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RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Iskra - 08-12-2017 @Melita @Zahra @Eleos tries to superheat the air around Eleos right before he hits the ground to dramatically slow the descent. RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Zahra - 08-12-2017 Zahra & Ilham It was pride that turned angels into devils The many thousand strong swarm, like an ominous bronze cloud beneath the gravity-stricken stallion’s barrel, gathered together at the will of their owner and drove their fierce formation back towards the sky. Zahra followed at a huge rate of knots, with stunning wingspan veering, dipping, thrusting, and primaries feather’s glistened and shone with all of the visual vibrancy of the four lost, Helovian gods. Her thoughts, though frayed by terror, were centred studiously on the use of her power to manipulate and wield the humming insects and while the streaking copper-coat below snatched her eye, she could spare it no attention; could not break concentration.
The sound of her own desperate shouting rang in her ears long after clarity of the voice had withered away, fuelling the rise of dread through her trembling core.
The blur of movement quickly transformed into the winged figure of a yearling-sized horse, and the fretting girl realised that his motivation was to aid. All at once, as he paused aloft, the overwhelming sensation of relief flooded through her and so lightened did she feel that some lucidity returned to her mind; in fact, it was the nature of the magic, that the other pegasus used, which more or less nullified her own. In rapid succession, her locusts dehydrated midair and began, spontaneously to combust as bursting firelights in the dreary, Drench sky. Quickly the truth occurred to her, and though at first, she began to panic, it quickly became apparent that the other was using magic that was working!
Eleos’s fall began to slow, enough at least to soften the horrific blow of his body slamming into the earth. Zahra too collided down beside him with knees forced to fold, jarring, and flared wings barely catching the onslaught of her oncoming weight; but he’d survived!
"Oh thank you!" Golden eyes danced heavenward, beckoning the yearling down. "Thank you so much, you saved my Da…" Plush maw delved frantically into the motionless ebon contours of the slumped stallion, realising the life therein; the warmth and the slow, shallow breath hidden beneath his strewn feather. She set about realigning the appendage (perhaps for her own comfort more than his), before turning to Iskara with warmth and gratitude pooling through her expression. "I am indebted to you." Perhaps if the younger couldn’t stay - for others already were moving off - she would find him soon after in this fluorescent world of perils and thank him properly in gift. @Iskra - you are wonderful <3 RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Melita - 08-12-2017
For all those boisterous statements, for all those emboldened decrees, her ability to do something was supremely hindered – merely because she was a child, and she had no power to befoul a god – fallen, broken, spectral, or otherwise.
But she’d try, because she was a willing little force of tenacity and audacity, brimming with such a heated, blunt force, sharpened to such an extent, realigned, sculpted and carved over again, turning her head towards the haunting outcries and the bestial commandments; noting the bedlam, the chaos, the unraveling menace. Ghosts were on the horizon, in the shadows, in the mist, in the cloaks and daggers of friends, of allies, of comrades, and it stoked a fire within her soul, so when she turned to Iskra as he asked if she was all right, she locked everything away under smoke, under embers, under a breathtaking, ferocious smile. “I’m okay,” she nodded, struggling not to quiver, not to shake, when the strangest of sensation inched its way into her skin. Her pelt trembled on its own, an innate reaction to touch, to foreign entities crawling along her form – but this was different, like something burrowed its way into her hide and stayed there. It irritated and annoyed her, a strange droning sound captivating her presence the way bees so often did with their peculiar buzzing, drawn to them as a moth to a flame, but this was otherworldly, creepy, and eerie. She couldn’t understand it, couldn’t fathom it, so she attempted to ignore the bizarre perception, stepping forward, into the bounty of malice and menace again, fighting too many things at once. Melita endeavored to focus on Iskra then, his agreement to her request, then his awe at the scene before them – she had just a few small moments to gaze at the wolf before it disappeared, before he murmured something about another carnivore, and she couldn’t remember, recall, anything about these monsters. Perhaps she’d been too young, too naïve, too spellbound by everything else to have been allured or beguiled by the stories, but she was well and trapped now by its notations. “What tiger?” The little one whispered back, but by the time she’d turned to stare, to gaze upon the boy in blue and gold, he was gone. A sudden panic swelled in her heart, in her chest, in her lungs, a thousand questions launched in her mind (what if he’d suddenly been taken by the monsters, what if he’d been assaulted, what if he’d been hurt?), spinning her in all directions. She spotted him as he became the savior for another (a being falling down, down, down), capable where she was not, and the brief flutter of apprehension cooled into that ferocity all over again. What could she do to help someone else? How could she combat these malignant forces? She didn’t even know how to fly yet. There was a figure on the ground though, nearby, drenched in black – still, too still. The honeybee child inhaled, and tread softly, carefully, towards the felled beast, because he needed protection, because she could at least stand nearby, another body, another wall, another shield for someone in need. The girl unfolded her wings, fluttered them open like a canopy (an umbrella, a ward), to shelter the stranger from the phantoms, from the chaos, from the vast unknown. She thought about lowering her maw to his ears, to ask, to inquire about his wellbeing, but there was naught else she could do but stare out into the abyss, to watch, to guard, eyes darting, heart pounding, anger beginning to claw its way into her throat. Melita diamond in the flesh @Iskra @Tamlin {trying to stand over him. ;D} RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Iskra - 08-12-2017 @Zahra RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Zahra - 08-13-2017 Zahra & Ilham It was pride that turned angels into devils Though her heart rattled on and the throb of adrenaline through her boiling veins was yet to ease, the sensation of relief flooding through her core, like cool, refreshing water, was incredible. By some miracle, her father had been purged from the belly of the afterlife into her lap, there in the Rift; they’d been gifted another chance at life together, and the prospect of losing him to death for the second time, had driven savagely like a jagged blade, through her soul. All of that fear and regret – the broiling build-up of raw, rude emotion within – began to tumble from her weary eyes as the colt descended and joined her.
"I think so," she answered uncertainly, passing an inexperienced eye across the stallion’s damp, murky form. There seemed to be no blood seeping out beneath him to indicate the injury which had taken his flight – had she imagined it, the vision of one wing removed? Should his skin have been ripped or the flesh visibly wounded, her answer might have been a steady yes (for the response would’ve been different and golden blood would already be sowing him back together). As it stood, she could neither see what ailed him nor help in any way better than to guard and caress. He was far too large for either to roll. As the charcoal tip of the younger’s handsome, patterned face proffered forward officially, Zahra met it easily with a gentle, whiskered brush and a growing, brighter grin. Ilham, with half a dozen eyes fixed upon him, mentioned meditatively, "wise words from such a young soul…” And it was true; the colt’s statement hit the golden-bellied girl square in the gut. For how long had she hidden idle, avoiding the bad – the hard - with her head buried in the sand. Guilt was quick to torture her mind, but the feeling was set aside for the sake of her sensible company.
"I’m Zahra, nice to meet you,” she hummed quietly, following the path of his eyes as they ventured thither to find another winged figure. The brown-coated girl stood yet above another fallen – another body, sprawled motionlessly across the ground. “I don’t want to hold you up,” she noted easily, a tinge of understanding icing every word. Eleos was still unmoving below her, but there was a sudden desperate yearning in her heart to help; to pay forward the kindness that was given to her. The shadows, rolling, ravaging mists seemed to be a good distance away. "Do… you know of anyone who needs a healer, or a bandage?" @Iskra RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Erthë - 08-15-2017 I'm no hero and I'm not made of stone For an instant, her gaze is caught by the demonic red glare of the wolf's eyes, and for that fraction of a second Erthë felt as though time had ceased to flow around her. Internally she balked beneath the dead god's gaze, but strangely enough she felt no anger in that brief glare, no hatred or begrudging of her existence even though she'd had such a part in his demise. Indeed, all she saw and felt was, oddly enough, appreciation, and it was so baffling that she all but forgot the battles that raged around her, and would have failed to notice the onslaught of dark spirits if the fang in her grasp had not reacted in her defense. It flared up in a bright, painful red glow and shattered, vanquishing several wraiths as it did so, and fell to the ground. All around her the wraiths were disappearing. One by one and in droves they were herded towards the grinning wolf fangs and disappeared in a ear-splitting wail of dismay, and before Erthë could speak a word of thanks or plead the shadow of the god for a way to defeat Kaos, it too vanished. Gone, as if it had never been there at all... with the bloodied bodies and warped magic left as the only proof of its existence. For a while, Erthë merely stood there, numb and still in the swirling mist while the echoes of shock and grief reverberated through her. There was disappointment too, for not only had the wolf failed to revive, it had caused the fang to explode as well, leaving nothing left for her to pin her hopes on. It felt like a defeat, even though on the whole they must have emerged victorious from this skirmish with the dead, and its taste was bitter in her mouth. Reluctant to part with even the shattered remnants of her hopes, the little mare searched the ground for the fragments of the fang, but was surprised to find not shards of black tooth but three whole fangs, as black as the one had been but without that eerie black glow. Bemused but grateful, the hybrid mare gathered them up and tucked them away for safekeeping, and once she had made sure that there was nothing left there for her to do, she retreated from the clearing. There was much to think about, much to consider, but before she could do that she would need to rest. Fighting ghosts was draining business, to be sure. Right or wrong, I can hardly tell I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell RE: » Hauntings & Healings - Erebos - 08-20-2017 Erebos
There was nothing again – the aftermath strained over a couple of snakes curling through his beard – the echoes, the throngs, of piercing ghosts sliding away. It was as if naught had happened at all, and the only consequences of their horrors, of their traumas, of their anguish, were the bitter plumes of dying fog. He stopped laughing, staring at the ground, at the dissipating edges and fringes of sorrow, of melancholy; and wondered how they’d gotten here, so very far from the world they used to know. Helovia had its own sources of despair and treachery, but this place seemed to be one demanding, unrelenting, iniquitous battle after another. It’d been lined in brutality, in wolfish, predacious lunges and harpoons; as if the very earth knew exactly how they interacted, functioned, and thought. How did one combat an empire that could read into their very souls? The shadows drummed along his eyes, and he glanced into the threads and seams of darkness; conspiring once more – pondering how one could fight the malice and menace from within. With more? With less? With the same remorseless force shown and savaged upon them? The considerations coiled within his mind, trapped there in the hissing sounds, in the sibilance, in the cauldron of brewing contortions. The warrior pressed back into the void, disappearing from whence he’d come, determined not to fall apart so easily (not again, not ever again), when the snares were drawn, when the kingdom saw his weaknesses, drew his flaws. It was another promise yet to be fulfilled. I'LL SHOW YOU HOW GOD | FALLS ASLEEP ON THE JOB Image Credits |