Ok, heres just to clear up a few things. 1) The costumes are about as thick
as their horns are, so there are no lumps, and has an outside just like
regular skin. If they ever decide it necassary, they
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I wake up, the light of the twin moons shining, and shiver. The night is cold, and so I stumble about, gathering twigs and leaves. Upon setting them in the pre-made circle of rocks I remember the lessons in black magic Catalina gave me a few years ago, nothing really dangerous, the basics. I think, concentrating on the spell, until a thin orange flame spirals from my fingers, hitting the center exactly. A fire raises up out of yesterdays ashes, and I sit back, feeling the flames warm my body. The fire is bright, and pulls back the night in a friendly glow. I've never liked the dark much. After about an hour of sitting, letting the flames warm my body, I put out the fire and whisper a goodnight to the moon.
What was that? I jerk upright at the sound and use the last glowing ember to start the fire anew. In the bushes- I grab my daggers, one in each hand, and look strait ahead, staring the shadowy shape strait in the eye. Or where the ey would be on a human anyway. "Who's there?" I call, trying to see into the darkness. A female voice calls out the answer, "Alexandrian knight, scouting ahead for danger, to clear the way for the rest of the knights, coming to protect Lindblum. Who are you?" I feel my body tense, feel Catalina wake, careful to lie still, for a surprise attack, should the need arise. I try to decide what to do. "I asked who you are. Fail to answer me again, and I shall asume you are my enemy, the enemy of Alexandria and Lindblum." I finally decide to play it safe, or at least safer. "Who is to say who is and isn't my enemy, for I am but a wanderer, going where the winds take me. Attack first and I will defend myself to the death, but leave and no harm shall come your way." At least, not yet. If I had decided to attack right then and there the rest of the army would attack me, but this way I'd be able to say truthfully that she tried to kill me, and I was simply defending myself from the teeth of a monster. I'm really good at helpless and scared impressions. "Who is to say you are not the cause of the recent murders in Lindblum?" I stand up before she finishes, so she can see my entire form, a few inches taller and wider in all directions, without the tail or horn, but able to be threatening. Or threatening enough for my purpose. "Whoever said I wasn't? It is a good question, and not even I can answer it, for I amChallenge me now, if you dare, or wait until your army comes. Wait and I run, taking all traces with me, challenge me alone and die before your time."
She charges into the light of my fire, sword aiming for my heart, and in an instant my daggers are in my hands and I am blocking her blow. The sound from the clash is loud, and probably can be heard for 1 mile, exactly. The rest of the pack should be here soon, and I can feel Catalina preparing to go invisible by her own power, and take the rest of our camp with her. We can do that if we remain absolutely still. I charge myself, advancing on her this time, and am pushing lightly. Her sword only gets dented. Strong metal, much stronger than my daggers. She lunges once more, and I end the battle, pushing my dagger through her armor ; into her heart. I tug my dagger from her dead body, feeling no sorrow for one who died in battle, and wipe the blade clean on grass. I look around the clearing and see nothing but the blood-gushing soldier, crying loudly, and walk away. I lie face up on the grass, and turn myself invisible to all but Catalina after tucking my daggers into their shieths.The soon to die soldier stares at the spot I'm laying, wondering if I was a ghost. She continues to stare as the army arrives running, led by a woman on foot. Hmmmmmm... tall, an eyepatch, bloody sharp sword... Beatrix. She is followed by two people who must be king and queen. The queen, Garnet, gasps and casts cura. "Are you alright? What happened?" Asks Garnet. The soldier is still in too much pain to do anything, but refuses assistance,and keeps staring at me. My stomach starts to crawl... She attacks! Runs over here and brings her sword down an inch from my side. Uh-oh. She guessed I became invisible! Catalina, I call, on our mind net, cover me. I don't wait for an answer. I edge slightly to the side, taking advantage of the wind, but this soldier doesn't miss a trick. She continues to stare right at me, right into my eyes. She can't possibly see me. Can she? "Lokania, enough. Whoever, or whatever, hurt you this badly is long gone. Let me tend to your wounds." Not the queen this time, the commander. Beatrix. "You... (gasp) ... don't understand... (gasp)... she was in this spot a second (gasp) before you arrived. She... (gasp) didn't have time to move." While the knight continues to stare at me, The king, or Zidane, Garnet, and Beatrix whisper to each other. Of course... it's easy enough to feel spaces in the air, where there are objects. She must know how! Beatrix finally says, "I trust your judgement. Show me the area your opponent is hiding somewhere in." She indicates an area about a foot wider and longer than me. The Burmecian knights line up all around it, swords ready to swing down. "If there is anything there that can understand me, talk, before every soldier swings down their sword at once. If you choose not to answer, or show yourself, every soldier will cut you open at once."
She waits, and I prepare to die. Better to die than to be captured, tortured. "Why should I speak, for I am not there?" I nearly gasp, then bite my lip. Catalina! they were so focused on me, Catalina got to the safety of the trees! Every knight but the one I nearly killed turns, completely alert. Even the king and queen draw weapons, ready to attack at a moments notice. "Who are you?! Show yourself!" I'm not sure who said that, I'm a bit nervous about the injured knight. "Calm down. Do you think I'm stupid? I'm not showing you a thing." Thank you, Catalina, now run befor you get yourself killed. "If you do not show us who you are we will track you down." That HAD to be the queen, no one else would talk like such an idiot. "Will you please just shut up!?? And besides, even if you do find me, chances are it won't change what happened already, and the fact that I could kick your but, no sweat." Catalina, please don't be an idiot, I like my life, even if it is full of secrets, death, and destruction. "You are a murderer, and a coward by the sound of it. Show yourself, and fight like the beast you truly are." The king was a thief once? He sure doesn't sound like it. "No thanks, and besides, my duty's finished here" What is she talking about? If we weren't identical I would've said she was adopted. "I've bought enough time for my partner to escape. by now she's a mile away. Too bad you didn't chop the ground sooner." I hold my breath. They'll either by it or I'd be mince meat. "How can we be sure? For all we know, you're bluffing." I tense my muscles. "Go ahead. Chop the ground there. chop it until every blade of grass is in two pieces. It won't make any difference." I feel dizzy, and take another breath to hold. Will it work?
Yes! Every single soldier, even the now healed one, heads off, searching for my sister. It's a good thing she knows how to project her voice! The soldiers search in the wrong direction, and I quietly get up and run away. We meet again in another area of forest, on the edge furthest from Lindblum, and I abandon myself to sleep.
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Wow...creepy! I scare myself! See that box below this? Give it company, It's lonely! All for now, more later!
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I wake up, the light of the twin moons shining, and shiver. The night is cold, and so I stumble about, gathering twigs and leaves. Upon setting them in the pre-made circle of rocks I remember the lessons in black magic Catalina gave me a few years ago, nothing really dangerous, the basics. I think, concentrating on the spell, until a thin orange flame spirals from my fingers, hitting the center exactly. A fire raises up out of yesterdays ashes, and I sit back, feeling the flames warm my body. The fire is bright, and pulls back the night in a friendly glow. I've never liked the dark much. After about an hour of sitting, letting the flames warm my body, I put out the fire and whisper a goodnight to the moon.
What was that? I jerk upright at the sound and use the last glowing ember to start the fire anew. In the bushes- I grab my daggers, one in each hand, and look strait ahead, staring the shadowy shape strait in the eye. Or where the ey would be on a human anyway. "Who's there?" I call, trying to see into the darkness. A female voice calls out the answer, "Alexandrian knight, scouting ahead for danger, to clear the way for the rest of the knights, coming to protect Lindblum. Who are you?" I feel my body tense, feel Catalina wake, careful to lie still, for a surprise attack, should the need arise. I try to decide what to do. "I asked who you are. Fail to answer me again, and I shall asume you are my enemy, the enemy of Alexandria and Lindblum." I finally decide to play it safe, or at least safer. "Who is to say who is and isn't my enemy, for I am but a wanderer, going where the winds take me. Attack first and I will defend myself to the death, but leave and no harm shall come your way." At least, not yet. If I had decided to attack right then and there the rest of the army would attack me, but this way I'd be able to say truthfully that she tried to kill me, and I was simply defending myself from the teeth of a monster. I'm really good at helpless and scared impressions. "Who is to say you are not the cause of the recent murders in Lindblum?" I stand up before she finishes, so she can see my entire form, a few inches taller and wider in all directions, without the tail or horn, but able to be threatening. Or threatening enough for my purpose. "Whoever said I wasn't? It is a good question, and not even I can answer it, for I amChallenge me now, if you dare, or wait until your army comes. Wait and I run, taking all traces with me, challenge me alone and die before your time."
She charges into the light of my fire, sword aiming for my heart, and in an instant my daggers are in my hands and I am blocking her blow. The sound from the clash is loud, and probably can be heard for 1 mile, exactly. The rest of the pack should be here soon, and I can feel Catalina preparing to go invisible by her own power, and take the rest of our camp with her. We can do that if we remain absolutely still. I charge myself, advancing on her this time, and am pushing lightly. Her sword only gets dented. Strong metal, much stronger than my daggers. She lunges once more, and I end the battle, pushing my dagger through her armor ; into her heart. I tug my dagger from her dead body, feeling no sorrow for one who died in battle, and wipe the blade clean on grass. I look around the clearing and see nothing but the blood-gushing soldier, crying loudly, and walk away. I lie face up on the grass, and turn myself invisible to all but Catalina after tucking my daggers into their shieths.The soon to die soldier stares at the spot I'm laying, wondering if I was a ghost. She continues to stare as the army arrives running, led by a woman on foot. Hmmmmmm... tall, an eyepatch, bloody sharp sword... Beatrix. She is followed by two people who must be king and queen. The queen, Garnet, gasps and casts cura. "Are you alright? What happened?" Asks Garnet. The soldier is still in too much pain to do anything, but refuses assistance,and keeps staring at me. My stomach starts to crawl... She attacks! Runs over here and brings her sword down an inch from my side. Uh-oh. She guessed I became invisible! Catalina, I call, on our mind net, cover me. I don't wait for an answer. I edge slightly to the side, taking advantage of the wind, but this soldier doesn't miss a trick. She continues to stare right at me, right into my eyes. She can't possibly see me. Can she? "Lokania, enough. Whoever, or whatever, hurt you this badly is long gone. Let me tend to your wounds." Not the queen this time, the commander. Beatrix. "You... (gasp) ... don't understand... (gasp)... she was in this spot a second (gasp) before you arrived. She... (gasp) didn't have time to move." While the knight continues to stare at me, The king, or Zidane, Garnet, and Beatrix whisper to each other. Of course... it's easy enough to feel spaces in the air, where there are objects. She must know how! Beatrix finally says, "I trust your judgement. Show me the area your opponent is hiding somewhere in." She indicates an area about a foot wider and longer than me. The Burmecian knights line up all around it, swords ready to swing down. "If there is anything there that can understand me, talk, before every soldier swings down their sword at once. If you choose not to answer, or show yourself, every soldier will cut you open at once."
She waits, and I prepare to die. Better to die than to be captured, tortured. "Why should I speak, for I am not there?" I nearly gasp, then bite my lip. Catalina! they were so focused on me, Catalina got to the safety of the trees! Every knight but the one I nearly killed turns, completely alert. Even the king and queen draw weapons, ready to attack at a moments notice. "Who are you?! Show yourself!" I'm not sure who said that, I'm a bit nervous about the injured knight. "Calm down. Do you think I'm stupid? I'm not showing you a thing." Thank you, Catalina, now run befor you get yourself killed. "If you do not show us who you are we will track you down." That HAD to be the queen, no one else would talk like such an idiot. "Will you please just shut up!?? And besides, even if you do find me, chances are it won't change what happened already, and the fact that I could kick your but, no sweat." Catalina, please don't be an idiot, I like my life, even if it is full of secrets, death, and destruction. "You are a murderer, and a coward by the sound of it. Show yourself, and fight like the beast you truly are." The king was a thief once? He sure doesn't sound like it. "No thanks, and besides, my duty's finished here" What is she talking about? If we weren't identical I would've said she was adopted. "I've bought enough time for my partner to escape. by now she's a mile away. Too bad you didn't chop the ground sooner." I hold my breath. They'll either by it or I'd be mince meat. "How can we be sure? For all we know, you're bluffing." I tense my muscles. "Go ahead. Chop the ground there. chop it until every blade of grass is in two pieces. It won't make any difference." I feel dizzy, and take another breath to hold. Will it work?
Yes! Every single soldier, even the now healed one, heads off, searching for my sister. It's a good thing she knows how to project her voice! The soldiers search in the wrong direction, and I quietly get up and run away. We meet again in another area of forest, on the edge furthest from Lindblum, and I abandon myself to sleep.
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Wow...creepy! I scare myself! See that box below this? Give it company, It's lonely! All for now, more later!
