To Destroy The Sun

[Angel]

I felt like screaming as I pawed and scratched against the hard wall, trying to climb it to tear it in someway that would provide me with more of the gentle and loving, forgiving and caring gaze of the shadows. The burning orb of fire and death was hanging in the air again and this hell I lived in now was once again trying to tear me down. Tears were streaming down my face as I cursed my own luck and misfortune in taking the leap to leave my own home. Had I forsaken my gods, my creators? Was that leading out of my home.. my eyes working for the first time.. the temptation of the idea of a land larger than my box a test for my faith? Had I failed it and now been transported to some kind of hell?

I looked at my hands and saw them red and sore, tired for their futile attempt at bringing me safety. Umbra was trapped, trapped.. I came to the conclusion. No, hell would not give me any solace from the deathly star hanging in the sky. When I first arrived in hell, there was lights but they almost blended with the darkness. Tiny, sparkling lights so far away that my skin was settled and fine with their presence and they were so beautiful to look at. Oh, they almost made me cry just looking at them.. they seemed to almost be a product of my dreams and for a while.. I lay under this giant.. strange structure that was scratchy, hard and with further shade and played my ocarina happily in the night. My Ocarina.. the beautiful glimmers in the sky.. my life was perfect. So wonderful, so lovely.

But it was when the orb in that dark sky showed up that I started to get worried. While it didn't actually hurt, it's light was much brighter and I started to feel scared just as it's presence. It didn't hurt to be under, but it was like a tingle every now and then.. and it turned out to truly be a forewarning for what was about to take place. Soon, as my travels sent me further.. leading towards a patch of ground with strange structures around it.. things suddenly got filled with this strange and harsh feeling. This brightness that was ominous and villainous. Soon, a bright yellow orb that hurt even to look at crept out of the horizon and instantly.. my skin started burning. The feeling was so brutal that I felt myself start to bleed, my body reacting in a very violent and hostile manner towards this horrible demon.

In what was a very scary and frightening ordeal.. I made it to this land with a sign in front of it reading "Welcome to Crossroads".. not that I understood what such a thing meant. The scribbles seemed to be important somehow but I hadn't the faintest at what they meant. As soon as I found this cover of bushes in front of a small structure.. I was able to hide in it's embrace.. only slightly confronted by a patch or two of death that found it's way in which was the reason I was scratching and pound on it's wall. a I caught my breath once the day went further and the light started to diminish and tended to my wounds.. I managed to find the gentle embrace of sleep after a while of trying. The horrible, hellish light was so distracting to my eyes.

I woke very abruptly though. I could tell that by some blessed love of the gods, darkness had returned. I was about to run out and run home as fast as I could.. but then I realized why I had woken so violently. Something else had jumped in this bush of mine. Turning my eyes, I saw some of the most.. beautiful set of round orbs I had ever seen. Green and brilliant, they seemed to look in my soul. After shaking my head and taking into focus the rest of the picture.. I realized that this was.. well, as soon as we both saw each other, we both jumped up with fright almost mirror like.

It was another.. being. Another one of me! I felt my body start to shake at just the thought of it and I started crying. The brunette haired girl seemed started to softly touch me and I started crying even further. I couldn't believe..

I was alone?

I thought I was doomed to be alone.. forever.

There was another? Like I had dreamed for so long?

No.. no... there couldn't be. Not in this hellish land. Why? Why?

I clutched the other with all my might, and she didn't resist. She started to hold me close, and while she was warmer than I thought she would be.. it was the first time warmth felt so good. I could feel hear making small movements and sounds, her breathing in and out. She seemed to need to do it alot more than I did.

I started memorizing every aspect of the girl. Unlike me.. she had some sort of strange material covering her body. I was envious of this, she must use it to drive away a bit of the demon's gaze.. I guessed. I couldn't think of any other use for it.. but I had to admit that it was beautiful to look at. After hugging her I realized she was even smaller than I was, her arms and legs thinner but still soft. She wore a strange white shirt with alot of strange funny things.. that I grasped in my hand for a moment before touching the part of the shirt on her shoulder that puffed out a bit, poking it slightly to make sure her shoulder was still there. Yes, it was, I found with a bit of poking and nuzzled her body close again.

She wore this strange white fluffy thing around the top of her lower half and I started to play with it but then she grabbed my arms gently, making a noise that seemed kinda sad. I guessed that she didn't want me playing under the skirt, but this made me a bit sad. I wanted to memorize every single bit of her so I could replay this moment in my dreams. She had this beautiful blonde hair like me that was a little shorter than mine, and I nibbled it a little.. tasting it. She made a happier noise this time, and it fascinated me. She made so many noises. I found these strange red things in her hair and played with them for a bit.. and yes, she made another noise when I did this. Her noises were lovely.

Suddenly, she grabbed my hands and looked at me.. and her small mouth turned into a huge smile. It was so beautiful that it almost hurt for me to look at. She made a soft noise, and then I realized that she was saying something.. and I understood it. At first I didn't, but suddenly it was like a burst of realization came to in my mind and everything was clear.

"I won't leave.." she said softly. "Angel promises." she nodded and gave me another smile and it made me feel so happy that I began to wail loudly. She held me tight and I felt like my creators still loved me, which was the most wonderful feeling in the world after the day in hell.. for they had brought me this wonderful gift.

Time Spent: 2 hours.
Suggestions on Joining: Didn't leave as much of an opening as I usually do. If your just walking around this village known as crossroads, I can find YOU in the next post, or if you feel like finding my girls, Umbra did wail and they are two young girls.. Umbra being nude, in a bush. Pretty suspicious. <.<

[Serras-Kai]

"Hoosenfeld, tarsinell, socasa-nell," the soft voice carried calmly in the air, the sweet sound accompanied by the offputtingly sickly scent of poison in the air.

The sound of the nursery rime Allard Liao had memorized when he was small was all that kept him sane in times like this, when he was all alone. Well, he wasn't alone, not truly, but he thought he was. He thought he was a lot of things, and alone was typically one of them, but today it happened to not be.

Wait.

He'd confused himself. Damn circular logic.

Crawling along on all fours with a wooden box atop him in a style not unlike a man he once looked up to (but had long since forgotten the name of) he scurried across the ground, completely blind as to where he was going. Goody.

He tumbled off of the beaten path again, an occurrence becoming more and more common, slamming his box into a bush across the road from where a certain someone was hiding. But wait, wasn't he alone? Bah, not that it mattered any more, his box was stuck!

Lifting the box only slightly as to allow him an opening through which he could shlink, resulting in the small child now looking at his stuck box from the outside and still just as helpless as before.

Grimacing and wiping tears from his eyes (and otherwise oblivious to his surroundings) Allard placed his hands atop the box and began to pull, using only the friction created as a means of getting it out.

[Angel]

My happy moment was distributed when some sort of strange force came in and smacked into the bush.. and it made me jump up as high as I could. Yes, night had come again and I wasn't afraid in the night. But.. suddenly things were so much stranger than I had ever even dreamed they could be. In this land of Demon's, Angel's and glimmers.. what could be true? Was this heaven or hell?

The other girl seemed to be a bit stronger though, and she grabbed my hand tightly. I for a small second almost tried to slip away, but I caught myself. This was the gift the creators had given me, this was a gift out of love. This was someone other than me to help create my dreams.. so I wouldn't be turning my back on her. Whatever my angel wanted to do was fine by me for now..

We came out softly and noticed that someone.. SOMEONE ELSE WAS HERE! I literally screamed those thoughts in my head. There was another one! Another gift, and he was even in a box. Another being in this strange land. I started to sniffle a bit and my angel gripped my hand tighter... giving me strength.

She bent down softly and smiled at the sight trying to get the attention of the boy working with all his might to scramble out of his wooden prison. "Can we help you? You seem to be in pretty icky trouble here.." she made another happy noise, it was so enchanting.. the way others made noise. She even touched the box softly, and it made me want to touch it too. Everything this angel did was something worth noting in my eyes.

I just stood a little back, watching this go on. She seemed to know what to do more than I did.

[Serras-Kai]

And thus in hail and fuss and fail.

Allard's mind continued to spew it's typical gibberish as he turned to face the new people- the newcomers. Or was he the newcomer? He had come into their home, after all. Did they live here? It wasn't much of a home, kinda run-down, livin in a bush.

Striking the thought abruptly from his mind, Allard shrunk away from the girl who placed her hand on the box, falling into an almost squatting position as he hid his hands behind his back. "Alright. No. What? No. I'm fine. You can have it, really. I don't need it. Later!" Allard kept his head down while he spoke, the brim of his hat hiding their eyes from him. Or did it hide his own eyes? Whichever, it had done it's purpose.

Turning sharply and falling over as he did, Allard scurried to his feet before taking two flatfooted steps. Upon completing them, his footing left him completely and he slammed into the ground, face-first, and lay there, limp and dazed.

Smooth.

[Angel]

Umbra was wide eyed at this display, trying to take it all in and learn more from it. She was an intelligent girl, she just hadn't had much experiences of this kind. Yes, surely she was no longer living a life of complete solitude. The girl next to her had experienced a mini-version of the same thing not to long ago, but that was due to a memory wipe. This girl was standing next to her was slightly different though, but Umbra wouldn't be aware of this.

The blonde girl in a fluffy white dress, looking no more than 10 years old bent down and smiled at the other young man who has tripped and fallen on his face. She reached down, meaning to grab his hand and help him up. "Don't worry, everything is fine. You don't need to be afraid, we're here to help you!" Angel, the other girl happily said, trying to make him feel more at ease. It was obvious he was really nervous... she wondered what at though. Was he just in distress? Or maybe he was afraid of the dark? Umbra wasn't of course and was ecstatic that it was finally happy in the air again, and was just fine lurking right behind her angel, feeling comfortable in her role as the shadow. It was a easier, helpful, and passive role. Exactly what Umbra desired from her life.

[Serras-Kai]

Allard peered up at the girl, eager to accept her help but wary of what she might desire in return. Her face scared him somewhat- it was bright, cheery. He'd learned all too well not to trust someone so up beat in such a down trodden world. Never trust a silver platter, as they say. Or gold? Why was gold always better than silver? In Karna, silver sold better than gold....

Shaking his head violently to rid himself of his thoughts, Allard stood upward abruptly, and summoning all of his courage he inquired softly as to the identity of the one who had offered him help, paying the other no mind out of more panic than actually ignoring them. It worried him when he had to ask for someone's identity, because one could easily lie, but he did it anyway without even thinking.

What an imbecile!

[Angel]

Umbra was pretty content with not being talked to.. though she was having the same urge she had with Angel to fell him around and start memorizing his appearance. She had amazing memory for details and if she just got enough feel for him, she would be able to memorize him for a long time to come. Every detail of Angel's beautiful dress was engraved in her mind, for instance.. but seeing it's fluffy white form in from in front of her might help a tad. She would test it later when they..

Why was she wishing they would leave? Bad Umbra. She needed Angel around to scare away the demon when it came back.

Angel however had a big smile on her face, her big blue eyes closing in a sincere and genuine happy feeling. "My name is Angel!" "What's yours?! Do you wanna play?" she said, obviously "collecting" a fun band of people in a fast period of time and enjoying every minute of it, her small frame even slightly bouncing, her strange princess dress-tutu hybrid bouncing and the gold sparkles on the fluffy ends glimmering in the starlight. Angel had initially jumped into the bush because, opposite Umbra, she was afraid of the dark.. but with friends it was always easier to scare the boo's away. Since she had seen a few of those as well.

That and that she thought she might have sincerely found some people to be with after he last depressing encounter.. she was excited! Though, she really wished she had a present for this frightened boy to make him feel better. Looking around quickly and finding nothing of worth, she decided that her best bet would be to make her own present. Touching the ground softly and letting a small amount of pink, sparkly and star filled magic come out of her fingertips, the ground beneath her.. which used to be just bare grass, sprouted two colorful flowers, looking so beautiful that they were something of a gardener's dream. She pulled the pink one and handed it to Umbra and then picked the yellow one and handed it to Allard shyly.. "It's for you!" she said, her squeaky voice ringing with shyness but excitement at the same time.

[Serras-Kai]

Allard spoke softly at first, stating his name, but when he was certain they hadn't heard it, he again stated "Uh- Allard Liao." His tear-filled eyes locked onto Angel's, trying not to draw any unwanted anger. "My name is Allard Liao."

He snatched the flower rather hastily from her hands, holding it gently and sniffing it calmly. Do his dismay, his poisons nearly immediately sapped it of it's beauty and it withered, crumpled, and died. I know you pain.

Allard placed the flower gently in his pocket and lightly scratched the side of his face with the tip of his finger, saying "Play? I don't know if that's such a good idea."

[Angel]

Angel almost cried herself. Why was the boy so sad? He seemed so nervous and shy and quiet and scared. She really wanted to help him and moved closer, trying to get the nerve to just hug him like she had done the scared Umbra earlier. Suddenly though, she noticed the flower she gave him suddenly wilt and die. Now, Angel was kinda a airhead, but she guessed that this had made him more sad and maybe was something serious! Now she really, really wanted to help.

"No, playing is fun. I promise we won't hurt you.. we can play skipping rocks.." she said, point over to a small lake on the other side of this town, though she realized in the night sky it might be hard to see other than the moons reflection on the water. But then again, she realized that the sun should be out soon.. something she didn't realize would start a very upsetting time for Umbra.. and possibly a future adventure.

Umbra was silently nodding, wanting to do whatever her angel was saying. She had pointed in a direction so she guessed that they were going to head in that direction.. but waited for Angel to move so she could follow. She wasn't in a rush and definitely never lead. She didn't realize that color was starting to fill the sky, the sun ready to poke out over the horizon.

Angel however was still worrying about Allard. She realized that she was asking for them to play pretty suddenly, but there had to be something that might get this boy's mind of whatever he seemed to be frightened by. She didn't realize his condition or the meaning behind his fear, but she wanted . "Or would you rather talk? You wanna go somewhere?"

OOC: Sun should come out in my next post, so have it come further up in yours. Thanks.