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Two characters do not belong to me, while they shall remain unnamed for now, their respective owners are:
Nok-tjau'ke - Infernothechinchilla.
Alha'uxi - GODDESS-Rita-ofDARK.
Thank you, Rita and Inferno! I love them both so much!
Alha'uxi had never met a more stubborn being in his life. Granted, egotistical newly blooded warriors acted as if they were the greatest hunters around and denied evidence to the contrary. But Diana, no this was a different kind of hardheadedness. Diana was stubborn without ground, she wanted to travel with them but she wanted Korrine with them, otherwise she wouldn't go.
Ky'gon had a different take on their situation. He found it courageous that Diana was stepping up to his more experienced hunt brothers, telling them what to do where he could not.
Naturally, Korrine was thankful she wasn't going to lose her daughter, but was currently hoping none of the three large, dangerous aliens felt threatened by her display. So far, the trio had proven their specie to be primitive and advanced a contradiction that somehow fit together.
Diana stood beside Small Stone who just looked on in mild interest, or something that Diana thought was interest.
"We explained this already Dy'anna. Koorene cannot accompany us." Alha'uxi argued back, Diana just stood with her arms crossed and a grin that began to truly annoy him.
"Why not? She'll be with me the entire time and if my race has such a problem with that then they can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. From the way you said it, that is what's at stake. So either take us both, or leave us and risk everything you just told me." She looked smug, like she knew she already won this argument.
Alha'uxi restrained himself from a glare, keeping a stoic appearance served as a good example for Ky'gon, who already knew Alha'uxi was fuming that Diana suggest the very thing they had denied earlier. Back to square one.
Calmly, Alha'uxi took a seat, appearing undisturbed by Diana's stubbornness. "If Koorene was to join us once we arrive it would be disastrous. Our kind to not see ooman's as equal's Dy'anna. Most are dishonorable bad bloods and even that is too kind for most."
Korrine huffed, "We'll have none of that Alha'uxi." She pronounced correctly, momentarily proud of herself. "This is a discussion of family, not xenophobia."
"It is amongst our people." Alha'uxi disagreed, crossing his arms and relaxing in his chair. "Ooman's have not given us a reason to believe they are worthy of the many honor's a blooded hunter can receive. Some have, on rare occasions, some ooman's have traveled with our kind, but those are the only exceptions."
"Traveled? Like, other human's have left Earth with them?" Diana stood surprised. "Then how can my Mum be a problem? It'll be just like that!"
Ky'gon shook his head, "He means as mate's Dy'anna. Few ooman come in contact with us and live, the ones that do live usually are with us. Our home world has a small population of ooman's and hybrids. They number only ten to fifteen, then the other ooman's that do not preside on our home world travel with the clan ships, or with lone warriors. Commonly, lone warriors."
"So... How can Mum's case be different?" Diana's eyes narrowed in attempt to understand.
"Those ooman's," Small Stone alerted all to his presence. "Have proven themselves worthy individually. There is a reoccurrence we have noticed in ooman's. When there are multiple ooman's facing a threat, they flee, usually in a destructive disorganized way, doing more damage then not. Yet when an ooman is alone, braving the inevitable without company of another of its kind, they fight, fiercely. At times we have had lone warriors who had crossed paths with one ooman to either return with the ooman as his or her mate, with the ooman as a companion warrior, or not at all."
Diana blinked, half confused as to how Small Stone ended up on the opposite side of the room. "What did they do that Mum can't? Or hasn't?"
"Those ooman's fought and won goals beside our kind. Alone with time and supplies, one ooman can do the very Rite of Passage three unblooded pup's face. They complete something akin to that. It's about honor and courage, though Koorene seems to be a... unique ooman that does not change the fact she has not completed any of these tasks." Alha'uxi finished for Small Stone.
She sighed, shaking her head. "No, I mean, give me an example."
Ky'gon lit up. "I know one." He looked to Alha'uxi for permission to explain. The older hunter simply nodded his head in answer.
"This was before my lifetime, the ooman had passed away, but not one of our kind around to see him had forgotten him." Ky'gon smirked, "This ooman presided within a large city, when it was still safe for us to venture within ooman populations. A huntress named Yt'ievj'ka had been chasing down the trail of what appeared as a new and growing threat created my ooman's who had discovered us before to fight us. From it's... damage we had seen, it was effective. No hunter would survive if only one was brought to fight ten of us."
Diana raised her brow, fell back into a seat and crossed her legs. Ky'gon looked excited about the tale, Alha'uxi and Small Stone seem to have heard it repeatedly by the looks on their faces. Uninterested in a tale they already know.
Ky'gon smiled widely now, he felt pleased to relay the story onto someone new. "While Yt'ievj'ka was searching this dangerous tool, an ooman had fallen across her path."
Alha'uxi interrupted, "He means literally fell. The ooman was on this metal extension of a building and the bars gave out from natural abuse and he fell upon her while she was cloaked." Diana giggled, "Ouch."
A bit annoyed Alha'uxi stopped him, he continued as if he never been interrupted, all the while staring at Alha'uxi before returning to Diana and Korrine.
"After the encounter, the ooman had survived narrowly by escaping into a dense crowd; it was a celebration of sorts... I believe they said he explained it as New's Year's day and they all watched a giant ball be dropped...?" Ky'gon was lost, he didn't understand that part.
"Yeah, New Years Day, it's a celebration on the night when one year crosses to the next. There's a large red ball we drop from a building to signify. Often a time when people change their lives for good or worse, or supposed to be anyways." Ky'gon looked somewhat disturbed by Diana jumping into the story telling, but ignored her nonetheless. Though, keeping a mental note of 'New Years Day."
"Regardless. She lost him, disturbed, she kept watching for him while on her mission. Passing by the metal building extension even with all the ooman's trying to replace the structure." Ky'gon struggled with the terms, "A little over a month had gone by without seeing the ooman, until the extension was completed and he stood on the metal railing again. Thankful to Paya she found him again, she climbed the structure and prepared to strike the ooman."
Ky'gon tapped his wrist blades, signifying the weapon she was using. "Somehow, the ooman heard her and faced her even though he couldn't see her. From what the story says he explained himself as knowledgeable to her kind. He thought she was there to kill him and take his invention." Ky'gon flashed a dark smirk, "As it turns out, the last sighting of the weapon was correct. In the alley of an ooman city nearby where the last hunter to fall victim to this weapon had landed."
Diana tilted her head, "Oddly enough, he carried the weapon with him at all times and it never appeared on her helmet under any vision settings. He explained that once he ran into a male elder who was a bad blood and lost his arm when trying to escape so he created a defense, the weapon she sought, because the bad blood elder had sent his clan members to find the ooman after humiliating him when he slayed his brother when escaping through an ooman supply yard."
"And he went with her?" Diana shook her head, "That doesn't make sense."
Alha'uxi held his hand up, taking the place of the informer for Ky'gon. "He said he knew of our culture and knew what kind of warrior he dealt with. After designing the weapon he endangered others he knew and had to face the threat; Dexik'el, an infamous bad blood. He asked Yt'ievj'ka for aid against him and, as any blooded would do, she accepted. Needless to say they had triumphed eventually and Yt'ievj'ka deemed him worthy as a mate, both in strength and heart."
Korrine stared, licked her lips, and sighed. "Tilly, you can't change their minds." She patted Diana's shoulder, "Just leave it be."
She sat there, her stubbornness had worn thin, but she had will. Korrine was by no means heroic and as much as Diana tried to deny it, Korrine was older; she wouldn't withstand an act the trio currently talked about. Diana wouldn't have it though, she had to find a loop hole, a way Korrine could come with them without problems. She had to find a way now or remain running from the people who hunt her. Diana didn't want that for Korrine especially after they lost Harvey.
The room was quiet; Alha'uxi temporarily believed he may have just convinced Diana to the contrary. This all crumbled when a very concerning look appeared on Diana's face. Something that Alha'uxi knew to be 'I-know-something-you-don't.'
Diana laughed and shook her head, the others in the room only watched on, wondering what she could be thinking, perhaps something they missed, and something they already said, or maybe simply just lost her mind.
"Then... from what you all are saying, Mum can come with us." Diana chuckled, "She's already done something like that."
Alha'uxi was stumped, he thought harder and harder about what Diana was saying. They said no, Korrine couldn't come, and they explained humans don't venture off world with yautja unless they've proved themselves worthy to the hunter of their own honor. Korrine was an older human, that wasn't hard to see, Alha'uxi was experienced in the age process of humans and Korrine past her prime already, and she also never even knew what Diana was until they told her.
"I do not follow Dy'anna, when did we say Koorene may join us?" Ky'gon leaned over, catching Diana's attention.
Diana smiled, took Korrine's hand and held it close. "She is worthy, just as Harvey was, and my Aunt and Uncles, Grandmother and Grandfather. They became so all at the same time, for the same deed." Korrine was about to question Diana just as she realized her point and instead let her continue with a growing smile. "They all saved me."
Ky'gon instantly turned to Alha'uxi, nodding to him. "Dy'anna is right."
Small Stone must have agreed, else he would have spoken against it. Alha'uxi was staring dead to Small Stone, hoping for some kind of understanding. "I had not... thought about it that way. We will need more details of course."
Diana left it to Korrine; she hadn't remembered that night excluding what she had told her parent's, the cold solitude and then the warm home with people around her.
"Harvey had taken me to the park near our home on Christmas, a yearly celebration. We found a secluded spot where he proposed to me. We only had a moment to relish when we heard a noise from the trees. Harvey was curious and against my wishes he looked through the branches and found Diana." She sighed, it was almost too hard to remember when Harvey proposed and harder yet now he wasn't there to tell it with her. "We thought at first she was boy, just to say anything besides saying it. We also thought she was human naturally."
"You found her in the trees at a par'k. I fail to see how you 'saved' her." Alha'uxi inquired, not in offence, but in interest.
"If you knew how cold it gets in England especially at one of the coldest months of the year and saw that Diana wore nothing but rags that barely covered her, you'd understand." Korrine answered, "Anyone would die of exposure like that. I thoroughly believe it was Diana's thick skin that saved her."
Nodding in confirmation, Korrine continued her own story. "I was... put off at first when Harvey and I discovered her appearance, but we both knew that if we didn't save her from the cold and the government she would have died or been killed. So we took her home. We gave her warmth, love, attention, a roof and food. We gave all we could and we're not rich, we couldn't really afford a child, yet all of it was worth to give her a real life, Diana is special and I'm proud to call her my daughter... even if I am her adopted mother."
Alha'uxi looked downward before getting Small Stone's and Ky'gon's attention. "Prepare for departure." Alha'uxi stood, his hunt brothers leaving the room as he addressed Korrine and Diana. "Once you are ready, we shall leave for our respective clans. Diana, Koorene, Ky'gon is the son of an elder, with his influence and trust of a clan leader it would be safest for you to remain within his clan. Small Stone and myself are always near, our clans are not that far apart and being we are hunt brothers it is expected for us to visit each other and hunt with each other over time."
Korrine released Diana's hand, "Alha'uxi, would you mind speaking with me for a moment, privately?"
Diana tapped her lap before jumping up. "I'll just be... outside, err, whatever. Find me when you're done Mum." With that, Diana left the room, heading to join Ky'gon and Small Stone in the cockpit once more.
"You wish to speak Koorene?" Alha'uxi looked down to the human, she was generally average height for a human, but still short compared to him.
Taking a deep breath, Korrine entwined her fingers, generating a self support. "I want to ask that if my being with Diana while with you is such a problem as you and the others have said, then I don't want to cause trouble. I don't want anyone to be questioned just for my sake. If it is truly such a... dangerous thing I come with you, then I would much rather give Diana a chance to live like she deserves."
As he made note of before, Korrine was and older human and with age comes wisdom and experience, he knew that first hand. She was no exception, just as she loved Diana and wanted to be with her, Korrine equally wanted Diana to have the life rather then the hiding she had lived for so long at the human cities.
Placing one hand on each of her shoulders, Alha'uxi reassured her. "Dy'anna is correct in her point and with Ky'gon's father as an elder; there will be no worries over your presence. I will not lie, it will be difficult for members a part of Ky'gon's clan to become accustomed to you, though it will happen and you will be accepted without a second thought. I have chosen Ky'gon because it will be easier for you and Diana to find homage, whereas with me or Small Stone, even with our histories, it would be dangerous." Alha'uxi nudged Korrine to walk with him out of the room.
"Do not freight Koorene, all will be well. I warn you of one thing. It would be looked down upon if you, Dy'anna, or Ky'gon told anyone of Dy'anna's origin. If they found out she had been raised with ooman's on Earth, she will be judged accordingly. I do not speak of behalf of all my kind, some will choose to ignore that detail, but others will not look on kindly and feel Dy'anna does not deserve a place with them." Korrine gulped quietly, she could see the problem with that, and yautja's have been explained to her as somewhat primitive and advanced. This topic, however, would remain in the field of primitive behavior.
Touching Alha'uxi's forearm and facing him before exiting the room, Korrine wanted to confirm her place. "I do not agree with such... brutality Alha'uxi, but if this is the only way Diana can live normally as God intended for your kind to live, I will not stop it."
"I will inform Ky'gon of such plans, he will approach you when all is said and decided. For now, ready yourself, we leave tonight." Alha'uxi opened the door and stood out of the way for Korrine, "We will wait for you though, no matter how long it takes."
"I do believe I will be good to go in only a little while, thank you Alha'uxi."
With a friendly smile, Korrine went off to find Diana. There were a few things she had to talk about before they arrived at their new home.
Teddy-Wabbitz: Thanks! :D
Blood Shifter2: Bet you didn't see this coming! Shouting isn't Alha'uxi's thing from what I've heard from Rita, his creator. Also, Ky'gon's BURSTING with stories in the future, it's going to be easy to say he's a newly blooded hunter.
And the family is on their way to the clan! FINALLY.
GODDESS-Rita-ofDARK: Of course Korrine's going. No one ever thought that by saving Diana Korrine would be deemed an honorable human by yautjan standards, did they now? :)
Library of Congress, eh? It my MOST FAVORITE PLACE of ALL TIME. It was by far the most gorgeous building Washington D.C. had to offer, I mean, Lincoln Memorial: Awesome. Washington Monument: Sweeeet. Capitol Building? Hell, if they actually GAVE you a tour, I'm sure it would've been nice, but all you see is the Hall of Heroes and then... fucksticks, that's about it. xP
The Library of Congress had Jefferson's collection, which was AMAZING looking at "Politics for Geniuses", "DIY Construction", then suddenly "Gardening for families." That was so cool.
Of course...
Those titles are made up to joke about his love of arcitecture, his political standpoint, and his apparent urge to garden something.
mckeown: Hellz yeah. Wouldn't you for your mother, father, brother, or sister? It would be as bad as condeming them to isolation after they just lost their husband/wife! I wrote Diana as a down to Earth (literally LOL) kind of gal, someone who values her family as they are not for what they're not or what they get her. I made her different then the common nowaday's teenager, she and her family are so much more then just your average neighbor's.
Woo for the people who choose to stand up for themselves and show their differences!
Malakia: HOO-HA! She is and that's why I love her character. Women aren't demanding enough and those who are, are either extreme feminist's, corrupt politictions, bitchy gal's who give women a bad name, or fantasy women who act like everything's supposed to be perfect; boyfriends/friends/life etc. etc. I think it's fairly obvious I'm one of these demanding women, of course, if I apply to one of these factual streotypes is ALLLLLL up to you. :)
Women who are exceptions to that now growing fact are the gal's I want to know, people I want to hang with and aren't afraid to admit their mistakes.
Fuck everyone else.