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 Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:08 pm
 She lay sphinx-like upon a slab of rock, reaching out with her consciousness, touching the minds of all those close by. The lizard shading just beneath her paws. He was wondering whether it would be safe to move. She assured him, with her thoughts, that it was. There were a pair of rabbits grazing just beyond the hedges. Their thoughts were...uninteresting.
She cast her midn upwards, to the birds, picking up their joy of flight and understanding completely how they felt.
Unknowingly she extended her wings so they arched above her head, the tips just touching until they were symmetrical images, mirroring one another.
She felt...calmer, today. A good thing considering the last few days had been nothing but her arguing with her other self. Roko seemed to have gone quiet now, however. Pelli assumed she was sulking, sulking because she wasn't getting her own way.
Perhaps one day they would learn to work together. But it would not be today.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:17 pm
Nix'Annada knew that this would be an interesting ordeal, but she had some experience with the possibility of things going bad. It also helped that Rage and Daemonascus were not too far off, but she had confidence in herself, the kind that did not cloud her judgment, her perspective. How many times did she have to fight Rage, her own literal sister, to the point of injuring her to control her? But this would be interesting, it was a request, a atask this female wanted, and for several moments she thought perhaps this female was the part of Rage that plagued her. But no, it was another one who could be suffering, but slowly gaining control.
Nix was happy for her.
She was not far off, and Nix stopped, waiting and watching. It had been a long while she she had used any dormant energy in her body, so she would be ready. It had been a long time since she announced Mrost's departure by lightning strike, so she was ready.
Nix'Annada was unafraid, but happy, this would be fun, she just hoped it would stay concrete throughout.
"You've called to me," she spoke a she tred slightly closer to the sand colored female, sand under her feet as well were the earth had not been saturated enough. "But I want to know, why? That's all, and then, I can help you" she said with a smile.
Strange, help, while dueling.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:25 pm
Rokopelli's bi-coloured eyes flared open at the sound of the voice and slowly her wings drooped until they were tucked tight against her slender sides.
She was a small goddess, petite and delicate looking and even when she reached full growth, it was clear she would never be as big as most. And yet the delicate features suited her, enhanced by the jewellery adorning her. She sniffed and tilted her head a little, looking confused for a moment. And then realisation lit her eyes and a small smile played across her muzzle. She knew this female and she was eager to put into play what she had decided. And, what it was she had decided was the reason Roko sulked right now.
She wanted a sparring match.
Rokopelli stood, stretched and then leapt lightly down onto the loosely compacted earth. The braids fell neatly about her face, newly twined.
"We've been practising." She explained brightly. "We wantses a sparring match." She took another step and lowered her head so that it lay parrallel with her shoulders. Both ears were directed straight ahead, awaiting the other's answer. She was clearly very excited at the prospect of such a thing.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:32 pm
Her speech gave proof to her theory. Combative sides wanted combat o test themselves it seemed. It had been a while she she let loose the energy within herself, when she would fight with Rage. She smiled, flicked her tail, her wings stretching slightly releasing tension, she could already feel the warmth of energy in her veins surging. "Then a spar I will give you, however, terms," she had always try to set them with Rage, but when her sister had lost control, there was no hope there, and all terms were lost.
"When shall we stop? How far do you want to go?" she wondered if this other knew of her experience, all of them, even the ones Nix had forced herself to forget for it was painful to remember the times she and Rage fought brutally.
When Rage had fight Daemonascus in her past life.
When Rage killed him, and Nix couldn't stop her.
"I only ask because I have children waiting for me at home, and they do need their mother this night," her cubs were still so young, and she did not want them to be worried, staying with Rage and Daemonascus.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:38 pm
The little Goddess startled, the excitement briefly flickering from her face. "Oh, no, no killing. Only practising." But when would they know when enough was enough? When would she know if she had taken or given too much? She didn't know. This was her first time sparring. She blinked and looked down at her snake-clasped paws, as if seeking the answer there.
"When one of us...or both of us...get tired. We stop. That okay?"
She shook herself as if loosening her muscles and, after a moment, had the golden snake bracelets uncoil their bodies a little so that she could step out of them. They were the only possessions she had which she would be upset at loosing or ruining. She wasn't sure why she loved them, so. But she did and she wanted to make sure they were safe.
Coming to life, the gold-plated snakes with their ruby and emerald eyes slithered off to shelter under the rock, scaring the lizard away.
Satisfied they would be safe, Rokopelli turned back to her combatant.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:29 am
Nix nodded, "Sounds fine to me, now," she narrowed her eyes and had her stance strong, digging her forepaws slightly into the ground to ground her form, she felt a surge and sparks flew from her wings, "lets begin-" a crack of lightning surged and flew off from her horns, her eyes half glowing, have seething and breathing with lightning. The stripes on her body held a light glow as she grit her fangs and felt the power inside of herself. So much had been stored, it had been so long since she released.
There were patches of sand around her feet, and she knew they would make find trophies later if she struck them, pure glass, shaped in a way like no other. But that was later, the sand colored female before her took precedence.
A snarl rumbled in her throat and she smiled. As she moved slightly, she made sure to keep her form grounded or else have too much surge at once.
She raised a paw and sparks flew from it, blue and white, slamming her paw down lightning crackled out towards the winged female.
Nix wondered how skilled she was.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:39 am
Roko was afraid. Afraid of getting hurt. Afraid of using her powers. Afraid that something terrible might happen if they were to fight this larger, scary female.
Pelli, on the other paw, was eager. She wanted to test her skills, wanted to push herself to the limits, wanted to see how far she had come. She yearned for this no matter what the outcome might be and that was enough to push the little voice of Roko far out of reach.
She braced herself, spreading her paws a little wider to give her greater balance on the uneven surface and waited, watching the light show with a growing hunger to begin. She could feel it burning through her, this battle thirst, and wondered whether it was a good thing she was feeling. Either way, there was no time to dwell on it now, the lightning was coming for her.
Her wings came down around her head and she was aloft, powering upwards, away from the blue claws that might seek to tear her life away. She twisted, rolling downwards again, finding joy in the fact that her abilities in the air were improving drastically.
Her eyes flared wide and if one were to look, the purple eye - Pelli's eye - was glowing feverishly. A sign that she was indeed beginning her first attack. Concentrating on the sand around her opponent, she sough to drag it up into the air with her mind.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:45 am
She missed and the lightning dispersed with a crack. Nix's eyes were glowing, her muscles tensing, she knew what power was, and uncontrollable power, her power was nothing compared to Rage's, Nix feared if the beast inside her sister ever broke free again.
Nix felt the ground beneath her shifting and she slammed her paws into the ground again using her wings to raise her up, the lightning struck the sand intent on freezing it in hot glass. She looked to the small female, smiled and let herself stay midair until landing on a slate rock not far away.
"Ah, so yours are different, the power is different inside you," so much like her sister, but Nix hoped this young one was learning fast.
"But," she spoke, landing on her haunches, sitting up, paws out before her, "there is so much more that can be done. You wanted a test, here is one for you," sparks surged with white light between the paws held out before her chest. Concentrating the white light of her eyes turned sky blue and glowed fierce. She could feel a pull of herself into the lightning before her, coming from her horns, her blood. And she thrust her right paw forward, the lightning following out, her left arm braced up and the lightning shifted, heading straight up towards the sandy female.
A true test, would be the reaction to the disperse.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:50 am
The lightning moved too fast and Rokopelli had been enchanted by its birth. The flow of its being from Nix's own form was an incredible thing to behold indeed. To see a power at work. Her mismatched eyes opened wider as she realise that the brilliant power was coming for her.
In the back of her mind Roko screamed in fear and she felt her own heart pounding with wild panic.
She trhew out her wings as if to brace herself and again the purple eye flared brilliantly - almost blindingly. Her mind sought to create a wall in which to forbid the passage of that lightning. Yet her mind was not quick enough. Not strong enough. She had barely begun to push back the power when it was plunging at her, striking her in the chest.
She had never known pain quite like it and the force of the strike sent her rolling backwards and backwards in the sky. She struggled to right her wings and then suddenly she was falling and the ground came to greet her, hard and unkind. Rokopelli gasped, clutching at her chest, mouth gaping, eyes bulging. She drew in a ragged breath and coughed and tried to gain her paws. But her legs were shaky and, almost amusingly, every strand of fur on her body was standing on end.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:55 am
As the lightning struck Nix's eyes grew wide as she began to fall. As the lightning had hit the sand female it flew in several directions, as she began to fall Nix clenched her left paw and brought it together again. Moving her right paw slightly it dove down under the sandy female and while spreading her fingers become a disc of light, shooting into the ground cutting the soil to sit upon it. Quickly she thrust it back up to come beneath the falling female, trying to cradle her.
This was a spar, yes, but it was not ill-intended. Nix had a heart, and was a sister and mother, she felt compassion and care, even for this one she barely knew.
Don't fear it, fall to it her voice echoed through the blue light under the soil perched atop it. The lightning was swirling, breathing in and out. Nix would be able to hold her until she settled on the ground, then the lightning would disperse into air.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:02 pm
She felt the lightning cradle her. Not painful this time, but gentle. And yet, her fear of this thing replaced her rationality and the moment she felt her surroundings make sense again. (What was up and what was down) she righted her tingling legs and leapt skywards again, spreading her wings so that her leap turned into a glide.
Again her purple eye flared and from below her a great wave of sand and rocks curled up into the air - the motion very much like a wave in an ocean.
She cried out as she sought to control this tide she had brought into motion, feeling her own body loosing its strength as she directed the mass down towards the dark-pelted one. Her wings faltered and she lost height, dropping down behind that golden wave so that she might use all her concentration on guiding it.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:07 pm
Nix watched as she let it cradle her form and the leapt from it. The Lightning dispersing. She breathed deep, calming her strength that surged in her veins. Still so much left, but too much release too soon would tire her. Rational, she had to keep her power rational.
As the sand adn soil gathered into a wave Nix smiled. She waved right arm to the left and back her left paw following, she felt the surge again and grit her fangs together and slammed her paws onto the ground before her while turning her body. Lightning sprung up all around her to form a wave of its own, living and breathing. As she turned to face the sand female and her wall Nix thrust the wave forward, keeping her paws grounded, half buried.
She roared out and the lightning sprung forward, ready to clash, strike and sever. Though this was not as easy as she assumed, though her sand female was small, power was in her heart.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:20 pm
Rokopelli felt the clash of lightning against the sand as if it were striking up against her own form. She roared in a mix of outrage and determination, baring her fangs as if facing a true enemy rather than facing a companion in a sparring match.
She took a step forward, dug her claws into the sand and pushed on with her mind, encouraging the sand and the rocks and grit onwards, feeling the tug of the power of that blue lightning.
Another step and the purple in her eye flared ever brighter. If only that orange light would flare, too. Perhaps than her powers could be completed.
The roar turned into another growl and she dug her claws into the uneven earth, closing her eyes against the bite of the wind and dust.
"We.Will.Not.Give.Up!" She hissed aloud.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:28 pm
Nix grit her jaw tighter and pushed harder, letting energy surge and flash from her horns joining the wall of lightning, her claws baring piercing the soil. She saw the glowing purple but the other would not, seeming hindered. Was she still torn, was she like Rage? She had to help, had to help her try and be what her sister could never be.
"Don't. Give. UP!" she roared, pushing harder, lightning bursting forward licking, trying to split the sand and soil wall. "Don.t Close. Your. Eyes! OPEN THEM!" more lightning poured from her form, bursting forth crackling, eyes glowing, fire in her veins.
"If you close your eyes, you push it deeper! Embrace it! Do it NOW!" NIx roared and let the strength of her lightning burst forward into the wall pushing hard.
She had to trust herself, this female, or she would never become whole.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:33 pm
Pelli's eyes flared wide again and though they began to stream, she could see that the lightning was biting away at the wave of sand. Possibly she could find the strength to bring more sand up from the ground, to strengthen her barricade. But even the thought of it was draining.
"Pelli!"
Her other half sounded afraid.
"Pelli. Let go. We can't do this. We need to fly!"
"No!" She screamed back at herself. "We must do this now! You have to help me, Roko. We can't do this alone. We need each other." She realised this with such intensity that her heart beat a thunder in her chest. She gripped the ground beneath her and roared again.
But Roko was afraid and the light in that orange eye stayed dim. The little sandy Goddess fought to strengthen the wave of sand and rock, but it fluctuated eratically and gave away without warning, filling the air with a choking dust. In the same motion the Goddess - knowing that the barrier had been about to fall - leapt upwards in an attemp tot gain height to escape that pain she had felt only moments before when the lightning struck her.
But her strength was depleting and even as she struggled for altitude, she felt herself falling again.
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