((Madhukar has reawakened! Welcome back, boom kitty.))
Cri-crr-CRACK!
One paw, a drag, a
pull.
Against her will, she'd finally gone dormant. Now, life was calling again.
Bright green-yellow eyes that would normally harbor a constant sharp tang now shimmered with lights, vacancy. A head that often buzzed with thought after thought, act after act, now hadn't the strength for a single move.
Whiskers quivered. Claws flexed. Back arched, stretched, and then released. The clouds began to lift... or maybe they were just all coming together once more, after so much time apart?
Madhukar stared at the ceiling and...
grinned. And that's when the rain began.
At first it was a light pittering and pattering, a drizzle, pulled together from the lazily drifting moisture in the room. Then, it got stronger. And now, water slicked the coat of a little honey-storm kitten. Maybe she'd grown a few centimeters in that rock cocoon. Maybe something else had changed while she was in there too. Something deep, but not reaching the core. Something internal, now given a blanket and a pillow, and put to rest.
For now.
But for now was enough.
Madhukar watched the rain.
Her rain. In delight.
@Chad @Twisted @Doug @Tahi-shei ((just tagging anyone who might wanna come, anyone can join and ruin/make Mad's day :3))
ever since he had found the kitten half-dead after a nasty lightning accident, he'd been visiting the site of the chrysalis for a bit, making sure nobody disturbed the chrysalis every once in a while. he didn't know how long she'd be in there.
this time, as he was heading back with some flowers (and some weeds, they just looked nice) to put next to it as a nice surprise, he heard it crack, and as he entered the general area, he felt the rainfall that had manifested in the cave.
he smiled brightly, running in the direction of the chrysalis, seeing mad happily watching her own rainstorm.
he ran up, dropping the (now slightly wet) flowers and weeds in front of her, smiling. "friend! you are okay!" he mewed happily. "remember me?"
@Madhukar
((anyone can come in at any point :P))
Madhukar blinked as she heard words directed at
her from a rather
unfamiliar voice. The sound of something softly landing on the ground. Someone addressing her as a 'friend'. Her eyes flashed to the speaking creature and then to the wet flowers (and weeds) on the floor. Her mind was foggy, but with time she might figure this out...
"Rememb'? No..." She tried to dust those mental shelves, blowing dust off her memories into billowing clouds.
"...Wait. Yo.." What was this memory? Someone running, something hurting. Barely any feeling but pain. She didn't like it. She didn't want to think about it too long.
"NO. I don' rememb." And maybe it was better that way.
She bent down and sniffed the flowers. They were nice. The kitten then blinked, yawned, all with languor, with sleep in her eyes.
"Who is fo'?" She got back up, sat on her haunches, briefly glanced at the spotted creature and then looked up at the ceiling again.
Give her... THUNDER!
A small clap boomed from up above. Perhaps the rain had tamped down the sound so it wouldn't go beyond the perimeters of the storm. The release of magic itself hadn't felt too strong. But the thunder was there, still loud within its designated area, still exhilaratingly powerful.
Energy began to run its course through the kitten once more. Like a rainstorm, it began: first a pitter patter.
@Chad (for visibility)
Tahi-shei had been in the middle of magic practice/meditation when he'd noticed that he was suddenly being pelted by rain. Weather wasn't exactly unusual, but it certainly was when he considered that, just a few minutes ago, he'd seen through the fungus and gathered that it wasn't expected to storm. The crack of thunder nearby gave him pause, and then he was getting up to investigate.
In the middle of the storm, he found two figures, one larger than the other -- both feline. One was covered in spots, taller and somewhat awkward with youth.
The other held a similar scruffiness, but the pelt was instead madly splattered with cream and blue. His eyes lit up as he cantered over.
"Madhukar! Hey! I--" Tahi-shei noticed the shards of chrysoberyl around her, and suddenly frowned.
"Wait, did you-- did you chrysalize?! What happened!!" He rushed forward to prod her wet fur with his nose, apparently checking her over quickly for any remaining signs of injury or indications of mutation (although he was careful not to poke her with his antlers, which had grown nubs which would soon give way to their adult growth -- Tahi was doubtless in for a surprise when his antlers dropped eight cycles after they grew in, and came back slowly over the next four).
@madhukar @chad
chad smiled brightly at mad, even if she didnt remember him he was still happy she was okay. "thats okay! glad you're okay!"
he mewed in surprise at the others joining, smiling, "hello new people! hello!"
@Madhukar
The creature that had met her first upon her rehatching hadn't really... answered any of her questions. That was alright. She was strangely undisturbed by that. Undisturbed by anything. The pitter patter of her own rain... maybe it soothed her, somehow.
Tahi's appearance helped with that soothing process even more. Her... her magic practice partner came over calling her name, seeming bewildered about her situation, violating her space-- it was a nuzzle. A check over. It was cold outside, thanks to her rain, but on the inside she was beginning to feel... warm. She was fuzzy on the outside, was it normal to feel fuzzy inside too?! Something was rumbling. Wait, was that her?!? Yeah! Wow. Purring. She hadn't expected it herself, but there it was.
She didn't really know how to answer. Her words came out a fumbled, jumbled mess of, "I- I, um,"'s and "I don'--"'s. She felt soft, and comfortable, but still confused, hazy, and perhaps also unwilling to remember. She didn't want any stings right now. She wanted Tahi's worry and this new-but-amiable-enough creature's welcomes, not the pain of... whatever happened, back then, back before the storm. She could tell Tahi later, but right now, she wanted to relish in this, this thing that was happening, this phenomenon. Like a monsoon, raining down positivity in the midst of what was usually a heat of hatred and spite.
'Well hey there sparkles,' then came another unfortunately familiar voice. Ah. So much for relishing, then.
Madhukar wasn't even sure if she wanted to turn towards the encroaching threat. She felt a compulsion to do so, sure, but at the same time, she just wondered if ignoring it would make it go away. Her mind whispered sweet words of vengeance to her, though; 'Turn the tables, Madhukar... take that thing out now, since you've just rehatched... pay it back for the DEFEAT and the HUMILIATION...' Her confidence was so great now, now that she knew she controlled the storm. She could do it, couldn't she?
She wouldn't even have to do it alone.
But maybe that was the problem.
The idiot then fell into the river, with a splash. Madhukar wanted to laugh, but for some reason, she couldn't make herself. It was too reminiscent... too reminiscent of herself. The juxtaposition of this scene was too great. Someone powerful, but young, beaten by themself more than by their opponent, and then declared the loser anyways. 'It was an infuriating position to be in, wasn't it?'
That's the thought that finally made the kitten laugh. It was a cold, steely laugh, like hail pelting and grinding in the flesh. There was no humor in it as she turned away from Tahi and the other creature and took one step after another towards The Cat in the water, struggling to find its way out.
It kept talking. Oh, how Madhukar hated it when it spoke. Absolutely loathed the undeserved smugness on its face. The poor creature in the background just kept giving greetings, entirely unaware of the situation, the tension between Madhukar and this... loathsome thing.
As the idiot tried to saunter up to the trio, Madhukar attempted to step directly in its path, to block it. She heard the purring. Her own had stopped. Madhukar didn't purr out of malice or spite. The fact that this thing did? Reaffirmed her suspicions. No, she didn't want Tahi to be here for this, for any battle she might have to face. She didn't like the power she felt this idiot could amass. What it could do with such power, if it were granted.
"Shut up." That was an order.
Her magic executed perfectly. The loudest thunderclap she had ever made, it rung across every space in the room, could be heard even from outside of it.
She grinned.
"Leave. Take it a mercy."
She could feel the power welling within her. She was back, better than ever.
Nobody was taking that away from her, ever again.