Delusions of grandeur [joining]

[doren]

His dark tipped paws climbed the last few steps onto the dusty red rocks, his light green eyes had time to glance around the place before his body plopped down on the floor. His breath wasn’t labored and he didn’t look tired, but he wasn’t tired, not on the outside. His mind told him to lie down, to rest and not worry about the things that plagued him, and yet he couldn’t not think about them, he couldn’t keep the door he kept these thoughts behind locked to stop them coming out, they always seemed to find a way free.

His head dropped a few inches and his light pink tongue lolled out of his mouth, he looked about ready to pass out or have a seizure and his head wobbled slightly to and fro. He was inward now his mind taking over, a paw slapping around his face, teeth brushing his skin then blood. Her taunting voice in his head telling him over and over how she killed them, how she watched them squirm. His tongue snapped back in and now he began to snarl, his eyes where still glazed and unfocused as he was taken through a almost virtual reality and back into the past settings, his past life.

It was her voice that snapped him back, the same voice that had praised him and promoted him, the one that he had trusted and even on various occasions he had fantasied about saying various things to him. It bore into his brain like drill rattling everything around until something snapped. He burnt orange body suddenly propelled forwards snarling and snapping at something that wasn’t there, his eight long fluffy tails splayed out behind him in a fan like pattern. Spittle flew from his lips and snapped a few more times before letting out a few loud barks as his hind legs propelled him into the air and at the imaginary thing he was fighting.

He succeeded in only landing himself in the dirt, the impact seeming to smack the voice right out of his head at least for now and he laid there only dazed. His ears flickered now hearing nothing but silence, chest heaved and eyes slipped closed for a few moments his only thoughts I wish she had killed me, then everything would be over. He sighed deeply at the thought before his eyes opened and he looked around from his laying position, he seemed to be in the center or a clear patch of land, and here and there there seemed to be ….. His eyes widened a little and he raised up into a sitting position, a little dust falling from his underside as he did so. There was blood here and his first thought was did that really happen? It was a stupid thought he hadn’t seen that wolf in two years and was confidant by the scents that this blood was old, at least a day old. Now he wondered what this place was, there was a collective scent of one and yet many which made him wonder if he had at last happened upon a pack land, and yet there was so much blood here he wondered if this was a pack anyone would survive long. Doren guessed he would find out, if he lingered her long enough.

OOC: hes odd XD

[KAI ♥]

Young, lithe and white, Kai walked with her black nose to the ground collecting dust on its healthy wetness. Her coat held a slight red tinge to it, that she hated, and her blue pupil-less eyes looked around the terrain as she sniffed the ground. Her ears swiveled to and fro, and soon she lifted her head up and sneezed the dry red dirt.

Hey eyes darted around, and her ears pricked straight in front of her, she could hear something. Kai whined lowly, and she looked behind her, half hoping that Rhi was there. Okay Kai, think, what should you do? Go, or run? Kai breathed a little heavier wondering if it was even a wolf. She let out a sigh of air and walked forward, unable to walk away and wonder about it.

One blue tipped paw in front of the other, and her claws dug into the dust as she walked leaving paw prints with marks. Her hackles raised on their own accord as she approached the wolf on the ground, the source of the sound. "Hello. I am Betess Kai." Kai remembered Rhi saying 'Alphess Rhiannon' so she should too, right? She held her head and tail high and hoped she was doing this right.

[doren]

Ears suddenly laid flat against his skull as they picked up the sounds of footsteps, a low rumbling growl starting in his throat. It could have been anything stalking him, and he knew there where many griffin lingering about this place, he didn’t think for a second that it could have been a pack wolf already. As the foots steps got closer he was quickly on his feet jumping around to confront what was there letting out one loud bark, only to lay his bright green eyes on a small white wolf. The growl died in this throat and his he sat letting his eight tails curl around his feet, his posture relaxing into a non aggressive wolf.

He was disappointed. Not only because he may have almost pounced on a wolf that smelled like a member of the pack here, but because he was being greeted my a female. All of them where liars. All of them, and so he wasn’t too pleased to see a pack liar, a beta at that coming to see who the newcomer was, the noisy newcomer. He wondered if she had been drawn here by his noisy fighting, his waking bad dream, as he liked to call it.

“Hello” he spoke at last his voice dripping with charm and friendliness no where near the thoughts that ran through his mind, he needed to turn on the charm to even stand a chance of integrating himself into this pack, and he knew just how to do it. “The names Doren, I’m looking to join your lovely pack here” he said nodding to himself and flashing Kai a cheeky grin, yes he would flirt with her and charm her, and she would let him stay. That was all he was really interested in, a home, somewhere to stay for a while if he could manage to stay. He wasn’t looking for friends here, or love, no especially not love, how could he love someone who would just lie to him? He decided he didn’t believe in love in this instant, no male could love a female, puppies where just a result of nature and liars made up love to keep their puppies safe.

He grinned again letting his ears flicker back up swiveling in turn from side to side wondering if there would be anything else said from here “shouldn’t your mate be here?” he asked thinking that Betas in packs where normally promoted with another normally a mate “pretty little thing like you, surely your mate wouldn’t let you greet loners on their own” yes charm her Doren, you have the know how.

OOC: he has a small issue with women XD

[Gypsy]

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[atrb=background,http://i50.tinypic.com/34z0jf9.jpg] " You will have to fight the alpha male to join this 'lovely' pack, Doren." A black female sennyo had managed to come to the scene behind the loner male, she had smelled him a little while before. She watched the way he fought the imaginary wolf. Her cold blue eyes bore down on the smaller wolf. Her long spindly legs had been masked by the heavier lupus coming up to greet the lyxxus male. Her ears were erect and alert, her face expressionless for the moment, her beautiful fur rippled silently in the warm breeze of summer, causing her butterfly wings to whisper softly. She did not bother to introduce herself to the male vomiting charm all over the place. The only reason she came on the scene was because he was attempting to charm Kai. Not that she really cared for the naive Kai, she just did not approve of males taking advantage of females. Especially to try to join a pack. She glanced over at Kai, perhaps Gypsy's presence would make her have a bit more...well...credibility. Gypsy tolerated the beta only because the alphas had earned Gypsy's respect. To be blunt, she didn't want Kai making the alphas look bad just by being Kai.

[KAI ♥]

Kai blinked quickly at his voice, she was confused, she had heard his deep growl. She titled her head quizically, "hello," she said it cautiously, and kindly.

"I'm Kai." she said slowly, still trying to figure him out, his voice said one thing, and his eyes held mistrust and resentment, Kai had no clue what she might have done to offend the wolf in front of her, but she vowed to fix it. "Oh, you do?" she made her voice sound sweeter, and made her eyes look harsh and cold, like his. To her this was a game, see who could outlast the other. And for some reason she didn't quite trust the male.

When Gypsy arrived Kai had to repress a growl. She hated the female, she was rude, and mean, and cold. She wished she had the ability to exile a wolf, and if she could, Kai was pretty sure she would do that to this wolf in a heart beat.

Her eyes narrowed at the female, and then she turned back to Doren, "I don't have a mate," she said it indifferently, and nodded her head along with the statement.

[doren]

His ears twitched as someone else spoke behind him and felt his annoyance grow as he heard the feminine tone in it, another liar to put up with great. His head flickered around to her giving her one glance before turning back to Kai and noticing her narrowed eyes, he rolled his own as her gaze returned to him and grinned as if to say oh look someone here to ruin the party.

“Really, a fight huh. Well not like I haven’t had one of those before” he said un curling his tails from his legs and standing. He stretched for a moments before walking around the white female and sitting to her side facing the un named female, almost as if he was taking a side. He eyes the other noting her as a Sennyo, not something he liked in a wolf that breed always seemed to snooty and full of themselves for his liking.

He ran his pink tongue over his lips before speaking again, his voice still charming and friendly “Who is it I have to fight then? One of you?” oh please he thought please let me be able to fight one of the females of the pack. He then sat letting his thoughts turn to the upcoming fight and wondering what other crazy things this pack did, his eyes flickering back and forth between Kai and the Sennyo.

[Gypsy]

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[atrb=background,http://i50.tinypic.com/34z0jf9.jpg] She rolled her eyes at Kai as if to say 'Grow up.' However, with remarkable self-control she said nothing in return to the narrowed gaze. She had to play nice. She watched as the small male marched over to Kai, as if she cared what he thought of her or her breed. Instead she spoke with an icy edge in her voice, " If you were listening, you would have heard that I said the Alpha Male. Do we look male to you? Let alone alphas?" She glanced over at the self-conscious female. Obviously she didn't see that Gypsy was trying to help her out. She really needed to get a check on her emotions, or at least her opinions of the sennyo. Perhaps her talk with Raleigh had helped her with dealing with more than just her past. Her social reactions, especially with females, needed work. Why not work on them with a wolf that obviously hated her? A shame Kai was so dense that she didn't pick up on the subtletys

[KAI ♥]

Kai blinked some of the free floating dust out of her eyes and sat down on her rump, dirtying it further, but not being able to find it in her to care. Her eyes watered, and she blinked more, probably looking like a spaz. She licked a blue tipped paw and swiped it over her eyes fiercely. She let out a little whimper, and swiped harder and blinked more. The dust was in her eye now, probably scratching the delicate tissue.

She looked at the other two wolves, and tuned into the conversation just in time to here Gypsy rudely retell her statement. Kai resisted the urge to roll her eyes at the female, and turned to her side now, where she found Doren, "I don't know who you'll fight, it could be Alpha Fortissimo, it could be anyone in the pack" she told him smiling politely, and secretly hoping she could do it. She ground her claws into the dirt, trying to distract herself from the agony blazing through her eye. She could feel moisture seeping out of it, trying to clear the dirt from itself in its own way.

'Yes I don't suppose YOU look like an alpha. I'm betess... Kai thought to herself indignantly, but kept the words inside her quick moving brain. She raised her head, with its one eye open, and raised her tail up even higher. She supposed she looked pretty ridiculous to the new comer. She put her paw over her eye then. Yes, quite ridiculous. A small white wolf with a blue tipped paw over her eye trying to look more of her part.

OOC: I don't know who the fight will be with, nor do I even know if Baldr has been IC accepted yet, but I read the Joining Styrr thread, and it said that Doren's joining fight would be with one of the two, which I why I said it in the post

[doren]

His ears flattened momentarily as the sennyo spoke again, and as she did he realised he had only been half listening to her when she had first arrived. He let his ears pop back up slowly and he gave a grin to the female, one that made him feel a little sick inside, even pretending he didn’t like to be friendly, not to this one anyways. “well you know sometimes its hard to tell” he said referring to weather they where male, it was a little joke, to him at least because there was no way they where strong enough or indeed interesting enough to be male “Your not alphas no … but with Kai being a beta shouldn’t you be giving her respect and not rolling your eyes at her?” he asked the question with a stern and yet innocent voice as if he wasn’t goading her, the alpha wasn’t here and he was sure that a spat with her would be a highlight of his day.

He noticed movement to his side and he glanced over to see Kai turning to him, but she he looked to her she seemed to being some kind of awkward dance. He was beginning to think that he had drawn the short straw and that he may have met the only two members of this pack that where irritating, on stuck up and the other clearly with some strange issues. Then his mind began to turn, what if all of the pack where like this? What if they where all female? He wanted to groan aloud and express his distaste of this thought, and yet he kept it in thinking there was at least one male in the pack, the alpha and he hoped that wasn’t the only one.

“are you a pirate?” He suddenly asked letting his thoughts drift away before responding to her previous statement “well we will just have to see who comes along first wont we, be it alpha male or another pack member” He smiled to her before letting his eyes wander back to the Sennyo who was still standing on the outskirts of the conversation “so what do you do around here?” he asked wondering if she was of importance, or the low ranker that he thought her to be.

[RHIANNON !]

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OOC ;; YAAAAY

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[Gypsy]

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[atrb=background,http://i50.tinypic.com/34z0jf9.jpg] She kept her cold gaze on the male. There was something about him that she didn't trust, not that she was much to trust anyone to begin with, however her gave her a vibe that she did not like. His air of contempt was even thicker than Gypsy's, but it seemed to be more pointed than hers, more finely targeted. Kai, as usual was oblivious to subtle hints and ways to read others. Oh well, couldn't say that Gypsy didn't warn her. Her eyes did flash at the male's comment about respect. Believe it or not, that was her attempting respect for the beta female. She still had yet to prove herself as a worthy leader, but principals dictated that Gypsy at least try to show her respect. Her lip curled to a puckering yet silent snarl at his comment, " Whatever it is I do is none of your business, I outrank you and so does she." The last bit was added with a slight bob of the head to the beta, see she did at least acknowledge at this point that Kai had some power, ill-begotten or not. Her ears twitched as she thought she heard claws scrap the top of the canyon, the alpha female with a gray blob in her mouth was mounting the plateu. Her snarl instantly vanished and her tail floated down a little lower in the presence of someone she actually respected as her superior. The sharp yelp of the whelp sent her ears and antennae back flat on her head. 'Auntie Gypsy'?? Oh what fresh hell was this? Gypsy hid her reservations of being addressed so..personally by the tiny myou, she nodded to Rhia in a quiet, but respectable enough greeting. Before she knew it the penguin-pup was pouncing on her tail. She silently cursed the fact that she had lowered it. She twitched it back and forth in agitation, but no doubt, the pup would think it was her playing. Like she ALWAYS did.... As she played keep away with her tail, she wondered if Rhia was going to fight the strange male. Gypsy had half a mind to take a snap at him. She wondered if Rhia could feel the tension in the air. Subconciously, or maybe it was instinct taking the reins for the moment, Gypsy moved herself so that she was between the stranger and the pup.

[KAI ♥]

Kai's eyes burned and hurt as it moved back and forth under her eyelid, "No, I'm not," Kai's voice came out cold and superior. She kind of agreed with the male, why didn't Gypsy respect her, in all honesty, it pissed her off. She heard some huffing, and Rhi's faint muffled cursing and she knew before the pair showed up that Rhi had Issy in her mouth. She grinned as they came into view, but scowled quickly as she heard 'Aunty Gypsy' "Issy!" Kai's voice sweetened and her big blue eyes, now both open, though one with a red angry tint to it, stared at the cute little gray ball of fluff.

"Hey there Rhia," Kai's voice held a tone of submission that it didn't, almost as if she was putting on a show for the new comer. She almost laughed as Issy pounced on Gypsy's tail, and she smiled at the youngster again. "We were just discussing if we needed to call up alpha Fortissimo for a joining fight," Kai informed her mentor, and alpha of what had been going on in the meeting.

[doren]

Ears flattened as the Sennyo snapped, she was more like his old leader than he dared let himself know for fear of attacking the female and having to be torn away, just like before. “well aren’t you just charming” he said letting them pop back up eyes flickering from her to the sound of another approaching. When he spotted the newcomer he was happy to see there was at least one male in the pack, but as the figure drew closer he saw that in fact it was a female with another small female pup in her mouth. Mentally he sighed, today just want his day, well he had found a pack, a active one too and he guessed that was a plus, but he was now surrounded by the very gender he had fled from, the gender he despised.

Eyes follwed the path of the small pup as she cried out the Sennyo’s name and he smiled a little to himself letting his eyes drop down to his own feet, they in fact only popped up when the newcomer began to speak and introduced herself as the alpha. Well at least he was getting somewhere now, someone of power being here and he opened his mouth to introduce himself when Kai spoke up instead. Light pink tongue rimmed his lips momentarily waiting his turn before speaking up “Nice to meet you, the names Doren just met the welcoming committee” not that they had been welcoming, but he could deal with that later “and as young Kai said we are just here discussing my joining fight” he smiled to her, it was fake just part of his charming act until his eyes strayed to her young pup batting Gypsies tail too and fro for a brief moment a natural smile graced his lips, but only for a moment.

Attention turned back to Kai who still had her paw covering a eye “you need to wash that, might have some grit or something in there, nasty stuff” yes, yes Doren he thought casually act like you care, but don’t actually care that’s how you should be. Don’t let them in, no. No one close, no one here to become a friend, this is just a home not a place for a friends. Friends after all soon become enemies, and those that are close to you only strive to hurt you, to lie to you. His gaze returned to the alpha and he smiled like there was nothing wrong, the whole time his insides where rotting away, poisoning themselves slowly, soon there would be nothing left.

OOC: hmm can see him going a bit mad in the near future D:

[RHIANNON !]

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[atrb=background,http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad144/FallArrow/RHIANNONbg4.png] Isealdyr was absolutely elated to see both Kai and Gypsy. She was used to seeing Kai, whom she smiled at broadly, who frequented the dens, but Gypsy always seemed to avoid her and her siblings. So she took the opportunity to spend time with her Auntie Gypsy. The flowy sennyo tail always amused her so; it seemed to have a life of its own. And so when Gypsy flicked it up and down, Isy just continued to bat at it, her tail wagging at hyper speed behind her tiny body. Whilst her daughter kept herself amused with the sennyo, Rhiannon focused her attention on the male. Despite being a tiny little thing (though Rhia wasn't one to talk) he seemed to have stirred quite a few negative emotions amidst her two ranked females. Gypsy didn't speak, but nodded towards Rhia, who returned the greeting. Kai's voice though brought her attention to the younger white female and she nodded again, "'Ello Kai," she said, ignoring the newcomer for a brief moment, listening to her words. Forte didn't need to be called for a joining fight; frankly that'd be unfair to the lyxxus. He promptly introduced himself, and Rhiannon gave him a brief nod. "Welcome Doren, I'm sure Gypsy and Kai have told you all about the lands, and what not," she said, her tail swishing. His words though to Kai made the alpha's brow raise. Wash what? Meh, she'd figure it out later. "Well, anyways, Doren, we'll need you to do a joining fight. Unless Kai or Gypsy would like to fight you, I'm more than willing to step in. I figure it's a far more fair fight than getting you to fight my mate," she added, musing for a moment and wondering where Forte had gotten himself too. "Just a simple pin match, nothing too extravagant. No serious injuries, really. I don't care who wins, just so long as you prove to me you're worthy of being a member of this pack." Her fur ruffled slightly and she tucked her neck, mentally readying herself for a battle if needs be. ------------------------------------- OOC ;; I'M ONLY A MONTH LATE, I SWEAR. -hides-