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[OPEN] One Step Behind [Shajake, Open]

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Hidden Account atk: 5.5 | def: 7.5 | dam: 8
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17.2hh :: 9 [Tallsun] HP: 73.5 | Buff: DANCE
Unnamed :: Common Boggart :: Mayhem Sevin
#1
A warm spring wind blows off the ocean and picks up your already knotted mane, twisting it into infinitely more complicated designs that even a sailor could not copy. The waves lap up around your hooves, washing off some of the mud and muck that seems to make up the entirety of your lower limb. Perhaps a hint of white even shows beneath all the grime, though it may just be wishful thinking. The gulls fly above, crying out with demands you do not understand. Each step you take digs your hooves deep into the sand, your tired muscles straining with the effort it takes to move you forward. If the mud were washed from your sides, one would notice ribs sticking out from your side like you're sickly. Yes, you're quite a contrast to the beautiful beach you walk on.

A leaf has attached itself to one of your horns, no doubt from your constant rooting about in the brush. A particularly harsh gust of wind causes it to flap about and you toss your head in severe annoyance. Lowering your head to your limb, you rub your horn along your leg until the leave falls from your horn and settles down onto the beach. The action is rough and your strange flailing sends you tumbling off to the side, into the waves. The sand digs and your hooves and resistance from the water puts you dangerously close to tipping over. You've managed to stumble knee-high into the water when a large wave rolls in from the water and provides an opposing force. The strength of the wave gives you enough time to organize your feet and you manage to stop your falling, though you've still managed to make quite a fool of yourself. If you were near something solid, your hoof certainly would have crashed into the object in irritation by now.

Heart beating somewhat quickly from your actions, you decide to continue standing in the water and give yourself a moment to collect. To console your hurt pride, for nothing else on you is hurt, you dig into the bag on your shoulder and pull out one of the plants that you keep tucked away within it. As you chew on it, the juices flow down around your tongue and you sign with relief. You know that soon, the intoxicating effects of the plant will take over and you will be whirled away into your own, zoned-out little world. For now, you have to endure the real world a little bit longer. At the very least, you think, you'll have the cool splash of waves against your tired muscles to keep you company until that time comes. You deserve their silent company after the noisy herd meeting you've just had to endure. Herd, you snort with frustration. You can't imagine why you ever told lace-face you'd follow her. You're glad you did though, if only for her sake.

@[Shajake]
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Each muscle breaks from beneath his dark skin, dappled coat bursting with a fresh sign of life that comes, oddly, after the beginning of another life. The earth is taken from beneath his black hooves as he moves with a new found pace, The Unknown somehow proud and Scinfaxi confused and silent within a deep thought that Shajake cannot reach within. Laughter seems to be vacant from the lips of the stallion as his green eyes ingite the night. He has come across actions that leave him pleased, though the wound upon his neck is nothing but a reminder that life is not supposed to be created in such a harsh fashion.
Whoever the mare was, whatever her name happened to be, would need to be known later on to ensure that the child isn't as fucked up as the father. Scinfaxi was sure to teach this to the stallion as he walked away, leaving the mare who bolted off into the other direction to make off with his coming child. The deed was done, and he'd be back before she was aware of it. It left him in the sickening, spine shattering laughter that left no one with any sense of humour.
For when a madman creates life, there is nothing to be proud of.
Sands can leap upwards to sting his eyes and add to the strange appearance to him, instead it dares not to reach over his black knees. There is not a sound of breathing, no sign of life. He may appear as a zombie, becoming a part of one of the creations he used to attempt to dramble in as a young colt. What happened in those days exists within a part of his brain that may still be mental. A living, breathing part of the stallion. Works of machinery had left him to this point of taboo, but what machine makes the mind go to the point of insanity?
Something speaks, a sound within the gears and cobwebs that lack a purpose enclosed by transparent brick walls. 'Shajake..... Shajake..... Are you awake? Where are your thoughts? Have you no care as of your past actions? What do you think the girl feels about what you did?' Nothing. His reply is a stretch of sanity that lives only within those walls. The strength of transparency keeps them from breaking out into the open, where they can breed with themselves and make him partially normal again. Over time, there had been thin chips broken from the walls, yet the disease he faces on the inside takes quick note, and an even faster action, and goes about fixing it without words. The Unknown seems to take part in that job, having done everything to make the green eyed man more insane.
"LIFE." 'He hears you.' "LIFE. KILL IT." Yes.
The presence of new life remains The Unknown that Shajake had to be created for the job of killing those that needed to be killed. It is a sick style that he works with, taking more pleasure with letting his victim look as if it had defeated him, only to their bloodied skull beneath his might within the seconds that follow their sadist idea of victory. The wound from the mother was on his neck, thin towards the top and opening up as it slid south, exposing something that could make a medic who had seen everything vomit. Yet, in a weird way, the madman takes no note as of his wound. It is there, it bleeds as he keeps a fast pace, it should create pain that travels to a diseased brain, but instead, the brain cannot take in the pain and accept it like expected.
Life, in a shortened form, has only to turn it's head at the idea of Shajake feeling pain. Nothing wants the man to know that he is alive, that there is blood in his veins, thoughts in his skull, a sane section of him that can be brought forth with the right treatment, and a breath to fill his lungs.
That there, was the reason when he breathed, there was no sound. In order for the sound to arise, he must accept his life.
Scinfaxi, The Unknown, nor Shajake, lost in a deep veil of sweeping darkness that held no depth, but fell endlessly, wanted to accept that one thought.
An eye takes note of the life The Unknown has clearly picked out to be killed on this night of darkness. The crescent moon above is surrounded by billions of twinkling sparks, adding light to the area. Both bodies are dark, one residing on land and the other within water. Something about this place could jump start the stallion to remember a fight with a young Unicorn colt, one who expected himself to rescue a girl that Shajake thought he knew. One that liked to believe that Daisies could be spies, and that they needed to be taken home to mother to be beaten for its unkown crimes. How sad, how lacking of a good body that could of been used to make a beautiful spy.
How sick.
His single ear, it's mate long lost, ripped away when he happened to lash out at Scinfaxi in blind anger. The idiot that painted girl had been that night.
Yet, what was lost was never missed. He never took note as of the fact that he only had one ear now. The remaining one worked with a speed that claimed unnatural, lifeless yet hearing the sounds of his prey's breath over the waves. The ocean claws upon his hooves as he stands tall, darkening smile sweeping over an endless pity of insanity that cannot claim its depth just yet. Shajake is still falling, but while his sanity runs its fingers over the cliff walls, the rocks that crumble away and fall faster than him breathe clinks that sound like screws falling from his gears to the base of the transparent walls. You're almost there, they say. Each and every day, they always tell him 'You're almost there,' when he never reacts the bottom.
The prey seems almost as lifeless as the madman until it moves, reaching into a bag mounted upon its shoulder and pulls out a plant, chewing upon it. It slips out to a distant place, he can almost feel it go there when the night whispers the truth to him. Instead of going in, he stands upon the beach. Salt water would burn his wound into awakening his brain to a nanosecond of sanity, letting him feel the pain that screams upon him.
'Take time. Take your time with this one. Remember a child is something within a warmth we cannot feel, who waits each day to know that you exist.'
Everyone must find a reason to live at some point, regardless of how long it takes, and how insane you might be. .

"talk talk talk"

OOC: Sorry for the delay! Shajake is a character you can't just sit down and expect to write out because you want to. He needs muse to get done the way he is supposed to.

“AND THE WORMS ATE INTO HIS BRAIN....... - HEY YOU BY PINK FLOYD

Oxy the Addict Posts: 322
Hidden Account atk: 5.5 | def: 7.5 | dam: 8
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17.2hh :: 9 [Tallsun] HP: 73.5 | Buff: DANCE
Unnamed :: Common Boggart :: Mayhem Sevin
#3
OOC| No worries, I can see he's a handful to write. I love him already!


You're chewing, mulling, staring. It will take many minutes for the plant's effects to overtake you. It seems like hours already. You wish you had thought to do this earlier, to take your drug and let the world dissolve around you. What happens in your mind when you eat the plants? Even you can hardly say. They make everything disappear. And isn't that what you want? To just disappear? It's what you thought. But now you're not so certain.

Lace-face has crawled into your mind. You haven't spent that much time with her. But something about her is alluring. Its only lust, you think, but lust is hard to ignore- especially when experiencing that lust requires being present and using your brain. You never had that problem before. Nobody in your homeland was even understanding enough to deserve your attention. Something in lace-face's demeanor has struck a chord with you, though. She said you belonged, she said you were wanted. It's weird, but you've never heard those words before and they make you feel... special.

Unfortunately, they don't make you feel special enough. Not yet. Even lace-face can't make you drop this drug habit you've so innocuously picked up. That's why you left the herd meeting. That's why you're taking solace in the comfort of the plants and not the comfort of a woman. Herd. You snort at the idea, the word sarcastic in your mind. Lace-face led you to your plants and you stupidly said you stay with her group. You're more than a little upset that you said you would. Unfortunately, lust and addiction uphold your promise for now.

As you stand there, staring out at the endless sea, watching the waves crash onto the sands (and onto you), you see movement. A stallion. He stands on the beach and stares and you, his look is strange but your sure yours is too. You turn to face him and for a while, you just stare back at him. You've never been much of a conversationalist. In your staring, you notice a wound on his neck- huge and gaping, dripping blood. It almost makes you smile, though the sentiment only turns your lips from a frown into a straight line. You're not sure what to make of the stallion yet. Perhaps you present a similar picture, you decide. If the staring stallion has made something of you, he has not said it yet.

You and this other must present a strange picture, standing here staring at one another so uselessly. As you do, though, a thought begins to brew in your mind. Herd, you think again, a little less sarcastically. You're tired of being looked at as the scum of the earth. There is nothing wrong with you. You have a habit. Who doesn't. Some are habitually rude, some are habitually cold and distant. Some are just habitually high on plants. So, if just being is not good enough, you will force them to respect you. Yes, you think to yourself, rather pleased. You'll play their game, you'll be in their herd. You're not going to stand idly by, though. You're going to make yourself a general, if they want one or not.

“Who looks worse?” Your words are short as you speak finally, referring to the festering wound he must have gained from someone or something. Your words are sometimes hard to follow. It might be a side-effect of the plants, but maybe you always speak this way. You stare at him then, waiting for an answer, swaying slightly in the waves. If you're being rude, you don't care. You're not on this earth to make friends. You never have been. Besides, you've already decided this stallion is going to be a part of your plan. If he fits in with the fools you're supposed to call family (and isn't so much of a weakling that he let his opponent get away without any damage), you're going to drag him home- “prove” your worth. Yes, a little bit of a proof and a lot of fighting goes a long way; and, now that you've decided what you're going to do with your future, you're determined.
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He can never go long without being unnoticed. His eyes glint with bloodlust, watching with a sweeping darkness that lacks the ability to fade their glow. The form standing in the water takes notice to him, bringing the mad laughter to the stallion. He cares enough to know that if he can lure that soul out of the water, things would an interesting thing that would soothe the bloodlust. Yet, he remains falling, fingers that come from a maybe human form created along the way through a distant set of eyes that see him differently while he doesn't know what a human is, those fingers are cut with the sharp edges of stones that cover the walls. Scinfaxi extends a hand towards his falling form, the glowing white light in the canyon breaking apart as a pair of glowing red eyes grab a lifeless body and drag it further down. There is water down there, because maybe he can hear the sounds it makes when the walls beat it.
It always rebels, and always wins.
The question is offered, it will not receive an answer. His silence in the Moon's sway is a falling shell of insanity that craves the taking of another soul. It always needs to move on, and this patient is getting a dim light while the disease eats his mind. Hope could be a crack inside those transparent walls, a sliver pealed away through the desperate tries for a breath. The single ear upon his head moves forward, the locks of black strands moving with a rough wind that sends the waves hurling backwards. Couldn't the man in the water see that this was a demon, that inside those glowing eyes were thoughts of bathing within his blood for a glorious baptism?
The child he has created would be perfect, brought forth to live in his shadow that darkens in the cold air, and goes about strangling any creature it may get black crystal fingers upon.
His skull breaks their lack of movement, moving down towards his neck that bleeds fresh blood with each passing second. There is pain, the nerves can feel it and shot their screams to the brain. It does not intercept, it does not accept. The Unknown takes them within jaws filled with teeth, each tooth a blade from a scalp, and lets the body's tries of survival to bleed to death inside his clutch. "NO." It's voice breaks the quiet veil that falls over the area of the mind centered for thought. Shajake cannot find a thought between the cobwebs that are now stained with his blood to reply. Now, he exists as movement, using all of its will to coax in an unknowing to its death.
'Shajake, let him come on his own. He will not spend that much time out there.' Whether Scinfaxi is correct or not, it cannot jump start his sanity to claw those walls and scream for freedom. 'Difficult task, is it not?' The tides turn, and patientence slips away like the Sun had in the past. 'Good-bye,' it says without much more to go about. A limb is extended, met with a wave that says the ocean doesn't want him inside it.
Please, no blood, comes an useless cry to him. Blood is always split, it breaks from his wound without a care in the world. It flows when they are slaughtered, when skulls are cracked beneath a black hoof with a dreadful cry. It comes as both a lullaby, and a shot of heroin. Or, is murder his normal fix? Does he go to the corner in that dark part of town we all know of, to the man who stands there smiling as you approach him. "The usual?" he asks, while you nod. A drug will be handed over as you exchange your money. Instead, for the greene eyed man, it is not the drug of choice. What is pulled from a dark shadow is a corpse, still fresh and dripping blood.
Inside the corpse's eyes, he see's the last thought that passes through the brain before death, and the expression upon the face is a scream that makes anyone's blood run cold. Except, sadly, Shajake lacks blood flowing in his body. It falls from his wound with each movement, but the mental will not accept the idea. It's at the top of the canyon, but now he slams into cold water at the bottom.
Though in reality, the water is hitting him, coming up to meet his form and accepting his presence finally even though it doesn't want to. He goes for what he wants, blood that lives within the man in the ocean. It won't be that difficult to receive it.
"talk talk talk"


“AND THE WORMS ATE INTO HIS BRAIN....... - HEY YOU BY PINK FLOYD

Oxy the Addict Posts: 322
Hidden Account atk: 5.5 | def: 7.5 | dam: 8
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17.2hh :: 9 [Tallsun] HP: 73.5 | Buff: DANCE
Unnamed :: Common Boggart :: Mayhem Sevin
#5
He laughs at you, the sound of a madman falling from his lips. Yes, there's something off about this one. Still, as long as wait, no answer to your question comes. You're not offended. The drugs are beginning to settle into your body and you're finally getting to relax. Tendrils of the plant slowly grow their way up into your mind, creeping into the crevices and wrapping tightly around. They'll begin to squeeze soon, grab you and pull you down into a psychedelic pit where you'll wade around in the mud and muck for hours, or longer if you keep eating the plants in your mindlessness. You're not in the pit yet, but you're standing on the edge, ready for the vines to take you down.

Your bottom lip begins to fall and drool drips slowly from your lip down into the ocean. You watch as the stallion moves his ear forward. You hadn't noticed he was missing the other one until just now. There is no evidence that this is a new injury, though, so you must conclude he's been without for quite some time. Does it even matter? You doubt it, and therefore decide not to worry about it. Or maybe you don't decide at all. Maybe the plants grabbed at the thought and tore it out of your mind. You're ignoring them, and they're getting impatient. They can be a cruel and needy mistress at times.

The waves crashing against your limbs make you sway again, and you widen your stance in an effort to keep from toppling down. The water is cold and beginning to bite at your joints a little more than you think is desirable. You pick up your hoof to move, but something happens that makes you place it back on the ground. The bloodied stallion is moving towards you, stepping into the water. Even as the drugs are taking hold of your mind, you know that he's being stupid. Saltwater on the wound... you shudder. You like fighting as much as the next warrior, but you're no masochist. You don't do it to feel pain yourself. You do it to vent, take out your frustration, watch others bleed.

As he walks towards you, you watch him. As he comes closer, you get a better look at his eyes. They match his maniacal laughter. If this stallion is right in the head, then you're a Shetland pony. Flicking your ears towards him, you watch him come continue to come towards you. As much as you'd like to take him on in a fight for challenging you the way he is, you know that the drugs won't let you. You can try to fight their influence, but eventually they'll win. They always win. And when they do, you won't be a warrior at all. You'll be a strange, hollow casing of what you used to be.

So, instead of flaring your nostrils and preparing yourself for war, you take a step to your right and lower your nose to the waters. The saltwater stings your nostrils as it flows up and around, sometimes into, them. You toss your head a few times slowly, a threat to the stallion. Stop coming or I'll spray you, you seem to say with your actions. Or at least that's what you intend to say. Because really, that's all you have to do. Lower your nose a little farther into the water, throw your head up quite a bit harder and... splash. The thought of the stallion being in pain makes you grumble a little, in laughter.

For now, you just watch him. You will not splash him unless provoked further, and you're still not sure what his true intentions are. As much as you'd like to read him, you find the task difficult. There's little hint of anything besides craziness in the eyes he watches you with. Besides, you've got other things to analyze. You've got to figure out how you're going to get the madman back to glass-horn before your drugs take you down all the way. Or, alternatively, how to get the madman back while dealing with being high. You better think quick, though... the madman does not seem patient.
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Hello, fresh useless threat. His eyes cloud, staring with curiousity that breaks inbetween madness. It crawls apart the glass walls, wanting out of it's shell enough that it'd kill just to reach the goals. Clearly, insanity is an impatient bitch that is wanting her way right now. He gives it to her without much complaint, cradling the sounds of a black heart trying to beat. THUMP. thump. THUMP. Finally, silence. Everything falls silent within him, preparing for that weak threat to be taken down to action. What's this idiot's name? Scinfaxi asks him a question, but he can't hear it. Right now, he wants to know if he is alive or dead. About time that he got that whole plan figured out, because waiting isn't that much fun.
The response is more laughter, black stocked legs standing knee deep in water that burns at the joints. Madness overtakes reality, he continues his free fall while smiling manically. So much fun that for once he is enjoying himself. Sick.
"H... H.... Hit... Me." Pain isn't something he wants to fear right now, coming as something he is craving with bloodlust. There's a heartbeat within the large stallion standing there, drooling all over the place like he'd been shot in the ass with a tranq. dart. Even Scinfaxi laughs at the sight of that. It's sad, like Shajake, Everyone has got to get around to laugh about it before their heart gets ripped from their chest and eaten with a side of bloody liver.
What he has to be fear into the stallion is more of something he would do to anything. Unicorns existed at the bottom of the food chain for him, his hatred fuelled by a friendship he doesn't even knows even exists anymore. That body and soul is dead, decaying with the maggots inside it's skull, chewing away the matter that doesn't move anymore. He wants to ask them how it tastes, if it's enjoyable to eat the body of another. With this one, he could try that out.
He steps forward, head high and body made of broken parts, trying to be a new toy when in reality he's an antique that no one wants anymore. Teeth within his mouth are stained red after recently shoving his face into a dead animal (and then throwing at his child's mother, offering her a gift), flashed with a grin let's them be bared fully. He wants to let this draft know he's more than willing to add more blood those pearly whites.
Their bodies come close enough to touch when he gets to his point of stopping. Whatever this idiot's name is, he's got his head lowered enough that Shajake would more than be willing to raise a single hoof to slam into it. That thought alone crosses his mind repeatly, The Unknown asking him to do it as filters about it. Occasionally, the clawing madness see's the thought and acts it, bloodlust and the want of death overtaking to the point that anything that moves is easy prey. He doesn't wince, he doesn't frown, he remains void of emotion only because he wants to enjoy this sick fancy of his.
His head falls to meet that of this residental screw up, eyes wild and showing exactly what is going on within his head about this time. "Wanna die?" No one would ever know it, but it's The Unknown speaking it, asking the very question that seems so worth-wild at this point. He wants to kill, to loathe in a bloody corpse. It's a drug, the same sort of drug that this brute is using with his plant.
It'll get you to that exact place you want to be, and right now, all he wants to do is get there in a rush.
"talk talk talk"


“AND THE WORMS ATE INTO HIS BRAIN....... - HEY YOU BY PINK FLOYD

Oxy the Addict Posts: 322
Hidden Account atk: 5.5 | def: 7.5 | dam: 8
Stallion :: Unicorn :: 17.2hh :: 9 [Tallsun] HP: 73.5 | Buff: DANCE
Unnamed :: Common Boggart :: Mayhem Sevin
#7
He stutters and you watch him with interest, even as the fog begins to infiltrate your mind. The plants are crawling, groping, grasping... The vines are getting more insistent now. Before they only poke and prodded, now they squeeze and strangle. Your brain begins to contract as the vines curl around like a constrictor snake squeezing the last breath out of it's prey. They won't be denied and they're letting you know. A particularly forceful wave crashes into you, forcing you to widen your stance. You sway dangerously in the waters, and some small sentient portion of your mind calls from the back of your head. You've got to get out of the water, it demands. But you've almost got what you want. You can't leave now.

He steps towards you and you begin to gurgle your amusement. The gravely laughter rolls from your mouth and you blow bubbles into the water like a child. His reddened teeth don't concern you at all. The sane part of your mind pokes at you again, trying to keep you on track. He's a warrior. He's exactly what you need. He's crazy and he fights. Glass-horn will love him. He's trying to be intimidating, but your mind is too far gone to process such things. Your mind is in a tunnel, focused only on the light at the end and ignoring the terrors in the middle. You want to force them to respect you. This stallion will become part of your fare that allows you to board the train to the open air on the other side. You're certain of it.

He come close. If you weren't high it might be too close for comfort. You almost raise your head, but then he lowers his. You're close... so close. If you were in the right mind you would simply throw your head up and forward, gouge his eye out with the end of your horn, then laugh as the globe stuck to the point like a prize. Instead, you just enjoy the imagery and stare the stallion down. Wanna die? Your ears flicker at the words. Something in the back of your mind whispers. Why do you think I eat these plants? You know its the truth. You hate your life but death in battle isn't honorable at all. Its the weakling's way out. Admitting something is stronger than you, letting them draw your last breath from your chest... What warrior god would let a fallen man enter Valhalla?

You lift your head inches, removing your nostrils from the water. Your breath comes rapid and shallow, like you've run too hard. Its the drugs. “Pretty boy does,” and you laugh and laugh and laugh to yourself. Maybe he has the same sick perversion as you. Perhaps he'd rather thrash something beautiful, ruin every ounce of joy it brought to this earth, than terrorize something ugly. What good does it do if you make the world a better place? Yes... perhaps this crazed freak isn't so bad after all. But who is pretty boy? This stallion won't know. You don't even know his name. You just know you hate him.

“Come with me,” you suggest as you take a step backwards. You're not exactly sure where to find him, but he can't have gotten too far. You would close your eyes to try and think, but you still don't trust the maniac before you entirely. The mist in your head makes it hard to figure out where you just were, where you're taking this stallion now... but you'll figure it out. Perhaps you can follow your footsteps back the way you came. At this point, its the best idea you've got. Another wave comes, throwing you a step closer to the beach, and you watch the maniacal stallion for confirmation or denial.
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