Purple Honey

[santingo]

"As gonbe we what?" Alzon questioned in a hushed tone, frightened he might annoy you. Although, Drakmur could say that her statement made him rather inquisitive but the reptilian horse remained silent as ever. Exhaling loudly, the young lad leaned against the thick trunk of the oak tree until a distant figure advanced towards them. It was Jaixas himself in his two-headed form. The more demonic head had his powerful jaws clamped around three plump deer while the more intelligent head was carrying only two. "'Ello." Before receiving a greeting in return, Jaixas dumped his fresh kills in one big pile.

"Greetings all. I decided to hunt for everyone but..." The words trailed off his leathered lips as he turned towards Dominique. "I mainly brought blood for Dom because if he doesn't get any soon, he'll die." Resting a head against his heaving chest, he listened carefully for any traces of a heartbeat. Gently with a claw, he opened the unconscious hybrid's mouth. Thanks to his human-like claws, Jaixas held a deer's throat just above him, slitting it swiftly. Massive amounts of blood gushed from the new wound, pouring profusely directly into his mouth. As a result, a groan could be heard as the young lad slowly opened his eyes.

"The council isn't what they appear dear Laboris," Aurura began, exhaling bitterly. "The council barely has a heart for starters and demand that I have to explain what happened."

"But they shouldn't get too upset since you've done a great job so far like Boris said," Ragizere retorted.

"I know dear let's just..focus on summoning Dominius before talking about my needs," Aurura persisted, reverting back to her original humanoid form.

[Baka]

Akkedia's lips curled a bit into a grin, which she tried to hide for all the sake of her. It was just, so irresistable! The scent of blood, the metallic fluid that felt so good running down the throat. She was very glad and grateful that her nightmare got there when he did, her impulses had nearly gotten her to try and eat the kivi hybrid before. Now, it was scary to even think about, which made her gulp a bit and swallow her words too. "Welcome Jaixas." She'd said, hanging onto his every word and even sighing with relief once the young kivi mongrel that was her friend woke up. "And welcome back to the land of the living, Dominique, how are you feeling...?" It was all she could manage to say at the time.

"Doesn't sound too fair, this council..." Contemplated the beastly almost chimera feline testily as his ears pressed to the back of his skull. Even so he only made a grundgey snort to show his distaste for the choice of council, and then he nodded his magestic head softly. "It sounds fine by me then, but we shall discuss it later..."

[santingo]

Alzon quickly gathered himself to scurry towards his mongrel friend, a brother. Drakmur barely responded to the arrival of his fellow nightmare, just throwing his head over broad shoulders back at him. Both partners did not respond to the fresh kills presented, just lost in memory. "No thank you Jaixas. I'm not hungry. Are you Al?" He questioned who shook his head, worried for the well being of his friend.

"I never liked raw meat if to be honest," Alzon shrugged his shoulders, giving Dominique some room to groggily stretch from his spot. The Kivi hybrid did not respond right away to Akkedia, groaning as he continued to lick the blood that was offered to him.

"...I'm fine," He replied quietly, not looking at the demonic bat.

"Eat," Jaixas said sternly, both heads glaring at their master. ~We wouldn't want you to try and devour Dominique again, now would we?~ He added mentally.

"Of course," Aurura waved her hand, as if dismissing the topic from existence. Halting completely, she gestured for both felines to do the same. It was like she was going to spot Dominius from a very tall hill. And, that was exactly what she was going to do.

[Baka]

Akkedia sighed slightly, making a whistle through her sharp teeth. It was good to know that Dominique was alright, she was really worried, but at the same time her ears were deafened to most of the conversation. She didn't even need the coaxing bit of conversation her nightmare mentioned in both word and mental thought, standing on her trembling and oddly formed hands that also supported her wingspan, the large bat carefully crawled along to the driving scent of blood. Licking her lips slightly she lost her mentality a moment, biting down into the carcass with a rather sickening crunch as blood still sprayed from the newly enforced wound, covering her maw more so with the sticky red liquid as it tangled hopelessly into her matted combs of bristled fur. This first gruesome image over, she quietly but still quite ravenously gulped down her meal without a word uttered towards her company.

Laboris of course stopped, not pursuing the topic further but arching and furrowing his thick browline in confusion. "Eh?" Though inquisitive on the manner he paused with his interrogation, hoping that one of the two females would explain matters to him.

[santingo]

Convinced that his master would feed on the deer corpses, Jaixas continued to feed Dominique the gushing blood until only droplets remained. "How do you feel?" He questioned, tossing the carcass to the side which was dry of any blood.

"..alive," Dominique whispered quietly, wiping any remaining residue from his tan lips. Smacking both lips together, a shiver ran down his spine at the taste of blood.

"Is something wrong?" The nightmare questioned, relieved that Akkedia was eating so her hunger may not corrupt her in the upcoming future.

"..Nothing's wrong," The young hybrid smiled faintly. "I just never liked blood." Gagging at the taste, he attempted to stretch onto twos but collapsed onto his bosom.

Ragizere was already used to the unpredictable behavior of her dragon friend, overlooking the scene of the kingdom. The female panther had cracked her neck before glancing over at Laboris. "This has nothing to do with Dominius. It's just a nice view from up here," She smiled innocently.

"Indeed but now," Aurura began the descend down the rolling hills. "This is where it begins." By the beginning, she was referring to the summoning.

[Baka]

Akkedia didn't really look up from her meal, her hunger compelled her to chomp down and eat with the malice of a ravenous wolf, if worse than that. Teeth clicking together and ears twitched, she didn't need to look up to know what was going on, her sonar worked quite well for her in this aspect. "You shouldn't be getting up yet, you need to conserve your strength until you get better..." She muttered as if reciting old lines as she wiped her maw with the thick leathery membrane of her wing.

"She's right you know, you can't get better if you keep pushing yourself...." Retorted a rather husky sort of voice, familiar though, as Mithoo carefully crossed into the scene, claws as usual scoping out the ground before he shuffled his way along. Instead of carrying substinance as his fellow nightmare had been, in his extra pair of arms, cradled close to his fluffy breast, were his usual medical supplies, the special herbs and even a clove of brucine.

"You're late..." Reasoned Akkedia without taking her eyes off of the tender meat she continued to shovel into, Mithoo only managed a simple shrug of his front shoulders.

"Aye, I s'ppose it is...." Laboris carefully observed everything with his flickering eyes. It was a rather majestic sight indeed, but he seemed relieved when Aurura announced the beggining. He felt uneasy about hesitating for long with a task ahead, but maybe he was just antsy that way. The chimera never really knew...

[santingo]

Frowning heavily once his body weight gave away, Dominique heaved a rather annoyed sigh. He had already anticipated that after drinking a decadent amount of the crimson liquid, he would be fully healed. Jaixas shook both of his heads in pity, frowning upon the hybrid whom had settled against the silver rock. Alzon himself had quickly reacted, no words spilling from his tan lips but his fellow brother did not have to question what he was going to say for he already guessed. Drakmur had lifted his reptilian head when Dominique attempted to stand but only shook his head as he failed as expected. "How long will that take?" Dominique questioned, glancing up at Jaixas who had began to speak.

"It depends how quick your metabolism is," The more intelligent head preached, pausing for a brief moment at Mithoo's arrival. "Since you're a Kivi, your metabolism would be much slower, two weeks to be exact. But since you're also half Gonbe, your metabolism had been cut into one week only. Also, blood is never a good source to rely on since it can be digested quickly. So I can say at least...three to four hours. Until then, it's best if you listened to Akkedia and Mithoo and relax."

Ragizere took this time to enjoy the view of the kingdom, considering she would become a ball in stress in several hours. The female panther eventually began the descend down the verdant hill, following Aurura who glanced at every passing villager. "What are you staring at, lady?" On passing villager glared in return.

"Stop looking at me!"

"Honestly, don't you know what personal space is?!"

"Keep moving!"

"Keep your eyes one the road!" Were some of the replies several rude villagers gave as the trio advanced deeper and deeper into the villager.

"Don't mind them," Ragizere whispered quietly to the Chimera. "Aurura gets that every century so she learned how to ignore them."

[Baka]

Akkedia frowned too, but not so much at the circumstances, more so at her own Nightmare's preachings. It only afflicted her sorely for the sake that she wasn't that understanding of the different metabolisms of Kivi, gonbe and those many breeds in between. Of course, there were a lot of aspects she hadn't taken into careful consideration for lack of a better term. "You're starting to sound like Mithoo..." Her voice grated softly against her teeth, barely fluttering past her jaws, which clacked moments later as if to pull it back, though this seemed too to be only a mannerism of hers.

"She shouldn't have to learn how to ignore them, they should show better manners..." Retorted a rather numbspoken Laboris as he himself glared from person to person, his coat involuntarily standing on ends.

[santingo]

Throughout the entire seminar of his preachings, Dominique stared up at him dull fully, chin resting on his soft palm. It was not the fact that it would've taken hours that caused him to be miserable but the fact that he was constantly on the brink of death, which annoyed him presently. Jaixas blinked in utter confusion to what his master had said, unsure of how to respond. Although she hadn't meant it in a cruel way, it got to him personally. "I thought it might be good for Dominique to understand what's happening to him than rather leave him in oblivion."

"What can we do Laboris?" Ragizere exhaled loudly, hissing at every persistent child had attempted to approach her. "After centuries of verbal abuse, we're both pretty much used to it to our reluctance."

[Baka]

Akkedia thought about it, pondered and mused, before she inclined her head slightly to compensate for the would-be nod of her distinctly carved skull. "Fair enough." And she decided, more by the tone of her guardian nightmare and how he seemed to take her statement, that she'd better just continue eating instead of trying to start a conversation.

Mithoo deposited all of his inventory gently besides one of the trees, looking everything over to make sure nothing was harmed during the stride there, some of it was very delicate after all. Just catching the comment he looked up. "What's wrong with sounding like me?" He wondered aloud, soft orb eyes glistening as he looked from one personage to another.

"But I mean you shouldn't have to be used to it, how fair is it then that you whom help sanctify this world by searching for Dominius, how could they treat you with such disdain? I say you both should be accorded with the highest respect, and even that doesn't seem to be high enough a way to gratify your work!" Of course he was rather caught in the moment, his claws tore tufts into the ground, his pink nose quivered with fretful contortions that wrinkled his otherwise lovely and majestic face.

[santingo]

Jaixas inclined both of his heads in acknowledgment, casting Akkedia an innocent smile. Her protective nightmare would've preferred if the female Gonbe continued with her meal consisting of deer rather than conversing. When Mithoo questioned their current situation, a sly smirk spread across both of his lips, even on the more demonic head. "For starters, I'm younger," Obviously not taking his question seriously, he continued to rant. "And second, Dominique must be bored out of his young mind after listening to me."

"I looked bored?" Dominique jumped into their conversation with a confused expression. "I'm terribly sorry if I did. I just feel..icky and full after drinking that blood.." He admitted honestly.

"Not to worry," Jaixas smiled down at the young hybrid. Ragizere remained silent, pondering over what her Chimera friend had just said. In a way, he was absolutely right in that sense. After all, Dominius did help the Chosen One save the planet every century. Unfortunately, it was all their centuries of assistance that caused them to put others in front of themselves and such.

"For starters, they may have no clue who we are," The female panther spoke softly. "But you're right Laboris. The world..isn't fair." She concluded.

[Baka]

"Well..." Huffed Mithoo, not taking any word into negative consideration, though the far elder nightmare tsked quietly. "With age comes experience, which in my 'proffesional and elderly' oppinion you lot need more of!" This of course had been taken in the lightest of tones, not meaning to sound crude in any way, as the rather tired looking nightmare used his frontmost limbs to preen through his featherlike hide, carefully plucking out a few strands of broken and dulled plumage in hopes that new would grow in this same place.

"It doesn't matter if they knew or not, a bit of decency never hurt anyone!" This last part of his statement was laced with a bit of a growl, since this talk was working him up in the worst way, he didn't like when others disrespected Akkedia and did the same for her... Or used to until recently, he just didn't like having those of feeble minds talk down to his friends, it was obviously one of his peeves.

[santingo]

"Age comes with this. Age comes with that," Jaixas grinned wolfishly, complaining much like an immature child would, although he wasn't bring serious. Snorting haughtily at his comments, he rolled his two pairs of eyes, puffing out his scaly chest. "With old age comes health problems and crankiness." The much younger nightmare snorted. "Then it just shows that as I get older, I'll become smarter." He persisted, unsure with his reactions. After all, he basically saved Dominique's young life all because of simply techniques Elivre had taught him before betrayed her.

"No, it doesn't," Ragizere turned her elegant head to face Laboris. "And you're right. It's wrong how society treats us..particularly to Dominius.." She whimpered, fluffy ears folding against her cranium. "And that's going to change.." She snarled hatefully.

[Baka]

Mithoo rubbed his temples in thought, then barely breathed "Cranky too? That I didn't know. It always seemed like youth was wasted on the young, the poor ignorant, naive young...." He sighed. "My how ignorance is bliss...." He sat back on his haunches, carefully brushing through his gathered possessions with a wary, appraising eye and the nuzzle of a beaklike maw softened by age.

Laboris only nodded in reply to this, though his lips curled back into a small bit of a grin, exposing the ivory fangs that were lined so neatly in his gums. "Good, the only constinant in this world is change, after all."

[santingo]

Jaixas blinked both sets of his emerald green eyes, glancing at his fellow companion innocently. Feeling a pang of guilt, he clamped his powerful jaws shut. Dominique himself had fallen asleep, knee caps folded towards his chest while the side of his soft cheek was supported by a single palm. Alzon had been busy glancing down at his left side, concerned about the deep gash. Drakmur had kept watchful eyes on his young master, hoping Alzon wouldn't attempt anything stupid.

Aurura waved her hand, pointing a single digit towards the tavern. "He's in there," She spoke softly, unsure of how they would retrieve Dominius.