◆Because i felt like a bit of dramatic story time would be delightful.
@Somnia ◆
It was an entire affair of dreams, nightmares, and every other thing his subconscious determined to torture him with.
Her, pain, and being unable to save her.
His mother, and Somnia. Another wolf, some darkie, who..holy stars of bananas, it was bad.
His mother was writhing in her misery, his original pain, her rabies. The foam, the spittle, the bubbles of death, it was everywhere.
And she was heading straight for Somnia.
The same Somnia who stood on the very edge of a frozen lake, very so gently tiptoeing to the brittle edges.
She turned, to see a golden wolfess coming at her with pale venom frothing from the very base of her death lined jaws.
Ashton was so far away from her...so far..
It felt like the whole world was watching him.
"Dont bother, because your love is a lie."
The dark wolf. He was here.
"Save her! Fucking do something, dude! Dont stand there!" The panicking teen shouted at him.
"Its a sweet, end..The knife sings alone. Just let her go. It's all for you. You, alone."
He wasn't making sense! What?!
"Dont torture me, or confuse me! This can't go through! Knock Mom out of the way or something! Screw it..You're no help. It's my war to win. My battle to win." Ash struggled, the tidal wave of emotion threatening to force him to fight back.
Mother Nature, you vulture..
You traitor.
"Mum, I know ya can hear me! You don't need an early grave! She's mine! You stay away from her, it's not her time!" the teen rushed, but the two girls before him seemed only to get farther and farther away.
The onyx spoke again.
"Make me a promise here, tonight. Stop trying to save everyone. Chemicals won't bring everyone home. It doesn't have to be this way."
"I can't lose my best friend..She..I can't. Bro.. please. "
He was begging, pleading. He couldn't watch her go through the same shit. Rabies was a horrible thing. His mother just got closer and closer. She too, was now on the ice. Ashton was millions of lightyears away from them, but it seemed like the breaking of the ice was right in his ears. It was the moment he looked at the pair in despair, Somnia's face twisted into one of horror, it seemed evident how much trouble she was in. And a moment of murdering silence passed between all of the lupine, as Somnia looked directly at him, obviously needing for him to help her.
"Bring her back, or take me with her! I can't watch this happen again! I won't take life for granted again! Please!"
"Its not life you're taking for granted, mortal."
What the hell of fuckery squared, divided by damnit.
Everything went straight to his heart once the ice collapsed under the weight of both girls. Gurgling, swishing, then silence.
Ashton swooned, as the last sight he saw was calm, frigid waters. Then the face of the unrecognizable obsidian wolf was the only thing in his view.
Don't steal what's mine again, boy. Or you will relive your past, and every unimaginable torture will await you when I get my own claws within your soul.I know you, Ashton. Do you know, I count your heartbeats before you sleep? I know every breath you've taken. You will never rest, until you have stopped disobeying me."
"Who are you? I don't even know who the hell you are! Please don't take this out on me..Just crash it all, tonight.", he whimpered, the remaining strength leaving his body in massive loads of pain.
Ashton's head, heart, and body ached. He felt every bone snap, every tendon severed, every breath cause his lungs to fill with more and more with the pool of blood. How? How was he still alive?
Darkness came, pressing on him from every wall outside, and within him. Numbing. He couldn't even tell if he was breathing anymore. His eyes, however, the dulling emeralds that once lit up everyone's day, began to hide underneath drooping eyelids.
And before he lost consciousness, the mysterious wolf spoke in his ear for a final time,
"Death."
Ashton woke up, his own golden body shivering, not from winter's breath, but from trauma. He was't startled, but woke up slowly, as if he was just released from a coma. He realized he wasn't even breathing, so he got right on that. Then, he turned over to inspect his sleeping beauty, and was relieved to see she was still breathing.
Oh sons of baby flowers, it was good to be alive.
"Wakey Wakey, Dandruff and Flakey."
I liked it. :D And for any stalkers out there, this is back-dated to way back when, the morning after
Hippos Can't Ice-Fish took place. And because of Somnia's timeline, the next thread in the present can have something happen between the two of them, as a thread took place ahead of this where Perry asked if Somnia had figured out how Ashton felt about her and she said no. xP
It was just Ashton and one of his weird sayings. That was it. She closed her eyes with the intentions of going back to sleep before realization struck, as well as memories of last night's deliriousness... Which led up to her sleeping next to him. Okay, now that the history was figured out, it was time for a plan.
With her eyes closed, Somnia tried to think of a reaction for the situation. Pretending to be asleep seemed to be the number one choice, but hadn't he already seen her open her eyes? Maybe he hadn't. Maybe.... Nope, he had been looking right at her. Which meant, time to stop trying to think up excuses. "Morning." She yawned, opening her eyes and stretching simultaneously.
He had laid his view on her warm chocolates, and thumped his golden tail underneath the pelts, a sign of happiness, a feeling he still had to grow back into after last nights mental turmoil.
"Mornin', sweets. How'd ya sleep?"
Ashton didn't mention how his slumber had gone, because describing the very depths of Hell couldn't compare to the heinous effects of his own.
If anything, he was foolishly more concerned about her, than himself.
He'd be damned if Death rained on his parade.
"The shadows reassured me that they wouldn't come for you last night.. They had dentist appointments too early in the morning."
Good." Somnia replied to his inquiry about her sleep. Before she could turn the question right back at him, he made a joke referring to last night. She laughed a little, before her mind fully reinforced the stupid behavior she had in her delirious state.
The mental insecurities about it could be dealt with another time. For now, Somnia let a quietness envelope them, as she awaited Ashton's next move. With a small smile, she also noted how he hadn't move away yet.
Ash felt a bit better hearing her laugh, the gentle way it reassured him that she was ok. It wasn't like he wanted anything else to interrupt the sound, but the gift vanished as quick as it had been made. If he had to keep crackin' joke just to hear that music again, he'd talk till his tongue died.
He just couldn't help but stare at her, this girl, just so close to him. It was like he didn't have anything else to worry about, anywhere in the world. No rabies, no patients, no weather, no hunger, no medicines, no wounds, no pain, no shrooms, no nothin'.
Just as if he were repeating last night, the teen reached over and placed a soft lick on the top of her downy of her crowns fur.
"Som, listen,.."
You serious, dude? You're really gonna do it. You are, aren't you?
Why, yes, yes I am. Now go away.
Good luck, bro.
"I really dont know what it is,..but you know that day I was talkin' to you about me havin' hearts for a girl? Well,..."
Don't you pause. You better not fuckin pause, keep goin. You got this.
"You're the girl I've been crushin' on. And I don't think I want it any other way, ya know? Not sayin its because you're the only babe who's got me savin' her ass left and right, but it's like one of those 'without you, there is no me' sorta deals. I don't know how else to put it, darlin', but I think I love you. Can we create somethin' beautiful, together?"
Trusting leafy green irises looked into her vibrant woods, and Ash felt like he drank one of his medicines, and had no clue how it would react in his body.
He waited for the liquid to either convert to a potion, or poison.
Timeline stuff is all confused, but settled at the same time. Hippos Can't Ice-Fish is after Somnia's talk with Peregrine, (I couldn't forget you if I tried) so this is after that so it doesn't need to be back-dated. (My cat who was laying on my bed for the past 4 hours decided now was the perfect time to throw up on it. >.<)
Somnia was surprised when Ashton licked the top of her head, but not in a bad way. It made her giddy with happiness. But, things didn't stop there. Like Peregrine had suggested, she was the girl he had his eyes set on.
The excitement of it all made her unable to talk as she tried to form words in her head. He loved her, and he wanted to become something more with her. But... To what extent? Courting? Lovers? Mates? Somnia wanted to take the jump, but not that big of a jump.
"What if...." A hesitant pause, for nervousness was there. She hoped she was testing the limits. "What if we start off as either courting or lovers? Then, after getting comfortable with that, we could move farther down the road?"
◆The perfect time to throw up on someones bed is after 4 hours of doing absolutely nothing. :D Didnt ya know?
Im happy everything is sorted out, because i was hella confused. Im on my way to my dad's house, so no need to rush post unless you want to . I'll hopefully get to it the moment i get there. ◆
Ashton's own heart throbbed with happiness. Most likely because she hadn't called him a desperate whelp, and shoved him away.
Rejection could kill a dude.
"Woah, woah, you're movin too fast for me, little Queen Som Som."
A jest, a jest. He knew where she was going, and he knew where she was coming from. And he didn't want her to be rushed, feel like he was rushing her, or make her uncomfortable, in anyway at all. A comforting smile was sent to her, and reassuringly, he murmured to her,
"Honestly, Som, I never wanted it to go faster than that. I was gonna savor every moment that went by whenever you and I are in each other's company. Can't rush it, or else there'll never be anything to cherish. And whatever this is, I wanna cherish it for a long ass time, beautiful. Hell, who knows, you could be rushing me."
The light laugh echoed around them from him, and he turned his attention back to the bed headed grayscale.
They were on the same terms. That meant no problems, right? Yeah, everything was perfectly fine. They would carve out what became of them at their own pace, and that started right..... about.... now.
"As long as you can keep up with the pace!" Somnia quipped in his response about rushing him. If it was really too fast, she would be more than happy to slow down. But, the word play and her actions went along too good to pass up.
It started with rubbing her cheek against his. While it could also be seen as a sign of affection, it had a deeper meaner. It got her scent on him; a sign to others that he belonged to her. Somnia proceeded to move upwards, planting her own little wolf kiss on the top of his head as he had done to her. Lastly, she conquered Mt. Ashton, which meant laying on top of him. Everyone knows that fellow people make the best pillows!
He laughed at her keeping the joke going. Of course he would keep up with her pace. He had no other place he had to be at the moment. And if anything, he would put everything aside, just to be with her.
Everything was as happy as a bunny's butt, until he saw her stand up.
Where was she-
"Omphf.."
A surprised golden face peeked underneath the stone colored hellion. She was severely lucky she wasn't heavy.
"You got a serious thing for gettin ontop, litltle cheer leader of mine. This is one of your routines, eh?"
Ash barked a little laugh, then proceeded with a goofy plan that sparked to his mind. He stood, slowly as so she would not fall off, and began to carry her around, handsome head held high, and legs majesticly prancing, as if he were some royal show pony.
"You want me to neigh for ya too, doll? You arctually are quite a comfy weight. We should do this more often."
Again, he craned his neck, just to give her a furry eyebrow wiggle of goofiness.
"Yup! The view is better up top, and it's also comfier." Somnia justified with a grin. The higher up the better. Both figuratively and literally. The higher up in the totem pole of ranking, the better. The higher up you could get, the more you could reach. The main downside was falling. The higher you are, the harder you fall. The phrase was actually the heavier you are, but as long as you couldn't fly, higher worked too.
Then, Ash decided to stand up. It was slowly so that she wouldn't fall off, but it was shocking all the same. A little bit of balance was helpful to prevent falling, as no matter how much Ashton tried to balance her, if she got completely lopsided she would still fall. When he mentioned adding neighing to the act, Somnia laughed. "Nuh-uh! I've got to do some of the work you know." And thus, she neighed, or at least as much of a neigh sound a wolf could make.
Somnia laughed at his silly eyebrow wiggle. Duplicating the act was hopeless for her, so she didn't even try. So instead, she decided to comment about doing this more often. "Yeah, we should totally go around the Caldera and show off our perfect balancing act to everyone! That was a joke, but the next part wasn't. "And that reminds me, Peregrine had dibs on knowing first if anything happens in my love life. I guess this fits that category." Then, for the hell of it, even if it was hopeless, she was suddenly in the mood to try. Somnia tried, and once again failed at eyebrow wiggly. Yup, that definitely wasn't her strong suit.
That's totally what he said.
Had to.
Ashton couldn't help but laugh at her series of comments.
He found it harder and harder to focus on balancing her, but athletic body kept the job done. It almost went to hell the moment she tried at a neigh. It sounded like a cross between an angry panther, and the sound a seal made when it sneezed.
"Showing the crew our act? What is the clown caravans sent scouts? They's try and snatch the both of us up, then. Ya think they pay good?"
Ash was scrunching up his face trying to see a posse of ninja clowns trying to steal the both of them, and the thing that interuppted his thought and daydreams, was the view of her trying an eyebrow wiggle, just like him.
Yep, what balance?
Ashton had no choice but to let her slide her hiney off of him, because as hard as he had to laugh at her cute little scrunched up face, the determination to make that brow move, he couldn't risk her falling off of him. After he let her do the slip and slide down his back, he laughed his golden ass off.
Glistening gems turned to her, and he tried to recollect his breath, and just simply looking at her almost threw him into another fit.
The teen rubbed the side of his golden muzzle to her cheek, a reassurement that he wasn't laughing to be mean to her. She was just so damn adorable.
"I gotta practice that with ya, gal. I think with a bit more work, you just might get it down packed, and look just as gnarley as me."
Soon, she was forced to slide off of Ashton, but it was worth it to see Ashton break into a fit of laughter. Soon, it got Somnia laughing too. One of those things were you start laughing, forget why you're even laughing, but see someone else laughing and you start laughing all over again. Yup, that was it. Eventually the laughing stopped, and the small nuzzle was accepted.
"You mean even more 'gnarly' than you!" Somnia challenged with a competitive smirk. Her body shifted into the famous wolf play-bow position to match the attitude. "Hell, I'm going to out-gnarly you by a ton by the time we master that move!" She quipped. Not that she knew what gnarly was... But it sounded like a good thing!
"Oh no, no no, lady. You ain't out gnarleyin the Ashton!"
Soon, he found himself matching her stance, golden flag behind him fluffed, tuffed, and ready to wave in the wind.
"That's a sin in every holy tenet, and a rule breaker to every pack known to the wolves in Teekon! Besides," he tilted his head, analyzing her slim frame, returning back to the chocolates on her face.
"Ya don't think imma teach you everything that i know on the awesometasticness i wield, do ya? Can't have a babe throwin me for a loop, then takin my crown. Especially not my cute lil' dudette."
He's be damned if she thought she was gonna overthrow him from his thrown. Then again, she just might persuade him in every way a naive dude like him could fall for.
As much as she didn't know it, She already had him wrapped around her paw.
This was starting to sound more like a challenge for her to try with every word he spoke, and try she would. After all, she couldn't just walk away without trying, whether she wanted to do it or not, and she did want to do it too. If role-playing with Elwood was anything to go by, once Somnia got the crown the deemed her the gnarliest, she would find a multitude of ways to keep it on her head.
"Who said I need to know all the awesome tactics you have under your belt to steal your crown?" Somnia responded. She found herself taking a step forward one way before stepping back and doing it the other way repeatedly as she tried to think of a plan. "Maybe," She started with a mischievous glint in her eyes as formed a plan. Then she put it into action, rushing forward in an attempt to tackle him as she finished the sentence. "I'll just take it by force!"
This chick had nothing but tricks up her sleeve, and he couldn't ever predict her, whatsoever. The eccentric doctor was tackled by just equallly eccentric patient.
How the bag of santa's presents, does she go from havin a simple convo, to full fledged snake-warfaring him?
Sneaky, sneaky.
"Oof!" The grunt left his mouth just after her colliding with him,
What she didn't know...
Was that she was messing around...with a doctor.
The Doctor.
The Doctor, named Ashton Aspen.
And he was one who did not easily give up his title of Awesometasicness of Glory, and his Gnarleyness of Liberty.
With a smirk, he twisted his slim body, stood on his hinds, and sought to flip her on her back.
Oh, he had a plan for this feisty female. A plan, indeed,...
And one that would probably give him the right to keep his crown.
At first, Somnia succeeded in tackling Ash, but before the short-lived victory could be celebrated, she was on her back. Somnia didn't know how it had happened, except for the fact that it had to have happened somehow. But what about his plans? If he didn't already know what to do next, he didn't deserve his title.
Her tail swished, but besides that, she made no move. All Somnia did was lay there, paws dangling in the air. Chocolate eyes sought the emerald ones, trying to read his next action.
"You, little dear Somnia, are gonna pay for that."
BOOM, Like greased lightining, Ashton launched his mission, after sutding every spot on her.
The Tickling of Doom, and the Nips of Despair.
Buhm Buhm BUUUHMMM.
Left and right, his nose was, decifering her soft spots, under her helpless limbs, and on boths sides of her dainty ribcage. Nips, nibbles, and nuzzles were flying in every direction, and Ash was now merciless in his attack.
No goin back, darlin.
His plan was to tickle her. Okay? No, not okay! Tickles were the absolute worse, a ticklish wolf's worse fear, the divine punishment, the -- that was enough. Tickles were tickles, and the other synonyms didn't even come close to matching the horrendousness of them.
As the assault began, so did the natural defenses; squealing, squirming, and kicking. All three happened at once, mostly without Somnia's control. Maybe she would get lucky and accidentally kick him in the face so he would stop? No, that would be an option she would regret later. So that left more squirming and squealing and kicking, but not kicking Ashton, and attempting to get up.... That failed miserably..
"Stop it..." Somnia said between squeals, the laughs that came with the tickles, and the gasping for air that came from the laughter.
Ash refused to let up his strikes, only until he could figure out what she said between the ridiculously mezmorizing laughs and giggly sounds she did.
"Now exactly why should I give ya any sort of mercy, when you tried to threaten to take my crown, miss Som Som? Gimme a reason why ya deseeeervee it...or else, you'll force me to continue."
Ashton kept his limbs firmly lodged on her sides, towering over her, the whimsical and mischievious glow evident in his eyes.
She only had a fear factor that needed to be pushed, so he bagan the well-known countdown.
"Five...four...threeeee....two..."
Mother Nature forbid she let the hippie get down to one.
The assault ended with Ashton pinning her down. He wanted a reason why he should stop, or else he would continue. Somnia came up with a response, but kept it to herself. Although tickling was terrible, it wasn't like it would kill her. And besides, she wanted to know what would happen when he got to one. Was it a bluff, or did he have another trick up his sleeve?
Ash saw she thought he was kidding. She tested him. She...tested him.
"You must want me to prove early that I'm a dude of my word, huh, miss Somnia?"
A repliica of a smirk tippy toed to his lips, and Ashton oblidged.
"So be it, doll."
The teen dive bombed his incissors to the base of her neck, the very essence of fear in every tickletastic nightmare, and niggled, wriggled, tickled, gentle and jostling nips and grips on the bottom of her sensitive throat.
The first thought that came to me was that he was going to pretend to almost kill her. XD
He wasn't bluffing it. Ashton had a plan, and he followed through. While his information source was incorrect, -- the sensitive spot on the neck was second to the small spot between the pads of her feet when it came to ticklish, -- it still had the desired effect. The much worse Round Two of tickling had begun. Which meant even more squeals, squirms, kicks, and laughs.
"If you.... Don't stop..... I'll..... I'll die from.... Laughting.... I... Can barely.... Breathe." the struggle to stop long enough to get a couple words out at a time was possibly the worse struggle in her life, but Somnia succeeded. Don't want to accidentally kill the girl you just confessed your love to now, right? Touché.
Ashton could only keep his eviltastic facade for so long, before he too, burst into laughter. Then after deciding she had reaped the challenge she had sewn, the golden teen hopped off of her. Didn't wan't to give her any sort of deprivation of oxygen to her lungs or brain, just a nice dose of 'Takin Ash's Crown is a No No', along with a dose of healthy laughter.
After he had managed to get himself together, he checked to see if she too, was okay.
"Ya alive there, doll? I hope you learned your lesson, especially considering ya woulda lost either way ya ran it."
It was then Ash rmemebered he hadn't even gotten any food for wither one of them.
Starvin da bae ain't the way ta go, bro.
I know, who are you tellin, dude?
You, obviously. You got the poor gal laughin her ass off all across the floor, and you didn't even bother to dib her tum.
I know, i know I'm gettin to that, you shh.
Yea, yea, yea.
"By the way, considerin' we just had Laugh and Excercise Fest of Hardcoreness, we can totally nab a pile of chum to get our tums back up and bumpin again. I don't know about you, but I got a taste for some fresh fish right now. Need somethin ta chill me out. "
And appraising gaze was sent her way, the vibrant irises bright with good feelings.
"How bout it, beautiful? Up for some foodin?"
You planning on wrapping it up here, and we could have another thread soon? And, I love the way Ash talks to himself in his head!
Somnia stayed in her position, even after Ashton got off. It wasn't that she wanted to stay like that, she just had to calm down with some of the laughing. Ashton laughing his ass off didn't help much, but she eventually succeeded, and maneuvered into a sitting position.
"I'm alive..." Somnia said, giving him a competitive look. Even if Ashton won this battle, there would be more to come. A whole war could take place if that was what it took to steal his crown. No, this was not over, far from it. She would steal that title eventually, and made it a goal.
Food was proposed. Somnia hadn't realized it until now, but she was hungry. "I never had fish before, but I'm up for trying it." She replied, licking her lips in anticipation of food. Cue the tail wagging.
◆haha I don't mind wrapping it up. final post from me. Good threadage, Syd. We definitely for more to do.
And talking to himself...such a specialty. xD ◆
The Doctor watched her finally tape herself back together, and look at him with those big ol' chocolates of hers, the delectable candies he loved to stare in. Once she confirmed her living factuality, and her perfect function ability, Ash smacked another grin on his maw.
"I wouldn't be a smashin' doctor, if I killed all my patients, especially my most special one, now would I, babe?"
The blonde teens face morphed into one of surprise at the admition of her never tasting the very food that she had taken a swim with, the day before.
How is it that ya damn near drown, but not look for the edibles in the very environment ya almost die in?
Well,..considerin she was probably trying to not die,...
..shut up.
"I'm thoroughly surprised by that, gal. How has a frosty girl like you never flopped a fish? Don't make me fly that brow again, toots."
A chuckle based laugh sped through, and the hippie inclined his head towards the stairs, a charming smile on his lips.
"Lemme show ya the real way ta ice fishin, Som Som. Just please...for the sake of both of our sanitys, don't fall in."
Then, taking a soft step backwards, Ash let we have the floor first to stairs.
"Dudettes, first."