"Cough..." "Cough..."
Seeing the little serpent hissing in bewilderment and confusion — Black coughed and stopped petting her little head.
He released her serpentine tail from his left hand too, which she without wasting a second, coiled around his neck, her little tail doing 2 rotation and tightened as though warning him.
However Black just smiled at the small serpents cute antics as her 1 meter long body wasn't much of a threat to him. Anyway, he still had her little head on his chest. Which he started petting again with his now free left hand.
He began, his golden eyes looking at the shimmering obsidian scale's of the little serpent coiled around his neck. "Alright, we have a deal then, Hm.. you would hunt other beasts for me using your strong poisen and I won't eat you.. good.. um.. err.. little serpent!." Finished. He nodded. At the same time aslo remembered that she hadn't told him her name before. Maybe she didn't have one, so he decided to name her later.
The little serpent looked at his eyes when he finished speaking not minding the petting she was receiving since for some reason it made her feel safe or she simply liked it, her expression was both of relief and doubt. With a tentative voice laced with skepticism she asked. Her words uncertain! Hesitant.
"Really you won't eat me.. if I hunt for you strange cre — " But before she could continue Black intrupted her.
"It's Black!!!" He said — A light smile gracing his lips.
Perplexed she looked at him unable to understand what he ment yet still mumbled. "What!??"
At her perplexed expression. Black replied with that same light smile. "Black!! That's my name and not 'strange creature'.. okay.. haha... " he laughed a little at the end.
At Black's words she made an "Ohh!!!". Her forked serpentine tongue coming out of her mouth and going in just as quickly as it came out.
Then with a low voice she muttered. "Then, what is my name.. Bl-Black!!?" Her voice innocent, her face mirroring her voice.
Black stared at those scarlett orbs and the Onyx slits as he stopped petting her small obsidian head, inwardly sighing he still answered. "You don't have a name for yourself little serpent!!?"
At the same time he watched her innocent expression deflating and transforming into a depressed one as she lowered her head and tried to sink her little head into his chest as she closed her eyes.
she must have remembered those bad memories as the reason, why she didn't have one, why her mother wasn't able to give her a name, thus her forlorn expression, Black really was curious, as to know just what had happened to her within those 4 hours since her birth.
Nonetheless right now he had another more important matter to take care of which was getting her out of her depressing thaughts. Hence, he quickly added.
"How about I give you one.. a name that is!!?" Black suggested pointing at himself with one hand. While simultaneously with his other hand he used his thumb and forefingers to lift her little head to his eye level watching her scarlett eyes widening at his abrupt suggestion. She just stared at his golden eyes in stunned disbelief as the darkness faded between them.
He mainly had two reasons for naming her himself instead of asking her to name herself.
One being he wanted to name her as a totem of both trust and faith between them.
The second had something to do with her evolution to a Quantiarch.
"Re-Really you would name me!!?" she asked hesitantly. Although a little unsure on the outside while she observed Black closely with narrowed slits yet inwardly she was very happy when he said he would name her.
Black nodded, giving his confirmation, he asked aloud "so what should I name you.. you cute little serpent!!!"
"Umm.. I would like any name as long as it's form you.. Black!." She mumbled. Her serpentine head lowered in both bashfulness and embarassment when she thought about how she panicked earlier and said some stupid things. Nevertheless she was still determined to fulfill her promise.
"Hmm.. " Black thaught about it for a moment then he looked at her obsidian scale's coiled around his neck which she had already loosened after he told her that he would be naming her... her mood swings were really something he could not comprehend, but when he thaught about it, she was just a baby serpent only 5 hours old now, not even a day old so something like that was to be expected he guessed... thinking that when she got a few days old like he is a day and a half old, she wouldn't have these sudden mood swings.
"Right I think I got it... a good name for you little serpent!!!." Black uttered shifting his attention towards her serpentine face. and seeing the kind of look she was making at him something that was practically screaming at him to tell her quickly. He just smiled and answered to not keep her hanging in anticipation for long.
"How about.. Zephyr Onyx... That's a good name don't you think!." He finished his voice calm and steady. While his golden eyes gazed at the stunned, taken aback and even happy look on her serpentine face as her wide scarlett eyes sparkled in excitement in the nightmareish darkness as she too matched his gaze.
Thereafter with an enthusiastic expression she repeated her name time after time like a broken record.
*Zephyr Onyx...*
*Zephyr Onyx...*
*Zephyr Onyx...*
Then suddenly she scowled, her onyx slits narrowed then she looked at him in anticipation while with a subconscious motion her coiled body tightened around his neck. Her serpentine mouth parting, her voice zealous. "what does it mean Black... what does it mean!! Tell me quickly!!?"
Seeing her happy expression Black was also happy that she liked the name he gave her.
Totally forgetting the fact that she was practically choking him while her serpent tail tightened around his neck, though even with her subconscious action he didn't feel anything simply by the virtue of being strong.
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