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Rating: PG-13 for KaixRei yaoi pairing (Possible TysonxMax)
Notes: o.o I'm really not supposed to be typing a third chapter for this. I'm SUPPOSED to be doing chapter 12 and 13 for InuBodi ;.; Oops. I might do that after this chap.:) You'll enjoy the next...five chapters of InuBodi. :) They're good. Anyway. Here you go. Next Chapter.
Chapter 3- Meeting
Kai watched Tempest launch off of his bare arm and begin her morning hunt. On either side of Kai were Tyson and Max. Tyson was also a thoroughbred-Centaur but he was chocolate-brown with peach hooves and a black tail.
Perched on Tyson's bare arm was his Common Kestrel, Rift. Max's Ferruginous hawk, Serenity, sat on his bare shoulder. She did her best not to hurt his shoulder too much, but it was hard to keep herself up without gripping with her talons. Kai couldn't help but feel sorry for the two young Centaurs. It had taken him many years to get used to the feel of Tempest's talons in his skin.
Tempest called out gleefully. She was obviously enjoying herself and Kai couldn't blame her. He hadn't been able to take her hunting for a long while.
The white-tailed hawk, having caught sight of her prey, banked before gliding down and snatching a large prairie rat up in her talons. She bent her head in flight and took the rat by it's tail before gliding over to her Centaur companion and alighting on his arm.
Rei, watching from a distance with Drigger by his side, was awed. He'd never seen predatory birds outside of the forest before and he was amazed at how quickly they could catch their prey. None of the forest birds hunted that well. "That was excellent...Do the Centaurs teach them that?"
"They let the adult hunting birds teach the juveniles to hunt. I don't think that those two other birds can hunt. They are young like their Centaur companions."
"Do you think we could go talk to them?" Rei asked. Drigger shrugged.
"I'm not sure how the warrior will react but I don't see any harm in trying either. Despite the stories I've heard, I do not believe the Centaurs to be blood-thirsty. Come but stay close behind me." Drigger started off and Rei, after throwing a shield over their kill, followed him.
Kai, having set Tempest to work teaching the clumsy juveniles to fly, stretched his arms above his head before crossing them and pawing the ground with one huge hoof.
"Where did you companions learn to fly? They're terrible." Kai commented.
Tyson and Max blushed. "We...tried to teach them. But it didn't really turn out well." Tyson explained, grinning sheepishly.
Kai smiled. "I noticed." Something caught Kai's attention and he turned his head in the direction of the forest on the left. Coming towards them was a tiger-probably an elf companion- and a young adult elf.
Curious to see what had brought them away from their forest home, Kai stepped forward, uncrossing his arms and ordering the young Centaurs to stay put. After a moment, Kai realized who the tiger was.
"Drigger. It has been a long time since I last saw you." Kai greeted, lifting a hoof. The tiger, rubbing his cheek against the hoof as he had always greeted Kai, purred.
"It has. A very long time. I wasn't really sure if it was you when we saw you." Drigger looked up at Tempest who was teaching the young birds how to properly bank. "She's a professional, isn't she?"
Kai looked up at the birds, smiling fondly. "The best of our hunters. She's become more skilled than her mother." Kai said. He remember then that the elf was still there. "Who is your friend, Drigger?" Kai asked, nodding to Rei.
"Ah! My friend. This is Rei. He is my elf-companion. We were working a border patrol while we hunted. That was when we heard Tempest's call."
Kai looked back to check on Tyson and Max. They didn't seem to have noticed the elf and were busy watching their companions learn. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Rei. I've always wondered when you'd finally find yourself a worthy companion, Drigger." This caused Rei to blush slightly. Drigger glanced at him, raising an eyebrow at the elf.
"Where is Dranzer?" Drigger asked, not seeing the phoenix around.
"Who knows. He was pretty annoyed when the Elders stopped the planting of the ice corn a few hours ago. He may have gone to argue with them."
"I wouldn't doubt that. But why would the Elders stop the planting of the most important crop."
Kai scowled, crossing his arms. "They don't want to risk the ice corn. They sense danger coming."
Drigger rolled his eyes. "They sense danger coming the year that the rain returned to the plains and now they want to stop ice corn planting because 'danger is coming'? I think it's ridiculous."
"So do the rest of us. I think the Iloen family is planting in secret just in case. I'm thinking about doing the same."
Drigger sat down, shaking his head. "You better be careful if you choose to plant against the orders of the Elders, Kai. They will have you banished or put to death if they find out." Drigger warned, eyes worried.
"Yeah, well, according the ELDERS we're all going to die anyway." Kai growled.
"Kai! We've got trouble! Dark wolves are attacking from the mountains!" Someone called.
"Damnit!" Kai whirled, trotting up to Tyson and Max. "Tempest! Take Serenity and Rift and alert the Elders! If Dranzer isn't there find him and bring him to me! Tyson, Max, return to you homes and protect your mothers and sisters. But be careful if they get to you house. Keep them out of it or there wont be any room to fight them off. GO!" The two thoroughbred-Centaur's raced off and Kai turned to Drigger and Rei. "Are you two helping?"
Drigger nodded. "I will. Rei?"
"I will as well."
Kai smiled. "Just be careful, both of you. Come on." He looked thoughtful. "Can you carry him, Drigger? It would be much faster."
"I am not fit for being ridden. Can you carry him instead?"
"If he would not mind."
Rei shook his head.
"Can you shoot while riding?" Kai asked, moving over to him.
"Yes. Very well." Rei said, looking up at him.
"Good. Hop on."
Rei, with Drigger's help, swung on to Kai's horse-form's back and slipped an arrow from his quiver. "I'm ready."
"All right. Let's go Drigger."
Kai halted at east edge of the village, watching the dark wolves approach. Dark wolves were more than twice the size of normal wolves and thin, 6-inch fangs that were sharper than Dranzer's talons or Drigger's own teeth.
Rei had never seen the beasts for and wonder where it would be best to shoot them. Did they have the same weak points as a normal wolf? "Kai? Where would it be best for me to shoot them?"
"Behind their ribs. Their souls are kept there. Once you hit their souls they become light wolves." Kai replied. "Damnit...If Dranzer doesn't get here soon, I'll be fighting with my hooves."
"I am here! Finally! Here, Kai. Your glaive." Dranzer gave Drigger a happy greeting as he dropped Kai's glaive. Kai caught it, wondering what had made the phoenix so happy. He'd ask him later.
"Get ready!" Someone yelled.
Kai swung the glaive into a half-defense, half-offense position, lifting his front left hoot off of the ground, ready to kick if a dark wolf got too close to fight with the glaive. No one seemed to care that Rei was there. All they were thinking about was protecting their home and families.
Tempest shrieked from her position in the sky. Seven other hunting birds were circling the sky along with her, ready to launch a group attack once they'd decided on a target.
"They're here!" Came another call. Kai lunged into battle, soon growing accustomed to the feel of Rei on his back and unconsciously learning to move in ways that would not disrupt the elf's work.
A dark wolf launched himself at Kai and was quickly disposed of by his glaive. Turning, Kai caught sight of a warrior being attack by three dark wolves. Muttering, Kai went to him, killing one wolf and going into battle with another. The wolf he was fighting lunged at his legs, teeth bared. Kai kicked him between the eyes with a powerful hoof. The wolf fell unconscious and Kai stabbed him behind his ribs. The dark wolf's black fur faded to white and it awoke, leaping to it's feet. With a quick apology, the light wolf galloped off, engaging in battle with a dark wolf.
Rei, on Kai's shire-back, released his bowstring and watch the arrow hit it's target behind a dark wolf's ribs. The wolf snarled and faded to a light wolf. The arrow fell to the ground. Tail waving slightly, the white wolf gently picked up the arrow, trotted to Kai's side and rose on it's hind legs to hand the arrow back to Rei. Rei accepted it and the light wolf disappeared into the throng of fighters.
Rei could tell the Centaurs would win this as he watched Kai's hawk Tempest lead the other hunters into a dive, attacking a wandering dark wolf. His eyes then found Dranzer and Drigger who were working together to fight a pair of dark wolves who had pulled a Centaur down.
"How many arrows to you have left?" Kai asked.
"One. I used them all but the last wolf brought one back."
"All right." Kai looked around, hands clenched around his glaive's handle. "Shade!" Kai called.
The answering croak of a raven caused Kai's head to turn up. The old gray raven glided down and landed on the ground before Kai. He was an old raven but he was brave. He had no fear of the dark wolves.
"I need to you find and return Rei's arrows." Kai said.
The raven, happy to help, launched into the air and disappeared into the fight. "Will he be okay?" Rei asked the shire-Centaur.
"I wouldn't have called him otherwise." Kai said, stabbing a passing wolf behind the ribs and turning it into a light wolf. "He is old and very wise. And he can move quicker than these dark wolves can think."
"I don't know much about dark wolves but I thought they were intelligent."
"They are, for the most part. But it's their mating season so they're a bit irrational. They usually know not to fight us."
"I see." Rei accepted the two arrows the Shade brought back, setting one up to shoot. When he had an opening, he shot the dark wolf coming up behind Dranzer. Kai thanked him.
The battle was over fairly quickly and only three Centaurs were injured. All but seven of the dark wolves were turned to light wolves and the remaining ones ran from the fight. After taking care of the injured Centaurs, Kai went to Rei who was sitting with Drigger.
"You should have your injury looked at." Kai said. Rei didn't think Kai had noticed the dark wolf who had buried it's fangs briefly in Rei's leg.
"Alright..." Rei muttered.
Kai smiled at him. "Don't pout. Just go find a free healer. They're all woman so they're kind. The woman have nothing against elves."
"Do you?" Rei challenged.
"No. I never have."
There. It's 10 PM and I have school tomorrow so I have to stop typing. *Doesn't have time to do 12 and 13 for InuBodi ;.; Hope you liked that. Thanks for reading and please review. Later!
Rating: PG-13 for KaixRei yaoi pairing (Possible TysonxMax)
Notes: o.o I'm really not supposed to be typing a third chapter for this. I'm SUPPOSED to be doing chapter 12 and 13 for InuBodi ;.; Oops. I might do that after this chap.:) You'll enjoy the next...five chapters of InuBodi. :) They're good. Anyway. Here you go. Next Chapter.
Chapter 3- Meeting
Kai watched Tempest launch off of his bare arm and begin her morning hunt. On either side of Kai were Tyson and Max. Tyson was also a thoroughbred-Centaur but he was chocolate-brown with peach hooves and a black tail.
Perched on Tyson's bare arm was his Common Kestrel, Rift. Max's Ferruginous hawk, Serenity, sat on his bare shoulder. She did her best not to hurt his shoulder too much, but it was hard to keep herself up without gripping with her talons. Kai couldn't help but feel sorry for the two young Centaurs. It had taken him many years to get used to the feel of Tempest's talons in his skin.
Tempest called out gleefully. She was obviously enjoying herself and Kai couldn't blame her. He hadn't been able to take her hunting for a long while.
The white-tailed hawk, having caught sight of her prey, banked before gliding down and snatching a large prairie rat up in her talons. She bent her head in flight and took the rat by it's tail before gliding over to her Centaur companion and alighting on his arm.
Rei, watching from a distance with Drigger by his side, was awed. He'd never seen predatory birds outside of the forest before and he was amazed at how quickly they could catch their prey. None of the forest birds hunted that well. "That was excellent...Do the Centaurs teach them that?"
"They let the adult hunting birds teach the juveniles to hunt. I don't think that those two other birds can hunt. They are young like their Centaur companions."
"Do you think we could go talk to them?" Rei asked. Drigger shrugged.
"I'm not sure how the warrior will react but I don't see any harm in trying either. Despite the stories I've heard, I do not believe the Centaurs to be blood-thirsty. Come but stay close behind me." Drigger started off and Rei, after throwing a shield over their kill, followed him.
Kai, having set Tempest to work teaching the clumsy juveniles to fly, stretched his arms above his head before crossing them and pawing the ground with one huge hoof.
"Where did you companions learn to fly? They're terrible." Kai commented.
Tyson and Max blushed. "We...tried to teach them. But it didn't really turn out well." Tyson explained, grinning sheepishly.
Kai smiled. "I noticed." Something caught Kai's attention and he turned his head in the direction of the forest on the left. Coming towards them was a tiger-probably an elf companion- and a young adult elf.
Curious to see what had brought them away from their forest home, Kai stepped forward, uncrossing his arms and ordering the young Centaurs to stay put. After a moment, Kai realized who the tiger was.
"Drigger. It has been a long time since I last saw you." Kai greeted, lifting a hoof. The tiger, rubbing his cheek against the hoof as he had always greeted Kai, purred.
"It has. A very long time. I wasn't really sure if it was you when we saw you." Drigger looked up at Tempest who was teaching the young birds how to properly bank. "She's a professional, isn't she?"
Kai looked up at the birds, smiling fondly. "The best of our hunters. She's become more skilled than her mother." Kai said. He remember then that the elf was still there. "Who is your friend, Drigger?" Kai asked, nodding to Rei.
"Ah! My friend. This is Rei. He is my elf-companion. We were working a border patrol while we hunted. That was when we heard Tempest's call."
Kai looked back to check on Tyson and Max. They didn't seem to have noticed the elf and were busy watching their companions learn. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Rei. I've always wondered when you'd finally find yourself a worthy companion, Drigger." This caused Rei to blush slightly. Drigger glanced at him, raising an eyebrow at the elf.
"Where is Dranzer?" Drigger asked, not seeing the phoenix around.
"Who knows. He was pretty annoyed when the Elders stopped the planting of the ice corn a few hours ago. He may have gone to argue with them."
"I wouldn't doubt that. But why would the Elders stop the planting of the most important crop."
Kai scowled, crossing his arms. "They don't want to risk the ice corn. They sense danger coming."
Drigger rolled his eyes. "They sense danger coming the year that the rain returned to the plains and now they want to stop ice corn planting because 'danger is coming'? I think it's ridiculous."
"So do the rest of us. I think the Iloen family is planting in secret just in case. I'm thinking about doing the same."
Drigger sat down, shaking his head. "You better be careful if you choose to plant against the orders of the Elders, Kai. They will have you banished or put to death if they find out." Drigger warned, eyes worried.
"Yeah, well, according the ELDERS we're all going to die anyway." Kai growled.
"Kai! We've got trouble! Dark wolves are attacking from the mountains!" Someone called.
"Damnit!" Kai whirled, trotting up to Tyson and Max. "Tempest! Take Serenity and Rift and alert the Elders! If Dranzer isn't there find him and bring him to me! Tyson, Max, return to you homes and protect your mothers and sisters. But be careful if they get to you house. Keep them out of it or there wont be any room to fight them off. GO!" The two thoroughbred-Centaur's raced off and Kai turned to Drigger and Rei. "Are you two helping?"
Drigger nodded. "I will. Rei?"
"I will as well."
Kai smiled. "Just be careful, both of you. Come on." He looked thoughtful. "Can you carry him, Drigger? It would be much faster."
"I am not fit for being ridden. Can you carry him instead?"
"If he would not mind."
Rei shook his head.
"Can you shoot while riding?" Kai asked, moving over to him.
"Yes. Very well." Rei said, looking up at him.
"Good. Hop on."
Rei, with Drigger's help, swung on to Kai's horse-form's back and slipped an arrow from his quiver. "I'm ready."
"All right. Let's go Drigger."
Kai halted at east edge of the village, watching the dark wolves approach. Dark wolves were more than twice the size of normal wolves and thin, 6-inch fangs that were sharper than Dranzer's talons or Drigger's own teeth.
Rei had never seen the beasts for and wonder where it would be best to shoot them. Did they have the same weak points as a normal wolf? "Kai? Where would it be best for me to shoot them?"
"Behind their ribs. Their souls are kept there. Once you hit their souls they become light wolves." Kai replied. "Damnit...If Dranzer doesn't get here soon, I'll be fighting with my hooves."
"I am here! Finally! Here, Kai. Your glaive." Dranzer gave Drigger a happy greeting as he dropped Kai's glaive. Kai caught it, wondering what had made the phoenix so happy. He'd ask him later.
"Get ready!" Someone yelled.
Kai swung the glaive into a half-defense, half-offense position, lifting his front left hoot off of the ground, ready to kick if a dark wolf got too close to fight with the glaive. No one seemed to care that Rei was there. All they were thinking about was protecting their home and families.
Tempest shrieked from her position in the sky. Seven other hunting birds were circling the sky along with her, ready to launch a group attack once they'd decided on a target.
"They're here!" Came another call. Kai lunged into battle, soon growing accustomed to the feel of Rei on his back and unconsciously learning to move in ways that would not disrupt the elf's work.
A dark wolf launched himself at Kai and was quickly disposed of by his glaive. Turning, Kai caught sight of a warrior being attack by three dark wolves. Muttering, Kai went to him, killing one wolf and going into battle with another. The wolf he was fighting lunged at his legs, teeth bared. Kai kicked him between the eyes with a powerful hoof. The wolf fell unconscious and Kai stabbed him behind his ribs. The dark wolf's black fur faded to white and it awoke, leaping to it's feet. With a quick apology, the light wolf galloped off, engaging in battle with a dark wolf.
Rei, on Kai's shire-back, released his bowstring and watch the arrow hit it's target behind a dark wolf's ribs. The wolf snarled and faded to a light wolf. The arrow fell to the ground. Tail waving slightly, the white wolf gently picked up the arrow, trotted to Kai's side and rose on it's hind legs to hand the arrow back to Rei. Rei accepted it and the light wolf disappeared into the throng of fighters.
Rei could tell the Centaurs would win this as he watched Kai's hawk Tempest lead the other hunters into a dive, attacking a wandering dark wolf. His eyes then found Dranzer and Drigger who were working together to fight a pair of dark wolves who had pulled a Centaur down.
"How many arrows to you have left?" Kai asked.
"One. I used them all but the last wolf brought one back."
"All right." Kai looked around, hands clenched around his glaive's handle. "Shade!" Kai called.
The answering croak of a raven caused Kai's head to turn up. The old gray raven glided down and landed on the ground before Kai. He was an old raven but he was brave. He had no fear of the dark wolves.
"I need to you find and return Rei's arrows." Kai said.
The raven, happy to help, launched into the air and disappeared into the fight. "Will he be okay?" Rei asked the shire-Centaur.
"I wouldn't have called him otherwise." Kai said, stabbing a passing wolf behind the ribs and turning it into a light wolf. "He is old and very wise. And he can move quicker than these dark wolves can think."
"I don't know much about dark wolves but I thought they were intelligent."
"They are, for the most part. But it's their mating season so they're a bit irrational. They usually know not to fight us."
"I see." Rei accepted the two arrows the Shade brought back, setting one up to shoot. When he had an opening, he shot the dark wolf coming up behind Dranzer. Kai thanked him.
The battle was over fairly quickly and only three Centaurs were injured. All but seven of the dark wolves were turned to light wolves and the remaining ones ran from the fight. After taking care of the injured Centaurs, Kai went to Rei who was sitting with Drigger.
"You should have your injury looked at." Kai said. Rei didn't think Kai had noticed the dark wolf who had buried it's fangs briefly in Rei's leg.
"Alright..." Rei muttered.
Kai smiled at him. "Don't pout. Just go find a free healer. They're all woman so they're kind. The woman have nothing against elves."
"Do you?" Rei challenged.
"No. I never have."
There. It's 10 PM and I have school tomorrow so I have to stop typing. *Doesn't have time to do 12 and 13 for InuBodi ;.; Hope you liked that. Thanks for reading and please review. Later!