[Nyxia]

Hume Form (Starting in Lucain form)

Low in the fog the lingered deep within the hallowed woods could be seen a dark shadow of a beast. Like shade hound it moved across the ground in a sweeping motion, spikes protruding from the beast's back and elbows. The creature swept the forest floor, nose to damp earth, over roots and rock alike; before finally letting out a terrifying howl into the fading light of dusk.

Enae sat back on her haunches and growled deep in her throat, how in the world did that sly demoness trick her into this again? Shaking her head furiously as she growled, this was the second time in a little over three weeks that she found herself mucking around in some strange place rather than inside her club, and it was beginning to irritate her deeply. "Those stupid mushrooms better actually be here this time" She grumbled to herself as she put her dark nose back to the ground and began her search again. Blue-black fur rippling with colors as she moved through the dense fog, over fallen trees and the occasional over turned rock.

By the time she'd made her way about half way into the dark wood, night had fallen; and the she-beast found herself wondering, and not for the first time, if it had been her better judgment to wander into this place alone. After all she knew the tales told, of those lost to the mist, or the Ristikii hiding within it. With a sharp glance around herself, she kept moving, seeking only the handful of rare mushrooms the demoness had claimed would bring in customers, and cost a small fortune to buy.

[airman530]

"Ahh, there you are my sweet little fungus." Picking a small handful of mushrooms, Cipac put the the last bunch into the sac on his back and started out of the chill-fully calm forest. Trotting along through the thickening fog, the soft earth starts to grow a thin slime due to the increasing moisture in the air. Trying to get to an open area to get my bearings back to town he hears another person wandering around the forest. "Well looks like someone else is starting to look for these. Oh well I need to get back." Wandering around he gets into a thicker for that has a strange candy scent and a faint blue hue to it. "Uhh, what is this fog doing to me? I can feel something around my body." All the spines on his body start to glow with the warmth of the sun is all he feels and sees before fainting.

[Nyxia]

Enae had begun to wonder if that silly dragon demon wasn't off her rocker a touch, as she seemed to wander in circles. She honestly was beginning to believe in those tales now, as she'd yet to see another living being around, not even wildlife seemed to wander in the dark. Her amber eyes aglow in the pitch that was starting to settle damp and chilled against her fur, the she-beast shivered as she never would have under another's eye. Oddly fear wasn't something she'd ever understood fully, nor would she allow herself to find unless something really did lurk in this fog.

Unable to keep her nose to the ground longer, Enae brought her head up to allow her eyes to search the area while her poor nose warmed some away from the damp moss and grass below her paws. Her steps became more thoughtful, silencing in the blackness so she was like a Ristikii herself, a mere shade in the woods. Her thoughts focused on the mist faes that legend claimed smelled of moss and still waters, and by chance she allowed her nose to absently search for that scent on the fog.

So wrapped up was the she-beast that she nearly missed the sweet smell in the winds, almost because the moment it registered with her, the demoness' image flashed in her mind. "Oh, bugger." she grumbled darkly at the fog before her, shaking her scruff to still herself as she allowed the scent to wash over her. Amber eyes almost burned in the dark as she reached her own aura out, seeking that of the demoness. To her surprise she instead found another signature in the deep around her, more over not that far from her, and it seemed to be resting. If she the stars were in her favor, and rarely were they, she hoped it to be a local familiar with the area and it's flora, as well as the path out.

A deep sigh escaped parted lips to cover her growl, with her luck it was one of the demoness' lackeys here to watch her work. But the she-beast gathered herself into a full 3' 4" tall rippling fur ball; that she was still tripped out by, why the colors of her coat were dancing about so. And began towards the resting mass of purplish-blue life signature she was looking at "Ello?" She called in her deeply husky voice.

[airman530]

Waking up from his small nap, Cipac slowly gathers his thoughts and himself. He looks around as his spikes start glowing a blackish purple with yellow, red, and orange with gold swirls. "Hi I'm Cipactonal, you can call me Cipac if it's easier for you. I have a few questions for you, but introduce yourself first. After introducing himself he stood himself up at 5 ft, his spikes extend another foot and a half above his back.

"You know, I think I like the way my spikes are looking now. I've always had this interesting coat of mine; this new thing my body is doing just looks amazing with the way everything else moves around. Oh yea I'm sorry, would you like a mushroom? I came in here to get some and have enough to spare, you wanna try a few? They are a real treat for me and are extremely rare because you can only find them in here, and this forest doesn't make getting these things easy. So what's your name?"

[Nyxia]

Having finally found her "purple man" as she'd taken to calling him in her head along the narrow path, she eyed him once over to make sure there was no glamour before approaching. Looking up a bit at the larger cain before her, Enae's glowing eyes caught just the hint of a red spark in their depths at his mention of the mushrooms. The very thing she'd spent three moon's seeking and this stranger acted as if they were little more than food. Trying her best to hide the dark smile on her lips, that might have frightened her new "friend". "Mushrooms 'ou say?" Her voice softening to a lighter tone as the words rolled from her tongue. "All we need is four or five of the large ones, and you'll be serving drinks for months."Her mind repeated the dragon demon's words for the eighty-third time. She had to get at least two out of this little visit.

Tipping her head to the left some, Enae did her best to look innocent and unimposing, which several of her employees had accused her of. "I think that might be vhat I vas sent for." Her smile by then had come back to it's sweet "sell you something" sort. Her dark body seemed alive with swirls of colors that danced down her back and along her sides and face, and her tails swished in the dark causing more a light show. She hoped it would distract him as she brushed closer to his warm body and the sack which held her prize. " I am called Enae." She answered almost in a purr sound, odd for the creature she was. " 'Ou vould be?"

[airman530]

"Why yes I did say mushrooms," he swings his head back and grabs a large one from his left side. "These are the normal sized ones, but every blood moon you can find them three times the size with a much more 'comforting' and lasting feeling." He steps closer to her face and sets it down for her, "Here try this one, it should have a great affect on your size. So what brings you all the way into the forest searching for these interesting little candies. There arn't very many people who can really track these, especially when the forest likes to through you special weather conditions."

[Nyxia]

Enae had never known what the great fuss was over these mushrooms, they weren't pretty, nor did they smell to wonderful. All she really knew was that she'd been sly talked into this strange hunt by that demoness and her pet, who'd come into the club every day for several weeks to try and sway Enae into the hunt. She suspected it was because of Efar and her big mouth that the demoness had even learned of the she-beast acute sense of smell. Letting the thought trail away like smoke in the fog as she bent her lean neck and took a bite from the bluish skin of the fungus, unaware of what she was about to be in for. "Comvorting, lasting...feeling?" Enae rolled cautiously the words from her tongue, but still it made no sense to her in the least.

It didn't take but a few lingering moments for his words to make perfect sense though, as the she-beat bean to notice a warmth that started in her paws and crept up. At first it was a puzzling sensation which caught her off-guard, but slowly her mind began to cloud over, as if the fog had somehow gotten inside her head. Taking another bite caused an explosion of taste on her tongue, like a sweet but musty wine. Without notice her charming and usually endearing smile had gone to the usual off-handed grin that she had around the three mischievous kuhna girls that reeked havoc in her club on occasion, when she looked back up at him; her own amber eyes glittering with mischief.

Most of the mushroom gone, Enae allowed her now warmed body to slump into the grass. Wary now more than ever of the man, she cocked her head so as to watch him from the edges of her vision. Still for all her concern she couldn't pull herself to get up and move too far from him either, and the tingly warmth that seemed to engulf her was too good to attempt movement as it stood.She didn't even notice her own tongue hanging from her mouth in a panting motion, as his voice almost echoed in her head. Blinking back the haze her mind was pulling through to listen, " A friend asked me to, az a favor. Möy sniff is part shade hound." She finally declared in her thick hound accent.

[airman530]

"Hmm, I'll have to ask you about that when you come to your senses," He sits back with a smile on his face. He keeps an eye on her as she falls asleep. Laughing aloud for a short moment he could only imaging the wild dream she's going to have. "Well looks like I have a little more time to gather a few more mushrooms." Cipac sniffs around in the air to catch the sweet smell given off by the tree, whose roots harbor the fungi. 'Got it!' Trecking out into the thick bog, after only a few feet all visibility is gone.

[Nyxia]

Her head on her paws, Enae could only wonder a moment before her eyes had slid shut. Fortunately for her the blackness didn't last but half an hour before subsiding from her mind, instead she awoke wondering if the encounter hadn't been but a dream. Shaking herself loose of warm feeling, though her mind was still a haze; and began moving her stiff body. At first her legs shook under her weight, after a time they steadied and the she-beast found herself moving, although painfully slow, forward towards the way she could remember entering.

That was until she saw the basket sitting lonely in the grass near where she'd rested, and with on protesting joints she turned to take a closer look at the unusual thing. It was  upon inspection that she noticed the five large mushrooms. Enae's eyes widened, and in an instant she knew it hadn't been a dream. After gathering her senses to the best of her ability in the still haze of said black golden, Enae could think of only one thing to do with the basket and that did not heed the other creature's interest. Cautiously the she-beast surveyed the area around her with piercing amber eyes, before snatching up the dark brown treasure chest and darting clumsily away from the area. Pouring all her speed into her uncooperative feet.

[airman530]

Disappointed with not having anything to come back with, he stops in his tracks to carefully take notice of which way her scent, and the scent of the mushroom sack. Just faintly picking up the item from his bags that gave off the trail to the little theif who took them. Rushing forward into the mist, his anger pushes his body through the thick layer of slime on top of the murky waters. Only the thought of catching her was important, "She will learn that there is always going to be a heavy price when I am wronged"

Long after he was robbed, the sun started to peek over the horizon. "Ha! Looks like things are going to work in my favor now." As he watches the beautiful rays of light search their way into the shadows, he knew only to watch for a short time. As the sun rose up a little less than halfway, the mist started giving off its own lights and colors in small, scattered places. He looks around and doesnt see he so he calls out a small taunt, "The mushrooms aren't the only thing in this forest that make you see things!"

[Nyxia]

Enae couldn't describe even to herself why she had taken the entire basket, not for the reason of angering her maybe imagined purple man, rather for the face that it was a heavy and clumsy object to carry with her struggling body. The she-beast debated stopping to make an alteration to how she was carrying the sickeningly sweet fungi just below her nose. With a shutter she averted the thoughts creeping in her mind of something following her, when she could have sworn she saw a dark shadow from the corner of her vision. Slowing her pace, the wolf like creature swung her head to the left only to catch a glimpse of the thing white snake mist that seemed to circle her.

Somehow she knew her eyes were playing tricks, but the tales and the harsh feeling of the fungi made her shiver violently. When the next shadow danced near the edge of her vision, Enae felt herself surrounded, seeing these shadows circling around her, as the Ristikii were told to. Without thinking she snatched up the basket, crushing the handle in her jaws as she swung towards what she believed east and the path from which she'd entered. This time at least her feet were willingly going in the direction she wanted when she began again to push her slim wolf-like body seeking an exit.