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Post by Thalron on Aug 17, 2007 22:58:35 GMT -5
Napoleon nodded slightly when she told him to run and hide... He didn't really want to do it, but it was better than him just getting in the way... He couldn't really help in a fight, and was more likely to be a distraction to astafy than to aluran. When she said now he took off towards the trees, his little wings fluttering helplessly to help and try to keep him upright as he ran.
The flash of light had very little effect on the metal tsume, and he was pretty much expecting it when she yelled 'now!' especially since he heard what she said to napoleon... The colours in his eyes darkened significantly from the flash, and he stood there.... There was a loud clang, and the thud of her hitting him... but he didn't move even an inch, and after the impact two of the heads immediatly bit at her legs. "Is that it?" the center head asked as his eyes slowly came back into focus.
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Post by Sera on Aug 17, 2007 23:27:24 GMT -5
Acha! That hurt! "Aluran!" The Light yelled in response as further pain shot through her when he caugt her legs in his other mouths. "Aluran, wake up!" She stared up at the center head and tried to focus her next attack at his eyes. An attack that would likely be her last in hopes that she would still have energy to heal. "Aluran..." the name was becoming a whimper; she hurt so bad!
Veselin couldn't seem to concentrate fully, but he was still held down by one metal foot, so there was little he could have done anyway.
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Post by Thalron on Aug 17, 2007 23:41:29 GMT -5
When she yelled his name again... well, not his but /his/ name again Diriel hissed, growled and the two heads on either side bit down harder into her legs. He relished the taste of the blood... although as far he knew it might have just been his memory of what he used to taste, he knew there was no tongue in those mouths. "I... Said... said....." his voice began to trail off, and then there was that flash.
A hiss shot through the teeth that were clenched on her, and the center head growled and shook around violently the somewhat pained hiss changing into a growl. his hand released the other gryvern and instead grabbed her around the neck, just behind the head. "I will not hesitate to kill you, what is happening?" his voice was... different? and sounded angry. as it's eyes faded back in from black they were a much deeper, but less vibrant red colour. Strange energies were building in the main head as he gave her just a few seconds to answer...
Napoleon had vanished from sight somewhere already, hiding and watching from a bush rather low down to the ground.
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Post by Sera on Aug 17, 2007 23:45:21 GMT -5
Astafy cried out when he bit harder, and then he changed; she could feel it in his air even without the sudden voice change and abrupt shift in attitude. "You attacked us, Diriel attacked us," she tried to explain, sensing his hostility. "We were trying to get Aluran...." Was that okay to say? Not that it mattered, she was out of time.
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Post by Thalron on Aug 17, 2007 23:52:12 GMT -5
The grip on her neck momentarily tightened as she spoke, not enough to strangle her but enough that he could if she tried to breath fire or something equally unpleasant. when she said Diriel though he growled and she could feel his metallic claws slacken a bit... he let go with the other two heads then shoved her away and backed up. eying the scene warily, that would explain why he had no immediate memory of this... Diriel was the only one that cut them off from his memories. "You do not know Aluran." He said simply, one of the heads suddenly turning to look down at the gryvern on the ground and that was all he needed to confirm her story.
He let out a small puff of acidic smoke that dispersed harmlessly in the air from his main head... rather than releasing it at Astafy as he had been readying it incase he had to.... He didn't say anything else.
Napoleon was... well... still hiding, he wasn't sure when it'd be ok to come out again, even if aluran had released her.
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Post by Sera on Aug 17, 2007 23:56:47 GMT -5
Astafy stumbled sideways when he pushed her away, then fell to the ground. She turned bright green eyes up towards the big creature. "No, I don't." She took a moment to re-center herself and sent a small wave of healing through her legs; just enough that she wasn't bleeding and she could walk. She hesitated as she carefully rose, eyes wincing as she carefully walked to Veselin's side. It looked like the noctyier was in shock.
"So..." she said hesitantly. "Who are you?" After she spoke, she concentrated on Veselin and began to heal the worst of his wounds.
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Post by Thalron on Aug 18, 2007 0:18:27 GMT -5
He sat back and watched her warily as she healed herself, glancing away to examine the blood on his other heads... He couldn't taste it, that was weird. He reached over to wipe some of it off, but only succeeded in smearing it a bit... He gave a small sigh then looked at astafy as if he were about to do something he really did not wish to. "...Sorry." he said with that absolute amount of reluctance that made it obvious that some unseen force may have coerced, or beaten that sort of courtesy into him. He didn't even bother answering her question.
There was an odd moment as the heads looked at eachother, then shivered and the eyes changed again... the center one changed blue, the right one turned green and the left one... well, it stayed red. Instantly there was a much less serious feeling coming from him, and the center head looked around.
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Post by Sera on Aug 18, 2007 0:27:01 GMT -5
Astafy glanced towards the tsume when he spoke, and so caught the eye colour changes again. Her head tilted to the side in confusion but Veselin groaned and she turned most of her attention back to him. Napoleon seemed to have gotten a little lost in the whole process, but the Healer didn't want to bring attention back to him in case the Diriel/Aluran/whoever/wotever being wasn't yet safe.
She wasn't sure how to approach this now; she was heading towards a physical injury specialization. "My name is Astafy," she said. "I'm glad.... you came out rather than.... that other one."
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Post by Thalron on Aug 18, 2007 0:40:40 GMT -5
Aluran suddenly jumped slightly, as if he had just noticed her... although the red head just sighed again, he was giving off a rather pathetic feeling right now... he probably didn't want the others to come out of their 'sleep' but he didn't really know how to deal with people so he did need them. The center head spoke first. "Hi! Nice to meet you!" the others rolled their eyes at his enthusiasm. The right head spoke next. "Just call us Aluran, it's less confusing." the left head snorted and glared at everything in general...
A moment later the center head noticed the wounds and darted over, sniffing at them until he seemed to get dragged away a little bit. Right: "She's a healer sto-" center:"I know! but I-" left: "just be quiet." it hissed out. It was kind of confusing watching it argue with itself..
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Post by Sera on Aug 18, 2007 0:47:13 GMT -5
Blink, blink. Once upon a time Natalya would have been all over trying to help. Astafy shook her head slightly and looked back down at wot she was doing. Veselin gave another little moan, but he didn't seem up for conversation just yet.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Aluran." she said quietly, turning to glance around the woods, careful to not zero in on one spot. She raised her voice, "Is that right, Napoleon? Is this the one you know?"
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Post by Thalron on Aug 18, 2007 1:02:25 GMT -5
All of the heads looked back at her as she spoke, except for the left one which just looked off in a random direction instead... Pointedly not looking at astafy or veselin. He didn't want to deal with them anymore, especially since he was the one that had to apologize. The others didn't have a problem talking though. Center:"Nice to meet you too!" Right: "Is there anything we can do to help?"
when napoleon was mentioned then center head looked around wildly and the whole body seemed to shake with excitement until the other two minds managed to restrain themself. "Napoleon? Where?"
The little rather frightened looking tsume poked it's head out from under the bush and after a moment ran out and pounced forward and nuzzled against astafy's leg letting out some small happy squeaks... He probably said yes but he was too busy being a frightened little kit to be that comprehensible.
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Post by Sera on Aug 18, 2007 1:18:21 GMT -5
Astafy put her head down to nuzzle at the tiny creature, relieved that at least one of them came through this without injury. "Everything's alright," she murmured softly, responding instinctively to the excited chattering noise. She licked and nuzzled and offered soft murmurings of nothings until he seemed to calm down.
"So, no introductions needed there," Astafy nodded then gave a small head bob towards the still semi-conscious noctyier. "And this is Veselin." She gave a small sigh as all of the stress and pain of the day threatened to catch up and overwhelm her. No, now was not the time to fall apart.
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Post by Thalron on Aug 18, 2007 1:34:03 GMT -5
Aluran was about to say something to napoleon, but then gave a quick glance between... well... Himself and decided that maybe he should go wash off the blood before it dried. and nodded his heads to them before walking over to the river and beginning to clean himself... he wasn't very good at it, and the metal on metal noise was kind of unnerving.
Napoleon nuzzled back happily, giving her a few tiny licks of his own. He calmed down a bit after he was able to tell neither of them were seriously hurt, nuzzling against her all the more as he spoke. "I was worried you'd get hurt.." he said in a pretty quiet voice.
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Post by Sera on Aug 18, 2007 1:39:27 GMT -5
One large, sensitive ear flicked as the grating noise of wotever it was Aluran was doing. She sent him a concerned glance, but was more interested in calming Napoleon's fears.
"Well, I am a Healer," she replied as comfortingly as she could. "I can get hurt some and still be fine. Besides, Aluran woke up, and that's wot we needed. So everything is okay now, ne?" She tilted her head at him and the gem beneath glinted through the white forelock.
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Post by Thalron on Aug 18, 2007 1:55:57 GMT -5
Napoleon looked up at her, then nodded very slightly when she said she was a healer... He knew that, but it wouldn't have helped if aluran had bit off her head or something. It was hard to heal yourself or others if he hadn't woken up.. "...Are you sure? Vaseline looks funny... and you were bitten!" he looked up and gave a small alarmed squeak at the markings on her legs.
Aluran's red eyed head glanced back after hearing the squeak, but then went back to looking back at the river... but it wasn't very long before he turned back to them and began to walk back over. His center head was also holding a fish. "Lookf what I found, it wash floatin' there." he announced happily.
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