Reyes stared up at Celestine a moment and then nodded his head after he'd repeated the name the way he had. For a very brief moment a pout crept across his face when he felt Celestine moving him away and back at an arms distance from him. Shen wasn't always an easy topic so he didn't fight clinging to Celestine longer whereas if the topic was different he probably wouldn't have let go easily. He stood there quietly with his fingers interlocked behind him while he waited for Celestine to put his thoughts together and speak again. Thus far Celestine seemed to be pretty quick on his toes which was pleasantly surprising. He couldn't help but smile a little once Celestine had finally asked if Shen wouldn't happen to be an animal. "I suppose he could be called an animal, though he is so much more than just that." He said with a bit of a cheesy grin, like an overly pleased parent might have when their child was praised. "It's more inconspicuous if he stays in the shadows when he travels with me." He said with a slight nod. "Though... I see that those two..." He said as he pointed towards the other two canines. "They don't bother concealing themselves... don't they stick out a lot?" He asked and then shrugged a little. "Soooo, do you wanna see him?" He asked with a pretty big smile while he rocked a little on his feet, obviously a bit excited about being able to share Shen with them. He could have earlier when he went to retrieve his shades but he didn't exactly want to call Shen out right in front of them without anyone knowing about him. That would've just been more cause for alarm.

Nobu was a bit happier with Celestine's idea of this Shen being an animal. He'd much rather it be that than the name of her shadow. He stared up at Celestine briefly as he had spoken and then glanced over towards Esen. '....It's possible ...I suppose.' He responded in reference to the idea of Shen being one of the canines and Reyes having a pair of blades. That would at least make some sense since the canines did have special abilities that were related to their element. Then again he hated to think a canine like them could have a presence like that one. He stared up towards Reyes once she got around to telling a little more and pretty much admitting that Shen was indeed one of the canines. He never really thought of concealing himself, not that he really could even if he wanted to. He was alright with walking around looking completely out of place. He was a little curious to know what this Shen looked like but he wasn't so sure he wanted to feel suffocated by that presence.

Celestine kept his eyes on Reyes as spoke and then sighed when she admitted that Shen was an animal. Well, that alone was enough to seal the deal for him...he was 99% sure he knew what was going to come out of her shadow, especially when she added that he was 'so much more'. "I see..." he said simply as he glanced down to her shadow again. He supposed that it did make a bit of sense for her canine to remain in the shadows, especially with the presence that he gave off. He could only imagine how scary this one was going to look. He shook his head slightly when she made the comment about Esen and Nobu not concealing themselves. "...They stand out a bit...not that it really matters. It isn't that often anyone says anything about them, they simply receive strange looks and everyone goes on about their day." He looked back to Esen and Nobu again and reached over to place a hand on top of Esen's head lightly, mostly since she was closest to him. "Besides, I don't see why they should have to hide, it isn't like they're really frighting." He pulled his hand back again and then looked back to Reyes when she asked if he wanted to see him. He just stood there for a moment, looking almost unsure how to answer that. He was curious, but at the same time he didn't particularly want that overbearing presence to come back. Then again, Shen was an animal, so he was likely to take a liking to him at some point or other. "...Alright," he said simply. He guessed Reyes had already seen everyone else's canine, they may as well see hers.

Esen sighed softly, seeming a bit more relieved that Shen could possibly be another canine like them, but at the same time, she was still very uneasy. After all, his presence alone was enough to scare the daylights out of her. She glanced over to Nobu again and then looked back to Celestine when he agreed to seeing Shen. She just stood there stiffly for a moment and then absently moved a little closer to Nobu and back a little as the same time, though she kept her ears perked up and her attention on Reye's shadow, apparently watching it intently.

Reyes merely nodded his head weakly after Celestine had said that the two canines stood out a bit and that they received strange looks and that was about it. With Shen sometimes there were more than just strange looks but that could very well just be because they rarely left the dark territory and the dark dragons didn't mind speaking up about how strange Shen was. Then of course the poor creature got some ridicule for being partnered with a boy like Reyes.So with that, Shen did prefer to stay hidden most of the time. He nodded his head again after Celestine had said he didn't see why they should have to hide. "Well, not everyone is as accepting of the canines as the people you've run across." He said with a slight nod. He smiled widely once Celestine had said 'alright' to seeing Shen and then looked back down at the shadow for a moment. "You can come out for a little while, Shen, just behave yourself."

Shen had of course been listening to every little bit of the conversation from his hiding spot so he responded pretty quickly once Reyes had told him that he could come out. He rose up slowly from the shadow just as he had done before only this time he was doing a good job of controlling his presence so that it wasn't quite so bad. He wasn't all that scary looking really. The only really big differences in him compared to the others was his coat color and the way his fur laid. Of course he was also a bit bigger all the way around when compared to Nobu and he had a decent bit of muscle in his legs. He was still wearing the harness he had been before and still had the blades strapped to him along with the small back. That really was the most convenient way for the blades to be carried since Reyes didn't like carrying them himself. Once he had completely risen up from the shadow he just kind of stood there before looking up at Reyes a bit.

After Shen had cleared the shadow and was now fully visible he smiled again and stared down at the canine. He didn't stay put long and wound up with his arms wrapped around Shen's neck and practically hanging off of him while nuzzling against him. "See, he isn't that scary looking." He said as he held onto Shen. He could very well have been overlooking the creepiness factor when it came to Shen but to him he wasn't really any scarier looking than any of the other canines.

Nero practically stood there gawking when that canine came up out of his cousins shadow. He hadn't wanted to believe that Reyes had gotten involved in that canine and blade mess but now it was a little hard not to believe. He eyed the canine for a good few moments once he had appeared and then shook his head and started to glance away. He couldn't help wondering just how long that thing had been hiding there since he had no idea that Reyes even had it.

Nobu was a bit more interested in seeing this Shen then he was scared of the presence. At least he knew where it was coming from and knew roughtly when to expect it. He stood fairly still while he waited for Shen to come out though he couldn't help noticing when Esen got a bit closer and then moved back a little at the same time. He stared back at her for a moment, at least until the presence got a little stronger, which had caight his attnetion. He turned his head back towards Reyes and watched her shadow while Shen came up out of it. Once he was out of her shadow and standing by himself he shook his head slightly. She wasn't too strange looking though his size was a little unsettling since Nobu was the one who was used to being the largest.

Celestine sighed softly when Reyes said that not everyone was as accepting. He knew that, but he didn't really see why not. Either way, it wasn't like Nobu or Esen could hide in his shadow, anyway, so it didn't really matter. He turned his attention down to Reyes's shadow again when she told the canine that he could come out and then watched as he arose from the shadow. He was a little surprised at the sheer size of Shen, but other that was pretty much the most unnerving thing about him. He just stood there for a moment, looking over the new arrival, noticing that he was the one carrying the blades rather than Reyes. He blinked when Reyes threw her arms around Shen and started snuggling him and then half smiled. "...He isn't really scary looking at all..." he said simply, though again, Celestine was just admiring the differences and similarities between him and the others. He didn't find any of the canines' scary or strange, he was fascinated by every single one of them, though likely a bit more wary of Shen than the others sure to the sensation that he sent off. He kept his distance for a moment and then slowly stepped forward and looked down at Shen with more or less the same gentle gaze he had with any animal, though he was also watching him closely. He knew Shen wasn't like most animals, but even still, he was one, so he was of course taking the usual precautions. He raised his hand in a deliberately slow motion as he reached over to Shen's head. If Shen gave off any sign of not wanting to be touched he would just lower his hand and back away again, but if Shen didn't seem to mind he would just reach over and rub him behind the ears lightly. "...Hello there."

Esen watched as Shen arose from the shadow and then tilted her head a little. She wasn't entirely scared of him because he was giving odd that presence anymore, but she still seemed wary of him. She kept close to Nobu and made no move to get any closer to him. Shen was a lot bigger than she liked, and very easily made her look tiny in comparison, especially since she was already the smallest of the four of them. She watched as Celestine moved closer and tried to make friends, though she didn't think she would attempt the same anytime soon. She was half afraid Shen was going to bite Celestine. It was a little heard to tell if Esen was outright afraid of Shen or if she was just being her usual shy self and trying to avoid the necomer.

Reyes continued to hang off of Shen even after Celestine had started to move closer to him. He liked being affectionate towards Shen when he could because Shen usually did retreat to the shadows as soon as he got the chance. It was just that he was more comfortable there. He smiled a bit after Celestine had said that Shen wasn't really scary looking at all. "Of course he isn't!" He said rather happily. "He just spooks some people out, especially when he opens his eyes." He told him and continued to snuggle against the mass of black fur. "Back home some of the people in town like to call him a demon dog." He added absently. "But you're not a demon Shen, you're a good boy." He said to the canine as he buried his face into the black fur.

Shen barely budged an inch while he stood with Reyes hanging off of his neck. He did focus a bit on Celestine once he had started to move closer. He preferred not to be touched too much unless it was by someone he was comfortable with and he had of course gotten pretty used to Reyes so that never bothered him. He did know that Reyes would probably scold him for biting this one in particular. He knew he needed to try and play nice to the people Reyes showed some attraction to and of course anyone who was family. He laid his ears back very slightly when Celestine's hand neared his head but other than that he didn't bother to shy away nor did he bare his teeth. He just kind of stared up at him after he had said hello. He kept pretty quiet of his own accord. Even though it looked like Celestine knew a bit about the canines and their abilities he wasn't about to go talking to him. He just preferred to keep to himself and Reyes if at all possible.

Reyes looked up at Shen a little, still holding onto him and sighed quietly when he didn't respond to Celestine. "You don't have to be like that Shen." He whined and then finally started to release him and stand back up straight. "...He doesn't you know ...a whole lot..." He responded quietly hoping that Celestine would gather he meant talk. He wasn't sure how much Nero knew but to be on the safe side he did at least try to keep some things quiet.

Nobu wasn't all too sure what to make of Shen. He was a bit curious to see how he would respond to Celestine but at the same time he was a bit uncomfortable with the idea of Celestine getting that close to him. He just gave off a pretty bad feeling but that didn't always mean that he is really a bad canine. He kept an eye on Shen while Celestine put his hand out to touch the black mass and watched very closely just on the off chance that Shen did try to bite him or something. He was a bit relieved that Shen didn't react badly to Celestine. Even with that he still wasn't sure about him though, Reyes sure did seem to like him a lot and try to praise him.

Celestine half smiled when Reyes mentioned Shen spooking people when he opened his eyes. "Mmm...I guess that is a little odd to most people," he said simply, "but it's one of the things that makes them special." Even he had to admit that Shen was a little intimidating, but Celestine could trust anything no matter how scary it looked so long as it proved that it could be trusted. He noticed the way that Shen laid his ears back when he went to touch him and took that to mean that he wasn't all that sure about letting him touch him. With that in mind he was a little slower to actually place his hand on Shen's head and once he did it was very gently. He just slipped his fingers through his mass of black hair and moved his hand over to one of his ears, rubbing it gently. He shook his head a little when Reyes mentioned that some called him a demon dog and sighed softly. He supposed he could see where some would get the idea, but at the same time, he didn't think it was fair to call him a demon. "...People like to try and classify things that cannot be classified," he said simply." He smiled weakly when Shen didn't respond to him and then glanced over to Reyes when he said that he didn't 'you know' much. He could kind of gather that just by the fact that he hadn't said anything to anyone yet. "That's alright," he said simply and then added on a mental note for Shen as he continued to rub his ear gently, 'I don't expect you to talk to me...but you can if you ever want to.' He pulled his hand back then and glanced over to Reyes as he lowered his hand to his side before he glanced back to Nobu and Esen. "...Well...Esen is mine..." he said quietly, motioning toward her, "and Nobu belongs to Kyran, but we've made friends over the course of the trip." He glanced over to where Zale was still playing as Aamori's pillow, "...the other one is Zale."

Kyiri finally decided to poke her head out from under Celestine's hair again and looked down to Shen. She stared at him for a moment and sniffed the air before letting out another hiss. She didn't like this one, he looked mean and scary to her, and she thought he just might try to eat her.

Celestine blinked when Kyiri decided to hiss at Shen and narrowed his eyes a little as he gave her a look and a light tap on the nose. "Stop it!" he said firmly, "He isn't bothering you." He sighed and laid his ears back a little when he heard her growl again and then just pulled her off of his shoulder and held her in his arms since she was clawing his neck standing there. "...And this is Kyiri..." he said dully before he moved away from Shen and set Kyiri on the ground only to have her run and hide behind Nobu's leg. He shook his head again and sighed. "Sorry...Apparently she's being antisocial today..."

Esen continued to just stand there close to Nobu and watched as Celestine spoke to Reyes and Shen. She didn't bother to move though she did stiffen a little when she heard Kyiri hissing and growling. That made her inch forward a little, since she didn't know how well Shen would respond to Kyiri making a fuss about him and wasn't about to let him hurt the little kitten or Celestine. She may have been tinier than him, but she would still take him on if she had to protect something. She was a bit more relieved when Kyiri came over to join them rather than hiss in Shen's face. After a movement she lowered her head and reached beneath Nobu to snag Kyiri by the nap of her neck and then started to move away with her as if carrying a puppy. Kyiri of course let out a mew of protest but then just curled up and let herself be carried away.

Reyes nodded his head slightly after Celestine had said that people liked to classify things that couldn't be classified. "Unfortunately Shen is probably the closest thing you could get to a demon dog, I mean by looks and feel." He paused. "His eyes are bright red and the should be whites of his eyes aren't white. They're black... so yeah..." He shrugged a little. "He isn't all bad though." He said with a nod. He shifted his glance away from Celestine momentarily once he had gotten around to saying which canine belonged to who. He wasn't surprised to hear that the winged one, Esen, belonged to him. The purple mass, Nobu, was Kyran's, whoever that was. He did assume that the purple was a good linking between canine and master. Then lastly, Zale, the sleek looking blue one. He again assumed the colors probably matched. He hadn't ever seen or known a canine to have a master of another clan though he guessed it could be possible though extremely difficult most likely. He smiled a bit and looked back towards Celestine for a moment. "I'm rather surprised that they're all smaller than Shen." He paused. "He told me he was one of the last ones created so I figured he may have been smaller in comparison." He admitted quietly. Somehow he just thought the older canine's might have been bigger though judging by the sizes here and the number of tails perhaps size meant nothing. Nobu was third by the looks of it and the largest up until Shen. His attention was snagged a bit when he heard hissing and almost immediately focused on the small head that had poked out from under Celestine's hair. Aside from the hissing he guessed that thing could be cute, well, so long as Shen didn't decide it was dinner. He didn't budge too much, merely reached over and set a hand on Shen's back just on the off chance he didn't take kindly to the hissing.

Shen was a little surprised to hear Celestine speak to him the way he could speak too but still didn't respond to him. Not even to acknowledge that he had heard him. He continued to stand there quietly while Celestine and Reyes talked and kept an ear out for relatively important information, like names. He lifted his head and stared up at the small creature that had started hissing at him. He hadn't even noticed the thing until now and it was hissing at him. He didn't particularly have anything against cats so long as they left him alone. Then again she didn't entirely look like a normal cat herself and with ears like that she kind of resembled a rabbit, at least a little. Rabbits made good meals and they were fun to chase. He continued to stare up at the little creature as it hissed at him again and finally responded a little. The slits on his face appeared rather suddenly and the two rows of three opened up to reveal his rather creepy looking red eyes. He did nothing more than glare daggers at the small creature for a moment before feeling a hand come down hard on his head and rather quickly he shut his eyes and the slits closed back up.

"No Shen, you leave that thing alone." He muttered after smacking the canine's head. He didn't hit him too hard, just enough to make him knock it off. "Don't let a little hissing get under your skin." He said as he shook his head a bit. He knew Shen wasn't really going to do anything at the moment but he also knew that Shen only ever really bothered to open his eyes when he was intent on scaring someone, or something for that matter. His eyes were... unique and he could put quite the bit of force behind them if he really wanted to. He sighed quietly and pushed down on Shen's head lightly. "Shen's not being very social either." He responded after Celestine had said that Kyiri was being antisocial today.

Nobu was at the very least glad to see that Kyiri had come over to him and Esen rather than continue hissing at Shen. He was fairly certain Shen would probably only put up with it for so long before he got tired of it and honestly, he didn't want to have to deal with a fight right now. Especially not one a silly little cat created all because she was hissing at the biggest dog of them all. He watched slightly as Esen went to snatch up Kyiri and start to move away. He didn't bother following her and rather moved a bit closer to stand beside Celestine. He wasn't really going to let himself be intimated by Shen just because of his size, or at least he didn't want to be.

Celestine turned his gaze back to Reyes again when she'd said that Shen was the closest thing you could get to a demon dog. And here he thought the closest thing you could get t a demon dog would actually be a demon dog. He glanced back to Shen again when she mentioned Shen being larger than the others. "...Yes...his size if a little surprising..." he said simply, "I wasn't anticipating meeting one much bigger than Nobu...but then again I wasn't anticipating even meeting another one at all...as rare as the blades are..." He did seem a little startled when he saw Shen's eyes, even though he had fair warning of what they looked like. That alone was enough to have caused him to back up before putting Kyiri down. He wasn't frightened of Shen himself, but he was afraid that he might hurt Kyiri. He sighed after seeing that Esen had taken Kyiri away from the area. "Thanks, Esen..." he muttered quietly before he looked back to Reyes. He glanced back to Shen again and sighed softly after Reyes had said that he wasn't being very social either. "...I noticed," he said simply. He looked down to Shen again and leaned a little closer to him, keeping his gaze gentle, though he refrained from touching him again since he hadn't seemed to care for it too much the first time. "...She'll get used to you," he said gently, trying to reassure Shen that he wouldn't always have to put up with her hissing at him like that, "...just don't hurt her...please." He thought he might as well add in the 'please' just so it wouldn't sound like he was bossing him around too much, but at the same time he made it clear with his tone that he wouldn't stand for any harm coming to his little fuzz ball. He turned his gaze to the side slightly when Nobu came to stand beside him and reached over to place his hand on his head lightly, giving him a gentle rub behind the ears. He glanced back to Shen again and then half smiled as he thought, mostly to himself. 'Well...that certainly was one way to break the ice...' That was likely the most he'd willingly talked to anyone he'd only just met...ever.

Esen simply took Kyiri well away from Shen and wandered back over near Kanone before laying down and setting Kyiri down in front of her. She titled her head a little at Kyiri and then began licking her fur in attempts to get it to lay back down since she had cased it to stand on end with her hissing. After a couple of moments she had Kyiri purring again quietly and then laid her head down on top of the little cat, partially pinning her, though she left her plenty of head room. She just didn't want her wandering back over to Celestine right now while he was preoccupied with Shen.

Reyes just kind of smiled a little after Celestine had said he noticed in response to his saying that Shen wasn't being social either. Shen was rarely social as it was so this wasn't that unexpected. He kept his hand on Shen's back once Celestine had gotten to telling him that the cat-thing would get used to him and then added for him to please not hurt her. Of course Shen didn't really respond positively one way or the other to Celestine and Reyes just gave a slightly heavy sigh as he patted the canine's back. "I'm sure he'll behave himself." He said and then looked down to Shen. "He spends most of his time in the shadows anyway, so Kyiri shouldn't be able to bother him too much as it is." He added and continued to run his hand over Shen's back lightly. He turned his attention slightly towards the purple mass that had finally gotten closer after the other had taken the cat away from them. He turned his eyed back to Shen and smiled a bit. "You can go ahead and go back into hiding if you want, Shen." He told him quietly. He was pretty sure that Shen had had enough exposure for now.

Shen stared up at Celestine momentarily after he had said that the cat would get used to him. He doubted that. He huffed out of his nose when he heard Celestine continue to say not to hurt her, please. He wasn't making any promises. If the cat annoyed him enough to the point he could ignore her than it was her own fault if she got hurt. He turned his head away and looked off in another direction after Celestine had said that, acting as if he hadn't really heard it. For a response, that was about all he was getting. He didn't turn his head back until after the other canine, Nobu, had started to move closer to Celestine. He just stared over at the purple mass, at least until he heard Reyes tell him that he could go back into hiding if he wanted. Of course he did. He'd been more than ready to go back. He continued to stand where he was for a moment before he finally moved a bit and stepped back down onto Reyes' shadow. Once he was touching it he wasted little time at all sinking back down into it where he was most comfortable.

Nobu lifted his head very slightly to look up at Celestine after he had touched his head. If anything he was kind of glad that this little introduction seemed to be going alright, aside from Kyiri trying to start a mini war between her and Shen. He turned his attention back to Shen only momentarily since he appeared to be taking his leave now that Reyes had given him permission to go. The fact that Shen could come and go as he pleased in a shadow like that was kind of interesting and probably really convenient. He absently relaxed a little once Shen was back in the shadow. He hadn't even realized that he'd been a little tense so he was a bit surprised when he relaxed.

Reyes just kind of smiled weakly after Shen had gone back to his shadow. He really did prefer it there. "Sorry about him... he's well... I dunno... he's just Shen." He said and then shook his head a little. Putting that aside he smiled a bit more and then knelt down a little to get a better look at Nobu. He really wasn't that much smaller than Shen but still he was amazed at how much different he looked compared to Shen. "I really am a bit surprised to find Nero traveling with others who have these canines." He paused. "Like you, I hadn't expected to find any others really, so I am honestly surprised." He reached over without even trying to give Nobu fair warning and just started petting his head. Thankfully for Reyes, Nobu was pretty laid back sometimes and wasn't that bothered by the sudden action. "I can't believe there are three of them with you guys... three... wow..." He started to pull his hand back and look up at Celestine. "Have you seen any others or are these all that you've seen?" He asked curiously.

Celestine nodded a little unsurely when Reyes said that she was sure Shen would behave himself. He Wasn't entirely sure about that, but he didn't argue. His uncertainly was only raised when Shen looked away from him. He watched as Shen retreated to the shadows again as soon as he was given permission and smiled weakly. He supposed that making friends with Shen was going to be a little more difficult than it was talking to Nobu. He shook his head a little when Reyes apologized for Shen. "...It's alright...some just don't like strangers," he said simply. He watched at Reyes reached over to pet Nobu without much warning and then sighed softly. "...Be careful," he warned quietly, "You'll startle something into biting you that way..." He glanced back down to Nobu again and rubbed his back gently before he glanced back to Reyes again when she asked about another canine. "...One," he said quietly after a moment of thought, remembering Gesa when she was disguised as Nobu. He looked down to Nobu again and gently scratched him behind the ears before he looked away again to see if any of the others were starting to wake up. His gaze turned back to Nero again and he sighed softly. Now that the introductions were over and his curiosity had been stated about Shen, he was ready to retreat back to his hiding place again. "...Sorry for waking you like that, " he said to Nero again before he started to turn to go back to where the others were. 'I'm going to make sure Kyiri's calmed down...' he told Nobu silently.

Reyes glanced to Celestine briefly after he had given him a bit of a warning about the way he'd reached out to pet Nobu. Of course he'd never been bitten by a creature yet which was why he never thought to be careful about it. Most animals he'd ever come around were pretty much well trained and people friendly. Shen had been the first that needed to warmed up to but even then, Shen never bit him and never was really mean to him. "Um... alright.." He responded quietly to the warning. That little warning probably wouldn't stick for too long. He'd get excited and want to pet another creature and likely do the exact same thing he'd just done with Nobu. He couldn't help smiling a bit after Celestine had answered his question about having seen any others. He was curious to know what this other one was, or rather which element it was and who owned it. He waited patiently for him to continue since it seemed obvious that he'd want to know since he had asked if he had seen others. His ears laid back slightly when it appeared Celestine wasn't going to answer any further. He stared at Celestine after he'd apologized to Nero again and then started to turn away. He was a bit curious as to why the conversation seemed to just die off suddenly. It was like as soon as Shen was gone, Celestine was going to go away too. He only stood where he was for a moment longer before going after Celestine and grabbing hold of his lower arm with both of his hands, hoping to keep him from leaving for the moment. His ears were practically laid back all the way and his expression easily read of rejection; It was almost pathetic looking. "...Did I do or say something wrong?" He asked quietly. "...You're done talking to me ...just like that...?" He added in a slightly wimpier sounding tone. In all honesty it probably looked and sounded like it wouldn't take a whole lot at the moment to make the guy cry.

Nero merely lifted his hand and waved Celestine off slightly after he had apologized again for waking him the way that he had. At the moment he really could care less about that. He was just trying to made sense of the situation he was now finding himself in. He was stuck with Reyes unless he wanted to send him home to Kana who would most likely kill the poor kid and then on top of that Reyes had one of those damned canine's too. Why couldn't this whole thing have just been the seven of them with no additions. He sighed heavily and then glanced after Reyes when he noticed him grab hold of Celestine. He couldn't help shaking his head at this. He really wasn't prepared to deal with his cousin, not at all.

Nobu nodded his head a bit after Celestine had told him that he was going to make sure that Kyiri had calmed down. He didn't really plan to stay where he was now that Celestine was moving so he was going to follow him. Though he was a bit surprised to see Reyes grab his arm like she did. Then on top of that she looked really hurt. He guessed that could be blamed on Celestine barely answering her question and then not saying a single word more to her before turning away.

Celestine hadn't really thought too much about ending the conversation the way that he had...that was the way he usually ended things, he just walked away when he had nothing more to say to someone. He was a little startled when Reyes grabbed onto his arm and nearly jerked his hand away before he looked back to her, looking a good deal surprised. He just stared at her when she asked if she had done something wrong. He shook his head slightly, looking a little confused. Again he looked a but confused when she asked if he was done talking to her just like that. He stared at her for a moment, looking a little stunned and then shook his head slightly. "...Well...yeah..." he said quietly, in a slightly unsure tone after she'd asked. "...I...don't really have anything else to talk about..." he added as he raised his free hand to her arm and placed his hand on hers gently. After a moment he sighed softly and offered her an almost forced weak smile and raised his hand to her cheek. "...Sorry..." he said quietly, "I want to check on Kyiri..." He wiggled his hand a little, trying to free his hand from her grasp. "...Um...you can...come if you want..." he offered quietly.

Reyes was if anything relieved to hear that he hadn't done anything wrong though that didn't show on his face at all. He still looked completely rejected. He just kind of stared at Celestine, a little confused himself when he had responded to his question with '...Well...yeah...'. The look of confusion faded a bit after he continued on to say that he didn't really have anything else to talk about. Well, he guessed that could be reason enough to stop a conversation but he did have other things he could have talked about. He could have continued telling him about the other canine that he had seen. Then of course they barely knew one another so there were surely things that could have been talked about. He knew he still had some questions he thought of asking but perhaps Celestine wasn't much the talkative type... but, he had talked quite a bit when the topic was on Shen. The expression on his face started to fade a bit after he had finally raised his hand to his cheek and apologized. His ears continued to stay back even after he had said that he wanted to check on Kyiri, at least until he had said that he could come if he wanted. His ears perked up finally and he smiled a little as the last few traces of his previous expression slipped from his face. "Okay." He responded and his smile broadened a little. He glanced down finally when he noticed that Celestine must have wanted his hand back. He finally started to let go, though the process was a little slow. "...Sorry." He murmured quietly and dropped his hands back down to his sides.

Celestine sighed softly in relief after Reyes had lost the look of impending tears. He shook his head slightly when she had finally released his hand and apologized, though once he had his hand back he nodded slightly to her and then placed his hand gently on top of Nobu's head again, rubbing his head gently before he started to move over to where Esen was sitting with Kyiri. He moved around her and knelt in front of her where she still had Kyiri pinned, though he could already hear the little cat purring. he shook his head slightly and reached down to pick her up, after Esen had lifted her head to look at him. He held the fuzzy blueish animal up to eye level and shook his head at her. "What area you doing hissing at him? You haven't had a problem with anyone else, don't start being a bother." he said in a reprimanding tone as if she could actually understand him. At times with the way she responded, he honestly wondered if she couldn't. Even now her purring had ceased and her ears laid back as she curled up and mewed pitifully. She even cast a wary glance to Reyes's shadow, but then looked back to Celestine and pawed at his face before squirming out of his grasp and moving to curl up in his lap. He sighed softly and reached down to pet her. He couldn't help smiling slightly as he stroked her fur and then glanced over to Reyes for a moment, his smile fading a little. "If you want, you can pet her...just let her see you're coming first...she scratches."

Reyes kept his eyes on Celestine, especially once he had started to head towards where the other canine had gone with the cat. He hadn’t been too many steps behind Celestine so he took advantage of Nobu’s delayed start to reach down again and pet the canine on the head a bit. He really didn’t have any issues with these creatures so long as they were nice to him and showed no signs of hostility. Of course he hadn’t picked up on that from the purple mass of fur; he seemed nice enough. He smiled down at the creature when it looked up and then he pulled his hand back and proceeded over closer to Celestine. He just kind of stood off to the side of him once he had gone about picking up the small cat and reprimanding it for hissing like it had at Shen. Knowing Shen he’d probably like that, though at the same time he’d probably have preferred the chance to lay into that cat himself. He took a brief moment to eye the others that they were close to, more specifically the dragons. He was about to shift his glance over to the other canine, the blue one, at least until Celestine had spoken. His attention snapped right back over to him and he eyed the cat as he was told that he could pet her, he just had to let her see he was coming. He had never seen a cat quite like Kyiri so of course he was a little interested in touching her and the possibility of being scratched didn’t really scare him. He’d never been scratched before by a cat so you could say he was a little cocky about it thinking it wouldn’t ever happen just like he’d never be bitten. He finally started to kneel down, holding tight to the bottom of his dress as he went down and then stared over at the cat for a moment. He kept his hands close momentarily and then started to extend one slightly, at least trying to do as Celestine had said and not just outright throw his hand over and stroke the cat. “So her name’s Kyiri? What type of cat is she, any idea?” He asked glancing up to Celestine briefly while he inched his hand a little closer to the creature.

Nobu kept near Celestine and merely looked up at him after he had placed his hand on top of his head again. He was a bit delayed in following after him once he started back towards Esen and Kyiri and he paused as soon as he felt another hand on his head. Again, he merely looked up this time at Reyes and then wagged his tails slightly since she had smiled down at him. He was a bit more relaxed now that they knew about Shen and knew where he was at and Reyes really didn’t look like she was anything to be afraid of. He started after her and continued over towards Celestine. He paused momentarily near the group, only long enough to decide that he would keep moving just a little further so that there wasn’t such a crowd right there while Kanone and Aamori were still trying to sleep.

Zale didn’t stay asleep for too much longer once Celestine and then the new voice had gotten closer. He was able to completely ignore most everything at least until he didn’t recognize that one voice and then noticed that it was conversing with Celestine. He started to lift his head a little once he had woken up and taken notice of the newer person, another dark dragon. He wasn’t sure where she came from but the fact that she was new was enough to get him a little excited. New people were always fun, well, unless they were mean people or animal haters. His tail started to wag a bit as he stared over and then he started to get to his feet as soon as the newcomer started to kneel down to pay attention to Kyiri. He didn’t pay any mind to the fact that Aamori was still using him as a pillow and of course his sudden rise to his feet caused her head to smack against the ground once again. That didn’t seem to faze him in the slightest; instead he seemed completely excited and interested in this new person. He didn’t appear to be too thrilled that he was being ignored, or at least he looked at it as being ignored since no one had woke him up to meet the new girl. He wasted little time at all scurrying over to the new girl and practically pouncing on her with complete disregard for her reaching to touch Kyiri. He’d thrown his front paws up so that they came down on her back and proceeded to lean forward trying to lick at her face while he wagged his tail uncontrollably, obviously craving some attention and not caring how he went about getting it.

Aamori’s head hit the ground pretty hard once again since Zale had hurried out from under her just like yesterday. She startled awake fairly quickly and pushed herself up almost immediately so that she could hold her hand to her head where she’d hit the ground. Unfortunately she had hit her horn again, the same as yesterday and it hurt twice as bad as it had so she had hissed quietly and started rocking slightly while she rubbed her head. Of course she was completely oblivious to why Zale had taken off on her again, or the fact that there was someone new so close.

Thankfully Reyes had been knelt down so he didn’t entirely just topple over onto Celestine under the canine’s weight, though given enough time he probably could, very easily. Unfortunately for him, holding the canine up and back was a bit difficult since it was trying to get in his face and did have some weight to it so his hand had slipped a lot closer and faster towards Kyiri than he had wanted.

Celestine just stroked Kyiri's back gently as she lay in his lap, all three of her tails swishing irritably. He could tell she wasn't too thrilled about being chewed out for hissing, and was quite deliberately trying to ignore what had gotten her in trouble in the first place as she had her back turned to Reyes and Shen. Celestine watched as Reyes started to reach out to touch Kyiri, glad she was moving slowly. Considering that Kyiri wasn't looking and already in a bad mood it wouldn't take much to set her off, and if she moved slow enough she could probably pet Kyiri without Kyiri even realizing it wasn't him touching her. His ears twitched when he heard Aamori hiss and he turned his head toward her just in time to see Zale pounce on Reyes's back. "Zale!" he started, but it was already a little late for that. He just cringed when he felt claws dig into his leg and then closed his eyes tightly for the ruckus that ensued.

Kyiri was indeed trying her best to just hide her face in Celestine's stomach, though she knew that the other girl had been invited to pet her. She was more irritated with being scolded for hissing at that evil looking dog than with the girl that brought it, but she was guilty by association, so she really didn't want her touching her right now. She let out a muffled sound when Reyes's hand hit her, which to her felt more like a shove than a pat and she instinctively whirled around and hissed as she swiped her claws at the girl's hand before diving out of Celestine's lap and diving onto Kanone's stomach and then onto his head, using it as a sort of launching pad to get a head start scurrying up the tree.

Kanone had been sleeping rather peacefully up until all of the voices started talking near him, but he was startled awake rather violently when Kyiri decided to pounce on his head and climb the tree. "Ow! Vengeful gods, you stupid hairball!" He sat bolt upright and rubbing the back of his head before glaring up into the branch were Kyiri was now perching, looking like she'd love to hop down and rip something apart. He stared at her for a moment before he even noticed the black hair in front of him, and then his eyes caught on the girl from the dark clan. "Ah!" He startled after he registered her and then looked over to Celestine. "What in the name of Arihen is going on here!?" he asked him, not sounding very pleased to have been woken up in such a manner.

Esen yelped when Zale decided to pounce on Reyes's back, mostly because she was laying right in the general area and felt him trample one of her tails in his haste to get to Reyes. She hopped up again rather quickly and darted between Celestine and Reyes, closer to Nobu before looking back to her tails and shaking them out a little. She gave Zale what would have been a very irritated stare had her eyes been open, though it was apparent by the way one of her ears laid back that she wasn't too thrilled. She really wished he would learn to watch what he was doing. After a moment she just moved over to Nobu and flopped down beside him with a heavy sigh, this time pulling all five of her tails in very close to her body.

Reyes hadn’t wanted to touch Kyiri quite as hard as he did, he really hadn’t meant to. Apparently the small cat hadn’t seen that it was an accident since it reacted the way it had and wound up scratching his hand pretty good. He hadn’t been able to push the blue mass back very much so his hand hadn’t gotten clear of Kyiri’s wrath at all. He flinched and laid his ears back immediately then jerked his hand closer to his body and simultaneously let out a bit of a cry at the pain once it set in that he had indeed been scratched. He couldn’t really blame Kyiri and he did feel a bit bad about everything but that was the least of his worries at the moment. The blue mass still wasn’t leaving him alone and he was having trouble keeping himself upright now since he’d flinched and reacted to the scratch. He started to shake a little, obviously about to give out under the canine’s weight. Mere seconds later he did finally collapse with a startled yelp and unfortunately he fell forward landing him right on Celestine. He kind of would have preferred not falling on Celestine but he didn’t have a whole lot of time to think of options as to where he’d rather fall, he just went down and with the weight of the canine following.

Zale continued, being just as persistent as ever in his attempt to get closer to the new girl. All he really wanted was her undivided attention and half of her face so that he could lick it. That didn’t appear to be happening easily though and he just kept at it without paying attention to anything else around him really. He didn’t even know he trampled Esen’s tails on his way onto the girls back. He didn’t even notice that Kyiri had scratched the girl nor that the cat had escaped up the tree. When he was this excited he really didn’t pay attention to much. He was elated when he finally succeeded at something and the girl toppled over. He continued with the girl of course and even worked his way onto her back a bit while happily chanting to himself ’Dog pile! Dog pile! Doooggggiiiieeee piiilllllleeee!’ and of course his tail was wagging excitedly the entire time. To him this was just a game and he was ecstatic.

Aamori continued sitting where she was rubbing her head, oblivious to everything else at least until she heard Kanone. She just kind of stared at him for a moment with her hand on her head and then glanced up at the tree to see Kyiri and then finally noticed the new girl just about the same time that Kanone was. She wasn’t quite sure of what to make of all of this but the new girl sitting there did raise quite a few questions though she hadn’t voiced anything since what Kanone had asked would pretty much cover a few things. Her eyes widened a bit when she finally realized what Zale was doing and then he was knocking the small girl over before she knew it and onto Celestine no less. She startled slightly and scrambled with trying to get her words out. “Z-zale! N-no Zale, bad dog! Very bad dog!” She told him as she tried to get to her feet though thanks to the recent smack to the ground she was a bit dizzy getting up so fast so she wobbled a good deal before she opened her mouth again. “Get off that girl right now! You’ll crush Celestine!” She spat obviously more worried with Celestine stuck below the weight of both the girl and her stupid overly excited mutt.

Nobu hadn’t entirely been paying attention to the crowd, at least not right away. Once Zale had gotten up and clobbered Reyes he started paying attention. He just shook his head and sighed heavily. That energetic canine was going to be the death of someone, he was sure of it. He watched Esen when she wound up coming closer to him and then flopped down. He hadn’t seen Zale trample her so he had only thought she was moving away from the ruckus. ’…I can’t believe him…’ He muttered quietly, honestly a little embarrassed that Zale was a canine just like he and Esen were.

Celestine was almost certain that Reyes had been scratched after hearing her yelp and then was sure Kanone had gotten it as well once he heard him yelp. Finally he cracked his eyes open a little, just as Kanone was snapping at him. He looked over at him almost sheepishly and started to open his mouth to give a response but before he had time even utter a syllable he suddenly felt Reyes's head connect with his chest, chocking most of the air out of him while at the same time knocking him over backwards. had it been only Reyes he likely could have caught her and saved her, but with Zale on her back there was no way from him to remain sitting up and the next thing he knew he was on his back staring up at the leaves as he tried to catch his breath, which with both Reyes and Zale's weight on him was making that nearly impossible. Zale alone likely would have been heavy enough to make breathing difficult. Normally, he might have been in a panic at not being able to move or breath properly, but his head had smacked off of the ground as well when he fell, leaving him a little disoriented and sluggish feeling as the pain throbbed from the back of his head and made it's way forward. Finally he shut his eyes tightly when he realized his lungs were starting to burn. 'Zale...get off!' he thought, his inner voice shrill and almost panicked, 'I can't breathe!'

Kanone just blinked and stared as Zale pushed the girl over on top of Celestine, looking a bit dumbfounded at the moment. He watched the scene for a moment, suddenly finding it hard to suppress the urge to laugh, though once Aamori had gotten up and started moving, and telling Zale to get off, he finally realized that the weight likely was crushing Celestine. Once that occurred to him he stood up quickly and grabbed Zale around the neck with his arm, jerking him back off of the girl and Celestine. "Go lay down!" he snapped at him, making sure to let him know he wasn't playing as he released him.

Celestine gasped as soon as Zale was off of them, finding it much easier to breathe now that most of the weight was gone. Reyes wasn't much heavier than he was, and she wasn't really interfering with much other than him sitting up. He coughed for a moment and then groaned and closed his eyes. As much as he loved animals, even Zale...he really wanted to strangle them sometimes.
Kanone reached down then and took a hold of the girl's under her arms as he pulled her up to her feet and off of Celestine. "You two okay?"
Celestine just rolled onto his side once he was able to move and then raised his hand to his head as he continued to breathe heavily for a moment. He knew his face was red, that was probably one of the most humiliating things ever...but he didn't say anything. Rather he just sat up slowly and scooted over to lean against the tree and closed his eyes tightly as he leaned his head back. "...Fine..." he said after a long pause.

Esen nodded slightly when Nobu said that he couldn't believe Zale. She looked back over her shoulder and growled softly, clearly not too pleased with what he was doing at the moment. She stood up again and turned around as if she was going to go shove him off of them herself, but Kanone beat her to it. 'He is going to hurt someone... He stomped all over my tail on his way over, the lunatic.' Shy and quiet as Esen was, she was just a tinge more mouthy when she was irritated, and right now...she was definitely not in a very good mood.

Zale hadn’t moved very much from his perch on the top of the pile though he did cock his head to the side a bit when he heard Aamori calling him a bad dog. That didn’t happen very often so he was a bit curious as to what he had done to upset her. Things started to click one at a time as he kept hearing that he needed to get off, and because of Celestine. It hadn’t even occurred to him that the weight would be crushing Celestine. Then again that was his fault; he shouldn’t have been at the bottom of the pile. He was going to go ahead and move but Kanone had gotten a hold of him before he could do anything. He didn’t fight being jerked off the top of the pile though he did lay his ears back as soon as he heard Kanone snap at him like he had and tell him to go lay down. He hadn’t meant to hurt anyone so he didn’t see where he had to be snapped at like that. He listened though and backed up a little before turning around and sulking away from them. He even went past Aamori since she didn’t look too happy either and flopped down on the ground with his back to everyone else.

Reyes squirmed slightly under the canine’s weight and really wished at that moment that he was physically stronger than he was. He would have given nearly anything to be able to push himself up and off of Celestine, taking the weight of the dog with him but he just wasn’t that strong and certainly not with his mind half focused on the scratch on his hand. He gave relieved sigh when he did finally feel the weight of the blue mass moved. The weight hadn’t been bothering him that badly but it certainly was easier to breathe without the addition and he was glad that the weight was lifted from Celestine as well since he knew that had to be hurting him. He was a bit surprised when he felt someone take hold of him under his arms and lift him up off of Celestine and put him back on his feet. He was going to get off of Celestine, just not quite that early. He glanced up a little to eye the person that had lifted him up and noticed it was the other wind dragon, the one he thought Celestine had called Kanone. He nodded his head weakly after hearing him ask if the two of them were okay. He was pretty sure he was, no harm done. He started to reach down to dust off his dress a little and then flinched when he felt the sting in his hand. Being picked up like that so suddenly caught him by surprise and he had forgotten momentarily that he had been scratched by that cat. He lifted his hand up slightly and clasped his other over the scratch. That certainly wasn’t a very nice feeling and he was glad to have been warned ahead of time though thanks to Zale that hadn’t done too much good.

Aamori was quite relieved that Kanone had taken it upon himself to move Zale and then lift the dark dragon girl from Celestine. She cast her eyes down to Zale briefly when he started to walk past her to go lay down like he’d been told to. She wasn’t very happy with him but since Kanone had already snapped at him she wasn’t going to waste her breath right now. She completely ignored the new girl for now and started to move over closer to Celestine once he had gotten himself seated against a tree. She knelt down just beside him and kept her hands in her lap as she eyed him. “I’m sorry, about Zale.” She said quietly. She felt like she should have some control over the canine but she didn’t, he just did whatever he pleased when it came to playing. “…Are you sure you’re alright?” She asked, obviously still a bit concerned.

Nobu merely watched quietly while Kanone finally got around to getting Zale down off of that girl and then eyed Esen. He hadn’t seen her get quite so… irritated, ever. It was a little strange considering her usual quiet and shy personality. Then again, with Celestine as the master he couldn’t be that surprised by her mouth. He did have to nod his head slightly in agreement when she said that Zale was going to hurt someone. One of these times he was really going to do it and unfortunately Zale didn’t appear to notice these things until after it was too late. He shifted his glance slightly and looked at her tails after she had said that Zale had stomped all over them. ’Don’t let him get to you. I doubt he meant to trample your tails.’ He told her. ’They look fine, nothing a little grooming couldn’t fix.’ He added. As much as Zale could annoy him sometimes he couldn’t really be mad at the guy for very long. It was too obvious to him that the guy didn’t think as straight as the others and there really was almost always one thing in particular on his mind. When he was in play mode, that’s all there was. He did think that Zale could learn how to control that but he wasn’t going to get too worked up about it right now, especially since Celestine looked to be alright.

Kanone glanced after Zale when he went to go lay down like he was told and then turned his attention back to the girl from the dark clan again. He smiled weakly and then nodded when she nodded her head to indicate that she was alright. He released her arms and then glanced over to Celestine after he'd said that he was fine before he glanced curiously back to the other girl as she was dusting herself. off. "Well...I see you've met my cousin..." he said in a half-assed attempt at being funny. He still wondered why the girl was here. Clearly this territory was the absolute last place he expected to run into any more dark dragons, but for now he didn't interrogate her. Something told him he could go ask Nero and probably get a decent answer...why else would another dark dragon be here? Or well...at least one this small.

Celestine was just trying to catch his breath and make the pounding subside in his head. He barely even registered that Zale had gotten scolded, though at the moment he didn't even really care. He was a little irritated sing as this was the second time Zale had caused him to fall over, but he wasn't too hard on animals when it came to reprimanding them for misbehavior. He glanced over to Aamori when she knelt down asking him if he was alright and nodded slightly. "...Yes...I'm alright..." he said quietly. He looked away from her again and then slowly pushing himself up and started to move around the small crowd a but unsteadily and head back over toward Esen and Nobu, leaving Kyiri up in the tree for now. He sighed heavily and knelt down in front of the two of them before reaching over and rubbing both of them behind the ears. '...I think I want to go back to sleep...' he thought in a tone that sounded almost groggy. His head still hurt and honestly he wouldn't mind laying back down for a while, at least until the headache went away, but he was pretty sure by now that everyone else would be waking up pretty soon. He just sighed heavily and then closed his eyes again. "...." It took him a few moments to remembered Reyes's hand and he finally looked back to her again. "...Is your hand alright?"

Esen let out a disgruntled sigh when Nobu said not to let Zale get to her. 'I know he didn't do it on purpose, but that still hurt...' At least it didn't take her as long to calm down as it took Celestine most of the time. She was already sounding a little nicer, but was clearly still annoyed. She shook out her entire body, ruffling up her fur a bit and then laid back down again. '...I just wish he would watch what he was doing before he really does hurt someone...' Her ears perked up a little when Celestine came back over to them and she raised her head into his hand when he reached to pet her, sighing softly at his comment about wanting to go back to sleep. '...I think most of us could stand to...' she said understandingly. She would like to go back to sleep and try to wake up on the right side of the bed.

Reyes continued to hold his hand rather tightly and close to himself as well. He was bleeding a little and the only thing he could think of was to apply a bit of pressure and thankfully that did kind of help with the stinging too. He glanced over to Kanone and nodded his head weakly after he had spoken. "Yes, I suppose that was payback for his falling on me first." He commented quietly. He shook his head lightly and smiled a little. "You've met my cousin already, as well, haven't you Kanone?" He was pretty sure anyone could've picked up on that, especially since there were only two dark clan dragons in the immediate area. Or rather, in the territory. He didn't think many would bother coming here unless they were ordered to. It was just too bright for their liking. He turned his attention away from Kanone briefly and looked to Celestine when he started moving. He just kind of stared after him momentarily and then looked started to look back to Kanone, then to the girl and eventually over towards Nero. His ears perked slightly and he cast his glance back towards Celestine since he had asked about his hand. He finally pulled his hand away from his chest and started to remove the other so he could see the scratch. Kyiri had gotten him pretty good but he'd never been scratched before so he couldn't entirely tell how it was. He stared at it a moment before cringing slightly at the sting once it made itself known again and then sighed and started to cover it back up. He looked back to Celestine and smiled very weakly. "...It's alright ...I think." He answered quietly.

Aamori kept her eyes on Celestine until he answered her and said again that he was alright. She sighed quietly and nodded her head slightly then watched him when he started to move away from them and head towards Esen and Nobu. She shook her head lightly and finally started to stand back upright herself. She wasn't so sure that he appeared to be in a better mood than yesterday. He still looked like he would rather seclude himself off with the animals somewhere, or maybe that was just a result of being piled on because of Zale. She wasn't too sure. She wanted to follow Celestine over to the canines but didn't bother since he had gotten up and moved away from them; he probably didn't want to be around them at the moment. She hadn't been paying too much attention to the new girl, at least not until she had heard her say something about Kanone having already met her cousin. She quirked a brow slightly and then had to look back at where Nero was for a moment, almost in disbelief. Not because she didn't think Nero had extended family but more that it was someone like this girl. She was so small compared to him and she didn't look like she was going to bite your head off just because you opened your mouth to speak to her. She was a little curious to know what the girl was even doing here but she didn't really want to ask either of them.

Nobu looked at Esen and shook his head a little after she had said that it still hurt. He couldn't very well argue that it didn't but she looked fine and wasn't babying her tails so it couldn't have hurt that badly. He nodded his head a little after she had said that she wished Zale would watch what he was doing before he really did hurt someone. 'It may take him actually causing someone a good deal of pain to even realize he needs to watch what he's doing.' He commented quietly. He looked to Celestine when he started to come over and then wagged his tails a little after getting rubbed behind the ears. He just kind of stared at Celestine momentarily after he had said that he thought he wanted to go back to sleep. He didn't really say anything in response to that just waited until he had the moment to nuzzle against him lightly.

LaRae hadn't been too far from waking up thanks to the brief ruckus a few moments prior. She was only just now starting to sit up and give up on trying to go back to sleep. The yelps had been enough to pull at her conscious and cause her to wake up, she just hadn't wanted to, at least not yet. She pushed herself upright and hunched over slightly, lifting her hand up to rub her eyes gently before pushing her hair back behind her ears a bit so that she could glance around and see what had started to wake her up. She was a bit surprised when her eyes did finally focus on someone that seemed really out of place. At first she skipped over it like it was nothing since she knew there was a dark dragon in the group but then she remembered that Nero wasn't that small or that feminine looking. She was just a little groggy so that was her only explanation for not noticing the girl right away. It was kind of weird seeing a second one of them here.

Kanone blinked when the girl commented on this being payback for Celestine falling on her first. "Celestine fell? Hah!" he just laughed as if that was unheard of. Celestine was more graceful that most girls he saw unless he was wet, so it wasn't too often that he fell on his face. He blinked when she said that he'd met her cousin as well and called him by his name. He guessed Celestine must have already mentioned him and he glanced back to Nero and grinned a little. "Awww...who'd have thought he'd be related to something to cute?" he commented as he rubbed the top of her head, messing up her hair a little. He pulled back his hand and then glanced over to Aamori again, ignoring Celestine for now. He could tell he wasn't in too good of a mood at the moment and he was till too tired to deal with him. "So...what are you doing here, anyway? I wouldn't expect Nero to have extended family here of all places."

Celestine smiled weakly when Nobu nuzzled against him and moved his arm to wrap around his neck. He leaned his head against his for a moment before he raised up a little and looked back to Reyes. Once he'd answered his question he nodded a little and then sighed softly. He rubbed Nobu's head again and then Esen's before he started to stand up and looked back to the others again. He walked over to them and then came to a stop near Reyes and reached over for her injured hand to take a look at the scratch. He shook his head after seeing it and then moved his hand over it. He didn't bother saying a word, but moments after he'd placed his hand over hers that pale green aura encircled it and a cool breeze blew down over the scratch as he made a quick attempt at healing it, since it had been his cat that had scratched her. Once he was finished he lowered his hands and then backed away and started to move away from them again, glancing over to Zale this time, though he didn't bother going near him at the moment. He'd let him sulk for a bit before he went to bother him.

Esen shook her head slightly when Nobu said that it make take Zale hurting someone to realize that he needs to be more careful. She really wasn't looking forward to that. '...Why do I have this sinking feeling that if that happens...it's going to be Celestine...?' She watched as Nobu nuzzled against Celestine and then as Celestine got up and went to heal the girl's hand. She laid her head back down on her paws again and then glanced over toward Zale for a moment before she sighed. '...Should...someone go talk to him?' she asked quietly, no longer sounding too put off with him. Esen had trouble staying mad for too long, but she couldn't help getting irritated every now and then just like anyone else.

Nanashi groaned softly when LaRae started moving around, mostly because he was using her for a pillow. He opened his eyes and then raised his head slowly and glanced over to her, realizing that he still had his hand near her foot. Obviously he'd fallen asleep on the job of massaging her ankles. He yawned and then sat up a little straighter, trying to stretch a bit. He felt and heard a few bones in his back pop, but that didn't really faze him too much. He didn't even bother looking around much at first, his eyes went straight to LaRae before anywhere else. "...Morning..." he said tiredly.

Reyes shook his head lightly after hearing Kanone laugh at hearing Celestine fell. "To be technical he fell on Nero, too." He said quietly. He just smiled slightly after he had commented that who'd of thought Nero would be related to something so cute. He liked hearing that, regardless of who said it. He appreciated anyone saying that he was cute, pretty, beautiful or remotely similar. He didn't always get that back home because some of the people there knew better as to his gender so they avoided such comments. He continued to smile a bit. "Well not everyone in the family could be grumpy looking like Nero." He ducked his head very slightly at first when Kanone touched his head but didn't shy away. Even if his hair got messed up he didn't mind too much. It wasn't like he couldn't fix it again. He wasn't too surprised to hear the question that Kanone finally asked. He suspected several of them would wind up asking. Or at least the ones who didn't get to hear the first time he answered. "Reconnaissance." He answered brightly. "Nero's fiance worries and she couldn't talk anyone else into leaving Shyama for her, so here I am." It was more like he was the only one they didn't mind losing to the search for Nero. He was a bit of a disgrace to them as it was so they wouldn't have minded losing him should something bad happen.

Nero still hadn't bothered to move from where he was standing. He still had his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes were shielded by the shades he had traded with Reyes. He just stared over at Kanone after hearing him comment that who'd have thought something so cute could be related to him. Reyes was by no means cute in his eyes. He was a little cross dressing liar and worse, he was proud of it. He liked people thinking he was a girl and loved the compliments. It got really old, really fast, though he was half interested in seeing how long it would take this group to realize that Reyes wasn't a she. So far everyone seemed to go with the obvious choice and the looks on their faces would likely be priceless once they found out otherwise. He continued not to budge at least until he heard Reyes say 'Nero's fiance' rather than 'Kana' this time. He lifted one hand to his forehead and then shook his head lightly. Reyes was going to spill every little detail, he could just see it now.

Nobu wagged his tails slightly after Celestine had wrapped his arms around his neck and leaned his head against him. He looked up to Celestine briefly once he started to get to his feet and continued to watch him for a moment before turning his attention back to Esen. 'If it isn't Celestine it may be Aamori... the poor girls already hit her head twice now because Zale just got up without warning to play.' He responded and then looked back over at Celestine and the small group. He looked back down to Esen when he heard her ask if someone should go talk to him and then looked over to Zale who was still sulking on the ground by himself. '...Someone will, eventually. This should do him some good, gives him time to think about why he got scolded.' He answered quietly.

Reyes glanced over to Celestine when he noticed him get closer and then stared at him when he reached for his hand without so much as a word. He didn't say anything of course and just watched as Celestine looked over the scratch. He glanced very briefly between Celestine and his hand after he noticed the aura and the breeze over his hand. He hadn't ever known a wind dragon who could heal so of course he was a little curious as to what Celestine was doing but he didn't question it. Once Celestine had finished and started to move away he inspected his hand curiously and noticed that the scratch wasn't there any longer which surprised him a lot. He hadn't expected Celestine to be capable of healing magic let alone that he would heal pretty much a stranger over just a scratch. He couldn't help but smile and he wasted little time at all hurrying after him to give him a quick hug from behind. "Thank you so much!" He told him with a smile and a light squeeze before releasing him. He knew Celestine didn't have to heal his hand so he was pretty happy and it showed easily.

Aamori stared at Celestine briefly when he did finally come back over and quirked a brow slightly seeing him start to heal this girls scratch after inspecting it. This was someone they barely new so she was a little surprised to see him share with her the fact that he could heal, even if it was Nero's cousin. She was a little surprised to see him even heal her period. The scratch would have healed fine on it's own, just like the injuries she'd gotten that he wouldn't heal. She shook her head lightly and glanced away, at least until there was even an added hug in all of that. The hug was just for thanks so maybe that wasn't that bad, but still, he'd healed her and she couldn't quite get past that.

LaRae kept her eyes on the new girl for a few moments at least until she heard Nanashi starting to move a little. She pried her eyes away and looked over at him, smiling a little. "Good morning." She responded and then turned her attention back at the group. "...I'm not seeing things ...right?" She asked quietly and lifted her hand a little to point over at the new girl. "There is another dark dragon, right?" She added. She wasn't too alarmed when she asked, the girl didn't seem to be a threat and after seeing her hug Celestine she assumed the girl could even be harmless. It didn't even look like she had weapons on her but then again... neither did she and she could still fight so long as there were plants around.

Kanone blinked when he heard the answer to why the girl was here and then half smiled. "Oh really?" he commented as he glanced back to Nero. He half smiled and then shook his head before he glanced back to Reyes again. "How...um...wow...haha." He wasn't even entirely sure what to say to that one. It sounded like Nero had a nice clingy girlfriend. He glanced over to Celestine and watched as he decided to heal Reyes's scratch and ten shook his head a little. He laughed softly when Reyes went bounding after him to hug him and then shook his head and glanced over to Aamori for a moment. He tilted his head a little when he noticed the less than pleased expression on her face, but he just shook his head and reached over to pat the top of hers lightly, assuming it was the fact that another girl was hanging off of Celestine that had her looking that way.

Celestine hadn't gotten more than a few steps away from Reyes when he felt her hug him from behind, though he was caught completely off guard by the act. He froze solid, his entire body tensing so that even his ears perked up more than normal. "U-um...y-yeah..." he said uncomfortably as he glanced over his shoulder at her until she released him. He continued to stand there for a moment and then continued away stiffly before kneeling back down in front of Nobu and Esen and casting an almost wary glanced back to Reyes again. 'Geez...'

Esen sighed softly and then nodded in response to Nobu when he said that it may be Aamori if it wasn't Celestine. She had already noticed that the girl had gotten her head bounced off the ground more than once thanks to leaning on Zale. 'Maybe we should all trade places...you can still be Celestine's pillow, I can be Aamori's and Zale can be the one that can get up whenever he feels the urge.' As it stood Esen was usually the one in that position seeing as Celestine leaned more toward wanting to sleep on Nobu than on her, which didn't really bother her as she liked being able to get up when she wanted to, but now that Zale was with them she was starting to think that he may need to be the one capable of doing that. She nodded again after saying that leaving him alone would do him some good. Well, she certainly hoped it would... Her gaze turned to Celestine again once Reyes had hugged him and she watched in mild amusement as he walked back over to them, wagging her tails slightly at the sight of him, though she couldn't help but chuckle quietly in her mind when he gave off a mental, 'geez'.

Nanashi smiled weakly at LaRae and then blinked and turned his head slowly to look around when she asked if she wasn't seeing things. He saw what she was seeing just as it pounced on Celestine, even before she pointed. He blinked and stared for a moment and then nodded slightly. "...Yes...I see her..." he said a little unsurely before he glanced back over to LaRae again. "...Did...you see when she got here?" He didn't seem too thrilled to have another member of the dark clan among them, most because he was half afraid that she was going to be just as critical as Nero was at times about him being useless and a half breed. Then again she seemed nothing like Nero, but that didn't always mean a whole lot. Someone could be one way toward one person and do a complete 180º on another.

Aamori's expression faded almost instantly once Kanone had touched her head. She turned her eyes up towards Kanone and stared at him momentarily before shying away from his hand. She was at the very least a bit happy for the distraction though she would have preferred that it not have been a hand to her head. But that was Kanone's usual thing. He did pat nearly everyone on the head. You'd think she along with everyone else he did it to would be used to it by now and just accept it. The distraction didn't last too long and she found herself staring over at Reyes for a moment before glancing back to Nero. She wanted to ask him how long his cousin was going to be with them but she wasn't so sure she wanted to approach Nero right now. He never did look very approachable but right now she could imagine he might not even be thrilled about Reyes being here.

Reyes just smiled broadly after getting a response out of Celestine. It was enough of one to make him want to laugh a little. He could tell that had made Celestine a little bit uncomfortable though he didn't see why. It was only a hug after all and they had already been that close to one another twice today. Once he'd gone back to kneeling by the other two canines he started to look back towards Kanone and the water clan girl though he did manage to catch Celestine glance at him to which he merely smiled brightly and then turned to walk back over towards Kanone. "...So why're you tailing your cousin ...or is he tailing you?" He asked curiously. He had a pretty good reason himself so he was a little interested to see why the extra wind dragon was tagging along and of the two of them Kanone looked like he might be the more talkative one. Or maybe the easiest to talk to.

Nobu nodded his head slightly in acknowledgment to what Esen had brought up about switching places. That did seem like it could at least solve the problem of Aamori hitting her head whenever Zale got up but at the same time Aamori would probably learn fast enough that she shouldn't bother laying on Zale. It wasn't like she needed to use a canine as a pillow. She had slept just fine before without one back when there was only him. 'I don't think you need to go being her pillow, at least not unless she asks.' He responded quietly. He turned his attention towards Celestine once he got caught from behind by Reyes and couldn't help a short lived quiet laugh at his reaction. He looked to him once he knelt down and then tilted his head slightly after catching the mental 'geez'. He shook his head slightly. 'It was just a thank you hug.'

LaRae was fairly certain that she was seeing that girl, she just wanted to make sure that she wasn't alone. She shook her head lightly when she heard him ask if she had seen when she got here. "Unfortunately, no, I didn't." She answered and finally glanced back over at Nanashi. "I just woke up and there she was with the three of them." She added. "She doesn't appear to be hostile and they look like they're having casual conversation..." She said as she looked back over at the girl and then shook her head again lightly. "Did you sleep alright...?" It had been some time since they had slept on the ground in the middle of a forest so she didn't think it hurt to ask. She'd gotten pretty used to the comfortable beds though she had to be glad there weren't any pillows out here that could catch fire.