From the Darkness (Open RP)

[Ryuukokoro]

((OOC: Other Faes or Faettes or Air Fish or even humans are welcome to join this RP. ^_^ It's just for fun!))

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"Get up," growled a low voice, rough like gravel, echoing against the stone cave walls. "Get up. Get up, lazy horse!"

One magenta eye eased open. A single glance around the cave revealed the same sight as the evening before: dim light from the outside reflecting off bits of mica in the cave walls all around, a lightshow of tiny rainbow lights. The beauty was lost on him as he closed his eyes again. "Shut up, it's still early," he grumbled.

"Get up! Get up!" The voice turned shrill with fury. "You won't find any of those other fancy horses in this cave with you! Now get up and start looking!"

With a deep grumble, he heaved himself up to his hooves. Deep indigo hide turned him near invisible in the gloom of the cave, making his white stripes seem to glow in comparison. "I'm not your servant, so watch your tone." He shook himself all over, shaking sleep and stray hair from his body, and then pawed at the stone ground until sparks flew.

"Until you pay your debt," hissed the rough voice, seeming to come from nowhere and everywhere inside the cave, "you will continue to do what I tell you. Now go."

The dark-hued Faequine snorted something crude and trotted out into the pale morning sun, his eyes starting to search the Fields for sight of another Fae. His expression was set into a blank look of uninterest, his large barrel chest and thick legs carried him effortlessly as he broke into a ground-eating trot and set off.

[SeaCrest]

The mage-girl walked alone in the field, once-fine robes torn and tattered by weeks in the wild. Over her arm hung a basket and a woolen cloak; in the other hand she carried a slender wand. Long black hair tumbled down her back in unruly waves, and bright blue eyes were watchful and wary.

At the dull thud of a trotting horse, she looked up, peering into the distant mountains. There, a cave showed, dark against the lighter stone, and a dark speck with pinpricks of bright pink, green, and white trotted away from the mouth, into the fields. Quickly, the girl ran into the copse of trees, in her haste dropping her cloak in the grass.

((sorry no piccy. What does OOC mean??))

[Ryuukokoro]

(( That's okay, you don't need to have a pic. ^_^ And OOC means "out of character" and means anything you write that isn't a part of the rp story. ))



The dark-colored Faequine crossed the grassy Fields of the Faequine world quickly and easily. The Fields were wide and vast, rolling hills and valleys like an ocean of grass and trees that seemed to go on forever. But he was young and healthy, and he was able to walk for a long time without becoming tired.

A flash of color caught his eye, and he swerved toward it, drawn to anything that seemed out of place amongst the greens and browns of nature. He slowed and bent his head to sniff the flat object lying in the grass. It smelled strange to him, like nothing he had come across before. He picked up his head and scanned the clearing, looking for clues.

[SeaCrest]

((Oh...thanks ))

Fearfully, the girl peered out from the branches that shielded her face. She had scaled a tree, hooking her basket on a lower branch. When she located the dark creature, she saw a Faequine, sniffing at her cloak. Her cloak! She must have dropped it!

Still watching, she saw the Faequine sniff her cloak and look around. She shrank back into the green foliage, attempting to hide her bright blue robes in the dark shadows of the tree.

[Ryuukokoro]

As he looked around the scene, his ears perked up and swiveled toward the sound of branches moving, brushing against each other in a gentle crashing noise. He turned his head and saw a flash of blue amongst the greenery of the leaves. His pink eyes locked on the vibrant color.

His ears swiveled backwards. No Faequine would be in a tree. Even if it was a winged Fae, hooves made roosting in trees almost impossible. And if it wasn't a Fae, he didn't really care what it was.

Then again, perhaps it was something that could tell him where the Faes were.... He trotted toward the tree and squinted up at the flash of blue. "I can see you there," he announced, tipping his head upward. "There's not much sense hiding. I won't eat you." He snorted.

[SeaCrest]

She hadn't been watching the Faequine, concentrating solely on not being seen. When the Faequine spoke from directly beneath her.

"I can see you there. There's not much sense in hiding. I won't eat you."

She cried out in alarm at the sound of his voice, then looked down.

"Who are you?" she asked, looking down. "I'm Mardra. Why are you alone?"

Mardra clambered down from the tree, taking her basket from the branches. She also grabbed her cloak from the ground.

[Sunchaser]

The black and blue fae moved through the forest at a steady canter. She was bored and had decided to go for a run. Why? Noone knew really only that she wanted to. She moved like a ghost as she flitted from space to space, seeming to float over the land instead of run over it. She stoped though with a small skid as a Fae appeared in front of her. She was a good five feet away but she had wanted to stop far enough away. Especialy when one heres a phrase like There's not much sense in hiding. I wont eat you.

"Oh really big boy? And why should we trust you?" She had seen the human in the trees and decided she liked the human. But she liked the fae too. Who knows perhaps this was what she needed to become unbored. "Or should i say who are we not eating?" She tilted her head, her eyes glistening behind the mask that was on her coat. A small smirk was on her maw as she looked between the two, amusement flickering in her eyes.

[SeaCrest]

Mardra fell over. Two Fae!

"Oof!" she said. "Who're YOU? This here Faequine," she jerked her head in the male's direction, "is apparently not gonna harm me...but you're right, who says we can trust him? For that matter, can I trust YOU?"

She stood up and dusted herself off.

[Ryuukokoro]

He took several quick steps back as the strange creature came down from the tree, all thin bendy limbs and pale skin. What a strange sight! He realized after a moment that it was a human. They were quite rare, but not unheard of, here in the lands of the Faes.

He gave his head a brief shake, teal mane flopping back and forth over his arched neck. "Who am I?" he repeated the human's words. He hadn't needed a name for a long time. He didn't spend time with his own people... or anyone. He just came and went from the darkness...

"Dark," he said at last. "You can call me that, Mardra."

"Oh really big boy? And why should we trust you?"

Dark's head snapped toward the new voice. A dark shape stood amongst the trees. Adrenaline coursed through his body and made every nerve tense as he made out the shape of a female Fae. He had to hold himself back from leaping toward her. Exactly what he had been seeking, yes!

Dark took a few steps to step between the human and this new Faequine. "Why should 'we' trust me?" he asked with a challenge in his voice. "You make it sound like she's with you."

[Ryuukokoro]

"Well I haven't given you reason to distrust me, have I, Mardra?" he glanced at the human with raised brows.

[Sunchaser]

Mysterious hid a chuckle as the human fell out of the tree. "My name is Mysterious and you can trust me or you cant. That is a chance you have to take no? Same as with him you can trust him or you cant. Perhaps your only seconds from being crushed, perhaps you arent even our goal but someone in the way. Who knows with this day and age." She smiled as she spoke to the female before turning her blue orbs to the male.

She laughed then as he spoke to her. "Maybe i am maybe im not. Right now thats a choice for her. I just wanted a run and instead i stumble on a little fun." She pranced slightly as she felt her legs tighten from her run. She was not going to be maimed if she had to run from this tricorn. She was not a fae gifted with horns but she did know how to fight.

Though mostly she just wanted fun and here it was.

[Ryuukokoro]

Dark snorted and lowered his head, his three sharp horns pointed straight toward Mysterious. "You speak in riddles, Fae. Are you mad? First you warn the human not to trust me, then you tell her she can't trust you either. And yet as far as I know, you know neither of us. Is this all a game to you?" He snorted, making sure to stand in front of Mardra so this new Fae couldn't get to her.

"What are you doing?" hissed a whisper in Dark's ear, too quiet to be heard by anyone but himself. "Forget the human! Bring me that Fae!"

His flank twitched in irritation. He didn't like being told what to do.

[SeaCrest]

Mardra's head snapped up. "Who are you taking orders from? Who was that voice?"

Her hair shifted to reveal bat's ears, pointed and leathery. At first glance, her eyes seemed normal, a golden-brown color, yet there was something wrong with them...tiger's eyes.

[Ryuukokoro]

Dark danced sideways on his hooves, his eyes wide in surprise. He turned and stared at the human girl, mouth hanging open. No one had ever heard the Voice before! He had half-convinced himself it was all in his head, that he had been going crazy for a long time.

Confused and unsure, Dark decided to play dumb. "I, uh, don't know what you're talking about," he snorted, flicking one ear. "I didn't hear anything. You sure those things on your head are working right?"

[SeaCrest]

Mardra sniffed. "Of course I am sure they are working!" Her eyes narrowed. "You're hiding something. I can see it in your eyes. You Fae think you're so mysterious, no offense Mysterious, but you're not. You're just like me 'n' any other creature. Albeit the fancy colors, I have to say."

Suddenly, a piercing call rang through the clear air, and a white falcon dove down from the sky to circle the two Fae and the girl.

The mage-girl swore, produced a knife from her belt, and hurled it at the falcon. "Begone!" she cried.

It keened, dodging the knife blade, and wheeled away.

"Now, to a more pressing matter. What are you doing here alone on such a fine day?" she asked the two Fae.

[Sunchaser]

Mysterious gave a chuckle as she looked at him. "who's to say im sane and your mad? Why arent we all mad? or are we all sane?" She smiled and pranced slightly. "Yes it is a game to me for life is a game dont you think? And whats life without a little fun?" She smiled as she turned to look at the human.

She was liking the human till the falcon came down and she threw the knife at the falcon. She gave a growl as the knife ended up landing a few feet from her. "I am not like you human. I do not try to kill innocent bystanders." She growled as her eyes seemed to glow as she looked at the female. "One does not kill those  that are curious unless they are idiots. Especially with creatures around her that could kill her."

Mysterious's elemant was Shadow and as she looked at the girl her body seemed to grow darker as if she was dissapearing into the shadows. She wasnt though she was just really pissed that a human would go and try and kill one of the god's creatures for no reason at all except to make it go away.

[Ryuukokoro]

A smile quirked Dark's lips, despite himself. "I suppose we do think highly of ourselves, don't we?" he chuckled to Mardra. "Perhaps because this is our Fi--"

He was cut off as a high keen cut the air, automatically the barrel-chested stallion reared up on his hind legs, his trio of sharp horns slicing up into the air. The falcon was too high, however, and quickly it left as Mardra chased it off.

Odd... Dark thought to himself. He turned to Mardra, about to ask why she attacked the bird, but she beat him to the questioning. "Alone? Why am I alone?" The stallion shook his mane. "I always travel alone. Do you?"


He didn't know what to say to the mare, Mysterious. Her teasing words were bizarre and unsettling. And it was more unsettling when she turned on Mardra with anger for attacking the bird.

"It's just a bird, Mysterious," he said with a shrug of his broad shoulders. He wasn't impressed with her magic. He flicked his tail and sent his own shadow--stretching across the grass from the sun over his shoulders--wavering briefly, to show Mysterious she wasn't the only one capable of controlling shadows.

Dark was beginning to think females were just too much work. He hope the voice would stay quiet and let him deal with these two strange characters on his own.

[SeaCrest]

"That's no normal bird, Mysterious," growled Mardra. "It's been hunting me. It's God-driven. It also forced me to run from home. I don't know why it wants me, or what it wants me to do."

Another hunting falcon's cry reached their ears, this time a brown one. Mardra tracked it with her eyes, then dropped her things and shifted, leaping into the air as a peregrine falcon. She screeched, wheeling, and the newcomer folded its wings and plummeted, landing sharply in a tree. The mage-girl dove too, landing on her own two feet.

"We have company. Big cats - I don't know why. The falcon says the pride is pretty small, but he thinks they have our scent. They're northward of us, moving fast. Perhaps we should move?" She hissed as the big cats came into her magical range. "Wait."

She closed her eyes and reached out with her magic. There - the cats. Their leader was a proud young thing, and refused to listen to her when she asked what they were doing.

Go away, two-legger! he growled. My pride and I will hunt you and your delicious friends! Go, warn them!

Mardra gasped. "Run!" she cried. "They have our scent, and they're hunting us. For food. We have to go! We might survive better together. What do you say?"

[Sunchaser]

Mysterious turned her anger to Dark. "And you are just a Fae. Your point stag?" She snorted as he showed off his powers. Of course she didnt realize it was because she was showing off hers as well. "So you have powers good for you most of us do. We dont have to show them off." See she didnt know she was. However when the other spoke about it not being a normal bird her shadows dissapated and she sighed. "To trust or not to trust that is the question." Then she felt that small touch of power that comes from the supernatural. She tilted her head listening with her body instead of her eyes. She watched teh other and when she spoke of big cat she gave her own version of a purr.

"Oo the big guys this will be fun." She pranced, her neck arched as she got prepared in her own way. She looked up at the falcon though as she spoke and rose a brow. "I do not get confused offen but if we ran why would it be better to stay together? Making them split is smarter. Of course i prefer to just stand and fight. I happen to like going after those that come after me for no reason."

She turned to Dark and gave a small smirk. "What say you big boy? You going to run or stay?"

[Midnight Phantom]

((if it is still okay to join in? ))



//Flying flying all day long, back and forth through rain and storm. Watching birdies twirl and fall turning into two leggers all and al-wait..what? // the black winged unicorn back winged and circled the area where he saw the two birds fall, feeling the slight essence of one of the birds closer to death. He huffed softly unsure of what he just saw, yes he saw one raptor circling the air far below him and he ignored it then another one came attacked it then drove back down shifting as it went. //curiouser and curiouser// He could make out the coloring of two Fae but not suitable landing place except maybe some yards from their location.  //might as well// he broke away from the circling and heading toward the opening where he dove and landed heavily in the small clearing, he was meaning to take a rest and this was the perfect time.

Moving back the way he came quietly, shifting branches out of the way with his horn his ears perked forward he heard the voices of two of the Fae arguing. Ducking another branch he headed to them eying them intently the Faes he did not recognize and the human  well they were rare "Bird and humans and Faes oh my.. interesting place to find you all together though and what do I hear about fighting?" he asked curiously but friendly enough.   

[SeaCrest]

(( I think it's fine ))

"Because they've enough to hunt us all separately if we split," said Mardra grimly. "Hullo."

She turned to the stranger. "My falcon friend here has seen a pride of big cats. At least six of them, I checked. They're hunting; they haven't eaten for days. They seem to be supernatural, they don't feel like any animal I've ever met. I see you have wings; you could escape easily. What is your name?"

Turning to her falcon friend, she bid him to leave. "At least fly somewhere else; it is us, or me, they want. God-driven they may be, but if we're careful, we can escape them."

Then she looked at the Fae. "Maybe we should fight. There is at least one for each of us, so we'd have to be careful, but my friends might be able to help." Wolves appeared in the shadows, and flocks of starlings in the branches of the trees.

"Or you could leave; I think it's me they want. They feel like that dratted falcon that's been following me."

[Midnight Phantom]

Messenger tilted his head slightly at the barge of information that did not make to much sense to him at the moment. "Messenger " he said softly shaking his head slightly as he stopped a bit away from the group.

" not eaten when there are things to hunt for far and wide and god-drive? by which god?" as if that was most sensible questions to ask. He went silent watching the human addressed the other two faes  and tried to remember if he saw them before....and nope nada probably loners or a two fae groups yea that must be it.   He shift lightly on his hooves as other animals started to appear and snorts slightly.

[SeaCrest]

((I just wanted to say that I am very sorry for the post I just deleted. Since the RP died right after, i assume it's because I was too...er...how to put it...well, you know what I mean...but here is a new version. I am sorry sorry sorry!))

"Well...I was given at birth to the goddess of wild animals, to be her priestess. We call her Sheema. For some reason, that falcon appeared and attacked me while we were tending wounded animals. All I can assume is that I did something to offend Sheema. Or she is testing me. She often does that, although I have never heard of her pushing a priestess (for we are all girls), this far."