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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:34 am
The falling sensation had stopped, and Linneas knew he had landed somewhere. A weightlessness enveloped him, encasing him in an almost comforting embrace. His mind blank, Lynn temporarily silenced, the Tale let the calm of the silence wash over him.
Until memories of what had transpired just moments ago returned.
Linneas woke to find himself trapped within a large crystal shard. Nine transparent walls surrounded him; palms instinctively pressed up against one of the cool, transparent surface and suddenly it rippled like water. This rippling expanded, affecting the other walls beside it, and in effect the others too began to distort. Linneas' eyes widened, jaw hung agape as he found himself surrounded by nine Tales.
They all seemed to be asleep, and once again, Linneas reached out, perhaps subconsciously, towards a Tale had had not seen since she grew.
"Ai?" he whispered, his fingers brushing against the surface of the wall separating her sleeping form from him.
And slowly, as each Tale began to stir, the red-head felt himself being pulled away. Golden eyes shot down and saw the tips of his feet beginning to fade into transparency. Linneas knew he'd have to preempt their questions as best as they could. He didn't know how long he'd be around. He looked at them, their names leaping into his mind regardless if he knew them or not.
"Aido, Rhea, Chailyn, Ezra, Fai, Adonis, Nalira, Vidya, Khalindra, please, if you can hear me, don't panic. You're all going to be alright, it may take a while before you get back home. Stay calm, I'll do my best to explain things to your guardian. In the mean time, please stay calm." his gaze lingered on Aido, before his cheeks grew warm and did a mimicry of the color of his hair. "The twins have borrowed some of our essence, you can think of it as our magical energy. There's this girl, Edict and her Master, a wizard who tried to travel from their world to Gaia. Something went wrong and they're stuck as the Tome and the Study. We're part of them, and now they're trying to free themselves."
Each word Linneas uttered caused him to fade faster, like sand in an hourglass gradually running out. Each time he spoke, his voice grew fainter, his body less solid. "Nothing's going to happen to any of you, I won't let it. I just need to find my mother and Uncle Syrie. They'll-"
And he was gone.
The fragment slowly began to crack, fissures forming along its once smooth surface. A blinding light burst through the hairline cracks and each Tale is released into a void. No, not a void, it was what each Tale wanted to see. Their home, their room, their secret spot, whatever it was, they would find themselves there together with the others. All nine of them, save for Linneas. Each Tale will know that it's an illusion, a powerful one, harmless unless they wished it otherwise.
A voice whispers into their ear, soft, gentle, somewhat apologetic. It is Edict and she bids them to speak amongst themselves, ask any questions they may have, and she warns them suddenly that there is no way out until the ritual is completed.
Pray that all goes well. Or we will all be doomed.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:04 am
Vidya's body jerked a little bit upon hearing her own name. In her house, a namecall could be from anyone and with a varying range of importance; so, rather quickly, she's come to learn that she should wake up upon hearing her name, lest she miss something important. Something important like, fending off monsters under her toddler sibling's bed, be it Aurion, Iva, Maral or Maral's twin brother Minoru, or something important like eating breakfast...or even something important like going down to Teivel's basement and plotting new ways to wake the stag up. Thus, Linneas' cry of her name had her stirring...and while her body was slow to wake up, her ears, as well trained as the were, were wide awake and listening.
The trick was to figure out if her brain caught it all.
The blue skinned girl heard everything, right up until his final word before he disappeared. However, when she woke up fully to find herself laying in a rather warm pile of sand, she was at a loss. The memory of what Linneas had said had faded, if only for now. What mattered now was where she was; this illusion she was in. She knew it was an illusion, it had to be. It was supposed to be winter out, and the last thing she remembered was sitting in the hot tub...this shining sky, this warm hair, the heat of the sand and the sound of the soft rolling ocean was foreign. It had to be an illusion.
"What the...?" She said outloud, moving to sit up. After glancing down at herself, she discovered she was fully dressed in her orange vest, black three-quarter pants and sandals...her haori was in a pile on her side, as if discarded because of the heat. Well, she was thanking whatever would listen for not putting her in her towel like she remembered.
It was then and only then she noticed the others. They were stirring now, each waking up i ntheir own ways; and they were each on this foreign beach with her; she had no idea it was only she who saw the beach. Blinking in the sunlight, she struggled to her feet in an attempt to get a better view of the people with her. Hey, she recognized them!
"...Donny!" Naturally, she recognized her obnoxiously glorious brother first. "And Princess Khali, too! Oh hey wait...Aido? Chailyn, Ezra...Nala?" She was pointing at each tale, calling out their names a little loudly, though she was trying to talk to herself. "I...don't know those other two though...but holy crap!" Somehow, she was excited to see so many people she knew in the same place, and it was enough to make her forget to question why she was on a warm beach in the middle of winter, or what Linneas had meant when he spoke. Those worries were for later, she had to get everyone awake fully!
"Hey, guys! Wake up!" Vidya said, trying to reach out and touch those closest to her who seemed to be taking a while to wake up. "How the heck did you all get here?" She asked, though she no doubt knew the answer; it was probably the same story as hers. "And hey, d'you see what I see? All that water is crazy. Not to mention the heat, phew~" Vidya motioned towards the ocean she saw.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:41 am
Aido stirred slightly at the sound of soft whisper of her name, her dazed mind not quite getting the fact that it was her name, and interpreting it only as a nearby sound. Her eyes struggled to open first as the rest of her lay still, moving as if she was still asleep. Her hesitance to openly move was partially an instinctive precaution but mostly it was because her body felt positively leaden with leftover sleep.
When Linny's voice came stronger, speaking names (some that rang a bell, others which were utterly unfamiliar), familiar and providing a damn good incentive to wake up now Aido jackknifed into a sitting position, whipping her head around to find the source of the voice. Familiar pants, a flash of red- "Linny...?!" The blood rushed to her head and she barely caught herself before she could slump back to the floor. As she steadied herself and squeezed her eyes shut, all she could do was listen as Linneas explained their situation and his voice got fainter and fainter.
There was a flash, so bright it seared through her eyelids... and then, suddenly, there was soil beneath her finger tips.
"What...?" slowly, carefully, Aido opened her eyes again and looked around. Around her was the forest that lay near her home, bright and bursting with new spring life. A beetle was crawling over the back of her hand and she carefully picked it up and set it aside.
The scenery, as pleasant and comforting as it was, was all wrong. Last she knew she'd been at home and it had been wintertime. For a second fear coursed through her- was she somewhere else again?! Was this forest just similar to the one near her house in Gaia?
The fear melted away as the adrenaline burned off the last of the sleep and she woke up fully, she brushing her fingers against the shadow of the beetle which was trying to crawl back onto her hand as she picked it up again. The shadows here were wrong. Crisscrossed and off target, it was like they were trying to be several different things at once. This had to be. a...what was it called? The word itself eluded her for a moment before it came to her; an illusion. This had to be an illusion.
Aido brushed off her clothing, thankful for the light jacket she was wearing over her tanktop and mud-stained jeans. Frowning as she thought about what Linneas had said and looking around distractedly as she heard someone calling out names yet again.
"Viddy...?" she blinked at the sight of the blue skinned Tale standing beneath a flowering tree and then waved to show she'd heard her. Standing up, she looked around, surprised to see a few familiar (albeit slightly different than when she'd last seen then) faces "Nala and Chai too?" not to mention a lot of other people (were they all Tales?) she'd never seen before, all lying in the soil at various stages of waking up.
No Diae (hopefully the younger Tale hadn't gotten pulled into this) and no sign of Linny though, it seemed he'd disappeared. She hoped he was okay, wherever he was.
She looked back to Vidya, and shrugged, "I'm not exactly sure how I got here, though it sounds like our 'here's are different. I can't see any water, just a lot of trees," she nodded to the looming trees around them. Overlapping illusions... how in the Crossroads did that work?
Pushing that question aside for the moment Aido looked back around, hoping that, whatever the others were seeing, it was pleasant. "Is everyone okay?" she asked to the group at large.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:44 am
Donny's last memory had been of flying, and so instinctively his wings flared and flapped when he had just begun to awaken, in an unconscious attempt to keep him in the air. They only caused his body to brush up against the sand roughly that he lay on, however.
He had the oddest dream.. he was starting to remember it as his mind roused. Linny was there. Linny was spouting nonsense, but he made it sound so important.. as a challenge, Donny lay there and shut his eyes tighter, trying to remember what it was that Linny had said in his dream. Going through it as he woke, he could remember bits and pieces, but they didn't make sense yet.
Then his eyes suddenly shot open. SAND? Why was he lying on sand? He spit out what felt like sand in his mouth and sat up, his eyes wincing at the sunlight. He heard his sister's cry and settled down, looking up at her familiar form. Wherever they were, couldn't be all that bad.. if Vidya was there.
As she rattled off names, he rubbed one eye and looked around, realizing they weren't alone. Though his sister and he were both on sandy ground, their view was startlingly different. The only other thing they both saw together, were the other Tales as they woke up. He had no idea that his vision was different, however, and pushed himself up to a seated position as the questions bubbled forth from his sister like a brook.
Water? He asked himself silently, arching a brow. His sister was gesturing towards the bright blue sky he saw just off the edge of the sandy coast. He saw no water; in fact, he didn't see anything. Did the coast just.. end? He stood up and padded quietly over, stopping once he'd reached a foot before the edge of.. nowhere. Sand drifted slowly off what he could only mentally describe to be a floating island of some sort.. with no actual ground in sight. Gazing down over the edge, all he saw were clouds, and more empty sky.
He backed away a few feet, suddenly nauseous. One would hate to fall off the edge of that.
"What are you talking about, Viddy. How can you be that hot in weather like this?" It wasn't necessarily cold, Donny admitted, because the bright sun warmed his skin, but the chill wind of being so high up was a refreshing cool sensation against his skin. It blew through his feathers, ruffling them playfully. Hot? This weather was perfect. It was paradise.
A voice asked if they were all okay, but the voice was unfamiliar, and Donny didn't answer at first. He was still surveying the grounds - and looking for his friends.. many of whom were missing.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:54 am
Rhea, deep in sleep, thought she heard someone call to her. In her dream, she called out for whoever it was, but heard nothing in return. Her body twitched slightly as she dreamed, much like a cat does while it dreams of chasing rabbits and other small animals. As the vision came to an end, she heard more whispering...instructions...something about a ritual...no escape.
It was then that she began to hear other voices around her. Voices of children...and not voices she recognized.
Slowly, she moved into the world of the waking, feeling hard ground beneath her. There were people talking around her, and she struggled to wake up completely. The spell had been quite effective on the little psion, keeping her in the dark longer than most. Perhaps the spell she was under was more effective on those with mental powers. She was always wary of such things, and did her best to stay away from situations in which she could be taken advantage of. Even at such a young age, she was aware of her weaknesses.
The world soon colored around her, and as soon as she regained her senses, she sat up and looked around dazedly. Her surroundings were familiar, but only because she had seen this place in her dreams. The world around her was arid, as if they were in the desert. Eroded rock formations pushed toward the sky, in colors of the sunset. There were a few scrubby bushes here and there, but mostly, this world was an expanse of sky.
And what a sky it was! It was dark purple, even now, in the daytime. The fluffy clouds that hung in it were lime green, in contrast to the darkness of the sky. The sun, which was usually a bright ball of yellow and orange flame, now burned blue, giving the place an eerie coloration.
She blinked, wondering if it was real. When her eyes reopened, it was still there. She had to pinch herself to be sure she was really awake. She had never seen this place in real life--only in dreams. Certainly it couldn't be real, even though it seemed it. Was this an illusion? It was awfully powerful if so...
Looking around, she saw other kids--most older than she was, but a few about her age. She recognized a couple--she remembered Nalira from the day at the fountain. And Chai. She knew her from the Halloween party that happened last year. But the others...they didn't look familiar at all. Were they Tales too? They certainly gave off the feeling of being Tales...
"Water? I don't see any water anywhere," she piped up, rubbing her temples for good measure as she made an attempt to stand among the older, taller Tales. "Who--who are you? Are you all Tales?" she asked, giving them each a once-over, trying to decide if all of them were friendly.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:04 pm
Her name being called and the explanation that followed caught itself in the Tale's brain and the small child opened her eyes slowly, groggily. Out of all those present, only three were recognized - and only two were known well. What was it Prince Viddy had said about water? Wait. Where did Vidya come from? The last thing she remembered was going to see Armel in their shared room.
Silvery eyes looked about tiredly but she didn't see any water but a little pond some way away and she definitely felt no heat. The stars were shining brightly and the moon itself was lending light to the otherwise dark space, though, and the grass she was laying on felt cool against her.
Perhaps Viddy was just confused? Then another girl spoke, and Donny. They were definitely NOT seeing the same thing.
Huh.
Slowly Khalindra stood up and dusted off her clothing, "How'd we get here? And how is everyone seeing something different?" she asked, obviously confused at that. If the girl with the black and white hair saw lots of trees, she could be sharing her view - but was it night time there? Vidya seemed to be seeing a place with massive amounts of water and Donny...Well, it seemed like Donny was cold.
The question was likely something the others were thinking as well, at least. Or maybe she just had too many questions for her own good.
"Y..yeah, I'm okay," answering Aido, "Just...a little confused."
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:03 am
"This is... The park?" Elana whispered to herself, eyelids feeling heavy for some odd reason. She could smell the faint scent of flowers, and even the chirping of the many birds. However, she didn't feel peace. Instead, her eyes shot open as she stood up.
"Ayden! Where's Ayden?" The girl exclaimed, looking around. She saw many faces, most of which she had never seen before. However, something told her that they're all the same as her and her brother; They're all Tales. It came naturally to her, as naturally as the act of breathing itself...
Stumbling a little, Elana walked over to where a group of Tales had gathered. Taking a deep breathe to calm herself down, she smiled weakly as she asked, "Hel... Hello... Do you guys... Have any idea what's happening?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:05 pm
He had been thrown, pulled away from those he'd been trying to warn - they needed to know!! - but the Wizard hadn't accomplished what he'd intended; not entirely (if he'd intended what Khia believed he had, that was). Instead of being transported out of this strange alternate dimension, he'd slammed his claws into what looked and felt like cold red crystal and tore through. The result was that he was in a place that still smelled of the alternate dimension, but felt different...and the blood red gems that restrained his ephemeral form - that kept his powers (powers that were far, far too much for any one creature) limited were crumbling before his eyes.
'Not good...'.
Khiarhu's last thoughts before the last gem shards were of his friends, his family...and the fact that they were in danger.
His body twisted and morphed, changing in a way it only had done once before - when he'd grown. When this dark energy had increased for whatever the reason and he'd killed a man; when Syrie had nearly killed himself trying to restrain his child. Khia's fur lengthened in places, his body grew to proportions that bordered on the movie-esque "10 times as large". The shape-shifter's limbs lengthened with disgusting snapping-crackling-ripping sounds; but the most noticable change was his head - instead of the two smallish sets of horns and two eyes, he had three sets of long, wickedly twisted and sharp horns and three pairs of slitted red eyes that glowed with a strange inner fire.
In this form, his mental state was that of a lesser demon; he was - for all intents and purposes - an oddly cunning feral bent upon destruction and carnage and the Wizard was his target. He'd fixed it into his mind that killing that man would fix everything...so true or not, that was what would happen.
And so the hunt began...
Elsewhere, the Wizard was leaning over a crystal viewing ball with his apprentice, peering at the very confused Tales trapped in their strange alternate worlds with a bit of something that might have been a smile, twenty years previously but that was - at that moment - just very disturbing to the girl that served him so diligently (despite her deep misgivings). She was no longer feeling the need to leave these creatures they'd created...not only had her curiousity been piqued on a research level, but her maternal instincts had been touched and responded. These were their children...she wanted to see them grow.
Obviously, he did not feel the same, because he was bellowing at her to get back to work on the elaborate symbols that needed to be drawn for their return to the homeworld. When she tripped and demolished what he'd already drawn he muttered sharply that he should have never brought her with and shoved her out of the way. "Leave, woman - you are useless!" And with that she was free to go to the group of Tales that Linny had talked to...and to leave her 'master' to the spell that would ultimately drain the "children" of their essence.
At least she could go and explain things to the "children"; it wasn't like they were very far, just in an alternate dimension: one that allowed the Wizard to siphon their energies. Each group - the ones that had formed mainly from her more positive energies and the ones formed mostly from the Wizard's negative energies - were held separately but near one another by the dimensional prisons created by her master and herself. She could not press into his creation, oh no - she could not even begin to imagine that the Tales held within his negative energy prison were in any sort of danger - but she could go and spill the entire story to those held by her magic, her spells.
And that is what she did; outlining everything Linneas (who had been Expelled out into the Real World again and was currently back on Gaia being tended by his Uncle Syrie and the kitsune's adopted son, Veloren) had told them anda whole lot more...
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:38 pm
The illusion suddenly faded, engulfing everything in darkness save for one pin-p***k of light. It seemed to call the Tales to it, bidding them to approach, to come closer. The light was faint but it gave out a welcoming warmth, a promise of safety.
Slowly the light expanded and the form of a young woman appeared. She shimmered in and out of sight as if the image encountered static.
"Hello, children." She greeted, her voice young but possessing knowledge beyond her years. "I'm Edict, Linneas should have mentioned me at some point. I heard what he has said to you all, but allow me to explain things further.
"Yes, my Master and I have been siphoning your essences in order to go back home. We at first did not intend to take so much from you, but we have grown weaker with the passing of time. As we speak, my Master is finishing the preparations for the ritual that will send us back. But, but I don't want to go home. There is nothing waiting for me there.
"I promise you, I will not let anything happen to you or your essences. Just trust me that things will work and that nothing interrupts the spell. However the future is always uncertain but I will protect you all as much as I am capable. Ask me anything you all wish to know, I shall answer as best as I can."
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:20 pm
Crackle... Crackle... Crunch.
The misshappen beast wandered the 'between; a place that existed as a sort of walkway between the different dimensions and the worlds held within them. Easy enough to tread there in it's current form; it had been made to slip between the cracks, to dive in and out of the temporal, spatial and dimentional "waters" (so to speak). Easy though it may have been, it's current task was not nearly as simple as the beast might have hoped.
It wanted entry into the "Tower". It wanted into the pocket of swirling, whorling magic that it's prey had created for survival. But the magic was old and had been made when the Wizard and his apprentice, Edict had been younger...before they had realized they would need much energy to return home; before they had begun constructing the Study and Tome to assist in siphoning that energy from that world - that dimension - with the weakest magical boundaries: Gaia. As such, it was sturdy and refused to allow him entry. It would have to find a weak point in the spell's structure - be it by ripping through the fabric of time or space or what not.
Gallu did not reason this out. It simply lifted it's great horned head, sniffed a bit and then shook like a wet dog; the ruff of longer, thicker fur about it's six-eyed head moving with a strangely syllibant sort of hiss-whispering. It was scenting out the barrier between it and the space where the Prey was plotting his escape.
Massive clawed paws padded with soft clicks through the 'between. It didn't worry. It would get it's prey...*** Meanwhile... Edict had taken it upon her self to enter the swirling magic she'd created to shield and corral the positive-energy Tales until they were no longer useful; explaining to the children that they had been made to be used up...but also that she no longer wished for that to happen.
The Tales could ask her their questions, if they wanted...if there was one among them that wasn't terrified or too rattled to actually think to ask.
Elana had watched the entire encounter and simply looked over at the Wizard. She could see through the positive energy magic to see her 'siblings', but her mind was very far away. Both she and her darker twin were under a spell and thus kept docile for the Wizard's dark purposes.
Still, she did wonder...did they know? There was another energy lurking about, very small and almost undetectible...but it was there and it was tickling at her sense of magic.
The feather-and-bat-winged twin Tales' symbols glowed as the Wizard's voice rose in chant. It had started.
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:07 pm
If there was one thing that Donny didn't appreciate, it was when he did not understand a situation he was in. For as long as he could remember, he avoided such situations, or demanded their rectification as quickly as possible. This was no exception; for he was completely and utterly confused, and even this new woman's appearance didn't sit well, and left him with a foggy view of what was actually happening around him. There was little hope she would be able to clarify things well enough for him to actually comprehend, and he knew that. The only other option he had, then, was to remove himself from the confusing situation as quickly as possible. So, he clung to what he thought he understood from Edict's speech, and took a few strong steps toward her, standing tall and confident.
"I don't know who you are, and I don't trust people easily. But I don't think we have much choice right now, so I only have one question. When can we go home?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:23 am
Edict chewed on her lower lip, trying her best to keep a brave face. Truth was they could be home in the blink of an eye, or after an entire millenia. It all relied upon how well the ritual is performed. She didn't want to frighten the children, and many of them were children, but she promised.
"Those within my care shall be home after the ritual. I cannot be certain for those who are of my Master's." She wanted to hold them, embrace them, reassure them somehow. But if she were to attempt such a thing, her master the Wizard would grow suspicious of her own intentions.
Little did she know her Master was the last thing to worry about.
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:07 pm
(This takes place before Chai grew, just to lessen any confusion.)
Purple eyes looked around, landing on Donny as he spoke. Her mind had had trouble working up until now and thus she'd remained silent. Being little, maybe she didn't understand what was going on as much as the others.
Home...it sounded so far away. She frowned looking at Edict. What was a ritual? How long did it take? "What is a ritual?" she asked, probably sounding childish or maybe asking the question no one had thought to ask yet.
Though she wanted to know what it was, she kept looking around at the familiar faces realizing some she knew weren't here with her. She wanted to nuzzle up into a cuddle with her friends but she didn't want to move at the same time. It was much too confusing here.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:29 am
Confusion was clearly etched upon the young star child's face as her own personal illusion shattered into a million pieces and left her in darkness. Eyes were clearly used to the night and mostly preferred it but she did not appreciate being tossed into something without so much as a warning! Eyes narrowed at the warm, safe light that began to expand and when the woman walked through she felt immediately on edge. She did not know this female and it did not sit well in a situation where she already knew nothing of what was going on.
And then she began to speak, talking of things that the young girl's brain certainly couldn't comprehend. Essence? Well, that was familiar enough, considering what she was. But what was siphoning and why were they needed? "Why should we trust you?" she spoke, backing up toward the one she recognized more - which was Donny. She may be speaking big but she wanted to feel protected by the older Tale. He wouldn't let anything happen to her.
Still, the gypsy had to keep her inquisitive nature firmly sealed. A million questions were already pushing through but she would not give the female the satisfaction of letting them rush from her lips.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:31 pm
After the ritual? Donny didn't like that answer at all. He felt like he was being forced into something he hadn't agreed to, and that never sat well with him. Additionally, her warning of the tales who were with this so called 'Master' immediately made him worry about his missing friends. He thought first of Elena; she wasn't here, was she? She had to be with them, and if anything happened to her, or Tybalt, or any of his friends.. he made a noise of disgruntled anger.
He had heard Chai's voice pipe up before he had spoken, and as she spoke he walked over to her and put an arm around her in comfort. He wouldn't mind knowing exactly what this 'ritual' would entail himself, to be honest. So too was he interested in the answer to Khali's question, which he nodded a quick assent to as she backed up into his other, free arm. Though he felt helpless as to the fate of the tales in 'Masters' possession, he would fight to the death for the ones here that he cared for, if it ever came to that. The truth was, there was no real reason why they should trust this woman, was there? But did they have any choice?
"Isn't there anything we can do? I don't like just standing here and waiting for someone else to decide my fate for me."
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