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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:53 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:55 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:57 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:59 am
Requirements...
Newborn -> Infant
Been a newborn for a week
Minimum of 3 roleplays, solo or not : 3/3
Infant -> Child
Been an infant for 2 weeks
Minimum of 5 roleplays, solo or not : 1/5
Child -> Adolescent
Been a child for 3 weeks
Minimum of 5 roleplays, with at least 3 with another player : 0/5
Adolescent -> Adult
Been an adolescent for 1 month
Minimum of 7 roleplays, with at least 4 with another player : 0/7
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:59 pm
Unaware of the conversation the two older griff where having, a bundle of fluff was, as she usually was, sleeping peacefully. Aurora was curled up in a few longer patches of grass, her mother nearby.
And there was another not so far away, laying on his back comically as he, too, slept. The two chicks seemed, mostly, unaware of each other.
Helios was also blissfully unaware of the conversations the older gryphs were having, though he probably would've been greatly amused by them if he'd been able to hear them. He had caught a familiar scent, though, and he was following it, nose pressed to the ground like some sort of hound.
After a few short moments, he located Aurora, his first cuddling buddy outside of his flock! Gleefully, he lie down, snuggling against her. He peered about, taking note of the other chick. He wondered if that chick were as cuddly as Aurora...
...That scent ! It was familiar, somehow.. yes ! That other chick ! She suddently chirped very hapilly, perked as much as she was able, and snuggeled against him.
...Didn't he use to be smaller ?
Setzer originally ignored the two, but then the sent caught up to him. What was this odd scent... He didn't remember smelling something like this before. How odd !
Curiosity got the best of him, and he flipped back on his tiny legs, trying to figure out from which direction the odd scent was coming from...
Helios smiled, snuggling against her a bit more,
"Wonder what your name is," he mused thoughtfully, then peered at the other one,
"Hey, over here. I'm over here," he called, hoping maybe the sound of his voice would help him. He of course assumed the tiny chick was coming towards him. Chicks seemed to like him because of his smell!
Aurora was definitively happy with all the cuddeling. She loved being near other griffs, but Helios was even better, since he smelled so nice. It is almost as if she doesn't hear him speak, as she laid down beside him and curled up against his fur.
A noise now ! This was probably worth the effort to check out. Setzer got up from his laying position, and half-walked, half-wobbeled to the bight yellow one at a slow rate, flopping in front of him and sniffing as his face.
HAHA ! The source of the smell was found at least !
Helios giggled happily as the little chick snuffled his face, snuffling back excitedly. These guys were lots of fun! As fun as the ones back home, if not more so!
His ears flicked back, listening to Aurora. She was definitely one of his favourites, though! So snuggly!
Aurora seemed to finally realise that there was another chick around... Her own curiosity was perking... yet she didn't really want to leave her spot. Ohh, confliction ! What to do, what to do...
It looked like the second option gave in, however, but she chirped again, nonetheless.
Setzer heard the other chirp, and perked sightly. Another there ? She had his attention for the moment, but then he diverted back to Helios, sniffing and sniffing as if somehow it would give him all the clues about who that sweet-smelling one was.
Helios smiled, angling himself so that he could nuzzle Aurora a little bit and then snuffling back at Setzer. This was fun! He was getting to know two new(ish, as he'd already met Aurora before) gryphs!
Aurora gave yet another happy chirp. She defintively liked Helios ! He was always so nice, smelt so nice, and didn't mind her close to him. She liked being close to others. It was always warmer this way.
It seemed like it was time for her to go back, however, as her mother came and took her, giving Helios a bit of an apology at the quick depart, and inviting him to look for her in the flock if he wanted... then left, Aurora giving a few, saddened chirps, but seeming overall resigned.
Likewise, Setzer was taken by a female - it was hard to say it she was his mother or not, and the small chick expressed his annoyance in a much noticable string of whines, but it didn't seem to work to well, as he was soon out of sight.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 2:05 pm
Today had been a long day. The unstable weather had really seemed to bother Felicity a bit. You couldn't really blame her, though- going from drizzling to sunshine to pouring to sunshine to thunder, then back again to sunshine wasn't really her choice of weather conditions. Though, like the little cheerful, resilient chick she was, Felicity had gotten over the poor weather and was pleased once again when the sun came out to warm up her tiny body. As a matter of fact, she was more then pleased. For one reason or another, the little chick was unreasonably estatic. She was just in a great mood! Her litle body waggled about as she crawled about the soft grass.
Day by day, Felicity noticed herself getting stronger. Her short legs could carry her with more ease now- even if she was still horribly coordinated. Her ears were swiveling and perking constantly now: noises were no longer faint, low buzzes, but now slightly distinct mumbles and whispers. This was so exciting! The one thing that the Gryphon couldn't wait to happen, though, was for her eyes to open. She wanted to see the world around her!
She was patient, though. The little newborn would wait. For now, she would wait. Besides, she had all the time in the world, didn't she? Suddenly a burst of happiness swept over her tiny body, and she let out a series of suprisingly ear soothing trills and chirps, her whole body waggling as she seemed to dance around the field. Today wasn't so bad after all, she decided.
Trotting happily along, Mushu held his head up high, looking like a proud little infant. There was a bemused grin sliding across his face. Today was a good day. Oh yes. He'd gotten through an entire nap undisturbed, the weather was nice, and Cri Kee wasn't really being all too annoying today.
So all in all, it was off to a good start. He stretched out his back as the warm sun beat down on it, and suddenly swiveled his ears about. Was there something moving in the grass? Indeed there was.
Maybe it was a lion! Grassnecks! Oh no!
Turning he began to creep forwards, peeking over the little hedge of grass. Down below was a small, and really pale looking baby gryph.
Well... at least it wasn't a cow or a lion.
Duke was the one who would make his appearance. With chicks nestled on the ground around him, he was laying on top of a flat bed rock, the perfect place to have a little sun. His long tail sways behind him as he observes everything around him, his ears swiveling, his eyes paying close attention to what was happening. After all, he did need to take care of the chicks, and any who made the mistake of getting too close would probably finds themselves faced with a very angry father.
His large wings stretch then nestle against him before he turns his head to spy the little red Hippogryph running around. He pays no mind; so long as it's other Hippogryphs then he was very willing to relax, but even then one should still be cautious.
Persephone, herself, was curled up against the rock where she had been brought. Her little white coat was dirty but she didn't care, obviously; she couldn't even see it! Her nose was nestled against her forepaws, snoozing contently. The sounds all around her were still dulled out too much for her to notice unless they were extremely loud and extremely close to her.
Aurora was slowly trotting down, not really noticing too much as she walked ahead of her mother, who held another chick as they walked. This one wasn't from her flock, she knew, but he felt a bit familiar. Her mother had told her she had agreed to watch over him for the day since he was the son of a friend she had in another flock.
Setzer was mrring sightly, as if a bit upset at all the movements going on. How did they expect him to SLEEP like this ?! Hmph ! He tried so hard to open his eyes to see where they where going, but it was a no go.
Helios frolicked cheerfully around the central area. He had seen Gaea the day before with one of her new chicks, and now he spotted Duke with the others! Gleefully, he trotted over to them and sniffed at each gently-- he didn't want to disturb them or anything.
"Hi Duke!" he wiggled his tail happily at the older gryph.
Guinivere lifted her head, hearing things around her. She tried to open her eyes, but couldn't get them open more then a crack, and besides that, the light was far to blinding for her anyway.
She cried out. Shouldn't her brother be around her somewhere? Where waaaas he?
Rumaging through the long grass, Kuja was looking for the rock he normally napped on, but he couldn't seem to find in anywhere. Snorting angrily, Kuja held his head high as though in a mood with the grass itself. How dare his rock be moved!
Without even relising it, the small chick seem to bump into something soft and red.. And bigger then he was. He was even knocked back to the ground witha small squeak.
And then suddenly, almost as if out of nowhere, several new scents and noises flooded Felicity's senses. She squealed from suprise- she'd been too busy dancing and wiggling to have noticed them earlier! Squeaking gently, her little chirp laced with mild apprehension, the little Gryph lifted her nose to the air. Oh my! There were tons of other Gryphs around the the meadow today. That was certainly exciting... Though, in spite of Felicity's slight disappointment at not quite being able to physically see all of them- surely she could sniff and bump into them!
Deciding that would be the best choice, the little girl swiveled around a bit, her velvety muzzle bringing itself to the sky as best she could, taking in all the foreign scents around her. There seemed to be something just behind her! Yipping softly with excitement, the naive chick scuttled backwards before twirling her body around gracelessly. She didn't have much coordination. Felicity headed in Mushu's direction, pleased that one of the many Gryphs around was right behind her!
And then it happened. Minding his OWN business (even though he was spying on the baby gryph) something came and bumped into his side.
"AUGH!" he cried out, turning his head to see a... weird lookin gryph. What was up with that hair? And that outfit? Why the heck would any self respectin' gryph be goin' around in that sort of get up?
Man he must have a cruel den mother.
"Helloooooo.... bigger Gryph here... watch where ya goin'." he hrmphed...
Then realized it was another baby gryph. Opening his mouth to say something he suddenly realized there was something else coming close to him. Turning his head he spied that little paley baby coming up on his haunched.
Oh no.
This likely wasn't going to end well.
His ears twist and his head tilts down when he spies the approaching ball of yellow fluff that belongs to Helios. He offers the boy a friendly smile upon his approach.
"Hello, Helios. How are you?"
Persephone's ears twitch as she feels something coming near, enough to draw her out of the slumber she was in. She tilts her head up, chirruping faintly at her father and then in direction of where she assumes Helios to be.
Aurora couldn't help but notice Mushu's predicament, and couldn't help but giggle as well.
Ah, well. The great Mushu wouldn't need her help to repeal the chick invasion, yes ?
So, she instead turned to waddle torward the other voice she reconized in the pack. "Hellliooosss~" She called in a sing-song voice, only noticing Duke and his chick when she got there, and stopped.
"Oh, im sorry... Do you mind if I come closer, mister ?"
Upon noticing a gathering of gryph of all ages, Aurora's mother finally let Setzer down. He aknowledged this with a small huff. About TIME !
His grumpyness seemed to be replaced by cusiosity, as he started to crawl to the biggest source of sound - that is, Mushu and the other chicks.
Helios smiled,
"I'm doing great, Duke! and..." he blinked, turning around at the voice. He spotted Aurora and beamed!
"Hi!" he cried, trotting over to her and giving her a nuzzle,
"You're so big now!"
The small white and black chick turned her head left and right. Maybe if she moved she'd find where he went...
She started crawling in a random direction. Heerrrree brother brother brother...
She stopped suddenly, squeaking loudly as she ran into the front leg of a bright red (although she didn't know the color) object.
Finally looking at the older Gryph, Kuja looked rather stunned for a moment as the other spoke, ears pricked up. He didn't understand fully what he said, but the tone he did not like.
No one talked to him like that!
Scowling in an odd way, he clambered onto all fours again, getting ready to head but the red one. But his head pricked back up again as he recognised the white Gryph coming closer. Or... atleast it was similllar to the last one.
Snorting, he nudged Mushu's leg moodily before setting off to the white Gryph. Maybe she moved his rock!
Nothing could spoil Felicity's mood, it seemed. Not even the reappearence of the unfriendly baby Gryph, (not that she thought him unfriendly- Felicity had been happily unaware of Kuja's dislike of her presence) seemed to let her down. As a matter of fact, Felicity was estatic when she heard the small squeak come out of the other chick's mouth. A second Gryph?! That was wonderful!
Her priority, however, was on the first 'something' that she'd sniffed out. Mushu, of course. Oblivious to the dread that was forming in the red Gryphon at the sight of two approaching babies, Felicity continued onward, wiggling close enough to Mushu so that she was an inch or so away from his forepaws. She then promptly let out a trill of happy squeaks, as it to introduce herself.
Unfortunately for her, Felicity hadn't the slightest clue that Kuja was headed towards her. Besides, she hadn't moved his stinky rock!
Mushu promptly tried to backpeddle from the little gryphs. Saddly, he found his back leg bumping up against something else tiny, and soft. Turning his head he saw yet another little gryph. What the?!
Looking left for an escape his eyes went wide as a tiny pig made it's way towards him! (Afterall the cow couldn't obviously be the cow seeing as Susan was a cow).
These little monsters were everywhere!
Cri Kee seemed to laugh at Mushu's misfortune, however quickly stopped as the red gryph shot him a threatening glance. It was then he heard the tiny trilling noises. Turning his head towards the first baby he'd seen he made a nervous laugh.
"Hi... I'm Mushu... nice to meet you all..."
His company was short-lived; he watches as Helios's attention, rather flightly, is caught by someone else. Eyes rolling, but amused, he lets the boy wander off. Any humans who saw this spectacle would probably think that Duke was stuck with babysitting judging from the amount of chicks around him and he being the only adult. Not the case though.
Regardless Duke lets out a yawn, stretches and sets his head down on the nice warm slab. He closes his eyes, intending to take a momentary nap.
Forgetting all about Duke's presence as well, she returned Helios's nuzzle, giggeling. "Not really ! Mom still won't let me go anywhere alone." She pouted, setteling to sit, "It's a bit annoying, but im glad you're here !" She chirped hapilly. "How are you doing ?"
Setzer continued his approach, but then, as if the sky has opened to form a miracle, he stopped nearby, visibely being very amused by what he could gather of the situation.
Thanksfully, he didn't look like he was getting any closer, but he let out a small, amused chirp.
Helios sat down next to her, grinning goofily,
"But you are! Last time, you didn't even have your eyes opened yet or anything!" he disagreed, then lifted his muzzle to the sky, taking in the sunlight,
"I'm doing great! It's so nice and sunny and beautiful out!"
Guinivere chirped up at Mushu. She had no idea what was going on, but he had made some funny noises.
Pay attention to meeeeee! She kept chirpping, hoping he would cuddle against her like her brother did. She was cold anyway and tried moving in closer.
Kuja's ears flickered close to his head as he cringed slightly on the spot. What was making all that chirping?! It was always so noisy!
Snorting again, Kuja ignored it and continued on towards the white Gryph.
Once he was there, he gave it a glare while he pressed his torso to the ground. Again he snorted at it while giving in a annoyed mewl.
Spinning his head towards Setzer's direction, Mushu huffed, "Whatchu laughin' at spikey?" he annoyedly commented on the gryph's hair. Hey..
That one had a stupid looking outfit on too. What was up with that?! Wait... wasn't that one from his flock? Ugh.. it was too... Then the the white and black piggy started chirping at him. Sighing audibly he reached over and nipped at the back of her scruff, dragging her closer, although it was reluctantly.
He may be bigger, but he wasn't so much bigger than the chicks that it was easy to do that.
The Great Mushu!...
Reduced to chick sitter.
"Yeah, it's a very good day out." She agreed, looking back at Mushu and barely repressing a giggle.
"Mama says that too... All this "they grow so fast" thing. Do your mama do that, too ?" She asked, lying down to bask in the sun.
Setzer stopped laughing the second he figured the voice was directed at him, but didn't move or anything. It came to him that he did remember that voice from somewhere, but beyond that...
The good news, for Mushu at least, was that he had no intention to add himself to the chickpile, rolling in a little ball to sleep, visibely now a bit disinterested by the scene. He didn't want any trouble, anyway !
...At least, not until he could cause trouble back.
Helios lie down next to her, rolling over onto his back just like when they were newborns together,
"A little bit..." he laughed, "She's like, 'I just can't believe how big you've gotten'! And I just laugh and roll about in the sun and she goes, 'although, you're still just a chick at heart.' It's funny!"
Guinivere chirped happily as she was dragged closer to the other gryph, then nuzzled against Mushu. Oooh, soft fur. Yay!
She purred contentedly and curled up, yawning cutely. Wherever brother was, he was missing out.
Eugh... it was being all mushy snuggly with him. Mushu felt his ego deflate as the pig nuzzled against him.
Stupid purring piggy.
If Mushu knew there was another pig, he'd have been thankful it wasn't there. Turning his head around he noticed the other little gryph curling up for a nap. Well.. whatever. At least it wasn't buggin' him.
"Mamas are so silly." She giggeled, rolling sideway a bid to cuddle completely against the bigger yellow child, again much like they had done when they both where younger. Visibely, the sweet sent that followed Helios everywhere still drew her in. "But that's okay."
And so Setzer napped... or HOPED he could eventually nap. There where so many sounds in here... He tossed around a bit irritabely, but felt too tired to attempt to move into a more quiet location. Augh...
Helios rolled onto his side, rather than his back, so that he could snuggle against Aurora better. She was such a good cuddle buddy!
"They can be," he nodded, fluffing his wings out for a second and then tucking them back in,
"But, they're fun, too."
Guinivere tried to open her eyes again. Awww, why couldn't she see? It was so annoying. She wanted to see the fluffy thing she was snuggling against.
She started peeping again. Maybe the fluffy thing would play with her!
And then, Setzer's savior came in the form of the tall gryph that was Aurora's mother. She grapped him gentely by the scruff of the neck, still getting a yelp out of the tiny one as she turned and motionned to her daughter that it was time to leave.
"Yeah... sometimes."
She perked a bit at all the sound, and have a loud protest. "But mooommm !" Nothing would do, she knew, and sighed, reductantly getting up. "Im sorry, Helios. Mom wants to go home, probably so that Setzer's mom will be able to come get him. Ill see you later, allright ?"
She gave a small nuzzle at his side before waddeling slowly to her mother, and thus, the little group was on it's way.
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:05 am
It was another of those days in which Setzer was being watched upon by Aurora's mother. Heaven only knew why his own mom seemed so absent... but he had grown mostly used to it.
He didn't mind this much, asside the fact that the den mother could be a little rough in handeling, and it was so damn COLD in there ! But then, it seemed that it was why the bigger, reddish (not that he could tell) chick was exactly there for that, that is, curl around him and keep him mostly warm.
THAT, he couldn't complain with.
Well, that is until the mother had the bight idea to grap him. He whined in irritation at being awakened, but not much would do.
Aurora was sent rolling to her side as Setzer was fetched from somewhere around her, the older chick whinning a bit as well as she sat and tried to brush the snow from her pelt. Her mother was asking for her attention, visibely trying to use poor whinning Setzer to bring home her point - trying to teach her daughters the proper ways of carrying and handeling chicks. After all, she wanted her daughter to grow to be a good den mother, and it was never too early to start ! Well, so she thought. The red one listened half-heartedly, really not interested in what her mother had to show this time. Why was she telling her all this was beyond her. She just wanted to sleep... or maybe see Helios again.
Well... maybe it was too early for this. Yes, that must have been it - and so, setzer found himself, to his relief, gentely set down in the snow - feathers almost standing on ends at the contact with the cold. How could those gryphs could live like this ? They had to be crazy... CRAZY !!!!
Aurora made her way throught the fresh snow ratter easely, again curling around the newborn gryph so they could resume their naps, hopefully with no other interuptions.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:05 am
Aurora was bored. Definitively bored. Thanksfully she had gotten off the hook for her last stint relatively without problem - of course, her mother had scolded her, and now she was watching her like a hawk, but she hadn't been grounded or anything. And while Setzer was over today... He was sleeping. The little gryph was tempted to go off and try to find Mushu or Grumpy... but she knew better than going without saying a thing now, and it was doubtful she would be allowed to go alone. And having her mother tag along when she went to see her friends was boring.
"Settttzzzerrr..." She idely poked the other gryph with a paw. "Wake up, im bored."
"Then take a nap." Came the answer from the tight ball of fur and clothes that was Setzer, as he batted a strand of hair away with a paw. Was it possible to sleep in here ? He liked Aurora and all - if he hadn't, she would have gotten a much different answer, after all ! - but still !
"But im not tired." She flopped down beside him, trying to peer to see his face. "...You know, there's something I've been wondering. Can I ask ?"
Bahhhhh. "Go for it, it's not like im going to fall asleep again anyway." He mumbeled, shifting to stand and stretch a bit. Ahhh, sleep had been so good..
"I've always kinda wondered why you wore those things." Aurora said, glancing at him.
"Things ?" He blinked. "Care to be a bit more specific ?"
"You know... those things. Is your fur not tick enough ?" To make her point come across, she batted a bit at a sleeve.
"Oh, that." Finally having understood, he pondered for a moment. "Because I like them. And most of my flock wear things like this. I never really wondered why, maybe it's just a flock thing. My fur is okay, it really is."
This seemed to be a good enough explaination for the little red gryph, who just nodded. "But you always say you're cold here. Are you sure your fur is okay ?" Maybe Setzer didn't have any fur under those things... Wow, that'll sure be upsetting !
"Everyone's cold in here, Aurora. Even you say you're cold sometimes. But since you live here, you're more used to it, and im not." Logic, mostly, as he flicked an ear a bit annoyedly. His fur and feathers where just fine, thank you !
"Sorry." Aurora knew Setzer enough to know what that perticular ear-flick was. "I was just wondering. I guess it could be a flock thing, a friend told me that he saw some other gryphs that wore things like you do. It's kinda wierd, but kinda pretty, too."
"Of course it's pretty." Setzer grinned, then a shiver went though his spine. "Too cold..." The little gryph muttered as he started going deeper into the cavern, where the adults where. It would be hotter there.
"Hey ! Wait for me, Setzer ! You'll get lost !" Aurora was hot on the younger gryph's trail. "Setzer !!!"
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