Hunting...or chillin, either one

[VEN is Back]

Ven was lazily patrolling the small crack areas of the fountain, his eyes groggily examining the the areas which could possibly hold some kind of rodent, or anything to fill the empty feeling in his stomach which was demanding some kind satiation.

After awhile he manage to pluck a scurrying mouse out of one of the cracks, which he held by the tail, looking at with disdain.

"Lucky little guy." Ven said speaking to the rodent out of sheer boredom. He sat down lounging atop a small hedge, one hand be=hind his head, the other dangling the squeling mouse in front of him.

"When I eat you things get to end plain and simple. Not that your life is that much more complex now." Ven was comtemplating his life thinking about how strange it was, and how the complexity of it could be cumbersome at times.

The small mouse eventually managed to hoist itself onto the top of Ven's finger, but was quickly shaken off, and put back into a dangling position.

"Well buddy you know what they say, only the good die youg. for your sake lets just so your a young rodent." He said opening his mouth, and starting to pop in the mammal.

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Eearly Lunch? Late Breakfast?" Asked a voice Ven should know by now. It was the voice of the woman he had just recently asked to marry him. She leaned on a tree, watching him with eyes of green, with her red hair let loose as it should be. Her pale skinned torso was hardly covered by the shirt she wore. Her shirt was a stunning sweetheart top with frilled tulle trim and stretchy black nylon panels at the front and back to accentuate her shape. See through black mesh paneling can be found on each side of the shirt. The straps were made of stretchy blackmesh which were only about an inch in width. At her hips it met a short black jean miniskirt with a rip up both sides that ended about six inchs from her hips. The feet of Maeve were covered in stilletto healed boots that came to the tops of her ankles and ended there only, with ties up the front.

You might be asking; " Why walk in the woods dressed like that?" The answer is simple. Maeve knew who lurked in the woods and dressed accordingly. Why not? They were engaged and she had every right to dress in a manor that might drive him up a wall. It was kind of her goal in life, other than to have her family business stay around until it is no longer needed.

She stepped closer, each step a delicately placed and thought out movement. Stand now, mere feet from him, she smiled and twiddled her left hand fingers at him. The sun flashed on the ring her had placed on her ring finger as if it needed to remind him of it's prescence. But, of course, Maeve wasn't really thinking about that. She just felt like visiting him. So, there she stood, smiling in that sweetly sadistic manor of hers.

" Who'd have thought I'd run into you here?" She asked jokingly, putting on a mock disapointed face. But her smirk broke through and ruined the effect and she merely shrugged, looking Ven over for maybe the tenth time since she had arrived.

[VEN is Back]

Ven's eyes widened, and his hand went somewhat limp, causing the mouse to fall into his mouth, which closed around it, still focused on Maeve, the small furless tail hanging out over his lip.

He held up his own hand, his ring already somewhat scratched up from being forced on over his scaled hands, though the ring still seemed to be in nice enough condition.

He swallowed once, the tail disappearing from his lip, and the mouse ceasing to exist. He grinned a little as his sense of hunger began to lift. and a sense of satisfaction drifted ober him, though wether or not it came from the mouse or Maeve was still to be decided.

"let's just consider it a well placed snack. Much like you for the eyes." He said attempting to through in something clever, though between the sunlight sending him into a basking mode, how good she looked, the satisfaction of not being hungry, and being streched out somfortably, it was hard to think slyly.

"So what brings you to the fountain?"

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Well..." Maeve began, walking casually around his bed-like hedge. " You see, there is this Lizard-Man. I'm sure you know him, he's hard to miss." Maeve sat herself on part of the crumbled fountain, crossing one leg over the other. Her elbow found itself atop her knee and her palm met chin as she leaned forward a little to watch Ven. " I mean, he's fantastic in all senses of the word, if you catch what I am saying. Well, anyways, I decided to visit him." Maeve finished her traine of thought and uncrossed her legs, keeping them pursed together she leaned back a little and rested her palms on the ruins comfortably.

" You don't happen to know where he could be, do you?" She asked casually swaying one leg left and right a little. That of course, was not intentional, a bad habbit she had picked up over the years. But the movement was very slight and almost unnoticable. Emerald eyes moved to his finger and she smiled a little. The gears of her mind were turning and churning. They seeked something good to say to him, something that might tempt him into the mood she was certain he had entered.

[Nikkeh [Love]]

The lean leopard stalked silently over the many cracks in what used to be a grand fountain. His paws made practically noise as he stepped over crumbled rocks. Crouching behind what used to be the middle of the fountain, he moved his spotted head to where he could see the two people conversing on the other side of the fountain. Sensing an awkward situation, for him, Caleb debated turning around and leaving the obvious couple alone, but instead decided to intervene.

Growling softly, a sound deep in the back of his throat, Caleb jumped on top of the broken centerpiece and stared down at the two. He had the appearance of your usual leopard, except for his trademark, bright green eyes with the cat-like slits. Staring down, the growl started up again, and he waited for the couple's first move.

[VEN is Back]

Ven gave a quick violent hiss to the larger mammal, not wanting something interfereing though he had this complex emotion in which he didn't want the moment to end, though found new things to bring in intriguing twists to the plot of his life.

"I never liked mammals." Ven said folding his arms and keeping one eye on the large cat. Snakes no matter what size never enjoyed have a something large with claws looking at them, basic instinct, something even 20 years of possesing couldn't overcome.

His tail slowly began to sprout, digging in through the bush he was seated on, invisible, though a slight russling sound was audible, whether he liked it or not his mind demanded that he be ready for this. He always hated it when something like instinct ruined his ability to be persuasive, or speak intellegently for that mater.

[Mousiemus Prime]

Maeve turned her head and raised her eyebrow at the cat. What did it think they were doing? Causing it harm? Hah! No, they were merely talking. It was a pet peeve for people to randomly interupt something without cause or reason. Infact, Mave found it very rude. With a sigh, she stood and dusted her back end off, removing the dust from the rubble and strolled towards Ven.

" I don't generally mind animals. It's when they act without reason that bothers me. Well, whatever, It isn't like I've done anything to it now have I?" Maeve said as she rested her forarm on Ven's shoulder and leaned softly on it. She looked to the leopard and shook her head. " I think it ruined my fun however, love." Sighed Maeve, rather upset that Ven hadn't given her any form of a reply. How unfair of that leopard! Robbing Maeve of hearing some smart and witty comment. Very rude indeed.

" I don't generally think it would be stupid enough to attack. Maybe it'll see we don't generally mean any harm unless someone else starts it." She stopped, thinking and smiling at the thought of many times she had started fights. " In most cases." Added the smirking Maeve, tapping her finger softly on the shoulder of Ven.

[Nikkeh [Love]]

Caleb growled, "And what bothers me is when people act like all animals are incapable of human intelligence." Caleb crouched, then jumped towards the two, landing gracefully on all four paws a couple feet away from the couple. Sitting back on his haunches, Caleb tilted his head to the side before beginning to transform back into his human form.

As the leopard body changed into the human form, Caleb was now kneeled on the ground, his bright green eyes unblinking, and with odd black spots in his hair. Noticing this on a strand of hair that was in his face, Caleb sighed irritably. "I hate it when this happens..." He muttered, blowing the spotted strand out of his face and grimacing. "But it should go away after a little while." He added, mostly to himself.

Still seated on his knees, Caleb remained silent for a minute before saying, "I'm Caleb."

[VEN is Back]

"And I'm going to eat you very soon." Ven replied to the boy.

"You see I have this nasty habit of eating mammals. A Reptilian thing I do hope you understand, being a smart animal after all." Ven said, his legs falling from the bush he was lounging on to the ground, his tail no able to be seen, sliding across the ground as he stepped foreward.

"Now what brings you to the hunting grounds of a reptile, to the extent of my knowledge leopards are much more of a large prey type. The Mice around here wouldn't nearly satiate the appetite of a feline like yourself. I mean really what would attract you to this spot?" He questioned drapping an arm around Maeve.

"The women maybe?" He questioned kissing her briefly on the cheek.

"I do appologize if that was your aim however."

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Ven, Behave my dear." Sighed Maeve as she settled her arm around his waist. " If there is no need to eat him, then don't. Besides, I'm not into watching things get devoured." Using her other hand, she gently patted Ven's stomach as if to say behave. Looking back to the boy, Caleb it seems was his name, she sighed. " Well, You're not the only one I seem to bother. As most find my sadistic tendencies to be quite unnattractive." Smiled the woman, unaffected by the fact that many thought her to be sick and mentally off.

" However, I'm engaged to the very reptile before you. And happily, might I add." Maeve said wiggling her hand to allow Caleb to see the ring found on the proper finger. That same hand landed on Ven's wrist and ran it's nails down his scales absent-mindedly. She smiled that sweetly sadistic little grin of hers as she rubbed her check against his arm.

" I think I forgot something. Not that is any of your business, but my name is Maeve." Added the young woman, not fully interested in the boy at the time as she had turned to adjusting her shirt as a strap had decided to slip from her previous leaned-back sitting position. " I, myself, would like to know why you are here Caleb. Out enjoying some fresh air?" Maeve questioned casually, looking up from her shirt as it was correctly situated now.

[Nikkeh [Love]]

Caleb snorted in disbelief and crossed his arms. "As if i'd come for her." He snarled, then regained his posture, noy wanting to start a fight at the moment. "And though i am delectately tasty, I wouldn't allow your freakishness near me." He couldn't resist adding. Standing slowly, he uncrossed his arms and looked away from the engaged couple.

"Why did I come? I could ask the same of you, but I won't. I came for merely a place to go, seeing as i've never been here before." Caleb tapped his left foot impatiently, glaring sideways at the two. "I can see, though, that the reason you two came was to have a pre-wedding honeymoon. Though why in a ruined fountain, I wouldn't know. And don't necessarily think I want to know." Crossing his arms again, Caleb watched the two silently, hoping he hadn't run his mouth for to long.

[VEN is Back]

Ven's body tensed as he heard him insult Maeve, he could only take so much. Though he kept his manners and waited for him to finish.

"Now then seeing as you yourself seem to be of a certain degree of freakishness I don't know that you can remain on your high horse. At least use some manners please."

He took a step foreward his voice no longer silky and calm, but rather hoarse, whispey, and serpentine.

"Now allow me to make this VERY CLEAR. If a single word escapes your that some much as makes the she breathes seem even slightly unclean, you'll be pumped full of some much hemotoxic venom that you'll bleed for a weak. Am I clear as I could possibly be?" Ven spat circling around the boy, his prey, his tail sliding allong the ground as he did so.

[Mousiemus Prime]

Maeve looked rather annoyed and displeased with the way Caleb had spoken. She crossed one arm over the other beneath her bossom and walked carefully around some rubble to stand before him. Now, whether he was taller than her didn't seem to matter at this point in time. She allowed Ven the space he needed to circle the boy.

" Now, you have angered my fiance and myself." She clicked her tongue in a manor that suggested that she was ashamed of Caleb. " You see, this is the problem with kids these days. They have no respect for those who are older than them. Whether it be by two years or 11. Caleb, was it? You should learn some manors before speaking in such disrespectful tones. Or make such outrageous accusations with absolutely no proof to back you up." Maeve began, looking him dead on. She paused, shaking her head and heaving a sigh of disappointment. " Ven lives in these woods, where as I came to discuss our wedding and honeymoon plans."

" Youths these days instantly assume something scandaleous that involves pleasures of the flesh. What is that all about?" She asked, completely fine with the fact that she had taken a step to the left and now travelled back to the right. " Well, anyways. My suggestions are as fallows. Do not upset a man who can become a giant lizard by disrespecting him and his fiance. Secondly, you should be a little more careful of said fiance as she both enjoys causing and recieving pain." Maeve was proud of the fact she was sadistic and enjoyed pain. Why she would never know, but she figured it was nothing to be ashamed of.

" And if you dare to lay a single finger on me, please be prepared to have that finger turned to ash. As I can disintegrate things via touch." She smiled warmly before turning and walking gracefully back to some rubble one which she sat. One leg crossed over the other as she watched Ven circle the boy.

[Nikkeh [Love]]

Caleb snorted as Ven began to circle him in what the guy must've thought was menacing. "And the problem with adults these days is that they're all so touchy. They also asume that they're so much stronger than everyone else, when you aren't!" He spat back, eyeing the lizard-man as he circled him. Crossing his arms, Caleb sighed in annoyance.

"If you think I came to start a fight, then you're wrong. Like I said, I came merely for exploration, and happened to stumble upon some gifted adults with anger problems. So you can stop circling me like your gonna do something." Shrugging, Caleb uncrossed his arms and sat back against the edge of the destroyed fountain. Resting his hands on the broken edge, Caleb began to think of a way to get out of this without having to fight. If only he could learn to keep his big mouth shut.

[VEN is Back]

"Well look." Ven said attempting to let go of his anger, he had a never been a cat person, and had learned(though he chose to ignore) a calm enemy could be far more intimidating than a pissed one.

He walked foreward, only a foot or two in front of Caleb, and then leaned in, his torso directly above the hips moving down to the boys eye-level.

"If you apologize now, I think we manage to allow this to slip with a warning, however if your mouth continues to fire off checks you can't cash, I can't allow you to be so assured you'll leave unscathed." He leaned in a little closer, and held up a hand to hide his lip movements from Maeve.

"Trust me, I'm not the one you have to worry about. She's crazy.....beautifully crazy."