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Post by itsherfault on Apr 27, 2015 21:06:46 GMT -5
Xan's fury and his acceptance of our bond shocked through me like a lightning bolt, and I felt that strange, blurring feeling I"d felt when I'd let loose my rage at Nah. I could feel Xan's rage connect with the part of me that was still angry, still upset, and I could feel it uncoil in me like a snake.
No. No. I need to stay calm, I need to not resist, the way Nah said....
But I wasn't entirely sure I could control my own actions anymore. That determined, coiled anger still lived in me. When Nah's master came, I would be ready to do whatever was necessary.
My anger was done waiting.
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Post by mesmu on Apr 27, 2015 21:53:01 GMT -5
The commotion seems to not disturb those on the higher levels, Devrin, Nah and Jaryn's Master, makes his little less than calm way towards his room. Nah passes him on the way and gives his a dazzling smile. Devrin stops him and gives him a yank closer, "This bitch better be worth it or your whore ass is going to be sold back to the Conductor." Then he releases the bearer and shoves him away as he walks towards his room.
Nah rubs his neck. That had hurt, but he sighs as he continues on, but stops as he calls back. "Bracken okay?" His master stops and sighs.
"He's as good as dead."
As he walks again Nah breaks out into a run as he races for the holding pens.
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Xan lets out another roar as does the zercan on his left, the two tackling down a large giver in the way. The young lion gives the lynx a smirk and lets him handle the problem. He is off running again, following his nose now. A familiar smell burns him and he slams his body into a metal door. Snarls and then begins to claw at it. After a moment he looks to the side to see a key board. He digs his claws into that, ripping it from the wall. The door slides open.
There lies Bracken. In his humaniod form. Dark brown almost black hair streaked with pale orange matted to his head. Xandyr comes to halt as he stares, confused. Then the rage grows in him as he lets out a low growl as he walks closer, sniffing the other. He looks like he's been beaten to death, black and blue bruises litter his body. Xan turns on to race back out there to find Jaryn and kill anyone who got in his-
His tail is snagged on something. Looking back he sees blazing green eyes glaring at him, "You. Are. Always. Overreacting." Bracken's voice is something that shocks Xandyr from how rough it sounds and the gentle undertone makes him frown. The giver sits up and tugs the young lion back first by his tail and then by his hind legs. Xandyr growls threateningly, but the loud growl Bracken gave in return causes Xan to lower his head in submission immediately sorry for growling. "Calm down kitten. You're scaring yourself and your mate. Breathe. We will find him. Be at peace." Xan laid down before Bracken now. Breathing in and out, in and out, in and out. Finally he lifts his head.
We need to find Jaryn. He stands slowly, calmly, deadly peaceful. And Nah too... Can you move?
Bracken smirks as he stretches and morphs, Pfft. A little bruising and blood gonna stop me? You gotta be kidding! He rumbles as they pace out, braking out into a slow run as they go, the two keeping close in order to take down anyone who gets in their way.
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 27, 2015 22:00:32 GMT -5
Xan's calm flooded me next, but I had the feeling it was too late - all it did was cool the flames to an icy sort of detachment. I knew how to make myself look sexy and so I had, which wasn't hard with Nah's selection of "clothing". I waited passively, my coild body hiding the anger that was licking icily through my veins, and I could feel something... something strange, something I'd never felt before.
Where had Nah said to wait...? I glanced around the room. I didn't want to seem presumptuous, but I also wanted to make myself seem attractive.
I settled for draping myself against the wall, eyes carefully on the floor, posture submissive, but hopefully still enticing.
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Post by mesmu on Apr 27, 2015 22:36:05 GMT -5
Devrin walks into his room shortly, his eyes sweeping the room for the new bearer [giver, though he doesn't know that yet] he just brought. When his eyes land on Jaryn he feels his mouth go dry, his attraction for the other sky rockets as he stalks forward, ready to pounce, "Oh look at you. Well trained already... What a good little bitch." His gaze is pooling with lust by just looking at the other. "I can't wait to fuck you raw, you expensive slut." He could already taste the other's hot skin and feel their body in his hands. Devrin doesn't hold back and he pounces, ready to plunder the blond into oblivion.
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Bracken slams into a giver that had been about to pounce on Xandyr. He huffs and rolls his eyes as he just knocks the other out. Xandyr realizes that this is all the other has been doing, showing mercy to every person no matter who they are or how they come at him. The young lion doesn't have long to speculate as another person comes running at him. He tenses to pounce when they... rush past him and slam into Bracken.
Looking confused Xandyr glances back, but a purr picks up in him as the now human Bracken skids with the crying Nah in his arms. He, of course, looks away as they stare longingly into one another's eyes, his natural response would be to bulk and comment. Instead he just keeps watch while they are being lovey dovey for a moment.
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 27, 2015 22:56:46 GMT -5
His ugly words hit me like a truck, but they weren't exactly things I'd never heard before. Well... not the 'expensive' part; I'd never been sold for 2400 credits before. There were always predators in every society, but this one set my blood to boiling. His hands ran over me, roving, searching, pressing. He pushed me back onto the bed, ready to take me as his hands tore at my clothes.
I was a good little boy.
I responded to his advances, no matter how sick they made me. I nuzzled into his chest, all the while feeling that cold anger concentrate in certain portions of me. I felt that strange, blurring feeling as though something about me were changing. I gave him what I meant to be a little 'love nip' on the neck, but teeth that were not the right shape plunged deep, delivering venom to paralyze and disable, maybe even kill - I wasn't picky, and neither was the anger.
I didn't understand what ws going on - I was human, after all. What had just happened?
I waited for it to go to work, waited for the venom to spread and leave him helpless, and then I would make my escape.
I'm coming, Xan. I'm coming.
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Post by mesmu on Apr 27, 2015 23:01:37 GMT -5
It didn't take a scientist for Devrin to figure out what happened. He gasped, shoving the should of been defenseless human away from him, holding his neck in dismay as the his speeding heart helped the venom works its magic. Soon he's unable to move and panic really sets in as he's frozen there.
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Xan felt sick and finally turns to the others, "I'm heading forward." Of course he felt a bit more unnerved when he saw the other two locked in a heated embrace. So, instead of waiting any longer, he ran ahead.
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 27, 2015 23:13:27 GMT -5
I ran my tongue across my teeth as I sped out of the room, not bothering to change back into my normal clothes. They were flat. Human. What had just happened? Had I imagined it? But I couldn't have, because the man who'd bought me for 2400 credits was behind me, helpless, and not chasing me, not...
I couldn't think about that. Couldn't think about what he'd been trying to do when my anger struck. I pushed myself faster, trying to pinpoint where Xan was. I was coming. I was out of there.
Xan...! Xan, I'm free. I'm headed your way. It may take a bit... where are you?
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Post by mesmu on Apr 27, 2015 23:23:54 GMT -5
On my way! Keep moving, we can't be too far away... I can hear you clearly, It was true. As if they're connection had been forced together and glued and yet the static wasn't bad and when Jaryn spoke it was like he was right there next to Xan. The lion slams into a man armed with a gun, biting his hand and tearing the weapon from him. Be careful. They're armed. And I'm sure they'll be aiming at givers... Then again, they think I'm one. Idiots. Its as if whatever had been holding him back has slipped away, freed from his previous self, the sleepiness as there still, on the edge of the abyss that he once sat next to. Now he's practically flying as the taste of blood and sweat fills his mouth many times over. His hands and feet are paws, but they feel so right. He feels so right. Its amazing.
Jaryn. I can't wait to show you... I want to show you who I am... Please. We need to hurry. So. Please find me... Find me!
The urgency in his mental voice raises as he suddenly feels a burning pain in his hind left leg. Seeing the bullet wound he turns onto the one who had fired. Animistic instincts take over with another roar as he charges at the male with his guy raises and aimed.
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 28, 2015 0:02:07 GMT -5
The feelings I was getting form Xan were clear and intense, the words just as clear but the feelings washing over me like my own. It was as though something had finally clicked into place, and I felt that strange feeling inside me, the feeling of my body shifting, blurring. Someone appeared in front of me, raising a gun, but it was weird, his eyes were wide and his hands shaking as I somehow ducked past him, taking him down as I passed. My form solidified again, and I was still human, but for a few moments...
I couldn't tell.
God, I couldn't tell.
Xan, I think I'm getting closer. Things are strange... I feel strange. But I feel... free. It's amazing. It's like I finally understand myself. I don't understand anything but I don't feel lost anymore.
I shouldn't have been able to leap over the next guard's head, but I somehow did, no matter that there wasn't room for it in the corridor. When I came down, though, in solid form, it wasn't the same solid form. I was running, running easily, faster than any human being had the right to run. My body felt natural, I couldn't understand. It wasn't the same, but I couldn't understand what wasn't the same about it.
Then I heard Xan.
The blurring feeling again.
I was in mid-change when I leaped forward, knocking the gun out of the man's hands and landing on him in a full pounce, a face full of sharp teeth bared at him.
"Don't. Touch. My. MATE."
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Post by mesmu on Apr 28, 2015 0:26:21 GMT -5
Xan lands just short of where Jaryn had slammed the other into the ground, his eyes wide. When, how, what? Regardless he turns when he hears the sound of another gun sniping in on them, his body has reflexly moved in front of Jaryn's, uncertain where it will be coming from. His body tenses and the gun goes off...
But nothing hits him. Nothing hits Jaryn. Then a voice he thought he was never going to hear again shouts, "Mother fucker!" Followed by a few more swear words. "That shit is loooooouuuuud." And then a body drops near by as a playful looking Zeke emerges from the metal work of the building. "Talk about a shitty welcoming... Hey, um, uh... K...E...L...V... KELV! Come oooonnnn! We've got kits to find!"
Xan blinks confused as he hovers closer to Jaryn none the less. The fact the other literally took down a guy with a gun and is acting like this is all a fun game... kinda scares him. Meanwhile another large form comes roaming their way. A tiger with an exhausted bearer perched on his back, both are bleeding now, but the sound of a collar being dropped catches Zeke's attention. He raises a brow. "Hey, uh... k...e...l..v.. Kelv? Look. Another mated pair... Damn, this place is bursting from the seams with them."
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 28, 2015 0:36:24 GMT -5
I stood up, feeling my body completely solidfy into human shape again. Somehow I managed to keep my clothes - I'd have to have a long, long talk with Zeke in private about what had just happened.
"They were taking mates deliberately," I said as someone else rounded the bend.
I blinked. It was... a dragon.
He was large-ish, about the same size as I imagined Toothless, from HTTYD, would be if he were in real life, except he was a deep blue-green color, with large fins running down his back. His tail was tipped with another long fin, making him seem like an aquatic creature, but he also had wings, large ones, folded to his back.
"Really, now?" he rumbled. I was surprised he could talk, but then, the Zercans seemed to talk just fine, so...
"Really," I said. "They were taking mates to ensure that one wouldn't try to escape without the other. They made the givers fight in the ring, and the bearers became slaves to whoever had enough cash to buy them."
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Post by mesmu on Apr 28, 2015 0:45:08 GMT -5
It took a moment longer before it clicked into Zeke's head that he found his brother but then he immediately pulled the blood covered Xan into his arms, whispering as softly, "You poor thing. They didn't do anything to you." His fangs have sprouted and he growls lowly. "If they did they'll have me to answer to... So... Are you okay?" Xan wiggles and squirms and pouts before returning to his human form and nips at Zeke. The elder brother blinks in surprise, but just grins widely. "Oh stars... You did it. You accepted yourself, haven't yooouuuu~!" And he's nuzzling Xan's face as the other sighs and begins to push at him.
"Get offa me!"
Meanwhile Bracken speaks, "What Jaryn says is true... We've been here for about five years now and none of us have had the balls to do what these two did. You should be proud of them." He purrs deeply before shaking his head. "But my mate had been severely injured. He needs a medi-box asap..." Nah just pets the Zercan lightly, as if to say he's okay, but Bracken is having none of it.
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 28, 2015 0:56:13 GMT -5
"They thought Xan was the giver," I said. "They made him fight... he was crazy brave." I reached out to put a hand on Xan's shoulder with a smile. "I'm proud to call him my friend... and, if he'll let me, my mate."
I turned towards him, feeling that pride well up inside me, spill over. It was strange... ever since that moment, where Xan accepted who he was as my mate, and the moment where I'd started feeling the strange blurring, it was as though emotions that weren't mine were everywhere. Xan's were the clearest, of course, but I could feel Kelv's protective worry, Zeke's relief... Bracken's pain and, again, protective worry. I shook my head, and they all subsided again.... all except for Xan's. As though I hadn't felt them at all. And yet...
I needed to have a talk with Zeke.
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Post by mesmu on Apr 28, 2015 1:06:39 GMT -5
Xandyr manages to get away from his brother long enough to hide behind Jaryn, looking around the male with a glare at the elder bearer. Then he blinks, remembers where they're at and sighs, "We need to move. Better to get out of here while we can." Zeke sighs and bounds back up to Kelv where he pats the Dragonis on the head.
"We'll clear a paaaaaath!" And then he morphs, turns, and races ahead with a joyous roar. Bracken tilts his head to the side but does go to follow even at Nah's protests that they need to help the "babies". Xan meanwhile morphs and looks to Jaryn.
You gonna get on?
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Post by itsherfault on Apr 28, 2015 1:14:13 GMT -5
I smiled, more like beamed, as Xan asked me if I wanted to ride. I mounted as I watched the dragon give us both a glare, then run after Zeke, who I assumed was his mate. Odd... Zeke had said he hand't had a mate. Had he found the giver on Earth? But there were no dragons on Earth. Or were there?
Note to self: Talk to Zeke.
"Let's go!" I said to Xan, leaning forward and twining my hands in his fur like we'd done that one day, that one day which seemed so far in the past now, but was really only a week or two before at most.
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