Forevermore - A time to be remembered and played.

[Kalem]

The city of Kirtsnechiez was magnificent to see during the night. It was as active during the day and night. Many lights were making it dazzling. It was like a jewel in the middle of the desert. The city was surrounded by a wall that protected it from the frequent sand storm. Kirtsnechiez was known for being a merchant city. Each week, the habitant organized a fair and welcomed lot of merchant coming from everywhere. Arthus thought he was dreaming, he never saw the city from that angle. Knowing he would never be welcomed, he landed west from the city and climbed the wall.

Arthus:"Well I gotta find a good place to rest during the day or I'll be in trouble. These bushes will be perfect... hope I'll make it through. How can I be alive again after all these years? I should have died 100 years ago, oh Amelia I'm terribly sorry... I couldn't protect you from this maniac. Cyrus!!! If you're really alive, I'll make you pay for all your crimes."

Suddenly, Arhus heard a noise comming from the alley. A cat come out of a barrel and run as fast as he could.

Arthus:"I gotta calm myself or I'll be discovered before the sunrise. Now that I'm thinking, this guy....... Udes, doesn't belong to these mountains. I've seen his clan before but where? A humanoid tiger........ with green fur and black stripes........ and he has wings............where could it be??? Now I got it!!! He's from the forest of Thoas, but his people never leave the forest. What could happen to his clan?"

When the first sunbeam come out in the sky, Arthus's body turn to stone. Alone in the bushes, he was hoping to stay in one piece when the night will come.

TO BE CONTINUED...

[SSJKarma]

Udes was tired, he had been running all night after that thing. he had stopped wondering about th estory that thing had said considering that it couldn't be true anyway. The sun was about to rise and he knew one thing, desert meant sun and sun meant death in this place. He now hoped he was going in the right direction. When he saw in the wall of Kirtsnechiez far in front of him. He smiled and ran even faster !

*Udes lift's himself back on his two feets and deployed his wings*
UDES:"I'm arrived and the sun is rising"
*Udes looked around*
UDES:"Hmmm... that creature is nowhere to be found. maybe it didn't came here after all. after i lost it in the desert, i wasn't sure if i was to arrive in time. oh well guess i'm just lucky for once in my life !"
GUARD:"Who goes there ?"
UDES:"Just a traveler who seek refuge for the day !"
GUARD:"You may enter !"

The doors openned just enough for udes to pass. As soon as he entered he looked around and saw a crowd speaking. as if something terrible had hapenned. he came in closer to see it. as soon as he entered the crowd, he heard the people speaking of a girl who tortured two man just because they were poking at a fox !

UDES:{two man on a fox, they deserved it !}
UDES left the crowd and seeked for the closest INN. as he entered the inn. people turned to him and looked at him with surprised eyes, as if they never saw such a creature before. seconds later half of them continued to play their dice games. the other half still wondered and started conversations about it. but udes didn't care anymore, he had seen that too many times already so he walked to the innkeeper and asked for a room !

INNKEEPER:"Sorry sir, but we have none availlable for now."
UDES:"ok, do you know any other place i could spend the day and relax. i ran all night and am really tired !"
INNKEEPER:"There is another inn near the middle of the town. take the center road you cannot miss it !"
UDES:"Thanks for the info sir !"
MAN:"Why don't you sleep on the floor like the cat you are kid !"
*Everyone turned to look at scene*
UDES:"And why don't you just lie dead like the coward you are ?"
Udes didn't even cared and walked his way out. but the man followed outside and spoke.
MAN:"Coward you say, i'll show you what it is to respect people kid !"
UDES:"Respect, a word you don't even seem to understand since even you don't know what it is !"
MAN:"Say that again just to see !"
UDES:"Don't need to, besides i don't wanna fight you. i'm tired and i don't want any more battle to happen, i seen too much already ! now if you'll excuse me !"

and udes continued to walk disregarding the man who still was speaking. udes walked down the central lane when he kinda saw something...

TO BE CONTINUED...

[Roll]

The day was soon fully hatched, and the sparkling sunlight that passed through the gates soon began to fade away, as the lamps began to fire up (the city was indoors, after all). The entire merchant district was full of life, and the children were being put out of their beds and onto the busy schedules of play. Mothers were wisking up breakfast for their hard working families, and the husbands were grinning over tables seated with aquaintances and friends all alike; coincidentally, not many of the mothers seemed to fond of this. However, a small girl holding a sleeping fox walking down the main street seemed to be the only thing to notice to a few people. They watched the spectactle of the girl with the odd colored hair, and eyes of dangerous color, as she passed by holding a fox like a baby in her arms.

Akiko, however, did not notice the stares and looks. She was simply busy lulling the fox into a deeper sleep with her special song, and it was working very well too: the fox was fast asleep and was barely even moving, besides using his lungs to breathe and the occasional lick and twitch that came with a new dream image. While Akiko didn't understand this very much, she felt very.. different. She did not understand this brand new feeling which came to her. It was pulsing through her body, even as she sung and walked, and continued to make her feel somewhat bigger than she was. She felt very bloated for some reason, and that became accompanied by a bit of light-footedness. She felt as if she were walking on thin air, and that she could even dance well. Though, she dare not try it for the sake of keeping the fox asleep and safe.

When Akiko finally stopped singing, the fox began to snuggle up to the previously singing spectacle. Whether Akiko felt proud or empathetic, she could never know. Instead, she stopped walking altogether, and watched as a slightly furry figure, who was shadowed up ahead, was moving towards her. She smiled, and picked up her pace: perhaps it was Rawk, returned from his journey! While it seemed strange he would return so soon, Rawk was very fast, and could get here to there and back in no time at all! Or so Akiko reasoned; as it turned out, when the creature came closer, it was actually a green-furred beast with some black stripes here and there. Surprisingly enough, he stopped and looked her over; thus, Akiko stopped and let him look her over as a droplet of sweat ran down her face.
His eyes narrowed in suspicion, and then they changed to surprise and questionability, and soon she was confronted with a look of apathy mixed with wonder.
"So you're the girl who defended the fox from those men, huh?" the green beast said. Akiko nodded at the beast, who was apparantly male.
"Yes, I am... my name is Akiko, and this is the fox."
"Akiko, huh? Wierd name. Well, my name is Udes. Nice to meet a fellow nature lover and protecter. Keep it up."
Akiko: (Udes, huh? And you said my name was strange..) "Oh.. alright..."
The beast picked up his pace again, but before he could leave, he heard the girl call his name again. He turned around to listen to her.
Akiko: "...Udes, where are you going to go to?"
Udes: "That, young lady, isn't much of your business; but I'm just going to go to an inn. But you should go too. It's getting late."
Akiko: "Maybe so... Yes you are right. But I still cannot go."
Udes: "..why not?" He had a though in a split second and chuckled. "Scared of me too, huh?"
Akiko: "No, that's not true! I've someone like you, only with different fur color, and without the wings... and his nose is kinda big too.." She proceeded to place one hand a few inches away from her face. "..Like this."
Udes laughed a little bit, but soon stopped and went back into his serious manner.
"If that's not it, then why not go to the inn too? It is late.."
Akiko smiled and shook her head. "I'm going to go to the gates and wait for someone. I'm waiting for him to return again.. I'm waiting for him to come back."
Udes: "Is that so? Well, ok then. Good luck. I hope you see your friend again."
Akiko nodded in agreement, waved goodbye, and ran off. Udes couldn't help feel sad for the girl; the way she devoted herself to waiting like that. Oh well; He continued on in silence, and Akiko ran in the same way.

Moments after she reached the gate, she sat down and watched through the gate, hoping for a figure, any figure at all, to come in. Minutes passed... then one hour.... and soon many hours passed, and the sun began to fall. Then more hours went by, and the moon came into view. The sparkling of the stars was becoming remarkable, as another hour flew past, and there was still no sign of Rawk. She sat there, in front of the gate, and watched carefully for any sign of life that would appear at any time within the desert, other than the soft midnight breeze that blew gently through the air. Yet, nothing stirred; nothing at all. In fact, the only thing that Akiko could tell was awake was herself, and the only beings who she knew were alive for sure, were herself and the fox that was cradled in her arms. She sat there, in the glistening milk-white moonlight, and waited expectantly for her first and only friend to return to her...at least once more.



Edited By Roll on April 22 2004 at 01:53

[ledmonkey]

<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>[ooc]*Ponders if he should join...*[/ooc]</span>

[SSJKarma]

Udes had found the inn and had passed several hours sleeping, in the middle of the day he woke up prepared and visited the city while being on a shopping spree. not much of a shopping spree, he just bought what he needed to get to the next city.

He now returned to the inn, but he found himself back at the entrance gate. When he saw it he was angry to see hw was lost again ! surely he took a wrong turn at one place, no matter now he could see the main street so he wouldn't have any trouble getting back. but as he was about to turn back, he saw the little girl he had spoken to earlier and he wondered...

UDES:"That girl, was she waiting there all day ? and i thought i was devoted when i was in a fight, damn she beat all record in patience. she's so young why is she waiting like that, by now i think she must know that her friend might not come back ! so why still waiting ?"

Udes wondered like that all the way back to the inn, the night had started to fall already. he got into the inn and saw a merchant in it that was selling some blanket. he thought about the girl. the desert was maybe very sunny and all very hot during the day but surely it was very cold during the night ! He bought one since they were cheap. he came back to the gate after it, by the time he got back to the gate it was already in the middle of the nght !

UDES came in, she hadn't even noticed him, she was looking at the sky, at the stars and was wondering about something. Udes came in closer, took out the blanket and spoke.

UDES:"You sure are patient miss... here, the night can be very cold sometimes !"

TO BE CONTINUED...
[OOC]Roll, you're so good at making conversation, so i'll let you handle the rest of it. my charcater maybe staying with her as being alone waiting is far from acceptable, even tho she has the fox with her, my hcaracter cannot help it. it's in his nature ![/OOC]

[Razz]

[OOC] :shocked: it was that long? Two days? Ech, that won't work ... well, I guess I could try. I'll post in a bit, so ... yeah.[/OOC]

[milestails]

Dreams that seem real.
After having said for that masked man to come down, the entire area started swirling around and making Takin as dizzy as he could possibly go. Then after a few minutes, he passed out and fell into darkness.....
A person appeared and slowly walked toward him. Takin couldn't move... What was he going to do now? The person reached him, and put a hand on Takin's shoulder. By the feeling of it, the person was a woman.
"You're sick again... Your dreams must be the cause....."
Takin: "Wh.... What.......?"
*sigh* "There's no other way." *removes her hand from Takin's shoulder and grips her wooden staff and mutters a spell under her breath.*
"You have been cursed by the Dark Geatz. He's used his extremely unforgiving Demon Dream spell..... I can heal you. Just stay still for a bit." *casts her HEAL spell.*
Takin: ".......Thanks." *stands up and looks around* "? Where are we?" *waits for answer.... hears nothing. looks to see if girl is still there. She isn't.* "What now..."

"WHO GOES THERE?"
Takin: !?!?
*gigantic statue appears in front of Takin's face.*
"YOU. YOU'RE TAKIN. THE ONE MISHI TOLD ME ABOUT."
Takin: "Who is Mishi!?"
"SILENCE. I WILL NOT TELL YOU WHO SHE IS. FIRST, YOU MUST PROVE YOURSELF."
Takin: "Will this take long?"
"AS LONG AS IT TAKES."
The Test

[ooc]Statue's stats will be posted later. In next post, I'll be using the last url I posted. Just to let you know

[Razz]

Over rocks and logs, through bushes and trees, Rawk dashed toward "Blitz Keep," as the clan called it. Finally, he reached the first mountain and ran through the trail. As he zoomed through the pass, he suddenly stopped in his tracks. His eyes were wide, and his mouth was open in disbelief. Rawk searched for a word to say ... but all he could do was clench his fists. He stood there ... not a thought in his head, not a movement in his body until finally, a drop of rain landed on his forhead as others dropped nearby.
Rawk released all of his energy in one movement - his chest out forward with his arms and legs leaning back - and he screamed with all of his might. He roared in dispair untill his lungs could not take anymore. Half-choking, he fell to the ground, splashing in the mud beneath him. He stayed there for hours ... cold and alone. He could not find comfort even in a star, as the clouds had covered the sky. At long last, a single thought sprung into his head that laid flat in puddle of mud.
" ... Akiko."
Slowly, Rawk lifted his body off of the ground and took one last look at the place he once called home.
"Goodbye," he said with a tear as he turned away and ran the way he came.

[Jareth, Leonine Titan]

From the window of the inn, a dark figure looked at the town. A small laugh with a smile was heard as he saw the girl throwing the mens into insanity. As he looked at the girl, he was wondering if that move was self-willed. was she cruel or was it that she didn't knew her gift and her rage took over ? It looked at her running with the fox toward the alley.

Later on, as he still looked at the crowd speaking to each others... he saw a tiger like creature passing thru the gate. It looked at the creature coming toward the inn, the figure climbed the stairs down to the entrance of the inn and looked at the tiger-like creature !

Jareth looked at the creature and how it spoke. as the man answered with some insults, but foremost at how the creature answered the man. jareth found it good to his hears to hear the creature's arrogance and it made him want to know more about that creature ! As the tiger like creature came out of the inn, Jareth climbed the stairs up to his room again.

As the first glimpse of the night started to fall, Jareth climbed down of his room and was gone to make some shopping before the merchants closed their doors. as he came back, he saw the tiger-like creature giving a blanket to the little girl with the fox. Jareth wondered about the fact that now he saw the creature speaking in a way jareth didn't hear him speak before. he took an old scroll out, openned it and looked at it.

TO BE CONTINUED...
[OOC]i know darkness couldn't be used for a long time ok, but the dark figure was just a ways to speak as to that he was in shadows more then anything else ![/OOC]

[Roll]

Akiko turned her head sideways to look at the familiar voice, and wasn't all too surprised to see Udes standing over her with a loincloth smack-dab in the midst of her direct straight-forward sight. Looking up at the face that was Udes (and not really bearing much attention or knowledge to the fact that the loin cloth was blowing up with the wind; not that she would know how to react), she answered him and pushed the blanket away softly.
"You should hold on to that. I don't need it."
Udes looked at his blanket, and repeated the proposal. After refusing it once more, Udes gave up and took a seat next to her. His wings gave a quick little twitch, which would have startled Akiko if she wasn't so absorbed into looking into the twilight topped sand. He looked at her face, and at the way she watched the terrain so intently. She didn't seem to waver in any of her thoughts or movements; there weren't even any movements to speak of. She barely even blinked, though it was only to prevent herself from losing any detail at all of the land spread before her, lest that she should miss the sight of her dear friend approach her once more.
Udes: "...Are you alright?"
Akiko continued to stare at the world. "Yes, I'm fine, thank you."
Udes decided to try again, but this time he would be more blunt to the matter.
"Why aren't you asleep?"
Akiko turned to look at him again.
Akiko: "I do not want to sleep. Not yet, at least. I am still waiting for my friend to arrive; when he does arrive, then I might sleep, but not a moment sooner."
Udes: "But why? It won't make a difference if you wait; and you do need to rest like everyone else."
Akiko: "I'm waiting for him to come because I said I would wait." Udes' eyes gained a little bit of shine in small surprise.
"If I were to go to sleep, then I would not be waiting for him. I would be sleeping, and I would be in the comfort of dreams and timeless moments. I wouldn't be holding on to my promise anymore, and I wouldn't be doing as I told I was going to do. That would be misleading, and it would be unfair to him."

Udes became suddenly more interested in a pebble that lay on the ground nearby his knee. As he poked it back and forth in continuous cycles, Akiko continued to watch him. Feeling that she may have perhaps struck something within him that may have hurt his feelings, she decided to change the subject.
Akiko: "Why are you awake at this hour?"
Udes still looked at the pebble: "I don't know. I am not very tired, I suppose."
Akiko: "Oh.. well, why did you come to talk to me? I notice that no other being in this town has tried to do so for this entire day."
Udes: "I just wanted to see how you were doing. There is no shame in that, is there?"
Akiko smiled softly. "No. None at all."
Udes' face became suddenly serious. He finally decided to ask the question that bore down on his mind so harshly for the past few moments during and after her expressions.
"Are you alone?"
Akiko's smile vanished. "I beg your pardon?"
Udes: "I asked whether or not you are alone; as in, without family, or friends in this town. Are you?"
Akiko only nodded to him, and held the fox just smidge tighter than a second before.
Udes: "Why are you alone?"
No answer came.
Udes: "Did you run away from your family? Did they leave you? Were you adopted by people, and taken away from people who you cared about?"
Still no answer came. Instead, Akiko just turned her head to watch the sky sparkle and glisten. Udes noticed a little glistening in her eyes as well when he watched her closely.
Udes: "Tell me why you are alone."
Akiko closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them again, the glistening was more brilliant, and Akiko's voice came pouring out in soft, slow, melodic beats.
Akiko: "My father and mother are both dead and gone. I have no brothers and sisters... and I am very new to the world around me. I have just left my home not too long ago, and this is my first venture out and into the world. So, that, Udes, is why I am sitting here before you so lonesome."
Udes took another moment before speaking.
"This is your first time out of your home?"
"Yes."
Udes: "So you do not have any friends yet, then."
Akiko: "No. I do have a friend; and I am just waiting for him to come back, so I can know if he is ok or not."
Udes: "I see..."
Akiko: "Why do you want to know this?"
Udes: "Eh?"
Akiko: "Why do you want to know about why I am so alone? Why do you, out of every one person, come to me to find out about how I can be so stray?"
Udes: "I was just concerned. I noticed you sitting here during the day, and then I came to see you sitting here still after doing a little bit of shopping. There is nothing wrong in that, is there?"
Akiko looked down at the pebble Udes had busied himself with not too long ago.
"No, there is nothing wrong with that."
Udes sighed. "It's not that I was trying to be wierd or anything, it's just that I was really concerned about you. No one should stay by themselves like you are; away from everyone and everything, while just waiting in one spot for something to happen. It's not healthy."
Akiko: "But I don't have anything else."
Udes did not understand very well.
Akiko: "I have nothing else within my life, and I don't have anything to say or do, or anyone to know or look for. I only have my lost friend, and this little fox, and at the current moment, you. There is nothing else right now."
Udes did not want to understand anymore.
Akiko: "If I had something else, then I would be out in the world just as happy as those people in this town are. I could frolic through every situation in glee and in utter happiness, while at the same time remaining at peace and in harmony with the world. Better yet, I could be not alone. .....but I am alone, and there is nothing else, except for something that I have to look for that may not even be here anymore. If I cannot find it, then I will have probably lost it forever."
Udes quietly shifted around to become a tiny bit more comfortable. The words that came out of Akiko's mouth were almost too honest for his liking. Something about her, even with small, quick glances, was definitely pitiful and sad.
"...How about I wait with you then?"
Akiko looked up at him in confusion.
"Why?"
Udes: "Well, I can't leave ya alone, now, can I? Besides, I'm not really going anywhere anytime soon, with the gatekeeper being gone and away from his post. I'm not sleepy either, so what else can I do at this time of night."

It was true that the Gatekeeper was gone and in his home now with his family. He had been sitting at his post all day, working up a sweat in the immense heat, and left the area swearing and insisting that he had lost at least 16 pounds in sweat water in just that morning. Akiko could remember how he walked away looking completely wet and dazed, like he had a mild heat stroke.

Akiko: "No, I suppose not. But are you sure you'd like to wait with me? It could be a while until the person who I am waiting for returns.."
Udes thought on this. He did have someplace to go, and his time might be better spent by going and doing something else. However, his honorable side would let him leave Akiko alone; it was sad and bad to see a girl alone like that, and no right man would let that stand. Besides, if he became really tired of it, he could just get up and leave at anytime: she didn't seem to notice or mind anything else anyway. So, he answered and expressed his emotions in a nice, complicated answer to Akiko.
Udes: "Yeah, I don't mind."
Akiko turned and looked ahead at the horizon in her transfixed gaze again, whereupon, she lost all connection with the world around her once more. Filled with wonders and hopes and dreams of things to come in her brand new adventure, Akiko's mind was bursting with ideas and thoughts. When she thought of the events passed in the few days that came to pass, and what had happened just now, she could count only a few large blessings. Then one more thought crossed her mind. Perhaps Udes, too, would be her friend?



Edited By Roll on April 24 2004 at 07:33