Step and Slide

[danicaloy]

Akia was a little annoyed at Amoris when he pushed him away. He could have opened the bottle all by himself, though it would have taken a long time. He was glad Amoris could take care of himself not that Akia minded caring for Amoris, in fact he liked being around this handsome and strange guy.

Before he knew Akia was being carried in the other's warm grasp again, and was set upon the table next to his food.

He had to admit he was still very hungry, but was taken aback when Amoris told him to change back. Change back? but Akia didn't know why he would transform in the first place! He didn't how to comunicate that to Amoris, so he decided just wait this transformation out than tell him.

Akia trotted over to his half-eaten meal. Unable to use the chopsticks,the kitten leaned its head over the edge of the bowl of miso soup and began to lick it up.

Several minutes passed, when Akia finally sat back exhausted and full. It was then he look up and saw Amoris watching him, smiling. It looked so genuine, making him almost glow within Akia's eyes. Akia smiled back. There was just something that drew him to this man.

Suddenly, Akia began to feel strange again and in a instant Akia found himself kneeling on top of the table looking down at Amoris in front of him.

Akia was relieved that he was able to change back, realization soon hit him. Akia was naked.

(((Akia's hating me right now! No Akia put down my chainsaw!)))

[Amoris]

Amoris wondered why Akia just stared at him funnily when he asked the other to change back. Was it that his host didn't wish to speak to him? No, that didn't look like it, seeing how the other seemed to be smiling at him. He was tempted to shift into an animal as well so that he could understand Akia, but figured there was enough cat hair floating around at the moment. Besides, his cat always looked a bit off.

He smiled as the kitten began to lap up his food. It was really adorable...He started to say something when all of a sudden Akia changed on the table, naked.

The brunette covered his mouth with his hand and looked down, trying to hide his grin. "Um...I set your clothes by your chair. If you want to get off the table, maybe we can talk?" he asked amused.

He started to chuckle as he glanced up and saw the look on Akia's face. It looked like a ix between horror and embarrassment. It was something he was sure he wouldn't forget in a long time.

"I'm sorry," he said diverting his eyes again. "It's just the look on your face...Heh. Well, it's not a problem." Well, that wasn't exactly true. The sight of the other on his hands and knees...naked...and in front of Amoris was doing things to him. He wasn't sure he wanted his host to know how the scene was affecting him though.
Carefully, he dropped his napkin on his lap with a smile, hoping the other wouldn't pick up on it.

[danicaloy]

Akia was flushed red with embarrassment, as he quickly hopped off the table hiding his lower half from view and grabbed his clothes from the chair.

As soon Akia had his clothes back on, he turned around in time to see Amoris just something into his lap. I guess there's hiding my secret now.

"I'm sorry, whenever I get nervous I have a tendency to transform. It's always some type of white cat, and I can't control it at all, sometimes the transformation can last up to a whole day." Akia thought for moment then remembered the pictures that fell earlier, "And I'm sorry for the pictures falling too, sometimes items tend to float a little whenever I pass them, I can't control that either."

The white haired youth lowered his head almost sadly. He had never told anyone else these secrets except for Kale, but he left right afterward. Akia just hoped Amoris wouldn't do the same.

(((Don't panic, it's alright, I have my chainsaw back safe and sound. I gave Akia stuffed 'Amoris' plushie to cuddle with. he..he)))

[Amoris]

Amoris shook his head and chuckled. "Well, obviously you can't control it. It sounds to me like you're Jshiko and...Wizard. Am I right? Like I said, I'm Jshiko too. I know someone whose a Wizard and he sometimes makes things float and break and all that."

He grinned as he took a drink of water from his cup. "I have to ask why you didn't just tell me. Oh, right...Most people here wouldn't know of such things, would they? Did you think I was one of them?" he asked as he set down the glass with a smile.

The brunette laced his fingers together and set his hands underneath his chin. He leaned his head forward to let his glasses slip to the bridge of his nose. His eyes danced behind dark lenses with a curious light and he had to ask. "If that's the case, why don't you just move back home? You wouldn't have to hide or appologize all the time if you did."

He tilted his head to the side before he smiled brilliantly. "You could even visit Master Shibbs and me...Er, I. It'd be fun!" he exclaimed.

((Aw...cute!))

[danicaloy]

Akia looked up at Amoris, startled that he was so calm about this.

"I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're talking about. This IS my home. So what if I can transform or make things float! My parents may not have given birth to me but they are still my family, and there is no way on Earth that I am leaving to go anywhere."

The slits in Akia's eyes narrowed even more, and the glass of water next to him started to shake violently. He didn't want to leave, he promised his parents he would wait for them and so would he for Kale.

[Amoris]

Amoris' eyes widened and he smiled nervously. "Okay, you don't have to leave...I was just suggesting it. Can you put that down?" he asked as he motioned at the glass. He bit his lip and eyed the cup wearily, wondering if it would suddenly burst.

At Akia's look, he chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "So, um, you where born here then? That's cool, I guess. I just always thought it was kinda a savage place. At least that's what I've heard, you know?"

He pushed his glasses back up and he looked at the ceiling in thought. "Then again people say the same about Jeskara sometimes. It's not all that bad, really. It just depends on who you meet there. I enjoy it, but I know that those from...Sensaforia or something would hate it. To each his own, I suppose," he said.

The brunette looked back down and over at Akia. "Anyways, those people in the picture adopted you then? Whatever happened to your fathers?" There was a pause before he realized how nosy he sounded, mostly because of the scandalous look on Akia's face.

"...I'm sorry. That was probably really rude." He laughed sheepishly and shrugged. "Master Shibbs always said I never learned how to keep my mouth shut when it was appropriate. It's just that the people in the picture obviously weren't like us, so I wondered."

Feeling somewhat self-conscious, he looked down and shrugged again. Slowly he began to eat up his soup again.

[danicaloy]

Akia's eyes glanced over at the glass, looking like it was about to shatter itself. He quickly grabbed it and calmed down the best he could. He chuckled a small smile.

"I'm sorry Amoris, it's just sometimes I can get very stubborn about things I care about."

Akia knew it was rude but he just had to ask, "Why..do you keep refering to me like we're from the same country? I've never been to America, and I certainly don't know what this Jeskara or Sensaforia are."

Akia eyes glanced slowly over at the table where Amoris set the pictures earlier. His eyes became watered with tears again, but fought to hold them back, however it made his voice crack slightly.

"It's true they aren't my real parents. They adopted me after finding me in the oddest of places. I was found in crater after a big hail storm. I was only an infant at the time. I have no clue where I came from before that. I know it's been ten years since they left but they promised they would come back."

Akia couldn't help but laugh next, "And why would you think I have two fathers anyway?" He dashed the idea realize he too was being nosy. "I'm sorry that was rude.

Anyway, the other reason I can't leave is because I'm also waiting for my boyfriend, Kale, to return."

[Amoris]

Amoris slightly wilted at the word 'boyfriend' and sighed. Oh, that was depressing. He should have expected it though, really. Such a nice...kind...polite...gentle...charming...beautiful...Well, someone like Akia would of course have a boyfriend; it was only natural. Besides, why did it matter to him what the other did or not? He didn't even know the young man that well.

The brunette shook his head lightly. His thoughts were getting all jumbled and off-track. He looked back over at Akia with a small smile.

"I hope your parents return soon then," he said, purposely not mentioning this Kale. "They seem like a nice enough couple...even if one is a girl." He wrinkled up his nose and shuttered at the thought of being mated to a female. Truth be told, he was somewhat afraid of those who had been dubbed the 'fairer' sex.

After he said that, he noticed the odd look Akia's face had adopted and he wondered why. "Oh...Was it that you had two mothers rather then two fathers? That's quite a rarity, you know. I mean, you're not even Zercan," he said matter-of-factly. After all, it was common knowledge that females were hard to find and most were from Zerca when they could be found.

The Jshiko went over what Akia said to see if he had forgotten to touch on something the other asked about. He gasped when he forgot to answer something very crucial. He put a hand to his head and shook his head at his utter stupidity.

"Of course you wouldn't know whether you had a set of mothers or fathers if you were an infant when you got here! I'm sorry," he apologized for forgetting as he began to dig through his coat for the map he had been using earlier. Really, he needed to label his pockets one day...

"You don't even know about Jeskara! For being as old as you are, you still have a lot to learn. I mean, if you think that those places are part of America...Isn't that a continent or something? Wait, no...country? Anyways, if you think that's what I've been talking about, you're very mistaken," he said, grinning as he pulled out the map scroll from his pocket.

Slowly, he began to unravel it and placed it on the table. On it all the seven major planets were laid out with small descriptions next to them. Across the area of space, the map marked the different shuttle routes to the planets, time zones, stars...Everything seemed to be there.

Amoris pointed to a dark blue planet with the label 'Jeskara'. "You and I and all Jshiko are originally from here. Ignore the description. It's not really as bad as that....People are just afraid of the Vampyres and Incubus living there. It gives us a bad name, you know?"

His finger left where it was pointing to and traced a line to a different planet. "As for your Wizard blood, that would be from Parinenai. I've heard it was a nice place anyways," he said, shrugging.

He looked up and smiled at Akia's shell-shocked expression. "Hate to break it to you, cutie, but you're not from Earth. You're not even human."

(( Ack! Too long!))

[danicaloy]

Akia sat in silence, pondering over the map before him and letting everything Amoris had said sink in.

He had to admit there was some truth to the other man's words; Akia was not like the other people he met, and what evidence was there to prove he wasn't born here on Earth. How many children (infants in fact) can survive a hail storm at the top of a snowy mountain? But still the fact remained, the people who had found him, Taylor and Megumi, had raised him, giving him everything a young child could want. Akia just couldn't betray their trust in him just so he could go into deep space only depending on the word of someone he had known less than twenty four hours; even he did want to find who his real parents were, it would just be selfish thinking.

After a while, Akia suppressed and yawn and rubbed his eyes. Glancing over at the digital clock on the microwave, he saw that it was 1:30 in the morning. Akia thanked any higher presence above that he didn't have to work tomorrow.

"Amoris, it's gotten very late. Do you mind if we talk about this more in the morning?" Akia stood and motioned for the other to follow him.

((It's okay, sometime we all have to write a lot, Amoris had a lot to explain. ))

[Amoris]

Amoris nodded as he stood to follow the silver-haired man. “I’m surprised,” he said. “You seem to be taking this pretty well. Most would probably go screaming from the room or send me to a…What do they call those thing? Asylums? Yeah, that’s it. Anyways, they’d send me to an asylum if I had told them that.”

He fell into step with the other and smiled. He was happy that Akia didn’t think bad of him. Really, he wasn’t sure what he would have done if the other had acted irrationally…

“Of course we’ll talk more in the morning. It’s not like I’ll be going anywhere in the dead of the night. Well, technically it’s morning, right?” He laughed lightly before he was interrupted by a small yawn.

“Ack, tired…It’s been a long day for each of it, hasn’t it?”

[danicaloy]

Akia let out a small tired smile. Amoris looked so cute when he yawned.

Taking the older man once again by the hand, Akia led the Amoris toward the bedroom. All the while trying to figure out sleeping arrangements. His parents’ room was always off limits to him, and the only other place was his own room. Akia blushed slightly at the thought; the only other person who had slept in his room was Kale.

He slid the door to his room open, and the two stepped inside. It was rather small but still held a comfortable atmosphere, white carpet floors and light blue walls. The bookshelf, opposite the bed, and desk was full to capacity, as were a few mantles and tables. They all held some variety of items; mostly of foreign relics Taylor and Megumi had given Akia from their previous adventures.

Akia then moved to the closet next to the door they entered, took out white futon, and began unrolling it on the floor next to the bed. As he set about he looked up at Amoris, to see confusion upon his handsome feature. Akia cheeks burned once more; did he just call Amoris handsome? ‘Come off it, you have a boyfriend, and for all you know so does he.’

“Uh…you may sleep in the bed tonight, I’ll take the futon here, I don’t mind. You are my guest after all.”

Akia then stood and went over to his dresser, just behind where Amoris stood, and took out some dark sapphire blue silk pajamas. With his back to Amoris, he began to change.

As he did, Akia muffled as he removed his shirt over his head.

“I think there are some of Kale’s clothes are hanging in the closet if you want to change too. You two seem to be just about the same build.”

[Amoris]

Amoris nodded slowly, but then stopped when he realized Akia couldn't see him. "Okay...," he said, feeling kind of glad that he was facing in the opposite direction of the other.

'He has a boyfriend, he has a boyfriend, he has a boyfriend...,' the brunette mentally began to chant as he walked over to the closet. When that didn't help, the mantra became: 'He'll hate you if you try something, he'll hate you if you try something, he'll hate you if you try something...'. He pulled open the closet and found the clothes the silver haired boy had spoken of. He couldn't help the small growl that escaped his lips when he peered at the clothes though. It just seemed so unfair that this 'Kale' was so close to Akia and he wasn't.

He pulled off his own shirt and tossed it on the ground before searching for a pair of pajama bottoms that was his size. He pulled a black pair out and glanced back at Akia. Seeing as how the other was occupied, he shucked himself of his day pants before slipping into the others.

He almost laughed at the feeling it left on his skin. It was liquidy-ish, but not really...He turned slightly and pulled at the tag. 'Silk, hm? Nice...' He turned back to Akia when he heard the last rustle of fabric come from that area and smiled.

"There now. Time for bed and all that...But, you know...If you want to sleep on the bed, I don't mind. I never really do well in new beds..." When the other young man looked as if he were about to protest, Amoris raised a hand and smiled. "I can curl up on the floor or...Well, if I turn into something small, I could perhaps sleep on top of your headboard...?"

[danicaloy]

Akia opened his mouth to protest but found there was no changing the other's mind once it was made up.

Sighing in defeat, the youth trodded over to the bed, again lightly brushing shoulders with Amoris and reclined back.

Silence fell, and Akia couldn't help but stare at Amoris. Even though the other was in Kale's clothes; all the boy could see was Amoris. White hair shook and few strands fell in front of his eyes, as Akia tried to rid his thoughts of Amoris in that certain light. He soon found himself occupied by pulling back the warm bed covers, getting ready to lay down. Akia could hear himself whispering aloud.

"Um...Amoris, can you really transform the same way as I can?"

[Amoris]

Amoris grinned as he looked back over at the bed. "You don't believe me?" he asked, chuckling. He nodded and winked at Akia. "Wanna see?"

At the other young man's hesitant nod, he stretched and closed his eyes. He created a picture inside is mind and focused on it. It quick succession, he could feel his body change. His entire body shrunk, his legs shortened, his arms grew thin and light, his face extended...All at once, it was over.

He was a red-tailed hawk.

Amoris opened his eyes and blinked at the sharpened colours that floated pass his eyes. He looked over at Akia and would have smiled at the astonished look on the other's face if he could. Unfortunately, beaks can't smile.

He lept into the air and flapped his wings to keep in the air befor gliding over to the bed. He landed near the silver-aired boy and hopped lightly onto his lap. Green and purple eyes peered up at human blue and Amoris chirped happily.

[danicaloy]

Akia was indeed surprised, for he had never witnessed a transformation, of course you can't watch yourself. However, his expression turned to a warm smile as the bird of prey glided over to him and perched up on his lap.

Akia always did have a soft spot for birds, ever since he was a kid, he loved going to the park everyday and play with and chase the birds there. For some reason birds tended to sit next to him and on his lap; Akia couldn't explain it birds were just attracted him, even though he could take the form of a cat.

The white-haired youth leaned his back against the headboard, slowly as to not startle Amoris.

Once he was settled, Akia reached out his hand toward Amoris. Deciding it was safe, he brushed his fingers gently over Amoris' soft, smooth feathered head.

If he didn't think Amoris was cute before, he did now.