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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:41 am
"Somewhere we don't want to be," Elena said clearly to Kea, eyes narrowed as she watched Tybalt. Muttering under her breath about rude parrots, she folded her arms defiantly and barked out a sharp laugh when Tybalt failed to pull his dagger free.
"If you've somehow doomed us all," the girl said threateningly, then bit her lip before finishing her sentence. Something out there wanted them to fight, wanted them to fall on each other, but Elena was stubborn enough to want to fight it instead. "Nevermind. I have a feeling we're doomed enough already." So much for keeping the kids calm and reassured.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:02 pm
Like a dark patch barely noticable from the corner of one's eye, the nightmare Tale had finally fought passed his misgivings and fears to the edge of his world. And while he was closer than ever to the rest of his fellow Tales, he couldn't be further away. From outside his prison you could see his balled up fists pound on an invisible wall and his mouth shouting loudly but no sounds could leak out.
"Everyone - Anyone! Hello!?" his young voice cried desperately to seemingly deaf ears. Ayden had hoped that maybe, just maybe, if he could get close enough to them all then he could get some answers. At least he wouldn't be alone again.
Swallowing to his dry throat, he just rests his forehead to the clear wall, sandwiching his stark white hair in between. It felt like being brushed into someone's crazy painting where you're supposed to be seen and not heard. Giving a half hearted smile to himself, the boy thinks, "at least the voice gave me a rest." The dark skinned Tale continued to watch the other Tales interact with his bright yellow eyes, all be it rather hostile amongst one another.
Perhaps the mysterious other person was as amused with the Tales' antics as much as he was for the time being. Or maybe he had made it up in his head from being so scared about being alone once more. Ayden's train of thought cuts off as he watched one of the Tales brandish his dagger and has it plunge into the space around him. Just then his pupils shrink as it feels like a blow had sunk in just under his ribs to knock him off his feet and drop to his knees.
"Hngh~!" is all he can moan out at the dull ache in his stomach, but the odd thing is that peculiar voice wails out in his ears right along with him. With a tiny thud, the top of his head rests up against the clear wall again and his red tattooed arms wrap around his belly. "wh- what are you cryin' for?" the young one huffs on his labored breath.
No one answers.
"You don't need to cry unless," the nightmare Tale starts to reason to himself. "Unless you're in here with me!" he almost shouts as he presses his palm up to his forehead, feeling it ache lightly as well. "What are you doin' in my head?! Get out!!" he cries and shakes his head about in a childish fit.
The youngster suddenly stops and his lips begin to move beyond his control. "How do you expect me to leave, when I am you?" the strangely familiar voice oozes from his mouth. Rising to his feet once more, the Tale has much more of a sneer on his face with narrowed eyes as he sees the other Tales in their drifting cells.
"Look at them all, just sitting around bickering with one another like there isn't a care in the world." Ayden can feel his lips moves, and these words escape from his throat, but he has almost no control left to do anything to stop it. "If they really want to quarrel then we should give them something to fight about, don't you agree?" His arm begins to rise but tenses and twitches on its way up as the young Tale inside tries his hardest to get control back over his body. Finally it comes up over his head while the trees in the dark forest behind him begin to rustle.
The sound of dry branches creaking and light dripping noises fill the air. A few moments of this pass before a countless number of birds begin to billow out into the night sky. Their gurgling caws and splattering wing flaps can be heard circling all around the dark Tale until he motions his hand forward and a large wave of them begin to fly straight into the barrier. Ayden can only watch helplessy as he feels the intent that this other side of him wishes to do using this murder of crows.
From the dark splotch off in the distance, tiny dots begin to flow out of the small area like bees flying out of a hive. The small swarm appears to grow as they draw in nearer to all of the Tale's island realities. That distinct gurgling caw and spattering wing flaps can gradually be heard from the many gathering birds circling overhead in droves. Smally inky dots fall from their feathers wherever they fly and a foul temper is ready to greet anyone careless enough to get to close to any of them.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:32 pm
Gallu sniffed and paced just outside the barrier-magic that kept him apart from his quarry. There was something going on. It could feel it; it was waiting for it - it might be the best chance to get at it's prey. Someone had used magic, someone that wasn't supposed to - and it weakened the barriers a bit; at the same time, the positive magic was being used (presumably by Edict to show the Tales in her "care" what was going on with their counterparts) and that too weakened the boundaries for the six-eyed nightmare beast lurking in the 'between.
Crows made from shadows whirled round the Tales kept in the Wizard's prison, their cries shrill and grating all at once. The dark-skinned Tale that had sent them to harry his peers could not have known that it was his use of magic that would weaken the barriers enough to allow It in. Gallu roared and dug it's claws into the shimmering barrier magic, ripping at it just as the shadow-born birds ripped at the dimensional magic; tearing through the barrier much in the same way as the birds were now tearing at the Tale's hair and clothes.
It was then that the wizard noticed the dark-skinned child had stepped away, had done something that was jeapordizing his experiment. "Rotten little creature!" The old man snarled and muttered archaic-sounding words in a low, hissing tone; a twist of gnarled, arthritic fingers and Ayden would find himself bound by invisible bonds and slammed into the cold granite of the Tower. "Stay there until I need you!" The mage then turned his attention to his spell - Edict would have to handle the beast, there was no time for him to waste now!
The spell was almost done, almost ready: Runes that had been drawn in blood glowed eeriely on the floor and walls; each symbol making slow revolutions and changing as the magic wove together and pulsed with the beating of the old man's wizened heart - a heart that it was indeed bound to. Edict would learn soon enough that she was not to return with the Wizard; he had enough essence and power left in himself to work the magic gate for one, but not both. It had been the Wizard's blood, mixed with the essences of the Tales that was used to unlock and begin the ancient magic, and it would be the same that would end it.
He returned to his spell, chanting the words for the next part even as the barriers were torn open by the Gallu. They could all become shields! It didn't matter - he was going home!
A single tear rolled down Elana's cheek from her wide eyes; she was still held in the Wizard's thrall, but it was hurting her to see the others being hurt - to see her sibling slammed back into granite, held as tightly as she herself was. A crack formed in the spell woven around her and for a brief moment she was in controll of herself once again; she knew what she must do.
Elana gathered her energy and cast one last, desperate spell of her own: one that would - she hoped - reach those Tales that had not yet been entangled or drawn into this dark place...to see if one of them might be able to help. If nothing else, one of them might be able to get through to the raging beast that had battered it's way in before it was too late.
OOC NOTE: At this point, if anyone that was not originally signed up in the MP would like to have their Tale drawn into it for SPECIFIC PLOT REASONS (Ie, you would like to have your Tale's memory wiped, have them lose a limb, etc) PLEASE CONTACT THE MULE TO DISCUSS. :3
Also...at this point, the threads are about to become one - please post any and all replies to the appropriately marked thread~
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