Ch. 6 - Scales and wings are such a drag for Jack of Fables

[originaljackass]

[Jack is getting restless now. It's been nearly a month since he was turned into this big hulking beast and frankly? It's getting pretty damn old. Each day he has to roll in his gold a little longer to make himself feel better and he's less and less inclined to leave his gold behind. That damn pirate is going to try and find it, he just knows it. Still, hunger is hunger and he's getting sick of deer, bears, cows, and sheep. The farm animals are the easiest to get, but he's noticed he's been... thinning the herd a bit. He can't live off them forever. As for hunting? It's a pain in the ass.

Well, if he's going to be stuck like this, like hell he's going to just hide. So retreating from his cave, he'll be flying towards town. He'll stop just behind the grocery store and land there. Seeing as he's too big to get in... he'll just bust a hole in the roof and start grabbing stuff that way. Good thing these buildings auto-repair and the food restocks itself, because he won't be leaving much of a store behind by the time he's done.]

((ooc: Feel free to catch him at the store or prowling around the mountains. But not so much his secret treasure horde... not yet!))

Comments

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

[He'll just talk while he's chewing, which will be exactly as disgusting as it sounds.]

Nope. Been here over five months now.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Lovely. But, Kain doesn't seem too weirded out by that. He's more used to dragon-eating being much... well, bloodier. A few maimed cereal boxes are nothing.]

Quite a while... Have you been hiding out somewhere? The mountains, perhaps?

[He's surprised he didn't run into him, but then, training and Rydia time are usually what he's focused on while up there. It's possible he may have just... missed noticing him, somehow.]

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Not so much. Hate to break it to you, pal, but the dragon looks is new.

... and don't go poking around for where I sleep either.

[He's a little testy at the mention of mountains. He keeps his gold there!]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

I had no intention to.

[Kain might be stubborn to a crazy extent about poking fights against his enemies, but he has a different level of... respect, for dragons.]

You're not normally a dragon?

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

I don't make a habit of it, no. Usual, I'm way better looking than this.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

The only way that could be possible would be if you were perhaps a larger dragon, normally.

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

... okay, ignoring the creepy undertone there, I'm supposed to be human.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[He didn't MEAN to be creepy, but now that the human thing is brought in, Kain makes a face.]

Given a choice between the two, I'd prefer the dragon still.

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well that makes one of us. You figure out a way to swap species, you get back to me on it. I'll be happy to let you run around like this.

[And then he can be a SILENT dragon, just like Kain wants!]

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

I've tried it before. It wasn't so bad.

[But then at the time there'd been a way to communicate with his thoughts, so, there was no frustration with the not-talking.]

Why are you stuck like this, anyway? There doesn't appear to be an experiment running...

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Hell if I know. I didn't even get kidnapped. And it's almost been a month at that.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

That's far longer than their effects usually last...

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd kind of gathered that. Any other useful info you care to pass on?

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

[Gives him a Look, briefly, but continues after a moment.]

No, nothing. Although I still wonder what could have caused you to transform.

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Hell if I know. Bad karma or something? I ain't found any answers yet.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

Unfortunate. You appear to be managing well enough in the meantime.

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

You call this managing well!?

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

It could be worse.

[It can ALWAYS be worse, in Kain's experience.]

[dragonjack.livejournal.com]

Amazingly enough, that doesn't help. At all.

[dragoon-pride.livejournal.com]

Well. I'll leave you to your... food.

[If one can call it that.]