A Late Dinner

[Doctor Nationis]

The blood lust eyes widened, feeling the sharp pain in his leg swelling to a breaking point in his pain threshold. The doctor gave out a roar, throwing his head back as he did so. His arms and good leg thrashed as best they could in Shaehern's grapple, but could not manage the power to do so. Furiously, he moved his body left and right, cringing each time the weight shifted onto his already burdened leg. Blood from the child earlier flew off in specks, landing innocently on Shaehern's face before the doctor turned his cries into a growl, face turning back to Shaehern.

To no one's surprise, Iugo ignored Naelona's command as a devilishly wild grin spread across the crazed man's face. Throwing himself forward, he opened his mouth wide, his purple tongue visible to Shaehern before he passed the man's field of vision and sunk his teeth into the man's ear, only managing to latch on by a few centimeters. He took this opportunity to further his grip, having almost half the ear in his mouth at this point. Once hooked, he bit down with as much force as his jaw could muster. The doctor felt a satisfying squelch. Pulling back, the boogie held the piece of cartilage in his mouth, grinning like an excited puppy.

Turning, he spit out the piece before lunging back down at Shaehern, this time his teeth aiming to get the man's precious face.

[Shaehern Azhrarn]

That's right, struggle and thrash just like that. Such a good boy. Mindlessly struggle against the pain until all the life gets squeezed slowly out of you. Such a shame that it could not be dragged off to the chilled waters of winter and drowned, but that was the price of a fish on land. Each scream brought a wave of pleasure washing over Shaehern and just further consolidated his grip. If only he could just roll over and press down on the doctor's throat enough to bring him to unconsciousness. His heart was pounding and his breaths were deep. Adrenaline rushed through his body and gave him quite a rush unlike what he had experienced in a long time.

Children and fools were easy to overtake. Madmen were something entirely different. "That's rather nice," he managed to murmur while still struggling with Iugo. Try as he might, he could not firmly gain the dominant position long enough to roll the man over.

Then came the teeth. Terribly kinky of the man to use the only thing available to him, but arousal turned more towards agonizing pain as he bit down and the top portion of Shaehern's ear separated painfully from his body. His teeth squeezed together unpleasantly as he felt the bone move through and suddenly there was nothing but a burning and itching pain where his ear ended. His hands were wrapped around the doctor's arms and he dug his long nails into flesh and made sure to burrow deep as he screamed.

"MISERABLE WRETCH!" The only intelligible thing that came out of his mouth in a shout. Everything else was simply garbled nonsense and nonwords. He swung his head forward angrily as he tried to deliver repeated headbutts to the doctor. Show him to have that shit-eating grin on his face.

[Jasmine Krisp]

Well, he’s flexible, I’ll give him that.

Jasmine did her best to keep from snickering at the sight in front of her. Fight or no, watching Shaehern’s improbable twists or muscle and bone was incredibly entertaining, and even Iugo’s struggle was somewhat humorous. If there was any doubt before it was gone now: Shae was a slippery serpent, no way around it. The little Boogie blinked, also coming to the conclusion that watching these two idiots fight was hot. In an odd way.

Now is not the time! Focus!

Again the plum woman blinked, but this time at Naelona. Had she caused those wounds? What would prompt Nae to ask such a thing? Sure she’d been punching at the fruit basket earlier, and probably would have more at that little fake confession…aw, hell, Shaehern. Everyone was jumping to the wrong conclusion because of his stupidity. “If I had, do you think I would be asking?” Jazz mused a little; she was slightly surprised Naelona could speak the language so well. In her eight thousand years of life, or rather the four thousand she remembered, she had never spoken to another casually in the native tongue. It was nostalgic to say the least.

“You speak rather well for a person your age,” the smallest smile showed on Jasmine’s face, “Here I thought the language was gone and forgotten.”

The sudden shout from the brawling pair threw the smile from view, replacing it with a grimace. That didn’t sound good. Looking back down, bright eyes saw how the doctor had taken a nice chunk out of Shaehern’s ear, and pushed said serpent into a fury. “Ah, Vincent von Azhrarn,” she said softly before she sighed, starting to roll up the long cuffs of her sleeve. It would be unpleasant, and she’d wanted to avoid using this method, but this ridiculous fight had gone on far enough.

It seemed to take less than a second for the young-appearing Boogie to move from Naelona’s side to right at the brink of the fight. In that time, a pair of small and apparently fragile hands snapped out and latched first to the collar of both men’s shirts, then the nape of their necks…a feeling much like electricity swept through her hands to their skin, her talent beginning to take root. Jazz took a quick breath, closing her eyes for a moment before opening them again, revealing a sudden change in her gaze. Shae would recognize it. Warm, liquid amber had become a shocking, sharp golden glare, the iris completely engulfing the black pupil so only the color remained.

‘Good inluence’ indeed.

“This fight has lost its point. You will cease this at once. Shaehern, you will release Iugo,” the hand on the flamboyant semi-earless man tightened when she spoke his name, “And you will put something on that wound of yours. Iugo,” again she tightened the other hand, “You will get up from Shaehern and not touch him. Or so help me…”

The little threat wasn’t part of the spell, but she could help it from slipping out. As soon as she’d finished speaking, the grip on the men loosened and slid back and her arms dropped to her side, well aware the spell had worked. The most stubborn high-willed human fell for it, so she had to put a little extra to work it on a Boogie. But hell, she was very, very persuasive.

[Naelona Ezel]

Had Naelona been a lesser person, she might have blushed at Jasmine's compliment. The tiny woman spoke so... flawlessly. A perfect lilt to her pronunciations, with hints at a grammar mastery Nae still had yet to hope to achieve. The Ezel prided herself considerably on her skill of the language, compared to others.. but this particular boogie was putting her so-called 'mastery' to shame. "Thank you. A few have seen fit to instruct me beyond what books alone can teach."

At then a yell from a now half-eared Shaehern interrupted their little conversation. And - what did Jasmine think she was doing? Merely grabbing their necks wasn't going to change anything, save for perhaps bashing their heads together which she obviously wasn't doing. Let alone speaking to them - it was obvious by now they were far beyond words. Typical female. Ever thinking some small gesture will have some profound effect upon the world.

"That won't work." Hissed Naelona stepping up to the trio, flipping the metal plate over in her hands. Shaehern would probably be able to see the entire thing coming, and if he gave it away she swore he was going to be next. Raising the bronze plate Naelona brought it swift and solidly down upon the back of Iugo's skull with a very audible clang. Shoving forcefully against Iugo's shoulder, she kept the plate between him and her hands so she wouldn't have to touch him of course. If all went well he'd slump over on the floor unconscious. If not - well - there were more plates.

She really did detest becoming physically involved in such affairs.

[Doctor Nationis]

Iugo's forehead, starting to redden from multiple blows from Shaehern, began bashing along with the other boogie, though his sight was getting dizzy. The doctor had braced himself for each blow by lowering his head, trying to do more damage to this man before he would pass out. His leg screamed in pain, wanting to be free of the constriction. His teeth were still bared as his arms still worked against the ridiculous grapple. Without much to show for it, Iugo thought that this fight would be lost. Phasing wasn't an option. He did not like fleeing, especially when enraged.

Jasmine had then walked over, the jolt coursing through his body as he suddenly felt like the whole thing was stupid. He had just about said something degrading to Shaehern when a sudden, solid object collided with his head. Cursing out, Iugo phased and leapt forward, freeing himself from the other man. HO=olding the back of his head, he remained on all fours a short distance away. With an equally menacing growl, he turned, eyes glaring into Naelona. "What the hell was that for, bitch?!" He roared, angry, borwn eyes turning on her. His muscles ached to attack her next, but the pain from his leg began ebbing at his thought like a man caught in an avalanche. Iugo attempted to stand, but fell back to his knee, a shakey left leg unable to support him alone. A fist punched the ground in frustration.

Turning, he eyed two prizes he dearly wanted. One was close enough for him to snatch, while the other lay on the other side of the table. He would send Agony for it later... His hand lashed out, picking up the blue ear chunk, gripped tightly in his grip. With a final, backward glance, all three got a scowl from the doctor before he slwoly began phasing through the floor. "Thank you for this gift, Shaehern. I will treasure it," Iugo said ina low voice, eyes looking with the same intensity at Jasmine last before his head sunk below the floor.

[Shaehern Azhrarn]

His head was having a piercing ache, but Shaehern refused to stop. At least, that was how he felt until Jasmine grasped him at the back of his neck. Part of him felt angry at her. If she was going to do that all along, then why didn't she step in when the madman jumped on him in the first place? Angry or not, there was a really peculiar compulsion to loosen his grip and let Iugo go. It went against all reason and felt like a suicidal urge, but Shaehern obeyed. He had no choice. So weird to not be in full control of his personal faculties.

Amazingly, it did now get him killed. Just look at that. Of course, it was surprising that Nae didn't get herself killed with the heavy platter to the back of Iugo's head. "You didn't... he was going to... Jasmine had it." And she did, though he shot her a sideways glance as though to ask why she didn't have it sooner. Part of him was willing to bet it was because she was going googly eyed over Naelona.

"If you all don't mind," he started as he reached up to his now damaged ear. There was quite a lot of blood there. "If you don't mind, I'm going to go take care of this bleeding before it causes irreparable damage. Have fun, ladies." He wasn't really very cheerful anymore, though he couldn't much blame Iugo for that response.

"Good news is that I'm one-hundred percent certain of his feelings now, dear." And if there was any doubt in her mind, then she really hadn't been looking. That had been the original intent of that little stunt, after all. But now, time to stop the bleeding. Shaehern snatched a napkin off of the table and started off out of the cafeteria. He held the paper up to his ear to try and slow the bleeding. Shae did not count on it to do much.