What this is a thing?
 

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(ignore the 666 thing)

Name: Damien
Age: 22 (with a birthday coming up)
He's a strange child, he can admit that...though not everyone knows all his eccentricities. Such as his ability to speak with snakes. They sometimes have very interesting stories. This ability did not emerge until his late teens. He kept it to himself though. No need to freak people out.

He moved out of his family's place and into the country, on the edge of some woods. It's where he likes it. He can use his ability and not be judged for it. He finds little need of human friends thanks to the snakes outside.

Maria is his name. His mom wanted a girl more then anything, so she named him Maria. It didn't help that he fairly looked like a girl. It wasn't till most people took a double look that they would see it. Maria had long dark black hiar, and he would have loved to cut it. His dear mother put a curse on him when he was just a small baby. He could never cut his hair. It wouldn't grow passed his butt, but would stay long for all his life. Maria kept it in a tight bun. With his hair up he looked a little more manly. His features stood out more. His strong jaw showed proud as if it was a lost treasure. His eyes were a soft blue that stood out on there own. His eye brows only helped shape his bright eyes. His lips where full and an ever so soft pink color.

He stood out side his house as he began to cut some wood. Maria knew that if he didn't start now that he wouldn't have enough for the winter. Though how hard could it be for a dragon to stay warm? In all honesty it was truly hard, for you see a dragon is just a glorified lizard. Maria couldn't make fire unless he stayed warm. As he cut the wood he found him self humming to the sound of a small bird. He looked about and smiled. The year before he had finally finished his house, and was just now settling in.

Damien has been talking to snakes for years now. Sometimes they tell him interesting stories. One story they like to tell a lot is of a big lizard, snakes don't have a word for dragon, that turns into a human, but they aren't sure if it is a big lizard with a human form or a human with a big lizard form. They have more self-preservation than that, so they don't get close enough to find out. But they have also told him that the lizard is sighted around this new house a lot.

And Damien is a curious person, at least to some extent. Maybe he can talk to lizards too, he's never tried. So maybe he'll be safe. The snakes say the house is kind of far away, by their standards. And so he gets a big jug like thing and fills it with water before heading out, walking in the direction that the snakes "pointed" him in. Even if he doesn't make it to the house, he'll see other interesting things on the way hopefully.

Maria whipped the sweet from his borrow, as he continued with the wood. After chopping for a while he was finally done. He had now made enough wood for the winter. He smiled at his handy work, as he laid his ax down by the stump. Maria then walked into his house. He wasn't a large dragon by any means. Though to any snakes or small animals he would be.

Sitting in the large chair he had made with his own hands, he relaxed and looked around his house. "I'm happy... Aren't I." he said as the though of trying to find love came to him. He longed to call someone love. When he first came out here it was as bad. He had work to do, but now he was done... He was truly alone.

As Damien walks, the snakes tell him stories about the big lizard. About the lizard exploring and hunting. Don't forget also scaring them as well. Though that might just be because he's bigger than them. It would be a natural fear because he might be able to squish them by accident and everything.

Eventually he does make it to the house, but with no big lizard like the snakes were talking about in sight. But this is his neighbor, right? Might as well go and knock, introduce himself and everything. So he goes up to the house and knocks on the door.

Maria hears a knock on the door. At first he though it was his imagination, but when he heard the second knock he walked over the the large oak door. He opened it a crack and looked at the man in front of him. His cheeks turned a bright red. The heat from his cheeks leaving a small black mark on the door. It wasn't anyone he knew. "HI." Maria wasn't sure what else to do. He opened the door wider and looked to the man. "Would you like to come in? I don't get much company so I'm really sorry for the mess." he said. Maria ran around the small house picking up small piles of clothes and other small Items. "What brings you our here?" he asked.

Damien just waits a moment, looking around a bit. It takes people more than a second to answer the door. "Hello." He kind of chirps as he sees a person. He just smiles. "Sure, thank you." He laughs a bit as the other apologizes. "Don't worry about it...I'd be more worried if your place was spotless." He pads inside, going to help him on picking stuff up. "Um...well...someone..." Snakes. "Told me about a big lizard that's out here...and since I live kind of near here....had to see if I could find it. See how big it really is." Lying is not a forte of his.

Maria smiled as he watched the man. "Well..." he said as he finished picking up a small stack of papers. He wanted to write his love story, for if he couldn't have one in real life maybe he could have it on paper. He looked to the man. Maria wasn't sure if he wanted to let the man in on his secret just yet. "Snakes humm." he said. Could this boy be just like him, just maybe not knowing the extent of his own powers.

He sat in a chair by the fire. "Would you like to join me? Suppers is almost done." he said as he looked to the medium size pot siting in the fire. Maria was suprized at his company. It had been the first time since he came to the woods that anyone had come to see him. He wanted this moment to last as long as it could.

"What's that?" Damien asks about the stack of papers. He's curious and has to at least ask. He doesn't want to snoop but he's curious about this new person he's met. "I haven't seen this big lizard that the person talked about." He is going to at least try to refrain from saying what. "But I didn't really expect to....maybe someday though." He isn't afraid of the big lizard. He just wants to see it, and that's it unless he can talk to it. If so, he'll talk with it.

"Sure." He smiles and pads over there, sitting nearby with his leg curled underneath himself. "What are you making?" He sniffs a bit. It smells good to him from what he can actually smell. "My house is a little far from here, but it's within walking distance....we could visit each other if you want." He likes this person already for some reason. He has no idea why.

Maria looked over at the pile of papers. "umm..." he said. "promise not to laugh." he said as he tucked the pages into the mall drawer of the desk. "Its a love story." he said as he looked at the man. Maria smiled as the man talked about his dragon form. "I'm the dragon." he said softly. He Let his body shift into the dragon form. It was a little bit larger then his own body but not by much.

He changed back to his human form. "You can't tell anyone I'm here okay?" he asked. He didn't want his village to find out where he was. They had been looking for him for some time now. Maria took two bowels and filled them up with soup. "its home made chicken noddle." Maria said with a smile.

Damien cocks his head, blinking a bit. "Why would I laugh?" He doesn't see anything that could be funny. He smiles at the answer. "What kind of love story? Is it anywhere near done? If you know that is." The only thing he's ever finished writing was poems. That;s about it. He kind of squeals when he turns into the big lizard/dragon.

"Switch back! Switch back! I wanna touch you!" Excuse Damien as he goes into two year old mode, bouncing in the chair. And he does not mean that in a perverted way. "I won't tell, but I wanna touch you!" He's still bouncing with shiny eyes, looking at Maria. He's too excited now to say the least.

Maria handed Damien a bowel full of food. "Eat." he said with a smile. "It almost done." he said softly and sweetly. "Its about a young boy who was banned from his village. They told him never to return." he said. He took a bite of his food then continued th story. "This young boy was in love with two people. The first was a girl her name was Lilith, the second was a man, his name was Eric. They you girl knew how he felt both of her and the man, but when he was banned he was doomed to a solome and lonely existence." he said softly.

He took down his long hair after eating and began to brush it. "Its a curse though." he said not looking up form his hair. When he realized how excited the boy was he smiled. "Fine fine." he said as he set the brush down on the small table next to him. "Just this once." he said. Maria let his body go, and when his did his bones twisted witch way till he was the dragon once more.

Damien takes the bowl, watching Maria as he talks. "Why was he banned?" God help Maria, Damien will be asking questions. Possibly lots of them. "Why's that? Just because he's banned from a village doesn't make him banned from all the other villages...or people that don't live in the village. And what if someone was willing to leave the village for him?" He can't help but say it and then feel kind of bad and it shows in his face. "I'm sorry. It's your story, not mine." He didn't mean to ruin it like that or anything.

"Nuh-uh. It's cool." At least he thinks so. He puts the soup off to the side for the moment when Maria agrees to change. He kind of squeals before pouncing on the now dragon, hugging him and king of nuzzling him. He's excited. Just a little bit. And he likes animals too. So Maria can be a friend AND an animal. It seems like a win-win to him.

"he was running away form his destiny that's why he got banned. The others just stopped talking to him in fear of being banned themselves." he didn't mind telling the story, mostly because it was his own story. He was more then happy to share it. "the people of the village were very special, and they would lose all the power if they left the town." he said with a smile. "Its quite alright. Your the first person who I've shard this with." he said.

Maria was caught off guard when Damien hugged him. For some reason he felt a connection with this man. "thank you." he thought, little did he know, that when he was in his dragon form Damien could hear his thoughts. It was the first time in a long time that he didn't try to pull away.

"So? That's not a reason to be banned or anything." Damien has an unhappy look on his face. "I doubt he's the only one that's ever done that." And the others probably weren't banned like that. "Well, they suck." That's his thought on the others not talking to him just because they didn't want to be banned. He just snorts. "They still suck in my opinion." He can't help but say it. It's a simple truth to him. He smiles a bit at Maria. "Good...because I don't know how to shut up at times."

"No problem." He kind of chirps, nuzzling him a bit more. He doesn't even think about answering him. It's nothing weird to him to hear animals and the like. He's been talking to snakes for a long time and what are lizards except snakes with legs...and what are snakes except legless lizards?

"Its just the law of that land. Everyone has a set destiny." he said matter of factly. "His father was just like him, but they were the only two in the village to run away." he said as he looked at Damien. Thats how it was his whole life, when his father was allowed to come back Maria had the power already. It was a hopeless situation for Maria. Either way He would end up alone.

Maria moved back a little. He turned back into his human form. "How did you do that?" he asked. Maria knew that he didn't say that out loud. It spooked him that someone could hear his thoughts. "Can you hear me when I'm in this form?" he asked.

Damien does not look happy at what Maria is saying. "No one has a set destiny. We create that ourselves by our own decisions and everything." He just shakes his head a bit. "I'd run away too, everyone saying this is my destiny and all that. No one's destiny is decided until they're dead." He states. He can be a bit stubborn when he wants to be. "But that's only because it's hard to make decisions when you're dead."

"Huh?" Damien cocks his head a bit, confused. "Do what?" He doesn't even realize what he did which is kind of funny. "What do you mean? Course I can hear you. You're talking." He really doesn't understand what's going on and he just looks at Maria very confused.

Maria smiled at the snake boy. He could tell that they were going to be great friends. "I wasn't talking out loud." he said softly. He fluffed the papers once more and looked at the other male. "So you came here just to see me?" he said. He could feel his cheeks turn a light pink. Maria had been alone for so long it was nice to have someone who wanted to be around him. "I was doomed to a life of being alone." he said as he then sat back down in his chair.

Damien shrugs a bit. He can talk to snakes, why would much of anything else surprise him really? He smiles a bit at the question, at the other blushing a bit. "Yep, I heard about you so....I had to check it out at least." He gets curious like that. "You're never doomed into anything. Though it may be hard to change things. I don't know." He pads around a bit looking at the things in Maria's house. He likes it here already.

There were papers, and book stacked up all around the house. "Books they've been my only friend for a really long time." he said with a smile. "Are you hungry? There's some more food here." he said as his found he wasn't quite sure what to do with his hand. "Thank you for taking interest." he said softly. Maria tended to be a very soft spoken person contrary to his ability. Though in his eyes it was his ability that kept him from meeting people. "I'm sorry I must say I'm not one much for words." he said string the stew he had they had just ate. "You are free to ask anything you want though." he said looking up at the other man and softly smiling.

"I feel like I've never had friends, but for a completely different reason." That's because they didn't know of Damien's ability, he felt he couldn't let them too close or they'd shun him. So instead, he distanced himself a bit from people. "Do you have the internet? Amazon has free downloadable books if you download the reader too..." Or have a kindle. He does enjoy reading, probably not as much as Maria though. His stomach grumbles at the idea of food. "I think that's a yes." He says before chuckling a bit. "Have you always been able to do that?" Shifting he means.

Maria had heard of the internet, but didn't know how to use it. He didn't have any electronics other then his lights, though he really didn't use them either. "I've never used it." he said softly. Maria Loved book and couldn't get enough of reading. The books he had were ones people had lost in the forest. You would be supriesed what people leave in the forest. Maria smiled at Damiens stomach. "Good there's plenty here." he said with a smile. Maria looked away for moment trying to find something around him. "Not always." he said as he pulled out a thin sheet of paper. "When it first started I was stuck in that form. It happened a few years ago. Now I control it, and it no longer controls me." he said. He hand Damien the sheet of paper. "The first few lines are when I was stuck but the more I concentrated the easier it became to become myself."

Damien just stares at Maria, kind of shocked. "Really? But...you like to read. There's tons of stuff to read on there...and they don't take up much space either." It hurts him thinking someone has never been on the internet. "We have to fix that someday." He says simply. He frowns a bit. "Stuck like that? That isn't good. Though it is good that you've learned to control it and all." He smiles at that point, taking the paper from him and looking at it.

(I'm thinking maybe he has a bit of money from his drawings/writing? maybe?)

Marie smiled. "Maybe you could show me." he said. He wasn't good at clarfiying his reasoning for words. "I can sell some of this stuff, and maybe you could show me how it works." he said. He liked the Idea of having Damien around. Maria had though about going to town one day, and hoped that no one would know who he was. There was something about Damien that made him want to see the outside.

(Okay we can make that work ^_^)
(I have to go for now, my hubby and I are going to watch a movie. <3)