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@Talos >D  Though I guess other peeps can pop in too.

Despite being in a deaf and blind world, Akatosh wasn't unable to feel.  Though there were plenty of nice, calm times (read: mealtime), there had been much wiggling and poking from one in particular and Akatosh had totally had enough!  Why wasn't that obnoxious one listening to his complaints, no matter how loudly he squeaked in protest! How dare they!

It took what was maybe five minutes for him to properly wiggle in the right direction to be able to take his vengeance, finding the right smell and then yelling (read: squeaking) again at her.  Uncoordinated, basically flailing movements first caused him to smash his nose into Talos' head before finding an ear and angrily slurping it up like an egg noodle.
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Talos lay on her side, her belly protruding up balloon-like from the ground, perfectly black and round and warm and contentedly full, for once. She burped. The noise was surprisingly loud for such a small figure, as was the happy smacking of lips that followed just before she loosed a happy sigh and started to drift back off to sleep. She was starting to grow fond of this large strange new world after all.

The blissful peace didn't last long, however. Of course. It never did. She remained blissfully ignorant of the scuffling scrape of one particular brother's belly making its way across the den floor; blissfully ignorant of the unkind thoughts that were chugging along in his little head like a runaway freight train carrying a full load of pure vengeance. But her bubble of blissful ignorance was shattered when her brother's mouth found the innocent little black earflap it sought, eliciting a shocked flailing squall from Talos that outechoed her baby burp several times over.

She didn't have the coordination to rake her stubby claws of midnight across her littler brother's face as she shook him angrily off, but she tried. You had to give her that, she tried. And then she loosed her war cry, as loud and terrifying as she could make it (so...roughly about the volume, and shock and awe, of a particularly buff hairless baby rat) just before she curled around and latched with all her might on to the first stub her nose contacted. It was a foot— or a tail— well, it was something that wasn't her, and her small mouth bore down as hard upon it as it could. This was rather thwarted by her current continuing lack of teeth, however. Fear the gums of doom and justice!
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Victory!  Maybe.  Nah, just for a few moments.  Suddenly he was being assaulted! HOW DARE SHE! HOOOOW DAAAAAAAAARE SHEEEEE!  Though he quickly lost track of the ear, his target was still in front of him, as his paw quickly discovered.  The paw disappeared into the wet and gross unknown.  

Flailing wildly with a squeak that could wake... Well, maybe a parent... He tried, likely unsuccessfully to retrieve his paw, but considering his limbs spent the majority of their time just stuck out in front like a stuffed animal, he didn't have the greatest flexibility.  Instead he wriggled more and then totally tried to bite her.  And by bite her, that actually means slobbered over her face with his tiny tongue before getting frustrated and weakly slamming his muzzle into the top of her head a few times like some sort of deranged woodpecker, screeching at maximum pup volume the whole time.
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@Durnehviir @Constantine ...jfyi your darling brood are making quite a racket, should you at some point wish to intervene.  O:D

Talos discovered that paws were not nearly as tasty as she may have hoped, as her tongue wrapped itself experimentally about the claws and toes, but she hung on stubbornly nonetheless. Her target was weak and unworthy, hah! He was no match for her superheroic puppy strength! So there!

Her job nonetheless grew considerably harder as her obnoxious brother proceeded to thoroughly slime her. Brother cooties?! So gross! Talos wrinkled her stubby black muzzle and summoned her most menacing growl, but with her mouth stuffed full of brotherfoot it was barely audible. Not to mention the squealing brat was now shrieking fit to deafen everyone for several hundred puppylengths around at least, though fortunately for her Talos herself escaped such a fate. What she was not able to escape was his frenetic skullpounding, which didn't really have much strength behind it but was nonetheless irritating, like being assaulted by a rogue kamikaze moth. Talos spat out the other's paw and yowled back at the nasty-tasting creature as she flailed blindly at him with her own sooty paws, though she had to save her breath a little more for her ineptly enthusiastic exertions than her brother seemed to need to.

 The pair of them nonetheless made the most unholy racket of a dissonant chorus that ever did grace wolf ears: obviously closer to demons than angels, under all that disguising stubbly fluff. If either of the remaining littermates had made the terrible decision to rest anywhere nearby, with the skill and grace that Talos was displaying as her dumpy limbs jerked like a demented puppet's, they'd be just as likely to be brained as Akatosh.
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Aha, at some point the beast that held him let him go!  Freedom!  Stubby legs flailed wildly into the flailing slapfight that was probably more like two fish lightly colliding.  It wasn't getting anything done, though.  He mewled pathetically, now wanting someone else to defeat the creature, because he couldn't exactly control his limbs -- or see -- to be able to do so himself.

Obviously he was totally in the right, though!  Whatever was happening.   Akatosh's wild flailing managed to flip him over like a turtle, introducing an all new type of wail to the chorus.  Help, help!  He'd been flipped and wasn't in a position to get back up!  He was still under attack, too!  Through it all he got boinked a few more times, which just increased his volume, even if it was on a rather pathetic scale.
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Durnehviir was exhausted. Between nursing, cleaning and greeting over her newborns, the new mother barely had time to sleep. She did her best to nap while they did, but her rest was fitful.

She hadn't expected to be so on edge; her drive to ensure the survival of her offspring was strong, and every sound or movement roused her. Yowls of offense drew her attention toward the pups and with an anxious sweep of her tongue over a lip, Durnehviir hoisted herself onto an elbow to investigate. Two of the boys appeared to cry out in outrage at one another and, as they squabbled, the mottled boy was unfortunate enough to find himself writhing on his back - bested by his larger brother.

The russet Alphess huffed a breath and moved in to intervene, making to seperate her children by correcting her lookalike to an upright position and then poking Talos away with her nose. In doing so, the puppy was accidentally rolled over to reveal a rather unexpected sight.

Durnehviir blinked, somewhat dumbly. This cub was not like his brothers. 

A million worries flooded her thoughts: what's wrong with him? Is he deformed? Will he live a normal life, without the right parts? She held her breath, on the verge of hysteria, until she leaned in to have a closer look.

He was a she.

"@Constantine," she exhaled without daring to look away, unsure if her mate had stirred with the commotion of their children. "Talos is a girl!"
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Against all probability, Talos's superheroic but rather inept efforts met with success. At least, she found her paws colliding with something—or more correctly, someone—and it was enough to stop the tiny fluffball of a brute from making a drum out of her skull. Hah! Triumph surged within the big black pup as she wallowed forward, digging her claws in far to either side of her like a baby seal maneuvering as she sensed that the brattiest brother's soft, quivering underbelly was now exposed. She was determined she'd wallop him a good one right where it hurt, and that would stop him from messing with her ever again!

Despite these grandiose plans as she moved in for the kill, and despite landing a few thumps more-or-less solidly, she found herself once again thwarted, and this time by a much larger and more skillful snout than any of the still-growing litter's. Talos squalled first at the interruption, and secondly at the sudden indignity of finding herself outmaneuvered and gracelessly rolled belly-up herself. Not fair, Mom, not fair at all! Belly-up was a position only suitable for dumb brothers who deserved it! Now it was Talos's turn to flail her limbs about in the air, an upended cockroach unable to connect feet to earth without assistance. The unholy racket escalated in volume as Talos let the whole world know just how unsatisfactory this set of circumstances was.

She was completely unimpressed by Durnehviir's belated discovery. First off, she couldn't hear the exclamations, and second off if such a discovery required lying upside-down on her spine, Talos would just as soon have let it go undiscovered. She had no sympathy whatsoever for her poor overworked mother, whose exhaustion Talos herself was of course partly to blame for— Talos had exactly one goal in life right now, and as far as she was concerned all that mattered was that Mother had stopped her, right there in her tracks (so to speak). But between all this noise and all this physical exertion, Talos was running through her energy supply at a pretty rapid pace, and someplace in the back of her mind it registered that the milk bar was right over there— but Talos firmly tried to set it out of her mind as she unsuccessfully attempted to air-walk her way back to her smaller brother and finish the job.
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Yeah, this was getting to the point of being far too much activity for the grub-stage wolf.  Once he was rescued by his mother, Akatosh was quick to wriggle his way back to a teat, squishing against whichever brother happened to be closest (it wasn't like he could really tell, they were just warm fluffy lumps like himself) and away from Talos, like geez.  But right now she wasn't gonna bug him, hah!  Opportunity!

At this point, the thing that sounded the best was to just have some milk then a nap.  If Talos was abducted by aliens in the meantime, he probably wouldn't notice.  Just as long as she would quit poking him...  Ah, the simple days.
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@Constantine moved in to investigate and, although each of the new parents were new to rearing young, he agreed with amusement that their darkest babe was indeed female. Stunned by her ignorance and mortified that she hadn't even considered checking her pups' nether regions to properly identify the sexes, she quickly set about examining the rest of the litter.

Finally, content that her babes were all properly accounted for as three boys and a girl, Durnehviir huffed an awkward sigh and poked her nose affectionately to her mate's swarthy cheek. "She'll probably think she's one of the boys anyway," the russet Frostfur laughed, well aware that her little princess might see herself as a brother in their male-dominated family. She reached down to right her obsidian daughter, releasing her to harass her siblings as she saw fit.

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