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It was gonna happen sometime.

🐄Hey kids! It's Indrik! King of Beasts (in training), ex-earth spirit, now Rex spirit and generally weird critter!🐄

Indrik is usually quite a sleepy baby, and as long as he's got a full tum-tum, he'll laze away his days either in the stables or in Rex's creepy van. But sometimes, a freakish beast has gotta do what a freakish creature has gotta do. One of those times is when the door to his pen is left open by mistake. As such, the pony-sized, cow-faced, golden-scaled, firey red lion-maned, lizard-tailed, thing with a big chubby belly is going on an adventure! Dare you be a random encounter in Indrik's epic tale?

Hit the Bench
So you're enjoying a nice quiet sit on a bench, eh? Whatever your doing can't be that important because it does not involve Indrik, but fortunately he is here to solve that. With a crash, Indrik's little cow head busts through the wood of the bench's backrest. Hello, his little cow face seems to say, by jutting his tongue out and staring.

Screaming
Some days, you just gotta scream. Don't matter where you are or what the time is. He's already worked out if you smack a door a couple of times it will either fall off its hinges or someone in there will let you in. Indrik finds himself a nice person and just shrieks at them. Head jutting forward, body lowered and mane bristling he unleashes something which is half devastating mooing and half paralysing roar- except miniaturised, so it starts as a meep and becomes a squeak.

I didn't know I could do that!
The original Indrik was known for making the earth shake when he walked and unleashing flames to destroy those with evil hearts foolish enough to cross his path. The current Indrik is just a chunky boy concerning the former, and with the latter, he has yet to demonstrate any flames at all.

Until two minutes ago when he started burping up fireballs because he's been eating from trashcans all day. They're not terribly hot and burst much like dazzling fireworks after a few seconds with a bang, making them more startling than dangerous, but the fact he's running around shooting them off everywhere is probably a little offputting at least.

(( For those not in the know- Indrik is a super weird spirit linked to Rex's soul, who shares Rex's general paranoia that everyone might possibly be an enemy except he's an unstoppable idiot, so watch out for your kneecaps! He can be friendly, but mostly he's angry. His feelings on people are influenced by Rex's own too. Good with kids. Anyone is free to know Indrik is Rex's 'pet', as he often walks him around campus. Rex will probably show up after a bit in each scenario because Indrik is not allowed out unsupervised. ))

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Indrik holds his head high pridefully when he's given the proper praise as befits the King of Beasts. If he weren't four foot tall he'd certainly be looking down his snout at the world.

The mane is exactly as soft and silky as it looks and it seems that there is soft skin beneath the roots, with the scales only forming once past them. Tiny little ones at the border between fluff and tough, getting larger until the size equals out at the shoulder blades. The prideful snorts Indrik gives out are hot, with a few sparks popping free. They may sting if they land on skin, but only for a second.

Toki's managed to avoid getting hit by the sparks for a couple of minutes, but then his luck runs out. A few of them hit his hand, but they don't hurt too much. Still, if this fireball thing gets worse or more intense, Indrik might set something on fire. Toki's not completely opposed to that, but Rex would ultimately be responsible for any destruction caused by his pet. Toki stops petting Indrik and looks him in the eyes.

"Okay, uh, chimera!"

That's his best guess as a 'species'.

"You have two options~! Do you want to go find Rex? That's option one!"

He holds out his right hand to represent said option. Not that Indrik can understand him, but he hasn't thought that far ahead. He holds out his left hand for option two.

"Or! Your second choice; do you want to light things on fire!?"

It's a decent guess. Indrik fits a lot of creature features into one travel-sized package. Indrik's mane bristles at being looked in the eyes- don't you know you bow your head before a king, Toki? But it passes mostly due to the tone he speaks in, his tail swishes from side to side in anticipation. Not like a dog’s happy wag, but long, slow sweeps.

His heads look from one hand to the other as they move, which is why he ends up staring at the second option. Because it came last.

Indrik leans out to the left hand and butts it lightly. Bam! How dare you raise a hand to me, cheeky human? Have a warning butt!

"Excellent choice, chimera~! You're such a good boy~!"

Now, where to do this, and experiment with Indrik's fireballs... After a moment of deliberation, Toki's decided the alchemy lab will do. No one's been really opposed to fires and things of that nature in the lab yet. He starts heading in that direction, motioning for Indrik to follow.

"This way! We'll have so much fun~!"

The praise, the tone especially, has the ever smug Indrik appeased for now. Being Rex's, he's used to a deep-voiced monotone for the most part, so this is a pleasant change of pace. He ends up trotting after Toki, not because he's directed to follow, but because he wants to, okay.

He's actually following, and Toki's admittedly somewhat surprised. He won't question it, though. He leads Indrik to the building housing the alchemy lab. Now, it's a matter of traversing the hallways without too much suspicion. People familiar with the creature might wonder why Indrik's off by himself.

Toki peers around the corner into the main hallway, hoping Indrik keeps the fireballs to a minimum until they reach their destination. Belatedly, he realizes going in through one of the windows would have been a better idea, but too late now.

Indrik's leniency towards Toki does not apply to anyone they pass- who are treated either to a short scream or short range sparks blasted from his nose to let them know it is not acceptable to approach this fellow, he's Indrik's underling and is thus protected by the mightiest beast of them all.

While Toki stops to peer, Indrik has no such lack of courage and turns the corner, now leading the way himself. About halfway down the hall he gets bored and turns to the nearest door.

Time for the good old shoulder barge trick! Bang! If the door was closed the whole way in the first place, even his slams wouldn't shake the thick alchemy lab doors. Since it was open a crack, it slams open.

It should be noted that no matter how much it appears Indrik knows what he's doing, this is never the case. Ever.

Indrik was even worse than Toki at stealth things. Toki gave up on apologizing to everyone Indrik screamed or hacked up fireballs at. He'd hoped the creature would at least pick up on the vibes he was sending that this was a sneaky endeavor. Instead, Indrik goes running ahead and slams the lab door open with a loud noise and Toki's pretty sure everyone on the first floor heard it. He follows Indrik into the lab.

"You're excited, aren't you~!?"

He leaves Indrik to his own devices while gathering flammable materials to test the fireballs on. Safely, of course, in the back where the firepits are set up.

Leaving Indrik to his own devices is definitely always a bad idea, but hey, it’s Toki.

Much like with a toddler, when it’s quiet it’s time to really worry. No crashes or screams or firework bangs.

So when Toki is ready to test the fireballs, Indrik has already half eaten a chair. He’s chewing apart a metal leg.

How else will he grow lovely shiny scales without a nice supply of metal in his diet?

After getting everything set up for their experiment, Toki turns from the firepits to see what's keeping Indrik so quiet. Did he leave? No. He's eating a chair. That's unexpected.

"No! You shouldn't eat chairs!"

Or maybe he should. What do chimeras eat? It probably depended on which animals they were. Indrik's like a cow-lion-lizard thing, it seems. Cows have several stomachs; he thinks so anyway. So maybe that's how he digests things like plastic and metal. Still, that's just an assumption and Toki would be a horrible person if he just let Rex's pet eat something that could kill him.

"Uh, bad chimera!"

Toki grabs hold of the chair leg still in Indrik's mouth.

"Let go!"

Indrik's lips curl back to display disturbingly large and sharp teeth for a thing that looks so much like a herbivore. All the herbivore teeth as in the back. Upfront, it's all lion. Plastic isn't so great for him, even if he has swallowed a few mouthfuls, but the chair leg is delicious and Indrik refuses to let go. All four hooves planted firmly and with a powerful swing of his head he tries to dislodge Toki's hand.

If Toki doesn't let go, he may well get tossed on his butt, but either way it's at that moment Rex comes in. If Toki is sent flying, it's to be caught by one of his ridiculously long limbs of Rex's. Otherwise... he's just gonna be over in the doorway sighing loudly.

In hindsight, it was a very bad idea to admonish Indrik, and an even worse idea to try and take the chair leg from him. When Indrik snarls and tries to rip the chair leg out of his hand, Toki immediately lets go and starts backing away from the creature.

"Y-you can have it, chimera~! Eat all the tasty chairs you want~!"

Then he hears Rex sigh from the doorway. Toki looks at Rex and then back at Indrik devouring the chair leg. He feels the need to explain awkwardly.

"I didn't give him the chair to eat or anything! We were going to test the weird sparkling fireball things, or well, really, just light things on fire, but- Wait, no! What really happened is he just followed me in here through no encouragement of my own and I had nothing to do with this~!"

"I have several questions," Rex leads with as he pinches the bridge of his nose. There's so much going on here. He needs a moment to unpack all of this.

Once he clears his vision by moving the hand slowly down his face he gets onto the first and most important.

"What do you mean by fireballs?" It's something new to Indrik, but something Rex has been expecting... and dreading. The previous incarnation of Indrik had some very fearsome fire breath and now Rex is going to have to come up with some sort of fireproof muzzle or something.

While awaiting his answer, he strides over to Indrik, grips the now mostly gone chair leg and fixes the beast with a hard stare. He lets go right away.

"Uhh..."

The fireballs were apparently a new thing, and Rex should probably get all the details.

"Okay! So! I was just out walking around and I saw your little uh, chimera guy, here and I went to pet him and he like hacked up a fireball, you know how cats do the hairball thing? It was like that, only fire, but not exactly fire like you'd think of a traditional fireball because it has sparks like fireworks! I asked him if he was sick, but he didn't seem to be so I assumed this happens all the time! Then I thought maybe we should go find you, but he wanted to come and light things on fire! He made his own choice, so I brought him here and he may have screamed at some people in the hallway or spit fireballs at them, but they don't really hurt too much! He was really excited and ran ahead of me to barge into the lab, so I got some things we could experiment with, but when I turned around, he was just eating a chair!"

Ah Toki. How Rex appreciates how quickly he talks. He can jam all the info Rex needs into one convenient breath.

"Hmmm. I knew he'd start doing that eventually, but what do you mean when you say it's like fire-"

The answer comes as Indrik decides that actually, you know what, if he can't have that chair leg there's another right there. Let's kill that chair first! Wheeeew-Bang as the ball bursts into a flurry of colours. The chair wobbles, but is not even scorched. There's barely any heat in the things.

"Ah."

After a moment of staring at this display, Rex adds-

"Incidentally, he doesn't understand any languages and any responses you received from him were coincidental."

"He doesn't!? Well, I guess he didn't choose to come to the alchemy labs and that was all me~!"

Watching Indrik with the chair dampens the excitement of the fireballs somewhat. They're not as destructive as suspected.

"Wait, what did you mean he'd do it eventually!? Are there more of them out there!?"

Rex gives Toki a short side-eye when he joyfully confesses that this whole thing is on him, but he can't be bothered to argue.

"I've only seen one other. Its breath was... much more impressive a conflagration," he explains without informing Toki the 'other' Indrik was actually the same one currently making a frustrated face at the chair and trying again with the fireballs. This time he launches several in a row, which does start to have an effect. Rex steps over to grip Indrik's mane lightly.

"No. Don't."

"Just one? They must be endangered!"

It was sad to think so. He imagines an entire herd of Indriks traipsing over the purple sand in the Outlands.

"Is he like an Outlands species?"

"He's an earth spirit- they're supposed to draw their power from the land."

Going down on one knee, Rex grips the sides of Indrik's jaw with one hand in a way that makes him open up, letting him looking inside for bits of chair leg. In case there's anything sharp stuck in there or something. Once he's done, he gets a tongue across his face for the trouble. Another sigh from him.

"This one takes it from me."

Toki was right (maybe) about parasitic familiars after all.

"So he sucks out your life-force!?"

"That was my original assumption too, but it doesn't seem to work that way."

He lets go of Indrik's mane, then glances over at the fire pits. It might be an idea to test it all out after all.

"It has been difficult so far to quantify the energy that he receives from me, but it seems to always be equally split between us and losing it appears to have no detrimental effect on me."

He stands and jabs a thumb at the firepits, wordlessly asking if Toki does want to see stuff fire.

"Unfortunately some forms of spiritual magic are rather... abstract, like that."

Toki still thinks of magical things in science terms, so he's expecting that there should be some sort of exchange in funneling power to Indrik. But magic doesn't work that way.

He is all for continuing the experiments on Indrik's fire and heads for the firepits at Rex's suggestion.

"How much power do you think he'll have eventually!? Oh! Will he also get bigger!?"

It's fine Toki. Rex thinks the same and he's a wizard. So when he meets these things he has to stop and rethink, take it apart and analyse. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't hurt Indrik- purely because it could be bad for Rex too if they're tangled up! That's why! It's not because Rex loves his dumb baby moose monster or anything!

"Well, the adolescent one I saw was ten metres tall or so and it was... quite alarming to be in its presence."

Toki probably knows Rex well enough by now that he gets 'quite alarming' from Rex probably means 'pants wettingly terrifying' and he barely survived it by luck alone. He shudders lightly at the memory, not only because of that but because that day was also the deepest he went into the disgusting euphoria of a fight to the death.

"But that one was drawing power from an entire mountain range and I'm just one human. I doubt he'll be such a beast."

Unless the human spirit is, you know, infinite and impossibly precious or something but pfffft that can't be right.

"Oh my god, that's gigantic!"

Indrik may be cute as he is, but one three times as big as Yuya's dragon would register as a monster. Toki eyes Indrik a little warily, imagining him growing to frightening proportions and melting buildings with fireballs.

"Yeah. The ground shook when it walked and..." He has to stop there. His largest scar by a wide margin was received in that fight too and he can feel it throbbing. His reaction is of course not nearly Toki's to thoughts of his sister but... wow, he does not want to fight another Indrik. If there even is another Indrik. This one might be The Indrik. Research is unclear because few people are stupid enough to approach one. "Well, let us just say the title King of Beasts may not be underserved."

Meanwhile, the fat baby has scampered after them when they wandered towards the firepit and manages to gallop into the back of Rex's knees. "Kon da te ebe!"

Which is Bulgarian for 'get fucked by a horse' and is what Rex shouts as he falls down with his idiot creature on top of him.

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