Dust

[wolfgirl184]

Its hot...was Blackbirds thought for the day, as it had been for every other hour of the day, as she wandered about the barren wasteland. All she could see was miles and miles of cracked, dry, deserted land. And not a single drop of water...anywhere.

Her black and white wings hung limply by Blackbirds sides like wet strings of ramen and if wolves could sweat...She'd be literally soaked.

This little trip through the desert had been when she was finally kicked out of her clan by the new leader who thought she was a disgrace to the clan for being born with black and white wings, a symbol of death in her clan...

She didn't like being called a disgrace but all she was now thinking about was water... The way the wasteland had been described to Blackbird before..It didn't sound bad...But this?! She was sick of seeing little visions of an oasis in the distance, run up to them, then realize she was hallucinating. She REALLY hated it.

And now she padded, aimlessly, across the scorching ground, her pads burning and her head feeling like a whole rock slide had been dropped on it. And thats when it struck. First there was a rumbling...Then a cloud of sand....And then a thing rose from the ground. It looked serpenty..It smelt serpenty..It probably was a serpent..But Blackbird didn't have time to think about it any more because at that precise moment a rock DID fall on her....Its rather big...was the last thought Blackbird had before tumbling into complete darkness....

[bjorn]

Belenus silently fluttered through the perfectly hot day. he is as large and graceful as a battle worn bird can be.he has dark plum plumage with a dull golden sheen when the light catches them. he has long navy and colours of the night tail feathers that are 3 m long. also he has a crimson crest of feathers from top of his beak over the top of his head travailing down the bridge of his back. he has the beak and legs of an osprey. with patterning the same shape as a jackdaws on his head. his feathers are rough, coarse and are in poor condition due too the many scars on his body, so all in all he was a rather battered night pheonix.

he was in an annoyed and frustrated mood, once again Lasair had let him down. Now he flew aimlessly, working off this frustration when he spotted a rather crushed looking wolf, winged wolf at that. He glided down and gracfully landed on the scorching sand, shape shifting into into a black elephant, and shuved the rock off from the top of this little figure. after he morphed back. poor creature he thought.

he looked about then enlargened his shape and picked the little creature up in his claws. and took off once more, he raised the winds to speed his flight and took the wolf to his nesting site, where there is an oasis situated. he flew down to the oasis side and placed down the creature, before fluttering into the water and using his wings to splash water over the wolf hoping to cool her and wake her. he then took some water into his beak walked over and poured it into her mouth, sencing that she should now be fine he fluttered up onto a branch and just gazed at the creature hoping to see that his effots would pay off.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird awoke...Somewhere that was definitely not where she fainted! She tried to open her mouth but instead choked on something slippery...She spluttered, coughing out the substance that was in her throat before realising it was...water!

Pawing the sleep out of her eyes she saw, to her complete and utter amazement, an oasis!Is this another hallucination? she thought, slowly getting up onto her paws. She padded towards the blue, cool water of the desert oasis and put her muzzle to the liquid and drank...It felt like complete paradise..Something as simple as water....It just refreshed Blackbird, making her forget she was sweltering with a horrible headache a few moments ago....

Whilst drinking another thought filled her head....How the heck did I get here?! She lifted her muzzle to the hot air and breathed in...There was a scent...And it smelt..rather..feathery...

[bjorn]

belenus watched from his perch, confused as to why he saved this creature. why didnt he just have killed it when he had chance? well now this was done and he wasnt about to attack the creature. seeing it move over to the oasis Belenus let out a Screech like that combined of an eagle, and bird of parasise, slightly hoping to startle her. He ruffled his feathers and then said "what is one like you doing im my waste lands, even though they are far from waste when you look around you?" his voice showed age and was commanding. this was dangerous now because she was awake and moving she may discover the aeon old nest.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird jumped up and stumbled backwards, shocked by the sudden screech. Slowly and warily, she turned around. And she saw, in front of her, a large phoenix, its glossy feathers of plum, green and crimson. It was his scent she had probably caught...." I was...sent away by my clan," she answered the creature," Were you the one who saved me?" she asked him.

Blackbird was well aware that this powerful creature could easily rip her to shreds if it felt like it...If the phoenix did save her,she had no idea why....Well, I suppose if the phoenix DID take me here..I should be grateful...she thought.

[bjorn]

"ah, another lost to the world after being shunted from thier comfortable bubble. " he fluttered down from his purch and landed next to the wolf. "it depends as to what you mean by saved. if you mean to your latiest prediciment then yes, but if you mean saved as in your life i doubt it. i am now going to ask why they shunned you from thier society? " he bulked himself up as much as he could trying to keep this young ones interest.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird pawed the ground and looked fairly uncomfortable with the question that was just asked." My wings..." she mumbled to the phoenix quietly. Why did this bird have to ask a question like that?! Blackbird thought, irritated.

It wasn't her fault that her wings were black...Its was just the way she was born...But thinking back to what she had been called by the clan leader...She wished that she had white wings...As pure white as freshly fallen snow... She looked down onto the sandy ground beneath her paws...She couldn't change it now..She had been told she was a curse to everyone she met...

[bjorn]

"yes what about them." Belenus enquired uncaring it was an uncomfortable topic. he cocked his head then thought that he would play around with this poor little wolf. he used his shape shift and turned into a pure black wolf, well now i say wolf but it was more like a skelleton with skin on it, with dark raven wings, eyes glowing deep crimson red, set deep inside a canine skelital head. "you think your wings are a bad thing, some dont know what they are gifted with, no matter weather they come from the god of death or the godess of life." he stood leering infront of the irritated creature, the smell of decay was immencly strong.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird glared up at the strange, skeletal creature, forcing a coming growl back down her throat. A shape shifter eh?she thought. A horribly strong smell of rotting flesh wafted towards her nose and she wrinkled her muzzle up in disgust. She flapped her crimson and black wings in an attempt to push the stench away.

" They see me as a curse...White and black wings...A sign of death from where I'm from..." she said, locking gazes with the skeleton wolf in front of her. Who was this thing? And why was it asking so many questions?! She was curious to know... " And now I ask, who are YOU?"

[bjorn]

"you are no sign of death. i am death itself in this form. i have born witness to your worst nightmares... tell me where does your clan lie if you want ican get them to take you back..." the skelatal wolves voice was like an echoing hiss, dead and hollow. he spread the raven wings which were moth eaten and had holes in letting the scorching sunlight pass through. "i... i am Belenus... night pheionix... i ... have walked with the creators of this world... i am one of the gods." the wolf stepped forward. oh it was fun to torment the young.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird frowned. She wasn't tricked by this..Shape shifter. She cleared her throat before talking," If you are REALLY death in this form....Wouldn't you already know where my clan is?" she asked the bone wolf, tilting to head to one side in question.

Belenus......Blackbird didn't trust him....In her clan's religion there was never a 'Belenus'. There was only The Garura, Shiranui, Kagura, Amaterasu, Sakuya...A loads of other kami....And the death god was never called Belenus....He was called Orochi....And Orochi was most definitely NOT a shapeshifter...

[bjorn]

"does life know who's dead? does death know who lives? does the great Eagle need know of the tiny gnats existance? if you answer these questions correctly i belive you will already know the answer to yours. but still you have not anwered mine. Do you wish to return to your clan... i could make you leader if you wish, let the black wings haunt you no more." Belenus spoke. seeing her confused look he then said "there is more than one god of death.. all mortals are misguided. none know the true name of death, for if they learn the name of death they would master death itself. have you heard of necromancers? tell me what do you belive they are?" Belenus beat his rotting wings twice.

[wolfgirl184]

Blackbird scoffed,staring at Belenus" Of course I've heard of necromancers! They're like dark mages!" She eyed the wolf warily," And how do you suppose you get rid of my black wings?! And I don't care about goign back to my clan...I have nothing there anyway...." She scowled,"So goodbye!" With that she ran across the sand, flapping her black at white wings until she got lift off, hoping she wouldn't see that creature in the oasis again....

[bjorn]

as soon as she got lift of Belenus returned to his normal night pheonix form, his eyes glowed and the wind instantly picked up and blew freociously against black bird. Belenus laughted and called after her, "i joke i joke, oh the look on your face." before returning to his purch and watched blackbird battle against the winds. another way that he got enjoyment, he rose the winds to gale force and watched blackbirds reaction.

[wolfgirl184]

" Yeah?! Well it was a pretty rubbish joke at that!" Blackbird howled through the winds. Frowning, she flapped as hard as she could through the gale force winds. Deciding that wasn't the best idea she decided to find a place to land. Whispering something in her own language under her breath..."Bhryohinnuegoi tsuhoiehi ehiahryotsuhoi uypan firyooymae boiehinueehiahtsuhoi maeyo panahwasuki...." her eyes took a strange glow and then a huge pillar of rock burst up from the ground, creating somewhere for Blackbird to land.

Flapping her wings gently, she landed, the unearthly glow from her eyes disappearing. She stood, looking down at Belenus," What?!" she snapped.

[ Translation: Bring the earth up from beneath my paws....]