Loyal Deception

[justice]

Shifting strong legs the brute was a contrast against the clear sky of the nice day. A light breeze Ruffled the dark brown, black, and deep crimson coat of the Demonic wolf. Around him flowers ranging from deep lavenders, to bright yellow Dandelions, Deep Red Daisies, and even the baby blue of dragon snaps seemed to make him stick out like a soar thumb. He didn't like sticking out but it would be fine for now.

Long eyelashes fell over mismatched colored eyes making one seem all the more yellow and the other all the more Crimson. He needed a home. A place where he could feel safe and belong. "Ride on the wind My Love," With a forced smile the wolf lowered a carcass into a bed of flowers. "I took you from our home to bury you in a place where you could be safe."

With his own paws he'd dug a grave for his infertile mate and covered her in a beauty that could match her own dark black coat. He placed flowered upon her grave and stood there. He shouldn't mourn her, he knew. He should find life and live it, that's what she would have wanted.

Bringing his paws up and down upon the soft flower covered grass. Shifting his paws he allowed a small whimper to pass his maw as the smell of spring filled his senses. Oh how he detested the season that brought the one thing he most loved, yet could not ever seem to obtain, into the world. Yet another sigh. Time to find a place to belong. Time to Find a creature to actually care for.

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[demin]

The day was indeed a beautiful one, and enjoying it was Duemos, surprisingly in her human form, a rare thing indeed. She squinted as the bright rays from the sun shone on her face, revealing the features underneath her black hood. She had smooth white skin, long black hair that went over her face. She brushed her hair aside with her hand which revealed her eyes. Her left eye was a bright crystal blue, and the other was covered in a magical shadow despite the bright sun. She took off her black hood, another rare action, which revealed black horns that curved around to the back of her head.

She stood, her slender figure hidden behind her black cloak. Duemos grew bored with being in her human form, she never did stay in her true form for long. As she found that her wolven form was more enjoyable. A black shadow swirled about her, when it cleared there was no longer a girl standing, but a black wolfess with the same eyes and white marks that resembled her horns.

Duemos slowly trotted off, not sure of where she wanted to go. When she came across a demon laying in the flowers of the wide open field. Her ears perked up as she heard the whimper that escaped his maw, one of grief and sorrow.

She slowly walked over to him, she usually didn't like demons (despite her being half-demon). But this one was different from others she had encountered in her life.

"Why do you grieve, demon? Have you lost something precious to you?" She asked in a soft tone, her revealed eye slowly going over the demon wolf.

[justice]

Looking up and attempting to hide his sorry from the female approaching the male shifted his weight so that he could stand up full and proud. "The wind blows from the North, and with it comes creatures such as I, leaving our grievances behind." Shinigami, a word in Japanese meaning Death God, Lowered his head as if bowing in respect to the female.

"Precious to me no, lost no. She is in a place of heavens and spirits therefore she is lost to none, and simply as a human might put it, in a better place." Looking to the female he finally brought his head back up. "May I ask the name of such a Beauty, Though it would not be courtesy if I do not first give my own. I am Shinigami Warrior of the North, though now I shouldn't introduce myself like I am something when I clearly am not. So I would guess that I should only introduce myself as Shinigami. Though I shall go as Shi or Reaper."

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[demin]

Duemos slightly laughed to herself when Shinigami lowered his head. "Please, do not bow. I am not royalty." She said in the same soft tone, "I assume you are talking about your mate, I will not ask for details then." Duemos felt sorry for this demon, something she never thought she would feel for a demon.

Her ears lowered down to her head when Shinigami said the word 'beauty'. If she had been in her normal form she would be blushing. "Hello, Shinigami. I am called Duemos." She listened as Shinigami insulted and lowerd himself, "Why do you say you are not something which you are, Shi?"

[justice]

Rolling large shoulders the wolf lowered his head. The smell of the flowers were intoxicating making his sense go on a temporary high. "We all pretend to be something though if we are really this something we pretend to be then why to we pretend to be it. I guess you could label it under the term 'Old Habits Die Hard.' " Raising his head his ears swiveled around on their axle as if expecting something or someone to appear somewhere at that time.

"It is very nice to meet you Duemos," Once again he bowed his head. "Though not royalty all creatures should be shown a respect that they deserve. Everyone deserves respect, even an outcast meeting someone quite obviously not an outcast in a pack should show them respect as if they are the alpha of a great pack that spans many lands.

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[demin]

Duemos laughed a little again, and lowered her head in the same way that Shinigami did. While her head was lowered she sniffed the flowers as well, O how good they smelled.

She brought her head back up and her tail began to wag slowly. She liked being with this demon (and it probably won't happen again), he was courteous, caring, and just a very good someone to be with.

Duemos's exposed eye widened when Shi thought that she was part of a pack, "I'm not exactly part of a pack, Shi? I am an outcast however, it seems we have something in common." She walked past Shinigami and walked a ways behind him. "What say we go for a walk, Shi? You look like you could relax a bit." She said, all in the soft tone.

[justice]

Shinigami's head followed Duemos' movements. What was this female wolf? She seemed very interesting. Moving forward a big in small steps as she spoke about walking and relaxing. She was right, though hell if he'd admit it. Moving a few steps after her he suddenly stopped. "Can one ever truly relax?" Once again with the riddles. That's what you get for having a Sphinx for a child hood friend.

"Duemos, I don't think I could have that in common with you. I am not an outcast to say, more a stain on the linen of a pack. Exile is all there is for a disgrace that commits no real Crime. Though A crime is committed it doesn't mean that the reasons for it were not justified.

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[demin]

Duemos looked curiously over her shoulder to look at Shinigami. "You're just full of riddles aren't you?" Duemos smiled at Shinigami's comment, "Of course one can truly relax, I wouldn't be the way I am if I didn't relax every now and then. And right now, you look like you could use some relaxation for awhile."

She kept on walking in small steps, listening to Shinigami as he talked about his exile. "If the crime you say you committed is justified, that is no disgrace. You merely did what you thought was right, yet you sound like you have a guilty concsouis.....feel free not to tell me. But what 'crime' is it you say you committed that cause you disgrace?"

[justice]

"Riddles give one strength as mystery to a perfect stranger. If I speak in riddles I can confuse you as in others giving me a shield to hide behind." Shi raised he head to the sky. It smelled lovely still giving him a relaxed and laid back feeling, though he was convinced it was merely a temporary security to him. "Riddles also come easy to those who live among them, therefore speaking in riddles soon comes as easy to one as eating or sleeping." He sighed and allowed his eyes to travel to the ground then to the impure wolfess near him. Her fur was made of pure black excluding two white spots upon her head.

She was part demon, that was obvious. Though he was a full demon wolf he'd never bothered to find out his magically abilities or have any use to them. One day he would find out, and that day he loathed already. He didn't need magic to function therefore he had no want to own it.

"Disgrace is disgrace no matter what crime one commits. For me it is said murder, though the reason for my slaughter is known to none. Merely my mate knew my hatred for the wolf that ruled that clan my ancestors had ran with. They had built it and disgrace my family, my history, as well as myself when being said banished. Though don't get me wrong I never said I did not deserve this punishment."

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[demin]

"Riddles and confusion are a good defense, in my case a weapon (her illusion magic), and you are particularly good at the riddles you have said thus far." She stopped walking and turned to look at Shinigami and saw that he was scanning over her. "So you can tell I am just a half demon, you are very observant, Shi."

Duemos was starting to get tired of talking about negative subjects, and told Shinigami that she was. "Shi, let's stop talking about exile, disgrace, and loss," Her tail began to wag back and forth and she smiled at him, "Let's just take a relaxing walk." She turned around and began walking slowly again towards...well...she didn't really know where.

[justice]

"And for a Non-Magic user such as myself," He added in. "Riddles and confusion can be a key to survival alone in this sad and cruel world." As she stopped walking he followed in suit nodding his head as if admitting that he'd been observing since they met only a few moments before. "Why thank you, Duemons." With a nod of Shinigami's massive skull he once again agreed with her.

"The whole world isn't all of hell yet, therefor I guess you could say that life as one knows it has come to a halt." He allowed a small grin to pass upon hi lips as he quickly leaped to the next subject. "These flowers are quite beautiful, the most beautiful in fact I think ever I have laid my eyes upon. They don't grow like this in the North. Sure you have wildflowers but not quite as many or as wide a variety as the gathering we have set before us."

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[demin]

Duemos grinned as Shinigami did, "So I finally got a smile out of you." She giggled a little and looked down at the flowers.

"These packlands will never be a hell, the noble wolves of Shinkou Ookami will make sure of that." Duemos took a long sniff of the flowers and let out a sigh, "Yes, these flowers are beutifaul, I love it here." She continued to slowly walk towards an unknown destination.

[justice]

"A smile," Shinigami allowed a sigh to pass his lips the smile still overruling the obviously at home sigh. As his smile drained away he allowed his dark head to nod. "That is what drew a creature of hell such as myself here. I came to find peace, find a home and a place to belong. For my heart has no sanctuary, or at least what it left of a heart."

He walked a little before his long legs almost hid by the growing flowers. "So if you don't mind me asking, Duemos, Where do beauties such as yourself rein from?" He inclined his head to the ground slightly to hail the scent of a beautiful purple flower smelling thick with the aromatic smell of Lavender.

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[demin]

"If you have indeed come to these lands to seek sanctuary and for acceptance. You really have come to the right place, Shi." Duemos at least thought herself right. For humans and wolves alike accepted her into their homes many a time even though she was a half-demon. "You have already found a friend, Shi. I am usually fearful of other demons, but you are the first one that I have come to like."She stopped again to wait for Shinigami.

Her ears went back down to her head out of slight embarrassment when Shinigami called her 'beauty'. "I don't even know where I come from, Shi. I just woke up in the human lands one day, and all that I knew was that I was a half demon and my name."

[moonwolf]

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