Feshwa remains still for a moment, then joins with Keeper at the tunnel in the form of a dragon. She does not say her reasons for this, but looks strong in her decision. Her head held high, her wings slightly unfurled, she awaits the danger which lies in the tunnel before her. But she does whisper something quietly to keeper. "If you care for my life, do not use fire you cannot control."

I can't use fire in my phantom form anyway, and I can control my fire. You were too close when I first released it. *I look at feshwa and notice her wings slightly unfurled. Then look at the entrance.* confidence, nice quality, but at what quantity? She's good, but too spontaneous, and she needs to learn to use magic outside of her element. *I think to myself as I wait*

ooc: You can crontrol the baddie this time. I'm bored of controlling them. ic: Her throat bends and rolls as her voice comes out in a warbling cry; music which pierces not the ears, but the heart. Music which foretells the doom of any who oppose; a long mourning wail which echoes the fears of the heart. For and endless time, it fills the cave, deafening and unavoidable. Suddenly she stops and licks her lips. "Let them come," she says in a voice that is hers and the voice of others all at once.

The creature walks throughout the entrance with a quick sweep of his head from side to side. He roars when he notices the two captives, and walks over to the chains. Who could of done such a thing to my poor boys, why kill there short innocent lives and end them in this place as dismal as my awakening! Why, who? he looks along the entire wall and finally looks back at the entrance...

has joined klepter at the top, just before the whatever it was appears.*hey guys wheres silveera

ooc: She hasn't gotten back on since my charie pushed her into the tunnel. ic: Feshwa stands proudly, her tail flicking like a cat's. Her teal eyes gleam in the light of the torches. One of the chained beasts, only barely alive, points directly to keeper. "That one," he said with great effort, "Killed meee.." His head slumps over, and he is now truely dead.

*I disappear from sight* how will you fight someone you can't see? *Agramor-E-don looks around for a second* why should I fight some one I can't see, when I have a perfect candidate right here * Agramor-E-don look deviously at feshwa* shall we dance, I haven't fought a female in a while but she didn't really give much of a fight, so you shall do nicely. *Agramor-E-don draws his sword and places the tip on the ground. He then holds his hand out in front of him and morphs it to a clawed hand, and slashes at the air in front of him with it.* this will be finished before it will even begin. *he runs forward with his sword pointed behind him and his claw as his lead. He jumps at feshwa while slashing sideways with his sword and claw in opposite directions.*

Feshwa seems as though she is going into a full split, but simply becomes a flat disk and stands back up away from the sword. In a humanoid form, she aims a low but strong kick at his ankles. She plans to turn her foot into a tentacle when it connects and grab his foot with it, forcing him to lose his balance.

* he jumps back as soon as his feet hit the ground and does a spin slash in the air while he does it. He lands and sprint toward feshwa again, this time he runs past with his sword coming at a angel with his claws. He swipes for her as soon as he is in reatch.* hold still Demond witch! I will end you where you stand! *he becomes enraged and starts to attack with his full force and speed since feshwa doesn't take any hits so far.*

Feshwa drops down once again, then grows four dragonfly wings which lift her high up to the ceiling. Sitting in a deeply shadowed spot, she finds a trickling waterfall. Gathering up a small hanful, and using part of herself as well, she makes her form appear near the monster.

ooc: hey. klepter, would you mind commenting on mr. spikey mang? ic: changes to dragon form and utters a low growl. deep and threatening.*why should you fight one so much smaller than you? now, 2 to 3 smaller people will even out the score

oh look who has come to defend his little girlfriend. you should be as easy to rip through as she is. *Agramor-E-don walks away from feshwa's projection and turns his anger onto shadow. Agramor-E-don slashes the air in front of himself challenging shadow to make a move.* you wanted this fight, mongrel, you get it. make your move! before im done with you i'll kill your little girlfriend right infront of you, so you can watch.

Feshwa roars from above, a similar warping roar with a different tone in each second. "I belong to nobody, beast of the earth! Face my fury at your peril!" She abosrds a few trickles of water and swoops down, as fast and agile as a humming bird, but with swords as fast as lightning. She slashes her four swords in a practced move, forcing him to the center of the blades.

shes not my girlfriend *i mutter, as i leap into the air, and slash, using my razor sharp, arrowhead shaped tail, leaving a long, bloody gash across his forehead. blood blinds him

*Agramor-E-Don ducks under any blade that flashes, with an inhumanly possible speed. he leaps over onto a stalagmite and looks down from above. oh, ho, ho. look who has bite! none the less, i will not be slowed down by your presence. i have other business to attend to! *he leaps off and lands by the exit.* i will take my leave...neither of you follow me! *he starts to walk out the door backwards. i appear in my phantom form behind him, and float backwards with him.

Feshwa straightens into a thin spear, still wearing dragonfly wings, and streaks towards the monster.

*he ducks at the last second* nice try! *he grabs feshwa and places his sword to her neck*

lands and changes to elven form, and draws sword

She laughs, and pulls all of her body inside his hand, forcing it open, then shrinks quickly and drops out.

*i solidify behind Agramor-E-Don.* what are you doing here?!? *he spins around and slices my neck with the tip of his sword. i fall to my knees then fall back.* ha ha ha. i hope he wasn't one of yours. but like i said before. i must take my leave. *he steps over my body and runs out the entrance as he collapses the tunnel behind him. my body gets stuck under some rocks*

ooc: sigh.... must your character be so.... so.... ugh? ic: Feshwa moves over to him and grumbles, crouching next to him in the form of a wolf. "Could you just phantom out of there?" she asks.

looks irritatidly at the caved-in tunnel and mutters a curse. * just for once cant we have nothing happen to us? A quiet day?

ooc: i told you eirlier that i was going to die...did i not? ic: *i grop my hand alond the ground* i cant...im bleeding out...to fast...i cant change form... *my hand stops moving*

ooc: Okay. ic: Feshwa gives a worried wimper. "No no no, you've got to be okay!" She stabs at the rocks, trying to unbury him, but it only causes more rocks to fall.

*a resounding ehco is heard throughout the cavern. Agramor-E-don is laughing as he still walks out the tunnel. nothing stops him as he clearly has blocked in the only enemies that had dared oppress him*

draws sword and begins slicing through the rock, cutting the rubble into smaller pieces, picks klepter up, and reaches a hand out to Feshwa * take my hand and lets get outta here

Feshwa stands up on her own. "Yes, let's." She turns to her dragon form and bounds out of the cave. She stretches in the sunlight and seems to shine.

Nezzer comes out of the cave all the while chittering like crazy. He talks to shadow and feshwa in rapid quick words.* I know who to revive him...but it will take long time to get there...special place...special rocks. Needs to get there now. *he zips around their heads chattering loudly*

ok, lets go.

Feshwa nods and dives just below the surface of the small river. Though it might just be the light, she appears to grow bigger, into a long blue snake with dragonfly wings. When she surfaces again, she is in the form of a blue chineses gragon with small talons and large buzzing wings. "Climb aboard. I can move very fast in this form."

nezzer flys around feshwa's head. how will klepter stay on? i dont think shadow can hold him and hold on if you move too fast. if we have rope or a net it might work better. *nezzer keeps circling and chittering*

A rope snakes out of Feshwa's body, though stays connected to it. It wraps itself around Keeper and pulls him onto her back. Several other loops hold him in place. "Will this do?"

yes. do you know where to go? its near our house. *nezzer lands on my shoulder*

Feshwa sends out two more ropes and grabs Nezzer and Shadow. She hovers into the air, barely above the ground with her wings buzzing madly. "Guide me."

ooc : actually, id prefer to fly by myself. oh well.

ooc: She can fly faster, I guarantee it. ic: Feshwa hovers, waiting for Nezzer's directions.

do you know where klepter lives? we need to go to a cave just to the south of that its on a cliff over looking the sea. i would guess that your sence of dirrection to water should help. *nezzer trys to squezze his forelegs out from under the ropes.*

Feshwa begins to nod, yet before she is even finished, her body shoots forward, yet it is smooth and lithe as a snake in water. She zips through trees, dodging them at only a hair's breadth. The land turns into a blur beneath her, and the trees fly by above her. Soon she gets to a cliff and brings herself to a sudden halt, her snake-like body curling up behind her in the air. She tilts a head down and falls over the cliff, her tail following like a thrashing ribbon.

jumps off and picks up klepter and begins running towards the cave

Feshwa releases her hold on Shadow as he jumps off. She hovers above Shadow as he runs.

whoa! shadow! where are you going? the cave is a hundred feet down! *nezzer is furiouse at shadow*

no time for climbing * i call as i freefall. at the last second i change to my dragon form, and slow my desent and land smoothly

Feshwa zooms down the cliff face, faster than gravity, then stops in a furious gush of wind from her wings. She sets Nezzer down inside the cave and turns her wings into feet, landing gently. Keeper still rests on her back, and her white body is turning pink with his blood.

quick get him to the back of the cave! We mush do it before the sun sets today or we'll have to wait until tomorrow! *nezzer flys into the dark recesses of the cave. He starts to place various colors of gems in certain spots all around a raised stone slab that can be used as a table* quick, get him on the table

Fewa hurridly, but gently places him on the table. Still in a chinese dragon form, she waits.

one of you have to give some blood to him by rubbing on it on the gems. It will revive him but the giver will receive a nasty side effect, you basically feel everything that he does...and I mean everything, feelings, pain, happiness, anger...vise versa...he will feel everything that the giver feels, but they can't happen at the same time..



comment 2: *I wake up and I open my eyes in the now dark recess of the cave. As I try to stand I feel an over whelming feeling of pain and I fall to my knees. I look around and notice feshwas core, I move over to it and slump over even more as I feel her pain...my pain.* why were you the one to give your blood, you life, to someone that you barely know? YOU...*I point at nezzer*...why did you let her do this, why didn't you give your own blood, why wasn't it at least shadow? i only mentioned it, I didn't make anyone do anything. I couldn't stop her. She did it by her self, sorry klepter, I should have at lest said something. But why, why did it half to be feshwa? Why!?! Now there is another thing we half to fix...we have to save her. *I pick up feshwas's core and I walk to the ledge of the cave.* how are you going to save her. she said that her blood is her magic and her life, she said she cant make more of it and its all she has. she gave it up for you. I KNOW WHAT SHE DID...BUT WHY SHOULD I LIVE THEN! if she had to end her life to do it. she had so much more to do, to do something, be someone, go somewhere...she ends it for someone she just met...She made herself a sacrifice when it wasn't needed, she showed love to someone who didn't need it...but she did. what are you going to do? you cant change the past. i cant, but someone else can...shadow could probably do it...and if he doesn't succeed then im as good as dead right along with feshwa...cause pain can only go so far, and when someone dies with this connection...im not to far behind them. but...i thought that couldn't happen. but if you say it is going to happen then we need to fix it, don't we? yes nezzer, we need to fix it now, you're the best minor dragon i ever could of had.


comment 3: *im taken aback at feshwa's core crumbling. i blurt out as i try to catch some of it, but its too late. i fall back to my knees and groan, a deep throaty groan that crescendos until it's a howl. i feel unbearable pain, then nothing. i open my eyes, i see nothing. i try to speak, but say nothing. then out of a brilliant blue haze i see feshwa, she is just there. then nothing. i roll over onto my side and just lay there starring out to sea wishing, waiting, wanting myself to just tumble over the side and splash unnoticed into the blue/green expanse that feshwa called her home.* then she'll be home *i thought to myself, too entranced to move, or cry out. yet i still feel her, close yet far enough away that its unbearable. i just lay there.

Comment 4: I think you can make a new one now. Thank you tempest! ic: Feshwa blinks, her eyes opening fuzzily. She feels as Keeper's heart beats quickly. He must be holding me closely. She looks around, and sees an expanse of sand, littered with small, dancing flames. She did not see Keeper, but could still feel him. His heartbeat rippled the bright teal liquid beneath her feet. where am I? She wondered, her thoughts mixing with a distant whisper: "Then she'll be home." It sounded like Keeper's voice.

Comment 2: Feshwa's core gives one slow, weak beat. The thin film that was around her before has melted off, and her flesh begins to darken, as though burning. Everything feels as though it is on fire, but she cannot scream nor save herself. Suddenly, everything becomes blank and white. Her mind is crystal clear, and she can feel the water in her companions' blood. Ah, so this is how it ends... There is no fear, no more pain. There is nothing. Her core crumbles and becomes ash and steam.

Feshwa shuffles. "I- I don't really have blood. Well, I have this:" Her body becomes clear, save for veins of beight green liquid. "But it is nore than just blood to me. It is my magic, my life source. It does not grow back and, without it, I lose the ability to have the rest of my body. To save him..." She looked at him with a slight longing as well as fear and a feeling like love. To save him would kill her. She feared death, but who was she to force another into the void? She stood firmly, bravery and absoluteness covering all other emotions. She curled her body around the stone and closed her eyes. She had never willingly given her blood, but now that she was going to, the process was clear in her mind. her body was clear, only the blood and her core could be seen. The blood pulsed with bright white bands of light, getting faster and faster until it was completely white. The floor of the cave bagan to grow wet as her body was released. With only a small bit of water left, she snaked out this strings and had an orb of white blood floating at each tip. All at once, she opened up the capsules, screamed in fear and joy, hatred and love, anguish, pain, elation. Her blood splashed onto the gems as her remaining body disintegrated around her core. Her scream stopped suddenly, her core lay barely beating. Her blood, barely a cupful, was scattered on all of the stones. The necklace Keeper had given her lay delicately on her weakening heart.

hey! its fixed!

Commenting should now be fixed for this and all gallery images. Not exactly sure what happenned but the settings were set wrong probably during the last update but this also mean that no one should have been able to post comments at all (a bug that should be fixed now)

Thank you tempest! ic: Feshwa blinks, her eyes opening fuzzily. She feels as Keeper's heart beats quickly. He must be holding me closely. She looks around, and sees an expanse of sand, littered with small, dancing flames. She did not see Keeper, but could still feel him. His heartbeat rippled the bright teal liquid beneath her feet. where am I? She wondered, her thoughts mixing with a distant whisper: "Then she'll be home." It sounded like Keeper's voice.

i wonder what happened to her...it would be helpful to know *i stand staggering at first, then keep my balance. i walk back to where feshwa first fell. the necklace is still there. i pick it up and put it on, for the first time in many years.* like i said, no one I've given this to has been able to keep it for long...you longer than others...if only she could hear me.

Feshwa hears Keeper's voice echo across the plain. "I'm here!" She tries to shout, but no sound comes out. I'm here, I'm here... please... She crouches down in her small puddle and cries with tears that match the puddle. Find me... Please... She could feel the weight of the necklace around her neck, but could not see it. Then she truly notice the liquid at her feet. Oh gods... Is that? She reachs down a delicate finger, and lifts up a droplet of her blood.

*my ears perk up* what was that, what that you nezzer? no...i feel asleep right after you walked to the ledge...well more like blacked out. humh, it felt like feshwa said something...of at least thought something that i picked up somehow.

ooc: How far away from water are they?

ooc: three hundred feet above. remember the cave on the cliff over looking the sea. its tree hundred feet from the top of the cliff and then three hundred feet from the cave to the water. the cliff is six hundred and ten feet tall.

ooc: Okay. Ic: Feshwa feels herself saying words in Keeper's voice. Then, she drops down heavily. Confusion sqirls in her mind, and in the landscape around her. But then, at first quietly, she begins to laugh. Shouting with her mind, she calls out, Keeper! I am in here! In... In your mind! You have saved my life! But she was still trapped, and she wanted to be free. Quietly, she thought Just like banding water... Her small pool of blood bagan to spread outward.

*i shake my head* is this for real? that would explane it...can you hear me, i want to know im not dreaming. *i stand at the edge of the cave over looking the sea*

Feshwa spreads out until she can just barely see through his eyes. Seeing the water, she pushes ever onward, but suddenly hits a large barrier. She tries again, and it still repels her. A great orb made of many colors of fire blocks her from filling his mind. His conscience she realizes. MOVE OVER! I want to feel the water one last time! Please! She rams against his consiosness once again.

*i am shoved forward, i stop myself before i fall off into the water.* what the? *i take three steps back ward, but then stat to slowly walk forward.* eh...i guess a swim wouldn't hurt...wait, this could be feshwa trying to get to water... ooc:gotta go...sorry ic:

ooc: NUUU!!!! ic: Feshwa pushes his conscious away to a deeper part of him mind, forcing him to sleep. She takes over, making his body smile gleefully. See you later, Nezzer. and she leaps out of the cave. Freefalling, she summons up some of her power, though it is much harder to do. When she is close to the water, she takes a chunk of it and forms fins for his body and plunges headfirst into the waves. She stays under for several seconds, enjoying the cool moisture. Suddenly she is short of air. She recoils suddenly, accidently losing control of his body and letting his conscience be put back in its awakened place.

ooc:never mind im back ic: wha...whats going on?

I did not realize that humans had such little air capacity. Feshwa wonders to herself. You must swim to the surface! she commands.

*i limply float up to the surface as i am out of breath*

Feshwa curls up sadly in her small puddle. I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to...

hack, hack, hack. what happened?

Feshwa barely hears Keeper's voice beyond the expanse of sand. Think what you want to say, so I can hear you.

what did you do to me?

I took over. But when you couldn't breath underwater, it surprized me, and I lost control.

well how did you take over i mean...cause i can do that to people but i ooc:i just spontaneously started bleeding my blood looks awesome, its got this weird tint of silver to it, and it smells strongly of ironic: have to be a phantom to do that.

I suppose you could call me a phantom, then. I, as far as I know, have no form, just thought. I am a consciousness inside of you. I pushed yours into a sleeping mode and I... I guess you could say I took the controls of your body. I don't think I could do it again though, unless you were already asleep or unconscious.

thats kinda creepy if you think about it

Feshwa emits scorn. If it were not like this, you'd likely be dead.

true, true im just saying a female "stuck" inside a male's body its just kinda...weird.[i/] *i shiver lightly*

Feshwa giggles a bit. That is a strange thought. Do you trust me to not misuse your form?

well i only have three forms so its kinda hard not to...there all male soooo...

Feshwa laughs, though her voice is silent in his mind. You worry too much!

well im not worrying im just...thinking ahead, of sorts *i sputter as a foam wave splashes in my face*

She glances around the sandy expance. Maybe if you spruced things up with some nice and watery thoughts, it would be better, so I don't have to look at those dancing fires all the time. She glances at one of them, which begins to show one of Keeper's memories.

*i concentrate on a waterfall and a river in a wooded area* is that good?

The image apears to the right of Feshwa. The dancing fire is to her left. She glances at the scenery and smiles, but the mysterious memory enthralls her. ooc: Since I don't know Keeper's memories, could you say what the fire shows?

ooc: it shows when i was younger and my village was being destroyed by some unknown enemy ic: is it good?

Yes, it is good, but what is this flame here? She walks up to it and watches as the flames turns into a human, running, dying, then a house burning. Suddenly, a flame wraps her up and she finds herself in a village. Peaple run by her without looking at her. Houses burn without her feeling any heat. Keeper, what is this? she shouts with her thoughts.

ahg...heg-avagrata (heg-ra-var-grata) its heg-avagrata my old village. that memory brings pain to my mind

Feshwa watches the people for a bit longer, then sees Keeper running with the rest. She closes her eyes and opens them in the wooded river that Keeper had made for her. I did not mean to cause you pain. She lowers herself into the stream and screams. There is no water, nd it feels only like course sand scratching her as it rushes past her ankles.

sorry...i wonder if i swallow some water while thinking about it that it might be in there. *i do what i just said and hopes it works*

The sand-water does not change. Your thoughts are dry.

humph...well i cant really change that.

Feshwa retreats to her small pool of bright blue blood and falls silent. She wants to spread her own being throughout Keeper's body and make it her own, but cannot unless she snuffs out his entire being.

feshwa?

......

what are you thinking about?

Feshwa remains silent, her consciousness itself growing ever quieter.

*i crawl out of the water and shake out my fur* what a way to go swimming

Roan will be worried... she thinks quietly.

what did you say?

Go to sleep. She presses against Keeper's conscious, trying to move him out of the way. She does not realize that it spurs on a migraine.

can you stop pushing on stuff? it really hurts *i fall over and cut my arm on a rock

Then just go to sleep and stop fighting! Feshwa pushes harder.

why, so you can make me go something ageist my will?

brb