my advances." Ottawa explained, all the while still walking around Ryou and keeping herself close to attack him, but far to avoid being attacked.
Ryou sat up full, hunching and Ottawa paused, before turning and walking around in the opposite direction, switching back half way. She kept this up until Ryou laid down again, his tail curling over his hind legs, but now wagged lazily.
"Seems he's not interested. Now I can either walk away or..." she suddenly lunged, pinning Ryou before he could react, her jaws pressed over his neck and growling deeply as he whined and submitted. Once she was sure he'd remain laying down, she got up and walked away from him. "Or I can attack and force him to be my bitch. But there is also the chance that you, the dominant will attack and kill me for doing that, but if I approach you, like so..."
She hunched down low, eyes locked on Bakura's and growling as she stalked forward, circling closer to him than she was with Ryou. Bakura was up and following her moves, snarling low, snapping his jaws at her.
"This is called a challenge. I am basically saying you're too weak to keep the bitch at your side and will take them from you. Now if your presence can scare me off, bravo, you won, but if I refuse to back down..." She lunged again, Bakura, brought up a paw and smacked her to the floor, everyone gasped, but she was up snarling out a bark before lunging again, but dodged his swipe and jumped on his back, biting his shoulders and digging her claws into his back.
Bakura roared before he rolled onto his back, Ottawa yelping at the change in gravity and the weight on her gut before she squirmed free, but got pinned by Bakura. He bit her shoulder and held her down, she growled and managed to slip free before she lunged and sat on his chest, one paw holding his head up the other raised to kill him.
"You just lost your rights to the bitch." She said and got off before like a switch her she was back to her crazy self as she yawned and laid down. "And that's highly important, Rye's pack has very few females or betas, whatever you want to call them, so a lot of the dominants will try and find a bitch."
"Damn it..."
"You weren't fighting me as seriously as you have Yami or Duke or even Marik, because to you I smell like a bitch and I am a bitch. My presence isn't nearly as threatening as one of them." Ottawa said. "So don't feel bad. Now then take what you just learned and saw and try to apply it. Remember tame that damn tail or you'll give yourself away."
Everyone nodded, but before anyone could move Ottawa shrieked as something landed on her back and when they turned to look it was Yugi sitting on her back, smiling away.
"Damn, cute... little cuddly... shit..." Ottawa growled into the earth, pissed that she forgot about the cub.
"Tag! Otta-mama's it!" Yugi cheered before jumping off and running away from the wolf as she ran after him.
"COME BACK HERE!"
Meanwhile with Marik:
Rye slammed into the wall and got up, spitting out some blood and smirking.
"Good, you haven't lost your edge... let's try again. This time pierce me right here." She pointed to her left lung and he looked worried.
"Don't worry I'm wearing my Holy Anhk. If I die, it'll bring me back to life since I stayed alive for almost 100 years since the last time I needed it." She assured him.
He nodded as Kia readied her claymore once more. She dashed forward as Rye vanished from sight. Marik quickly caught the blade, grunting as the small wolf was surprisingly a lot stronger than she looked and was forcing him back. He quickly forced her blade down and jumped out of the path of Rye's whip, his wings holding him in the air as he took a breath and fire built up in the back of his throat before he breathed it at the two, Rye's whip spinning to create a shield as Kia hid behind her claymore. Aly suddenly appeared on Marik's back and he grabbed the little vampire and tossed her off before she could do damage, but he took his eyes off Kia and got yanked down by a lasso.
"Pay attention to all of your surroundings- waah!" He quickly pulled Kia up, leaving her weaponless as she held tight to the rope and then dived at Rye, making the two smash into each other but Rye jumped up and threw a few kunai, slicing his wings.
He let out a pained scream as he crashed into the floor and laid there, trying to catch his breath as Rye approached.
"Are you even thinking?" She asked. "That's play kamakazi-ugh?" She looked down where Marik's tail thrust through her chest, piercing her lung before the normally flat scales stood erect and did more damage on the way out when he yanked his tail free. "Heh... we- well done..."
She collapsed a moment later as blood pooled out. Marik panicked, getting ready to grab one of those Angel prayers, but stopped when the bracelet glowed, acting like an Angel Prayer as she slowly sat up, healed and gaining back her blood and color as she stood up.
"Good... Though your method worries me."
"You're no better Lady Nubia."
"I know. But still we can't trust that any of those shadow creatures will be stupid enough to get that close... Here, use this to heal. Sorry about the wings."
"Tsk, this isn't the first time we've sparred."
"Yes, well this is the first time I've managed to clip your wings." He snorted and tossed the Healing potion in the air where beams of light engulfed him and moment later he was as good as new.
"Now then, let's go out and see what damage these guys have done..." Rye said.
Kia nodded, Aly silently walking beside her. Rye paused before she smiled and reached into a pouch on her hip and turned to Aly holding up a black nephrite pan flute. Aly's eyes lit up and she took it, smiling her thanks.
"You are most welcome Aly. Play this whenever you are lost or separated from Kia. A swarm of bats will come to your aid and protect you even from sunlight should anything ever happen to your necklace."
Kia smiled and bowed deeply.
"Thank you, Lady Nubia... Is this the item you promised?"
"One of them... I believe these books should be in you care... There was a rather mess accident with Seti." Rye sighed handing her two books one Gold and one Black.
"What? But how! It could not have been evil spirits-"
"He was murdered by someone he trusted." Rye said, her tone hard like stone and cold, meaning Kia was to drop it. "Hide the books. The Maji will keep guard over the sands. Help them if you see it fit. And both you and Aly, please be careful."
They nodded, Aly putting the pan flute away and Kia took the books, placing them in her room to hide later after they checked on the others, she sealed her room off just to be safe that no thieves snuck in and take them...
Back with Ottawa...
Yugi giggled to himself as he hid away from Ottawa, pressing himself down to the earth in the long, dry grasses. He knew he should be taking this all much seriously, but he was having too much fun to care. He suddenly yelped as he was picked up by the scruff of his neck. He curled his hindquarters up and purred happily as Ottawa carried him back to the others.
"Alright, now this is the next lesson, pups... or in Yugi's case, cubs." She told them. "Yami, you need to rub your scent on Yugi, so that the pack knows that he belongs to you. If a pup is not claimed others will try to steal him, because we don't breed very easily unfortunately, so pups are like to us what gold is to humans."
"They would not dare." Yami hissed, his feathers fluffing out. Ottawa merely yawned at him, unimpressed.
"They will, unless you assert that he is yours, so get going." She said, pushing Yugi towards Yami. Yugi twined between Yami's legs, purring happily. Yami let out a crooning sound and rubbed his head along Yugi's body, licking him with a sandpapery tongue and using one paw to hold him in place as he groomed him.
"Well, you seem to have the protective instinct down right." Ottawa commented, sauntering towards Yami. Yami hissed, warning her back. "Relax, I want to make sure you've gotten your scent on him." Yugi toddled over to Ottawa and purred as she sniffed around him. "Excellent! Now, onto the next phase."
Ottawa: Hakuna matata!
Rye: What a wonderful phrase!
Yugi: Hakuna matata!
Yami: Ain't no passing craze...aw shit.
Bakura: Review and maybe they'll stop singing.