Tuesday, August 23, 2005

sorry part six is so freaking long!
“I don’t understand why people love nature so much. It’s annoying. And it’s ruined my boots.” Eve lifted her foot to show Blanco the damage done to her leathers.
I actually liked that pair. Damn. Hey! I know!
Blanco crouched while nudging her legs apart with his nose and then rose to full height beneath her.
“Okay. Good idea. One. You should have done it before my clothes got trashed. Two. Don’t get comfortable with the idea of being between my legs.”
His head lowered. And it seemed like such a good idea.
“Stop being such a baby, babe,” her hands reached for his ears “,These will be perfect for steering. Now if I pull right,” she yanked to the right and Blanco went with it. “Good boy.”
Good idea. Heh. How could I be so dumb. Oh well, next time I’ll know better.
The carriage had become useless several miles back. The horses where just not able to step through such dense foliage and low hanging branches. Effelio had almost snapped his ankle in a snake hole.
“One more thing. If you dare shift to your naked, penis packing human form while down there, I will make you my sister.”
The image of the blade flashing by his crotch entered his mind. I hate that knife. But I don’t know why she hates the forest so much. It’s quite peaceful to be out here like this. Everything is so green and pretty. Not like the city where every corner has some dying pauper. Just me, Eve, and the world. Life is good.
“Blanco, I have a question for you. Wait, let me get off be fore you shift.”
You don’t have to get off. Heheeh.
“Why is it that silver hurts a werewolf so badly?”
Oh. That question.
Once he had a normal mouth “, That is one of the most common questions I get.”
“I figured it would be.”
“Okay, everything has an opposite, I mean, for the sake of the argument, just go with that idea.”
“Right. I’m with you.”
“Werewolves began a long time ago. As you know, so did all other kinds of were creatures. At the time of our creation, silver somehow came to mean the opposite of our existence. Water and fire, light and dark, were and silver.”
“Very mythological, Blanco. Could you make this slightly more interesting.”
“Yes, I can talk to someone who cares about what I have to say.”
“Don’t be like that you wuss, I’m just messing with you.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t even see why you half to ask me this. Your parents sh-”
“If you’ll remember, I only know who my parents are. Past that, I know nothing about them, and I’ve learned nothing from them. So I don’t know all the rules and protocol that come with our non-human kind.”
“I’m sorry.”
“No you’re not.”
“Yes I-”
“Shut up,” and then she was moving through the brush far faster than Blanco could ever hope to match.
Damn it. I have to learn to watch my mouth. Might as well start walking. Humpf. Nature doesn’t seem so great anymore. Man it’s hot. No way I’m switching back to wolf form. The heat would kill me, so now I have to walk through a jungle or whatever this is by myself, in scorching heat. Greattttt.
A pool of water became visible a few feet away.
Water!!! So thirsty. So thristyyyyyyyy.
He dove through the air and landed in the pool.
So cold. Whoaaa.
Now once again out of the water, he simply splashed it on to his face to cool himself.
“Gggrrrrrrrr.”
Deep, throaty growling sounds are never good. In my life at least.
A bear stood up and pushed down the two trees next to it.
Now I know that ain’t a normal bear. Oh I get it.
“Hi, Vaughn.”
The colossal animal slumped it’s shoulders, rippled and became a man of rather large stature. “You could at least pretend to be afraid, Kraken.”
“Wrong, fool. My name is Blanco now.”
“I see, that women that I smelled all over you has really done a number on your manhood! HAHA! At least I hope that’s a woman I smell on you!”
“I’ve missed you so much, Vaughn. What did I ever do without you?”
I enjoyed life, that’s what.
“Oh no, now the perfume wearing pup is hitting on me. Your left hand not enough for you?”
Ok, now let’s get to it.
Blanco was up and moving from the water with his hand balled into a fist. Vaughn made no motion to dodge the attack, but his paw came up in a counter.
The @$%#, how does he have a paw in huma-
The paw made contact with the side of Blanco’s face, and sent his head bouncing off of a trunk.
Wow, that was amazing.
“How did you do a partial morph? And faster than a true morph.”
“Pretty impressive, huh? So you really want to know?”
“No, I just like asking questions to the air. It’s good practice for when I give a woman another chance to reject me.”
“As pessimistic as ever I see. Here’s your answer, Blancto.”
“It’s Blanco!”
“Yeah sure, whatever. Shut up and listen when you ask a question. So I’m talking to the leader of my tribe, and he starts retelling the story of how all weres get their power from their particular totem,” Blanco was still rolling around on the ground holding his head and moaning “, and of course I start to get bored, cause we’ve all only heard the story more times than we’ve blinked. And then it hits me, where do the totems get their power from?”
“From the animals they represent,” and he stabbed his finger at a bird sitting up in a tree.
“Right, that’s the old dogma. But how does the totem do it? How does it take the abilities of an animal, and transfer them to a person?”
Blanco stopped massaging his head for a second to think. “I don’t really know the answer to that. I’ve just always taken it for granted that it happens.”
“Exactly. So I asked my chief, and he just smiled at me, and told me to go the mountains a few days travel from our village. I get up there, and I find a cave to sleep in for the night, and this bear comes out of nowhere.”
“Hhmmm. Why does that seem familiar?”
“Haha. So anyway, I start to morph, and it fails. I mean completely, man. The obvious thought I have at that point is that I’m totally gone. But I put my hands up to fight anyway. And the bear talks to me, man! It talks to me!”
Blanco was finally able to get back up to a sitting position “, Vaughn, you remember that discussion we had about not eating the plants you don’t recognize? This is a perfect example of the things that could happen when you do eat them.”
“I suppose it was just the weeds when my paw smacked you half-way to the All-Totem.”
“I see your point.”
“So I’m talking to this bear, and it starts to tell me how to get a closer connection to the totem and therefore the animal itself..”
“Are you serious? I thought all wears had already achieved the highest level of connection possible?”
“Apparently not. The bear I was talking to was the very avatar of the bear totem.”
“You were talking to Slief the Titan. Totem of Strength.”
“That’s right. And he told me a little secret.”
“What was it? You have to tell me.”
“Uhh. That’s the thing man. I can’t.”
“You mean you don’t remember.”
“Yeah. That would be what I mean.”
“H- How did you mana-I mean,” Blanco fell back on to the ground with his hands raised. Okay Ur, violence isn’t the only way you can kill me. A heart attack will do it just fine.
“I think I know how you can talk to your totem though, man. So have a little faith in your friends.”
“Alright, then tell me.”
Leaning forward, Vaughn said “,Get off your lazy behind, find your chief, or maybe even mine. Take the time to ask them how, and have them tell you where to go to find out.” The smile across his face was incredibly pleased.
If he didn’t have a few extra moves, I’d kill him. Maybe not kill him, but hurt him severely. I would fell a whole lot better.
“I know what you’re thinking, Blanco.”
“Really? Then where was I going to stick the knife? Hmmmm?”
“Well, I might have been a little bit off as to what you were thinking. But, my point was going to be that it wasn’t really my fault that I forgot.” Blanco gave him a wide eyed stare which resembled being frightened to death. “Calm down, man. It’s alright. I think Slief wiped my memory of what he told me, cause if I’d just forgotten, I don’t think I’d be able to partial morph.” His hand waved three times, and then it was a paw again.
“Okay, Vaughn. It’s been nice talking to you,” Blanco unsteadily stood up, his head had stopped bleeding now “,but I have to go now. You see that woman you smell all over me will be expecting me to catch her and beg for forgiveness any second now.”
“Are you gonna beg?”
As he walked away, Blanco turned and said “,If she doesn’t cut my mouth off first.”

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