Rated M: Fantasy Violence, Language, Gore
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Half Moon - Strong
Did these damned fools not know they were part of a cycle? Or did they believe, like all damned fools believed, that they were somehow special. Did they simply assume that they were meant to coexist forever alongside these beings that were beyond their capability? And just like those before them, they seemed to be mixing with them. Creating vile diseases they considered their saviors.
He cocked his head to the side, a bang swept across his forehead into one of his eyes, but it didn’t seem to bother him at current. As a merchant panting heavily on the first floor of the Sanctum was trying to speak, but only spouted a breathy language that even Kay gave him a shrug of his shoulder.
“F...cough...it...was…..cough...fly….flying…” the merchant stuttered through breaths of air.
“I mean lots of things fly,” Kay remarked.
“It was….cough….” he continued to pant, “it was a...big...bird..cough.”
Big bird could mean anything to the both of them. A gurr, siren, or something as simple a harpie. Reyis crossed his arms across his chest and gave the man a narrowed side eye. The merchant seemed taken aback in surprise and fear, and only coward at his gaze.
“Anything else to go by then a big flying bird?” Reyis asked stiffly, “How big was it? Covered in feathers? Body of a ghoul?”
The merchant coughed trying to regain some semblance of composure.
“It was big. The wing span of one of those,” he pointed to one of the stores made out of the spare vehicles from the old era, “It had feathers all over. And huge talons the size of a man’s biggest finger.”
The man had to be exaggerating about the beast. From the sounds of it, it could be a gryphon. But they didn’t come out to the forest very often and spent their time in the caverns. Why would he lead it here? Reyis fixed his head posture and looked at Kay silently.
“Ah yeah buddy we can take care that for you,” Kay told the merchant sardonically. Kay looked at Reyis. Reyis raised his brow, but shrugged and walked past the merchant.
“I don’t like long drawn out battles,” Reyis told Kay.
“Yeah and I don’t like long drawn out deaths. If I am going to die today make it cool and quick,” Kay told him.
It was not worth discussing with Kay, if his time came his time came. As all things came and went. Reyis just walked down the tunnel. Until they emerged out from the steel dark into the brightness of the red sun. Reyis shielded his eyes for merely a second. He scanned the reddening skies, with hues of violet still lingering for whatever was flying around. He didn’t like the idea that he would have to fight something brought to him. He was careful with his battles. Decisive and knew when to strike. He didn’t purposely go picking fights with things bigger than him.
“Uh Rey, that’s…..” Kay turned him around, he was staring face to beak with a gryfon standing one of the metal huts. Reyis eyes widened open.
“RAWWWWW!” the gryfon called out, Reyis grabbed Kay and pushed him out of the way. Kay took the opportunity to get into a better position while Reyis just hoped he had time to react as the beak came crashing down.
He managed to barely escaped the chomping power of the gryfon, before it took to the sky with one of the huts in its talons. Dropping it down to the ground with a crash. Dust in the air, the sound of broken metal, and trees being uprooted by the shear force of the wind created by the gryfon.
The gryfon screeched in the air, “MY TRESHUR!”
You had to be kidding him. It was beginning to make sense, the merchant must have taken something from its treasure pile while it was away and brought it here. He unsheathed his scythe, while Kay was lining up a shot with his guns.
Except his handguns weren’t going to shoot from that distance. Rey sighed, he’d have to draw the damn thing to the ground.
“I am going to lure it,” Rey told Kay.
“Okay and how in the hell are you going to do that, that’s a lot bigger than expected,”
Pull something out of his ass most likely. He liked plans. This was not a plan, it was survivability now. Reyis stuck his hand in his pocket as the gryfon flew around squawking. Taking out an Essence Platinum Coin, allowing the moon to hit it at the right angle.
“Treasure right here!” Reyis shouted, hopefully it heard him.
“Nic-o..shit!”
The gryfon took a dive and began to fly at full force his way. Reyis only gave Kay a quick glance, now shoot now. He heard the trigger of K and then he heard the trigger of T go off. The first bullet struck into the side of the gryfon breast, but it was just a glancing shot and barely did anything. While the other completely missed. Reyis dropped his hand and began to run. He liked plans. He liked efficiency.
Its talons barely missed him as his own senses allowed him to slide underneath, only to be picked up by the scythe. He was dangling in the airs. Eyes blinded by the winds and force. He was hanging by his scythe alone. Kay was probably screaming something down below, but he couldn’t hear it. It was high he could see the forest stretching for miles and miles, he could even see the gates despite how far away they were from them. Here they seemed so close.
Reyis grunted as he began to climb up his own scythe. He would want it back later, as he began to force his way up. Till he touched the leathery skin of the gryfon’s leg. He sighed, but continued to ascend his way up. The creature was doubling back toward the Sanctum, that looked like a disheveled square hole in the ground. He nearly lost his grip, but the gryfon seemed occupied at the time.
He managed to heave himself up onto the feathers of the gryfon. The gryfon still seemed occupied good. He heard one of Kay’s guns go off. Missing both him and the gryfon. Exactly where was he aiming? He continued up. Tree line completely vanishing in the reddening feathers of the gryfon till he was sitting on the shoulder of the gryfon.
Nearly losing his footing he continued to scaley, feathery neck of the gryfon. Kay, what were you doing? Reyis merely groaned. He was already tired from climbing up this. Getting a hang of it being up here, the gryfon doubled back, but he kept tightly bound to the gryfon now atop his head.
The gryfon looked at him with his eyes.
“How uuuuu getttt upppp thurrrr!” it squawked.
Reyis shrugged. He couldn’t really talk up here, but he protruded his claws out. The gryfon tried to fling him off, but he managed to keep steady and slashed at the eye of the gryfon. He felt his nails sink into the eye of the gryfon, the lens was a lot harder than you’d consider it to be, while his fingernails seemed to be swimming in blood and eye juice. Reyis pulled his fingernails out of the warm, fleshy eye, as Essence and blood sprayed out of it.
Reyis heard the gryfon screech in pain. Currently blinded and distracted with the pain it reared in the air. He dropped back a bit onto the neck just to keep a steadier grip. Please Kay. As the gryfon’s talon grazed passed a tree and the gryfon was going for a crash landing.
He heard one of Kay’s gun go off, managing to clip the right wing of the bird. The gryfon began to heavily lean, it screamed out as a second bullet went through the other right wing. It crashed into the forest and Reyis finally lost his footing on the bird, slamming into one of the trees as he landed, the tree also losing its rooting as it too came crashing into the ground.
Reyis took a second to gain his stamina before standing up. He heard footsteps running his way.
“Rey!” Kay called out.
“Nice shooting,” Rey grunted.
“You try shooting when you have a gust of wind pushing you back,”
“I climbed it with the gusting,” Rey mumbled. He dusted himself off, looking around for his scythe. Kay stared at the gryfon with a cheeky smile though.
“Not so tough though, huh,” Kay joked.
“It’s not done,” Rey told him. Rey was scanning where they had landed and the crash sight. He needed his scythe. It must have landed anywhere in the gryfons falling trajectory. He saw it stuck into the ground a few feet away.
Rey began to walk towards it, while the gryfon sprung up from its daze.
“MY TRESHUR!” it screamed loudly, “MY TRESHUR!” it roared so loud that its own scream blew back Kay and some leftover standing trees. As Essence surrounded it and its eyes glowed red. Its aura surrounding it in black.
It stood up and took a powerful talon swiping it through the forest. Trees crashing from its swiping motion. Kay managing to dodge a tree and Reyis grabbing his scythe, while seeming to managing to have any trees crash even near him.
Reyis twirled his scythe. He snarled, the only emotion he had shown this whole entire time. Launching himself from the few feet he was at. And sliced through one of the talons. Essence began to pour through the severed talon.
Kay managed to shoot another bullet through its already injured right breast side. Reyis was swiped away by one of the other talons, landing into one of the tree rubble. Reyis got up seemingly unaffected by the swing, Kay looked at him.
“Should we ask for backup?” Kay asked.
Reyis spit some blood onto the floor.
“If you want,” Reyis responded.
Reyis glared at the bleeding wounded gryfon. In reality he wanted to tear it to pieces, rip its wings off its body, dismember every single one of its talons off its foot and make it curl in pain and agony while it bled out. But he closed his eyes. What would he have done in this situation?
“Rey?”
“Gryfon!” Rey called out strongly.
“TRESHUR!” Gryfon screamed at him in angry fury.
“I will get your treasure, but you need to leave this place or I will dismember you,” Rey gave the gryfon a strong glare.
“ALL I WANTS TRESHUR. GET TRESHUR FORRRRR MEEE.”
Rey looked at Kay then back at the gryfon.
“And you will leave?” Rey asked.
“YESSS,”
“Go get the merchant,” Rey told Kay.
“Uh….you’re not going to kill him, right?”
“Either you trust me or you don’t, there is no if about it,”
“Right,” Kay brushes his hand through his hair, and turns on his heel. At that instance a sound of lighting was heard. And he saw a strike of lighting out of nowhere hit the gryfon in the back of the head. The gryfon screeched in pain and yelled, “UUUU LIEE! UUUU LIE! UUUU HOOMAN LIE!!!!!”
In that instant as light scattered Reyis saw a half naked half fiend landing from her blow as the gryfon got up weakly trashing up. Reyis wondered in that second how she protected herself from any strike coming her way as most of her body. She was not dressed efficiently. And he favored efficiency and plans. None of which these were, again.
Reyis gave her a side eye and a glare.
“You have made things much worse half fiend,” Reyis said dryly. Gripping onto his scythe tightly. The mysterious Half-Fiend slashed greedily across a tuff of feathers, separating the flesh under the soft layer and feeding her sword in coated Essence. A vicious shaking of the Gryfon challenged Ethela to keep mounted upon its back. A whiplash of silver hair blocked her view partially and she squatted in the same motion used to plunge the four pronged sword into the depths of the creature’s back, anchoring herself still.
Ethela stared straight faced at the man who goaded her. There was an energy in him she hadn’t felt from the felled humans on the path to Sanctum. But one look at him denied him humanity, his face was Corrupted.
She had jutted her sword through the base of the neck, he watched her shake like she were a ragged toy to the gryfon. Her inefficiency irritated him.
“So I am staying,” Kay kind of joked.
“Apparently,” Rey replied.
Kay managed to pull off a shot, continuing to corrode away at the wound he made earlier. While Reyis was slowly analyzing the best strike. Perhaps, yes the breast Kay was working on. While the gryfon was busy with the unplanned disruption, Reyis went in for the strike. Managing to open the wound wide, exposing shoulder muscle, ligament and arteries tangling together barely sewn together flesh. Bone exposed through red blood, beginning to glisten by the moon’s light, and slowly beginning to harden. The gryfon screeched and reared up from its back legs in hopes to ram whatever was in its neck into the ground.
Ethela roared, her abdominal muscles flexing to keep her legs from dangling in the shadow of the threatening, and standing gryfon. Her raised legs wrapped and clung themselves tight against the raging beast. Her movements were passionate and entirely free of calculation. The expression on her face had once been cold and disconnected but in her freedom the grays of her eyes flickered with an instinctual kind of thought.
The Boom Blade’s serrated hooks lunged out of the fleshy sheath, raining hardened blood bits of Essence. It buzzed with crackling bits of white streaked energy. Lightning encircled Ethela’s sword, the gryfon was preparing to fall back on her, the gap between her and the ground was narrowing.
Ethela moved in a speed her eyes couldn’t follow, a stinging sensation of releasing energy moved through her nervous system, down her arms and into her hands. Ferociously The Boom Blade swung three times, chopping away and ripping apart the head from the neck. Faster than a jiffy, quicker than reason, the body was decapitated and its wounds cauterized. A scabbed stump gave back her vision to the Half-Fiend and the monster’s head lopped off, rolling to Reyis’ feet and standing nearly as tall as his 5’3” figure.
“Ethela!” A soft voice, female, said with a delicate concern as she came out from the bushes with a sylvan crafted staff in her hands.
Reyis narrowed his gaze. Whoever this half fiend was before him had no training, she was unskilled and unrefined. Even Reyis knew not to cut the off the head of a gryfon while it was falling. Who did that?
Ethela crash landed onto the forest ground, only after slamming against a tree the gryfon’s corpse grazed in its death descent. This victorious battle maiden felt the crushing bite of her metal bra press hard into her breasts and her face flatten in a mass of mud and grass. Her vision turned white for a second, a loud thud told her the gryfon fell.
“Here…” she raised a hand up for Ahava to see, mumbling face first into mud and tasting it in her mouth.
He noticed the fairy demon accompany the half fiend as well, that was not something you saw everyday. In fact. Looking at the blond, with the flora crown. Something about both of their presence had an air of familiarity with him.
“Hey you lad-” Kay stopped talking when Reyis put up his hand to stop him from running toward them.
“Your friend has done two things that do not bode well with the relationship of demons or the relationship with humans. Gryfons alignments do not align with the kings. And you are law breakers,” Ahava’s amethyst eyes fell over to the two men and she gave a faint smile before walking over to Ethela’s side and helping her pull her face out of the mud. A gentle hand began to wipe away the mud.
“They’re angry at you…” Ahava cooed softly. Ethela’s stoic face broke a second time to flash her a smirk. Her mouth went for one of the Fariy’s fingers.
“I have some mud here too” Ethela flirted, sucking one her fey textured index finger.
Reyis saw Kay’s jaw drop and Reyis cocked his head to the side with a side eyed.
“I am speaking,” Reyis told the two woman. Ethela sighed, grabbing The Boom Blade and standing up with Ahava. She put a hand on her hip and stared at the corpse.
“You shot it and cut off its talon” Ethela mentioned in a serious tone, suddenly changing the energy of the dynamic between all four of them. She spoke matter of factly while Ahava continued to work on cleaning the mud off her face, the Half-Fiend didn’t even seemed phased by it.
“I incapacitated it, then negotiated with it. Damage is still damage,” Reyis told her, “It’s treasure had been taking. It wounds can heal, the Sanctum no longer threatened. It was the more efficient method. Now its pair may come and put the Sanctum at risk.”
“Okay, and?” Ethela asked turned her cleaned face to meet eye to eye, down, to the other Half-Fiend. “Why would you care?” He was like her, it made her very curious. But his general behavior reminded her of Korris, she was half expecting this short Half-Fiend to try and punish her by lugging around bags of rocks for a day.
“Efficient?” Ahava softly asked, observing the conversation.
Something was uncomfortable about this half fiend, the face was familiar, the laws were not. But Reyis did not let it impact him at current, his current concern was discipline that needed to be put into place. It just felt uncannily uncomfortable doing so that face, something was wrong about it that made anxiety stir in Reyis. Before he could put any words behind his thoughts the Fairy spoke up once again with a smile, standing behind Ethela and looking around her at the two men.
“We are looking for someone, hm” She charmingly tilted her head.
Reyis narrowed his eyes and glared at her.
“I am still speaking,” Reyis told her, “I care because I made a promise to them that I would keep the Sanctum safe. Now I must travel to the caverns to negotiate peace, more work for me.” He gave another glare to the demon, “Efficiency, it means thinking before doing.” He paused one more time to collect what he was thinking, “And I don’t care who you’re looking for. You are law breakers and must repent for the irresponsibility and damage you have caused to human and demon kind.”
Ethela openly laughed, tossing her sword over her shoulder and casually holding it. She stared down from Reyis’ eyes down to the radiating thing on his chest. It hummed with purple light and she stepped closer, Ahava clinging to her free arm.
“I like the color of that” She said, entirely dismissing any gravity to the Half-Fiend’s statements, yet still speaking with her own serious focus.
“The Hunter Database has marked you as fugitives of Sanctum,” Reyis didn’t seem at all phased by her distraction, he was merely trying to get her to understand the weight of the situation, “You killed humans that should have not been killed. You will come with me so I can arrest you. Then I will leave to the caverns.”
“Arrest us? That would be horrible…” Ahava said sadly, frowning. “Sanctum is a very controlling place, are you sure Yore was here?” She asked Ethela. “Ethela!” She tugged on her mate’s arm and Ethela shook her head to get out of the stupor.
“It’s what the Harpy said, ‘Yore’ and ‘Sanctum’ my one clue”
Reyis felt his heart flutter hearing the name. Reyis didn’t allow them to see him as he somewhat winced at the sudden sensation.
“Yore,” Reyis was controlled in his delivery, “Has been dead for years. Why do you need him?” Ethela’s face turned grim. They went all this way for nothing and if this guy was any indicator of what was inside - no thanks. It didn’t matter. She never knew other Half-Fiends, but this one outright irritated and disgusted her.
“We’re leaving” Ethela told Ahava, but the Fairy tried a more diplomatic approach.
“You see, we were looking for her remaining family. We are distressed and in such strange land we’ve never been to. How sad he is gone, she wanted to know him.”
Reyis didn’t want to talk about Yore. He was alive, then he was dead. Like all things. So instead Reyis stayed focus on his task at hand.
“You have two options. Come to the caverns with me, negotiate with the gryfon and apologize for the others death. Or be arrested,” Ethela continued to walk back into the forests where she had made her sudden appearance.
“Oh, we are leaving. Goodbye!” Ahava continued to smooth over her silence.
Reyis walked forward and a lot quicker than some would expect and grabbed the half naked woman.
“You do not have my permission to leave, I will be forced to use lethal force if you resist,” Ethela looked over her shoulder at him. The Boom Sword fell from her grip without warning. The stinging of light formed in her hands, turning into a lasso of soft white. Its creation brought to the forest a new source of radiance and it snapped, reaching for Reyis’ neck. He just dodged, feeling the heat of the lightning construct tickle the skin over his jugular.
Ethela surged in her speed, an aura of lightning emanating from her fists into her lasso and it struck. One moment Reyis was standing, the next the very lasso he dodged previously was wrapped around his neck, his body and he felt the stinging sensation of a kick behind his right knee kneel him down. He was forced to make eye contact with his docile and unresponsive friend, Kay. Ethela glared over the lowered Half-Fiend to the human standing and staring.
“Hey I’ll need you to get off my friend,” Kay laughed, “Reyis just takes his job very seriously. Don’t see why everyone has to be so hot headed. We listen if you speak. I was going to help a gryfon get its treasure back for fuck sake. But if you aren’t going to say what needs to be said Reyis will continue to pursue you. He’s like that. I just let him do him because he’s the half fiend. I am not. I’d get chewed up by most things around here.”
Ahava listened to the human and stared up to Ethela. The Half-Fiend woman stared with a rageful, cloudy colored, yet sharp eyes the human. Her very body was bent on conquest and gaining lost respect. Her arm was tugged by Ahava. Ethela sighed and looked down at her, taken in her soft features she cared for.
“I wanted to find my uncle, he was my last hope for blood family and he’s dead. There’s nothing you can do to give me family” Ethela said coldly to him.
Stepping out into the Chasm, the first sight he saw was the light of the moon and its strong presence. The second sight was of the utter destruction the merchant spoke of the gryfon.
Holding onto the Magatama stone he wished to return it to its rightful owner. But as he was staring at torn trees and seeing Essence in the sky that some probably could not see. So then it meant the poor creature had passed on.
While he remembered the horror of the Sanctum’s attack that bore the birth of his blade, he moved towards the scene of the most impact. Allowing Essence to guide him. It pained him to know that it ended this way, holding the greater stone in one of his flowing sashes instead to keep it as a memento. He might have felt a tremor pass over him, but he moved anyway.
Till he came upon the sight of a gryfon’s head, slowly hardening into crystal, about to rupture. A headless corpse also hardening. And Reyis in a current disposition of weakness, as a lasso was around his neck, made of crackling magic, that had the air of lighting and the light of fire. Reyis was glaring at Kay. Kay wore one of his smiles.
And the young woman holding down Reyis had a peculiar appearance to her. In some ways Kaja understood all too well the face of someone he once knew. But the aura and Essence was all wrong. Impulsive and chaotic, it churned like the lighting that had created her lasso. It was clashing, heated, enraged, and disappointed. Sadness perhaps.
Kay looked at him at first and Kaja smiled.
“I got worried when you did not come back,” he told Kay softly, “How did you get into this situation?” Kay shrugged.
“Honestly I have no idea, Reyis has his scythe stuck up his ass again and she took the bait,” Kay told him, “Except painfully.”
“I can see that,” Kaja told him.
He felt it would be rude to continue to not address the young lady.
“You are not a Fairy…” Ahava said with a whisper between her pouty lips. Her words had a small shake in them, some sort of harder emotion not native to her submissive voice. Ethela swallowed hard and gripped tighter onto the lasso. Her face flushed and she caught herself staring at the human of flowing golden hair and soft draping clothes she wasn’t used to in the dunes - too colorful. Ethela looked away, pressing her foot harder into the back of the Half-Fiend’s knee.
“I defended myself” She shyly justified, juggling strange emotions.
Kaja looked at her then at Reyis.
“I know that you are upset right now, and I am sorry,” Kaja told her genuinely, “For something is causing you a great pain, but I don’t think Reyis likes that position much. Do you?”
“No,” Reyis mumbled trying to look away from Kaja.
“How about we all settle down?” Kaja asked again with his soft, calm demeanor, “What is this about?” Kay being the one with the loudest voice was the first to step up.
“In a nutshell,” Kay began, “She killed a Gryfon when we negotiated with it. Reyis got butthurt about it. They are also the ones responsible for killing Sanctum folks. And she was looking for Yore. Who is her uncle.”
Kaja stared at Kay.
“That is a lot of events to happen all at the same time,” Kaja told Kay, he looked at the young woman, “Your day seems to be eventful. But would you like to speak with me instead? We do not have to go into the Sanctum.” Kaja raised a hand that had spasmed at the same time, “There are plenty of fallen trees to sit on.”
She wanted to kiss him. Her lips felt the stinging hot pangs of lust so used to being sated across the soft skin of women. Her eyes were dilated, but her face fell to a neutral expression before she unwound her lasso and kicked Reyis in the back, sending him to fall on the grassy and muddy forest floor. She let go of the lasso and it faded away, picking up The Boom Blade and staring at this gathering of people.
“If I could sit close to you, I don’t mind” her voice hummed and Ahava stared at Ethela with a bemused expression. Her behavior to this man was certainly...out of character.
Reyis snarled in the mud before getting up and dusting himself off.
“Very well I do not mind, whatever makes you comfortable,” Kaja said before heading to one of the fallen trees that seemed stable enough to sit on, “Reyis, are you okay?”
Reyis looked to Kay, then to Kaja.
“I’m fine,” Reyis responded, “I am going to figure out where the gryfon came from.” Ethela walked around Reyis, holding Ahava’s hand and leading her down at her side, the blonde on her other side. Her bra rattled, the metals at her hips making a bunch of noise as she dropped onto her backside gracelessly. Ahava was staring at Kaja curiously, sitting down politely on the wood and placing her bo staff neatly across her lap.
“You are interesting for a human…” Ethela expanded conversation with Kaja, scratching an itch off her breast from a fallen leaf from a tree.
“I think everyone is interesting at some point,” Kaja told her, “My name is Kaja. And yours?”
“Kaja,” She softly repeated, putting her hand down on the wood next to his. “Ethela, and this is my mate, Ahava” Ahava smiled, and it was a strained expression to Kaja.
“Your name is very wonderful,” Kaja told her, “I assume you have been informed.” Kaja looked mournful, “I am so sorry. If the elders at the time would have known, we would have opened our doors to you. At least I know I would and am.”
“Why would I want to be around humans? Humans who want to arrest me, think they can?” She asked, shooting a look at the other Half-Fiend’s back as he was walking further away.
“It hurts doesn’t it,” Kaja responded, “Losing family or not knowing you had any in the first place. I lost my mother and while Reyis may not be forthcoming, he was raised by your uncle a parental figure.” Kaja paused, “Those humans had family too. And the hurt you feel. The hurt I feel. Or Reyis feels. That’s what they feel too now that their families are gone. Those humans who want to arrest you, simply want someone to be responsible for their pain. Putting you in a cell is in a way like you lassoing a lighting lasso around Reyis neck.”
Ethela stared and felt one of her hands begin to shake at his revealing of the other Half-Fiend. The loss of her mother, father, uncle, and now the only one who knew her family was him. An envy flared inside and the stormy woman stood urgently, the cloud of hair flying around till it settled.
“He knew my uncle.” she grunted, wanting to go right after him.
Kaja looked at her gently.
“A lot of people knew your uncle in the Sanctum,” Kaja told her, “It wasn’t just him. But your uncle saved Reyis because he didn’t believe hurting demi-fiends was the right path to go. I know it seems confusing right now. It’s a lot.” He stood up himself, folds of his hair and clothes settling, placing a cold object into her hand, “Would you do me a favor and return this stone. There’s another family also hurting now too. If you understand this pain. Then all creatures feel it. Maybe along your way you’ll realize there is a lot more in common with someone then when you just first meet them.” Ethela took the stone and wandered her eyes over all the various lengths of his hair and guided them back to his face.
“If I do this, will you kiss me?”
Kaja turned away sheepishly for a second. He hadn’t been asked to be kissed before. He had never kissed anyone before actually. No one had ever. He had never felt the lips of another on him or their taste. Kaja held onto the cloth of his fabrics.
“I,” Kaja stumbled to find the words, he was good at guiding the hearts of others, but not at this type of conversation, “You would be my first.” At that he saw Kay’s head turn towards him. Where as he saw Reyis head turn to him. Oh this was not. He felt like the kid who hid in tunnels all over again.
The Magatama stone almost caressed Kaja’s cheek for Ethela’s pinky and ring finger were tracing down some of his bangs slowly. She could hardly remember he was a man, his embarrassment only made her more aroused.
“I know how to be soft…” she promised. Ahava cleared her throat and poked Ethela’s stomach before rubbing it romantically to get her attention.
“We should go with the other Half-Fiend now, hm?” She proposed and Ethela nodded, taking in Kaja one more time. “You are the exception to the rule” she told him and walked off after Reyis, a man who certainly had all the shapelessness and none of the attractiveness of female kind. He took away her uncle. He grew up with him. “Don’t touch me and I won’t have to defend myself”
Reyis simply gave her a look.
“The past is defined by the past, the present defined by itself. I do not hold such simple grudges after the situation has been settled,” Reyis told her honestly and stiffly, “I do my job. Kaja trust you. Therefore I put my trust in you. Do not betray Kaja’s intuition, I respect him too much for you to do so.”
Ethela walked past the small man without further acknowledgment and Ahava giggled, pulling some of her hair behind an ear.
“This is more enjoyable. Goodbye” She waved to Kaja and Kay.
Kay shrugged his shoulders and cracked his neck, that gryfon really was a piece of work. He began to look at Kaja. Kaja’s lips. Nah he was getting distracted right now.
“Hey Reyis, wait up, where are we going exactly?” Kay asked.
“The Dust Rocks,” Reyis responded.
“Shit, that deep into the caverns, you certain we’re not going to meet any more freaks?” Kay asked.
“Who would chose to reside in the caverns?”
“Dunno, freaks,”
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