Welcome to Count D's Pet Shop, where we sale love, hopes, and dreams..

[deceptiondealer]

Characters: Count D and you
When: Dreamscape week
Where: The mind of a mysterious pet shop owner
Rating: PG 13 to possible R.
Summary: You know that pet shop the man has occasionally mentioned to those few who have spoken to him? It's all interactive, and D will be there no matter your choice. Each person who visits will hopefully have different

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Old stained door

[hisbutler_bound]

His eyes slit the minute he awakes, crimson eyes narrowed lightly. The smell is sweet and it illuminates his eyes and senses. He manages to keep his wits about him as he steps forward. Fingers curl against the plain looking door, gloved fingers stroking down it before he enters the door. He takes in everything as he enters, crimson eyes staring forwards at the lush scenery.

He touches the trees next, examining the petals as he tilts his head. The sounds alert him to strange animals he's never heard before. "Is anyone there?"

[deceptiondealer]

A large insect, much larger than those any human has ever seen, buzzes by. It appeared to be an over sized dragonfly, the sound created by it's wings a low but still loud sort of buzzing. There are many of these, going about their business like normal.

Was this the right time period for them, or did this room mix eras of a time lost?

There was no reply for Sebastian, or at least not one expected. Several feet off something large was rustling in the bushes. Soft whispers accompanied by odd sounds. At the very edges of the demons hearing would be giggles, peices from another dream long since passed.

[hisbutler_bound]

His brow lifts at the dragonfly and he's not sure just where he is or what he was originally doing. Hands lift lightly to try to grasp one of them but they move too quickly and he has to tilt his head to try to see any detail on them.

Was it that he shrunk?

The giggles alert him of something else, his demon senses picking up more than most and he starts to walk in that direction, hands returning to his sides in that neutral position.

[deceptiondealer]

From the corners of his vision Sebastian would be able to see flashes, as if someone else was there, of a young blond man. Just enough of a look to question if he were seeing things or not. Like an image trying to bleed into another, managing to do so for only a few brief seconds.

D is smiling, a real smile, as his hands rest against the sides of a large mammal's head. It's a creature that look like a very large deer, hornless however, and still having markings that would possibly be similar to a fawn. A deer, but not quite, as if it was a stepping stone to get to the creature most would know.

He is too preoccupied, usualy these dreams took something more to reach. Still, he enjoyed these moments. To be able to see those who had been lost along the way..

[hisbutlerbound]

His senses remain open even if it feels like the natural surrounding is clouding them. So he'll go with it, looking towards the view of the blond man before it disappears entirely. He's not sure if he's seen it at all or not.

So he lowers down, staying quiet as he watches. He doesn't want to disturb D or the mammal close to him. Strange at the way it looked. Sebastian was starting to believe he was in more simplier times. Everything being so massive was his first clue.

"D...?" he'll call out again, but he just crouches and watches, gloved hands resting on the ground should he need to move.

[deceptiondealer]

Somewhere there's a scream, the sound of a man startled by a creature he thought might attack him, "W-What is this thing?!" The flash of the same blond man with gun drawn, aiming towards nothing but the forest. D doesn't appear to hear it, let alone see it. Still it only lasts for a few, brief, seconds.

The count does, however, hear Sebastian. His hand remains on the head of the large child, "Mister Michealis..?" It wasn't often people intruded upon his dreams, save for that one time-

"Stay down for a moment," A much larger horned dear-like creature, just bigger than a horse as the one beside D seemed just as big as one, lept over the butler to move around D and give the smaller a nuzzling.

[hisbutlerbound]

His attention once again is stolen by the flicker of blond out of the corner of his eye. Was it someone important to D? Was it someone who could relate to him? It's gone after a couple of seconds and he can hear the startled voice and the way it seems he's panicing. Typical humans if it truely was one.

He blinks when D hears him and tenses his legs to stand up, that is before he tells him to stay down.

He gives a bright smile and tilts his head in confusion. D would be the master of his own dreams, so he obeys, feeling the slight whoosh of air at the deer sweeping above. He looks up just a moment to watch it beautifully glide past, "As you wish."

[deceptiondealer]

D is soon frowning as he watches Sebastian, remaining near the two large horned creatures as the child nuzzles up close to it's mother, "There aren't any others coming," yet. The child had strayed from the rest, the mother having come to look for it, so the herd was possibly close by still.

"Any reason as to why you are here?" Perhaps he should have paid more attention to that blasted communication device. The spirits of this place must be doing something. That would be the only way anyone else could intrude into this place, or create it.

Sebastian was out of place in this forest, much more so than he would be.

[hisbutlerbound]

He takes the statement at his full attention. He doesn't quite care if there are others coming or not, but it gives him enough credit to want to stand up, dusting himself off from where he was standing. "I see."

A question he also cannot answer, "No, not really. I don't have any way of knowing why I am here. I went through a door back there, but other than that, no."

A butler was always something out of place unless it wasn't.

[deceptiondealer]

"There are some doors better left closed, Mister Michaelis, even if you find that you can open them." His head tilted, walking from the two creatures to approach the butler, hands folded infront of himself, "But what's done is done, and here you are."

Something large flew over head, or glided to be a little more correct. A creature that was a mix of feathers and scales, going from one tree to another as it snagged one of the large flying insects as a meal. Eat or be eaten.

"Do you know where you are?"

[hisbutlerbound]

"It was most rude of me to enter, but I couldn't help but be a little curious. I wasn't quite thinking or sure of myself and the scent was something that teased even me. I cannot understand what compelled me to entert his world at all."

He gestures towards the door and not the lush green world as if he means D's dream or mind or wherever they were. Death was something he was use to. Eat or be eaten. Survival of the fittest.

"I do not."

[deceptiondealer]

He watched Sebastian for a long moment as he spoke, hands remaining folded together, fingers curled a little tighter around one hand. "That scent is very close to the incense that is burned within the pet shop, Mister Michaelis." It relaxed the humans, opening them up little by little as if to prepare them for what they had just walked into.

The butler would find no door, but more primordial forest where the entrance had once been. No way out to be seen.

"My dream, a nostalgic dream," gesturing towards the various plantlife, even the insects and the two large creatures that looked like dear, "of Earth as it was, back before the days of man." He'd told one other these words before.

[hisbutlerbound]

"Ah yes, your pet shop. I was wondering why it felt so calming and yet it felt so relaxing as well." He wasn't human but he had extra senses. It was the only explaination unless it was the way of the dream that warped things.

He looked where he was gesturing and ignored the fact there was no door. He didn't feel like leaving right now anyways. "Ah, I see." A dream then it was. The plants. The animals. It was no wonder he hadn't recognized any of them, "Before man. It makes sense."

[deceptiondealer]

"There are only a few.. elements of the pet shop here, however," D didn't remember a room like this within the many maze like corridors within the back of it. There were some that were close, but still. All of this had been odd, even for one of his own dreams.

Shaking his head the Count moved to walk past the butler, further into the forest.

[hisbutlerbound]

"Only a few?" D didn't mention exactly what he was talking about. He was confused as he was imagining just an ordinary pet shop. Perhaps it was simply a large one with a garden house. Then that would make more sense.

He followed after him with that neutral position again, wanting more answer.

[deceptiondealer]

"I don't remember this room being one within the shop," He walked slowly, lifting a hand as what appeared to be a large butterfly landed on the backs of his fingers, wings fluttering slowly, "There are a few similiar to this, but none with these animals." D frowned a little to himself, sure that his current companion couldn't see.

"But it is a dream, isn't it."