Lodan Maryain's Story

Lodan stretched and yawned as the sun started to come up. He hopped down from the tree and shifted to his human form. You could only see his ears sticking up out of his head. He was very tired and weak because it was almost a full moon. He walked over his cabin and climbed up on to his cabin and laid down curling up like he was still in his fox form. He watched everyone wake up and start on their daily duties. He waited a while before jumping down and heading for the woods so he could go hunting. He was in charge of bringing back meat for the whole camp. It didn't take him long to find a large buck using the spirits. He quickly shot it down and carried it back to camp. He laid it down and the cooking cabin then headed back to his cabin to lay back down.

Scarny was awakened by the smell of something delicious. She awoke slowly then smiled putting her hand on the dragons head. When it woke up it looked startled and alert. Then is calmed itself and slowly stood up stretching in unison with Scarny. The animals around them ran off seeing the dragon awake. That made Scarny smile more. When she felt she could finally fly she hopped on the dragons back and it took off leaving large groves from its paws in the ground. They came quickly to the camp and it felt to soon for Scarny. When they landed they wondered over to the cooking cabin and got some food sneaking a little extra for her dragon. She left and walked over to the dragon. She stuck a peace of bead on her pointy ear and played with the dragon. Moving every time it went to get the bread. Then she finally let it take the bread. Then they walked over to some trees and sat down eating.

Zella stopped sparring when she got bored. She wanted an actual partner not water spawns that she quickly killed. She sighed then dived into the water again searching for fish. When she found enough she cam back on shore and her form became human again. She started eating the fish raw when something took her food. She jumped up and shot a blast of water at it and used the water around it picking it up and throwing it around. She finally put it back down and laughing. She pat the serpent on the head as it put the fish back, taking one to eat for itself.

Lodan could feel the activity growing around him. He sighed and jumped off of the building. He walked around for a while. Then he saw a girl in barley anything. He became worried then realized he couldn't see an aura from her. He could see many large dark spirits around her though. He walked over to her slowly before he realized that she was a demon. He smiled to himself before speaking up. "Sorry to bother you but I became worried when I couldn't see the aura of your spirit. Now I know why."

As the male approached, Faron turned to look at him.

"Sorry to bother you but I became worried when I couldn't see the aura of your spirit. Now I know why." He said. She flashed him one of her award winning smiles. She tossed back her white mane as she laughed.

"Intresting, those eyes of yours. Can you see my linage from all the way over there?" She had a small animal in her hand she had grabbed earlier with a shadow cage. She was slowly roasting it in her hands.

"You can come closer, I don't bite," Her voice was smooth and creamy, seductive. She patted the ground beside her inviting him to come sit.

Lodan sat down but not right next to her. He didnt like to get close to people. He feared they could force his change into a kit dune and take his tails. Do indtead he sat just out of reach of her. His little orange ears flicked in every direction listening for danger. They would settle down they start up again but he ignored them easily. "I have never met a demon up close before. If that's what you call yourself."

She laughed at his question. it amused her that he was afraid of her. She watched his ears flicker around on high alert. She supposed he was rightful to be scared of her. It wasn't like her species had a very good reputation.

"I don't call myself anything really, you can call me Faron." She smiled to play it off but she was a little ashamed of her heritage. Her powers were dark and terrifying, and she could easily destroy almost any life around her.

"Are you hungry fox-boy?" she gave him a seductive smile. "If that is what you call yourself." she used his own words against him in a playful manner, offering him some of her food.

Lodan's ears perked up when the singing started. "Its a siren. I can tell. Nasty creatures they are." He said grabbing a mouse and popping it in his mouth. His favorite snack was owl eggs but he did like mice as well. He declined the food she was offering and started playing with a grass hopper instead. "They control people's mind with their song and get them nto the water where they die. Horrible." He was ready to go on a rant and he knew the ways of a demon. "Demons are civil about it. Sirens are horrible. They just kill all the time to kill. Demons have reasons." He growled in his chest as he started tearing the grass hopper apart.

Scarny heard the a faint tune then soon after she felt the earth change. It confused her and the confusion transfered to her dragon who rose it head also confused. She could not tell why the earth suddenly changed. She rose and climbed onto the dragon. They shot into the air and she looked around to see how much had changed. It wasn't a large bit just around the lake. She flew over top and landed silently near the lake. She watched things unfold.

Zella saw the shape of the water take a form and became confused. She looked at the serpent who looked at her questioning why she put that there. "I didn't do it you big lug." She told him then got up leaving the fish for him to eat. She came closer and saw it was a siren. Then she saw the unfortunate victim and pushed him back on shore using the waves. She ran over and held her trident, now in full Undine from, at the siren. "Back away Siren! You are not taking another victim anytime soon! These are my waters!"

“What do you need?” asked the red eyed boy. Feet. A body. Companionship. Home. “If there is anything I can do I would be willing to help.” Teach me. Just as Rilletta was about to create a small human girl with the water, the waves shoved the light haired boy back to the shore. "Ar rye!" she cried, steadying the waves and giving the light haired boy a gentle push to prevent him from falling.

Looking up, Rilletta found herself staring into the eyes of a a large blue serpent. She flinched and from her liquid body a spinning water hole began to form, Siren sank down, her torso disappearing into the ocean until her breasts rested on the surface. Her long hair floated around the surface of the water like a strange ripple.

"Back away Siren! You are not taking another victim anytime soon! These are my waters!" called an Undine. RIlletta understood the water creature's language - her waters? She was thoroughly confused for Rilletta was water. Her body was made of water, her soul was water, Rilletta was water itself. She did not understand why the Undine was calling the light haired boy a victim. She did not mean to harm him - the Siren merely wanted a friend. The friends she'd brought into the water no longer spoke to her. Perhaps it was because she was a bad creature but for the life of her, she could not pin point what she'd done.

The whirling madness around the Siren calmed but the ocean was interrupted by vibrations in the land. Rilletta quickly dropped into the sea but the shaking was even worse down there. With a piercingly beautiful cry, she rose from the oceans. Looking around, she saw she was surrounded. RIlletta was terrified and she did not know where to turn. Even the water did not want her now. Spinning around to look for an escape, the Siren spoke in her voice of pure honey, laced with the anise of utter fear, "Arryfy kl urrmie tes Listea," I mean no harm. "En ennala kl kailya sashel," I do not understand what you want. "Rrha zweie ra jesta fetala stele bans." I cannot leave your waters for I am water. There is nowhere for me to go.

Rilletta's form was wavering - her kaleidoscope eyes were becoming more solid, her dark blue lashes beginning to show. Her skin fluttered between flesh and water, her long transparent hair flickering from colourless to midnight blue. Vibrations in the water was pulling her downwards and her strange half-human body could not breathe under water.

The Siren was drowning.

Her now rose painted lips gasped, sinking below the surface and up again. She could not breathe air and she could not breathe water. Trapped in a horrible in-between of not human and not water, Rilletta looked at the surrounding creatures desperately. She wanted to tell the light haired boy to pull her out of the water because if he did, her mermaid's tail would turn into legs and she would take the form of a human girl and be allowed - however temporary - life on land.

The waves worked against her - they'd never done this before. Perhaps it was the Undine or the strange vibrations in the land, she wasn't sure. But whatever it was, it sucked Rilletta downwards and she did not understand why she could not breathe underwater. Rilletta thought everyone could. Perhaps she was an abomination - yes, that must be it.

Her liquid mermaid's tail slowly turned into two smooth legs. Her naked skin was not water. Her eyes were the same lucid kaleidoscope but everything else had changed. Her long blue hair was wet, her skin pale and light but very much solid. Water choked through her full lips and suffocated her upturned nose. Reaching out a hand to steady herself on the waves, she found she could not. Large eyes wide with terror, she was filled with confusion. Why did the water not let her breathe?

If Rilletta had been calm, she could've turned herself into water. If Rilletta had been alone, she might've stayed as water. If Rilletta had known humans could not survive in water, things might've been different.

It was ironic that RIlletta could not swim.

"We don't always have a reason," Her tone was teasing. She heard the song too, sweet and sad, it was easy to tell how people could be drawn to it. She would herself, if she weren't a stronger being. Even now the curiosity filled her. Faron quickly shook those feelings away.

"How is it that you know so much anyway, You don't look like a scholar to me?" She finished her meal, stretching out in the sunlight. The grass died underneath her hot flesh as she lay on it, withering in the scolding heat.

Scarny couldn't hear the whisper but heard his mind. She also saw his true identity. The large creature that he was born and the small boy he chose to portray. She also saw in the back of his mind a slight hint of something he once was in a past life. Something reflecting what he was then. She shook it out of her mind and instead turned to attention to the drawing in the sand. "Yes I know what it is. My father had saved the life of one and later it saved his life. I only got to see it disappear in the sky." She thought how her father said she would encounter one again one day, it made her smile. She stood and brushed the sand from her shorts and tank top. She moved towards the dragon and looked over at the man with the mask. "I am going to fly and I am sure he will fly too, would you like a ride? I am sure if you dont want to ride with me you could ride with him." She stopped and turned to Ahura. "Unless you want to ride with me too. We can all ride on him. He is gentle and very large."

Lodan smiled and slightly laughed. "OK this will be a bit hard but lt me try." He closed his eyes and concentrated real hard. Within a minute his ears disappeared and eleven tails appeared on his lower back. He opened his eyes and yawned. "Sorry it is almost a new moon so its really hard to do this." He yawned again at the end of the sentence and looked at her. "This tails are of the knowledge and all types of things I have done. Not in this life, past ones. I have been rewarded with all of what I learned it my past lives. I still feel the hurt for the ones I lost, and when they lost me." He tried to explain to her. He didn't really want her to know her previous ten names.