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Character Profile---

Name: Naajra (Literally "Swift" in Vychri language)

Age: 20

Race: Vychri (Jungle Tribe)

Gender: Male

Profession: One of the tribe's hunters

Appearance: Orange skin with scales allong the back and other places, pointed ears, fire red hair, green eyes, and a strong build. He usually is shirtless exept at nighttime in which he wears a coat for warmth. He never wears shoes, and usually chooses to wear dark greens and blues.

Personality: Loves to think of himself as proud, awesome and undefeatable, but really he is the biggest softie the world has ever known. He only ever has the heart to hunt strong agressive animals and could never kill a very young animal because it's so cuuuuuuute. He enjoys challanges and true to his name, nobody in his tribe can match his speed and agility.

Bio: Naajra is the youngest of three brothers. The oldest was killed while defending the tribe from a tiger (or at least what the Vychri call a tiger), and Naajra has since seen his older brother as a hero. The middle brother is still alive and works as the tribe's doctor...and sometimes somewhat of a witchdoctor. Naajra's father died before he was born, but he has a loving mother who supports her sons.

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Character Profile---

Name: Monika

Age: Nineteen

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Profession: Artist and photographer

Appearance: White gold hair reaching just past her shoulders, amber eyes, slim and rather weak vision so she wears glasses.

Personality: Curious and filled with a passionate wonder, Monika finds a lot of things mostly fascinating and books it to memory with some sort of image be it a description in her journal, a painting, a sketch, or a photograph.

Bio: Since her first camera at the age of six, Monika wanted pictures of everything that she saw and did. Collecting all those images she started an album to keep every picture she took. Then with many sketch books, she took another practice of capturing images and drawing them however she liked. Years later, growing bored with the scenery around her she drew many a time, Monika set out and joined a band of explorers when hearing the news of an undiscovered isle near Antarctica.

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In spite of the wind feeling like ice against her skin and the chill increasing at her elevation of height, the bird's nest had to be the most favored place sitting through the main mast. "Stop... shivering." Monika muttered, holding her quivering hand beside her mouth. In the woman's lap sat a sketch book. The drawing depicted the very scenery above her, for sitting at the very top of the mast was a seagull stretching it's wings, it's down poofed about it's body to keep warm. Breathing a slight panted breath, the warm air moved toward her fingers but formed into particles of icy water becoming visible before her. Sighing she dropped her hand from it's path and looked back to her sketch. "I can finish this, erase the mistakes..." Monika considered, brushing away a bit of a pencil shaving and turned her gaze up to the bird above.

It had been just less then a week now since they set off from Europe. Of all places this grand ship was sailing for Antarctica. Why? Why when there was nothing but a great beautiful landscape of ice? Monika was up for the idea of drawing such scenery but they actually had been sailing for an unmarked territory of the coast of the glacial paradise. What was there and why hadn't they noticed it before? That is why the group of explorers had packed and began to travel south. Monika had tagged along for the sake of discovering new lands she had not yet pictured and couldn't imagine. It was said to be more then ice. Those sailors who had found the island were never heard of again. As if they vanished from this world. Monika, nor no one on this ship knew that set of sailors had landed in another world entirely and crashed into the murky waters, their grave site far from what appeared to be land of other creatures unknown to human kind.

In case the bird took flight, Monika held her camera carefully and snapped a photograph of the Seagull. As she placed her eye besides the lens, she found something... intriguing. Turning about face she stared into the far distance ahead of them, something only one of her height on the ship could see. There in the sky was some form of a floating greenish blue iceberg. The water beneath it was pulled at strange directions, a few splashes of water raising from the normal level but not as waves. As streams of water somehow being pulled into a gravitational pull of the strange land. Was that where they were headed? Monika adjusted her glasses in surprise, leaning into the barrier with her fingers curling. She didn't know it was just a transporting device of some sort. Like a black hole. "Chief!!" Monika cried in excitement, stuffing the sketch book, pencils and camera into her sack. Of course the woman couldn't hear her from such a distance and the bird flew off in fright. Monika grabbed a hold of a rope and descended the main mast, rather quickly and recklessly and slipping a few times. She was too excited to just let herself fall although she couldn't wait to get down. It was a miracle that she hadn't fallen and broken something. "Chief!" She shouted again, running to the Asian's side. "I think I saw it!" Monika grinned widely, unable to keep still and nearly jumped the woman.

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Now on this ship was a rather small japanese american in a parka that was much too big for her. She had gotten done with her duties as the head cheif of the kitchen below deck and come outside for some fresh air. Her name was Harumi Negimoto, a respectable and strong willed woman despite her small stature. She was usually quite harsh with the rest of the crew, but for one reason or another, she had decided that the young estonian artist, Monika, was on her good list.

"What? What is it? What's with all the shouting you crazy girl! Are we there already?" Harumi said in a rather loud voice.

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Monika smiled, tilting her head a bit as she grinned. She was almost too excited to contain herself. She almost wanted to just leave the chief where she stood, climb back up the main mast and begin drawing the strange sight without explaining as much as a word to the woman. But realizing it would have been a little rude Monika forced herself to take a deep calming breath and withheld her temptation. "Well not exactly but almost." Monika answered, adjusting the shoulder bag that looked much more like a work bag.

Using her arms for emphasis, Monika waved her hands in a circular formation. "It looked like a floating green iceberg! And it was floating, doing something to the waters. Soon we'll be able to see it from here on deck so in all, we've arrived." She explained, digging her hand into her bag for a pencil and the sketch book, intending to draw what she had seen.

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"What? Really?" Harumi said. She too found this to be rather unbelieveable. "Wait up. I want to get a look at if for myself!" and with that she herself began heading towards the crow's nest.

It seemed that Monika and Harumi were not the only two to have discovered this strange sight. There were others on deck that had seen it through binoculars or other means. But strangely enough, nobody had seen anything strange on the ship's radar. Harumi's husband Jin was one of the one's down in the radar room, and had been quite surprised when word reached him about the strange sight above. He thought it impossible at first. There literally was nothing...not even an iceberg...in the place they had seen this sight.

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Her pencil moved over the paper, drawing the bewildering sight. "I can hardly believe it myself." Monika spoke to the Chief, still on the crow's nest minutes later with the woman. Most of the scenery had been sketched and the iceberg was huge, the streams of water were long and thick, snapping up as if to reach for the floating isle. "No one can explain what the devil that is. That in itself is troublesome..." Monika scoffed a bit, looking at how close the formation had become as the ship approached it. Everyone on the deck no longer needed to much as squint.

A alarming groan emitted from the ship. It sounded as if the wood was being bent against itself, threatening to snap. Monika looked up in surprise from her sketch, quickly putting away her things and turned to look at the main mast only a few feet behind her position. It was bending forward. The whole ship was. The bowsprit at the front of the ship suddenly snapped off and in the same form as the gravity-immune water, became one with the iceberg. After a long pause in utter horror, Monika could only murmur things she couldn't even comprehend. The main mast began to crack, then the top half broke off with the crow's nest sending Harumi and Monika into the iceberg and vanished. Following soon after was the entire ship and it's crew, absorbed by this abyss.

((<3 And you get to open up with the new world ^^))

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Harumi had was now inwardly kicking herself for being so currious. She was terrified, as any sane human ought to be in this situation, and made it very clear as she screamed all the way into the porthole that was the iceberg.

Immediately beyond was a vast expance of green, and gravity itself seemed to be tossing the two women about in a circular motion. The mast had been destroyed on impact leaving only the two women. Then, almost without warning, they were both dropped into a deep bluish green expanse of warm fresh water. It was deep water, and Harumi suddenly found that her heavy parka was literally dragging her down. She had to franticly rid herself of the coat before she could even have a chance to swim to the surface.

Once above water, a shoreline could be seen in the not so far distance. The air was quite warm now, and a dense deep green jungle could be seen. The trunks of the trees here were almost reddish orange in color, and the soil was the same, but thick greenery surrounded all places here. Needless to say, this was no place in antarctica.

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At least of all things bad about this situation, the water and air was warm. Not that Monika, like Harumi had much of a chance to take a breath. The heavy weight of her coat was putting her in a situation similar to that of Harumi. Without hesitation she pulled herself free of her jacket but in doing so, lost a hold of her bag as well. Feeling frantic, Monika didn't swim to the surface but deeper into the waters. How awful! She watched in dread as inky mist hovered from the sinking case. Her drawings were all ruined.

In a rush Monika grabbed the bag and kicked quickly toward the surface, gasping for air. Before she could feel too bitter about the water ruining her artwork, she saw the ship falling from the sky. "Look out!" Monika shouted in terror, swimming with Harumi. The ship slammed into the waters and knocked up a wave, sending the two adrift. It took a bit for them to be able to get back to the ship, it being closer than the land. Once on board Monika immediately went to inspecting her gear, tragedy in her eyes. "My camera at least still works..." She muttered after tinkering with it, then pocketed it and looked around. Where were they? "I guess we'll find out where this place is soon enough."

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Harumi took a bit longer to be lifted back on the ship. Being such a small person, she had been thrown completely off by the wave caused by the ship's landing. That and the fact that much of the crew was in a state of shock and panic. As soon as she got on the ship and had managed to really get a grasp of her surroundings, she began to yell, which I suppose was normal for her.

"What the HELL is going on here!? Where are we?! I did not sign up for this! I am not happy!!"

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On the shoreline, the sudden appearance of the ship had not gone unnoticed. Two brothers and three of their male friends had all been forageing for various usefull items and generally hanging out the way young men do when the sound of the ship crashing into the lake had caught them by surprise. Now these five men were not in the least bit ordanary men, at least not by our standards of normal...as the humans would soon find out.

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Looking over her new surroundings, Monika's heart was pounding and Harumi's yelling seemed almost distant. Really, what is this place? Her mind questioned, eying the land from their distance. So much green, it was stunning really. And the bark of their trees was a rather unusual color for plants. It was an orangish color, sticking out in the dense greenery. Everywhere around them was ocean and jungle.

Raising the camera to her eye, she peered through the lens and captured a photograph of a distant view of the land. Then another of the distant shores, showing only a brief amount of the jungle. As the two pictures were ejected from the front of the camera, she waved them both in the light and watched as the picture formed. Monika saw something strange when looking closer at the photo of the shore. Five figures could barely be made out, all with blurry red tones. Not sure what she saw, Monika frowned when nothing but five small figures of red could be made out. But no worries to her, they'd arrive on shore soon enough.

Looking through the lens again, Monika noticed there was faint signs of mountainous regions in the distance. That possibly meant several different climates resided here. Holding her bag close and putting away the camera, Monika tried not to squeal as the ship headed for shore soon to dock.

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The five male figures each eyed the newcomers curriously from the safty of the dense trees. They each blended in quite well with the orange earth and treetrunks, and moved in such a way that they could have been mistaken for the simple movements of light and shadow in the dense jungle. They each spoke in hushed tones to one anothder in their own language. What they said was roughly something like this...

"What do you think it is Duemir? I saw people on that thing, whatever it was..."

"People? What sort of people would ride on such a strange boat? I know for a fact that the tribes acrost the waters do not make such boats."

"Wait....They're coming off..."

"They're.....Pink."

"Way to state the obvious, Naajra."

Cautiously the group inched nearer to the humans who had now come ashore to this new land, many scared and many in a state of shock. Only a select few even had the slightest idea what this land was and even Harumi had to shut up for a while to gaze at the lands. Eventually when she did speak again, her voice was lower than usual.

"This is not our world. We've been taken somewhere else entirely... Where are we?"

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"A sight to see indeed." The captain known as Captain Hewitson spoke, placing his hands against the railing and looking at the land before him with a knowing smile, holding more than what he would ever come up to admit or say. Such as strange unknown land must contain undiscovered riches or resources they could save for themselves to use later, to sell across the world to people who might not even know what it is. All he could think of is the millions they might pay to find out. He held a cup of wine to his lips and took a sip. "Quite the interesting calamity we've come across. It's brought us good fortune, or so I believe." He spoke more to himself then anyone and glanced the crew's way with his one good eye. "Penn Cornelius," He barked, expecting the young man to approach.

Penn, who had been sitting on an upright barrel was experimenting with very low power explosives. With a few short moments passing, a spark caught on the tip of it's light, and the captain spoke. Penn looked up, glancing the captain's way with a mischievous look in his eye. "Yes, cap'n?" He grinned, not noticing that the small bomb was so close to setting off. CRACK. He coughed and stood, throwing away the remnants of the explosive onto the deck and approached Hewitson.

"Tell us our-" his voice cut short, eying the men on the beach. "They're red..." He gaped, and the ship docked.

Monika happy as ever was eager to get off the ship, but unfortunately was in way of the curious captain who proceeded to bump into her as he walked quickly off onto the new land with some of the crew. "Ow..." Monika rubbed her head, having hit it on the deck. Penn stepped over and took her forearm, helping her stand and walked her off the boat.

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The men did not understand what it was that the humans were saying, but the fact that one of them...Duemir...had met eyes with Captain Hewitson let them know that these pink creatures were aware of their presence. They all dove behind trees at first in order to conceal themselves.

"What are we going to do?" one asked the others, "These people are clearly not Vychri."

"What if they're the demons of old, come to destroy us!"

"I aint afraid of no demons! Let them come! I'll take them all o-"

"Naajra! Don't be an idiot!"

Their voices carried even to where the humans stood, and being that they were in another language, it must have sounded quite foreign and threatening to them, simply the fact that they were yelling.

"But they have not yet done anything. I say we try to comunicate first. It can't hurt..." one named Suun'det said to the others, "You four stay back. I'll come forward and try to talk to them."

"But what if they're hostile, Suun'det?"

"Then you four can run away while I distract them. But don't worry. They look vychri enough. I'm sure they're civilized..."

And before the others could stop him, Suun'det walked his way out from behind his tree and calmly approached the group of humans in plain sight. He was unarmed, and quite afraid, but this was the only thing he could think to do. His friends all watched anxiously from behind their respective trees. Suun'det spoke as he grew nearer...

"Watesh ao yudathi...!"

...it meant 'I am a friend'.

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The captain and the crew who had followed him off were a bit thrown into alarm and worry at the sound of the creature's shouting. What were they saying? Were they planning something? If they were why did they oh so quickly hide?

The captain however was always so quick to judge and twist things, and this scene was just another view he could taint. The strange creatures were not to be trusted, whatever it is they were. No one besides their own knew what the red skins were capable of. When they dove to cover, it could have been to ambush the captain and his crew. Once one approached, that was it. And the fact he had spoken loudly gave the captain enough to be set off edge, paranoia filling his gut.

Monika took Penn's assistance gratefully but only stood in time to hear the sound of a shotgun firing. Out of a long tube with a trigger mechanism came a fire in the form of metal, striking innocent Suun'det beneath the collar bone, over his right chest. "You malicious vermin!" The captain shouted, and was about to take another round of fire.