Kin-Kin It is resolve that determines the value of your life.

Kin-Kin had been wandering, skulking through these tunnels like a fox, when she heard a distant roar rumbling through the very stone, the rocks slightly trembling beneath her paws. She wandered forward, curious and eager to see the source of the terrible sound. She was walking quite some time, the air seeming to heat up around her before finally opening out into a room like none she'd seen before, with shifting waters, glowing crystals.... and a monster, churning those assumedly once-serene waters into oblivion.

Towering above her, Kin-Kin quickly realized this wasn't the time for teasing. There was others, like her, nearby, presumably trying to fight off this monstrosity. A canine voice yelled something about distracting, and killing, and Kin-Kin felt adrenaline kick up as her heart pounded. Of course, she was the best for distraction! A grin broke out on her face.

Keeping an eye on the monster, Kin-Kin began to tap into the magic held in her gem. Let's see if she could make some lights! It took several seconds, and Kin-Kin panicked a little, but soon her fur lit up with dancing markings appearing all over her, ablaze.

Then within moments, she shot off across the shore. Bright like this, staying still was surely a deathtrap, but she had, perhaps misplaced, faith in her own agility. But, the wolf felt like she'd trained for this.

This was a test like none she'd faced before, and she always loved a good test.

"Listen to me."

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The hog, towering over the coyote and black bristles slowly rising into a comical halo of fuzz around his form, grunted, surprise and anger quickly fading into the mild annoyance most parents felt at least once towards their kids - even if they were unofficially adopted and showed up once in a blue moon. Kill it! Black eyes darkened, and Czernobog's head tossed, massive bulk stepping forward as long, goring tusks flashed. "You daaare?" As soon as Macawi turned, focus on the fight above and her own use of magic, he charged, tusks catching the coyote below the ribcage and stomach to flip her up and over his head, aiming for his back. Whether she held on or tried to fight to remove herself was up to the fates, but for now he simply trotted back towards Leviathan, safe in the knowledge that the poorly God had yet to hurt him. It was intelligent, then, like him, had waited in the shadows until strangers had come to hurt it - memories of the black cat trespassing in Cetus assaulted him, and he grunted, ears flat to his skull as he surveyed the battlefield with disgust.

"You."

His voice was low and soft, filled with an anger that translated into hackles rising and jaws gnashing. "You are all monsters." A voice caught his ear, familiar over the calamity of war, and his eyes flickered upwards towards a blur of black feathers, a flash of light. Others ran along the shoreline, rolled in the waves, all aiming to harm a creature that only wanted to protect its home. His thoughts turned to Dragon, to the grandfather that protected all of Cetus, and he snarled, a strange, echoing sound. "Walczysz bez powodu, i umrzesz bez żałoby." His eyes rolled up to track Eve, or the Eve-lookalike, and his hooves scraped at the shoreline. The sting in his throat was harsher than it had been with Macawi, because the coyote was flighty, never truly family in the sense of give and take... but Eve had practically been blood.

All of them - all of them were nothing but animals.

"Haaaaat!"

Maya had been so mesmerized by the gems just beneath the surface of the water. She had even stuck her head in to get a better look with only her ears poking out of the water. It was the birds voice that drew her attention first. She had mentioned plucking one out, but then everything exploded around them. More gembounds showed up and what had been thought as a mere reef rose from the water. Eyes grew wide as the hybrid scrambled back away, quite literally tripping over her dolphin like tail and went tumbling back just as the creature roared.

Ears pinned back against her head as she rolled to her paws, watching in horror as a few of the gathered gembounds reacted and simply attacked the creature. She opened her jowls, as if to say something but no words came. Her heart beat against her chest as she decided it would probably be best to move further away from the creature and the battle that was beginning to start.

Once she felt she was at a decent distant she turned around and looked at them all again, looking over the great beast in awe. How did she not notice such a creature lurking in the water she had been spending so much time exploring?!

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All around it, chaos was erupting. Leviathan cared not for the terror it was placing inside the hearts of the Gembound that dared to oppose it. It only cared for them to leave its territory. Of course, it had been in slumber whilst the cavern was cut off from the rest of the system, but now that it was full of magicka once more... it had laid claim to Fornax.

Frustrated by its own failures and the bright lights that were blinding it, it released another ear-shattering screech. All around it, the ground convulsed and churned, sending up sprays of dust and sharp stones.

Leviathan has 686/750 HP
It attempts to use Earthshatter! — Successful
Everyone except for Eve takes 19 points of damage

Iris has 178/200 HP
Tolani has 181/200 HP
Orarian has 181/200 HP
Sabor has 158/200 HP
Macawi has 181/200 HP
Eve has 200/200 HP
Maya has 178/200 HP
Penelope has 178/200 HP
Czernobog has 181/200 HP

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She had been silent for ages, rarely appearing since the death of Ra'Henna. The chicken had hardly been of use since she decided to reproduce and had her own children to take care of. Raptor Mom should've understood motherly duties came first, but it still frustrated her. Her underlings were next to useless in capturing food, because they were nothing but angry balls of flesh and scales that bickered more than they hunted. It was difficult to even walk alongside them due to their incessant screeching at one another in raptor-speak about who's second in command.

The mother had been silently haunting the caverns, for once curious about what the Gembound did, and perhaps even how they handled the monsters that Origin Caves seemed notorious for spewing out. When an earth-breaking roar resonated through the caves, she knew exactly what monstrous Gembound had awakened.

Giving only a bark of command to her bickering underlings, Raptor Mom rushed to Fornax, emerging through the entrance just in time to see the very earth beneath her and other Gembounds churning and destroying itself. "You mindless beast! I don't know what has awakened you again, but this time..." Raptor Mom hissed, each word spoken like venom dripping off her tongue. Every muscle in the dinosaur-like monster's body quivered as she propelled herself at Leviathan, screeching once before she sought the flesh of the Leviathan, "you will die!"

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After Raptor Mom entered Fornax, she was quickly followed by a squadron of much smaller raptors (in comparison to her, anyways) that chirped only once or twice in curiosity at what Mother had summoned them so urgently for. As the dust cleared and they noticed their massive leader flinging herself at a beast that had lurked in the waters for so long.

Without any argument or prompting, they followed suit and found a higher-up rock to stand on before jumping down to land on Leviathan's large head and nape. With a screech, they also sought out the flesh of the monster with sharp teeth.

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He hadn't known about Fornax, staying away from the main population would do that. Spending his current days wandering without much purpose other than chaos and bloodshed. Hey, a jaguar's gotta eat right? He had damn near crept up on a fine lesser gembound, ripe for the picking! Until that earth-breaking roar resonated through the caves. Sending every delectable gembound into hiding. A snarl escaped his throat, but that sickening sense of curiosity resonated through him. Something was awake, something large; and he was betting the situation was just like that battle with Raheerah all those cycles ago. Where there was monsters there was sure to be 'heroes'. Bolting off Vicktor chased the noise, listening intently for the sounds of battle. Before long he was standing awestruck and hungry at the events unfolding before him.

So many gembounds teaming up against this leviathan! All coming together in hopes of conquering it, how quaint. Who he should attack, oh there was so many possibilities! White eyes scanning he mused about each new face. Eyes flickering back to a few familiar ones, that vile boar...and his sweet friend Eve. NO, he wouldn't spend time attacking any of the others; especially not that boar...There was always a time and a place for everything. The time will come when he would get his chance, but focusing on them while a larger threat loomed over wasn't such a smart choice, even for a chaotic such as he.

Charging ahead that infamous heat dripping from his jaws Vicktor called upon fire. Building the molten hate in his being as it soon rushed out his esophagus and toward the leviathan. He would feast well tonight, that much was certain. Perhaps even have a pretty new gem for his collection.


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A second beam of piercing light exploded from the crow. Her eyes were bleary from the light, but she looked out across the gembounds below. None of them had taken her frantic advice of leaving as fast as she could - and the new arrival of strange creatures told her that this was most definitely not her fight. Czernobog. He was calling for her it seemed - but she couldn't figure out what he would be doing here - though she began to put her mind to it. This beast-of-the-sea could rival the likes, and authority of Aquarian. Aquarian. Father. Her heart stunk into her tiny, avian gut and her flight faltered for only a second - she began flying towards Czernobog, croaking before actually speaking. "Bog," she started, eyes darting towards Victkor. She felt her heart sink deeper. He was... alive? "P... Pounce?" The crow - flying by the great boar's nose, moved to sit on his head instead - least he feel like she'd fall and faint right and then. She breathed in deeply, mostly adressing the pig but her eyes never left the great cats. "I'm trying to get people out of here but they're not listening to me. I tried to distract it but I'm not here to fight it. Those things are," one black wing guestured to the crowd of alligator-like creatures. "This isn't our fight. I'm leaving." Her gaze shifted between Victkor and Czernobog. "Pounce, I..." she stammered, croaking. "Don't do this." table code © rasta 2015

The world bent to the Orarian's will, quickly taking down the first offender. It could feel the writhing fight inside of the beast as Sabor struggled against the magic, and it felt satisfaction. The ocean quaked around the massive Leviathan and bits of the other world came slicing through the waters. Stones pierced through the Orarian, cutting the angry creature's soft flesh and it rolled back, tentacle-like wings curling around its body for protection, retreating into the depths.

It could hear, distantly, the roar of a new creature. It rivaled not only the Orarian's size, but Iris' and the Leviathan itself-- a massive thing, with a horde of warriors charging behind it. The war had begun and the creature remembered what fear was, if only for a moment. Pushing away its worries, the starlit creature dove deeper, getting away from the thrashing while it focused, mind and magic reaching towards the largest target. The apparent leader of those who wished to assault the ocean and its dwellers; the Raptor Queen.

She would feel the wrath of the Ocean next.

As the world erupted into absolute chaos around her, Iris had fled onto land with the Gembound she had nudged away. The waters were thrown absolutely everywhere as rock split and shattered, rising up and down. The stone beneath one of the hybrid's wide feet collapsed and caused her foot to get stuck in a hole. With a bit of effort, she pulled it out and dove back into the waters, intending to at least get the leviathan to stop.

But what to do? The world around was shaking and it didn't seem like a whole lot of Gembound on the shore were willing to dip even their toes in the waters. As dinosaurs of Gembound flung themsleves at Leviathan, she had an idea of what to do.

Without any further thought, she joined the new arrivals that was the Raptor Squad (and Mom) in seeking out to bite the monster. She tried to latch onto it's underside and go for the jugular as it thrashed about.