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 Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:07 pm
The heat was unbearable, to say the least. It had been like this for weeks now, temperatures reaching upwards of 95 and it seemed like the average temperature was only rising. People were sweating, babies were crying, and overall it was like being in a sauna.
Logan sighed loudly as he tried to run at his usual pace. Every day it was getting harder and harder to wake up before the heat did and it was slowly affecting his body, he was becoming sluggish, his thoughts would often get muggy at inconvenient times, and sweat seemed like something unavoidable. Logan stopped and took another sip from his water bottle, draining the bottle of every last drop.
“I should have brought another water bottle,” Logan quietly muttered to himself, “but then again, it shouldn’t be this hot in January…”
Lucky for him, there was a gas station within a couple miles and though he had no money, he knew the owner and would probably get something for free. And so, he set off for the gas station, the thought of ice-cold water or Gatorade being his motivation and his mind occupied as he thought about whether or not his body could make it.
“Let’s see… The Gas station is two blocks over so if I cut through the mountain bike trail...”
And just like that, his path had changed. A left here, a slight turn there, and his shortcut was established. As he ran through the trail, the shade of trees giving some sort of relief from the neverending heat, his mind wandered yet again.
‘The trees are dying, the wildlife won’t even come out of the shade..
(( still writing ))
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:09 pm
reserved for flight of the phoenix pt.2
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:38 pm
reserved for Ryder and Caden RP
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:39 pm
Ryder and Uziri RP
"Pooosh Lo poosh!," Ryder yelled happily as he sat on the swings, his wings flapping quickly creating little waves of sand.
"Okay, okay I'm coming," Logan said as he attempted to stifle a laugh.
"Just stop flapping your wings, you're blowing sand everywhere!"
"Why am I in a park. Parks are for normal people."
Isaiah was wandering around per usual, Uziri cradled in his arms. He'd decided to skip carrying her in her box - not only was it clumsy to carry, but he'd gotten more than one dirty look for carrying a baby in a cardboard box, regardless of how many blankets he'd stuffed it with.
Uziri, having neither the ability nor the desire to respond, yawned widely and cast an eye around the park. There had to be something interesting around here....
Her eyes caught sight of something with wings, something very pretty, and she gave a shriek.
"NGAA!" she said urgently, pointing clumsily at the winged thing. She wanted to see it, she did!
"Looook Lo look!" Ryder said as he was happily swinging on the swingset in the park. He stuck his feet out to stop the motion of the swing.
"Baaaaay-bee!"
"Huh?" Logan followed Ryder's pointed finger to an odd person carrying a baby. A very loud baby for that matter.
Logan grabbed Ryder's hand and said, 'Let's go say hi."
Logan approached the odd figure, Ryder walking wobbly behind and said,"Cute baby you've got there, I'm Logan and this is Ryder"
Isaiah, not expecting such a quick introduction to people he hadn't even seen, regardless of Logan's friendliness, was flustered.
"Oh! Um. Uh. Thanks," he said quickly, trying to regain himself and hide his obvious surprise. "I'm Isaiah. This is-"
"BAAFT!"
"-very loud. And named Uziri. Nice to meet you."
"Well, uh nice to meet you too," Logan said, a loss of words to say because there was something about this guy, Isaiah, something different about him.
"Hey Uziri, I'd like you to meet Ryder..."
Logan picked Ryder up and held him right in front of Uziri.
Ryder was intrigued by this new person especially the strange necklace around her neck. But, alas, curiosity got the best of him as he reached out to touch the necklace of skulls.
Uziri watched in curiosity as the Shiny reached out towards her, but then started wiggling back. No no, he couldn't have her shiny. She frowned, and the glowing eyes of the skull flared uncomfortably.
"Sffrt," she informed the Shiny, and to further dissuade him, stuck out a hand and planted it firmly in his face. She giggled then, discomfort forgotten.
"Waaah," yelled Ryder as the hand squished his nose. Apparently the necklace was untouchable as it moved away every time he attempted to touch it. He'd have to make due with not being able to touch it for now.
It giggled at Ryder's discomfort and, well, giggling was contagious. Ryder also started to giggle which led to his wings gently flapping causing whisps of fire to fly out towards Uziri.
Uziri clapped her hands clumsily, full-out laughing now. She liked this thing, yes she did. Her eyes widened at the sight of the fire, and she burbled in curiosity.
Isaiah, who'd been keeping a close eye on the exchange, arched an eyebrow.
"Your baby's on fire," he said casually to Logan.
"Yeah, that's kind of his thing.. I just have to make sure that nothing ELSE catches on fire and that's when it becomes a hassle. That's why I'm never taking him to the mall again after what happened at the music store..." Logan said shaking his head as he reminisced (sp?)
Ryder's eyes widened. So it liked fire did it? Well, let's give her some more...
Ryder flapped his wings even more and the fire got closer and closer to Uziri, yet heat was not felt. Ryder liked this thing, he didn't want to hurt it..
Isaiah winced sympathetically.
"Lemme guess...melted CDs and screaming bystanders everywhere, right?" he said, smiling slightly.
Uziri watched in awe as the fire came closer, and on a whim reached out to it. It wasn't hot, and oh goodness gracious was it pretty. She laughed again, a high-pitched and excited sound.
Isaiah heard the laugh and looked down again, and bit back a yelp as he saw Uziri in such close quarters with the fire.
"Zee!"
He bent down as though to drag her away, and inadvertently touched a lick of flame. He jerked his hand back, but realized he hadn't been burned.
"...huh?"
"Hehe, um yeah something like that. More like guitars and violins flaming on their stands but yeah they were melted CDs and screaming bystanders too."
Logan glanced down as Isaiah stared transfixedly (Oooh big word XD) switching from his hand to Ryder's flame licks.
"Oh yeah, did I mention he can turn down the heat of his fire? It doesn't really burn unless he wants it to..."
Ryder laughed as the bigger it tried to save the smaller it but took his hand back really fast after touching his flames.
"Flaymee no boo-boo," Ryder said with a smile, staring back at the confused guardian.
Still checking his hand just to make sure there was no damage, Isaiah nodded slightly.
"Huh...that's pretty nifty, actually," he said. He glanced down at Uziri, who was perfectly happy (and surrounded by flames). "Not quite sure what Zee can do. She has that weird kinda tentacle-shadow, and that necklace..."
Giggling and burbling to herself, Uziri gnawed on her fingers and watched the flames in delight. She wanted to share something with this nice Shiny, but what did she have? Hmm...
Her shadow-aura wiggled behind her, forgotten to Uziri herself but plainly in sight of Ryder.
"Well, I'm sure you'll find something special about her... Especially that necklace, is it supposed to glow like that?"
Ryder stopped flapping his wings for a second so he could stare at the odd black thingy behind it. It seemed to wiggle on it's own and without Uziri's immediate motion and it was looking pretty scary to Ryder.
"Shaaaaa-dow scawy," said Ryder as he pointed it out to Uziri.
"I suppose so. She bit me the first time I tried to take it off her...er, well, gummed me, actually. It's like a part of her. The eyes glow brighter when she's moody."
"Saaaawooe?" Uziri parroted, trying to force her babblings into something comprehensible. "Saaaa...saaaa....woe."
She looked behind her, trying to see what Shiny was looking at. She brushed a waving tentacle of her shadow-aura away, trying to see. She turned back to Shiny and frowned. Was he seeing something she wasn't? Whatever it was it seemed to scare him a bit.
"See, there's something special about her already! I don't know though maybe you should try studying it while she's sleeping? I mean, I've never seen a baby where skulls before..."
"Shaaawoe! Shaawoe! Shaawoe! "
At this time, Ryder was fed up with trying to point it out so he started screaming at the top of his lungs.
"SHAWOE SHAWOE SHAWOE!"
"I suppose I could...but I dunno. She can't bite me, so it may try for her."
Isaiah snorted at his own joke, but then frowned and glanced at the glowing necklace. Maybe it was better to let well enough alone.
"Sawoe?"
Uziri mumbled in confusion. Shiny was mad now, wasn't he? Her face crumpled and tears welled into her eyes. She'd made him upset by not understanding... and suddenly it clicked. Shawoe. Shadow.
"Naaah! Sawoe sawoe!"
No longer upset, Uziri turned and showed off the shadow-aura, preening like a peacock. The aura's tentacle-like extensions wiggled at the boy, and she gave Shiny a toothless smile.
"Yeah, it's kind of creepy for my tastes..."
Ryder stared at the mysterious shadow thing as Uziri showed it off. It seemed as if she was proud of it and she was introducing it to him. Well, it looked like the shadow was under control and it looked like fun.
"Pwetty Weens," Ryder said as he stodd up and turned around to show Uziri the full view of his wings. He flapped them and jiggled them which sent little pieces of ash and fire into the air
"Weens. Pwe.. pweet-ee...nnf. Weens!"
Uziri made grabbing hands at the floating ashes, her shadow-aura's 'tentacles' stretching out from behind her to try and grab in all directions. She kept missing, but it was a fun game. Uziri looked at the aura, then back at the boy's wings. Her aura wasn't even half as pretty, in her own mind. Her face crumpled again.
"Wan' weens," she said mournfully.
"Weens pretty," Logan said as he tried to glance at his own shadow, "but yo shadow is humongo! And look! My shadoe is weaal weally small but shadoe has weens too! Maybe you can chanje shadow to weens?"
In an effort to change Uziri's shadow, Ryder got closer to see if he could merge both his and Uziri's shadows together so she could have a winged shadow too
Still looking upset, Uziri tried to make the shadow-aura shift into wings. The thing wiggled, and tentacles curled, but nothing more. The baby sighed.
"Naw weens," she said. She looked down at the ground then, and brightened. Her real shadow had wings! Her expression cleared instantly and Uziri laughed, clapping her hands again.
Ryder smiled. Making people happy was fun! He started flapping his wings again to see if he could acheive lift off. As he flapped his wings, little pits of ash and wisps of flame began to surround him and Uziri. He slowly got one inch off the ground, then two, then higher and higher.
He was flying! He was flying! He giggled as he hovered near Isaiah's head.
"Um, Isaiah?" Logan couldn't help but smirk as he tried to suppress a laugh.
Isaiah stared at Ryder in utter surprise.
"He's like a really small angel or a really big, really friggin' shiny pigeon," he said, grinning incredulously.
Uziri's eyes turned coin-round and widened almost painfully far, her expression comical for such awe to be on a baby's face.
"Weens! Weens!"
"I'm going with like really really shiny pigeon," Logan said as he chuckled, "after all, I did find him from following a bird."
Ryder was practically screaming in joy as he landed next to Uziri.
"You fwy! Shawoe wings fwy! Fwy!"
Ryder was excited. This could be another person who could fly with him! He was already fantasizing about how much fun they would have together...
Isaiah nodded vaguely, still watching Ryder.
"Bird, huh? What, like a...god, what're they called...y'know, those firebird things....um...ah! Like a phoenix or something?" he said eventually.
Uziri giggled and shrieked, Ryder's infectious enthusiasm wholly overwhelming. She wanted to fly like he did, oh, she did! Shifting into a n unsteady kneel, Uziri looked over her shoulder at the writhing shadow-aura and tried to make it change shape. She wanted wings, darn it.
"Nnnnghph..."
The shadow-aura stayed stubbornly the same shape, though the curling tendrils waved around more energetically. Uziri sighed. Maybe she'd just have to be content to watch Ryder fly.
"I think your right... A Phoenix huh? And I thought there were like Mythical or something..."
Ryder felt bad. Everyone should be able to enjoy flying! He landed near Uziri and grabbed her hand.
"FWY! FWY WID ME!"
He flapped his wings while he waited for Uziri to answer.
Isaiah shrugged.
"So're vampires, so that means I must be defying some rationale of logic somewhere," he said, watching Ryder with utter thoughtful fascination.
Uziri knelt, watching Ryder enviously as she tried to make her shadow-aura become something more useful. Oh, how she wanted to fly with him!
"See naw fwy," she said, looking despondent. "Naw weens li'e Ry-er..."
"So... you're a vampire? That's cool! I thought there was something about you that was different..."
"Fwy Uri! Fwy!"
Ryder grabbed Uziri's hand and started to flap. Much to his dismay, he started to fly but Uziri was going no where. So, what else could he do? He flapped harder. He was flying lopsided now, all his strength going into trying to get Uziri off the ground. Then it happened. Uziri was off the ground! But just as quickly she had gotten off the ground, she came back down. Gently, that is.
Ryder huffed and puffed as he asked Uziri, "You wike?"
"Yup," Isaiah said, preening a little bit. "It's pretty much a normal life, really. 'Cept you're a bit paler and you live on a liquid diet."
He snorted slightly as though he'd cracked a joke only he thought was funny, and when he caught himself doing this he cleared his throat and grinned sheepishly.
Uziri gave a shriek, utterly delighted. For one glorious moment she'd been airborne! Amazing! Incredible!
"SEE FWY!"
"Oh haha, well that's cool.."
What a thrill it was making someone else happy! Uziri's smile made all of the stress and strain on his wings worth it. He smiled a small grin and yawned. He glanced at his surroundings and saw that the sun had set a long time ago and the light of the moon had set in.
"Ryderrr tired!"
He waved bye-bye to Uziri as he pulled on Logan's pant leg.
"Logan, Ryder tirrred! We go bye-bye home?"
"Okay.. Well, Isaiah, it was nice meeting you and I, uh, hope we meet again too.."
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:13 pm
reserved for ryder and shayla RP
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:00 pm
reserved for ryder and elazu rp
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:02 pm
mall RP (unfinished but had to post before growth)
Summary: Ryder bruns down the music store at the mall and somehow ends up with some SHWEET (slightly charred) guitars. Lessons are soon to come!!!
“Looooogan?”
Ryder was having the time of his life setting up the epic battle that would soon occur on the battlefield that is the living room floor. He had set up his battalion in their ranks. Floofey as the head captain, and his many many action figures all lined up ready for battle. And across the rug were the other army of… no one.
He had used all of his favorite figures in his army and there were none left for the opposing side! THIS WOULD NOT DO! Logan would get him some more.. He had to!
Ryder stood up, pulling up his baggy clothes (Hand-me-downs of Logan) and began to wander through the very small apartment. Eventually, he would have to run into Logan! He stumbled through the kitchen doorway and looked inside. No Logan there. He crept inside the washing machine. No Logan there! He was about to climb into the dryer when Logan just happened to walk by the entrance to the laundry room and started choking on some leftover chicken from lat night’s adventure through Asia meal..
“Ryder! What are you doing babe?!?”
“Lesse… Ryder neeed army for battle and Ryder have no soldiers lef for bad guys annnnnnnd-”
“And you could use some clothes too.. Sounds like it’s time for a mall trip!”
“Whassa mall”, Ryder said, holding Logan’s hand as they walked out the door and into their car.
“Ummm, it’s a magical place and… yeah.”
Logan had no idea that those two words, magical and place, could craft such a grand idea in the phoenix baby’s head and on the car ride there, Ryder’s mind filled with images of castles and princesses and dragons when the fantasy would soon come crashing down around him.
As the car turned into the parking lot, surrounding the car in pitch-black darkness, Ryder sat squirming in his chair waiting for the lights to come back and show him his wonderful castle. And when the lights finally returned, a spectacle of spectacle appeared in Ryder’s eyes. A super huge building with lots and lots of windows greeted the odd parent-child couple and what looked to be thousand upon thousands of people appeared to be shopping or walking or just plain having fun with their friends.
This was going to be fun!
“Are you okay Ryder?”
Ryder had not spoken in more than 5 minutes, which was a wonder in it and of itself, and usually there were only two reasons that he would EVER stop talking. Either he had something in his mouth (And even then, he still tried to talk) or he was too busy whispering with Floofey and, for once, it was neither.
Ryder and Logan stepped out of the car and Ryder stared awestruck at the massive building. There was so much going on and everyone was so busy and…
This was going to be the adventure of his very short lifetime.
“Okay Ry, we need to stop by the Kids clothes store for you and we’ll make a quick run at American Eagle for me, okay?”
Logan might as well have spoken garbledy goop because Ryder had stopped paying attention to him right when he saw the toy store at the other end of the mall. From what he could see, there was everything he could ever imagine on the shelves of the store and he NEEDED to get there. But first, he needed to ditch the deadweight.
“Logan! We go toy store now please okay?”
Ryder’s suggestion took Logan by surprise, causing him to stumble as they stepped onto the escalator.
“Ummm let’s go to what we have to do first and whatever we have left, we can use on your toys okay?”
Ryder nodded dumbly. After all, there was nothing he could do about it right? WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG! This was not going to work out like this. He will get his way but for now, it’ll be good to let Logan think like he has this under control. And with the conclusion of his plan, he let out a satisfying giggle and quickly smothering due to Logan’s confused looks.
“So, um, let’s stop by Kid’s Closet for some of your clothes first.”
Logan held Ryder’s hand firmly as he walked to the epicenter of the mall, where everyone just happened to be today and you could barely go half a step before running into someone and with the awesomeness that was Ryder’s wings, shouts of ‘Ouch!’ and ‘My pants! They’re ruined!’ could be heard as they hurriedly traversed across the mall.
When they reached Kid’s Closet, the familiar Jack in the Box logo enshrining the door way, there were kids of all shapes and sizes but all eyes were on Ryder as his bright, flamey wings flapped nervously.
“Here Ryder, just pick some stuff of this rack and we’ll be done..”
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