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[OPEN] Take me, wash my sorrow away

Africa the Starry-Eyed Posts: 727
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Mare :: Pegasus :: 16 :: 6 (Tallsun) Buff: NOVICE
Silas :: Common Zephyr :: Roc Riven
#1
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Look down
The ground below is crumbling
Look up
The stars are all exploding




Note: Set after Africa arrives in World’s Edge to be healed but before the darkness, and before she is delivered home to the Throat... –museoverflowcannotbewithheld-


A bitterly cold wind buffeted the lone decent of a mottled grey figure who balanced carelessly, descending the precarious pumice-stone steps roughly connecting the cliff top realm of World’s Edge, with the white shoreline of the arced bay who stretched southward, far beneath. Wild and unruly, angry tangles of thick oily mane whipped about her weathered expression, and behind her slow, awkward amble, the long chaos of black tail licked and lashed the boulder lined passage in her wake. The salt-spray spewed off gushing waves that crashed across and gnawed at the flimsy, sodden beach; and borne across the violently churning air, it burnt her squinting, helpless gaze whenever she peered to secure her path down. She did not care though; its sting was like that of a meagre splinter compared to the grief and torment which plagued her thoughts; and ruined her gentle heart.

The constant roar of the furious ocean below penetrated her mind, and offered some distraction, respite from the overwhelming sense of melancholy and despair which fractured and fermented her spirit. Africa needed to escape the unrelenting cloud of confusion; the nagging guilt which only seemed amplified by the presence- no matter how warm and tender, of friends and family alike. She had taken leave from their genial guard early in the afternoon and slipped through the mists of that old, mysterious forest to stew perhaps, or align her scrambling thoughts in to some kind of sense. She did not intend to be away long.

Silas had been entrusted with her care, whether by his own accord or the vigilance of Africa’s rescuers, and fluttered by her as she scaled the steep cliff; his breath snagging in the base of his throat whenever she slipped or skidded across rock slick with icy sludge- her balance was skewed. The wind made his duty difficult, and much energy was sapped from him while he fought to remain by her side. Only when her weary hooves had safely found their purchase, slipping into the wet sands marking the beach did his concern settle marginally; and together they pushed towards the thrashing waves, the white horses whose deafening cry quenched the mare’s thirst for inner silence.



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If you were to question Scinfaxi upon the downfall of the dark stallion, he would only shake his head as the stallion began the descent to madness. The little mare that came charging full speed at him was annoying enough, and set him into a frenzy. A frenzy that may never heal and scar his brain with scars bigger than his own brain. For at the moment, he was sitting alone upon the beach and in the sand. Alone, striken with mad laughter.
His laughter was sickening, and at the sight of him, you would see a man gone crazy. There was madness in each of his green eyes, and the Unknown seemed to even given up the pursuit of the stallion's head. Everything was losing it's control on him, and there happened to be a piano inside the stallion's head. A note was struck that held a deep tone to it. It held, slipped through his mind and flowed about the mad thoughts. His laughter stopped for a second, the distance stood of a rock tumbling to the ocean nearby had caught his attention. He smiles, the edges of his grin curling over. What has happened to a man who seemed to have healed after the encounter of a winged mare? This is what insanity takes you to when you're nothing more than overhappy schizophrenic who lacks an antiopsychotic every morning.
One green eye is quick to move with sudden pace to the the cliffs to his right. They are off some bit, and how he heard that rock fall is still unknown to this day. The eye stares, moving in an awkward way. Scinfaxi, though a piece of the disease that he had somehow created to exist within his mind, was working words into his head after The Unknown seemed to die off on it's own. 'Shajake...... Shajake...... Wake up. Rise and shine.' As the stallion seemed to hear the words inside his mind, that it wasn't really his true self talking to him, the part of him that died when he was a youngster, he halts the eye, and seems the same. Scinfaxi, the white shape who now took on the actual idea of a white stallion with golden eyes, stood beside him before slipping into a wind that blew sand about. Oh, where is the man that was once there?
'SHAJAKE. AFRICA!!!!!!! The single word of the mare he had met got the stallion up to his hooves, the sand caked about in his mane and tail. Cold water drips from his body as foam gathers around his legs. "SHE IS DEAD, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SCUM! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" In a roar of anger, one that seems to never have died off like it usually would, he turns his head in a violent manner and lunges out at the spot where Scinfaxi was once standing. Teeth barred and closing down fast for what was there, every word that bursts from his mouth is nothing more than a dark roar that flies across the land and sea in a wave of pure terror. A surge of blood goes to his head, and he finds himself straggering on weak legs before he trips and falls to the waves.
Maybe it was her name alone that awakes him, and breaks a part of the scar off. Or maybe it was just the burning pain that comes when salt water touches a still open wound. His ear was missing, partial only, but the feeling of losing his left ear was annoying to him. The burn that came from the salt water brought him back up roaring and screaming. Pain went through his body in one burst of electricity. He did not stand afterwards, only laid about in the waves. The thought of throwing his head down into the water comes to mind, committing suicide becoming an outlet to the insanity. Yet he finds something that stops him.
For once, Scinfaxi seems to be right. Africa's scent is there on the air. He does not know where it came from, and how it came there, but it is there. He calls himself crazy, but his mind is shattered enough and he is desperate enough to see if it is there. Desperate enough to find a way of meeting someone that he knows that isn't fueling up the disease. Soon, he shall fall from the Earth if anything. Disappear to the Steppe up north, and freeze to death in the blizzard winds. No one would care, but for now, there is something to make a fool of him.
He stands fast, locks his eyes to the cliffs where he had heard the rock fall. Something moves upon them, a grey dot among black. His mental stability is low, and the sight that he see's could just be a mirage, the scent just a trick that his head is using to make him go crazier. But no, it is moving, and Africa's smell there is somehow.
Inside his brain, between the gears that move in weird patterns now, he searches for sanity. She cannot know of his current state. He had worried about her for only mere seconds once. Her scent had come along once while he was in the Steppe one way when the wind carried it. Her scent came from the Basin, and he found himself hating her almost immediately. Anything to do with the Basin, he seemed to lose interest in.
Strength is fully out in the open, and he uses it to drag himself out of the waves and onto the beach. By now the grey spot has left the distant cliffs and seems to have disappeared. It might of touched land, or fell to it's death. Another stream of mad laughter errupts from him at the thought of the creator falling to his death. He holds less than a care for any living thing in the world now. How sad.
Growl freshly inside him, he moves towards the cliffs. Pace at a slow canter, as if he wishes to trick them into believing that he has friendly intentions. How would he carry those intentions ever in his life? The thought of them alone seem unknown to him.
As he approaches closer, his sanity seems to create war to the insanity. Insanity wins, as common. Her smell is stronger now, and now he see's clearly that the grey spot was another being. Another meaningless soul that finds themselves unlucky enough to be found by this lunatic who escaped from the looney house.
His line of sight is now able to view what that spot was, and he finds himself staring before more mad laughter escapes him. In between the laughter and somehow created inside it all, is a single word alone.
Africa.
The girl is not the girl he knows. She has a companion, ah yes, a little birdy. He only laughs more at the sight of it. She is a girl in shambles, as if he has gotten around to attacking her. She misses a wing, and whoever has done it is sure to feel his insanity at it's greatest later on. Head hung low, ears down, he approaches her. There is a smile upon his face, one that says he has lost every single one of those damn fucking marbles he never received even in his mother's womb. A chuckle breaks out from inbetween tightly closed teeth before he reaches her.
His head is raised to her level, staring into those hazel eyes the winged mare has. At this point, it is clear he is not who she knew him as. Oh no little girly, sorry to tell you, I killed him. I killed him and ate every single bit of his body and soul, and I might as well start with your brains.


"talk talk talk"

OOC: He's gone full out psychopath crazy. Just sort of watch him. xD

“BUT THE TRUTH IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD; ITS A DANGEROUS THING." - MICHAEL SCOTT .

Africa the Starry-Eyed Posts: 727
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Mare :: Pegasus :: 16 :: 6 (Tallsun) Buff: NOVICE
Silas :: Common Zephyr :: Roc Riven
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Look down
The ground below is crumbling
Look up
The stars are all exploding




Above the growl of the frothing sea, an incomprehensible voice stumbled ahead of the driving wind- "SHE IS DEAD, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SCUM! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" And although Africa’s ears did not easily translate the hideous message, it was laced with such ferocity that Africa’s eyes flung apart to reveal renewed, rolling fear. Her pinched face jerked wildly towards the source of the tirade. As shock stirred the dappled mare’s heart into a feeble frenzy, Silas startled, though without the mental scars was able to recover himself and lift against the rush of icy cold air to scout ahead.

The stallion, whose saturated pelt bore darker dapples than his bonded, was the only other body on the beach; his presence upon the stark white sand was unmistakable through sharp violet hawk eyes. They narrowed suspiciously as the irate stranger stumbled about, perhaps blinded by his rage.


Africa felt the young Zephyr’s mood shifts, and she backed up a little as her pale eyes wandered up the way to find what had sparked his mistrust. Indeed there was another horse, and the grey mare’s ears flickered as she hesitated; deciding whether it might have been a safer choice remaining deep within the ancient misty forest instead. Trouble seemed to haunt her; follow her; she felt as though danger’s cunning fingers had some dirty hold on her soul, and any effort to shed its effect was futile.

The waves crashed about the murky creature’s fallen corpse and Africa was bitterly torn between the small sliver of kindness; the slight glimmer her former self, and that of the new traumatized apprehension which squeezed all sensibility and goodwill from her heart. She was filled with reluctance, and it caused her legs to lock in place. So much had happened; so many psychological scars now etched into lines across her facade; a pained grimace lingered through her gentle eyes.

Africa’s only wing clenched tightly against the visible rib-barring along the right side of her barrel. The body seemed to move, to heave upwards in a dripping mass of foam and ocean water. Still the waves churned around the forlorn figure, though it did not move to safer ground. A memory flashed before her eyes, like the wispy trail of a shooting star- it could have been real, or it could have been imagined. It was of a stallion, with a cloak of murky grey puddles, wading through a swollen river despite the danger; despite the threat to his life. Africa had beckoned him out; rescued him from imminent death.

The stallion lugged himself from the water at last, and as he dithered for a moment, a sinister laugh filled the grim, grey atmosphere. Silas had seen enough. Swiftly the Zephyr swooped downwards to alight, for the first time, atop his bonded’s pointed withers. The skin beneath prickled and flinched at the alien touch, but he was not shooed away. An urgent energy swept through them both, provoked by the star-misted bird’s desire to return to Hellena and Smoke, and to the mare that had wrapped Africa beneath her shielding wing. It was time- now.

Africa turned in that instant, yielding to the potent emotion of her wise young friend; her guardian.

Even before she had time to ascend the first granite rung though, the same maniacal cackling peeled through the air around them; everlasting and amplified upon the howling, Frostfall wind. It was much closer though, now. The stallion’s swift gait, his cunning approach, had been well masked by the muffling slip of the sandy loam beneath their hooves, and both Silas and Africa turned suddenly to find his crazed green eyes devouring Africa’s tattered body.

Murderer...

The word resonated like the clattering of a rockslide through Africa’s balking skull.

Feeding off her terror, Silas screeched angrily at the stranger’s brazen transgression, throwing a warning down between them. The feather’s forming the sleek dark crest along his narrow neck flared, as too did those cloaking his body and his size doubled- if only by way of clever illusion.

A frightened bleat escaped the mare’s quivering maw as she reversed clumsily from him. Africa did not know him; the horrible insanity rolling through his hungry eyes; the half lost ear, none of it was familiar- aside from that word, murderer. She looked instinctually for the horn which she presumed should compliment such frenzy; that wild glaze across his crazed green pools, but there was not one and she was confused.

Another screech echoed around them, bouncing up through the rock passage towards which Africa backed. The Zephyr opened his wings, and immediately the wind lifted his light-weight frame from its perch. Angry that the stallion was not heeding his admonition, the bird angled a vicious, missile-fast swoop toward him. His intention was not to strike nor wound; it was just a more potent caution to ward predator, away from his prey.



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He had been fully aware of the fact that she was trying to escape from him. She was trying to get away from him, as if his new prescence and mind weren't good enough for her. If there had been flowers about, he might of plucked one in some brink of sanity and offered it to her as a prisoner and a spy. Yet there was none, and with one ear missing, black mane and tail having lost their sleekness, body showing scars that usually where never there from a battle that occured years ago, he is never surprised the little girl does not know how he is. Should he remind her?
"Oh AfriCA HONEY, don't you..youuuuu kno... knohw whooo I am? Wanna pick flow... flowers....?They'll be per...... perfec..... perfect PRISONERS." The voice that once seemed so easily used was gone, only to be replaced by more of the monster he was falling into it. What sanity he has inside of him is all being used up for this meeting. A healer could never heal him, the magic and shear power of a God could never return him to a normal man. No Missy, this is who I am. See the real truth?
His attention is sweft enough to go the bird, how it seemings untrusting of him. It is a meaningless creature to him, yet it stays near the girl; he has no form of attack to give it. At the moment, that is. Every motion it gives towards him to met with a growl. One that belongs to something demonic. He seems to have become a demon in the time since she has left. "Shut up, Bastard. I know the girl, but does she KNOW ME? Shajake."
A gaze stays over her body, looking over the details closer now. He knows she has lost weight and a wing. There will revenge for her later on, just not at this moment. She needs to remember.
Beside the stallion, standing alone and only inside of the madman's mind, Scinfaxi stands alone. He holds no hateful words to make the man lunge out alone at him. By this time, Scinfaxi is wishing to have ways to speak to others other than Shajake. He'd use the power just to tell Africa this is not the man she knew before, but he's still in there. You just got to dig about.
Shajake is busy attempting not to kill the bird. It swoops down towards him, and in pure instinct alone, he lunges upwards with his teeth barred in attempts to attack the bird. A growl falls forth from his lips before he comes back to ground, returning empty handed. He wouldn't hurt the bird, never in front of Africa.
One chuckle falls out of him before another piano note is hit. A high note that makes him cringe before remembering the happiness she had. Her actions tell him it must be gone. The Basin seems to spoil everything it could get it's hands on. He frowns, it comes out in a frighening way. This is who he is now.
He takes a step towards her, this time going out to brush his muzzle against her shoulder. If the bird touches him, it would be in the end of the starry bird in a heartbeat. There is never a care in the world for it. Another wave of maddening laughter falls from him as he looks at the missing wing again. 'It is bad, isn't it, Sir?' The laughter doesn't seem to end, and above their heads, on the cliff, stands The Unknown. Red eyes fall from their sockets, the black body is has falls to ashes. It rains down upon him, and it must signify the death of The Unknown altogether. The being that was created by his mind has died, now Scinfaxi will see himself die off in near time as the man becomes more and more insane. For when you're insane, since when do you need friends?
The ashes topple about from the cliff and falls upon him in only in his mind. The Schizophrenia has taken such an effect to him that it is there everyday, every breathing second, inside every dream. At one point he dreamed of Africa, thinking of his actions around her. Those actions won't be here today, as for today, she is going to learn what she didn't learn at their first meeting.
They always say second time is the charm.
A large, musclar head is brought back towards her own, muzzle moving close enough to her ear to brush it, yet he doesn't go to touch her. That is not his goal at the moment. A single whisper falls from his jaw, and he lets it fall into her ears.
"Have you missed me, old friend?"
To him, she is not a friend. It is only a saying to mess with her head a bit. He might have started becoming a mad scientist at some point, but no, he is a man who belongs behind barred windows and is given medication through a straw when he sips from a strawberry flavoured drink that strangely has the hint of paste in it every morning. Inside would be twenty different medications. In the afternoons, he would wheeled out for a few moments of relaxation and fresh air. 'It's for the better of his mind. It'll allow him to relax and think he is still some place nice', they shall say when questioned by the family that never exists. They're all dead, he'll scream from the inside of his padded cell while held in his straight jacket. He'd fit in perfectly with the other psycho's.
He draws his head away from her ear, never touching her body. It cames back in front of her own head, green eyes filled to the brink with insanity and mad laughter. His teeth are closed strongly, but the frightening sounds of his mad laughter bounces off the walls of the cliff and around them. 'Where have you been all this time?' is the only thought that can pass through his head with some sanity.


"talk talk talk"

“BUT THE TRUTH IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD; ITS A DANGEROUS THING." - MICHAEL SCOTT .

Africa the Starry-Eyed Posts: 727
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Mare :: Pegasus :: 16 :: 6 (Tallsun) Buff: NOVICE
Silas :: Common Zephyr :: Roc Riven
#5
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Look down
The ground below is crumbling
Look up
The stars are all exploding




Antagonised by the rogue stallion’s growing insolence, Silas grew frustrated, and that thinning tolerance grated through the frayed threads holding together the dappled mare’s frail nervous system. As though the Zephyr was merely a mosquito, or a fly buzzing about his face, the dark grey stallion swung his thick skull towards the warning fly-by, causing the bird to wheel right abruptly. Silas was not irrational; not foolish or arrogant, he knew that any threat his slight existence offered was slight. He was ultimately brave though, fuelled by a burning desire to protect and defend his soul mate.

His small body lifted high into the violent wind-current, and though tossed like a helpless leaf for the most part, he was able to arc a path back downwards by tucking his wings to his sides. His duty was not to perish at the hand of some crazed fool, but to guide and keep safe Africa, so his clawed fingers grasped hold of her sharp withers once more. Filled with distrust and contempt, his pale purple eyes glowered towards the stallion.

She figured as she shrank backwards into the cold, wet rock face, that if he had wished to spill her blood- like the stallion whose breath held the very essence of death, he would not still be swaying before her, still a length away. It offered small relief though, because his expression was demented, out of control and still the strange sickening laughter dribbled from his saliva slick grin. The tight clutch of the Zephyr’s talons atop her back filled her with warmth, when the drear of the day and the bleakness of her new predicament turned her blood cold. He was there; Silas was always her light at the end of the long dark tunnel.

The stallion stepped forward, and Africa lifted her head away from his extending mug inelegantly; a guttural growl slipped from the pointed beak of her companion. His lips passed barely by her trembling shoulder, his steaming breath pluming across the healed scars which stippled the mottled grey; and he paused where the fused skin sagged across the wingless socket just above. All the while, the mare’s eyes were clamped, her breath caught in a choking bubble at the base of her gulping throat.

His large skull navigated upwards, pulling back only slightly so that the whiskers speckling his chin brushed the curve of her delicate jaw line; the flat circle of sullied cheek when he whispered into her ear, "Have you missed me, old friend?"

Africa shied away from his hot, stale words in a flash motion, staggering sideways as she tried in vain to find the narrow path reaching up into the cliff-side. Silas unbalanced and startled from his post, screamed as her distress amplified through his pounding heart; and his beak clacked angrily as he lunged past the creature again, provoking it, and taunting it to follow and turn away from Africa. Her voice was paralysed with fear and renewed trauma, and she could only shake her head fiercely, to rid his demonic image from her ringing mind. Perhaps there was a flicker of recollection- but this animal was just another terror; a disease eating her soul.

[ooc: sorry I only very roughly proofed this one :-S]



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Stallion :: Unicorn :: 16.2 :: Eight :: Birdsong HP: 61.5 | Buff: NOVICE
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#6
Voodoo
tear me open pour me out,
inside there's things that scream and shout

My stomach churned and bubbled, the water sloshing back and forth in it awkwardly. I have not eaten regularly as I should, especially for as much as I wander around. The days have stretched on for pointless hours, seeming to mock my very being. Tired, dry eyes felt as if I hadn't blinked in months; they peeled apart with a sand paper like texture beneath each eye lid. Nothing was actually in either eye, other wise they would be wet with tears that would try to rid grit of my vision. I had been off by myself for far too long; the closest I had been to home was a meeting with my lord, Mauja, at the Heavenly Fields. The cold sensations, unlike the rest of Helovia at the time, felt welcoming, rather than obnoxious.

Night terrors flooded my dreams every night, visions of my mother's body strewn out across a pale white, textureless land haunted my every slumber. The sight of blood had not turned my gut unless it was that of Mother's. No matter how long it has been, or ever will be, the day will forever be stained into my memory. They had tried taking care of me, now that they have seen that my body is slowly breaking down. They will have no host for their party, no where to stay and mock another soul. The mind game had been completed at one point or another, one that I had not dashed out in my mental calendar. I probably should have, it would have been a good reminder. They had finally accomplished eating away every single emotion.. and now that it's gone, they have nothing to manipulate. Now they are back on a quest to gain it back.

The ocean was something that I had found comforting lately. My first round here left me standing knee deep, talking to a giddy toddler with a spiky little horn. Her intentions, though adorable, seemed to have no affect on me. I tried to push her home, but that did not seem to work out very well. Here I am again, wasting another day doing absolutely nothing. Mauja had taught me that I cannot fight. There is nothing more to me than failure at this point. Even though my lord is so much larger, wiser, and better skilled than I, he took it far too easy. His body swayed out of the way quickly, bobbing each dumb rear and kick. That's what I should be working on right now. A loud growl from my stomach reminded me that that would not be a good idea right now. My energy level was so below empty that I was not quite sure how I was still wandering aimlessly.

Muffled voices from afar caught my red rimed ears, the left rotating toward the noise, as it was closest. Crimson eyes continued to stare out into the endless waters, watching the tall waves crash onto one another. The sand below my gnarled hooves rushed out from under me with the waves, just to be washed back up eventually and restart its' entire journey. Could I do that? Perhaps. No, there's no way. The mass of my body would weigh me down eventually, likely only a few paddles into the deep, leaving me to drown and suffocate myself into the darkness. My mind was already there, so why not the body that carried it? Maybe I should tell Mauja first. He would just do it for me. It'd be less cold that way. Pay attention, this may be important Mother's voice chirped in my head, trying to pull my attention back from the depths of my brain to what was actually happening.

With a soft huff, I listened to her.. no. It. It was not Her. It would never be her. Shush My eyes seemed to automatically follow my ears, along with my skull. My whole face shifted to the left, just in time to catch a manic laughter. There's your crew I heard one huff under their non-existent breath. I ignored it, my curiosity and nosiness finding their way back into the front line of my attention. The water lapped up past my knees, the fresh scab covering the soon-to-be scar above my right knee cap. The chill of the ocean water felt nice, even in the constant costal wind.

Each muscle tightened and released, wanting to go spy on what was going on. I have lowered myself to that point: watching drama unfold on unaware prey. I have always been a good sneaker, but this, this was just dumb. I gave into the aches, starting off on my right leg, bringing myself back up to shore by turning to my left. I wadded through the shallow waves for a while, being noisy as I moved without a care. They all chimed at me to get out of the water, that I was being too loud. At this point I figured no one would hear me.. but I could have been wrong. I've been wrong a lot.

The beach sand was warm compared to the chill grasp of the angry waters. I sunk a little into the sand with each step, making it harder to navigate than need be. With the tide rolling in steadily, I knew I would have to walk in the soft, loose sand if I wanted to be out of the water. Crimson eyes drifted up from the light colored sand, automatically finding the swiftest movement. A black bird, it's feathers looking as if they were freshly oiled, dove from the air, aiming at something that was well hidden by a massive rock. They all "Ooooh"-ed, This should be interesting one of them blabbed from what I imaged was the back of the group.

Carelessly picking up my pace, I pushed my tired, weak legs into a sloppy trot, tripping once in a while on nothing but my own feet and the thick sand. The rock eventually was out of my way, rendering a sleek black equine, wild eyes staring down a one winged mare of the exact opposite coloring. I slowed my choppy pace to a walk, stopping in full view of the action. The bird now sat perched on the mare's withers, clutched on to her bony body as if he too were part of it. The sight of a one-winged Pegasus was something rather funny, though some what sad at the same time. I'm sure she must have gotten into some kind of mess that she couldn't get out of in order for that to happen. It wasn't every day you saw that really.

The stallion seemed to be pressing the mostly white mare into a frantic panic, her eyes wide with fear, rather than whatever emotion it was that the stallion was projecting. The mare tossed her head in a distressed fashion, exposing those gentle eyes that I knew too well. The same scared look that I had met at first glance was plastered onto her features. My heart, already drained of everything I thought it had to give, seemed to sink lower, dropping into my hungry stomach. "Africa." My jaw hung slack for a moment.

What was I supposed to do? I can't be a hero, not again. Not when I am in this state. The green eyed male now seemed like a monster to me as well, stocking the only thing that had ever plucked at a real emotion in my heart. It may not have been anything real, but it was something enough to protect. My throat nearly closed at the thought of stepping between the two, but it was all I could feel I could do. "Get the fuck away from her!" It felt like every ounce of energy I had left had nearly tripled, the adrenaline slowly coursing through my veins to bring me back to life. Back haunches locked up, front legs pushing my front quarters into the air. Both black hooves wielded at the cold air like knives, spraying sand momentarily. Not that I was anything scary, but I may as well try. My blood stain patterned mug peeled open to show stained teeth, my body finally landing back to the soft cushion of sand.

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Right here, was a man who knew almost too well what power he held, and was aware of his every actions. The Unknown stood upon the cliffs above, ashes of it's body steadfast falling upon his body. Like when Africa met him wearing armour that didn't exist, the ashes took the same pace. Scinfaxi stood still, and whispered only a mutter to the dappled stallion.
'You know better, you bastard.'
The words inside of his head were enough to bring him back to life, to become a piece of himself. A disease that didn't want it's habitiant dead, but still somewhat functioning normally. "YOU PIECE OF SHIT, GET LOST." Shajake would never go to the idea of killing his only friend when it lived inside of his brain, but still, he had no working piece of mind now. His head so close to Africa's, one false move and he could easily be slamming his thick, heavy skull into her own. The strength at which he would hit it at if he did with no restraint, he would most likely hurt her in a form that later on, he'd kill himself for.
Her little bird was there to entice him to attack, but he kept his full attention to the girl. A voice lingered about inside his head, mixed in between a conversation between The Unknown and Scinfaxi used to work him like a puppet. The voice that moves through his head is female, one that comes when soothing is needed. 'Please don't hurt her....'
It goes ignored.
By this time, he would of hurt her, yet something came upon the pair. A smell that brings a surge of hatred to him already, and as his mad green eyes go about to search for it, he lacks to acknowledge the bird and it's attempts to move him away from the single winged girl. "Oh NO. Not going to work, LITTLE BIRDY." The bird never moved close enough for him ever to put a straight forward attack to it, but his head flies upwards, mouth open, teeth bared, macabre laughter bursting from him like fireworks. You cannot work like that.
His descent down to earth is brought with a new challenge. One the man has always looked forward to. The meeting of a Basin member. And how does he know that this unicorn that now lay before him and screaming at him to be a Basin member? Its only because he knows the reek of their scent with every step. The second his eyes lock onto the colt that has come between him and the frightful Africa, a crooked smile comes across his face and those eyes light up a blaze.
It was his dream come true.
"Get AWAY?!" He is already questioning the colt, fixing to play with the toy dropped right before him like a present from the Gods like a cat plays with a mouse before killing and eating it. The playing is brutish, cruel, and to Shajake alone, his favourite thing to do. "I believe it is YOU that should be GETTING AWAY as of now. Or do you want your BRAINS all OVER THE ROCKS?!"
One large head to moved to connect himself to the colt, looking over it's strange features. The madman's personal body is dappled, dark, a tombstone gray as some would describe it. What eyes he has are the brightest green, living straight on the edge of being called lime green. Yet they shall never reach that point. His breath is hot, heavy with the demonic tone it is so common to. Every word that falls from his lips are one's that belong to a monster. Right here children, is what a true murderer is.
A steady stream of laughter breaks from him before fading out. The crooked smile put upon his face is still there. Already it tells the horrors that are coming. "Little boy, this is a GROWN UP game. Grow some BALLS before you try this." With those words, his head is flung towards the unicorn colt, teeth bared and eyes wild with madness, goes for the child's left eye. He doesn't care for the kid's red eyes, only to bite into their soft, squishy, liquid-like shape and pull. Pull with all the strength in his upper body and tear it out of the socket. There is never a care in the world.
Africa is long but a mystery in his head now. He is aware she is there, behind the colt whose eye he is going for. If the girl had said something earlier on, before he went for the eye, he might of held himself back. Yet she almost lacks a voice to him now. There is an age old hatred going on here. And why? Why does he have reason to hate the members of the Aurora Basin so much?
It only takes one bad apple to ruin the whole bunch.......
Scinfaxi is quick inside the stallion's head, wanting to move towards the stallion before the worst becomes reality. The man inside the madman's head attempts to bite down upon a lock of black mane thrown about in the fury of words, laughter, and teeth, only for his bite to slip through and be lost. He cannot hold on to anything now, and aware of his defeat, fades away to dust.
There will never be any hope for the one eared man now.....



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OOC: Shajake is only going after Voodoo because he hates the Basin for reasons he'll never understand. Please excuse him.

“BUT THE TRUTH IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD; ITS A DANGEROUS THING." - MICHAEL SCOTT .

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Mare :: Pegasus :: 16 :: 6 (Tallsun) Buff: NOVICE
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#8
Look down, the ground below is crumbling
Look up, the stars are all exploding

Africa’s feeble heart sank when the murky-grey monster did not turn towards the dangling bait which was her bonded; provoking with futile effort the stallion, trying to lure him away. His heavy skull swung precariously close to hers, and she winced, nauseated with premonition when he bluffed brutally; antagonizing her with a demonic glower. Her slim, lanky ears were buried backwards amidst the thick, unruly tangle of her greasy grey mane, and she warned him weakly with the frightened barring of teeth and snapping jaws. She could not deter his sinister hunger though; the permeating mirth filling his crazed green eyes.

By some unexpected twist of fate, another horse bowled forward and like a thick, steel grey barrier posed squarely, foolishly between the murderer and his game. Africa did not remember him; the colt whose nose seemed to have unnervingly been dipped in blood, was just another fiend, thirsting over her ultimate demise. Upon his face, she saw easily through horror-struck eyes, a spear like that which had penetrated the flesh of her rump, being brandished wildly through the churning air. She could not quite taste the hue of snow, rime or basin as he towered between her and her pursuer, but the impression of The Reaper was as raw as the squall around them.

"Get the fuck away from her!"

Africa’s hindquarters propped in an instant as her terror was snagged by confusion; her heart bewildered by the prospect of his shielding. The unfamiliar colt’s forelegs stiffened as he descended once again, exaggerating his size and flexing the brawn of his young chrome shoulders. Africa wanted to turn and run, to slip away like the coward she was; but her trembling legs would not oblige and she shrank with trepidation into the cool of his swaying shadow.

The monster’s green eyes widened, almost with delight she thought, and all air was squeezed from her lungs as she watched his lips curl into a wicked sneer. He probed the unicorn colt, spitting the blunt warning back sardonically across the fine white sand at their hooves. "Get AWAY?!" Immediately guilt surged through her adrenaline slick veins. How many had to perish by her side! The dark dappled stallion threatened the grullo, his taunt gruesome, and the intimidation was followed through with a savage throw of his thick, heavy cranium towards the other’s face. The only ear upon it wobbled unsteadily.

So much violence, so much hatred; Africa’s wounded soul flailed helplessly as the two creatures before her began to clash- physically or verbally, the vile tension was overwhelming. "Don’t hurt him..." She bleated through the haze of salty wind, sweat and testosterone. It was an appeal to both horses, to drive a plank between their anger. And Silas, whose angry cries echoed around the cliff-base, paused too, and found rest upon a spike of rock above their heads.

credits

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Voodoo Posts: 231
Outcast atk: 7.5 | def: 10 | dam: 2.5
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 16.2 :: Eight :: Birdsong HP: 61.5 | Buff: NOVICE
Ouija :: Arctic Fox :: None Nevada
#9
Voodoo
tear me open pour me out,
inside there's things that scream and shout

The hate radiated off of the dark stallion's body like a heat wave, the tone of his deep voice equally sharing as much emotion. I let out a deep breath in a short snort, red rimmed ears pulled back to my poll. The stringy mane that hung over my neck buried my left ear in it's wake. "-or do you want your brains all over the rocks?" He continued on, but the words refused to enter my head. Perhaps they suggested; an image of my limp body in the shallow wake of ocean waves flashed through my head. My right foot ripped at the soft ground before me, digging a small hole that instantly filled with ocean water as I scooped out the sand. The crazed stallion reached out with bared teeth toward my face. Naturally I tucked my face into my neck, feeling the rounded bones graze the bridge of my snout in result.

I stepped back, knowing that this stallion was my equal height and could easily do it again within a second. He was built elegantly, his body narrow and lanky; much like myself, but with a certain awkward curvature to sections of his body. I was straight in nearly every way, like a board. The bird had stopped crying, but Africa's voice bubbled through my head along with the forces of ocean wind "Don't hurt him" she sounded... weak. Nothing like the quirky, lively mare I had met before.

What time had passed between the brute snapping at my face and my thoughts bouncing through my brain had maybe been a spilt second, though it felt like an eternity. I was not in the mental condition to fight any one right now, nor was I really ever, but especially right now. If I took one good blow to the head I would probably beg for another. This being thought over, I wheeled back a few steps, drawing away from the dappled brute. My tail flicked back and forth with loud snaps, lashing both back legs and it moved back and forth so quickly. "What do you want from her?"

My breath was quick out of anger, I was not exasperated or tired in any way. Why was it that I was defending this girl any how? I didn't even really know her.. I had met the bird one time, and she was a little irritating. I took another step back, like the coward I am. My heart was still beating too fast for the little amount of action that had happened. Anger always got the best of me, causing my blood pressure to sky rocket up and intensify the most common emotion I felt.

My skull rotated over to the gray mare, allowing me to examine the scarred wound on her shoulder for a split second. What had happened? Not allowing myself to dwindle on the thought, I turned back to face the brute; my attention again fully devouring his every action. I wasn't about to get into another fight that I knew I would lose, Mauja had still left me wondering what I could do better without throwing myself away like a piece of trash in the wind.

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#10


He had missed his mark, and as the colt repeatedly backed up, ever closer to Africa(the exact thing Shajake was wanting), his insanity hit the breaking point. He wasn't about to let a little colt come in and try to be hero. There aren't hero's in the world, and the madman knew this full well because if there were hero's in the world, was his own at?
When a growl errupting deep inside his throat, rumbling and roaring like an angry Lion prepared to kill the idiot who dare stood before him staring him in the eyes, Africa's soft, weakened voice broke the silence. She asked him not to hurt the damned colt, and as much as he hopelessly cared for the one winged mare, he was caring enough to follow her words.
When his head was moved back for the colt, his green eyes moved way from the damned Basin kid that stood before him. A snarl took across his face as a bit of sanity took over with the girl's plea, her weakened state making his stomach churn after the bit of happiness he received with their first meeting in the rainstorm. "Whatever, Africa. Get lost kid. NOW!"
The moment he yelled the now at the kid, he partically roared, teeth barred and ear flattened down to his neck. A question is presented to him, and with his green eyes wide and full of monsterous thoughts that he will follow with the first Basin unicorn he can find once this one is gone, he chuckles in the face of the colt. "That's personal."
His very vision lingers upon the colt before he lunges out again, this time going for the gray and red colt's black mane, with the intentions of biting down and throwing the colt out of his way if he doesn't move fast enough. Shajake knew full well that the insanity would come back, but in ways he wasn't paying attention to his brain. Scinfaxi was beside him, standing still with no emotion. His voice was no where to be seen in the dark stallion's head.
The moment he is sure he can get the colt away for good, he does.
It's a fast action made while the colt turns his head to check on her, the green eyed stallion's main intention in knocking the kid down on his side, and then shoving his head into the sand. Sorry, Africa. I don't want to be too much of Mr. Nice Guy today. Even if you did say please. His hind legs move him towards the colt, ready to see if this is when the colt grows his balls finally and learns to fight.
Fight like a man, if Shajake had his personal preferences.
Front legs ready to do any harm they can inflict, teeth barred and mouth open, ready for a bit at the kid's neck, and one ear just flopping around on his head like a dead leaf, he is ready for he's got himself into. He's ready for that very moment when he can his perfect revenge just for the girl he somehow learned to care for in a madman's fucked up head.
Here you go girl, this one's for you.



"talk talk talk"
OOC: Omg, I'm so sorry it's so short. I just didn't know what to have him do at the moment. The next will be longer, promise.

“BUT THE TRUTH IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD; ITS A DANGEROUS THING." - MICHAEL SCOTT .


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