fireflies! -OPEN-

[Aveza]

It was a warm late evening and the moon was high in the deep blue sky, surrounded by several twinkling stars. The gorgeous night sky could also be seen on the lake surface, rippling with every gentle breeze which interrupted the reflection gently. The air was also full of night scents which were much more sharper and refreshing, with nocturnal flowers and animals coming out to play. Aveza was sitting down on a flat rock, a few metres away from the lakeshore, with her head dipped slightly as if she was sleeping. But she was actually staring at a bug at her paws which was fluttering its wings as if trying to fly. The pup tilted her head slightly curiously and poked at the beetle with her oversized paw, causing it to scuttle towards the nearby reed bed. Aveza's rich blue eyes followed the beetle's every movements before finally moving herself. She dropped into a crouch and stalked it into the reeds and stopped when she saw that the bug was resting on a stem.

Waggling her behind, Aveza prepared herself for a lunge, with her eyes still fixed on the bug. Then the pup leapt. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the insect, it flew away from the stem just before she snapped the stem. Disappointed, the pup shook her head and searched the sky for her escaped prey. To her surprise, the beetle wasn't the boring, common brown bug anymore; it was glowing. As she turned her head around, she saw that her leap had sent several of the same glowy bugs into sky. What were they? Aveza sat down carefully as she gazed upwards at the several flying lights. They were like stars, but more beautiful as they were closer.

[°Vindict°]

Vindict watched as his younger sister jumped around like a crazy grasshopper. He was not amused. Didn't she know how important it was for them to act proper? He was debating charging up to her with his squeaky voice and giving her a piece of his mind. The fire pup waited a moment as his blood colored eyes watched a bug float up into the air above them. How interesting, a bug. Not. he huffed as he spun around and proceeded to head home for the evening. Something stopped him this time, and it wasn't his annoying siblings. It was possibly one of the most entrancing things he had ever laid his eyes upon. A small bug that stood on the tip of his muzzle and sparked a colorful and subtle orange glow.

"What the?!" he yipped as he jumped back as it flew into the atmosphere, his fur stood on end as he barked at the astounding new creature. He was eager to figure out where it came from and how it was glowing like it was. He had completely forgotten he was heading home and that his sister was nearby. Now he jumped at them and tried to paw at the floating bugs.

"Is this some trick Aveza? You can't fool me twice!" he called after her as the colorful bugs floated around the two pups. He jumped and leapt after them until he landed only inches from his sister. Vindict huffed in frustration as the bugs continued to avoid the pup.

[Aveza]

Aveza was so awestruck with the fire bugs that she did not notice her younger brother approaching with a disapproving look on his patchy face. She even did not hear Vindict's startled yelp when the bugs erupted into air. She was so immersed with the dancing lights in front of her face and was immediately lured in by those unique fire beetles. Aveza felt every inch of her body pleading to join the elegant dance of the lights. But she refused herself, and forced herself to remain still and allow the bugs float all over her uninterrupted. Her eyelids dropped, allowing herself to be embraced by the silent ritual of the fire bugs.

Then she was rudely interrupted by her haughty brother, demanding for answers. Aveza's hackles bristled and her eyes opened to glare at Vindict. Then when an idea entered her crafty mind, she changed her expression from annoyed to worried. "No! Vinny, this is not a trick! Be careful!" She shifted closer to her brother with her voice low with alarm, "These bugs are made from fire. Touch them and you'll be on fire!" Aveza's eyes were large and unblinking. "Mummy told me about those bugs." Her head nodded as she finished the sentence, to show finality.

[°Vindict°]

He continued to stare blankly at his sister for a moment, a face clearly not of amusement on his maw. He knew Aveza too well, too well to believe in her trickery. She would have to find some other chump to play with if she wanted to play mind games. Vince wouldn't have it. "You know I hate it when you call me that Avez..." he huffed as the bugs came close to him once more. "Oh, is that true little sis?" he remembered moments ago when on landed on his muzzle. Surely, they were harmless. "Then how come I can do this?!" he lifted his snout high into the air as one of the colorful bugs landed on him as before.

"Or maybe I'll have an even cooler power than mum and dad? The power to burn those who touch me too?" he blew the bug off his nose at his sister to see her reaction to his arrogance.

"So what, exactly, did mother tell you again?" his tail was lashing about as his chest was puffed out to make him look bigger. Then, without hesitation, the bold blue pup stomped his foot down on one of the bugs as it's insides stuck to his paw and made it glow. He tried to rub it off but it stayed stuck to his right paw. What is this stuff? And why won't it come off?! Vindict began to whimper as he shook his paw violently over and over. "Get off, get off, GET OFF!" he growled.

[Aveza]

The dark teal-coloured pup's muzzle wrinkled in distaste when she noticed how serious Vindict was. It seemed that nothing could ever melt the hard, icy mask of his, not even this beautiful yet intricate dance of fire bugs. But then perhaps he knew not to act amused around Aveza, and that it would only rile her up. If so, that was silly because having a cold, stone mask would also rile her up. Her ears twitched innocently after Vindict rebuked her for using his nickname. An amused smile stretched her lips, "Yes, I know, Vinny." Her smile grew and appeared innocenter, "But it's your name." As that sentence ended, her face fell into a sympathetic look.

Aveza's smile diminished when she saw one of the bugs landed on Vindict's muzzle. That little moment would completely spoil her small prank if she did not get another idea. "Oh, no, no. Don't be stupid." She tossed her head, her voice heavy with scorn. "Does a tiny ember immediately set fire to wood? No! But after a while, it'll ignite." She raised her nose into air and sniffed, "It's a good thing that you did not have a fire bug on you for too long." Aveza disliked how arrogant and haughty her brother was, however his annoying attitude made it all more entertaining for her to tease.

"Ahah, yeah, sure." Aveza flicked a bug off a reed stem with a lazy swish of her tail. "Dream on, little brother!" Surely he would not get some kind of super awesome elemental power. Her mummy had an unique talent with stones, and her daddy's ices were beautifully dangerous. There was no way that this Vinny's power would match theirs.

Rolling her azure eyes, Aveza sighed and turned around to face Vindict directly. "Mother? That makes you sound silly." It was pathetic to see how desperate he wanted to be superior to his siblings. "Call her mum or mummy like we do. Anyway," she straightened and cleared her throat, "she told me that the night sky was beautiful because of those bugs. Those stars are made from the bugs which are brave enough to fly that far. And the stars are tiny balls of fire." Fake, fake, it was all fake (except for the last part about stars being fire balls). Thanks to Aveza's imaginative mind, she was able to create a completely new world under a minute.

"And--" Aveza broke off, distracted by Vindict's sudden outburst. She stifled a laugh when she saw what had affected him so greatly - a squashed bug. Shoving her amusement deep inside her, Aveza began to scream at him, "Vinny! Get it OFF! It'll burn you!"

[°Vindict°]

The little blue pup shook his paw again as he flung his paw relentlessly back and forth. The other bugs began to retreat as Vindict continued to bounce around on his paw, fear surging through his body as the goo continued to glow and cling to his fur. Then the unexpected happened.

His paw began to slowly turn red and small embers of fire jutted off of it and into the dryer grasses, catching flame. The fire pup yelped at he dove into the lake's calming waters. His paw sizzling as the embers were put out on his body and the glowing goop slowly washing away in the lake.

Vindict sighed as he lifted his paw up and noticed the similar and dull sandy fur. "At least that's over with. You must have been serious about that whole burning thing. I thought you were joking.." the fire lupus slowly came up and out of the water as he shook his pelt. The droplets still hanging from his maw and tail.

The pup shivered as he sat next to his sister now. "Oh no, what do we do?! Should we tell mom and dad about the fire? I don't th-think were big enough to fix it ourselves..." he shook his fur again in hopes of getting slightly dryer. He huffed at his sister as he waited for her reply, the small flames slowly rising and growing before them.

[Aveza]

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[°Vindict°]

The fire pup snarled at his sister as she flung water towards him and the fire. "Heeey! What where you're throwing that! And I just got dry too..." Vindict sighed as he mumbled to himself and waded into the water next to Aveza again, his ears flattened on his skull as he took a few steps in front of her and started to kick relentlessly in the general direction of the water and his sibling. This is kinda fun.. heh.. I could see why she likes being so annoying now the pup thought as he let himself be engulfed in being a pup longer. It wouldn't be much more time before they were full grown with responsibilities and such.

"Oops, my bad.. I didn't see ya there... Az spazz..." he turned back to give her a toothy grin. He chuckled playfully as his attention was averted to his sister instead of the flaming crisis before them. Besides, he had put it out by now.. right?

For someone who usually didn't like interacting with others, Vindict rather enjoyed pestering his siblings. Where were the rest of them? They always seemed off doing other things, obviously things that weren't as interesting as squishing glow bugs.

In fact, the fire heir loved his new nickname for his sister, he decided to chant it to her. Maybe it would make her gain weird powers or make her explode?! That would be funny, he thought. "Az Spazz, Az Spazz, Az Spazz, Az Spazz!" he jumped around splashing water as he stopped in front of her and blew a raspberry.

"I betcha can't catch me.. Az Spazz!" he laughed as the blue pup bounded over the edge of the lake to the solid terrain, running away from his sister.