A P O L L O When everything’s meant to be broken I just want you to know who I am Breathe. Just breathe. There was no use fretting over once was, no use of mourning losses or questioning existences. There was no time, no point. It had all happened so fast and it would be useless to cry, to fret, because this was not Helovia and there was no point in pretending that it was. Instead, he would just breathe. Inhale, exhale. Rinse and repeat. … But they were gone. Nothing could change that. Nothing could rid the images from his mind. They were all gone, all lost, valiantly trying to defend their home and losing their very lives for it. Kaos had slain them,murdered them, familiar names and faces and souls that he had once called family. The usurper of lands had cast them out and wrenched their lives away, twisting and warping until there had been nothing left save vaporous wisps, disposing of them like a horse swatting a fly with their tail. Legs trembled beneath the Merciful’s ebony bulk, chest heaving in the wake of his panic and sweat mottling his flanks, foamy and hot. Nostrils flared, ears swiveled forward at attention, honey-brown eyes wide with wonder and terror as he remembered, and oh,Godsdid it hurt. When the portal had opened, the gateway to this land of mystery and after the killings had started, Apollo had watched with wide-eyed terror, shocked and hooves rooted to the spot, unable to move. Some stayed, some fled. Some, like him, were completely blindsided with terror and seemed to be unable to move. It had only been Zola’s voice screaming in his head that his petrified body found motion. ’Run!’The cat had howled, tail puffed to twice its size, the blind feline tucked securely into the latched pouch that hung off of his shoulders and secured about his neck, the sleek black of her head poking out of one of the bag flap corners,/’Apollo, run!’ With a choked sob, Apollo the Merciful had done just that. He ran and didn't look back. And now… Breathe. The world around him was a new, strange, frightening one. Eerie glowing eyes peered at his trembling bulk with judgmental gazes, watching him through the furling mists and shadowed trees, like darkness incarnate. His youthful fears of the dark had returned with a vengeance, but at least he wasn't alone. Zola was with him, her tiny body warm in his shoulder pouch. “This place,” he breathed out upon a whisper, lips quivering, “... I-I don't know where to go, Zola. I don't know.” Inside his satchel, Zola gave a small ‘meow’, her voice resonating anxiously in his head. ‘We must try, Apollo. We have to. Maybe Lyanna is here? We must find her. Ktulu and Eytan? Safety in numbers, yes?’ No one was here, and no one would help him. The Grey was not here to sweep him away into their comforting folds of brotherhood. The Foothills and Falls were no longer there as a safe haven. The Edge was gone forevermore. This… This place, this world, he would need to discover on his own. “... We can try.” He murmured, tone uncertain. It was all he could do. ---- Magics: {SAFE} EarthxLight | Able to dig his horn into the dirt, and touch said dirt-covered horn to a wound to heal it ] :: [ Restrictions | Dirt must have touched the horn to activate the healing properties; larger wounds will require more dirt, energy expense, and focus ] Enchanted items None Rift-god / Kaos items None Amulets : 1 Companion/s : {SAFE} {Zola - Black Cat | None | 2yrs 9 mos | Mid-Drench 1169, October 14 2014} Requests: I would like to have all of Apollo’s regular items transferred from Helovia, please! Regular Items: :: [ Item: Band of the Tree | Bracelet of gold leaf and green stones (from the Giving Tree 2015). ] :: [ Item: Satchel | Hemp satchel on shoulder ] :: [ Restrictions | Of no use in battle ] :: [ Item: Jewelry | Blue beads in mane ] I hope I did all this right since Apollo only has one magic and one companion, and no enchanted items! Let me know if anything needs changed, please! |
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(This post was last modified: 07-31-2017, 03:20 AM by Rift Presence.)
These woods are lonely, dark, and deep.
But now filled, filled with life. Filled with hope—filled with fear. And the drenching, pelting rain washes all to the earth, soaking its parched soil with new life. Dark mosses erupt with light; neon fluorescence reaching eagerly, sharp tendrils of light towards all these moving, milling new legs. These revived, writhing energies strike out at anything near—magic, life, death. It wants it all. the Rift [TRANSFER NOTES : APOLLO ] Magic: Healing: Able to imbue dirt with healing properties by digging his horn into it. Amulets: Darkness swirls, ripping free the one drop of godsblood you carry. In their wake they leave a searing emptiness, but nothing more. Companion: Zola : Cat OOC Obtained: October 14 2014 Rift Birthdate: Mid-Drench 1169 Regular items transfer fine :)
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07-16-2017, 06:41 AM
How long had she been there? A few minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? Trapped in the portal, tumbling through darkness she had lost all sense of time. She was alone. So utterly alone in the darkness. Lost, confused, and scared. Nothing made sense, and her young mind couldn't comprehend the things she had seen and heard before her mother and father had ushered her and her siblings into the portal. Requiem's entrance into this new world came rather suddenly. She was tossed from the portal, landing on the ground with a hard thump and a soft grunt. The filly was motionless for a few seconds before she lifted her head and opened her eyes. Almost immediately she squeezed them shut again, because this was all a bad dream. When she opened her eyes everything would go back to the way it had been before. She may have only lived in Helovia a few days before the mass exodus, but she had liked the land she had been born in to. But when she opened her eyes ... it wasn't Helovia. "...mommy?" The child said as a realization slowly dawned on her. "Mommy?" She clambered awkwardly to her feet, teetering unsteadily for a moment. "Gabriel? Daddy! Mommy!" The more she called the more frantic and panicked her voice became. They had all gone into the portal together, but neither of her parents and her brother hadn't arrived with her. Requiem didn't want to be alone in a new and unfamiliar place. She couldn't be alone. She was only a few days old and had never been more than a few feet from her mother's side, and she had never been far from Gabriel. The smart thing to do would be to stay calm, but as all children do when they realize they're lost she panicked. Fear bubbled up in her chest so violently that, for a moment, she couldn't breathe. Then, as she sucked in a ragged breath, the world grew distorted from the tears that flooded her crimson eyes. "Mommy! Daddy!" The child wailed fearfully. She had started to run, frantically searching for her family even while being blinded by her tears and nearly crippled by panic. All her running, however, wasn't bringing her any closer to finding her family. But it did bring her closer to someone who might help her search, or at the very least keep her safe from whatever monsters were lurking, just waiting to feast on a succulent little foal. Apollo's form was blurry due to her tear-laden vision, but she rushed toward him nonetheless. "H-h-help!" She sobbed. Personal space wasn't a concept that the child understood, and so she pressed herself against the stallion's chest. "I-I'm lost! I can't f-find my m-m-mommy!" Magics: {SAFE} :: [ Magic: WaterxEarth | Can summon rain that speeds the growth rate of plants ] :: [ Restrictions | 5m radius ] [ Magic: Earth | Able to compress granules of sand into glass ] :: [ Restrictions: 1 large item, 2 medium, or 3 small per season ] Enchanted items N/A Rift-god / Kaos items N/A Amulets : (provide number) Companion/s : N/A Items: :: [ Item: Appearance change | Genetic Mutation. Removal of third wing growing off other wing. ] Species change (if applicable) : Requests: Her magic isn't listed in her records, but it is on her foal stats here requiem
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07-16-2017, 09:41 AM
She is a song for the dead, and in response, the wind shifting through the drenched, glowing forest shifts—it grows mournful and haunting, it vibrates, eerie wails drifting along with banks of purple haze. Blue ferns rustle. Hollow logs and burnt-out trees moan. They might be saying hello, as they break off the small growth of the third wing and suck the marrow from the hollow, brittle bones.
the Rift [ TRANSFER NOTES: REQUIEM ] Magic: Crafting: Can summon rain that speeds up the growth rate of plants. Crafting: Able to create glass from sand. Each time she uses the magic, a small part of her turns to glass. Third wing is removed.
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07-16-2017, 09:32 PM
@Apollo
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07-19-2017, 01:59 AM
"Shh," At first Requiem cried louder because, more than ever, she wanted her mother. There was saftey beneath the black and gold feathers of her mother's wing where she would stand pressed against her side with Gabriel right next to her. But she didn't know where any of them were or where to even begin looking for them. The stallion she found continued to shush her and even claimed that she was safe there with him. Gradually she calmed, her wailing quieted to soft sobs punctuated with sniffles and ragged breaths. Daddy had told her that not all strangers could be trusted and her mother had warned her against talking to strangers, but the stranger she had found didn't seem to be bad at all. Her tears had finally stopped, but she still hadn't caught her breath after her panicked run through the forest and her crying. The child's nostrils flared as she sucked in a breath and let it out slowly like the stranger said. "R-Requiem." She answered, still a little breathless, but much calmer than she had been when she'd burst from the forest. "I w-wanna go h-home." She whispered, tears stinging her eyes, and she tried her hardest not to let them roll down her face. The child almost started crying again, but Apollo's introduction of himself and the cat -- mostly the cat -- was enough to distract her for the moment. "Is sh-she your com-companion?" The girl asked as she looked at the eyeless creature. "My Momma h-has one." Her breathing became more even as continued to calm down. "She says that my grandma has a bear, but I've never met either of them." She continued. "And my daddy says that his parents had dragons. I've never met them, either." Again, she remembered that she was separated from her family and tears welled in her eyes. “Do you two need help finding someone?” Requiem turned her tear-stained face to the newcomer, though she couldn't see her clearly through the tears that muddled her vision. "I can't find my mom." She whimpered. "I don't know where I am." Before the tears could fall she turned and hid her face against Apollo's shoulder. requiem @Apollo @Anuya |
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