The Warped

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral waved over the owner, and asked for a meatful meal for White and then picked the little dragon up and looked, "Well, it looks like a girl. Which brings us back to our first question, what should we call you? How does Liana sound?" He put her down before asking and she shook her head in disgust, squeaking in disapproval.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi watched as Kiral picked up the dragon and inspected it to determine the sex of it before asking how a name sounded as he set the dragon back down. She wasn't expecting an actual response from the dragon so it surprised her when it shook its head and squeaked its disapproval. "I guess she knows what she wants..." She said as she directed her eyes at the dragon again. "But I can't really think of any good names right now, especially since I've never named anything before. And she probably wouldn't care for any name I chose anyway."

[White Wolf Guardian]

"Hmm let me see, I've seen lots of names out there. How about: Lily, Laura, Lauren, Laurie, Lucy, Lucille, Lupa?" *The wolf dragon looked at the dragon for a moment again* "Or maybe... Cassie, Katie, Kellie, Susan, Whitney, Kathy, Heidi, Fran, Jessica, Sassy, or maybe some exotic like Yolanda? To be honest I could go on forever in coming up with names, but I like to just make new ones up myself." *White then looked around, looking for his food to come soon* "I'll be watching that dragon too, she's not going any of my food... or my tail this time!"

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The baby dragon shook her head as White ran through a laundry list of names, she even stuck her tongue out at "Sassy". However, when he suggested Yolanda, she went right over and bit his tail again, but did let go after biting it. Kiral himself was at a loss for what to name the thing. Despite his neutrality in the workplace, Kiral himself had been quite the closet racist against humans and scales, so he didn't really know what to name anything with just skin or scales. "Well, you were born in the twilight of the morning, so maybe Sun Sun or Sol? How about Twilight?" Kiral himself was given a headbutt from the little dragon, "Ow! What the hell!?"

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi watched as the baby dragon rejected all of the names that White suggested and how she seemed to really hate the name Yolanda. She also watched its reaction to the next names Kiral suggested. "Okay, so you said names relating to the sun, but she didn't like those, so maybe she wants a name that relates to the moon..." She said then thought long and hard, trying to remember some names that meant "moon". After a while, her faraway expression changed back to her normal expression as she directed her eyes at the dragon. "Alright, how about... Selena, Chandra, Levana, Mahina, Luna, Masina, Phoebe?" She listed all the moon-related names she had been able to think of, hoping that the dragon would like one of them.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*Angrily White tried not to hurt the dragon, but instead punched the table after the dragon bit his tail, then grabbed it quickly and put it in his lap* "Goddammit, leave my tail out of this." *He said loudly to the group's kid* "Females are treacherous creatures, they need not be trusted. This is just the start of this one's evil." *He stared at the baby and tried his best not to say anything more, listening to Mahi suggest some names* "I like Luna and Phoebe, but I'm sure it will choose anything I don't go with." *He thought to himself, not letting Mahi become aware of his obvious distaste of his gender communication problems*

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The baby dragon jumped with a happy little squeak when Mahi mentioned the name, Luna, and again when White had repeated it. Kiral raised an eyebrow when he noticed it, "Well, I guess she likes the name Luna. *Pets the little dragon* Then I guess it's settled, then. Your name shall be Luna." Luna cooed and squeaked, wagging her little stub of a tail, but not as fast as when the food came, and she ran her face right into it to eat.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi smiled slightly when the dragon actually picked one of the names she had said, though she was surprised by it. She couldn't help but laugh when Luna dove right into her food when it was brought to her. Mahi directed her attention at her food when it was set down in front of her and started to eat it silently. She didn't really have anything to say and she figured the guys wouldn't care about conversation while they were stuffing their faces.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

For the next two days, it was very quiet, especially with the tension between Kiral and White. On the second morning, the apothecary came in with the sunrise with a large vial just smaller than a mug at the bar. Even though he was across the room, Kiral could smell the foulness of the concoction. "Shit...."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Since things were quiet and Mahi could sense the tension and Luna probably could too, Mahi spent most of the time socializing with the baby dragon. She never forced the dragon to be with her so when Luna wanted to be apart from her, she was able to be. Mahi knew that smothering the dragon with affection wouldn't be the best idea. When the concoction came from the apothecary, she smelled it even before Kiral did and put her hand over her nose. "Oh God...what the heck is that?" She said with disgust.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The apothecary smiled, seemingly unfazed by the smell of the concoction, "This is a special potion that has a fortnight's incubation period to become effective, and the ingredients are very hard to come by, too. This potion requires the usage of needles, and for all bones within the affected area to be completely removed." Kiral gave a sigh of relief as the apothecary walked over and pulled needles out of it, putting them into Kiral's arm. He winced each time the needles went in, but it didn't hurt as much as the crap he's been through. When the apothecary finished inserting all 50 needles, he got up, quickly sitting on Kiral's back and held his mouth open, "Now, madam, if you can just pour it all in his mouth and down his throat before he can close it."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi stood idly by as she "watched" the apothecary stick all of the needles into Kiral's arm. She was surprised when the guy climbed up at sat on Kiral though, not expecting for that to be necessary. When Kiral's head was pulled back and his mouth was forced open and held that way, she cringed, thinking that it looked awfully uncomfortable. She nodded at the instructions and took the large vial. "Kiral, you better swallow this. We don't need you drowning in this stuff." She said and then gave him a minute to register what was said. After that, she started pouring the concoction in his mouth until the vial was empty.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral gagged as the nasty substance was poured into his mouth, but before he could spit it out, the apothecary shut Kiral's mouth and held it shut while rubbing his neck so that he would swallow it, "I know it's disgusting, but you're going to have to drink each and every drop. You think you're my first patient to be treated with this concoction?" Unfortunately for Kiral, he had no choice but to swallow it all, and he felt his skin turn green with sickness as the after-taste of it was even worse, and felt humiliated, treated like a household dog that needed to take medicine.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi couldn't blame Kiral for gagging when she poured the stuff in his mouth, so she moved off out of his site while he was being made to swallow it. By the time he was done swallowing it, she was back with a mug in her hand. "I figured you could use a drink that didn't make you want to throw up." She said as she extended the mug to him with a sort of blank expression.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The apothecary, held up a hand and didn't allow Mahi to give Kiral any drink, "Sorry, but he may not drink anything while the medicine starts working, else it will dilute it, and he will have parts of his bones missing." Kiral's look of disgust turned to anger, but kept to himself. He already started grunting as he felt the needles slowly getting pushed out of his skin. The medicine was working slowly, but fast enough to be a pain.