[Mouldy Jam] Zippleback Down

[Lady Luck]

Time and Date:: January 5th, around midnight

Weather:: Bitter cold, snowing and sleeting

Previous Threads?::  N/A

CURRENT IC SEASON - DEVASTATING WINTER

"Would you come on?" Said a voice, which was authoritative and demanding. "No." Came a meek, scared voice. "I'm not moving. Not one leg." Came her shaky voice. "You can't make me!" If one looked through the trees, they would see a hideous zippleback, standing outside a large cave. "Nothing's in there!" Came the annoyed voice, as one head snapped down at her in attempt to get her to move her side of their body. "Now come on!" But the other head, known as Luck, was not moving, nor did she have any intention to do so. She was staring at the cave, her half of their body shaking like a leaf not from the cold but from fear. Her head was crouched down. "Please Lady, can't we just go behind the cave? You know I don't like dark, scary things... Especially where we'd be completely trapped and die if-"

"That's enough Luck!" Snapped Lady. But just then an idea formed in Lady's mind. "Wait, do you hear that?" Said Lady in an overly dramatic voice, which Luck took all too seriously. "What!?" Screeched Luck in a meek voice. Lady pretended to be on high alert, dilating her pupils to slits to make it seem even more real. "I think someone's watching us... " Luck gasped, moving her neck in one direction as her two paws scurried to try and move them away as quickly as possible. Lady held back a snicker, "It's getting closer..." She teased, trying to sound as convincing as possible, before...

"GOTCHA!" Came her roar as Lady swiftly bit Lucks neck. Luck screamed uncontrollably, that is until she realized it was just her sister. "LADY..." Luck cried in protest, as Lady laughed uncontrollably, no longer able to hold in her laughter, "It's not funny..." Yet as Lady was laughing, Luck perked up, her own pupils turning to slits. "Lady, sshh.." Lady's laughter continued. "Lady.. I'm not playing around..." Lady laughed harshly, "Oh come on, Luck, give it up. I was only playing. No one's here but you and me. Now come on, lets go inside that cave already. Better in there then out here, right?" But Luck was continuing to sniff the air, convinced that Lady's game had been real... Maybe there really was someone out there?

[Mouldy Jam]

«Come oooooon, I'm hungry.» The shrill whine came from somewhere deep in the forest. «And I know you are too! We have the same stomach... I think...» The Zippleback gurgled a bit and seemed to be thoroughly confused now. His other head simply yawned. «I don't want to move.» «But Jaaaaaaaam. This is way not cool!» Mouldy filled the air with distressed gurgling noises, gas spilling from his gaping jaws. «Sh!» Jam perked up, pupils dilating and nostrils flaring. «Did you just shush me-» «Sh!» Mouldy snapped his mouth shut, looking properly offended. «I know you smell that, so shut up you half-wit!» Mouldy found his lips twitching, muttering to himself. But he did smell something, even though the surplus of Zippleback gas was making any tracking fairly difficult.

But both heads now lowered to the ground, bobbing about as they tried to follow the scent. «It's familiar...» Jam glanced at Mouldly. «A little too familiar, if you catch me.» Mouldy gurgled in agreement, he meant it was another Zippleback. Jam's jaws started clicking and sparks flying every direction. «And they don't smell like any one I know.» Crouching low they followed their noses to the edge of a slight drop in the forest floor. Sure enough, at the base was another two-headed dragon. Split tail lashing, they peered over the edge and watched. «What are they doing?» «Hey uh, Jam...» «Not now, this is serious.» «Yeah, dude I know!» «Shh!» Mouldy stared as the dirt beneath his claws crumbled at their weight. «Dude!» He shrieked as it gave way beneath him. «What?!» The dragon began to tumbled forward, but with quick thinking on both their parts, they managed to gain enough lift to stop them from plummeting and in fact landed quite gracefully (for a Zippleback) on the ground. «Look what you've done now!» Jam snarled, sparking at Mouldy. «What?! You weren't paying attention! I tried to warn you!»

The two were bickering so much, they hardly noticed they had taken on a forward pace towards the other dragon. Jam had Mouldy's neck in his jaws, sparks flying in ever direction. In retaliation Mouldy jerked his head back and and blew gas right into Jam's sparking mouth. Jam let go, if only because his mouth was forced open by the explosion. He gurgled faintly as he tried to shake it off. In doing so he noticed they were basically right behind the other dragon now. If they were dangerous, then he was seriously going to regret that fight as he may have just gotten them into an even worse fight. Mouldy however was quite proud of himself and was too busy feeling accomplished to notice the other Zippleback before them. «HA! I win! In your faaaaace!»

[Lady Luck]

"SSHH!" Cried a desperate voice, to which Lady replied, her tones very much annoyed, "Luck, would you stop. I was only joking. It was me, me you hear me! There is no one else!" Suddenly to their surprise they both heard a rather loud sound, causing them to jump back in near unision, or as united as a beast with two minds can be, staring at the beast behind them as their split tail twitched angrily. Well, angry on Lady's part; Luck, however, was too busy cowering down, her head bent as far down as it would go as she whimpered, "See! SEE! I told you! I TOLD YOU!" Lady snapped her jaws at Luck, "Hush! I'll deal with this."

A slight protectiveness over her sister started to seep into Lady's veins, especially as her sister whimpered, "What do they want with us!" Lady snapped at her sister, "Didn't I tell you to shush!" She turned back to the dragon before them, realizing it was a zippleback, much like themselves. Only their coloring was green rather then a reddish pink, and... by the look of it, this one was a male. Nonetheless, Lady growled at the duo, "What do you want? And just what do you think gives you the right to sneak up on us like that! Are you thick in the head? HEY!" She snapped her jaws at them as the duo was fighting amongst themselves.

Just then Lady realized there was a gas in the air; a zippleback gas. She looked down at Luck, "Light em up." Luck suddenly perked up, thinking of it much the same as a game. As Lady started emitting gas, sparks started to fly from Luck's mouth. Lady growled as she let perched her head high on her neck, ready to strike. "Now, beast... are you friend.. or foe..."

[Mouldy Jam]

Jam narrowed his eyes, pupils thinned to slits. He knocked his neck slightly to the side to bump Mouldy, trying to alert him to the situation with out saying anything. His own jaws still clicking a deep gurgling rumbled in his throat. Mouldy finally clued in. «Oh..» The hostility in the air wasn't between them any more, and he felt a bit silly. «We didn't really sneak...» Jam shot him a glance. «Well we didn't...» Mouldy muttered, but for once he understood the situation.

Raising their wings, to appear larger. «Look here missy. We ain't here for trouble.» Jam snarled as the air became a mess of gas both from a nervous Mouldy and the other dragon. «But if you are, we will stop you.» Jam sparked in retaliation, as they began to circle the other. «Bad things happen when you mess with Berk's dragons!» Mouldy looked equally as aggressive as his other head, but he couldn't help but feel this was wrong. The other Zippleback hadn't been doing anything... dangerous or aggressive before hand so why should they treat it as if they had? But he didn't want to take any chances.

But he still couldn't help but feel bad. Usually they met wild dragons with a sense of fun, if not slightly malicious fun, but still it was never with intent to attack. But lately Jam had been feeling a bit tense, something about the change of the weather from bad to worse got his tail in a knot and made him downright unpleasant. «We wont hurt you unless you give us a reason to.» Mouldy seemed less intense about it all, and almost seemed to be begging them not to do something stupid. That was usually his job.

[Lady Luck]

Lady arched her neck, seeming to prepare for an attack as the gas spilled from her jaws. Luck on the other hand seemed content to spark a few sparks for little reason other then for the sheer fun of seeing her own flame. Her eyes were oddly drawn to her own sparks, her head dancing around the sparks that flew from her jaws. Just then however, a sharp voice made her cringe, her once relaxed neck curling up as she cringed downward, "He looks angry Lady... Maybe we shouldn't-" Came her hesitant voice yet Lady interrupted, "Berk's dragons?" She laughed despite herself. "Then you're actually a pet?"

"Lady..."  Luck pleaded, yet her sister continued, "Tell me, if you're Berks Dragons do you do everything the humans ask of you, like a pet would?" Luck, on the other hand, seemed to be turning her head around rapidly, trying to seek a way to escape the situation. Just then a voice, different from the first, made her stop, freezing in place for a moment. She turned, to see a much calmer half of the dragon, who seemed to have just spoken. "Oh please don't give them a reason to, Lady, I don't want a fight..."

Lady finally seemed to hear her sister, growling before a sigh escaped her, "Oh alright. For your sake, I won't kill this beast. Besides, with your fight skills..." She nipped at her sister, growling, "You'd probably have gotten us killed, anyway." Lady turned back to the dragon, "She really has no control of her own flames, really. I wouldn't be surprised if she lit an attack in our faces rather then yours." As she said this, Lady managed a bit of laughter. Luck, however, looked humiliated, and reverted to crouching her head down as low as possible in an attempt to withdraw herself from the world. Her eyes briefly went to the one head known as Mouldy. When her sister wasn't looking, she mouthed the words, "Thank you."

[Mouldy Jam]

The final straw had been drawn, and Jam's nostrils flared as gurgling rumbled in his throat. «A pet?» Clawing at the ground their wings flared and he hissed. «We do what ever we please! But at night, we know we will have a warm place to sleep with out fear of not waking up in the morning.» They had never truly been a wild dragon, and felt no shame in that fact. They had always been proud to have been a part of the partnership that was a dragon and rider. Or at least, Jam had. «It must be fun going to bed on an empty stomach, wondering where your next meal will be from!» Jam was getting really angry, and Mouldy was actually worried this migt get out of hand.

But the other dragon seemed to back down, Jam was still seething and ready to snap at a moments notice but at least they weren't picking at his already raw nerves. «Then you are a poor team, if that.» Jam snarled under his breath, turning his head away. Mouldy's eyes met with Luck's and he blinked a bit. His lips pulled back a bit into a sheepish grin, but she really had no reason to thank him. There was no reason to fight, not here over this he was only doing was seemed naturally the right choice given the situation. «And don't call us 'beast', if any one is befitting that name it's you!» He growled and turned away. «We're leaving now.» He snarled as they didn't move, and Mouldy blinked a bit. «Ah... right.»

Glancing back he blinked a bit. «I'm Mouldy, he's Jam.» His voice was barely above a hushed tone, but hopefuly she would catch it. Mouldy felt it was rude to not introduce yourselves. But that didn't mean he was ignoring his other half, they still began a slow waddling pace away from the female. «Women!» Jam huffed and shook his head. «You were no better.» A hiss escaped through Jam's fangs, but he otherwise said nothing in return. Mouldy was right, and he knew it.

[Lady Luck]

Lady growled as the insults were thrown, but held her tongue. Yet a growl escaped Lady as the more insults were thrown. Oh how she wanted to fight back; she really did. This beast was making her wish she could fight him, but she couldn't; for Luck's sake. For everyone knew that males were bigger, stronger, and held much more power then females. And being the runt of the litter, Lady and Luck were just about half the size of the other dragon. Yet even as the insults were thrown, Lady seemed unaware that something was happening between her sister and the other beast. For while they were busy insulting each other and ready to fight, something seemed to be happening between Luck and Mouldy. Perhaps they were just realizing this fight was futile; perhaps they realized how alike they were. Whatever the reason, something undeniable had formed between them already, unbeknownst to anyone; even Luck herself.

Oh how Lady wanted to fight back; but being smaller, she knew that it would only result in her and Luck being seriously wounded. Such was the way of life, and being the runt of the litter, Lady and Luck were on the bottom of the food chain. They couldn't afford to fight with a much larger male just for the sake of fighting. No, they had to save their energy for hunting. And as the duo stood there bashing their way of life, Lady returned it with an equally deadly glare.

Yet just then the duo decided to leave. And as they did so, Luck scrambled to dig her claws into the earth, "Wait!" She cried out, yet her voice was so soft for it was a mere whimper of a voice. Her neck craned out towards Mouldy, "Luck! I'm Luck..." And at this moment Lady finally seemed to notice what had been happening between the two whilst all this was going on. Through barred teeth she snarled, "And I'm Lady. Now get out of here!"

With that Lady forcefully turned them towards the cavern, forcing Luck to start heading towards the cavern. And while her new found friend started disappearing into the thicket, Luck couldn't help but crane her neck back to take one last glance at the duo, before she could no longer see them. And as they disappeared the zippleback entered the cave, plopping down as Luck sighed. "Next time, Luck, you do not befriend the enemy." Lady's head popped up, "But I-"  Lady lurched forward, her face in Lucks as growled, "We won't see them again. Got it?" Luck looked back towards where the duo had disappeared, "Got it?" Luck snarled. Lady let her eyes linger at the spot the zippleback had once been, before she looked down and her neck reclined into its usual cringing position, as she managed a meek whisper, "Got it.."