No More Running {Akira}

[Akira]

Naomi growled at Korvin as he spoke, she wasn’t sure but he sounded a bit cocky. Then he leaned his head against her side, again, not sure what to make of it. She turned her head the best she could, trying to catch a glimpse of his face. She huffed at Korvin once he decided to put her back down, and immediately became quiet once again. Thank you very much but I would prefer if you left my feet on the ground from now on. She bent down and pretended to dust herself off in order to hide the smile that was threatening to spread her lips. She wouldn’t give in, she would remain strong, and after all, she couldn’t let Korvin know just how much fun she was having. She couldn’t remember ever having anyone to argue with like she could with Korvin, and she quite liked it.

Naomi glared at the back of Korvin’s head as he started walking without her. She sighed softly as she started after him, wondering just what he was plotting in that head of his. Then she heard him start to whistle, and started wondering if he was sick. She jogged a little to catch up with him, but once she had caught up, matched his pace. Are you sure you’re feeling alright Korvin? She looked sideways at him, concern flashing in her features. She had never seen the hunter like this before, and wasn’t sure how to react. Truth be told she liked that he wasn’t outright arguing with her like he normally would have...well, how he would have before the two of them had confessed their true feelings anyways. The thought caused her to smile, and she quickly turned away to hide it.

[Zirin]

“I don’ care wha’ y’prefer girl. I’ll do whatever I want with ya till ya learn how t’fight it.” He replied with a shrug, glancing back to see what was holding her up. Did she really care about some dust on her clothing? What kind of hunter was she? He merely gave a roll of his eyes and a sigh before continuing on, knowing she would catch up. Soon enough, she was beside him once again, and matching his pace.

His whistling stopped as she questioned how he was feeling, looking as if she feared he had caught some deadly illness or something. “Oh ya, I caught somethin’ last night outta th’blue and now I’m sick. ‘Course I’m feelin’ alright girl!” He gave her a look that screamed ‘are you stupid?’ but it was a short lived look. Perhaps she was questioning his good mood? Had he never been cheery around her before? Ah, that was it. He liked her, had liked her for a long time, and now that he was no longer able to deny it he supposed he could act however he wanted.

Rubbing at his chin, he gave her a thoughtful look before, throwing his hand to the back of her neck and leaning down to kiss her again. It was a short kiss, and in the blink of an eye he was waltzing down the corridor again with a lazy wave. “There. If I’m sick now y’are too.”

[Akira]

Naomi shook her head and rolled her eyes at Korvin’s words. If he wanted her to fight him whenever he picked her up like that then so be it. At least her rouse of dusting herself off had kept Korvin from guessing at the smile on her face, which was now carefully hidden. She turned her head around to look at Korvin fully in the face, concern evident in every line of her face. Well...that was until the last sentence left his lips and she saw the look on his face. Go figure it was just something to get on her nerves. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and glared straight ahead. She was about to let loose with a brilliant retort when she felt his hand on the back of her neck. Her eyes widened slightly when she finally realized what was happening. She stared after him as he stared walking away.

Naomi’s shock didn’t last long and soon enough she was walking right beside him once again, looking for the entire world as if nothing has happened. I have to admit Korvin, I never pegged you as the type to be so cute. She was smiling sweetly as her voice dripped with fake honey as she teased Korvin. Hmmm maybe Kosk and Naosk would like to help me make you even cuter. She looked up at him innocently as she spoke, but didn’t wait around long enough to see how he responded. Laughing, she jogged the last few feet to the kitchens where she quickly took her place in line. She had a feeling that the other hunter wasn’t going to be very happy with her after she teased him like that. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted and she figured she could fight her way out of whatever trouble she might have started.

[jovia]

Well they weren't the only ones that were headed to the food place, however Linda was heading there for something other then just food. She was hoping to meet that one guy she had seen before with the bronze and white Whers because well... After chatting with him about canines and pets galore she had figured he could use something.... That something was now right within a rather large pouch with nice warm sand as she carefully held them close. It was now or never to find him before she had more additions to her large family. Hana and Erani were both circling up over her heads as they were a bit antsy already with several chirps and trills.

Rorce was nowhere to be seen, there was more babies coming along that weren't his so he was long since gone. The others though brought up a trail behind Linda, even her two growing Huntyres Felli and Klarce. But Linda just kept rushing as she raced herself to the kitchens, at least it was dark so there was more of a chance that she would run into them... Aha so he was there up in the corridor... from some woman screaming at him and him holding her up? Linda rolled her eyes, oh yes just as she found him he was manhandling some poor woman....

"Oh geez, first time I see you in a long while and your already man handling some poor woman. Maybe I'll just give her one of your presents I got for you instead hmmm?"

[Zirin]

He bristled at her words, his eye twitching at the very notion that she thought he was cute. "I 'ope not. I ain't cute girl." He replied, giving her an unimpressed look even as his cheeks showed the faintest hint of pink. Her voice made him roll his eyes. It was sickeningly sweet, so much so that it almost made him want to gag.

"You leave Kosk outta this. She's trouble enough withou' you messin' with 'er." He shot back stubbornly before adding, "and I ain't cute!" He seemed almost offended by the notion, and as if to leave the words behind he sped up his pace, though Naomi had long since bolted ahead to get in line. Rubbing his chin as he wondered how he was going to survive with this girl. He couldn't dwell long, for soon a girl he recognized was accusing him of manhandling.

"Manhandlin'? I ain't doin' no such thing." He shot back stubbornly, looking more tired with every passing moment. "'Sides, she asked fer it." He stopped moving as she mentioned having something for him and turned to give her a curious look. "It better not be a knife through m'arm er somethin'." He gave a whistle, trying to alert Naomi that he would catch up in a minute.

[Akira]

Naomi turned around and looked back when she heard a familiar whistle and was about to go ranting and raving back to Korvin when she noticed the reason he had whistled at her. She bristled at the site of the strange woman, but kept herself calm. After all, this might just be someone coming to Korvin seeking help training some unruly canine. But as she drew closer she figured that wasn’t the case. She stood straight and tall at her five-foot four-inches, and for all the world looked like a typical hunter. She still had that air of strength, seriousness, and danger about her that she could never really shake off...no matter how much shampoo or perfume someone tried to douse her in. She stood beside Korvin, calmly taking in the scene that was playing before her very eyes.

(((OOC: Sorry it's so short, I decided to leave the mean behavior out of this for now x.x)))

[jovia]

Linda merely rolled her eyes, maybe she was stupid for doing such a thing... But if she got a canine one day she would need his expertise at least in training till she knew well enough. But frankly she couldn't be concerned about such a thing now, and it looked like he knew that girl well enough. They were probably close enough since she came back without smacking him upside the head or putting a blade in his arm.... But Linda glanced over Naomi, she seemed like she was about ready to fight and frankly if she was going to destroy these eggs... Well Linda just sighed a bit.

"Now why would a present be a blade in yer arm huh? If I was wanting to cause you harm I wouldn't be trying to find you for awhile now and wasting my time. Since if I get a canine in the future I will be needing to know a few things so I thought I would pay in advance with something helpful.... I'll even give the girlie one too since I did kind of splurge."

With that she carefully reached into her pouch, almost as if on cue her entire swarm landed nearby and started to hum as they felt the need. "Hey you guys don't give it away!! Hana!!!" Linda just pouted but pulled out two fire lizard eggs, one fairly larger then the other. Carefully she handed them out to the two, though the smaller one to Korvin really while the larger one to Naomi. If she did attack the larger one would be more easily held and pulled to safety. "Now hurry and take them you two before they hatch, I don't need more of a herd!!"

[Zirin]

Korvin couldn't help but roll his eyes at Naomi's display. He had expected her to come stomping over and complain at his way of calling her, but instead she seemed to be.. angry with Linda? Now that was a tad confusing. Of course, Korvin was much the same when it came to strangers, but he held a strange fondness for Linda, probably because they seemed to have similar experiences in their lives. As Korvin watched the other huntress' little display though... he couldn't deny that it made a chill run down his spine. This, right here, was what had attracted him to Naomi in the first place. Shaking his head, he looked back at Linda as she spoke, only to jump back a moment later as the air was filled with her annoying winged tunnelsnakes.

"Oooh no. No. I ain't got no use fer one o' them buggers. You keep it." There were few things that would make Korvin back away, but that egg she held out, which he didn't doubt housed a flit, seemed the the most evil thing on all of Pern. He was so distracted trying to keep his eyes on all her snakes that he didn't even register that she was buying his help on training a canine. Of course, it was one of the few thigns he didn't mind doing for others; he'd rather the pup be well trained than left in the hands of an idiot after all! Giving both Linda and the egg a dirty look, he fervently denied the offer. There was no way on Pern he was even going to touch a snake egg!

[Akira]

Naomi raised an eyebrow as she listened to this strange woman’s words. Thank you, and my name isn’t girlie. It’s Naomi. Even though her tone was actually kinda nice, she still wasn’t being exactly “friendly” to Linda. Then again, was she ever friendly with people that she didn’t know? She carefully cradled the large looking firelizard egg carefully, just as she had done with Nask’s and Naosk’s eggs. She didn’t know why, but she was fairly excited to see what was inside the shell of this orange-ish looking egg. Not that she had much time to think about it before Korvin started being irrational. Come now Korvin, you’re not afraid of an Egg are you? I bet you twenty marks that you’re too chicken to even lay one finger on the shell! Yep, the teasing had once again started, only this time Naomi had help.

Naomi might not have known it right then and there, but most of the wherhold would probably have started to tease Korvin if they had known what was going on. Who on Pern was afraid of a firelizard egg after all? The miniature dragon like creatures always proved to be more useful than people thought. They just needed to be trained right. And that is what this huntress planned on doing, just to annoy Korvin, and to prove him wrong that they were not useless creatures. But for now she was just going to have fun teasing him about being afraid to touch the shell. Korvin was never going to live this down, not in a hundred turns! I never thought I’d see the day when the so called “expert hunter” was afraid to touch such a small thing. What’s it going to do Korvin, make you cuter? For all the world she looked extremely innocent.

[jovia]

Linda just stood there for a few moments as she took in how everything was going... but did look over at Naomi as she spoke up and gave her name. "My name is Linda." She didn't cower down or back away either from the woman, and it seemed to be a mute point as Naomi went to look at her new egg.... however Korvin wasn't really acting as excited as either girls, and Linda could just hear the humming grow louder with a little grimace. "Oh yes, he is scared of a little egg.... and here I thought he was a mighty wher handler who had no fear." Linda's voice was just dripping with sarcasm near the end as soon as she mentioned mighty wher handler. Really was he going to act like a kid not wanting to eat his vegetables or something? This way if the rebellion were to attack he might have a fire lizard to help inform the others while keeping his Wher's quiet and out of harms way or something.

"Actually no, I think he is either scared of what he calls snake with wings... can't train them, or worried they would hate him and wish his death." But Linda just gave a little smirk, it was kind of funny seeing him back away... so why not try to walk forward again holding out the egg and see if she could make him scream and run like a little girl hmm?

[Zirin]

"I ain't afraid o' some stupid egg!" He shot back. Of course he wasn't afraid of the egg, or what was inside it. His disinterest of flits stemmed from his loathing hatred of tunnelsnakes, and since the creatures shared similarities, he saw firelizards as nothing more than flying tunnelsnakes. He didn't care how pretty these flits were, he saw them as annoying pests and dangers to his wares. For all he knew the sharding beasts would get into his skins and chew holes in them! He leveled an equal glare at both girls and backed up another step as Linda insisted on bringing the egg closer. Did they really need to insult his masculinity to get their point across.

"I ain't scared! Give them marks over girlie." He added again as the insult was repeated, reaching over and snatching up the egg before giving Naomi a clearly displeased look. "If I can..." He paused and glanced at Naomi with a sparkle in his eyes. "If I can train Naomi, I can train anythin'! No little snake'll beat m'methods." He nodded confidently until he felt the egg wobble in his hand. Ooooh no, no way was he actually going to hatch out and keep one of the buggers!

"I proved m'point. Now you take it back! I ain't wantin no critter chewin' up m'things."

[Akira]

Naomi raised both her eyebrows at Korvin’s retort, oh so she had hit a nerve had she? Oh yes, she was going to have fun with this. She turned her head to look at Linda when the woman introduced herself, and nodded slightly. She didn’t really trust the strange woman, but she would give her a chance, at least for now anyways. Oh yes, let me tell you. He really is a “mighty” wher handler alright. It’s his wher’s that have trained him, not the other way around. She smirked as she spoke, obviously having a load of fun teasing Korvin. She cocked her head to the side when she heard Linda say something about snakes with wings. Did she mean the firelizards? She looked back at Korvin as he called her girlie, and silently vowed that she would get payback for that...but not now, later.

Oh, but that was just the icing on the cake for Naomi. Oh no you don’t you wherry brained piece of herdbeast dung! The only think that I’ve ever been “trained” in is hunting, and I’ll be damned if I’ve ever been “taught” something by you! At this point she was glaring daggers at Korvin, and had completely forgot their first night together. It wasn’t long after she had yelled at him that her own egg started to hatch, and her attention was dragged away from the man that she currently wanted to jam a knife through. She would deal with him later though, she had more important things to deal with at the moment. She gasped when she saw the shell split apart to reveal what had been growing within. A very large looking topaz flitter was now curling her tail around Naomi’s forearm, chattering all the while sending very strong feelings of hunger to the shocked woman.

[jovia]

Linda just grinned a bit, as it seemed both her and Naomi had gotten under Korvin's skin well enough that he took the egg from her hand. Which was a good thing because she had spied a few cracks forming in the shell. However it seemed the first one to hatch was the larger egg, after of course the two had spoken their peace and Naomi had yelled back at him. But quickly Linda brought out some of her jerky and quickly tried to pull it apart into some small pieces and shoved them towards Naomi. "Here break them up into pieces as small as a fingernail. They are tough so they need to swallow it or chew on it so smaller the better."

Linda just grinned over at Korvin now though, she hadn't really noticed him being so freaked out till after getting Naomi her food. "Nope you took it, you keep it Korvin, and look its hatching!!" However the egg in his hands started to shake and crack even more in his hands. A blue short foot pushed out before joining by other legs. The rest of the shell though stayed intact as whomever was inside tried to cling and walk all over Korvin's hand. Suddenly though the egg cracked and shattered to reveal a rather chubby blue who squawked out loudly.... and nommed a bit on his fingers his feelings of hunger swarming Korvin. Linda just gave a little giggle before she tossed some food towards Korvin, not even trying to hand it to him in case he tried to foist the blue onto her.

[Zirin]

He scowled, not at all happy that she would even think that he wasn't the one in charge of his own whers. He was about to retort when it seemed he had managed to get under her skin. His scowl quickly switched into a lopsided grin and he moved to wrap an arm around her waist.

"Y'ain't never learned anythin' from me? I find tha' hard t'believe." He would have said more, but her egg began to crack and Korvin thought better of staying close. Besides, he had to get rid of the egg in his own hand. He put some space between Naomi and himself, wanting nothing to do with the sharding pest in that egg. So distracted was he, that it took a moment to realize his own egg had started cracking, though when he realized it, he gave another attempt at shoving it back into Linda's hands.

"I took it t'prove a point! I don' wannit! Take it back!" He was almost frantic in his attempts, but against his will the egg cracked and out popped a little blue. Maybe.. maybe it would go to Linda anyways! "Wha' the-!" He yelped and shook his hand, trying to dislodge the little annoyance as it chomped down on his fingers. He wanted nothing to do with it! Nothing at all! It was instinct alone that caused Korvin to catch the chunk of food that Linda tossed, and the moment it was in his hands the little blue launched itself at the meat and stole it right from his fingers.

"Shardin'!" He groaned at the familiar feeling of a mind pressing into his, though it was weaker than a whers. The little thing was his?? This couldn't be happening! Maybe if he tried to dislodge it again? The blue had other ideas however, quickly shuffling up his arm and onto his head, snapping up a mouthful of hair and giving a hum as he began chewing.

Korvin's face fell into a defeated glare as he tried to look up at the creature, leaving quite a comical scene. His unhappiness at his new pet, coupled with the way the blue chomped and tugged on his hair, was simply too strange to be anything but amusing. "Wha' did I do t'ya girl? Why d'ya think I deserve this punishment?"

[Akira]

No I haven’t. Naomi didn’t even look at Korvin as she spoke, instead she contented herself with feeding the topaz firelizard that was now sitting proudly on her left shoulder. I think I’ll call you Chilean little lady. The topaz didn’t have time to react to her name before Korvin started making a scene. Really Korvin it isn’t a punishment now stop acting like such a baby. She rolled her eyes and shook her head at him as she spoke. Chilean hissed at the blue’s antics, not at all happy that he had yet to give her the proper respect a queen such as herself deserved. Naomi placed a calm hand on the young hatchling’s sticky back. Thank you for Chilean Linda, but it is time we get ourselves some breakfast so we may attend to our duties as handlers. Naomi nodded politely to the other woman before turning once again to Korvin.

(((OOC: Sorry it's so short x.x)))