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Paresseux
Oh dear...ohhhh dear. <xD I couldn't figure out for the life of me who to pick to flirt with this wicked, gorgeous mad god.
What total, brainless, maniac would even dare attempt to wander near him?!...oh wait, I think I know exactly who. This poor, crazy, sweet, fluffy girl with absolutely NO sense of fear.
"Princess Dawn! Come back!" yelled the distant voice of her royal guard. But Dawn had already made her way into the maze of rocks beside the watery borders of the great, deep, inner sea. She quite happily left her guard behind, keeping quiet, save for her silent giggles in the dark. She hid until she could sneak off by herself at her own leisure, and into the crevices of crumbling stone and ancient ruins. Her big, bright, sunny fire eyes gazed around with awe and wonder at the old rubble and rock.
She was so taken in by the empty and mysterious scenery, she hardly noticed the creeping darkness, slithering around her in an ensnaring circle. When she heard a darkly soothing chuckle behind her, she noticed something too late, a coiling mass surrounding her. The dark god with his red eyes glimmering down at her, seemed to smile more with them than his jaws. But as frightfully dreadful as he appeared, Dawn had little other response than friendly wonder.
"Oh, hello there." She smiled up at him.
"Hello to you.~" the great, sinister Vitra grinned. His long, dark scaly coils began to close the space between the young princess and himself. "Don't be ssshyy, let me look more closely at you."
Dawn seemed to voluntarily allow herself to draw closer and smiled nonchalantly. "Is this better?"
"Perfect.~" Vitra softly hissed, his coils ready to squeeze and suffocate, though he stood still, wallowing in delight at the ease of which he could swallow and bring a swift end to the fluffy little princess. "My, it seems you wear colors of royalty little thing.~"
"Why yes." Dawn smiled brightly. "I'm a princess! My name is Dawn." She blinked up at the god, eyeing her like a predatory snake about to strike. "Do you have a name?"
Vitra could hardly keep from laughing. "Do you wish to know it?~"
"Well, if you don't want to tell me, you don't have to." Dawn shrugged with her smile staying youthfully ignorant. "But you seem nice."
"Nice?" Vitra hissed, a little offended, then confused, then amused. He let out a wicked but deeply unsettling chuckle. Dawn ignored his reaction, standing by her statement, and lightly laughing with him. "Of course! I don't like to assume anything bad about any sort of creature." She then lightly brushed his scales around her. "I think serpents are the most misunderstood of all living things."
"I'm no mere serpent." Vitra hummed, glaring at her with a grin. "Perhaps you should re-assess your assumption."
Dawn wore a soft frown, looking up at him. "Oh, I'm sorry. I don't mean to compare so improperly. I'm sure you're very astute and cultured."
"Intriguing.~" hummed the god, snickering. "Your fear must be hidden underneath those lovely robes.~"
"Oh, no!" giggled Dawn. "All that's underneath is my fur." She curled her tail around her and bashfully hid a smile. "Don't worry, you don't have to be sad. I'm not afraid at all."
"Young princess, I can easily devour six-times you.~"
"And I thank you!" Dawn smiled sweetly. "I know you could have already killed and eaten me, but it's all thanks to you that I'm still breathing at all."
"Ah! So you know then, who I am.~" grinned Vitra with a delighted snicker.
"Not really." Dawn shook her head but happily brushed his scales. "But I recognize the nature of reptiles and their ilk. The fact that you are so large, it means you have lived quite a long time, haven't you?"
"Indeed.~"
"Though most would be lonely, it's in your nature to survive without much." Dawn nodded. "Still, as armored and rough as scales are, they're softest just after a shedding."
Vitra leaned closer and let out a low hiss, grinning madly. "You are most unusual!~ Perhaps I should consume you after all.~ You may taste juicer than you look.~"
Dawn giggled as he got very close, timidly pushing him back a bit. "Oh, I wouldn't know! I think a nice rat king would suffice just fine for you."
Vitra circled around her, twisting his coils and smiling widely as he kept close, brushing her wings with his claws. "Hm, then perhaps I will keep you as a pet.~"
Dawn blinked up at him, oblivious to his dark flirting. "Oh, me? A pet?"
"Yes, I think you would like that.~" he hissed softly. "You amuse me.~"
"But then who would take care of you?" Dawn spoke. "I take care of many serpents and reptiles. I love them all, even though they might bite me. I know they don't mean to. Many frighten so easily...and some don't know how to return affection." She lightly leaned against the dark god of madness, her odd fearlessness trusting his deadly and cunning nature. "I wouldn't make for a very nice pet. It's too easy and too difficult to take care of me, I'm afraid. But it is a nice thought. I take care of serpents, but it would be odd if serpents took care of me. I can't expect such a thing from you. It would be rude of me, you know."
"Rude?...yes." Vitra was taken by odd vexation. He felt frustration, delight, desperation and a mix of fury and perplexment all at once. He would miss this little princess if she was suddenly destroyed. She was so naïve and out of her mind, her fear bizarrely absent. He chuckled soft at first, then burst into a mad hysteria of howls, leaning on one of the stone pillars to balance himself. He then knocked it over and buried it into the ground with a single crushing pressure under him, demented glee in his eyes, seeing Dawn giggling in his grasp.
"I see now! You're not all there, are you little princesss?~"
"Not all where?" she smiled innocently. "Here?"
"Hahaha, where else?~"
"Well, who says I have to be?" Dawn giggled.
He didn't seem to mind that she was both dense and bright. He saw fire in her eyes, and fire is a wonderful tool of chaos. He would hold off on killing the little princess. She had no idea he was a god. She had no idea he could crush her bones without a single flinch. She looked like a little royal rodent, stupidly flirting with death without any regard to her safety or her life, but best of all, she knew it and did it anyway. It wasn't bravery, and it wasn't valor. It was pure madness.
Vitra's deep hiss escaped his sharp jaws with delight, and he drew close again, eyeing her with dark fondness. "I like that answer.~"