Snippet #1570539

It was a calm and beautiful day, like so many others. High in the mountains, there was a stone shrine. A great, majestic kirin poised to strike lay just beyond a tori gate and small fountain. Flower petals blew about in the wind, drifting off the surrounding bushes and trees. Finding this spot would be a feat indeed. Many had long forgotten it.
The water in the fountain gently rippled as the earth's energy sent a surge into the stone kirin. Something stirred. Something called the God of Earth.
And then she answered. The stone kirin brightened from a dull grey to a bright white as it began to move and break free of its pose. The god stretched and groaned in delight.
Riocha soon returned from her beast form, and gently stepped down from the pedestal. She looked around. The world looked much the same to her, but why had she been awakened? Her thick white hair blew in the breeze. She turned her head up toward the sun and bathed in the warm light.
She felt full of life, just as before. But something was different. Something had prompted the magic of the earth to waken her. Something had to be wrong.
Riocha bounded up a tall, sturdy tree. She stood high in its strong boughs, looking down the mountains and to the lands beyond. Oh, but the world had changed. She saw cities, towns, thousands more humans than she ever remembered.
She jumped from the tree and took off in a sprint towards the nearest city. She would discover why she had awakened.