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[OPEN] Red Right Hand [dream]

d'Artagnan the Nightshade Posts: 364
Aurora Basin General atk: 6 | def: 9 | dam: 6.5
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17hh :: 12 HP: 68.5 | Buff: ENDURE
Aramis :: Common Hellhound :: Hellfire & Superspeed imi
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My hands are tied, my body bruised
she's got me with nothing to win and nothing left to lose


The soft constant thud of his walking was all that kept him company on his patrol, the world around him seemed still and… Unreal. He marched through a land that was like a frozen blur of familiarity that wavered from one scene to another. He couldn’t find Aramis and even when called, the hound did not show, which was odd for the hellion who was usually so attentive. As a result, he worried. Few things in the world made d’Artagnan worry, but the matters that did were limited to Aramis, Aviya and old age. The scene changed again, it was sunny and still; too still. Ravaged, broken and strewn across the floor were the shards of a glass horn stained in red. A memory so cold and callous, a noble stallion with his twisted grin and haughty gaze reflected in the broken horn laughing at his torn pride. The image in the horn shifted to a disapproving father who cast him out onto…

The wastes.

He meandered along the hallowed lands that had bordered that of his old home. It stretched for miles on end, filled with debris and old memories. His mouth felt dry and his body became sore, he limped across it like a sad outcast, left to roam the wilds of the earth, to repent for his loss and the disgrace of his family name. All of which he was; he had lost the battle and thus lost the war.

He turned his back on his old home never to return again.

The landscape moved onwards in a hurry. In just a few paces he had miraculously made it back to the Aurora Basin and a sound filled his ears. Thud. Thud. Thud. He frowned, was he dreaming? Or hallucinating? He didn’t remember eating any hallucinogenic plant, but with the contents of his cave, it was entirely possible he had done so by accident. This world didn’t feel real at all and it didn’t have nature’s normal heart beat.

He ignored the thudding, closing his eyes and opening them; trying to free himself from the strange dream world he had landed in.

It didn’t work.

Perhaps he had finally kicked the bucket in his sleep and this was what the underworld was really like. A desolate landscape that echoed with memory, the hollow shell of a familiar place and, perhaps, after death, when the reaper plucked you from the living world it left you here, to walk the timeline of your life.

Thud.

Crack.


The Nightshade frowned. What in seven hells was that? Is he not supposed to be left in peace after the ultimate end? Wasn’t he the one who was meant to do the haunting? Who was haunting his hell?! The sound was too loud to be Aramis, the dog was strong, but he doubted the hellion could break the ice with just the strength in his legs.

Disgruntled, d’Artagnan altered his path and headed towards where he thought the sound was coming from, travelling through an eerie looking Basin until finally he came across a girl. She was familiar in a way, her coat was the same shade as his and she had a build vaguely reminiscent of his family line, but it wasn’t much to go on. There were many horses of similar shade and build to he that were unrelated. He noticed the flecks of blood on her white cheek, the pool of icy water and, curiously, he raised a brow as he came to a halt.

"Do you have to make so much noise?" He grumbled, even in dreamland his irritability did not seem to cease. Eyeing her cheek his lips curled into a half smiled as he snorted "you missed a bit" he nodded to the red marks on her face. "It looks good… It’s edgier." By now his voice had become offhand as he glanced over her dark eyes and the locks of black against the red and white.

"Who are you anyway? If you’re creeping in you’re meant to do it quietly" he moaned again.



my heart’s an endless winter
              filled with rage

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Messages In This Thread
Red Right Hand [dream] - by NPC - 07-19-2015, 11:02 PM
RE: Red Right Hand [dream] - by d'Artagnan - 07-26-2015, 08:30 AM

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