Polar Opposites or Twin-like Copies?

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] The peaceful silence that rested its heavy weight among the water under the cay was almost like the whistling sound of wind among a desolated desert, forever banished to nothing but heat, echoes, and loneliness. It almost reminded Keiaki of a bitter past, or more like an empty one. A piece of the life-long puzzle that needs to be filled in, but currently left a gap in his head that caused him so much pain. The only mend to the pain was more strength to move on in life, to search for the answer but not kill himself over the answer. For obviously that would be a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Or was it a a permanent problem, an existence without family or friends? Family was most likely out, but friends were a key factor and something very much plausible. Or is it? No, he couldnt be negative like that. He still had to believe in himself and keep moving forward or nothing would ever change for him. He would continue living a pointless existence and.... He shook his head to clear the thoughts, and rose back up to the surface, heading to shore and being sure not to scratch himself against the coral reefs. As his sat on the sediment of the cay, he wondered whether today would be different, almost like a prophetic feeling that welled up in him like bubbles from the bottom of the ocean. Some day, things will be different around here. But until then I just gotta keep getting stronger.

[rise]

Rise fluttered awkwardly over the water. She hadn't had very much time to practice her flying, and decided she'd teach herself today. She'd once seen an odd little Keiyou/Lupus learn to fly, but had felt that with everyone paying so much to him she wasn't really wanted in that lesson.

Now, her wings aching from all this fluttering and flying (she hadn't yet realized she could glide), Demeter Rise Tritonis, the name she'd grown up with, began to hate that splotchy, black and white freak. What gave him the right to steal everyone's attention and go soaring off like that? What made him special, huh? Rise was so focused on her anger at the other pup that she forgot to flap, and went toppling to the water.

Ah, she thought, Now I remember why I'm flying over water. Falling will be easier...

SPLOOSH!!!

Rise struck the water, floundering for a moment. She thought for a moment she sighted fur and scales somewhere beneath the water, but then she bobbed back to the surface, eyes stinging from the salt water, and paddled furiously towards the shore.

Coughing up ocean, the youngling lay panting on the sand.

"So much for that," she muttered. Looking over her shoulder, Rise wondered what the bundle of fur and scales had been. A drowned wolf being eaten by fish? Some sort of Mer-wolf? Going back to the water's edge, Rise peered out over the ocean. Maybe it'd come up eventually... then she could present it to the world as a fish wolf! Everyone would be amazed and appalled! Imagine that!!!

"That'll show that fancy-flyin' fluffball who's top wolf!" she growled, settling down on the sand.

And now to play the waiting game...




((OOC: Rise has never met or heard of a Cael. Bear with her X3))

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] Keiaki heard a voice while being on the surface of the cay. He looked around to find one of those flying wolves, Keiyou or something of that sort, all the way on the other side, mumbling to... herself while gazing intently on the water, as if waiting for prey to come right up for her to eat. But Keiyou can't fish... right? Maybe shes alone like me. Lets see what she has to say. Keiaki padded, or more like slid, down the surface of the sediment, the sand and other materials sticking to his front paws and the underside of his scales, making almost no sound but figured he'd probably be noticed anyway. "Hey, wha-what are you looking at in the water? Some kinda fish?" He tried to smile, but the instinct didnt really occur to him at all. Instead he just laid down on the sand to look non-threatening, hoping for a non-aggressive response.

[rise]

Rise heard the voice, but didn't turn to acknowledge it.

"I think I saw a fish-wolf, I'm gonna catch it and show it to the whole world! Everyone will think I'm amazing 'cause I found something spectacular and then I'll be even better than Mr. Fancy Flying Fluffball the hotshot pup," she said, scowling, "Ya wanna help?" Here she turned, sighted the tail of the other wolf, and shrieked, falling over backwards into the water.

"F-f-fishwolf!!!" she howled, scrambling backwards, "You're the fish wolf! You are!" jumping to her feet, Rise took up a fighting position. She still wasn't quite full grown, and her bark was a bit squeaky, but her growl was fierce enough, "I'm gonna capture you! You'll see! The whole world will!"

However, jumping from the water with wet wings is much harder than it should be, and Rise's first attempt ended in a face full of damp sand. Spitting out the gritty mud, Rise scowled at the fish wolf.

"Ignore that! Now... be afraid! 'Cause I'm not gonna hold back this time!" Now she discovered running in loose sand with the added bonus of being wet was also hard. Crying out with frustration, Rise collapsed upon the sand, feeling the grains digging into her fur.

"Whatever, I give up," she muttered, "I guess now you're gonna have to kill me, to protect yourself, right? 'Cause you don't want anyone to know there's a fish wolf, right?" Rise looked up at the fish wolf with wide, blue eyes, "Or maybe you'll keep me as a slave! Do you have some sort of underwater cavern you live in? Do you need a servant to keep it clean! Mr. Fish-wolf sir! I'd be happy too!"

Whatever the Fish-wolf thought, or whatever anyone else thought for that matter, Rise was not over-imaginative. In reality, she simply believed more that one would expect. Her mind ran equivalent to that of the worlds worst comic geek, feeding off of rumors and drawing her own conclusions (not that she had any idea what a "comic" was). Now, eyes shining with anticipation, Rise looked at the Fish-wolf. Perhaps this would be a good chance for adventure!

I betcha hotshot pup hasn't ever been kidnapped by a fish-wolf! she thought, although she hadn't been kidnapped yet, and she might not ever be kidnapped. Leave it to Rise to come up with the oddest conclusions...

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] "Ummm are you okay? Did you hit your head or something? I don't really know what your talking about, and I'm actually not a fish wolf." He flipped the end of his hind half over to reveal no tailfin. "See? No fins. I'm a snake wolf. Water wolves like me are called Cael, and uh, were like kinda common. You just dont see us often because when we dry we look like normal wolves, and otherwise were under the water. So were not anything new. And by the way I don't, like, have a cavern. I dont have a home. But if you want to I can show you something cool I can do. You hungry?" Whats with her? She acts like shes never seen one of us before. But maybe she hasn't... It doesnt look like she gets out much, but at the same time is always on the run, she seems kinda... lanky. Though shes kinda pretty, shes not too graceful. But thats just like me, I guess. I wonder... Can she be my first friend? Keiaki realized he was staring at her and looked away, curled up around himself waiting for an answer. "The names Keiaki, by the way.".

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[rise]

Rise perked up when she heard the fish wolf wasn't a fish at all, but a snake. For her this was the greatest discovery ever. However, she drooped when she heard that the snake wolf was actually part of a fairly common species.

"Oh..." she said. She then looked at the snake wolf with empathy when he said he had no home, "Me neither," she said, "Well... I do... but I left... as for being hungry, I'm starving!" she wagged her tail at the fish-snake-wolf, Keiaki, did he say? "My name is Demeter... but please call me Rise,"

She grimaced. She didn't have anything against her name, but she'd been called Rise for all her life, and wasn't going to change that now.




((OOC: Sorry for shortness, muse is low >,>))

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] "Okay! Lets go then!" She once had a home, huh? I wonder if she was kicked out or... He shook his head to clear the thought. This femme looked so nice, he couldn't stand the idea that she was kicked out of her home. Keiaki couldn't be kicked out because he couldn't be let in. He wasn't smart, he wasn't strong as he should be, and he was a total hot-head. But he chose to ignore it and go along with what he was going to show Rise. His current strength. Since the unicorn aren't in season right now, I'll have to stick to an alligator or something. No, wait... A unicorn right over there?! What the heck? There was, indeed, a rather muscular but at the same time slightly frail unicorn trotted around in the distance, across the other side of the water around the cay, coming to the water for a drink. "Okay, Rise, make sure you don't blink, you can't miss a second of this!" The Cael slid into the water and went deep down under, coming around to the edge of the river where the unicorn was. Though they were usually smarter, this one was completely unaware of his presence, despite how clear the water was. It was almost like it wanted to be put out of its misery. So Keiaki, when the timing felt right, sprang out of the quiet haven of the crystal clear river and got around the unicorn. It reared around but Keiaki was too fast, for it already had a tight wrap around the unicorn. He knew he couldn’t get his fangs into its neck because he would be stabbed by the horn if it managed to rear around on him. The creature was knocked over when Keiaki leaned his weight sideways. Then, in a long battle for power, he squeezed tighter and tighter, until eventually he could start to feel himself sinking into the unicorn, and bones started to crack. After a while when the bone in his neck snapped, the creature was dead, and Keiaki released his serpentine grip on it. Though he had suffered a few scratches from the unicorn’s frontal horn, he was relatively uninjured otherwise. "I got it! If your hungry come on over!" .

[rise]

Rise watched in fascination as Keiaki took down a unicorn, crushing it between the coils of his snake tail. She'd never seen anything like it before, and once the unicorn was dead she trotted over, tail wagging almost fast enough to fall off.

"That was amazing!" she said, "It must be fun to be a... Cael, did you say?" Taking a bite of the unicorn, Rise marveled at Keiaki's strength as well as the quality of the meal. It had been awhile since she'd eaten something like this, and she dug in with a will.

Tucking her wings awkwardly against her side, Rise licked the blood from her muzzle.

"So, um, Keiaki... how'd you end up coming here? I mean... it's kind of an out of the way place, ya know?" she gestured around. The string of islands behind her stretched out further than she could see. It was hard to believe she'd been able to keep herself in the air that long.

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] Keiaki took a bite into the crushed prey. He didn't know if he wanted to really talk about the past he knew so little about. Well, perhaps it was so empty and filled wiht lonlieness that he just forgot it, or maybe just wanted to forget it. But the possibility that his parents were still out there clung to his mind with a painful grip. But he didn't want some kind of suspicion to arise, so he started the best way he could. "I travel around places, and have found my way here. I don't have a place to belong, a family to return to. I... have nothing but myself. But its fine. I just gotta deal with it, dust off my pelt and keep going, or I'm not gonna get anywhere. I'll be here if my parents are still around, they can find me here. This place... I feel like I actually belong around here, you know? Its a stupid dream, to find my parents, because their probably gone by now but I can only hope and stuff." Eventually, he got dry enough that his hind half reverted to two hind legs.

[rise]

Rise's ears twitched back. Parents, a place to belong... all things she no longer understood. They were like a persistent flea in her mind, biting her and leaving the itching question of what if..?

"You're lucky you have a place that you feel like that, or have the possibility of having a family out there..." she sighed. However, her moment of sadness was replaced with awe as Keiaki's tail morphed into legs. Rise's eyes bugged out.

"How'd ya do that?" she asked, "Can ya teach me? Please? I wanna be a Cael too!"

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[atrb=background,http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/230/3/1/Big_blue_by_Paivikode_Mivd.png] "Uuuuh sorry thats just something normal that happens to us Cael, when we get all dry we get normal again." He dipped one of his hind legs into the water and his serpentine tail fused his entire hind half and extended it greatly, showing the natural affects of water on a Cael such as himself. "Sorry to like, burst your bubble and stuff." Keiaki started eating again, and the notice that a snake Cael like him could eat a lot more was shown when he was digging into every last scrap of food. How the food was able to fit in a wolf body was unknown, but he didnt want to risk getting dry again to prevent such a disaster as one like an exploding stomach, so every once and a while he took a dip in the water. Now he could barely slither, he was full of food. "Man I'm stuffed!" He exclaimed with a grin.

[rise]

Rise sighed, drooping a bit at the news.

"Oh..." she said, "That's to bad..." She'd been looking forward to learning how to turn into a fish-snake. It seemed everything she'd thought was turning out to be wrong about Keiaki. However, just as always, she perked back up.

"Well, I guess it's fine," she said, "And I'm pretty full too, whaddaya wanna do now?" She wagged her tail, looking around, "We could, uh... we could go for a walk! We could.... swim! You know how to swim! How do you do that?"