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A viper gets lost in the woods only to discover....something very old.

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Unearthing the Forgotten (Aka)

Postby Traverse on September 3rd, 2013, 7:06 pm

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Unearthing the Forgotten
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Well she had really gone and done it this time, hadn't she?

Aka was far form the nest, farther than usual. It was all really a big misunderstanding. One tick she had been hunting a juicy capybara mother and her little infants, the next a rainstorm that had forgotten it was fall had dropped over her head and forced her to take cover, except before she was able to she had slipped down a muddy slope, gotten completely turned around and it had been a solid day before she realized she was going to entirely wrong way!

What was worse...there seemed to be no more capybara around.

Hungry, dirty, and utterly lost, the day took simply another turn for the worst when a shadow fell over Aka's Dhani frame as she slithered over the damp soil. Another petching storm?

But no...the source of the sudden darkness wasn't a storm at all, it was a huge rocky wall, covered by moss and vines and carved structures partially obscured by the foliage, and casting a shadow over her frame, which although always dwarfed by those around her, was made much smaller but the crumbling columns that might have once held the structure together.

What...was this place?
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Unearthing the Forgotten (Aka)

Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 9th, 2013, 11:41 am

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Well, she was in tough shyke. Aka rubbed her Dhani head and looked around as her vision gradually focused itself. She hit her head on a low hanging branch just now, not knowing where to go. She was lost, utterly lost, she had never been in this part of the jungle before... she was sure of that, these strange rocky walls, she never seen them before. "Where... the petch am I?" She thought out loud, her hissing voice more desperate than angered. She flicked her tongue, trying to locate something, she didn't know what, but at least something alive! She was hungry and dirty, her red scales wasn't made for environments like this. The dry sand of Eyktol was much much better than this Siku-forsaken jungle.

She didn't have time to worry about those ruins on the wall... no, she had to eat something, anything! Aka slithered forward, tongues flicking in search of prey. She took the moment to look at her palms, the glyphs... they were gone. Great... jussst great! In situations like this, the glyphs that helped her exhume res faster - even for just a few ticks - would be very welcomed, and it just so happened that the glyphs had expired after her last training session and she forgot to draw them again.

Sighing and almost losing hope, Aka went to the rocky wall and rested her form, trying to form some semblance of plan. No one was going to help her here, no Mamoru, no Senka, and no Senescaaspia. Heck, even her slave, Shirayuki, was not here either. She was completely and utterly alone. To make matters worse, it was nightfall. If she wasn't a Dhani with amplified senses, she would be dead by now.

Seeing that sitting around would do her no good, Aka decided to redraw her glyphs, she dipped her right index finger nail to the wet ground and used the mud to draw the glyph on her left palm, making a circle-like shape, complete with squigglies around the circle to represent snakes. She finished up by drawing over her eye-shaped mark. It took her about five chimes to draw it, she really need to practice it more. She was about to begin the painstaking process of drawing the rune on her right palm using her non-dominant left hand when... her heat vision caught something, something pulsing and alive.

Deciding to abandon it for now, Aka - somewhat - stealthily slithered forward, hiding herself among the thick vegetation to find...
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 9th, 2013, 3:12 pm

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...a tapir! A big fat tapir! Aka's slitted eyes went wide in excitement and hunger. Through her senses, she noticed that she was downwind, good. She peeked from behind the bush, using her heat vision to pinpoint her strike, flexed her tails, and strik-...

*WHOOP WHOOP!*

If not for that heavy flapping sound, Aka would have launched herself by now, but she stopped herself. The strange heavy sound like something enormous was flapping made her jumped in surprised fear. She instinctively looked to the sky to find. A large heat signature of a bird-like creature. No, it wasn't a bird, it was a monster! It was too big to be a bird.

Aka's body shuddered in awe, the bird was fearsome and beautiful to behold. It had a eerily glowing silver-white body, like a mini moon flying above. The red eyes and red accent on its tails only accentuated its aura of authority as a bird of prey, its crest like a crown, a ruler of the jungle sky. A feather dropped from its body and fell down near Aka... even when separated from the owner, it still glowed white under Leth's light. It didn't take a genius to know that this creature was definitely magical. Aka looked up again to find some black parts on its body. They were its feet and razor-sharp talons, this bird was basically a giant glowing eagle.

To make matters worse, it didn't fly pass her, no, it circled around the area. Aka didn't know whether it viewed her or the tapir as snacks, maybe both. No... no no no no! Aka panicked, she slowly backed away from the bush. She must take shelter, from her experience, some eagle eat snakes and that creature was a giant eagle. She slithered away from the bush, heading to the nearest, largest, shelter she could find, the ruins carved into the rocky wall.

"Faster.. faster..." *WOOOSH!!* "Waaaaaaah!" She felt the air around her turned sharp as the bird swooped down, extended its talons and...

Grabbed the poor tapir, Aka looked back as it came landing to the ground, its talons piercing the tapir's flesh. O-okay! Y-you got your meal! G-get away! But the bird thought otherwise, its glowing body never leave Aka's sight, it decided to stay there and began eating its prey, occasionally looking around to see if any thieves would dare to approach its majestic presence.

"*Gulp*..." Aka swallowed a lump, it was only a matter of time until she was found, the bird seemed to have excellent vision, like an owl. Aka noticed she was in her biggest, widest form. She needed to change and fast! Unfortunately, Siku didn't bless her children with Kelvic-like transformations. She prayed for the bird to not notice the thirty ticks needed for her to become a snake. That prayer was immediately shot down when she found the bird's beautiful red eyes facing off with her scarlets.

This... is bad.
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 14th, 2013, 1:18 pm

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What a nice situation she was in. To front, a giant glowing white bird, to her back, a stone wall aligned with ruins filled with who-knows-what. The only option left was to her sides... no, the bird would still catch up to her and gore her with those beaks and talons. Her scarlet eyes darted left and right, she must make a decision now. The bird was already squawking at her with its beautiful - yet terrifying - voice. Not knowing else what to say, Aka just spout the first word that came to her mind.

"H...hi..."

Alright, that was a bad move on her part. The bird removed its talons from the tapir and charged at her. "N-nooooooooo!" She hissed in panic, there was only one way to go, to the back! Aka's dhani frame turned around and sprinted to the ruins. "Aaaaaaaaah!" The sight was quite amusing, with the little snake panicking and scurrying from the giant white bird behind it. The bird was catching up to her fast due to Aka's exhaustion. "Fassster! Fassster! Fasssteeeeeeer!"

She spotted a broken entrance to the ruins, it was only half-open, the rest blocked by ruined stones. It was big enough for Aka to enter, but too small for the bird. Timed seem to slow down as Aka lunged for the safety of the ruins, She could almost feel the bird's beak snapping at her... *THUD!!*

.........

......

...

"Ha... ha..." Aka's blurring vision came back to focus. Was she dead? Claimed by the Goddess of Death? She saw the bird's head snapping at her, trying to enter the ruin's entrance, but its large body didn't allow it to. In instinct, Aka immediately backed away, deeper into the temple. She kept watching the bird until it gave up and went back to its tapir prey.

"Phew..." She exhaled in relief, but that didn't last long. Now she found herself in a strange - most likely dangerous - ruined temple with the bird just waiting near the entrance, she got no other choice but to find another exit. Which was the problem... she didn't know shyke about this place. She found herself in a temple hall of some sort... with figures of a woman with black hair... and strange... exquisite Myrian-like clothing painted as murals on the walls and columns.

"Thissss a temple of... Myrians?!"

Deep shyke
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 15th, 2013, 4:55 pm

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Examining her surroundings, Aka saw the temple was indeed abandoned and in ruins, moss and vines crept over the columns, walls, floors, and decorations. The large statue of a Myrian woman equipped with weapons and clothing that suggested someone of a high stature was perched at the elevated stage in front of her, at the far-end of the hall. Aka was immediately intimidated, what if some Myrians still lived in this forsaken place? It was unlikely... but one could never be too careful with those Bronze monsters.

Still, going back was definitely not an option and waiting until the giant bird leave was also not an option, she was hungry and tired, she needed something to eat. Resting here now could be the end of her, no, she must find a way out of this place. Aka flicked her tongue and sensed her surroundings, no heat signatures in sight, that means no one was here as far as she could "see". She slithered forward, deeper into the hall, until she found the entrance to a hallway to her left, she looked to her right and also found another ruined hallway entrance at the right section of the stone walls, but it was further in the hallway.

Aka pondered for a moment and decided to explore the left hallway first, perhaps she could still find some food there. She slithered there and... Curses! found out most of the hallway's entrance had been covered by stones and rocks. She could fragment the rocks with her reimancy though... she decided to try it, she concentrated and rubbed her hands together, emitting her reddish slimy res.

She hissed, feeling the res reacting to her will, then she held her scaly palms outwards, commanding it to gather the rocks and stones blocking the hallway's entrance. Only a few ticks of working, the temple then rumbled as if shaken by something. "....eh?" Aka immediately stopped her work out of caution then a some pebbles fell on top of her head "Ouch! What th... oh ssshyke!" A rather large piece of the stone ceiling dropped from above. She must get out of there! Acting on instinct, Aka coiled her tail and sprang away from her location. A tick later...

*BAAAAM!!*

"Ha... ha... ssshyke... ssshyke..." The piece of stone slammed violently into the ground, breaking it into smaller pieces. Pieces that would include Aka's crushed form if she didn't use her agility to dodge away just in time. What caused it? After collecting herself, Aka literally facepalmed herself. How could she be so stupid? The ruined temple looked unstable enough to stand on its own, it couldn't withstand someone messing around with its already fragile condition. Aka realized that it was mos likely her tampering with earth reimancy earlier that caused the rumble. She made a mental note 'NO more earth reimancy stuff!', at least the ones that involved altering the temple's architecture.

She inhaled and exhaled, calming herself, and looked at the hallway's entrance again. It was still blocked.... she needed to find another way. That's when her slitted eyes found a small hole at the lower left corner of the entrance, just large enough for her snake form to fit "Bingo!" She hissed. It was a good thing she was not a giant constrictor, Mamoru would definitely have a hard time navigating through small spaces. Speaking of Mamoru... would he be missing her if she went missing? Nah, he probably would just shrug and continue on with his Myrian-killing life.

Shaking her head to get rid of unnecessary thoughts, Aka began transforming to her viper form. Her arms fused to her body and her humanoid torso narrowed until she became a full red viper thirty seconds later. Aka flexed her jaws then slithered to the small hole, entering the hallway. She hoped that whatever was inside would be edible and less life-threatening.
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 16th, 2013, 3:01 am

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Finally arriving at the other side of the entrance, Aka found herself to be in a ruined hallway. Mushrooms growing here and there, would they be edible? Aka had insufficient knowledge about Falyndar's plant life to safely decide, besides, she was a carnivore, non-meat were bad for her. She slithered forward, heat-vision seeking the signatures of animals. After a few ticks of slithering, Aka noticed an entrance to a room on her left, she turned her head there and found.. signatures, heat signatures! Hissing hungrily, Aka changed direction and entered the room.

In the darkness, she made use of her amplified hearing, smell, and taste to find her way around. Her heat-vision also helped a great deal combined with sensing vibrations under the ground. Through the outlines made by the heat signatures, Aka could see a group of jungle rats, one large and six smaller ones. Finally! Some food. The large one must be the mother while the smaller ones would be its children. No matter, they were all going to rest peacefully inside her stomach soon. Aka stealthily slithered, flexed her jaws, and prepared her venom.

The mother rat realized too late that a predator was looming over it, its beady eyes turned to find two long fangs of a Viper lunging for her. *CHOMP!* Faster than an eye-blink, the red Viper pierced her twin fangs to the mother rat's body, injecting her venom. Aka kept clinging on the rat as it thrashed and struggled. The rat's infants were not old enough to even realize what was going on. After a few chimes, the rat was dead, killed by the infamous deadly viper venom.

Aka then began the usual process of swallowing the rat whole, her jaw opened wide. The right and left halves of her upper and lower jaw moved independently, pulling the rat further and further into her body. Aka wasn't really fond of eating in her snake or dhani form after travelling for so many years in her human form with Galbern, but this experience could bring her Dhani habits back. After a few moments of swallowing, a rather large lump could be seen on Aka's body, gradually travelling further to her digestive system. She looked to the poor rat's infants, well, they would join their mother soon enough! She hissed and began biting each of the rat babies with her venom, killing them, and proceeded to swallow them all as well.

Full and satisfied, Aka would enjoy digesting her preys, she couldn't switch forms while doing this so Aka opted to just stay in the room for about two to three days, until the digesting process is completed. Curling up at a corner of the room, Aka closed her eyes, and slept. Resting her exhausted body.
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 16th, 2013, 8:16 am

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3 days later...

Aka woke up from her sleep, not that she was sleeping for three days straight, but just the particular sleep from yesterday night. She didn't know what time it was, the room was completely devoid of windows, perhaps only some small openings for ventilation. Aka let her mind became fully awake for a couple of chimes. She examined her surroundings again, it was the same as ever. The eerie silent atmosphere of an abandoned temple. Aka moved from her corner and slithered her way back to the entrance, into the crack, and appeared back at the hall.

She remembered, that bird must be gone by now! Slithering happily, Aka made her way to the previous temple's entrance. Her joy was suddenly crushed with impunity as she sound the entrance had been covered in rocks and stones. It seemed her use of reimancy a few days ago caused it. She made a face full of despair. No holes or cracks even for her small viper form, she couldn't use that entrance anymore. Using earth reimancy was not an option, lest she wanted to destroy the already fragile structure, taking her with it. Staring in disbelief for a full five chimes, she began to panic, but her survival instinct kicked in. She had no other choice, she must continue deeper and hoped the ruins had some kind of backdoor or alternate exit.

"Sss... dang..." The path forward with broken platforms, columns, and chunks of stones would make travelling in her viper and dhani form difficult, she needed to jump around, while her serpentine "legs" can't... "jump" in a human sense. She would have to sacrifice amplified sense and viper agility for the ability to jump with two legs. Sighing, Aka began transforming to her human form. Her body widened, limbs spawning from her sides, her red scales receded, replaced by pale skin, face turning humanoid, and long ebony hair growing from her head. All in the spans of thirty seconds, one thing that was still somewhat similar was her slitted scarlet eyes.

"Ah... curses... curse this!" She shouted in common, her bare form sitting on the ground, she was rewarded with echoes of her own voice. Standing up, Aka squinted her eyes to get used to the dark. She looked for some small vines, ripped them, and used them as hair ribbons to tie her waist-length hair to their familiar twintails. Grumbling and complaining, Aka looked to the array of broken columns, statues, and chunks of stones before her. She groaned, flexed her legs, and ran forward, vaulting over a column.

It was not over yet, she still had a rather long way to go until she reached the end of the hall with the giant statue of whoever-that-is. Aka didn't want to stay in her human form for too long, she was at the weakest. Her feet jogged before deliberately falling to slide under a hanging debris. She recovered and began running again. She caught something at the corner of her eye, a door! That must be the door to the right hallway.

Aka got her attention divided for just a tick but it resulted in her crashing into a pile of hanging vines. "ACK!!" Her neck got caught in a vine though her body kept moving forward due to the momentum, resulting in her falling back-first to the ground. "*Cough*! *Cough*! Ack... bweh... gahak!" She gasped for breath, petching vine chocked her! After a chime, Aka recovered. Since she was so rudely stopped by the vine, she might as well examine the hallway on her right.

Standing up, she made her way to the strange-looking stone double door. She couldn't exactly make it up in the poor light, but there were carvings on it. Eh... they look like... The humanoid figures wielded spears and swords. Myrians... Now that she was full and rested, Aka could think of other matters than her own survival. A hatred of this place began growing in her heart. This ruins once belonged to Myrians, foul savages that actively kills her cousins. Now, other than wanting to get out, she also wanted to destroy the place. She just needed to find a way without killing herself in the process.

That's for later, for now, she wanted to open the door first. Aka first tried the most simple solution, pushing it. "Heeegh! Aaaaaagh!" As expected, her lithe limbs couldn't budge it. She growled in anger and threw a small stone at it. "Huh?" For just a moment, a strange shimmer could be seen on the surface of the door, like something invisible was covering it. She threw another stone and true, a shimmer could be seen for a tick, like a transparent layer of water on the surface.

What... is it?
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 21st, 2013, 5:20 pm

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She was deep in thought, something was definitely up with this door. Some other power was protecting it, like a layer of invisible, shimmering... Shield Something clicked inside her mind, the door was protected by the magic known as "Shielding"! Yes, that must be it! What else? Galbern had explained about it to her once, but like always, she was not listening. Aaaaagh! Why? Why?! She facepalmed, she should had been more diligent in her studies, she couldn't remember anything aside from the deduction that she must somehow destroy this shield before proceeding.

Uhm... how do you... how... After five chimes of thinking, Aka gave up, she opted for the simple solution, brute force! She prayed to Ivak that he would protect her and do not let the temple's ceilings fell on top of her. Flexing the fingers on her right hand, Aka emitted her reddish slimy res, she turned around and focused, pulling a watermelon-sized stone piece of a destroyed column to her, the chunk of rock was now floating her her right hand.

Turning around, examining the door once more, Aka willed her res to reshape the rock, it fragmented and formed the rough shape of a large spearhead. She wanted to rip out the annoying shield by stabbing it repeatedly. Aiming the spearhead to the door, Aka concentrated and launched it forward.

*THUD!!*

The loud sound of rock bashing against rock echoed in the temple, Aka immediately looked upwards to see if the ceiling took offense and decided to drop another of its load to her. Thankfully, it didn't. Now she could examine the result, the door looked damaged at the impact area. Aka picked up another pebble and threw it to the door. *Thud* Surprisingly, no shimmer, no watery surface, nothing. D-did I...? Staring in disbelief and anticipation, Aka approached the door and pushed it.

*GRRRK!*

By Ivak, she succeeded! Slow, but sure, the right part of the door opened by her push. She was right, brute force was the key. Her earth reimancy must be powerful enough for it to rip through the shield. Hissing happily, Aka fully opened the door to find a... cavern corridor much like Zinrah, lit by glowstones.

What? How?

How could this be? It was like the door was a portal into a Dhani nest. This was just some kind of a bad joke, right? A Myrian temple connecting with a cavern hallway. The builders must have forgotten to finish building this particular corridor, but if that was the case, why would there be glowstones? It was like whoever built this temple wanted to create a copy of a Dhani nest.

Oh no! W-what if?! Thinking that some of her cousins could be trapped in there, Aka ran forward against her better judgement, venturing inside the corridor. As she explored further, she found out the corridor had no branches like Zinrah, only a straight pathway lit by glowstones on the left and right walls. Something was not right, what is this place?
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Postby Soshakuakamamushi on September 23rd, 2013, 6:03 am

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Danger.

Danger.

Danger

Aka's gut instinct was screaming at her to turn around, turn around and escape this mockery of Zinrah. The fear was different than when she faced Myrians, panthers, or that giant bird. This feeling was fear of the unknown, fearing something because she didn't know jack-shyke about what lie ahead. Still, the thought of rescuing her cousins forced her to move on, Aka ignored everything and just kept running forward. She could see the light at the end of the corridor, maybe it was an alternate exit of the temple? How fortunate if that was the case.

.........

.....

...

"What the..." The corridor ended in a large cavern-room, lit by glowstones. The light she saw earlier was not Syna's, but glowstones'. Aka felt despair washed over her, escape deluded her again. She looked around... and her butt fell to the ground in utter shock.

Bones, bones and skeletons everywhere. From the shape, they were dhani skeletons, some of them strewn apart on the floor, while some still intact inside cages. Time seemed to slow down as Aka's terrified scarlet eyes took in her ghastly surroundings, the room was basically a Dhani boneyard. "N-no... no!!! W-where am I?!" She screamed, but no one answered her, only her own frantic breaths. She closed her eyes and held her head in fright, if a creature would attack the naked dhani girl right now, she would not be able to defend herself.

It took Aka about five chimes before she slightly calmed herself down and dared to open her eyes, nothing happened to her, so this place... was just a graveyard right? Examining it again, something clicked inside Aka's mind. Cages and manacles accompanied the bones of her cousins... this place was a... Dhani slave camp. "What..." Aka's jaw dropped in agape, it all finally came together. If Dhanis could capture Myrians and kept them as food, slaves, and playthings, what was preventing Myrians from doing the same to Dhanis?

"......" Clenching her fist, Aka stood up. The Myrians... curse them and whatever deity they worship. Aka didn't know that this would probably an ancient forgotten practice as Myrians mostly "kill Dhani on sight" nowadays. Offsetting her fear with anger, Aka strode forward, hoping that no matter how slim, a Dhani would still be here, trapped. Aka would rescue them and ask them the truth about this accursed temple.

Unfortunately, she found no Constrictor in sight, not even... a single living animal. Her hair stood on its end, something was wrong with this particular cave... definitely wrong. She noticed an altar at one corner of the room, making her way through bones and skeletons, she arrived. There was a strange-looking pedestal made with bones decorated with glyph-like magical circles, it was faintly glowing purple.

"Sssome kind of ritual?" On top of the pedestal was a small chest. Obviously the Viper became curious, she wanted to open it, but she might unleash something that might kill her or worse, a monster that would run rampant in the jungle. But, that was impossible right? The chest might contain some powerful weapon or artifact, in which she could loot and use it against the foul Myrians. Using their own weapon against themselves, how satisfying it must be. Believing it was the latter, Aka opened the chest.

Ssss.... sssss...

Sounds of whispers and hisses echoed as ghastly purple mist flowed out from the chest. Aka held her nose, fearing it might be poisonous, but fortunately, it was just colorful gas. She peered inside the small chest, finding a... purplish leather collar. What? Aka tilted her head in annoyance, all of this setup for only a measly collar?! She almost scoffed and prepared to leave the room when she realized something.

The collar's surfaces had purple scaly patterns on it... like a Dhani. W-what?!! It was made from a Dhani's skin? The Myrians' sacrileges knew no bounds! In her anger, Aka didn't realize that Dhanis often used Myrians as materials for malediction rituals. In an attempt to destroy the accursed collar, Aka extended her right hand and grasped it. An act she would soon to regret.

"Hi-?!" She felt her breath stopped and her vision blurred as soon as her fingers grasped the collar. Something... someone was compelling her, commanding her, to wear it. She wanted to resist, her instincts basically screamed at her that the collar was cursed, but she couldn't control her body.

"Aaagh... agh! G-guh!" She watched in horror as her hands moved by themselves, they were shaking as if two persons were commanding them, but Aka was losing. They ever so slowly moved to her neck, forcing her to wear the purple leather collar. *Click!* Her hands were hers again, but...

*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!*

A shrill, extremely high-pitched sound, wracked her eardrums. Aka fell down to her knees, holding her head. Everything was a blur, immense pain wracked from her neck, flowing throughout her body. "Aaaaaaah! G-gaaaaaaaaaaaah! H-heeeeeelp! H-help me..." Tears flowing down, the pain was extremely unbearable, she felt like she could die just from the pain alone.

She tried to remove the collar, but found out it was fused to her skin like glue, a scaly purple band now circled around her lithe neck. Gradually, her body lost its energy and she fell down to the ground, unconscious. The collar's purple glow slowly dimmed down.
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Important Note: Aka is currently pregnant (with eggs, being a Dhani) at the moment and as such, her belly is slightly bulging and she moves noticeably slower than usual.
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Unearthing the Forgotten (Aka)

Postby Soshakuakamamushi on October 15th, 2013, 5:01 am

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"......." After what felt like an eternity, her scarlet eyes fluttered open. She was still in the same position when she blacked out. Aka groaned and shifted to a sitting position, she remembered nothing at first as her mind was still half-asleep. A few ticks later, it all came back to her and she put her right hand to her neck, her fingertips rubbing a smooth scaly leather. W-what isss this?! Her fingers tried to take it off again, but to her dismay, it still clung to her skin. The collar was so attached to her it looked as if it was a tattoo.

"G-guuuh! Aaaagh! Ha... ha..." Physical force wouldn't work, she needed to try another method. Her mind immediately opted for her most notable ability, fire reimancy. She would burn this collar to pieces, she needn't have to worry about her own safety as Ivak's blessing would protect her from the flame tongues. Pointing her index finger to her neck, Aka flowed her djed... but hesitated. The more rational side of her mind decided to chime in, what if this collar was an ancient artifact of power, made from Constrictors? Perhaps it would grant her the strength and endurance of her cousins, one could never know.

"....." She stopped her djed flow and rubbed the collar again, calming herself down. Other than the excruciating pain she felt when wearing it, she didn't feel any harm nor pain coming from the accessory anymore. Similar to her experience with Ivak, she felt as if her body was doused in magma when he touched her, yet she gained power from the flaming touch. Hopefully, this would be similar. Aka didn't know much about the art of Malediction, perhaps she would ask Ruga or some other maledictors in the Nest later, assuming this collar was indeed a product of malediction.

Standing up and stretching her body, the Viper left the somber graveyard of constrictors and made her way back to the temple's hall.

.........

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...

Arriving back at the hall, it was still the same as ever, with the giant statue of whoever-that-was watching the structure. She couldn't waste more time here, she needed to return. Enacting her previous plan of searching for a backdoor. Aka hunched down and sprinted forward, her feet traversing through the myriad of broken platforms and columns. She leaped forward, did a simple barrel roll in the air to skip a hole on the temple floor, landed with a forward roll and continued her way.

The statue loomed even closer. Impressive as it looked, she didn't have time to appreciate its beauty, it looked like a Myrian anyway. Aka skidded to a stop in front of the statue, her form bare except for the collar and the vines binding her ebony twintails. "Ha... ha..." Her scarlet slits darted while her feet walked forward, examining the location for anything that resembled a door or entrance.
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"common" | "snake-tongue" | "arumenic" | thoughts

Important Note: Aka is currently pregnant (with eggs, being a Dhani) at the moment and as such, her belly is slightly bulging and she moves noticeably slower than usual.
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