I'M THE KING OF THE SWINGERS

[VEN is Back]

Ven was flying through the forest, his arms and legs working in such a pattern, pounding off of trees that it appeared like he was flying. his body was cork screwing, fallirng riseing, rebounding off of trees, skimming the tips of branches, and rolliong in between tree trunks, moving with all stealth of a bull elephant, he didn't care who heard he was overjoyed.

At some point his shirt was stuck to a branch and simply flew off him because of his speed, showing the long ridge of scales that went down his spinal column and how the scales from his claws reached up to his shoulders. It also showed a large circular scar just to the right of his spine, which had healed over, though the scar was green.

He had a almost crazy grin on his face that didn't seem to fade no matter how many times sticks nicked his face for clawed at his chest, he was just in too good a mood to even notice.

Luckily he was in his forest, had a he been anywhere else he would of attempted to remain calm. however halfway through his jaunt he began howling in joy, a sound somewhere between a snake hiss, and human cackle. every animal in the forest was on the other side by now, and every tree behind him had a claw slash on it.

[Mousiemus Prime]

Neasa's gentle green skin would touch the claw marks in the trees and heal them slowly. She leapt with a slower speed, well, more like danced from tree to tree. It would be an eligant leap her and a tree would bend itself to allow her a place to land, then help send her to the next with it's might. She grumbled about Ven, not knowing whether he was man or beast really, being un grateful to the trees that gave him clean air to breath. Though her off white dress was short and loose fitting it never seemed to show anything unappropriate for human public, everytime she leapt.

Long green tendrils of hair rose and fell like a cape behind her. The golden flowers that were part of her absorbed the rays of light that hit them. " Somethings just don't know how to be kind to the giants that help them live." Sighed Neasa as a tree acted as a spring board and sent her flying through the air to the next. She continued her gentle and slower pace, staying at least 20 trees behind Ven. She didn't need some random creature killing her. That would set back the regrowth of the forest by a whole year. Neasa didn't really want anything like that.

Meanwhile...

Someways a head of Ven a small figure with white-blond hair watched him with her cyborgnetic eyes. They had zoomed in and were calculating his speed, hieght and possibly even wieght. Little Mira stood perfectly still, uncaring that somehting possible twice her hight was comming hurtling through the trees towards her. Most of her body was machine now, so it wasn't like he would do much damage by slamming into her. She'd probably go through a tree without really noticing it.

" Target Approaching..."Flashed across her red eyes written in white letters. The words disappeared as Ven drew closer and closer. The strange noise he was making sent her cat ears flat to her head as she watched him come forth. She was thinking of removing the next three trees to see if he could make the gap, but decided against it. Using her telekenetic abilities for something like that was pointless.

But, instead, she stood and waited for the creature to come closer before doing anything. She wanted to see what his reaction would be to seeing a child unaffected by his appearence. She was almsot certain that most people thought him a monster or beast at first look. Mira had only found him intresting and wanted to find out more about the strange lizard-man that came through the trees.

[VEN is Back]

Ven stopped in mid air when his next branch fell, and fell from his current level chortling and howling still. He rebounded back up infront of the swing branch, somewhat flustered but none the less progressing, doing a full back flip as he reached his previous level again, until he noticed Mira in front of him, his hands digging into a branch suspending him upside down from a branch allowing him to look at her. his head tilted to the side innocently as he observed her, his eyes, and serpentine heat, smell, and taste organs building and accurate picture of what she looked like.

"And you might be?" He asked an eyebrow raised, forgetting any sort of manners, as he didn't want anyone interupting his moment of happiness, rather this strange girl.

He quickly lost patience, not even waiting for answer he leapt of back into the woods, his claws once again scaring the trees simply because of how hard he was pushing off of them. his howling once again took up as he went through the forest, a large tail now sprouting from his lower back allowing him to flay around through the trees even more freely.

he wasn't actually traveling in a straight path, but rather taking the path of least resistance, which led him through most of the forest occasionally in small circles.

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Rude." Mutter Mira holding her arm out, palm facing Ven. She narrowed her eyes " Not waiting. Impatient." Mutter the slightly miffed cyborg. A wave of telejenetic energy burst from her core, rushing forward towards Ven. It merely caused the trees to bend a little but had force none the less. She turned away, lowering her hand as the wave surpassed Ven and kept on going until it faded in strength. "Needs mannors." Sighed the cyborg, shaking her head.

Neasa was ten times as miffed as the little girl seemed to be, for all that stupid creature was doing was tearing apart the lovely trees. How annoying and perisitant he was. Neasa continued her gentle glide from tree to tree, healing those damaged by Ven's pointless swinging and tearing of the bark. Her figure was thrown by a tree high above the tree tops where she performed a sort of piroquette in the air and landed on the tip of a dying tree. She stayed there, looking down at all the trees.

" If he keeps that up, I am going to need help healing the trees." Sighed Neasa. She held her hand out, fist closed. Slowly it opened to reveal golden dust. Blowing on it softly, the dust danced into the air, falling as if it were carried from some far of place by a great wind. " Retaliate my friends." She said, speaking to the trees. Roots snapped and cracked as trees uprooted themselves to avoid Ven. " Keep him from ruining your beautiful skin. Show him that you are as fed up with it as I." The voice carried on the air gently as she leapt into the air and slowly decended to land on a high setting branch to watch as each tree Ven reached for, moved from his grasp.

[VEN is Back]

Ven clawed at the air for a few minutes before he realized that no branch was going to appear beneath his hand.

He fell forward landing on his chest, his chin in the dirt, and legs upward his feet parallel to his head, which hurt considering the scales on his back didn't interlock comfortably that way. They scraped together a few that got pushed under digging into his skin, causing a little bit of blood to drip down in between the scales.

"who...." He muttered to himself, knowing that trees didn't just get up and walk away by themselves
"Who." He said again, at a normal tone now, his good mood quickly vanishing.

"WHO JUST RUINED THIS!" He screamed, his tone demanding. scales now flowing over the rest of his body tearing through his pants and shoes, leaving him standing in the clearing clad in emerald scales that reflected the beams of the sun making him seem even more impressive. the rustled like steel as he walked around the clearing looking to attempt to find who had decided to rain on his parade, his tail held over his head like a scorpion's. ready to lunge foreward. in his forest manners mattered not, it was survival of the fitest, or in a few cases smartest. However he was not in a mood to decide which one to be. he was having the greatest day of his life and now a blemish had been put upon it.

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Who?" Came the soft voice of Neasa as a tree assisted her in making the distance close in mere seconds by throwing her. She landed, knees bent to be squating in a somewhat primitive manor. Standing slowly she looked to him with those odd eyes, green in color with a pupil that showed the sun kissing the earth. " Who, you ask, ruined this? You should know. Because it was the same person who started it. You." The soft voice said calmly. She saw he was massive, and knew he was stronge, but showed no signs of fear as she slowly backed away. A tree uprooted itself and planted itself between the two and she peered around the trunk in stealthy and sly manor.

" You act as if you have a right to destroy the skin of these beautiful trees. You don't. They clean the air you need to survive. They gave you shade during the hot summer days. And yet you dare swing about leaving wounds upon their flesh. " Neasa spoke carefully, slowly walking towards a tree which moved around to bare the fresh clawmarks left by Ven.

" They have done nothing but help you. Yet you show them no respect. All I did was grant them the ability to show you for themselves how they didn't appreciate what you were doing. Howling and carring one while tearing their bark from their dying bodys." The kayin said her hand slowly pressing itself into the upon wound on the tree. Life burst inside as bark slowly began to grow beneath her hand.

" No matter how you look at it. You are at fault. I would not have had to grant them their movement, if not for being tired of jumping from tree to tree in your wake to heal them if you hadn't started that pointless swinging and clinging. I hope that answers such a simple and rather odd questiong as 'Who Ruined This?'." The green hair and yellow flowers brushed her ankles as she walked in a circle near the trees, running her pale and soft fingers over their trunks and healing their wounds. Her eyes, however, never left Ven.

[VEN is Back]

"You act as though I did something wrong." Ven retorted

"Tell me would get angry at a leopard for sinking it's claws into bark while it climbed? A bear for lumbering over a plant and stealing the food they make? Then why pray tell do you choose me, to be the one animal you decide to question the motives of?" He asked his voice calming and becoming silky again, now that he had realized she intended to make this a battle of wits.

He held out his hand, or rather claw which had his golden snake ring wrapped around a finger.

"I have reason for happiness. now tell me what id your reason for getting angry at animal that is simply roaming it's territory? I own this forest, every twig every branch every tree. I could run through these wood with my eyes closed and never touch a leaf running soley on my nose. however do you know the strength that is required to hurtle one's self from branch to branch using only ones arms? it may leave a scratch, nothing time won't heal. Now tell me, since when does a human consider themselves "time"?" Ven questioned spitting the last bit at her.

[Mousiemus Prime]

" Human!? ME? HA! Foolish man! I am not born by the womb of a woman. But of the Earth. I've been around long before you were even an itch in you fathers pants." Laughed the kayin, speaking nothing by truths. She wasn't human, far from it. Extremely far from it. " I was created by the wishes and the prayers of humans that reached the planet's core. The wishs that cried for someone to help restore the lands. Not because to humans couldn't keep themselves from touching one another." Her words were simple and calm.

" Not human." A small voice said, as Mira tilted her head from somewhere amongst the trees. Her scanners, and other mechanical devices couldn't explain what Neasa was. But they were postivie that she wasn't human. Just as positive that those same scanners new that some apart of Ven was. " Girl with green hair not human. Is not animal, nor insect. Girl with green hair of unknown origin. System find nothing." Mira said, as a series of ones and zeros scrolled over her eyes as her harddrive searched file upon file to figure what Neasa was.

" You own these woods? What next, are you going to say you own the moon? Or prehaps Jupitor. Maybe the stars that make up a constellation are yours as well?" Neasa smirked wickedly. " If these trees were given mouths, they would laugh at you as well. Though you think you own something...you don't. Every tree, rock, leaf, plant, and pebble belongs to itself. No man or creature can ever change that." The kayin said as she reached down a scooped a rabbit up, one that had timidly decided to leave it's burrow to see why it felt so comfortable. Now it knew why.

" Is this rabbit yours too?" She asked sarcasticly before placing the small rabbit on the ground and gently stroking it's chin. " Sorry for disturbing your home." She said to it and waved as the rabbit skittered away. " But, unlike a bear and a leopard, you are part human. Why else did you start out with the body of a human? A natural animal, not changed or twisted, is forgiven by the trees. I don't think you are a natural animal. You would have felt me long ago if you were. Animals are drawn to the prescence of an Earth Kayin. That rabbit being an example." The small figure said, trying to ignore the fact that Mira was still staring at her while searching file upon file of known races and creatures.

[VEN is Back]

Ven's long tail slammed down on the Rabbit that was attempting to disappear with a sickening crack. It's neck broke on contact, and his manueverable tail quickly brought it back to his widened jaws, which engulfed the rodent quickly enough for him to begin speaking about a minute after he began to speak.

"Yes I do suppose that rabbit does belong to me. But allow me to explain this too you. In nature if dominance is expressed upon something it is owned. I expressed dominance upon that rabbit, it became a food source, something, lower on the natural ladder than a predator. Being the top predator here, then yes I suppose that I own the forest. Don't you understand? The natural order works upon these basic laws of territory. if a new predator came and somehow bested me, then this would be their forest. But I am unrivaled. Nothing here challenges me because everything knows I am greater." He explained, his voice surging with energy.

His hand sank through the core of the tree with insurpassable speed. seemingly out of nowhere his hand had gone through the tree up to his shoulder his claw barely reaching out the other side. He then pulled his arm back leaveing a crude hole for him to veiw her from.

"And now I own this tree."

[Mousiemus Prime]

" You're the typical over zealous pathetic being that roams this world. Thinking violence is the answer. I would like you to realise something, you can destroy that tree. But I don't even have to put as much effort into healing it as you did to destroy it." She swiftly moved to appear centimeters before the hole, kissing the bark. It sprang to life, regrowing and reforming itself. She smiled as the hole closed up and she strolled around it and away from Ven.

" You may try threats, you simple minded being, but it doesn't work on someone who can be killed and just come back a year later. You don't scare me, as you seem to think you do. For in the end, when you are dead and gone...no one will remember who you are. While I will be remembered forever, because I will be here forever. My actions are more charitible, wanted, desired. Yours are selfish, pointless, and downright pathetic attempts for power." The Kayin said simply, leaping up and catching hold of a branch. Without much effort she pulled herself up to sit in the tree's branchs, leaves springing from every branch as it felt a connection with her green skin.

" You really are just like those horrible humans. Thinking you own the world. It's sad really. That when you die, your body will be consumed by the earth you mistreated so horribly. And your spirits, unless pure, will be denied by our mother earth and wander alone for all eternity." She shook her head as she stood and walked the length of the thin branch, which was slowly gaining width.

" You may live in that illusion of owning everything you destroy. That's for you to do. But when you've gone and killed everything in this forest, the trees, the plants, the animals...what will you own then? Nothing." She said with a shrug as she landed on the ground beside Mira. " And out of curiousity, what are you small child? You look human." Neasa looked Mira over, walking around in a circle once to try and understand what the child was.

" Mira Cyborg. Artificial Being. Mechanical skeleton, living organs." Explained the cryborg as she watched the Earth Kayin.

" A cybrog? Created by a human, right?" Asked Neasa curiously poking the synthetic skin which covered Mira's entire body. The strange eyes of the Earth Kayin watched the white hair girl nod. " Hmm, another outcome of someone trying to own something, I guess. Well, no matter, child I suggest you don't anger this man. He seems to like ripping things apart for no reason." Neasa warned, trying to be kind.

Mira's red eyes shifted from Neasa to Ven. " He impatient. Anger issues. Systems suggest anger therapy." Mira said, merely saying what her harddrive, and other such had said upon scanning Ven over. " Mira not anger creature. Assasination may be perpose, but creature is not target." Mira said rather simply. Her words slow and paced.

" Oh?" Neasa said, backing away from the girl, a bit confused by exactly what she meant. Well, The Earth Kayin didn't see what that mattered. She looked back to Ven and smiled a little. " Well. I don't feel that my "preaching" will get me anywhere. I think those scales have blocked your ears or something. That doesn't matter, though. I'm simpling telling you that you should be careful. That temper of yours might cost you something dear.(Nooo, I am NOT foreshadowing. She's just telling him that she thinks it could be his undoing is all.)" Neasa said. Slowly, the trees began to position themselves back into the places from which they had first been.

" Oh. Seems the effect is wearing off. Come my dears" Whispered Neasa. The golden dust floated from the leaves and formed a ball above her open hand. With a smile she lowered her hand and spun around. During the spin, the golden dust was sucked into the flowers that were a part of her.

" Now, Sorry for ruining whatever was so great about this day. But, I figured you'd like to know what 'your' trees thought of what you were doing to them. " Neasa said rather blandly. She turned, and stepped onto a bent tree's branch. The branch snapped, sending her into the air, allowing her to land on the uppermost branch. The tree sprung to life, leaves growing from the dead branchs.

" What...happened?" Asked a curious Mira. She was confused. Wasn't the woman with green skin just arguing with the scaled-man? Why did she apologize, and why were they fighting in the first place? These were questions she would just have to ask Bane.

(( Which I think should mean that we let DELERIUM post.))