| The Healing Den Name: Rei Gender: Male Age: 17 Race: Cat Human Decription: Rei stands about six feet tall. He is most comftorbal standing up right, but can, and will, drop to all fours to run. He has cat ears that stick up through his brown hair. He also has a tail. His eyes are green and slitted. He can see in the dark, just like cats. He has sharp teeth. The rest of him looks mostly human. His father was one of the were-tigers that live in the mountains, and his mother, a human. He has lived with neither race, because he is an outcast in both. If the need arises, he can transform into a full were-tiger, but he perfers not too. When he takes on this form, he loses all since of who he is, and who is enemy is. He spent most of his life in a forest, that the humans deemed "uninhabitable." Personality: Rei is serious, but can be very lovable and sweet when he wants to. Friendship is something a little new to him, so he is often gruff and outspoken. He wants to have friends, but has very few. ******* |
| All of them were looking at him again. Couldn't he just buy his supplies like everyone else? Rei's mouth twisted into a snarl before he realized it, reveling many sharp teeth. His slitted eyes narrowed dangerously. The store's owner cleared his throat nervously. Rei turned around to face him. "What can I get for you... s..." The cleark stoped, seemingly unable to bring himself to call the cat-human 'sir'. Rei told the human what he wanted, paid, and hurried out of the store, the warry eyes of the true humans following him Rei sighed, as he always did when he returened home. His house was located deep in a forest. No humans lived hear, becuase many dangous creatures resided here. None of then were even a threat to Rei. His home was located in a tall tree. He had built the home skillfully, so that it was nearly invisible in the branches. Rei started forward, then froze in place. A candle light glimmered faintly from in between the branches. He never left a cangle burning when he left. Rei tested the air carfully with his nose. Yes, it was there: the smell of human. Rei sniffed again. There was something else along with the human smell. He had never melled anything like it before. It was so subtle that he almost missed it. Rei scailed the tree with ease, and hoisted himself through the trapdoor in the floor of the house. The human sat at his table, eating something it must have brought with it. A male human. Rei almost felt bad for the human, who had no chance of even resisting Rei when the cat-human through the man out. He stepped forward silently, and stepped right onto the human's pack. It made a crinkling noise, and the human turned around. "Oh hello! Come to share this nice little hid-a-way with me?" "What are you doing in my house?" "Your house? This is your house? Oh no! I'm terribly sorry! Stupid creature told me this place was deserted. Rei grabed hold of the color of the older man's shirt and dragged him down to the ground. "Thats no way to treat my human!" Rei turned his head slowly, looking for the speaker. "Ah..." The man started. "You are probley wondering how I found your home. Well, the truth is, I didn't. My dragon did." "Your dragon? I think not! If anyone is owned, its you!" The voice said. Through the harsh words, Rei clearing heard love in the voice. A huge creature slid out of the woods. "So sorry. Miscouculation on my parth." So that's what he had smelled. A dragon. Rei was amazed and totally enchanted by this creature, but pulled his attention back to the man. "Who are you, and where did you come from?" The man gave a bow. "James, at your service. And I, and my ...er... friend, came from the Healing Den." "The what? "Healing Den. Sheesh! Where have you been living. Under a rock?" James looked around, and then realized just where Rei had been living, and turned a bright shade of red. "Well, we're scouts, sent out to find sutable potenial canidates." "Canidates for what?" "Why for bonding to a dragon of course!" Rei's eyes widened. Bond to a dragon. It was very intreging. And like most cats, Rei was filled with a burning curiosity. "What about the people from this Healing Den?" Rei asked hesitently. "What about um?" Rei twittled iwth one of his ears nerviously. "Well, are they... afarid of... people... like me?" James looked shocked. "No, why should they be?" "Well," Rei looked at the ground. "I'm different." "So? You should see some of the people there. Lots of them 'differnt'. The shape-shifters are the strangest, I think. Why, there are even several dozen cat-human, like you." "Several dozen?" Rei couldn't even imangine that. He had thought himself the only one. "Like I was saying, looking for some canidates. You look like a good potential. Care to come along?" Rei nodded, unable to speak. "It seems fate put me in the right house." Off to one side, the dragon smiled. A few weeks later, Rei was well established in his new home near the Healing Den. The eggs were reaching their maturity, and all were close to hatching. Then, the day came. The word was sent around: The eggs were hatching. All canidates were to come right away. Rei flew from the door, running at full cat speed. He soon reached the Healing Den, and was lead to the Sands. Rei was awstruck by the vastness of the Sands. Eggs upon eggs upon eggs lay partly covered in sand. A few canidates were already there, and fewer still were cooing over dragonlings. As Rei stood and watched, a little under a dozen dragons hatched, and quickly chose their bondmates. Rei looked eagerly to every dragon that hatched, but none seemed to want to come his way. He stood, ears drooping, waiting, hoping. A few eggs laied by a dragoness name Unath began to hatch. The first one out of its shell streeked straight to it's chosen one. Rei watched as the second dragon hatched. A black and brown-tan mottled dragon came from one of the eggs laid by Unath. This brown had a long, flattened face, and sharp small spines spaced widely down his neck and back. His wing sails were semi-transparent, and shimmered many colors of brown and dark, when he held them up. The dragon began to make his way through the crowd twords Rei. He froze, not wanted to let his hopes rise, but so wanting to be chosen. The brown looked deep into Rei's eyes, and he heard a voice ring true in his mind. I would be your friend, if no other will. Spoke the brown, into Rei’s mind. This voice was very different from the dragon who searched Rei out, it was heavy, like molasses, smooth and dark. It was a voice that Rei was immediately used to. “I’d like that a lot, Gurtak,” Rei said, sensing the deep hunger in the hatchling. Gurtak, Rei mused to himself. A perfect name for the little one. "Thank you." Rei whispered, realizing that he had been chosen. The dragonling chirped merrly. You are most welcome, but please, can't we go get something to eat now? Rei laughed, and lead his new friend to the kitchens to find him something to eat... |
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| Name: Gurtak Gender: Male Description: Brown-black camo. He has a long flattened face, small sharp spines down his neck and back. His wings are partly transparent, and shimmer when he moves. He is sharp and well defined. He is a small, 26 foot dragon. He is very slick in the air, and can almost hover. Personailty: He is very calm and relaxed. He is smaller than most dragons, but does not mind his size. His personality matches Rei's well. |
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