Post by Cyrus on Dec 23, 2008 1:08:15 GMT -5
Location: Barnyard
Involved:
Jette, Male Dog (Sienna Pack Leader)
Rouge, Female Dog
Titan, Juve. Male Dog
Muddy, Juve. Female Cat
Surii, Female Dog
Allegro, Male Dog
Scene:
(Continued from Rouge and Titan's arrival at the Barn)
Titan pads and nods a little. "y..yeah it stung allot, i still got the bruise.. but he was the onyl one who wanted to play" He says with a sigh as they contiue to pad. "The mountains were pretty when i went through them, and I don't think they were the same.. I met one and he was nice.. he was with a very very nasty and mean spirited cat that seemed to not like me." He says as they pad on.
Rouge feels a little better as the two enter the barnyard, and immediately, she starts looking around for somebody else. "Still, you should be careful. Safety before fun, always remember that." Not that she'd make a fine example for that. "Wait, you met a cougar? And a cat? Did I hear wrong, or did you just say they were together?" The world keeps getting stranger and stranger the more she hears about.
The two voices grab the Sienna leaders attention quickly and Jette slips from the barn. He was thinking it would be Jage and Benny however his tail does begin to wag when he notices Rouge, whom he always sees as a daughter-sort, acompanied by an young unkown Newffie. The dark males ears twitch forwards as he pauses infront of the barn, head tilting curiously to one side as he chuffs a greeting to the two entering the barnyard. "Evening guys.. Rouge.. Who's your friend?" comes his deep rummble, dark eyes flitting next to the young male at her side.
Titan smiles gently as he shakes his head a bit. " Yeah they were traveling partners heading twords.. well they didn't tell me but they were comign somewhere to the north it seemed" He says before he hears the chuff of greating and feezes up a bit seeing the dark male. He felt his nerviousness rekindle as he looks twords the male. The newfiew seems to have jsut recently slipped out of puppyhood, as he stoped his collar's tags gently jingled. He lets roug speak keeping silent.
A huge grin rolls over the mutt's face when Jette comes into view and greets them. "Jette!" She chirps, her stubbed tail wagging cheerfully as she strides over to the older dog, offer an affectionate nuzzle. Like he views her as a daughter, she thinks of him as a father-figure. "Jette, this is Titan. I found him outside, near the forest. I said he could come stay with us, in the pack." Rouge has the same sort of expression as a child whose just brought home a new friend. "Is that alright?"
He nuzzles Rouge tenderly before his gaze shifts to Titan and the older male looks him over curiously for a second. The tags are taken in as well as his age and the Sienna leader finally smiles warmly to the both of them, "Of course Rouge, Titan your more then welcome to join our family." He slides back to his haunches and focuses a stern look on the boy, "If you're going to stay however you have to realize that this is not life on your own. In this pack there is no 'I' there is 'we'. The others in this pack are you family and your packmates and we all work together to make sure this pack, this family, stays alive and safe. Understood?"
Titan blinks and slowly pads forward so he can get a better look at the elder male. He then gently bows twords Jette as respectfully as he can. "So treat this family like i did with my old family?" He asks as he gazes up, his eyes filled with nerviousness and fear. He feels like throwing up with as nervious as he is, and why is it? Well he has spent the last week finding this palce, and now that he found it, he was filled with doubt that he would be here long. He foresaw himself as not being much help.. he was clumsly and slow, having only caught prey out in the forest due to the fact he ambushed them.
The small brown and white kitten hasn't been seen for a number of days. Blaze might have mentioned that she's been sick. But Muddy has been feeling a little better today, and she's been a little bored. Without Blaze around right now to entertain her, she wanders about the barn until she decides to wander towards the large open bard doors. The sun is bright as she peers out and squints her eyes. She sees Jette, and smiles a little. She wouldn't normally wander out this way even if she weren't sick unless she saw Jette about. She doesn't really trust the other dogs.
Rouge looks joyful when Jette answers affirmatively. At the moment, there aren't as many younger dogs around as Rouge would like. Granted, she's almost fully matured, physically. But there are many ways in which she's still very much a pup herself. The mutt can sense some of Titan's nervousness, and she feels bothered by it. But right now, she says nothing. Either she's trying to think of something, or she's going to let Jette handle it. For the time being, Rouge takes no notice of the kitten.
Eyes soften as he laughs a little to Titan, "Indeed, like your old family.. now relax little one. You've nothing to fear from me." Titan wasn't useless, any pair of eyes and ears were useful in keeping them all safe. His ears twitch back towards the barn at a faint sound but the male doesn't think to turn his head and look yet. Even if he thought it were one of the kittens he knew they liked to have /some/ sort of cover or surprise arrival. His tail thumps the ground a few times as he looks to Rouge and winks gently.
Titan dosn't notice the cat right now he is way too nervious. He nods as he trys to calm himself a bit and weakly smiles. "Alright.." He says bowing his head a bit. "a..and you don't mind the fact I was owned by humans?" He asks lookign up t the two. "l..like rouge said?" He has spent a full week in the forest which for him was forever! and he hadn't run into a single creature who was friendly twords creatures of man.. so he had simpyl lied his way through the forest.
Muddy hadn't fully stepped out of the barn yet. She nervously looks between the two dogs that weren't Jette. She doesn't really remember seeing them before. And she gets a sense of nervousness between the two, making a little uneasy. She only very cautiously begins to walk out into the daylight, avoiding all three dogs as she eyes them.
The mutt chuckles softly. Of course Jette wouldn't mind, or Rouge herself wouldn't have stuck around. A small grin is offered to the older dog, before she heads back over to Titan, hoping to help him muster more courage via moral support. "Like Jette said, you should relax. Unless you mean to harm anybody, you're not going to be turned away." She does glance back at Jette, searching for confirmation on what she'd just said.
Jette shakes his head slowly at Titan's question, "Of course I don't mind that you were Titan.." He lifts his head a little so that the chain around his neck hidden in his fur can be seen. The male chuckles deeply before he fixes a faint gaze on the young boy, "However our pack is one of both collards and ferals, so not all of our packmates may share the same ideals about humans as we do so just respect others opinions and they'll respect yours.." He's speaking mainly of Alsoomse. SPEAKING of Al', he turns his attention Rouge finally and clears his throat, "By the way Rouge.. I need to speak with you about something." The tiny footfalls of the kitten behind him are finally picked up and he wags his tail happily as he peers over his shoulder at Muddy however says nothing yet, attention shifting back to the others before him.
Titan smiles at this and his tail starts wagging heavily nodding. "Alright I will respect there views!" He promise as he then grins and looks over at rouge. That was pretty easy he thinks as he then suddenly pouces rouge wanting to contiue there play session growling playfully as he does.
Muddy had been looking a little nervous as she had not seen the other two dogs before to the best of her memory, but smiles back at Jette when he notices her. She cautiously begins to walk over to him, not making a direct line towards him but swerving cautiously from her original direction. She doesn't get too close, and stops a good few meters away. "Hey, Jette," she says quietly, looking again at the two other dogs.
Rouge raises her ears, her interest piqued. The way Jette says it, whatever he wants to tell her is probably important. "You do? What is it?" She sits down, her head reclined to the side. "I hope it's not bad news." So rapt in listening to whatever Jette wants to tell her, the mutt doesn't even notice Titan pounce until he collides with her. With a startled yelp, she topples over. She's only in a state of shock for a short time, before she goes to latch onto the younger dog's ear, although not very hard.
Jette chuckles hesitantly as Titan tackles Rouge, only prolonging his information for a few more minutes. Muddy's tentative greeting is given a friendly warm smile as Jette regaurds the young cat, ears rotating towards her, "Good to see you out Muddy, how are you feeling?" As he awaits a response and the two young dogs to simmer slightly he finally clears his throat again and regaurds Rouge curiously, "Alsoomse is expecting puppies," he finally explains before a sheepish smile finally settles over his face and he shifts his weight, "They're mine 's well.."
Titan yelps as his ear is bitten and struggles and squirms, yet when the throat is cleared he rolls away and lays on his back letting jette convey the information now staying quite.
Muddy smiles at Jette. Blaze has probably been telling everyone he can about Muddy's condition -- over-exaggerating it, she figures. She was just, well, a little bedridden. "I'm feeling better. Thanks!" She seems to at least have her spirits about her, but then backs away as she sees the two dogs tackle each other. "You... you guys seem busy," she says as she turns around, eying them carefully.
Rouge gives a few playful tugs to Titan's ear, before her jaw drops open and her eyes shoot back to Jette. Puppies... puppies? Alsoomse?! Wait, how... what... The mutt sits back, a little dazed at first. Her mouth as dry as cotton, the mutt stutters out. "She... she is? When?" She'll be excited in a little while, but right now Rouge has to work off being stunned before that happens.
The male can't help but laugh a little at Rouge's stunned expression. He shakes his head before answering, "Soon is all I know.. she could probably give you more of an exact timeframe.." He grins sheepishly before he eyes her, "So.. your going to have 'siblings' to look after.. You'll have to help me.." he finally mutters defeatedly. Jette knew next to /nothing/ about pups. Rouge was the closest thing to a 'daughter' he'd ever had. The Sienna leader catches Muddy's words and turns his head to beckon her closer, "No no, join us Muddy. You're safe.." he'll understand if the young female doesn't want to join the dogs however he feels the need to let her know no harm will come to her if she does.
Titan feels rather.. lost as he then iddly gives Rouge's stubby tail a gentle nip murrign as she is stunned courious to if she will react his tail still wagging happily as he then eyes jette.
Muddy nods softly. She looks up at Jette, not seeming terribly surprised to hear the news of his puppies. She pads closer to him, and after a little while says, "Blaze told me that you were gonna have pups." She looks again cautiously toward the other two dogs and then pads up even closer, "We were actually wondering," and looks up at him as cutely as she can. "Jette, how do you make babies?"
Rouge nods her head dutifully. "I'll help you, I promise! I've always wanted to help take care of pups!" Except for all the worst parts, which is why it's good somebody /else/ is going to be the mother. When Titan nips at her tail, she twirls around, pawing lightly at him with a mock growl. She manages to completely miss Muddy's question, thus her innocent, naive little mind is saved. For the moment at least.
The question however had not been lost upon the elder males ears and Jette's eyes widen just a tick as he regaurds Muddy. "Uhhn.." is all he says for a breif moment before he focuses his entire attention on Muddy, Rouge and Titan lost in the background. "Where do babies come from?" Isn't this something he doesn't need to talk about until /after/ his puppies are born? With them? The male faulters and stutters a few times before he continues, "Well Muddy... when a male and a female love each other.." Generally. Jette and Al' were not mates and were not headed in that direction. He changes his tactic, "When a female is /ready/ to have babies, she'll sometime ask the male if he can.." ..... FAIL. "Um.. babies come from females. From their bellys." XD You suck.
Titan grisn at rouge then he growls a bit, then decides to go off and explore about this barn area sniffing about as he wonders off leaving the poor male to explain to the cat where babby's come from. He sniffs about heading twords the house and disapears into it sniffing couriously. Hmm wonder whats in here?
Titan has left.
Surii was out for a walk when a familiar voice draws her attention. Making her way towards Jette she was about to say something when she hears the topic of conversation. Coming to a stop she just watches as the male stumbles over his explaination of lifes greatest gift. Clearing her throat she tries stifling back her laughter, "Umm.. Hello.." she grins widely not really paying attention to whom he is speaking, "Do tell!"
Yaaawn yawn yawn. How's a dog to sleep with all've this noise going on? "Dern..." Allegro mutters as he rolls onto his back, eyes still closed yet legs sprawled comfortably as voices penetrate though his sleepy subconscious. Maybe he can ignore it and go on back to sleep. But nope. It just keeps on getting louder! Something about bellies. Then laughter. Maybe he missed a fat joke. With a snort, he peeks a blue eye open and the silver slowly follows. "Dang."
The cute little kitten tilts her head and continues to look into Jette's eyes, with her own curious stare. She blinks, hardly noticing now the two other dogs walking into the barnyard. "In their bellies?" she repeats. "Do they have ta eat something?"
Rouge watches Titan go, but doesn't want to follow him anywhere near the house. She doesn't want a repeat of the last time she went around there. Her focus comes back to Jette, just enough to mishear what he's saying. Something about puppies and bellies? Wait, Alsoomse isn't going to *eat* the puppies?! Rouge is horrified, spinning right around with the intention of confronting Jette on that matter. But then she takes notice of the lab mutt, who she doesn't recognize at all. Thoughts of infanticide drifting from her head for a moment, Rouge marches over to Surii, tail waggling. "Hey! Um, hey! What's your name?"
His gaze shifts to Surii as she chimes in and he scowls faintly at her. If he wasn't already talking to Muddy he'd 'You Hush!' her. And great, Allegro was awake. This just kept getting better and better. Jette thumps his tail happily to Allegro and Surii but leaves them be as Rouge intercepts the recent female addition to the pack, attention shifting back to Muddy, "No no they don't have to /eat/ something.. you see.. it takes a male and a female. And when they.. do certain grownuply things then puppies form in the females belly and when the time is right she.. lets them.. out..?" Smooth. PLEADING male eyes shift to Surii. SAVE ME!
Surii can't help but chuckle lightly at his struggle to explain. As a female approaches she blinks at her but turns attention back to the leader totally missing that Allegro is awake. Walking towards Jette and noticing he's explaining this to a kitten she grins, "See two love each other so much they can't contain it and it spills over into kids. The femnale is special because she gets to carry the gift of life that the male deposits within her through love. But don't you worry kiddo you have a while to wait before you can bring forth the gift of life." Winking towards Jette she looks to the female to finally answer, "I am Surii."
Allegro happily has missed puppy talk, or at least the beginning of it. He stares up at the sky as the noises around him becomes discernabl as voices. Jette. Surii. That one chick he met that one time. And a voice he doesn't know. His tail sweeps along the ground once before he rolls onto his stomach and gradually sits up. "Heeey Jette..." said drowsily. "Ladies...and..." New kid. New pup? Wait ... not a pup. New feline. Cat? Blink. His ears shoot up, suddenly alert as his eyes settle upon the young cat that's .. talking to Jette. This must be some kind of test of resistance! And it's a test that Allegro has already failed. He's on his paws quickly, eyes abruptly bright as his hackles bristle with a sudden thrill. Cat = Chase! Chase = FUN! Fun = Bark! And bark is just what the shepherd mutt does as he bounds towards Jette and the kitten.
Muddy turns her attention from Jette to Surii, much to his probable relief. She looks at her intently, little eyes shining. "Hello, Surii," she says with a smile, "I'm Muddy! So... when we get old enough... Blaze will fill me with his love and that'll make a baby grow?" she says with another head tilt. This is starting to make sense to her! In fact... sometimes, when he is playing with her and when he helped her through her sickness, the feelings she has had for him Blaze did feel... palpable. Suddenly, she jumps up as she hears a sharp bark, and turns to see Allegro suddenly dart toward her. Her eyes rest on him with a sudden terrible fear, and the small cat immediately darts away. But unfortunately for Muddy, she was still a little sick. She had only just popped her head outside after a week of sleeping and sickness and letting Blaze care for her. She stumbles and rolls against the wall of the barn, and huddles up, beginning to cry a little as she feels a sudden sickly malaise wash over her, staring at the dog in helpless fear. Oh! She shouldn't have gone out unless she was feeling 100%! She can hardly think. Her head hurts. The sun is too bright. And every time that dog barks, it causes her pain.
Rouge plants herself down on her haunches. "Nice to meet you, I'm Rouge." At least she gets introductions out of the way before finding herself listening to Jette's rambling attempts at explaining the nature of birth. Oh /that/ is what he's talking about. Her eyes drift from Jette to the little kitten, then back again. Isn't she a little *young* to be hearing about these things? And what Muddy then says to Surii leaves Rouge reeling. Preoccupied with hauling her mind from the gutter, the mutt only watches detached as Allergro, quite abruptly too, takes off after the cat.
His back is to Allegro as he awakens and only hears his greeting as he mainly listens to Surii as the lab mix adds her explination of 'where babies come from' into his already jummbled mixture of nonsense as well as Muddy's answer back. The bark though gets the Sienna leader's attention quick and his head snaps up, eyes darting to Allegro. At his look of excitement he suddenly realizes the shepherd mixes gaze was locked on Muddy and in living up to his promise the large Beauceron puts his figure infront of Muddy protectively. Hackles stiffen and his tail raises dominately, while his lips even quiver in a thought to bare his teeth as a deep warning growl rummbling from his barrel chest. The Sienna leader had never used his rank of authority to cause another in his pack to submit, he never had to, but he made a promise to protect the kittens and while he means his packmate no harm he deffinately isn't playing around.
Surii leaps in front of Allegro with a daring gaze. She also made a promise to protect the cats for other reasons, "STOP!" She wasn't going to growl at him but she does manage to bark at him looking much like a idiot with him coming in that direction. She didn't evne hear the other female speka her name through it all though the kitten catches her attention with her cry causing her to look away from Allegro.
Yeeehaw! A good ol' cat chase! Allegro's barking rises in volume as the kitten takes off. And look, it's a dumb cat, too! Or so Al seems to conclude as the fuzzball huddles up against the barn wall. Easy target! Now just what he has in mind to do to the kitty is questionable. Kill it? Chomp it? Bark at it til it starts to run again? Who knows, and apparently, today won't be the day that anyone finds out, for soon his path is blocked by the large form of Jette. His claw scrape the earth as he comes to a sprawling stop, the dust behind him leaving a visible a trail. "Hey!" he says, voice not hinting at protest, but apparently hoping to have the leader join him in the chase. "C'mon, it's just sittin' there like a..." But then there's the growl, and Allegro's brows furrow in confusion as he folds back his ears. "..What? C'mon, it's a /cat/" he insists, as if Jette somehow has missed this fact. Though he doesn't try to get around him, he does try to peer around him, giving only a glance to Surii.
Muddy is feeling sick again. The sun is too bright. She stumbles a little and stares at the ground, blankly, breathing hard. She knows two dogs have gotten between her and the dog that had just barked at her. Jette, and... and the nice female he had just talked to. But she hardly acknowledges them as she gets up, still staring at the ground, and wobbles as she slowly makes her way to the barn doors. She recalls the words of Jette -- that he will protect them if they can but he can't help them if they get too close to the others. Her eyes shift wildly against the dirt. "I... I think I understand, what B-Blaze meant," she says softly, with short gasps, to herself. Her mind is reeling. She then turns to Jette, and looks at him sadly. "Jette... I don't, I don't think we'll be joining you when you leave." She turns back around and begins to walk in the barn, shuttering. "You...you won't always be there to p-protect us from the other dogs."
Muddy has left.
His features harden as he stares at Allegro, fur smoothing some but he doesn't move from before the male. "Muddy has my protection.. her and her companion Blaze. They are residents of the barn and have my promise to keep them from harm from anyone in my pack." He smiles apologetically to Allegro, though Muddy's shaken voice gets his attention and he looks over his shoulder, brows furrowing. He figured it'd be safer if the kittens stayed here, though he is saddened to hear they won't be joining. Jette nods his head slowly in confirmation. He doesn't move from infront of Allegro until Muddy is safe inside the barn and finally lets his haunches fold beneith him, looking back to Allegro, "Sorry about that.. but I made a promise," he says, an apologetic smile sliding over his face before he turns to smile to Surii softly, "Thankyou.."
Surii sighs as the kitten goes away. Looking to the leader she nods to him before throwing a glare towards Allegro. Turning she walks away purposely giving Al a rough -bump- with her hip knowing it probably won't make a difference. Not that she wouldn't want to chase a cat every now and again she wasn't evil enough to chase one that is just a kitten! Settling to her haunches staring off into the distance she yawns lightly.
Not one, but two cats? Despite Jette's look, Allegro's expression turns gleeful at the news, and he dips his head a little to peer beneath the larger dog's legs, watching as the somber cat returns to the barn. It doesn't seem as if he's moved by her saddened words or her less than healthy walk. His gaze darts to the barn as a crooked smirk lifts his muzzle, though he soon lifts his head to regard Jette as he should. "Protection?" he snorts, looking both confused and disbelieved. "Why? They're ... cats," he says again, nose wrinkling at the word just as he's bumped by Surii. Ears raise at the female and he tosses her a winning grin. "Aw, c'mon girl. You know you wanted to run with me! You ain't strike me as a cat-lover."
Jette smiles faintly before he shrugs his shoulders, "They're young, and really not that bad. Besides, we invaded on their home. Just leave them be for now.." he says to Allegro sternly. "I'm sure we can find you something else to chase silly." The Sienna leader stretches his legs slowly, "I'm going to go patrol the farmsted, try to play nice you guys.." he laughs. Shifting past Allegro the Sienna leader head-butts shepherd mixes shoulder in a brotherly-love kind of way and when he passes both Rouge and Surii he nuzzles their shoulders tenderly before dissapering into the surrounding area for a quiet walk.
Jette has left.
(Ending being posted shortly! SUSPENSE! XD)
Involved:
Jette, Male Dog (Sienna Pack Leader)
Rouge, Female Dog
Titan, Juve. Male Dog
Muddy, Juve. Female Cat
Surii, Female Dog
Allegro, Male Dog
Scene:
(Continued from Rouge and Titan's arrival at the Barn)
Titan pads and nods a little. "y..yeah it stung allot, i still got the bruise.. but he was the onyl one who wanted to play" He says with a sigh as they contiue to pad. "The mountains were pretty when i went through them, and I don't think they were the same.. I met one and he was nice.. he was with a very very nasty and mean spirited cat that seemed to not like me." He says as they pad on.
Rouge feels a little better as the two enter the barnyard, and immediately, she starts looking around for somebody else. "Still, you should be careful. Safety before fun, always remember that." Not that she'd make a fine example for that. "Wait, you met a cougar? And a cat? Did I hear wrong, or did you just say they were together?" The world keeps getting stranger and stranger the more she hears about.
The two voices grab the Sienna leaders attention quickly and Jette slips from the barn. He was thinking it would be Jage and Benny however his tail does begin to wag when he notices Rouge, whom he always sees as a daughter-sort, acompanied by an young unkown Newffie. The dark males ears twitch forwards as he pauses infront of the barn, head tilting curiously to one side as he chuffs a greeting to the two entering the barnyard. "Evening guys.. Rouge.. Who's your friend?" comes his deep rummble, dark eyes flitting next to the young male at her side.
Titan smiles gently as he shakes his head a bit. " Yeah they were traveling partners heading twords.. well they didn't tell me but they were comign somewhere to the north it seemed" He says before he hears the chuff of greating and feezes up a bit seeing the dark male. He felt his nerviousness rekindle as he looks twords the male. The newfiew seems to have jsut recently slipped out of puppyhood, as he stoped his collar's tags gently jingled. He lets roug speak keeping silent.
A huge grin rolls over the mutt's face when Jette comes into view and greets them. "Jette!" She chirps, her stubbed tail wagging cheerfully as she strides over to the older dog, offer an affectionate nuzzle. Like he views her as a daughter, she thinks of him as a father-figure. "Jette, this is Titan. I found him outside, near the forest. I said he could come stay with us, in the pack." Rouge has the same sort of expression as a child whose just brought home a new friend. "Is that alright?"
He nuzzles Rouge tenderly before his gaze shifts to Titan and the older male looks him over curiously for a second. The tags are taken in as well as his age and the Sienna leader finally smiles warmly to the both of them, "Of course Rouge, Titan your more then welcome to join our family." He slides back to his haunches and focuses a stern look on the boy, "If you're going to stay however you have to realize that this is not life on your own. In this pack there is no 'I' there is 'we'. The others in this pack are you family and your packmates and we all work together to make sure this pack, this family, stays alive and safe. Understood?"
Titan blinks and slowly pads forward so he can get a better look at the elder male. He then gently bows twords Jette as respectfully as he can. "So treat this family like i did with my old family?" He asks as he gazes up, his eyes filled with nerviousness and fear. He feels like throwing up with as nervious as he is, and why is it? Well he has spent the last week finding this palce, and now that he found it, he was filled with doubt that he would be here long. He foresaw himself as not being much help.. he was clumsly and slow, having only caught prey out in the forest due to the fact he ambushed them.
The small brown and white kitten hasn't been seen for a number of days. Blaze might have mentioned that she's been sick. But Muddy has been feeling a little better today, and she's been a little bored. Without Blaze around right now to entertain her, she wanders about the barn until she decides to wander towards the large open bard doors. The sun is bright as she peers out and squints her eyes. She sees Jette, and smiles a little. She wouldn't normally wander out this way even if she weren't sick unless she saw Jette about. She doesn't really trust the other dogs.
Rouge looks joyful when Jette answers affirmatively. At the moment, there aren't as many younger dogs around as Rouge would like. Granted, she's almost fully matured, physically. But there are many ways in which she's still very much a pup herself. The mutt can sense some of Titan's nervousness, and she feels bothered by it. But right now, she says nothing. Either she's trying to think of something, or she's going to let Jette handle it. For the time being, Rouge takes no notice of the kitten.
Eyes soften as he laughs a little to Titan, "Indeed, like your old family.. now relax little one. You've nothing to fear from me." Titan wasn't useless, any pair of eyes and ears were useful in keeping them all safe. His ears twitch back towards the barn at a faint sound but the male doesn't think to turn his head and look yet. Even if he thought it were one of the kittens he knew they liked to have /some/ sort of cover or surprise arrival. His tail thumps the ground a few times as he looks to Rouge and winks gently.
Titan dosn't notice the cat right now he is way too nervious. He nods as he trys to calm himself a bit and weakly smiles. "Alright.." He says bowing his head a bit. "a..and you don't mind the fact I was owned by humans?" He asks lookign up t the two. "l..like rouge said?" He has spent a full week in the forest which for him was forever! and he hadn't run into a single creature who was friendly twords creatures of man.. so he had simpyl lied his way through the forest.
Muddy hadn't fully stepped out of the barn yet. She nervously looks between the two dogs that weren't Jette. She doesn't really remember seeing them before. And she gets a sense of nervousness between the two, making a little uneasy. She only very cautiously begins to walk out into the daylight, avoiding all three dogs as she eyes them.
The mutt chuckles softly. Of course Jette wouldn't mind, or Rouge herself wouldn't have stuck around. A small grin is offered to the older dog, before she heads back over to Titan, hoping to help him muster more courage via moral support. "Like Jette said, you should relax. Unless you mean to harm anybody, you're not going to be turned away." She does glance back at Jette, searching for confirmation on what she'd just said.
Jette shakes his head slowly at Titan's question, "Of course I don't mind that you were Titan.." He lifts his head a little so that the chain around his neck hidden in his fur can be seen. The male chuckles deeply before he fixes a faint gaze on the young boy, "However our pack is one of both collards and ferals, so not all of our packmates may share the same ideals about humans as we do so just respect others opinions and they'll respect yours.." He's speaking mainly of Alsoomse. SPEAKING of Al', he turns his attention Rouge finally and clears his throat, "By the way Rouge.. I need to speak with you about something." The tiny footfalls of the kitten behind him are finally picked up and he wags his tail happily as he peers over his shoulder at Muddy however says nothing yet, attention shifting back to the others before him.
Titan smiles at this and his tail starts wagging heavily nodding. "Alright I will respect there views!" He promise as he then grins and looks over at rouge. That was pretty easy he thinks as he then suddenly pouces rouge wanting to contiue there play session growling playfully as he does.
Muddy had been looking a little nervous as she had not seen the other two dogs before to the best of her memory, but smiles back at Jette when he notices her. She cautiously begins to walk over to him, not making a direct line towards him but swerving cautiously from her original direction. She doesn't get too close, and stops a good few meters away. "Hey, Jette," she says quietly, looking again at the two other dogs.
Rouge raises her ears, her interest piqued. The way Jette says it, whatever he wants to tell her is probably important. "You do? What is it?" She sits down, her head reclined to the side. "I hope it's not bad news." So rapt in listening to whatever Jette wants to tell her, the mutt doesn't even notice Titan pounce until he collides with her. With a startled yelp, she topples over. She's only in a state of shock for a short time, before she goes to latch onto the younger dog's ear, although not very hard.
Jette chuckles hesitantly as Titan tackles Rouge, only prolonging his information for a few more minutes. Muddy's tentative greeting is given a friendly warm smile as Jette regaurds the young cat, ears rotating towards her, "Good to see you out Muddy, how are you feeling?" As he awaits a response and the two young dogs to simmer slightly he finally clears his throat again and regaurds Rouge curiously, "Alsoomse is expecting puppies," he finally explains before a sheepish smile finally settles over his face and he shifts his weight, "They're mine 's well.."
Titan yelps as his ear is bitten and struggles and squirms, yet when the throat is cleared he rolls away and lays on his back letting jette convey the information now staying quite.
Muddy smiles at Jette. Blaze has probably been telling everyone he can about Muddy's condition -- over-exaggerating it, she figures. She was just, well, a little bedridden. "I'm feeling better. Thanks!" She seems to at least have her spirits about her, but then backs away as she sees the two dogs tackle each other. "You... you guys seem busy," she says as she turns around, eying them carefully.
Rouge gives a few playful tugs to Titan's ear, before her jaw drops open and her eyes shoot back to Jette. Puppies... puppies? Alsoomse?! Wait, how... what... The mutt sits back, a little dazed at first. Her mouth as dry as cotton, the mutt stutters out. "She... she is? When?" She'll be excited in a little while, but right now Rouge has to work off being stunned before that happens.
The male can't help but laugh a little at Rouge's stunned expression. He shakes his head before answering, "Soon is all I know.. she could probably give you more of an exact timeframe.." He grins sheepishly before he eyes her, "So.. your going to have 'siblings' to look after.. You'll have to help me.." he finally mutters defeatedly. Jette knew next to /nothing/ about pups. Rouge was the closest thing to a 'daughter' he'd ever had. The Sienna leader catches Muddy's words and turns his head to beckon her closer, "No no, join us Muddy. You're safe.." he'll understand if the young female doesn't want to join the dogs however he feels the need to let her know no harm will come to her if she does.
Titan feels rather.. lost as he then iddly gives Rouge's stubby tail a gentle nip murrign as she is stunned courious to if she will react his tail still wagging happily as he then eyes jette.
Muddy nods softly. She looks up at Jette, not seeming terribly surprised to hear the news of his puppies. She pads closer to him, and after a little while says, "Blaze told me that you were gonna have pups." She looks again cautiously toward the other two dogs and then pads up even closer, "We were actually wondering," and looks up at him as cutely as she can. "Jette, how do you make babies?"
Rouge nods her head dutifully. "I'll help you, I promise! I've always wanted to help take care of pups!" Except for all the worst parts, which is why it's good somebody /else/ is going to be the mother. When Titan nips at her tail, she twirls around, pawing lightly at him with a mock growl. She manages to completely miss Muddy's question, thus her innocent, naive little mind is saved. For the moment at least.
The question however had not been lost upon the elder males ears and Jette's eyes widen just a tick as he regaurds Muddy. "Uhhn.." is all he says for a breif moment before he focuses his entire attention on Muddy, Rouge and Titan lost in the background. "Where do babies come from?" Isn't this something he doesn't need to talk about until /after/ his puppies are born? With them? The male faulters and stutters a few times before he continues, "Well Muddy... when a male and a female love each other.." Generally. Jette and Al' were not mates and were not headed in that direction. He changes his tactic, "When a female is /ready/ to have babies, she'll sometime ask the male if he can.." ..... FAIL. "Um.. babies come from females. From their bellys." XD You suck.
Titan grisn at rouge then he growls a bit, then decides to go off and explore about this barn area sniffing about as he wonders off leaving the poor male to explain to the cat where babby's come from. He sniffs about heading twords the house and disapears into it sniffing couriously. Hmm wonder whats in here?
Titan has left.
Surii was out for a walk when a familiar voice draws her attention. Making her way towards Jette she was about to say something when she hears the topic of conversation. Coming to a stop she just watches as the male stumbles over his explaination of lifes greatest gift. Clearing her throat she tries stifling back her laughter, "Umm.. Hello.." she grins widely not really paying attention to whom he is speaking, "Do tell!"
Yaaawn yawn yawn. How's a dog to sleep with all've this noise going on? "Dern..." Allegro mutters as he rolls onto his back, eyes still closed yet legs sprawled comfortably as voices penetrate though his sleepy subconscious. Maybe he can ignore it and go on back to sleep. But nope. It just keeps on getting louder! Something about bellies. Then laughter. Maybe he missed a fat joke. With a snort, he peeks a blue eye open and the silver slowly follows. "Dang."
The cute little kitten tilts her head and continues to look into Jette's eyes, with her own curious stare. She blinks, hardly noticing now the two other dogs walking into the barnyard. "In their bellies?" she repeats. "Do they have ta eat something?"
Rouge watches Titan go, but doesn't want to follow him anywhere near the house. She doesn't want a repeat of the last time she went around there. Her focus comes back to Jette, just enough to mishear what he's saying. Something about puppies and bellies? Wait, Alsoomse isn't going to *eat* the puppies?! Rouge is horrified, spinning right around with the intention of confronting Jette on that matter. But then she takes notice of the lab mutt, who she doesn't recognize at all. Thoughts of infanticide drifting from her head for a moment, Rouge marches over to Surii, tail waggling. "Hey! Um, hey! What's your name?"
His gaze shifts to Surii as she chimes in and he scowls faintly at her. If he wasn't already talking to Muddy he'd 'You Hush!' her. And great, Allegro was awake. This just kept getting better and better. Jette thumps his tail happily to Allegro and Surii but leaves them be as Rouge intercepts the recent female addition to the pack, attention shifting back to Muddy, "No no they don't have to /eat/ something.. you see.. it takes a male and a female. And when they.. do certain grownuply things then puppies form in the females belly and when the time is right she.. lets them.. out..?" Smooth. PLEADING male eyes shift to Surii. SAVE ME!
Surii can't help but chuckle lightly at his struggle to explain. As a female approaches she blinks at her but turns attention back to the leader totally missing that Allegro is awake. Walking towards Jette and noticing he's explaining this to a kitten she grins, "See two love each other so much they can't contain it and it spills over into kids. The femnale is special because she gets to carry the gift of life that the male deposits within her through love. But don't you worry kiddo you have a while to wait before you can bring forth the gift of life." Winking towards Jette she looks to the female to finally answer, "I am Surii."
Allegro happily has missed puppy talk, or at least the beginning of it. He stares up at the sky as the noises around him becomes discernabl as voices. Jette. Surii. That one chick he met that one time. And a voice he doesn't know. His tail sweeps along the ground once before he rolls onto his stomach and gradually sits up. "Heeey Jette..." said drowsily. "Ladies...and..." New kid. New pup? Wait ... not a pup. New feline. Cat? Blink. His ears shoot up, suddenly alert as his eyes settle upon the young cat that's .. talking to Jette. This must be some kind of test of resistance! And it's a test that Allegro has already failed. He's on his paws quickly, eyes abruptly bright as his hackles bristle with a sudden thrill. Cat = Chase! Chase = FUN! Fun = Bark! And bark is just what the shepherd mutt does as he bounds towards Jette and the kitten.
Muddy turns her attention from Jette to Surii, much to his probable relief. She looks at her intently, little eyes shining. "Hello, Surii," she says with a smile, "I'm Muddy! So... when we get old enough... Blaze will fill me with his love and that'll make a baby grow?" she says with another head tilt. This is starting to make sense to her! In fact... sometimes, when he is playing with her and when he helped her through her sickness, the feelings she has had for him Blaze did feel... palpable. Suddenly, she jumps up as she hears a sharp bark, and turns to see Allegro suddenly dart toward her. Her eyes rest on him with a sudden terrible fear, and the small cat immediately darts away. But unfortunately for Muddy, she was still a little sick. She had only just popped her head outside after a week of sleeping and sickness and letting Blaze care for her. She stumbles and rolls against the wall of the barn, and huddles up, beginning to cry a little as she feels a sudden sickly malaise wash over her, staring at the dog in helpless fear. Oh! She shouldn't have gone out unless she was feeling 100%! She can hardly think. Her head hurts. The sun is too bright. And every time that dog barks, it causes her pain.
Rouge plants herself down on her haunches. "Nice to meet you, I'm Rouge." At least she gets introductions out of the way before finding herself listening to Jette's rambling attempts at explaining the nature of birth. Oh /that/ is what he's talking about. Her eyes drift from Jette to the little kitten, then back again. Isn't she a little *young* to be hearing about these things? And what Muddy then says to Surii leaves Rouge reeling. Preoccupied with hauling her mind from the gutter, the mutt only watches detached as Allergro, quite abruptly too, takes off after the cat.
His back is to Allegro as he awakens and only hears his greeting as he mainly listens to Surii as the lab mix adds her explination of 'where babies come from' into his already jummbled mixture of nonsense as well as Muddy's answer back. The bark though gets the Sienna leader's attention quick and his head snaps up, eyes darting to Allegro. At his look of excitement he suddenly realizes the shepherd mixes gaze was locked on Muddy and in living up to his promise the large Beauceron puts his figure infront of Muddy protectively. Hackles stiffen and his tail raises dominately, while his lips even quiver in a thought to bare his teeth as a deep warning growl rummbling from his barrel chest. The Sienna leader had never used his rank of authority to cause another in his pack to submit, he never had to, but he made a promise to protect the kittens and while he means his packmate no harm he deffinately isn't playing around.
Surii leaps in front of Allegro with a daring gaze. She also made a promise to protect the cats for other reasons, "STOP!" She wasn't going to growl at him but she does manage to bark at him looking much like a idiot with him coming in that direction. She didn't evne hear the other female speka her name through it all though the kitten catches her attention with her cry causing her to look away from Allegro.
Yeeehaw! A good ol' cat chase! Allegro's barking rises in volume as the kitten takes off. And look, it's a dumb cat, too! Or so Al seems to conclude as the fuzzball huddles up against the barn wall. Easy target! Now just what he has in mind to do to the kitty is questionable. Kill it? Chomp it? Bark at it til it starts to run again? Who knows, and apparently, today won't be the day that anyone finds out, for soon his path is blocked by the large form of Jette. His claw scrape the earth as he comes to a sprawling stop, the dust behind him leaving a visible a trail. "Hey!" he says, voice not hinting at protest, but apparently hoping to have the leader join him in the chase. "C'mon, it's just sittin' there like a..." But then there's the growl, and Allegro's brows furrow in confusion as he folds back his ears. "..What? C'mon, it's a /cat/" he insists, as if Jette somehow has missed this fact. Though he doesn't try to get around him, he does try to peer around him, giving only a glance to Surii.
Muddy is feeling sick again. The sun is too bright. She stumbles a little and stares at the ground, blankly, breathing hard. She knows two dogs have gotten between her and the dog that had just barked at her. Jette, and... and the nice female he had just talked to. But she hardly acknowledges them as she gets up, still staring at the ground, and wobbles as she slowly makes her way to the barn doors. She recalls the words of Jette -- that he will protect them if they can but he can't help them if they get too close to the others. Her eyes shift wildly against the dirt. "I... I think I understand, what B-Blaze meant," she says softly, with short gasps, to herself. Her mind is reeling. She then turns to Jette, and looks at him sadly. "Jette... I don't, I don't think we'll be joining you when you leave." She turns back around and begins to walk in the barn, shuttering. "You...you won't always be there to p-protect us from the other dogs."
Muddy has left.
His features harden as he stares at Allegro, fur smoothing some but he doesn't move from before the male. "Muddy has my protection.. her and her companion Blaze. They are residents of the barn and have my promise to keep them from harm from anyone in my pack." He smiles apologetically to Allegro, though Muddy's shaken voice gets his attention and he looks over his shoulder, brows furrowing. He figured it'd be safer if the kittens stayed here, though he is saddened to hear they won't be joining. Jette nods his head slowly in confirmation. He doesn't move from infront of Allegro until Muddy is safe inside the barn and finally lets his haunches fold beneith him, looking back to Allegro, "Sorry about that.. but I made a promise," he says, an apologetic smile sliding over his face before he turns to smile to Surii softly, "Thankyou.."
Surii sighs as the kitten goes away. Looking to the leader she nods to him before throwing a glare towards Allegro. Turning she walks away purposely giving Al a rough -bump- with her hip knowing it probably won't make a difference. Not that she wouldn't want to chase a cat every now and again she wasn't evil enough to chase one that is just a kitten! Settling to her haunches staring off into the distance she yawns lightly.
Not one, but two cats? Despite Jette's look, Allegro's expression turns gleeful at the news, and he dips his head a little to peer beneath the larger dog's legs, watching as the somber cat returns to the barn. It doesn't seem as if he's moved by her saddened words or her less than healthy walk. His gaze darts to the barn as a crooked smirk lifts his muzzle, though he soon lifts his head to regard Jette as he should. "Protection?" he snorts, looking both confused and disbelieved. "Why? They're ... cats," he says again, nose wrinkling at the word just as he's bumped by Surii. Ears raise at the female and he tosses her a winning grin. "Aw, c'mon girl. You know you wanted to run with me! You ain't strike me as a cat-lover."
Jette smiles faintly before he shrugs his shoulders, "They're young, and really not that bad. Besides, we invaded on their home. Just leave them be for now.." he says to Allegro sternly. "I'm sure we can find you something else to chase silly." The Sienna leader stretches his legs slowly, "I'm going to go patrol the farmsted, try to play nice you guys.." he laughs. Shifting past Allegro the Sienna leader head-butts shepherd mixes shoulder in a brotherly-love kind of way and when he passes both Rouge and Surii he nuzzles their shoulders tenderly before dissapering into the surrounding area for a quiet walk.
Jette has left.
(Ending being posted shortly! SUSPENSE! XD)
