Thread: Gates of Life and Death (Razgriz x Umbrale)

Any attempt at conversation was shut-out when the explosion of blue fire interrupted it. Not so much the noise--which wasn't much more than the animated whumpf of compressed air expanding outwardssince the explosion wasn't forceful--but the sensual overload via the transition from darkness to almost abhorrently bright light. Luckily enough for the two humans, they had been exposed to sunlight just a short while earlier. And while still painful, with their eyes adapting to the lowered light levels, it didn't seem nearly as blinding to them,as it did to the arachnid-like female scrunching her eyes closed in hissing pain to it. Of course, despite the pain she whined out, the impact of Adrian's frame to her far more stable own, still brought a surprised squeak of a noise. While she didn't quite open her eyes, it was almost instantaneously that two of her shorter frontal legs curled around his legs, pinning him to her. Despite the awkwardness of their predicament, with his head gracing her cleavage, it seemed the girl's attention was elsewhere. The tarsus wrapped about his legs, flexed and lifted him scant inches from the ground--despite her short stature actually making her a few inches beneath him, those insectoid features were obviously quite strong--and with her arms quickly thrown about his face to keep him there, a prompt turn and rather awkward scurry was enacted.F-Fucking fox! The curse seemed almost ridiculously out of place, a random noun thrown to a curse at the pain her squinting eyes portrayed. Having traveled a few meters from where they had started--the fire had faded behind foilage, casting Adrian's vision back to just a half-dozen meters in any given direction--the spider-girl slower, and eventually released Adrian from the cumbersome embrace. A huff, and her slender digits were brought upwards, rubbing lightly at the triplet-pairs of crimson orbs. She just had to take the big one..., her melodic voice grumbled out, until her eyes blinked open to their normal size. A slight wince was notable, but her gaze eventually seemed to center--at least, as far as Adrian could tell simply by the angle of her face, given that her eyes lacked identifying pupils--back down at the businesslike male. ...But at least I still found you. Her top lip curled at the corners, to lift in a tiny little smirk. And from the recesses of that mouth, amidst her pearlescent teeth, a wicked but tiny fang. -------------- Steve, on the other hand, had a more ambiguous 'compatriot' to follow. The blazing fire orbs that lead him astray in the first place, appeared at several-meters intervals from one another. Whenever he closed in on one, the previous one would disappear, and a new one would appear farther on. The voices echoed one after-another, providing a stream of encouraging that seemed to become more and more compelling, even as the flora around him gradually morphed to a more lit, bioluminescent setting amidst the heavy foilage. Yes, yes . Hurry- Hurry , This Way- This Way! Soon-enough, he came to more of a clearing, a small area devoid of the massive, tree-like stems that branched into those large flowers. In the middle of the clearing sat yet another ball of that azzure fire, this time simply hovering there. It pulsed slowly, but seemed to offer no more resounding echoes of voices. Instead, from the dense foilage, out of sight, came the same voice, this time not echoing forth. It held a soft, pleasing tone, but underlaid with hints of amusement and energy.There... You're safe now. The spider can't catch you anymore... Feminine and soft, it didn't sound anything like the alien perfect-pitch of the arachnid woman. Rustling caught Steve's attention, out in the foilage beyond the clearing. Movement here, now there, now directly in front of him. Traces sights of golden and brown. Flashes of what looked like fur, and othertimes appeared humanoid. Laughter whistled out from foilage, a chuckling, amused little thing that drifted in from seemingly all around him. Abruptly, however, a figure emerged from the smooth greenery of lush life that lay around him slightly to the left. A woman, far plainer that the spider-female that had scared him off but still starkly different than a human. To start with, what first caught the man's eyes was the pair of feline-esque ears that topped her head. In a hue of soft brownish-gold, they twitched and pivoted to him, adorned just naturally on a similarly-colored wash of silken, clean hair that descended a cute, round-soft face. Eyes, brilliantly blue, but slitted like a cat down the center, pierced his soul, amidst unblemished pearlescent skin, and the soft contours of supple cheeks and a pert little button of a chin. Her hair parted down the middle, making its way backwards to rest like a waterfall over her shoulders. Those shoulders were clothed in the white-red striking of a Japanese komono, somehow simultaneously loose and scarce on her skin. It hung low on the shoulders, and drove around in long loose sleeves to the hands tucked behind her back. Leaning forward slightly, the pose opened the front of the silken dress, exposing more than a bountiful amount of cleavage of the stranger, to the large male.Indeed, it even dipped to show more skin of an athletic, smooth stomach, only to reach a tie that barely held the fabric together until easily mid-thigh it split once more to reveal unblemished, smooth legs of a runner. If her figure alone wasn't enough to stand out, from behind her, emerged a quartet of long, golden-brown tails, darkening in color unto the tips, which were adorned a bright strike of blue, instead. They swished and intertwined of their own accord, but pointedly stood out like a silhouette or the female. Hips switching back and forth, and her shapely lips turned up into a tiny smile, the strange fox-like like was putting on the playful charm multi-fold, even as her voice sauntered out jokingly, Aren't you glad I saved you from the meanie spider-wider?