Unhatched Plans

[lord_wizard]

Who: Felix and Ashura
What: A brand new baby
When: May 10th
Where: Both of their rooms
Rating: Pg-13

Felix has been anticipating this time of year for months now. Part of him has been looking forward to it as much as he'd been dreading it, given that he'd shared a child with Ashura for three years and this time their status as a couple was far more nebulous. When he woke up to find an egg and a note, he wasn't sure if he was angry or relieved. Both emotions seemed to be getting a turn, and he hadn't quite settled on one by the time he had stuffed the egg into a large bag and made the trek to his former lover's room.

"Ashura," he said, knocking quietly and trying not to sound as unbalanced as he felt.

Comments

[lord_wizard]

Felix kept a somewhat more wary distance, his hands clutching anxious at the back of the couch, his eyes wide as the shell fell away. He could feel it even from where he stood - a sudden rush of hot air and, for a moment, a wavering in the air around the egg as a black, serpentine body, crackled with tiny lines like magma, uncoiled in a rush.

"Powers, what is that?" he said, as the unmistakably human part of the creature floundered and twisted to look up at them with eyes the color of embers.

[wishmadeinfire]

"A... snake?" Ashura asked curiously, seeing the scales and the way they twisted behind the chubby child's upper body.

The little thing - boy? - managed to sit itself up as much as it could and blinked at them, eyes looking between them with the wide-eyed wondered of the newly born. It moved its little lips, little fingers flexing... and proceeded to begin wailing with all the force of any child every born.

"Oh dear, there there!" Ashura said, hurrying forward to scoop him up as he would have Ryuga, patting his little back that was smattered with scales.

[lord_wizard]

Felix is not so quick to embrace this new lifeform, literally or figuratively.

"You can't be serious," he says, talking to the castle and Ashura more or less at the same time.

[wishmadeinfire]

It was rather hard for Ashura to ignore a crying child, and this was a child of that he was certain - odd as it was. It bore no resemblance to their Ryuga, but even in this child he could see bits of himself and Felix. The babe calmed some as Ashura cradled him, the tiny, soft tail wrapping around his wrist.

"I rather think it is," he said, looking to Felix and then down at the child. "It's a bit... Odd this time around, isn't it? But look, he's being sweet."

[lord_wizard]

The wizard edged closer until he could stand behind Ashura, looking over his shoulder at the tiny creature.

"For now," he said, obviously dubious.

[wishmadeinfire]

"I am sure he cannot be much more of a devil than Ryuga was," Ashura shook his head at the other man, the babe looking up at Felix over Ashura's shoulder and smiling shyly at the red haired wizard. "Maybe he will not move quite so fast since he has no legs?" he offered hopefully.

[lord_wizard]

Felix's heart gives another twist at the mention of their child's name. Could this thing ever come close to what he was? Felix didn't think so.

"Snakes can be very fast creatures," he added, obviously not assured.

[wishmadeinfire]

"But a baby?" he asked him, continuing to rub his back and looked down at the tiny bundle of baby fat and scales in his arms. "Well, perhaps. Children are unnaturally fast it seems." He tugged a curl of bright red hair. "He has your hair."

[lord_wizard]

"Of course he does," he answered, edging closer now that Ashura had the thing well...well in hand. Cautiously, he reached out hover a hand near the coils of it's body. "Is it me, or does it seem...irregularly warm?"

[wishmadeinfire]

"Well, if he has a Fire Talent like I do, it would not be odd," he pointed out, the baby looking to Felix and smiling, reaching out a pudgy hand and tapping at Felix's hand with a giggle. Ashura's golden eyes warmed and flickered. "See? He likes you."