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 Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:50 am
'Spend more time with her? Is that an invitation?' He thought, watching her look back at him. She was certainly a puzzle worth figuring out. And if she was attempting to figure him out, he was allowed to do the same, right? He was about to try to match her pace, to get a bit more conversation going (though he enjoyed a comfortable silence, the dead quiet in such a barren place was quite eery), but stoppedquickly when she called out an unfamiliar name. The name of her mother.
He stood still, keeping his bretahing under control and inaudible to anyone but himself. He would not show weakness infront of someone, especially a mare who was keen on reading him. What answered back chilled him, an invisible shiver running down the length of his spine. The voice was a hiss almost, and the trees and bushes moved. His eyes darted around , surveying the area quickly. He did not want to be shocked when she came out, to look frightened.
It took him a minute to understand the other mare's words. He looked to Neve, his eyes slightly narrowed as he scrutinized her. Was this a trap all along? Would she honestly do that? It would make sense... How she acted, her tone of voice, the pretty face. She was a seductress.
'No no! Think positive...' His mind advised, his gaze flickering back to the foilage.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:56 pm
Neve was sure that Izusa's sepuchral sounding voice must be affecting Marius in some way; it still gave her a cause to pause even after hearing it so often when she had misbehaved as a filly. She flicked her mane and rolled her eyes.
'Does he look like a lamb?' she looked around, searching for where Izusa had moved to, because she was sure she had shifted since speaking.
'They all look like lambs..gambolling straight into the jaws of the wolves.' Izusa pushed out from the thicket directly in front of them, ignoring the branches that scored scratches along her sides.
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:05 pm
He had not yet seen Izusa, but the tone (though more chilling) was certainly reminiscent of Nee's. She had told him she stuck with her mother (jus as he had with his), but it was evident now. But at least Neve did not speak like this. He mentally murmured a thanks, before taking a slow, careful step to stand more side-by-side to the mare comapred to just standing behind her. He cleared this throat, his eyes darting around in an attempt to find the boyd of the voice.
"Izusa," He repeated the name he had heard before, the name unfamiliar on his tongue. It certainly did roll off the oral organ, but that just added to the attractive voice. He frowned visibly, disliking his thoughts. Wouldn't she just show herself? Was she that convinced he was dinner? He glanced to Neve, watching her momentarily. She certainly did not seem bothered.
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:11 pm
'It speaks..' Izusa focused her attention on the stallion that had moved to stand next to her daughter, staring in an un-nerving, unblinking fashion directly at Marius. Her tail tendrils slithered along the ground behind her hind legs, and took a deliberate pace forwards before turning her attention towards Neve.
'So, daughter, why do you bring this foolish looking stallion to my home?' her voice was frosty, and her eyes narrowed as she spoke.
Neve had noticed Marius moving forwards, and flicked a wingtip out, trying to motion him to step back a little. It wasnt a wise move to approach her mother so soon, and from her tone Izusa wasnt in a humour to meet strangers.
Sometimes she was; often she could be merely sarcastically restrained but it didnt seem like one of those days.
'I told him of you, and he was eager to see the first, true Kalona.' she said swiftly, hoping to placate her.
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:33 am
Though Izusa's stare was certainly unnerving and quite frightening, Marius had good practice at keeping up with the hard stare. He kept his eyes on hers, his own gaze guarded and unreadable as he watched her. He kept his face blank, not letting her see if he was fine in her presence (though surely he was quite bothered) or if he was frightened.
He paused in step at Neve's wingtip, and he put down the rising hoof. He glanced to Neve with questioning eyes. He was not eager! He was certainly fine not meeting on! But she kept insisting and insisting... Like it was required. And he, being the gentleman, could not turn down a request from a prety face or voice.
He kept his mouth shut, unsure of what to say to the Kalona.
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:18 am
'Move back a little,' Neve said urgently out of the side of her mouth. Marius had not spoke, and she thought he might have become frozen with possible fear. She hoped not, she hoped he was simply being quiet because he'd not seen a Kalona and wasn't sure if speaking would invite Izusa's wrath, which was less fear and more a sensible move at this point.
Izusa's eyes narrowed even further, her voice becoming hard, a red mist coming over her eyes, her feeble grasp on reality slipping even further due to the prolonged and self-imposed solitude she had been in.
'You bought him here to flaunt him before me havent you?!' she ground the words out between gritted teeth, her wings unfurling and her tail slapping the ground as she spoke.
'You're mother is a lonely old witch, and you bring this young stallion here...I told you of the pain they cause!'
Izusa scraped at the ground with a cloven hoof, shifting her weight and tossing her head, her body angled towards Marius..
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:45 am
It was different for Marius to ignore something a mare would say. He often smiled and nodded, hoping to make them happy. But now he blatantly ignored Neve's word, his eyes on Izusa the whole time. His hooves were rooted to the ground below, his muscles tense. He intenty listened to Izusa's words, his brow furrowing. Was she really that dellusional?
He wasn't anybody's to flaunt. Nobodies.
Marius watched as the Kalona scraped at the ground and angled herself towards him. 'Oh crap,' he mentally growled, 'Days as a foal, just minding my own business... If I kept to that none of this would've happened.' His thoughts scolded. He glanced to Neve, curious at what she would do. But his actions took place faster than his thoughts could make sense, and he was side-stepping a bit, attempting to push the mare next to him a little out of the way incase Izusa would attack him.
It was the right thing to do; a mare's safety came before his own.
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:00 am
Izusa gave an evil smile when she saw Marius's posturing and the change in his body language.
'Look at this! The swirled fool has guts..' she flicked a look at Neve and hissed at her daughter.
'Want to see what they look like?' her wings folded, she kicked hard at the ground again before flashing forwards, her teeth bared as she launched herself at Marius.
Neve groaned inwardly, looking sky-wards.
Preserve me from headstrong stallions.. was the thought that flashed through her mind as Marius seemed determined to confront Izusa. It was the last thing she had been expecting, she knew he hadnt wanted to meet her mother and had probably only done so because he didnt want to come off as a coward of any sort.
Her musings were interrupted by Izusa's words, and her mouth dropped open;
'Mother no!'
Neve hoped that calling her that might bring her to her senses as she hurried forwards, her wings spread wide as she hurried in front of Marius before he could stop her.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:42 pm
He was such a fool of a stallion.
He judged Neve as an intelligent mare, one who could charm a snake with such a voice and face.
But then again, the pretty ones often didn't use their heads.
"Neve," his tone had changed from the charming, light-hearted one he often used. It was harder, the urgency in his voice far from desperation but he as certainly desperate for her to get out of harm's way. She had already spread her wings as if she was going to protect him! She would get hurt, and in the end it was his fault. And dammit, he wasn' going to let her get hurt because of him... Though it was her idea to show him her deranged mother.
He acted before he could think and helowered his head and jerked forward a good few steps, head-butting the mare's side as to move her away. His skull pounded with the impact, and he winced at the contact. 'Stupid mares,' he thought, groaning lightly as he tried to focus on the charging Kalona.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:19 am
Neve turned at the sound of his voice, time seeming to slow as she realised that he was refusing to let her shield him. He has to! she silently pleaded with him, her pale eyes searching his as she tried to move as he banged into her, obviously trying to get her to move out the way.
'Marius..' she uttered the word in an expel of air, his head having winded her just slightly. Her tone of voice changed swiftly, as she thought quickly, trying to think of a way to get him to move in the seconds before Izusa would attack. Her wing batted at him as she spoke;
'Go, leave, I wont hold it against you but you must let me deal with my mother!' she urged, her voice genuine, and sounding the sincerest that he would have heard since meeting her.
In the hanging moments Izusa saw it all; they were a pair, her daughter was shielding this vibrant, fancy of a so-called stallion, and the stallion was trying to do the same back! Her mind clouded, closed to everything but the perceived dagger in the back that her daughter had wielded at her, and in a fit of insane fury she changed tack, launching her teeth at her own daughter and ripping at one of Neve's wings.
Neve yelled in pain, and her mother spat out feathers and kicked out at Marius with a hind leg, twisting as she did so to try and whip him with her tendrilled tail.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:17 pm
It was one of clearest moments he had had ever since meeting the befuddling mare, one who spoke with such a teasing tone and watched attentively with unique eyes.
Neve was putting herself in the path of harm for him. He had first thought she was just trying to keep things calm between a stubborn stallion (himself) and an insane Kalona, but that all cleared a her sincere-sounding words.
Unfortunatley for her, he was stubborn, and perhaps a tad slow. He stared at her stupidly for a quick moment, trying to put two and two together. He should be hurt in her place. He was what angered the other mare. But alas he could not, for the aforementioned crzed mare had lunged at her own daughter. "Neve!" His voice was hoarse, and before he could react he felt a powerful kick hit his side, accompanying this he felt slight tears in his skin from the tendrils. Marius winced, and he quickly jerked back away from the attacker.
He was quicker, however, to charge right back up and try to get his companion away from the danger. He thrust the side of his body (the unscathed side) towards the enraged mother, hoping to at least knock her aside for a bit. And if not, well, he'd be a suitable target for Izusa. He growled lightly, a deep rumble in his chords, "What kind of mother are you?" He hissed, eyes sharp.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:24 am
Izusa hissed with satisfaction as her blows landed, and she stepped neatly away as Marius tried to retaliate.
'Nice try,' she growled, a wing scything around, trying to catch the stallion on the face, or even the eye. She wouldnt even answer Marius, it was not his place to question her, and he was merely in the way of punishing her errant, and blood-tainted daughter.
'Marius leave!' Neve shouted again, flicking her injured wing, blood raining drops onto the floor. She barely heard his words to Izusa, only concentrating on the fact that he was trying to tackle her crazed mother.
Again she stepped forward, hers being the face that Izusa's wing caught, one of the claw tips scoring the flesh above her nose. She let out a nose of pain, and reared, clashing properly with her mother, biting out at the side of Izusa's neck and scoring down the Kalona's chest with her cloven hooves.
Izusa flinched a little as her daughter attacked properly, but pain was replaced swiftly by a look of manic delight;
'There's the Kalona in you..' she shook Neve off, battering her in the face with her wings, and as the other mare backed away, she lowered her head and sliced along Neve's shoulder with a casual flick of her horn, kicking the back of one of her front legs at the same time, Neve folded and sprawled on the floor, panting and bloody.
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:38 am
This was horribly wrong. It was morally wrong.
Everything his mother had taught him simply went down the drain.
For here he was, attacking a mare's mother. Two wrongs right there!
But for once he wasn't dwelling on living up to his mother's hopes for him, to be a gentleman to everyone he met. It certainly would have been easier that way, as this could have all been avoided.
And Neve would have probably found him less interesting if he did act all polite. But no... He had to have been in one of his more contemplative and reserved moods when she stumbled upon him. And what sucked even more was that he didn't want to quite get rid of her either.
So when the aforementioned mare collapsed, Marius stood quite still, shocked. He should have responded with anger towards Izusa, to charge at her and put her in her place. But instead, within a mere second he ducked over to her side, his nose nudging her cheek, midning the sore flesh above her nose. "Neve? C'mon, get up!" His voice cracked a bit as his throat was dry, his eyes flicking from her wings to her face, trying to get a good gist of her condition. She was hurt enough to fall... Stupid mare.
She shoudl've left it to him. This wouldn't of happened if he didn't come at all.
He rose his head to look over Izusa, and his face upturned into an uncharacteristic snarl, "Nutjob of a female! Look at you, attacking your own daughter! No wonder you can't keep someone at your side... Not even your children besides Neve want to keep close to you it seems. Pathetic." He spat, carefully stepping around Neve, his eyes flicking to her breifly and then back to Izusa as he positioned himself infront of Neve.
'C'mon... She's not hurt that badly... Right?' His thoughts inquired hastily, but he couldn't watch over her right now, for it'd be a silly mood with a crazed Kalona a mere few feet away.
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:06 pm
'The sweetest blood..' Izusa sang, licking the taste of her daughter from her lips. And it wasn't as though the Kalona was broken anymore; far from it. This had been the last shattering of any confusion she had felt, and she smirked at her fallen child.
'Thank you my darling..you've helped me more than you will know.' she gave a contemptuous look at the stallion who still insisted on talking to her. As if his words were anything more than the irritating buzzing of flies! She walked away with a flick of her tail and took to the sky when she had moved into a clearing and away from the dense foliage.
Neve shook; with pain, anger and hurt. She knew what her mother was, had known it always. Never forgetten it as a matter of fact.
She moved a little, biting her bottom lip as pain shot through her.
She was so ashamed, in front of another, a stallion, and a handsome one at that, she'd gotten attacked and beaten by her mother. She brought a wing around and covered her face for a moment, trying to recover enough to get onto her hooves.
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:47 pm
"Coward," he snarle dunder his breath, his lungs heaving as he tried t calm himself. He had never gotten this upset before, even with a brother as pesky as Zevach! As soon as Izusa was out of sight, Marius was quic to turn to tend to the mare behind him. He paused when he saw the wing over her face, and his bi-colored eys reflected panic, "Neve..." His voice cracked as he took another step forward, afraid to touch her. She was obviously ashamed...
But ashamed of what?
He took a moment to regain his breath andcomposure, and he nudged his nose against her wing.
"Lower your wing. It's a shame to cover a face as pretty as yours," he said in a soothing voice, sidetsepping a bit. He was hoping she'd get the gist and he'd help her up, and she could use him for support if needed. That's why he was here, right? To give others support... Or so his mother said. But he genuinely wanted to help Neve...
Not because she was a mare, as his mother's teachings instructed.
Not because she was exotic and quite the looker.
But because... There was some kind of attatchment and interest he had in her. A genuine desire to stay at her side.
It was like a strong frienship, he would muse. Maybe even stronger?
"C'mon, get up..."
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