Sophisticated Beasts [RP Thread]

It was a normal, sunny afternoon in Triaxhy; creatures of all kind flocked around the marketplace, where all sizes of tents were put up, showing off their merchandise for sale. But there were no human-made stuff on the sale, as the ruler of Triaxhy had forbidden it; and anyone who had ever sold a homosapien made merchandise had been found and burned to crisps by the fire demons in charge of securing that the rules were not to be broken.
But even if that rule existed, it said nothing about look-alikes. So many smiths had made their own version of varies human-ish weapons. After being approved by the rulers force, specializing in detecting human-made stuff, they would put their works on the ground in their tent, awaiting weapon-lovers and hunters to inspect and hopefully buy what they had on display.
But it wasn't only war-stuff people could find. Also herbs, clothes and various of incredible merchandise was to be found on the market. Which made it popular, both at night as well as day.

Today though, was a little different, as many more than usual was caught sneaking around the market-place. It had been ordered that every creature that could survive in daylight assembled in there, before 3 o'clock.
The night creatures had their own meeting, just in the middle of the requiem of the moon.
And so it was time.

On a high building with a fascinating balcony, the ruler came out. A slimy, thin creature, that could use his whole body to devour anything biological, which made him one of the most dangerous creatures known to Triaxhy; because no one had any clue of how to kill him.
Some rumors told that he had been hit by a nuclear bomb, sent by humans, but his body had just regenerated itself after the impact. But it was just a rumor, and no one felt like proving it right or wrong.

Even though the ruler, Maxipier, were old enough to write books about lot of forgotten history, his voice were clear and overshadowed every chatter the market had. Plus the biggest guardian of Triaxhy, a Giant almost big enough to jump over a friggin' mountain, stood behind the building looking at the various creatures with a chilling coldness in his big, monstrous eyes.

"Hrhhmmm.. Creatures of Triaxhy, I am honored to see you all together here today. But we have news of the bad kind for you.. A human snuck into our paradise yesterday night, and he got to kill an innocent Harpie while she slept.. He has been rightfully punished, sent to the depths of hell after a last dinner.. Høhrøm.. But I need you all to be more cautious, as we can not let our community be discovered and destroyed by the savage race, that is called... Humans."

Maxipier waited a few seconds to let his underlings swallow the news, and understand the gravity of his words, before finishing off.

"That is all, my dear fellow creatures. Have a nice day here in Triaxhy, and remember.. If you leave Triaxhy, and is caught, kill yourself for the better of us all. Goodbye for now."

The speech was over, the ruler had gone into his house, and the creepy Giant had walked over to the mountains not far away. People would feel the first steps of the Giant, as it made the ground tremble like a mild earthquake.

Alutoks stood on the outer ring of all the beasts who had gathered together for the speech. He looked over the crowd from where he stood, creatures of varying shapes and sizes, whoever to Alutoks they all had something in common, each and every one of them was beneath him. The demon scratched at his ears, the long curvature of which was a grim reminder of everything he stood against, what he believed to be the only thing keeping him from being in charge of not only all the beasts around him but the entirety of the world, including the deceptively weak human forces that had forced him out of his rightful land. Alutoks looked around, his moment of thinking ruined as his mind ran into the road block that was Ipsem, the annoying creature that had been cursed unto him by whatever hateful thing watched over his life. Alutoks ran a hand along the silver blade hanging by his side, the thought of whoever he had slain to obtain such a wonderfully crafted weapon eluded his mind, the dying face of whoever he had absorbed lost in the drifting curse of time. With the small grimace of a painful smile shooting across his face Alutoks began to stroll away from the large grouping of beasts, none of what was said concerned Alutoks, in fact the thought of fighting a human sent the wonderful feeling of adrenaline coursing through him, it had been much too long since the last time he had cross metal with somebody.

Bane had blacked out last night he woke up and found that his bloody dagger had fresh blood on it so he had disposed of it by melting it in his fire place. he was in the market looking for a new dagger or knife. He kept looking one in particular one it had the words Human carver on it and it was a curved hooked blade knife with a golden dragon handle and that tail curved up onto the wooden models arm.

Xelta floated around the crowd, listening to the speech, but then by the time the speech ended he floated to above most of the ground walking creatures, and below the even bigger creatures "heh, cursed humans, why do they have the guts to come at us, I wold burn them all to a core! Now if only there were about 300 more of me, it probably go quicker" Xelta sighed, he knew not 300 of him could defeat 100 humans because if they are smart, they'll grab some water and splash at him to kill him "Maybe that's why we stay upon this island, its to keep the weaker ones safe and the strong ones from getting to crazy, heh, I like that, that's smart" he floated above a building and floated around, he didn't have a place of his own and he didn't feel like disturbing anyone today. He continued doing nothing, as if waiting for something to happen.

Odon shook his humanoid head as he walked back to his tavern from the market place. He agreed that humans were a threat but to quote their "ruler", to be "rightfully punished, sent to the depths of hell". Would the ruler have treated this the same way if this had been an internal threat where one of our own had killed the other. Odon somehow doubted it.

"savage"Odon scoffed. Yes in the past centuries humans killed not only us but each other. But Odon had seen arch demons and angels fight to the death against each other just for being who they were how did that make us any better than the human who fought each other all the time. Heck some races are as close to being human without being one themselves. Elves, dwarves, heck even werewolvess and the like what made them any different than a human? Pointed ears, Having a shorter stature and a beard, or being able to change their form. They all tasted the same well except for the lycans they tended to taste more like the animal they were. Odon shook his head again he did not want to think abut those days of the past. The point was what would they do if a human could do magic? Yes that would make them a wizard, witch, mage whatever you wanted to call them. Other races had those people too and they were called the same thing but they were still an elf or dwarf or whatever. "Yeah right Paradise" he said sarcasticly.

He rounded the corner to the street his tavern/inn was on and right away could see the large tree that grew out of the top of the three story building. He smiled as looked at the canopy of the tree. He also had build rooms for guests to stay in the branches some had bridges leading to a staircase in the trunk that lead to the roof while others did not have and apparent way to get to them those were for races that were not well suited for stairs and were more at ease in the air the ones with stairs were for anyone that wanted a good view. Odon smiled this was his Paradise a place where any race no matter size or shape could feel welcomed and feel like they mattered. He had done everything he could think of to be able to accommodate any race. His smile grew even more as he made out the oval sign with and outline of a tree the read "The Great Oak Tavern & Inn". Yes he knew it was redundant but he liked the way it sounded, he thought as he opened the door to the tavern and went inside.

He grinned at the dinning hall. In the center of it was the massive tree that was the namesake of his establishment. Around the base of the tree was a two foot high brick flowerbed. The flowerbed was filled with as many marsh pitcher plants that Odon was able to fit in there. But unlike there mundane cousins these carnivorous plants did something else to attach their prey they would light up and glow as well as produce a magical heat that not only helped keep the plant warm but helped the scent of the flower spread farther to attach insects. At night the number of plants would heat up the entire dinning hall as if there was a large fire in the middle of the room. He also had more of the plants hanging in pots from the ceiling. And that was only part of what he had done to this place and with the help of several magic users from all walks of life he did like things here and there for his guest. Ranging from the large bathes that were on the first floor styled after edo japan public bathes that were regulated with the help of arcane magic. To the small such as there was no actual fires in The Great Oak Tavern in the guest rooms were lanterns yes but they were magic ones that let off heat and light but had an illusion of fire in them. All in all He loved this place it was what he had pictured it and if he came up with any more ideas he ever wanted to implement he could always grow the tree bigger or find some way to expand.

He stepped behind the bar where there were several kegs of different liquors include the Taverns own brewed mead. He took a seat on a stool behind the bar and grabbed a book from a small bookcase that he had behind the bar. He opened it up to continue from the place he left off as two of his hydra heads grabbed some rags and began cleaning the bar counter as another watched the door. Currently it was quiet in here cause people were out and about doing things they needed to as well as the meeting but as dusk would get closer and closer people would be coming in or his nocturnal customers would be waking up so he needed to get ready for business.

Ametti stood next to Alutoks absent-mindedly, not even paying attention to the speech that was given for lack of interest. However, throughout the entire lecture, standing there around creatures of all different shapes and sizes, she was staring at the brand she had left on Alutoks's neck on the date of her birth hungrily, as it was the main well from which she got her "meals" which were actually portions of Alutoks's life energy. As she followed Al away from the area, she slowly but surely placed her finger upon the mark, pushing her nail into his flesh softly, avoiding piercing the skin. Upon doing this, she simply waited, allowing energy to flow from the mark into her finger and into her body, her hunger slowly going down until it reached a bottom, removing her finger from his skin. Ametti licked her lips and giggled a tiny bit before going back to her quiet, demure outward face. She sort of looked around, taking in the scenery which she was generally used to in the first place. But whenever she wasn't bothering Alutoks, she was looking at the sky and the different kinds of creatures found all over the place.

Mason stood by one of the sales booths listening to the speech after It was over he got extremely angry but then he forced himself calmed down not wanting to be forced into wolf mode in front of everyone not that they would care he just preferred not to be forced into wolf form in front of everyone. After calming he decided to get his mind off it by looking at some of the booths. He started wondering the market not looking for anything particular.

Bane just bought a few of the plain obsidian daggers. He was at the edge of the crowd using his telekinesis to twirl the knives in a circle bouncing up and down and tilting it slightly He lost control and on of them flew by Masons' head. another by Xeltas, another into a stone wall, and the last by Alutoks face. He used his telekinesis and brought them back to him he quickly placed them in his pockets and tried to hide in the crowd.

Xelta was having a nice time, although he floated there doing nothing, but he watched the beauty of his home island. He then noticed a knife by his head "huh, seems like someone's practicing knife throwing..." he didn't seem affected by almost getting hit by it, it isn't like it was water or wind or anything like that, he is pretty much burning gas bubble. Xelta noticed that the dagger was flying back and followed it to the dagger throw "having fun practicing knife throwing eh?" He smiled to him, his looks may make him look mean, but in actuality,  Xelta's pretty nice

Luwa shook her head after the meeting was over. How could several night-vision creatures miss a human, the most weak race in existence, or so she thought them to be. She had been sitting through the whole thing, as her body was long and seemed to annoy those behind her. But of course, most of the creatures seemed to either ignore or spit after her, since they all had their historical pride; which was one of those things, that her race hadn't, since they were new in the world.

She finally landed on her paws, stretching as long as she was, with a slender grace. Her eyes looked around, before taking a walk between the tight groups of people. Most were either looking at the numerous merchandise, while others walked away from the market place or talked with each other about the horrible death of the young girl.
Then a young man, almost human-ish looking, walking away with a cold attitude. She found him interesting, and then chose to follow the guy, until he entered some kind of bar. Luwa stared upon the sign, with her black eyes, reading its words. 'The Great Oak Tavern & Inn' it said, and she could really use some kind of food, feeling kind of skinny, so she walked over to the door, lifted herself enough to open it, before once again sliding through the air on all four paws. Her wings tightened against the body, as much as possible, so she wouldn't use up too much space; and reveal the open wound on her wing.

When she had reached the desk, she sat up high, opening her mouth in a grotesque way; it looked like she was ripping apart the skin, where a mouth should have been.
Her claws lightly tapping the desk.

"Do you serve any kind of bugs?"

Now she just had to wait for the waiter or bar-owner to answer.

Alutoks grunted angrily as he swatted Ametti's hand away from his neck. "Ipsem, I hope you are aware that I find you to be the bane of my existence." He looked down at her with glaring eyes, he tried to keep up his cold glare, however the girlish charm emanating from the girl caused him to reel his head away in a snarl his eyes unable to remain sharp with her. Just as his head pulled back a sharp obsidian knife flew inches away from where his head now stood. He stood for a moment, frozen in amazement as he looked forward, not so much in surprise as in disbelief. Had somebody just openly challenged him? Had they attempted to kill him and failed miserably? The Demon refused to stand for something so insolent, especially in the middle of such a crowd. Alutoks drew the silver broad sword by his side and looked for the source of such incompetence, it wasint hard to place the target. Alutoks looks over at the bipedial wolf, standing not but twenty feet away, the wolf stood with a confident stance, everything about him began to make Alutok's blood boil over. In a few raging steps Alutoks closed the distance between himself and the attacker. He turned to have his right side facing his opponent, his right arm stretched out at the ninety degree angle from his body, his sword straight as the shaft of an arrow as he held the thick blades tip no more than a foot from his assailant. "Do you have a death wish? Or have you merely decided to try and attack me from behind because you're aware of my superiority?" His words steamed out of his mouth from behind clenched teeth, he did everything in his slowly slipping sanity to avoid striking the man down where he stood, its all somebody of his stature would deserve anyway.

Odon smiled at the male Hivetarye. "Of course we do madam. Though you have caught me short handed right ow so you will have to bear with me" He said cheerfully while gesturing with his hands and his heads in an attempt at a very bad joke in referring to the number of hands compared to the number of his heads. He began by standing up from his spot turning around and opening what appeared to be a window into the kitchen before walking through a door that must have lead to the kitchen. One of Odon's hydra heads placed itself on the window sill that he had just opened. "So opinion's of the meeting?" Odon asked from the other room trying to start up a conversation.

Kiku sighed as he scanned the group of creatures. Pain had wandered off yet again and now two other creatures looked as if they were going to fight to the death. Thats when he noticed a small black ball of fur with red eyes and a ribbon just as red tied to it's tail approach Alutoks.

"No, no no no." Kiku muttered as he began to speed walk over to the two. His eyes narrowed as they landed on the kittens form, he could almost feel the small creature's curious gaze as big red eyes stared at Alutoks. The kitten stiffled a giggle as he looked up, tail swaying slowly behind him as he said:

"Y'know...it could've been an accident." with a light purr.

A small boy around the age of 18 came and hurried Kiku out of the way. "Not a bright idea to stand in front of Bane he's kind of a military trained elite solider and could easily rip the both you and that other guy apart. I'm Tyler by the way who are you, if you don't mind me asking." He said though his seemingly glowing eyes seemed menacing he was smiling.

Bane eye's started to glow an icy blue color. "I must advise you that you will loose." He said as he used his telekinesis on the weapons around him and lifted them up in the air. At this point he could see a group form. "just put down your weapons your find your head on your own sword." He said growling like a savage wolf.

"I'm Kiku, and that little fuzzball of an idiot is Pain. He's my responsibility and if he gets himself killed...." he sighed, trailing off. He was sure Pain wouldn't be noticed, but the Neko was nothing but trouble and bad luck to himself and almost anyone else. He was begining to have a migrain as he kept his eyes on the tiny body that didn't move. Kiku knew Pain could handle himself as well, but there were times where the younger male just didn't know when to stay away.

Ipsum noticed Bane's threatening, and her eyes glowed purple, as did the air around her body, forming a sort of living aura as an intimidation tactic. "Excuse me, I've noticed you threatening my master, and I do not believe you understand the implications. This man is more important to me and other people than you will ever be in anyone's lifetime, and twice as useful. I'm afraid if you decide to lay hand, steel, or magic upon him, I will be forced to unleash upon you the most agonizing, continuous hell that any man, woman, creature, or animal could possibly imagine.  When I'm done with you, you had better hope that your mother is no longer living or does not speak to you, because you will be unrecognizable. Any part of you that gave you any semblance of an individual being will be destroyed and mangled into a bloody pulp of skin and veins. Of course, all of this can be avoided if you put away that disgusting brick of false pride you have, turn your pitiful mug around and walk away from the site. However, if you choose to remain, I'm afraid I will have no qualms with doing everything I previously mentioned to you, and some which is 10x worse." She smiled throughout the entire speech, her head tilted up to cast a shadow across her face while her glowing eyes look down upon Bane.

Alutoks looked at Ametti for a moment, his eyes wide in disbelief. In all the years her having been following him it was the first time he had witnessed her being so openly hostile towards one of his opponents. The brief moment of amazement that Alutoks had experienced was just as suddenly taken over by a new sense of anger. "Dammit Woman!" He shouted towards Ametti. "If I wanted your help in felling a single dog I would ask for it, but until then I would suggest you continue your lurking ways as per usual." He looked back towards Bane, his sword unwavering from where it stood. With a new crowd now gathered Alutoks knew that being the first to lower his blade would be a blow to his fame. "You have two options, you may either bow down to me and apologize for your arrogance like the dog you are, or you have the privilege of having your stomach sliced open by Alutoks, crowned prince to the Eastern Arid lands." He said to the man with a surprisingly calm expression, ignoring any claims of this incident being no more than an accident. Alutoks raised his claw beside his head, ready to strike like a coiled Cobra, the faint blew glow coming from his demonic heritage hungered to absorb the wolf however Alutoks himself saw no boon to obtain from the minimal effort of consuming his soon to be dead opponent.

"Pain..." Kiku growled in a low tone, causing the kitten's ears to twitch and tear his interested gaze away from the three angey ceeatures. Kiku motioned for the younger to come, eyes still narrowed as he looked at Pain in distaste.

Pain huffed and hesitated, glancing back at the three before walking over to Kiku and Tyler. Once there he began to morph into his true form, pouting at his guardian.

"They didn't notice me, it's not like I started the fight or anything. All I was doing was watching." the Neko muttered, making sure to put good emphasis on the 'I', earning a look from his elder stating: We'll talk about it later.

"Oh, hello.~" Pain purred, turning his attention to his new interest: Tyler. Curiosity filled his gaze once more.

Xelta floated in the crowd that surrounded a fight, but this something he didn't care to watch, it's like two bears fighting for territory, fun to watch, but still dangerous for any surrounding creatures. Even though he personally didn't have to worry about having a sword fly into or slice him to piece, the two magical looking ones could possibly do something that threatens at his strong yet fragile life. Xelta floated away to avoid it and searched for a place to relax. He passed upon a humongous tree, which seemed to be an inn "seems like its only for people that aren't made of fire" he chuckles, but he was curious, he looked upon a good entrance so his bodily flames doesn't touch any of the wood so so couldn't burn it down. A door finally opens andmhe watches someone walk out, giving him the chance to fly in. "Huh interesting place" he said, he looked over at the now shut door "stuck, no biggy" he looked over to a counter with a luwa, he has seen people make fun of luwas for bding "new, and doesn't understand why. He flew over to the counter and floated above a seat "does anyone know if this place is fire resistant?" He said as he noticed a head of some other creature.

Mason was standing by a sales booth when he caught something out of the corner of his eye he turned and watched as a knife flew by his head then he watched as the owner of the knife used telekinesis to bring it back to him. Mason decided to ignore it and watch the wolf who had thrown the knife out of the corner of his eye to make sure it was an accident and he wasn't trying to kill him. He looked at a few knives in one of the sales then turned back to see what the wolf was doing and saw a large crowd start to form around him and a demon . Mason made his way to the front of the crowd and saw that the demon had been joined by some sort of girl and that the three of them seemed on the verge of a fight. Mason moved forward into the action hoping to stop the fight before it began. "Now why don't the three of you calm down before you do something you'll regret" he said glancing from the girl to the wolf to the demon and back.

Odon's hydra head lifted off the window sill as the floating fireball came into the tavern. "the foundation, furniture and the tree are enchanted to be resistant to fire by a mage friend of mine be careful with the plants thou those don't have the benefit of that enchantment." he replied from the kitchen.

Xelta sighs "phew, that means I won't need help having to open the door, you don't possibly have anything flamable for me to eat, I mean what your willing to get rid of like... uh... coal possibly, maybe paper..." he wanted to watch what he said, he didn't want to give off a feeling like he'll eat the whole tree, even though he was told its fire resistant, meaning its not at all flamable "so, uh... do you?"

Bane let the wepons dropped and his stopped glowing. "Fine, I'm no match for thr almighty Alutoks" He said he didn't drop to his knees instead he just bowed waving an arm in a circle and pulling under his chest as he bent over he put a leg back. Something seemed very odd about how he did this.

Tyler saw what he did and placed a hand in his jacket. "Hello Pain...If you don't mind me asking why do they call you that?" He asked he dropped onto his knees and ruffled the fur between his ears.

Pain purred in delight at the feeling before answering Tyler's question.

"I'm considered a bad omen that gives random people and myself bad luck. I'm called pain because people usually get hurt in some way, but it's usually small injuries. Plus, I'm a little accident prone." The Neko repliedin a casual tone, as if he was discussing how his day went.

At Pain's last statement Kiku grunted, but said nothing as he watched for Alutoks' reaction, ears perked as the fur on his tail was on end. This was a sign that he was tense, but then again the older of the two barely relaxed whereas Pain was more...laid back, I guess.

Odon shortly came out from the kitchen carrying two plates. One had a bug that was steaming and was the size of a small chicken that would be served at one of those human establishments that tried to replicate the middle ages. There was also a soup on the plate that you could see floating in it. There other plate was loaded with flammable items paper, coal, and tons of plants. "And there you two go." he said setting the plates in front of each of them.