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Post by Salki on Jan 29, 2012 14:37:51 GMT -5
Hedley's tail swished and tucked underneath of him. He figured that his leader couldn't understand-he couldn't tell him what had happened to him before they met. He couldn't tell him that he'd been slashed in the back by an aggressive fiero that he had no warning of. There'd been no rhyme or reason whatsoever to the sudden charge and as soon as it had started it had just stopped. He shook his head and bumped his muzzle into Alloy's free hand timidly.
He sighed, watching him and seeing that something was making him behave in this way. "Look, boy I'm not asking you to like it...I want you to learn all the attacks and defense that you can so just please do it so we can move onto something else..." He backed up and waved the stick once more. "I promise we'll use nibble more then scrape in battles..."
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Post by Salki on Feb 1, 2012 19:00:37 GMT -5
His ears perked, picking up the understanding in his voice. He sounded like he wanted to be done with this unpleasant business as much as he did himself. He slowly pried his tail out from between his legs, allowing it to swing free. "You aren't gonna let this stick beat you, are ya?" He added in a challenging voice and he huffed, shaking his head briskly from side to side. Of course he wouldn't! What did Alloy think to even suggest he would? He swiped his paw out, feeling his claws sink into the stick only slightly before he dragged it across, a thin shaving coming off of the whole and falling to the ground rather quickly.
Alloy grinned and nodded, seeing the sliver that made him think of a large pencil shaving. "Good, I didn't think you would..." He didn't want to tease Hedley-his esteem seemed low as it was but in these cases he saw that the fiero had more pride then he might think. Also if it'd get the job done faster then he didn't mind poking at him some. Again as he did with nibble, he ran him through trials and when he decided he had taught enough, he pet the fiero's ears, rubbing them. "We beat that dead horse enough..." He murmured, stopping to stare at him as he gruffed quietly.
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Post by Salki on Feb 1, 2012 19:17:11 GMT -5
eep accidently started next trick-sorry ;3;
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Post by Salki on Feb 7, 2012 20:10:54 GMT -5
"Now what's the matter with you?" He asked, staring at him. Had he touched his ear too roughly? That's when he remembered something about Salki and Bezzy from all the happy chattering before all this dragon possessed fiero business-before Salki taught her a certain ability, she wouldn't let her touch some parts about her. He sighed-what had Salki called it? Eff-it was so hard to listen to her sometimes he just had to zone out. It was accept...accept something...accept-contact! There, that was it. Accept contact. Maybe he needed to teach Hedley that, since it seemed to be a pretty basic ability anyway. Plus it might bring them closer, though he wasn't too concerned about this.
Hedley backed his head down, twitching his ears. He wasn't sure why he reacted like that. Now that he wasn't thinking about trying to complete the tasks given to him it just irked him to be touched in a way. His blue eyes flicked up to Alloy as he spoke. "Okay boy-this next thing isn't really an attack...but we should work on it anyway. Now...just relax." He felt his fingers slowly settling on his head, between his ears.
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Post by Salki on Feb 8, 2012 20:20:04 GMT -5
His tail only wagged more in response to the contact. He was still somewhat confused at why their training had seemingly come to a grinding halt but the feel of his leader's hand on his head felt calming so in turn he didnt mind too much.
"That feel okay boy-I mean are you okay with me touching your head?" He felt all too awkward with the questions but he knew being able to touch him would probably come in handy later. Satisfied with the unsaid answer he let his hand go up to one of the fiero's perked ears, lightly feeling it. As he expected Hedley's reaction changed.
His stance stiffened and after a second both ears pressed back against his head. Even so Alloy's hand stayed on his ear. "Easy boy..." He heard him let out in a breath as he pressed on, his other hand soon resting on his other ear.
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Post by Salki on Feb 11, 2012 10:39:51 GMT -5
For a moment Hedley actually paused to consider the situation. Yes it felt plenty odd to have his ears touched like this but who was doing this? It was Alloysius, his leader, his trainer what some called his alpha but more importantly over all the titles he was his friend. Why should him touching his ears bother him so? He slowly let his ears flick up to their normal pose. He felt Alloy's hands slide down his head slickly, by his eye-which made him twitch but beyond that he remained still.
Alloy removed one of his hands, letting the other remain where it was, his fingers brushing the fine hairs along his muzzle. He didn't linger for long on this part because he wasn't sure how much he really would need to touch there, except for possibly cleaning off a wound in battle. Hedley's two toned blue eyes blinked at him and he smiled. "Well, you're alright with this huh?" He stroked the soft cocoa brown fur.
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Post by Salki on Feb 11, 2012 11:15:09 GMT -5
Hedley closed his eyes, enjoying the small pampering feeling. It was an understatement to say he was alright. He would have probably let him do this all day! However he opened his eyes as he felt the light pressure leave his muzzle.
Alloy let his hand travel down his chest briefly before running it over one of his undominate shoulder blades. From there his hand cupped around his leg as his touch went down it. He felt each muscle slightly pulsing under the short fur and skin. Hedley seemed to be fine with it, kinda just staring at him. He realized at this moment that he hadn't explained why they were doing this. He sighed lightly as he let his hand continue slowly and spoke "You look lost. I'm just doing this to be sure I can touch you without you freaking out or whatever...Trust me, it'll make sense later...Something about building trust or whatever..."
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Post by Salki on Feb 11, 2012 12:49:05 GMT -5
He murmured this last part, part of his mind thinking that he should have consulted with Salki first about this. But hey, he was doing fine on his own. He knew he could touch his head, ears and face so far. He finally reached the one of the few parts he'd been concerned to do; his paws. He hadn't liked scraping things so why would he stand for his paws being fondled with? He let his hand slowly uncup from his leg and lightly touched the top of his paw. He expected the fiero to flinch to pull away but he did neither of those things, just still watching him quietly.
The bits that he could understand from Alloy's words made sense. Trust-building, he could go for that he guessed. It'd make them more powerful as a team for the future. He blinked at his hand touching his paw. Alloy let his whole palm lay on his right paw. He kinda fidgeted his paw under the pressure. It felt weird-he had never had anyone but himself touch his paw, like when he was grooming himself.
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Post by Salki on Feb 11, 2012 14:31:14 GMT -5
It didn't feel bad either though and he saw no reason to flinch away.
"Can I pick your paw up and have a look?" Alloy asked a little unsure. He knew the normal dogs and wolves liked to keep their paws either on the ground or on the ground. He especially knew that they didn't like getting their claws clipped-he remembered the large shepherd dog his family had owned when he was a kid and how he had to get knocked out with meds before he'd stay still for such a thing. Carefully he lifted Hedley's paw up, holding it in his hand. Surprisingly Hedley let his paw from the middle down go limp in his hold.
He felt the reflexes in his paw make it twitch as his leader seemed to touch each pawpad. He glanced to see his claws neatly poking out from between, a small sliver of wood sticking out from one. He gave a quiet huff at this.
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Post by Salki on Feb 12, 2012 12:26:32 GMT -5
Alloy noticed the sliver as well and gently flicked it away from the pearly white claws. "You're being extremely good about this..." He murmured letting some surprise slip into his voice. He felt a breeze from Hedley's tail wagging happily at the approval. He handled his paw lightly another few moments before letting it drop to the grass once more, moving his hand to the other front leg. He let his fingers travel lightly down his leg.
Hedley continued to watch him as he proceeded to do the same as he had done to the right paw. "Very good! At this rate we'll be done with this soon..." Hedley bobbed his head up and down in a nod. He had found in being taught the first two tricks that he enjoyed learning stuff. Maybe that part of him hadn't been shed away from when he had been a pup. Alloy's hand moved again, this time toward his back legs.
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Post by Salki on Feb 12, 2012 13:27:00 GMT -5
Hedley had flinched a little from the short distance from his hand to the scar on his back but relaxed again as he was feeling his hip down to his back leg.
Alloy took notice of the twitch but did not address it since it was only a short second till he seemed fine. He ran his fingers down his hip to his paw, touching it as he had done to his front paws. He flexed his paw in his hand then changed his hand to the other leg. Soon he had finished with all four of the fiero's leg and considered what was left to be done. His chest and stomach, then his back and maybe even his tail-hell, why not while he was at it.
Hedley looked up to the sky as his owner seemed to take a small break. The sun was beginning it's descent from the sky, it seemed more time had passed then he thought. He came back to attention as Alloy gave him a treat from his bag again, another strip of chicken and he munched it down contently.
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Post by Salki on Feb 12, 2012 17:46:06 GMT -5
He waited until the strip was all but gone before continuing on. He kneeled down lightly beside the siamese marked fiero. He let his hand lightly return to his fluffed out chest then gently raked his fur as he let his hand slip between his front legs lightly then let it hop to his stomach slowly.
Hedley began to fidget oddly at that. It didn't feel quite as odd or bad like when Alloy had touched his ears. But it felt..tingly as he felt him there more. He let out a series of short, blunt barks, almost sounding like the equivalent of human laughter.
Alloy glanced up toward his head, surprised by the sudden outburst then smirked, realizing he had an expression like his little sisters when he was younger. "What, a big fiero like you ticklish...?" He teased as he let his fingers play at his belly, the fiero squirming but staying in place obediently, the laugh-like barks continuing.
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Post by Salki on Feb 12, 2012 18:46:50 GMT -5
Finally he decided the fiero had endured enough "torture" and laughing himself by now, patted him on the head. "Okay so your stomach's tickling but you will let me touch you there huh Hedley...?" He smiled at the fieros tapering off barks. He stood up to his full height now, going down his mental checklist. Just his back and tail to go. His back should be pretty easy but he knew all animals could be finicky about their tails being touched because of the fact it gave them their balance and if anything happened to it they'd be off their game. Yes surprisingly he found he could remember a lot about his science classes on wildlife when he tried.
He shook his head around, as if mentally shaking off the remnants of the tingly feeling in his belly. He was happy that Alloy was getting such great amusement from this because he was sure later his tummy wouldn't quite appreciate it as much.
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Post by Salki on Feb 12, 2012 21:21:14 GMT -5
He felt Alloy's touch slip down between his ears to the back of his head, then his other hand joined in as both traveled over his shoulders again. He spaced out
His hands continued to travel down toward his tail, his hands moving over the thylacine stripes on his rump before Alloy paused, feeling something unexpected. The soft fur that his fingers had become accustomed to had ended and he had begun to feel a more rough texture. He stared at where his finger tips had ceased for the moment, at the edge of the one stripe in the middle that was a different color then it's neighbor to either side. He stared at the rich crimson which contrasted very much with the darker brown stripes. He let his hand inch forward and he felt it-somewhat dare he say it, crusty...Maybe this wasn't the stripe's true, natural color...As he began to wonder this though, Hedley suddenly flopped over, rolling on his back, whimpering as his belly turned up to the sky, his eyes wide as he looked up at something not there.
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Post by Salki on Feb 14, 2012 19:21:10 GMT -5
There it was again-the dark shadow hanging over him-no it wasn't a shadow! It was the bulk of a creature, much larger then himself. It snarled deeply in it's throat, the blood that dripped off one of it's claws as red as the gaze that bore into him intensely. The blood was his own, the being had pounced him in the wood, raking it's huge paw over his back. His small heart pumped faster and harder then it ever had before in his short life. He slunk back against the tree in the moonlight, nothing seeming friendly. He attempted to muster up a bark but all that came out was the true warble-whimper of a lone pup, scared out of his mind. Suddenly he felt his head being touched even though the creature seemed to have stayed away-his eyes flew open as he stared up at Alloy who looked pretty scared himself.
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