paixaorpg | Bungle in the Jungle [Completed]

Naminé was relieved that the statue was where it was supposed to be. Then everything she had drawn would probably exist also, meaning she would be able to locate the room in which Kairi was trapped. She smiled at that thought. Finally, a way she could help.

She was about to tell the two boys that they would need to move it, when Riku ended up doing it himself. Well, that was out of the way.

She peered over the gaping hole after Riku had jumped into it. While she was eager to rescue Kairi, she was not eager enough to jump blindly into said gaping hole. "Hey, Sora, why don't you go first?" If she threw a rock down to the bottom she would know how deep it was. If that rock happened to be two boys then so be it.

Naminé felt a little pang at the jab Riku made at Sora. I wish I had a grandma to share a paopu with... Whatever that was.

"Last one down has to share paopu with their grandma."

What!?!?

Outraged as the elder boy disappeared down the hole with a cheated head-start, Sora barely had time to splutter before he jumped in right after him.

"MY GRANDMA DIED OF A DELICATE SITUATION YOU PROMISED TO NEVER LAUGH ABOUT AGAIN, JERKFACE!!!!!!"

It was only when Sora got to the bottom that he realized Namine had been talking to him, making him feel bad for yet again accidentally being a jerk to the poor girl.

Well, feeling bad was an understatement.. he started to feel sick actually.

Especially when confusion started mingling in with his swimming head as his eyes landed on what appeared to be Riku's clothes.

Something wasn't right here...

An amused voice seemed to follow the entire group down the tunnel, though the source was impossible to discern at the moment.

"Down and down we go, hmm? A curious lot you are, it seems, though we all know what curiosity can do to the uncautious." A pair of green eyes materialized in the air behind Sora's head, floating seemingly disembodied.

While everything seemed to settle, the boy now thought he was imagining things as his clothes seemed to weigh him down, his neck and face beginning to feel...

The sly voice that suddenly poured into Sora's delicate ears however, only added to the madness as he jumped around to squeak - yes, fucking squeak - at a pair of floating eyeballs.

"What the..?! What are--" Cut off rudely by an itchiness on his tummy, the brunette instinctively darted his fingers to it and scratched before picking around for the culprit - it only really took a moment before he found what he was looking for and brought the flea to his mouth with a satisfied sigh.

...

And then Spluttered and spat like a panicking madman.

Jumping back in gushing horror at whatever the hell overcame him to do such a disgusting action, Sora's face instantly screwed up for just having attempted to eat a bug... again. Hey that had been in first grade!

"Ew! Ew! Oh god, ew!"

Hearing the voice, Riku had been prepping for a fight as soon as he landed in the lush greenery at the bottom of the tunnel. But on the way there, his knees cracked horribly, bending back the wrong way, and his spine seemed to stretch out...among other painful changes.

By the time he got to the bottom, there was some kind of blind animal panic obscuring his vision. He fought his way out of his clothes and followed it into hiding.

Hearing Sora's voice a few moments later, slit-pupilled green eyes emerged from the shadows in the branches above. Riku flicked his long tail, irritated, his ears flattening slightly in apprehension. Someone else was here. There was a strange scent that was not Sora.

Riku padded out further, revealing a long sleek body, the blizzard of dark rosettes splashed across his fur unable to keep the grey-white hue from standing out against the dark bark of the tree limb he was balancing on. ...

"You're a monkey!" He sat down and swished his tail in amusement, laughing. "But, Sora," Riku's tone became suddenly serious, "you should get away from there. We're not alone."

"Quite observant of you," the voice said again, though the eyes had disappeared. "Though, to tell the truth, you weren't alone before either. But I suppose that's none of my business."

A moment or two later, a cat (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v43/DragonChaosG/170px-Cheshire_Cat_McGee.jpg) materialized on the ground near the two ex-humans, stretched out idly beneath a tree. He seemed rather startled to be there, however.

"How queer," he remarked, looking down over himself slightly incredulously. How often was he to switch between feline and semihuman, now that he was here?

To the Cat (and Sora a little)

alone-by-choice.livejournal.com - 2006-03-13 15:35 (UTC) - Expand

Naminé was alarmed to not hear the boys at the bottom of the hole. The hole was either much deeper than she had originally thought, or something from within the jungle was muffling the sound. Given the nature of the jungle, she chose the latter.

She took a deep breath and swung both of her legs over the side of the hole. Well, it was now or never. She inched herself off the edge of the hole and began to fall. She closed her eyes and waited to hit the ground.

Luckily, she managed to land on her own two feet, err, wait, four feet? She opened her eyes and looked down. Everything was suddenly very... wooly. She kicked out of her clothes. This turned out to be a hard job, but she resisted her urge to bite her way out of them. She hadn't been turned into a goat after all.

She frowned as much as a lamb was capable of doing so. It looked like she had made some sort of mistake in creating the jungle. Well, it didn't matter. All that mattered right now was finding Kairi and getting out of here.

After freeing herself from her clothing she looked up at the others around her. If she had been transformed into an animal, then no doubt Sora and Riku had as well. She spotted a monkey and a large cat next to each other, which she took for Sora and Riku. However, who was that cat they were talking to? She shuffled her hooves nervously, but didn't move.

PREY! Riku's animal consciousness screamed at him, utterly distracting him from his snarky conversation with the freak cat.

His head swiveled around to look back toward the entrance and his pupils dilated to mere slits as he caught movement, a struggle, like that of a wounded animal.

He flattened himself to the ground and began to slink over slowly...slowly...so as to keep blending in with the patchy shadows of the foliage.

Riku froze as something leapt out of the...movement...thing.

Clothes?

What were clothes? The smell of it was exciting his snow leopard consciousness, causing it to take over almost completely.

It stood there trembling, this tiny helpless thing, shifting nervously. Perhaps it had smelled him, but it would not get away.

The Cat looked as if he'd been about to speak, but he stopped when Riku's attention was pulled elsewhere. Though, this new turn of events could very well prove to be more interesting than the discussion they had begun to have previously. So, rather than speak and interrupt, the Cat just stretched and settled down to watch, his bony body almost creaking with the movement.

Naminé narrowed her eyes, but couldn't see where Riku had slunk into the the plants. What was he doing? She flicked her ears, as animal instincts screamed at her to run, run, run! She fought for dominance over her mind, reasoning that a sudden movement like that would only provoke Riku into... what? He didn't intend to eat her, did he? Well, if that was his intention then that would account for her sudden wish to run away.

If she ran away now, there was no way she could outrun him. She hadn't yet grown accustomed to her new form, and even if she had a lamb wasn't nearly fast enough to outrun a leopard. Even if she had started running the minute she fell out of that hole she wouldn't have been able to get away. So, that ruled running out.

Riku couldn't really eat her. No, there was no way. He couldn't just give into animal instincts like that. He had to fight it. She assumed the most self-assured stance she could, although fear ran through every muscle in her body. "Riku, what are you doing?" she asked, placing extra emphasis on his name. You are Riku, Riku, Riku she chanted in her mind. Not that he could hear, but she had to say it to herself to believe it. She had put her faith and Riku before, and she would do so now. It was the only way they could rescue Kairi...

"Kairi!" she shouted, "That's what we're here for Riku. Don't forget that! Or are you just going to give in?” She could care less what she was saying now. She was scared, angry, and just wanted to get out of there, most preferably alive.

"Riku, what are you doing?"

Riku? What is Riku?

It was scared, now. He could hear its heart beating beating beating from where he crouched just a few yards away. The tip of his tail twitched impatiently.

Should he take a running leap at it and break its neck with one crushing blow of his paw? Should he knock it over and sink his teeth into the soft flesh of its throat before tearing it out, tasting that sweet gush of life's blood? Or should he jump out of the foliage and scare it into running so that he could play with it first?

"Kairi!"

What? Kairi?

He blinked as the lamb continued to bleat for his sanity.

...whoa.

Riku stood up, revealing how close he'd been. "Namine?"

He slunk over and gave her a sniff. It was his 'girlfriend.'

Oh shit. I almost ate her.
...heh.

"Um..."

Wow.

She still smelled really good, though. Riku bent his head, sticking his muzzle into her fleece, sniffing that sweet, delicious scent. Hopefully she would think it was a gesture of apology or a kiss or something.

"Sorry."

He wondered how she would taste...

Naminé let out a startled bleat as Riku appeared right in font of her, but was relieved when he said her name.

"Riku..." she began, before being cut off as Riku bent down to nuzzle her. She tensed up for a second, but gradually let herself relax. This was Riku. She had nothing to be afraid of.

"It's alright," she said. While the fear had since left her, her legs still felt as if they were about to give out beneath her. She lied down in the grass. "Just give me a second to catch my breath." No matter how sick she felt after that close encounter, she couldn't help but notice how good the grass felt beneath her. Even though she had been the one to draw it, she hadn't imagined what it would actually feel or look like. It was nice.

[ ooc: Damnit, I am taking the "how she would taste" comment in a completely perverted context. Internet, you have corrupted me so. ]

The smell of fear was gone, which took away a lot of the attraction. Still...

Riku came back to himself a little more when she forgave him for almost eating her.

...heh.

When she lay down in the grass to calm down, he felt almost bad. ALmost.

Riku walked around her in a circle, casting keen eyes on the jungle all around them for signs of others. Then he streeeeeeeeeeetched leisurely, extending all twenty claws and yawning, showing inch-long canines before lying down beside her.

He lifted one soft paw and casually laid it on her shoulders as he leaned close for another sniff. No one else was going to get his ~~meat~~ friend.

[ooc: in your defence, though, Riku already made that joke to himself, though that wasn't what he was thinking of at the time.]

Life had never been better.

Munching away on leaves happily, Sora was lost as to what was going on in his surroundings, the blissful taste of the juicy green food completely taking over his happy mind.

The fuzzy small monkey had jumped up to a safe point in a tropical tree, eating and scratching away lazily, careless of the smell of an enemy as he knew deep in his mind he could just jump away and outrun it any day.

Oh another flea!

...wait.

Riku pulled his muzzle out of Namine's soft fleece in order to think. It was hard to do with her so close.

Weren't they missing someone?
His predator's eyes zeroed in on movement in some high branches several meters away.

...

"Sora, you know you're eating leaves, right? And what the heck do you keep picking out of your fur and putting in your mouth? Sick, dude."

Oh, but he was correct... this was amusing even without and additional meddling from the Cat. Still, the nature of these transformations was intriguing; if it would be safe to do so he resolved to see what he could find out. Perhaps following these children would prove beneficial...

The monkey gave the stupid kitty a bored look.

Psshh.

Though the name sounded familiar.. Sora.. yeah-hey, that was his wasn't it?

"Oh.." Looking down at the leaf he'd just been munching, his little nose wrinkled up as his chewing slowed.

Oh Gross!

With a pout, the leaf was cast aside rather quickly and the rest spat out as the fuzz ball kicked off the branch and came to land next to his friend.

Riku.. right? God, his memory was really starting to get messed in this little brain.

"So uh.. What's up doc'?"

Naminé closed her eyes. It wasn't that she had planned to take a nap, but now that the adrenaline rush was gone she felt horribly tired. She would just rest her eyes, that's all.

She barely registered as Riku laid his paw over her shoulder. She was fairly convinced now that he wouldn't eat her. In fact, she felt rather safe in his presence. Though the sniffing was a bit unnerving.

She felt Riku lift his muzzle from her fleece. He was talking to that... Sora thing. Whatever. She just wanted to sleep for a few more minutes...

Riku went to rigid attention as the monkey catapaulted out of the branches at them. It was so hard not to leap and bat at the silly thing like a big cat toy.

...

"'What's up, doc?'" Riku snorted. "Jeez, Sora, did you hit your head or something? If you start cross-dressing, I'm leaving."

He glanced down at ~~lunch~~ Namine, who seemed to have fallen asleep.

"Man, we're a mess. We came here to save Kairi, remember?
But damn." He looked up and all around them. "This place is so big. How are we supposed to find her?" He tried scenting the humid air for any sign of their friend. No dice.

And then a terrible thought occurred to him: what if Kairi had been turned into an ibex or something? Riku licked his chops, reflexively. This could be bad...

Sora ignored the big pussy in favor of scratching his arm with his hand-like foot. Oh gooood those damn fleas in his fur.. It was so hard to concentrate when the craving to just find these little snacks and eat them was bewildering.

"I don't know.. maybe if we called her name real loud, it could echo out and it'd be like that game you made me play once in the school yard!"

Yeeeah the Penis game hadn't been one of their smartest moments. The school had called his mom and everything, and he'd been grounded for a week.

The monkey almost pouted at the memory, but caught himself in an attention swap as he saw it.

There, right there....

Practically pouncing on Riku, Sora laughed in triumph when his little fingers dug into the snow leopard's fur and caught the bug, bringing it reflexively to his mouth.

"Mmm..."

Riku's fur stood on end as the monkey suddenly flew onto his back and started molesting him.

"Sora, what the--?!"

He stood up and shook himself. This didn't seem to do much good, so he turned around to glare at the little primate, happily munching on a parasite.

"Do not make me bite you," Riku warned, showing some pointy white teeth. "Yelling her name is a stupid idea. What if those guys in black robes are here? They might hide her somewhere else before we can get there."

He sighed in frustration and looked down at the sleepy lamb. "Nam, you drew this place. Where do you think she could be?"

Naminé had been woken up rather abruptly by the activity around her. She struggled to keep herself awake. She was only going to rest her eyes and ended up falling asleep! How could she waste time like that?

She stood up slowly, trying to get a feel for her legs. It was rather awkward to go from two legs to four, and she still wasn't used to it yet.

"Well..." she said, but stopped short. The jungle was a whole lot bigger than she could have imagined. She didn't even know how much of it she actually recognized. "I know it's farther in than here, so if we just start going straight, then I'm sure I can find it." She wasn't sure at all, but they didn't have to know that. Maybe if she used landmarks from her drawings she would be able to pinpoint Kairi's room.

"Yelling her name is a stupid idea. What if those guys in black robes are here? They might hide her somewhere else before we can get there."

Sora Frowned. "True,"

But looking around only seemed to make his stomach growl for the tasty looking leaves. How stupid, he knew he'd feel like such an idiot later.

However, right now they had to find Kairi no matter what!

"Which direction is that room she's-" Sora started asking while unconsciously grooming Riku - hey, that's what you did to a friend, right? But stopped as the sleepy lamb seemed ahead of him and was already answering.

"I know it's farther in than here, so if we just start going straight, then I'm sure I can find it."

Alright, that sounded easy. "Okay! Start going straight, Riku!"

Riku kept feeling those deft little fingers combing through his fur.

Sora, you freak!

It ~~felt REALLY good!~~ was so annoying! Lashing his tail in irritation, Riku tried to swallow the soft purr that had started deep inside his chest.

Watching Namine get unsteadily to her feet made his mouth water. He didn't actually process what she'd said until Sora gave the order for him to move forward.

Riku growled. "Sora, why don't you climb up into the trees and follow from there? You can keep a lookout or something."

And I won't have to bite you for trying to ride me like a horse.

On second thought, trees had leaves, and Sora seemed to be obsessed with stuffing his monkeyface right now.

"Actually, I'll do it. You get off and walk next to Namine."

...

Keen eyes scanned their surroundings while Riku waited for Sora to jump off.

"Hey, where did that creepy cat go?"

In spite of the lack of physical threat it caused, Riku didn't like not knowing where it was.

Tris's ears swiveled. She heard voices, and not on the wind, either. The red pony snorted, taking in deep breaths. Something on the air screamed predator. She shook her head and neck. "Briar," she hissed, ears going flat against her head. There was trouble around, and she didn't want any piece of it. "Briar, wake up and hold on." Her muscles were shaking, but she had enough control over herself not to bolt. For now, anyway.

It seemed like all the control she had been working on for her magic came in handy now, too. She could beat off those nasty pony instincts long enough to warn Briar, at least. ...She hoped. "Briar, wake up!"

Briar stirred and stretched his small body as he disentangled himself from Tris' mane. He could feel his sister shaking.

"Tris, what's wrong?" he asked, still perched on her back. He didn't seem to be very willing to get down, currently.

"You can't tell me you don't smell that," she said. "It's making my little pony instincts scream. Now shut up and hang on," she told him, voice tense. "I may have to run for it. Or fight."

She pawed at the ground a little. "Who's out there?" she demanded, raising her voice. Maybe this predator... thing was like Simba.

Hopefully.

Oh gods, did she hope.

Briar sat up and sniffed at the air.

"I can't say that I smell anything unusual," the red panda said. "But I'll trust your instincts." Hell, if it freaked out Tris, it could probably eat him, too. "If I pull your hair, I'm sorry."

Briar grabbed onto some of Tris' braids. They seemed to be the best that he was going to be able to manage as far as holding on was concerned. However, he was certain that riding in this furry little body was going to be really awkward.

"What cat?" Naminé asked. Oh, that cat. She had completely forgotten about it ~~in her quest to not be eaten.~~ Having seen it only for a brief moment when she entered the jungle, Naminé didn't really pay it much thought. But if Riku was asking about it, then it could be dangerous.

She took a look around while she waited for Sora and Riku to sort themselves out. Nothing was familiar. She only hoped that things would start coming back to her as they made their way farther into the jungle.

"Pfft. Hey I'd let you ride me if I was bigger! Meanie butt." The monkey pouted, jumping off to come toddling over to Namine. "You alright?"

He couldn't help himself and poked the warm wool on the side of her stomach.

Nope.. No fleas here. Good, no distractions.

Poking a little more for good measures, Sora's weightless form sneakily climbed itself up to perch atop her back instead. "Don't worry, I'll protect you if anything comes around our way trying to eat us! And Riku will help too!"

The boy smirked as much as a monkey could smirk without looking creepy.

And then as if in after thought, added sheepishly, "Oh, and you don't mind me being on top, do you? I sort of can't really see much from the ground.."

[ooc: No Pun intended. XD And omfg we keep doing that, you seem to beat me into postage and I have to go back and edit! D': Haha spamming S with 934894869865 posting notification E-mails. ♥ ]

"You didn't see him?" That freaked Riku out a little. The way the thing in Wonderland had stalked him, disappearing and reappearing, speaking in riddles and rhymes had made him feel a little nuts.

But he could still smell...something...around...somewhere...

Aw, fuck it. Who cared what that cat did? It was probably shooting heroin behind some bushes or something.

Riku lashed his tail at the whiny monkey as Sora jumped down, missing him on purpose. He'd been sure his friend was going to refuse, so he mostly felt relieved.

As the monkey poked at Namine and promised to protect her, Riku rolled his eyes. Sora clearly had no idea how that might come off in certain contexts.

"Damn you're lazy," he said when the monkey climbed onto the lamb's back. "You just tell me if he's bothering you, Nam. I'll bite his tail off."

Riku leapt into the nearest tree and looked in the direction they were going, his feline intelligence mapping out a path along the web of boughs.

"I don't see anything from up here," he called down. "Just jungle." He scented the air. "And I don't smell any other predators around." In fact, he didn't smell much of anything apart from the four of them. The wind was blowing the same way they were travelling, so whatever might be ahead would smell them before Riku smelled whatever. He didn't like that.

Tris snorted, trotting nearer to the predator-scent. "You can't tell me you don't smell that," she said again. "You know, if I had my magic, I could probably see them," she groused. "The wind's right in my face. ...This might hurt your ears." She let out a shrill whinny, trying to get the... whatever's attention.

She headed into the scent, though her instincts were telling her to run the other way as fast as she could. "HEEEEEEEY!" she yelled. "I CAN SMELL YOU!"

"Oh, I'm fine," she told the little monkey. But I would be even better if you weren't poking me in the gut right now.

Naminé didn't know how the monkey intended on protecting her, but she was thankful nonetheless. "Err, no not at all," she told Sora in response as he climbed on her back. What could she say; he had already done it. Monkey see, monkey do, monkey ask questions after the fact.

Now that they were animals, human rules such as not getting on top of one another seemed to fly right out the window. Naminé wondered when she would lose her own sanity, or if she had even lost it already.

"You just tell me if he's bothering you, Nam. I'll bite his tail off."

"No, that's alright Riku." She had sincerely hoped that he would stop thinking about anything relating to biting others or eating them. But given his current state, that seemed to be impossible.

"I think Kairi's room is lower to the ground," she called back, "You might not see it from up there." She just hoped they would see it from anywhere. She was relieved to here that there were no other predators around. She had had enough of almost-being-eaten for one day.

Now that Tris shifted into the direct path of the scent, Briar could pick up on it. It was vaguely familiar to his little panda senses, but the scents of food over-powered it again. When his sister let out a shrill whinny, he tried to stuff his paws into his ears.

"That was really loud," he commented. "Hopefully, it won't try to eat us, right?"

"You just tell me if he's bothering you, Nam. I'll bite his tail off."

"Hey!" The little primate protested, but Riku had already disappeared up into the trees, leaving Sora to - yet again - pout.

"And I'm not lazy! I just ate too much.. And it's true! I can't-"

He was abruptly cut off by yet another voice for the second time today, making him instinctively look around himself on the lamb's back for another pair of eyes.

"I CAN SMELL YOU!"

There it came again, pulling Sora's searching gaze back towards the front of them. It sounded like it had come from ahead anyway. He blinked. Well.. Was there really a way to find out without stepping off into danger?

And then something crossed his brain from foggy human memories. But little did he realize, that had probably been just as stupid.

"MARCO?"

[ooc: Not this time, Seme'd by teh Oreo. ;D]

Bungle in the Jungle [Completed]

To Sora

TO JERKFACE <3

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To the kitty <3

To Sora

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To the Cat (and Sora a little)

To No one and Everyone

To Nami-lamb

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To Riku

To Namine

To Riku

To the tasty one

To Anyone and No One. :D

To Sora

To no one! :B

To Riku.

[Insert witty tagline here]

To Lamb Chop and Bubbles

To Pussy.

To Bare-butt and Sleepy-sheepy

To... yeah, not even going to try. Riku and Sora.

To Rikky and Nammy. Over.

To Sora, Namine, and Cheshire Cat

To Briar

To Tris

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To Riku and Sora

To NumNum. <3

To Sheeple and Munchykins

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To Sora and Riku

Pony-sister

To Spotty Puss, and then to Poney Hooer. <3