the Rift


[OPEN] oh, the king, gone mad within his suffering
Ascended Helovian

Mauja the Frozen Light Posts: 1,392
Outcast atk: 6.5 | def: 10.5 | dam: 7.5
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17.2 :: 14 HP: 79.5 | Buff: HUNTER
Irma :: Snowy Owl :: Terrorize & Diego :: Eurasian Eagle-Owl :: Rage Neo
#1
but somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
1. Här kommer kungen av ingenting alls
2. the Queen of Peace

Die, Mauja thought.

Yes, the flames answered, and kissed him with all the tenderness of razors and hunting lions.

He knew it. He had fucking known this would happen, that he had dodged fire not once but twice just for it to come back and bite him in the ass. Oh gods, he had known it would've happened, but he thought he had taken care of that—that it would've been fine because he'd sent the dragon careening into the soft snow, he...

He should've learned that nothing ever was what it seemed. His horn skidded and slid against solid silver scales, finding no purchase, and for a moment—that moment before yet another gout of flame lit up the night—he had thought that he would run headfirst into the hulking beast.

Then—

fire.

Roaring, biting agony, hell's scourge flicking along his skin—the reek of burning hair, of sizzling flesh, the low, violent mumble of the flames themselves.

He knew that too, that feeling, that pain—and he knew the way in which it encompassed everything, overwhelmed every sense, bit and bit and bit and bit, and—

Somehow, he did not stagger. Somehow, he did not scream (shock). Somehow, he just fucking stood there and stared as ice punched into the body of a dragon, one by one.

Until the dragon toppled, ice snapping off and sticking out of him in a macabre display of the violence that had transpired.

Mauja remained where he was—short-circuited in every way. Charred flesh with blackened edges, angry swathes of red and slowly weeping blood covered the better part of his neck and shoulder on the left side, tapering off towards his flank.

He hated pain.

He hated being burnt.

He didn't care that he had won—that it seemed he had killed a fucking dragon—didn't care at all.

All he could think of was the blast of light that came before the torment, the split moment in which he was still whole but knew what was to happen—

All he could feel, was the heat crawling deeper, destroying more, chewing its way into his soul—

He was so fucking tired, placing ice in his own veins to stop the fire's rampage but barely able to summon a thing, his tears fucking vaporized as nothing fell from his eyes.

"Fuck. You." he finally whispered at the downed dragon, before closing his eyes—standing still to lull his screaming nerves, fighting to keep a hold of himself in the face of the agony thrumming through him.

In the back of his mind, he knew that Torleik was there.

And somehow, he had the time to wonder if the black King would condemn him for what he had done.

[ @Torleik @Nyx @Lace -- though he won't post (for a bit?) due to being unconscious ]
man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
angels, they fell first, but I'm still here

Nyx Posts: 292
Deceased atk: 7.5 | def: 9.5 | dam: 6.0
Mare :: Unicorn :: 16hh :: 11 HP: 72 | Buff: SWIFT
Dominus :: White Lion :: None Snow
#2

The tension intensifies, and suddenly - suddenly they're fighting.

A blast of air erupts from the silver's nostrils as she hisses, hard, the sound like air being released from a valve. Shit. They're fighting, and it's by no means a friendly spar. Even during her and Mauja's kerfuffle, he had launched damned ice spikes through her veins, so Cinnoru only knows what he will do to Lace. Or what Lace will do to him.

Shit, shit, shit. Both these men hold a warm place within her soul, and seeing them come to blows is a dozen times more painful than the ice Mauja summoned in her heart. Mauja is her king, and beneath all the spots and the racism and the icy bravado, she thinks he is a good man. A man to be respected, and a man she is proud to serve beneath. And Lace...he is her best friend. He makes her heart do things it shouldn't do, things she never lets herself register or acknowledge. She trusts him as her father trusted him, and she genuinely, truly wants him here with her, living in harmony with Mauja.

Instead they're killing each other.

And it's all her fault.

Like a car crash, she's unable to drag her gaze away from the battle. She's vaguely aware of another presence, and her head snaps round to focus on Black Hottie...oh, shit. Memories dance in front of her; a confrontation between he and Lace in front of the great glass wall, Nyx an innocent bystander. That had been the first time she saw the other side of Lace. Today, she has seen it again. Again, she is reminded of her sheer rank stupidity in bringing him here, into a land where not one but both leaders hate his guts. It's like bringing him into the den of a starving lion with raw meat draped around his neck, a pendant of destruction. What has she done?

It doesn't take long to see who is winning. She doesn't know who she wants to win. Can it be a draw, with them both acknowledging each other's strengths and finding the seeds of friendship from the mighty weed of hatred? Unlikely. When Lace transforms into a silver dragon, her ears pin and she recoils slightly, fear gripping her. So that is the monster her friend holds inside him, like a promise held tight to his heart. That is the beast he nurtures - and she chooses to think that is what drove him to antagonise Mauja until the ice king snapped.

When the dragon falls, it takes a while for her to register that the roar of anguish comes from her own throat. That it is her own hooves that beat a rhythm on the ground as they carry her towards the prone silver beast, completely disregarding the fact that this could well sign her death warrant in the eyes of her kings. She doesn't care, because Lace is hurt, or worse, and his fate is far more important than any punishment Mauja or Torleik could issue her. Please, Gods, don't let her error lead to the death of her best friend, please.

"Lace," she whispers as she reaches him. Is he alive? How the hell is she supposed to know? She doesn't know anything about the anatomy of the dragon except every single bit of it can kill you. She breathes cold air as she looks down on him, subconsciously shielding his prone frame from anybody who might try to finish him off - she doesn't realise the possible levity of the situation, that her defense of the fallen dragon could be seen as taking sides. She has no side, except the side of a woman who wants everybody to get along. A warrior she may be, but she is far more comfortable fighting nameless, faceless legions for the sake of her herd than she is standing against any of her few friends.


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