the beasts in the forest (open)

[WolfEnchantress]

"You know, Fuzzy kind of reminds me of a cat. And a squirrel. And a lion's And a human. All in one," Damien said, then looked at Derek, who was on his knees laughing.

"Um..Are you allright?" He asked hesitantly. Maybe Derek was sinking into hysteria. He'd seen it happen before. He saw the book on the ground and eyed Derek, who was fully occupied. MAybe he should just take it and lok at it. No, that would be a huge invasion of privacy. Still, if it's explanation would cause them to think him mad, it must be pretty important..

He stood, thoughtfully eying the book, mind in indecision.

[thedookienut]

Samuel stopped, put all his support on a tree and watched Derek collapse to the ground, laughing. He gave him a look as if to say 'You are crazy.' and shook his head, rolling his eyes a little too. Though seeing Derek act in such a way almost made him laugh, though it sounded much more like a chuckle.

His gazed drifted to Damien and 'Fuzzy', noticing Damien eyes locked onto the book. He could only guess what he was thinking but, either way, they could have been on the same lines. He quickly gave a gesture, one that meant 'Go on..'.

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien caught on to Samue;'s hand signal, but he shook his head. He didn't want the fury of a dragon on him. He responded with his own hand gesture: you can take it, then he grinned. A sudden thought occured to him, and he glanced at Fuzzy.

The animal was by far big enough to grab the book. And Derek might think that it's just an animal's curiosity..after all, he wouldnt hurt the helpless squirrel-cat...would he? He petted the animal, still furiously debating. He couldn't grab it. So he watched Derek laugh, causing him to laugh softly to himself as well. Derek was odd, but by no means was he crazy.

[Derek Corrigan]

Derek's laughing fit finally began to settle down. He made a fist and hit the ground with it, then moved his hand over and grabbed the book. "Right then. Now that that's over with. Lets go get something to eat." He said yawning and pushing himself back to his feet. He seemed to notice both of them staring at the book but didn't really care for it, not at the moment anyways. Seeing how they know he's a dragon. Funny thing is, he can't change back until he had something to eat. Which, they didn't know that.

"Morning....and I feel like I can eat a cow." He said, "and that's seriously not a joke." finished gripping the book in his hand, looking down at it.

[Omio]

Ki could've grabbed the book, and would've been able to kinda read it, but he'd need someone to help him read it - and with the way is speech limitations were, getting help would be tricky without it being noticable. On his quote of being able to eat a cow, Ki shivered slightly, not wanting to be mistaken for a cow - either way, the being was capable of turning into a dragon, and dragons weren't something to get into the mouth of. During Ki's shivering, this furr darkened - rather noticably, this time.

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien noticed Ki's fur darken. This time he was positive.
"What are you?" He mumbled to it. He certainly wasn't something he'd ever seen before, or even heard of.

Again, derek mentioned his hunger and Damien noticed his own. "Right. We can go and find somewhere that has food. Or catch something and cook it. Wither way, i'm sure we're all . Probably not as as you are, but enough to be annoying." He searched the horizon for the smoke from a town, then finally decided to ask Derek what they all wanted to know.

"Derek...As we go, care to explain the book to us?" He asked. "Books don't just...just appear. But yours did. If you won't, can we look at it or something?"
He was, in fact, intensly curious about the book, and would love to have taken it as Derek was in his laughing fit. But Derek was a dragon. Not somehting to cross or make angry, which taking it would have probably done. Hestudied fuzzy as he thought. Maybe he was some kind of crossbred species? No. Even the he couldn't change the color of his fur. Vaugely he wondered if anyone else had noticed. Maybe his eyesight was going.

[Derek Corrigan]

He started walking, the others followed also. Fuzzy riding on Damien's shoulder.

"Everything froze around me." Derek began, "When I was walking away, time stopped, your voices grew distant and I started to freak out." He paused and looked at the book then continued. "There was an old man, Uhm...Mayward or something like that. He handed the book to me and said...something about meeting him. I...I wasn't really listening." He grunted as his stomach growled. "Apparently this book has something to do with Magic, which, I wanted to study for a long time. Mainly to control myself outside of my...other..form."

[thedookienut]

((Sorry for the late reply.))

Samuel followed behind Derek, listening to his story. His eyes would flick back from Derek to the book and back again.

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien shrugged. "Seems like you were in okay control to me," He said, then corrected himself. "Then again, I wouldn't know." They walked, probably towards a town of some sort.

"Do you know any magic at present?" He asked.

[Derek Corrigan]

At that exact moment in time, Derek smiled and raised his just slightly, every shadow within or near him came over the group quickly. It went from day to night instantly, when infact, it was actually still day.

"Control Seal One, I call it." He said Standing completely still. "I wouldn't move, If I was anyone here. Stand perfectly still please. Or else something bad might happen." He said in a serious tone.

Slowly, light started to peak through.

[Omio]

Ki remained still. Dead still. Absolutely no movement whatsoever, understanding the command not to move. He was also perfectly silent, too - though that was a part of not moving, either. Not even his tail was moving. It was almost as if it had turned into a stone statue without the weight increase.

[thedookienut]

Samuel watched in amazment, stunned by the magic. It was the first real magic he'd ever seen. He was used to seeing cheap tricks that were displayed around his home in Leone Lake.

"That's amazing..." He began, hearing Derek's comand to stay still. He did and just about managed to stand still without losing balance or trip.

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien halted the second the darkness set in, his omentary panic fleeing as he realised it was Samuel's doing. He was impressed, he'd never seen much magic before, and this far exceeded his expectetions.


(( I think we should have somewhere we are headed to with this thread. It can't just go on and on forever Perhaps find a point in the future to end it? Doesn't have to be soon, just so we know where we're going with this ))

[thedookienut]

((I agree with Wolf. We need some form of plot. If Wompy returns, we could have Wompy lead them slowly to an ambush or something, inwhich he betrays them.))

[Omio]

((Plot? I've been having ideas ever since Derek finished up the shadowy drama. If Wompy returns while we head to town, he can have fun with an ambush. If not, we can begin to move things our own directions, maybe split up a bit.))