Feeling the cold seep in through her chrysalis Moon squeezes her eyes tighter shut, it was the first time her 'parents' had left her. She was cold and alone she quietly cried as the wind picked up and blustered against the sturdy gem chrysalis. Curling up she shuddered her thoughts spiraling out of control she couldn't imagine why they would leave her. They were always there from what she could remember, always keeping her warm, telling her stories, making her giggle with jokes and such. Why would they leave? Was, was it something she thought? These things swirled in her mind as Moon slowly plummeted into despair, something she would probably forget later on but was a huge impact on her now. Almost hysterical and anxious she soon passed into a trance thinking the bad over and over till she soon past out from exhaustion.

Within her jumbled dreams a familiar voice came to her singing a sweet song one her 'parents' sang to her when she was feeling afraid. Smiling she unconsciously snuggled to the warmth pressed to her chrysalis, melodic words reverberating across the Gem surface she sighed. "Please don't weep my dear, this is just how it must be, remember we love you as if you were our own. I hope you can understand this our little moon, please stay strong, you will find strong companions and allies, you will not need us anymore darling moon. Stay safe and let your inner light show you the way." With that they were gone, leaving Moon to her sweet dreams, their last parting gift a single rose laid by her chrysalis and the wish she would stay safe and become strong.

Waking she felt like she had missed something important but she also didn't feel sad anymore. What she did feel was the strongest urge she had ever felt, one that told her it was 'time', time to be free to see the outside and to experience a new 'life'. Pushing her tawny muscles strained against her Gem confines she attempted to break through, with all her might all she could do with that shove was bruise her back and scratch the inside of with her claws. {Damn this isn't working} She thought to herself trying to think of a better way to scrape herself out of here... {scrape...}scrape that was a nice thought, using her amethyst horn nubs she ran them along the inside of the chrysalis trying to find weak points, at the same time trying to find a good foothold within.

After what had seemed like hours, though was only a few minutes, she found what she was looking for. Digging deep she stuck her claws into the crevasse and pushed with all her might, locking her horn nubs into a divot Moon pushed and even rammed the same spot over and over making quite the ruckus as she did so. Crack by crack her gem confines gave way, muscles aching and neck sore she, with one last valiant effort slammed into the degrading spot. Pieces of Gem splintered and sprayed outward as her chrysalis shattered from the impact, sending poor Moon careening from her forward thrust. Curling instinctual into a ball she tumbled head over tail till she abruptly came to a stop on something warm and furry. Hearing an omphf she slowly opens her eyes, fluttering because of the light she can barely make out the figure that had made the noise as well as she had promptly landed on her back and was staring through her long tail but that's besides the point. XD

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words: 602
tagged: @Zariel
ooc: Uhggg its a mushy ball of crap. The muse wasn't there on this one
muse: NONE i couldn't have been any lamer

"Speech!"
-Telepathy-
{Thoughts...}
Action.

We are like the bright moon, I suppose

As all have a darker side we'll show in the end...

It had been at least a week since that fateful day when he'd been attacked by the white doe. He was lying in Arkrael's den for most of the time so he could heal but now he felt that he could go out and do a little work without permanently damaging his leg. So long as he kept the weight off of it. The white pup rose to his paws, golden eyes turning briefly to look at his lame limb. It didn't pain him too much now. The only thing that was too unsettling was his now black limbs. From the doe's shadows he had become permanently stained and was no longer completely white. A strange thing but it was nothing that hurt so Zariel didn't much care.

So, he set off with his leg lifted from the ground. The growing pup hobbled along, set on doing a small lap about the den before returning. He shouldn't be out too long and his Mama Arkrael shouldn't worry. So long as she was happy then he was happy for seeing her upset released the bad feelings from him.

As he limped along the wolf noticed something strange in his path. A new stone that wasn't there before. He would know. He had every inch of this territory plus some memorized to a T. So, what was this thing? A new gembound? Yes. He remembered seeing another chrysalis that was a different color but similar to this. Perhaps he would meet a new creature today. Mama Arkrael would be pleased and he was too. One could tell that he was by the one-second long upwards twitch of the corner of his mouth. Other than that, he did nothing. The white and black dog only stood and stared impassively at the gemstone.

Until the creature suddenly burst out and fell right onto him.

The dog said absolutely nothing as he was barreled over and had the newborn fall right on top of him. The white dog simply stared upwards at the ceiling with his blank eyes. After a full minute he finally registered that his leg was throbbing from the sudden impact so he said, "Ouch." Not loud. Not with any sort of inflection in his voice either. It was another minute before he said at the heavy weight in his gut, "Newborn-white-wolf is sitting on Zariel. The newborn-white-wolf is heavy." In his same monotone but he finally fell silent. He didn't move anymore and still stared straight up at the ceiling.

What a great introduction.

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423
@Moonbleached
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6/10

"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

Staring down at the odd looking creature she about jumped out of her skin when he spoke. Flipping over off of her back another string of words came out, this provoked some unknown irritation in her. Growling she laid her ears back and snorted at him in dissatisfaction, she would have used her words but even though she knew what she wanted to say. Her mouth just wouldn't form the words, meaning to say "I am not heavy you black-white-wolf" Turned into a grumbled garble of words unable to be understood. This in-turn irritated the crap out of Moon her eyes darkened slightly, but seeing as this wolf that was under her was probably in pain she consented to get off of him first before addressing the issue of her speech impediment later. Sliding off of the wolf she tried not to hit his leg which she noticed was being held gingerly and.. almost smacks right into it as her paws way to big for her body trip over each other causing her tail, which by the way was liken to a foxes, swung wide and slapped his leg just slightly. Not enough to really damage him but likely enough to make him wince slightly.

Spinning around she stares at him with an apologetic look on her face, again trying to speak "I'm sooo sorry" But still comes out as useless sounds that would come from a totally plastered person. Which irritate her even more as she is not able to apologize to him properly, biting her lip she waits for his response, hoping he won't be that mad, and cursing at herself all the while. The first animal she meets and she makes him hurt, {good going moon slap the cripple why dontcha, wonderful first impression good job!} She thinks to herself in the span of seconds her ears slowly lowering as she gets ready for him to snap at her.

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words: 322
tagged: @Zariel
ooc: Gahh where are you muse!
muse: 2/10

"Speech!"
-Telepathy-
{Thoughts...}
Action.

We are like the bright moon, I suppose

As all have a darker side we'll show in the end...

The young pup sitting on his belly flipped off of her own back and looked down at him. Zariel knew this because he turned his own gaze onto her when she began to grumble and make displeased sounds at him. The sounds themselves were unintelligible but he knew from her body language and the tone that she wasn't happy. About what, he knew not so he simply stared. Though perhaps he should offer an apology? That's what you did when someone was upset right? Especially if they were a baby. "Zariel is sorry for upsetting the newborn-white-wolf." There. He wanted to be a Good Dog so he would start off with using his manners.

Finally the little one clambered off but not before slapping his back leg with her large tail. However, Zariel was not one for great complaints and he simply twitched an eye briefly in discomfort but that was his only indication of pain. The white pup simply stayed on his back for a few moments longer before finally rolling onto three paws and standing up. He was just starting to grow and as a result he was a bit taller than the little pup before him. While this might cause some children joy... Zariel didn't care one bit. He only noted in the normal offhand way he did when he committed things to memory.

The little newborn was making those sounds again with her mouth only this time they didn't sound annoyed. Instead, they sounded apologetic. Zariel's head tilted slightly to the right at a twenty-five degree angle before it straightened up as he thought over her actions and then after evaluating began his response. "Zariel is okay." That was why she murmured apologetically right? She had been sitting on him, caused him pain, rolled off, then murmured. With those sequence of events that was the only logical conclusion he could come up with.

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317
@Moonbleached
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6/10

"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

Moons eyes grew large as she heard him apologize for upsetting her, she wasn't nearly as upset about anything he had done more so that she had hurt him. She again tried to speak but her words sounded even more jumbled then before. Lowering her head she glared at the ground feeling sorry for herself. Why couldn't she just communicate like she wanted to? This was so frustrating she felt like she was going to explode. She had so many things she wanted to ask, like where was she, who was he, why was she here, where were her parents, what even was she? So many thoughts trailed through her head it started giving her a headache. Slumping down she pulled her paws up over her head whimpering as she tried to think of a way to figure this out.

With nothing coming to mind Moon heaved a great sigh, peeking out from underneath her paw she gazed up at the other animal. She had some sort of memory saying that this black and white thing was a wolf. Something telling her she was the same has him and yet different other than that, nothing. Trying again she opened her mouth to ask who he was, and what his name was, hoping he would understand even when her words failed her. She also wanted to know whether or not he could teach her how to speak. She highly doubted he would understand any of that but maybe he was wiser then he look? She was still getting a feel for him but she wasn't completely sure if her intuition good enough. Either way she laid there where she was awaiting his confusion, answers or both.

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words: 285
tagged: @Zariel
ooc: OMG my muse QQ
muse: 1/10

"Speech!"
-Telepathy-
{Thoughts...}
Action.

We are like the bright moon, I suppose

As all have a darker side we'll show in the end...

The young pup stared at his counterpart, he studied the white fur on her body and her blue eyes. He looked up at the tiny nubs on her head like purple jewels. She was like him and his father with the body of his mother. Except she was not as versed in language which was fine, she was young and still learning. The pup's head tilted to the side as he listened to her strange mumblings. The white pup attempted to make the noises he did in speech but it all ended up sounding like nothing. Zariel watched as she stared at the ground, her narrowed eyes and creased forehead must mean she was frustrated.

Zariel could feel a twinge in his gut, he felt bad for her but there was nothing he could do to help. Language was something she had to discover on her own by using her mouth. Perhaps she just needed someone to tell her that. The stained pup's golden eyes stared straight at the newborn, unblinking he began to explain. "Words need practice. Newborn-white-wolf should keep trying." He intoned with his monotone voice.

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@Moonbleached
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4/10

"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

Her ears perked up as she heard the wolf's consolation, giving her hope that she one day would learn how to speak normally. And even though this shouldn't have been a huge thing, for her it was. It was like someone had given her the best present ever, one that she would cherish her entire life type deal. It also lifted the weight on her shoulders, all she had to do was be patient and she would be able to function equally to those around her. Patience, ... she could do that? at least she would try. But the road to learning started with a single step right? One foot in front of the other? So that is where she would start, springing up to her feet with glee she yipped happily and pranced over to the wolf. She wanted to know his name, moon also wanted to introduce herself so he could stop calling her 'Newborn-white-wolf'

Slowing her brain process for a moment she tried to think of each word and how it sounded in her head. Moon already knew what she wanted to say it was just getting the pronouncing from one area to the next, so maybe she just needed to concentrate more. Trying to sound out each word she meant to say "M-my name i-is MoonBleached, wh-what is you-rs?" Upon hearing her own normal sounding voice come from her mouth she yipped again, prancing where she stood. {This other wolf was right, and it that time came somewhat sooner then I had expected!} Moon grinned looking up gleefully into the taller wolfs eyes her excitement gleaming through with an almost swallowing force, she was so happy she could die, though that was not what she wanted to do. What she wanted to do was explore as much as this cave had to offer!

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words: 306
tagged: @Zariel
ooc: Poor posts lacking luster in my eyes
muse: 3/10

"Speech!"
-Telepathy-
{Thoughts...}
Action.

We are like the bright moon, I suppose

As all have a darker side we'll show in the end...

Zariel continued to watch, waiting for the newborn to say something or at least attempt to again. He knew not what else he could say to encourage her. He simply stared and waited to see how her new attempt would go. After she closed the distance between them she attempted again and finally was able to succeed. Zariel's head tilted first left and then right as he committed the name to memory. "Zariel." He answered simply, golden eyes looking into her own gleeful blue ones.

After a moment he broke eye contact to glance back behind him, towards his mother's den then back to her. Would she want to visit that? Or would she be hungry and want to explore? Probably the latter. After he'd hatched he'd been quite hungry. "Is MoonBleached hungry?"

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short
@Moonbleached
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3/10

"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

The little white wolf smiled with a yip and hopped up and down testing his name on her tongue. "Zarri-eal" Pronouncing it totally wrong didn't bother her just the fact she could say anything was better then nothing."Zarri-eal is awesome! I want to be with Zarri-eal for the rest of my life!" She stated not knowing the weight of her words, she just knew that's what she felt. He was so cool! forgiving her for hurting his leg and even encouraging her through her speech. And now thinking of her own wellness? He was amazing! And she wanted to repay him for the rest of her life. Yes this was something mad on a whim but to her it was the most important decision of her life thus far. Welllll besides for food, cause now that he mentioned it... She was really hungry.

Nodding her head she spoke again in the same excited way "Mmmhm I am hun-gery, anywhere Zarri-eal want to go?" Even though the little wolf asked this she felt a tug from within. Spurred by her hunger she drew from the well of magic she didn't know she had. Her senses heightened as she called upon her power of perception, ears perking up she swung her head right then left as the world around her seemed to get so much bigger then just the two of them. It was almost to much for her to handle closing her eyes for a moment she pressed her paws over her ears. Trembling the little white ball of fur dived underneath Zariel trying to block out the rest of the world for a moment before getting the courage to let it back in again.

Opening her eyes again she could almost see all the living things around her, big or small they were revealed to her. And all she could do was huddle there underneath the larger wolf, pressing into him for comfort she sighed and uncovered her ears as his warmth surrounded her soothing her nerves. Speaking up her voice trembling"Zah-rri-eal, waht is happ-enn-ing...Th-ere is j-usss-t so ma-ny th-ings arr-ou-nd" She stuttered out not knowing what it was that she was seeing. Overwhelmed Moon could do nothing more then what she had already done. Shivering she waited for his response as she pressed further into his soft white-black fur.

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words: 392
tagged: @Zariel
ooc: She is so damn flippant , I will love rping her XD
muse: 6/10

"Speech!"
-Telepathy-
{Thoughts...}
Action.

We are like the bright moon, I suppose

As all have a darker side we'll show in the end...