Revealed as an Animal
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Running through the woods.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We know you hate the cage.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
At least sixteen of age.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Give us what we crave.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Then we'll release you whence you came.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
It's not good to with hold.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
You better oblige to what your told.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Your denial is your doom.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Running through the woods.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Riis woke up in a fluffy bed somewhat disoriented. She felt Dutch on the bed too. She didn't think that there could be a bed big enough to fit the sleeping positions of her and Dutch. She was new to this idea of sleeping comfortably. So new in fact, that she didn't notice someone had entered her room until the door was shut, causing Riis to jump/fall out off bed and Dutch to startle awake. When she saw who her guests were, she sighed in relief. Van and Koyo stood in front of her door.
"May I help you?" she asked.
"Welcome to Gaia and to Fanelia," the taller one, Van, said.
"Thank you," she replied with a head bow.
"This is my son, Koyo," Van said, indicating the person to his left. Koyo bowed his head after she graced him first.
"Nice to meet you," Riis said.
"The pleasure is mine," Koyo replied. There was a moment of silence before Van spoke again.
"After breakfast I would like it if you got to know the castle," Van told her. "Koyo said he would show you around." He smirked before continuing. "That way you can get anywhere in the palace." Riis looked to Koyo's eyes that shone with mischievous intent. Riis replied in kind, said she would be at breakfast. They left and she let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. Why had she been holding her breath? She went back over everything that had happened.
The first thing that registered in her mind as she woke up was warmth. She was in sunshine. The next was the scents: Dutch, dust, lilies, roses, cherry trees, grass, rain and others that she didn't recognize. Then the knock had startled her off the bed. Her thump on the floor bid them in and a new scent met her nose, a familiar one that she couldn't place. It was like that of white doves, but was wild too. White doves weren't wild. The scent also held a twist of wind, earth and rain. This greatly confused her, and while she conversed with the King and Prince, she tried desperately to figure out the smell.
Coming back to reality, she was frustrated that she couldn't figure the scent out and surprised that she had also changed her clothes. She opened her room, Dutch on her heels, to see Koyo sitting next to the doorframe on the floor. He looked up at her and smiled. Dutch immediately attacked the prince in by sniffing, licking, and laughing. Dutch barked and looked at Riis whose mouth was open in clear astonishment.
"Dutch! How dare you say that!" she chided. He just wagged his tail and laughed.
"What did he say?" Koyo asked, curiosity overcoming the strangeness of the conversation.
"Dutch said something that was totally inappropriate for the given situation and I won't repeat the vulgar statement!" a heated Riis replied. Dutch laughed as he ran in circles around the two barking. Riis, having enough of her belligerent half-breed's actions, growled deep and menacing. Dutch shut up and sat behind her, head lowered and ears drooping, chastised.
Koyo, thoroughly confused by this, shook his head. "Let's go to breakfast?"
Riis nodded in agreement. She followed as Koyo, but stopped and turned to Dutch as she felt his attention drift.
"If you wander more than two feet in any direction, you don't want to know the consequences," she snarled menacingly. Dutch's eyes shone with understanding. She turned around and resumed following Koyo.
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Breakfast was...interesting shall we put it. Riis sat in between Hitomi and some guy that, to her opinion, needed his hair in a ponytail if he wanted to keep it that long. Hitomi filled her plate with food she didn't recognize. Dutch whined below her and she sent him a low, warning growl to shut him up. She did recognize one thing here that delighted her. They used silver wear instead of chopsticks! This she thanked God for. She still couldn't use them despite Hitomi's help.
Riis gingerly sniffed her food and tasted each one by one. She ended up eating everything on her plate out of courtesy. Some of it she loved and some she wished would go back to wherever it came from with a vengeance. After what seemed forever, Van declared breakfast over. Everyone stood after Van and congregated around Hitomi and Riis.
"Welcome back, Hitomi!" the weird guy with the long blonde hair greeted her.
"Hello, Allen," Hitomi replied before she turned to Riis and addressed her. "Riis, I have to go sit through meetings with Van. I'm a queen here." Riis nodded. "Have fun with Koyo!" Hitomi hurried the way Van had gone. Riis turned around to tutting.
"Will that girl ever learn?" a blonde woman with wavy hair and purple eyes stated.
"Millerna, hush," the man, Allen, said. As the adults started to turn their attention and curiosity to Riis, Koyo came to her rescue.
"Would like to tour the castle now?" he asked hinting at something she couldn't place.
"I would love to get away from here," she hissed back at him. He smiled and started to leave. She told Dutch to behave as they followed him.
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After seeing the North and West wings of the castle, Riis and Koyo found themselves in the training courts and hunting lodges. Riis and Koyo watched as some soldiers sparred with various weapons. She didn't know where Koyo's attention was, but hers was on the staff and glaive courts. She laughed when one guy got clobbered on the head with the handle of the glaive.
"Do you think this is easy?" the embarrassed man stated.
"YES!" she replied to the guys question with gusto.
"Then you come here and fight the guy," he told her bitterly.
Everyone in the area stopped whatever they were doing be it sparring, tending weapons, injuries, etc. to see how the new, unknown girl would respond to such a bold statement. She easily vaulted the fence and walked up to a rack of "poled weapons" as she muttered it. She picked a glaive that nobody had mastered, or used for that matter, and walked over to wear the man, now standing, was scowling.
"Hope Mishi here ruffs you up good," he said with scorn.
"Whatever," Riis replied as she took up a stance,
"Get on with the start, Greffyn," Mishi snarled. This man was not a happy person, Riis thought as Greffyn raised a metal helmet.
"When this makes its noise, you may begin," Greffyn stated. He turned, threw the helmet and bolted. The helmet hit the wall and crashed into something. When the noise reached her sensitive ears, she cringed as Mishi attacked.
Her glaive was a blur. She blocked his moves and threw some of her own at him. At one point, when Mishi's attack was heavy, Riis lost concentration of her human form. Her upper arm was sliced and she growled. She was no longer the human she had appeared to be, but some odd cross between a fox and a human. She lunged at the startled Mishi, ears flat against her head, tail thrashing. He barely blocked. The battle continued, more heated than before. After sometime, a familiar voice spoke to Koyo.
"Is that Riis, Koyo?" It was his father.
"Yeah. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Koyo asked his father.
"That I am," he replied. "We're going to have to have a talk between the four of us tonight." They continued watching.
Riis, in a deadlock, managed to throw her weight against her glaive and knocked Mishi off balance. She then twisted her glaive around and took his feet out from under him with the handle. As he attempted to rise, Riis stuck the blade of her glaive in his face.
"I win," she stated coldly, ears still back, tail thrashing behind her.
"Sure," Mishi panted. "You. Win."
She looked around her, now very aware of many eyes on her. After a quick look around herself, she realized that every single pair of eyes was on her. She cursed blackly before disappearing.
Greffyn went to help Mishi up. When they stood they conversed something as a few more guys came over. And what met their ears they didn't like.
"Shadowfox, shadowfox, running through the woods. Shadowfox, shadowfox we caught to beg a boon."
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Running through the woods.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We know you hate the cage.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
At least sixteen of age.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Give us what we crave.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Then we'll release you whence you came.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
It's not good to with hold.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
You better oblige to what your told.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Your denial is your doom.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
Running through the woods.
Shadowfox, shadowfox
We caught to beg a boon.
Riis woke up in a fluffy bed somewhat disoriented. She felt Dutch on the bed too. She didn't think that there could be a bed big enough to fit the sleeping positions of her and Dutch. She was new to this idea of sleeping comfortably. So new in fact, that she didn't notice someone had entered her room until the door was shut, causing Riis to jump/fall out off bed and Dutch to startle awake. When she saw who her guests were, she sighed in relief. Van and Koyo stood in front of her door.
"May I help you?" she asked.
"Welcome to Gaia and to Fanelia," the taller one, Van, said.
"Thank you," she replied with a head bow.
"This is my son, Koyo," Van said, indicating the person to his left. Koyo bowed his head after she graced him first.
"Nice to meet you," Riis said.
"The pleasure is mine," Koyo replied. There was a moment of silence before Van spoke again.
"After breakfast I would like it if you got to know the castle," Van told her. "Koyo said he would show you around." He smirked before continuing. "That way you can get anywhere in the palace." Riis looked to Koyo's eyes that shone with mischievous intent. Riis replied in kind, said she would be at breakfast. They left and she let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. Why had she been holding her breath? She went back over everything that had happened.
The first thing that registered in her mind as she woke up was warmth. She was in sunshine. The next was the scents: Dutch, dust, lilies, roses, cherry trees, grass, rain and others that she didn't recognize. Then the knock had startled her off the bed. Her thump on the floor bid them in and a new scent met her nose, a familiar one that she couldn't place. It was like that of white doves, but was wild too. White doves weren't wild. The scent also held a twist of wind, earth and rain. This greatly confused her, and while she conversed with the King and Prince, she tried desperately to figure out the smell.
Coming back to reality, she was frustrated that she couldn't figure the scent out and surprised that she had also changed her clothes. She opened her room, Dutch on her heels, to see Koyo sitting next to the doorframe on the floor. He looked up at her and smiled. Dutch immediately attacked the prince in by sniffing, licking, and laughing. Dutch barked and looked at Riis whose mouth was open in clear astonishment.
"Dutch! How dare you say that!" she chided. He just wagged his tail and laughed.
"What did he say?" Koyo asked, curiosity overcoming the strangeness of the conversation.
"Dutch said something that was totally inappropriate for the given situation and I won't repeat the vulgar statement!" a heated Riis replied. Dutch laughed as he ran in circles around the two barking. Riis, having enough of her belligerent half-breed's actions, growled deep and menacing. Dutch shut up and sat behind her, head lowered and ears drooping, chastised.
Koyo, thoroughly confused by this, shook his head. "Let's go to breakfast?"
Riis nodded in agreement. She followed as Koyo, but stopped and turned to Dutch as she felt his attention drift.
"If you wander more than two feet in any direction, you don't want to know the consequences," she snarled menacingly. Dutch's eyes shone with understanding. She turned around and resumed following Koyo.
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Breakfast was...interesting shall we put it. Riis sat in between Hitomi and some guy that, to her opinion, needed his hair in a ponytail if he wanted to keep it that long. Hitomi filled her plate with food she didn't recognize. Dutch whined below her and she sent him a low, warning growl to shut him up. She did recognize one thing here that delighted her. They used silver wear instead of chopsticks! This she thanked God for. She still couldn't use them despite Hitomi's help.
Riis gingerly sniffed her food and tasted each one by one. She ended up eating everything on her plate out of courtesy. Some of it she loved and some she wished would go back to wherever it came from with a vengeance. After what seemed forever, Van declared breakfast over. Everyone stood after Van and congregated around Hitomi and Riis.
"Welcome back, Hitomi!" the weird guy with the long blonde hair greeted her.
"Hello, Allen," Hitomi replied before she turned to Riis and addressed her. "Riis, I have to go sit through meetings with Van. I'm a queen here." Riis nodded. "Have fun with Koyo!" Hitomi hurried the way Van had gone. Riis turned around to tutting.
"Will that girl ever learn?" a blonde woman with wavy hair and purple eyes stated.
"Millerna, hush," the man, Allen, said. As the adults started to turn their attention and curiosity to Riis, Koyo came to her rescue.
"Would like to tour the castle now?" he asked hinting at something she couldn't place.
"I would love to get away from here," she hissed back at him. He smiled and started to leave. She told Dutch to behave as they followed him.
!(^&(&(*^)!(^)*&^!!($#&^%#!$%#@(^
After seeing the North and West wings of the castle, Riis and Koyo found themselves in the training courts and hunting lodges. Riis and Koyo watched as some soldiers sparred with various weapons. She didn't know where Koyo's attention was, but hers was on the staff and glaive courts. She laughed when one guy got clobbered on the head with the handle of the glaive.
"Do you think this is easy?" the embarrassed man stated.
"YES!" she replied to the guys question with gusto.
"Then you come here and fight the guy," he told her bitterly.
Everyone in the area stopped whatever they were doing be it sparring, tending weapons, injuries, etc. to see how the new, unknown girl would respond to such a bold statement. She easily vaulted the fence and walked up to a rack of "poled weapons" as she muttered it. She picked a glaive that nobody had mastered, or used for that matter, and walked over to wear the man, now standing, was scowling.
"Hope Mishi here ruffs you up good," he said with scorn.
"Whatever," Riis replied as she took up a stance,
"Get on with the start, Greffyn," Mishi snarled. This man was not a happy person, Riis thought as Greffyn raised a metal helmet.
"When this makes its noise, you may begin," Greffyn stated. He turned, threw the helmet and bolted. The helmet hit the wall and crashed into something. When the noise reached her sensitive ears, she cringed as Mishi attacked.
Her glaive was a blur. She blocked his moves and threw some of her own at him. At one point, when Mishi's attack was heavy, Riis lost concentration of her human form. Her upper arm was sliced and she growled. She was no longer the human she had appeared to be, but some odd cross between a fox and a human. She lunged at the startled Mishi, ears flat against her head, tail thrashing. He barely blocked. The battle continued, more heated than before. After sometime, a familiar voice spoke to Koyo.
"Is that Riis, Koyo?" It was his father.
"Yeah. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Koyo asked his father.
"That I am," he replied. "We're going to have to have a talk between the four of us tonight." They continued watching.
Riis, in a deadlock, managed to throw her weight against her glaive and knocked Mishi off balance. She then twisted her glaive around and took his feet out from under him with the handle. As he attempted to rise, Riis stuck the blade of her glaive in his face.
"I win," she stated coldly, ears still back, tail thrashing behind her.
"Sure," Mishi panted. "You. Win."
She looked around her, now very aware of many eyes on her. After a quick look around herself, she realized that every single pair of eyes was on her. She cursed blackly before disappearing.
Greffyn went to help Mishi up. When they stood they conversed something as a few more guys came over. And what met their ears they didn't like.
"Shadowfox, shadowfox, running through the woods. Shadowfox, shadowfox we caught to beg a boon."