Evan noticed right away that Kuu very much liked that big, soft blanket he had gotten. He cuddled up to it, purred, and seemed generally very happy with it.
So he decided to let the Enderman have it. It was the supplies he had gathered that had paid for it, after all; and he HAD wanted to get something for his odd, shadowy friend.
The next few weeks passed in a flurry of activity; Evan decided to start work on the bedrooms. There were two; which was perfect actually. Since it seemed Kuu would live with him now, it was only fair that they each had their own space.
Making a bed for Kuu took him a couple days; but soon enough he had a bed long enough for the Enderman to lay on comfortably. Once Kuu understood that it was his, he was quite pleased with it and proceeded to pick it up, with complete ease, and place it near the fireplace.
Kuu was actually very helpful. He was very strong, and his claws could take down trees faster then Evan's axe, and he was more then willing to come right to his side and help build by holding logs up, or even picking Evan up and allowing him to work on the roof.
There were moments of complete culture shock now and then. Kuu didn't know the meaning of doors. He just blinked about places, which got a bit awkward when Evan was in the bathroom, or was trying to get dressed, or even bathe.
As the first bedroom was nearly done, Evan decided that he would try to see if he could get Kuu to wear clothes.
This, of course, did not work. Kuu didn't like them. As soon as Evan tried to get them on him, Kuu would shake his head and push them away. He didn't feel the need to cover himself. And he didn't see why Evan had to, either.
He decided to show Evan the joys of not having clothes. One slash of his claws, and an almost girly scream later, Evan was covering himself, red as a beet, and staring indignantly at the Enderman, who looked quite pleased with himself.
Kuu let out a triumphant chirp, before tilting his head a bit and looking down. 'What is that doing on the outside?' He wondered, though Evan couldn't understand him, but he knew Kuu was speaking in his own tongue.
All Kuu knew, was that the human suddenly looked agitated; and his face had turned a funny color.
"Gods damn it, Kuu!" Evan groaned, flustered and embarassed. He snatched up his clawed clothes and held them in front of himself. "I really wish you could understand me!"
Kuu tilted his head, watching Evan curiously. His face had turned a funny color, and what should have been tucked away safely inside was hanging there on the outside! Kuu started to wonder, was the human... aroused? Insatiably curious, he started to tug at his arm a but to try to get it out of the way.
"Your curiosity be damned!" Evan groaned, giving up. He looked up, red as a ripe cherry, and finally moved his hands aside, revealing himself to the Enderman. Might as well let the creature get a good look at him... he'd seen more of Kuu's... equipment then he'd wanted to.
Kuu stared for a moment, head tilted, the looked at Evan. He gave him a rather funny look.
'Humans are weird.' He chirped to himself. 'Why aroused? I don't get it.'
Kuu, for one, wanted nothing to do with his 'aroused' friend. 'Take care of that.' He chirped, almost sharply, before he was gone with a sharp vwoomp. He got fresh clothes from his partially completed room, and got dressed. As he came back out, he noticed Kuu giving him a smug little smirk.
"What?" Evan asked. He knew Kuu well enough to know that the half open mouth, revealing just a bit of his teeth and glowing inner mouth was actually an amused smile. It still made him flinch a little, but he knew it wasn't aggressive.
Kuu just kept smirking. 'That was quick.' He chirped. 'You were very pent up!' Of course Evan did not understand him. Kuu's expression turned thoughtful. Evan DID have a female friend; he remembered them speaking at the village. On more them one occasion. Perhaps he just needed a female.
And Kuu knew just the one. And with that, the Enderman was gone. The sound of the teleport made Evan jump, then stare at the spot where the glowing, fading partacles were the only sign the Enderman had been there at all.
"Now where's he off to?" Evan wondered.
Kuu came out of teleport near the outskirts of the town, sniffing the air carefully. That female had to be about somewhere! It took about an hour of searching, before he found her walking along a path to the small farm she and her father owned. Her father was the Trader, and she grew much of their stock.
Kuu let out a triumphant chirp. He'd found her! Hearing that odd, staticy chirp, Leanna jumped, looking around quickly with wide eyes.
Then her eyes met Kuu's. Leanna screamed. Kuu grinned triumphantly, thoroughly pleased with himself, before he walked to her. He himself had no interest in her, though her scent was most definitely female. He preferred his females taller, skinnier, and blacker. Not that he'd ever actually been with one before. He'd tried to court a female, once or twice, but they always rejected him for the taller, stronger, older males.
'Come on, don't be afraid!' Kuu chirped pleasantly. His head tilted to one side, he let out a little cooing sound. 'My friend needs to see you!' He moved towards her, reaching out to her with his hands, and even with claws retracted, the sight was utterly terrifying to her.
Leanna screamed. Oh did she scream. She screamed bloody murder, no matter how gently Kuu lifted her up. He scooped her up into his arms with complete ease. 'So much noise!' he thought to himself. 'Are all human females like this? Maybe this was why Evan lives alone!'
She pounded her fists against the Enderman's chest in an attempt to get free, but Kuu made no reaction to that. He was solid and strong; and her fists did nothing to him.
Finally, she went limp. Her screams went quiet as she slumped into his arms in a dead faint. 'Much better!' he cooed.
Now; to get her back home. He leapt into a teleport, and re-appeared in front of Evan... with a very unconscious and disheveled looking Leanna in his arms. Evan just stared, completely and utterly dumbfounded.
"Kuu!? WHAT DID YOU DO!?" Evan yelled in complete shock.
'I brought you your female friend!' He said. He gently set Leanna on her feet. The woman, in a dead faint, just crumpled to the floor. Kuu blinked. '…. Oops. I think she fell asleep.' He said.
Evan understood the word for female, and the word for friend - as well as the words fell and asleep. So he was able to piece it together.
He clutched his hair in stress and pulled at it. NOW what was he to do!? She HAD to have seen Kuu, if she was unconscious in his arms! She looked undamaged, which was good. Probably just scared out of her mind!
"She fainted, Kuu! You probably scared the shit out of her!" Evan said, pacing on and on. Kuu just watched him, eyes following the frantic human. "If only you could just understand me!"
'Maybe this wasn't such a good idea.' Kuu said to himself. 'Maybe I should take her back.'
Just as Kuu reached out for her again, her eyes slowly fluttered open.
She pushed herself along the floor to scoot away from him, screaming bloody murder as she tried to get away from the shadowy thing bent over her.
"Kuu! Back off, you're just scaring her more!" Evan said, motioning with his hands. Kuu got the hand motions and took a few steps back, before moving to stand behind Evan to watch. By this point, the poor woman was hyperventilating, pointing at Kuu with a shaky hand and screaming on and on.
Finally, her eyes fell on the exasperated Evan, then went back to the rather confused Kuu who was standing behind him.
"EVAN!? EVAN! WHAT THE HELL!?" She screamed. "What... LOOK OUT! BEHIND YOU!" She pointed at Kuu.
He turned to look at Kuu, who greeted him with a chirp.
"NO! Don't look at it!" She said, her voice filled with panic.
"It's... It's ok, Leanna. He's... a friend." Evan said, feeling a bit crestfallen. Oh this couldn't be ANY worse... how the HELL was he going to explain this to her, much less her father!?
"A FRIEND!? That thing almost killed me!" She shouted accusingly towards Kuu.
Kuu just watched her, but let out a soft little "Rrrrrt" at the look she gave him. Not really a growl; but it was close enough to make Leanna shake even if it wasn't intended to scare her.
"I really don't think he meant any harm." Evan said.
"It came RIGHT at me." She said.
"He. And I think he.. brought you to me, for some reason." he said. "Whatever has gotten into you, Kuu?" He asked the Enderman, who simply smiled and chirped back.
'What about a thank you?' He chirped, though Evan didn't understand him. That smile had Leanna going into panic mode again.
"Just.. calm down, let me explain, please." Evan almost begged awkwardly. Leanna tried to slow her breathing and nodded slowly, still staring at Kuu like a deer caught in headlights.
"First off..." Evan explained. "His name is Kuu. He means no harm, honest. He fled into my home, to escape a storm. He was badly hurt, and, I think, dying. I tended to his wounds and helped him. He's been here for a few weeks and hasn't shown the slightest sign of aggression. Just... just trust me, allright? He won't hurt you."
Leanna looked unsure, but it was true... she was looking right at the Enderman, and he was not reacting. He just watched her curiously. At the moment she smelled strongly of fear; there was a brief apologetic look at that, followed by a soft coo.
"I've been working on trying to teach him how to understand me. It's been hard.. I am not really sure what I am doing. He can name things in a picture book I got, but that's names for things and animals; not words for communicating clearly. There are some times we seem to be able to understand eachother, but it's been... a challenge."
Leanna nodded, though she was still shaking. Kuu remembered that humans did not like to be cold. When Evan was cold he shook, too, and hid beneath a blanket or sat by the fire. Kuu stood with a light chirp, before wandering off to his bed, which still sat by the fireplace, and came back with his soft blanket.
As the fabric settled over her shoulders, Leanna yelped and jerked away. But then she realized what it was, and stared at Kuu for a moment.
"Er... th-thank you." She stammered. "Why did he..."
"He probably thought you were cold." Evan said. "That's my... well, his blanket. I got it for myself but he liked it so much I let him have it. That... and you can't really argue with claws that can slash through stone." The past part was a joke, which got a nervous laugh out of Leanna.
"He's... kinda sweet." Leanna said shakily, offering a weak smile. She was starting to realize she had nothing to be afraid of.
Evan then told her the story; from his first encounter with the shadowy creature, to how he had cared for him, and how he had been so afraid of the thunder. He explained how he'd thought the thunder was a dragon and had actually tried to protect him. He told her a few other stories, as well – things he'd seen Kuu do; and things Kuu had done for him. Leanna calmed as Evan talked. Kuu did, in fact, seem perfectly harmless.
"Just promise me something... please?" Evan asked Leanna after he told her his story.
"What?" The woman questioned.
"Just... don't tell anybody about him, allright? He doesn't mean any harm. I don't want the entire village hunting him down. He may be confusing, but he's proven to be nothing but kind, loyal and helpful since I've known him." Evan said.
"I won't tell anybody." She said. "But if he comes snatching up your friends and bringing them here..."
"I know, I know." Evan said. "And I will do my best to explain it to him."
Evan walked out the door, giving Kuu a long, firm stare. It was clear he wanted him to stay. Kuu grinned impishly. Seemed the human wanted to be alone with the female, after all! The Enderman picked up his blanket and flopped on his bed as Evan saddled up Jack, and rode back to town with Leanna in the saddle behind him.
It was several hours before he returned and put the mule in the stable with some grain, hay, and water.
"Please, please don't do that again..." Evan sighed out, slumping against the wall. "She's never speaking to me again. I just know it."
Kuu's smile disappeared at the clear stress the human was showing. He lowered his head, chirping and cooing apologetically. He sounded a bit sheepish.
Evan could tell Kuu was apologizing. He sighed. "It's... allright." he said as he patted Kuu's shoulder. "You probably didn't know any better."
Kuu's smile returned, accompanied by a purr. Lesson learned. He'd let Evan persue females on his own should he choose to.
Evan went to his kitchen to prepare some tea. After the day he'd had, he needed it. As the man stirred a couple sugar cubes into his tea, he couldn't help but smile a bit, a tired and amused smile. "You make every day more interesting, Kuu." Evan said.
Kuu watched as he drank the tea, and could not help but cringe inwardly as the man swallowed the liquid.
But his curiousity was piqued. The stuff did not smell of water. He was wondering if it was water at all. The color, not to mention the smell, was completely off. And Evan was drinking it. For a moment the Enderman forgot that humans could touch water; he was thinking from the mindset that water was deadly.
When Evan wasn't looking, Kuu very carefully reached a finger towards the cup. The searing pain that met his finger made him hiss loudly and jerk away. This caused the cup fall over, sending the liquid flying right at Kuu which sent the Enderman leaping away with a howl of fright. Evan yelled in shock as he suddenly ended up with something twice his height in his lap clambering up over his shoulders to get away from the tea. The sudden movement set the chair off balance, which sent both males tumbling over backwards and hitting the floor with a thud.
Evan had to rub at a few bloody scratches on his shoulder. He looked up to hear clicking claws and nervous sounds on the roof. He sighed, before going out to coax the Enderman down.
After a bit of convincing, the Enderman finally teleported to the ground, before teleporting inside. He gave the spilled tea a wide berth, growling at it softly.
Evan cleaned the tea, and went to get more.
"Oi.. don't touch it this time." Evan said. "Your curiousity be damned." Kuu didn't have to understand him to know not to touch anything he drank again.
Evan turned to look at Kuu, who was staring at his cup of tea warily. He couldn't help but smile. As utterly interesting as the day had been... at least it hadn't been boring. He found himself starting to chuckle, which earned a rather displeased sound from Kuu. He could swear the Enderman was pouting at him. The sounds he made seemed to clearly say "Not funny!"
But Evan found it hilarious. Kuu made another displeased sound before teleporting to his bed by the fire and flopping down sulkily. He gave Evan a long stare before grumbling to himself and turning his back on the human to stare at the fire. Evan laughed a bit more before he leaned his head back. He decided it was time to go to bed. It'd been a very long, and very interesting day. Evan was glad it was over. He just hoped Leanna would keep her promise and that Kuu's little... stunt, wouldn't put him into unnecessary danger.