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08-23-2015, 12:29 AM
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Aquila
An explosion of water erupted from the shallows. A frenzy of movement accompanied the spray. An equid surged from the water, frantic legs clawing against the coral and sandy bottom as she transitioned from swimming to running. The gills on her shoulders were gaping open and closed, despite being above surface, as she gasped for breath. It was apparent she had been fleeing for some time- fatigue was etched into the sag of her back and flailing of her usually athletic gait.
But she continued to run, crashing through the knee-deep water. Already large teal and yellow eyes are rimmed wide. The reason for her panic becomes abundantly clear as a second burst of water followed her.
A great shark breached the surface. More aptly, it’s teeth broke the surface. Followed by its gargantuan body. Was this even a shark? Its body was a putrid brown-grey, which faded to a foul yellow underneath. And its teeth- it’s teeth were hideous. They sprouted from its massive, gaping jaws, impossibly sharp and numbering in the hundreds. And they moved within the dripping jaws, rotating and sawing, waiting- hungering- for flesh.
Gleaming gobs of electric green saliva clung to the moving points in the beast’s mouth. Sharks didn’t salivate like this? As the rest of the creature erupted from the water, it became clear that this was no shark. This monster had four legs sprouting from its underside. Gaping, unhealing wounds along its sides revealed dark metallic bones inside pale brown flesh. They seeped the same foul green serum that came from its jaws. And this sludge poisoned the water around it, interacting with the sea and beginning to glow sickly around its churning legs.
“Arrhhh!” Aquila roared her frustration through gasping breaths as the spray cleared from her face and she saw her surroundings. She was running in the shallows between two soaring cliffs that only narrowed together in front of her, before the shallows dropped steeply into the vast depths again. It was a trap set by this diseased world. There was no where to go. She could no longer out swim this monster- her hope had been to outrun it on the beaches. But that hope was now destroyed.
She continued to run, pulling away from the beast as her speed exceeded his shorter legs. Slowly, a small glob of the glowing green poison around him reached out before him, moving faster than his body. It shot forward, catching up to the fierce mare’s striped legs.
“No!” A bellowed scream of pain and horror ricocheted on the cliffs as hissing steam sprouted from where this green tendril wrapped around her hind left hock. The neon aqua in her hide exploded with light and the brown darkened to pitch black in fear. She spun around to her left, a torrent of rage, panic, and spray. Arcing her ridged neck, her long bladed horn slashed through the water, cutting the glowing green tendril away.
She planted her legs and lowered her horn at the monstrosity. Her striped sides heaving for breath as water dripped down the smooth, pebbled skin. The glow faded from her stripes, and the black lighted to brown once more as the shark slowed its advanced slightly, assessing its prey.
refuge and vengeance
ooc| this is the setting I imagine. The shark’s body is like this and the teeth are like this.
Feel free to add more monsters, change this monster, or add crazy sickness to the environment!
All you Islers join in! :D
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