[PRP] Shut up and dance with me (Rhapsody x Flick)

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Up in a work of progress, Rhapsody purched on a barren tree where he had come to make his place of rest. He didn't call it 'home', because where ever the wind tribe was a whole was 'home'. The tree was strong, and had a nice landing that had been crafted in the braches. Long drapes made up the 'walls' of the tree house, it didn't do well to keep the sound he would make contained. It did however make for an easy exit if he needed to, that and they could easily be pulled back to see the world around him. The curtain's where usually tied back, WindWaker didn't have anything to hide anyways. Well, that was when ever he wasn't working on something...a new creation, a living expression being brought into life and molded into physical form. This Evening, after dancing all day he had to make something....

Had to, else his heart felt as if it was going to explode and take on a form of it's own. Rhapsody felt he must do something to qwell the wakes of his heart....

Thought's held the tools he needed in nearby use. A figure '8' shape of thin, but strong wood had been carefully carved in too peices. He had been inspired by the shape with how she would dance. A thin wall been glued between the two peice veritcally to allow sound to echo and pass through fancy 'f' at the top of the instrument. The strange little sound she would make when she blew at him, when he told her he didn't dance. The thought caused Windwaker to chuckle at the reminder. Rhapsody worked carefully now with four speical wires, all each one to repersent the four paws she danced with. As they where fastened on the 'pegs', Rhapsody pulled the instrument back and admired it so. His tail swayed with a rouge fancy, as his head turned to the side...

"Lavuta."

His first made instrument, lay with his choosh of bedding-a fancy dented in pillow that he had liberated from the B'alam bellow....

This instrument, was up to this point his master peice. Rhapsody was excited to hear what kind of sound it would make. Though how he crafted it, he had a good feeling what kind of sound it would make. He could feel it in his chest, it would be a 'flick' of sounds, playful and wild-yet could have the softest of control if the mood dictated it.

With a soft pluck of the strings, Rhapsody chuckled. He knew he had been right.

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Flick was very skilled in making herself entertained by means of flying and listening and being in constant motion. The better part of the morning was spend doing loops in the sky and watching the shadows of the clouds crawl across the land.

At times they made her giggle. They took on such fun shapes sometimes! Of course, she tried to shape the smaller ones with little success. Still, it was fun, so there was nothing to be dissapointed about.

A wide smile had found its way to her maw while she watched the shadows and listened to the wind and nature. There was nothing more grand than feeling the rythem.

While she looped and twiriled about gracefully something new had pricked at her senses. Eyes widened. That sound! It was new! NEW THINGS WERE EXCITING! Without second thought to how amazing that sound was, Flick had taken off toward the source. Her ears strained to pick up where it may have come from. It wasn't like the sounds guided by nature, yet it was still just as enchanting!

It was glorious! Think of th dances that could come from such a sound! Think of-

"Oh! Wind Waker!" Flick chimed delightedly as shelooked around for a visual of the sound. It had come from here dodn't it. "Could you help me? I have to see a noise I heard. I-"

She flapped her wings so she could twirl about and get a view behind herself.

"-It was a nice sound. I heard it and now I don't know where I heard it from..."

If one didn't know her at all, they could have swore she wasn't even paying attention to her own words.  

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WindWaker's ears twitched and flicked as he was pulled from his work-music as his muse spoke. It almost startled him.

The curtains of his resting place where pulled back to reveal Flick. A smile found it's self on the conductor's maw. A sigh passed his grinning lips.

She had to 'see a sound she heard', it made perfect sense to Rhapsody. He chuckled to sound his delight. Thoughts moved the new instrument, and his mind parted to draw up what he called a 'bow'.

"I think I can help with that, Phen." WindWaker spoke, letting his eyes close he drew the bow along the strings. With added pressure on the strings near the 'neck' a long echoing 'pull' sounded from the instrument. Shifting the bow, a little bright jig sounded from the collection of four strings. As Rhapsody conducted the bow across the strings.

It was a lively tune and flowing tune, just like the one he crafted it after.  

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Flick's eyes widened as tey spied the strange instrument in Wind Waker's possession. What a strange yet graceful thing. It looked like a dace, but made of WOOD!! For a long while her blissful eyes danced about the instrument, almost oblivious to the one who had it.

What? Oh!

"WOnderf-" She begun, but stopped abruptly to the string being plucked.

Her ears danced to the curious tune. Oh indeed!! What a lobely tune! It was as if it was releasing the dance within it in the form of a sweet sound. Wings paced back and forth faster while her maw gaped open.

"How many times can you do that before all of the dance is released from that?! Didyou make that! Oh, please, do that again!"

The tip of her tail puffed in her excitement. She wanted to get a good tythem to make up a dance for that sound!  

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Rhapsody took his time to glide the bow along the string of the instrument tha floated securely by his thoughts, before him.

Green eyes had fallen closed to the loud and vary outspoken sound that glided from the new creation.

Pausing in the winding sound, Windwaker'd ears perked and his eyes opened to look back at FeatherStep.

"Oh, I am sorry Flick." Rhapsody spoke, "I didn't mean to cut you off, Odjus." The Musician smiled, only to be wonderfully alerted by the excitement of the Nahtil. Eyes widened with his own awe, and his maw turned into a smile. Bell adorned tail, swished in delight.

She liked it. That was wonderful!

"As meny times, it's player desires." He was gentel to answer. "Well, if they are careful with it-as all remarkable things should be treated. I hope never." Rhapsody smiled keeping his eyes on the insperation that was, Flick. He started to stand in his excitement as Words could not even discribe how happy he was that she liked his physical manifestation of her...

"As you wish, Lavuta." With that said, Rhapsody took his seat once more and glided the blow across the strings causing the instrument to sing out cheerfully as he tested a few of the notes and placed a few that seemed to fit happily together with the draw of the bow.


(A Odjus: term to use as lovely or beautiful.)

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Flick wasted no more time with her own tune of words. Wind Waker was playng that magical instrument of his and she quickly felt the rythem. She beat her wings backward than dove away from the tree.

She closed her eye briefly while her ears strained to listen for the sound of the instrument. There was a dance for this sound and Flick was goingto figure it out.

Before falling too far from the tree, Flick tilted the front of her wings upward and circled back around gracefully. The pace was important. Too slow or fast and the story in the dance was ruined.

With each loop Flick begun to hum the tune of the instrument. It helped her organize the pace and rythem in her head. This song seemed to favor graceful loops and turns. Which, for Flick, was fine. She loved to loop about in mid-air, especially to this tune. The sound from Wind Waker's instrument was spectacular!  

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Rhapsody closed eye opened to watch the graceful swiriles in flight that Flick gracefully made. She moved so perfectly in time with each draw on the bow. A smile cracked on his maw, she liked it. She seemed to really like it.

Testing out the story of the instrument, his thoughts applied more pressure on the neck of Lavuta. The strings echoed the change in sound as different pressure was added and changed placement on the neck. All combined and made a wonderful melody that could be expressed in dance.

Watching Flick, it was hard for WindWaker to take his eyes off of her, and which is why he didn't. There was so much he wanted to tell her, but all he could do was express it into sound for right now.

And when she was done and came down, he would tell just how beautifully she written her story.

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Despite the change in pace, Flick never once lost her "steps" to the beat Rhapsody proposed. The deeper the beat, the more she could feel the rhythm! It was glorious!

She could carry on for hours like this! And she would have too had it not been for something that caught her eye at the base of the tree.

Carefully and gracefully she looped back toward the tree where Wind Waker played his instrument. As a light breeze she passed him and spread her wings wide to slow her decent to the ground below.

"Oh, a strange treasure!" She gasped as she noted the white and light pink flower nestled against the tree. It seemed to wink at her as it danced in and out of the sun's light.

Her ears perked forward while she leaned closer to it.  

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WindWaker's teal gaze was peacefully closed as he was taken in by the sound the instrument sung. He found that by closing his eyes, he not only felt he concentrated easier, but could hear the the music better. Ears poised to there fullest as they even tried to widen to cetch all the made sounds. Above him, he knew that Flick gracefully moved to the melody and beautifully so. Oh, how magnificent she was and gorgeous her movements. It was almost too much, he felt as if his chest was going to burst out in song! Eyes opened every now and then to tease a peek at her splendor.

It wasn't till he felt the tickle of wind on his fur, by her decent, that Rhapsody's own playing ceased, halted by curiousty.

Pulling the Lavuta out of way, guided by his thoughts, it floated off to the side in his mentor grasp. Allowing him to crane his neck over his base loft.

What did she spy? It had to be something amazing.

Without a thought, Rhaposy slipped off his perch and his wings opened. Letting them flare out, to help slow him, paws took a graceful landing because Flick.

A flower?...

A sigh left, WindWaker as his smile twisted in a grin. Fitting, a thing so simple, so new to her would catch her gaze.

Oh, if he could only be that flower. He envied that flower, and how it easily stole and coveted her precious attention.

"That wasn't here this morning..." WindWaker smiled, gently informing her. Sitting on his hunches, his sit was naturally regal as his wings folded back agains this back. His yellow tail moved comfortably around his feet.

"Surely It must have bloomed just for you, Lavute. Especially after watching your dance..." The Tahtil added, his eyes easily pulled them away from the pink and white plant, to a more beautiful Flower.

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Flick lowered her nose to the sun-like center of the flower. Slowly she drew in several breaths to take in and enjoy the sweet smell. If only there were a dance for such a smell!

"Hmn?" She hummed while her ears swiveled back toward Wind Waker.

Her nose held close to the flower. She wasn't done with it just yet. It was just so pleasant! Wait-

"It wasn't? Do you think so?" The smile tapped the edges of her ears while her head lifted quickly and full attention, for the moment, was all on Wind Waker.

"OH! That is a wonderful idea! Common! We must dance more so there may be more flowers about! It would be wonderful if a whole bunch came out. Than you could smell them on the wind!"

Even before the last words had rolled off her tongue she had turned around and begun to move away from the tree. It was easier to take to the skies from there! And perhaps she could pick up more songs from nature to dance to!!

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Sitting silently, Rhapsody smiled as a sigh released from his chest once more. It seemed that was all he could do when he was around Flick. Sigh and watch from afar. The Nahtill was so lively, free and outspoken, just as every windkin should be-and of all of them. WindWaker was sure he could win any debate that suggested other wise. Then he would take the time to immortalize the scum in a dirge, that would not be forgotten.

Tail shifted behind him, with another flick of his tail WindWaker's ears perked as FeatherStep hmmed at him. Surely that hmm was the chores the sound curious angels made. It just as eagerly caught Rhapsody's attention, ears perked eagerly.

Yes, sweet hummingbird speak. Your attentive flower was ready to listen.

"Surely isn't wasn't" Rhapsody answered, offering a subtle nod of his head. "I do." Tail once more shifted behind him. Ears perked more as Flick complimented his idea...

Wait, what was his idea?

He was just speaking from-

'Comeon!' Ears rose even more, and wings shifted a little on his back. Where did she want to go? Eyes followed after the lovely and inspiring FeatherStep. He could easily follow after her.

Head tilted as she suggest that they dance. Not only that they had to dance, but it was a 'must'.

A smile rested on Rhapsody's lips. That was so like her...

He didn't really dance however, he made the music for the dance...

before such news could even dare to reach the end of WindWaker's maw, Flick took off to find easier means to reach the sky. Turning his head, it quickly rolled backward to follow the Master Dancer. The Conductor's maw parted into more of a toothy smile. Again, that was so like her. How could Rhapsody not be inspired by that. Such a free spirited act was the wind under his wing, easily it could cause his heart to soar.

Turning his head, WindWaker's upper half followed Flick with the turn of his head. Slowly, his body followed suit, and turned completely. Forepaws carried him the rest of the way, hind legs drew him closer to his humming bird.

Quickly his paws carried him even closer and with a hop he was practically on her tail. In another bound, WindWaker raised a paw and tapped at her. Giving her a challenging look, one that seemed to suggest that she should try to catch him if she could. A taunt at a friendly and undiscovered game of 'tag'. With such a look, Paws speedily lunched himself into the air.


Wings fanned out to catch a wind, and with a flap he was granted flight.

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Flick had been running full force when she suddenly felt the gentle tap on the tip of her tail. Her fore and hind legs stiffened. A trail of disturbed dirt spread from around her paws causing a long trail before her momentem came to a halt.

A blur of yellow passed by her and took to the sky, however, she did not follow. Instead she looked to the tip of her tail where she felt the tap, than to the surrounding area. Had something come up to get her attention?

Her ears perked forward while the smile pinned to her maw broadened. Perhaps it was something new to add to the chorus of the world? Or maybe it was the flower? Or maybe she was just fooling with the one who pricked at her tail and ran off.

With a skip in her step she begun to walk back the direction they had just come from. Back to the little flower that started the sprinting. Her eyes watched the flower dance in the light breeze. Unknown to her, her own tail begun to bob about like the flower, the tip was like the pedals.  

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As Rhapsody took to the sky he was sure that Flick would be quick to follow after him. Ear's shifted and turned as he didn't hear anything but the rushing of wind when he took to the sky. Ear swiveled behind him to double check, he wasn't going to give her the game that easily by a turn of his body. Though he began to wonder ifs he was even behind him anymore. Curiousty got the better of him, and with a stretch of his wings he turned about and 360'ed.

Blinking he was actually pretty surprised not to see Flick following after him. Head turned as eyes searched the sky. It didn't surprise him, to think that she had wondered off in to the clouds.

Rhapsody's eyes squinted as he could not make out Flick in the clouds. Where could she had gotten too?

Hmm, he wondered did she not follow after him into the sky? Turning his head downward, Teal eyes noted the pink and green four legged dot wondering back towards his tree.

Tilting his head, a confused expression scrunched on WindWaker's face. With a hop in the air, Rhapsody took a downward dive to the floating rock bellow. Landing, WindWaker took ventured steps closer to Flick. Eyes caught the sight of her bobbing tail. lowering his head, he turned it too look around her body to see what she was looking at. To what was more then what he expected surprise, she was watching that flower once more.  

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Flick continued to watch the flower with as much intensity that was unheard of for her attention span. The way each pedal moved, the way the stem complamented the pedals. Even the leaves seemed to be in tune with the elegant dance of this flower. If only it could fly.

Right! It would be nice to see a whole bunch of them. Maybe it was showing her the dance to do so!

"Common, we have to dance, just like that flower!" Flick called to Wind Waker without even looking over her shoulder.

Once again, before the words left her tongue, she was off in the opposite direction. Her wings extended to their fullest and begun to flap with the more momentum she gained. Within seconds she was off the ground and into the air. Her tail flicked as a rudder to guide her twists and turns.

"Common!! Let's dance!! Just us!! We need to make all those flowers grow!!" She called out, not really checkingto see if her words had made it over the winds or not.  

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Looking around Flick's body, Rhapsody watched as the little flower shifted and kept the attention of The Nahtill.

Hmm, what she was doing was anyone's guess, perhaps she was admiring still the flower?

Maybe...

Ears quickly perked as The lovely FeatherStep spoke once more.

Come on!

Raising his head, WindWaker tilted his head in a little confusion, but a smile twisted at the corne of his maw. She was so unpredictable, but easy to follow, just like playing a new instrument for the first time, or even gliding on a unframilure breeze.

They had to dance like that flower, but surely that flower was not as great as a instructor as her. Poetic thoughts left the space between his ears, as a certain set of words caught his attention: 'just us.' They where going to dance alone...

The thought, causes his chest to nervously tighten-but perhaps it didn't mean anything. She was as wayward as a wind, perhaps it was best to not take seriously and he should just enjoy ones self.

Head turned to watch Flick take off as she once more took to the sky.

A smile fixed on his maw, WindWaker turned his yellow self around. With a race of steps, Rhapsody lowered his head and gained speep. With a leap, and a flap, the b'alam was embraced by the wind once more.

"yes, at your lead, Phen!" WindWaker cheered, as his body turned its self to rest in her slip stream. Once more he followed after her.

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