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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:13 pm
Hayagriva wasn't sure what made him so restless that night but knew that it was an inconvenient night to be so. It was the night of the new moon and though the stars twinkled brightly they weren't bright enough to pierce through the darkness. Haya wasn't exactly an owl so he stumbled through that darkness, muttering to himself when his legs knocked an especially heavy log. He knew he ought to just settle down but he hoped to make it to the riverbank where he could gallop for a little while without hitting into anything. It didn't matter if he couldn't see his hooves out there in the soft sand.
He pushed through a tough patch of underbrush and came out at his destination. He could see the faint reflection of starlight in the water of the river and hear it as it rippled over rocks. Finally. He tucked his head under and smoothly cantered along the riverside, long mane flowing behind him. He'd run until sleep came to him. There was no need to push back through the forest, either. The riverbank was a pleasant enough place to rest.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:54 pm
 The pich black darkness made Domnu smile, her ruby lips forming into a crule grin as she made her way down the river. The waterfall that dumped into the river behind her sent mist and dew out around her, as the winter chill washed in on the air. Tonight was a good night.
She drank in the chill sweetness of the winter breeze as she leaned down to take a drink of the ice cold water. It was then the hoove beats danced to her ears. She paid them no heed, continuing as she would, drinking deeply of the crystal waters.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:13 pm
Haya might have missed the other soquili entirely if it wasn't for the red sparkle in the dim starlight. He would have thought it was just a reflection on the water if not for the color. No stars were that shade of ruby.
He slowed and squinted, gray eyes unsuited for seeing distance in the darkness. "Is anyone out there?" He wasn't quite convinced that it wasn't his imagination yet but the closer he got the more clearly he could see the outline of another soquili. Perhaps it was someone like him, restless at midnight.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:20 pm
Domnu grunted as the voice called out from the night, she was in no mood for visitors. Pesky like incects, no respect for anothers privacy or space. "Only your nightmare boy...Now leave." she replied with out so much as bothering to look up. Her voice was cold, cold as the icey water before her. The mist slowly swirled and she finally lifted her head to look into the direction the voice had come from.
Her spaded tail lashed violently against the ground, hitting a rock and sending it into the river with a dull splash. She saw him there in the distance and she puffed up her chest, and lowered her head. Deadly horns ready as a low hiss escaped her parted lips.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:18 pm
Haya stopped abruptly when he heard the voice and saw the glint of horns, the dim shape of wings. He had never seen a soquili with such features before. She almost looked like...
He squinted for her tail and saw something long and sinuous with a spaded end. His own barbed tail waved behind him. "A kalona?" he muttered the word quietly with disbelief. He had never seen one himself and they had always had an almost mythical status in his mind. If he hadn't had the blood of one himself he would have almost thought they didn't exist.
"A kalona," he said louder and with more confidence. "I'm part kalona too!" He said it in hopes it would inspire kinship in the kalona mare and maybe make her a little more trusting of him. His mother had bred with a kalona so they couldn't all be mindless monsters and he was determined to prove that. He waved his tail over his head as proof of his heritage, silver starlight glinting off gold.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:46 pm
His words and actions had quite the opposet effect than he was hoping for. As she laid her eyes on his spaded tail she spat on the ground. A sharp in take of breath broke the silence as a low hiss again came from deep within her throat. "Insolent welp!"
Her cry was full of wrath and anger, her voice echoing around the forest before he faded into the din of the waterfall. "Your heritage only futher prooves that you should be killed to wipe clean a stain on our name. You are not worthy of that Tail.... I will remove it for you." She said, her voice dripping with rage as she stalked from the mist towards him. Wings flaring up and catching the light, ruby monster in silver moonlight.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:57 pm
Hayagriva took an involuntary step back when he saw the kalona's advance but stopped himself before he retreated any further. He wasn't a colt anymore. He had to be brave and face each new situation with calm judgment. Those had been his mother's words and he now understood what they meant. He wouldn't panic. He wouldn't get angry. He wouldn't hate. He repeated these words to himself even as his entire body tensed, belying the calm he was pretending to possess.
"I don't want to fight you but I will defend myself," he warned the advancing kalona. "I'd rather talk than fight." His heart pumped at a frantic pace in his chest and he wondered what could possibly happen next. He wouldn't panic. He wouldn't get angry. He wouldn't hate. He repeated his mantras over and over again, gray eyes wide and nostrils flared.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:06 pm
Domnu looked at him as a hungry cat looks at his prey. She smirked at him, cold and intent on seeing what his blood tasted like. Her fangs glinted for a moment in the cool silver moonlight. "Really now... well what If I'm done toying with my food boy?" She asked him as she continued to advance, head down and cloven hooves walking slowly and carefully towards him. Her wings flared as she walked towards him, making her appear larger than she really was. She stopped almost a hairs breath in front of him, crimson red eyes staring into his gray ones. She was playing. "and just how... would you defend yourself against me?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:29 am
Hayagriva snorted and threw his head back, as much an attempt to put a little more distance between their faces as it was a show of confidence. She was just a mare, albeit a mare with wings, fangs, and a dangerous tail. She wasn't a monster, she was a mare. As long as he could stay convinced of that he could stay calm, or so he hoped.... but there was still something undeniably unnerving about her horns, her wings, her red eyes glinting with malice...
"I'll defend myself against you however I have to." He mustered enough strength to put force behind those words. "Though I'd prefer not to hurt you. And I imagine that your wings are pretty delicate and you wouldn't want them damaged."
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:34 pm
"YOU vile spawn are lucky to still be breathing, the courage you feel is nothing more than misplaced stupidity, half breed. " she snorted and raised her head, just a little the tip of her curved horns getting dangerously close to his flesh. "Hurt me..." she laughed, a cold laugher but never the less amused by her prey. Hurt her... the very idea that the half breed could inflict any lasting damage to her was laughable. No Kalona would allow for such shame...then again his throat would be torn out long before he would gain the chance.
"My wings my look fragile, but they do the job. Now... enough of this. How sweet is your blood half breed!?" she cried jerking her head suddenly over and upward towards his neck and face, dangerous sharp horns moving to strike fragile flesh.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:06 pm
His internal attempts to stay clear-headed disappeared in a flash of anger at the kalona's words. His upper lip drew back in a snarling grimace of anger that turned into one of shock and pain when she lashed her horns at him. Instinct jerked his head away from the blow but lack of experience slowed him enough to still be hit.
He kept his face between his neck and her horns but that meant that it was his face that was hit. Parallel red grooves were left from the force of her attack and blood began to well out from their depths. Hayagriva's retreat had taken him a few steps back from the kalona and there he stood, frozen momentarily while his mind struggled to catch up. Anger mixed with pain and was almost too potent a mix for him to handle but he managed enough coherency for a hoarse growl. "I'll forgive you once but not twice. Don't attack me again." This time he was prepared for her, legs tensed to jump out of the way, tail ready for counterattack...
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:34 pm
"Stupid fool hardy boy, even now you speak as if you could over power me...half blood...do you really think you have the strength to keep my jaws away from your tender throat?" She asked with a tilt of her head, she was begining to grow bored of him and had hopped that tha strach along his face would proove a valuable lession. It appeared however that he was a stubborn foolish halfblood.
Her tail flicked dangerously in the light, but she remained standing where she was, a fool would rush in when an attack was expected. The best route was to wait. Again a hiss filled the air as she folded her wings against her back, perhaps he would be more useful as a tool than a meal...yet his courage was getting on her nerves.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:57 pm
She wasn't attacking yet. Maybe she was used to pushing around soquili that wouldn't put up a fight, but Hayagriva was no such soquili. His heart still pounded heavily in his ears and he fought to resist retaliating to her words with violence. This sort of anger... he couldn't remember ever feeling something like it. Not the sort of red hot anger that mixed with the smell of blood that made his tail twitch and long for something it had never known.
A thin trickle of blood ran from his wounded nose into his mouth where it was spat out along with his words. "I have more than enough strength not to be eaten by you, strength and things that a-" He was going to say kalona but at the last minute changed the word. "That a monster like you wouldn't understand." No, kalonas weren't all evil. They couldn't be. He held onto that thought even while his ears pressed flatter against his skull and the air puffed out of his nostrils. He had to be proof that blood wasn't everything.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:47 pm
"Really now, because if you where born in our lands... under our rule you would be killed on sight. You are a half breed whelp, a birth defect. Unclean blood does not hold the true Kalona spirit. Your tainted blood is useless...though it may taste sweet." She sneered at him, cutting him down to the quick with her words. She enjoyed watching the mask of horror and anger wash over his features and watch as the blood oosed down his nose. A superficial wound but one she knew he would always remember.
Her spaded tail flicked again. "You think your tail makes you Kalona? You think what ever 'special' genes that where given to you makes you worthy of us, to walk up on us and desterb us? Such stupid foolish ignorance. Your parent, or grandparent would have been an outcast from us... to mate with anyone..." she snorted for emphasis." that is not of Kalona blood is a great injustice and they too should be swept clean from the world." she shook her head and her tail flicked again. Domnu could see the value in passing on their traits, certainly. She almost felt sorry for him, almost saw value enough from him to teach him as she would a foal the way of the Kalona.... almost.
She sneered at him again and stepped closer. "Enough talk." she advanced once more.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:50 pm
"That my father did breed with someone who wasn't a kalona proves that kalona can be different!" Hayagriva yelled the words hastily even as the kalona advanced. If she had lunged forward he could have counterattacked or dodged. This slower advance... all he could do was turn his body sideways so that his tail was ready to lash, and his back legs ready to kick with a quick pivot. He wouldn't let her get near his face again.
"And I warned you... Don't try to hurt me again!" This time he was ready to hurt back. Something about the taste of the blood in his mouth made it so much easier to contemplate hurting another that was so closely like him. It made it frighteningly easy to contemplate....
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