The Heat of The Ice (1x1 rp)

[geinkotsu]

Orphius put the she-wolf out of his mind so he could eat. His stomach was yapping at him to eat before it turned to dust. He agreed with his stomach that he would eat. So, he walked on to a place where it was most opportune for food. But, he was going to go with something more… tropical, if one could call it that. He stood over the ice that was thinner than the rest and stepped on it. He wasn’t all that great with his ‘powers’, but he was good enough. The ice began to fracture under his paw and tore itself into a large circle. He clawed out the rest by paw and then stuck his face in the hole, sniffing the water inches bellow.

Not that he could smell fish, but polar bears swam in waters abundant with fish. Sometimes their smell lingered in the water. This part smelt fresh of polar bear. Now… what he was wondering. Was he really going to jump in there? Orphius raised his head from the hole he made. Well, he wasn’t having luck with mammals. So, yes. Yes he was jumping into that freezing water. He stepped back a bit and them jumped strait in, water splashed over the ice and soon froze over it in a thin layer of mushy snow.

He opened his eyes and floated under the ice, finding the underwater world as magnificent as usual. Though it was always a bit dark under the ice, light filtering down from the hole he had made above. He held his breath, bubble lightly coming from his nose as he swam in the freezing water. He watched the water intently, seeing shadows move about. Before he knew it, he was swimming after fish, which were coming his way, a larger shadow following after the fish. He snapped at the fish , catching one at the first bite and another with the second. But the shadow loomed over him and nearly mauled him.

He quickly swam to the side, watching the large polar bear chase the fish. Well, he got two. He came to his hole in the ice and surface through the mush- the top of the water had frozen a bit. He grabbed the top of the ice with his paws, clawing digging in the ice as he pulled himself up onto the ice and dropped the fish, letting them flounder on the ice. Orphius shook out the access water in his fur, then grabbed his fish and moved away from the hole and finding a cozy spot in the snow. He dropped the fish in the thin powder and laid down and starting to eat one of them. He put his paw on it’s tail and began tearing it apart and chewing it, then swallowing.

[Teacup-old]

Seven - Sev ♀

Seven couldn’t help but wonder why he had dove straight into the hole. How did he even crack the ice anyway? Well, she slowly inched forward, sticking her face in the water for a second before yanking it out, “Damn, that’s cold!” When she saw a shadow begin to swim for the hole, she dove into the snow, trying so desperately to hide her body. Thinking quickly, she flipped herself onto her back so her white fur was showing over the snow. As the sounds of the wolf emerging from the hole filled her holes, she made an effort to get herself behind the wolf again.

Instead, though, she ran straight toward him. He would see her either way; she hadn’t moved an inch since lying on her back, “Hey! Why’d you leave me!” She didn’t necessarily care that he left; she just wanted to know why. Paws flying through the air, she was unable to stop herself as she slipped onto ice. Barreling into him, somehow she ended up with a fish in her jaws, spitting it out, she lowered her head, “Do I stink?” It must have been hard not to laugh, but Seven was being dead serious. She disliked others disliking her appearance.

Sure, it was okay for her to judge others in her mind, but she really, really disliked others judging her. Her ears flattened, somewhat scared about what he would say. What if she did stink or she wasn’t pretty? She gasped, “Am I ugly?!”

[geinkotsu]

Orphius was almost finished with his first fish when he heard the paws of another scrambling towards him. He quickly looked up to see the she-wolf from earlier bundling towards him with snow flying off her that had been clinging to her fur. He tried to get up as she slipped so he could try to catch her in some way, but to no avail as she hit him and the ground and they both fell to the ground. The fish that was in his mouth ended up going down his gullet whole and unchewed. He coughed a little on the cold fish before looked up at her, realizing her question. She was wondering why he left? Well… wasn’t it obvious?

He stood up, shaking the snow off his fur and stared at her as she seemed rather devastated about the reason why he left. “No.” he replied, to both her assumptions. “Because you asked me to.” he said. Orphius walked over to the fish that she had spit out and ate it quickly, chomping down on it and swallowing. He was still rather cold from his leap into the water, his fur still damp and had snow matted into it here and there, sticking to him because of the water. Orphius gazed at her, wondering why she cared.

[Teacup-old]

Seven - Sev ♀

Seven’s ears flattened, “Such a gentlemen. I usually have to fight off others or let them raid my home.” She stood, shaking herself off as she backed up, “Sorry for… hitting you a bunch of times.” Narrowing her eyes at him, she tried to find his flaw. Surely everyone had a flaw. Seven shut down each time she was around a larger male. Did he shut down, “So, have a mate? A family?”

She wasn’t exactly warm around him, but she gave a smile for his satisfaction; not that she actually was happy. Seven had never actually smiled with her heart put into it. Coming from the background she came from, it was never required of her. She was never able to actually spend time as a pup. Her mother didn’t care about her, her father beat her, and her siblings were always running. Basically she was the only outlet of her parents’ hate and anger.

[geinkotsu]

Orphius gave a soft sigh when she mentioned fighting for her home. Ah, the life of being on this wasteland… It was so harsh and unforgiving. Sure, they all had to live here, for reasons he didn’t know. But it was still a bit heart breaking to hear the suffering of another. He gave a soft nod as she apologized, accepting it without a sound. He really wasn’t talkative… though, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to talk to her, it was just in his nature. Maybe it was because he was used to not talking.

He sat down as she asked him of his family and mate. “I do not have either.” he informed her. His icy blue eyes staring at her as he sat there. He kept his shoulders strait, his tail curled around his leg and his head high with his nose tilted down so he could politely watch the girl without being creepy staring. Sometimes he had frightened people because he usually watched and didn’t say much. But it was a habit he was unable to shake.

[Teacup-old]

Seven - Sev ♀

Seven nodded, “That’s cool I guess.” She stood and shook herself, “Well, I guess if you want you can sleep on the border of my territory tonight. I’ll be nice.” Once again, she gave a fake smile. It was a nice gesture from Seven, though she doesn’t trust anyone in her den. She just would rather have him outside than inside. She looked over her shoulder, scenting the air. She hadn’t picked up any smells of prey animal, but she would leave soon to hunt. After all, the Arctic is very unforgiving.

((Sorry it's not much. I'll post a better post next. I'm working on another one on one.))

[geinkotsu]

Cool? He didn’t get why she expressed it that way. Was being alone something to admire? He blinked, listening as she offered him to sleep, at the edge of her territory. A small, but very warm smile came to his lips as he lowered his head. “How very generous of you.” he said to her. There was no sarcasm in his voice, he was sincere about it. He usually slept out in the snow anyways, except, within someone’s territory, there was less chance of polar bears and such. So it would be safer.

He stood up and walked back the direction of her place. “I will not intrude- I will be gone by the morrow.” he said to her, his eyes lingering on her. But then he turned his head away and he leisurely walked away. Yet something about his stride was well kept and formal. He kept his head high, though not showing a fierce superiority. This is one of the reasons why few called him and Ice Prince. Born of a world of ice, he had such well-mannered etiquette. Even on his own, he ruled himself on how to behave. Unlike most wolves. He acted like he was supposed to be royal or something, yet he never shoved the thought on them or was a snob. He really was hard to pinpoint on his personality. But he was kind, and that was that.

He paused and looked back at the she-wolf. “Are you going to accompany me?” he asked her.

[Teacup-old]

Seven - Sev ♀

Seven just sat there as the male walked away, staring at the hole he was made without an effort. She was snapped out of her dream world by his voice, “Huh, oh, yeah.” She jumped to her feet, racing to his side quickly, yet she couldn’t match his stride. His was all formal fancy and hers screamed ‘slack, slack, slack’. “Hey, how did you make the hole in the ice? He didn’t have to lift a paw. Do you have powers?” she barked, realizing how close she was she widened the distance between them. If he was going to sleep on her territory she wanted to know everything about everything of this wolf.

Her ears flattened as she walked. She would have to hunt soon. She couldn’t go much longer without food or she would starve. As her stomach growled, she tried to ignore it. All she needed to do was get to the territory, leave him there, and run off to her secret hunting grounds. If he were to come along he would infect the whole area. Her eyes widened as she remembered something, “Oh my god the fish was in my mouth!” She began to panic, running around all over the place trying to think of a solution. She could become sick. What if she does?

[geinkotsu]

Orphius’s ear twitched as he heard her suddenly get up and run after him. He wasn’t so worried about how close she was walking- rather than the question she asked. His mind had diverted to the question and faltered in his stride for a moment- but enough of a moment to realize that he had almost paused. He quickly righted himself and continued on, deciding to answer her question with a lie. “A polar bear resurrected it.” he said to her. It was a plausible explanation, though there were flaws.

The sound of her stomach growling drew his attention, his eyes turning to her. But her sudden crazy moment knocked the thought of her hunger out of his mind as he watched her run around like her tail was on fire. He turned, stepping towards her, “What is the matter?” he asked. Orphius had no idea why a fish being in her mouth mattered. It was just a fish, wasn’t it? Well, at any rate, he had to calm her down before she slipped on the ice and hurt herself or something.

[Teacup-old]

Seven - Sev ♀

Seven panicked. She’d never been in this situation before, so she had no idea how to fix it. Hopefully she wouldn’t die from an illness. She stopped, trying to figure out a solution. She could run to her normal drinking hole, but it was too far away. She would just have to sit in her den for a while.

Maybe it was really more of a dramatization, but Seven began to breathe heavily. She wasn’t having a hard time breathing; she just didn’t know what to do. It was probably more of a problem in her head, anyway. Her ears flattened, “I need to get to my den. I can’t get sick. I just can’t.” She hesitated on telling him why, but after a moment of calming herself down, she spoke up, “If you get sick you’ll probably recover quickly, if I get sick I could die.”