Light up the night sky: Bright Eyes (Gem|Shu|OPEN)

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Gemini bounded through grass and brush. We let it get too late! Let us hope we have not worried the others. She paused and sniffed the air, and let the smells paint their pictures in her mind. She looked up to the quickly darkening sky. We mustnt break our promises. with this final thought she bounded away using the mental picture as her guide to find the rest of the pack. As the sun continued to set over the edge of the world, Gemini quickly realized she may not make it back to the pack before it has set completely. This thought made her angry. Why would we let ourselves get so far away from the pack?... We wanted to join so we wouldnt be alone anymore. Through them we have our first friends... A shot of adrenalin, a burst of speed she tore through the territory following where the scents lead.

Eventually the scents get stronger, she paused just long enough to get an exact fix on the main body of the pack. Another burst of speed, as the last light of the sun disappeared over the horizon. We are almost there. So nearly on time... Maybe they wont be mad at us. Suddenly there was a loud screech in the air above her, breaking her concentration just enough to cause a misstep. Her paw twisted in the wrong way, suddenly she has her face on the ground and she let out a loud Yelp that rang through the air, no doubt making it to the pack. She wasnt very far away from them. Ashamed that she let herself get suppressed she quickly sat up and started cleaning the grass and dirt out of her pelt, so anyone who comes to investigate would not see her dirty. Who will come to investigate our cry? she wondered silently. She finished her cleaning and started limping towards the pack, her paw hurt, but it was nothing serious.

[ayrazar]

Life would be all together more satisfying if each feather would just stay in place. The amount of time he had to spend each day preening each blue-black plume into place to optimize his flying seemed to cancel out the difference in fight speed. He was balancing neatly on an evergreen, several feet above the ground, feeling on top of the world as always. The strange, swirling markings that covered his back hit the light, flashing with their azure blue, showing quite obviously that none of the remarkable birds powers were being used at that moment. He had not, in fact, found a specimen worth experimenting with in weeks. It was growing tiring for him, such a creature of immense intelligence and power, to have to flit around like a common blackbird, biding his time and eating.

His reverie was all too noisily disturbed by the sound of heavy footfalls. He looked to his right to see a multicoloured wolf approaching at great speed. As she passed underneath, Shukumei was shaken from his branch rather rudely as a branch she had nudged shook tremors up the tree and onto his perch. Releasing a loud screech of annoyance, Shukumei lifted into the air, a few thrusts of his wings bringing him a good fifteen feet above her now ground-met form. He blinked, wondering how a wolf, the worlds top natural predator (as there was no way those INSUFFERABLE hairless apes could claim such a title) be so clumsy? Perhaps he had encountered a weird one, an unhinged one. Survival of the fittest and all that, no doubt Mrs. Four Left Feet would be dead in no time.

He was surprised, then, when the wolf gathered herself and, however lamely, continued on her journey. She had even stopped to clean her fur, a fact that shocked him to the center of his avian core. Surely the ground-hunters had no need for preening? A few masterful flaps took him ahead of her, and he dropped to the ground three feet to her front and left, letting out a loud craw to get her attention. “Unintelligent!” He yelled at her, his voice a strange mix of Wolfspeak with the accent of birdcall.

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Delicately, she walked towards where the others were, determined to get to them as quickly as her paw would allow. Another screech, from in front of her, yet in wolf speak? Confused she must inquire whats happening. "Who calls us unintelligent, you sound like no wolf, yet you know our tongue. You sound to us like a bird." She stopped to sniff the air and get a better idea where this bird had landed. Briefly she considered attacking the bird, but from its scent she could tell it was small, and probably not worth the effort to kill especially on a lame paw. It would probably just fly up into a tree out of reach anyway. She had to give the little bird some credit though; confronting a wolf, even injured, must have taken a lot of nerve. Especially one with such a useful and dangerous power as hers was.

She considered the options, staying and possibly learning more of the world and its contents. Or going and meeting up with the pack and maybe missing out on another unique view, not unlike her own. To be able to speak with a bird, how interesting would that be. We must learn more... Yet the others... She thought for a second, and the curiosity overwhelmed her. "We are curious, how is it that you know wolfspeak." she asked more calmly than her initial statement. She wanted to continue forward a few steps, but stopped and then sat, waiting for a response. Ears perking up to the sound of the pack. One of them would be there shortly anyway. She swished her tail eagerly waiting for either an answer from the bird or one of her new-found friends to join her and witness this new discovery.

[ayrazar]

Shukumei blinked as the wolf sniffed for him, feeling a sigh-like breath of exasperation run through his lungs and out his beak. He hopped forward, wings flapping to assist his leap, coming to rest not but a foot from her form, now resting its multicoloured bulk on her hindquarters. He kept silent, studying the creature before him, taking his time to answer her. Not a mote of fear wafted off of him, for he felt to reason to be wary of this slight creature. He barely moved as he took her in, from her strange eyes to her diamond marking down to her light coloured paws. His tail twitched at the end of his inspection, either from satisfaction or displeasure, it was impossible to tell.

He flit around her now, checking her out from the right then the left, kicking up dirt from the ground as he hoped and flapped. His eyes narrowed as he took in the ways he spoke. The third person modifier did not fit the regular speech pattern which he had observed form this powerful and usually intelligent creatures. However, it would be hypocritical for him to judge based on grammar. “Watched.” He answered her, coming to pause in front of her again. “Many years. Learned.” He nodded two quick jerks of his head, as if his statement answered everything worth answering. There was a light in his deep black eyes now, an amusement forming. He was studying this wolf for a very specific purpose.

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Geminis head followed the strange bird as it hopped and flitted left and right. She watched and studdied it just as much as it studdied her. She remained curious, especially at the blue marking around its eyes and back. Glad to see she was not the only one with odd markings, but also glad hers were no as odd. She sniffed and smelt no fear from the odd bird, which conserned her slightly. She let her guard down a almost completely, and started panting, she had been running for a while and it was soothing to catch her breath.

After listening to the birds oddly short replys she was even more puzzled about this creature. Many years? That can't be what he meant, blackbirds dont live that long. Surely not long enough to learn wolfspeak. Maybe its mastry over wolfspeak is not what it believes it to be... A quick glance skyward reveiled it to be a nice moonlit night. "We are Gemini, little bird. Do you have a name?" she says with a smile in her sparkling eyes, and a swish of her tail. "We are pleased to meet you." Suddenly it dawns on her that the moon is rising and no one seems to be coming to investigate her yelping. "Oh, we must get back to the pack... Would you join us birdie?"

[ayrazar]

There was another exasperated twitch of the onyx bird’s tail feathers. It was almost a gesture of annoyance, but the interested gleam in the black gems of his eyes stayed constant. He had noted her eye colour and triangular marking as signs that this wolf was capable of something that could be very interesting to him. He decided to see this wolf through to the end of her current journey, at least, to discover what she was all about. His head whipped to the right, in the direction she had been travelling. She was headed towards a pack? A pack meant more wolves, which meant more fun for Shukumei. There was no way he would turn down such an opportunity.

With a few short but powerful flaps of his wings, Shukumei pulled himself off the ground and came to land on her shoulder, settling into her fur and grabbing hunks of the dense, course fur at her ruff, an area he knew never hurt to pull. He clacked his beak, the sound not a real word in wither tongue but more just an excuse to make noise. In his mind, he felt annoyance for the term “little bird”. Shukumei was no sparrow. “Good to meet Gemini.” He said, ruffling his feathers as he spoke to make himself optimally comfortable. “Shukumei I am. Will join you.” He nodded another few times, obviously assured with his statements.

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