dear agony [death?]

[OPEN] dear agony [death?]

Arakh Posts: 77

Dragon's Throat Stallion atk: 5 | def: 8 | dam: 7

Stallion :: Hybrid :: 17'2hh :: 2 HP: 66.5 | Buff: NOVICE

Snow

01-22-2017, 03:43 PM

Mother. There's moments in every creature's life that define them, make them, forge them like steel from a fire. This is Arakh's. His dumb older sister Oizys charges towards the monster - stupid, he thinks - but his mother, his damn bleeding heart mother, charges as well. She knocks his sister clean off her feet, but then, then comes the moment.

Those jaws lower, heading towards Oizys. Truthfully Arakh wouldn't really care if she died, she's shown no affection towards him or Esinakh and it's her own damn fault for attacking, even if those thoughts are perhaps rather cruel. Fate, however, has other ideas. Instead of the brat, they attack the mother. As though in slow motion, the colt sees his mother swung around and broken like a toy, and a roar spreads slowly from his jaws as he begins to charge.

By the time he is there, he can tell it is too late. His mother lies bleeding and broken, his sister sobbing at her side, and Arakh unleashes a feeble bleat towards her. "Mai?" There is no reply, unsurprising when she's in pieces. Sorrow grips him like a vice, and a low, plaintive wail escapes him.

From the ashes of that misery, that utter bone-deep sorrow, comes anger. His gaze rests on Oizys and he roars, a thunderous sound from a colt so young. "THIS YOUR FAULT" he bellows, launching towards her and hitting his chest into hers. He's smaller than her but she staggers, precariously balanced as she is next to their mother. This is her doing. She has killed their mother, and she isn't even her mother! Oizys is adopted, the foundling, the brat lucky enough to be welcomed into the warm arms of the kindest mare Arakh has ever known, and how does the gargoyle thank her? By killing her, or as close to as she possibly can without wielding the knife herself.

His anger sizzles away and a wracking sob cripples him. He falls to his knees next to her, looking up only when a healer appears, when she begins to sing. "Please make Mai better," he says to the strange mare, hope glowing in his tearstained eyes.