New Member of the Pack

[Rafael]

Jumping up the side of the mountain wasn't something that Rafael had any sort of issue with as he had to do this pretty much every time he left home to go hunting or just when he went out to see the surrounding area more. It was quite a hike for anyone that wasn't physical strong like him even Zadora had a hard time getting up in any sort of fast pace and she was much faster than him. No right now he was leading Lisa the hornet Beast that he had found near the lake that the lizard Beast he had gone searching for had been. After killing the Shinigami that were trying to kill her Rafael had managed to get through to her and she agreed to join the pack.

He didn't know her to well they had only met two days ago and in the time that they had been traveling together she hadn't said much yet that wasn't completely unexpected. She wasn't like Zadora or himself nor did she seem as far along as Lolth. She had more trouble than all of them when it came to forming speech yet through the instincts that they each possessed along with patience they could understand one another. Rafael just hoped that she would catch up somewhat fast to make things easier for everyone especially her. They had just eaten a few hours ago after finding and killing a buck in a forest to the east.

"Almost there Lisa." Rafael spoke loud enough that she'd be able to hear him over the sound of her wings fluttering as she flew up the mountain. It didn't take them long after that perhaps another two or three minutes of constant movement and then finally Rafael landed after jumping from the side of the mountain slanted form to the top of the grass covered ground. In truth this wasn't the peak of the mountain as it continued to go higher up on the left yet that wasn't where he called home. Instead he walked forward and if Lisa was near him or not she'd see that over the grass was a ridge and then an opening in the mountain like a giant chunk had been dug out as a waterfall fell and ran a small stream through the opening and then down the rest of the mountain. In this clearing was where the pack lived and although they couldn't see anyone else Rafael would jump down into the opening landing in the stream with a loud splash. "ZADORA, LOLTH I'M BACK!"

[Lisa Ko]

OOC: Hue, sorry for the late reply hue.


Two days. For two days Lisa followed the mammal that told her to follow from the lake bed. She followed as a new purpose was provided to her, a new reason to fight. A soldier without a cause had no purpose other than to die withotu achieving anything at all. A wasted life in other words. That was something that Lisa didn't want to happen to her. She failed to protect her previous Hive, being left stuck in the hot sun to burn to death. Not an ideal way to die but did put into her mind that she didn't wish to repeat it again. So, instead of having herself just end with her journey at the lake, she decided to follow Rafael to the Hive in which he had established. The previous Hive fell to the Humans in black cloaks. How they managed to do so she did not know. What happened to the Hive-mates that resided she did not know. All that she knew was the fact that the Humans were not going to get away with it, at least without blood being spilled.

Up the mountain side the Hornet took flight. Unlike other Beastclan members, Lisa didn't have to rely a lot on her legs or arms to climb up. Her fluttering wings helped to carry a majority of her weight when climbing up. Flying upwards on a mountain side normally wasn't an issue, at least before she was reincarnated in this form. However, seeing how steep the unmarked path was, much of her effort in her wings would cause her to exhaust her strength needlessly. With her strength right now it would still drain her, including with the shifting in the wind. Hovering would only do her so much if she didn't have to force needed to really direct herself accordingly. With that said, she had to use her limbs to help move around. A little more control when having claws and a hardened exoskeleton to help protect her hide against the rough sharp edges of the rocks.

Rafael spoke, alerting her to the closing distance to the new Hive. What took her attention was the small patch of land that resided ahead of them. Grassy with a small stream that originated from a small water fall. More or less serving as a cover for what the beast man would refer to as a home. Lisa didn't know what to expect coming to this new place, however, she kept her guard up. What was waiting for them could be more black garbed Humans, waiting for them after destroying the new Hive. There were many possibilities, even as Rafael called out the names of his pack mates. Lisa's talons stretched out, arching as they were preparing to strike out if it had been anything other than a Beastclan member. What would happen?

[Zadora]

Bored.. That was all Zadora could think of since Rafael had left them. Heading off to where ever he needed to be leaving her and Lolth to their own devices. Lolth and her tended to not really be around each other all the time. Mostly because of her not liking her 'Little children' she called spiders. But now since the little tiger cub joined them, She understood her feels. She loved the cub and would happily protect it from any danger much like Lolth would her spiders that followed her around.

Most of the time she spent was either in the water or in her cave. And today was no different. Laying at the edge of the river. Her arms propping her head above the shallow water well the rest of her body was submerged in the water. Her long tail swaying back and forth in the water slowly with her rapidly growing boredom. Her eyes following the white tiger cub that chased around a butterfly that seemed to try and retreat from the cub.

"ZADORA, LOLTH I'M BACK"

The voice that sounded so familiar had her ears perked and her standing at her feet in mere seconds. A smile appeared on her short muzzle. Stepping towards the cub and lifting her up into her arms and began heading towards where her friend had shouted. A small hop in her step showed her excitement from the male panther that was her friend. A small purr rumbled in her throat as she ran her paws along her cubs back, petting her gently.

And when her friend was in sight had her pick her pace up slightly, eager to reach his side. "Hey Rafael!" She called excitedly towards the large beast. Grinning towards him before her step filtered at the sight of another beast flying over the side of the mountain, following Rafael. A female beast by the looks of it and another insect. Maybe a bee by the wing and black and yellow color. But still a female. Slowly her steps to watch the two of them carefully. More towards watching the female beast.

"Who's your friend Rafael?" She asked, finding her own voice coming out more harder than she expected as she stopped. She took a moment before forcing a smile onto her muzzle as she looked between the two of them. Moving the cub in her arms to put the cub onto her shoulders to allow her arms to drop to her sides. "A new member?" She asked looking to the female beast then to Rafael with a perked brow. Though she was finding herself slightly annoyed with the fact that he had not consulted neither her or Lolth about having a new member.

[Rafael]

It was no surprise that Zadora was the first one that he had seen and the one that would actually come out in greetings for his return. Lolth didn't have any problem with him to his knowledge and neither did he with her, but she was very secluded and wished to be left alone a good portion of the time. Zadora on the other hand was very open and enjoyed speaking mainly because she would easily get bored.

She noticed right away that he wasn't alone though which was a welcome sight. It was simply that he was glad to see that she noticed something out of the norm and wouldn't let her excitement blind her to that. It meant that she was getting just a bit better and getting past her would be harder for anyone trying to sneak up on them. "This is Lisa. She's agreed to join us." Rafael waited and smiled at Zadora.

"She was in a pack with a former friend. How would you like to show her around?" Rafael asked Zadora. There wasn't really all that much to see the mountain valley that they had managed to find and claim as home was very nice, but there wasn't much to it. He wanted to give them a chance to talk alone though and see whether or not they could be friends easily. He had already been speaking to Lisa it was someone else's turn now and he had an idea of what to do while they did. "Would you like see everything Lisa?"

[Lolth Orbweaver]

Lolth sat on a large rock surrounded by thousands of spiders. Large spiders, small spiders, spiders of all colors made up the swarm she called her children, her little ones. The swarm was made of all different variety of species, each unique in size and shape, but all loved as equally. thousands of tiny, black eyes would stare up at Lolth, listening to her practicing on the stringed instrument in her hands. The guitar, as the people of the rukongai called it, was a fairly new interest to the spider woman. Her fingers plucked at the strings experimentally, tuning her ears to listen to notes that she played. Lolth's brow furrowed in concentration trying to recreate the sounds she heard back in the human settlement. 

The sounds that she was making could hardly be considered any kind of music, and it was clear that she had no real idea what she was doing, but the little ones still seemed to enjoy it for the most part. She was happy with that. She would continue on to practice hoping to get better with time, if nothing else. She smelled Rafael coming long before she heard him climbing the rocks that acted as a natural barrier for their valley home, and with him, came a new scent. This one was different. It wasn't mammalian like Zadora or Rafael, and it was female. Lolth set the guitar on the rock, and gently pushed herself off, the spiderlings parting for her to land without crushing them. 

She brushed her white, silk dress clean of any small rocks, and twigs, that clung to it before setting out to meet her friend and the new arrival. She was sure that Zadora would have gotten there first, which she did. Lolth could hear their conversation from quite a ways, and the way that Zadora's voice sounded when she realized the new comer was a female was a little amusing. She couldn't help but smile. Was that jealously in her voice? Lolth mused silently. She would make it to the group just in time to hear Rafael introduce Lisa, and claim that she was joining them. It seemed their little group was starting to grow. Lolth would smile gently before she let her voice announce her presence. 

"If i didn't know better Rafael, I would think that there was a reason there are only females here, other than you." She said teasingly. "I hope that there is no such motive." She kept her senses honed on all three to see how they took her jest. She may not be able to see them, but she could tell just as easily in other ways. 

[Lisa Ko]

Being surrounded by new species than her own made her remember those that she served along side in the old Hive. Fellow Soldiers who fought for the Hive and died for the Hive. Those that fought alongside her and died knowing that they fulfilled their duty til the end. That was what she was born and raised to do. For that reason she sought a place to belong while in this new world. It was much more familiar than she once realized, but something more to it than before as well. She was bigger and stronger than before. Her body wasn't the same as before as her appendages were much larger than when she was roaming around her previous Hive. Unlike before, there was no Hive. The music was gone and the noisy vibrations that were consistent were no longer able to be heard anymore. The music that the Hive caused by the swarms of its residence could no longer be heard from where she was now.

In place of it was silence, at least until the new people came around. Humans, tall ugly creatures that keep harassing her Hive from where she was born before coming to this world. Then again, in this new place where she woke up to, more Humans came to intrude and disturb the new Hive that she was building for herself. More and more of them came, poking and rustling the construct that she was undertaking all by her lonesome. But these Humans were different. They wore some black clothes and were obviously trained. Hornets, like herself, moved in the same manner as these Humans; in a swarm. They were organized, and very dangerous. Lisa couldn't compete against many of them as she was, especially being alone. It wouldn't be much longer until she met with others like herself. Well, not exactly like her, but others who took the shape of animals, and could walk like the Humans could. They were different than the animals that she was familiar with as well.

Before long they disappeared. No more of them. No music or overall noise that made it apparent that they were still in the Hive that they established together. Lisa couldn't find them. She blamed the Humans. Was it really them, or possibly that she was abandoned. Abandoned? This was the first time that the idea ever struck her. Why now? Never before was she capable of thinking in such a way. Before, back at the Hive, before coming to the new world, Lisa only followed the noise that the Hive gave out. It gave her what she needed to know, and she followed. Simple right? That was her everyday life that was followed from moment to moment. But there was no noise to follow with the pack that she was in. No noise to tell her that the Hive was safe. It was empty, and silent. There was nothing there for her anymore. As such, she had no choice but to leave again.

Looking at the situation now, at the strange creatures that stood in front of her, what is to say that it will happen again. Humans destroy everything that they touch. Lisa was still getting use to whole concept of understanding the minor details, but the way that the feline spoke struck a nerve in the Hornet. The Human mandible parted from the upper half, revealing the jagged pincers from the inner jaw rattling forward. Nearly sounding like a snarling hiss rattling from the back end of the pincers, Lisa confronted it. "Black thing...told...to follow.....Follow black...thing." she stuttered with the broken statement. Her bone talons crackled as they arched at her sides, the second pair cranking back over her head. Without turning her head towards the Black Panther, the Hornet spoke once again, "Lisa...only follow... Lisa.. only fight.." she spoke again without shifting her gaze away from Zadora.

[Rafael]

Rafael had been the one to find Lisa out in the wilderness alone and scared because the shinigami had destroyed everything that she knew in this world. From what he knew so far Lisa had come across the same large lizard beast that he had the first time he had been attacker by one of the insect beasts. Although she still spoke in the broken beastly manner that many beasts did Rafael had been able to piece together everything. She and the others that had formed a pack together had been attacked and only by helping her had Lisa survived the attack against them by the shinigami.

The reception to Lisa was better than he had been expecting or no actually Rafael realized that he didn’t really know what to expect. He wasn’t really sure how either would react to another pack member being brought along. When neither had a voice in the decision. He couldn’t help, but smile with how well and happy both of them seemed now. The smile vanished from his face when Lolth started to tease him though replaced with a look of surprise. Lolth usually wasn’t one to speak more than the essentials to a conversation although they hadn’t really been a pack long. Perhaps this was how Lolth truly happened to be and she was opening up to them now.

That didn’t help Rafael though as his face blushed hidden beneath the sea of black fur at the prospect that all of the others in the pack happened to be female. He hadn’t really thought about it, but she was right. Rafael never had been in a relationship before nor had he really even spoken to a girl for very long until he had met Zadora. The idea of being surrounded by them was . . Overwhelming. He had been feeling relatively normal yet proud at the fact that the new arrival was going pretty well yet now he was just so embarrassed. "I . . hadn't really thought of it that way."

The conversation between Lolth and Lisa wasn't going all that well or at least that's how Rafael saw it. At first it was going alright, but next thing he knew Lisa was causing the same sort of sound that she had when she had been fighting off the shinigami that had been attacking her when he had first come across her. Conflict between the girls of the pack wasn't something that Rafael had thought about either and would do whatever he could to keep from happening. "You can do more than just fight Lisa. You part of pack so you at home."