Thirty chimes ago, At The Residential Wing...
Another fine day in the jungle, the insects were loud, daytime predators prowling, Myrians patrolling, and Dhanis stalking. Though the short Viper in human form named Aka found herself twitching at the sight of an empty cage in her cavern-room. She had just come back from working as a reimancer in building the tunnel for some rest, she wanted to 'play' with her slave-doll, but alas, Yuki was not there. Aka hissed in annoyance, she did grant the small human permission to wander Zinrah as long as she kept the collar on, signifying the human as hers, but Aka was beginning to reconsider her decision. Yuki ventured out far too much nowadays, stretching Aka's hospitality, she would remind her on who was the Mistress when she found her.
Sighing in disappointment mixed with slight frustration the Viper went to her table first, wanting to redraw her palm-glyphs before venturing out to find her slave. She picked up her brush with her right hand, dipped it into her ink pot filled with inscribing paint then began the - somewhat - enjoyable process of painting the glyphs. She drew a circle mark over her eye-shaped mark, giving them decorations such as squigglies that represented snakes, and finally painted over her eye-shape. She let the ink dry from half a chime before beginning the painstaking process of drawing with her - non-dominant - left hand. The circle looked like a potato and the squigglies looked like worms instead of snakes... at least, it was a glyph, no matter how ugly it was. Putting the brush down, Aka sighed, stood up, and stomped out of her cave in an annoyed state.
A Few Moments Later...
Where the hell are you, Yuki?! Her scarlet eyes darted around, but she couldn't spot the small human, only constrictors patrolling, tunnels, and... one of the cavern entrances up ahead. Was the human hiding from her? Oh, Mistress would sure give her a lot of punishments, two full bowls of roasted tapir meat it is!
"Who are you looking for, Sssmall fry?" A Dhani guard in his dhani form decided to step in, it would be better for this firesnake to get the petch out of his patrol location, he wouldn't want to be held responsible for letting the small fry burning down the nest. Well, he might be exaggerating but still...
"*Sigh*..." Aka exhaled, she was getting tired of being called "small fry", but it was the fact, being called like that over and over made her begrudgingly accepted it. Heck, it was true, humans often mistook her for an middle teenage girl, let alone these massive cousins of hers. Shaking her head, she decide to humor the guard, who knows, he might be able to help her. "I'm looking for my ssslave, a human, tiny, yesss! Before you asssk! Tinier than me!"
"Oh? Tiny human? The one with brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing a collar? That your ssslave?" The guard saw Yuki walked pass him a few chimes ago, one couldn't really miss the human, her tiny form and appearance stood up like a monkey among snakes.
"Yeah! That'sss her! Where isss ssshe?" Aka's scarlet eyes figuratively shone with excitement, the guard's descriptions were spot-on!
"Hehe~ Why ssshould I tell you, hmmm?"
"Grrrr..." Alright, now this constrictor was just messing with her. Aka gritted her teeth and put both of her hands to her waist "Becaussse... a bad accident might happen to you if you don't tell me? Sssomething related to fire? Ssseehehe~" He wanted to play a game? She would indulge him.
"Ooooh~" The guard put up his massive hands in mock fear, but he couldn't help but feel just a tad bit intimidated. He had heard that the Viper defeated Senka, an experienced wrestler and warrior of Zinrah, in single combat. It may or may not be true, but the guard didn't want to find out "Alright, sssmall fry, whatever you sssay, ssshe just went out of this tunnel earlie-"
"Great! Kay thanksss bye!" Without even waiting for the guard to finish, Aka zipped away, her lithe limbs swiftly making her way to the cavern's entrance. The guard just shook his head and murmured in disbelief.
Outside...
"Yuki? Yuuuuuki? Where aaaare youuuuu?!" Aka shouted, directing it to nobody in particular. After a few chimes of shouting, which was answered by the sound of monkeys in the distance, Aka began to realize her own stupidity. Oh wait... that guard lied to me, didn't he?! Petch that shyke!! Aaaargh! I'll make him paaaay! She was about to turn around, mind filled with devious plans for that good-for-nothing guard, but she stopped. Her eardrums caught something... voices. That sounded like... She slowly made her way to the general direction of the sounds, pushing through thick vegetation, peeking her head to find...
Found you... Yuki talking with a... Huh? W-who is that guy? man with shot black hair and red eyes. Aka's scarlet slits narrowed in suspicion, who was this man? She never seen him before. His stature and build didn't suggest that this man was a Constrictor, no, he was much too short for that. I-is he... a... No, it couldn't be, another Viper in Zinrah?! She was not alone! Eventhough it was just an assumption, Aka was truly hoping this man was a Viper. Her grin only grew wider when the man basically admitted he was a Dhani, though she immediately twitched when both of them talked about her.
Oh hey, don't talk about me like I'm not here! They didn't notice her yet, but it annoyed her nonetheless. Aka's possessiveness over Yuki began to kick in when they introduced themselves to each other. The man's name was "Jori". A strange name for a Dhani, that's for sure. Was he a human after all? He had the usual Dhani lisp, but some humans had that.
"Oh no, you don't..." She whispered in jealousy after "Jori" asked her beloved Yuki to help him find "models". Aka didn't know what he meant by that and frankly, she didn't want to find out. The Dhani reimancer decided it was time to make herself known, she held out her right hand and a stream of reddish slimy substance exhumed from her right palm, Aka could feel the glyph helping the channel of djed and fastened the res-exhuming process as the result. The res gathered into a ball, she then ignited the outer layer and middle layer of the ball, keeping the core in res form. Ehehehe... this should do it... Hissing sinisterly, she stepped out, fireball in tow.
"Sssso~ I sssee both of you are having fun without me, hmmm? Yuki, bad bad ssslave. I will have to punisssh you later..." She twirled the fireball around while making a circling motion with her right index finger "And you, Jori, Yuki isss mine! I forbid her to go with you! Ssss! Besssidesss, you sssaid you were a Dhani? Are you a Viper? Becaussse you are not humongous like those giantsss there. And yesss, I'm Soshakuakamamushi, Yuki's Missstresss!" Her slitted eyes occasionally went from Yuki to Jori, back to Yuki, and so on, waiting for their reaction to her "dynamic" entrance.
