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 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:17 pm
How had they survived? Years had passed, so many that her herd was dead; every member buried. And yet, when she ventured away from her homeland in search of someplace else to call home, somewhere she could be alone and yet start a new herd all at the same time, she had seen them. Those two. She knew who they were. The baskets had been by her side for a few weeks before she hauled them to the temple and destroyed the king that resided there. She thought them to be dead, but there they were, out and about in the jungles. Conversing as if nothing in the world was wrong. At first, Xquic was scared, and then, furious.
She wanted to attack them; wanted to see them bloody and on the ground. Honestly, the clawed mare wanted to slash their throats and have that be the end to that damned stallion and his boys. But they were his boys. They were tall, much taller than she was. They had claws, and one had horns. Wings much larger than the ones she had seen before; even bigger than the stallion that had killed her chances of being happy. And they looked just plain deadly. There was no way she would have been able to take them down without getting caught up in some form of death on her part. Without making a dent on them. So, she left instead. She searched the jungles for anyone that would be able to help her take down the twin Mayan creatures, but came up with nothing. Instead, she had to wander outside the jungle, and headed to the east, searching high and low.
As she traveled, she came upon a rather dead looking forest. The area made her scales ripple, a shiver running down her spine. It was… Odd… Frightening? Cold? Shaking her head, she frowned. Her head moved to be held up high, lion like tail flicking at the tip. She had never been this far away from the jungle. Never even left the jungle, now that she thought about it. Her head tilted lightly to the side as she tried to figure out what this place was. One moment, she wanted to pause and take everything in, the next, she wanted to flee. Her claws dug into the ground as she came to an abrupt stop. No. She was not this weak. She wasn’t the type to just… flee from everything. The stallions, yes. They could kill her seconds. But this… area. Like hell. She bristled slightly, ears pinning for a moment, before she started forward once more. She was going to figure out if someone here could help her, whether she was scared or not!
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:21 pm
As Xquic deled past the eerie edge of the forest, it grew no more welcoming, no less creepy the deeper she forayed. Birdsong was rare; strangled notes of desperation nearly choked out by the shadowed, clawing canopy. Hard, thorny vines grasped and snagged at her fur. The entire atmosphere seemed crushing, oppressive, cold, and unsettling.
The deeper she traveled, the more she noticed skeletal remains. Some were rather innoculous: small animals, the occasional deer... but then there were some undenyably equine remains - almost seeming deliberately placed so that they would be noticed by any passers by.
As it turned out, there were a number of soquili that called this blighted woods their home. A herd of self-proclaimed monsters that nurtured and cultivated the fear and the rumors about the woods and monsters that lived within. By no means did that mean that they did not live up to the expectations: they killed, they murdered, but all of it was in service to spread their own renknown - to hold that power and control through fear over the soquili who lived near by. Not that a wanderer from the Jungles far away would have heard the local legends...
At least, that was the goal of the leader of the herd. There were a number of herd members who carried on their day to day with little regard for the grandoise goals of Taraxippus. Ichor was one of those soquili. He delighted in Chaos, delighted in mayhem and the macabre... but he had little capacity to understand that in a greater context or goal. He lived in the moment.
And it was ichor who was picking his way through the woods, tearing open hollowed out logs to find squishy morsels that might be hibernating within, that was closest to the wandering mare.
He tittered to himself with a sickening laugh that floated between the trees as he found a small chipmunk in its hidey-hole, his face literally split in a grin as he slobbered and tittered in anticipation.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:43 pm
Xquic frowned at the mess of her fur and feathers. What was this? What was this horrid place? She didn't like the way her fur seemed to be ungroomed, her feathers sticking in different directions. She needed to groom herself, but now was not the time. Flicking her lion like tail once more, the mare paused to look around. Her features grew grim as she realized just how dark this part of the world was. All the time she spent traveling, just to be locked in a place such as this? Well. That was horrid. She shook out her fur and scales, before taking a few more steps forward, trying to figure out just where she was going now.
It was then that she heard something. Her ears perked and swiveled, her body on alert. She scanned the area with a quick glance of her eyes, before locking her sight on something moving in the brush up ahead. Frowning lightly, the mare moved forward on hesitant claws, uncertain as to what just was ahead of her. She peered through the darkness, her red eyes lingering for several moments, before she finally caught sight of the creature up ahead. He was a dark colored stallion, with a pink faded mane. His tail made her fully curious, staring at the tip with interest. After a moment, she moved toward him, her body careful.
She stared toward him in an uncertain way. What was he doing? Frowning, her ears pinned back, before she paused not too far off from where he was standing. She still couldn't see his features, but from the tail alone, she was certain he would do great damage to the two boys she wished to get rid of. Thankfully, on her travels, she had learned the common tongue. Her voice was soft, and almost gentle. There was a hint of a Spanish flare at the edges. "Excuse me, but what is funny?" She asked, truly curious.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:27 pm
The thorny spade tail swished back and forth as the soquili went about his business, the mare having gone unnoticed at first. She could move quietly like a jungle cat with her clawed feet, and Ichor wasn't helping by drowning out most of the noise with his own sick laughter. The tail lashed as he leaned down to snatch the chipmonk, viscous black liquid dripping from the tip of his tail like some stinger.
But as she spoke, the stallion whipped his head around, four red eyes meeting her two. The chipmonk was just waking up with a high-pitched skree as the strange soquili had it caught between his needlelike teeth and was only just applying a bit of pressure - just enough to make it bleed.
Despite the inappropriateness, the stallion laughed again, a shoulder-shaking laugh.
With a quick toss of his head, he sent the chipmonk into the air, catching it deftly again and swallowing it down in a show.
Then, his face split open again for her, and with a drippy laugh, he strung some words together, "The world."
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:53 am
Xquic blinked at the stallion, her face turning into a frown. She shifted slightly on her hooves and claws, her eyes locked on him. What was he? If he would just face her... But when he did, she had to stop herself from letting out a surprised noise. She back peddled a few steps, just enough to give her a bit of distance. She had never seen a creature like this... With the mouth split in two places, four eyes... spikes. She shivered slightly, before steeling herself. No. She would not be scared of any creature like this or any other. She needed to be strong and kill any creature that dared to step in her way from destroying the two boys that she gave birth to years ago.
At the eating of the chipmunk, she merely grimaced. Such... vulgarity. He could at least have some manners when it came to eating. No need to just inhale the creature like it was nothing. Shaking her head with a slight tsk on her lips, she stared at the stallion with a rather fierce look. His mention of the world made her head tilt to the side. The world? He thought the world was funny? Peculiar. "And is there anything in particular? Honestly, the whole world can not be amusing." She stated, her tail flicking lightly behind her.
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:39 pm
The giggle, again. "Can't it? Why can't it?" He tittered as he took two bounding jumps towards the mare that spoke to him. Then, when he was confronting her, two-eyes to four-eyes, he spoke again, with a more dangerous tone to his laugh,
"Do you decide what can be funny? Do you make the jokes?" He tossed his mane. "The world makes all the jokes. Jokes of words and jokes of flesh alike."
Then, the menace dropped like a bird shot through an arrow that plummeted to the earth, and the mad laughter shook the stallion again. "You just see through less eyes."
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:45 pm
The mare blinked at the crazed sounding stallion. He was so... odd. She reared her head back when he seemed to bound toward her, but held her grounds. Her claws dug into the earth a bit more, before she let out what breath she had been holding. Her ears pinned for a moment, and she tilted her head to the side. Perhaps he just needed a claw to guide him. Xquic blinked at him, before she felt a small smile shifting over her features. Yes. A claw to guide him would be... a wonderful thing. She blinked at him, almost too sweetly, before tilting her head to the side.
"Oh, sweetheart, don't you know?" She asked, taking a small step forward. She tilted her head up toward him, almost grazing her nose against his neck, before starting to walk a circle around him, pressing her body lightly against him every so often. She only stopped when she was once more in front of him, her tail flicking lightly. "The world is so much more amusing where I am from. This land seems so... boring. Perhaps, if you came with me, I could show you just what I mean." She smiled at him, batting her eyes once more, before turning her head back toward the way she had come. "Even with two eyes I can see the amusement in the jungles I came from. And, my dear man, I bet I can make it all the more fun for you."
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Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:41 pm
Ichor didn't move and inch, even as the mare closed in very close, invading what most soquili would view as personal space. If anything, his mouth just hung open wider in his creepy smile.
"Booooring?" He ended with another giggle. "Marey mare, if this place is boring, where you are from must be a wonderland - his eyes flashed and his tail wriggled behind him.
"Tell me, marey mare," He pranced around her in a circle, not seeming to mind at all how ridiculous it looked on a full grown, rather creepy looking stallion. "What is it like? What makes the world laugh in these 'Jungles'? Is there prey?" - Giggle- "Does the sky cry and the air flee like it does here?"
He shook his mane, which didn't do anything to dislodge many of the thorny twigs that had caught in it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:03 am
Xquic blinked toward the stallion, her head tilting to the side as she listened to him practically gush about the possibilities. Her tail gave a small sway as she watched the stallion. She tilted her head, smiling at the creature, before she tilted her head lightly, and then took a half step toward him once more. She reared back with poise, her claw shifting out to lightly pluck some of the branches and thorns from his mane, before lowering herself back to the ground, eyes batting at the stallion once more.
"Oh, dear boy, I cant even explain it. It's so magnificent. The noises are things that you will have never heard; and I assure you, when you hear monkeys scream, you will die laughing. The mist in the morning will make you dizzy with how it moves through the trees. Prey is everywhere, my sweet. From the smallest of critters to large beasts who will try to rip you apart." She said, smiling toward him as her tail flicked once more.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:32 pm
Ichor was his own special brand of crazy, distilled and refined from his mother, Pooka. But even Pooka was generally cognizant - imaginative, a compulsive liar, and very off, but even she had a hard time dealing with Ichor. He laughed at all the wrong places in her jokes, and while she was ethusiastic about the ideas of foals, and influencing them, having dependent creatures to play her games or shape their minds, Ichor's mind was a special kind of putty that didn't' quite keep the kind of shape she tried to mold it into.
Xquic, however, seemed clever manipulative, and seemed to be playing to Ichor in precisely the right way to catch his attention - and direct his crazy.
His eyes seemed to shine a bit brighter as he trotted around her, cocking a head and flicking an ear with another mad giggle, "Noises that are all new? Noises in combinations my ears have not heard before?" He seemed intrigued. "Mist that moves like my family, perhaps? Maybe we are all related - my family... the mist in your jungles." His tail swised quickly, "Show me. Show me this jungle. Let me hear the jokes that it tells and taste the food that scampers through it."
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:40 am
The mare tilted her head curiously as she watched the stallion walk around him slowly. Her ears flicked up at the sound of Ichor's giggles. She smiled fondly toward him, her tail shifting behind her. He was fun. Honestly, Xquic didn't' like many people; especially stallions. They made her muscles twitch and her skin crawl. She hated them so much for what they stole from her. Anger pulsed through her veins, before she shook the thoughts from her mind. She huffed softly, and peered up toward the stallion with a rather intense gaze, before smiling at him. She could control him; she had a good feeling about it.
When he spoke again, Xquic blinked. She lifted her ears toward him, before taking a half step forward. She reached up again with her claws, and pulled at the twigs and thorns in his purple mane. She lowered her claws, and took a step toward him, obviously not scared of his size or crazy. "Oh, dear man, there are so many wonders there that you would die from giggles." She purred, her voice light. She smiled, before turning slowly to put her back to him, head tilting back to stare at him. "Come with me, darling, and I'll show you things that could make you the happiest stallion in all the world." She said, moving back toward her home, her tail giving a gentle sway as she did.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:36 pm
He watched her remove the sticks from his hair. Like a strange dog, or just a crazy soquili, he trotted over to where she tossed them, took them in his teeth and placed them in her hair. It wasn't clear if this was some kind of deliberate ritual of acceptance.... or just some strange connection his mind made.
"Maybe it is time to meet another part of my family. The mist that runs through these jungles of yours!" He giggled madly.
And, without so much as a look back over his shoulder, he cantered after her... and around her, and in circles... but mostly after her.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:43 pm
Xquic smiled at him. When the twigs were put in her hair, she frowned. After a moment though, she accepted it. Later she would remove them, or weave them into some form of head piece to wear... like a tiara or something. Shaking the thought, she moved quietly forward.
Her plan was working amazingly. She had found someone that was at least bigger than she was. With sharp teeth and that tail... That tail looked so deadly. She glanced toward it when the stallion paced in front of her. After a moment, she grinned. She was going to take down her children.
And no one was going to stand in her way.
- FIN -
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