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10:09pm Aug 16 2013
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(Let us begin then.)
Luna slowly followed one of the many small streams that ran through the forest like veins. She looked behind her to see if anyone was behind her but was glad to find that nobody was. She did however notice the tips of her wings poking out from under her jacket. She paused before pulling down her jacket so that the tips were neatly tucked, "Don't forget your tailcoats little swallow." she said quietly before continuing on her way. She didn't know why she was in the current situation that she found herself in but she knew that finding water was important. The smells that filled her nostrils were kind and welcoming but at the same time they were strange and unsettling. Wherever she was it wasn't home, not even close. She picked up her pace a little, "The sooner I get out of the forest the better." she said, "I can get a better feel for this place."
Rex looked down at the small amount of light that entered the forest floor through the trees. He watched the shadows dace as the wind blew through the trees that towered above him. He then looked across at a small clearing to his right. Only the clearings seemed to be bathed in light. Although to him it seemed like the clearings were made by something. They didn't seem to occur naturally at all. They were much to well rounded to be natural. He shook his head before climbing onto a low hanging branch. He would wait here to see if anyone passed him. That would clarify that he wasn't alone.
Lilly lay in a small clearing with her toes dipped in a cool stream of water. This place is so relaxing she thought with a small smile as she looked at the clouds overhead. She watched as a large winged creature flew over the forest. It almost seemed like it was scanning it for something. She watched it until the white shimmer of it's scales could no longer be seen before closing her eyes. "Very relaxing." she said softly.
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12:29am Aug 17 2013
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Caitlyn was lying down on the rocky bottom of the lake. A few small fish had gathered around her to see if she was dead or not. They got the fright of their lives when she moved. She opened her eyes and thrashed her arms, trying desperately to discern where she was. She swivelled her head around to see if there was any immediate danger. When her eyes adjusted, Caitlyn could still only see a few meters through the hazy water.
She propelled herself off the sea floor with her feet and, as soon as she was out of the way of any potentially sharp rocks, she grew her tail. Now that Caitlyn had her fin, she could get up to the surface much quicker. Her head splashed out of the water, and she glanced around to see that she was in the middle of a very large lake. She bobbed her head back under the water, and swam powerfully towards the water's edge. She willed her legs to appear once more and she hoisted herself up onto the grassy bank.
She squeezed the water from her hair and flipped it behind her shoulders. Caitlyn looked down at her wet clothes (a nice-looking blouse and jeans) and sighed. Where on earth was she? Was she on Earth? In front of her was a huge, lush forest, but she didn't want to go in. Caitlyn had never been much of a fan of enclosed spaces, and a thick forest with trees in all directions was exactly that. She lay down on the grass and basked in the sun to dry herself, but made sure to stay awake and alert.
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Madi had woken up that morning in a forest. Not that it was much different from where she usually was, but the trees were a different species and there were less birds here. At first, she had panicked, and tried to run away, but she couldn't find the edge of the forest. All she found was a couple of clearings. She had decided to stay for now, and try to find out what was going on.
Now, she sat in the high branches of a tree by a clearing, watching the figure of a young woman with her feet in the stream, who was quite possibly her captor. Madi had thought of killing her, but then she realised she didn't have any weapons, or the coldness in her heart required to carry it out. So, instead, she watched her from her safe place up in the tree. She wondered that if the woman had brought her here, why she didn't seem to know Madi was watching her? Madi chewed on a mushroom from the sack of roots, fruits, vegetables, and eggs she had collected since that morning.
Madi was growing bored of waiting for the woman to do something. She lay back on the tree trunk tiredly, and then had an idea. She shuffled forward on the branch until she could go no further without it snapping off, and picked one of the heavy conker-like seed pods from the smaller branch above her. Madi swung her arm behind her head, and brought it forward again, hurling the seed pod at the stream, where it hit with a mighty splash. Madi watched to see what the woman would do, and if she would notice her or not.
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12:38am Aug 17 2013
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Lilly opened her eyes and jumped back when the water splashed and quickly took a few steps back, "W-what was that?" she said before watching the seed pod float away on the stream. She looked around a little before backing up even more Something is attacking me she thought with a small hiss. Her ears perked up a little and she listened out for a sound.
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12:58am Aug 17 2013
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Madison snickered, covering her mouth with her hand. She reached for another pod, and picked it. It was attached more firmly this time, so the branch rustled as she grabbed it. Madi lobbed the seed pod at the grass this time, and it hit about half a meter from the woman's feet, and bounced a few times. Madison shimmied backwards on her branch to hide in the leaves.
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1:13am Aug 17 2013
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Lilly bent down and picked up the seed pod when it stopped bouncing. She then looked in Madison's direction and bared her teeth, "Unless you want a shard in your leg I'd suggest showing yourself." she hissed before throwing the pod down, "Because you have bothered my quite a bit.". She then took a step toward the tree, "Are you listening?"
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1:22am Aug 17 2013 (last edited on 1:25am Aug 17 2013)
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"Sh--" A tall female with pointed ears looked at the lower half of her skinny frame and swore under her breath. Her entire lower half was scaled and fishy. This was nothing new to the water elf, also known as a merelf, but it was a bit of an inconvenience. Because she wasn't fully mermaid, she couldn't control when she changed. Whenever she got wet by any means, she became a mermaid, complete with scaled tail and fins on her lower arms, and fully naked. Whenever she was dry, her tail became a pair of pale, skinny legs. The female realised she was half in the water which was why she was fishy.
The she-elf pulled herself fully onto dry land, attempting to cover herself up as she saw someone else nearby. There was nothing around though and her clothes didn't magically appear when she grew legs. Cursing a few more times, she let herself dry off and suddenly, her scales melted back into legs except, her legs were tinged blue and scaled. This made it a bit awkward to pretend to be a normal elf. "Stupid father. Why did he have to fall in love with mermaid." Her voice had the equivalent to an earth English accent. "Well... this is... odd." She muttered to herself as she found a white and blue elven robs lying next to a rock.
Dressing herself in the comfortable clothing, she stood up and looked around. It seemed very different from her home world of Plasei. Where the hell am I. The girl thought and then looked around some more. The trees were very odd. Very odd indeed and slightly black tinged, making her wonder if there had been a forest fire recently. Rubbing her arms, the elf started walking, away from the water, to somewhere she could find out where she was. She had been to many planets, but this wasn't one she recognized. "Welp. Amur... you seem to be going on an adventure." She told herself, gathering up the bow that was under the clothing and then her mouth clamped shut as she saw someone lying on the grass with wet clothes near her. She walked over and attempted to speak, but didn't seem to be able to. What the hell. I was speaking earlier! She smiled as her thoughts reeled angrily...
((She is near Caitlyn. Also, I'll introduce Rowan later.))
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2:30am Aug 17 2013
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Giovanni awoke slowly having been propped up against a strange willow with its roots dipped in the stagnant river about a metre and a half below the bank. Giovanni looked around through the electronically enhanced visors in his gasmask. He cursed in a mumbled string of vulgar Italian before standing, using his cane to lean upon to combat the waves of nausea suddenly assailing him. Am I hungover? he thought. Non I can't be; I haven't been to a tavern... Where am I though? This is hardly Florence... maybe the Appenines? How very odd...
He adjusted his hat, smoothed his cloak and strolled forwards with the sun on his right.
Whether we wanted it or not, we\'ve stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let\'s get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta\'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He\'s well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.
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5:08am Aug 17 2013
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Caitlyn had closed her eyes as the bright glare of the sun was too much to stare at, however, she still listened intently, and kept her nose alert to sense any disturbance. She sprung to her feet and very quickly moved several meters backward when she heard the rustling of someone approaching from her side. Her eyes were wide with shock, and maybe even a bit of fear. "Who are you?" she hissed aggressively, and bared her sharp teeth, "Stay away! I'm warning you!" She stepped back some more, not taking her eyes off Amur. Thoughts raced through her head of how she could escape, or even better, kill her opponent.
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Madison gulped at the woman's threats. She had definitely had no idea she was getting herself into this. She knew that it would probably end up best for her if she showed herself, but for whatever stupid reason, she crawled deeper into the thick of leaves that separated her from Lilly's view. That, and if she did come down, she would have to apologize, and that was not something her pride would allow her to do.
She dared not make a sound, and drew in her breath to hold. She looked above her at the few extra branches until the top of the tree. They looked as if they had about a 50/0 chance of snapping underneath her, but she didn't care. All she wanted was to get as far away from that woman as possible. So that if she was pursued up the tree, the woman wouldn't reach her because she would probably break a branch further down, since she was bigger than Madi.
She got up, and nearly lost her balance in her terror, but gripped tight to the tree trunk to steady herself. She pulled herself up onto the next branch, and then had to make a small jump to the next one up. She sprang from her current branch, and as her stomach caught onto the other branch, she heard a dreadful crunch, and then a series of little snaps. Before she could move, the branch gave way, and it hurtled downwards, with Madi still attached.
She yelped as she was whipped by the thin, sharp twigs on the way down. She scrambled for a place to put her hands, her feet, anything. She grabbed onto a piece of bark on the trunk, but her hand dragged down it painfully. She clenched her teeth, and reached out with her other hand for a branch. She caught hold, but now dangled perilously five meters above the ground. The branch she was falling with reached the earth and cracked into several pieces below her. She didn't dare think what would have happened to her if she hit the ground with it.
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7:29am Aug 17 2013
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Sonali opened her eyes lightly and stared at her surrondings. It looked like she was in a clearing, "where am I?", she asked to herself. She quite liked the sunlight of the clearing and the feeling of the crisp cool grass, but she knew she had to get up. She pushed herself of the ground and wiped the grass of her face dizzily, she could see more clearly her surrondings. There was still no sign of where she was.
She checked to make sure she had her sword on her belt and looked around here. There are some people up there. She walked up closer to the people, someone was dangling from a tree branch. She decided not to get into the mess right away, as she had been know to do that but instead just wait and watch. She looked around to see if she could find any more people but she couldn't see anyone else in sight. She rubbed her forehead and slowly her vision cleared.
She had just left the clearing and she seamed to be to somewhere else. She was a little thirsty and she obviously couldn't survive out here without water, she looked at the too girls. "hello?", she asked. She wasn't sure if she was doing the right thing by talking to them, but what better thing did she have to do. She looked at them nervously and waited, one of them was sitting on the branch of a tree and she wasn't sure why. She looked around still trying to make sure there wasn't anyone else she wasnt aware of.
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11:21am Aug 17 2013 (last edited on 11:21am Aug 17 2013)
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The great beast awoke in a small clearing surrounded by a forest. He was in his original body of a great fox spirit, not in his, frequently used, human form. Nihon swept his eyes across his surroundings to figure out where he was. He had no memories of being in such a place. No on was to be seen from his small clearing, but he could still sense others in the distance around him. Some of the beings were small and seemingly insignificant, while others were larger and resembled more of a human shape.
This had been the first time the spirit had been so mystified from a series of events such as this, so he decided to scope the area. At first he plodded around the forest, still in his kitsune form. After some time of investigating, he decided he would transform into his other self. Nihon shrank to the size of a teenage boy, his ears still sticking out of his head.
When he walked a bit further, he spotted a enormous lake. His stomach growled, reminding him of his hunger. Nihon approached the lake steadily, lowering himself down to a crouch. The boy peered into the water and watched the fish swim beneath the surface. After some time of waiting, he scooped on hand in the water at a lightning pace. His hand resurfaced clutching a squirming fish. The spirit licked his lips and took a huge bite of the struggling creature.
After the creature was no more, he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and peered into the water once more, in search of his next victim.
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6:34pm Aug 17 2013 (last edited on 6:35pm Aug 17 2013)
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Lilly stared at the new comer for a few seconds. She then turned her attention to the tree that Madison was dangling from, "Is this person an associate of yours?" she asked in a cold tone, "Speak now and you will be unharmed.". She then looked back at the other female, "Are you also here to attack me?" she asked, "Do I have to hold you both as hazards?"
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6:36pm Aug 17 2013
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Madison turned her head to see Sonali, and tightened her grip on the tree branch. "Help!" she called frantically, "She's mad! Please help me!" She kicked her feet in Lilly's direction to keep her away. Tears of pain and fear streaked down her face as she screamed. Madi tried to swing herself up onto the branch, but he finger slipped a bit, and she was paralysed with fear all over again, still hanging from the branch.
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6:43pm Aug 17 2013 (last edited on 6:45pm Aug 17 2013)
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Lilly stared at Madison, "I'm mad? Were you not the first to fire? I was not going to harm anyone in anyway until you attacked. I was minding my own business in this place and then boom!" she said. She took a few steps back from the tree at that point, "I am not the one who attacks without a reason! Furthermore I am not the one who climbed into a tree to hide! If I were mad then I would have most likely lashed out at you. Maybe even thrown a few things."
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6:49pm Aug 17 2013
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Madison's knuckled were turning white with the effort of keeping her attached to the branch. "I didn't attack yeh! Yer crazy, you are!" she yelled down at Lilly, "Yer the one who kidnapped me! An' threatened ter kill me!" Then she turned her head to Sonali again, and pleaded, "Help me, please!"
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6:54pm Aug 17 2013
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Sonali looked at the girl and climbed up the tree, she grabbed the girl and set her on the ground. Her white hair sprang up and started hovering as she started pulsing a bit little energy out of her hands. The crown of her pupil slowly turned into a white color. If there was one thing anyone knew about her was he was protective of most people. She turned around and let her energy fade, it didn't really matter.
The energy inside of her was kind of like kinetic and potential energy. She could build it up, but she had to use the energy or it would force it's way out. She sighed she could probably keep it bubbled up inside her. The first question she wanted to answer was where the heck she was. She looked at them and calmed herself down forcing the energy back inside of her. "where are we?", she asked.
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6:56pm Aug 17 2013
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Amur jumped backwards into the air, an instinctual movement that she did whenever she was surprised. Why is she yelling at me! What did I do! She thought to herself as she attempted to calm down. Waving her arms in an attempt to show the other female that she wasn't a danger, she opened her mouth to make sound, but nothing came out... again. She searched through her memory to see why this was happening, but she couldn't seem to remember. It hurt to try and access her memory. All she knew was her parent's species, her name, and what planet she was from. Suddenly, she realised that it was becoming quite hard to breath and her face twisted into painful anger. She needed water, but she didn't want to show this girl what she was in case she was her kidnapper, though Amur doubted the other female was. Looking around wildly, she ran back to the pond and stared at it. she couldn't touch it, the girl was still looking.
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7:18pm Aug 17 2013 (last edited on 7:37pm Aug 17 2013)
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She looked at the people around here, "it doesn't matter who did what!", she sat down in the grass and looked at them," we should probably get a shelter or something", she said. "I think I saw a pond nearby". "We could set up camp or something over there", She smiled lightly and calmed herself some more letting go of her anger. It was much more important to survive than argue.
"If we don't get a camp set up now, then when it's dark we'll be freezing", She looked at them. "the pond isn't too far away". "We could probably make it there soon if we get started now". She got up to her feet and brushed the grass of her dress. They might as well get to the pond now. They could probably catch some fish and have something to eat.
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7:22pm Aug 17 2013
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((Wait, was she talking to them or thinking, cause there weren't any quotes. -is confuzzled-))
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7:23pm Aug 17 2013
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(oh man, forgot some quotes adding them in.)
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8:15pm Aug 17 2013
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Madison breathed heavily when her feet touched the ground. She nodded her thanks at Sonali, and looked at her hands. Her left palm was red with blood, and the other was grazed and aching. She looked up again and, remembering Lilly was there, she took a few steps back.
When Sonali suggested they go to the pond to set up camp, Madison shook her head fervently. "No way am I staying in the same place as 'er!" she protested, pointing a finger at Lilly, "She'll try ter cut my throat in my sleep!" Madison stepped behind Sonali, so that there was at least something separating her from Lilly.
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Caitlyn had calmed down from the original shock of Amur's sneaking up on her, and repeated her question, this time firm and intimidating, "Who are you?" And why was she looking at the water like that? Caitlyn thought suspiciously. Her eyes were fixed on Amur. Now that she saw her properly, Caitlyn realised that this was no human she was looking at. She appeared to be an elf of some sort. Caitlyn stepped forward, puffing up her chest threateningly. She waited for Amur's answer.
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