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Post by Rosy on Jul 27, 2007 18:23:54 GMT -5
((Woah... Hundreds? I wanted Rae to be the oldest.... *sad mumblings*)) "Well..." Rae murmured, slightly embarrased, "Its actually in the nature of a cattle-demon to travel in groups... The only reason I was by myself is because I got left behind. I don't mind traveling around the world looking for your family Vi; its in my blood to be with people, no matter what."
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Post by Swift on Jul 27, 2007 19:08:53 GMT -5
((Lol, my characters always seem to be the youngest [they're all in the 17-20 years old range, one of them I have yet to use is 24. This counts Avelyn (she's an elf) too, because with me not being much of a personal fan for really old characters, she doesn't have immortality like stereotypical elves. I guess you could say she's from another sub-class of elves that exist on Rynk's origional world.))
"And I already gave you my promise," Rynk included in after Rae with a confident smile, "We're with you all the way, even if it does take a year--it's what beflynt are for." Though, Rynk had a small secret he kept to himself this time, seeing as the other demons were around. He had already told Violetta about his secret past; that he wasn't from this world, but many before instead--he did not know how long he would exist here until fate decided to pull him away again. There was no regular patern of time he could notice between worlds, but it did seem that in every one he had some kind of purpose to fulfill sown into the back of his mind that he could never latch onto.
It was the same for this one... hopefully he would have time to help Violetta and the others as well before he became nothing but a memory to them all.
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Post by xDuckyBoo on Jul 27, 2007 23:55:03 GMT -5
Violetta smiled, "Thanks you guys." She nodded then looked back to Rynk and Zephyr in concern. " Are you guys goood enough to start moving again? Or do you need more rest?" Violetta's eyes turned to their normal Violet again and her hair swayed silently in the wind that was coming in small gusts. Her shirt had many dirt covered patches and her pants were torn at the knees. She knew she had some body oder. 'The next spring we reach I must bathe.' She thought to herself.
The wheat field flowed gently as the gusts caught the stocks. The sun shone dimly through the pure white clouds in the baby blue sky. Violetta loved days like these, she could remember when her mother and her would go into the fields nearby her house and collect flowers and make crowns. Then afterward her and her father would go fishing for supper. Those days she was so carefree, so outgoing, thats before she turned into a teen.
The air whispered in Violettas ears, words her mother would say before she went to sleep at night. 'My child, you are going to be someone one day, and your father and I are going to be proud.' Violetta remembered that her mother would say that every night before kissing her on the head and leaving her room.
Violetta felt ashamed, 'Had she let her father down and most importantly her mother? Would she have become someone by marrying her husband-to-be?.' Violettas eyes looked glazed as she looked into her thoughts. She shook her head and waited for Rynk's and Zephyr's answer.
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Post by zyphan on Jul 28, 2007 0:15:38 GMT -5
((he's dreaming in the first part))
Zephyr was flying high above the clouds with a full moon to guide him. His dark wings blended perfectly with his surroundings, so he flew almost invisible. The night was clear, and the clouds were nowhere to be seen, allowing millions of twinkling stars to shine down from the heavens.
The cool night wind ruffling the hawk's feathers as he flew on, enjoying the flight. Then, from behind, another pair of beating wings could be heard. Looking, Zephyr spotted a dragon, coming fast on his right. He picked up the speed, trying to outfly his persuer. However, another dragon flew in on the left, and the two creatures gained on Zephyr quickly. Before he could do anything, they had him in their grasp.
Flying low to the ground, the dragons and their quarry flew towards a cliff, rushing water swirling at its depths. The first dragon smirked at Zephyr, showing all its white, sharp teeth. "Hey there friend. Long time no see." The hawk merely scowled, and tried to wriggle free of their grasp. "Ah, ah, ah. That wouldn't be a good idea, now. Trying to run away from your old friends." The second dragon spoke, and likwise showed its fangs.
"Now. What was it we promised him we'd do after we caught him?" The first dragon inquiried. "Hm....I don't quite remember...Why don't we just drop him off this cliff? It would be both cruel and dangerous, yet the fall at the bottom would be quick and painless." The second dragon answered, looking at Zephyr with an evil twinkle in its eye. "Yes...that does sound good...but we'll have to break his wings so he doesn't fly away."
Stuffing a wad of spare cloth into Zephyr's mouth, he bit down, supressing shouts of pain as, one by one, the bones in his beautiful wings were broken, and they lay crumpled at his sides. "Now....Now we will have the revenge from that horrible deed to paid us all those horrible years ago!!" And with that, the first dragon pushed the broken hawk over the edge into the dark depths and rushing waters. ---------------------
"AAAHHH!!!" Zephyr sat up, and began feeling his wings for any injuries. They were fine, but as his senses came reeling back, he groaned in pain, and lay back down on the grass. Now he remembered where he was. It...It was only a dream. A stupid, horrible dream.....Why can't I get rid of it?!?! The same nightmare had been plagging his sleep for weeks, possibly a few months. There was no way he could get rid of it, and it was starting to put him on edge.
He looked around, and realized that Rynk was getting better, and the wolves were gone. "Oh...um...Did I miss something?" Zephyr realised Violetta was staring at him, and he tilted his head questioningly. "Did you say something?"
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Post by Swift on Jul 29, 2007 19:31:45 GMT -5
((Shoot, I forgot to mention in my previous post... "Beflynt" translates to "Friends" or "Allies" in Rynk's language. Sorry for the confusion if there was any ; )) "What's wrong?" Rynk shot at Zephyr as he awoke after screaming, almost jumping up to his feet in surprise in an instant--his injury slowed him down. The winged demon seemed to be shaken slightly, but also struck with confusion at the same time as though he was disoriented. It didn't seem like Rynk himself was the only one hurt in some way during the battle--Zephyr also had a good cut on his body as well, and unlike the other demons', his hadn't healed up very quickly. "Hey, do you still have some more of that water?" he indicated towards the cat-demon that had healed him with it, "He's hurt too." ((Writer's block :\))
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Post by Rosy on Jul 29, 2007 20:44:43 GMT -5
Rae gave Zephyr a curious glance. She shook her head, chuckling to herself.
"Vi... If you don't mind me asking, why did you run away?" she said softly, loud enough for only Violetta to hear.
Rae had been taught to never abondon or run away from her tribe. It was almost considered immoral. And Violetta didn't strike her as an immoral person, so naturally her curiousity got the best of her.
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Post by xDuckyBoo on Jul 30, 2007 19:38:23 GMT -5
"Nothing, Nothing Zephyr." Violetta shook her head smiling. Then she turned to Rae after she asked that question. Her eyes turned wide and her breathing grew faster. "I.. um..You see it's very complicated." She lied, She can't tell more than one person at once, Violetta doesn't do well with personal issues while with crowds. She bit her bottom lip and stood up, looked back at them and walked a little ways away. 'I'm so stupid why can't I tell them, They've been so nice to me.' She scolded herself angerly as she sat down criss crossed.
((Can't think of anything at the moment.))
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Post by Rosy on Jul 30, 2007 20:52:07 GMT -5
Rae sensed her frustration and decided it was time to change the subject.
"So..." she said searching for something to talk about, "Since it seems we're gonna be traveling with each other, we might as well find some things out... Um... Families? Siblings?"
Hoping to set an example, she spoke up before anyone else.
"I'm from a relatively large family. I have six brothers and two sisters. Even in my tribe's standards, that's large. Um... I have four sons..." she looked at Rynk, hoping he would say something, anything, to get Vi off the subject of why she ran away.
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Post by zyphan on Jul 30, 2007 23:38:37 GMT -5
Zephyr grimaced as he tried to sit up, but layed back down from the agony it brought him. Instead, he sort of pulled/slid/crawled his way closer to the others. "Four sons, eh? That's nothin' compared to the nieces and nephews my older sister's given me..." The hawk grinned, thinking off to the past when he would play with the ten or twelve little hawks that would ambush him.
He looked off to where Violetta sat, and figured the subject change was a good idea. "I don't have but one sibling, my annoying but lovely older sister. Hey, Violetta. You have any brothers or sisters?" The pain was subsiding, but he knew it would be no easy matter getting around. Even if he changed forms, when he returned to his more human-like shape, the wounds would still be present. He lay on his back, using his one good arm to raise his chest so he could see better.
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Post by Swift on Jul 31, 2007 18:52:07 GMT -5
"You're a mother, Rae?" Rynk replied after seeing her glace towards him, trying to skip away from talking about his own relatives, "I know it's probally a little late, but blessings of Xynth upon you*--I had no idea." A light smile pressed against his face as he finished there, realizing it was probally not his place to ask what happened to the father or the children as of now.
Rynk hoped slightly that they would not push to inquire about his own family, just for hopes of making the others feel bad once again--Violetta's problem was enough to place on their minds at the moment, it was best to keep his from running through their minds as well. Because the truth was that Rynk had been an orphan his entire life, almost literally. If what his guardian who found and raised him said was true (which is very likely since he did so in his dying words), his true parents were slain meer minutes after he, and a sister he supposedly had, were born. After his guardian passed away, Rynk was going to set out to see if he could find his missing sister, if she even existed, as his life's journey... but after the strange events occured in which he was transported between different worlds and realities... that vision of purpose seems to have changed to finding a way to get back home, and usually just utter survival.
Rynk looked down at the open palm of his one, demonistic arm and stared at it for a moment. If his eyes weren't completely white and glowing slightly like they were now, someone might have noiced the same sorrowful look that seemed to shine within them all the time.
(("Blessings of Xynth upon you" = "Congratulations." Xynth is the Alzylentian (Rynk's language) word for Sky, which his culture sees as a holy figure. Though they don't worship it as though it were a god (and they don't believe in miricles because of that), they see the sky as an eternal entity in which all good souls go to when they die. Clouds are said to be a large group of human souls bunched together, and the actual word for 'cloud' is "Xynthvider" or "Sky-Traveler".
I made that all up a long time ago by myself, yay! ^^d))
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Post by Rosy on Jul 31, 2007 20:50:25 GMT -5
"Heh..." Rae noticed that the subject she'd chosen maybe wasn't the best after Rynk's brief gaze, "Yeah, I'm a mommy... Never would have guessed?" She blushed slightly, thinking of her family.
"I miss them," she murmured, glancing at her stomach.
Zoning out, she thought of her family... There was Tobi, the oldest at 13. He was the classical older brother; serious, strong, brave, but kind to the youngsters. The second boy was Kal. He was a goofball, never taking anything seriously. His brother Nik was just like him, probably because they were twins, age 9. The youngest was Cals, age 4. He was an innocent boy, never in trouble, always eager to do as his parents told him.
Parents.. she thought. Lee was beautiful. He was the ideal man for any woman. Tall, muscular, smart, kind... He was 20 when he married her and she felt as though the gods had blessed her, even at the tender age of 12. After her four boys, Lee had boasted all over the tribe that he would soon be the father of the Tribe-Head. When she became pregnant for the fifth time, the whole village was waiting in excitement; it was highly unusual for there to be any more than one male child per family. The fifth baby was a girl, one Rae named Mariel, but she was a very sick baby. Before she was even three days old, she mysteriously passed away. Rae felt as though the world had abondoned her, but the tribe dismissed it as karma. Rae tried to relate with Lee, but he didn't help much. He tried to make up for it with a romantic evening for just the two of them. Rae appreciated it, but Mariel's memory haunted her. Four months after Lee and Rae's date, the village was ruthlessly and violently attacked by a human raiding party, forcing Rae into her demon form and causing her to forget who she was and loose herself in the forest.
Rae snapped her gaze back up to the group's and smiled slightly. She didn't want her moping to make matters worse.
((Internet cookie for whomever finds out her secret XD))
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Post by xDuckyBoo on Jul 31, 2007 21:12:22 GMT -5
"All your stories give me grief because i have as of yet to tell you mine." Violetta turned toward them with a sad smile. She looked over to Zephyr, " I have a sister, She didn't want anything to do with us so she fled to live with my Uncle. She had been the only real friend I had, I decided if she left me I wasn't worth anyones time." Violetta shrugged. " Children Rae ? What a surprise, Your right I never would ahve guessed." Violetta smiled. She just loved kids.
Every time she passed by a village, if the humans would allow her to, she'd entertain the children with wonderful stories. Violetta loved the sight of the children with twinkling eyes waiting in anticipation for her to continue on with the stories. They looked so amazed at what she told them. Most of the villages she passed through would never allow the children outside the village gates so they've never seen the forest and fields.
" What a large amount of siblings you have Rae, That must have been somewhat annoying at times." Violetta giggled. " I wish I had a large family, Maybe if I knew where my other relatives lived I wouldn't be in this situation, although I have met you four." She smiled to them. "Are you two okay?" Her eyes switched back to a light purple, worry filling the irises.
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Post by Swift on Jul 31, 2007 21:21:52 GMT -5
((Lol, it always seems to be humans who attack/enslave some other race, lol >.>; ironic that I almost always play as them despite that I've never had a purely evil character And wait... COOKIEZ?! I'm up for that ^^)) "Nope, I wouldn't have been able to tell at all, Rae," Rynk commented with a grin after she spoke after him, "I guess there's always a whole lot more to each of us than meets the eye, right?" the human chuckled slightly, placing his good hand behind his head against his matted brown hair. He couldn't help think about his own kept secrets as well as he said that, however, and how he must appear towards everyone else... his human identity almost masked by the affliction cast onto his body--detailess, glowing eyes and an abnormal arm that crawled all the way up over the roll of his shoulder... he hoped what Violetta said about it wearing off over time was true, or perhaps a cure existed so he may remove the unnatural scars. Rynk's head jumped up when he heard Violetta speak and quickly lowered his hand away from his previous stare in attempt to hide the fact that he had been staring at it, lost in sorrowful thought. "Yeah... I'm fine," he replied softly, "Just don't think I'm ever going to get used to this demonification anytime soon. Not that demons are bad or anything," he backed his comment up, "Just that I'm used to being... well, human."
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Post by zyphan on Aug 2, 2007 19:26:41 GMT -5
Zephyr checked himself over once again. The bleeding had stopped, but otherwise his would was as vivid as when he first recieved it. "I'll be okay, but this will take a while to heal. Perhaps a few weeks or a month or two." He shrugged. "I never was able to heal fast."
It appeared Violetta's spirits had risen somewhat, and he wondered if she would perhaps relay one of those children's stories she mentioned. "Ya know...Would you be interested in telling us a story or two? It help to lighten the mood after being attacked by those wolves."
((I don't care if you don't want to. just thought it would 'lighten the mood' like Zephyr thought!!))
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Post by Rosy on Aug 2, 2007 22:56:44 GMT -5
Rae smiled.
"I would love to hear them Zeph. I'll listen in while I try to make up a shelter, though, ok? You and Rynk probably shouldn't move around too much, and Vi and Roary can keep you company."
With a slight grunt, she raised up to her feet and stretched her arms lazily. With a yawn, she walked a short distance back into the forest and looked for something to make a make-shift tent of. There were plenty of branches that had been knocked down in her stampede over to the field, so she gathered them up to make a fire.
She returned back to the camp and arrainged the branches in a tepee shape. With a snap of a flint rock she carried in her pocket, a spark jumped onto the wood. Rae started nursing it up to a grand fire, all the while listening carefully, not only to Zephyr's story, but for any wolves that thought a recon mission would be fun.
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