Pierce -
I was amazed tht it was Shadow who had spoken up. "He's on their side? After nearly killing him, he's on their side? No, Shadow, I think that's called guilt. Most people face it often. Oh...and, do something bout it? Oh, you bet I will." I rolled my eyes, using the arm that wasn't supporting Abby to give Kai a whole-hearted hug. "I'm so glad that you still care about the people you meet. Keep it up, and never lose hope." And, that was what I was going to say. At least I didn't have to tell him that later. I looked back at Shadow, "Consider it done."
Shadow's eyes flashed with anger, and he drew himself up, tensing and about to strike.
As soon as Shadow reeled back to hit me, I stepped in front of Kai, pushing him back a little, sending Abby back with him, ensuring that both of them didn't get touched in this dispute.
My eyes slipped over to Kai, who was grinding his teeth, his hair fading in from an off-brown-white, and an angry blackish-brown. Trying so hard no to lose control and fight back, and supporting Abby gently as her eyes tried to focus and she yawned. Nope. Not awake yet.
If it did magange to hit me, I didn't quite know what I would do. This was Shadow. I didn't have anything against Shadow, really. Shadow was Ice's Kai, basically. A long lost brother who had been assumed dead. Ice wasn't a bad guy, so Shadow couldn't be much worse.
I would take it like a man, and talk it out when Shadow calmed down, I had decided. I stood tall, ready to be struck, when suddenly, an arm roughly grabbed Shadow's. "Shadow. Cut the act, you know best out of all of us that not all humans are evil." Ice's voice rang out with authority, and, when I looked over, surely enough he was there.
I sighed in relief as he looked over Kai and I, assesing what had happened. His eyes flashed with understanding as he spoke, sighing, and looking directly at Kai, and not backing down even as Kai's eyes faded to black as he began to calm down. "He's been upset sense he learned they took his girlfriend." his voice was commanding, and once more I understood why he was the alpha. At the sound of this tone, Shadow stopped struggling to hit me, or get to Kai, he just settled for glaring relentlessly at the silver-headed octopus who was relaxing, and comforting the confused, dazed Abby.
Nanuke ran up to us, looking thouroughly embarassed at Shadow's actions. "I'm sorry, Shadow's usually not like this," she insisted. "He's usually the one to stand up for humans." she immediately grabbed Shadow from Ice's grip and commenced lecturing, dragging him off away from us. I waved at them, hoping that Shadow wouldn't think I was being saracstic.
Ice loooked back at Kai, and I did, too. I saw him in time for him to smile, "It's alright. I came here expectiing eons worse, over eons less than talking to our kind escort, over there." he smiled a soft smile that had been extracted directly from my childhood as he threw in the word 'kind'. Hell bent on making the man seem like a good guy.
Ice smiled a little bit in return, "So you don't hold it against Shadow?" he asked, clearly relieved.
Kai shook his head, "Not at all, I would be even worse in his situation...Ice, was it?" he extended his hand.
Ice looked a little taken aback, but reached ot ans shook his hand, "Yeah. That's me. Thanks, Kai."
"It's nothing." Kai nodded, looking a little embarassed at being thanked, he looked down at Abby and guided her over to me. "She's waking up more every secong, Piercy. Apparently she woke up when you dropped her on the snow, though. She's been muttering, and she doens't like me much." he smiled sheepishly.
I looked down at Abby, smiling a bit, "Haha, seems inevitable that most wouldn't like you, Kai. Too bad for you." I stuck out my tongue, "But, she's really nice, so I'm sure we can convince her that you're not too horrible."
Our conversation was cut off by a thinkly accented, "'Ey! We're almost 'ere! Ready yerselves, 'cause it migh' not be pretty!"
Kai was the one to call back, "Alright! And you be ready to leave, because if you chicken out, I'll have your hide!"
"Aye, aye! I hear ya, mate!"
I raised an eyebrow as Kai looked back at me, shrugging. "We'd best get ready, then. We probably have less than an hour." he shrugged.
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Continue?
In the post was:
Nanuke
Ice(hope I didn't mess him up.)
Shadow
Abby
Kai
Pierce
Random guard
Hope that didn't suck too badly.
