:D Helllooooooo!!
Anyway, sorry I haven't done Weekly Update in awhile =_= I've been busy with the play, but today was our final performance :D So I'll start working on it soon ^__^
BUT to the point of this post, since I probably won't do update for awhile...
Welcome to CF GhostixxHarrell!!
T^T And since I haven't heard anything back form Sun for awhile, she is no longer in CF. But other than that, at the moment no CF is still not excepting members.
And got an idea actually :3 (from dA and something I participated in last year ^^)
Would anyone be interested/want to participate if I hosted a Secret Santa thing with the members of CF who wanted to participate?
Thats it I think ^^;
<~/Poochy/~>
Far off mountains formed of cruel white. Oceans gashing, slashing, screaming a untold rage, a single blade of grass once so green and joyous, falls from the dun weight of ice or sorrow. A forbidden mystery as to which. As I close my eyes for slumber to find my eyes and show me again as he always does, these injurious punishments...
He is a cruel man, he finds me all to quickly these months.
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Dark is the vision of morning, as dark was the day, that I learn I never knew. Never knew to feel the smiling face. It was a dark day indeed, for it was the day I learned I was alone, as I would forever be.
I can't describe the day, besides the drastic mourning. The scraping of claws the yells of atrophy and degeneracy. The words I said were few, but the day said many, it was a day named "Nevermore"
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Sheer hellish noise woke me, and in truth, wiped the ache of night from my bones. The night was over and sun was smiling at me, weight came off my shoulders. I feel exceptionally light, must of lost some 100 pounds of weight since last year...
Thats fine when your weight is measured in thousands of pounds. I stretched out my limbs and took account of my surroundings.
Military base with heavy security.
Time to give some people some fear of bears.
~Ice~
"How noble you are; always looking out for others no matter how vain and hopeless it really is. Can you not see it?" the bird asked me, his blade pointed at my face.
I charged him, my rage moving me, he sidestepped, but I fallowed. " IT DOESN'T MATTER! THE PACK SUPPORTS AND PROTECTS EACH OTHER, EVEN AT THE COST OF THERE OWN LIFE! I KNOW THAT NOW!" I screamed, my voice sounding very like Shadow's would have in such a situation as this. I rammed my blade though his shoulder.
He fell again his sword landing in the floor.
"What a sore that is..." he scoffed, looking from his wound to me, "I used to understand that; aside from our dark qualities. Ravens are also quite tender creatures. But in that abyss of suffering one tends to lose all sense of hope." He said after a short poss.
"But, why endanger the pack for already lost souls?" He asked.
"Wolves are loyal to the pack, the pack are our family. It is our job to protect our family. If one of us is to be lost, we are all to be lost. As an Alpha it is my job to insure that we do not lose sight of that." My voice was loud and clear.
"Don't you have someone you would die for?" I asked, he looked puzzled by this.
"Don't be absurd, I have no intention of dying before my time. I am a lone creature." He muttered as he held his shoulder.
"So you would just leave the whole world to die?" I questioned accusingly as he retrieved his sword.
"If that's how it would go; I wouldn't raise a single feather." He said all to calmly. My body gave an involuntary shake. My grip on my sword tightened.
"You're sickening! How can you let anyone die when you could stop it? I've risked my life for complete strangers!" I yelled, my anger and aggression escaping at last. All he did was role his eyes.
"Hmph, you're just going to spend your whole life being a saviour; I prefer to watch from a high roost. Do as you please it is not my intention to meddle in your affairs; if you wish to die so badly I will gladly assist you." His voice made me growl dangerously.
"You do that, you watch as all the world around you treats those like you, those who would understand as filth and trash. You watch as all that you ever knew, all you could care about is destroyed. Meanwhile I will protect those around me until my life ends; that's the only way I can be forgiven for my mistakes." I growled out my sword gripped in both my hands. "Also, I believed that the raven was the creator of life, but no more, if the raven really had created life you would feel the need to protect it."
"The world my kind created no longer exists; the only one that remains is made of scum." He scoffed as I glared at him.
“So no good people exist in this world, nothing good can happen, nothing makes life worth living? How can you think that?” I lashed out, how could anyone be like this? “Don't you see that we're good? We care, we want to save people who have given us hope or who we love. So not all life is good, there are still those who are needed by others.”
He crossed his arms the best he could. “It seems there's no changing you mind then. I will be a bit sorry to see another die before their prime.” he stopped, looking at me. “But I don't see why you show so much concern for me. As long as I'm behind these walls; what meaning is there? Simply, there is none.”
I trembled, what was wrong with concern, what was wrong with caring. “Now if you are finished, sir speech writer; let’s be done with this all ready.” He continued in a disrespectfully.
We charged one another again. The long fight was taking a tole on us. Both of us were panting, both of us were losing a lot of blood.
We jumped apart again. He collapsed to his knees. As he struggled up I hacked up a large amount of blood. This fight would kill me if it lasted much longer.
Out of nowhere he jumped into the air and went to attack me. In doing so he left his his chest unguarded. A smirk spread across my face. I jumped into his attack, nimbly dodging his blade. Our eyes locked on each others, I could see the fear in his.
I cut open his chest, barely missing his spine. We landed on different sides from where we had started. He was in hid back, I was on my feet.
I spotted Pierce's dagger at last. I picked it up with my (at the moment)bad hand.
I walked over to him. He noticed me when I stood over him. As he reached for his sword I kicked it away. I knelt down and grabbed him by the collar, dragging him to me.
“You can make this easy… surrender.” I spoke my voice cold and emotionless.
“Never in this life will I give up to a man like you.” He spit back at me.
A thick silence separated us. "You said you're trapped here; tell me, what would you do if you had a choice, would you just let everyone die, what if someone could save you, what would you do then?" I questioned him at last.
"Someone like me could be saved. What a stupid thought." He looked up at the ceiling. "Hmph, who knows maybe breathing fresh air again, would let me see the good in the world." I said thoughtfully.
"Anyone who wants it can be saved." I said, maybe a little to flatly.
"Want it, huh? How laughable. Why go so far when the world will still persecute and torment creatures like us. What is there to gain?" He asked the same question that plagued my heart.
I hesitated looking away from him. “I'm not the one you should ask that; I have no true agreement with the concept…” I stopped to think. “But from what I've heard there is a place where we can live in peace without being treated like monsters.”
He laughed causing himself to cough up blood. A place where creatures like us can live in peace, unthinkable.” I laughed at it.
“But interesting none the less…” His hand grasped my wrist. “Fine let’s make this a contest, if though more likely than not the rescue efforts of your group fail it will only prove my point and I win. But by the unlikely chance that you win…” He stopped, waiting for my reply.
I was a bit surprised by this, but quickly recovered. “If I win, you join our group, you win I get killed. I can't wait to see the outcome.” I stated, looking at him disgusted, I let him fall back against the wall.
Before I left the room I kicked his sword back over to him. "Good luck, you damn bird," I called as I walked away from him.
~Nanuke~
I could hear the sounds of the sword fight as we ran away. These sounds reassured me. As long as they were present Ice was alive. When it stopped was when I got very wearied.
I couldn't hear anything behind us. I looked at Pierce, wondering of he had noticed, it didn't seem so. after a short while I heard someone fallowing. Pierce noticed as I stiffened.
"What's up?" He asked as we ran.
"Someone is fallowing us," I said, looking over my shoulder. It seemed like we shouldn't just expect it was Ice so we kept running.
After a couple of minutes a cut up Ice joined us again. He tossed a dagger to Pierce.
"You're lucky to get that back Pierce, I almost lost it." He called to Pierce. I could see why, there was a cut over his fingers, all of them on that hand had been cut, his cheek was bleeding ferociously, I could see a stab mark just below his rib cadge, and there was a deep cut all the way across his back. If Ice was in that condition I wondered how the bird was.
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Ice took a beating to, and I do like Sed, but he is a cursed kind of bird, so Ice and Shadow will most likely call him a damn bird
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Sebastien(that damn bird, I like to call him that)
Ice
Nanuke
Pierce
~Ice~
He was attacking out right? How predictable. You'd think some one somewhere would think to attack some other way at the start. I drew my blade in front of me. As he went to stab my face, probably wanting to finish this quickly I slipped mine right under his.
With his blade about an inch away I moved, just in time. Some of my hair had been shortened by that strategy, but the results had been perfect. His blade had slipped right past leading his hand into my own. Just as I thought that I felt blood run down my cheek. So I hadn't dodged as cleanly as I had thought. I tightened my grip on my sword and also Pierce's dagger.
We circled each-other now, both recognizing the other was skilled. I twirled my blade in my hand once before I made the next move. I darted at him, as he went to guard I ducked around him. He turned just in time to deflect a crippling attack as I started for his exposed back.
A growl escaped me as my sword cut nothing but fabric, but I had no time to dwell on that. He was attacking again. I used Pierce's dagger to stop the blade, man I was glad it wasn't one of the wooden ones. Using my free blade I stabbed him in the leg.
He fell and I stud up, knowing it wasn't over. As he struggled up I made no move to help or attack.
As soon as he was up the flying of our blades continued. I cut him a couple times in the face. My left hand was cut open casing me to drop Pierce's dagger, god I hoped I could find that again. We both took attacks to our shoulders and arms. I got in a few more at his legs, but then again I was bleeding under cuts in my pants. One good thing about having chains on your pants though, swords can't easily cut them.
He looked over at a girl who had joined us, fox I guessed by her smell. "You better not lose focus bird!" I yelled. With that I attacked again, he blocked it again. I just kept up my attacks. I stabbed him again, this time it was a nasty injury. "I thought you where going two beat me, bird," I scoffed as he lay before me.
"You're a fool to count your chickens so soon," he laughed. My ears pricked at that, then I felt it his blade had sunk into my body almost hitting my lung. The pain in my chest was overwhelming, I fell, maybe he had beat me.
I heard the fox approach us, I heard them talking, I heard them talking about me. No I couldn't give up, I had to protect the others. I struggled to my feet, and looked at him.
"Now was that supposed to kill me?" I asked as a faint cocky smile spread over my face. I would win, not for myself, but for the others.
~Shadow~
I tore my jacket to bandage Echo's wounds. Hearing her whimper as I tightened them bothered me. As I wrapped the remains around her couldn't help but cry. I hoisted her onto my back feeling my smashed shoulder scream in protest.
"But what about your shoulder?" her weak voice asked, it was as if she'd read my mind.
"Echo, you're injuries are all that matter; let's just get somewhere safe and wait for Nanuke." I said, determined not to stay here.
I fallowed my own sent trail down the halls. It was good I could track as a human. As I passed the place I had split off from the rest I could see many guards watching something. I sped up as I passed them by.
I slipped outside and found the place with the least amount of snow that had a view of the entrance but couldn't be seen. I settled Echo in the snow, making it as worm as possible then went to keep watch. My shoulder burned, and I needed rest, but it didn't matter, I wouldn't rest til I knew she was safe.
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Ice shows some rare emotion, or at least rare to strangers.
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Ice
Sebastien
Ghosti
Shadow
Echo
