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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:15 pm
Chapter 9: Grave Expectations
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 An older man in the crowd couldn't help but point his suspicions. "No evidence yet! I can feel it in my skin, I know it was those Alkidike. Not all of the extremists went to that island." He nodded his head at his own idea, others in the crowd calling out their agreements and confirmations that they felt the same.
A fire and shifter couple spoke up from their side. "They said we don't know that. What if it wasn't them? What if it was something else? What if the slave trade's starting back up again? Who knows what's going on in the Underground?" The man was Oban, his look grim. He knew there was more to it that met the eye. Just because most Obans had released their slaves, didn't mean all of them did. It may have been years ago now, but it only gave them time to get an illegal slave ring to grow larger. "They could be held captive right now."
The ideas of who had taken these people didn't stop there. Other accusations filled the air, anything from fatal menzuri attacks, to the people of Belrea, to freak quick sand filled the air. Some ideas were more absurd than others, but all had their thoughts.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 6:11 pm
Tsallin Post 6
Oh great even Ruulu knew not what to do, and Ruulu was the bravest person, besides maybe his parents that he knew. The unease in the crowd was getting to him. As hybrids if there was a start of a new slave trade then they would be targeted for their unique appearances, or at least she would be, he could pretty much pass for a leafling if he wanted. Still the novelty was still there and he was still too young, to maleable.
His lip curled at the thought, let someone take him, see how much trouble they brought upon themselves.
Even he snorted at the freak sand traps, there was no way that That was the main cause of the disapearances. Perhaps a threat from the sky like Ruulu hoped one day to be. Maybe a belrean airship.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:13 pm
Ruulu Post 6
Ruulu had half a mind to whisk her charge back home into the arms of his mother and father and stay there with the lot of them until the threat was gone. She did not like this, she would trade much to have her father, Kaa, Uncle Ru, her mother Her brother Arron and her sister Volka here with her now..with that many people that she trusted there was no way this unknown threat could touch her Tsallin or herself.
She bared her teeth as well. She would fight to the death to protect Tsallin. Something wicked this way came and she was something wicked too.
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:34 pm
Ikkio
Post: 5
Location: with Nyx
--------------------"Good thing things are often more fun with someone else." she purred playfully, though the smile soon faded from her face. "That one will." she grumbled, tilting her head at a healer nearby, "He happens to be my keeper today, at the will of my wonderful and trusting father." the words took on an extra sourness. "It's so inconvenient..." and it really was. Stupid rules. Stupid restrictions. Stupid her, for telling her father anything at all. "But..." she smiled hopefully, "I think we can make a distraction." she pet her radaku. Zumurundi was, as ever, by her side, resting but alert. And so very obedient. "What do you think? A charging radaku would do the trick, wouldn't it?" She gave her 'keeper' another sour glance, "Or do you have a more interesting idea?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:15 am
 Nyxamora | 5 |Nyx listened to the other girl with only half an ear, the other at the vocalizations from the crowd that were growing louder and more numerous around them. More energized. More exciting.
So she tapped the air between them with an upraised finger, craning her head about to get a good reading of the herd they were a part of, “…Wait a second. That just…might not be necessary…” She turned back to her companion with a wolfish grin, practically tasting the energy in the air, “Looks like we can get some trouble started here.This lot is worked up; maybe they can be tipped over the edge, with the right encouragement…”
Nyx turned back towards the stage, cupping her hands around her mouth as she bellowed to be heard above the growing din, “WHY ARE WE EVEN HERE??!” She turned to address some of the crowd behind her, gesticulating to add to the spectacle, “Some of us had to leave behind our loved ones who couldn’t make the journey: what if something happens to them while we are all here? What if THEY are taken?! Or what’s to keep us safe on the trek back home? DO YOU FEEL SAFE???” She whirled back around, pointing an accusatory finger at the ones in charge, “YOU people called us here, away from our homes, our jobs, our security, with some vague and cryptic message! AND FOR WHAT?? To tell us you don’t know jack-all?! I call bull on that!! WHAT AREN'T YOU TELLING US?”
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:04 pm
Drexl - Post 4 His stance was tense. He blinked up to his brother. "If you even think about volunteering, I can assure you Dad would have your hide." he warned. They had one overprotective parent and one parent ready to knock heads off. The last thing any of their family needed was Lixes playing hero and setting off both parents and their elder brother. He reached up to pat his siblings side tho. "I won't let you be lost."
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:55 pm
Chapter 9: Grave Expectations
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Enki was more than prepared to growl out his response to the arrogant young girl shouting at them accusations of conspiracy. How else would these people know to protect themselves and to spread the word to protect themselves and their family without a meeting?
"No one was forced to attend you dolt." He snarled out, this girl was getting on his nerves. Enlil attempted to calm his brother; Enki was always the one quick to action and quick to speak his mind, but before he could get very far, before he could even address the crowd further there was a shriek from the young leaf girl's right.
In a flash, there was something grabbing a shifter girl. It's disfigured hands twisting their way around her waist. The girl was not moving, not fighting back, and seemed to be in a daze. Others cried out for her to run, for someone to save her, but it was clear that this thing was completely in control.
Everyone seemed to all start to panic at once. The thing's face twitched and shifter to click and sound out some sort of yell, and the younger members of the crowd immediately turned frightened to push back and away from the creature.
What was this thing?!
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:00 am
Lixes - Post 5 Lixes gave a grin and said, "Why wouldn't I decide to volunteer? It's what heroes do!" Of course as he said that Drexl reminded him exactly who he had for parents. Oh... right. They wouldn't be very pleased if he went chasing after something that was causing people to disappear, huh? He leaned forward a bit so that he could look down at Drexl, "You... might be right but... I kinda still want to help but... I don't want to get in trouble." What to do, what to do? He starred down at Drexl before he chuckled, patting him on the head, and said, "I know you won't let me get lost. You're a good brother like that, Drexl." As he started to sit up he heard a sudden commotion from the side and he turned his head, wondering what people were panicking over... and then he saw it. Lixes's mismatched eyes went wide, his mouth falling agape, and he choked out, "I know those things..." He shook his head and gave Drexl and rapid tap on the head, "Those things, you know them too! Our father told us those scary stories about the monsters that gave him some of his scars do you remember!" He'd always thought that it was just a story that was meant to keep them in line, that they should stick close to home because there were many dangers in the world up to and including bug men! He'd never realized believed that such a thing existed and yet here one was. "W-What should we d-do?" He was all for playing hero and saving people from other Earthlings or those distant Elaria, but from monsters? For the first time ever he actually felt... scared. Not a feeling he liked, not in the least bit, because heroes shouldn't get scared. But he was scared.
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:57 am
 Post 5 There was so much anger by the leaders it made Borra uncomfortable. You'd think that he would be use to it since his own sister tended to be of the angry nature, yet he was use to her and her tantrums this was on an entirely different level. People were getting antsy, panic building his own worry trying to fester into panic, then there was screaming.
Jumping in alarm he turned and regretting seeing what he saw. What was that thing?? It looked so unearthly...surreal and terrifying! Why wasn't that girl struggling? There were so many questions that could not be answered but he found himself shrinking back, cowering. Borra was no hero, he only had his lute what could he do? Play a nice melody to sooth whatever it was? Swallowing he really regretting now not coming with someone else...Gyuri would know what to do here...why didn't he come with him?
Would anybody go to assist the girl? He knew he should, but his feet refused to move.
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:38 am
Ikkio
Post: 6
Location: with Nyx
-------------------- Why yes, she DID have a better idea. Ikkio liked her style. A lot. Ikkio let her do that, opting to nudge Zumurundi standing and to be ready to back her new friend up or slip away. "Oh yeah?!" Ikkio added, "Tell that to everyone who came here to get answers!" Who was the dolt here? Her, Nyxamora, or him? "And what do we get? More questions. What a waste of our time!"And then, not a few feet away, right next to her, something very interesting happened. Ikkio was transfixed as the clicking creature did something to the mind of a Shifter girl, controlling her movement, stilling her voice. Though, what the point of that was, she didn't know, because everyone could see it. Moreover, everyones focus was on the altercation. "Nyx, lets go." she said. This was the perfect time to get away from things. Then again, things had just gotten interesting, finally. She half wanted to stick around a little more. "Or...?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:59 pm
Nyxamora | 6 |Nyx felt an irrational surge of anger sweep over her at the insult coming from the older man. She was many unsavory things, but she sure as hell was no idiot. There was no way she was just gonna let that go unattested.
She had a very unsavory and very inappropriate string of words on her tongue ready to hurl up at the Leaf man, when her train of thought was derailed by screaming that seemed to come from practically on top of her. She had whipped into a defensive stance and turned before her mind even comprehended what it was seeing, and even then she didn’t believe it. “What the fu―?!” But those words were interrupted as well, jostled by the people in the crowd that surged away in a ripple away from the area the girl and the strange monstrosity now occupied.
An area Nyx was still a part of.
But despite the way she carried on, shrugged away responsibility, laughed in the face of other’s misfortunes, made light of troubling situations, ignored the heroic endeavors of her dead parents…Nyx couldn’t join the surge of retreating bodies. This was real danger, a real monster that was threatening the life of a real girl. This was serious.
Nyx was serious when she had to be.
So despite Nyx’s best intentions to heed the advice her comrade in chaos Ikkio was suggesting, she instead found herself crouching low, picking up a large pebble, and standing in one continuous movement to hurl it in the direction of the confrontation, growling out a declaration of war against the disfigured assailant, “Let er’ go!” Her aim was for the hole in the darkened hood of the mysterious bug creature―and while it looked like the path would strike true―if there was the small chance that it waivered off course, at least it would hit the shifter girl and possibly knock her out of whatever bloody stupor she was experiencing.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:02 pm
jayoku Sorry for the late response.  Rethkk Post 3Listening intently to everything, Rethkk tried to think of how to take in all this info. It was all to much at times. Who could possibly be taking not just his fellow shifters, but the other races as well? Was there no way of figuring it out without everyone simply blurting out what they thought? This meeting had simply turned into a bunch of angry people proposing whatever fit their views, and they would get nowhere with this. However, what could he do about it? He wasn't exactly the best at speaking up, it being the reason he used pranks to get people's attention in the first place. Then the panic came, Rethkk turning toward the source of the scream to see this unsightly abomination and nearly screaming himself, with intense reflexes hiding behind the person he had been speaking to before the meeting. There was no where else he could think to hide, and running away would be too dangerous with this crowd ", What is that thing?! What is it even doing?!" He was in too much of a panic himself to realize the girl wasn't struggling, him simply wanting this to end already.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:43 pm
Drexl - Post 5 The bigger male instantly had his younger brother off his shoulders. "Get back to Miqwe. He's waiting near that pen remember?" he wasn't able to bring the beast further in as the Limbara had started to grow rapidly. "Get back to him now!" Drexl started to push his brother gently as he watched the commotion. "We're getting out of here." he growled out.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:08 pm
Ikkio
Post: 7
Location: with Nyx
--------------------Ikkio was a little disappointed. After all, she didn't care about the girl being taken, she didn't care about bug people - it had nothing to do with her, and there was so little she could learn from them. Portals? That was not magic that earthlings could bring forth. Whatever it was doing to that girl's mind? Ikkio had no idea how that was done. She really wanted to leave... or at least not be right next to the damn thing. But if Nyx wasn't leaving. "Fiine..." she muttered, snapping Zumurundi to attention. "Sic 'em!" she said, summoning magic to her hands. She wasn't adept at calling fire yet, but she could still do it, if she had to. "Fire!" she incanted, throwing a flare at the creature. At least she got to see something burn.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 6:07 pm
Lixes - Post 6 Lixes gave a bit of a squeak as he found himself being put back on his feet on the ground. He blinked a couple times, "Huh?" Get back to Miqwe? What? He looked at his brother, confused, as he was told to get back to the limbara, that they were going to 'get out of here'. That didn't sound as though it was right. They should be helping! They should be fighting that... that monster! He gave a shake of his head and tried to duck past his brother, "We can just leave, Drexl! We have to help." Running off like that was surely the act of a coward, not a hero! His desire to help was overriding his sense of self preservation in the moment. He wanted to help people... so surely running was the wrong thing to do, right? Now it was just a matter of convincing Drexl of as much since his older, far bigger brother seemed to be wanting to do the exact opposite as Lixes.
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