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Log 1
Gaea curled up in a spot of rare sunshine. It had been rainy as of late, and the sun had been hiding from her. Not that she could see it, of course, but she could feel it's warmth hidden behind the cold-inducing clouds. She was comfortable, though. Things were going well for her. Her tummy was full of something soft and mushy, and if she were more closely related to the feline family, she would be purring.

With stumbling little steps, a silvery griff wandered out into the sunshine. Granted, they weren't really steps. More like scooting - the little claws awkwardly digging into the dirt.
He was a happy little creature right now - making soft, squeaky noises and enjoying the feel of the warmth on his back.

Gaea sense another presence coming towards her. She wasn't sure what exactly, but it wasn't her mommy or even that size or shape. Tentatively, the little griffin scooted over in that direction. She was reluctant to move a whole lot, though-- the patch of sunlight she'd been relaxing in was -awfully- comfortable.

A few short, inquiring chirps issued in the other's direction.

Dillamond couldn't hear the chirps, of course - his ears, being a newborn, were still shut. But he did get the feeling something was nearby.

With a couple more awkward rolls and scoots, he bumped right into that something - that furry, soft something - and chirped loudly in surprise.

Gaea also chirped in surprise when the creature bumped into her. Hadn't it heard her? Well, that was okay. It was warm and soft. She snuggled against it, letting the sunlight and the creature next to her keep her comfortable. This was certainly a pleasant life. And a pleasant day. No more icky wet rain.

After an awkward moment, Dillamond relaxed.

...Well, this was nice. This cuddling thing. Whatever it was he was cuddling against.

He nuzzled his face into Gaea's shoulder, chirping contendedly.

Gaea would have giggled if she knew how. Chirping a cheerful, laughing little chirp, she continued the snuggling, venturing a little lick on his forehead.

With a loud squeak of surprise, Dillamond rolled onto his back, pedaling his little paws lazily in the air. He was happy, though, that was certain - he wasn't trying to hit Gaea.

Gaea nuzzled Dillamond's tummy gently, burying her little nose in his fur. So nice and warm and...ouch! Something hit her. She backed away a little bit, getting her bearings. Then, she came closer to Dillamond again.

Log 3

Gaea frolicked in the grass nearby. She had found a particularly beautiful butterfly and was playing chase (though she had no intention of touching it, as she had found that that would make the butterfly stop flying and she didn't like that) with the creature. Her happy chirps as the butterfly flitted around and about were gentle but a bit loud and sporadic...and the den mother who had brought her and a few of the other chicks this day kept giving her worried glances, fearing she was getting hurt, and then realizing it was not the case.

Duke was finally sat down, much to his delight, and quickly ran off to resume his game with Oz, only to find that the boy had also been carried off, this time presumely back home, wherever he went. He shrugs lightly, turning his attention around just in time to see the nearby Gaea playing! Why, he remembers her! Another sound of pure happiness, a shrieking neigh, and he gallops towards her, intent on playing!



Gaea heard the neigh and looked away from her butterfly just long enough to completely lose track of it. She let out a soft nickering sad noise about that, but was a little curious about this other griffin charging towards her. Cautiously, she sat down and watched him come nearer, sending a questioning whicker his direction.

He does not come full force at her with the intent to attack, but just to get close as quickly as he can. He fumbles into a stop but this time does not fall! Hooray for Duke! His little tuft of a tail wags behind him as he nickers out loudly at the female, wiggling his ears and starts to jump up and down in place before breaking into a run around her in a full circle, obviously showing his intent for play!


Gaea chitters laughingly at Duke's antics, standing up and chasing his circles at the next available opportunity. Playfuly, she swats at his tufty tail, completely forgetting about the butterfly.

A squeak of surprise as she swats at his tail, leaping up into the air as if attempting to dodge, only to flail wildly and hit the ground with a loud grunt. This doesn't derail him for very long because he gets to his feet and resumes his run, this time leading Gaea through a nice field of flowers that almost entirely hide them from view!


Gaea whickers apologetically, but then forgets about it as she's led into the field of flowers. Oooh so pretty! She's distracted by the pretty colours and scents and starts swatting at a dandelion instead of Duke, chirping cheerfully in appreciation.

He comes to a halt as he realizes he's no longer being chased. How odd. His ears twitch and his head tilts as he about faces and heads back in the direction from where he had come. A faint nicker of curiosity would tell Gaea he was interested in what she found so much more fun, and he sees his surroundings finally.

Wow, how pretty! His eyes widen as he walks over to her and starts to sniff at the flowers, their fragrance tickling his nostrils and making him sneeze quietly. A whicker of delight, jumping up and down as he runs through a wall of flowers, sending petals into the air like a crashing wave.


Gaea chirps a giggle as she watches Duke with the petals flying all about him, and chases after, jumping and swirling the petals more with her paws as she runs. She pounces him after a few moments, nuzzling him gently and then getting up to play with the flowers some more, batting them until all the petals fly away.

He is so engrossed in the act of running through the flowers, in a sense destroying them, but at the same time setting them free, that he is not aware of Gaea as she runs after him. She would fit so well here with that pelt of hers and her name itself suggested how in tune with the flowers and the earth she herself might actually be. So. She easily pounces him, sending him sprawling onto his belly and blinking in surprise as she lands atop of him and nuzzles. He sits up, rubbing his cheek against his shoulder and mimics her, sitting up on his hindlegs like a begging dog and batting at the floating petals with a look of awe in his eyes.


Gaea does indeed fit in rather well with this setting. Though it's still in it's infancy along with her, she does have a bit of an affinity for earthly things that will more than likely grow as she does. She calms down from the initial excitement after a moment and curls up in a pile of petals, watching Duke with affection. He has been a good, fun friend so far!

He remains upright even after the petals have been taken away on a rush of wind, watching with intent and curious eyes as they dance against the blue sky. It made him feel like he was at home, so to speak, nestled in the warm and at the same time, cool grass of the prairie in the west as the sky performed a dance with grass clippings and flower parts. Eventually he either loses interest or sight, dropping down to look towards Gaea and offer her a cheeky smile.

He was not earthly himself, but lived true to the idea of a wild bronco that his flock was most known for. His ears wriggle as he sits there on his haunches admist the flowers, tail patting the ground behind in his happiness. While they were both still young, they could talk to one another, easily able to understand where older ones could not.

"I'm Duke." It had come time, it seemed, for introductions!


Gaea snuffled a petal, sneezing as the pollen from the flower that had fallen on it tickled the inside of her nose. She looked up at him, blue eyes calm but curious,
"I'm Gaea. Where are you from? Not my flock. I haven't seen you."

"Uh.." He glances around, obviously trying to figure out where it is he's from. He can't tell amongst the walls of flowers and rises up onto his feet to look over them, but even then that doesn't help. "I'm.. from where the sun sets!" he announces upon the realization that's exactly where he's from. Yes, where the sun sets rather than where the sun rises.


Gaea's ears flatten a little in sadness,
"Oh. I'm from where the sun rises..." she chirps softly, "That's very far from each other, I think."

At least, it seems very far to her. She wonders how she will stay friends with him if he is from so far away...but maybe he will come here a lot, and she will too, and then they can play together!
"Maybe we can come play here sometimes?"

"That does sound far," he murmurs in agreement, but he's still smiling. His tail thumps continuously behind him. "We're on opposite sides of the Tree!" he also realizes. While he had not been taught the importance of the Tree, he knew some things from what he had heard from the grown ups.

He nods quickly at her words. "Yes, yes, we can! We've played before. Don't you remember?" He did because he was a bright boy like that. He remembers her and another female, whom he hadn't seen lately though. Maybe she was off with her own flock.


Lack of sight and hearing can severaly injure your ability to remember someone..but she had a vague recollection of his scent,
"Maybe...I remember a little.." but she'd been so small..and really, she wasn't sure it mattered too much, as long as they could keep playing.

"The...tree?" she hadn't really heard much about the Tree, though she was about due to begin her lessons with it. Maybe a few more days before her learning began.

He didn't say anything else, just sat there looking at her through the stems of the various kinds of flowers. His ears erect and in her direction as well, a silly smile on his face.

"Yes, the Tree. This is where we all come together! I've never seen the Tree though.." he murmurs, glancing around as if trying to find it.


Gaea's ears flicked curiously, and she hopped to her feet with grace,
"What's the Tree do?" she asked, taking a few steps towards him again and snuffling a rather feathery looking flower petal before it tickled her nose and she sneezed it away,
"maybe we should go look for it!"

Duke looks at her when she asks and his tiny winged shoulders roll in a light shrug. "I dunno," he answers then smiles afterwards.

"What look for it? Well.. huh..." He seems to be contemplating this and it's taking a lot of thinking judging by that look of determination on his face.



Gaea swatted absently at a butterfly wandering around past her. She watched Duke for a second, but then quickly grew bored with that,
"Do you think we should?" she asked, prompting him to continue.

"I dunno. I don't think so," he admits, though he seems albeit ashamed to admit this deafeat. "I think it would be bad if we did. I mean, I don't even think my mom has seen it!" He boasts this with some pride, but it's not very much. He pushes up to his feet, tail wagging gently behind him.


Gaea blinked,
"Maybe we should find out what it is, then? We can bug the den mom's...."

She pawed at the dirt a moment,
"Or we could just play something like hide-'n-seek."

He shrugs his shoulders lightly before turning his head from side to side, looking through the walls upon walls of flower stems, glancing upwards to look at the petals and then back to Gaea. "Hide-n-seek sounds like fun!" And he does sound like he is very open to the option of playing this game.

Quite suddenly he bats her on the nose and takes off. "You're it! You count, I hide!"


Gaea sneezed when he batted her nose, but then giggled,
"Okay!" She chirped after him, closing her eyes and settling into the dirt to count.

"1....2....3...."

The perfect opportunity for Duke! He gallops through the fields, actually not too sure of where he's going. He stands out pretty well against the green, but this doesn't occur to him. Going further and further, he finally finds a large tree and runs around behind it, tucking down against a root and covering his face with his paws. The classic 'I'm invisible this way!' technique.



Gaea finished her counting within a few more seconds, and hopped back to her feet, glancing about. Where to look?

She wandered off in one direction, snuffling about in the grass for a bit, and then hopped over in another. A flash of white caught her eye, though. Really, it wasn't very easy for Duke to hide in the grass-- his colouring was just too distinctive from it.

"Found ya!" she giggled, pouncing him.

He squeaks loudly when he's caught, grunting as he tries to scramble away, but failing as she successfully catches him. His nostrils wriggle and his tail does too, rolling onto his back to try and shove her off. "Fine, fine, you did," he mutters in dismay and defeat. His ears pin against his head as he sits up now, waving a foreleg at her. "Go on and I'll count."


As soon as she thought Duke wasn't looking anymore, Gaea scampered off to find a good hiding spot-- it'd probably be a little harder for him to find her, considering her green helped her hide amongst the grasses.

Still, she didn't pick a particularly good hiding spot. She crouched, letting off a few giggling whickers before she managed to calm herself, in the middle of the field, buried amongst the grass, but not covered by much else.

Duke counted and he did not look. His head bobbled from side to side as he counted each number, though he was mostly saying words and jumbles because he actually did not know how to count. Then when he decided he had counted long enough, he rose to his feet and began his search of Gaea.

It doesn't occur to this little boy the difficulty he's going to have finding her. All that interests him is finding her so that they can keep on playing.

Log 5

Gaea frolicked about, chasing Silvanus, the horsefly. She'd given him that name upon the advice of one of her den mothers, and rather thought it suited him (if the critter was indeed a him, which she'd decided it was) nicely. The little green filly (for young horses are called fillies, and hippogryphs are not so far separated from horses) nearly caught him a couple of times, but that was probably because he thought it fun to let her.

Grumpy peeks out from a bush. He glances around. Hopefully no one would bother him. He saw no one in sight and that gave him a great sense of relief, enough to slip out from his hiding spot and start to slowly walk out. His paws push down into the soft grass as he heads down towards a nearby stream to look down at his reflection. It's kind of hard to see though since he's just as blue as the water!


Gaea spotted the glum little guy looking in the water, and capered over towards him. Her big eyes peered curiously at him,
"Hello there!" she smiled, flicking her ears a bit as Silvanus landed on her head and unintentionally tickled them with his tail.

He tilts his head as he hears a voice and spies an older looking filly. His expression grows sour immediately, his ears drooping; so much for being able to enjoy hiself.

"Hi," he mutters as he glances away to look back to the water.


His sour tone confuses her a little bit, so she settles comfortably in the grass, enjoying the loam,
"What is the matter?" she asks gently, snuffling a nearby flower, "you sound sad."

"I'm not sad!" he grunts out irritably, scowling down at the water. He pushes up to his feet, a distinct sight of his little white belly scene in contrast to his dark, gloomier blue tone of fur. "I just wish everyone would stop bugging me." And he turns around, starting to walk off to make his point known.


The filly blinks, watching him walk off,
"Oh.." well, if he wants to be left to his own devices, she isn't going to bother him. She likes making new friends, but she isn't about to force someone to talk to her or anything. Instead, she rolls over, rubbing against the dirt as Silvanus barely manages to get in the air again before he gets smooshed,
"haha!" she giggles,
"Almost got you that time!"

Grumpy was grateful she left him alone; too often they continued to badger and bother him. So he kept going, passing by the brown and white colt, Duke as he does and not even giving him a glance.


"Wow, what's got his feathers in a bunch?" announced Duke loudly as he makes his way over to Gaea, casting a second and final glance at the blue chick. He apparently has forgotten the mishaps with Gaea's flock -- or simply chose not to let what her den mother said get to him -- because he sits down right by her head, tilting his own to look at her.


Gaea looks up at him from on her back, and shakes her head,
"Don't know. He seems pretty sad, though. Poor little guy."

She hasn't forgotten about the last time they saw each other, though,
"Are you feeling better now? I hope you weren't -tooooo- sick," she asks, rolling over onto her side and then propping herself up a bit so that only her back half is sideways.

Silvanus flutters over to Duke, settling on his head instead, now that he's already been tricked by Gaea recently.

He just nods slighlty, but then stops when she inquires about his illness. It takes him a few moments to realize what she means and he smiles faintly at her, the unhappy memories falling back into his mind and he nods more firmly this time. "I'm feeling a lot better, yeah.. Thanks. I just needed to nap."

That wasn't entirely a lie; he had felt a lot better after he had taken a nap. He rolls his eyes up to look at the little horsefly, smiling.


The little filly shakes out her mane, smiling back at him,
"Good! Then you can play with me again!" she hops gracefully to her feet,
"What do you want to play?"

Silvanus makes a few soft chittery noises and peers down into Duke's eyes even as he's peering up. The horsefly seems to smile, and take up into the air again, spinning around in a circle cheerfully.

"Yeah." And he puts on the best smile he can for her because he didn't want to upset her. He climbs up to his feet and glances around after having looked away from Silvanus.

"Huh, I dunno. I wonder where everyone else is. It'd be great if we could all play together..."


Gaea could sense something was still wrong-- she had a little bit of an intuitive nature, but decided not to push the issue. Whatever it waas, he didn't seem inclined to talk about it, and she didn't want to make him even more upset!

She shook her head again,
"I do not know..." she peered around the field, "I guess maybe they are all napping?"

Should she ever mention this moment again and if he remembered, he would express gratitude to her for not going any further with the matter.

"I guess so," he murmurs sounding disappointed. He didn't mind Gaea's company but it would be nice to play with others once in awhile too. "Come on; let's go see if we can find anyone." And so he starts to walk off.


Snuffing around the field, Torini kicked at a bit of dirt. Shoving her nose into it, she pulled back when something suddenly wriggled around.

Letting out a rather loud, surprised whinny, the pinkish purple gryph bolted back suddenly. Getting a few, sure steps, she saw something peach, almost pink in colour, wriggling around.

"EIW! A worm!" she exclaimed rather loudly, tail swishing about.

"GROSS!"

Gaea heard the other Gryph (Torini) squeal and re-directed herself, thinking the other might be in danger. Huffing a bit, she arrived at the filly's side,
"What's the matter?" she asked, peering at this new gryph she hadn't met before,
"Are you okay?"

Duke blinks, his ears perking as he hears that shrilling whinny and he takes off in a gallop after Gaea, wings flapping as he moves, barely lifting him up off the ground as he moves, but he wasn't necessarily flying.

Once there, he skids to a halt, spreading the large pair of feathers and then nestling them against him. He smiles brightly.

"Torini!" And is prompt to tackle her!


"Yah... I'm alright... but there's a worm there!" she wrinkled her nose, pointing at the 'slimey' creature now slowly begining to burrow down beneath the soil.

"So gross... it tried to go up my nose!" she turned and gave a disgusted look at Gaea, the idea of a worm getting up there surely was not a wonderful thought.

"By the way, my name is..." the abrupt calling of her name from a rather familar voice caused Torini's ears to flicker as she turned her head.

"Duke! Hey!" she called back, wings fluffing up high in greeting, "You got even bigger!"

Gaea blinked, looking at the worm,
"What is wrong with a worm?" she asked, then blinked again as she introduced herself,
"Now, what a minute. You cannot be Duke! Duke is Duke!"

Duke tackled Torini, paying no mind to what the two girls were saying. He rolls with her to pin her down then leaps off, bouncing around like the happy kid he is.

He stops though at Gaea's words and lets out a laugh. "No, her name is Torini! I'm Duke. I haven't seen her in awhile." He sits down, reaching out to paw at Tori's face.

"There's three of us now! We can play!"


"Yah! I met Duke when I was teensy... he squashed me then... bet he couldn't do that now though!" Torini pawed back at Duke, and nodded to Gaea.

"What's your name?" she grinned, "And I don't like worms when they try to go up my nose! It's gross!"

Gaea blinked,
"Well, I don't think it was -really- trying to go up your nose. It wouldn't have anything to eat there or anything. My den mother told me worms eat dirt."

She nodded satisfactorily at the explanation,
"Oh. Okay. Hello Torini. I'm Gaea." She smiled, making a little bow. Her ears flicked as Silvanus tickled them again with his tail while fluttering over her head,
"...and this is Silvanus."

"I bet I could so!" he retaliates, flopping to the ground, butt in the air, ready to tackle Torini again as he grins at her, mischeviously.

"I bet I could take you both on and win!" he stands up, proudly boasting out his chest, which one day would become full with the mane that was starting to grow at the top of his head. "Because I'm bigger and older," he states, nodding his head.


"Oh... well.. it was tickling my nose anyways... I didn't want to chance it!" she exclaimed brightly, nodding as though she knew exactly what she was talking about.

"Aww... Silvanus is cute! Horsefly! I've seen a few, but never this close up before!" she grinned before turning and huffing at Duke.

"Nu uh... no way! You so could not." she puffed out her wings, turning a circle as he readied his pounce.

When he stood up she stuck out her tongue and winked, "You'd lose, cause you're a booooooy..." she nickered with amusement.

Log 7

Skipping about the fields, Torini pranced around in a circle, bending down and snuffing at something. Pulling her head back, she wrinkled her nose as a tiny, red paw came hurtling towards her.

Nickering with amusement, Torini whinied at the thing below her. "Hey! Get up get up! It's morning get up!" she called to it.

Mushu, on the other hand, had other plans. They involved sleeping. Not listening to some happy-go-lucky morning gryph! It was early... the sun hadn't even reached the mid sky point! Curling into a tighter ball, Mushu whined and snorted. Women!

Crik Kee, on the other hand, was happily fluttering about. The mornings didn't bother him at all... he was a lucky horsefly afterall!

A mass of white fuzz and feathers bleated anxiously, she'd found herself away from warm people hands. Although she had no clue what a person looked like, she knew they were warm, and they had treats. The small chick bumbled around blind and semi-deaf to the world, bleating for the hands that should have come to pick her up. Moving was a disoriented feeling, and without knowing it she walked right into a tree; awfully near the little beast.

Gaea frolicked in circles around the fluffy yellow mass before her. She enjoyed watching him. The little guy -was- very entertaining, afterall! He'd roll around and snuffle the grass and stuff and he was cute and little and fluffy!

She paused a moment as he started crawling in one direction, following him with her nose snuffling the ground for any sense of danger! Even though it wasn't her job to protect this little chick, she thought it wasn't a bad idea. Even if there wasn't really any danger here anyhow. He could get stung by a bumblebee, afterall!

Helios crawled forwards. He was tired of lying about and rolling around at this point. He needed more entertainment! He had caught a sniff of a different smell from any other he had ever encountered before, and he was moving towards it. Maybe it'd be snuggly and warm. Or maybe interesting at the least. Interesting was good too.

Gaea spotted another chick lying about in the grass. She blinked, then trotted over to sniff at it. He was...strange. Stranger than any of the other chicks she'd seen!
"Hmmmm...."

Pinning her wings back, Tori's brow furrowed as the little red moppet refused to do anything... interesting. She didn't remember being this boring when she was small.

Flicking her ears around, she got an idea in her head. She'd simply move him around! That was the ticket for sure! Reaching down, she did what her den mother had often done to her when she was small... picked him right up by the scruff of his neck!

Wow he was heavy!

Crik Kee stopped his fluttering around and eyes drew wider as the young Gryph picked up his friend. Uh oh..

Snorting awake again suddenly, Mushu let out a loud howl of annoyance. What was going on? Why was he in the air? And why did he smell morning breath!?

Ignoring the tiny one's pleas, and the fact that Mushu's butt was nearly dragging around on the ground, Tori turned about and looked around. Narrowing her gaze slightly, she made an attemptive grin, which proved difficult while having a mouthfull of fuzz, and began to trot in the direction of a familar face.

Gaea she believed. A friend of Duke's! And hey! She had some little ones as well with her! As she drew nearer, she blinked as she heard a strange, foreign sound to her. Bleating? It was then she noticed the... well it kinda looked like fur, white and pink... gryph? Anyways it was fumbling towards where Gaea and this other two chicks were...

How peculiar.

"Gwaeah!" She attempted to call out to the green Gryph.


Even though half deaf, Beast could infact hear the anxious bleating, and boy was it NOISY, he decided. So noisy in fact, that the lithe chick lifted his head from his front paws and sniffled the air angrily, hissing in annoyance at the general directiong of... well, the strangely noisy thing. Couldn't it see it was trying to sleep? How inconsiderate of it!

Beast would have none of this.

After directing a blind scowl towards the lamb, he snorted, grumbling as he curled up into a tighter ball. The day had not started well... all these ... things had been bothering him endlessly. But then again, there was little that didn't bother him, it was not poor Susan's fault in the least. As he had decided that perhaps ignoring the lamb would be the bst way to tackle the problem, a large female came forth, sniffling him.

This would just NOT do.

Snorting angrily, the Beast uncurled a paw and batted slightly at Gaea's maw, never hurting her, but rather... just pawing, almost as if trying to voice his obvious annoyance.

Gaea looked up from the chick she was sniffing (Beast), somehow managing not to notice the creature pawing at her, and peered at Torini curiously. Her eyes grew wide when she saw the red ball of fluff in the other's mouth,
"Hey! That's a chick, isn't it? Do you really think you ought to be carrying him around and stuff? I don't think you're big enough. What if you hurt 'im?"


Helios made his slow way towards Beast, then stopped upon touching him and attempted to snuggle against him, taking in his scent to get the feel of him...but felt a paw hit him instead. He backed away a little bit. Hmmm....very odd indeed...and there was another strange smell coming towards them as well! He lifted his tiny fuzzy head to sniff at the little lamb-gryph

Susan's bleating stoped instantly as she took note of what she had run into, it was large but did not in the least smell like her favorite things, humans. She squished her nose against it trying to take in it's scent. It smelled like something alright, but not her human.

What is that?

The fluffy chick could hear something, although muffled and was not at all sure what to make if it. They were not people voices, they sounded more like her to an extent. She leat out a slow bleat and shook her head from side to side as if to say, hello anyone there?

"Nw...Mm dwnf phnk hw'll bre hrff..." she knelt down and let the squabbling red fluffball down on the ground.

"I mean, no, I don't think he'll be hurt. Looks fine to me... boy he's awful loud though..." she mused slightly, shaking her head.

"Who are those chickies?" she asked, ignoring Mushu who'd curled up in a ball by this point, "I've not seen them before either!"

Stupid women folk. Mushu had a headache, and he wanted to go back to sleep! That Torini girl needed to go away. He knew she wouldn't though. She'd been around since she'd found him the other day. Seemed to have taken a shine to the little horned gryph.

Snorting into the grass, Mushu uncurled suddenly, while Torini was talking to Gaea, and started to slowly crawl away. He could hear others, smaller others. Probably closer to his size. At least, maybe, if he could get to them, he'd be saved another bumpy ride across the field.

"What a funny looking Gryph." Torini commented lightly on the lamb-gryph, changing the subject once again.

"Actually... they're all kinda... funny lookin'. 'Cept the yellow one..."

Gaea blinked, "They look different, but I don't think they look funny. All the little chicks are cute, in their own way." She trotted over to Mushu and nuzzled him very gently, making sure he was okay,
"Well, you're right, he doesn't seem hurt, at least."



Helios made his way determinedly to the fluffy little lamb gryph, sniffing at her curiously and then snuggling against her. Maybe she'd be as much fun as the other warm spot he'd snuggled and played with yesterday!

Well, the other gryph didn't feel like people hands, but he sure was warm! She pushed against him lightly trying to absorb his heat. Even with wool-like fuzz she was still very cold in the open air, and she shivered slightly, letting out a slow content bleat. You're soft, I like you. was what she thought and she slightly dozed.

Growling angrily (which of course, taking in his size and his newborn voice, came out more like a frustrated kitten yowl), Beast voiced his displeasure at all this... this snuggling, bumping and rubbing against his body. In fact, he was allready pondering going on an odesy (read: walking another five meters away from these here gryphs, because of course... the chick was SURE he'd be the ONLY one capable of such a feat), never once did it cross his mind that the larger gryphs would not only be able to follow his stumbling frame, but if he could... most likely, the other small chicks could.

So thus, the Beast-like-chick got up and began to try and pad away, failing utterly as he stumbled down, tripping over his own legs, not to mention running right into poor susan, sending them both down in a mangled heap or cloack, fur and feathers.

How.... how EVIL!

How terribly eeeevil! Lifting his head up, the small male finally gave in and opened his eyes to take a look around, whinning noisely as he tried to paw his way out of the mess he'd caused, however, he swiftly closed them, for the light was simply too bright to bear; how terribly unfair...

"Yah, I know. See! No harm done!" Torini lifted her head triumphantly, as though to prove that she new exactly what she was doing in the first place.

Which was absolute bunk, but Gaea didn't need to know that.

"Hey! Look at that! So cute!" Torini trotted over to where Beast was attempting to move around.

"He's trying to walk!" she grinned and nickered at him. At least her shadow was casting over him now, cutting the light off from him slightly.

Mushu found himself getting closer, and closer to other, hopefully more calm, gryphs. Before he got there, however. He was intercepted by Gaea, who was checking to make sure he was okay. Of course he was okay though! He was the Great Mushu!

Gaea nuzzled him again, just to be sure, and then trotted back over to Helios and the new little lamb. She nuzzled both to make sure they were okay, since Beast had thumped into them, and then went back over to Torini,
"We should watch these chicks!" she suggested to the other, "..Make sure nothing bad happens to them, 'n all. They're just babies! There are...there are...-bees- and things around here that could hurt 'em."

Helios was amused, more than anything else, by all the jostling going on. He chirped appreciatively when Gaea nuzzled him, and then rolled over to expose his belly to the morning sun-- his favourite pasttime. Mmm...so nice and snuggly warm! So was the little gryph next to him, really, though she seemed to be shivering. But she felt warm enough to him!

Log 9

Gaea frolicked merrily about the field as per usual. Silvanus fluttered close to her ears, chuckling to himself. He was greatly amused by the little filly's antics.

Splashing through one of the many streams comes along that white little pinto boy Duke! He's getting a little bigger one would notice but nothing too fantastic. He gallops up alongside Gaea's left flank, leaping up to paw at her ear before he hits the ground, resuming a nice walking pace matching hers.

"Hellloooo!"


Having settled himself by the shade of a nearby tree lay the Beast, his ears perking slightly as his instinct suddenly told him that someone was rapidly approaching his lovely shady spot. Now, you must understand that Beast had found the spot all by himself; not only that, but it'd taken him a good long while to reach it too, and tell truth... he did not feel like sharing.

Not in the least.

Specially not when one took into account that the last time strangers had come near him he'd been shoved, pushed, and later bitten by one of them; it had not been a good experience in the least, and needless to say, he did not take to the idea of Duke or Gaea nearing him all too nicely. Being blind, however, he was unable to glare, and settled for a mild growling and bristling which gave away his current spot. Never did it cross his mind that it would've been better to stay silent and ignore them, hoping they'd go away.

THen again... Beast was very young, and had many things still yet to learn; particularly, that some insects stung, and were better left alone and not eaten, but that's a diferent story.

Gaea spun in delight upon spotting her friend, nuzzling his neck gently in greeting...and then jumped about a foot in the air when she heard Beast's growling. It wasn't that she was afraid of him, but the random, sudden sound had startled her. She hadn't even seen him lying about in the grass.

Silvanus fluttered over to the little guy, eyeing him curiously.

Duke turns a little red at the nuzzling, ears flagging down against his head and he gives her a sheepish grin. That grin is lost when he hears the growl, his ears lifting, blinking as he turns his head in the direction of where the noise had come from. He had been momentarily startled but not in the same extent that Shiaree had been.

"Wow. What was that?" His curiosity gets the best of him because he starts to walk over, cautiously, because he didn't know what it was and he didn't want to walk onto a slumbering predator and be attacked.

When he gets closer he discovers it's nothing more than a Hippogryph newborn! Albeit a deformed one. It makes him tilt his head in curiosity, especially when Silvanus comes fluttering by around him. He lifts a paw up to brush away the little Horsefly.

"Aw, come on, leave him alone. He's tired. Can't you see?"


More than tired, however, Beast was just rather grumpy, for after all, a newborn like him lacked the real ability to be evil; all the matter was the fact he'd had a really bad first impression of 'others'.

His opinion on the matter was not about to wabber, specially not when he felt the horsefly start to flutter around him; instincts told him it was lunch, however, something else told him perhaps his instincts were wrong. Nevertheless, the chick raised his head, growled a couple of times more and bucked his head several times, in a clear attempt to use his horns againts the smaller creature. After having failed to hit it, he attempted to snap his maw closed over it, failling severly once more; after all, being blind was a great disadvantage.

Duke's voice came clear through the haze of partial deafness, and at his words, the chick wrinkled his nose, almost as if to try and let the other know that THAT... was not really the real problem here.

Silvanus blinked, dodging the chick's attempts to eat him or hurt him, and flew over onto Gaea's withers, peering out cautiously from behind her. This chick was -scary-!

Gaea was not so intimidated. She'd seen this little guy before,
"Aw, he's a bit of a bully, Duke. I'd be careful."

"Is he?" he answers, tilting his head as he looks over the strange little boy in front of him. "I don't blame him. He probably gets picked on a lot." His tail twitches behind him, but he makes no move to touch and poke and prod at Beast; he didn't want to get bit because he looks more than just harmless.

"Have you met him before?" he looks over his shoulder at the female curiously.


Now bully was perhaps too harsh a word; perhaps misunderstood was more along Beast's lines, but of course, the chick was in no position to defend himself, and thus merely wrinkled his nose in annoyance at the older female. What did she know anyhow? that weird lamb had bit him first... was was he to do? Let her and not respond? Sadly... Beast was not about to be pushed and not push back, for he had yet to learn the leason concerning that.

He did, however, appreciate the fact the older male was not shoving, pushing or otherwise poking him in any sort of random way, and thus thrilled softly in appreciation. Specially since he'd determined this one was smarter than the rest he'd had the displeasure of meeting thus far; it was a nice change.

Ignorance was not a bliss...

At least not for the Beast, and so, slowly, he raised his head, his growlings having ceased, in order to sniff about the air, his nostrils flaring as he took in Gaea's allready familiar scent and Duke's strangely new one. Not bad... not bad at all; perhaps he should give this whole 'others' thing a try, as it seemed not all of them were daft.

Gaea nodded,
"Yeah, he pushed Helios around a bit 'n was swatting at some of us and growling and stuff. Just like he did with Silvanus."

She trotted back over to Duke and rested her chin on his withers thoughtfully,
"He doesn't seem very happy. Mebbe you're right and he does get picked on."

"Maybe he's just tired and grumpy because he hasn't had a nap," he suggests, taking note that Beast had yet to actually attack him. He blinks, tilting his head to look back as she rests her head on his hindquarters, making his tail drop between his legs and another little red on his cheeks, turning quickly so that she can't see.

This is when he notices that the boy is lifting his head up and so he drops his own to sniff gently back at him. "He seems okay to me."


Sniffling slightly at the maw offered, the Beast pushed slightly against it; it was little contact, but willing all the same, and thus, alltogether important for a chick who had aborted all contact but that of his den mother and few select others.

A soft thrill escaped him before he turned to face the female, a frown coming over his features; recoiling slightly away before he curled up again. Perhaps Duke was right, and the grumpy chick merely needed a rest and a bit of time to doze off... or perhaps, just perhaps, he just needed to spend more time beside others and learn to trust them. Whatever the cause, Beast endded up merely yawning, opening his maw wide to display sharp needle like fangs before tucking his head under his wings, obviously trying to give sleep a second chance.

It was amusing though for he was no longer growling, nor was he all that angry with the fact the other two were still there in the least. In fact, he seemed quite content for the time being. Interesting how such a little thing likea sniff had done the trick.

Gaea blinked at the little guy, sulking a little bit.
"I guess he doesn't like me much," she pouted, taking her head from Duke's withers and settling in the grass with her head on the ground to watch him.

He sniffs back gently, his ears swiveling then he pulls back when the little boy tucks his head down and seems to go right back to sleep. He had seen those teeth, blinked at them; he had never seen a Hippogryph with teeth like that! Especially at a young age.

He turns his attention to Gaea and smiles at her. "I think he just needs a nap. Let's leave him alone and go somewhere else?" he suggests with a hopeful tone in his voice. Without waiting for an answer, he starts to walk slowly past her but there is an air to his step that is hesitant, waiting on her to follow.


Gaea pulled quickly enough out of her pouting, hopping gracefully to her feet and trotting after Duke,
"Well, maybe. I dunno. I guess maybe he just heard me say those things about him..but he -did- seem like he was being a little bit of a bully when I first met him. Pushing around all those other gryph chicks...but...he was nice to you, so he can't be all bad, I guess."

She tilted her head thoughtfully,
"Want to play a game?"

"Maybe they were being mean to him?" he suggests but then shrugs his shoulders. "We're all kinda weird when we're babies I think. I wouldn't worry. He reminds me of that little blue guy who comes around."

He glances around, noticing that the sun is starting to slowly set. It's so nice out! He smiles and looks to her. "What kind of game?"


Gaea feels comforted by Duke's words, and so calms down a bit. Maybe he's right, it's just because he's a chick or something. That other blue chick didn't really like her much either...maybe just not all chicks were like Helios.

She stretched, enjoying the little bit of breeze that game with the sunset and ruffled her wings a bit,
"Oh, I dunno. I guess we could play tag. I could call Silvanus back over so we'd have three. Or, maybe hide 'n seek."

"I dunno. We play those a lot," he points out, swiveling his ears. "We oughta come up with a new game to play." Though that's something that is easier said than done. He never could think of any new kinds of games himself.

"We gotta find more people to play with! I wonder why no one ever comes out."


Gaea sighed. She was getting a little tired of tag and hide-n-seek too.
"I don't know....maybe we could go swimming?"

She nodded at his queries,
"It is weird that there aren't really any other foals most of the time! Just the chicks lying about. And they're not that much fun to play with, even if they are awfully cute to look at."

"Maaaybe. Swimming would be a lot more fun. We don't go swimming a lot." And the seasons were getting hotter so it'd be a lot more fun.

"I guess they're cute," he answers, making a face and laughing afterwards. "We need to find more foals though. Maybe there are some out by the water." And he breaks out into a nice gallop towards one of the nearby rivers.


Gaea grinned,
"Allright!" she galloped after him, deciding not to comment any more about finding other foals. Really, she was content to play with Duke, as he was plenty of fun. And with Silvanus and Helios, of course. She had all the friends she needed..

She splashed into the river, whinnying excitedly as the droplets fell from her dripping wings and fluttering them to spray everything in sight.

He himself, being a boy, preferred the company of more than just a single girl. He'd have to come looking for more. It was actually pretty disappointing because he didn't know much anyone in his flock, which was a rather small one in itself, oddly enough. Maybe that would change.

He doesn't immediately jump into the water but instead weaves off to a nearby rock that he struggles to climb up on then eventually gets up to. He wriggles his butt then leaps forward, pulling his lower paws up to curl into a fetus position, shouting, "FEATHER BALL"!

Then.


SPLASH!


"Eeep!" Gaea whinnies as she soaked by the splash Duke creates, she laughs, nipping at him playfully,
"Heeeeeey!" she teases, "Next time, a little warning!"

Gaea, fortunately, didn't suffer from that. She was more solitary by nature-- probably an indication of her future of delving into knowledgeable things, rather than interacting with many other gryphs. For now, though, she just enjoyed having a really good friend, a fun little horsefly, and a cute little chick to guard.

He lifts his head up out of the water, spitting out some and grinning, his fur and feathers sticking to his body. He grunts when she nips, lifting a paw up to push playfully at her face to get her away. He has noticed she's being rather weird in the way she treats him but it's not enough to bother him or warrant concern.

"No way. You don't give warnings on that!"


Gaea ducks her head under the water, watching the fish go by for as long as she can, then picks it back up,
"Well, whatever," she says, shaking out the fur on her head as she does so.

He rolls his eyes, snickering as he starts to push his body through the water, his paws pushing against the ground and bounding through the stream when he can.

"You're just upset that I got you all wet. We came here to swim so what's it matter?"


Gaea pouted,
"That's not it!" she protested, "I just don't like to be surprised!" She flicked her ear back and forth, climbing to the banks of the stream and settled on a rock, staring back down at him,
"I don't think I want to swim anymore. I'll just watch you."

"Whaaatever," he answers, dipping his head into the water then lifting it up, throwing back his sad excuse for a mane to flick water at her. He blinks, stopping to watch her climb out. "Why don't you wanna swim anymore?" He sounds concerned, looks it as he paddles over towards her and climbs up onto the bank to join her.


Gaea shrugs, looking away from him,
"I dunno." She stares off at the sunset. That's kind of pretty, at least. But something feels different. She doesn't really want to play anymore. Maybe she'll just go find her den mother and go home. Maybe she's just tired.

He frowns now notably concerned. He shakes his body -- a good ways away from her for the record -- to rid it of the excess water. Slowly he walks back to her, tilting his head around to look at her face. "Are you okay Gaea? You seem down all of a sudden."


Gaea sighed,
"I don't think I feel so good all of a sudden." She got to her feet, moved off a bit to shake off, and peered at him,
"I might go home.."

He pins his ears back at this, frowning more. "Um... okay... How about I walk you home? You know. Just in case something happens?" He felt silly for asking but maybe she'd like some of the extra company.


Gaea smiled, nuzzling him a little,
"That's okay," she said, "You don't have to." And with that, she took off.

Log 11

Chewing at the fabric of his sleeves, Sora wiggles his little ears at the various sounds around him. He sneezes as the grass tickles his muzzle slightly.

Gaea hears the sneeze from not too far away and comes trotting over, spotting the adorable little gryph she'd seen the other day,
"Why, hello again!" she says softly, reaching down to nuzzle him in greeting. It doesn't really matter that he can't hear her very well-- she enjoys at least going through the motions of a proper greeting.

Sora perks at the growingly familiar voice over head and peers up with that same baby smile he usually has. Wagging his little tail lopsidedly as he wobbles to his feet. The chick chirping as he follows the nuzzling to lead himself to stand between her front paws away from the evil shoots of grass.

Gaea whickers softly at the little guy, lying down so that he can use her to prop himself up if he feels it necessary,
"You're so cute!" She smiled softly to herself. She'd been awfully busy studying lately, and it felt nice to have a little break.