Unfinished Business

Stranger

"Lamia!Error"     "Naga!Nightmare"

-implied ErrorMare
-Delinquent Noms

Error was out for some air. Horror was out hunting and found a wild boar when Error encountered him. He had kept himself hidden until Horror had killed the animal, said skeleton was about to drag it back to base when when he heard Error move.

Error had revealed himself and Horror began to panic. This was a strange lamia and a large one on top of that, only a head smaller than Nightmare. Mismatched eyelights held his own, blue tear markings spread from his sockets to the bottom of his jaw.

Knowing he wouldn't stand a chance battling the other, Horror quickly heads in a direction that would lead him to a safe hole, but Error cuts him off with his body, large coils surrounding the smaller naga preventing any chance of escape. Horror's crimson eyelight darts around frantically as he tries to find a way out. Error tightens the circle until Horror's torso was completely bound, arms pinned to his sides with his tail underneath Error's. Horror starts to cry despite himself, his eyelight widening as he cries harder. Error tilts his head curiously as he observes the other. Horror notices and freezes, tears still trickling from his sockets despite his best efforts to stiffle them.

Error opens his jaws and goes to swallow the others skull, who starts to frantically squirm. Error engulfs the skull and torso before swallowing, pulling Horror in up to half of his tail. The smaller froze as he realized his situation, his thoughts a jumble as he slid further in. With one last swallow Error concealed the rest of Horror inside him, his presence not even visible from the outside.

Error went to turn back to his nest when he heard a twig snap. Spinning around brought another naga into his vision, this one a little bigger than the last yet still smaller than himself. This one had a hood and mismatched eyelights similar to Error's.

Before the other could even act, Error had him pinned down with his blue cables, this one fighting more vigorously than the other, although unable to break free. The larger coiled around the other, releasing them from the cables as he inspected them. As soon as the cables had been broken, Dust lunged at Error with dagger in hand, Error barely dodging before disarming the other and using the full weight of his coils ontop of Dust, lightning the weight only a little when the other showed signs of struggling for breath. Dust finally quit fighting as he instead focused on steadying his breathing, his eyelights meeting the other's, not daring to look away.

Error quietly observed him, staring back as he worked on his train of thought. He had never seen these two nagas before, nor has he ever seen two nagas of such different appearances together. Most would stick with their tribes made up of a set naga type or lived alone as Error does. He is curious.

"Do you know the other naga?" He questions. Dust doesn't respond, poker faced as he continued to glare up at the other. "Are there...others like you?" Error asks, not quite sure how to put his questions to words. Dust seems to be slightly confused, before his expression becomes guarded as he looks past Error, who notices a flicker of movement before he feels the weight of another's coils on his own. An old phobia causes him to twitch for a second before he composes himself, not allowing him to lose it when others are around. He feels the Stranger's coils drape across his before feeling phanlanges grip his humeri. "Release him if you will, I'd hate to harm such a beautiful creature, but I will if I must." Says a deep,  rumbling voice, the owner belonging to the skull barely grazing his own.

Error stops himself from blushing, although he can't help but feel a little flustered. He can tell that the stranger is bigger than himself, although not by much, and is more than likely stronger or at the least as strong. He slowly lifts his coils off of Dust, the Stranger's moving with his as he releases the smaller who quickly slithers out from under him, but stays nearby instead of running off. Error is a little confused but is more worried about the stranger ontop of him at the moment. "I know you have another, release him too." Error tensed a little. Had he been there the whole time and he didn't sense him? Or was it something else? Error feels a ribcage press up against his spine and a mandible rest atop of his skull. Deciding he'd rather not irritate the larger, he regurgitates his catch.

He unhinges his jaw as a skull started to slip past, mindful of his golden-yellow fangs as the rest of the torso shortly followed after along with a crimson tail. There is a soft 'plop' as Horror hits the ground, blue tinted saliva covered the naga as well as some trailing from Error's jaws. The young naga seemed dazed before he looked up at Error, surprise in their eye before they tense.

Error noticed Dust shifting in place as he gazed at the younger yet not moving from his spot. The Stranger moved one of his hands from Error's humerus before making a dismissive waving motion at Dust, who immediately made his ways to the younger's side. Still being wary of the two larger monsters, he gently picks up the smaller and moves in a direction. He pauses looking back towards Error, whom feels the Stranger's skull move in a nodding motion before Dust moves back to who knows where.

Error sits quietly as he tries to find out more about the Stranger, unable to do anything since the other practically had him pinned. The Stanger trails a phalangee across Error's spine, a tingling sensation following it as it traced each individual vertebrae. Error so badly wanted to get the Stranger off of him, but his instincts told him to stay still, the size of the other having quite a strong influence over his decisions, but their was something else... He feels the Stranger shift his coils around his own so they were no longer on top of them, instead coiling in a circle until Error's were pressed together. The Stranger then moves and Error gets his first view of them.

Their skeleton is dark like Error's, the tail covered in obsidian scales with hints of teal and even slight purple glinting from underneath. Their skull had the features belonging to a male. His right socket dark and injured, the left illuminated by a bright cyan eyelight.

He slides his torso infront of Error's and tilts his skull down before looking into his sockets. Error holds the other's gaze unwavering, although he does get a tingling feeling again, this time in his Soul.

The Stranger moves a little closer to Error, his eyelight filled with curiosity as he gently pressed his forehead to Error's, neither of their gazes breaking. Error subconsciously presses his ribcage against the other's, his tail moving to entwine itself around the other. His Soul racing as the Stranger follows the action ending with both their tails twirled together in a gorgeous stream of scales.

They grip each other in an embrace and start to sway and move in circling motions. Error's vision blurs at the edges until all he sees is the Stranger, staring just as intently back at him. They ease into a tower of coils in the shade of a towering oak, neither daring to breathe.

The Stranger slowly raises a hand to Error's skull, phalanges curling to gently stroke his jawbone before carefully holding it, Error immediately leans into the touch.

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