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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:32:59 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Nikiski on 07/12/2004 at 22:45:51
"Hehe, good morning Niki." The bear cub says.
Immediately I resemble Kamali, Ken'ichi's brother... Black fur... silver maine... one white eyepatch on his right eye... silver fur on his arms and legs... He says.
"It's good to see you again, Ken'ichi...in person..."
Ken'ichi is probably quite surprised to hear his voice again. Ken'ichi stands up on his hind legs and puts one paw on my body. Ken'ichi asks.
"Kamali?"
"The one and only!"
As soon as Kamali cries that, he jumps on Ken'ichi and they both starts wrestling about, rolling around the cave. I watch closely and I'm glad that he has a brother to play with now... as I'm not always there to play with him...
"It's really you!" Ken'ichi cries.
"It sure is!" Kamali cries back.
Well everyone's awake now, staring at the two brothers as they stop and catch their breaths. Ken'ichi turns to Kamali and hug him, "it's good to have you back..."
"I'm glad to be back."
Ken'ichi looks at Spectrue and says, "It worked."
Remembering what I promised Spectrue last night about showing him to do all the bear stuff, I smile and turn to Kamali and Ken'ichi.
"OK guys, I'm gonna go do some business with Spectrue, you guys can go play... be back in an hour so we can head to the river for breakfast, OK?"
I turn to Spectrue as we walk outside the cave, "so... what do you wanna know first, Spec?"
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:33:30 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Talist on 07/12/2004 at 22:47:30
OOC:Thanks for your patience. Yeah, this post takes place right after Kadzait's post on page 24, and I'll modify it as soon as I can to bring it up to the events of the day.
BIC:
I lift my head to the rain, letting it trickle down my muzzle and drip from my fur, listening to the sound of heavy drops pattering on the stone around me. The creeping traces of sleepiness disappear, along with my earlier restlessness. Pupils wide to drink in what little light is to be had, I continue my watch. There is no sense of threat in the darkness. I can only trust that tomorrow’s clearer skies will bring a change to the salmon run. Now, though, I revel in the chill of the wet night. It is something akin to the thrill I’d felt in the human village, where the edge to sensations brought with them a sheer vitality.
A flicker of movement by the river. Gathering myself in a wary crouch, I search the night for the source, but my ears thingy forward. Am I letting my hopes deceive me, or…<br> “Hi guys,” the wolf says, a smile touching his expression.
I leap down from the rocks, calling for Sila and Nertuark as I go. Prancing sideways, tail high and wagging furiously, I whine my delight at seeing Kadzait return looking well, though deeply tired, his fur spattered, but not with blood. The ground is thick with mud, but this only makes me laugh. The raven, shuffling back and forth, apparently disapproves of the general atmosphere, shaking his wings against the damp, he meets my glance beadily. “Many thanks, friend, for bringing this errant wolf back to us,” I tell him, smiling. Mollified, Wroc makes some pleased noises in return. I step back to watch as Sila and Nertuark join in the greetings, curious to see how the other wolves would respond. Wait, hadn’t Kadzait asked me to think about an idea before he left? Here we had the makings of a small pack. I feel a rush of conflicting emotions for some moments, but finally settle on resolution. If my past experiences stirred such intense feelings in me, it was all the more reason to do everything in my power to keep this hope alive. I would not let my weakness hurt my new friends.
Nertuark cheerfully keeps up a running stream of questions, but I manage to cut in smoothly for a moment.
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:33:50 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Kirchy on 07/12/2004 at 23:13:56
I hear cubs laughing and it wakes me up. I see Ken'ichi wrestling woth a cub. The cub has black fur...silver maine...one white eyepatch on his right eye...silver fur on his arms and legs... Everyone else wakes up.
"It worked." Ken'ichi says to spectrue.
Then I realized the cub was from the Sould Quart. He was Ken'ichi's choice.
"OK guys, I'm gonna go do some business with Spectrue, you guys can go play... be back in an hour so we can head to the river for breakfast, OK?" Niki says.
I stand up and walk over to Ken'ichi and the cub. "Hello," I say softly.
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:34:17 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Spectrum on 07/12/2004 at 23:52:06
Waking up to a few cries and and happy yelps, I peered my eyes around, nearly closed, and slowly lifted my body up.
"Ohhhnnn..." I mapped my mouth a bit, looking around and saw Ken'ichi before me, standing beside...another cub? Ken'ichi looks at me.
"Eh-heh...What's goin on, bud?"
"It worked." He said with a pleasing smile. I watched him closely. What worked? Finally, it triggered in the back of my mind that what I had told Ken'ichi last night about the soulquart revealing results this morning...Well, I suppose I was right. It occured to me that the bear cub that was beside Ken'ichi striked a very similar resemblance to the brother bear I saw in Ken'ichi's nightmare, or dream, whatever you wanna call it that we purified him in... Although this cub was of course smaller and about the size of Ken'ichi, not like that of the spirit I glanced at before leaving the dream... Then it also struck me that Niki had promised something else too... He asked me if I would like to learn how to be a bear out here....I decided why not?, for the pure fact I wanted a vacation for a while from the craziness in the other parts of the world, plus I needed to know how to be a bear, if I was gunna use the form...
"OK guys, I'm gonna go do some business with Spectrue, you guys can go play... be back in an hour so we can head to the river for breakfast, OK?" Niki was talking to the others... He turns to me and motions for me to come along. I follow. We exit the cave... "So... what do you wanna know first, Spec?" I looked at him and then thought for a moment...
"Well....what is a bear's basic diet?" "Diet?" He asked. "I mean, what do you mostly eat?" I was begining to get hungry just thinking about it...
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:34:44 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Nikiski on Today at 00:08:16
"Well....what is a bear's basic diet?" Spectrue asks.
"Diet?" I am curious by what he means...
"I mean, what do you mostly eat?"
"Well... we eat everything... from berries to fish... or even small animals and moose..."
Spectrue gives me a look.
"...but we usually leave the animals alone... unless food is scarce..."
I pick up some berries from a bush as we sit down.
"See, you use your claws to grab them... go ahead and try."
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:35:12 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Ken'ichi on Today at 01:20:24
As Niki and Spec walks off, Kirchy walks up to us.
"Hello," She says softly.
"Good morning Kirchy." I greet her and point to Kamali, "Kirchy, this is my brother the Soul Quart gave me. His name is Kamali."
Kamali nods, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Kirchy."
Oh yeah, that good manners of Kamali is still there, I thought he wasn't going to use them since he's younger than he used to me.
Kirchy giggled, "Well it's nice meeting you too."
"Me and Kamali were about to head outside and catch up on things." I told her of our plans, then I ask, "you might wanna come along?"
Kirchy smiled but shook her heard, "If you have things to catch up, I think it should be between you two. I just want to try and find Kia today, I hope she's in the listening mood today."
I practically gave up on her, but Kirchy still tries, "Ok, you can call me if you need me."
She nods and runs off. I look at her as she runs off into the distances...Wait, what am I doing...
"Seems like you got yourself a girlfriend." Kamali pounces me with a laugh.
"Yeah yeah yeah, enough with the jokes Kamali." I pad outside, "I still see you're still the jokester."
"You haven't changed a bit either." I hear Kamali say as he catches up to me."
I scoff a little, "Yeah right, you should've seen me how much I've changed ever since I...well, you know..."
Kamali just looks at me, "Ken'ichi, I've seen you up there how much you have changed. But when that Darksoul has started growing in your soul, you weren't the Ken'ichi I've used to know..."
I look at my brother as we keep walking in the forest, he just smiled, "So let's just say the Ken'ichi I was watching over was half of you, and your other half was slowly incubating, as if I was watching over the egg that would complete your soul."
I smiled back at him, "I guess I kind of understand that, I mean, you have seen me through a lot."
"Yeah." Kamali began to be a little hyper and starts jumping around me, "Especially when your anger got the best of you and you got struck by the arrow..."
I stop walking when Kamali said that, I sigh deeply as I start remembering that day, I can still clearly remember Niki's face when he saw me, I could've heard his whispers and crying when I was suffering from that severe pain, when I was too weak to even do anything, I was just lying there, feeling more pain and colder as the time passed.
"I guess I shouldn't have ranted about that." I hear Kamali say as he sits down and his ear lowers.
I chuckle, "Ah don't be, you're a cub now, it's normal for cubs of my age to rant about that sometimes."
Kamali smiles and pounces me again, tumbling me back and having him on me, "I'm glad to hear you're not upset with me, I was scared of you being upset after just minutes of my reincarnation."
I placed my paw on Kamali's head and look straight into Kamali's eyes, "Now that you're a cub just like me, I won't be able to fully depend on you like I used to do when you were older and bigger. But now that you're a cub, maybe we'll have a better time of doing stuff together. And we can cherish everything with do and plan, as brothers once again."
"Yeah, like wrestling with each other." He says and immediatly pins me to the ground.
Oh great...Now I get why he decided to pounce me so he can have a better chance of pinning me, "Pretty sneaky, Kamali."
I glare at him, he takes it seriously and gets off of me. But I immedialty jump and pin him to the ground.
"Hey, that's not cherishing!" He complains as he tries to get out of my grip.
I laugh, "You didn't dissapeared, at least now I know I'm not dreaming."
Suddenly, a familiar scent is picked up by my nose. I get off of Kamali and sniff around.
"What's wrong?" Kamali asks.
"I smell something...a bear..." Ah, too many bears around here, of course I smell bear, "No wait...I recognize this scent."
Kamali starts sniffing, "I don't, who is it?"
I continue sniffing, I look down to see a pawprint that of an adult bear, "Hold up..." I sniff the pawprint, "Hey, smells like..."
I hear a rusttling in the bushes, I sniff again and slowy pad to the bush, "Urctos? Is that you?"
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:36:07 GMT -5
Re: Life with Koda: Cont'd Post by Kirchy on Today at 09:46:02
"Good morning Kirchy," Ken'ichi greets me. He points to the cub. "Kirchy, this is my brother the Soul Quart gave me. His name is Kamali."
So that was his brother.
Kamali nods, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Kirchy."
Boy, did he have good manners. I giggled, "Well it's nice meeting you too."
"Me and Kamali were about to head outside and catch up on things," Ken'ichi tells me then asks, "you might wanna come along?"
I smile but shake my head. "If you have things to catch up, I think it should be between you two. I just want to try and find Kia today, I hope she's in the listening mood today."
Myabe Kia had thought things through over the night and will be ready to listen to me again. It was worth a try.
"Ok, you can call me if you need me," Ken'ichi says.
I nod and run off. I sniff and find Kia's scent. I follow it to the river where I see Kia catching fish with Kovu.
"Hey," I say as I pad up to them. "How's it going?"
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 11:43:55 GMT -5
This is the end of the posts. Please continue from here. Thank you.
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Post by Krystedez "Spectrum" on Jul 13, 2004 12:34:54 GMT -5
OOC: ok, this is my first post here for the aaab boards. please continue here...
BiC:
After I had asked him what mainly bears eat, Niki looked at me as we walked down the trail of bushes and trees...
"Well... we eat everything... from berries to fish... or even small animals and moose..."
I give him a look when he speaks of small animals and moose...
"...but we usually leave the animals alone... unless food is scarce..."
We stop and he starts plucking some berries from the bush. We sit down.
"See, you use your claws to grab them... go ahead and try." I watch him pick a few more. Alright. I placed my paw and tried to pick a few, but I dropped a few and tried placing them in my mouth. Fortunatly enough, I got one berry in my mouth before it dropped...
"Ok...I think...lets see..." I pick again, this time not dropping all of them. I placed them in my mouth and chewed, and swallowed. They tasted pretty good... Too bad they were so small.. But I bet after eating enough it would fill you up partially.
"They're...they're pretty good, actually. Heh.." I picked a few more. He chuckled and picked some himself. We ate for a little bit. Then he got up and asked.
"So what's next?"
"Um...alright... lets go try fishing for a while.." I was dreading fishing, but it seemed the only good income of food without picking off rabbits or squirrels would be to eat salmon and other fish. We walked near a river bank, but before we could even look at the water, we saw a strange cub lying on the side of the bank... She looked really exhausted and skinny...
"Woah, this cub looks like it's fainted from starvation!" I said. Niki nodded and went over to the cub.
"Hey are you alright?" He asked.
OOC: This is supposed to be where we see Nutik... Hopefully TT2 will get in here ^^;
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Post by Kirchy on Jul 13, 2004 13:05:22 GMT -5
Kovu and Kia run off. I growl in frustration. Well, if we had to talk while we ran then we will. "Why are you running away?!" I call to Kia.
She doesn't answer.
Kia doesn't even listen to me. I sit down and cry. She doesn't even care about me. If she did, she would listen. If she doesn't care about me, why should I try to help her? Well, I care about her. That's one eason. And I don't want her to get hurt. Not that she already has, but I want to get her out of this pain. I shake my head and take a short cut. I see Kia and Kovu. I catch up to her and look into her eyes.
"Kia, I may not know a lot about true love, but I do know that running away from your problems never solves anything. There will be dark times in your life but things will get better if you just believe. If you run away from your problems, it will just keep hurting. But if you face them things will get better. I should know. I had to learn that he hard way. And I don't want you to do the same. It will be alright. Just trust me. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to be a good friend. Why don't you do the same? I will be there for you. I know how you feel. What will make you happy?"
I sit and wait for Kia's response.
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Post by Kia on Jul 13, 2004 13:14:30 GMT -5
I kick Kirchy and Kovu and I run into a cave. We take a nap.
Kia's Dream
I am running with Ken'ichi in a medow until Kirchy comes and Ken'ichi goes to her and leaves me alone. I wake up. That was like real life. I go catch some fish.
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Post by Kirchy on Jul 13, 2004 13:45:53 GMT -5
Kirchy kicks me and runs away. I secretly follow her and Kovu into the cave. When she wakes up I follow her to the river, eat fish, then say, "Kia, I'm deeply sorry. I didn't mean to take Ken'ichi away from you. I'm sorry but we can't ignore our feelings. What do you want me to do that would make you happy?"
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Kadzait
Recognized Mortal
"Stop studying strife, and learn to live the unexamined life." --Wicked
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Post by Kadzait on Jul 13, 2004 13:58:42 GMT -5
I sit down in the mud, and Wroc crows on my back. Talist smiles at me, then looks toward Wroc, commending the crow on bringing me back. I smile to myself in a half chuckle. It was true, however, it was with Wroc's help that I had managed to get out alive, and with barely a scrape, save for my front paw. I would tell all later. Wroc clicks his beak at Talist.
"It was nothing, madame." He said simply, then hopped off my shoulders to a nearby rock, continuing to preen his feathers. As Sila and Nertuark approached as well, I felt a sense of home here. I sighed.
"So, guys, did you miss me?" I ask with a wry grin. "So, what do you think about starting a pack?" I ask.
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Post by Kia on Jul 13, 2004 14:00:42 GMT -5
"They aren't real felings and yo know what to do!" I say and go into the cave and say to Kovu,"Kovu do you want to show me you family now?" I ask.
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Post by Kirchy on Jul 13, 2004 14:05:13 GMT -5
"They aren't real felings and yo know what to do!" Kia says and walks into the cave. I follow.
"You don't know how I feel! What am I suppose to do?" Kia doesn't answer. That's it! I throw all of my anger at her with tears in my eyes.
"I've had it with you and your attitiude! I try to be nice and help, I try to reason with you, I try to make your pain go away. But what do I get? Insults! You don't even listen! If you tried my suggestions you would feel better by now! But you don't ! I going to stop being sorry for you! You are just a stupid little cub that doesn't listen to anyone and soesn't care about anyone's feeling but your own! I don't hat you, but I'm very close to it. You don't know how much you are hurting me. You don't know how hard I am trying. I don't have anything left to live for. I migjt as well die! I'm sure you would be happy then. If that's what it takes to make you happy, then I'll do it!"
I find a cliff and stand by the edge. I look back at Kia then get ready to jump off.
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