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"My dad may have said something about that. I think he said that some unislived in herds, but I never saw them, or believed really." Kahven shrugged, still smiling. It was great to have a real good friend.
A brown colt suddenly called to them. Kahven didn't recognize him, but Shil obviously did.
"And what's wrong with you? Lupe got them?" The brown uni asked Kahven. Kahven had no idea what he was talking about.The uni, who Shil had called "Rafer" continued talking. "Careful, someone might confuse you for a lupe!" Kahven cocked his head at the new colt, confused.
"I don't get it." Shil said.
"Like you honestly want to spend your time with a wingless uni!" Rafer laughed again. Kahven didn't like the sound. He was still confused. Why should he not having wings make a difference in who he was?
"No, I don't." Shil said. Kahven didn't believe what he was hearing.
"I knew you were a true uni!" The bigger colt said. He and Shil left, Kahven wondering what was happening. Shil gaving a longing look at Kahven, but left anyway.
Kahven felt sick, his only friend leaving him like that. He stared at the two colts as they walked away. Kahven sat down and stared at the ground. His doglefox came up to him, and Kahven plaid hlaf heartedly with the invisible petpet.
Very watched the scene with contempt. His blood was boiling with hatred. He recognized them as the colts he had scene earlier. He had forgotten that Shil had partaken in the ridicule of his son when he met Gipha. But now he saw it happenall over again, only to poor Kahvens face.
Not knowing what he was going to do, he ran once more at the two colts. He would teach them a lesson they would neverforget.
Habernill let him go. She knew her own limitations, and she would never stop the stubborn stallion. Instead, she trotted over to her forlorn son.
"Hey, kid."
kahven looked up at her.
"You have to understand son. There are some very mean peoplein this world. I believe you father would say jack asses, but don't you ever use that term,okay?"She elicted no response. "Honey, people who tease you are just idiots. If they don't like you, you don't like them. You don't need them. By putting up with those dorks, you are showing you are far stronger than those guys. Dont let them get to you. Turn it into a joke. But never sink down to their level. Dont be cruel to them, even if they are to you. Kay baby?"
Kahven didn't understand, but he nodded anyway.
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Gipha stiffened "If that stallion hurts my baby,"
"Just wait. I think this is a good chance for Shil to learn something. Besides, VeryVain couldn't bring himself to hurt a colt!" Gipha thought she detected unsecurity in her father's tone.
"I'm telling you dad, if something bad happens well- I'll behave like a normal lupe!"
"And eat Very?"
Gipha glared at him.
"Can't take a joke can you? Just like Thereda. Fine, go ahead, hunt some unis, you herd mares go crazy over the littlest thing!" Trab walked away, snorting generalities under his breath. Gipha began after her son.
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Under a pine tree, four scruffy looking colts were fencing with their horns. Rafer introduced them.
"That mostly black fellow is Llac, that big green guy in the back- well his name is Taen. And this," and white colt with a splot of black over his right eye, giving him a naturally occuring untrustworthy look, stepped smirked and wispered something to Llac "That's Gery."
"Hey Ray," Taen barked "This the spprentice you been going on about?"
"Well," Gery said "at least he has wings!" the four older colts laughed.
"I still don't get it!" Shil blurted "What's so funny about no wings?"
The colts stopped laughing and set a cold stare to Shil. Then, quite without warning, the brown uni charged at Shil and knocked him over. From a position in the dirt, Shil blinked up at Rafer as he said "First rule of being my apprentice: Do everything I say, and don't ask questions."
"Apprentice?"
"That's right-"
"Rafer!" it was Gery "There's a crazy mare coming this way!"
"What?" Rafer turned and appeared to jump out of his hooves before rearing and thundering away. Shil put his feet under him and was mortified to see the mare charging after him, his mother!
Gipha was older and stronger- her legs were longer and she knew how to keep proper wind while running, so she came upon Rafer quickly "What the hell was that?!"
It appeared that the brown colt had lost his ability to talk.
"You want to hit somebody, eh? Well then, why don't you just hit me! Come on, show what a big brave uni you are! Take me down, because I'm going to fucking kill you!"
Shil moved his ears as if hurt. Gipha had denounced bacholers for using those words, now she was using them herself.
"Please lady," Rafer choked "It won't happen again,"
"You bet it won't!" she leaned "Now, get out of here!"
The colt began at a gallop. Satisfied, Gipha let him run.
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It all happened like a blur- and Gipha was brought back when she saw her son's horrified look. She froze, and recalled what she did. Gipha looked to Shil for reassurance, but the colt looked away in shame. The mare gulped, then began a walk, not sure of her direction. She wasn't sure how she should present herself.
Trab stopped her "Well, that was the worst possible outcome."
She gave him a deadly glare.
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Very continued charging at the colts. They had met up with three more colts, all bigger than Shil and Kahven.
Very had been a ways away, so he saw Gipha get there first. She was yelling something, and chased off the brown colt. Very increased his pace easily, and breezed by the other colts and Gipha.
"Idiot!" He shouted harshly at Gipha when he passed her. "When I get my hooves on that colt and your son..." He let the threat hang, and took off to block the browns escape.
He landed directly in front of Rafer, though he still didn't know the colts name.
"You scum." Very began, his voice positivly dripping with hatred. "You little bastard. You ever, ever make fun of my son again, I swear, I will rip off your wings and force them down your throat." Very glared at the brown colt, his rage still bubbling inside, not a fraction released by his outburst.
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Trab couldn't stop her this time. Gipha was so angry, her coat felt just as red hot as her color. She ground her teeth, and charged at Very. She grabbed him by the mane- she didn't care any more about being polite- and pulled him to face her "What?" she said sharply "What are you going to do to my son? Because anything you do to him- you'll have to do to me first! So, answer my question! What are you going to do!?"
The crazy dam who had once been his aggressor now proved to be his savior. Rafer blinked a second- the dam? The Dam that had died in the mud do to with- well, she was a stupid mare, and crazy too. Nothing to the fault of Rafer. However, Rafer hesitated no longer, and bolted. He was sure he'd never go near Shil or the wingless uni again!
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((It occured to be I never broke Jent and Bean in....hmm))
Stamsha seemed more aggitated than usual. Jent gave a look to Bean "We'll rip that freak apart, eh?"
"Jent," Bean said in all seriousness "Jerad is gone."
"Jerad," Jent said it with measured disgust "has been acting a little freaked out lately."
"Yes," Bean said his words slowly "it's a sign of weakness in our leader,"
Jent said nothing, he leaped over a log, his muscles responding perfectly, his nose reaching forward, his eyes bright.
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Very felt his mane pulled sharply. He turned and saw Gipha.
"What am I going to do to him?" Very said after Gipha had her little outburst. "Why, I'm going to rip off his wings, and see how he likes to be tormented. Or perhaps I should remove his horn or tail. Do you think he'd mind being shaved?" Very was seething. Gipha had chased off the brown colt once, and now she was letting him get away again. "If you stay put, I'd be glad to do all of those right now so I can go teach your son a lesson." What was this mare thinking? Her son had been born pretty perfect as far as he could tell. She had a right to be protective, but she also had to have some form of disipline. Very hadn't seen any that lived up to his standards, so he was ready to teach Shil a lesson himself, as well as that brown colt.
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"But, Mommy, I thought Shil was my friend."
Habernill frowned. "I did to Kahven, I did too. Friends don't hurt others like that though. They accept peoples differences. If anyone does that to you, leave them. Friends don't hurt friends." Habernill wrapped her wings around her son in a hug. "I'm sorry kiddo."
"Me too Mommy."
Habernill continued comforting her son until she heard the voice of her mate.
"Idiot! When I get my hooves on that colt and your son..."
Habernill groaned. "Very... Dont..." she muttered. "Kahven, why not go over there and see where Fwanta, the cybunny is. He should be here soon." Kahven brightened at the idea, and ran off in the direction the cybunny had been.
Habernill heard the voice she recognized as Gipha.
"What?" she said sharply "What are you going to do to my son? Because anything you do to him- you'll have to do to me first! So, answer my question! What are you going to do!?"
Her mate again.
"What am I going to do to him?" He shouted, loud enough for her to hear, and probably most of the herd too. "Why, I'm going to rip off his wings, and see how he likes to be tormented." He lowered his voice to where Habernill couldn't hear. She began running toward them at her top speed, letting her wings act like an airfoil that lifted her slightly off the ground to increase her pace. She didn't like the sound of the conversation. Gipha may not think Very would do such a thing, but Habernill knew he would if he was pressed. It would take some tormenting, but he would do it with only a little regret. Habernill could only hope Gipha stalled him enough that he would cool down to a sensible level. Why oh why did her mate have to have a temper?
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Jerad awoke. He seemed fine. There was no evidence of what had happened. There were no foot prints, no smell, nothing. It was a dream, he told himself. Just a dream. He ignored his sore muscles, tribute to the agonizing torture he had had last night. No, in the dream, he thought sternly. I am imagining things. Thats all.
Jerad began trotting toward the strange smell once more.
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"Try an I kill you," she took a breath "I know how to punish my own son, thank you, unless you have some kind of absolute knowlage given to you by two parents?" she let the words rest and walked away. She could fight now, but what would be the use? Very was a quarter larger than her, certainly her energy would be wasted. Big words from a hot headed stallion, ha! See if went around bullying unis his own size!
However, by the time she reached Shil Gipha felt tired again. She didn't make eye contact with him, but she barked "Get up." She wasn't mad at him, but she was mad at herself. She had watched idlely as her son made a stupid choice. Her father was wrong. Learning on his own? Shil was not bright, he would the wrong choice for sure, and then where would he be? He needed guidance, that's what he needed. He didn't need friends- especially friends raised by hot headed stallions! She shook her head irritably.
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Nervously, Rafer was sitting under a tree gulping down chunks of grass. He had never seen such a mad uni! Where were his so called "friends" now? Of course, hiding behind their dams and sires. The unloyal lupes. Rafer didn't even have a dam or sire, and look how strong he was! Strength didn't come from being protected like a suckling birthling- Rafer knew- it came from your own self, and from weakening those around you so they did what you wanted. The Mad Stallion and the Crazy Mare, they just didn't get that. Stupid. Well, Rafer didn't care about them. He only cared about himself- and Llac, Taen and Gery cared about him most of the time.
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Very glared at the red mare. She knew nothing of his past. He had been secretive about that. How dare she even think of bringing that up... He started toward her, his temper flaring to its peak. He would rip apart that mare and then teach her son a real lesson. A white wing flashed in front of him. Habernill blocked his way.
"Very, dear. Calm down." Habernill said soohtingly.
Embarresed and still raging, Very glanced at Gipha, then turned around and walked away, ignoring his mate.
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Tasia:
Shil came and sat by her. Gipha still couldn't stand to look at him.
"Mommy?" Shil asked "Mommy? How am I going to get punished?"
Gipha raised her head. She hadn't thought of this. "As usual, the punishment should fit the crime."
Shil gasped "Are you going to rip my wings off?"
"No honey," Gipha rubbed her cheek against his "that would hurt."
"But maybe I'd be able to fly like Kahven! He flies good!" a shadow passed across his face "Mommy, why doesn't Rafer like Kahven?"
Gipha wanted to say something that would make him feel better, but it didn't come. Gipha realized that Shil thought everything she said to be truth- Gipha didn't like that responcibility. She wasn't Thereda. Gipha had faults. She was insecure and sometimes made bad desitions. Gipha said "Because, he's scared."
"Scared? But Kahven didn't hurt him."
"Scared and stupid," Gipha said "people like that, when they see something they don't reconize, they get scared and they try to destroy it."
Shil frowned "Mommy? Am I stupid?"
There was a beat while Gipha forced a confermation back down her thought, then she said "No." she said "But you did get scared. You got scared of Rafer- so you betrayed your friend."
She could see Shil didn't like the sound of the word 'betrayed'.
"It's a bad thing," Gipha said 'But unis do it,' she though 'They betray each other, because their stupid and they don't care.'
"I'm not going to punish you," Gipha said "But I don't want you playing with Rafer."
"Why not!?" Shil blurted.
"Shil- he knocked you down!"
"Yeah, but that's because I was asking questions."
"Asking-" she sighed "and what is wrong with asking questions?!" She was getting angry at the absurdity of it.
"It's the first rule of being Rafer's apprentice: Don't ask questions." He said this proudly.
"Apprentice? Shil, do you really want to grow up to be just like that shi- oh, I'm sorry, that colt?"
There was a long moment. Shil sensed Gipha's anger "No,"
"Don't say what you think I want to hear," Gipha lectered.
"Well...he's a cool uni. He told me."
Gipha laughed- it wasn't a pretty laugh "He's cool because he says he's cool? I don't know about that." she continued "A uni who knocks my Shilligin in the mud is not what I think is cool."
"Mo-m! Don't call me Shilligin!" he sighed "He's my friend."
Gipha shook her head "Friends don't make you choose between friends." she looked into the distance "I guess, you'll need new friends now. Kahven will never want to be your friend again."
Shil's eyes watered "Really? He doesn't like me?"
"Honey, if Kahven walked away with a uni that called you ugly, would you still like him?"
Gipha saw he was really thinking about this. After a time he said "No. I would think he was mean."
Gipha nodded "Your not mean honey, just," the adjective 'stupid' passed into her mind "you haven't expirianced relationships yet. Not with anyone else but me- and you can't insult me no matter was you say, I'm your mother!"
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Uni:
Orora saw the whole process pass before her eyes.
Oh dear, she thought.
Orora's fillies never had to endure these kind of things. Because they don't have short-tempered fathers, stupid 'friends' and they are girls! she finished for herself.
Indeed, Delta ran away and got killed (so of course it dosen't help with growing-up), and Gradyti had always been there to teach Shagya. Then, again, he was a Lupe, the mare was exasperated. Why couldn't Very have a handsome, winged colt, and be proud?
Stallions ... Orora muttered as she walked towards Gipha and her colt.
"Shil? Gipha? ... Look, Giph," Orora said as she sighed and settled down next to her friend, "Shil made a mistake. He is so young. We made mistakes too, when we were young. Look at my Shagya: she went to battle that Lupe alone, armed only with the powers Delta gave her! She was stupid to do that. But Shil isn't stupid. He's young, energetic: a good, strong foal. What can you expect? He needs a stallion to copy. And Very made a very bad exemple. See, why don't you teach him to be like, maybe, Hyaerdean? He's a famous Uni, Shil deserves to know about him and be like him. After all, Hyaerdean's our ancestor."
"However, Giph ... I was thinking about this ... I mean, I am the Lead Mare's daughter ... so it was natural that my fillies had powers and magic in their veins. But what Shil needs is a good power. I will talk to Delta about it. She is, after all, a Harmony. What Shil needs," Orora smiled at the colt, "is a sixth sense - the power to detect the untrustworthy."
The white mare turned to Shil.
"How does that sound, dear?"
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Stupid, stupid mares. Idiots. All of them. Very raged to himself as he walked away. What did Habernill or Gipha know? Stupid stupid idiotic mares.
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Kahven was sprinting along the lake shore looking for the large grey and black cybunny. He scanned the horizon, but didn't seen the strange form of the mutant. Instead, he saw a green mare peering at her reflection in the lake.
"Miss!"
The green mare looked up. "Yes?"
"Have you seen a cybunny around here?"
"Sorry kid, I haven't."
Kahven sighed. He would have to go all around the lake.
"I'm Quetzal, who are you?"
"I'm Kahven."
"Nice to meet you Kahven. Where are your parents?"
Kahven turned to look at the herd, a small lump on the horizon. "Over there somewhere. Mom said to look for Fwanta." Kahven frowned as he remembered what happened. Tears came unbiddened to his eyes.
"Whats wrong Kahven?"
"M-mom said not to let it get to me. They-they're a bunch of jerks." Kahven said aloud, more to himself then Quetzal.
Quetzal remembered what she had heard from earlier. She put two and two together and figured out basically what happened. She glanced at Kahven's wingless back. She smiled at him. "She's right you know. You have a pretty smart mom. Was that your dad yelling back there?"
Kahven nodded slowly.
"Well, he's an idiot."
Kahven gasped at her.
"Its true kiddo. He needs to let you expeirence life for yourself, not under his constant guidance."
The purple/silver colt looked at her suspicously.
"Dont believe me if you don't want to, but try not to be with him all the time. Tell him you need some time to yourself."
Quetzal bade him good day, and trotted toward where she saw a sparkling white form on the horizon. She would talk to that stallion herself, just for fun.
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"Now that thats over with, what shall I do now Comador? Comador?" The burgandy lupe was talking to thin air. "Oh, right, still searching aren't you? Good little Comador." The lupe chuckled, and walked on. She wasn't used to not having the Zomutt near her for long periods of time. He was practically her shadow.
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Gipha put her ears back and wondered how Orora had knew her dreads. Then she explained that her family had magic. Of course, Gipha thought. The magic had always caused Gipha a little fear- while the family took no efforts to hide it from the herd, Gipha still didn't understand it. And now Orora wanted her son to join their ranks? Gipha knew she should have been honored...she couldn't dicide. She looked down at her son, who was blinking at the white mare.
"It's up to you, Shilly."
Shil was too preocupied gazing at Orora's brightness to remind his mom not to call him Shilly. He didn't really know what a gift or a sixth sense was, but it sounded exciting "It sounds, great."
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Frailik gave up. The scent of the freshly killed cybunny was making ravonous. He was going to have to be a little more assertive. He lifted his nose, and gave a howl. He said he was a unique lupe, larger than most, son of a great fighter and a lupe from far away. He wished to join a pack, and he had a kill to offer to the leader. Frailik gave no clue that he already knew all about the leader and his pack, that would disturb them. Frailik waited.
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Orora whispered soothingly to Gipha:
"It's ok, Giph. He will never, ever become a 'real' magical stallion if you don't want him to. I'm just trying to help him. Shil will be ok, I promise you."
Orora stood up, nuzzled kindly Shil, and walked away.
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"He has not Leader blood in his veins!"
"It cannot be possible!"
"Stop! I am almost Lead Mare, do as I say!"
The Harmony muttered disagreement as Orora pawed the ground dangerously, almost daringly.
"He is a colt. We protect our youngsters!"
"Do as Orora says."
A rich voice erupted from the mare's back. It was Lumino. The Harmony all bowed repectively before the Lead Stallion.
"As you wish, Sir."
"Delta, do as I instructed."
The young mare walked forwards. She whispered indistinct words under her breath, and a halo of light was set free from her body. It hovered above Delta, then took the form of a feather, before shooting to where Shil was.
"Mother," Delta said as the feather dissapeared. "Shil will need a guide to use his power. He will need the Stone of Verity."
"I shall go and find it," Orora nodded.
"Honey," Lumino lowered his neck to his daughter's level. "The only mine of these gems belong to the Light Faeries."
"I know," Orora said impatiently, "I'll need a disguise - "
"I can do it," Delta said, and a shower of magic poured onto Orora, making her perfectly invisible.
"Wow!" the white mare exclaimed. "It's incredible!"
"Go, now," Lumino said, "Before the Lupes know what we're up to."
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Very watched the approaching green mare out of the corner of his eye.
"Who are you?"
"Quetzal." She said simply, before talking flently in a strange language.
Very's eyes widened at the familar, yet strange sound, understanding every word of the unusual dialect. He talked begrudgingly with Quetzal, then she left, and he went back to the herd.
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Jerad sat up. There was a howl, a lupe claiming to have strong linage, unique and large. The smell of a sweet, freshly killed cybunny drifted toward Jerad. He stood up, stretched then trotted to where this new lupe was.
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"Gipha, did you do anything to Very? He's acting so strange... Like he forgot everything. I haven't heard him speak since he came back." Habernill had found the mare. She hope Gipha wouldn't be too mad at her, as she had nothing to do with the incident, other than deflecting Very from attacking Gipha. "He's too quiet."
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"Almost there." The disembodied voice floated across the plain as the invisible ghost lupes saw the glimmering shore of the lake.
"What are we doing there anyway?"
"Just seeing what the unis are doing. They rarely have meetings like this for nothing."
"And I am sure you have a lot of expierence in that Lumrino."
"Be quite Giph."
"Nyah nyah nyah, Verin. You are no fun."
The trio stopped at the waters edge, wondering how to cross the lake. Verin took an enterprising step and discovered that if he concentrated, he coudl walk on water. The others followed, and soon they stood, invisible, at the lakes edge, watching the uni herd.
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"Do anything?" her voice rose "I only told that I'd kill him if her hurt my Shil!" by the end her voice sounded like a gull's caw. She took a deep breath "I'm sorry...Shil won't be playing with colts for a while," she was saying that Shil was getting punished now, but there was a hidden message, that Shil wasn't allowed to play with Kahven because Gipha was so still angry at his father.
Gipha was too overwhelmed with fury to continued talking to Habernill. Instead saying something intelligent aimed to make Habernill leave her alone, she turned her back on the mare and wished Orora a silent goodluck. Her mind buzzed too much to think anything else.
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"Sorry, sorry. Of course you wouldn't do anything to him." Habernill said,as if she didn't hear what Gipha had just said. "Nevermind. Nevermind." She said distractedly, before trotting off.
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"Come on you pussies." Verin was quiet, still invisible. He didn't want to attract attention from the herd.
"What are we supposed to do?" Giph's voice was sharp and to the point.
"Just stand around and listen, sis. doesn't it sound like fun?"
"Not really Lumrino."
"You're no fun Giph."
"How bout we walk around for a while? Just see whats happening?"
The trio mumbled, then went their seperate ways.
Verin headed immediatly toward VeryVain, the stallion. He peered into the unis mind, and learned what happened. Verin scoffed at how hot headed the uni was. Unis were crazy.
Lumrino was much more philosophical. He sat quietly, invisible and unheard by the herd, and simply watched the happenings. He didn't like reading others minds, it was such an invasion of privacy. So he listened and watched, and learned much that way.
Giph was her classic self, rebeling and trying to cause mischief. She looked around, and saw a maroon colt. She mused about what to do, then ran over to it, watching what it did. A simple mind reading of the mare near him told Giph his name was Shil, or something like that. So she crept silently toward the colt, and, still invisible, whispered into his ear, "We all hate you Shil." The she darted away, silent again, and watched the colt.
Verin was much more subtle in his communication efforts. The stallion was grazing quietly, so Verin used his feeble ghostly strength to direct Very to where he would be alone. The he wrote gently in the ground, H-E-Y V-E-R-Y.
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"Comador, are you back yet?" The burgandy lupe asked thin air. "How long should it take you?" She fell silent, listening for an answer that never came. She thought for a moment about what she should do, then ran toward the promising scent of two male lupes, apparen'tly father and son.
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Laenyn and her repulsive army were almost to the Unis' herd. She smirked evilly and landed on the ground to walk. She would be harder to spot that way. She was now on the outskirts of the herd, where only a few Unis stood. All but one fled before her, racing to tell Lumino. "Attack" was all she said before the Unis were disposed of. Morgan had lunged forward and snapped their necks soundly before returning to Laenyn's side. The Unis who had fallen suddenly stood again, a breeze lifting them up. They took up ranks behind Laenyn, heads at odd angles. The one who had not run still stood, though. Morgan could not see something that did not move. The brown Uni with black hooves looked up slowly. Her eyes were haunted already.
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Tam looked up to face the things before her. It was a winged Lupe. It had killed all of the other Unis that had fled, but not her. She sniffed the wind cautiously, and one smell overcame all of the others. She could smell Ally, or some close relation! She sniffed again, deeper, and pinpointed the scent to Morgan, the Lupe with wings and a bloody jaw. Tam's eyes widened in fear and she reared up. Had her daughter been killed by this monstrosity?! Her own child?! But there was no trace of Ally's blood. "You." She looked straight at Morgan, but the other creature cut in.
"No, it would be better to talk to me than to a soul-less puppet. Hmmm..." Laenyn sniffed as well and her grin stretched to take new form, malicious hatred. "So you are Morgan's grandmother, then? My nose says so... You must be Ally's mother, then. Yes, your daughter mated with a Lupe and yes, there are married. Surprised? Well, granny, let's see if you can play tag with your granddaughter. Attack."
Tam's blood went cold. Murderer! Liar! But the words were true, even Tam knew it. The little half-lupe slowly walked toward her, sniffing her out. A sudden fire burned in Tam's veins. This monster had killed her granddaughter and slaughtered so many creatures! If she was going down, she was going down fighting! She took off, blasting toward Laenyn, bellowing so loudly the whole plain must've heard, she cried out "MURDER! MURDER! YOU KILLED THEM ALL, AND THAT POOR HALF-LUPE TOO! HOW COULD YOU! AAARRGH!!" She leaned in, pointing her horn at Laenyn's heart, but suddenly gasped in pain. She fell to the ground, blood spilling onto her mane. Then she followed those before her and rose again.
"Hmph, there goes our strategy of sneaking up on them."
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Ally looked up suddenly, as did the rest of her family. She whispered a single word before racing off back toward the Unis they had left behind. "Mother." Wuff raced after her as did Nami, Moya, and Nagrom. They reached the side of the herd opposite where Laenyn was. She howled loudly, smelling her mother's blood on the mind. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO! MOTHER!" She broke down right then and there, at the feet of a few familiar-looking Unis. Then again, the Unis were all familiar, she'd them them so much recently. She didn't care right then, only caring that her mother was gone. They may not have been on good terms, but it wasn't as though Ally hated her! She just cried there in the grass. What else could she do?
Meanwhile, Wuff, Nami, and Moya (who was crying as well), all stared solemnly at the ground. Nagrom, however, was just staring, as though trapped in a nightmare, at the sky over Laenyn. Why hadn't she seen it before?! "HELP!!! LOOK!! MITE!"
((OOC: MiteMee-the, "look" in Japanese.)
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Zonk saw the sky just before Nagrom did and chased after the pups again to repeat herself. "I need to know how to help the living world! A terrible creature called Laenyn is coming to take over the entire world! Everyone is in danger! I'm sorry to just start talking to you, but what can I do?! I... I'm Zonk, and the monster Laenyn stole my body! Is there nothing I can do? SHE'S RIGHT OVER THERE! HELP, PLEASE!" Zonk was really getting scared. Morgan was over there, where the air reeked of death and decay. It was all Zonk's fault. Morgan might be... NOOOOO!
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Mikasi watched Mystyk leave sadly, but said nothing. It would be easier for her if he stayed silent. He wanted to go too though! He didn't want to be away from her for even a minute, but he just had to grin and bear it. Minus the grin. He just lay down lethargically on the grass, deaf and blind to the world, lost in his memories. Mostly ones of Mystyk, but there were others as well. Then something shattered his dream world like glass. A scream! He jumped to his feet suddenly. LAENYN! He could smell her and... Blood. So much of it! How had Laenyn disguised it all?! His thoughts jumped to Mystyk. He had to go, to warn her! But she had said... Forget that, he needed to get to her. "MYSTYK!!! MYSTYK!!! MYSTYK! LAENYN'S COMING! I'M COMING TO YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?! I'M COMING, DON'T WORRY!" he screamed, not thinking of the words in his mouth. He had to get to her now.
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Tasia:
They had had a good afternoon, but when they reached to the lake Falara and Mystyc felt a darkness near that was like a weight. Mystyc took Falara home, and Shiko and Noe thanked her humbly and welcomed their daughter- not even mentioning her color change. The darkness seemed to have an affect everyone, Falara thought.
The weight became so heavy it was staggering to Falara. The black pup went outside her den.
In the distance, she saw a dark cloud. Her tongue in her throat, Falara entered the den and roused her family. Come on, they were so drowsy! Finaly she managed to rouse her mother "Something very dark is coming! We have to get out of here!"
"Oh honey, do you have to interrupt my nap?"
"Come on!" she pushed Noe out of the den. The orange lupe gazed to the north.
"Oh my god, I've never seen a storm like that! We should wait this out in the storm in the den.
"NO! This is a very bad thing! We have to get away!" Tears came to her eyes.
There was commotion, and the two heads turned. Just coming up on the horizon, Falara and Noe noticed some of the guards at the river. On the other side, was a terrible mass of neopets.
"They look dead," Noe rasped.
They were. They only empty shells though. Agan, the pup screamed "WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!"
Noe flew into the den and rose Shiko and the pups. It took only one look at the mass coming toward them before the family was running.
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Mystyc was heading towards home when she saw the black cloud. Even without her sixth sense, she knew this was a very bad thing. She had to warn the herd!
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Noe realized something was wrong.
"Where's Bru?" she exclaimed.
Shiko did a quick look around "He must still be at the den!"
"I have to go back!" Noe cried.
"No, Noe! I can't bare to lose you. I'll go- you take care of Allia and Falara!"
The orange lupe nodded and sprinted with her daughters. She wasn't running long when Falara slipped away. She had the power to see the dead, she had to go!
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The colt shivered as he felt a chill go through him. He looked to were the white uni was- but she had disappeared. Why did she go away?
Because she can't stand to be near you!
No, that wasn't true! He looked to the harmonies. They were watching him suspiciously. Why was that?
Because your not a true magical uni. You don't have royal blood.
'But Orora gave me my powers!'
And regrets it, now that she sees how stupid you are!
"I'm not stupid!" Shil said.
"What?" Gipha seemed to be pulled from a dream. Shil turned to her. Certainly she would like him?
But her eyes were distant, and didn't meet his.
'She hates me because I'm a magical uni now.'
Now your getting it.
'But why did she agree to let me go through with it?'
She thought a spell would cure your terrible stupidity. Now she hates you even more.
"Nooooooo!" Tears filled his eyes. Shil ran- everything was a blur. Every time he saw a face of a uni, it distorted to hatred 'He hates because I'm magical, she hates me because I betrayed Kahven...' and on.
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Shiko scrambled to the den, but was met by a dead looking cybunny and a dead looking pup. Shiko recognized him immediately. His son.
He searched the crowd, and found the one who was not dead "So," he mouthed "Your the one responcible for this," he lunged blinding toward her-
A sad looking blue gray female lupe appeared in front of him. Shiko recognized her somehow, but wasn't sure why. It was enough to stop him, before the image flickered away. What appeared in it's place was his daughter.
"Falara? What are you doing here?"
"Get away dad! I'll take care of this!"
Shiko did get away, but first he picked up Falara in his jaws- like a puppy
"Dad!" Falara yelled "Let me go! I have the power to see the dead!" but Shiko wasn't listening. He ran- lightening fast, untill he reached the uni's lake.
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"Shil?" What had gotten into him? This was no time to run off. Gipha began after him, and she heard a yell.
"MURDER! MURDER! YOU KILLED THEM ALL, AND THAT POOR HALF-LUPE TOO! HOW COULD YOU! AAARRGH!!"
It was Tam- a uni Gipha didn't much care for. There had once been a uni in the herd- a uni who dared to be different, and what happened? Her mother ultamately abandoned her. Gipha had watched the whole thing in shock. Ally disappeared, and Lily was later killed by a lupe. Served Tam right, as far as Gipha was concerned.
But there was a terrible dread in Tam's voice, and Gipha turned. Her blood ran cold.
There was a winged lupe leading a group of terrible creatures- they looked dead! It didn't Gipha long to realize she had control over them. Tam lay down, but when she rose she had that terrible deadness with her. Gipha knew this was the mysterious Laenyn her sister had spoke of, and the herd was dreadfully unprepared!
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When Mystyc reached the lake, it was too late. An army of dead pets were attacking. Mystyc scanned the crowd- where was Mikasi? She had to find him! She dove into the fray.
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Shil ran into something and they both fell over. He looked up. it was Kahven! Certainly the uni who hated him most of all! He began in the other direction.
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The unis were scattering like mad! A lone colt would be trampled! Where was Kahven?
She spotted him. He was heading blindly towards- oh no. Towards Laenyn and her army! Gipha began at a furious run, but so many unis were coming from the oppisite direction, she'd never make it. He opened her wings, but they was no way to get air with these many unis about! "NO!" Gipha screamed "I HAVE TO GET MY SON! I HAVE TO GET MY SON! I HAVE TO GET MY SON!" Her eyes felt like they were popping out of her head.
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Orora flew as fast as she could, invisible, towards the fluffy clouds of Faerieland. The mine was easily distinguishable, for it emitted strong rays of light.
Orora gently floated towards the entrance. She grimaced as she saw two Light Faeries guarding the opening of the cloud mine.
I'm sorry, Orora whispered under clenched teeth, but it's for a friend.
The Uni concentrated her energy on her horn, and two blue sparks shot towards the Faeries, who immediately froze, paralized.
Orora walked into the mine, and her jaw dropped several centimeters in shock.
The stones were perfectly round, and so smooth that they were almost soft. She could see the beautiful pastel shades that reflected millions of rainbow-coloured shards. The gems shone so brightly that it was almost blinding.
Orora dug her horn in the cloud at the base of the stone, making it fall into her bag. The Uni hesitated; should she bring back another as an offer for the Lupes?
The hesitation was fatal to her. The Faeries suddenly defroze, and took their posts again. The mare bit her lip: she wouldn't be able to get out.
Orora shrugged. What can she lose? Digging her horn into the soft substance, she made three other gems fall.
You can do it, Orora whispered to herself.
She kicked hard off her hind legs and stretched wings. Orora braced as she perced the ceiling of the mine. The sound was muffled, but enough to call the Light Faeries into the cave. The mare quickly used a cleverly-aimed spark to paralize the Faeries, then blocked the entrance with a fair amount of cloud.
I did it! the mare thought happily. She shot back to the plains, the sprit lightened.
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Labifron followed Jauck slowly. What a dismil day. Where were those lupes? Jauck was stoicly following the trail. He lifted his nose for a fresh breath, and caught a different smell. He felt sick. Labifron stopped and did the same.
"What is that dad?"
"I... I'm not sure, Lab."
The two turned to look at the lake. The unis had scattered. A dark cloud was building up. The lupes shuddered simulataniously. They heard an eriely familar howl, and raced toward it.
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VeryVain stared at the writing. How long it had been since he had last seen it. He thought he had gone crazy for a while. But here it was again... An invisible hand wiped away the letters and scrawled hurriedly RUN! GET AWAY! Very stared at the messy script. He lifted his head, a sick feeling building in his stomach. A storm was brewing.
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"Kahven! KAHVEN!" Habernill shouted at the top of her lungs, then took off. The herd was scattering. The great spotted mare circled above the chaos, looking for the familar glint of a silver mane. She spotted the colt Shil. Habernill felt no hatred toward him, he was about the same age as Kahven and clueless about everything like her son. She watched him, and to her surprise, he accidently ran into the silver purple colt she was looking for.
"Kahven!" Habernill swooped down to the colt, who had been knocked over. Shil had gotten up and was running away again. Habernill shook her head at him, but let him go. "Kahven come on. We've got to go."
"Go where, Mommy? And why is Shil leaving again?"
"We're... We're going to find Fwanta! I don't know about Shil, baby. Sorry kid. But come on."
"Alright, Mommy."
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Jauck ran toward where the howl had come from with glee. Was it possible? Had that cybunny been lying? Jauck barked and put on a burst of speed.
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Giph was bored. The colt wasn't as fun as she thought, and she went around to see what else she could do. She was whispering a uni's worst memories back into his ear, when something happened. A dark cloud appeared, along with a feeling of dread and horror. Giph stopped what she was doing. The uni she had been tormenting ran, along with most of the herd. Giph sat down to pout, but she noticed something. A lupe was carrying a pup, a ways off. Giph went closer. She faintly recognized them. A sniff told her who it was. "Falara!" She shouted, loud enough for everyone to hear her, and sprinted toward her friend.
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Noe and Allia had found a not long abandoned lupe den. It smelled of two males- an adult and a pup, but also there were the faint traces of a female and Noe found evidence a nicely sized litter. 'A family decimated...' she thought darkly, with thoughts to her two lost sons.
Shiko and Falara rushed into the den. Where was Bru? Noe's heart thundered in her chest. She looked to her mate, but his eyes were stony "She took him."
"Who, took him?"
"A winged lupe...she's controling all those, zombies."
"Sheek- you can't mean-"
"He's a zombie. He's not there."
Noe howled sadly.
Shiko was still. His stillness frightened the three females. After a time he nuzzled his daughters, then gave his mate a lick "Don't worry. I will avenge him."
"Sheek-" Noe stood "Shiko, I can't lose you too-"
"Noe, I she took my son!" his voice quavered as he said it. She looked into his eyes- they were full of pain. The only time had seen him so unhappy was when she met him. She knew she couldn't stop him.
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On another reality, a dark faerie and a fire cybunny ran agaist time.
"No," the cybunny growled "Bru isn't supposed to die! The profecy!"
"Can we get him back?" asked the dark faerie.
"It's going to difficult...it might not work, but we might as well give it a try!"
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Orora's spirit considerably fell as she landed in the plains. A Lupe ((OOC: Laenyn is a Lupe, right?)) was controlling zombies! Shil's power must immediately go inside him, and he must learn to control it.
The mare galloped towards her father, dropped hastily the bag before him, and grabbed some Stones of Verity before beginning a wild race towards the maroon colt.
Please, she thought desperately, please don't let him become a zombie!
She raced over to Gipha, and skidded to a halt, sending earth flying.
"Gipha, have you heard - ? Has - has Shil discovered his power yet? I have the stone; it - it will let him detect the faintest lie! I am not lying - see!" She held out a golden chain with the Stone as a pendant. It shone as brightly as before, but did not change. "The Stone radiates blue if it detects lies - "
Orora fell silent. Her ears whirled around, and alerted her: a zombie.
"Why, hello," the white mare grinned carelessly, "but, you see, you have interrupted me in my sentence, and I was talking to my friend's son!"
She neighed furiously, and threw a spare Stone at the zombie's feet. The gem exploded, and set free a tremendous wave of energy at the creature, setting its fur alight. The zombie collapsed, and a pearly-white spirit floated to the skies.
"So," Orora turned hurriedly back to Gipha, "when you crack open one of these gems, there will be an eruption of light that can combust anything. The Stones are very fragile, so tell your son to be careful!"
With that, she handed Gipha the necklace.
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Shiko ran to the mess. He noticed the zombies catching unis and killing them- and as soon as they were dead they would stand up again on the other side. So, the only thing he needed to do was not get killed. Easier said then done. The zombies seemed undefeatable- even tearing out their throats made not affect. He noticed a maroon dappled uni- pup running toward the mess. What was he doing, a suiside attempt? No time to wonder- he was being attacked!
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Gipha nodded a thank you and took the gem. The sudden arrival of the white uni had made enough room for Gipha to lift. She took to the air. She hoped there was time...
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Finaly, Shiko was just throwing the zombies to the side, trying to chizel his way to the winged lupe. It was not use, however. With every zombie taken care of, two new ones jumped in it's place.
The next zombie would destroy him.
It was a large, red lupe pup.
Shiko couldn't bring himself to attack his son. He hunched over defensively, and his son slowly tore the life from him...
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Finaly he looked up. There was army of dead pets! Was that possible? Shil squeeked as a terrible cybunny came at him.
"SHIL!" he heard. Before he could turn, a red uni came from the air in front of him. His mother! She bared her teeth, and set her wings beside as a shield.
"Mom, move!" Shil called, but it was too late. The cybunny jumped up and sunk it's insizors into her throat.
The uni's eyes retracted into her head, then, she fell to the ground, and something shiny fell with her.
Then she got up again.
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Shiko was astounded by the red uni's sacrifice, so much that he had stopped breathing. The world seemed to stop. The colt nudged his mother once, then the uni got up again. Shiko knew she wasn't his mother anymore, but the colt didn't "Mommy! Your alright!"
Shiko ran at his lightening speed to the colt and blocked the colt from a killing blow from the zombie's horn. She fell over heavily. Shiko wispered into into the colt's ear "Run! RUN!"
"But my mom is sick!"
"She's not sick, she's dead! I know, it happened to my-" Shiko spotted on the ground a shiny stone. He looked at it for a long time, drawn by it, then picked it up. The colt was still standing there helplessly. Without thinking, Shiko slid the chain over the uni's neck, then he growled "Get out of here!"
"But-"
Shiko growled ferociously. He nipped at the colt's flanks. The uni squeeled and ran. Shiko kept on herding him untill he reached a the forest "Look," Shiko said "your mom is dead. But she wouldn't want her sacrifice to be in vain! You have to get out of here, now!"
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Shil knew he wasn't lying. It was strange. The colt nodded, and sprinted into the woods.
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Shiko looked back at the battle. Then, he ran to the den where his family was "Let's get out of here. If the army reaches it, we'll be trapped. Come on, into the woods!"
Noe was licking him too hard to listen, but Shiko snapped "This is serious! Okay, do we have everyone this time? Noe, Allia, Falara, Br-" he gulped "Okay, let's go! And no running back, Falara!" they ran through the woods, but Shiko's mind was elsewhere. He thought of the red uni's death. She had almost died in vain.
Shiko would not let himself die in vain, but revenge was useless, he knew. He would do his best to protect the remaider of his family, he swore this to Bru.
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((OOC: Wow, I caused mass panic and mayhem with a single post. YAY! Yes, Laenyn is a Faerie trapped in a winged lupe's body. And sure, anyone can control the zombies as long as they have them attacking and stuff like that. You know, stuff Laenyn would have them do. Wow, I didn't realize how long this was... I guess we could make a new board, but... Ah well, I'll have the whole thing copy-pasted for easy reference anyway.))
Zonk was too late now and she knew it. So many dying Unis and Lupes. Ally had already been cut down while mourning her mother. Nagrom and her sisters were sobbing terribly, trying to flee while Wuff took up the rear, guarding them. Wuff was sobbing harder than any of them. He wanted revenge, but his children would die if he tried now. He'd lost so much. Zonk had to at least TRY! She ran over to the ghost pup (Giph) and called out, for the third time, for help. Was there nothing she could do? She turned briefly, saw Morgan slaughtering Unis, and felt sick. Morgan would never have done that! It was sickening. The green grass had streaks of red on it and Zonk was suddenly aware of everything she had taken for granted before and she howled. She howled for her losses, her friends' losses, for everything that had gone so very wrong.
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Ybbat had been walking along cheerfully, humming, when she heard screams. She turned around and saw a menacing black cloud. She ran over to it, wanting to play in puddles and find more friends, as there was a large group of creatures over there, all bedecked in the same red as that Uni before. She didn't know what had happened to her, but maybe these creatures could help. She grinned and got closer. Suddenly, a winged Lupe saw her and stared her down with icy eyes. For once in Ybbat's life, her smile faltered. She looked up at Laenyn and whispered one word before a Lupe got to her. "Why?" She had, just before the Lupe and just after the eyes, realized something. Not everything is good.
((OOC: ACK! I killed off Ybbat and Ally! What have I done? Well, maybe Ybbat won't die yet... Hmmm... There are always ways of getting them back...))
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Mikasi was still hunting for Mystyk when he caught a whiff of her scent. He charged toward her and saw his mother die. "NOOO!" He screamed, still racing toward Mystyk. He managed to knock one zombie away from her with a fierce headbutt, but he couldn't hold them all off! "Mystyk! We need to get out of here! HURRY!!" He stood directly by her side, just an inch or two away. Any zombies that came too close were quickly shoved away. He had to at least protect Mystyk!
((OOC: If she leaves, he leaves, if she stays, he stays, so we can save time.))
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Laenyn had seen a small striped Wocky come surprisingly close to her. She gave her a glare before dispatching a Lupe toward her and turning her back on it. Her army grew as the herd and pack shrank. Soon she would be unstoppable! "All shall fall before me and I shall finally have the respect I deserve!" She cackled wildly over the roar of battle. She took pleasure from the horror she had made. She was so engrossed in self-pity over something so small as banishment that she was destroying the lives of almost everyone on the plain. Not that she cared, no, she loathed the Unis and the Lupes and held a great deal of jealousy toward them. She had wanted to be accepted by the Faeries and belong with them. These lowly creatures had something she didn't! She would win at all costs, even death.
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Moya and Mosh were too late. The battle had begun and no amount of Healing Waves could save the others now. Moya saw a little kitten of a Wocky being advanced on by a dead Lupe, and was sickened by it. Moya was disgusted by this and levitated the kitten up toward her. The laughter was gone from it's wide eyes and tears were pouring out unchecked. Moya held her close like a mother would and the kitten managed to sob out, "Are you a friend?" Moya, surprised, only nodded. She was slightly helpless right now. She sent out healing waves when she could, and she suddenly noticed Mikasi. She was shocked to say the least.
((OOC: Hmmm... Did I ever have Moya find out about Mikasi coming back to life? No, I don't think so... If so, oops.))
"Mikasi... He's alive? That Uni down there is Mystyk and... Oh my word... He's alive!" She swooped down, Mosh and Ybbat in tow, and tried to send out a bubble to lift them up to save them. The zombies simply clawed it up. I'M UP HERE! UP HERE! I CAN'T LEVITATE YOU UP HERE, BUT MAYBE YOU CAN FLY OR MIKASI CAN LEVITATE THE BOTH OF YOU UP HERE! Suddenly, Moya realized something. Mikasi had spoken. He was no longer deaf. He was now powerless. Uh oh.
((OOC: Sorry I don't post so much any more, I'll try and at least keep up though. Have a nice day!))
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Mystyc nuzzled Mikasi "Oh Mikasi, oh Mikasi," soon she started to cry from sheer relief. There were so many unis running, they started to make their way to the woods. Most were flying, the lupes weren't. Mystyc bit her lip, and began running. He leaned down and said "Mikasi...I don't know how to fly."
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Shil was hidden under a rock overhang, crying. Why did his mother have to die? Now he had no one.
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"Kahven! Come on!"
"Mommy!"
"Kahven! KAHVEN!"
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A lupe licked her paws, cleaning them. She raised her head too look at the sky. She howled, a long persuading note, and smiled. This was so easy.
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"Xandrean! Where are you? We've got to go!"
"But what about Quetzal?"
"She can take care of herself, now move!"
Xan nodded, and beat his wings. They collided with half a dozen other unis. "I can't fly here!"
Kerideth shuddered. "We've got to go."
"You think I don't know that?! I'm trying!" Xan began to rise again, but was knocked down once more. He fell to the ground. He groaned as a large mare trampled over him.
"Xan!"
"I'm alright." said the young stallion as he stood up, shaking from fear. Kerideth was being shoved away by the mass of the herd. Xan was knocked to the ground again. A hurried hoof hit his head, his stomach, and his legs. Xan passed out from the pain of being trampled alive.
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"Anita!" Jauck's voice shouted, full of joy. Sure enough, a familar periwinkle lupe sat in the grass. Jauck howled in glee and began romping around his love.
Labifron was more hesitant. The screams from the lake filled his ears. This lupe looked like his mother, but didn't seem like her. As if she sensed his uncertainty, the lupe broke into a smile.
"Jauck! I missed you. Labifron, how you've grown!"
Labifron turned away from her seemingly loving gaze. He looked into his fathers eyes, looking for answers.
"Come on Lab. Arent you going to say hi to your mother?"
Labifron stared at Jauck, dissapointed somehow. His icey gazed stunned Jauck, before Lab turned and left, running toward the lake.
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Verin pushed against the huge unis hindquarters. Finally, he let himself be seen, and shouted.
"Run you damn fool of a uni! Holy Fyora, RUN!"
Startled, VeryVain turned. Verin molded himself to look like the lupe that had haunted Very's nightmares. Flooded with fear, the multicoloured stallion bolted.
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Kahven felt a rough slap on his rump. His mother's eyes were filled with fear. Her great wings rose again, and slapped the colt. "Run." she mouthed. Kahven watched with horror as his mother fell. A green uni pushed him on, the same mare he had seen before.
"Move kiddo," She whispered. Kahven was too scared to go against her.
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Dang. This one could see through her disguise. She would have to get better at this if she wanted to do real work. Startled for a moment, the periwinkle lupe walked toward Jauck and soothed him.
"Now dear, you know how teenagers are. I'm sure it must of been hard on you. Seeing me again after all this time must be hard. I'm sorry I was gone."
Jauck looked at her like she was crazy. She inwardly panicked. Have I said something wrong? The female lupe tried not to let her anxiety show. The startled look left Jaucks face, and he smiled.
"I'm sure your right honey. He was as excited as I was when we heard you. I've missed you my sweet."
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Lumrino walked over to where his old den was. The commotion of the lake didn't affect him, as a ghost. He was surprised to see lupes there. He watched them curiously. What were they doing here in this mess?
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Orora watched the mare fly away. Small tears rolled down her cheeks, then - a pain beyond anything she ever felt teared her heart. The organ had no damage, but the pain was umbelievable. The mare neighed.
"Mother!"
Shagya's fine ears recognised the cry. She flew in the direction of the neigh, Delta hot on her heels.
"Mother! No!"
The Uni looked over the white mare. Orora had lost conciouseness (wow, haaard word!! sp?).
"Do something, Delta! Save her!"
The Harmony looked over the body, and sighed in relief.
"She just fainted. No damage."
With that, Delta glowed brightly, and revived the mare. Orora woke with a jolt.
"GIPHA!" The white Uni's eyes frantically scanned the plains. "No, please!"
"What's the matter, Mom?"
"Gipha ... No ... you can't do this!"
Tears cascaded in waves from her eyes. She shook her head, powerless. Then, suddenly, her sadness transformed into real, burning fury.
"You'll pay! That was my BEST FRIEND!"
The Uni stood up, defiant. A zombie suddenly shot up.
"AWAY!"
Bolts of thunder crackled and freed from the Uni's horn to slam into the beast. It moaned with agony as the thunder hirt it in the chest and electrocuted it, then fell down.
"Wow."
Shagya was in awe. Of all the Lead Mares, none have yet managed to shoot thunder out of their horns.
"It's because of the power that burns in her heart," explained Delta. "The power lays there until a savage fury releases it all. Then, she will be able to use the thunder during her whole life."
Orora galloped madly towards the zombies, shooting away dozens at a time. Innumerable pearly-white spirits rose to the sky.
"YOU! Orora roared, rearing on her hind legs and kicking away some of the zombies that separated her from the Zombie Gipha. "Please ... " The mare's tears formed a wall on her face. "Gipha ... listen to me ... I am Orora - your Orora! You died for your son! Please come back! Please! I beg you - you know you remember us! You know it!"
She collapsed at Gipha's feet.
"I know you remember me ... make an effort ... for me, and for your son ... "
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Gerina ran blindly through the forest. This was terrible. Her parents had been killed, and she couldn't find her brother. She found a rock overhang and dove into it. She was so tired.
She stood for a second, knees locked, and panted. She heard weeping. She turned. There was a maroon dappled colt- large though younger than her, in the back. He was curled up. Rina realized she recognized this colt "Shil?"
He opened his eyes to look at her, but all life seemed gone. It was as if he didn't care. "Gery?" he asked.
"No," she said "I'm Gerynd's twin sister."
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Lumrino watched as the family left the den and ran into the woods. He turned to look at the chaos momentarily, then ran after this strange family. They were most certainly more interesting than watching a zombie army destroy countless neopets. That was more depressing than fun.
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Stamsha paced. Where was Jerad? He should be back now. The golden lupe sat down and nervously cleaned her paws, then got up and began pacing again. She knew something was happening, a deep evil somewhere on the plain. She didn't know where it was, but she couldn't help but shudder when she concentrated on the black pit that had appeared in her stomach. Something was horribly wrong.
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Xandrean woke up as the tide of fleeing unis ended. He blinked his eyes cautously as he saw an approaching mare. It was a ghostly white, coming toward him robotically. Xan scrambeld to his feet. The mare was coming toward him steadily. Without thinking, Xan turned around and pounded two hooves into the zombies chest. It was tossed backwards, before methodically getting up and moving slowly again. Xan shook his sore body and flapped his wings. They hurt, but he managed to lift up and get away from the smirking winged lupe and its army of living dead.
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Morgan:
((OOC: Uni - About the zombies, I think we have different ideas of them. They are soulless puppets that Laenyn can move psychically to attack and serve her. I'll have Laenyn say it in a quote from my favorite show.))
Laenyn looked crossly at the Uni who dared to try to stop her. Sure, others had tried, but she was making progress! Laenyn looked at the zombies that had been zapped thoughtfully then cackled. "Fool! Even beheaded, my beloved army of the dead shall continue to dance!"
((OOC: Yay for Kagura quotes from Inuyasha!!))
She had an evil smirk set firmly on her face now. She should be unstoppable. Should. That Uni had shaken her though, and her inflated ego had taken some serious damage. Her zombies took several seconds to recover from each blast, each second valuable in the midst of battle. Several of them had been ripped to shreds by members of the Lupe pack, but they couldn't keep it up. Or so she told herself.
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Mikasi was a bit surprised when Mystyk nuzzled him, but recovered in time to run off after her. It was a bit harder to keep up with her than it had been now that she was taller and had longer legs, but he managed.
"Mikasi...I don't know how to fly."
Mikasi looked scared at that. He couldn't lift her like a pup without risking killing her, he couldn't carry her on his back or with his claws, and he could no longer teleport them or levitate them. This situation was getting worse by the minute what with the stampede and all. Mystyk could get knocked down, they could get separated, she could be attacked...
"Forget the stupid filly and fly up here to me!" screamed Moya. She'd never really liked Mystyk, Mikasi spent to much time with her. After all, it was Mystyk who had led him to his first demise, would she lead him to a more final one? Moya couldn't levitate them because she was already carrying a large load. Maybe Mikasi would listen to her...
Mikasi was horrified by Moya's words. "And leave Mystyk for dead?! I'd rather die myself!! Get lost Moya!" he screamed angrily while running wildly. He would never leave Mystyk! Never!
Moya stopped in midair, flabbergasted by Mikasi. He'd die again to save Mystyk?! "BAKA! YOU SHOULD JUST LEAVE HER!" she screamed, tears in her eyes. She sent a private telepathic message to Mystyk that dripped with venom as she left. Hey missy, you do realize Mikasi's gonna die down there, don'tcha?! Because of YOU! He won't leave you to save his own hide! At least figure out how to fly if you want him to even have a chance of living! He's dying down there, can't you see it? Are you blind? He has a more sensitive nose and the air is full of the scent of death, decay, and blood! He's having a hard time even breathing, especially running that fast to keep up with you! You'll kill him, wait and see! He's going to DIE!! And she was gone.
((OOC: Moya's message wrote itself... Wow... Moya's mad...))
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Nagrom, the pups, and Wuff were still running madly away. Suddenly, Nagrom stopped. Tears were in her eyes. There was a zombie beside them that the others, who rocketed away, leaving Nagrom behind, didn't notice. The zombie was her mother. "Momma... Why?" She was sobbing now, cursing the faeries and all the creatures in Neopia, and desperate for revenge. She looked up into her mother's dead eyes, her own eyes burning. "I'll get that witch for this if it's the last thing I do! I swear it!" She bellowed at Ally's lumbering form. She took off into the air right then and turned towards where Laenyn was. This was either to be her golden moment or her dark fall into shadow. Live or die, Nagrom wasn't one to break a promise.
((OOC: Once again I had Zonk reach out to Giph, but no response. Will I get one or should I give up on that point?))
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((Whoops! Haven't been clear XD I meant that each time Orora zapped a 'zombie', its spirit will lift to the sky and be like, Zonk ... n.n Er ... is that ok with you? And, by the way, excellent work on your book! Sorry, no post, but I have a great idea ... I'll post tomorrow!))
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Tasia:
((I think what Morgan's trying to say, the pets souls aren't in the corresponding zombies because Laenyn absorbed the souls, like she did Morgan, so to truely free the souls I guess you'd have to kill Laenyn))
Mystyc realized she hadn't told Mikasi she had lost her powers. What would he think of her now, she thought solemnly. He might not even care for her anymore.
Mystyc saw the transaction heard Mikasi speaking to the faerie in the sky. It wasn't the Dream Faerie, but it was a faerie she had seen before. She struggled to remember.
"Forget the stupid filly and fly up here to me!"
How stupid she had been! Making Mikasi stay down here in the mess, only for companionship?
"And leave Mystyk for dead?! I'd rather die myself!! Get lost Moya!"
Moya, that was the name. First, Mystyc was touched that Mikasi wanted to stay with her, but then she realized Mikasi had a chance to get out of the mess, but he wasn't taking it. Before speaking to her friend, she looked up. She saw Moya glaring at her angrily for a few moments, then fly away. Mystyc blinked, but after a time realized that the faerie must have said something to her in thought speak, but Mystyc, without her powers, was deaf to it. She thought ironicly, this is how Wakarimasen must have felt. She turned to her friend.
"Go, fly, Mikasi." she gave another affectionate nuzzle. He seemed to like that. Mystyc said "We unis are faster than you lupes, I'll be fine."
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Morgan:
((OOC: Quite right, Tasia, Laenyn gets a little more powerful with each kill because she takes out the soul. So, uhh... Yeah, sorry.))
Mikasi looked at Mystyk, shocked. Leave her? He would die if anything happened to her. Sure, he might die down here, but he'd be happier with Mystyk at the end. But maybe... He was slowing her down? Keeping her near the danger? "You sure, Mystyk?" He was worried. Mikasi finally decided to do both at once. "If... If you really want me to go..." he whispered, tears forming, "I will... Only because you asked me too." He then floated up into the air, so high that he could barely smell Mystyk, and flew at the same pace as he had before, guided by scent. There were many Unis and Lupes separating them, so he doubted Mystyk would see him. He needed to be there, just in case. But why had Mystyk suddenly made him go? He remembered with a pang the look of anger that Moya had sent Mystyk after Mikasi's yell. Had she said something she didn't want him to hear? He wanted to find her, but Mystyk... He couldn't leave her. No way on Neopia was he going to do that in the midst of such danger. He wished that he had his powers back more now than ever. If he had them, he could escape with Mystyk, run away, defeat Laenyn, save everyone, everything that was all but impossible now. He hadn't realized it, but he was crying, the tears slipping off the end of his nose and falling far below him.
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Laenyn chuckled to herself. She was unstoppable! She saw, a pretty far distance away, Mikasi, the one who Morgan had resurrected, and there, beside him, was the idiotic filly he had protected with his life. Her eyes flashed dangerously. To completely destroy his spirit, she'd need to kill her off. Her chance came as Mikasi took off into the air, leaving her. She sent forward, just fast enough to overtake the young Uni in a few minutes, a great wave of dead bodies, including Gipha's body, who led the way. She turned her attention once again to the others. Surely they would die soon... And then she'd go after Faerie Land. There was a small pup flying toward her at full speed that she quickly dispersed with a brief wave of energy, since all nearby Uni zombies were occupied at the moment. This was getting complicated, she realized, there were so many directions she had to watch at one time! That was the problem with zombies, if she lost concentration for even an instant, they would all fall uselessly to the ground. If it weren't for the power the souls gave her, she couldn't have even kept them all moving at once. She sighed as another Uni and two Lupes were killed. How long could she keep this up?
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Nagrom was flipped backwards several times before colliding with a tree trunk that happened to break her fall. ((OOC: rolls eyes )) She fell softly to the ground, moaning slightly, and blacked out. However, she continued to breathe. She lived on.
((OOC: I can't kill off Nagrom!))
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Moya spun around while still running forward. "DADDY! NAGROM'S GONE!" Her voice was panicked and she was yelling over the thuds of hooves. Wuff looked around wildly. So Nagrom had been taken too? He howled out a message, hoping for help, revenge, or something else, even he wasn't sure, but he howled it without thinking. Lupes in the area of Lumino's territory! An evil creature is nearby, killing countless Unis and Lupes only to steal their bodies to kill more! I am an Alpha, Wuff, and both my mate and our daughter were taken! Flee! Get away! She's probably going to come after you next!! His thoughts weren't on his words. They were on an innocent blue Uni who had given up everything a normal Uni would to be with him, and he had done the same for her. He had failed.
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Giph turned. What was that? She heard it again, a distinct cry for help. She saw a winged lupe, obviously a ghost/spirit howling in grief. Giph glanced at the chaos, then headed over to the lupe hybrid.
"Whats wrong?" Giph cocked her head at the strange lupe. "What are you doing just howling there? Its not like theres nothing you can do." Giph sat down by the grieving pup. "Who is that anyway?"
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Zonk looked up at the ghost pup who had finally heard her. She was still so depressed, though... Wait, she had said, in slightly different words, that there was something she could do! "I... I am Zonk, and there is an evil faerie in a winged Lupe's body that is killing everything in sight and she... She... She killed my sister and stole my body! Even now, though, I can't see my sister because Laenyn, she..." Zonk struggled for the words to describe Laenyn's travesty. "She took Morgan's soul and used it to give herself more power. She's killed my foster mother now too, and she won't stop! WHAT CAN I DO?! I'm helpless as a ghost! I can't touch anything, can't speak to any living creature... Nothing! I can't even cry real tears!" she looked as though, had she had a body, she would've been crying for hours, "I just want to get my sister back, that's all! She's the only one who ever cared that I was alive! Oh please!" she threw herself (as best she could) forward into a deep bow in front of Giph "Please, help me get her back! I don't want revenge, just my little sister! I'm begging you! Please!!"
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"Oh. I see." Said Giph, though she didn't really. "Well... I suppose if you want to stop her, you can always scare her using thoughts. Or read her mind to find her weaknesses. Its what I do when I find someone who makes me really mad." The brown lupe ghost shrugged. "Would that work?"
Morgan:
Zonk got up and looked at her again. "I know that seems obvious, but I don't think she has a weakness... Or if she does, that she would know about it. As for reading her mind and the thought thing... She doesn't scare easy. Here, let me explain, I went too fast before," she took a deep breath, "Ok, Laenyn, who is evil, tricked me out of my body and stole my sister's soul. She then used my sister's soul to give herself more power. My sister's body is still alive, but her soul is..." she took another deep breath before choking out, "Gone. Laenyn has psychic powers since she has my body, so she uses those powers to control whoever she kills. When she does that, she takes their soul out as well and gets more power. At this rate she really will be unstoppable!!" She sighed heavily. She knew some options now, so why not try? "You there, I don't know your name, but thank you. I'm going to go try... Even if she just sucks up my soul, I can at very least try. If only I could talk to Morgan again, tell her sorry for letting Laenyn trick me out of her body, I'd be so much happier..." She bowed once more and turned to leave.
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Tasia:
((I think it's a good time to give the good guys a bit of an advantage.
Do the zombies have any weakness?
Morgan, I'm thinking of having the Dream Faerie reincarnate Bru, and I think Pehanoie's native language should be Yra. If you haven't noticed, Bru has power over fire, so I'm naming him fire. If you could give me the Yra (Yran?) word for fire, that would be great.))
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Uni:
((Yup, you right, Tasia.
Er, I think that I worded it quite wrong, didn't I? I was talking about freeing the spirits, not the souls. Er, if you're asking 'what difference?', well, er, they are different words, so ... ))
Orora's eyes were shining with tears. How could she! Gipha couldn't die, or the pain she had sent would have killed her, too.
"You - ! You'll pay!"
Electricity shot from her horn, creating a kind of cage formed by bolts of neon-blue thunder.
"Wait a minute, mom!"
Shagya came out, Orior on her heels and Delta closing the march.
Orior slammed her gigantic wings together, forming an enormous gust of wind that blew most of the zombies away.
"Mom! Aunt - aunt Gipha - she - she can't!"
Shagya sobbed, and Orora let go of her cage of thunder.
"Sweetie ... I can't do anything ... "
"Oh, yes you can!"
Lumino's voice boomed loudly across the plains.
"Laenyn, you will very kindly let go of Lady Zonk's body, or I will be forced to - er, how to say? - persuade you."
The Lead stallion glowed bright gold, and no less than fifty other Lumino meterialised.
"Unlike you, dear Faerie, I do not need to control my followers - I order them to attack!"
Forty-nine Lumino shot off, duplicating themselves before throwing their bodies of the zombies. Then they flew high into the sky, Lumino joining them. They flew round and round, creating more illusions in the process.
((OOC: I leave all of you the honor to continue the assult n.n))
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((To tell the truth, the whole idea of spirits/souls confuse me (and yet I still write about them?). I'm agnostic between neo pagan and athiest. My idea of a spirit is the ectoplasm left over when someone dies, a soul someone's sense of morality. However for the sake of fiction I seem to go against my own beliefs a lot))
First, Mystyc was content Mikasi was safe. Then, she felt self pity that Mikasi didn't stay with her. Then she felt guilt for the self pity.
Mystyc continued to run. She heard footsteps behind her, and smiled. "Gipha! I was worried," she stopped. Shil wasn't near, her sister always had the little colt with her. "I hope Shil's s-ow!"
Gipha had knocked her over. The fall was dangerous for a large animal like Mystyc. She looked up at Gipha. Why had she done that? Mystyc's pupils retracted. This simply wasn't possible. Gipha's eyeballs rolled in her head, her pupils were dialated. She had a fatal neck wound. She was dead! How could this happen?
Neopets gathered around the shocked mare- dead pets, and began trampling and biting her, and pushing back to the ground whenever she tried to get up. She knew almost immediately this was not an accident. That Laenyn- she wanted her dead! Not without guilt, Mystyc had often fantisized about killing Laenyn- even after Zhairk had left her- now it seemed that Laenyn was going to kill her instead! Mystyc continued to fight (what else could she do?) even after it became obvious it was hopeless. She could only hope Mikasi had gotten himself to safety.
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They were tiring. The zombies had entered the woods, now they were just picking away fleeing pets. It was sickening. The family jumped over a ridge, and when Falara's feet hit ground she was somewhere else.
"Hello, Falara." she heard a familiar voice.
"Th- the Dream Faerie?"
"Don't worry," the Dream Faerie showed herself in honest now "You are in another dimention- one that goes by a different time system than yours. Your family won't even realize your gone." she continued "I am almost to Neopia, but I need your help."
"How can I help?"
"The mare Mystyc was born with the Sight, but there was one thing she could not do. It was not because the powers weren't the same, just the creature that she was. She could not howl.
"This is a very dangerous thing I'm having you do, but only you can do it. Falara, you must howl- a howl to the Underworld. The howl is much easier in this demention, that's why I brought you here. Falara, the howl will bring you into the Underworld. Once you get there, you must find where Laenyn is keeping her prisoners.
"Then, you must make another howl to free Bru. You only have one chance to do this! Do not try to free them all, the process will simply shrivle every part of your soul and there will nothing left- no ghost, not even a memory in your parents minds.
"Free your brother, then howl both of you to this demention. Oh yeah! Don't touch any pets, or you will forget who you are and be trapped there!"
Falara licked her dry lips "But, I'm not old enough to howl."
"You'll be surprised."
She closed her eyes, and began to howl.
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((Um, anyone read The Sight?))
Laquinti looked down at the little black pup crumpled before her. Falara's bravery struck her. She probably thought she was still in this patch of reality between dementions. Or maybe she was in the Underworld now. Laquinti had no way of knowing. She was only the Dream Faerie.
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There was a forest. Every leaf was juicy and green, the sun bright and warm, the sky blue. Falara was amazed by the sheer numbers of lupes. There were lupes of all colors, sizes, and ages, yet they all looked in good health and had shiny coats. They didn't hunt but rather, plaid. All the lupes were playing. But it was wierd. There was no hierarchy, the smallest pup was an equil to the fittest hunter.
Falara walked through the mess, wary of lupes touching here. She had a few tough calls before she realized she had wings. But could she learn to fly now?
"Of course."
Falara turned. There was a young, grayish green pup.
"Don't worry, I'm just an extention of yourself. I don't exist. Now, Lara, since you come from another demention, the rules of this demention wont affect you right away- but it doesn't last long! All you have to do is believe, and you'll fly!"
"So, I can fly?"
"Yep! Try it."
Falara moved a wing, she was already in the air. This seemed so easy. All she had to do was wish to fly. She laughed, and flew with ease over the many lupes.
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Giph looked at Zonk. "Well, I am Giph, daughter of Kwanita and Jauck, one of three pups who were slaughtered in a litter, named for the uni Gipha." She shrugged. "Good luck."
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Xandrean heard the booming voice of the lead stallion. He wanted them to attack the zombies? Xan looked down to see the swarming living dead. He shuddered. How does one kill something that is already dead, or close to it?
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"Oh Jauck. You don't know how much I've missed you." The periwinkle lupe allowed several tears to roll down her face, but inside she was silently cursing her self for her bad timing. This lupe and its army of zombies were ruining her dramatic scene. It was no fun now that the pup had run off, leaving her alone with Jauck.
"I missed you too honey. But your back now, and thats all that matters." Jauck nuzzled the female lupe. She was slightly disgusted at the cliche and gushyness, but there wasn't much to do about it. The lupe smirked, a plan forming in her mind. She backed away from Jauck and looked at him.
"I missed you Jauck, but..."
"But what?"
"I've... I've found someone else." She said, and turned and fleed the scene, laughing inwardly. Once she got out of sight, she dissapeered.
Jauck watched her run off, then lay on the ground and cried and raged with himself, not knowing what he did wrong. Only then did he notice that the lupe he met did not leave a smell, or even a trace of evidence that she was there at all.
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Kahven stumbled. Something rose in front of him, a zombie uni, a young colt about Kahven's age. Kahven stared at it, until the mare behind him smacked it away with her hooves.
"Come on, kid! Got to go, got to go!"
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((OOC: Hmmm... You see, my idea is that a ghost (or spirit, they're the same to me) is the soul, or feeling, thoughts, memories, etc., of a person left behind on Earth because of a great deal of trama during their life, unfinished business, or simply confusion or something else like that. Since Laenyn is absorbing the souls of the neopets, they can't be released to heaven or you know, so the bodies are just corpses that are being moved by Laenyn. Therefore, she has to concentrate on all of them to make them all move, they can't do anything on their own, are pretty clumsy, can't be killed again, only put out of range of her control, and she can't have a lapse in concentration without causing a huge mess with the zombies.
Tasia: Namya is fire in Yra, but I can change it, it isn't set in stone yet. I like that you would consider Yra for the language, it makes me feel nice.
Oh yes, and I think Laenyn may just have a lapse in concentration very soon... Not this post, but soon possibly...))
Laenyn glared at that impertinent Uni leader. Duplication?! That wasn't fair! Of course, she never thought that was she wasn't being "fair", she just thought that the rules (whatever they were) didn't apply to her. She immediately turned her attention and forces toward the set of golden copies flying around. She withdrew many of her minions to go solely against Lumino, though not all of them. A bead of sweat rolled off of her forehead. This was hard now, her head was starting to hurt from all of this concentration! "HAH! You don't stand a chance against me!" she crowed, sounding more convinced than she now felt. Maybe she wasn't omnipotent after all.
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Zonk, not turning back, said, "Thanks, I'll need it." and left toward where the Uni herd had once been. There were many Luminos around, but she hardly noticed as she went to kill Laenyn. She reached there with little trouble except dodging the zombies because she didn't want to accidently posess one of them. She reached Laenyn, or rather twenty feet away from her, before she stopped again. Now, how was she supposed to get to her? She paused a moment until she noticed that there was a small opening to Laenyn's left. She raced toward the opening, but it vanished suddenly, the gap was closed by Laenyn. She stopped in her tracks. There was another gap, over there! She dashed toward it, but it was sealed off by a zombie as well. The gaps were showing up fairly regularly now, but in completely different spots! How was she ever going to get past them all?
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Mikasi suddenly smelled zombies really close by. He soared downward, dodging the various creatures that separated him from Mystyk. There were zombies attacking Mystyk! Even Gipha was... Oh, poor Mystyk! He lunged forward, headbutting them away from her, but they simply came back! Suddenly all but two about-faced and rushed back to Laenyn, Gipha unwittingly among them. Mikasi rushed forward, tearing at the Uni and Lupe that were left, but even though he managed to knock off the Lupe's head, it still moved and attacked the same! It didn't even bleed, the blood dried in its neck. He couldn't think of a way to make them die! "MYSTYK! RUN! I'LL CATCH UP WITH YOU ONCE I'VE TAKEN CARE OF THESE TWO! SAVE YOURSELF!" he screamed, his voice rising fearfully. He was terrified that Mystyk might get hurt. The Uni charged forward, gouging his shoulder with its horn. Crying out inadvertently, Mikasi was thrown back a few feet before he limped back to fight again, the wound still bleeding badly, staining his fur.
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Mosh suddenly smelled some very familiar blood. "MOYA!! Mikasi's been attacked, I can smell his blood!"
"Fool! Did that idiotic Uni still have him stay with her, even though I warned her he would die?!"
"She might be on Laenyn's side, you never can tell until it's too late... We need to go back for him!"
"Ok, I'm goin, I'm goin!" Moya flipped around and rushed back toward Mikasi as fast as her wings could beat. She saw him, bleeding, below, and screamed. "YOU LITTLE (several words that I'm not going to repeat)!!! HE'S DYING BECAUSE OF YOU! DIDN'T YOU GET MY WARNING, OR DO YOU JUST NOT CARE?!?! AAARRRRGGHH!!!" she just screamed wordlessly now, out of things to say.
Mikasi looked up at her in shock. She had not just said that. She had NOT just said that! "DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO MYSTYK LIKE THAT, MOYA! SHE'S DONE NOTHING TO WARRANT THAT! I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE, SO GET GOING! HELP MYSTYK GET AWAY OR JUST GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" He was angry now, so angry that he wanted to scratch or bite Moya instead of the zombies, but it was better for Mystyk if he kept attacking those zombies.
((OOC: Moya gets a little hotheaded sometimes. Have a nice day, bye!))
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((OOC: This is getting exciting! And, I understand much better with your version, Morgan, though my 'first' thought was an explanation more like Tasia's XD))
The Lumino smiled quite annoyingly, and a few dozen of the illusions managed to slaughther the zombies easily. ((OOC: Hey, he is the Lead Stallion))
One of them shouted:
"Lead the mares away! Protect the foals! May Fyora bless us! Harmony, go!"
Delta and Shagya lead the remains of the herd to the forest, white the other Harmony created magical shields around the young. Some else shot amazingly powerful beams of power from their horns to help Lumino.
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Quetzal heard the lead stallions voice as well. She rushed Kahven ahead.
"Where's my mommy?" He asked as they shoved and were shoved along.
"I don't know. Maybe she will come back, maybe she wont."
"What I do you mean?"
"She might be dead, she might be a zombie, or she could be perfectly fine and come back anyday now."
Kahven stared ahead, disturbed at what the mare said. "Liar." He whispered, and hoped it was true.
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Jerad waited patiently for the strange lupe to notice him. He had come close up, and was hidden, but he wasn't sure if the lupe knew he was there or not. As pack leader, he didn't want to make a fool of himself and make the first move.
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Xandrean watched as the golden stallion and its mirages fought the zombies. He felt sick doing it, but he flew away, as fast as his wings would take him. Better be a coward than dead, or worse, a zombie.
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Tasia:
((I wanted to apologize for not posting. If you don't want to know about my life, too bad. I'm telling you. Lately my mom quit her job of ten years after it switched management- this was, of course, after she secured a new job. Well, she quit this new job due to moral issues. So, now we're officially jobless. I've been in this situation before. Joblessness leads to homelessness, I'm not letting this family go there again. So I've been searching for a job. I don't care if it's the most sucky job in some firey mine pit, I have to get a job. It's just a bummer I don't live in a larger city with more job opertunities- however tourist season is coming up so I'm pretty good if I want to go into waitressing. I made three applications today, I've dropped a resume at two places, and I thumbed through the help wanted sections. I don't have a job yet , but I'm hopeful.
Glad I got that out. Now back to the roleplay.
Oh yeah, my other self is in this roleplay. Try to guess which character is the real me))
Once Mystyc caught sight of Mikasi, a fear built up in her and that fear changed into anger "God dammit, Mikasi, why the hell didn't you fly away to safety? This is just like you! No way in hell I am I runnning away now while you get your butt get torn up by these zombies! Now get out of the way!"
At the moment, she was furious, but it was because she loved him so much for her fury. She dualed with the uni. It should have been a simple opponent if only there was a way to defeat it! Mystyc decided right then and there Laenyn was sick. Just awful and sick. She didn't know at the moment who she was more angry with, Mikasi or Mystyc.
She heard behind her a familiar voice "YOU LITTLE" -and a string of obsenities that would have shocked even Gipha.
'Oh. Great.' Mystyc though 'I really need this!'
"HE'S DYING BECAUSE OF YOU!" the faerie continued "DIDN'T YOU GET MY WARNING, OR DO YOU JUST NOT CARE?!?! AAARRRRGGHH!!!"
Mystyc was about to yell a heated answer when she heard Mikasi.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO MYSTYK LIKE THAT, MOYA! SHE'S DONE NOTHING TO WARRANT THAT! I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE, SO GET GOING! HELP MYSTYK GET AWAY OR JUST GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!"
"AHHHHHH!" Mystyc yelled "Both of you just shut the hell up! In case you haven't noticed, Moya, I don't have my powers any more so excuse me if I can't get hear your freakin' thought speak! You should talk about letting Mikasi die! Are you going fly down here and help us or call me something else dirty?!" Mystyc couldn't say anymore, the blood was boiling in her throat.
Mystyc pierced the uni through the neck and help him that why while it struggled free. Why didn't everyone just shut up?!
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Laquinti had lied to Falara. This demention moved at the same speed of all the other dimentions, so really time was passing. She had put Falara's family to sleep, so that when the pup returned they would wake and all would believe no time was passed. She wished the Falara would hurry. Her body could stay in this temporary for so long, then it would truly die.
"Hope I'm not late."
Laquinti looked up at the fire faerie "Hi Tasia."
"Hi 'Gik."
"Actually, my name is Laquinti now- or the Dream Faerie."
"Magik, Laquinti, two names for a good friend."
Laquinti frowned. She could have told Tasia that she was not Magik at all, that her fusion with Laquinti the cybunny had made her a whole new entity, but she didn't feel Tasia would understand.
"So, what did 'Yora say?"
Laquinti sighed "Same old, same old. I'm a dark faerie, or I used to be. And Laenyn, she was a light faerie. That woman still believes the world is that strait, that you can tell stations like "good" and "evil" from someone's title." she sighed again.
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It felt like she had been flying for ages. Good thing time was standing still in her own world. But so many lupes! These forests seemed to go on indefinately.
"They do." the other self by her side giggles "Infinity lupes have ever died, so these feilds go on forever."
Falara slumped, and she dipped a few feet "I just need to be near Bru."
Suddenly, she was in a very different place- the lake! Below her, thousands of zombies were fighting thousands of golden unis. Below her? Falara was still flying! But, it felt like she didn't weight anything, it was even better than changing the rules of a world to her will. She looked around.
All the unis and lupes who had been there were heading to the forest, only a few were left. Falara spotted a black winged lupe- no, she was a ghost. It was strange, Falara could still see ghosts, but they were somehow clearer.
She noticed a brown pup- GIPH? Yet, somehow Falara knew the pup she had plaid with once- it seemed so long ago- was a ghost. How was she able to see ghosts then, without the Sight? She didn't know.
Directly below her was a the blue winged lupe Falara had caught glimpses of earlier. She glowed with aura. She realized this must be the Laenyn the Dream Faerie spoke of. Falara knew she had to begin her song now, but before she did she noticed the winged lupe had the same face as the black ghost. Maybe a relative. Laenyn killed her own flesh and blood? Falara thought as her blood grew hot. Nevermind. Time to get to work.
She howled. It was a searching call, and for a moment it had to pierce the living world before Falara if could find a way into Laenyn's prison. Even after she got in, finding Bru was torcher. Not because she could tell them apart- with each soul her song touched she expirianced a different moment from that life.
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Atris rubbed his paws over his eyes. He hated being teased by the other cybunnies.
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Burg looked up at the moon, the wind picked up his mane and plaid with it. He reared, and lit out a powerful neigh. He was proud to serve his herd in battle, and was sure he would be the first to protect it if ever a threat arrived.
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"What's going on? You've been ignoring us for days."
"Nothing!" Bru snapped, then he said "I just miss Frailik.
Allia nodded "It's been stressful." then she said "I thought you hated Frailik?"
Bru shrugged, not saying no but not saying yes.
"Bru, please, you're scaring me! I don't want to lose two brothers!"
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Falara grabbed onto that one with her song. She weaved a melody around, coaxing her brother out of the prison. When he was free, she panted. Now she knew why the Dream Faerie warned so loudly against trying to free all the souls. She would become so many other people, she would simply cease to exist!
"'Lara?"
"Bru," Falara smiled meakly. She was so tired. She knew she had to howl and get herself and Bru back to the Dream World in a hurry...but after, a little nap...
((Wasn't sure how to stick it in, but Falara and Bru are ghosts right now
I'll post about Frailik later,))
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Mikasi was taken aback by Mystyk's yelling. Did she really not want him around any more? But, wait a moment, she'd said that she couldn't hear thought speak any more because she'd lost her powers... So, then, what had Moya tried to say? 'Who cares, Mystyk wants me to be quiet, I guess I will.' His ears drooped a bit sadly, but he continued to try and attack the Uni. Moya, on the other hand, was not going to take this sitting down.
Moya looked straight at Mystyk, spluttering for words that she couldn't find. "You... Why I... Mikasi me kill?! You, not me kill him... And you are... And I didn't... RAAARGH!! FINE!" Moya balled her hands into fists with an ugly pout on her face for a minute before Mikasi gagged, she sighed, and finally headed down, leaving Mosh and Ybbat hovering in midair behind her. She looked at Mikasi, tutted and did a Healing Wave at him, but it missed and hit the headless Lupe zombie.
Mikasi sighed heavily and shook his head. Suddenly he realized that Mystyk had seemingly asked a question a minute ago, but he wasn't sure if it was rhetorical or not. He just shook his head. He didn't want Mystyk angry at him, no sir. That was the last thing he wanted. Suddenly he was staring directly at the zombie, mouth gaping. What the heck had Moya done?! The zombie's head was reattaching itself. Just perfect.
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Laenyn was really starting to have a hard time concentrating now. They were using blasts of light though, so she should last awhile longer. She was a light faerie-- No, she was a Lupe. That was the whole reason she was exterminating these infernal beings for her slaves. She was supposed to be a FAERIE! Grrr... She growled slightly before cursing. She was acting more like a Lupe! She suddenly snapped back to reality in time to see that, while she'd been daydreaming to herself, a couple of dozen or so of her zombies had collapsed from her control. Once lost, she couldn't salvage the control. The souls even left her body. There was a flash of light that nearly blinded her. Cursing the Unis and every blade of grass they stepped on, she saw the outermost zombies fall. Now she had about 200 left. No more than that, unless she killed some more creatures. Another flash of light. Ok, 175ish should be enough... Right?
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"Falara, Falara! You can't go to sleep! Falara!"
She rose her head, with the intention of snapping at Bru. She stopped. She noticed a uni she recognized- Mystyc! Mystyc, a winged lupe and a faerie were fighting a losing battle against two zombies.
"Come on, Bru!" She said, no longer feeling exhausted "We have to help them!"
"Falara? Are you nuts?"
She turned "Your right Bru. I'm sending you back first."
"Back? Back where? Falara please explain something!"
Falara howled, and the next thing Bru knew he was somewhere else. He couldn't reconize anything but it felt like a dream "Namya!" he heard. The sound was new but he answered to it. He looked up. He saw the Dream Faerie and and Fire Faerie.
"Where's Falara?"
"She said she had to help the chestnut uni- can someone explain things to me?"
But the Dream Faerie wrung her hands "That self sacrificing little-"
The fire faerie touched her arm, and the Dream Faerie relaxed. The fire faerie gave the Dream Faerie a look. The Dream Faerie nodded at it and said "I have a lot of explaining to do. You better sit down."
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Falara was running along in the air above the battle to the place where Mystyc and the others fought. As she came closer, she recognized some of the features of her childhood friends- Moya, Nami, and Nagrom, in the lupe's face. It must have been Mikasi, the lupe Mystyc spoke so dearly of.
Now she was above the the mini battle, what to do now? The faerie threw something at the headless lupe zombie- and it's head grew back! This couldn't be good. But more shocking, and uni came for an attack on the already woozy Mystyc "Watchout!" Falara called, but the uni made no sign of noticing her name called. Instead, she turned aggresively to the Faerie. Falara had seen that look before. She looked ready to tear the faerie's throat out. Her heated reply was not heard, because the uni landed it's attack. Mystyc fell to the ground. Falara guessed she wouldn't have fell, but she was weakened. Instinctivly, she plunged to the zombie to pull it off.
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The fire faerie had a ball in her hand. It glowed red, and Bru (bodyless) could just imagine the heat. Then the fire faerie did something very shocking. She poured the lava onto Bru- and it hardened around his spirit. She was molding a lupe made of lava!
"This is your new body." the Dream Faerie said. Bru was totally made of lave, his fur moved like molten rock. His eyes were a single color, white. "In this form," the Dream Faerie said "Your name to mortals is Inferno."
Eventually, the molten rock cooled. Instead of a firey lupe, there was a gray lupe. He was as heavy and as hard as stone, but flexible. His pupils were coal black, but his eyes were red like dying sparks.
"In this form, you will be known to mortals and Bru. And you will be known to Namya by the Faeries. You are incarnate of fire. Use your power."
"I still don't understand," Bru said.
The Dream Faerie gave him a cruel smile "Most mortals don't."
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It was all wrong! She in a body, it was so big! Falara struggled to move, but she couldn't control this body. She cringed, but something was pulling at her. The thing was bright and luminous, and Falara knew it was Laenyn "No, she's taking my soul,"
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Mystyc blinked. Was this uni consious? No matter. Mystyc used the time to get up, and sure enough, the uni was back at it attacking her.
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Quetzal watched in amazment as the zombies seemed to fall, and the winged lupe seemed to weaken. What was happening now?!
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Jauck felt sick, betrayed, heart broken, and overall, depressed. This wasn't how it was supposed to be. She was supposed to come back and leap into his arms, and they would make a new den and have a bunch of little puppies running around at all times and they wouldn't talk about what happend or where she went and they would be happy and and and...
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Giph watched the strange pup leave. What a strange little lupe. And a strange tale.
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Anita woke up slowly. Something was wrong. She looked up in the dim light, and wondered where she was. She stretched her legs and glanced around. Nothing had changed since she had come here. The air was still rank with the smell of rotting flesh, the ground was still slightly damp and spongy, and there was still only a faint glow in the large vast plain where she was. Nothing was right here. She howled of grief from losing her life, and her suffering here. Something stirred next to her.
"Cant a petpet get some sleep?" A zomutt stretched nearby. "I finally get away from her and when I get to sleep, you wake me up with your sorrows." It looked at her. "Boy did you get up on the wrong side of the sess pool."
Anita looked down at herself and flushed. She was covered with a dark green horrible smelling muck. The hair that you could see was matted together and her skin was flaky and dry. She couldn't see it, but her face was guant, dark circles under her eyes, her ears tattered and torn. "Who are you?" She asked, her voice cracking from long underuse, her mouth dry as sand.
"Why, I am Comador, the servant of her lady Elvelvenin."
Anita looked around. "Where are we?"
"Oh, just the underworld." The zomutt smiled at seeing the surprised look on Anita's gastly face. "I'm kidding. I'm not quite sure where this is, but I know how to get here, and it gets me away from my master, so I am happy."
"How do we get out?"
"Well how did you get here?" Comador laughed at the naivity of the lupe. He stopped when he saw the look on her face. "You aren't joking are you? Geeze..."
"What?"
"Well, I know how to get myself in and out, but I don't know about you. How did you get here, really?"
"I... I was dreaming. A wonderful dream. I was walking on clouds, and talking to a red pteri. It was buetiful. Then I fell. Your typical nightmare. But I landed in deep mud, and was almost sucked under, but I fought and got my head out. Then I fell asleep from exhaustion, and found myself here. I've been here a while, and I don't know what to do. You're the first person I've seen."
The zomutt stared at her. "A dream, eh? Well its simple then you have to wake your self up."
"I've tried!" Anita cried out. "I'm not stupid! How am I supposed to wake myself up here?"
"Oh, you have to take a special herb to wake up. Would you like some?"
"Would I ever!" Anita said happily.
"Just wait a sec then. I'll bring you some back."
The zomutt disapeered and Anita sat down to wait for his return.
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Stamsha looked at the strange filthy lupe that Jerad used almost as a pet. It had once been a blue purple color, but its fur had matted and turned to filth. It was awake now, and its usually dull eyes had a strange sort of shine in them. It just sat there, staring into space. Stamsha shuddered at the disgusting lupe and turned away.
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A burgandy lupe lay on the ground, sleeping. A zomutt came up to her.
"Mistress."
"Comador, you're back."
"My mistress, may I have a dravyle, the herb of awakening?"
"Comador, you seem so happy for once. What are you planning?"
"My lady Elvelvenin, you will see shortly."
"Here Comador, take it and suprise me."
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((I don't know why I didn't say this earlier, but Fay is a free for all character for anyone who role plays lupes in her pack. Her personality is easy enough. She's Bostonian (blush). She obviously can't have pups, so she's a sort of a babysitter for any other pups in the pack. She won't be going into a relationship again, as the death of Phunis had more of an effect on her than she realizes. You can even stick some Bostonian accent in there if you want. Yeah, that's it. Pretty simple, just in case you need that.))
He caught the smell of the alpha. It was much stronger now. Frailik swivled his ears, but made it look curious. He pin pointed where the lupe was. But he couldn't reveal that he knew the lupe's location. He had to give an impression of strength to get in to the pack, but for now, weakness. For these first couple of days, they would have no idea. But what to do at the moment?
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There was always something strange about Stamsha, Bean thought. Jent didn't notice it, except for that she had such "perfect features". Yes, perfect features. And some strangeness of scent, Bean couldn't indentify.
The lupe Anita disgusted Jent, but Bean took more of an intrest in her. Who was she, and why did Jerad put so much effort into effect into making her life miserable?
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"Are you going to fight Laenyn?" Tasia asked this after Bru was sent back to earth.
"Not this time." Laquinti felt sadness for the lupe. He didn't know yet that he would never be allowed to see his parents again. Tasia had built him the body of a full grown lupe, so his childhood was esentially lost.
"What about Falara?"
"Probably dead," Laquinti ground her teeth "I'll rouse her family."
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How could he possibly expect to fight this?
He had the power of fire now.
The gray lupe howled a word Inferno.
His stone body melted. His eyes grew hotter untill the whole eyeball was a yellow ball of fire. Inferno howled again, and the fire began.
Fueled by the dry grass, it raced to the battle scene. It licked at the golden unis and crackled over the zombies. It roared toward the forest, where all the neopets were "Stop it!" Inferno called, but he had not yet learned how to control the fire. He had only made things worse!
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She smelled something "FIRE!" she wedged her horn under Mikasi and threw over her back- it was hard to do with a full grown lupe. She rushed to the lake. The zombies still fought, but were less of a problem now. It seemed they no longer cared to fight.
Whatever, Mystyc jumped into the water. She swam to the middle. Around her, the grass was a blaze. She noticed black smoke rising from the trees "Mikasi...the pets are in there, aren't they?"
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He was running, then he closed his eyes for a moment, then he was running again. But something was wrong. He smelled, he saw, he heard "Fire!" orange crackled all around him and his family. Noe and Allia whined. How had this happened so quick?
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Uni:
"Fire! FIRE!!!"
The Harmony rassembled their forces to push the wild flames away.
"We won't be able to stand any longer!" Shouted Delta as she struggled. "Fire is the most dangerous of all elements! Call Orior!"
The Spotted Uni rushed to the rescue. She spread her enormous wings, and send a mini tornado that sent the fire away.
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Kahven smelled something. It was an unusual smell, he liked it. The green mare, Quetzal she had said before, flared her nostrils and whinnied in fear. He pushed against her, and went toward the strange smell. He saw dancing lights, three dimensional and beautiful. Quetzal tried to pull him back, but Kahven kept pushing forward, gazing hynotically at the leaping and licking flames. Smoke burned in his lungs, but he didn't mind. He simply stared at the beautiful dance of the flames. His mother flapped her wings, sending the fire away. No, not his mother, another simular uni. He glared at her with icey eyes. How could she harm such a wonderful thing?
((Who would of guessed? Kahven, a pyromaniac. Sorry not much of a post today.))
(( EDIT: More!))
"Hey, ho, lets go!"
Anita turned to see something coming toward her. The zomutt was smiling at her.
"A young dravyle plant, perfect for waking from any dream." Comador grinned, holding up a withered dark green plant. Anita could smell the plant before she could see it clearly. It was a very crisp scent, of something familar, yet long lost, slightly minty, invigorating, enticing. "You must be careful with it, for if you eat too much, you may never be able to get to sleep again." He handed it to her gently.
Anita fumbled with it in her paws. "How much is too much?"
"About a gram. Take a leaf and break off the very tip." He showed her how much she should eat. "Now place it on the tip of your tongue, and lay down and go to sleep. When you wake up, you should be back where you came from."
The lupe did as he told her, and lay down. The leaf was very spicy and she couldn't take her mind off it. She finally relaxed enough to fall asleep.
The zomutt chuckled at the lupe, and then went off to try and explain what he had done to Elvelvenin without getting himself killed.
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FIRE!
If Very had been running before, it was a slow can'ter compared to how fast he was going now. The thought of flames filled his heart with terror, and he longed to get out of there. He flapped his wings, and to his relief, they worked. But no, he was only going deeper into the smoke. He coughed and lost control, diving into the shallow shore of the lake. He groaned and tried to stand. His front leg wouldn't bear any weight. He thrashed on the ground, and his leg hit a small rock. He nieghed with pain, sharp splinters seeming to shoot through his leg and chest.
Very felt a gust of wind on his back, and the heat of flames died away. His fear eased but the pain did not.
((OOC: By the way, can they see Bru, or whatever his new name is? Or does the fire just seem to come out of no where?))
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"Get away, child!" Neighed Orior. "Run when you still can! The fire is a very dangerous thing for us and for anything, except for water! Run! Come on, get moving! You will get killed if you don't budge!"
She pushed gently the colt.
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Inferno breathed a sigh of relief, but it was wasted. The fire still burned in the forest. He heard screams "Fire! Help! I'm trapped!"
"I'm coming!" Inferno said, running into the brush. Tongues of flame devoured the trees. Inferno didn't know what to do. He blew a stream of air at the trees- but his breath was flame! He gave a yelp of surprise and realized he was still Inferno.
He raised his maw very shakily, and howled a note. Bru he sang. He looked down, and he was still Inferno! Why didn't the song work? All he needed to do was call his name- his name! Of course! He was called Bru but the name the mother had given his was Brua. He called Brua. He felt himself grow cold and harden.
"Help! Help!"
"Where are you?" Bru questioned.
"I don't know...there's fire everywhere...a burning log blocked my path!"
"I'm coming." Bru ran through the forest of flame. The smoke breathed through his lungs was like fresh air, the flames disregarded his stone coat- however he could barely see "I can't see," he admitted "Keep talking!"
So the pet- Bru had no idea if it was a lupe or a uni- kept on untill Bru found them. He jumped into the clearing, the flames barely touching his pelt. The uni's eyes were wide. Bru looked around. There seemed to be no path for a flammible being. He pushed over some saplings, it created a temporary gap. "Now!" Bru yelled, the the uni jumped out.
They were not done yet. Bru spent one long minute leading the uni through safe passageways, or creating new ones. Once on the charred plain, the uni made his way shakily to the stallion Bru took to be the herd leader and the other unis around him. There was no time to pat himself on the back, there were still pets in there!
"Help! Please, Help me!"
"Where are you?"
"I'm in a cave. The colt I'm with breathed too much smoke. Please help me!"
"Keep talking," Bru found his way to the cave. Black smoke filled it. He met two foals- one coughing and on laying still on the ground, both charred black. "Come on," he told the one standing up "I'll lead you to the plain."
"No! I'm not leaving Shil!"
"I'll get Shil, you go!"
"I said I won't leave him!"
An image flashed in Bru's mind of Allia. He walked to the colt, fearing he was already dead and the filly's stubbornness would prove fatal. He put an ear to the chest to hear- a heartbeat!
"Wake up," he told the colt. It coughed, and Bru repeated the command. The colt- milked eyed, stood up and took a few steps foreward, only to lay down again. Bru noticed the filly staring.
"If your not going to save yourself, help me!"
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So Geri helped the strange, fire resistant lupe urge Shil out of the woods. She turned to thank him, but he was already gone- probably to save another.
Shil had laid down again. He was as still as death. Only a slight rising and falling proved he was still breathing. Geri's heart skipped a beat, and she feared he had breathed too much smoke "Please," she wispered "Come back to me."
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Lumino watched amazed, as the Lupe - one of their only and deadly enemy - saved Unis' lives. Many of his illusions were now trying to take down the fire and rescue the Unis trapped in the forest.
Meanwhile, the Harmony struggled against a new wall of flames.
"Where in the name of Fyora does this come from?" Yelled Delta. "Orior! Come!"
The mare waved her gigantic wings again, sending the fire back.
"Pile earth on it!" Suggested a neigh that barely covered the roar of the fire.
Tha Harmony piled enormous heaps of earth on the ravaging flames.
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How could they? How could they destroy such a beautiful thing? Kahven glared at the uni who told him to run away. Let them just destroy the gorgeous flames? He remained and watched with fasination as a lupe kept setting things on fire, lovely fire, then he howled, and something happened to him. Kahven turned back to see the unis trying to put out the fire. He glared stonily at them.
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Stamsha stopped. She had heard something. She turned back to face the strange lupe. Kwanita, Jerad had called her. Stamsha couldn't help but raise her lips in disgust. The lupe was moving, twitching, rolling on the grass. Stamsha had never seen it do anything other than what it was told, never engaging in any grooming or play of any sort. She watched the revolting lupe with renewed intrest. It stopped rolling on the ground. It sat up and looked at the sky, blinking as if it had never seen it before. It looked itself over with a look of disgust mixed with hope. Even stranger, the lupe howled gleefully, a slow song of being finally free from capture. Stamsha was now even more confused about this lupe.
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Was this lupe so dense that he couldn't see or smell him? Jerad still watched the lupe. He wasn't sure he wanted him in his pack. Its legs seemed deformed somehow, very disturbing. And if it couldn't tell Jerad was there, it wouldn't be a good pack member. Jerad got up quietly from his place and turned around.
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Anita woke up slowly. The intoxicating taste in her mouth felt strange, even though it had been wonderful before. She lifted her head slowly, smacking her lips. Her eyes fluttered open, then shut from the bright light. She opened them again, and gazed astonished at the bright blue sky, vibrant green grass, and the fresh clean air. She glanced down at her legs, and was surprised to see the fur matted and brown, caked with dust. The rest of her body was the same. Still, she was free! Here, in the real world! She howled excitedly. She stretched her legs, testing them. THey felt oddly stiff and sore. She tried to get up and run, but she tripped over her front leg when it refused to move when she wanted to. Anita merely laughed. She would have to get used to this. She opened her eyes from laughing to stare into the face of a stern golden lupe. Anita gulped. Where was she anyway, and who was this?
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((Okay, might as well not keep this a secret. Geri will be inspired by her brother, herself and Shil's stories create a Guild For Orphans, a group of foals orphaned in the zombie wars that find them adoptive homes. She'll meet Rafer, and ask him to join. He'll try to take control, and when Geri denies him, he'll create a Gang of Orphans- orphaned foals taught to "Take Care of Themselves" as in, generally cause havoc. So, new people who want to play orphaned unis have either of those groups.
I'm inspired to list all the groupings.
The Uni Herd
Ally's Pack
Jerad's Pack
The Guild for Orphans
The Gang of Orphans
Pets from Neopia Central
Pets from the Haunted Woods
Free Roaming Unis
Can anyone think of anything else? Also, remember way back, the Ancient Unis in Noe's herd? Perhaps we could incorporate them somehow?))
We all hate you Shil...
The colt was in the herd, the unis were glaring at him. He was stupid, not a true magical uni, had too much magic.
"Why do they hate me! I don't want to be hated,"
"Then why bother?"
It was the Dream Faerie. She was staring at him contemptuously "What do you mean?"
"Such a terrible uni doesn't derserve to live."
"You don't deserve to live, you don't deserve to live!"
"Why don't you just end it now?"
"End it now! End it now!"
((Once Gipha is free, she'll convince him to live. Everything sort of happens at once,))
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He was going away! Frailik had to think on his heals. He attacked the lupe. He already knew where he was. They rolled for a while then, Frailik realising what he was doing, jumped away, aghast. He was ready to run into the haunted woods and never show his face again.
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((OOC: Ack! I'm so sorry, I had quarter projects due this week and I've been really busy. I'll try and make up for it though. Should I finish the zombies next post? And sure, Uni, I'll have her tear Shagya's wing, no problem.))
Laenyn looked around, straining even more. Curses! Flames leaped around, were put out, but still blossomed again. A few of her zombies caught on fire and turned to ash, useless to her. Her once great army was being destroyed. It was down to only a hundred now, but she moved them away from the fire. What else could possibly happen?! She saw one of the Unis that looked powerful come a little too close for her liking and immediately sent out a squadron of Lupes.
((OOC: Ack, is Shagya on the ground or in the air? I can't remember and there isn't any mention of her position down below... I don't think an assumption would be a very good idea, so please tell me before I go on...))
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Mikasi was thrown onto Mystyk's back without warning. The forest was blazing! Mystyk asked him a question, and Mikasi's heart froze. "Oh no... I think they are!! But Mystyk, don't drop me in the lake, I can't swim! My wings will get soaked and then I won't even be able to fly! Mystyk... Thank you for getting me out of there... But the pets, what to do, what to do..." His mind was divided, half on Mystyk, half on the pets in the fire. Briefly, he had cared slightly for his welfare, but that passed soon enough. Suddenly his stomach gave a lunge as he realized something/ "Mystyk, if you get too tired out here and go under, I can't help you!" He was helpless again. "I hate this..." he muttered half under his breath. He still couldn't get used to not having his powers any more, or about being helpless. It sickened him that he couldn't help with anything anymore, or so he thought. Suddenly his mind jumped tracks and he remembered the lost pets in the forest. 'What to do about that... Is there anything to be done?' he thought, staring off into space and seeing the reflections of the dancing flames. Subconsciously, he moved to a more comfortable position, laying his head down a bit, forgetting where he was.
((OOC: I sometimes space out like that... Hmmm... Then I lose my train of thought.))
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Moya watched in disbelief as the impudent Uni hoisted Mikasi over her back like a sack of potatoes and carted him off to the lake. She growled and flexed her fingers much like an angry cat, and flew off toward Mikasi. "Why I oughta... Oh, wait a second... There's a fire, isn't there?" She just now realized that her dress had caught on fire and stared at it for a bit on the shore of the lake, not doing anything to quench it. "Wwwwooooooowwww....." she held the word out for a full minute while the flame got nearer and nearer to her leg until... "AAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!!!!!! OOOOOWWWWIIIIEEE!!!! HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!! STUPID FIRE! BAD BAD BAD FIRE!!! WARUI!!!!" she shreiked uncontrollably, flying up into the air wildly, trying to escape the fire. It suddenly hit her that you couldn't escape from fire that was on you. 'Now what was it we were supposed to do in this situation again?' she asked herself. "Oh yeah! Stop, drop, and roll!" And so, she plummetted straight down. Into the lake. Which happened to be cold. "COLD!!" Ybbat and Mosh simply turned toward each other on the shore where Moya had left them behind, shook their heads sadly, and sighed.
Ybbat, for once, wasn't grinning from ear to ear. She seemed grim and sad for the first time in her life. "Ah well, It's always darkest before the dawn." she said aloud, even her voice grim.
Mosh looked up at her and nodded. Poor kitten, he thought, she's been through so much, and still...
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What? Jerad was stunned as that strange lupe attacked him. He was surprised, and froze while it lept on him and the two rolled on the ground several times before it lept to its feet and ran off. Jerad got up and shook himself off. He shouldn't have let his guard down. But that lupe did have talent for attacking so quickly, and while it didn't hurt him, it certainly felt capable.
Jerad looked at the lupe, who was running off toward the haunted woods. "Hey! Whats the big idea? Do you realize I am the leader of the only good pack in this place? That if I wanted to, I could send every lupe in my pack against you, and you would be dead and shredded within thirty seconds? How thick are you to attack your only hope of getting into a pack?!" Jerad shook his head at the stupidity of the lupe.
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"Uh... Hi. Do I know you?" Anita grinned cheesily at the stern golden face above her.
"I am Stamsha, third in command of this pack. And you, seemed to be leaving, abadoning your pack. Why is that?"
"Umm... Ma'am, there must have been a mistake. I don't belong to your pack. I don't belong to any pack. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a family waiting..." Anita tried rolling back onto her stomach, but was stopped when the large female placed a paw on her chest threateningly.
"You are very much part of this pack. You've hunted for us several times, and you have been the loyal pet of Jerad. Whats the sudden change of heart?" Stamsha grinned evily.
"Jerad?" Anita spat, her joval attitude gone. "I would never willingly serve that cretin..."
"Yeah, well, we have a several witnesses right here."
Anita looked up to see several lupes staring at her, closing her into a circle. She gulped. "Hi... Nice to meet you all..."
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Fire, fire, all around him. Very staggered to his feet, carefully trying not to put any wieght on his injured leg. He flapped his wings to make it easier for him to walk, until he was swimming in the lake. The cool water felt wonderful on his burned back. He paddled slowly away from the fire, his urgency to get away waning with the welcoming water.
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Morgan:
Laenyn had the zombie lupes leap up on zombie Unis clumsily, several slipping and falling off with a sickening thud and being lost from Laenyn's control. However, there were still a couple left, and the zombie Unis flew them up toward Shagya at a frenzied rate, bashing into each other and seeing naught with their dead eyes. When they reached eye level with Shagya, the three Lupes lunged at her. One missed and fell, but the others each took up a wing and pulled fiercely. Laenyn grinned at the ripping sound. Her attention was now divided, though, and she lost even more of her troops, which now numbered even fewer than before. Things were starting to look bad for her. And the flames didn't help one bit!
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There! Another opening!! Zonk lunged forward, racing from the zombies touch. No way in heck was she going to enter a zombie's body! She got to the clearing at the center and saw Laenyn, the monster, sitting there, talking to herself wildly about being able to get out of "this pathetic body I'm stuck with". A zombie fell every few seconds. Zonk started to talk with Laenyn. Hello there, Laenyn.
Where are you?! ZONK! I disposed of you!
Not entirely. Almost 20 zombies fell.
Then how...?
Ever heard of a "ghost"?
Well... But you... You aren't dead!
Close enough. I don't have a body, so I'm stuck here.
YOU AREN'T GETTING IT BACK! There were only a hundred zombies left now, and the zombies farthest away had fallen by now.
You're weakening. I can sense it. It's your own fault, you know, killing Morgan, Kauvara... Those poor creatures. You brought this on yourself.
NO! I deserve to be a FAERIE!
WHY?!
Because I am a good person.
YOU BAKA! WOULD A GOOD PERSON KILL HUNDREDS, DESTROY FAMILIES, PLAY SICK TRICKS ON THE MINDS OF OTHERS, AND WAGE WAR ON THE WORLD?!
Laenyn snapped. She finally lost what little mind she had left and lunged toward where she thought Zonk was. She thought wrong and couldn't find her. Zonk crept up behind her and pounced. She was in. She released the souls, and a sudden burst of light erupted from Zonk's body. Laenyn's was the first to go. The zombies fell and Zonk (in what others thought was Laenyn's body) simply stood in the center of the massacre, panting.
((OOC: There you go, Laenyn is gone and Zonk is in her body. Therefore, Zonk appears to be Laenyn and most would still think she is Laenyn... I hope this is good timing for this...))
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Uni:
If everyone's ok with the bitch thing, you can use it, Tasia. I don't mind, personnally.))
Shagya neighed with pain as her wing was forcefully tored by the jaws of the zombie Lupes. She reared incredibly, hitting the attackers in the chest. She then ran for it, before she slipped heavily in a gigantic pool of blood. She felt herself falling onto her furiously injured wing, and cried in pain as it broke and fell.
The wing instently withered, turning into a small pile of grey, dusty feathers. Then she felt herself transforming, too ... her beautiful mane dried and turned the colour of smoke; her strong hooves became heavy and grey; her eyes lost their gleaming blue; her coat became dirty and mangled; and her other wing became smaller, a bare bone covered with some poor feathers.
Shagya bled enormously. Her blood was the only thing inchanged in her. It was brilliant red, and it was leaving her body ...
Why do you resist? Said a voice in her head. You're going to die, and you can't help it ... It's hopeless, you're gone ... forever ... why are you fighting? Why? There's no point to live if you know that you're going to go ... rest in peace ... You'll die, stop fighting ...
But then a new voice echoed in her head. But I want to live ... I've lived for so long, I can't die!
Why? You're going to go, just let yourself be consumed, but rest in peace ...
No, the second voice became more persuasive. No, I'm going to stay ... I'm still loved -
Love? How do you that they love you?
Now, that's enough, I love my family, they're going to take care of me -
You're deadly injured. You're going to g -
I won't die before Laenyn! I have honor! I'll be fine! I will not die at her mercy, I won't!
You're a grey Uni, now.
What difference? I'm just grey. I don't want to go!
Are you sure?
I ... I -
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"Do you think she's alright?"
"The Leader's granddaughter!"
"She's not bleeding anymore ... "
"How could they?!"
The voices echoed, blurred, in Shagya's ears. She had passed out ... a flash of pain made her jump, and she woke up, dazed.
"Where - where am I?"
"Honey!"
Orora flung herself around her daughter, embracing her.
"You're alright!"
Shagya looked at her useless wing, and at her pityful self. She was once dazzlingly beautiful, and now, she's awfully ... grey.
But she didn't have time to speak, and the voice buzzed into her mind again.
Now, now ... you'll suffer for eternity ... why are you resisting?
I ... leave me alone! The second voice was getting tired.
You know that you want to end it all ... no one cares for you ... no one loves you ... you are alone ... defenceless ... the Babaa amongst the Lupes ...
The Uni was tired. It was pointless to defend herself like this forever. She wondred why she was resisting in the first place ...
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Tasia:
"I am quite aware of the compidence of the lupes of this area. I'm aquinted with a pack- they call themselves the Veggitarians. They are worse: Uni changlings, lupes unable to hunt, and worst of all, hybrids.
"But I do not share a mind with those fools. I am Lupe in every way by the heart," he could nearly taste the kau shit as it spewed out of his mouth "I have heard songs of a lupe who could have ruled, if he didn't allow himself to be defeated. I have heard to, a newer tale, of the alpha who tamed that witch destroyed his pack, making her his lapdog." He gave Jerod a significan't stare "I have dreamed to work under such a lupe."
He waited for Jerad's responce. He would not offer the cybunny yet, and he wouldn't tell Jerad that it was Ally that killed Hod- that only made Hod seem more of a weakling in Frailik's mind. He still wondered today how the Alpha had let himself be defeated by such a disgusting changling.
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"Hey Bitch!" Jent called "Why don't you shut up and get me a kyrii?" he laughed, and waited for Bean to join in. After a time the gray lupe gave a few tentative chuckles.
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"Hybrids?" Jerad laughed. "Have you never seen yourself? I don't know another lupe with feet like that. I am appreciative of your obviously over zealous worship of me, but you don't believe it yourself, do you?" The dark lupe laughed again. "You are an imbecile, did you know that? I like that in a lupe. Come on, just don't attack me again, or I'll have to hurt you."
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Anita wrenched herself away from Stamsha and turned to see who had spoken to her. She saw a young grey male making the snide remark. She growled. "I am no one's servant." She said softly, crouching down. Her muscles were coiled and ready to spring. "No one bosses me around." Her eyes were filled with fire, her contempt for the lupe obvious. Anita suddenly sprung at the lupe, striking him square on the shoulders with her front paws. "I. Am. Free." She said slowly, breathing her rank breath into the lupes face.
((Red flags need to come soon. I didn't know Tasia had posted all weekend, it didn't show up on my computer. Uni, I missed your post that questioned who would put up the post, I only knew it was there from Tasia's quote, and when I was looking at the topic review just now. I know on one forum of mine the posts start dissapeering at about 100 pages, but maybe this forum has a lot less capacity. I don't want to offend people by not responding to thier post when it doesn't show up. I didn't just skim over those posts, they were not there. Thats a bad thing. Perhaps I should say something about it in site suggestions, saying there is a problem with posts not posting on long threads? I doubt it would do much good though.
Tasia... I am thinking about a year that we've actively talked about, and maybe a two year time warp? I don't know. And perhaps about 50 unis in the herd? Thats just a guess though.))
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Tasia:
He was about ready to do it: to give up. But a voice called to him "Don't give up. Never do."
He turned, he knew that voice.
The Dream Faerie hissed "Don't listen to her!"
"Her?"
The Stone of Verity hanging around his neck lifted, and took to the air. It spun for a few moments, then exploded into a starburst. When the light cleared, the Dream Faerie and the unis were gone- all that was left was a red mare.
"Come back Shil, I need you," as she spoke her features changed. She became smaller and thinner, her fur lightened to white except for the fur around her eyes which grew dark "Please, don't leave me."
"I won't leave you, Gerina." as he said this, it began to rain.
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Uni:
"She's been very thin since she lost her wing ... "
"Poor filly, she was so beautiful!"
Shagya was sitting along underneath a tree. She had huge shadows under her eyes, and tears watered her cheeks. She was alone since her wing broke, and refused to eat, to sleep, or to talk. And she hated the little voice buzzing in her head ...
Let go ... stop fighting ... it's no use ... you'll die ... why bother? ...
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Tasia:
The rain quenched the last of the flames, and the fire faerie stopped Bru in the forest.
"Time to go home, Namya."
"Then my family is okay?!"
"Yes, they are fine, but you won't be going with them." Bru cocked his head "Namya, you have died. You can never be Bru, son of Shiko and Noe, again. Nor can you be a care free puppy. From this time forth are Namya, and Inferno."
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It seemed it was in the clear with Jerad but, he still didn't trust him. Well, Frailik would teach the lupe to trust him. "But I do sir, and perhaps with the proper training I can become the creature I was meant to be, the creature my father was and chose to deny and even shed these hooves!"
Of course he didn't wish to work under Jerad, but beside him and later even...well that was far into the future. Frailik had to take this one step at a time.
He said "Wait," he motioned to the cybunny lying on the ground "it is disrepsectful to leave food uneaten, and Alphas eat first." he was starving, but he disaplined himself to show no sign of it.
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Jent moved quickly, but not fast enough. He recieved a mark- a warrior's mark- but this came from no warrior, just the pack slave! "You're crazy!" Jent barked, but was light on his paws "Be quiet or I'll have to attack you!"
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Anita laughed at the lupe. "Do you really think you have a chance against me? Listen you little punk, the slimeball Jerad's son was killed by my jaws. I was in his pack long before, and I am the one who managed to spread it out so far that no one in it has seen anyone else since. I was the lead hunter, and even he bowed at my feet. I could kill you and the rest of this pack with my eyes closed. I don't know how you came to believe the fantasy that I'm your little pet, but I would be glad to demonstrate how free I indeed am if you can't get it through your thick skull on your own." Anita grinned at the white and grey lupes in turn, her teeth far from a sparkling white.
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"How kind of you. Fresh cybunny, a rare delicacy." Jerad didn't even look at the lupe as he picked the bones clean, all but a single leg. "Ah, kau meat just doesn't compare." He sighed before laying down in the grass to watch his new "friend" eat.
((Dont know how to work the thing with Zonk and Laenyn as I think pretty much all of my characters ran away. Or actually... I think Keridith is still there... She'll do.))
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Keridith was hiding shamefully under a fallen zombie. The noise around her seemed to stop, or at least lessen. She stood up, the lightweight carcass falling from her back.
"Xandrean?" She called questioningly. There was no response. She looked out to see only a few forms standing above the sea of dead bodies, zombies, unis, and lupes all scattered around. One was the dreaded lupe who started the whole business, but it didn't seem to have the same rage on its face. She shivered at the thought of all the deaths. She picked her way carefully through the battle field, not trusting her wings to lift her away.
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Uni:
"They're retreating, Master!"
Lumino perched on top of his favourite hill, surveying attentively the battle. Beams of magic and light from the Harmony countered the attacks of the zombies, who were flickering slightly underneath the weight of the massive attacks.
One by one, they fell to the ground. Laenyn was losing control of her army. The numerous Lumino shot like arrows towards the dead Lupes and Unis, piercing their lifeless bodies.
Showers of Verity Stones bombarded the zombies, creating magical fires that consumed the Lupe or Uni before vanishing.
((OOC: It's raining, right?))
Thunderbolts and fountains of water poured down, led by Gradyti. The former Lupe had discovered the power of thunder, and managed to control it perfectly. Pools of mud now covered most of the blood.
"So much lives wated in a stupid war," sighed Lumino. "The Faeries are so different now ... even the Light Faeries have changed ... "
"Master!" A rather large Harmony flew over to the Lead Stallion. "Master - your - Shagya - "
"What is it, Camarada?" Lumino said sternly.
"She - she's gonee!"
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Tasia:
It would be ideal if they just read this, but as Morgan said this story goes on over eight hundred pages- I don't know many people willing to read all that to participate in a roleplay. And some of it is excess- like Gipha's relationship with her father, it was a big part before but now it doesn't matter. Ah, how confusing!))
Mystyc swam to the shore. Rain drenched the corpses as they fell to the ground. "Mikasi," she asked her friend "Do you have any idea what's going on?"
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Morgan:
Nagrom finally came back to consciousness, but her memory was a bit hazy. She was wondering where she, and her family were, til it hit her. With a pang, she remembered Ally's dead body going in for the kill against her. Without a second thought, Nagrom was racing toward Laenyn as fast as she could against the tide of creatures going in the opposite direction. However, she kept stumbling, and the going was very slow. She hardly even noticed the fire near her that was slightly quenched by the winds and rain in her pursuit of Laenyn. She finally got to the final ring of zombies, but they all collapsed simultaneously and withered away at a rapid rate, almost turning to dust before her very eyes. She gasped loudly. In the center of the ring stood a lone Lupe with wings. She was dark and slightly charred, but stood proudly there in the midst of the slaughter. It was Laenyn, or so Nagrom thought. She growled softly under her breath. "Momma, I'm not going to take back my promise, no, I WILL kill that Laenyn. I WILL!" Her voice escalated to a scream, then a howl. She charged forward, heedless of danger.
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Zonk stared at her pityingly. "Oh, Nagrom... She got Ally and Wuff, didn't she?" Tears sprang to her eyes. Was Morgan even...? No, she couldn't think about that yet. She used her powers to stop Nagrom, who was sobbing wildly, midstep.
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Nagrom's heart seemed to miss a beat. Now Laenyn would kill her and she'd never avenge her Momma! Any second now... She was sobbing awfully, and she closed her eyes to brace herself for the pain of death. It was coming... Right? No, this monster just wanted to torture her. Haltingly, she managed to say, "Why are you dragging this out? Why are you torturing me? I know you're going to kill me, why not just get it over with? I failed Momma and Papa... Why? Why did you try to kill us all? Why couldn't you just leave us all alone?! You lied to us, pretended to be a pup called Zonk and pretended to care about Morgan... Morgan... You killed her too, didn't you! You monster! MONSTER!! You... You're just so... So... EVIL! YOU'RE AN EVIL OLD MONSTER! JUST GET IT OVER WITH ALREADY! Momma... Papa... You're both gone... Even little Morgan... Why...?" before she lost all sense in her head and could think of nothing.
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Zonk made a sound of surprise. "Naggy, I'm not Laenyn... I'm Zonk! I got rid of Laenyn!" The sobs went up a notch and Nagrom seemed to be trying to hum to block her voice out. "I'M NOT! I DIDN'T KILL THEM! LAENYN DID! SHE POSSESSED ME!!"
Now Nagrom was clearly chanting "La la la la la la la... La la la la la la la... I CAN'T HEAR YOU! La la la la la la la... La la la la la la la..."
"SHUT THE HECK UP! BE SILENT!" Her voice may have boomed, but Nagrom was unimpressed. Zonk was tempted to kill her just to make her shut up, but she noticed, out of the corner of her eye, some movement to her right. A little pup with wings was crawling blindly about the corpses. Her eyes were blank and white, but her fur and wings, though torn jaggedly, were unmistakeable. "Morgan..." Zonk breathed softly, hardly daring to believe her own eyes. The pup sniffed deeply and let loose a sob. Zonk looked around her to see why, and realized that Morgan was standing near the dead bodies of her parents. She looked up at Zonk's voice though, and stumbled over to her, whimpering.
"Z-zonk? Is it... Over? I... Oh, Zonk, I can't see anything! I'm blind, Zonk, and my wings are ripped... Am I dead, Zonk? All I can remember is falling and waiting for you..." She curled up beneath Zonk "But now I'm safe. You'll protect me. You got rid of Laenyn." And she slept. Zonk was silent, trying to keep Morgan from waking up. Her thoughts, however, were racing wildly. Blind?
((OOC: About Wuff, the pups lost track of him, he was killed, and the pups are lost in the woods. Other than that, I have temporary writer's block for them.))
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Mikasi looked to Mystyk, having just woken up again. "I'm clueless, Mystyk." Suddenly he realized that they were near the shore. "I uh... Should probably get off now, shouldn't I? Umm... Sorry..." He doesn't make a move to leave yet, though, having just seen a very scorched and very bedraggled Moya push her way up on shore. "What happened to her?" He cocked his head to one side. He wasn't clear on what was going on, so he just stayed put to think.
((OOC: Uhhh... If Mikasi saw Moya with that whole episode, let's just say he has short term memory loss like I do. That's all I have time for, have a nice day, bye!))
FIN Part the First!
A/N: Yes, that's right. This is the first part of a three piece set that's not always the most logical, but fun to write! I apologize profusely for my horrible characters in this... I was just starting to really write. I hope that I've improved with time...