Yoichi noted the slight movement out of Celestine and sighed quietly. Well, at least he was still there on the pillow and not hiding somewhere else in the room. He stretched his arms up over his head for a moment before he started to step away from the bed and inch a bit closer to Celestine. "...I've got work of course, so I can't keep an eye on you after I leave." He said aloud. He wasn't sure Celestine cared to listen to him. He somehow doubted that he'd cooled off after just a couple hours. It didn't really matter either way. "I've gotta get ready to go, and I don't recommend you leave this room looking like that. My father will probably try to hurt you if he sees you and you'll more than likely startle my mother to the point she'll want to chase you with a broom." He explained as he headed towards the door. "So... I'm assuming you know how to change back... I'll toss your clothes in here before I leave for the training building." He told him, honestly. His parents had never seen a dragon quite that small and he was pretty sure their first reactions to him wouldn't be pleasant. So in his mind it would be easier to just toss the clothes into the room before he left, then Celestine could leave whenever he wanted. After all, he was only supposed to keep Celestine here through the rain. Now that it was morning it was likely done raining, thus no need for Celestine to still be here if he didn't want to be. He put his hand on the door knob as he reached it and didn't bother waiting for a response from Celestine. He wouldn't have understood it anyway. He did his best to slip through the door without Celestine getting out but it wasn't like he couldn't get out too if he tried. Of course once he was out of the room he shut the door behind him.

Celestine glanced at Yoichi again when he came closer to him but for the moment he didn't make any disgruntled noises. So long as he didn't touch him, he was fine... He sighed when he told him that he had to go to work and then raised his head again when Yoichi started to move toward the door. He uncurled himself and then started to slither off of the pillow and looked up at him again. He growled softly when he said that he didn't recommend him leaving the room, though he quieted a little when he heard why. He hadn't met Yoichi's father and frankly he really didn't want to meet him. He didn't know why anyone would want to chase him with a broom, but he wasn't really in the mood to be hit. Still, he didn't want to be stuck in here all day without anything to put on. He was ready to grab onto Yoichi's pants leg and try to communicate to him that he needed clothes before he could get out, but he was relieved to hear him say that he would throw them in here before he left. He watched as Yoichi started to head out and then rather quickly decided to dart out after him when he noticed that he was going to close the door again. He didn't really want to be locked in there again. Plus for some reason he didn't really trust Yoichi's memory to get him his clothes before he left. He would rather have them now and he doubted that anyone would try to squish him if he was with Yoichi...as much as he would rather not be. He looked up to Yoichi again after he had closed the door and then made a sort of whining noise before he started to inch closer to the living room where he had left his clothes, hoping he would get the hint that he'd rather have those before he started trying to get dressed rather than after.

Yoichi wasn't very surprised to see that Celestine had followed him out of the bedroom. He stared down at him for a moment once he heard what sounded like him whining. He shook his head lightly. "...I told you that you should stay inside my room..." He muttered quietly before kneeling down quickly and grabbing hold of him just behind the head again. "...My father would totally shish-kabob you first and ask questions later..." He kept a firm hold of Celestine and then went back to his bedroom and opened the door. He stood there for a moment wondering what he should do with him. He wanted to make sure that it wasn't easy to get through the door again when he was on his way out. The only thing he could think of was the dresser. He didn't have much in his room to begin with so there weren't very many options. He sighed softly and started over towards the dresser. "...I do apologize ahead of time since you don't listen." He told him quietly as he pulled open one of the larger drawers enough that he could shove Celestine inside and them slam it shut. Since the dresser was made of solid wood the drawers were kind of heavy so it wouldn't be easy to get out but at the same time he couldn't very well leave him locked in the drawer. He stared at it for a moment and then shimmied the drawer open a crack before turning around and heading straight for his bedroom door. He slipped out into the hall and shut the door behind him once again. This time he highly doubted that Celestine would have enough time to work his way out of the drawer and get to the door before he shut it. He had no doubt that Celestine would eventually work his way out since he left it open a crack big enough that he wouldn't be stuck. After he was free of Celestine he went on about his way, getting ready for work as quickly as possible. He had already come to the conclusion that he'd be late, he just didn't want to be even later. If he hurried through his usual morning activities he could probably be out of the house before Hisako decided to start heading this way. Since he was rushing through getting ready he really had forgotten about Celestine's clothes. He probably would've remembered them if they had been by the front door but he'd already moved them earlier. He was dressed and on his way out of the house within fifteen minutes give or take. His memories of the times he was late and the work Hisako put him through really did overshadow everything and he completely and utterly forgot to get those clothes for Celestine. Knowing him he would probably remember the clothes well after he was already at the training building.

Celestine actually didn't complain when Yoichi picked him up, at least not until he started to head back to the room with him. He whined again and then growled in frustration. 'Damn it, just get my clothes! Is that too much to ask!?' He tried to look back to back to Yoichi again when he started apologizing once they got to the dresser. He thought for a moment that he was going to get him a different pair of pants or something, though he realized only after he opened the drawer what he was going to do with him. His eyes widened and he started to flail wilding in Yoichi's grasp while screeching loudly. He let out a yelp when he landed inside the drawer and started to try to get up to try to get out before he could close it, though it slammed shut before he even got in turned around. He screeched loudly, though his voice was muffled by the wood. 'HEY! HEY! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT, THIS ISN'T FUNNY! LET ME OUT! PLEASE LET ME OUT!' Already he was panicking and beating his wings wildly against the wood as he rammed his tiny body against the drawer. When Yoichi next opened this drawer he was going to find it a complete mess of loose and broken feathers. He continued screeching wildly, even after Yoichi had cracked the drawer open again. He tried to dart out the small opening, but his horn caught on the wood above the opening and forced him to fall backwards. He poked his nose out of the opening, crying rather pitifully when he heard Yoichi moving away. He was already breathing rapidly and his heart was pounding in his ears. He couldn't take being locked in a space this tiny at all, even if there was a crack for him. He continued crying loudly with his nose poked out of the hole as far as he could get it until he was coughing too hard to continue. Finally he pulled his nose back in and started slamming his side against the drawer's front again as hard as he could manage though with his weight being less than three pounds like this, that wasn't much. This would have been a lot easier to get out of if he had claws or legs at least, but all he had was a long snake-like body with a pair of wings that were nothing but in the way. He continued slamming his body against the opening until he finally just collapsed back to the bottom of the drawer, gasping and coughing as his emerald eyes watered. He'd hurt himself more than he'd accomplished moving the drawer at all. He only lay there for a few seconds before he was right back to flailing around and more or less screeching as loudly and pitifully as he possibly could.

Emiko had been awake along with her husband when Yoichi had left. She didn't think anything of his being in such a hurry to get to work. It wasn't unusual to see him rushing to get out the door in the mornings. It wasn't until some time after he had left that it dawned on her that they had a guest last night. She had assumed that Celestine stayed the night since it was pouring down rain last night like there was no tomorrow. She hadn't been sure exactly when it cleared it up but after glancing at the door and not seeing Celestine's things there any longer she wondered if that meant he had left before her son went to work. She was fairly certain that Celestine had been somewhat sick last night so she didn't really want to believe he had already gotten up so early and left. She continued to sit where she was on the couch for a moment before sitting forward and then standing up. She double checked the door just to make she his things hadn't moved anywhere around there. Satoshi, her husband, had been the first awake so if he'd seen the items he may have moved them himself. "Hmm..." She started to head towards the kitchen, pausing briefly to look at her husband who had been fixing another cup of coffee. "Dear... by chance... did you see some clothes and a belt with weapons by the front door when you got up this morning?"

Satoshi paused what he was doing and looked back over his shoulder at his wife with a quirked brow after hearing her question. "No, why exactly do you ask?" He hadn't seen anything out of place at all in the living room when he got up and couldn't help wondering what his wife was talking about.

Emiko sighed quietly. "Yoichi recognized someone on our way home last night in the rain. The poor kid was out in the rain, alone and getting sick." She paused. "I let the boy come back to the house with us since the weather was so bad. He stayed the night and I was wondering if he was still here... Since his clothes are gone, he may not be." She answered quietly. She turned slightly and glanced down the hall. Sound didn't carry very well in the house so she couldn't have heard Celestine no matter how loud he was being in Yoichi's room. Regardless she still wanted to double check and make sure that he really was gone and that Yoichi hadn't just left him all alone in the back of the house. She started down the hall and stepped over to Aamori's old room first. She cracked the door open and then pushed it the rest of the way open when she noticed there wasn't anyone inside and gave it another once over. She turned to her sons door and stepped across the hall, setting her hand on the knob and then cracking it open a little to glance inside. She didn't see anyone right away and then pushed the door open the rest of the way to double check and make sure there wasn't a mass in the bed or anything. Her ears twitched when she finally focused on a relatively strange noise emitting from the room. She stepped inside and tilted her head slightly while she tried to pinpoint where the sound was coming from. It didn't take very long to notice that it was coming from the only other large structure in the room. She stared at the dresser for a moment before she finally started to walk over to it. She was honestly not sure she wanted to open the drawer the sounds were coming from but after listening a little more closely she was pretty sure whatever it was was alive. She took a deep breath and inched her hand closer to the drawer so that she could open it up. She was rather slow about it but she did managed to pull the drawer open enough that she could see inside without too much trouble.

Celestine simply continued to flail around wildly while screeching and beating himself against the wood, trying to open the drawer in vain until he was almost too sore to even move. His throat hurt from the continuous wailing and finally he did have to stop and just dropped on top of the clothes gasping. His ears laid back as he stared up at the opening, his heart still pounding rapidly in his chest as he tried to figure a way to get out of here. His ears stood up when he heard the door open and immediately he raised himself up and looked at the opening. His head was aching terribly, but he tried to peek out anyway while letting out another series of almost hoarse screeches. He was relieved to see Yoichi's mother, even if she would be freaked out by seeing him. He had already started coughing again by the time she got the draw open, but as soon as she had it open wide enough that he was easily visible he threw himself up over the edge of the drawer and hung over it, still coughing heavily before he slipped over the edge and crashed into the floor. He didn't even bother getting up once he hit the floor, he just curled up on himself tightly, continuing to cough. His voice was all but dead from all of the noise he had been making. After all he had been screaming at the top of his lungs for nearly twenty minutes, non-stop. He'd only been in the drawer about twenty five minutes, but even at that, it felt like forever. He was already trembling violently where he lay, though not at all from cold. He was just trying to catch his breath since to him, it was hard to breathe when he was closed in like that, and also to top that off his nose was so stuffed up that it was hard to breathe through it anyway.

Emiko startled terribly when whatever that was threw itself over the edge of the drawer. She hadn't gotten a good look at it before and thanks to it moving and hanging over the edge of the drawer she'd stood up and backed away from it rather quickly. So quickly in fact that she'd stumbled back onto the bed when her knees hit it. She drew her legs up onto the bed as soon as the thing fell onto the floor and then curled in on itself. It took her a moment to calm down and she couldn't seem to pry her eyes off of it. She wanted to say that it was a dragon but it was rather small compared to what she was used to seeing. Not to mention she hadn't ever really seen a dragon without limbs, so in this case that thing seemed to resemble a snake to her more than anything. Then again it did have... wings... feathery wings. It also looked to have a golden horn, it was tiny but still, it was a horn. Now that she was getting a good look at it she was oddly reminded of Celestine. He had feathery wings and a golden horn after all. Not to mention he was pretty green... all over just like this... little... snaky... dragon... thing. She slowly let her legs down from the bed and then stood up and started to inch closer to it. She was trying to decide if she was freaked out by it or if it was cute. Undoubtedly it was cute but she was trying to weigh the differences. She kept a small distance between her and the thing and then knelt down a little, eying it still. ".........Cel...estine....?" She asked quietly. If it wasn't him she didn't want to appear silly for questioning some weird, snaky-dragon... thing.

Celestine really wasn't paying Emiko any mind at all right now. So long as she didn't start beating him with a broom he didn't really care what she did with him...just as long as she didn't throw him back in that drawer. He was still coughing and panting while he lay there and still couldn't seem to stop himself from shaking like a leaf. His wings were just splayed off at his sides and some of his feathers were rather mangled where he had been beating them against the box and a good few of them were broken and bent. He did finally raise his head when he heard his name and looked up to her again. He stared at her with those wide emerald and gold eyes and then nodded his head weakly. There were small trails of water running from the corners of each eye where they had been watering while he was making such a ruckus in the drawer. He didn't bother to move anything other than his head and once he'd given her and answer he just laid his head right back down on his side and wound up coughing again before he closed his eyes. He really just wanted to get his clothes and leave, but right now he was too tired to even slither to the door. Even raising his head to nod to Emiko's question was painful. He made another quiet whining noise and then slowly started to raise his head again to look at her. 'Th...thank you...' He didn't know if Yoichi's mother could understand him any better than Yoichi could, but god he was hoping that she could. After all, he couldn't very well change back in front of her to ask about his clothes.

Emiko inched as close as she could get to him without stepping on him once she'd seen him nod his head. Now that she was pretty sure that it was safe to approach him, she was rather intrigued by his size. She'd never seen a form quite this size, especially for his age. Well, she didn't know how old he was but she assumed somewhere around the age of one of her two children. She knelt down and stared at him for a moment at least until she was fairly certain she'd heard him say something. Given his size she guessed that it wasn't too hard to believe that his voice would distort a little along with everything else that was different. It wasn't completely impossible to understand him but it wasn't exactly a walk in the park either. "...You're welcome." She responded quietly. "...I kind of thought you had already left." She started. "Your things aren't by the door any longer and Yoichi left in such a rush..." She shook her head lightly. "And... it's a little strange to find you like this... in a drawer no less." She said as she continued to look down at him, half tempted to reach over and touch him.

Celestine sighed softly when she told him that she thought he'd already left and that Yoichi had left in a hurry. He coughed again, very unpleased to hear that his clothes weren't were he'd left them. He shook his head slightly when she said it was strange to find him like that in a drawer. '...I was trying to get my clothes...I need them...before I change back...or...I...can't...' he just trailed off on the sentence. It was a little embarrassing to say that he was going to be naked if he changed back now and it wasn't that hard to figure out where he was going. He fell out of what he was wearing when he changed, he wasn't going to magically be in clothes again when he changed back. 'He told me not to come out like this but he understand me, so I came out anyway and he threw me in there...' he explained quietly, though he was still speaking rapidly as he was still recovering from his panic attack. It kind of hurt his throat to make the noises that he needed to make and he had no idea how clear he was bring, even though he was only giving the bare minimum of the story to get the point across. He looked back to the drawer nervously and then shifted a little closer to Emiko and away from the dresser absently. His head was throbbing painfully and he finally stretched his neck out and laid his chin on the floor with a quiet groan as he shut his eyes, shuddering again. '...I hate tight spaces...' he whimpered quietly, '...I just want to go outside...' He wanted to go back to the other island and just curl up with Esen and Nobu since he couldn't get back inside easily like this and his other clothes were at the training building where he had a shot in hell of getting to them.

Emiko was having a hell of a time trying to understand word for word what Celestine was saying. Of course she wound up repeating what she had gathered to herself in her head until it made more sense. She did pick up on the fact that he needed his clothes in order to change back. That was simple enough and quite understandable. She hadn't the faintest clue where he son had put Celestine's things. Unfortunately for Celestine she didn't really want to go on a hunt just to find them. It'd be easier to make Yoichi get them or tell her where they were but either way that was going to take time. Once she understood how Celestine wound up in the dresser she shook her head lightly. "If anything Yoichi was right to tell you to stay in the bedroom. My husband would have had a more violent reaction to you than I did. I mean... it isn't everyday that we stumble across something like you in our house..." She sighed quietly after hearing that he hated tight spaces. Again, that was short and pretty easy to pick up on especially since he had shifted closer to her and further from the dresser. His wanting to be outside was easy enough to get too. "...I'm going to ...pick you up..." She warned him. She hesitated for a moment but started to reach her hands out so that she could scoop him up as gently as possible. Unlike her son she wasn't all for manhandling Celestine even if he reminded her more of a snake than anything. Once she had him in her hands she pulled him a bit closer to her chest before she stood up. After she was on her feet she started to the bedroom door and slipped straight across the hall into what used to be her daughters room. She walked straight over to the large window and undid the latch before pushing one of the two windows open. She then started to set Celestine down on the ledge of the window. Considering his size compared to the window there should have been plenty of room for him to sit there. "This is the easiest way out, as I'm sure my daughter could tell you." She paused. "If you want to leave... then go right ahead. I'll have your things returned to you once Yoichi gets home and tells me where they're at."

Celestine just mumbled a quiet 'hmm' of acknowledgment when she told him that Yoichi was right to tell him to stay in here. He was well are that he could have been clobbered, but if Yoichi had at least tried to pay attention he didn't think it was that hard to figure out what he needed even if he couldn't understand his shrill gibberish. He didn't bother to open his eyes at all until she said that she was going to pick him up. He almost completely froze until her hands got near him and then he flinched a little before she got a hold of him as if he thought she was going to grab him up roughly. He was relieved that she was at least gentle with him. After she pulled him closer to her he relaxed his body a little and curled his tail loosely around her arm while he rested his head against her. He still hadn't been able to stop shaking completely and if she had her hand in the area of his stomach around where his wings attached on his back she would almost certainly be able to feel his little heart still thudding away, just like a wild animal that had just been caged. He barely even looked around as she carried him to the other room. He only looked up once she started to unlatch the window, but his head almost immediately went to rest where it had been again until she went to sit him down. He uncurled his tail from her arm and then looked back up to her again when she told him that this was the easiest way out and that he could leave if he wanted. Rather than try to talk again to thank her he just nuzzled his head against whichever part of her was the closest and made a short lived purring sound. Even that was cut short by those squeaky little coughs. After a moment he stretched out on the sill and made sure his nose was right where the fresh air was coming in before he glanced back to her again. '...The blades are....more important...' he told her quietly. He didn't even care about the clothes so much as he had others, he just needed his blades... and his earrings would be a bonus, but the blades were the most important thing. He finally turned his attention back to the open window, for a moment and then shifted again to look back up to Emiko. '...Thank you...' he finally choked out as he raised his head to her again. He then inched a little closer to the edge of the window sill and peeked over the edge to see how far of a drop it was. Unfortunately, that matter didn't have much time to make any difference. As he'd done before he move further than he realized and before he could stop he felt himself sliding off of the window. He flailed for a moment to try to catch himself, but with nothing to grab with he inevitably slipped right off anyway, doing a complete nose-dive into the wet sand before he cold even get his wings open. Again, he yipped in pain when he hit the ground, mostly because he'd landed on his snout and then the rest of him piled haphazardly in a heap on top of his head. He groaned and then squirmed around for a moment before he managed to get himself all untangled. Well...at this rate it looked like he was leaving where he was up to it or not, though he wasn't entirely sure how far he could make it like this. By now he was almost afraid of being stepped on by someone.

Esen had finally woken up again and was just now looking out to see that it had stopped raining and the sun was already up. He stood up and shook out her fur again since it felt a little icky the way it had dried. Once she had fluffed herself up a bit she started to move toward the steps and then paused for a moment to look back to Nobu. She still had every intention of marking back to that house to see if she could find Celestine, though she didn't know if Nobu was coming with her. She didn't bother to ask and just continued down the steps after looking at him. It had been his suggestion, so she was pretty sure he knew where she was going and what she was doing. Once she hit the sand she started to walk quickly in the direction of the bridge again. At least she knew where she was going this time, so it wouldn't take her forever and a day to track him down again.

Emiko barely focused on anything but not dropping Celestine when she carried him to the other room but she did pick up on how fast his little heart was beating. Considering that he had said he hated small spaces she wasn't really surprised that his heart was going like it was. She continued to stand close to the window after she'd set him down, keeping an eye on him. She nodded her head lightly after hearing that the blades he had with him last night were more important. She wasn't about to argue him on that. To her they looked like nothing more than unique blades and clothing did seem more important to her than the blades. "I'll make sure you get them back as soon as possible." She told him quietly. She continued to keep an eye on him and her breath caught when she saw him slip right off the window's ledge. Of course she immediately moved to the ledge and leaned over, looking down at where he had fallen. "Oh my... are you alright?" She asked quickly while she stared down at him from the window.

Nobu lifted his head when he heard Esen head for the steps. He'd been on the verge of waking up and that movement had been enough to get him up. He stared back over at her for a moment once she'd gone down onto the sand and watched as she started to walk quickly for the bridge. He assumed that she was going back to check that house she'd told him about last night. He stood up and stretched briefly before moving to the steps and jumping down onto the sand and then following after her. He was worried about Celestine himself an figured that by going with her she wouldn't have to come all the way back just to tell him what she'd found out, on the off chance that Celestine hadn't been at that house or something had changed. He caught up to her easily enough and made his pace match hers. 'You're in quite the hurry... can't even say anything before you take off?' He wasn't mad or anything, merely messing with her.

Celestine's nose had left a nice impression int he sand where he had landed, and his entire snout was covered in the sticky wet sand. He shook his head once he'd unburied it and then closed his eyes tightly as he sneezed repeatedly, trying his best to clear the sand from his nostrils. He finally turned and just started rubbing his nose against his tail to try to clear it. Now was really one of those times that he did wish he had feet, even if only on the front. He sneezed again and then coughed before he looked back up to the window and nodded weakly in answer to her question. He wasn't really hurt, though his nose was a little irritated by the sand grains. That certainly didn't help his headache at all though he didn't see fit to complain about it since there was nothing that could really be done about it. Again he curled in on himself, this time laying his tail over his eyes and rubbing it down his nose before placing it back and doing the same thing again. That was about the only way that he could even try to rub his head like this. All he really wanted to do was curl up and not move anymore considering the fuss he'd been making on the drawer. At least he was a lot more relaxed now that he was outside again, though he still wasn't looking forward to getting back to the other island. He had successfully mangled a lot of his feathers, so he had a feeling flying wasn't going to be a walk in the park until he got them straightened out a bit and plucked the ones that were broken and sticking up at odd angles, and he was going to need his hands for that. Slithering all the way back to the other island wouldn't be fun either.

Esen glanced over to Nobu once he caught up with her and shook her head a little. 'I wasn't entirely sure you were awake at first. I assumed if you were you would already know where I was going and you know I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to come.' She was honestly kind of glad that he had decided to come with her since it would save her a trip back here if she couldn't figure anything out. She never once broke her pace as she scurried over the bridge and past the guards, trying to keep as close to the middle and far as possible from either of them as she went. Once back on the main island she started to move along the beach straight for the bridge to the island that the house she was looking for was on.

Emiko gave a sigh of relief when Celestine finally nodded that he was alright. She had been about ready to go through the house so that she could get outside to check on him herself had he not nodded his head. That fall looked like it hurt, especially since the sand was wet thanks to the down pour last night. Since Celestine had let her know that he was alright she didn't bother moving from where she was. She continued to stay leaned against the window with an eye on him. She didn't plan to go back to what she had been doing before until after Celestine had gotten on his way.

Nobu glanced over at Esen while he followed her and shook his head slightly. 'At times like this I have to admit I think it would be better for the sight out of my eyes to be better than it is. At least then I could have my eyes open everyone would know when I was awake, or not.' He didn't think he minded one way or the other if people couldn't tell when he was awake but it seemed that was always the excuse that was used when it came down to it. He kept up with her no problem while she was headed for the house. '...What do you want to do if he isn't at the house where you sensed the blades?' He asked curiously. There was probably a small chance that he wasn't where the blades were, though he did hope that he was. That would save them a considerable amount of trouble.

Celestine was still just laying there again without really moving other than rubbing his head. He really didn't want to move anymore but he knew he was going to have to. He sighed and then just lay still for a few moments, at least until he glanced up and noticed that Yoichi's mother was still standing there looking at him. He raised his head a little and looked at her for a moment. '...I'm okay...' he told her again quietly. He was sore beyond all belief, but he could lay that off. Finally he started to unwind himself and turned and then looked off in the direction that he needed to go. '...Thank you...for letting me stay,' he said finally, not wanting to seem ungrateful, though...after everything that Yoichi had go graciously put him through he could safely say that he would have preferred the rain. Finally he started to slither his way across the sand, leaving a wiggly trail in the sand behind him. It was a little hard maneuvering int he sand like this since he was much more used to rock or just...more solid ground, but the face that the sand was wet and packed down did help a bit.

Esen glanced back to Nobu again and tilted her head a little to the side. "Perhaps if you used them more..." she suggested before she turned her head to the front again. She sighed when he asked what she wanted to do if he wasn't there. "Well...to be honest I don't know... I hope he's there, but if now we need to find him... If we can't we'll just have to find someone who can. If he's sick he doesn't need to be wandering around out here by himself, especially as wet as it is..." It didn't take her too long to reach the next bridge and start on her way over it. Now she just had to remember which house this was, though she was still picking up the vibe from the blades and they didn't seem to have moved very much so she hoped they were still with Celestine and he was still there.

Emiko continued to keep an eye on Celestine until after he said his thanks. She smiled and nodded her head. "You're welcome. I'm just glad we could get you out of the rain." She told him. She kept by the window at least until he had finally started to move away from the house. "Goodbye, Celestine." She called to him before closing the window completely. Though she did leave it unlatched for the time being. She doubted that Celestine was going to come back but just in case she was wrong and he did need to come back to the house for some reason or another she felt like leaving the window unlatched. That would be an easier way inside in his current form as compared to trying to use the front door.

Nobu looked over at Esen as they kept moving. 'Of course I could use them more but right now I do get around a lot easier without them. The minor annoyance of people not knowing when I'm really awake is nothing compared to how annoying it would be, not to mention time consuming to get used to moving around by actually using my real eyes.' He paused. 'Besides... I think I'd scare even more people by using my real eyes. It isn't every day that you see a giant purple dog, for lack of better words, with more than one tail AND six eyes.' He shook his head lightly. 'I'm creepy looking enough without those added onto everything.' He looked back over at her for a moment before turning his head back to watch where he was going. '...and if Celestine isn't at this house ...I think a person who might be able to find him if we can't is likely Aamori. Being who she is she's bound to have the authority to send a search party or something to locate him.' He paused. '...Though... It'd be a pretty sad day when a couple of dogs with noses like ours couldn't locate a single person.'

Celestine looked back to the window again for a moment when she said goodbye and nodded to her before he turned to continue on his way. He had no intention of going back to the house. He already felt like he'd bothered Aamori's parents enough, or at least her mother. Plus he really wasn't too thrilled with the idea of waiting around until Yoichi came back since he really didn't want to see him again.......ever at this point. He wasn't in a huge hurry to get back to the house either, or at least it certainly wouldn't appear that way with as slow as he was slithering along. He was trying to stay out of what looked like main walkways and stick a little closer to the houses. He'd barely even gotten halfway to the bridge though before he stopped and curled up again for now, intent on resting a bit. His side hurt from beating it against the drawer and it was a little painful wiggling the way he was in order to slide himself across the sand. He sighed softly, closing his eyes for a moment as he coughed again quietly and burrowed his head into his side. He had a feeling it could be hours before he got back to the house, barring that he didn't get lost or stepped on. His perspective of where he was going wasn't all that great from down here and everything looked pretty huge to him. He just really hoped it didn't come another spontaneous rain again or his wings would probably be too heavy to even drag.

Esen shook her head a little and then sighed softly at Nobu's comment. "You think you look weird?" she asked as she waved her five tails and shifted her wings all at once. "How often do you see a green 'dog' with wings like a bird?" She had her eyes hidden as well of course, though not because she was afraid of looking weird, she just preferred to be able to see everything that was around her from this perspective more than plain vision. "We're all pretty funny looking in our own right...I think you, Zale, and I have standing out down to an art... After all, I believe the rest are at least the colors you would expect to see on a 'dog' or 'fox' or whatever they want to call us." The only one that she wasn't pretty sure was a natural color would be the guardian of the fire blades. She had a feeling he or she was probably red, but she didn't know if it would be apple red like Nanashi's hair or just red-brown or what. She was a little amused at his comment about their noses. "True...but I'm still going to have to find the house again before we can look...I'm sure the rain washed away any scents from last night so if there are any more they will probably only be going one way..." she responded as she padded over the bridge to get to the residential island. 'Now...which house was it?' she thought, mostly to herself as she looked around a little and continued forward. Of course, unbeknown to her they would be crossing paths with Celestine pretty soon, though if no one was paying attention they probably wouldn't even notice since he wasn't exactly right out in the open.

Nobu shook his head lightly after she asked how often you saw a green dog with wings like a bird. 'Me? Almost everyday now it seems.' He said jokingly as he looked over at her. 'Between the three of us I think Zale might be the most dog-like minus the fact that he's blue with seal-like fur. At least he's only got one tail.' He said as he swayed his tails behind him. 'I'm not sure about the others but the earth guardian like us is a pretty natural color. She's brown and if not for her four tails she'd probably pass as a large breed of dog.' He continued following Esen, rather engrossed in the conversation that they were having and of course wasn't looking for a pintsized dragon form of Celestine. Considering his size he probably hadn't been emitting too strong of a scent as he would have if he'd been in his usual humanoid form so he was easily overlooked. He looked back over to Esen briefly when he heard her trying to remember which house it was. '...Did you get a good look at the house? Maybe remember something specific about it?' He asked as he glanced around a little at the houses. They did all look a bit the same so he could completely understand if she couldn't remember exactly which one it was.

Esen chuckled softly at Nobu's comment about seeing her every day, "Ha ha very funny." She shook her head a little when he commented about the earth guardian. She had never met any of the other guardians aside from Nobu and Zale, so she couldn't really say for sure either. I would imagine for her some people would have to look twice before they noticed her tails. I'm just guessing of course, but I would imagine based off of Hikari and Nero at there is probably a white and black version... Fire is the only color that would be hard to place a color on... I guess we'll just have to wait and see if we ever meet. She tilted her head a little, "It's odd...we're all starting to meet up like this. Though since we have the same creator it's probably just as odd that we've never met before." She had to think for a second before she could answer Nobu's question about the house. "Hmm...there were plants out front, I think... I know it's around here, I can still feel it..." She looked around for a few moments longer before she finally spotted the house that she'd been to last night. "I think this is it." She hurried forward and then stood for a moment, "Yes, this is it...but...the blades are moved...they were right on the other side of this wall..." She sighed softly and then lowered her head to sniff at the base of the front door. Of course there wasn't a whole lot to smell around here. After a moment she whined softly and then sighed. "...I know the blades are still in there...but I can't tell if he is or not..."

Nobu nodded his head slightly. 'A black and a white does sound like a reasonable conclusion to come to... now watch... they'll wind up being spotted or something just to throw us off.' He had to agree with her that it was kind of weird how they were all starting to meet now. He'd been aware of the existence of others like him but he'd never met a single one of them up until now. It was almost hard to believe he was really conversing with another of his kind. Being alone for so long with a family of dragons you kind of get used to being the only one of your kind. The only thing about meeting the others like them that he didn't like was that they all had blades just like he did. They were specially created creatures and they couldn't be harmed by their own blades... but each others... they could do some major damage. They'd still be able to heal but the process would be slowed tremendously. He didn't fear a whole lot but being struck by someone else's blade was certainly up there on the list of things to be afraid of. '...It is pretty odd that we've never once met before. Or that we've never all been together at once. Well, at least not to our knowledge.' He commented. He lifted his head slightly and looked over at the house that she had pointed out. He believed her when she said that this one was it. He stared at it for a moment before inching closer to it. 'We really need radar for our masters AND our blades...' He muttered quietly as he started to sniff around a little himself. The scents weren't strong outside any longer but near the doors and windows they'd be a bit more noticeable and recognizable, to him at least. He'd met Aamori's brother before and had caught his scent. It wasn't embedded in his memory quite the way a few other scents were but he was fairly certain that he knew that scent. '...I think ...maybe Aamori's brother lives here...' He said to Esen before he continued to sniff around a little. It didn't take him very long to come upon that large window that Celestine had fallen out of before and it was a little hard not to pick up on his scent since he'd apparently just recently been there. It wasn't as strong as he was used to but he'd memorized Celestine's scent just from all the time they had spent together. He sniffed at the window for a moment and then trailed down to the sand just below it. 'Esen, it isn't as strong as I would think it should be... but I pretty sure I've found his scent... and... a... really strange... slithering... trail.' He said the last as his eyes caught on the trail and he started to follow it with his head for a moment. He'd expected to see small foot prints rather than a small slithering trail so he was a bit surprised.

Esen again had to laugh a little at his comment about them being spotted just to throw them off. Well, thus far at least they all seemed to be more or less one color or close to it. She didn't know what to make of them all never meeting before, but she guessed there must have been a reason for it. She sighed again when he said they needed radar for the blades and the master. "That would be nice, wouldn't it?" She was a little surprised to hear that this was Aamori's brother's house, though...then again, no one else around here really knew Celestine enough to drag him inside so it made sense. Sort of...from what she'd gathered Celestine couldn't stand Aamori's brother. Her ears perked a little and she scurried around the house upon hearing about the scent he'd picked up on. She lowered her nose to the sand and sniffed as well before she tilted her head at the sight of the trail that he'd mentioned. "Maybe...it's his...tail?" she suggested unsurely, though again she didn't see any footprints in the sand. She shook her head a little and then sniffed the trail before looking ahead at it. "...Well...whatever he was doing I'm pretty sure he's the one that made this trail...so let's follow it." With that she started off in the direction that the trail went, which was more or less back the way that they had come.

Nobu still wasn't quite sure what to make of the trail that he'd found. Hearing her suggest that it be Celestine's tail sounded like a good idea at least until you looked for footprints and saw that there were none. He also doubted that if Celestine was using his wings to keep his feet off the ground that he'd fly low enough for his tail to drag on the sand, especially with enough weight to make a trail in the wet sand. He tilted his head still a bit confused by the whole thing. He looked up once Esen had started to follow the trail and then started away from the house after her. He of course noted that the trail was heading back the way they had already come. He shook his head a little. '...How embarrassing is it going to be if we already passed him somewhere.' He commented more than asked. It was a tad bit pathetic if that was the case and why in the world wouldn't Celestine have pointed himself out to them when they passed him? He shook his head again. Maybe Celestine was hiding somewhere or something. He'd been looking a bit ahead of the trail and was a bit surprised to see that it had soon ended and without Celestine in sight. He came to a stop however when he reached the end of the trail and was left with mess of ruffled and broken feathers on top a ...snake ...with a gold ...horn. He stared at the small trail-maker for a moment before glancing over to Esen with what would have read as a perplexed look on his face. He turned his head back down to the green, feathered snaky thing and then went to brush his nose against it. Half to double check the scent and then to make sure it was alive. '....Celestine? ......Is that you?' He questioned rather unsurely.

Esen sighed softly at the idea of already passing him and then shook her head a little. "Well, I guess we can't see everything." She continued forward, a little off to the side of the trail while looking around. She only glanced down to the trail occasionally to make sure that she was still going the right way. Of course she was looking up a little since she wasn't expecting to find Celestine laying on the ground and she was sure that she would see him before the trail led them to bump into him. She actually marched right past the little dragon without even noticing until she looked down and realized that she'd lost the trail. She paused and then looked back just in time to see Nobu nudge the little thin and ask if it was Celestine. She moved a little closer and then tilted her head a little while sniffing at it. Well...it smelled like Celestine at least.

Celestine had still just been laying there trying to recuperate before he got moving again. His eyes cracked open a little and he grumbled softly when he felt something brush against him. After he heard Nobu's voice he slowly raised his head again and looked at him for a moment before nodding his head a little. After a moment he uncurled himself a little and slowly slid over to Nobu's paw before laying his tiny head down on top of it and then nuzzling the side of his head against his leg. Well, here was one of the two being he'd been wanting to see since last night. He was so out of it that he hadn't even noticed Esen yet since she hadn't said anything to him. Thankfully in this form his ability to take in thoughts was much better than in his humanoid form so even with a massive headache he could still stand to talk to them. 'I am so glad to see you...' he said quietly, 'I'm sorry...I'm really sorry....' He didn't know if Nobu was still upset with him or not, but he guessed he owed him an apology anyway. After last night he was ready to apologize even if he hadn't done anything if it would get him back on Nobu's good side. Now that his head had a new furry pillow he seemed in little hurry to move off of it, his only movement at all was the way he was nuzzling against Nobu's leg a little and even that was a pretty small movement. 'I didn't mean to be out all night...I fell asleep and then it started raining.... I'm sorry...'

Nobu wanted to be relieved that they had finally found Celestine but it was difficult to feel that way since he had no clue why Celestine was in this form that he was in. He kind of hoped it was done of his own free will, at least then it wouldn't seem as bad. He continued to stare down at Celestine even once he'd moved closer and rested his tiny head on his paw. He lifted his eyes briefly to look over at Esen and then back down to Celestine. 'We're glad to see you too... even though we walked right past you the first time...' He told him quietly. He shook his head lightly after hearing Celestine apologize as much as he had. Once was plenty in his eyes and he was already pretty much over being upset with him. He just didn't ever want to hear him say what he did yesterday, again. Animals weren't meant to be able to talk like he and Esen could so of course it bothered him whenever someone mentioned, even if they didn't mean it, that they wished he couldn't talk. 'It's alright Celestine.' He started. 'Esen went looking for you last night... so she had a pretty good idea of where you were.' He paused. 'At any rate, all that really matters now is that we did find you. Now... do you want to lay here in the sand or go back to the island with us?' He had other questions of course, like why he was a tiny little snake with wings but figured that could probably wait until they weren't standing out in the open standing out like they were. It didn't get much worse than two large dogs, one purple and one green both leaning over a green snake with feathery wings.