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| Belladonna | Dec 13 2012, 06:15 PM Post #1 |
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Grimly Fiendish
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Lips twisted into a scowl of displeasure that verged on a sense of rage, she moved through the marshes. With wings half raised and occasionally beating a flap or two, to hop and glide a few feet, she attempted to stay out of the bile water that moves only sluggishly in this area being so far from it's main source. She was close though, and that's what drew her in, the sight of stone before her passage meant getting away from the water sources between springs and marshlands. Once close enough, she leapt, wings spread with a beat, then two and she was there. Dark claws dug into stone from both hands and feet as her black wings closed in like a cloak about her body. With the easy skill of something born to it like a squirrel in a tree, she climbed, instinct lending her knowledge of holds in the mostly smooth stone. Other than her dusky skin which seemed pale in the moon light, everything about the creature seemed dark. Her long hair twisted about past her waist among her wings. A long whip like tail trailed along in her wake with a narrow wedge shaped end that seemed almost...sharp edged. The creature moved with one minded precision as it reached the top of one bridge then jumped onto it's path. She crouched there for a moment before standing, wings in close, hiding the clothing that was naught more than ragged strips of cloth. It bound her chest and crisscrossed her torso to wrap around her pelvis in a fashion something like a loin cloth. The ends trailing about her knees and made of something that at one time may have been pale grey or white and now stained with time, travel...with some spots looking similar to rust. Instead of entering through a door when she came close to the main structure, the Fallen jumped onto the wall and again climbed this time to a window where she slipped in. Taking a moment to soak in her surroundings, her scowl stayed firm at the view of the finery. Jumping down from the tall height without a flinch, she smiled softly to herself at the dirt she left upon the floor. It was petty of course, but it was amusing nonetheless. Normally she would not enter that of a divine without invitation but this one...she scorned this one. The heavens were her to bid although she had no constrain over what was once home. Still....this one was closer to what had once been hers and she hated the female for that. A black thing seethed in her chest and curled around her heart as she allowed for a moment of thought about it. When it squeezed tight, she gasped and made a frantic internal move to push it away. Once calm, she opened her mouth and breathed in deep the scents of the place until she picked out the divine power that leaked throughout the building. Sloppy. But then it seemed that was the way of the gods, to have no concern over discipline or restraint. Not in a true sense. Snorting softly she shook her head as sounds of mortal voices were heard. Swift feet. Silent steps. Carried her well and away from them as she followed her nose until she went through many doors and found the goddess of that which is above standing upon a balcony, starring up at the sky. Dark eyes glittered as they debated the idea of just pushing her off. it would not kill her of course....but it would be fun. "Ssssoo, you are the one that carries a trickle of the light that used to bathe my sssoul." The beast's voice rasped with disuse as she climbed onto the rail and crouched upon it's precarious balance with a disturbing lack of interest. Her head tilted like a raptor debating if the rabbit it had just killed had been worth the effort or not. "I had thought you would have been taller..." |
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| Deva | Jan 10 2013, 02:26 PM Post #2 |
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Celestial Goddess of Light
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The Light of Lights had been standing at the railing of her topmost balcony, looking out at the mountain peaks that challenged the spires of the citadel but not seeing any of it. Only one moon hung in the sky tonight, the little emerald Sin'dúath. Deva's gaze, unusually vacant this evening, shifted absently as her eyes trailed over Sin and continued on over the constellations and celestial bodies farther off. The regular bursts of icy wind, blown from the snow caps down into the valley where Caeli Adytum sat, buffeted the goddess' still figure, as if demanding a reaction and being angered when they received none. Minn'da.... She heard the voice, instantly snapping her out of her distant reverie. Deva's eyes focused quite suddenly and she turned, having not heard the strange creature's sudden appearance and so startling herself more than necessary with her own gasp. Her snowy hair snapped across her face as it fought the wind, stinging her mismatched eyes and obscuring the figure before her. Taller than what? Who are you and how did you get up here? I never heard the door open. Deva flung her hair back out of her face viciously, loathe to break her eye contact on this being. Her eyebrows dipped down suspiciously, creasing the space between her eyes as her lips turned down at the corners in a slight, displeased frown. The goddess hardly ever had visitors and when she did, they were usually admitted at the door down at the main entrance and she was called upon to meet them. The creature's words that initially drew the voice from her mind echoed back now, and Deva screwed her face up as she tried to make sense of it. What in the Abyss are you talking about? I demand to know. All her surroundings jabbed at the back of her mind, as she remembered with sudden modesty what she had on and how exposed she was in front of this bizarre being. The goddess snatched the front of her dark gray fur robe shut tightly against her frame, shrouding the thick, woolen sleeping gown underneath from sight. Her ever-present black pelt slipped from her shoulders at the movement and with a sharp pain in her chest at fear that the other would somehow steal it away, Deva ducked down to grab it up, looking quite the fool as her hair spilled every direction and her slippered foot stepped on the hem of the sleeping gown. She fought to keep her footing with a deep violet blush on her cheeks, finally standing back up with a fierce gleam in her offset eyes. |
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| Belladonna | Jan 21 2013, 09:43 AM Post #3 |
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Eyes narrowed and glimmered with something darker within their depths than even their coloring portrayed. "Ssshe hass a petty nature this one..." The female creature hissed to herself as she moved with all four limbs to come a foot or so closer but still remained upon the balance between the vast empty below and the cold maiden here. this thought apparently also amused the beast as she began to cackle. It was a broken sound like many animals dying or congress of instruments in a session of extreme misuse. There almost seemed to be more than one voice coming from her throat when she did so but the vocalage was abruptly cut off when she snapped her mouth closed. Eyes slightly wide as if the sound had startled her but with a shake of her body and wings that expanded just a touch before resettling she was back to a scowl upon her lips and scorn in her eyes. "You have no need to know of me. You are a fool that does not know all sshe holds. " Stretching one long leg, spreading clawed toes to put pressure down on the balcony stone floor, her body followed as a serpent moves. "Instead you ssscrape and howl like a mad beggar in the street." Clawed hands flexed as a sudden fury over came her and her wings shot outwards to full width. "You do not know Madness of the heart and mind!!!" The creature screeched. The sound of more than one voice within her own crying out erupted again in a howl of wind and ear piercing chords that whipped about them. Claws long like knives raised up she ran at the goddess but did not allow herself contact. Instead with another scream of pure agony, the beast brushed past and dove off the edge. Falling...darkness...there she collected her scattered mind again and began to catch her motion. Wings caught onto air currents that lifted her up towards the sky again. Once reflected within the light of the moon, she let loose an avian sounding cry full of heart wrenching pain before diving at the fortress again. This time she did not go towards the balcony and instead at another part intending upon thrashing herself into the stone itself but as luck would have it, with eyes closed, instead she was rocketed through something sharp that gave way with a million little shards and biting pain. Laying upon something that felt like not the stone of death, the Fallen forced her eyes to open. Focus was something fickle to grasp but she mad a flailing attempt and realized she was on the floor, on a carpet in something like a hallway. It was dark other than the light that filtered in from outside, the cold washing over her skin and stinging areas she felt now warm trickles of something that was likely her own blood. Glass around her looked through her haze like a million winking stars and mocked her as she attempted to gain balance to hands and knees, crawling away from the laughter in her mind. A growled hiss escaped her as she crawled away from the windows and light, unknowing where she was going but seeking the darkness of oblivion before she collapsed and waited to die. |
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| Deva | Feb 15 2013, 03:44 PM Post #4 |
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Celestial Goddess of Light
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The goddess felt every hair stand on end at the grating chuckle the creature let out, her skin raising involuntarily into goosebumps unrelated to the chill winds gusting around the balcony. The words the stranger spoke made no sense to Deva at first as she found herself unconsciously braced against the railing and her aura beginning to come to live with electric energy. The humanoid moved along the banister, agitation building in her voice until her magnificent and terrible wings spanned their full width with her last words. The lunge she made at Deva had the fore of the goddess's aura suddenly gleaming brilliantly in the form of a shield of light, even as the creature veered off the balcony and disappeared from sight. The resounding crash, moments later, made the goddess bristle as she spun for the door, nearly bowling a servant over in her rush. The girl shrieked in alarm, clutching the front of Deva's fur robe and completely forgetting herself in her disarray. Radiance! Th-th-there's a thing, in the Great Hall, a beast like nothing I've ever seen! It broke through a window and nearly landed on me, as I was making rounds before bed! she squealed, quivering so fiercely she almost shook the robe off of her goddess. Deva scowled down at the servant's clutch on her and the girl nearly swallowed her tongue, so loudly did she gasp. Her hands popped open and fell to her sides as she bowed at the waist. P-please, please forgive me, Harbinger, she sobbed. The Light of Lights reached out in forgiveness and lifted the girl's chin to look into her eyes. Show me this creature, she said with hardly a tremor in her voice. She was, by all accounts, most impatient to find out what manner of thing had decided to barge into her home and temple this night, and so practically floated behind the servant, down the flights of stairs leading to the front hall of Caeli Adytum. The girl shook so much that Deva ordered her to her room and demanded she lock herself in until the goddess herself came to call her out, sending the child howling back up the stairs as she vanished from sight around the curve in the stairwell. Stepping silently onto the floor of the dark hall, Deva found herself thankful that the girl had not managed to douse the sconces at the far end of the room by the shadowy being, lest the goddess spend a moment distracted from it. What purpose does your banter serve, shalla? she called, cautiously moving closer. An idea struck her, then, and she apprehensively and nonchalantly cast a hand towards the stranger, sending a faint shimmer of light swirling around her like the maw of a whirlpool. It never touched her but would not let any part of her pass it if she made a move with ill intent. |
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| Belladonna | Feb 27 2013, 11:01 AM Post #5 |
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A screeched howl sent scattering mortals from around her as she staggered upward to her feet. She did not know how many were about but smelled the wretched stench of that which dies and renews in a loosing battle. Her wounds were healing, slowly but steadily as they had not the sufficient energy to pull upon from her body. The Fallen had not been eating properly while upon this landlocked coil but then what surprise what that really being that since the beginning of their creation she had never known the need to do so. Blood dripped onto the floor from her claws as she took one slow step forward after another, a gash in her air releasing the life liquid readily. The others were closing, it would too...eventually. As the sensation of the One came closer, she stopped and swung her head about. Long dark tangles covered her face in shadows as she stared out towards the Goddess, a rumbling growl burbling within her chest. Ungrateful. Unforgivable. The words penetrated and that shattered laugh once more erupted from her as she tossed her head similar to that of an agitated equine. "All knowing...that'sss what the mortal worms think you are." She giggled to herself as she ducked her head now, bringing her hands up towards her face and running them over her pale skin. Blood marred her face and neck when she let them drop. "You are more a fool than mossst." The abrupt feeling of that One's power enraged her and she cast out that scream again. A chorus of voices, broken and filled with pain echoed like a blast down the hall and her fingers dug claws into her own collarbone. New bright blood puckered outward and dribbled down. Whipping her head about, she stood straight, eyes like the purest light and glowing painfully bright. Reaching a hand out towards the Goddess, she felt something pulse within and then there was nothing. No shield from the goddess stood between them. The One's power nullified in an attempt to contain the Fallen. Her voice rang out. Clear now. A choir of flawless crystalline voices spoke as one. "Your power given by the One, cannot harm a defender of the weak, of the word, of the power." The raven haired creature slumped then, her wings curling in tight and eyes closed away from the Immortal. Some of her part was happy to know that she had not been destroyed entirely. But she was broken...and that was worse. She was not the defender she had just called herself, not anymore. A failure. Eyes opened, now dark and angry again flashed with rage as they looked up towards the Goddess. She was broken too, pathetic. More in favor than one created by the One's own hand and nurtured beneath the pure truth. This worthless creature that moped and whined over the very gift she should be exalted to be a part of. "You are a dissgrace." The Fallen spat upon the floor towards the Goddess. "so close to the risen.." she lifted her arms and spun in a tight drunken circle, "and grateful for nothing." Edited by Belladonna, Feb 27 2013, 11:03 AM.
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| Deva | Feb 28 2013, 12:13 AM Post #6 |
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The thing bled like a stuck pig but from her distance, Deva could see that its wounds were healing at an accelerated speed. It still unnerved her that it had known exactly where she was, at her upper-most tower. And its voice... it sounded like every disharmonious sound ever concocted, set off all at once. The goddess watched, cautiously, suspiciously, as she circled the strange female creature at a slow pace, her light swirling lazily around the female but not, she noticed, doing as she intended and testing the touch of it. The female flung her head back, her chaotic laugh rattling every bone in Deva's being as the goddess began to wonder if she would need to bring a full-out display of her divine power down on the maniac's horned head. All-knowing? I don't even know where you would get that idea from! I'm not--" She was cut off by the strange woman, finding herself inwardly cringing as the other voluntarily cut herself with those long claws of hers. The ensuing shriek nearly dumped Deva onto her backside, so badly did it startle her. The white-haired goddess's eyes narrowed considerably at the other female, watching with alarm as the stranger seemed to try and rip her own collarbone free then stood up straight, her eyes suddenly gleaming with a light that put her divine gift to shame. The goddess felt her light dance dangerously close to the creature as it moved an elbow outward. The clawed hand stretched out to her and just as suddenly as everything happened, she felt her whirlpool of light surrounding the creature vanish, as if it had been just plucked from mid air. What... wha-how... a defender? You're a defender? Of what!? the goddess demanded incredulously. Deva felt like she was in a maelstrom of insanity as she tried to keep up with this being in her temple. Just as absolutely beautiful as her voice had been for an entire sentence, so was it now absolutely gone, replaced by that same broken, discordant tone. The maddened look in her dark eyes flashed back into place, the eyes of light gone as if they had never even changed. It was making the elf's head spin, so much so that she disregarded the initial rebuke the intruder had exhibited and swathed herself in pale green lightning, creating a crackling, close-quarter aura from the stuff as her mismatched eyes stared, wide-eyed, at the defender. Who, in damnation, are you? she snarled, daring to break eye contact enough to glance at the bloody spittle on the floor between them. Her worry and aggravation were palpable through her writhing aura as her eyes burned an imaginary hole into the other female twirling and spinning carelessly. Answer me, the One damn you! |
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| Belladonna | Feb 28 2013, 02:14 PM Post #7 |
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What did she defend? The Fallen's eyes squinted at the goddess suspiciously as she looked at her and pondered if the woman was daft or somehow otherwise ruined of the mind. Had the broken part of her power not said what she had been created for? Maybe the woman had issues hearing. However as the Goddess demanded knowledge of her name, a cackle broke forth from her lung involuntarily. This was happening a lot recently and it was somewhat unnerving. Was this a good thing? Humans seemed to think that laughing a lot was, but some how she did not think it was due to real mirth. "Who am I?? She cackled more as she spun more chanting as she did. "Who are you? who are we? Who are us and who are them? I am he as you are he as you are me" Abruptly she came to a halt and stared with dead eyes at the female. "The One hass already damned me. We are not worthy of the name from my creation. You are allowed to call on me by Haruka." She tilted her head as she came a bit closer, not really wanting to approach as just being near the woman was making her skin crawl with disgust. "Do not, however, ussse it often...or I may just anssswer." Her wounds were all healed now, left with not but pinkish mars on her skin and dried blood. the fire lights bathing the hall in soft glow dimmed and flickered, casting harsh shadows upon the walls. This one sickened her and suddenly her rage was gone, leaving her little more than tired and feeling nauseous as she looked at her. she was also starving. The healing had taken much energy and idly she pondered breaking into the kitchens, as surely there was some. Her brow furrowed as she began to ponder where such a thing might be located, apparently no longer concerned with the deity. |
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| Deva | Mar 11 2013, 04:13 PM Post #8 |
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The elf woman's eyes narrowed dangerously close to completely shutting as she continued to stare at the fallen. She had tried her hardest to get simple answers from the female and was received with nothing but madness and anger. The goddess took a deep breath, bracing herself and reinforcing her divine shield as she prepared to forcefully demand her answers. Haruka, eh? I'm glad we've gotten that far; now, what are you? she snapped, her seemingly idle hands working up a ball of lightning that she fully intended to hurl at the other being. A sheen of sweat had coated her face at the concentration required to keep the divine light under tight rein, giving her a starry appearance. She hadn't learned anything from her whirlpool but then, she had thought her focus lost and so tried a new, more physical approach. The Harbinger's thoughts turned inward for the short time she had to read the body language of her insane acquaintance. Her half-brother's face flitted across her mind's eye, as did the faces of her beautiful twin boys, one with forest-green hair and silver eyes and the other with the rare blond hair and drow-like green eyes his mother's hybrid blood bestowed upon him. Remembering her sons made Deva's chest ache, giving new fire to her reason for wanting the creature, Haruka, to get out of her temple. She prayed every night for a memory of her brother's death and had so far been utterly denied. She was used to denial, but this was unacceptable. As Deva prepared herself, she let slip off her cloak and pelt, leaving nothing but her woolen sleeping gown as she readied herself for a power dance with the stranger. The hybrid elf spun around once, sending a cascade of starlight into the air above her opponent that hung suspended in mid air, waiting for a command. I give you one more chance to explain your presence here, Haruka, before I force you to leave. Her golden eye caught firelight as she straightened, her chin up and her winter garments all but forgotten. Give me a good reason to fight you; I haven't had one in a long, long time, shalla. She casually flung the orb of lightning she had created towards Haruka, not thinking it would reach her but at the same time not particularly caring if it did. The goddess watched, with un-lady-like glee, as it arched high above them, glided between every shard of starlight above without knocking a single one out of alignment, and headed squarely for the other woman. Get out, kal mush'a, and quickly, before I lose my temper, she taunted boldly. |
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| Belladonna | Mar 18 2013, 08:19 AM Post #9 |
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"I have expressed my intended purpose. I am nothing without it. Thus I am nothing, you fool." Haruka did not bother watching the ball of power. It was an itching upon her skin as the power built although nothing as aggravating as the power connected to the One. That distressed her the most ad such power once bathed her in such divine love and contentment, she felt no worries or fear. Now that was all that roiled beneath her skin. Fury. Fear. Despair. Oh she could taste the morose sadness that rolled off of the Goddess and knew such pain herself. That and so much more. The divine bitch had lost others, she had not lost self beyond what she had willingly given up. Haruka had no family now. No name. No purpose. Yet, had been denied the death that had claimed others of her kind, for what cost? For a joke perhaps. Cosmic humor. Foolish. Maybe she was the fool after all in this room. A crack of sound with the release of energy erupted through the air and jerked her out of her twisting thoughts. With speed faster than that of known beasts, she released a raptor sounding scream of rage before jetting up to the ceiling. Claws scoured deep grooved into the surface as she moved swiftly until she was behind the goddess within the blink of an eye. White flashed in her eyes for a brief moment and once again the power from the One was nulled into peace. Wings spread as she dropped to give balance as her foot snapped out in one fluid motion to land solidly in the middle of the Celestial one's back. Being an Archangel, however fallen as she was, she was just as strong as the gods since her kind was created to match the creatures in defense of mortals. Technically the vice versa could be true for their task although it was rarely needed since the power of the One given to the gods should be more than enough to protect them from their followers. "I told you what I am. What I was." She screamed the words in frustration. "You keep asking stupid questions. Stupid woman. You do not listen. That's why they never stop screaming. screaming!" Slapping her hands over her ears she closed her eyes and screamed herself. Voiced of many. hopelessness. Shattered souls. Anguish. The damned echoed out as the building began to shake and rumble. Haruka planted her feet, ignoring the chaos around her as it did nothing to disrupt that which raged beneath her skin. She pointed an accusing finger at the woman and her voice was cold. "You are a failure in all things. Mother. Sister. Goddessss. Seeing nothing beyond your own nose. Sselfish." She laughed now, that broken thing as the window nearby exploded inward then launched herself from the ground and leapt out it. Haruka continued laughing as she circled the building, watching damage appear as she twisted in aerial maneuvers. "fool fool fool fool." chanting to herself before rising high in to the night sky. |
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| Deva | Jan 13 2016, 01:47 AM Post #10 |
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Deva had only enough time to register the words the intruder spoke. Haruka screamed, launching herself to the vaulted ceiling and showering the goddess with dust, even as she bewilderingly avoided colliding with any of the starlight shards. Just add swiftly, Deva's offensive spell vanished, ceasing to exist. The goddess felt the strangest moment of utter peace as this happened, leaving her a bit vulnerable as her hands dropped to her sides and her eyes closed, almost of their own accord. Not a second later, she was unceremoniously dumped on her face from behind. Seething rage rose up in the Light of Lights' chest, urging her to right herself so that she could at least face this monstrosity head on. Her damnable hair was everywhere, tangled around her long ears and clinging hopelessly to the material of her sleeping gown. She vainly considered that she must have looked like a disaster as she began sweeping the strands away, when Haruka screamed at Deva's fallen form. She screamed in her terrible voice, then, and the temple seemed to react to it. It began groaning and rumbling in protest, shaking loose dust from the ceiling and rattling the candelabrum nestled in the corners of the hall. The goddess was prepared to attempt another assault on her intruder when Haruka stopped her maddened shrieking and began accusing Deva of failing at every job and title she had ever held. Mother. Sister. Goddess. The truth in her voice cut through every thought in Deva's mind and she could only stare, dumbstruck, at the creature. Haruka pressed no further attack, instead content with abandoning Deva to her revelations and finally removing herself from the elfwoman's territory. She heard terrible noises outside the temple, on the roof, implying potentially structural damage, but so shocked was she by the fallen's accusations that she could only sit on her knees in the middle of the hall where she had been left. Slowly, Deva got to her feet and swallowed hard at the lump in her throat, moving by force of habit more than intention toward the room of the servant who had led her to Haruka, her cloak and pelt forgotten. She gently rapped on the door, absently thanked her for her service and asked the girl to guide her goddess to the room at the top of the tower. See to it that the temple is repaired, child, she mumbled to her servant, before slowly and determinedly closing the door against anymore interruption. Deva laid down on her bed and almost immediately fell fast asleep in her exhaustion. Terrible, dark dreams haunted her sleep. |
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