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Lily opened her eyes to the darkness of the cave she had lain in so many years ago. She stood and stretched, finding that she only felt a little stiff. How long has it been this time? And how has the world changed? She walked out of the small cave, and went to the edge of the cliff that was so close. She looked down on what used to be a forest, and was now a city. Ah, the world has changed much....I wonder what the danger is this time? to find out she would have to mingle with the humans. She inspected herself the best she could without some sort of reflective surface. Her clothes were intact, which she deemed good, though she knew the style would be old fashioned. She would have to get a new outfit once in the city below.
Lily looked down again, judging distance to the ground. Then she concentrated for a few seconds, after which giant white dragon wings sprouted from her birthmark, and through hidden slits in the back of her clothes. She flapped the wings a few times, stretching them out after a long period of not using them. Then she lept off the cliff, diving down towards the ground. At the last second she leveled herself out, and glided to the edge of the city. She landed on the far outskirts, making sure that no human saw her and let her wings go back into her body. She walked towards the city, thinking she would have to find a human partner. First though she would have to see what type of clothes the humans now wore, and see if she would have to change her look like she did the last time she woke.
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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.
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Something in the waves changed...Trysil opened a blue eye, suddenly aware of the layer of silt he's covered in. What had woken him? How long had he been gone from the world of mortals, per say? He rises, causing the silt to fall around him as he does so. Muscles twisting and turning, he takes his hydra form and slices through the water, heading for the surface. The lights of a city that wasn't there the last time he remembers coming to this area catches his attention. Good as place any he thinks, taking his human form in the shallows of the beach, looking for a way into the city.
Taya
Cursing like a sailor, Taya made her way to her home at the outskirts of the city. Though she had grown up on the sea, indeed surviving many storms that many male sailors flinch, she could not find work, and she's running low on coin. Her pleated skirts swish around her boots as she makes her way through the city she had taken to calling home. If asked, Taya would have laughed and called the inquirer insane if asked if she thought gods got involved with the lives of mere mortals. At this moment though, she praying to any of the gods that are willing to listen, pausing to lean against a crumbling brick wall. Her hands finds the scallop shell that resides around her neck, a rememberence of her parents.
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Lily instantly felt a connection to this woman, and knew that the woman was one that she could be paired with. Lily walked up to her "Excuse me lass, could you perhaps tell me the date?"
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Trysil wanders along the beach, headed for the docks for the older part of the city. There's a tugging sensation leading him that direction that tells him other gods have woken, and he wants to seek them out and find out what has caused them to rouse from their slumber.
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She needed to find out the times she was in. A few miles in front of her lay the massive structures of a city, unlike anything she had seen. Closer, though, were large houses with cut grass in front of them. Strange metallic contraptions were beside many of the homes, and Riocha gasped to find a hard, unnatural black surface covering her earth.
She had been asleep a very long time, she mused.
Past the city, Riocha noticed the blue hues of the ocean. Boats dotted the waters and the edges of the land. She did not recall boats so big, nor of those colors or material.
Riocha judged it to be a bad idea to simply walk down between the houses on the strange black surface. She didn't want to touch it; it was profane to her. Instead, she navigated around the edge of the forest, coming to an open field of crops. She continued her sprint around the bulk of the large buildings, finally stopping in a place less crowded, closer to the water. Some areas here did not have the black surfaces covering them, so she decided here was a better place for her to seek a partner, someone to tell her what she needed to know.
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Strange metal objects litter the path way leading from the docks, and the sea is heavy with a scent that Trysil doesn't recognize. This is a very different world than what he remembers from when he woke last, and decides it would be wise to seek out the others and observe current human culture, though he's guessing he's going to need a change of clothes.
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If it where possible, Taya's jaw would have hit the ground. Lily, goddess of Air, and Trysil, god of Water, standing around with her inquiring about the current century... She made note to be more careful in what asked for. "My name isn't lass. It's Taya," she squeaks.
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Riocha was close. She sprinted the rest of the way, soon seeing why the Earth wanted her here. The other gods were meeting, Lily and Trysil. Riocha came to a sudden halt, drawing up dirt and dust. Her body was stronger than the lithe form of Lily, but not as well muscled at Trysil. Each was a manifestation of their charge. Riocha did not hesitate to speak with her fellow gods.
"Lily, Trysil," she looked to them in greeting. For her, such a nonchalant greeting was hardly unusual. "How long have we slumbered?"
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