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Post by Judas on Jan 12, 2008 18:28:11 GMT
The angelic lion kept his gaze downwards, and his flightspeed was slowed, but soon enough he spotted the lioness, on the edge of a small lake. Apperiantly she had seen him, as her face was directed skywards. Altaïr passed her before he made a narrow turn and swooped down towards her, touching down in the grass not far from her. "I finally found you... Luminar" Altaïr began, as he folded his stained wings onto his back.
The assassin approced the lioness, but his stride nor positure had anything aggressive about it. Now that he was here he wasn't really sure what to do. Skell had told him that she was the reason for the mountains antics, but yet he still doubted the tigers words.
"Can't you explain something to me?" Altaïr asked as he walked passed her keeping his gaze at the mountain. "Why is the mountain uneasy? Why is it going to explode?" he asked turning towards her, he had to know if she truely had any knowledge of her effect on the mountain if she did, well then he had his target. However if she didn't then Skell's words might have been a lie.
"I need answeres Luminar, and you are the only one I can turn to.." the assassin said, his featherd tail swishing behind him, while the gentle breeze blew towards the mountain, the ground was rumbling lightly.
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Post by Kirsui on Jan 12, 2008 19:19:27 GMT
Lumiar followed the winged lion by turning her head. As he landed, and spoke out her name, she lifted her eyebrow slightly. She remained as silent as ever, turning her head as the winged lion walked past her, listening at his every word. Her expression remained the same as he mentioned the mountain, but her slightly triangular eyes seemed to flash slightly.
How was it possible... that this lion here... knew that about the volcano? As he turned to face her, speaking out his last words, the angelic lioness could feel the ground tremble again.
<<Am I really...?>>
The words were spoken by a voice that seemed to come from distance. It was echoing slightly, and seemed faint, very fragile... The voice belonged to Lumiar, but she had not moved her lips at all while speaking. She didn't have to, for these words couldn't be said by the normal way.
Lumiar turned to gaze at the mountain, apparently in deep thought. Could she trust this lion enough to tell him? He was the first one to ask directly about it, though... She couldn't help but wonder why he was suddenly so interested of what she knew.
And how had he even known she could reply?
<<The mountain... Volcano... It is disturbed by the precence of great evil...>>
She paused, sighing heavily as she turned her head back at the winged lion. The expression on her face seemed somewhat... sad?
<<And once disturbed... It will keep going, even without the evil precence disturbing it more.>>
Her eyes narrowed suddenly, a slightly suspicious look appeared to her face.
<<How is it that you know my name? Name that I have not told to anyone in years... And out of all creatures, why did you come to me, knowing that I would also reply despite my inability to speak the way you do?>>
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Post by Judas on Jan 12, 2008 19:41:39 GMT
As the voice sounded, the assassin glanced around him, the voice seemed to come from all directions at first, but soon it's location was pinpointed. It came from his mind, as an echo within his own head! Altaïr was slightly disturbed by this, but didn't say anything, he just kept listening to the voice in his head; Luminar's voice, it had a fragility to it oddly enough, yet the winged lion found her voice quite soothing despite the fact that it was quite eerie, the way she spoke.
The assassin could see the face of the winged lioness take on a saddend expression, Altaïr was about to open his mouth and ask what this evil was, but was cut off as Luminar continued her speech, now her voice had an alterd tone, a hint of suspition and demand lingerd in it.
As she finished Altaïr took a deep breath; "I was told so.." he began, shifting his gaze briefly to the mountain as another light rumble shook the earth. "By someone who seemed to know you quite well, they spoke of you're importance in consernes with mountain..." the winged male paused for a while, his gaze returning to Luminar.
He fixed his gaze on her eyes before he continued, "How you where connected with the mountain and it's impending erruption. That is why I come to you, with these questions..." Altaïr stepped forward towards the angelic female not breaking eye contact with her. He came to a halt a few steps before her, he was reasonbly taller than her, atleast a head higher.
"Of them, I also learned your name, Luminar" he finished still keeping eye contact, he refrained from useing Skell's name should she know of his meeting with this tiger, she might not be soo open with him anymore. He needed anonymity to get to the bottom of this mystery.
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Post by Tamber on Jan 13, 2008 14:50:29 GMT
The blue lioness was thinking about moving on. The mood of this group was rather down, and she had become quite hungry. She noticed that even the white lioness had moved on, but whether it was momentarily or permanently, Rhea had no idea. This lioness had not said a word, and Rhea was beginning to think she was either severely shy or unable to speak.
Rhea let the female go along. Soon enough, she saw something familiar in the sky. It was that winged lion that had flown off earlier. But when he started to swoop down to the ground, he did not swoop towards the group. He dipped his head and wings somewhere else, and it looked to be where the white lioness had gone.
Rhea couldn't help but worry. This lion had never had a very friendly disposition about him, and if he wanted to see any of them in the group, it must have meant that he wanted something important from them. Why would the white lioness be important? Or was he looking to kill her?
"Did you see that," Rhea asked the others. "That winged lion is back, and he landed over where the white lioness is." She was becoming flustered, and unsure of whether the others would think about this, she decided to take action. Without a word Rhea enflamed her morphing lights. They swivled around her furiously, and as her body lifted and spinned, she suddenly shrunk greatly. To anyone watching it would look as if she had disappeared, but she had simpy urned herself into a tiny blue beetle. She had to be truely inconspicuous, and a blue bird would certainly atract one's eye. A blue beetle would not.
She lifted up to the sky, fluttering her tiny clear wings. She moved through the air as quickly as she could, but her speed was not great in this form. Lookking around her, she finally caught sight of the white lioness, and the winged lion who spoke to her. The Rhea beetle lowered her level and flew down towards them. In this form, her hearing was powerful, so she did not have to land close. She simple rested upon a stick lying on the ground. She listened to their conversation. Right now the winged lion spoke, about the mountain! It was going to erupt! And the white lioness knew something about it! Then he spoke her name.
Lumiar.
It was finally time for Lumiar to speak, which Rhea had never seen done. Would she open her lips for this stranger?
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Post by Ellie on Jan 13, 2008 16:29:15 GMT
[ I'll try to join in here ]
[/b] He hoped they knew what he spoke of. He was not surpirsed when he realized he dwarfed many of them, due to his great size, and species type. Still, he hoped it would not intimidate them too much as it had so many others.[/ul] [ Meh. It's craptastic. ][/size][/font]
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Post by Kirsui on Jan 13, 2008 17:14:37 GMT
((OOC: Ellie, that's a nice post. ^^ Although, I could recommend that you didn't make the text smaller. it is a bit hard to read. =3))
Lumiar let out a hissing noise, and her muzzle seemed to have a faint grin on it. She was laughing, and as she spoke to the winged lion with her telepathy again, her voice seemed to be amused.
<<Yes.. The mountain... and my connection to it...>>
She examined the winged lion closely in silence. Could he be trusted with the information she had...? She sighed, pushing these thoughts away. He seemed concerned of the mountain and what it would do if it erupted. And that was good enough reason for Lumiar to tell.
<<I am indeed connected to these events... On a way I did not choose... or want. It was given to me by a dying lioness, and once my time comes it would be my last duty to give it forward.>>
The angelic lioness sighed deeply, clearly troubled. She still couldn't help but wonder what was the reason why this winged feline in front of her was suddenly so interested of her information. She was suspicious, yes... In her position anyone would be.
<<This is not the first time this mountain is trying to destroy these lands.>>
She made up her mind. Once she had begun speaking, she would have to let it all out. She looked at the winged lion, whose name she still didn't know... She looked him in the eyes, trying to see as deep as possible.
<<If... there was a way of stopping these events...>> she begun, lifting an eyebrow. Her telepathic voice was questioning, curious even... But yet at the same time it was demanding, however fragile it might have sounded like.
<<Would you put your life in danger to save these lands? Would you be ready to sacrifice everything if the mountain could be calmed?>>
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Post by Judas on Jan 13, 2008 18:27:36 GMT
The assassin listend to Luminar's words, it seemed almost like she was laughing. But what for? what was so funny about this dire accident that would be upon them all. Altaïr listend intentivly to her words, she knew alot about this mountain alright, but her involvment in it's fate however wasn't of her own choice.
Luminar's troubled sigh caused the winged assasin to lay his ears back gently, but then a question came from the angelic lioness, though her voice carried curiosity, yet it had that same demanding aura about it, despite it's almost pathetic fragility.
"I was asked to find out the source of the problem, when I had that information I was orderd to stop it..." Altaïr paused for a moment, he rarely told his mission to anyone, but at this point it was a meager sacrefice should he gain any profitable information from it, and by the sound of Luminar question it seemed that was what he was given. "How I was to stop it, didn't matter. They have a tendency to send me on missions they don't expect my return... desides.." the assassin paused for quite a while.
"Is there really anything to give up, when you have nothing to lose?" Altaïr said keeping eye contact with the angelic lioness, he had a feeling she was anxious about his name but he had no intentions revealing it unless there was some dire need for it, or it had any impact on this mission. Like speeding up the path towards solving these dire straits.
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Post by Kirsui on Jan 18, 2008 21:30:38 GMT
"Is there really anything to give up, when you have nothing to lose?"
Lumiar remained silent momentarily, just gazing into the eyes of this winged lion. She was satisfied of the reply she had gotten from him. So atleast one could possibly help...
<<There is always something to lose...>>
She seemed sad about what she had just said, but didn't continue. She turned to look at the hill over which she had come to this waterhole. She wasn't sure if the rest of the group had already noticed she was missing...
<<There is a way...>>
The angelic lioness sighed, looking at the winged lion from her eyecorner.
<<You can stop the eruption... on one way... But you can not do it alone.>>
Suddenly Lumiar begun walking, apparently heading back towards the direction where she had left the group. Partly she did this out of pure curiosity, wanting to know what the winged lion would do.
And partly, it was because she thought this group perhaps was what she had been looking for. She walked past the blue beetle, looking at the bug momentarily, as if something had been.. odd about it. She shrugged, already climbing up the hill, still waiting for the winged lion's reaction.
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Post by Tamber on Jan 19, 2008 3:27:21 GMT
Rhea listened intently, as sudden;y the white lion spoke! But not at all in a way Rhea had expected. Her voice seemed to come from all around. It echoed and whipped around Rhea's ears, for the lioness spoke through telepathy, not her mouth. It was quite incredible! Maybe this lioness had special abilities as well as the rest of those she had met today!
As Rhea listened, she heard that somehow the lioness knew something about what was happening with all this mountain, erupting, shaking business. She had been connected to it somehow, and...she knew of how to stop it! This lioness alone knew how to save everyone around her, and yet she did not speak of the way. She simply started to walk back towards the group. As the liones looked down at Rhea with a quizzical expression, she almost thought she was busted. But she soon turned again and started walking further, but slowly.
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Post by Judas on Jan 20, 2008 7:38:07 GMT
The winged assassin listend to the white lioness' words, she knew alot about this mountain. More than he had ever anticipated, it seemed killing her was out of option as she was the only who knew how it could be stopped; and that afterall was his main objective, stopping the volcano.
As the angelic lioness began walking off, back up the nearby hill, Altaïr plainly followed her, if she was the clue to this disasters end then sticking with her wouldn't be such a bad idea.
"Well, since you know how to stop the fiery inferno, that is about to kill us all... I guess you and I will be forced to share company for quite a while..." Altaïr paused for a moment, as he caught up with the lioness, comming up by her right flank.
"Then I see it apporpriate to reveal my name; they call me Altaïr.." the winged assassin said keeping eyes at the grass ahead of him, he had no intentions about revealing his backround, as that would just complicate things. Decides who would pick an assassin as a travelling companion? Most would sooner picked death.
A thought coursed through the assassin's mind, should he tell her about the meeting he had with the tiger, Skell? Nah, it probably does not matter.
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Post by Fire on Jan 28, 2008 16:36:05 GMT
Fire perked his ears when Rhea asked if anyone was bored, chuckling softly and then running over to her. Although, it seemed that her mind was elsewhere and focusing on something else. Something serious, even. He decided it would be a wise idea to keep quiet and move in a stealth manner to approach her. When getting close, he hissed slightly just so that it was enough noise to get her attention. He moved his body up so it was next to hers. "What's going on?..." He whispered.
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Post by Lorien on Jan 28, 2008 16:59:26 GMT
Lorien had been quiet the entire time, just looking at each in the group in turn. She was new in these lands, and while she didn't know anyone, she felt comfortable for the first time being around others. She noticed how the white lioness walked away from the group, and she was about to go after her but changed her mind. The greyish lioness's attention was then drawn to the sky when Rhea pointed out the winged lion once again...and it did seem that he had landed where the mute one had gone.
While Lorien watched in amazement at Rhea's transformaiton, she hoped that the white lioness would be safe. She would have gone herself, but what could a small lioness do against a large winged male? All that she could do was hope that the white one would fare fine.
Then, suddenly, as her attention was drawn elsewhere, a looming figure approached them from behind her. As she turned around, her eyes widened in a bit of fear. The large male behind her looked like he could take on the entire group if need be. She turned suddenly all the way around and took a few steps back, keeping a safe distance away. However, when the male spoke, she flattened her ears against her skull. "That...is what we are trying to figure out as well..." She couldn't believe that she had spoken to him seeing how big he was, but if he was concerned about the mountain too...well, then he couldn't be too bad.
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Post by Kirsui on Jan 28, 2008 20:31:26 GMT
Lumiar glanced at the winged male from her eyecorner when he spoke out his name. She kept walking, not letting out any sounds - physically or telepathically. Then when she was just about to reach the top of the hill, she replied.
<<You have a fine name...>>
It was a compliment, and momentarily it seemed as if the angelic lioness would have continued. But as soon as she saw what the group was up to she forgot it.
A new... creature had appeared to the group. It was a feline, but... Lumiar wasn't sure what it was. A very very large lion? For some reason she found hard to believe so...
So amazed she was of this large male that at first she didn't realize that Rhea was missing. And when she did, her eyes narrowed slightly. Where had that blue lioness gone...? Lumiar shrugged slightly, then continued her way down the hill, looking back at Altaïr to see if the winged male was still following.
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Post by Tamber on Mar 9, 2008 22:33:48 GMT
After she had some ground between her and the two that she had been watching, Rhea transformed back into herself at the bottom of the hill, so as not to be seen by the others. She then made her way in a different direction, walking to the Northest and bringing herself to a different part of the land, to make it appear as though she had gone off somewhere else.
She then walked back nonchalantly and saw Lumiar, Altair, and a new creature joining the group. He was...enormous! He looked like a lion, but it just couldn't be. He was just too large.
However, she saw that he had quite the welcome wagon to acompany him, and decided to wait her turn to greet him. Instead, she walked over to Fire, who had stayed back as well. "How goes it?" she asked. "And who's this guy?" she asked quite bluntly, pointing to him momentarily with her right paw.
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Post by Judas on Mar 11, 2008 14:36:48 GMT
The assassin was trailing the tail of the angelic lioness, just heading up the hill with a casual stride in his steps. Though as he saw the large lion, a brow rose on his face, "Weird.." the assassin mutterd as he came to a halt beside Luminar looking at the commontion below, or it wasn't so much commontion as it was a greeting party.
A faint snort escaped Altaïr as he headed down the hill towards the group. He was curious of this large lion, or whatever it was.
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Post by Kirsui on May 7, 2008 20:43:29 GMT
((OOC: Right... Lets get things rolling on again, shall we? =3))
Lumiar came to a halt when she had reached the rest of the group. She looked at Lorien and Fire for a moment, then turned her gaze at Rhea who was... returning from somewhere? The angelic lioness tilted her head slightly, letting her gaze rest on Rhea for a while before she shook her head faintly and glanced at Altaïr. It was obvious he wouldn't say a thing to the group, after all she had been so far the only one with whom he had actually spoken more, so...
She sighed. She would need to do the speaking. As much as she perhaps would have wanted to remain silent, she'd need to speak out sooner or later if this was going to be the group she'd travel with.
<<I have a question for you all...>>
The angelic lioness spoke these words to the group with her telepathy, her fragile voice echoing faintly once again. She let out her hissing laugh for a short while as she took in everyones' expressions. However, the faint trembling of the ground made the amusement disappear and she flattened her ears.
<<You know of these earthquakes... And you have noticed they occur almost constantly.>>
She gazed at the volcano.
<<That mountain is a volcano, and it is about to erupt. If this was to happen... I am not sure how large part of the lands would be destroyed, but the destruction would be wide.>>
Lumiar turned to face the group, looking first at Lorien, then at Fire, then at Rhea and finally at Altaïr.
<<There is a way to stop the eruption. I know how it must be done, but I can not do it alone. To stop it I need help, and to help me could be... no... will be dangerous.>>
She paused, closing her eyes for a moment and wondering if she had spoken too much without letting someone else speak and ask her questions. But to her it seemed better this way, that she'd let it all out and then answer to what they possibly wanted to know.
<<Would you help me...? I know you wonder who I am, why I did not speak out earlier, and why is it I speak out now... But help is what I need, for I have to stop the volcano before it is too late.>>
The look in her eyes seemed to become sad, even though her expression otherwise remained the same. She waited in complete silence to see what their replies would be... what their reactions would be.
High up at the sky Skell laid on his dark cloud, gazing down at the small group. So the winged male lion he had met before had not killed Lumiar. The dark tiger was dissapointed, but then again the winged lion would have been a fool to kill her only because of what Skell had told him.
He chuckled with a smirk. Oh yes... Lumiar was trying to gather the group to follow her... And he, Skell, would have very much fun playing around with them.
Determined of this, the dark tiger commanded his cloud to rise higher so that he could hide inside the clouds without being noticed from the ground.
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Post by Tamber on May 8, 2008 0:31:51 GMT
Rhea jerked around to hear Lumiar's voice once more, something she was not expecting. Her shock, obviously, was not because of the fact that Lumiar was using her telepathy to speak, but that she was in fact speaking to the group for the first time.
The white lioness told of the volcano, which Rhea had learned of before. But she was quite intrigued to hear that the lioness was willing to work with them to fix the situation. So...perhaps Rhea had pulled herself into a bit of an adventure when she came upon this group this morning.
The blue lioness could see the shyness and the anticipation in Lumiar's eyes. Normally Rhea was not up for adventure. But who was she to say no? This was her home, in trouble, and as much her home as it was everyone else's who lived there. Lumiar could not accomplish this without help, and now it was the normally timid Rhea's chance to make a difference in something.
Uncertainty and fear were indeed flowing aorund through Rhea's mind, and she felt the strong urge to walk away. But how many times had she done that, walked away and let an opportunity pass by? She had always been afraid of taking chances, but would never admi it to herself. She saw now that taking a chance was something she would have to do. Rhea had to stop saying no. It was time for her to start saying yes.
She stepped forward and sat next to Lumiar with a trusting smile. "I'm in," she said to her, making her smile wide and apparent. She wanted Lumiar to know that she trusted her, and would be devoted to the cause, no matter how frightening and possible deadly it could be.
She only hoped she could find someone who would say yes back.
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Post by Zorayda on May 8, 2008 14:51:08 GMT
Reicheru lay on her back, her light belly catching the rays of the sun and warming her body comfortably.
She knew the whole savannah was in danger, really, but what could she do about it? Might as well enjoy it while it lasts...
Her nose twitched when she caught the scent of another cat. Lioness, it seemed.
She paused for one more moment before flipping over and getting onto her feet, shaking her body to be rid of any debris stuck in her fur.
She began making her way towards the scent, curiosity leading her to have to find out who owned that scent.
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Post by Judas on May 17, 2008 18:52:39 GMT
OOC: Since no one else has posted, I thought I'd use the opportunity to introduce my second character.
IC: They say life is hard, and unfortunately enough dying happens to be the easy part. Stalking through the underbrush of the acacia forest is a dark coated feline, a lioness by the looks of it. Her face bears an emotionless expression focused on the thin path ahead of her, she doesn't appear to have a goal in mind, or determination in her stride. As the slender feline stepped out onto the golden plains, her skinny and bony body makes her look more like a skeleton than a being of flesh of and blood.
A pale jade green eye scan the wast grassland that lie before her, despite being blind her right eye she has relatively good vision. The flat veld stretched for miles, but in the distance majestic snow-capped mountains tower beyond a haze of deep blue. It's already mid-day and the sun is climbing higher and higher in the skies, that doesn't exactly make life any better for the animals, and certainly not for a dark coated feline. Suddenly the lioness' rimmed ears perk at the sound of faint laughter, the unmistakable sound of hyenas, her nose twitches slightly as she slink to wards the smell and sounds.
Over by a grassy knoll, a band of four hyenas is feasting on a recently slain gazelle by sound of their laugh it seems like their really enjoying themselves, though completely unaware that they are been watched form the shades of an acacia tree nearby. Kisirani's eyes narrow, before an almost devilish smile creep over her muzzle; she is gonna give these hyenas the scare of their lives.
As one of the hyenas sink his teeth into the gazelles spine, the creatures legs suddenly begun twitching, and soon enough the gutted half-eaten antelope is kicking almost frantically, all four of the hyenas back-off from their meal and stands in a circle around the previously dead antelope despite lacking internal organs, and having had it's legs ripped of muscle the creature get to it's feet and gazes around at the hyenas with a dead gaze.
As the gazelle suddenly charge all the hyena's scatter with a scream and disappears into the grass, the gazelle stomps the ground in triumph before suddenly it collapses onto itself with a hard thud. Walking out of the shadowing contently chuckling to herself is Kisirani, the dark coated, half-blind lioness. "Gets them everytime.." she mumbles as she settles down to feed on her stolen meal.
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Post by Zorayda on May 22, 2008 14:41:24 GMT
Reicheru kept walking forward towards the strange scent, until something else hit her nose.
It was a 'dead' sort of smell, something that had been left to rot for awhile. She also scented hyenas, but she didn't hear any telltale laughter.
Reicheru saw a speck in the distance--it looked to be feline-esque, but she couldn't be sure.
As she neared, the creature came into view. It was feasting on a dead gazelle carcass, which it had apparently taken from hyenas. The creature--Reicheru was fairly certain it was female--was so thin that it almost looked like a starved cheetah.
The coat was dark, and Reicheru hesitated before walking up to her. She seemed powerful.
Reicheru decided to be safe and send a message to the... thing with her mind.
She concentrated, and her green eyes went glassy with concentration and the little purple swirl glowed beneath her mop of pale yellow fringe.
<Hello, my name is Reicheru--I'm not here to hurt you, I was only curious. Who are you?>
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Post by Tamber on Jun 20, 2008 5:12:44 GMT
These rediculous earthquakes were starting to drive the wolf crazy. They came more and more often, more violent every day-every hour, even. He had ended up scaling the mountain and exploring it; searching for places where the earthquakes did not reach. Unfortunately, he had only lead himself to where the quakes were originating, and putting that part of the puzzle together in his head, he couldn't have felt more stupid.
They were beginning to give him headaches, and after spending two days plowing through the snows on the peak and grasping the rocks on the ledges, he was feeling a desperate need to escape the shakes. Of all places, why did he have to escape to here? He'd barely been full grown by the time these quakes started, and every day he thought more and more of finding the humans and finding a way to follow them home.
But with Indigo perched upon his shoulder, Kaemon felt that he could make it through each day. Sometimes it would take Tenor, Ace, or even all of them to fulfill his need for company, support, and entertainment, but more often than not, Indigo, the loyal she-raven, was all he needed for a vice. She had sat upon him or flown by his side for the last several days in these mountains. In some ways he wished he was her, for being a figment of his own desires and wishes, she was immune to cold weather and many days of activity. She was not only his best friend, but a sort of role model for him.
Toward noon of the third day in the mountains, Kaemon could see level ground at last. It wouldn't be his escape from the shakes, but it was a milestone. His steps hightened as the slopes became easier to tread upon and the air became much warmer. "We'll make it out soon," he said to his raven, more reassuring himself than her.
The raven crowed to him, in what Kameon thought to be a response to his statement. But Indigo called with her raspy voice yet again, pecking at his red shoulder. "What is it, girl?" he asked her. He followed her gaze, which pointed upward to the clearing sky, and he saw what had alarmed her. It was a rather random and dark cloud moving across the sky at an unnatural speed. It was quite peculiar, and he couldn't help but investigate. "Go see what it is," he told her. He didn't feel completely comfortable with sending her alone, but she was strong and very smart. She could hold her own and more.
Indigo promptly wafted the air under her jet black wings and shot up into the air. She reached the cloud and flew under it for a few seconds, examining it and making sure it was what it appeared to be. Yes, this was indeed an ominous cloud, but what was its purpous? Knowing Kaemon wanted to know all there was to know, she flew out from under it and zoomed along right beside something she was not expecting: a tiger, and of a strange appearance at that. He was looking down in the other direction, as if he were searching for something. Suddenly his gaze turned in her direction, and she immediately swooped back down toward her master to deliver the news of what she had witnessed.
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Post by Judas on Jun 20, 2008 9:43:36 GMT
As an eerie voice sounded, the lioness snapped her head out from the gazelle's ribcage, and gazed around her quickly. The hairs on her back standing on end and her ears laid back, the sudden voice had clearly startled her.
Suddenly enough she spotted a feline up a head her head laid side ways, as he gazelle suddenly came up beside her, it snorted at the strange feline up ahead. Kisirani hadn't had any intention of reviving the gazelle again, but the apparent scare had made her done it subconsciously, decides if this feline was hostile it would have to deal with a 35 kg undead male gazelle first.
"Who asks?" Kisirani replied, though she had gotten this felines name but the necromancer was still wary she wanted to know who this was before answereing. Kisirani tried suppress a growl that formed in her throat, the gazelle glared at the feline with dead eyes, as it stomped the ground in defense. It appeared her undead minions followed Kisirani's pattern of emotion, if she was angry so was her minions, they were ready to defend her as long as she had enough energy to keep it subdued. If she ran out of energy the creature might rampage, but this small gazelle hardly required any energy at all to keep in check.
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Post by Kirsui on Jun 21, 2008 9:52:34 GMT
Lumiar nodded faintly, then turned around to walk. She glanced over her shoulder, clearly signing that she wanted to be followed.
<<The way of which I spoke about...>> she said as she walked.
<<The volcano is not causing disturbance for the first time. The first time was so long ago that it was thought this volcano was only a regular mountain...>>
She let out a hissing chuckle, though her laugh was un-amused.
<<Back then it was stopped. Creatures that had abilities - like we - used their power to stop the eruption, and they sealed their powers into 12 magical stones.>>
She narrowed her eyes.
<<The stones were hidden, and as long as they would stay that way the volcano would sleep. However, were the stones ever to get corrupted by evil precence, the volcano would wake up again.>>
She glanced at the others again, momentarily pausing her speaking. She sighed, then continued.
<<To stop the eruption now, all stones have to be found and thrown into the crater. It is not an easy task...>>
Skell gazed around the area below at the same time as his cloud slowly floated higher. He spotted some movement near Lumiar's small group, two felines and a dead gazelle. His eyes narrowed. Had that gazelle just moved?
The soft flapping sound caught her attention and the dark tiger turned his glowing red orbs towards the sound. He saw a black raven, and apparently it had seen him too.
Skell growled and suddenly turned his cloud to chase after the raven. He had a feeling that this bird wasn't normal, and if this indeed was the case he had to stop it from telling someone what it seen. If he just got a liiiiittle closer, he could shoot a bolt of his fire at the bird...
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Post by Tamber on Jun 21, 2008 16:24:44 GMT
Rhea's ears perked at what Lumiar told them. How interesting! This mountain had always been another volcano, but its activity was controlled by good and evil. The more Lumiar told about it, the more excited Rhea became about being involved. Still, one thing was pressing on her mind.
"So...how are we going to find twelve tiny little stones? Do you have any idea of where they are?" she asked, hoping Lumiar would answering yes, and hoping the others would join them as well.
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Indigo zoomed through the warm African air, eager to return to her master, but something caught her attention. Ever feel like someone is following you?
Indigo got this feeling and jerked her black head around to see the tiger and his cloud following her. She knew she couldn't lead him back to Kaemon this way, so she shot herself back up, flying upwards again. When the tiger follwed her in that direction, she began to fly faster, swooping around in random circles. The tiger tried to keep track of her, but she kept speeding up, and before long it was nearly impossible to keep one's eye on her.
Kaemon could not see his bird circling around the cloud and the tiger, but could see the cloud moving around clumsily and randomly, and he could sense that something was wrong in Indigo's world. He no longer felt comfortable having her up there and so far away from him, only feeling her feelings and not knowing what was happening around her. He immediately made her vanish.
A blue, electric light flashed around Indigo, and she dissapeared into a world where she was not with Kaemon or anyone else.
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Post by Zorayda on Jun 21, 2008 20:43:08 GMT
Reicheru swiftly noted that the gazelle that she once thought dead was now arisen and was snorting in defense of its master.
<I am just a simple lioness... I am a lone rogue who wanders the land. May I come forward?>
Reicheru tried to emanate calmness and trustworthiness through her mind to the creature, because it made her quite nervous. Necromancers were nothing to be scoffed at.
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Post by Judas on Jun 21, 2008 21:19:56 GMT
Altaïr walked up beside Luminar listening to her words, as she explained what had to be done in order to stop the impending eruption. The assassin narrowed his eyes as he took in the mute lioness' words, Altaïr prefers flying but for the moment he had to make due with walking. "Where do we start the search, and how do we tell it's exactly those rocks. I mean there are over millions of rocks in this area alone?"
Not an easy task that was sure, in truth the assassin thought the whole ordeal quite impossible.. and if not slightly stupid in it's own right. But then again this was his orders, to stop the volcano, and a worse fate than an exploding mountain would await him should he fail. He just wished Haya would've given him a more easy task like assassinating a king or something, that was more fun than this drab quest.
As a precaution the angelic lion made a silent vow to himself to keep distance from the group, unless they had explicit need for him or his expertise. Altaïr was with this group cause he was bound by life, and also this group held the key if he should ever get this mission complete before the deadline.
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The necromancer just rose a brow, at the feline up head, she seemed to be non-threatening and she asked for permission to approach her. "Alright, but paws off the gazelle.." Kisirani warned and the gazelle collapsed onto itself again, as Kisirani continued her meal, now ignoring the strange lioness. Though for some reason the half-blind lioness couldn't avoid the feeling that she felt watched as if something was keeping an eye on her from some were around.
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Post by Sarafina on Jun 22, 2008 13:41:52 GMT
Ravenna made sure that she wasnt noticed by any of the others as she hid behind the trees. She watched them and if something went wrong, she would back away and come back later. She wasnt technically stalking them. She wanted to be in a group, but she had trust issues. She needed someone to tell her that she would be okay.
As she watched the others, the trees gently blew to go alpong with the wind that she was producing. Since the wind was blowing, she was upset and felt forgotten. She sat there and just stared. If someone were to look at her now, she would look like a ghost lioness. You would see her, then she would disapear.
The only way someone would see her, is if someone were to follow her. She kind of wished someone would. She wanted someone to talk to...but she was afraid they would betray her. She was betrayed once before...she knew it would happen again.
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Post by Zorayda on Jun 22, 2008 17:31:06 GMT
Reicheru walked closer to the powerful being.
"Hello," she said when she could use her voice. "Sorry for being nosy, but it gets quite boring being all alone all the time."
Reicheru glanced warily at the gazelle.
"And I'm not so sure if I want to eat something that was dead... ish... I like to make sure my meals aren't moving still."
Reicheru tilted her head.
"I'm sure you've heard, but there is a giant volcano endangering these lands, and rumor has it that only twelve certain stones will be able to stop it. Have you heard anything different?"
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Post by Kirsui on Jun 23, 2008 9:45:20 GMT
Lumiar glanced at Altaïr, an amused sparkle in her eyes.
<<You are right... There are many stones in the world.>>
She turned to gaze the area, searching for some spesific landmarks.
<<But how many of these stones can be worn around the neck, or glow faintly when it's dark? You will notice the diference once you see one of these stones.>>
There it was, an odd black rock that was the shape of a tooth. Her expression turned excited.
<<As a reply to you, Rhea... Yes, I know where the stones are. It is my duty to know their location, as it was the duty of the one before me...>>
For a moment she fell into her thoughts, but shook her head to snap out of it. She smiled faintly.
<<The first one is the easiest to get, as it lies right here on this savannah.>>
She pointed at the tooth shaped rock.
<<And.. it happens to be that this stone is inside that.>>
Skell chased the raven as it flew down from the sky. He was getting closer and closer, and prepared to shoot a bolt of his fire at the bird. But it turned its direction, too quickly if one asked from the tiger. There was something in this raven... Was it trying to lead him away from something?
Skell would never know, for suddenly the raven vanished in a flash of light. The dark tiger's eyes widened in surprise, then he commanded his cloud to stop. He had known the raven wasn't normal, so would it be possible he was right about it trying to lead him away from something as well...?
Skell scanned the area below, and smirked faintly. Why yes indeed, there was some creature at the ground whom he had failed to notice before.
Deciding to play a little his cloud suddenly vanished, causing the tiger to fall right towards the ground. He watched as the ground came closer and closer, how he passed the critical point of being able to straighten the fall by normal ways...
He formed his cloud around himself once again, and his fall stopped right before the inpact to the ground. He made the cloud disappear again, and if one hadn't looked closely enough it would have seemed that the tiger had fallen on his feet from the sky.
And so, he was now standing not too far away from a canine, and a species he had never seen before. He stood calmly, examining the creature in silence. He was in no hurry to speak out, and would instead rather wait and see if this canine would break the silence instead.
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Post by Judas on Jun 23, 2008 10:53:25 GMT
Apperiantly this odd lioness didn't want to go unnoticed for long, as she spoke. "The gazelle is dead.." she mumbled through her chewing answereing the odd lioness' words about eating things. Apperiantly the lioness was in a talkative mood as she mentioned that a volcano was endangering the area, well Kisirani knew that and she had her own plan how to counter it.
"Yes, that's why I am leaving this area.." she paused for a moment, "infact I am on my way out" the dark coated lioness replied, she had no intentions of sticking around and meet a certin death by lava or some pyroclastic flow. She had toyed with the idea that the mountains antics was some joke conjured up by some creature who happend to be able to control volcanos. Now in this situvation such a power would've come in handy.
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Luminar was apperiantly amused by his words, and after a while it became apperant that Luminar knew where all these stones supposedly were. And she had already found one, just up ahead; the stone was oddly tooth shaped, it didn't look like any natural formation, perhapse it was the work of monkeys he had seen them make odd things out of material but the reason for this he had never dabbled about, afterall they were just stupid monkeys.
"Let me get this strait, the stone we are after is /inside/ that?!" Altaïr said pointing to odd stone up ahead, "If so how do we get it out?" a brow rose on the assassin's face, he had a feeling this seemed all to easy. It couldn't be this easy cause if they were just lying around anyone could just walk over and steal them, and that meant that some of the stones could've left this continent alltogether no some of the stones must've been guarded or something.
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