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YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Ghanyarah - Aug 06 2015

AY YO BONEBOUNDS I WANNA FIGHT


It was time to move on from Eridanus. Ghanyarah had gone and visited the jungle room, and his sojourn had yielded nothing but disappointment. He hadn't received the answers or information he had gone there seeking, and Dragon's speak of the eyes being horrifying and hungry remained no more than rumors. Besides, he felt he couldn't stomach the presence of those pesky cats anymore, so his departure from Eridanus had been brisk and eager. Instead of following the now familiar icy tunnel back to his own swampy home, Ghanyarah had taken a different path, enjoying the scenery as he passed through the tunnels. He hadn't entered them before - they weren't the tunnel he had taken when he encountered the fungus monkey, but even so, he was larger and anybody he passed by seemed to regard him with a modicum of respect.

But it wasn't enough for the reptile. He was left feeling empty, like he'd been cheated of a great reward after summoning the courage to leave Cetus all on his own. He wanted to experience the outside world. For once in his life, he wanted to feel something, and while it was nice not being chased as if he were prey, Ghanyarah found those interactions to be dreadfully boring. Now that he was free of the bonds of Cetus, he wanted more. The doe's story wore heavy on the back of his mind; a Prince trapped in his home by his nefarious enemies, wanting no more than freedom, to rule and control- the more he thought about it, the more he came to realize the differences between himself and the Prince in the story were almost nothing. The Prince was him - and he was the one trapped in his home by the ones that wanted him dead. Predators.

Not this time. He wanted a taste of that life; he wanted to be the one that others feared for once. And when he traveled through the tunnel to Orion, then to the room of bones known as Canis, he knew what he had to do. It was obvious that this tunnel was well traveled, and even more so that the room he had just entered was occupied by a group of Gembounds, similar to he and the other Gembounds that lived in Cetus. He found himself wondering of the strength of these Gembounds - who were they, what did they do here? And more importantly, what would happen if he decided to tear up their home?

The lizard had scampered into the room, heading towards the center where the roof depressed down close to the floor. A large stretch of rock columns created a series of corridors and rooms that he was sure must have been inhabited; stopping, he took a quick glance around and noticed the pools of stagnant water that must have returned since the rains in Cetus stopped. With a devious rumble, Ghanyarah placed all his focus on the water, attempting to freeze it and warp it up and through the walkway.

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The water began to frost over, and all the moisture in the air began to collect over it; fronds of ice started to reach out and upward, quickly growing into thick, murky pillars. The hallway ahead of him gleaned a layer of slippery ice, and thin ice began to cover up the entrances of two rooms on either side of the hallway. For as long as he could concentrate, the ice thickened and creaked as it grew, slowly filling up the walkway and beginning to block passage through it. In the back of his mind, he remained wary of anybody approaching - he couldn't allow himself to be caught off guard while vandalizing this cave.

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RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Giggle - Aug 06 2015


Giggle woke sharply, legs jerking to the sound of a series of cracks that had her on her feet and blinking blankly about before she even knew she wasn't dreaming any longer.

A confused moment of wondering where the melons had gone, and then she remembered that that had been a dream--and the cracking came again. It sounded like bones snapping, which wouldn't be all that unusual, but there was an odd rapidity to it that had her trotting forward to investigate. It wasn't far off, either; it was in the rooms just up the hill, near where--...

Was that--... Ice?

Giggle froze--rather fittingly--and stared, one paw danging in the air, her jaw slowly unhinging to hang in shock. Even the caked fungus and muddy gore hanging from her coat swung slowly to and fro as her mind almost visibly ticked. She'd never seen ice before. She never even heard of it, but she knew what it was, and a moment later she was licking one of the murky pillars, sniffing it. There was a big--thing, nearby, a lizard maybe, and after ensuring that the pillar was in fact delicious, she turned to face him.

She wrinkled up her muzzle in a squint, blinking. Of course, to her, this wasn't an enemy--just a stranger. And she hadn't yet realized that he was trying to vandalize the place. In fact, if anything, he seemed to be adding more water to their pools, which until recently had been dry! ...What a hero!...?

"Hello?" she tried, peering over at the komodo dragon. "We had little water, but I had not heard of someone who could bring more. Who are you?"

She sounded friendly enough, but as she spoke her dark eyes drifted back to the column of ice, and the awe was rather plain on her face.

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Roll the bones.




RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Ghanyarah - Aug 06 2015


The reptile raised his head, squaring his legs as he elevated himself from the ground and watched his beautiful creations unfold out of thin air - literally. Ghanyarah wasn't forming the ice out of complete nothingness - he was wicking what little moisture existed in the air as well as utilizing the slowly recovering ponds, which would no sooner dwindle back to dry earth for as long as he could concentrate on his magic. His eyes narrowed, and he watched the ice slowly extend further outwards, occupying more and more space beneath the depression until it would solidify until a solid wall. The wall wasn't too thick in the middle - in fact, it was rather thin and fragile, and far more thick near the edges of the rocks. Still, it would be an annoyance to anybody that regularly traveled here.

Speak of the devil - he soon heard the shuffle of paws, the approach of another Gembound. The sound had caused Ghanyarah to sever his attention from the ice wall he was building in the chambers, adjusting his body to view the hyena that had emerged and stared in awe at the ice. However, she wasn't mad as he assumed she'd be - was she oblivious, or just blindly optimistic? Regardless of which trait it was, both amounted to her being terribly dumb for not noticing the komodo dragon's nefarious intentions (granted, Ghanyarah could just as easily be making a fool out of himself by not vandalizing the prized residence of another group, merely the front lawn of a potentially really dumb hyena - he'd take the chance and continue to assume a group of formidable foes lived here for the sake of his own pride).

Ghanyarah narrowed his eyes to agitated slits and sneered. "Oh, me? That's right, I'm the water delivery guy. ICE TO MEET YOU!" The dragon cackled and magic flared from his form; the atmosphere took a chill to it as frost swiftly began to gather on the hyena's fur, and he pulled at the water around and inside her body, intending to flash freeze her into a nice little hyena-cicle.

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RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Giggle - Aug 06 2015


Giggle stared blankly at the lizard as it made its horrific joke. Ice to meet her? ...Really? It was stupid, but she couldn't help a short, dark giggle.

But she had hardly any time to consider the joke further; now her limbs were heavy and cold, and she could feel frost curling up over her fur, moisture beginning to form around her like a straitjacket.

"What are you doing?!" she demanded sharply, taking a few swift steps back--and then she couldn't take any steps back, because the ice had solidified too quickly. She narrowed her eyes, lowering her head and baring her teeth.

This lizard wasn't friendly at all!

Only now realizing this, Giggle felt immediate alarm, adrenaline bursting through her. But she couldn't run, couldn't fight. She did the only thing she could do, which was to try and call upon her magic.

She tried her best to focus on the fungus that lined her coat, to grow it swiftly enough before it froze that she might be able to slough off the ice and slip free. If she didn't, it might soon be too late. The buzz in her mind swelled from a pinprick to a roar, and--growling and squinting--the ice-sheathed hyena began to glisten jet black beneath the crystalline.

It would take a few moments longer than she'd hoped--the fungus was already slow and sluggish from the cold--but it would work, she could feel that it would work. Already the plates of ice were shifting, one or two cracking and falling away with a quiet splash, leaving the gooey black fungus wet and rather disgusting in its place.

Now the question was, what would the strange lizard-stranger do while she was getting free?

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Roll the bones.



@Ghanyarah


RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Ghanyarah - Aug 06 2015

It didn't take long before the ice he summoned would slowly begin to consume the hyena. Any moisture that had collected on her fur and skin was beginning to harden, and he could tell that she was slowing down after realizing what he was doing. The komodo dragon cackled, delighting in the success of his spell - he even stole away a few seconds to sit and watch with pride as she began to ice over, until he had taken notice of black frills that were growing out from her skin, underneath the glossy sheath he had created. Ghanyarah blinked and drew back his lips in a reptilian snarl, lashing his tail. It wouldn't take long before she might slip free - he had to inconvenience her further!

His concentration shifted to the pull of his magic, but for the first time, he was grasping at nothing. The dragon grunted and glanced around, realizing that he had spent most the water in turning it into icy pillars the first time around - there wasn't much else for him to manipulate. The ground below was bone dry, leaving the dragon without anything to manipulate. Frustrated, he hissed at the hyena and scampered away from the chambers, frantically searching for another source of water.

@Giggle and other bb's ;)


RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Kerberos - Aug 06 2015



Runnin' wild and runnin' free~
Two kids, you and me~ !
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Kerberos heard Giggle from across the boneyard. He had been playing with a barbell shaped bone, absently considering a nap, but that thought was immediately forgotten. He was on his paws and racing to his family, eyes sharp and ears pricked. When he came crashing into the scene, he saw everything at once: a lizard, the ice, Giggle.

The thing hissed and fled from the scene, but Kerberos wasn't going to let it get away. He had a gut feeling that this creature had attacked Giggle, and nothing threatened her. There were few gembounds under the protection of the white dog, and she had earned her place as his most revered long ago.

"Giggle!" He barked, tail lashing. "I'll eat it! Don't worry!" That said, his hyenamom reassured, the puppy bolted off after Ghanyarah. His paws tearing at the earth, kicking bones out of the way. He was furious, teeth pulled back in three vicious snarls. He just had to catch up to the scaly thing and tackle it-- then he could eat it!

-- But the overgrown mutt had yet to figure out the whole chasing down prey thing. He charged hard and fast... and flew past Ghanyarah, tried to turn, and stumbled over all of his paws into a collection of bones with a large crash.



RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Giggle - Aug 06 2015


Giggle padded up alongside the crashed three-headed dog and gave him the briefest of gentle head-nuzzles across all of them. Then she looked up, around over the ice and toward where Ghanyarah had fled to.

"I wouldn't worry, too much--I'm cold, but the pillars have a sort of majestic feel about them, don't you think?" she said, very dryly. Then she huffed, glancing to Kerberos and stepping away, shaking a lot of the icy black goop out of her coat so it splattered on the nearby stone and bones.

"Anyway, he can hardly hurt the rock. I may as well follow him to make sure he doesn't kill anyone, though. Are you all right?" Giggle glanced down, seemingly in no hurry to charge off on a ferocious chase the way Kerberos had been. In fact, aside from the fact that she was dripping with ice and fungal frills, she seemed relatively composed.

The spotted hyena trotted over to one of the pillars, licking at it again for a moment, before turning to Kerberos to see what he'd do.

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Roll the bones.



@Kerberos @Ghanyarah


RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Ghanyarah - Aug 06 2015

The lizard hopped and skipped away from her, not knowing whether or not she'd pursue - either way, Ghanyarah needed to get back to somewhere with moisture fast. Especially if he was going to continie wrecking havoc on this dry bone room. Sure, it was frustrating that the hyena seemed at most just mildly inconvenienced by it - Ghanyarah had obviously misjudged the importance of the chambers, but no matter. He had another plan in mind!

Glancing over his shoulder, the lizard looked back at Giggle and saw her expression adjust in response to the approach of another. Heavy footfalls foretold the arrival of a second Gembound, and Ghanyarah swung his head forward just in time to narrowly avoid a collision with the massive three-headed dog. "Watch it, stupid!" The lizard scowled, fumbling off to the side and skidding across the rock. He stopped, looking back at where the dog had crashed into the bone pile. Ghanyarah barked out another cackle before pointing his body towards them and raising himself off the ground. "FREEZE!" The komodo dragon shouted and frost began to creep along the rock, white crystals quickly accumulating along the dust and dirt.

With the ice working swiftly to freeze the two Gembounds to the ground, Ghanyarah turned and laughed his way away from the chambers again, scampering hastily towards the entrance of the room.

@Kerberos
(If nobody engages Yara in a fight this round he'll exit)


RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Kerberos - Aug 07 2015



Runnin' wild and runnin' free~
Two kids, you and me~ !
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Kerberos listened to Giggle-- he was a lot better about that these days-- but found himself disagreeing. "I'm okay," he woofed, getting back to his paws. His eyes were locked on Ghanyarah despite Giggle's important words of wisdom. The lizard was trying to hurt them. Plus, it had called him stupid! He definitely wasn't stupid, and he resented that mean comment quite a lot.

In fact, he went to lunge after the lizard again and stumbled as ice clung to his paws and froze him in place. Letting loose a violent snarl, the hellhound knew he had to make sure this awful scaly thing never returned. He was trouble with a capital T.

So Kerberos focused and took a deep breath. "Three, two, NOW!" He barked sharply, his middle head trying to let loose a blast of pure energy at the lizard... and it worked, sort of.

With a painful ear-popping blast, the energy beam flung at the lizard, hot and dangerous. It wasn't strong as it could have been, and perhaps his aim was a bit off, but it would surely show him who was boss, right?

"GET OUT!"

@Giggle @Ghanyarah !



RE: YOUR MAIL ISN'T SAFE IN THIS TOWN - Giggle - Aug 07 2015


Giggle winced as ice began to creep over her feet again, and with a cackling growl she leaned down to snap and bite at the damn stuff. It was cold, it was hard and she just didn't like it. It bit at her like little teeth, and she still wasn't sure exactly what it was or even if it was dangerous.

It just tastes like water.


She looked back up, debating pursuit. She didn't have a lot in the way of offensive magics: she could fill his head with hallucinations, or cover him with flesh-eating fungus, or just sprinkle him with spores so that she could track the lizard later on. She tensed to give chase, but before she could do so a powerful, hot blast of magic speared out with an ear-ringing buzz to one side of her. She flinched away, wincing, and saw that Kerberos was stood paws spread to brace, a beam of powerful energy pointed after the lizard. She outright cowered, at this, shocked and frightened. Giggle glanced after Ghanyarah, but the lizard seemed to be fleeing, and she turned her head to stare at Kerberos once more, awe plain on her single face.

"What..." she breathed, "...was that?"


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@Ghanyarah