Life with Koda

[Chasca]

"Hey!" I yell after Kadzait's comment on my pace. "I'm just toying with you, Mr. 'fast as the wind itself'!" I reply with a grin, forcing myself to go faster. But still, he's ahead and passes Nikiski, Truttle, and Diamond.

I try to take a different route, going the other way around them. Sure enough I start to catching up quickly. "I'm almost at you!"

[Kadzait]

Sure enough, she is almost upon me, taunting me with remarks, and I can feel her close to my fur, any second now she will be able to tag me, and I'm sure we'll go spinning into the river! ;D

[Chasca]

Leaning my front legs down, and using my hind legs to jump, I leap up and with that I tag him, causing me to flip over him, and both of us go spinning in the river.

Shaking the water out of my fur, I catch my breath, and laugh, "Ha! Now you're it!"

[Kadzait]

Sure enough, we go splashing into the river as she tackles me, probably with such force that half the river could've been drained! I hop out, the shaggy fur from the top of my head hanging over my green eyes. I start to laugh again, a wet soggy laugh, as Sila proclaims that I'm it again. I snicker, and wipe the shaggy fur out of my eyes, and she comes into focus again, as she starts off running. And to think, moments earlier, she had been a solemn, sarcastic, insult throwing wolf! She didn't seem so much that way now! I jump out of the water, not even bothering to shake my fur off.

"Hey look, air dry!" I laugh, catching up to her!

OOC: Alrighty, that was a fun afternoon, but I gotta get off now. I guess I'll see everyone tommorrow morning! in about 12 hours from now, since I don't know how the time thingies work here! Thanks for the game of tag, Sila! hmm..beddy bye time, good night! *snores.*

[Chasca]

OOC: Okies. I may be on then...actually...I'm not sure, since I'll be out tomorrow. But I probably will be. Thank you too! It was fun! Yeah...sleep is good. I should go to bed soon too. G'night!

BIC:

I laugh at Kadzait's remark, and run out of the water, barely dodging him. He was already catching up quickly, so I decided to switch the direction I had been running, skidding slightly and then making my way the opposite direction.

"You won't catch me this time!" I yell, even though I know that's far from true. For once in a long time though, I actually feel happy. And that's a big deal for me. I glance back at him, grinning, and fasten my pace.

[Ken'ichi]

OOC: ...3 pages already?! Wow...I'm way behind.

BIC: After I introduced myself to the wolf, she reveals her name as Sila. I kind of heard her remark when Kadzait called me over, she was probably annoyed for me to come over, but I ignored that.

"Please to meet ya, Sila." I guess...

Nikiski then introduced himself to her and asks her where she's from. Sila just answers she's pretty far from here. Nikiski then suggest Sila to try to eat fish, since wolfs don't naturally eat fish all the time like us bears. Sila explains to Nikiski about her favorite type of meat. Right after that, Kadzait scoops me up and noogies me, I get out of his noogie and playfully tackle him. After my noogie from Kadzait, he asks Sila where is she headed, Sila says probably north. Kadzait, being the curious wolf he is, asks Sila what's she's planning on seeing to the north. Before I could hear her answer, Spectrue calls to me to meet him in the cave, alone.

I follow him to the cave, inside the cave he turns around to face me. He tells me I should keep to myself everything that has happened to him in the incident earlier. He then reveals to me how he found out to return to his original form, but it's best to leave what I'll see to myself. Before I could say anything in the matter, he walks away from me behind a column. As I see some sort of faint light in front of me, I cover my eyes slightly. After the glow wears out, I see something coming out from where Spectrue was, wearing something over his body. I stare at the thing in shock, surprise and fright. I cautiously back up, scanning whoever is this guy, that's when I noticed this guy really is Spectrue. He kneels down and explains to me about a andro...antome...whatever it's said, how he understand human and animals, think and act like a human. But he still wants me to keep this to myself, how he wants the others to think of him as nothing more as a fox.

"Spectrue?" I ask, he nods.

I'm still in shock about what is going on, first I see Spectrue as a bear, now I see him as a fox who can walk on two and wear something over his body. I just can't believe how much secrets Spectrue has hidden from us, almost like me.

"Wow...this is...incredible..." I say in awe as I stare at the new Spectrue before me. And as he told me about how he thought about changing back, I also thought about my past, my scar, everything. "I...I also have something to tell you."

I watch Spectrue sitting down. I sighed, I'll tell him at least.

"I guess you probably have been wondering about my scar and why I'm alone in the world, right?" I look at Spectrue to see him nod.

"Well, it all started a few years ago, when I was almost a baby, kinda. You see...we were living on a mountain, high enough to be in the snowy part of the mountain, we were also living kind of close to a human village, but we never had problems with them before. I was living with my mother, father, and I even had a brother. My life was going as good as I could've asked. Until one night, my mother heard a sound and left to check, she didn't came back. The next morning I woke up early to find her, I found her in the human village, she wasn't moving..."

I closed my eyes forcefully as I began remembering that day, then I opened my eyes half way.

"Then, a few month later, I was playing with my brother in the forest, we were having a good time, until we were ambushed by hunters. My brother told me to run, that he'll meet me in a cave that was safely far but close from us. I ran to the cave and waited there...he didn't came back. Instead, I saw him being dragged by the hunters back to their village."

I close my eyes again as tears started to leak, I resisted from crying, gritting my teeth.

"Then it was my father's turn a month later. We were walking down our mountain to find some more food until the hunters came back to take away my last remaining piece of my family."

More tears began to go down my face as I resisted to cry.

"They saw me with my father, but they didn't cared! They just kept poking their spears at us! My father told me to run, but I refused! I tried to tackle a hunter to save my father, but then another hunter came from the sides and slashed me with his spear from my chest and up my neck, practically cutting me wide open!"

I practically yelled that last sentence, the others probably heard it. I still kept my urge to cry under control, my eyes closed forcefully as tears kept going down my cheek as I kept remembering those horrible days.

"After I regained consciousness I found the hunters and my father missing, but I knew he was gone when I found the snow riddled with blood, his blood! I would've died by the wound inflicted by the hunter if another bear wouldn't have found me lying on the ground! But I...I wish I would've died right there rather than being left alone in this world!"

I bowed my head and started crying again, the urge was too strong to hold back. I felt Spectrue's arms around me, trying to make me feel better. But it was useless for now, I buried my face on Spectrue and continued crying.

OOC: Wow, longest post I've ever written. I can't believe how accelerated this RP is growing. This is amazing!

[Spectrum]

OOC: Wow. You guys sure took the attention of the RP! ;DBut that's a good thing. right? Me and Diamond are almost done, and when it's over, I'll see you all in two weeks. But this isn't bye yet.

[Spectrum]

OOC: Ok, Ken'ichi, see your post, gunna post something wide opened here...Nice story, btw...reminds of my own...

[Truttle]

OOC: As I'm sure your post will be quite long let me just put this up really fast.

BIC: As I'm eating fish, I had already forgoten my problems, Nikiski comes and sits next to me while we watch the wolves run around playing a game of tag. He says that it looks like fun.

"Yeah, it sure does." I'm just amused at how muddy Sila has gotten while playing with Kadzait. "I guess she isn't that stuck up after all. If shes willing to cut loose and have fun like that."

[Nikiski]

OOC~ I'm basically in the middle of nowhere right now!??

BIC~

Watching the wolves play is fun. Sila sure is a fast runner and both Kadzait and Sila fall into the water as Sila tackles Kadzait.

Now I am wondering what Ken'ichi and Spectrue are doing in the cave.

[Spectrum]

"Spectrue?" Ken'ichi asks in awe. I nod my head slowly, ingsuringly.

"Wow...this is...incredible..." He says in a shivering manner.

"Indeed it is..." I say slowly.

Ken'ichi rises his eyeing glance of my body to my eyes and tells me he something to tell me. I watched him closely and attentively, as he looks to the ground. He asks me if I wonder of why he has such a terrible scar, and why he is alone in the world. I nod slowly once again. He then tells me in a monotonous voice, almost droning out to a wheeze at the ends of his speech, as he speaks of his story.
I invision the tale in my mind as I close my eyes, feeling through what Ken'ichi tells me. I feel the anguish and saddness of finding his mother dead, as I imagined myself through his eyes. I opened my eyes when he stopped for a moment. I watched the excruciating, inopportune look on his face, his eyes closing rather sharply, then he opens them once more and looks away, speaking a little harsher and stronger then his prosaic mood.
He spoke of his brother, them both playing in the forest, joyful everlasting. But they were assaulted by hunters. His eyes in my mind again, I try to imagine his brother yelling out to him, to continue running back to the cave. Then I seen the vision of his brother being dragged away by the killers themselves. I scrunched my eyes at the thought, reminding me of the evil of man at times. I peered my eyes out tom Ken'ichi's again to find him resisting from crying, though it was futile, as I saw glints of liquid inveloping his eyes...
He continued about how his father had been taken away also, his last remaining loved one. I saw tears well up stronger in his eyes, floating down the side of his cheeks. He told me of how he had wished to save his father, but in his attempt to do so, he was brutally severed and pierced his body from chest to his neck and up to his face slightly, nearly having his whole side of his body completely open. I gasped, thinking of the horrid thought, as he yelled out that last thing, his face getting soaked slighty from the overwhelming tears.
He continued on, saying as he had come back from his state of faint, and found the hunters gone, with his father's blood to take the place of his body in the snow. Nothing but blood...My heart's strings faded very deeply, my concious attitude beggining to think of my own father. My eyes were rapidly moving, trying to shake the tear ducts dry. I extended my arms around Ken'ichi, held him close, but my attempts were undefying of his pain, his suffering. My red shirt began darkening from where his head lay hidden, his tears and face burrowing in my body. I placed him slightly on my extended knees, letting him release anything more into my chest.
"I...I'm sorry, Ken'ichi...I'd had...That same feeling...I really have..." I held him closer, as I began thinking of my own loved ones, slayed upon from a hellionish demon in my nightmares. Those nightmares were the only real connection to my past. Without them, I'd know none better of my own future.
It seemed like hours, holding him tight, thinking of those terrible memories, both of us. But even as though darkness invelopes our pasts, light must guide us though our paths in the present, and slowly let us find our true destiny... I got up slowly from the aching position I was in, extending my legs out on the cave floor, as I lay Ken'ichi back in front of me.
"Ken'ichi, I...I don't know what will happen in the future, but your path will not always be a dark one. You mustn't let yourself tremble from those terrible days, no matter how bad they may seem. What has happened has happened, and everyone will get what they deserve in the end. I may have an answer to my own path one day, but I will make it a top priority to find out what has gone wrong with this world, what has made this world tear apart. That is my only connection right as of now. The world is changing, Ken'ichi, and I will help it to be in a good way, no matter what." I exended my hand out to rub Ken'ichi's head genderly. Releasing my touch from him, I instead picked him up completely off his feet and hugged him to comfort him. I placed him back down and looked out to the entrance of the alter.

"Ken'ichi, I must go say goodbye to everyone. I won't tell anyone of this. This is our...our thing, okay?" I watched his face, not sure to decide if his expression is relieved, happy, or what, but I turned my head away.

"I now have the ability to go back and forth from bear to fox from fox to bear. I will take advantage of this and change back, tell everyone good bye and take Diamond with me. I will then change back as soon as we are out of sight. I WILL meet you again, one day. But as for this predicament...Tell everyone that I have a....dear friend I wish to meet again...And he'll be surprised to get a bear hug from me, heheh..."
I thought slightly of Gemini "Space". Space was never the one for emotion, but could he resist a bear hug?! I smiled at the thought and looked at Ken'ichi.
"And remember, as long as you have friends, you are never alone in this world." I smiled softly, and closed my eyes, as my prism floated from my neck, the carving of a bear, having my same face, bringing a green aura from the inside out, and then glowed my body. I felt my form change, and stood on two legs, only now I was a bear again, my clothes cast aside to the alter coloum. I would have Diamond get them later. I fell to the ground, my four paws on the ground now. I watched Ken'ichi's face full of awe and wonder again.
"Now, let's go out and greet everyone before I go."
I put the clothes in my mouth in threw on my back. Hopefully noone would notice, but it didn't matter. I'd just tell them they were valuables found in the alter. I walked with Ken'ichi, him still half heartingly upset about the stories. I told him as I we walked. "I'll just keep the rest of my stories to tell for later when I meet you again!" I winked at him, and I could tell he felt a bit more happier, at least up to 75%. I chuckled.

[Nikiski]

Seeing Spectrue walking out of the cave with Ken'ichi, I get back on my four, and slowly walk towards them.

"Hey, where've you been?"

Spectrue hesitates as he tells me that he was in a cave talking to Ken'ichi.

"Oh OK, well, you ready for some fish?"

[Kanoa]

~OOC~Yeeow za, 2 pages long after my meeting

~BIC~
Munching on my salmon, I noticed many things happening around me, the wolfs are having fun, Truttle sitting near the river (uh, right?) and Niki, Spectrue and Ken'ichi are doing something which I don't know. I wondered which one do I attend to.

"Ah, heck..Lemme finish my salmon first"

I continued to munch on..

[Ken'ichi]

OOC: This post is supposed to be before Nikiski and Kanoa's posts.

BIC: As Spectrue holds me close to comfort me of my pain, he says he also have suffered the pain of losing your loved ones. I kept crying, my face buried on his chest, it seems like I was crying forever. I kept remembering the good times I've had with my family, all our happyness, our laughter, our close bond as a family, all gone just by a swing of a spear. Eventually, the crying slows down, and the pain begins to reduce, but nothing will fill the hole left in my heart when it came to losing my family at an early age as it was. After what seems like forever, Spectrue lays me back in front of him. I kept my head bowed down, still crying, but I still hear Spectrue's words, to keep going forward, always keeping our heads high for the future and never let the pain of our past make us quit. Spectrue says he'll make his top priority to find out what happened to the world to make it so bad, and how he'll try to help it be better. I feel Spectrue's hand rub my head gently, followed by being picked up and recieving a hug for comfort. I buried my face unto Spectrue's chest once more and rubbed my head on him, trying to substitute a hug with it. He places me back unto the ground and I see him look back at the entrance of the alter, reminding me he has to say goodbye to the others, but he promises me that I'll definetly meet with him again. He reveals to me that he has found a way to transform back and forth from a fox to bear, he looks at me with a smile and tells me that I will never be alone as long as I got friends. That made me shed a smile on my sad face. I again watched in awe and wonder as Spectrue changes to a bear right in front of my eyes. He then grabs the fur-like items and places them on his back, looks at me and suggest to go back to the others before he leaves. I nod and pad alongside him out of the cave, but I'm still aching in my heart, upset about my huge reliving of how I lost everything I held dear a few years ago. I look at Spectrue as he tells me he'll keep his stories to himself till he meets with me again, then he winked at me. I couldn't help but to dry my face from my tears and shed a smile with a slight chuckle. Spectrue is right, I may have lost my family, but I still have my friends, and with them on my side, there is nothing that I can't overcome.

[Kadzait]

OOC: hehe, I'm back, and one our before I stated too!! Mwa haha!

BIC: I continue to chase after Sila, gaining speed with every leap. She calls out, saying I won't catch her, and she glances back with a grin. But with another burst of speed I leap, tackling her once again, and scaring the heck out of three ground squirrels who where nearby. As I sit up, the ground squirrels are smashing into each other, not sure where to run they're so frightened. I grin wryly, and look at Sila with a smirk. I jump up and start after the confused squirrels, urging her to follow.