[Azura Rayume]

"Huh?" Havoc had zoned out, but snapped back to reality at the Draculi girl addressed him. Now what? The only answer he could think of was, "I'm too busy watching this Battleheart to pay attention," but he kept that to himself. Finding no other responce, he remained silent.

((Havoc has no people skills whatsoever...))

[Thessur]

Thessur watched the pets chattering with some amusement.  She was eager to get back to her caverns and her own little family though.  She'd promised the ferrikoons an outing to the park or something today.

"It's good that you've been making some friends Grawl.  Are you ready to go home or would you like to stay and talk with them some more?"

The battleheart had been distracted by the vibes he was getting from the hallowheart's stare.  The creature was still silent, but silent was better than screaming battle-cries.  He almost didn't hear Thessur as she spoke.

"...What?  Oh, yes I'm ready to go now if you are."

He turned and smiled at the group, including the hallowheart (being friendly never hurt).

"Farewell, I enjoyed meeting you.  Perhaps our paths will cross again sometime?"

Thessur smiled and waved, then turned and began to walk away.  Grawl started to follow, but he tuned his head back to give the hallowheart a look.  I don't care about myself really, He thought, but if tries to lay a claw on my master I'm going to tear him apart!

[Azura Rayume]

((Random recognition time! I've been watching Death Note for 4 days straight now, so I'm kinda crazy right now...))

Havoc blinked once, then realized that he knew the boy. A sudden memory erupted in his mind, the quality of the image astounding him. A younger version of himself, talking with.... him! At first, it looked like a memory from another time, another life. The face matched, though. They had met before!

Instantly, he followed, running to catch up. "Wait!" he heard himself shout, not immediatly recognizing the voice as his out. This was stupid. Battlehearts hate Hollowhearts. He'll probably turn around and kill me... Oh well. Too late now.

[Thessur]

Grawlath halted and flinched.  Thessur was already gone, she had assumed Grawl would dawdle along as usual and come back to the caverns after he'd had time to stretch his wings.  The battleheart was glad she'd vanished; it meant he didn't have to worry about her getting hurt if there was a fight.  He still hoped there wouldn't be, but the chance was there.  He turned and faced the hallowheart, his face set and determined, but his deep blue eyes betraying his uncertainty.  

"Yes?"

He asked in a lazy monotone which sounded much calmer than he was.  Why was the hallowheart staring at him so?  Had he accidentally been rude?  Or perhaps...Could it be something to do with his former life with his old master?  That was unlikely, but there were still a few bits of his memory from that rather awful time that were too fuzzy for him to recall.

[Azura Rayume]

Havoc stood in silence for a moment, still unsure of why he was doing this. He simply studied the face of the other, his suspicions confirmed. "I... I knew you," he muttered, almost to himself. "In the old days. Before the war. Before..." His voice trailed off, the stinging memory of his parents deaths resurfacing. He forced it back down and continued. "We were friends. They, well, my father, thought it wasn't right. The first one in seven generations to be able to take human form, and I make friends with a Battleheart. He tried to keep us apart, but we were still friends.

"After my parents were killed, I blamed you. I saw our friendship as nothing more than an opening used by your kind to reach my family. To be honest, it doesn't make sence now, but, to my childish mind, it did. I ran as far as I could, trying to escape the past. I truely believed that I would be killed next.

"Eventually, I found shelter with an outlawed band of Battlehearts, all heardened on the outside, but caring for one who had lost so much. I didn't trust them at first, but I soon realized thet I was safe with them. Their leader, Allanon, treated me like his own son. When they came to live with the human Azura, I simply stayed with them. They had taught me that every species had their good and evil."

He gave a slight grin at Grawlath. i hope you don't mind all this, he thought. I just had to say it eventually.


((Really long, espcially for this early. I'm going to write this all down in the "Pet Stories" later, if you want to read the whole thing in detail.))

[Thessur]

The battleheart listened quietly to the hallowheart's story.  Through the whole thing, his head remained tilted to one side in confusion.  He scratched his head, trying to bring a few of his fuzzy memories into focus.
The grin triggered a little spark of recollection though.  He recalled a similar grin in his past.  It was one of the few positive things he could recall about his time before he came to live with Thessur.

"I think I might remember you. You're smile is familiar but... I'm sorry, I can't be sure.  My old master...well he used to beat me a lot.  It didn't usually do much damage, but on the last day I was with him he gave me this."

Grawl pulled back the shaggy brown hair from his forehead to reveal a large, ugly looking scar.  He smiled apologetically at the hallowheart and shrugged.

"Most of my memories about things that happened before that are all hazy now."

He chuckled slightly as he thought about the aftermath of that last beating.  He'd come a long way since then.

"My current master is the one who kept me from dieing that day.  I almost wish I'd been conscious enough to see it.  The other pets she had with her at the time told me that she came close to killing my old master.  It's so hard to imagine that sweet, goofy, imaginative little fox-girl hurting anything.
"Anyway, she saw him hitting me and came to my rescue.  Then she took me back to her home and helped me recover.  I was scared of everything at first, but...oh well, that's a long, boring story that doesn't matter much.
"If we were friends once or even if we weren't, I'm glad to have met a hallowheart who doesn't consider me automatically evil because of my species."

[zomilli]

Taint watched the hollowheart and Grawlath for a little bit, but she soon became bored and turned towards Kitsune instead. "Hi, your name's Kitsune, right?" she asked, sounding a little restless. She hated sitting still in one place for so long.

Her ears pricked forward attentively, NightShades listened carefully to the story that was being exchanged. She glanced up at Fang as the draculi morphed into anthro form. Oh, what the heck, she thought and changed into her human form also. She now had long, black, hair and was wearing a trenchcoat. The only non-human thing about her was her eyes, which were still in the shape of a cat's.[/i]

[Azura Rayume]

"I guess we both a tramatic pasts," Havoc muttered. He raised his hand in greeting.  "Friends again?" Hoping he didn't look too anxious, he smiled again, only this time, for the first time in what seemed like forever, the expression portraied an earnest need for a friend.

[Thessur]

The battleheart wasn't usually inclined to be trusting, but the hallowheart's smile seemed so earnest and his face seemed so familiar, that he found himself very carefully taking the offered hand.  He smiled back and shrugged.  It never hurt to make friends instead of enemies.

"Sure, I'd like that.  I really do have to go now, but I do hope we met again soon."

(ooc: urgh... muse... dead...)