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 Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:44 pm
A private rp. Please do not post without permission from either myself or Kaze.
Thank you
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:11 pm
Tayne's footsteps plodded against the sidewalks, though her mind was far from thinking on where she was going. So many things... so many things had happened in the span of one day... 24 short hours, and yet her life had changed...
Her dad was alive? She was having a hard enough time grasping that concept, let alone that she was a child of one of the most powerful fire entities of this century. The power to create and bend fire to her will? Yeah right...
But then again, it DID explain how she had caught fire, more then once, and not be burned by it's flaming tongue. It was all so much to take in...
Oddly enough, it was the timid little light's idea to for a walk. Her mother seemed so upset by the turn of events that had fallen in front of her, though Mikomi couldn't see why. She thought Tayne would be happy to see that her father was still alive, that he still cared, but that seemed far from the reaction she saw in her adoptive parent's eyes.
Mikomi also thought it would be fun to be able to control fire. She could probably even save people, if she practiced enough.
But she had a feeling that Tayne wasn't going to come by this easily...
"Mama! Look, a park!" she said, trying to sound as cheery as she could. There wasn't anyone around at that very moment in time, so the many different pieces of park equipment peeked the girl's interest. They looked even...fun.
Tugging on her mother's hand, she looked up with pleading violet eyes.
"Cummon mom! Let's go and play together!"
Tayne forced a smile across her face. She felt bad that she had neglected Mikomi so much over the past day. Making up for it by playing with her sounded like a good break from worrying.
"How can I say no..." she said, so preocupied that she failed to realize that this was indeed the same park she met Kaze a few weeks ago...
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:59 am
Arian sat under a tree sketching, the unicorn boy trying to draw the selection of leaves in front of him. It would have been easy just to draw just the 'leaf' shape, but the unicorn boy didn't want to do that as it would be too easy.
He'd tried drawing feathers too earlier - one of his that he'd shed from his wings, the one he'd received from Prisma and kept with his feather collection and one that he'd found while in the park.
Arian sighed. He missed Mummy, was still upset with her for going when she'd said she wouldn't leave him unless he wanted her too.
She promised she wouldn't and she did, even though she promised not to and it's all Uncle Kori's fault!
That didn't mean he wasn't upset with Mummy too - she'd broken her promise when she said she wouldn't and she hadn't taken him with her even though he'd wanted to go as she'd said it'd be too dangerous.
And she'd had a few arguments with Uncle Kori - he'd heard her doing it when she thought he'd been asleep, but hadn't.
She'd been arguing about having to go, had told Uncle Kori that someone called Kirith could do it - she'd sounded really unhappy about doing whatever it was she'd gone to do and at one point the unicorn spirit had thought that she wouldn't do it.
Then Uncle Kori had said something that had made Mummy argue more and then finally agree to whatever it was he'd wanted her to do.
She'd told him the next morning, her voice hesitant and unhappy and she'd given him a lanturn - apparently something she'd been wanting to give him as a surprise - she'd been planning to have a small party she said - just the two of them with cookies, banana milkshake and a new recipe for lemonade that she wanted to try out...
Instead she'd packed some things into a small bag, said something to Uncle Kori that had made him less mean than usual and promised to be back in a week.
Arian still missed her though - for one thing Uncle Kori didn't cook and for another he wasn't any fun, even though he was being less mean.
Arian paused in his sketching, the unicorn boy half-closing his eyes.
He'd used the lanturn she'd given him the night of the day she'd left, curiousity and a longing he couldn't put a name to making him reach for the silvery, flowered lanturn.
Even now with eyes half-closed the unicorn boy could still remember the warmth he'd felt, the glowing strings of star-like flowers...
Then the lanturn had gone, the only sign that it had been there the strange star-flower markings that wound their way from his shoulders to his hands like a tattoo.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:09 pm
Tayne picked out the unicorn boy almost instantly, surprised that she hadn't seen him before. She must have really been thinking hard if she had missed him. Looking around, she saw no sign of Kaze, which didn't make her feel comfortable. Shaking her head, she quickly concluded that Arian was most likely capable of going out on his own from time to time, so it didn't worry her too much.
"Look Mikomi. It's the one friend I was telling you about," she said with a smile, hoping that maybe getting Mikomi a new friend would cure her of her paranioa of new people.
Mikomi's cheery demenor quickly drained from her eyes. Skuttling behind Tayne's legs, she peered out to look at this so-called 'friend'. It was the unicorn boy that her mom had told her about. What was his name again? Aran? Still, he was new to her, therefore scary all the same
Purposly ignoring Mikomi's fleeting move, Tayne walked over to the tree, pleased to see one of her first friends she had ever made. It also make the girl feel better as she saw Mikomi staying close, too afraid to speak, but too curious to stay behind. Leaning on the tree for a moment, she watched him try to sketch the leaves.
"Hey there Arian"
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:51 pm
Arian looked up as he heard the voice call his name and then smiled as he recognised the woman. "Hi Tayne!" He shifted, the movement dislodging the sketchpad he'd put down in his lap.
"I've got feathers now! Mummy won a lanturn for me - something to do with roses and.." He fell silent as he remembered that Mummy had gone away, looking miserable for a moment until a slight movement from behind Tayne caught his eyes. "Hello?" His emerald green eyes looked questioning.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:43 pm
Tayne noticed the slight sadness in the boy's demenor. Finding this quite odd, she was about to ask if anything was the matter, but then noticed that he became interested in her own adoptive daughter.
"I see you noticed the new addition to my family." she smiled. There was no way she was letting Mikomi get out of this now. "This is my daughter, Mikomi. She came out of the lanturn that I had with me the last time we got to talk."
Mikomi peered out again from behind Tayne's legs. Great, he knew that she was there. Once she heard her mother mention that she was around him before in someway though, she felt a little more at ease. Closing her eyes, she waited. His aura DID feel familiar, only a little different then before, and it wasn't JUST the wings...
"...flowers..." she managed to whisper out. After getting a confused look from Tayne, she pointed to Arian's arms.
"...He's got flowers now too... He didn't before..." she explained meekly, then quickly retracted her hand, afraid she had offended the boy
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:02 pm
Arian grinned at Tayne, then tried to catch a glimpse of the girl hiding behind Tayne. "Would you like a cookie Mikomi? They're not as good as the ones Mummy makes, but they're ok. You can have one too Tayne - I put the bag somewhere by my lanturn."
His grin turned into a friendly smile as he caught sight of Mikomi peeking out from behind Tayne's legs, the smile widening as the girl mentioned his markings "Yes, I got them from a lanturn Mummy got me." Again there was a touch of sadness, his emerald green eyes looking somewhat miserable at the word 'Mummy'. "They kind of remind me of my tree."
Arian blinked "And my name's Arian which apparently means silver - though I'm not really silvery... Sorry I should have said that first, but I forgot" he smiled ruefully at Mikomi. "Since your Mummy already knows my name."
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:59 pm
Mikomi took in a deep breath. Very slowly she forced her feet to move enough so that she was next to Tayne instead of behind her. She peered at Arian with truthful interest. He seemed to get quiet whenever he mentioned his mother. Did something bad happen to her?
"A cookie sounds... nice... thank you" She could feel Tayne smile a wide smile. Well, if it made her mom happy, maybe, just maybe she would talk to people a bit more.
Tayne also noticed the sadness again. This didn't seem like Arian's style, though she had only met him once.
"You don't seem like your chipper self Arian... Anything wrong?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:04 am
Arian picked up the bag from where it had been half-hidden by his jade lanturn, the cookies something that Uncle Kori had picked up when the fallen angel had reluctantly gone to the supermarket. The ex angel had also picked up some icecream which made the unicorn spirit wonder if the lavender haired man had been trying to bribe him... Especially since he hadn't had a home cooked meal since Mummy had gone.
The unicorn boy shook his head slightly and offered the bag to Mikomi before answering Tayne's question. "Mummy's gone. She said it's only for a week but..."
But she had promised him she wouldn't leave - not unless he'd wanted her to and she'd broken her promise...
And he still didn't know what Uncle Kori had said to make her go and... "And it's all Uncle Kori's fault!" he said speaking his thoughts aloud.
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:04 pm
Tayne sat down on the ground crosslegged. Why on earth would Kaze leave? Did this 'Uncle Kori' scare her away or something?
"Well that's not good..." she mused, allowing her own thoughts to pass through her lips. "I actually had a question for her... but I guess it'll have to wait..."
Looking at the little boy with concern, she sighed. What could she do to help?
"Uncle Kori doesn't sound very nice if he made your mama leave..." Mikomi noted with her usual shy tone as she carefully reached in for a cookie. She took a small nibble. Store bought. Not the greatest tasting, but edable enough. Taking another bite she at once tried to change the subject. One of the few things she hated more then new people was people who were sad, but at least she wasn't afraid to change that.
"What were you doing in your pretty book? The star on the front is very elegant, just like my mama's new book her daddy gave her..."
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:15 am
After Mikomi took a cookie Arian offered the bag of cookies to Tayne, having first taken out one for himself "Could I help with your question Tayne?" he asked. "I like helping my friends and maybe I can help you too."
The unicorn boy was curious as to what Tayne wanted to ask his Mummy about, although he meant it when he said that he liked helping his friends - if it was something he could help with then he'd try his hardest to help Tayne.
He gave Mikomi a smile as she asked about his book "It's my drawing book - Mummy gave it to me so that I could draw things if I wanted, but I'm not that goood - want to see?"
The unicorn spirit lifted the book up from his lap. The book contained all the drawings he'd ever done - although to his mind the early ones were really crappy.
Mummy had said he was improving though.
Mummy...
He missed her, she was always so cheerful and although she could be stern she was just really, really nice... And she cooked real good too.
He liked eating her cooking - she made the best salads and the best cookies and best of all she remembered he was a vegetarian.
Uncle Kori hadn't - the first night that Mummy had gone the fallen angel had ordered something called pizza and told him all kids liked pizza. Actually Arian was pretty sure the fallen angel had wanted to call him brat like he usually did, but the taller man had stopped himself.
He'd ordered a meat pizza and looked irritated when Arian had told him he didn't eat meat, but he'd taken the box and disposed of it.
The unicorn boy had made himself sandwiches that night, watered his tree and looked over Mummy's dragon collection.
The next night it had been pizza again - although this time it had been a vegetarian one.
It had been ok - but it wasn't Mummy's cooking and the cookies Uncle Kori had found weren't as good as the ones Mummy baked fresh each morning.
Four days on and Arian was sick of pizza.
He just wanted Mummy to come back.
A thought occured to him and he looked at Mikomi "Your Mummy has a book sort of like my one too? What does it look like? Mummy owns a set of them, but she let me have this one as she doesn't really use it. She doesn't use the one with the sun on it or the fire flame either - but Mummy doesn't really like fire I don't think."
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:47 pm
Ice blue eyes wavered at the mention of Kaze not liking fire. That wasn't what she needed to hear, though it was nice to know before hand. Even with that sad fact ringing throughout her thoughts, it was kind of nice to know that Kaze did have books, including the fire one, that was similar to the one that her 'father' had given her.
"I don't think you'll know much about it... seeing as you mom doesn't use it either. I need to ask her about my fire book..." she mused, almost to herself, as she reached into the cookie bag
Mikomi finished off the cookie, then nodded at the mention of the fire book.
"Tayne's daddy came by yesterday and gave her the book. He hadn't seen her for over 19 years... he said he was hiding... but he didn't really say why..." She paused for a moment, trying to remember all that was said. "He tried to take mama away from me... said she could never see me again... but mama wouldn't go. I think she scared him!" she laughed at the last part, thinking that Tayne being angry was actuall quite funny.
Going on her tiptoes so she could see, Mikomi peered over Arian's shoulder to look at his pictures he made.
"They're pretty Arian! You're good!" she said with a timid giggle.
Tayne shivered at the light's rememberance of the conversation she had with him. Not because she was afraid of the man, but of what he said.
Saying she would kill someone if she didn't come with him, but she refused to believe him, but still...
She HAD to get this whole thing sorted out.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:04 pm
Arian blinked at Tayne "You have a fire book?" he asked curiously. "Does it glow? Mine glows sometimes, but it's not very bright." The unicorn spirit paused for breath and then confided "The ones Mummy uses glow a lot though, even if all she does is write in them."
Maybe it was the writing that made it glow, although the unicorn boy wasn't sure what writing had to do with glowing and he still hadn't found where Mummy kept the rest of her books and so he hadn't been able to look for himself.
Listening as Mikomi spoke, the unicorn boy was even more curious. Tayne's Daddy sounded like not a nice person if he'd been trying to take Miss Tayne away, but it also made him feel a little jealous - after all if Tayne stayed why hadn't Mummy stayed? Why had she let Uncle Kori make her go?
Worse of all, although the unicorn spirit didn't say anything he was worried that maybe Mummy wouldn't be back when she said she would.. After all she'd already broken one promise...
Maybe she doesn't want me anymore...
Mikomi's voice interrupted his thoughts, the fact that she liked his pictures making him feel warm and glowy and happy inside if for a moment - it was nice that someone else apart from his Mummy liked his pictures, nice that... "Thanks Mikomi, I'm not really that good though."
A thought suddenly struck him, "I wonder if Mummy has a Daddy or Mummy too." If Tayne could have a Daddy, maybe Mummy could have one too, even though he'd never heard her say anything about having one.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:19 pm
"Yeah, it glows sometimes..." Tayne stated, thinking back. She didn't have her book with her at the moment. Though Mikomi's comment seemed to make him feel a bit better, Arian still didn't seem very happy.
"Do you miss your mom Arian? You seem awfully sad today..." She then cursed herself. She was probably just going to make it worse...
Mikomi had a different plan of attack for making Arian feel better.
"Arian, could you show me how you drew that one leaf? It was so pretty that I want to try... if that's alright with you that is...." she clung to her arm, slightly reverting to her shy, people-afraid self.
Smiling, Tayne was glad that Mikomi was able to make friends with Arian. He was a good influence after all, so kind and thoughtful, though a tad curious, but Mikomi was the same way once she got to know the person.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:40 pm
Arian nodded miserably "It's not the same without her even though Uncle Kori's not being as mean as usual. I think Mummy said something to him before she left to make him not be so mean, but she promised me she wouldn't leave if I didn't want her to and she left anyway... Even though I didn't want her to go.. Don't want her to go." It seems that it's the fact that Kaze had promised Arian not to leave that was especially upsetting the unicorn spirit. "Why would she promise not to go and then go? I don't understand and it's not fair!"
Arian was upset at both Uncle Kori and Mummy.. Well he was upset with Mummy - really upset with her - but he was upset and angry with Uncle Kori since this was his fault. All his fault!
And underlying it all was the fear that...
Mikomi's voice interrupted his thoughts, causing the unicorn spirit to start, silvery-grey wings ruffling and a couple of silvery-grey feathers falling.
Arian blinked as Mikomi's words sank in and then finally he nodded "Erm sure" he sounded slightly hesitant as he added. "I'm not that good at it though. I still need to practise lots and lots to get better."
Maybe if he helped Mikomi to draw the leaf she wanted he wouldn't have to think about the fact that Mummy might not want him any more...
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