The gentle roar of water crashing against the ground wakes a blue-haired teen from a fitful sleep.
"What… the hell?" he muttered groggily, struggling to open his eyes. He grunts at the sunlight that pierces dark blue eyes and turns to the side in a vain attempt to block the invading mini spears. The sand crunches under his body weight, digging into his side and skin with little sharper clumps. He briefly notices that he's naked, save for a scrap of clothing around his waist blocking the uncomfortable grains from his more sensitive areas, and his tail carved lines in the sand from its erratic movement. With a groan, the teen rolls all the way over to lay prone on his belly, protecting that instinctive soft part of himself first and foremost, and struggling to get to his hands and knees secondly.
His mind is a frightful blank for a moment, unable to recall exactly what he was doing there, or who he was, before it all flashes back to him- his name is Rin Okumura, he had been in a fight… the details were extremely blurry, but he was fighting that Demon King, Amaimon, and the Exorcist that they were fighting cast a banishment incantation at them… a really fucking weird one that opened a portal. See, that's the problem with portals, they were fucking twitchy, and at any moment you could go flying into a Neberious' asshole when it was in mid-fart for all the predictability they had.
This portal had felt wrong somehow… and with Amaimon making a quick getaway before the King of Earth was taken by it, he left Rin to make the tumble into the opening. He had felt as if he were being pulled too far one way and too far another.
Blinking rapidly, he clears his vision to find that it's not a fat cat… but a fat bird the size of a cat.
Widening his eyes, Rin stares at the fat bird blinks. "Wait," he mutters. "Are you a-…?" the bird merely tilts its head and chirps curiously, waddling closer and making the teen step away. "Wait, you're a dodo!" Rin exclaims in excitement. The son of Satan kneels to get a better look at the curious bird, examining the sides of the creature and the colors. "Yukio would be so jealous if he found out I saw you!" Rin laughed. "But you're supposed to be extinct- where did you come from?" the teen's sight had cleared up completely by this time, and taking his attention away from the dodo bird, Rin took the opportunity to look at his surroundings.
In front of him, several yards out, was a bay filled with sparkling blue water, glistening, and shining in the sunlight. To the left, the bay opens out into the wide expanse of liquid and another shoreline, one which had rising chalky white cliffs with points of crystal blue touching the skies gar overhead. Past the bay were distant small islands reaching up, and beyond that, nothing but more water… strangely, no scent of salt was in the air that would tell that it was an ocean. Standing upright, the half-demon wobbles for a moment, strangely weak, before he steadies himself and heads towards the shoreline. The pat-pat of clawed feet on the sand shows the fat bird is following, and Rin looks down at it and raises an eyebrow. Beady little eyes stare back, glittering, and the teen shrugs before walking a little faster.
Reaching the shoreline, Rin leans over to stare at the water distrustfully- oceans were salty, and he had no desire to be subjected to a slow, agonizing death by dehydration because he drank salt water, no matter if he was Human, demon, or half-demon.
Hearing the patter of the bird's claws come to a stop, the bird chirps at its reflection, getting the teens's attention, before bending over to drink from the untrustworthy source. When it didn't recoil from the supposed taste of salt, Rin takes that as a good sign before cupping his hands in the surf to take a gulp, the shadow of the rocky cliffs on his back.
Cool fresh water, not salty at all, hits his tongue, and he feels something in him ease. His throat, which he didn't even notice was parched before, eases as the water slides down, and he can't stop the small moan as he quenches his thirst- something sated, and it was euphoric.
The bird beside him does a little strange dance, and Rin absently figures that if it showed him that the water here isn't salty and out to get him, it was a new friend in his book.
After sating his thirst and standing on the beach, taking note of any potential marks that told him where he was, Rin concluded that sitting on the beach wasn't particularly productive in finding a way back to civilization. So, with the weird silver and light green bird waddling beside him as he walked at a leisurely pace, the teen padded through the short palm trees and into more dense foliage.
A low thrum had Rin tensing but looking over he just saw a dumb-looking duck billed… thing. "What the hell are you?" the teen muttered in wonder, dark flame blue eyes wide as he took in the creature- he would mistake it for a demon, but it was eating the green plants and leaves that littered the ground around them. The creature was wandering contently through the foliage, munching on whatever berries it came across with its duck-billed beak.
It was a freakin' dinosaur.
With a snort, the giant lizard looked up, ferns dangling from its mouth, and Rin curled his lip in an instinctive snarl, warning the creature to go about its business. It thundered towards him, and leaning down, it sniffed at his chest curiously before a low bass thrum made the young man's teeth chatter. Turning away, the dinosaur continued to munch its way across the beach.
Rin jolted when he realized that he had no underlying demonic urge to fight. He didn't have the instinctive rage and hunger thrumming under his skin and flesh when he went berserk or that laid dormant, rippling in his bones- he felt like something was missing, but it wasn't the void that had haunted him since he found he was the son of Satan.
Rin felt… well, he supposed the term was free.
As far as he saw, there were no humans here, or demons. No one to judge him, and despite what Yukio would say about wanting to protect him, no cram school 'friends' to aim guns and weapons at him to put Rin down…
No bitter brothers holding grudges when he blamed himself enough as it was.
The bird that followed Rin squawked, flapping its wings, and waddling as fast as it's fat body could move up the hill as if to prompt the teen to hurry up, snapping the blue-haired half-demon out of his inner thoughts. The teen sighed- if this strange dream, or whatever/wherever/whenever he was, was trying to impress him with slow, fat birds and peaceful, dopey duck-billed dinosaurs, it's got another thing coming. Leaning over, Rin picked the dodo up and scratched under it's chin, earning a coo from the creature.
"I would appreciate it," a voice rang out, making Rin freeze. "If you didn't domesticate my dinner, Tail-Boy."
Slowly looking up, Rin stared into sharp golden eyes. White hair in a high messy ponytail shimmered in the sunlight and fluttered over a black-dyed croptop composed of furs and hide, and defined, lean muscles curled around her frame as she poised, crouched like a wary animal with a sharp stone-ended spear in hand. Her skirt, composed of dyed hide and tied tightly around her waist, fluttered in the breeze as she shifted her weight. Rin's tail twitched even as the rest of him froze before he huffed.
"Don't tell me you were gonna eat this little guy?" he said, holding up the dodo in question. The girl raised an eyebrow. "In this world, if you don't eat it, it'll eat you." She stood slowly, holding her spear at the ready even as she approached with cautious steps. "Who are you? I haven't seen another human here, much less one that has a tail, fangs, and pointy ears." Rin stiffened, looking at her oddly. "I'm a half-demon," he said, but then mentally smacked himself in the head. 'you idiot! You were just saying that you were happy there were no other humans here to judge you! Dumbass!'
The girl raised her eyebrow curiously, and Rin double-took when he saw a shine of awe and relief in her eyes. "Really?" her skirt moved, even though there was no wind, and Rin's eyes widened when he saw a pure silvery-white tail uncurl from underneath it. The tip was colored a faint lavender, and the limb was furry, like his own except much more, almost like a fox's or a really fluffy and long-furred cat's, and well-groomed. "I suppose we've got more in common than I thought, Tail Boy. Name's Malia. You?"
Rin's eyebrow twitched at the name. "Rin," he groused, putting the dodo down. "Rin Okumura." Malia huffed, spinning her spear to rest across her shoulders. "Okay, okay. Rin," she said, a smile quirking at her lips. She sounded as if she were tasting his name. "So, lemme guess- you were in a fight or sleeping, or you were about to do yourself in, your world faded to black, and you felt like a stretched noodle before waking up on the sands or in the water."
Rin's eyes narrowed and Malia hummed. "Alright, follow me," she said jumping down and landing in front of the Son of Satan silently. Rin jolted, straightening and tensing. "Where are we going?"
Malia turned and grinned at him, her canines sharp and long, just like his. "To my home. You should be happy you ran into me; others here aren't so nice." Her golden eyes shifted to the dodo clucking behind Rin and sighed. "May as well bring your new pet with you- I guess Fried DOD isn't on the menu tonight, after all…"