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( 4 6 3 |) - Ampere - 01-19-2014



Her hooves pounded out the tempo of her heart as she raced from the Sanctuary, her body lunging through the opening and embracing the open world with an audible sigh of relief shuddering through her nose. She was forced to keep her head low, eyes blinking against the sudden brightness of the sun, to which the glowing room with its strange, blue light would never compare.

It was not enough though, so Ampere did not stop.

The heat of the Heart's opening blasted her left side as Ampere galloped on, grasses slapping against her hooves on her right side. She was thankful for the flat ground which allowed her to enter a dead run, needing the space and the time to gain speed. Gradually she began to unfurl the wings tucked tightly at her sides, as if their close proximity comforted her; the embrace of the lonely.

Finally it was enough, the wind created by her speed slipping beneath her wings and gradually pushing up. She pumped the feathered appendages dutifully, shoving off with her back feet. For a moment she hung in uncertainty, restrained by gravity's clutches, but on the next down-stroke she broke the invisible chains and was airborne, climbing higher and higher.
She smiled until she laughed. She laughed until she cried.

"I'm sorry," she whispered into the wind, painfully aware that she was putting herself in danger when Mesec had helped her to safety, that she was leaving behind Gaucho fro whom she'd been endlessly searching. "I'm a fool." She did not stop flying though.

In the distance she could see the horizon was dark.
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RE: ( 4 6 3 |) - Brighid - 01-20-2014

The Princess sets high standards upon those who deem her a childe of a fool. You are aware of this— you birthed her into existence with ink-written whispers and giggling laughter between you and the girl who shaped her ship into a impenetrable fortress. You are also aware of the monster that resides into her conscious as a beast of the Devil; for you are the wind and the breath against their nostrils and you do not exist in this realm of equine and illusion.
The Princess does not bow beneath Machiavellian tendencies that have enwrapped so many of your puppets as such cloth— does not weave metaphors and cruelties in words and song as you are well known to indulge yourself in. For she is solid; a stone that rises up from bronze Earth and chocolate caresses (you know this is not Earth; however; for this is the land that whispers of Loorien, and you have grasped the name with such force you can recite it within the analogs of your memories).
She does not.

She does not know. For the Princess you have crafted— this realm is as much of an Earth as you are so well accustomed to, so ensnared within; and as you fill your stomach with delicacies of a distant sky she has trekked forth from disease and death and is hunted by beasts of once friends and once allies (but the Princess does not need allies or friends— you know this as lies; but whispers of a beastial woman are determined to deny your attempts at bashful and civil speech). It's not as if the dead bother the Princess— she has seen more dead then you have within your lifetime (and that rabbit caught within the jaws of your mutt's teeth do not count; it survived despite the wine that pooled from it's side). It is not the dead that bother her, for she is a machine of war; a woman who has grown up within societies of racism and damnation (you wince at the very thoughts that burn her conscious as smoke; what does it matter if one's flesh is purple or cream?). It is the fact that the dead are not dead that bothers the Princess; it is the personal ideals that the dead should remain lifeless and the living should be filled with righteous flames within their veins— and you almost feel sorrow burrow itself within your own mortal flesh for you know she is to expect but worse as the days drag on; you know she is to throw herself towards a freight train in the form of a electrical girl the size of a ant in comparison to she (you have laughed at the differences in size and you almost feel bad because the Princess is fat in measurements to the feisty blue).

And so you watch as the woman of Elysia stumbles forth from the shadow of the Sanctuary that has shielded her; heaving her heavy ship upwards to the burning surface for she is certain she has seen a wisp of a young one fleeing into the diseased realm above and she will not allow such stupidities to damn them all (once more you flinch; for you know that the woman that has taken flight is immune to such diseases and she is not; that she may be diseased and you must write her future during this time of remorse and ill luck).

By the time you see the lug of a woman huff herself to her cloven hooves and yank her snorting facial features upwards to the cerulean speck upon the horizon; racing, dancing, curving you know she is going to follow her winged sister into the skies; to grapple her back with blunt force if nothing else, you know she is to be the foolish one that will most certainly become electrocuted by a girl borne from the lightning and thunder herself— you would gift this knowledge upon her and yet you know you cannot and that you are bound to the restraints of the creator and the creation.

And so the Princess screeches a caw to the heavens; you can hear the rumbling vocals and the accent and you remember with laughter in your mind what the one named of the chilly month of Halloween had described her as. You; yourself, are guilty of playing the practical joke of deeming her a bellowing ox before, aren't you?
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" a beat, a second beat, a third beat of your heart and get the move on hoss.
"I COMMAND YOU TO RETURN TO THIS PREMISES IMMEDIATELY CIVILIAN!" And then there is a quake beneath her hooves as a trot becomes that of a canter and a canter becomes that of a gallop and there's still a twig sticking out of one of those eagle's wings and you hiss as you imagine tendons and flesh about to be ripped as monster wings yank to and fro from hefty sides.

The girl of blue has taken flight into the skies and there is disease upon the horizon— please be safe— and then wings are yanked forth from bruised ligaments and her bellows fade into the crisp morning air as she raises clumsily into the skies after her kinsman. You are aware that you, too, shall fade soon; upon the next writing, and you shall be gone into the view of your creation, you shall never be here. You were never here.

You finish with a flourish; a small upside frown upon the pursuing in flight woman's maw. I'll keep you safe as long as I can; dearest; and you laugh at the thought because if she knew she was deemed dearest from her creator she would rip her limb from limb.
And.. good luck.

You end it there; until next time you return to your own drabbling thoughts.
Farewell.

:: I apologize for this really weird fourth person author point of view I slam dunked in here! It'll be normal next round??

WEBTREATSETC



RE: ( 4 6 3 |) - Ampere - 01-24-2014



[BAH so sorry for the delay I've actually been really excited to reply to this and keep getting eaten by things. Haha you're style definitely confused me at first but once I realized there was a narrator and Brighid it was all great and really cool :3 ]

There is someone shouting. Ampere almost misses it over the roar of the wind cutting past her, but the bellow is one of such strength even Gaucho or Archibald would be forced to give pause, and so too is Ampere shaken by the force of the voice. Her head swivels on her robust neck, mane flapping on either side of it with a wild and unruly pattern that matched her soul. Just below her, but soon to be joining beside her, the burly mare composed of both mud and gold ran, and Ampere would hazard a guess, shouted too.

Wings flapped and fluttered as the blue pegasus cut her path sharp and wheeled overhead, straining to see the stallion (surely it was male?) that commanded her in such a manner. "WHAT?!" she bellowed back down, though she was sure the wind stole her words; it had begun to pick up tremendously just in the last few minutes. If Ampere was paying any attention at all, she might even have noticed the darkness was not sitting on the horizon, but creeping along it, towards them.

Confusion rendered on her facade by the brusque words of the guardstud only further deepened as, by some grace of the gods, the hulking brute launched himself into the air. Even more miraculous was that he stayed aloft.
It had always baffled Ampere how such hulking behemoths could manage to find enough wind to lift them when she herself struggled with the strong grip of earth on take off. Most all the winged horses she'd even known had been small and compact like herself, and the fact that they could be larger in girth and height still astounded her. It had been one of the many dazzling mysterious surrounding Gaucho, though by far not one on the top of her list.

Although she there were things she wanted from this stallion, she knew almost inherently there were many more things she did not. She hadn't heard what he said, but the way in which he said it suggested something unkind and his labored effort to join her in the skies only compounded her worrying thoughts. Is he one of the infected? she wondered suddenly, woefully ignorant to much of the threat currently pressing down on them - all the more foolish she was for being beyond the cave walls.

With a frenzy of emotions, chief among which was panic, razing like a wildfire through her body Ampere did not linger. Already slowed by her pause she hefted her wings down and kicked off, uselessly, with her feet in a sudden, maddening need to be away from the earthen brute. "STAY BACK!" she yelled out in warning, glancing over her shoulder as her lungs poured out her threat between the beat of her wings and the strands of her dancing mane. If he did not hear it, her eyes echoed it with the static ferocity that churned in their blue depths. Like the ocean her heart rolled in her eyes, tumultuous and endless.

Fly she pleaded with herself, gradually climbing up the clouds as if they were footholds the gods had placed for her to escape.
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RE: ( 4 6 3 |) - Nyx - 01-28-2014


She was broken.

From the mare she once was, Nyx had morphed into naught more than a beast. She wandered the regions above the ground, no longer able to enter the caves that had been her home for many weeks. She stumbled around, dragging rasping breaths through her decaying jaws, revelling in the stink of her own rotting flesh. But the torn and battered state of her body was nothing to the ruined mind that burnt within her skull; she was insane, all empathy and pleasure smothered beneath layers of pure darkness. Whatever this infection was, it had sapped out every inch of humanity from her and left her as a pure, primal creature of the night, a husk of the most basic life form. She no longer craved love and attention; she craved only death. No longer did she want to seek others out for company; she wanted to seek them out only to do to them what had been done to her.

She was broken, and she would break them too.

She could see two pegasi ahead of her, both so athletic in the air. Not her; she was earthbound. The skies were for those blessed by heaven, and Nyx had been taken by hell. The hidden, once-alive part of her recognised the blue-static-mare from the war council meetings, where they had discussed how to combat the wraith threat. Ha! They know nothing - we cannot be defeated. Let them try and they will be devoured.. She told the other mare to stay back, and the beast released a loud, macabre giggle that turned to a hacking cough, spraying clumps of blood from her mouth. "Don't fear her, silly girl," came the mare's voice. It wasn't the normal, pleasant tones of the steel soldier; it was high-pitched and sing-song, as though liable to break into another spitting guffaw at any moment. She could do nothing but laugh at her condition, to revel in the new powers given to her rotting body at the cost of her sanity. A great strip of flesh peeled from her left side with the force of her convulsing cackles, exposing strips of torn muscle and the gleaming white bones of her ribcage. "Fear me!" Another demonic giggle, her battered frame moving closer to the two airborne mares; her eyes, blacker than hell itself, zoned in on them, and the laughing dead approached.

The part of her that was still her, that was repulsed by what the infection had made her, screamed against the iron walls of her mind. It did not want to hurt these women, but it could not fight back against the force of the demon inside her. She moved at a gallop, each thumping step causing her flaps of skin to waggle and tear. She coughed and sputtered, and a black cloud fled her lips and floated up, up, up towards the flying mares. It sought to trap them in its grasp, transmit to them the infection that had taken Nyx from the outside in. She was stuck to the earth, but her demon's powers were not bound to her ground-dwelling form. Join me, little girls, join me in hell!