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 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:57 pm
"What about the Ancient forest? Do you remeber that? Do you remember the gorge filled with mud?"
Darius eyes bolted open. A rush of images began rolling out into the depths of his mind. He remembered falling in. Twice. He remember the laughter and the joy he had felt. The kiss he and Lily shared while covered head to toe. He stared at Lily for a few seconds and then quickly embraced her in a hug.
"I-I re-remember Lily. Oh Lily!"
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:12 pm
((From page 485))
Quickly in Kurai eyes, Joy's evil demon face melted away into a blur to resemble the somewhat kind Joy that Kurai befriended. Not the one that he hated, and was devoted to kill in the name of the Lord. The floor become a blur with Joy's body until he felt himself get shorter. No, he was falling twoards the ground. Dizziness and the sharp pain in his chest spread about his body, rendering his balance off, and his sense of thinking into just one track.
He could only see Joy in front of him. Then she slowly become a puddle of red, then again Joy herself. Then beyond Joy came a sparle of light, from the heavens above.
An Angel? Lord...have you come to forgive me? My foolish thinking? to save a man who saved the demon's daughter herself? IM sorry Lord! My human emotions got in the way... Kurai's image then become just darkness itself.
no.. I was right Lord.. forgive me... but i just remembered osomething more important.. Suddenly a tinge of warmth began to seep into his body. Kurai took a quick gasp of air and slowly and steadily his body became to regain the warmth of a healthy body. MOre gasps of air filled his body as he slowly began to open his eye. A sight of female in front of him. "Mother...?" Kurai first answer was as he saw Celestial in front him.
"Joys sorry Celeste!!She's so selfish!!. I shouldn't run away from my problems....maybe I should of let him kill me,but I didn't want to leave Mimi,or You,or the others..I..I"
"J--Joy?" Kurai recognized the origanl voice of Joy as he slowly focused his eyes more and more on the world around him again. Quickly the energy in his body overwhelmend him and then fainted again.
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"...!!!" Kurai quickly sat upstraight and then looked around quickly. "Joy!" Kurai cried out as he rubbed his head furiously and then came face to face at the green haired neko gurl. "What... what did i..." Kurai then felt about his chest. "this..." Kurai then turned to see Celestial leaning against the door to some Jet. His eyes widened to relization what just happened.
"... no..." Kurai slowly whispered. "what...why..." Kurai rubbed his head some more in frustration and confusion.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:19 am
Joys eyes softened,she wiped away the tears that still clung at the corners of her eyes. "Ah...Kurai is awak-Celeste?" The moment the girl had finished her healing,she had botled just like that,as if suddenly fearing something.Joy stood up Kurai's head,it hitting the ground without Joys lap to soften it,Celeste aura,once a stroung whisps of colours,due to her many moodswings,it..was fading to just a plainwhite,slipping in and out of view.
Joy took back a breath,only able to sound out a whimper,she was quivering with the realization of what Celeste had done to herself. No..no..anyone but you Celeste!!
In a few seconds she was gone,racing down towards the Jet she had made just for Celeste,so she could travel more easily to her desert home. new tears were forming,her mind raced faster then her feet as she saw Celeste go inside the Jet.
Joy found Celeste body,was she even breathing?Yes,Yes,her chest was falling and rising ever so slowly,but it still rised.'Celeste!!"Her voice barly above whispers. She ran past Little Joys craddle,who,woken from her slumber started to cry out for her mother.
Joy reached out to touch Celeste shoulder,her hand was shaking.Tears were falling down her tanned face,splattering onto Celeste's clotheing.
Joy couldn't even begin to think of the world where she didn't have Celeste to turn too,she was the person with her treasure of secrets,and Joy held a few of Celeste's as well. She was the person that gave her life..and now Celeste gave her own life.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:38 am
Slowly Celeste opened her eyes, blinked a few times very slowly, and smiled sadly at Joy.
"You silly girl, hes out there waiting, hes the one who saved your life, I couldn't let your savior go without a reward. I'll be ok I'm just.. tierd. Go see him, tell him I'm not his mother . You're too yound and despite what others think, innocent. I couldn't let myself see you sad, you know that. I can still hand on to life I'll just be really weak. Go."
Taking a deep slow breath Celestial raised her arm and pushed Joy's arm slightly, aiming her for the door. Celeste's hands were shaking, she felt so tierd but she wouldn't let herself sleep, she couldn't! Thinking Joy's name over and over Celestial swung her legs around and put weak feeling legs on the ground. Usising her arms she pushed herself up, tucking her hair behind her ear to bide time.
Sighing she slowly made her way to Joy's cradle, feeling as if she waded through molasses. Gently her two long white arms, made paler by the loss of lifeforce, reached into the crib and grasped the screaming Joy. As soon as Joy was being held and rocked slightly by Celestial's well muscled arms her screaming turned into a slight gurble.
Celestial opened her mouth and, as she had been taught by Joy, sang in the deserts language a lullaby, so sweet it calmed even Celestial's torn soul. Closing her eyes as she sat on the edge of her bed she rocked Joy back and forth while singing quietly, she did not have the strength to sing loudly. After finishing the song Celeste held a half-asleep babny in her arms and whispered gently.
"Joy I will always love you, even if your father didn't love me. and all your aunts and uncles and godmothers and godfather will treat you well. You will be happy."
Celestial looked into Joy's deep shining blue eyes as she gently tousled her baby's mop of black hair, humming her song again. When Celestial thought of the scene outside and all that had happened this year and the last she looked at Joy. Little Joy deserved peace, all her extended family has suffered enough for two generations. No matter what happened Celeste would always try to find peace for little Joy and help her grow up happy.
Soon Joy was asleep So once again Celestial Stood on shaking legs and layed her baby in, covering her with a blanket.
"Sleep sweet Joy, think of the promise of a nice day tomorrow,"
Smiling at her baby she slowly trod forth to the entrance of the jet and sat down on the ground, cradling her head in hr hands to make sure nothing happed to her sweet friend Joy, they were everything to eachother.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:11 am
Joy took in a breath,seeing that Celeste,though barly having any strings holding her life together stood up. Joy just stood as she watched,so pale like a ghost,as she soothed the wailing baby girl. Joy still couldn't believe she had somone so adorable,innocent,untainted with evil,was named after her.She wished she could repay the honour.
She made her way over to sit beside Celeste,leaning against her,suddenly exahusted as well.A sigh escaped her rosy red lips,her hands touching her stomache. Memories of the old days,how she yearned for those times,so simple.
Joy closed her eyes,veiling the bright gems of her eyes,her long lashes making shadows on her cheek.how long has it been sinced I cryed?Years?The only time was.. "You know..I havn't gone back since "it" happened,heh..No one really cared for anyone down there,Ella was just a tool to carry on the destruction. Wonder what my old man would do If I went back."
Joy opened her eyes. "Miss the old days eh?When I didn't rememebr anything.about my pastI.It was transcent bliss,it was just the us,the gang,drifing." She looked up,her eyes misty. "Ria High has an aura about it,so welcoming,it made me even feel its warmth. I've been here on Earth for many years..but here,was the first time I really started to live..so many things have happened here,both good and bad,but when the bad happened,we just got through it, and everyone always offered help. I never knew what being cared for felt like..to be have people who I barly know,that I had nothing to give..they..cared for baout me, something like me dosen't deserve that."
She chuckeled as she took the postition Celeste held. Her long green hair pooling around them,making it look like in a small ocean of green."It might be a little weird.But isn't it a good time,to add to the drama..?" Joy was half talking to herself,and half to Celeste. She turned her head,her hair covering half of her face,to show the tucked corners of her lips to a forced smile. "Im pregnant. It seems little Joy will have a cousin soontwo months time."
Guilt pinched the girl,Joy had given herself up,just to make someone happy, to get one step closer to her life's goal. Even now Joy wondered if it would of been selfish of her to say no to Coma.
Her eyes drifted to where Kurai was,her eyes saddening.,her yellow cat ears pinned to her green head "What will he think about this..he proubly still despises me for the blood I carry in my veins,the things I've done..but he'll think Im a whore..as well as everyone else.." Joy looked down,sealing her mouth and eyes lock tight. "I'm sorry.."
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:54 pm
((announcing the entrance of *trumpen sounds* Gothica Nethersic... the 9"10 beast from the northern reaches...))
Gothica slowly wandered into the courtyard followed by the clincking of metal on metal as his armour moved and re-ajusted to his body. His 9"10 bulk dominateing the surrounginds, his black traveling cloak almost blocking out the sun behind him.
He could almost smell him... Coma was around here somewhere, he had been tracking him most of his life after the deamon had orphaned him and left him for dead out in the moutians... But as soon as he found him he would settle things.
He thought back on the torment of a life he had led, the cold nights sleeping in caves to avoid being frozen in a blizzard, hunting wolves before his 10th birthday for warmth and food, wrestling with girzzly bears for scrounging rights. And all becasue one deamon decided that his parents would make a tastey snack...
He almost hated him, well he did, but not anymore, after living in the wilderness for so long you start to understand that kind of thing, and if he hadden't been orphaned, he would be weak and usless. He had come to the realization years ago that he needed to find him, and thank him properly for makeing him the brute he was today. Then who knows... maybe study under him, learn the ways of the deamon... it might be fun...
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:02 pm
"whos.. soul..." Kurai grabbed onto the place where the bullet wound used to be, instead there was a patch of pale skin on him instead. Kurai's eyes widened as he brushed back his blue unbuttoned shirt away from his body. He quickly stood up. There he could feel it, Celestials own soul energy rushing about his body. It was warm but it made him quiver in fear. "How could she give me this... its not mines..."
Kurai quickly turned around to face Celestial and Joy who were sitting at the edge of the Jet now. Conversing with each other. Kurai felt hopeless again, seeing Celestial slowly slip away. His breathing began to quicken in fear and his eyes slowly watered. "Whats WRONG with you!" Kurai pointed straight at Celestial. "Why did you do this!? You have a child and a whole life in front! You had no reason to die!" Kurai grabbed his head again, everything was so frustrating to him.
Memories of the time when Susie almost died came rushing back to him. When Uwasa was able to heal Susie and he couldn't. After that he promised he would train stronger. But still.. He couldn't protect anyone.
"I still can't protect the ones I care.. I can't even do what the Lord wishes.." Kurai once again fell to his knees. There he broke down and let out an angry yell straight twoards the sky, as if trying to reach the lord itself. "I deserved to die there Celeste! That was my own mistake! Why do play with the threads of fate so!?" Kurai stared straight at Celeste angrily. "Your the one who revived Joy too! and now you basically save me from death too!? Why do you do this!?" Kurai's eyes turning into angry slits.
"C---celeste.." Kurai slowly shuddered in more fear and then sadness again. "Why..."
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:05 pm
Galea woke up drowzily. She sat up yawning looking down at the wooden bench. Her tail twiched happily. Talking with Taqune last night was very, interesting. She purred looking up, wanting to watch clouds.
She squeeked loudly.T-there was a cr-reature staning right infront of her!! She felt her face turn white. Speechless her body frize squeaking a few more times trying to talk.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:13 pm
Celestial was now past shaking, her eyes were half closed and her body was limp. She was so tierd, just wanted to sleep, but she couldn't. Celeste's head sliped on her knees, she was too weak to move it and instead let out a dry laugh.
"Yes, the old days. I loved those moments. Do you remember when we first met? we had a diving contest and they said I won because I did it all with a dress on. Life was so much simpler then."
It was so hard to speak, it took so much energy, energy she didn't have. Celestial gathered her strength and slowly used her magic to move her long, raven black hair over her face. It intertwined and made a soft of wall so that Joy could not see the agony on her face, nor the closeness to death.
Celestial's head was balanced on her arms so she could see as her skin was growing whiter and whiter. She ought to tell Joy to bring her to the hospital, but she wanted Joy to talk to Kurai, before she avoided him.
After a long pause Celestial drew in the tiniest of breaths, the most she could manage and continued to speak uncertainly.
"Joy, you're pregnant because you wanted to help, you wanted to make someone else happy even if that did not include yourself. If anyone Kurai would understand this. If he doesn't he isn't much of a priest. I've been down there, I've been hurt, I never wanted to return but I did, and I fear it wasn't the last time. You may think that you're nothing, that you're evil and tainted but if so it is only because Satan touched you. It so happens that most of the time, the spawn of the devil are the nicest of all, for they know suffering and death and evilness, but if they choose to rebe against it, as you did, they can be nothing but good for they had been tempted the most, taunted the most but they resisted."
Summoning her strength, perhaps if it could be called that, Celestial raised an arm whiter than death itself and layed her hand on Joy's head, smiling sadly through her hair.
"Joy, you and others may believe otherwise, but you will always be my Joy. you will always be the happy little girl who always did things for others which only made her suffer. The pure sweet innocent happy Joy. My little sister who I will love till the end of the universe and beyound"
Tears were now glinting in Celeste's eyes, she was so tierd, but for Joy she would sacrifice her soul, and stay everynight in hell if she needed to keep her alive and happy.
"Joy, you will always be my little girl, the namesake of my child and my sweet sweet Joy, if no one else loves you othe calls you anythign mean, thell them that no matter what, I will love you, no matter who you try to help, no matter what you become or what you do, I will be there for you."
Gasping quietly Celestial put her head on her knees, her gastly white arm dropping from Joy's head, leavign her hair slightly mussed. Swallowing she said her last words for the hour at least, she needed to gain energy without sleeping, she could go to the hospital and get fed, but first she needed to find out what had made Kurai save Joy.
"Go.. talk to... kurai... please... Joy I need.. to.. ugh.. rest"
She was tierd but not out. Shutting her eyes tight she collapsed gently against the wall, now too tierd to even open her eyes, but Celeste wouldn't fall asleep, to do that would mean to die.
"Go.. Ill be.. Allright.. I promise."
Sparing one last smile to Joy she slowly stopped breathing, only getting enough air to hang on to life--barely.
**EDIT**
slowly she gathered some energy, she and conserved it in her resting and instead of speaking she conserved her energy by mind-speaking.
Kurai, I do this because I can, because I want Joy happy. I wan't to see what happens, besides I wont die, I can easily bargain with Satan. Being one of his wives afterall, I hadn't told you that had I?
Smiling evily she looked at Kurai, she couldn't help but taunt him.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:16 pm
Gothica sniffed the air, he could smell the deamon's sent coming from... everywhere... "that must mean that he spends alot of time around here, allright, lets just find the greatest sourses." He sniffed agian, one was off in the distance, and one was, right below him.. He slowly looked down at the thing lying on the bench below him.. it was small, and helpless.. and FEMALE?!? This deffinitly could not be Coma, coma was big and strong and powerful... maybe this was his mate? well, only one way to find out...
He bent over, and sniffed her gently, then looked up at her."You woulden't happen to know Coma white whould you?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:26 pm
Galea sqeaked once more watching the large creature sniffing her. It was talking!! How could it talk? How could it be that big. Galea was onlt 5'2 and this thing made her feel like an ant. Well it didn't matter it could hurt her, and taqune wasn't here she had to defend herself. Looking down at her hand slightily Galea drew out her claws uncomfortably, she had only done this a few times at it raely worked, but they came out this time. Atleast somthing good was happening today. She cringed, haunching her shoulders over, raising her hand and swiping. Before she even looked to see if she had hit him, Galea dropped to the ground covering her head and screamed,"Please don't hurt me! PLease don't eat anymore trees!!!!''
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:33 pm
The claw swipe bounced off his chin... his caloused and leather like skin not even bothering with it... This was confusing, what was all this talk about eating trees... ah well, diffrent country, diffrent coustoms. He grabbed the bench, picked it up and hucked it across the courtyard."Listen, I need to find out where Coma White is, so it would be greatly appretated if you would tell me where your mate is..."
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:39 pm
Galea could feel her whole body shaking, this man was going to hurt her just like the other one. She squeezed her body togeather trying to make herself be as small as possible. Maybe she would just disapear and he couldn't find her anymore, he would go away an never want to hurt her.
"I-I-I don't know a Coma!!!! Don't hurt m just don't act like that other man please, don't hurt me because I'm a demon!"
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:44 pm
Weirder and weirder... deamons were afraid of mortals? And she stank of Coma, why diddn't she know him?"listen, i dont know about this other guy, but im not going to hurt you, i just need to find Coma, and you REAK of his scent... so you going to help me or what?" He was starting to lose his pacience... this was some really annoying s**t...
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:49 pm
Galea sat up a little still shaking, but but he hadn't hurt her yet...he didn't seem to want to. If he did, she guessed, he would have eaten a tree already. Maybe if she helped him find this 'coma' person...he'd go away. gulping Galea mustered up her courage.
"I am truely sorry......but I don't know a Coma person....tell me what he looks like. There are a lot of people here at Ria and I'd like to help if you don't eat me..." Her ears seemed glued to her head as she spoke.
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