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 Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:07 pm
Alake's sisters were annoying. They were too loud. How was she suppose to get her beauty sleep if they kept going on like that? Not that she needed any sleep to make her beautiful. She was perfect already, you see.
But perfection needed maintaining. Which needed sleep. Which she couldn't get if that bird in the tree above her wouldn't shut the hell up. Alake had been staring at it for twenty minutes, trying to will it away or make it die by her glare alone.
Not working.
"HEY! SOMEBODY!" she screeched at the top of her lungs.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:24 pm
Tawny eyes peered at nothing in particular from their lofty position on the branch. It had been distressingly quiet recently. Well, for awhile actually. With six daughters around for pretty much as long as he could remember he grew used to the sound of... sound. To be more accurate, with the sound of endless screaming, crying, yelling, fighting, cajoling, begging, and occasionally, the sound of a moment of blessed silence. It was something he used to try to avoid, but now... Well, he missed it. Nyu, Tara, Hahi, all of them had left. The only loud daughter left seemed so very distressed about the lack of gossip that she had become nearly silent, and even when she was around, talking about... whatever she was talking about, it was still quieter then he was used to.
He'd told Hasana that they had to let their daughters go.
What a stupid thing to say. If he ever had more children he'd keep them around forever. Even if he had to sit on them.
Hah.
So perhaps it wasn't all that shocking that his reverie was broken by a high-pitched cry, located somewhere in the super-sonic range. Father of 7 daughters instincts had the big lion moving before he even considered what little girl cub would be out here alone. Perhaps he would have thought better of it if he'd known.
"Hello, are you okay?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:29 pm
Alake barely looked at him. Oh, good, an adult. It was unfortunate he was a male, because males, from what she had learned by speaking with them, were stupid and lazy.
Better than nothing.
"No, I'm not okay," she wailed. "I'm trying to sleep and this...this..this BIRD won't SHUT UP!" The bird in question quieted for a second before bursting into song again, with twice the volume as before.
Hoping this guy was more of a sap than her Dad, she gave him the biggest, beeeest 'puppy' eyes she could manage. "Will you please kill it so I can take a nap?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:43 pm
The cub was certainly... lively looking. A good deal of brown, but there was also that... bright color. He wasn’t' good with colors, he supposed it was a bluish-greenish-blue green sort of thing. He wondered how he'd missed her even though the undergrowth.
"Uhm," he tried to kick the dad-gear back into action and remembered that he had, in fact, never been very good at this.
"I see, it does seem rather loud," he said carefully, glancing up at the bird. It actually seemed rather pleasant to him, but he found it never went to argue with females. They always won.
However, that suggestion was a little startling, "Kill it? Wouldn't it be best just to move somewhere else? Like, closer to your family?"
There he went, breaking his own rules again....
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:53 pm
"No, my sisters are even louder," Alake complained. "I came out here to sleep, but then this stupid bird landed and hasn't stopped squawking since!" Oh, the horror! How dare something so trivial as a bird invade on her alone time. It was precious and in small quantity.
"Can you not do it?" she asked flatly.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:06 pm
"Sisters?"
Dejavu. Then again, he supposed most cubs had sisters. But he'd heard this argument before.
"Do your parent's know you wandered off? They're probably worried..."
He glanced around. She had probably wandered off pretty far.
"What? Oh, I can, but I think that's a little wasteful," he mused, glancing up.
"OI! Bird! Go away!" He half-yelled at the little creature, hoping it would just go away. That would solve the problem, right?
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:11 pm
Wrong.
The bird stared down at Triv and sung louder.
Alake stared up at Triv and frowned deeper.
"My parents know where I am. I come here all the time." Maybe she should stop and find another place. She never got any peace here. Before it was that annoying cub and now this stupid bird. Ugh. "As you can see, trying to tell the stupid bird to go away isn't working. If you can't destroy the horrid thing I can find someone else to do it."
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:15 pm
Triv winced.
Well, talk about backfire. He would think that it was making a fool of him, but he was pretty sure he was doing a good enough job of that on his own.
"Oh, well, that's good," he said, still watching the bird, "Well, miss, what do you propose anyone do about it? It's not exactly on a low branch," he mused.
It would be nice if he could just knock him down. Thumbs were on short supply though...
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:20 pm
Hm.
Alake wasn't staring at the bird anymore. She was staring at the branch the bird was on. The lazy and stupid male was half-right. The branch was high, but it wasn't that high.
"Let me climb on your face. Stretch out on the tree trunk and then I'll jump on the branch and knock it down and you can...step on it or something."
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:23 pm
"Wha?"
Triv gave the cub his best confused expression. What kind of a plan was that? She might fall off, and that was completely ignoring the fact that the strange little kid wanted to stand on his face.
He opened his mouth again to tell her, politely, to bugger off, and then thought better of it.
Really, this was the kind of annoying rediculousness he claimed to miss, right?
"Right, fine. Be careful please," he said, lowering his head with exhasperation in ever breath.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:31 pm
It was a good thing he'd agreed. She'd been ready to scream and cry and throw one of her dramatized bitchfits. If she and Ohahira had been the same age Triv's daughter from the past would have probably exchanged drama queen tips and stories with her.
Alake barely ever had her claws out, and even like now, when she did, they were meek and pathetic and did no damage at all. Even if she was climbing up your face using them.
The cub settled on his fluffy mane and nudged him with one of her back feet. "Okay, up!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:51 pm
The cub was certainly... lively looking. A good deal of brown, but there was also that... bright color. He wasn’t' good with colors, he supposed it was a bluish-greenish-blue green sort of thing. He wondered how he'd missed her even though the undergrowth.
"Uhm," he tried to kick the dad-gear back into action and remembered that he had, in fact, never been very good at this.
"I see, it does seem rather loud," he said carefully, glancing up at the bird. It actually seemed rather pleasant to him, but he found it never went to argue with females. They always won.
However, that suggestion was a little startling, "Kill it? Wouldn't it be best just to move somewhere else? Like, closer to your family?"
There he went, breaking his own rules again.... Triv made a face known to all good fathers.
The face said 'yes yes, my face is a ladder, please continue on your merry way and continue to abuse me'. He flinched slightly as paw attempted a kamikaze attack on his right eye, waiting until he was sure the little cub wasn't going to go toppling off before moving even a little.
"You're good'n steady?" he asked, pretty much pointlessly as he stood up to his full height, trying not to shake the annoyance off of his head. Moving carefully, but no so slow as to incur the wrath of the furry little terror, he approached the tree.
"Hold on," he said, placing his right paw on the tree firmly, preparing to place his weight on it. With a slight noise he dug his claws into the trunk and lifted his other paw off the ground, standing with his head still a couple of feet below the branch.
"... are you sure this is a good idea cub?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:56 pm
"My name is Alake. Not cub. And all my ideas are good." Nevermind that the only idea she'd had other than this was to take naps in this place. Nevermind that, if the annoying cub and more annoying bird said anything, was not a good idea.
Almost... Almost...
With a squeak suppose to be a roar, she sprung off Triv and onto the branch. The bird flew away and she just barely managed to claw onto the wood to keep herself from falling down.
This was a predictament.
But, the stupid bird was gone.
Victory!
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:00 pm
"All of them?" he asked, a hint of sarcasm.
Something told him that was far from true. Probably expirience. He sighed and winced slightly as the cub jumped... and didn't land.
"Oi?" He looked up, and a momentary panic crossed his features. Why did he always let them do what they wanted? It never led to any good!
"Hey! Alake," he stretched a bit and realized there was no way he was going to reach her, "uhn, hold on please?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:11 pm
Hahaha! Take THAT you stupid bird!
...Oh, s**t, how was she going to get down?
Damn! Slipping, slipping!
Alake squeaked and clawed at the branch desperately. She was going to have to start sharpening them. By some miracle, she managed to pull herself onto the branch. Staring down at Triv, she shifted the little bit she could without falling.
A talented...idea person like her should never lose her composure. "Okay, I'm gonna jump, so catch me, alright?"
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