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 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:24 pm
The mountain simply known, once upon a time, as Nyumbani, gave a soft burp and released a gout of smoke and ash into the bright sky of the god's realm. Nyumbani hadn't shown such a sign of activity in two centuries... yet rumblings deep inside it spoke of something awakening.
Flames make the peak glow orange, smoke curling up in a steady stream into the sky. An echoing glow wreathed a small opening near the base of the mountain. Muffled clanks and thumps could be heard if one stood at that glowing entrance, hinting at the source of Nyumbani's new activity.
Could it be that the Goddess who called the mountain home had finally awakened from her two hundred year sleep?
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:50 am
Flames flew around his head, threatening to singe all of his fur off of his body and rip his blindfold from before his eyes. His mane flew about his head almost like a halo, being pushed back from before his face by each burp. Athrun was curious, but the lonely god hadn't exactly expected for there to be activity here when he'd flown down and laid at the middle of it.
It was the heat that had woken him up from the short nap he was taking, but the noises that distracted him from falling back asleep. Of course he'd heard stories, but he'd never expected them to be true, never expected them to actually come to life so suddenly.
Yet.... there they were.
Tail thrashing as he folded his wings tight to his body, Athrun stood a little further out over the edge of the volcano, trying to decipher what was down in there.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:27 pm
The clanking and thumping seemed to come in fits and starts. The activity would grow louder, then fade again to near silence, before growing again. The peak of the mountain glowed with the fire within it, pulsing with the sounds that rumbled forth.
Suddenly, the mountain began to shake, growing in strength till is shook violently, rocks raining down its sides as the earth seemed to heave in pain. The sharp scream of escaping steam erupted and with a finally shudder, the mountain calmed and let out another burp of smoke into the sky.
Whatever had awakened the mountain seemed to be rather buisy beneith it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:35 pm
Black smoke turned Athrun's fur pure black as he held on with his claws sunken deep within the rock, holding on for all he was worth. When the final belch into the sky finally dissipated on the blissful winds around the peak, the Lonely God let out a disgruntled cough of black smoke. His body was as black as the blindfold over his sky blue eyes.
What the hell was hidden deep down within the body of the monstrous volcano? It was making clanking and rattling noises, the likes of which Athrun hadn't heard since the rise of the Egyptian Pyramids in the distance so far away. Only then had he heard such a noise, never since, never before.
And yet here it was once more. It was illogical that one would be building a pyramid beneath the echoing halls of a giant volcano, so it was something deep down there.
"Hello?" His voice bounced off rocks, reverberating more than usual as the hiss of the lonely passed rose and fell with the pitch of his voice.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:18 pm
The clanking paused for a moment, as if listening, then started up again with renewed fervour. Uninterupted, it could go on for hours... but it was the lonely god's good luck that arrived in the form of a bird.
A large carrion bird, it floated down on the winds to land at the mouth of the tunnel, casting curious eyes at the now-black god. It seemed unperturbed by the smoke and the sounds, and with a flutter of its wings, it set down a large zebra rib on the floor of the entrance. It was almost too big for it to carry, and its chest puffed as it panted. Drawing a deep breath, it let out a loud call down into the glowing tunnel, wings flapping as it bounced on its feet.
Then blessed silence reigned as all the commotion stopped, the glow dimming down like banked coals. The bird seemed excited by the change and waited with ruffled feathers, waiting impatiently. In short order, a lioness emerged from the tunnel and paced to the bird, a grin splitting her features.
"Bogo! You brought it! How wonderfully fantastic!" She purred, her bottle-green eyes shining as she bent down to nose at the bone. The bird squawked expectantly, and the golden lioness raised her head with a bemused expression. "Eh? Oh, yes."
Reaching into the bag that hung around her neck, amid a confusing collection of necklaces. Infact, her whole person was a confusing collection of odds and ends. Feather rustled as a set of wings unfolded from her back and fluttered gently to reveal two more pairs settled primly underneith. They closed soon after, and the goddess handed a sparkly ruby to the bird, in what looked like payment.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:29 pm
Blinking his eyes behind the blindfold for a moment, Athrun gazed at the large vulture that landed beside the entrance. It wasn't that it was a vulture, it was what the bedraggled looking creature was carrying in that beak of his. Silence immediatly followed the screech it made down into the entrance of the mouth of the volcano and all the fur on Athrun's large body stood on end.
"What issss it?" Hatimle'Mvua said from inside his collar, lifting her pale yellow head from the top of the golden collar and gazing around with her peircing red eyes. It was rare for Hati to come out of the hidingplace she'd made for herself in Athrun's collar, but she WAS still fairly young and still mightilly scarred from when she'd wound up on the sands of the Firekin lands for dead.
The scales on her rainbow colored body rubbed against Athrun's fur in an awkward way once again but he ignored it and simply shrugged in a response for her. He was watching the figure that had appeared from the mouth of the volcanic mountain closely. It was a goddess with four wings and golden fur.
A goddess....
Letting the ever-present anger subside to nothing, Athrun coughed a bit and fluttered his own wings, sending a torrent of dust and soot everywhere in a cloud that seemed to wish to eat the sky itself. Instantly the cloud dissipated and a shining white god with shimmering ebony curse markings stood with his overly large swan-like wings spread and the glimmering Eye of Horus on his blindfold seemed to glow as it was activated.
"So a cousin of the clouds then I see." His resonating voice shook the ground as Athrun spoke, causing Hati to dart back inside his collar once more.
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:30 pm
Sanaa perked at the cough, turning to view a cloud of dust and soot that floated skyward. Her head tilted curiously as she frowned at it, the frown slowly melting as she saw the source was a younger-looking god. The blindfold and collar he wore intrigued her more than he did himself, and she grinned as she spread her wings wide in greeting.
Open, they revealed themselves as three sets total, one of gold, one of a copper color, and one of silver. Small charms dangled from the longest pinions, and clips that bore great polished stoned rested at the wrist joints of the golden pair. "Hello there!" The goddess called out to him, every motion she made sending out a sound of clicking and jangling from the hundreds of odds and ends she wore. "Why don't you come down here so I can get a better look at you, and be properly introduced!"
His booming voice didn't phaze her in the least. If anything, her grin widened, her many wings fluttering to stir a small breeze around her. Its not like she had anything to fear from all but the strongest and largest of gods. The goddess herself was massive, for a female, and she'd most likely even top most males. Muscle rolled under her short, silky fur, hinting at the terrible strength she could wield.
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:09 pm
Skye blue eyes blazed behind the black blindfold and Athrun took a few steps forward, his huge paws indenting the ground and leaving marks in the soot. He could make himself appear small to live alongside with his mate in the mortal lands of the world, but now that he was among another immortal that was most likely as ancient as himself, the God of Loneliness saw no reason to dwarf his size for her benefit.
With each step he took the god seemed to become larger until he stood almost as tall as her, his short mane blowing about his head and lithe neck from the breeze below. The goddess before him seemed to strike some memories, her gold and bronze bringing back memories of a time of pyramids that rose into the sky and temples whose voices rose almost higher.
"Well if you aren't a sight to behold cousin. It's a pleasure to see a goddess with as much age as yourself still walks among the pages of this world's time. I'd thought all of our time had long since passed." Athrun said at last, watching her as the Eye of Horus shimmered on his blindfold.
She wasn't one of the ones responsible, that much Athrun could tell instantly. Therefore his mood appeared to morph instantly to one of welcome rather than one of unsettle.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:37 pm
The goddess was unfazed by the growth of his body, more intent on how his collar and blindfold expanded. She watched in delight, her smile spreading uninhibited acrossed her golden face to pull her tear tracks out of line.
"My my! You sure are a big boy!" She purred at him, settling back to sit on her haunches. Decorations tinkled as she folded her wings down against her back, her tail curling daintily around her paws. She grinned as he spoke, her eyes sparkling with pleasure. "You make me sound old, Cousin... Though I suppose to someone who looks as young as you do, I may well seem old. But you make me curious... what do you mean, our time has passed? I was down in that hole for a while, I know... I tend to get carried away when I'm working, but surely it couldn't have been more than ten or fifteen years at the most."
She was blissfully unaware of the century that had passed while she had hidden herself in her den, working on her master creation... the thing to top all things. Even now, her heart beat quicker to think of it sitting down in her den, innocently waiting for the last bit to bring it to life!
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:48 am
"Why thank you cousin, but I fear that you and I might be around the same age and if that truly is so then I feel I should tell you of how long it's been since you've seen the surface. Myself, I fear I've found that the Egyptian empire has long since fallen, pyramids vacant, castles and tombes that now echo when one walks into them. It's been a few centuries past a millenia since I've been about and in recent years I've seen the fall of prides and the rise of human powered beasts that spit smoke into the sky higher than even your volcano." His eyes turned dark behind the blindfold as he spoke in a voice resonant with pain. The world had lost so much since he'd slept for a century and while he'd seen it lose before, he'd never seen as much lost as once he'd awoken in the night.
Watching the golden female before him, Athrun saw that her eyes were watching his collar and his blindfold closely. Had she been looking at his blindfold she'd have seen the Eye of Horus shimmering as he watched her from behind it, the bangles on his hind legs tingling as his wings flattened to his back tightly, hiding the curse markings that walked across his back and lower legs in mismatched lines.
While he didn't believe that she was responsible he also didn't know entirely for sure, he didn't have the scent of his betrayers any longer as he did before being knocked into a forced sleep. Her situation was slightly different than his own, as such could be seen in her words of how she'd been working for a century.
"What was the year back when you started your work cousin?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:38 pm
Sanaa mused in quiet contimplation of his words, a playful wind ruffling her tri-colored feathers and dancing among her many necklaces. At her side, her fake limb twinged gently at the shoulder where it attached, a momentary distraction. Gleaming gold with steel claws, it was quite the bit of machinery, strong enough to break stone, sharp enough to cut even the most delicate of things, and agile enough to work intricate knots. It was her pride and joy... or had been before she finished her master work.
"Perhaps I've been down there longer than I thought... I have a tendency to loose track of things when I'm working, and forget the time." Her golden head tilted as she sent green eyes out over the landscape visible from her perch, staring as though it would divulge the truth of his statements. Ears perking again, she looked back at him with an eager expression.
"Did you say human powered beasts? Oh, that sounds fantastic! I realy must have a look at these things you speak of. Maybe my abscence was a good thing, if humans have developed new wonders for me to study... Oh, and I don't remember the year. I was never one to pay attention to such things, you know. That's for those who are affected by time, unlike ones such as us." Turning on a paw with a flick of her tail, the golden goddess paced towards the entrance to her lair, calling back over her shoulder.
"Why don't you come in, and we'll speak some more? I need to check on something and... oh, would you grab that bone on your way? I need that too." She trotted easily over the stone floor, the dust laying so thick the further she went that her paws barely distrubed it as she passed, leaving behind a faint swirling cloud that hung low to the ground and settled quickly.
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:38 pm
Unsure of how 'fantastic' the human beasts they both spoke of were, Athrun tilted his head all the same and hid the shimmering of the blindfold's Eye with his puff of blood colored mane. She didn't need to notice how his vision worked, doubtless she would be endlessly intreigued as she was the goddess of craft.
"You've been gone quite some time, my cousin." Athrun said slowly, lifting his head back up to watch her as she stood and contemplated the words that had been spoken.
All the same...
Tilting his wings a bit and dissipating them for his own comfort, Athrun grabbed the large bone laying quite near his paws and hefted it up as he took the first anxious steps into the den of a large volcano he hadn't intended to walk into.
Oh how some things changed with the passing moments.
Surely the goddess before him wasn't capable of cursing him further, though protocol and deep-seated fear kept the lonely god from voicing his own apprehensions at being so deep in something that could forcibly re-animate him without his will. It wasn't that she needed to know it so much as Athrun needed to know himself that his mate would probably go out of her mind at the idea of having a cub for her godly mate suddenly.
Not to mention he'd be younger than his own cubs. Strange.
"Did you make this all yourself?" Athrun asked at last, peering around at the surroundings.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:31 am
"I created everything in here." She called back as they moved deeper, following what looked like a small game trail. In reality, it was just a strip of bare cave floor amid the mounds and tangles of hundreds and hundres of objects and items, all of which looked like they needed dusting. Some where nothing but larger piles of dust, pieces made of wood or leather that had disintigrated over a long period of time.
The goddess's fake leg made a heavy, metalic thunk as she walked, her many adornments tinkling together. "I am starting to realize how long I've been dormant, working deep within my mountain. So many of my creations are nothing, but so much rubble now, and my legions of followers are no where to be found. All my stores are rotted away or dried up... my worshipers would never have let that happen if they were still about. It will take a while to assess just how long, but I can tell its beyond the span of many, many mortal lives." She sighed quietly in frustration to herself, her tail flicking gently. If there was no one left to serve her, she'd have to do the work herself and she despised that. It took time away from the really important work.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:09 pm
Unlike her leg, Athrun made barely a noise in the cave, only the rustle of his tail on the breeze and the gentle tinkling of the bracelets on his hind legs. The things that met his covered eyes blew his mind in ways he never before thought possible.
Contraptions that he would never understand the usage of littered the walls and cave floor, hundreds of inventions, creations, dreams, all littering the floor in tangled knots of disillusion that made his heart hurt for the lonely creations, so long unused. Her craft kept her creating, yet it left her blind to the thing she'd finished, only eyes for the things before her, the things that could be, rather than already were.
That could be said for his realm, that Athrun helped those beings and things long since forgotten and left behind.
Eyes sweeping the cave and objects, the Eye of Horus began glowing softly, taking it all in as a new cub in a world it had been unceremoniously dumped into. The glow became stronger, into almost a beacon, as he lifted his gaze to take in the large goddess before him in her own realm.
"Years have passed yes, but that you still exist proves there are those that either need your help, or crave knowledge of working from your own mind. There are those that need you or wish for you to be there. Followers will come in time." Athrun said, a smile on his muzzle. "However, I don't believe i caught that name of yours cousin. It would make conversation flow easier."
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:39 am
The goddess hardly noticed the glow that grew from the male behind her, focused instead on her workbench at the rear of the cave. There was a glow there too, but it was an artificial one cast by the lit torches above the low ledge of stone jutting out from the wall almost like a raised walkway. Only a foot or so high, it was the perfect height to hold Sanaa's work as she sat before it, and it too was littered with objects, some old and dusty while others were obviously newer.
She grunted as she looked them over, an ear flicking to catch the question. "Sanaa, Goddess of Crafting." She called back, almost absent mindedly. "Belief might still exist, but its not strong... I can feel the weakness that comes with the loss of it and that is what finally brought me from my chamber."
She brightened suddenly as something occured to her and she spun around, smiling back at Athrun. "Come, cousin! You want to see what I've been working on for so long, don't you? I have it just over here!" She grinned as she turned and trotted into an opening in the side of the cavern, the floor angling down into the bowels of the mountain. There was no light of torches here, but they weren't going far, and since Sanaa knew this path well, she tended to forget that others might not find it so easy to traverse.
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