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"Talking."

'Thoughts'

Chapter 2 – Awakening

Rei walked around close to his and the pack's cave, looking for herbs that may help the winged creature that is currently lying unconscious on his bed. The tiger demon sighed when the thought of the duo-haired phoenix came to his mind.

'I don't even know what he is, for God's sake. And he's so much trouble. I should have just left him there.' Rei shuddered. In his heart, Rei knew he wouldn't have left the thought-to-be-extinct creature to die. 'And Lee's going to be so mad when he comes back.'

The rest of his pack was probably finishing their last prey. Rei almost puked when he thought of eating another demon., since his stomach is no longer growling with hunger. Just a few years ago, he never thought of eating another demon, only low-life animals that littered the forest floors. But these days, you can barely find the kind of animals he used to have fed off of. So, to insure their survival, demons began to hunt each other, and the weak soon died off.

Having been so lost in thoughts, Rei momentarily forgotten why he was out here. A crow's cry, however, snapped him out of his own little world. Rei blinked, and went on with his search for the herbs.

Entering the cave, Rei set the few useful herbs he gathered in a neat pile by the foot of the bed. He once again stared at the beautiful demon for what seemed to be the thousandth time that day. His bangs covered almost half of this face, framing its delicate structure. Dried blood was still crusted all over his form; his clothes, his hair, everywhere. Rei was afraid to touch the fragile creature, afraid to hurt him even more.

'But,' Rei thought to himself, 'I really should get that wound cleaned quick before it gets infected.'

Taking the herbs and, after mixing it with some water he found in a rather clean spring in the back of the cave, the tiger demon put it in a dried-mud bowl and started to grind it. While he was working, Rei thought about what would happen when Lee and the others come back. Even though Rei didn't mean to, a laugh bubbled up his throat when he imagined the look that would be on Lee's face.

'I bet his face would be red.' Rei mused. A small moan from his 'bed' pulled him out of his thoughts.

Rei held his breath as the wounded creature on the bed opened his beautiful but unfocused, large ruby eyes. The winged demon blinked in the dim light from the entrance of the cave before moaning again. The voice sounded wonderful to Rei's fury ears. All thoughts about the rest of the pack was blown out of his head as he watched the gorgeous creature before him looking around, blinking, and just breathing. A blush crept onto the tiger demon's face; he has never seen anything more beautiful.

Suddenly, those unfocused ruby eyes snapped fully open and their owner bolted up, only to cry out in pain and fall back onto the hard and rough surface of the bed.

Rei was snapped out of his daze and reacted immediately, his quick reflexes allowed him to move next to the bed in merely a blink of the eye and wound his arm around the winged creature's shoulders, supporting him and preventing him from hitting the hard bed and hurting himself even more.

Kai bit his lips to stop the whimper of pain from escaping his lips as the stranger helped him lean against what seemed to be the cold wall of some sort of cave. The phoenix closed his eyes and placed his heavy and throbbing head back on the cool surface, resting his sore neck. He silently cursed his headache and tried to will the dizziness away.

It was then that he remembered his battle with Kuroi, the bat demon.

"No!" Rei was surprised when the duo haired demon jerked away. "Get away!" The tiger demon was so enchanted by the other's bell-like voice that he just stared as the said creature scuttled away from him and toward the cold wall of the cave on the other side, away from Rei.

The phoenix pressed himself into the wall, hugging his legs to his chest and burying his head into his knees, shivering and shaking from both the cold and pain.

For a minute, there was silence. Rei's furry ears twitched when he heard footsteps coming toward them from far away and smelled the scent of his pack.

'Oh man,' Rei thought and noticed that the phoenix has become motionless, his knuckles white from clutching his knees.

After carrying the winged creature back to his cave, Rei ripped a strip of his shirt in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding, which it did. But before he had time to properly wash and dress the would or apply the herbs he has found to prevent infection, the subject of his thoughts and attention has waken up and is now cowering in a corner of the cave away from him. And to make things worse, his pack draws closer and closer by the minute.

The tiger demon knew there was no way to hide the winged demon. The scent of his blood was too strong and his pack mates probably already knew that an intruder, bleeding intruder, is in their cave.

Turning to the other demon (who was still cowering), Rei whispered softly and tried to sound as least intimidating as he could, "It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you or anything." Kai looked up at him, and suddenly, Rei was captured by those beautiful ruby orbs. "Just wait right here," he stared at those eyes for a few more seconds before breaking their gaze and darting out the cave to meet up with the rest of the pack. Hopefully, he can persuade Lee, the leader, to not kill this exotic creature, who was now alone in the cave.

(With 'the rest of the pack')

"Lee! Calm down! We've just had such a luxurious meal provided for us by my dear, dear Rei, and now you're all grumpy!" Mariah whined, "What's your problem anyway?"

"I smell it. There's some thing in my cave! And it smells like a demon!" Lee leaped from one tree to another. The only safe way to travel these days was through the think trees, or, if you're lucky enough to have wings, the sky. "Rei's with it, I just know."

The rest of the traveling pack grew silent. Lee had keener senses; that was why they choose him to be the leader. Without another word, they followed thei leader back to their cave.

They were halfway there when they saw a familiar figure approaching from the direction they were heading for.

"Rei!" Mariah glomped their pig-tailed companion, catching him by surprise and almost making him fall over. The rest of the group stopped. Lee pulled Mariah away from Rei and turned to him, eyes blazing.

"What is the meaning of this!" he hissed.

Rei knew Lee knew about the new demon. He also knew that it would be futile to deny anything. "He's not hostile! He was wouldn't and would have died..."

"Since when have we started to care if other demons die?" Lee cut him off, "You are not to bring pets back and you know that! A hungry predator can smell the blood miles away and you're putting us all in danger!"

"He had feathered wings, Lee! We all know that bird demons are rare and almost extinct! He could be of use to us and..."

"Bird demons are extinct. You must have been mistaken." The tone in their leader's voice left no place for argument. But then again, Rei was never the one to back down from anything.

"Then see for yourself!"

"Rei," Mariah tried to stop the two, "Just leave it..."

"No! I'll show you all that he is worth it!" With that, Rei dashed off, grumbling to himself.

"Come on," Lee said to the rest of the pack, "Let's go home and meet his litter lover."

"Lover!" Mariah gasped.

Lee was silent for a moment. "Kidding, Mariah, I was kidding."

Reaching their cave, they were met with a big surprise. There was no bird demon. Only Rei, looking behind and under rocks, calling: "Come on! Come out, please! I won't hurt you! You'll strain your wound! Please come out!"

"He was definitely here," Lee sniffed around, "his scent is everywhere. But he's gone now."

"Get over it, Rei," Mariah spoke with a hint of jealousy. How can a stranger be HER Rei's lover (even though it was just a joke)? "He ran away and won't ever be coming back. It's better for all of us this way."

(Somewhere in the Forest)

The subject of Rei's search limped through the forest. His surroundings were unfamiliar to him, but he was not lost.

'No, I have to go now, it's calling to me...' The wound on Kai's arm had reopened, and blood flowed freely down his arm, leaving behind a trail of blood. His ankle was sprained from when he clumsily tripped over a tree root not long before he left the cave of that stranger. But he couldn't care less; the gem on his forehead was blinking, faster and faster. He was getting closer.

Black spots began to dance in eyes. 'No, just a little more...' His knees finally gave out beneath him, leaving the demon lying on the ground.

'Oh well, just a few more minutes shouldn't hurt...' His eyes slowly flickered shut, as the light from the ruby on his forehead faded away once again.

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