[September RP Raffle] Echoes in the Deep - Secrets!

[Wasteland Wyvern]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: Wasteland Wyvern
Who are you entering with? Leilani
Link to the RP you're using: N/A
Prompt response: Leilani sighed as she milled about the darkened forest. Unable to sleep the tiny alicorn had decided a walk was in order and so she walked, deep into the woods thinking about her children and how badly they'd turned out. Though considering their father it wasn't exactly unexpected... How unfair it was for her to have been captured by the walker Tsaheylu but worst of all was that she'd come out from the encounter pregnant and badly wounded bodily as well as mentally...
Quickly she shook her head trying to dispel the memories... Ah how she'd love to be able forget her entire life much like Blight's son Skaalbjorn. If only such things were so easy.
As she walked she looked to the sky and the stars, pondering at literally nothing, just idle musings to quiet her troubled mind when she first heard the sounds. Initially she mistook the soft noises for the wind whispering through the trees but when she turned her ears to truly listen she heard it fully, the sound of a whisper soft voice that somehow set all her feathers bristling. Something in the voice rang back to her as irrevocably evil. Now her fur stood on end as well as her feathers bristling.
The voice sounded as silky sweet and yet horribly wrong as Tsaheylu's had. She stepped forward carefully and came across an awful sight. The body of a stallion lay on his side his breathing ragged and obviously pained and over him stood a monster.
A walker like and unlike Tsaheylu. Her light and dark brown coloring was very cat like with its spots but her paws gave her away as more. 'A purewalker...' She thought. She watched the flame eyed mare as she whispered cruel things to the horribly wounded stallion and then the purewalker turned and fled into the night leaving her victim behind.
Leilani waited for a full ten minutes, listening to the pained moaning of the wounded stallion and still the walker did not return. She waited a few minutes more before she gently trod out and looked at the victim.
A stallion of greys with a tail like a cat lay before her, badly wounded, one eye closed and bloodied.
Taking charge, now that she was mostly sure the danger was gone she gathered up a large bough of a pine branch and biting onto the stallion's ankle she drug him as gently as she could upon it, then biting onto the branch started moving him out of the clearing. He left a small pool of blood behind him and she couldn't help but wince. If she didn't act soon he'd be dead.
Finally she reached her cavern and pulled him inside, he winced and moaned and tried to open his ruined eye to find who was moving him, but his good eye rolled up into his head and he fell unconscious. She hummed in worry pulling him into her bedroom, onto the rushes she slept on and started to work on his shallower wounds, using a foul smelling but powerful poultice she smeared it onto his wounds, the pressed a large leaf to it to seal the poultice to the wound, hoping it would be enough.
She could use her Unicorn magic, as weak as it was through her mixed blood, to stop the flow, but the eye couldn't be saved. The walker's claws had bitten deep. So stop the blood flow she did, and seal his wounds with her concoctions, then she watched him day and night, making him eat and drink as much as he could stomach.
Eventually he started to rouse and asked her a few questions, like where he was, and who was she. Gently she answered, "My name is Leilani and you are safe for now..." He asked where they were and she answered, "My home. Do not worry so you will be fine. Sadly I couldn't save your eye but the rest should heal with minimal scarring." He looked at her with sad eyes and said, "I don't remember any of this..." She knew he wouldn't. While she was working on him his breath smelled foul, of human spirits. She didn't call him on it though. Everyone had their demons and everyone did what they had to when silencing them. "Please rest now. You can ask more later, but first some food and water." Carefully she fed him and gave him water and then he slept.
Through the days she and the stallion who came to be known as Ser Regulus became fast friends, and one day he departed as healed as he could be but with the promise to return and visit soon.
And with that Leilani sighed and mourned his absence already. For caring for him was the only thing that kept her own demons at bay...


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[belloblossom]

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Riddles in the Dark

Username: belloblossom
Who are you entering with? Primrose
Link to the RP you're using: Familiar Faces, in which Primrose recalls upon past imprisonment within the Carousel and finds a friend whom she thought she lost upon her escape.
Prompt response: n/a

 

[tefla]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: tefla
Who are you entering with? Zar'roc
Link to the RP you're using: n/a (rp too old) but summarising it.
Prompt response: The wolf purewalker could remember with surprising clarity the first time he had brought danger to one of his kind. He had caught onto the fact that he was being tailed one afternoon after a successful hunt. Instincts clamoured at the stallion to swiftly end the life of the one who would dare to intrude but instead he set out to teach his "stalker" a little lesson. Instead of taking care to hide his kill he set out to poison the carcass and leave it in full view, knowing full well that whatever was tailing him would be tempted to sup at the leftovers.

After hiding himself in nearby foliage his follower did indeed dine on his kill. Perhaps being a young cub the symptoms overtook the youngster fairly quickly, incapacitating her rather quickly. From somewhere deep in his depraved mind he revealed himself at this time and began his lesson in why it was not wise to tail a predator.
 

[tefla]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: tefla
Who are you entering with? Umeko
Link to the RP you're using: n/a (rp too old) but summarising it.
Prompt response: Umeko always felt uneasy around ice-covered surfaces. She would never forget the time she was out with Daenarys and she had foolishly gone out on an ice-covered surface only to discover the hard way that not all ice can hold the weight of a fully grown mare. Even one as light as she had been back then. The ice had cracked and she had gone under. If it weren't for a passing "nice" kalona she would have died in the frozen waters.
 

[Pandora Talie]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: Pandora Talie
Who are you entering with? Zak
Link to the RP you're using: n/a
Prompt response:

The air is warm and sky is clear and blue. It is a typical day, for Zak. Wings buzzing, the green flutter flies low, zipping over craggy rocks and between mossy gnarled trees. He’s always enjoyed tempting fate, slipping through tight spots and barely skimming the surface.

Just the day before, he heard the most interesting story. It was a tale of magical treasure. Hidden deep underground, it was said to have belonged to a rat pirate king. Many have tried to find it, but those that occasionally survive to tell the tale always return empty handed.

Zak arrives at the burned woods. A significant forest fire tore through this place years ago. Bleached and charred sticks protrude, awkwardly, from the ground. The stallion stops at a large weathered stump to get his bearings. He shift his small brown messenger bag down and produces a rolled scrap of yellowed parchment. “Hmm…” He scratches his head. It’s a good thing that the map is light on words. Despite his bravado, he has several weaknesses that he refuses to acknowledge. Paramount of them today is his inability to read anything.

In any event, he studies the graphics and symbols for a moment before stowing the map away. Zak takes to the sky, once more. He finds the landmarks without much effort: a shoe shaped pond here, wierd hill that kind of looks like an arrowhead there. Flying is kind of cheating when you’re playing this game.

The flutter lands at a pair of crossed trees. A cracked rock behind bears a distinct resemblance to a two-leg’s skull. And there it was, a smallish hole, a big enough to be a cave if you were a rat he figures. Zak shrugs. He shrinks down to the size of a rat and steps inside. Its cool and slightly damp, in the hole. Overall, it’s not that bad, he thinks.

Contrary to normal, the now tiny stallion plods along through the tunnel. His eyes are slow to adjust to the low light conditions and the further he goes the less he can see. It’s all black now. Zak stumbles ahead for another couple minutes. “Ow!” After tripping over another root, he’s ready to throw in the towel when... he sees something ahead.

A dim light flickers in the distance. Slowly, cautiously, one might say, he approaches. If you asked he’d probably claim to be just warming up, or something. The narrow tunnel opens to a larger chamber lit by a small fire. The flutter’s heart skips a beat. Before him sleeps a monster of a snake. In Zak’s shrunken state, the creature towers over him, its coiled body fills the whole room. The flutter’s jaw drops and he almost makes a noise when he hears another. “Shhhhh…” Suspended in a small cage is a little cream colored mouse. She beckons him to come closer. By whatever turn of fate, the furry little critter seems to have found itself in a bit of a bind. She gestures at her cage door. It’s latched from the outside, just out of reach of her dexterous little hands. No problem, Zak nods with a grin. He zips up and springs her.

The old snake stirs in his slumber, but the commotion doesn’t wake him. He merely rolls and yawn, returning to sleep. They waste no time making their way back out of the tunnel.

Once clear, Zak tells the mouse, “Going to have to come back later to look for that treasure, I suppose.” He smirks.
 

[tefla]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: tefla
Who are you entering with? Kayleena
Link to the RP you're using: n/a (rp too old) but summarising it.
Prompt response: Having been tricked by the stallion Daimhin and following him to the herd of the Mahapadma this small usdia was stuck in a precarious situation. Kayleena could not escape as her captor had found an ingenious way of keeping her in one place by taking away her sight via a blindfold. Life seemed okay until Samsara, creator of Mahapadma, caught wind of her presence. It was then that she attacked Kayleena before Daimhin intervened. Kayleena attempted to escape but another herd member stopped her before she got too far.

Samsara gave her the chance to leave but Kayleena did not act on the chance. Instead she chose to stay.
 

[tefla]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: tefla
Who are you entering with? Tsaheylu
Link to the RP you're using:
Prompt response: It wasn't often that the flutter turned catwalker spent time wondering just how his little pet project was dealing with the aftermath of her imprisonment. It had been a while since he'd last caught more than a fleeting glimpse of the mare Leilani. At times the urge to reacquaint himself with the mare flickered brightly and at other times he could not believe how low he'd stooped in order to draw Leilani in. But the results of his ploy had been all too sweet: physically grounding a flying breed was no easy feat and yet he'd managed to do so. Keeping Leilani as a prisoner for the length of time that he had was icing on the cake. If only her little bonded friend hadn't shown up ... who knows how long he would have enjoyed keeping Leilani at his side.

As it was he knew that someone else out there had captured the mare's heart ... perhaps soon he'd have to pay a visit to the "happy couple" if only just to sow more misery. Leilani might have escaped him physically but mentally he knew who still haunted her thoughts...him.
 

[tefla]

Riddles in the Dark

Username: tefla
Who are you entering with? Gaston
Link to the RP you're using: n/a
Prompt response: At times Gaston could almost swear that meeting Kumiho had all been but a dream. However fervently he willed this to be true though reality always settled around him like the permanent cloak of darkness that greeted him every time he woke. Blindness, complete and incurable. That had been Kumiho's gift to him on that foolish day he had shed caution to the wind to follow the beauteous mare to a place that had apparently contained gemstones. He had been enamored with the mare's beauty and wondered if a specimen such as himself even had a shot with someone of her caliber. What Gaston did not realize that he was walking into a trap from a purewalker. It was hastily executed and though he survived he had been stripped of one of his most important senses.

At times he'd wake up in a cold sweat but if there was one good thing to be taken away from that horrible day it was that he had reconnected with a childhood friend who'd been concerned enough to search for him. They had found each other by chance and now he was going to let B'Elanna know just how much she meant to him day after day after day.

Even though he'd found danger, he had also found love. He could deal with one if he also had the other.