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Moving silently through the plains, only her music lingering behind her, Akasha stalked through the morning darkness. Having just fed she was satisfied and was now looking for company. Freniere was off somewhere probably with his brother... and now Akasha was alone. She was so used to company nowadays that she almost craved it... maybe he'd be around... that desert pirate...

It must have been the first time since she had died and become immortal, but she blushed as she felt his tail flick against her skirt. "Why my Desert Pirate... I was hoping my jewels would cath your selfish eyes..." She said in a sickly sweet, almost malicious tone. Flicking her head ever so lightly to cause her music drown around them she turned to face him. "Looking for you..." She said this in a thinking-out-loud kind of voice. "Maybe... were you looking for me darling?" She said as she let her tailfeathers flick across his back.

"Then I was looking for you." She replied in a low, lusty purr. "I am surprised my meager royal self roused such a lazy lion from his perch... or were you merely trying to catch the glow from the sun reflecting off of me?" She said as she smirked, her eyes lighting up a bit. Nosing the hair in his face she purred next to his ear and sat back, looking at him, still smirking.

"Mmmm... I like this sunlight... one that doesn't burn..." She said as she walked around him, brushing as she did so, coming to a rest in front of him once more and lying down. "I wanted to make sure it wasn't just my jewels you were after lovely... you are a pirate..." she spoke flirtingly. "Bahir... is there anything you like more then jewelry or riches?" She asked quietly, looking up at him in her lying position.

"Just curious. I wanted to know, really." She said with a smirk as her tail flicked back an forth behind her. "For being such a casanova... I am surprised you don't have children running all around you..." She said as she suddenly had a ping of regret, wishing she hadn't mentioned that... Freniere was so close... Hopefully he would still love her if he met this new male lion... "Do you like children?" She added suddenly as she continued to think of her son.

Akasha looked away at last and shuffled a little uncomfortablly. "Uh... I... yeah... I have one... two acutally. One stays with me the other... with his cowardly father... I... am not with him anymore." She said as she looked up hopefully. She seemed a little unsure of herself now. Maybe he'd walk away and leave her forever... she didn't want that. Bahir was so comforting... hopefully he wouldn't mind.

She smiled somewhat. Her children were actually older then they looked, they were just small... or so she put it. "Freniere is my son. And his brother is Sabaku no Aito, Freniere just calls him Aito." She talked of Aito as if he were just Freniere's friend... not actually her son. "Their father is Sabaku no Gaara... Gaara was a fool and a coward... he wouldn't suit as a king..." She huffed, obviously peeved about him. "I would imagine my son isn't too far away." She said with a soft smile

((RP between Akasha, Bahir, Shawnie, and Grimmjow))

Today was going to be... interesting, to say the least. Akasha had reappeared not long ago, which Bahir hadn't been expecting. A pleasant surprise, but it could make a few things, well. Awkward. As in, he needed a place to leave two cubs and a rather powerful lioness and get Grimmjow off his back about Shawnie. Not that he wouldn't /tell/ Akasha... It would just be after their relationship was on solid ground again. He hadn't seen her for a while, and when one doesn't even get a word of good bye, it can cause some, well... Slip ups.

Things had been... awkwardly quiet around Shawnie. Raigin was with Xanthus, Nikoli... Well, actually, she didn't know where her other son had been. Blinking, she wrinkled her nose. Meh, whatever. It wasn’t really her problem anymore. In all honesty… She kinda missed Grimmjow. You know, just kinda.The lioness sat at the edge of the desert, lounging beside a large rock. Her tail flicked gently behind her, spark dancing against the mix of rocks and dirt.

Having killed her king on earth, it shouldn't have upset Akasha to see her mate run off, but it hurt a lot. Her children had seen her moping which was quite strange. She hadn't been taking her usual pleasure of draining her victims of their blood, or even enjoying her own power. But things were beginning to look up, Bahir had come back and actually wanted to stay with her. She had told Freniere to take Jysben somewhere for 'brotherly bonding' while she talked with Bahir, she was actually one her way over to him now. Where was he? "Mmm... that way..." she whispered to herself and began walking, her eeire music before her.

Grimmjow was wandering through the desert hoping to find some glance of Shawnie. What?! No. He was in the desert because it felt like home. Yeah. That's totally why he was there. Pawing at the sand, he grumbled and glanced about. Nothing interesting was around here, except for sand...and....more sand."Oh Shawnie~ Where are you?" His eyes flickered to one side as he thought for sure he saw a spark of some kind. A grin grew across his face as he slowly inched towards Shawnie."Surprise?"

Okay, Bahir might not be the most sensitive male, but even he could sense Fate's twisted humor for this particular afternoon. On the horizon he could see the faint outline of his favorite vampiress, but could also sense some extra electricity over not too far from him. Some other lion was closeby.. He was pretty sure it was Grimmjow. He always seemed to be pretty close whenever Shawnie was around.

Close indeed. Like the good little stalker he was. Shawnie huffed lightly, glancing over at him. “Hey.” She murmured lightly, glancing to him before looking back in front of her. She flicked her tail again, closing her eyes and laying her head on her paws. She was almost certain that Grimmjow knew about her and Bahir. And… speaking of which… The familiar sense of the desert pirate wafted towards her, and she flicked an ear, sighing lightly. This… was going to be interesting…

It seemed as though she had risen from hell all over again, there before her stood her beloved desert pirate, Bahir... but why did he look uneasy? As Akasha drew closer she gave a solemn look. She'd let him say the first words as it looked like he wanted to talk. Her tail flicked at the end showing her mood wasn't exactly turning out to be as happy as she had hoped for. What was this? There where two other lions about... one was male. The other, female. Her looked grew to be stones and Bahir was going to have to do a lot to tell her what was going on. Maybe she was being a typical female and being jealous... but she had a feeling those two lions weren't here my mere chance of strangers.

Grimmjow moved closer to her, but stopped short."So...you gonna talk to me, or just slap me and beat up my self-esteem some more?" Growling softly, he pinned his ears back quietly taking in the other presences that were about. One was the annoying Bahir, and another was one that he didn't know. Those didn't matter though! He was here to talk to his Shawnie, not have a happy tea party. Tea tasted awful anyway. Grimmjow yawned and lightly brushed his tail feathers under Shawnie's chin."You want to have a gaint tea party, don't you?"

"Akasha.. You really are a vision." Bahir purred, padding forward to her. A spark caught his eye not too far over, a telltale sign of Shawnie nearby. He kept his attention centered on Akasha, who seemed rather... Well, not happy. Could she sense something was wrong already? Man, she was good. "I've missed you, Doll. You honestly can't leave me that long again, I thought I was going to go crazy." He purred, words sweet and disarming. Hoping to soothe her and her worries before he, as gently as he could, broke the news of the past few events that had happened while she was away.

Shawnie looked to Grimmjow for a moment, a smirk tugging at the side or her maw. Sighing lightly, she flicked her ears, muttering beneath her breath, just to be the point where only he could hear her. "Not like I planned this." Crimson gold eyes flicked to the other two for a moment, before looking back to Grimmjow. "The other is, most likely, Bahir's mate. I suggest we just... ignore them. Nothing'll happen otherwise. Hopefully." Her clawss tapped against the dirt, sparks dancing up the links of chain mail that laced her arms.

Her alerts were immediately dimmed as he began to speak to her like he used to. For being the Queen of the Damned, a simple pirate had lulled her so easily. Eyeing him suspiciously she purred softly in return and sat before him, waiting for him to love against her like he used to. Although his words were sweet and his actions kind, it was those two lions that still kept her on edge. She was going to know about them sooner or later whether Bahir told her, or she had to ask. With her tail curling around her as she sat, she smiled, watching him before her.

Shrugging his shoulders, Grimmjow flopped down next to Shawnie. He only softly flicked her with his tail feathers at her words before nodding his head."So you basically, you slept with a mated lion. Geez Shawnie, you're bad." Leaning towards her, he whispered into her ear."That's hot." With that he smirked and began to nibble on the chainmail that hung from her ears. Those other two were really bothering him. He couldn't do anything to Shawnie if they were stanind right there! Oh well...He'd like to take a whack at Bahir if he could.

Ignoring the others was Bahir's tactic of choice. While it was fun to mess with the other male's head, he didn't want to get into any more trouble than he was already going to be. He grinned, that charming smile which he was well known for, running a paw teasingly down Akasha's leg. "I've missed you, so much. You can't even imagine." He rumbled, silver eyes looking over her lithe form appreciatively. She had grown even more enchanting in their time apart, he had to admit. "I was afraid you weren't going to come back to me." He murmured, leaning forward to whisper it in her ear. It was almost amusing to know that Shawnie and Grimmjow were so close, almost like an audience for the two reunited lovers. Everything was better with someone watching.

Sadly for Bahir, Shawnie wasn't paying much attention to the other two. She had her own thing. As Grimmjow whispered into her ear, she chuckled darkly, whipping him gently with her tail. "You're so thick-headed." She gave a dark chuckle, pawing at his cheek.

"I was going to come back darling... I couldn't let someone steal my heart and be alone with it..." She purred, licking his neck then nibbling his ear. Who cared if those two were there... all that mattered right now was that she was back with her pirate. She didn't know how she had accepted him so quickly, before this point she had decided to scold him for disappearing and shout at him for probably being with another but she just couldn't help it. There was something about him that just sent her to a girlish mess. "Bahir... what were you doing when I was gone...?" She had to know... she just -had- to know...

Grimmjow snickered and nibbled on her ear."Yeah, but you love me anyway." He purred roughly his tail wrapping around her. Letting go of her ear finally, he nibbled down the back of her neck."My Shawnie." He threw a glance over at Bahir and his mate before quickly pinning Shawnie down."You'll never escape now~"