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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'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.

King of Beasts is a title Toki hopes cute little Indrik never has to live up to. Toki sets out his previously gathered items by the firepits in ascending order of flammability. He laughs as Indrik manages to take down Rex. The creature was at the perfect height for that in comparison.

The phrase isn't funny in translation, though. The academy app goes from amusing 'get fucked by a horse' to the simplistic 'stop' in Japanese, instead of a direct translation.

"How do you want to do this?"

Rex may have a better idea for keeping track of data on Indrik; Toki's original plan was little more than 'will this burn or not?'

The exact translation.

Rex spends a moment on the ground, propping up his chin with one hand and rapping on the floor impatiently with his fingers with the other, Indrik sitting on him with tongue hanging out. It looks exactly like a villain and his comic relief idiot sidekick. "And are we intending to get off anytime soon?"

Indrik jolts upwards and bounces off, clattering through some chairs as Rex gets up, brushing himself off.

"...Let's just see what will burn or not. Indrik! Over here!"

He smacks his fingers against his palm repeatedly, the signal for the beast to come over. Now, how to get him to... Okay, Rex goes on one knee and holds Indrik's mane to aim him. "What's first?"

Toki's amused by Rex and Indrik. He doesn't often see Rex as anything but calm and almost stoic; mostly because he rarely gets the jokes Rex attempts. Toki looks over his selections and picks up a small wooden box. He sets it in the firepit, in line wit Indrik's current position.

"Let's try this one~!"

He stands back to observe and take notes.

"Go on," Rex says to Indrik, who glances over at his master, not quite understanding. Rex makes a snort from his nose to illustrate and the beastie gets it.

Weee! Ka-Boom!

The box is singed by the first one, but Rex pats his side to encourage him. It's fine! Go nuts! A barrage of firework balls go off, quite a thundering bang, but the singe turns into scorch, turns into actually on fire! The flames themselves burn with the same dazzling array of colour as the firework blasts for a little while before they turn to normal fire.

"Interesting."

And Indrik is given a small piece of coal from Rex's pocket. He loves it, crunching away with a meep.

Toki's a bit mesmerized by the rainbow flames. The color doesn't last, and that snaps him back to what he was supposed to be doing. He scribbles down the characteristics of the fire and details about the box. He sets a larger paperweight or desk decoration statue thing (he doesn't know what it is) next to the still smouldering box. He's not sure what it's made out of, some kind of pewter-ish metal or the like.

"Think it will melt, or burn!? Oh! And later, we should see if he can burn things that have the fire protection rune on them! Because it's like magic fire!"

"Pewter can have a melting point of 230 °C so it may be beyond-"

Since the statue is shaped like an animal, Indrik doesn't hesitate this time. He rears up, sucking in air and lets loose not a fireworks ball but a constant stream- it still seems to be mostly sparks, some of which whizz off in random directions, but after about thirty seconds the statue... goes a bit droopy and Indrik has to stop and catch his breath.

"...Good job!" Good job, fat baby! He gets another small piece of coal. After a second, Rex offers Toki a handful of coal bits. "Do you want to feed him?"

No. No, he doesn't. Indrik could melt his fingers off; look at the statue!

"Yes~!"

He takes the offered coal bits and holds one out to Indrik hesitantly. However, he quickly forgets the hazards presented by Indrik's fire that close to his hand. Toki has a thought. If the beast eats coal and makes fire, is it like a stove or a steam engine... is Indrik a machine and not an animal? Did Rex like build him with synthetic scales and fur and just go around telling people Indrik is some weird familiar? Is he remote-controlled somehow, or independent like the golems?

"Is he a robot!?"

Indrik greedily sucks up the coal, his big ol' tongue scooping it right out of Toki's hand. It's kind of warm around his mouth but not searingly so.

Rex gives Toki such a fucking look for his question though. It lasts so long and is so baffled that Indrik notices, looking up at Rex as he swallows his coal and then turns to give Toki the exact same look, or as close as his cow face can get..

"Toki. If I was going to build a robot, would I make it anything like Indrik?"

No one builds a robot to be a fat useless idiot son of a bitch rat bastard.

Toki laughs nervously as they both stare at him for what feels like forever. Was is that weird of a question? It made perfect sense to him. That reaction is starting to make him think he's right, and Rex is covering it up. Indrik is a robot.

"I think... yes. If you don't want anyone to know he's a robot, you wouldn't make him look like the conventional ideas of robots, right!? People would never suspect a fat cow lizard thing!"

"But then he would still be as useless as he actually is, but I would have gone through a great deal of trouble making him."

Come on Toki. Rex, despite all evidence, doesn't think Toki is dumb. He just doesn't think things through all the way. It's Rex's duty to prod him in the right direction.

"If I were to make a mechanical beast I would make it vastly more impressive."

...Well, there's an idea...

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