[PRP] Zap, bang, boom! (Alik Elric and Brisi)

[Shikon Miko]

A light show was being performed above, and Alik could do nothing but stare. In all his life, he had never seen a thing such as this. Dark clouds covered the skies above him. Spring had arrived, but it seemed that rain was going to be ever present. It had rained only moments before, but it seemed to have passed. Left in its place was the lightning. Thunder thudded every few minutes, but was quickly followed up by the sparks and lines that made up the lightning. It mesmerized him into silence and awe.

Thunder sounded, shaking his legs first, and then flowed over his back and to his head. Made his hair stand at their ends and made him twitchy. It felt magnificent. His coat was saturated in water, but his attention was solely focused on the sky above. His normally lazy mind was moving so quickly, as his eyes tried to follow the streaks above.

Alik knew that this may be the only time he could truly appreciate a storm such as this, and not worry about rain or leaves blocking his view. In an hour surely the storm would bid him farewell, so he stood, yes stood as in his own legs, and he let a smile over come his face as the hypnotizing show continued, although become fewer and farther between. Nothing could be this spectacular, could it?  

[Shikon Miko]

The voice startled him when it finally reached his ears, although it had been mumbled, and the only inclination that he had even heard the voice was the flick of his tail. While staring at the clouds he answered the quiet question, “Yes, it is.” Lightning was always fascinating, and although Alik didn’t understand how lightning came to be in the heavens above, but what he did know was that it was amazing when he watched it from down below.

He slowly turned around to see where the voice had originated form. A petite mare stood behind him with hair that was similar to gold. Flowers adorned her body and she was a personification of spring. “And who are you?”  

[Shikon Miko]

Gold eyes turned to the sky after she had began talking. Alik took in the streaks that sparked amongst the clouds in quick succession while a boom would follow moments later. Her words drifted to his ears along with the droplets of rain that poured from the darkened sky. “I am Alik Elric.” He said in a voice that held no inflection. Monotone worked for him, as he never seemed to be anything but bored, and happiness seemed hard to find in this life.

“I’m here, in the rain, for the simple reason that I have nothing else to do.” He threw a wry smile over in her direction which quickly disappeared.

Brisi was quite the beauty. The flora that decorated her mane and tail drew his eyes with their bright colors, and enhanced her elegant beauty. The flowers, however, seemed to have enough of the rain and were sagging a bit from the downpour.

Water ran in rivulets down his body and his bangs stuck to his forehead. Rain flooded his vision, and the world appeared to be underwater. He blinked his heads quickly to dislodge the water and he saw that she was in the same condition. He gave another small smile and shook his head back and forth vigorously, causing his drenched hair to hit his neck and face. Within seconds his hair was in the same condition as it was before.

“I do believe that I am ready to get out of the rain.” He announced while staring at the tree line. “Would you like to join me?”  

[Shikon Miko]

Alik gazed over at the mare that was beside him and nodded toward the tree line that held sanctuary from the downpour. “How about under those trees? They should offer enough coverage for the both of us.” Brisi seemed laid back like him, since she had been standing out in the rain for quite some time as well.

“And thank you. It was the name my father gave to me.” That was the truth. Elric had been passed down from his father to him and his sister, Marsiela. It did add something to what could have been just a boring name, since Alik was quite boring really, but he didn’t necessarily have to like it. With the name Elric came a ceratin expectation that Alik was never going to live up to. His father wanted something different for him, but it was never going to happen, and so Alik felt that perhaps it was best that he and his father best not interact.

Just thinking of his family, a loving mother with a wild sister and a father that only ever gave him disappointed glances, made his eyes lower to the muddied ground and the mushy grass that made up the field. His tail hung limply, soaked in rain and with mud on the tip of the hair that barely touched the ground. It all made him so depressed, that he looked from the ground to the mare and just one glance and his moody thoughts all washed away.

She was like a fresh rain that cleansed him with just one look and he found that perhaps being in the company of others was sometimes better than being alone. “Shall we head on over there?” He asked her with a small grin that had crept onto his face.