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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:15 pm
 Her last experiments hadn't quite gone of plan. It was frustrating to not get things right the first time, especially since she wanted so bad to prove herself to her parents, but especially to her father who had his eyes more on his other children than her. After spending some time with her mother discussing what had gone wrong Nimue was ready to try again. But first she needed to find a few key items that had been left out last time. Using the wrong ingredient or missing an important step would mean failure again. And she could not afford to fail twice.
Today's challenge would be finding the proper tool to use. One could not just perform things just anywhere, the ground which the items sat upon had to be cleansed. This was the step she had forgotten last time. And so she went out in search of the one item she had missed, one that would prove to be useful to her in the future. Without it...well she might as well not even try.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:27 pm
 Chaos hated waiting. Hated the time between when he met Carnivore last and when they would meet again. He wasn't sure why he trusted the outsider stallion but he did and somewhat looked forward to when Carnivore would strike at Thanos. Perhaps with Thanos out of the way his father would be demoted from Beta position as he doubted Thorn would want him for that. It wouldn't be until tomorrow that he met with Canrivore, and so he was simply killing time. Wandering about, avoiding his annoying sisters, Chaos spotted a young filly up ahead. It only took him a moment to realize it was one of Rowan's offspring.
Rowan. Now there was a horse Chaos could respect. He had gone and managed to bag himself two mares to call his own, even got them pregnant at the same time! Chaos sometimes dreamed about having a harem of females that would be all his. But that was getting ahead of himself. He needed to survive the upcoming war before he could fulfill his dreams. Watching Nimue he wondered just what the filly was up to. She stood out among her half-siblings as she, like himself, did not show the signs of decay that her parents did. Having nothing else to do Chaos trotted up to the filly. "Nimue what are you doing?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:32 pm
Hearing a voice questioning what she was doing Nimue hoped it wasn't someone who planned to stop her. Her eyes settled upon Chaos, a horse who looked as normal as she did, save for the glowing eyes. At least she wasn't the only one in the herd who didn't have decay. It made her a bit less hateful of her situation. Still at least she had skills that would help her gain the Alpha's attention in the future, what did Chaos do? Nothing. He just wandered around aimlessly all day it seemed. Something that she had seen his father doing as well many times.
"Don't interrupt me Chaos, I'm busy." With a snort the filly began to trot off, not seeing a use for the older horse. That was until she started to think about the few items that she needed to collect today. It would go faster with two of them, and he would be able to reach things she could not. Bringing her hooves to a stop Nimue turned around and faced the grey yearling. "Well don't just stand there, we have work to do. I need a wing." And with that she began to trot off again, expecting him to follow and help her.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:38 pm
Well wasn't she snippy. He found it amusing. First she tells him to leave her alone and now she expected him to help. Ha! But Hell, he had nothing to do today, and returning back to where his parents were only meant he would need to suffer the presence of his sisters. Yes Nimue was a female too, but at least she wasn't related to him.
With a sigh Chaos began to follow her. "What do you need a wing for? You know you can't fly right, even if you could find ones that are big enough." Of course he was only assuming she would want to use the wing to fly. Why else would a horse desire a wing? The hell if he knew. Of course normally animals that were dead and gone to Hell didn't return to the land of the living either, so his theory wasn't completely sound.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:45 pm
Nimue brought her hooves to a stop and stared up at the larger horse. Really? REALLY? He thought she was going to try to fly. He was more like his father than she thought. Or at least based upon what she had heard her father say a few times while talking with mother, he was always going on about how that stallion was stupid and useless. That the mixed up Ruin, mother of his other foals, had more sense in her than Vengeance did. "Don't be an idiot Chaos, I know I can't fly."
Stupid males. Always thinking they knew everything, when they didn't. "I need it for a ritual that my mother is teaching me. Now help me find it or leave me be!" For a little filly she had a very commanding voice and Chaos would be an even bigger fool if he didn't listen to her...or she would cast some horrible spell on him.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:50 pm
He was not an idiot! He had merely been stating facts! Sheesh. Now he was beginning to question his ideas of having a harem if this is what it would mean dealing with constantly. "Fine, you aren't going to use it to fly." He said in an irritated tone. His ears flicked slightly at her next words. A ritual? He had heard about Medea and Rasputin, the mentor and student who performed odd rituals. He hadn't seen them do any since returning but he didn't doubt they did witchcraft. They seemed the type. And so Nimue was following in her mothers footsteps.
"Alright, alright, I will help. Just stop yelling at me." It was as bad as his sisters bossing him around sometimes, but at least she was by herself, there were three of them. "Okay so does it matter what kind of bird wing, or any kind?" As the stepped deeper into the forest a grouse hiding in a bush spooked and raced across the forest floor. Before he coudl even say anything the stupid bird ran smack into a tree and knocked itself out cold. Talk about convenient. Chaos glanced over at Nimue. "Hey look a bird."
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:54 pm
Nimue smirked slightly. Ha, she seemed to have picked up a pet for the day. Very well, mother had told her once that the great horse witches often kept pets around. Now granted those pets weren't other horses but hey one was allowed to substitute sometimes. "I wasn't yelling!" Before she could say anything else a grouse came dashing in front of them, smacked into the ground and ell over unmoving.
Hey look a bird.
"I can see it's a bird! Well don't just stand there kill it!" The stallion didn't move immediately so Nimue huffed and did it herself. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Stepping forward Nimue stomped her foot down on the birds skull killing it instantly. Okay so now she had a dead bird, but the wing needed to come off. But how? Could she simply rip it off? Well yes, but if the wing wasn't in tact then they would need to start all over again. "I need the wing off of it's body, but it needs to be in one piece." She mused stated more to herself than to Chaos.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:08 pm
See she was yelling at him...again. She didn't even give him time to move before she went for the bird herself. Seeing her stomp that bird to death made him smirk. Chaos stepped closer taking in the birds crushed head. "Impressive, but you will need to kill much bigger things if you want your fathers attention." Lowering his head he looked closer at the grouse as she spoke about needing to remove the wings.
Just how did one remove wings? Normally he would just violently rip the thing apart but Nimue had to complicate things and need the wings whole. "Well...you crushed the hear pretty good. Maybe you could do the same to the rest of the body, then the wings will just fall off." As soon as the words left him mouth he waited for Nimue to yell again and call him a fool or idiot.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:26 pm
"You're one to talk. Have you ever killed anything in your life?" Huffing Nimue gave her head a shake. Oh yeah, let's just stomp the bird to pieces until the wings fell off. Wait a minute. That was actually brilliant! But of course she couldn't let him think that he was suddenly smart. She looked between the bird, Chaos and that back to the bird. "Maybe your not as big of an idiot as I thought." It wasn't exactly a compliment but it wasn't a complete bashing either.
"We'll need more room to do that." The trees were too thick here to carefully remove the wings here. "Bring the bird, come on." Tossing her head Nimue trotted towards the meadow where they have room to perform the task.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:39 pm
Wait, did she just say what he thought she said. It wasn't an insult but wasn't exactly a compliment either. Chaos smirked a bit. She had spunk that was for sure. "I can be surprising can't I." Then she told him to bring the bird. "Why do I have to carry it?" But Nimue was already gone waiting for her in the meadow. Bloody females.Sighing Chaos picked up the bird and carried it out to where Nimue was waiting.
Setting it down in front of the foal. "There's your bird." Certainly she didn't expect him to do the rest of her dirty work for her. He took a step back to give her room to work and was eager to watch her smash the bird apart.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:00 pm
Nimue smirked as Chaos complained but still did the task. "Well you don't have to help you know." Using her nose Nimue moved the bird about so that it was in a good position. Lifting her hoof she went to stomp the bird but came up short and looked up at Chaos. "You think I'm doing this to gain my fathers attention. Well you're wrong. I don't care about that. I'm doing this for me." Now back to business. Concentrating back on the bird Nimue began stomping and stomping it.
Slowly the bird began to flatten into a pile of mush. She had to stop a readjust it now and then to get at different parts of bird. Soon she thought there was enough damage done to the bird to get the wings off. Slowly she took hold of the wing in her teeth and lifted. The wing peeled off of the flattened body. Ha! "There!" But there was one more thing to gather before she could perform the ritual properly. "Now I just need a smooth stone. Then I will have everything." To the river! Picking up the wings she headed towards the river where she would likely find the stone.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:12 pm
Watching Nimue stomp the bird until it was pulp under her hooves made him think of Carnivore and the stallions plan to overthrow his father. Of course he didn't believe her when she said she wasn't doing this to get her fathers attention. He knew what it was like to have a distracted father. "If you say so." Chaos gave a shrug of his shoulders. He wasn't gonna argue this.
She needed more things? Hadn't she said that she only needed a wing, but now she needed a stone too. With a glance at the flattened grouse Chaos turned and followed Nimue towards the river. Hopefully this would be the last thing for her to get as he did was to see just what she was going to do with them. "Okay, a smooth stone. But that's all right?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:28 pm
Coming to a stop at the edge of the river Nimue set the grouse wings down on a large rock at the shore before stepping into the water. Head low she scanned the water looking for the stone that she needed. Glancing up she saw Chaos standing on the bank watching her. "Are you just going to follow me around and stare? You're not much help you know." Her mother had warned her that stallions could be a bit flaky, and this was proof of that.
Turning back to the river Nimue continued her search. There were plenty of smooth stones here but it couldn't be just any stone. Mother had said the stone would speak to her, that she would know instantly she saw it that it was the one. So far they were all just stones to her, some big, some small, nothing special. Then she saw it. A medium sized stone, red in color with flakes of black throughout it. Plunging her nose into the water Nimue tried to pick up it up. It took a few tries but eventually she got in between her teeth. Quickly getting out of the river Nimue set the stone down. "Perfect." But how was she supposed to carry the stone and the wing at the same time. "Chaos bring the stone, it's time to get to work." Picking up the wings Nimue headed back to the meadow, and more importantly to a hollowed out tree that held all of her other items.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:37 pm
Help, don't help. Talk, don't talk. Kill the bird, don't kill the bird. Everything was so complicated around females. But it sounded like she was ready to do her thing so picking up the stone, which wasn't that easy, he follower Nimue back out to the clearing. He followed her to an old tree and watched as she pulled out a variety of items, including leaves, a few sticks, what looks like a dead toad and piled them up beside the grouse wings.
Chaos set the stone down beside the pile of things. "So what's the plan now?" He took a step back to give her room to work and so that she wouldn't be boxed in by him.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:47 pm
Okay time to do this right. Picking up the wing she swept it over the ground, whispering the words of cleansing. Once satisfied that the ground was not properly prepared Nimue set aside the wings and placed the dead frog in the center. Next came a spring of mint to the left, the stone at the bottom, three twigs to the right and then using her hoof pushed some dirt into a pile at the top. Before she could start the incantation she needed to make sure the items made a perfect circle with the frog in the very center. It took a few moments to rearrange before she gave a satisfied nod.
"Okay, stand back." There was no telling what would happen if she got this wrong. It could go very badly. Placing herself at the south of the circle Nimue closed her eyes and began to chant the words her mother had taught her.
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