"Oh! Erm, I don't think we should move him... Sorry..."Selina sat bolt upright at Acht’s reply, eyes wide to complete the expression of complete shock that overcame her. Her dainty jaw hanging open, silenced by the soft-spoken dragon’s inability to recognise that she hadn’t been making a request, rather a demand, the Mienshao rose from her couch. The berries providing a pleasant jolt of energy, her earlier fatigue and hunger vanquished, Selina could see that these stragglers were far more trouble than they were worth. She had what she wanted. They could fuck right off now.
But from the look of things, her humble abode was now a hospital. Disgusted as Lexa sought to heal her companion, the psychics looking over her shoulder, thoroughly fascinated; it seemed only McChu was against the idea, providing a quip that Selina thought a far more appealing reality. Still, she couldn’t shove them all out. She was, regrettably, outnumbered by their bleeding hearts.
Leaping agilely from her own personal space, the floor giving a slight creak as she landed, the fighting-type cast a tired look at the group gathered about the injured newcomer. Lip curling in distaste, she crossed her arms moodily before turning away to stalk out of her home, now overrun with stubborn pests.
“Hurry up,” She muttered, the bitterness of her tone disguised beneath a mocking gentility, sarcastic in its nature.
“I wouldn’t want to remove you, now would I?” They should get the message, her tail lashing impatiently as she slipped out of sight to loiter, irritable, on the fragile, treetop boardwalk. Even outside, peace had become a rarity – though admittedly, what she saw was a sight more interesting than the healing of a weedy, emotional mutt.
“Hello, Eli,”Eli had reached Fortree only a few minutes previous, drawn to the city’s deserted centre at the unmistakable stench of blood. Of course, it was a common aroma these days – but curiosity had always driven him to investigate the causalities, fearful of whom the epidemic may have claimed. As he stumbled into the open, enormous, rugged form illuminated by the morning sun, the Arcanine gave a disappointed huff. Perhaps his nose was failing him. The place was abandoned and yet the smell was at its strongest. Frowning to himself, powerful jaw sculpted into a perfect line, Eli’s confusion was lifted at a regrettably familiar purr.
“A little out of your jurisdiction, aren’t we?” The Mienshao chimed, smug, as she stood on a treetop pathway, arms draped over the delicate fence as she stared down to her company. Eli’s frown only intensified at the realization of just who he was talking to.
“Selina,” His voice was low, roughened by a combination of fatigue and unbearable stress. He was essentially unsurprised that bitch stood right-as-rain before him, grinning like a Cheshire and seemingly without a care in the world. Obviously Selina had the capacity to weasel her way out of everything – even a global catastrophe.
Selina looked akin to a cat that had just got the cream. Eli was truly a delight to wind up – so unlike his brother. She’d had a brief relationship with the canine’s sibling. What started as purely business, a shaky truce between authority and thieves, had slipped into something more intimate – for him, at least. Selina broke his heart the day she vanished, half the city’s fineries in tow.
“Oh, Eli, aren’t you happy to see me?” The Arcanine merely huffed, the scent of blood on the air the only thing preventing him from trudging away from the thievish vixen.
“Quit the bullshit. Are you hurt?” He asked bluntly, ignoring the female’s attempts to get a reaction, his mind hardened from experience by her wily ways. Still, her efforts were commendable, and unfortunately unfaltering.
“Don’t worry about me, darling,” She grinned, scheming.
“You’re looking a little worse for wear, though; going a bit grey, aren’t we?” With a tut, Selina continued.
“And you’re all alone. What happened, sweetie?” That got a reaction.
A snarl erupting from his jaws, Eli knew damn well what she meant.
Where’s June? Where’s the kids? Dead? Oh, what a shame… Hadn’t his towering stature and weight jeopardized his attempts of climbing to the Mienshao’s treetop haven, he would’ve slit her throat then and there. Fur bristling as he worked to dispel his infamous temper, the fire-type could only think of his large family. They had got through everything, his mate’s resilience ensuring none of those eight tiny mouths went without a good meal – but this epidemic was something else completely. Eli was terrified for them.
“Oops, did I hit a nerve?” He could hear the amusement on the fighting-type’s sultry voice, not trusting himself to meet her equally as loathsome expression.
“At least the undead will be well fed – it’s practically a banquet,” That was it.
The guttural growl that escaped the enormous canine was one of pure hatred. Chocolate-brown eyes latching onto Selina’s triumphant grin, fading as she adorned a mask of feigned innocence, Eli took a deep breath.
“Say that again, down here,” The words came out as a dangerous snarl, his half-calm demeanour held together by only a few dwindling fibres.
“Oh – that’s right! Poor Eli can’t climb,” Selina pouted mockingly, spinning on her heel just as an airy laugh sliced through the tension. Eli, however, was by no means finished.
No one got away with
that.
Moving surprisingly quickly for a canine of his muscular build, Eli darted beneath the hut, heavy footfalls bringing him close to the wooden foundations that supported the rickety building.
“Eli?” Obviously she’d noticed his sudden disappearance – the Mienshao left squinting out into the surrounding forest for glimpse of the brute’s pelt.
“I’ll bring you down here myself,” He muttered darkly, flames suddenly spewing from his powerful jaws as a furious Flamethrower sought out the supportive beams. Unaware of Selina’s guests nestled within her ramshackle home, Eli had every intention of knocking that bitch most spectacularly from her pedestal.
(( Bitch mode activated. xD Just a head’s up, Eli’s probably going to bring that hut down on my next post unless there’s any desperate need for it to stay longer. ))
