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ok so ive been doing some stupid brainstorming lately and now i have a dumb au
Its like next gen but worse (like 5 generations ahead worse XD)
So now gabe has a descendant (<bro am i dumb it took me so long to spell this word) whos name is Gabriele ii (the second)
And then you know theres rameirs descendent (Levi (short for leviathan, get it bc Kra-kin is a play on Kraken?? Hahaha.....ill leave))
Uh and then theres Brine and Piranha (Brutus's descendants :3)
Ive been rotating them in my brain mirowave for a while now so yah
Gabriel ii is so silly to me :D
Idk what to call it so ill just call it nothing XD
(Obligatory tags: @caligo-and-aestus,@elowyn-rp, @luna-rp, @sylvia-fuego, @treasure-goblin i think thats all)
Ooooooo
Next gen rp when /jk unless?
Omg Krameir child/descended? If one is immortal is the child also immortal? Or at least live longer than the normal life expectancy?
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they managed to get back to the school in the end, but Aestus has no idea how to get inside in his current condition, should they even go in?
he can only hope their elf companions can figure it out, this day has been exhausting so far and it's still not over
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Elowyn had gone to the infirmary to ask for help from a man she knows very well.
“Oh hey Elowyn what are you doing here?”
"Hello Liam, I'm coming because me and my friends are hurt and we need help, but please don't tell anyone, especially my mother." Elowyn said.
The man named Liam, a man with strands of hair, nodded.
"Well, tell them to come, I'll take care of them, and of you too because you look pretty beat up."
“Thanks, I’ll go get them and come back.”
Elowyn left the infirmary and went to look for the group waiting for her opposite.
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Gabe can't walk so of course he needed to be carried.
And no one else can carry him so of course it had to be Leroy.
Gabe avoided eye contact with the elf, for some reason this was extremely embarrassing for him.
Could Aestus have carried Gabe? Absolutely, did he want to? Not really.
Plus, he may be blind, but even he can see that the two male elves seem to have feelings for one another.
So what if he wasn’t truly too tired to carry one more person? No one need to know.
Leroy hadn't paid attention to Gabe, it was only when Elowyn invited them to join her that he finally looked at him.
“So you’re not coming?” he asked in an almost mocking tone.
A silence settled before Elowyn decided to speak.
“He’s injured, he can’t walk.”
“Oh well, so what am I supposed to do?”
Another silence fell before Leroy realized.
"WHAT?! No, it's even worth thinking about!"
Finally after a long argument between Elowyn and Leroy he gave in and decided to let Gabe ride on his back, his face red.
finally at the infirmary, they all entered, save for Aestus, who couldn't enter due to his current size, he could only hand over his still sleeping passengers and sit outside to wait for them.
they managed to get back to the school in the end, but Aestus has no idea how to get inside in his current condition, should they even go in?
he can only hope their elf companions can figure it out, this day has been exhausting so far and it's still not over
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Drew the boys in class (well their faces at least) not fully satisfied with how Caligo turned out but quite satisfied with how Aestus did.
Also bonus Cal as a dragon stained glass thingy
Man it’s been a while how we doing folks?
Just wondering if the rp is on pause? Been a good while now
Sylvia could join since it’s calm now, there was really bad timing the first time
Idea
For gabe
Maybe his dad remarried
And now pretends his old kids and wife don't exist
(and also Gabe secretly just wants just wants his dad's recognition)
That will be perfect 🥰 uh wrong emojie 🥲
Poor Gabe he doesn't deserve this FREAK dad
How did I not see this ..?
ah yes very goo- sad ;")
No he doesn't, buuuut character always need trauma so 🤷
In this house, we love and torture out characters
(Poor Gabe tho)
i want someone to call Gabe, Sparky as a funny nickname but like, who?????
And now I want all the characters (excluding Brutus cause he already has one (or maybe he wants to change it idk his life)) to have nicknames
[Edit: @elowyn-rp, @caligo-and-aestus, @sylvia-fuego, @lunawolfiefoxy (I can't find your rp blog??? Stupid tablet) man I keep forgetting to tag allll of you, I should really do that more]
Maybe Caligo would when he say the lighting in action
And Aestus would quietly tell Gabe that if he doesn’t like the nickname he can say so, Cal won’t take offense
wow very late, much cool finky, much cool
I think Caligo would start and then everyone else would pick up on it one by one (after Caligo it would be Galaxy, then whoever else ect ect.)
And soon gabes name is now sparky XD
I hope he like it at least
I think Aestus would be the least one to pick it up, scared of offending Gabe probably
But if everyone is using it and Gabe isn’t complaining, then it’s ok right?
Gotta remember for the rp
i want someone to call Gabe, Sparky as a funny nickname but like, who?????
And now I want all the characters (excluding Brutus cause he already has one (or maybe he wants to change it idk his life)) to have nicknames
[Edit: @elowyn-rp, @caligo-and-aestus, @sylvia-fuego, @lunawolfiefoxy (I can't find your rp blog??? Stupid tablet) man I keep forgetting to tag allll of you, I should really do that more]
Maybe Caligo would when he say the lighting in action
And Aestus would quietly tell Gabe that if he doesn’t like the nickname he can say so, Cal won’t take offense
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.
Galaxy watched all this happening, seeing Aestus and feeling afraid. She didn't recognize him in this form, and it made her think there was a new threat. The orb around her grew darker once more and grew. It engulfed Elowyn and Brutus, for they were all she could see, but didn't turn them to stone. It simply kept them inside. Brutus was still distracted by the smell of blood, but Elowyn, put of curiosity stuck her hand out of the orb, then brought it back in. When it left the orb, she felt stiffer, but bringing it back in relieved her muscles.
She looked at her hand then at the orb several times. But she remembered Caligo and quickly turned around. Suddenly she felt an indescribable pain at her wound, she doubled over, clutching her wound with all her strength.
"Gal..Galaxy...com..how is Caligo?"
Talking was getting really hard. Being trap here is not what she planned.
Brutus was a bit overwhelmed
Blood over here
Blood over there
It was getting really hard to control his hunger
He didn't want to hurt anyone more than they already were...
Brutus suddenly found himself walking in the direction of Caligo and Galaxy.
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Meanwhile Gabe was glaring at the new arrival, "Ugh what are you doing here?" Leroy scoffed. "I should be asking you the same thing....also care to explain WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!???" He replied. Gabe sighed "Alright fine. Aestus, you can put him down."
Galaxy looked at Elowyn and teared up more.
"No! Not you too! No more hurt! No more pain! Don't want! Don't want!" She then cries harder, her tears spilling onto the ground, turning into ice as they landed.
Aestus put this person down, glad that at least that he isn’t (too much) of a threat, they got enough of that for one day.
Now he’ll really like to know where everyone went, they seem to have vanish without a trace.
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Caligo laid unmoving in the orb, he isn’t breathing or moving in the slightest, if they checked, they would find him ice cold with no heartbeat.
Silver blood dripped out from his broken horn, soaking his hair and pilling up in a puddle beneath his head.
Galaxy looks outside the orb and sees Aestus again. Looking around at who was there, with a sniffle, she shakily pulled out Brutus' shirt.
"What's th-that...?" She points at Aestus, holding Caligo protectively in her arms.
Elowyn turned around slowly so as not to hurt the injury. She looked at the creature the girl was pointing at.
"It's...it's...Aestus."
She slowly got up and approached Galaxy at the same speed. She was in terrible pain, her injury was causing her pain.
"Galaxy...Maybe I can...maybe I can heal Caligo"
With her words she placed her hands below her belt to soak it with her blood.
"NO!!!! You're hurt bad!" She cries out, then turns to look at Aestus, staring him down. After a while, she decided to let Aestus see them all.
"Papa! Papa!"
Aestus’s antennas twitched, he could feel new people’s magic slowly appearing to his senses, very familiar-
He was broken out of his thought by a child’s voice, but her magic so familiar to his sense, ‘Galaxy!’ He want to say but only a chirp came out, nonetheless he quickly closed the distance, unknowingly entering, at least partially due to his size, the orb to affectionately nuzzle the strangely young goddess.
He doesn’t yet notice the others.
She hugs his (beak????), sniffling and shaking.
"H-help...! Momma got hurt...! I don't know what t'do...!" She looks at Caligo, whose head was still in her lap.
…momma?- Oh.
The smell of blood and magic finally hit him.
He doesn’t know what to, he isn’t sure if he can even do anything
He can feel a small hum still coming from Caligo’s core, but it doesn’t know how long it will last, or what he can do.
Small scratches and cuts and can deal with but, this? Especially in this form? No chances.
He weep
Seeing the blood in his hands, Elowyn almost fainted. She breathed slowly, then moved closer to Caligo.
“I know how to treat him.”
She quickly examined Caligo's head, then placed her red hands on his wound.
"Hope it'll work"
Galaxy watches, shaking with worry and fear. The orb slowly disappears as she realizes that Aestus is in fact Aestus and not something that will try to kill them, but she REFUSES to let him go. She was clinging onto him like a leech.
Aestus doesn’t know what Elowyn has planned, and he can’t dwell too much on it as Galaxy is scared and clinging onto him worst than Caligo ever did on his bad nights.
As Elowyn place her hands on Caligo’s wound, it began to glow and and close, the blood on the elf’s hands now gone.
Caligo suddenly sat up, wide awake and looking around frenetically, to his side he saw Galaxy, safe and clinging to a strangely familiar creature, behind them Gabe on the ground with another elf, Elowyn right in front of him, bleeding from a wound in her stomach, and Brutus licking his blood of the ground-
Hold on back up! Elowyn is bleeding! Caligo his hands, unfortunately covered in his blood, on Elowyn’s wound, hoping to heal her, only to collapse from magic deficiency.
Hopefully the spell still worked, even if it use the magic from his blood.
She watches as everyone seems to be better now, o more blood, no more hurt. Slowly letting go of Aestus, she grabs Caligo's face and looks at it from all angles, then looks at Elowyn's wound, afraid to touch it, but checking it.
"All better...? No more...?" She mumbles, glancing up at Caligo.
Brutus was huddled over on the ground near Caligo, licking his blood, suppoting himself with his remaining arm. He just wanted a taste, besides, he was still hungry. Oh man, this was the best blood he's ever had! somehow it was even better that elf blood and he could ignore the color. His demeanor quickly changed, Brutus was starting to get very hyper, his pupils dilated and he was jittery as well.
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Gabe and Leroy were half glaring at each other half ignoring each other. Clearly they knew each other but were not the best of friends, they weren't even friends at all. "So you aren't going to explain any of this?" Leroy asked, Gabe glared at him, "no, no i am not" the blonde elf went back to sulking on the floor.
Elowyn touched her wound, although she was still a little sore, she was much better. She got up and put her hands on it, the blood no longer seemed to flow.
“I’m ok”
She beckoned them to come.
"I think we'd be better off outside."
She nods, letting go of Caligo to jump, yes, jump, up onto Aestus' back. She snuggled into his feathers or whatever he's got, and finally, after hours of stress, fell fast asleep.
Aestus nodded, agreeing with Elowyn, with Galaxy on his back he had to more carefully lean down to grab Caligo by the back of his shirt to carry him without disturbing the sleeping goddess.
Before following Elowyn, having to go slow to match the elf’s pace and not wake or hurt either of the gods in his care.
Bored in the train and accidentally made Orion so enjoy
Kinda proud of the arms for once
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.
Galaxy watched all this happening, seeing Aestus and feeling afraid. She didn't recognize him in this form, and it made her think there was a new threat. The orb around her grew darker once more and grew. It engulfed Elowyn and Brutus, for they were all she could see, but didn't turn them to stone. It simply kept them inside. Brutus was still distracted by the smell of blood, but Elowyn, put of curiosity stuck her hand out of the orb, then brought it back in. When it left the orb, she felt stiffer, but bringing it back in relieved her muscles.
She looked at her hand then at the orb several times. But she remembered Caligo and quickly turned around. Suddenly she felt an indescribable pain at her wound, she doubled over, clutching her wound with all her strength.
"Gal..Galaxy...com..how is Caligo?"
Talking was getting really hard. Being trap here is not what she planned.
Brutus was a bit overwhelmed
Blood over here
Blood over there
It was getting really hard to control his hunger
He didn't want to hurt anyone more than they already were...
Brutus suddenly found himself walking in the direction of Caligo and Galaxy.
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Meanwhile Gabe was glaring at the new arrival, "Ugh what are you doing here?" Leroy scoffed. "I should be asking you the same thing....also care to explain WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!???" He replied. Gabe sighed "Alright fine. Aestus, you can put him down."
Galaxy looked at Elowyn and teared up more.
"No! Not you too! No more hurt! No more pain! Don't want! Don't want!" She then cries harder, her tears spilling onto the ground, turning into ice as they landed.
Aestus put this person down, glad that at least that he isn’t (too much) of a threat, they got enough of that for one day.
Now he’ll really like to know where everyone went, they seem to have vanish without a trace.
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Caligo laid unmoving in the orb, he isn’t breathing or moving in the slightest, if they checked, they would find him ice cold with no heartbeat.
Silver blood dripped out from his broken horn, soaking his hair and pilling up in a puddle beneath his head.
Galaxy looks outside the orb and sees Aestus again. Looking around at who was there, with a sniffle, she shakily pulled out Brutus' shirt.
"What's th-that...?" She points at Aestus, holding Caligo protectively in her arms.
Elowyn turned around slowly so as not to hurt the injury. She looked at the creature the girl was pointing at.
"It's...it's...Aestus."
She slowly got up and approached Galaxy at the same speed. She was in terrible pain, her injury was causing her pain.
"Galaxy...Maybe I can...maybe I can heal Caligo"
With her words she placed her hands below her belt to soak it with her blood.
"NO!!!! You're hurt bad!" She cries out, then turns to look at Aestus, staring him down. After a while, she decided to let Aestus see them all.
"Papa! Papa!"
Aestus’s antennas twitched, he could feel new people’s magic slowly appearing to his senses, very familiar-
He was broken out of his thought by a child’s voice, but her magic so familiar to his sense, ‘Galaxy!’ He want to say but only a chirp came out, nonetheless he quickly closed the distance, unknowingly entering, at least partially due to his size, the orb to affectionately nuzzle the strangely young goddess.
He doesn’t yet notice the others.
She hugs his (beak????), sniffling and shaking.
"H-help...! Momma got hurt...! I don't know what t'do...!" She looks at Caligo, whose head was still in her lap.
…momma?- Oh.
The smell of blood and magic finally hit him.
He doesn’t know what to, he isn’t sure if he can even do anything
He can feel a small hum still coming from Caligo’s core, but it doesn’t know how long it will last, or what he can do.
Small scratches and cuts and can deal with but, this? Especially in this form? No chances.
He weep
Seeing the blood in his hands, Elowyn almost fainted. She breathed slowly, then moved closer to Caligo.
“I know how to treat him.”
She quickly examined Caligo's head, then placed her red hands on his wound.
"Hope it'll work"
Galaxy watches, shaking with worry and fear. The orb slowly disappears as she realizes that Aestus is in fact Aestus and not something that will try to kill them, but she REFUSES to let him go. She was clinging onto him like a leech.
Aestus doesn’t know what Elowyn has planned, and he can’t dwell too much on it as Galaxy is scared and clinging onto him worst than Caligo ever did on his bad nights.
As Elowyn place her hands on Caligo’s wound, it began to glow and and close, the blood on the elf’s hands now gone.
Caligo suddenly sat up, wide awake and looking around frenetically, to his side he saw Galaxy, safe and clinging to a strangely familiar creature, behind them Gabe on the ground with another elf, Elowyn right in front of him, bleeding from a wound in her stomach, and Brutus licking his blood of the ground-
Hold on back up! Elowyn is bleeding! Caligo his hands, unfortunately covered in his blood, on Elowyn’s wound, hoping to heal her, only to collapse from magic deficiency.
Hopefully the spell still worked, even if it use the magic from his blood.
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.
Galaxy watched all this happening, seeing Aestus and feeling afraid. She didn't recognize him in this form, and it made her think there was a new threat. The orb around her grew darker once more and grew. It engulfed Elowyn and Brutus, for they were all she could see, but didn't turn them to stone. It simply kept them inside. Brutus was still distracted by the smell of blood, but Elowyn, put of curiosity stuck her hand out of the orb, then brought it back in. When it left the orb, she felt stiffer, but bringing it back in relieved her muscles.
She looked at her hand then at the orb several times. But she remembered Caligo and quickly turned around. Suddenly she felt an indescribable pain at her wound, she doubled over, clutching her wound with all her strength.
"Gal..Galaxy...com..how is Caligo?"
Talking was getting really hard. Being trap here is not what she planned.
Brutus was a bit overwhelmed
Blood over here
Blood over there
It was getting really hard to control his hunger
He didn't want to hurt anyone more than they already were...
Brutus suddenly found himself walking in the direction of Caligo and Galaxy.
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Meanwhile Gabe was glaring at the new arrival, "Ugh what are you doing here?" Leroy scoffed. "I should be asking you the same thing....also care to explain WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!???" He replied. Gabe sighed "Alright fine. Aestus, you can put him down."
Galaxy looked at Elowyn and teared up more.
"No! Not you too! No more hurt! No more pain! Don't want! Don't want!" She then cries harder, her tears spilling onto the ground, turning into ice as they landed.
Aestus put this person down, glad that at least that he isn’t (too much) of a threat, they got enough of that for one day.
Now he’ll really like to know where everyone went, they seem to have vanish without a trace.
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Caligo laid unmoving in the orb, he isn’t breathing or moving in the slightest, if they checked, they would find him ice cold with no heartbeat.
Silver blood dripped out from his broken horn, soaking his hair and pilling up in a puddle beneath his head.
Galaxy looks outside the orb and sees Aestus again. Looking around at who was there, with a sniffle, she shakily pulled out Brutus' shirt.
"What's th-that...?" She points at Aestus, holding Caligo protectively in her arms.
Elowyn turned around slowly so as not to hurt the injury. She looked at the creature the girl was pointing at.
"It's...it's...Aestus."
She slowly got up and approached Galaxy at the same speed. She was in terrible pain, her injury was causing her pain.
"Galaxy...Maybe I can...maybe I can heal Caligo"
With her words she placed her hands below her belt to soak it with her blood.
"NO!!!! You're hurt bad!" She cries out, then turns to look at Aestus, staring him down. After a while, she decided to let Aestus see them all.
"Papa! Papa!"
Aestus’s antennas twitched, he could feel new people’s magic slowly appearing to his senses, very familiar-
He was broken out of his thought by a child’s voice, but her magic so familiar to his sense, ‘Galaxy!’ He want to say but only a chirp came out, nonetheless he quickly closed the distance, unknowingly entering, at least partially due to his size, the orb to affectionately nuzzle the strangely young goddess.
He doesn’t yet notice the others.
She hugs his (beak????), sniffling and shaking.
"H-help...! Momma got hurt...! I don't know what t'do...!" She looks at Caligo, whose head was still in her lap.
…momma?- Oh.
The smell of blood and magic finally hit him.
He doesn’t know what to, he isn’t sure if he can even do anything
He can feel a small hum still coming from Caligo’s core, but it doesn’t know how long it will last, or what he can do.
Small scratches and cuts and can deal with but, this? Especially in this form? No chances.
He weep
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.
Galaxy watched all this happening, seeing Aestus and feeling afraid. She didn't recognize him in this form, and it made her think there was a new threat. The orb around her grew darker once more and grew. It engulfed Elowyn and Brutus, for they were all she could see, but didn't turn them to stone. It simply kept them inside. Brutus was still distracted by the smell of blood, but Elowyn, put of curiosity stuck her hand out of the orb, then brought it back in. When it left the orb, she felt stiffer, but bringing it back in relieved her muscles.
She looked at her hand then at the orb several times. But she remembered Caligo and quickly turned around. Suddenly she felt an indescribable pain at her wound, she doubled over, clutching her wound with all her strength.
"Gal..Galaxy...com..how is Caligo?"
Talking was getting really hard. Being trap here is not what she planned.
Brutus was a bit overwhelmed
Blood over here
Blood over there
It was getting really hard to control his hunger
He didn't want to hurt anyone more than they already were...
Brutus suddenly found himself walking in the direction of Caligo and Galaxy.
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Meanwhile Gabe was glaring at the new arrival, "Ugh what are you doing here?" Leroy scoffed. "I should be asking you the same thing....also care to explain WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!???" He replied. Gabe sighed "Alright fine. Aestus, you can put him down."
Galaxy looked at Elowyn and teared up more.
"No! Not you too! No more hurt! No more pain! Don't want! Don't want!" She then cries harder, her tears spilling onto the ground, turning into ice as they landed.
Aestus put this person down, glad that at least that he isn’t (too much) of a threat, they got enough of that for one day.
Now he’ll really like to know where everyone went, they seem to have vanish without a trace.
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Caligo laid unmoving in the orb, he isn’t breathing or moving in the slightest, if they checked, they would find him ice cold with no heartbeat.
Silver blood dripped out from his broken horn, soaking his hair and pilling up in a puddle beneath his head.
Galaxy looks outside the orb and sees Aestus again. Looking around at who was there, with a sniffle, she shakily pulled out Brutus' shirt.
"What's th-that...?" She points at Aestus, holding Caligo protectively in her arms.
Elowyn turned around slowly so as not to hurt the injury. She looked at the creature the girl was pointing at.
"It's...it's...Aestus."
She slowly got up and approached Galaxy at the same speed. She was in terrible pain, her injury was causing her pain.
"Galaxy...Maybe I can...maybe I can heal Caligo"
With her words she placed her hands below her belt to soak it with her blood.
"NO!!!! You're hurt bad!" She cries out, then turns to look at Aestus, staring him down. After a while, she decided to let Aestus see them all.
"Papa! Papa!"
Aestus’s antennas twitched, he could feel new people’s magic slowly appearing to his senses, very familiar-
He was broken out of his thought by a child’s voice, but her magic so familiar to his sense, ‘Galaxy!’ He want to say but only a chirp came out, nonetheless he quickly closed the distance, unknowingly entering, at least partially due to his size, the orb to affectionately nuzzle the strangely young goddess.
He doesn’t yet notice the others.
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.
Galaxy watched all this happening, seeing Aestus and feeling afraid. She didn't recognize him in this form, and it made her think there was a new threat. The orb around her grew darker once more and grew. It engulfed Elowyn and Brutus, for they were all she could see, but didn't turn them to stone. It simply kept them inside. Brutus was still distracted by the smell of blood, but Elowyn, put of curiosity stuck her hand out of the orb, then brought it back in. When it left the orb, she felt stiffer, but bringing it back in relieved her muscles.
She looked at her hand then at the orb several times. But she remembered Caligo and quickly turned around. Suddenly she felt an indescribable pain at her wound, she doubled over, clutching her wound with all her strength.
"Gal..Galaxy...com..how is Caligo?"
Talking was getting really hard. Being trap here is not what she planned.
Brutus was a bit overwhelmed
Blood over here
Blood over there
It was getting really hard to control his hunger
He didn't want to hurt anyone more than they already were...
Brutus suddenly found himself walking in the direction of Caligo and Galaxy.
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Meanwhile Gabe was glaring at the new arrival, "Ugh what are you doing here?" Leroy scoffed. "I should be asking you the same thing....also care to explain WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!???" He replied. Gabe sighed "Alright fine. Aestus, you can put him down."
Galaxy looked at Elowyn and teared up more.
"No! Not you too! No more hurt! No more pain! Don't want! Don't want!" She then cries harder, her tears spilling onto the ground, turning into ice as they landed.
Aestus put this person down, glad that at least that he isn’t (too much) of a threat, they got enough of that for one day.
Now he’ll really like to know where everyone went, they seem to have vanish without a trace.
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Caligo laid unmoving in the orb, he isn’t breathing or moving in the slightest, if they checked, they would find him ice cold with no heartbeat.
Silver blood dripped out from his broken horn, soaking his hair and pilling up in a puddle beneath his head.
Knives ignored Galaxy's presence entirely, dead set on his next meal. Almost as if he teleported, he had ran at Elowyn and tackled her. The two rolled farther into the woods, leaving the three deities and the elf to chase after them.
Knives had pinned Elowyn to the ground by wrapping his hands around her neck. He had already removed his mask, his face completely ripped to shreds, it was a terrifying sight. There was no sign of human emotion, just a pure predator who was out for the white haired elf's blood.
Footsteps could be heard rapidly approaching, before Caligo lunged at Knifes, grabbing him and trying to throw him off Elowyn, biting his shoulder too, hoping the pain would make Knifes let go of her neck.
Following behind quickly was Galaxy. She ran straight for Knifes and slashed at his neck before biting onto Elowyn and pulling her back and behind her, hissing at Knifes.
"Nobody hurts my friends! I hope you perish by drowning in your own blood you filthy, half-witted, mangy, unkempt outcast!"
Caligo took advantage and pinned Knifes down, with Cal’s knees pinning his arms against his back and one hand forcing knife’s head on the ground.
"And when she finish drowning you I’ll bring you back to life just to stuff your own eye balls in your throat and let you suffocate on them."
Her tail flicks and she smiles in a psychotic manner.
"Can I trap meanie in a comet for 10,000 years?"
Caligo smiled, "will he be awake the whole time?"
"Is that how you got trapped in one?" Aestus, who had caught up to them by now asked
She frowns at Aestus.
"It was an accident!" She cries with a small pout, her tail retreating as her body forms back to "normal".
"And yes, meanie will be conscious until death by starvation. Not a fun death, for us it is, but for meanie it's not."
Knives had immediately started shaking the moment being put in a comet was mentioned. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wanted to run away. He was twisting and squirming, desperate to get out of Caligos grip. He could tell his arm was tearing away, but he couldn't feel it nor did he care. He was never EVER getting put in anywhere ever again....
Finally he felt it, his arm came off, he shook and eventually squirmed out from under Caligo. He stood and tried to run but collaped, his body shaking to much. This shaking however was different from fear, it was worse than that. This was unbridled convulsions, and he couldn't stop.
Galaxy stops what she was doing and tiptoes over.
"Is meanie okay...?" She kneels down and nudges him.
"Why are you shaking?"
"He’s having a seizure!" Caligo kneeled down on the other side of Knife and did his best to make sure he didn’t hurt himself
"Can’t do anything but let it run it’s course am afraid. It should stop soon." Aestus told Galaxy, kneeling next to knife as well, not as capable of helping.
Instead Caligo handed Aestus the arm to check it for damage.
"What's a 'seizure'? It's it dangerous? Will meanie be okay?" She tried to move in closer to 'help' herself, not understanding what's happening.
"He got overwhelmed, so his brain didn’t know what do to and so it’s trying to do everything at once" Aestus tried to explain as best he could, wrapping a wing around her both to comfort and stop her from approaching Knifes.
Caligo is still just trying to make the bastard doesn’t hurt himself.
She watches, then curls a little closer into Aestus, shivering.
"This is my fault.... I hope me- he, will be okay...." Galaxy looks up at Aestus slowly. "He WILL be okay, right?"
A man appeared behind Elowyn. She was sitting and completely exhausted, unable to move without losing too much blood. Moon discreetly placed his katana in front of his blow.
“Scream and I’ll kill you.” A voice that is both captivating and frightening.
Lightning-shaped scars on his arms down to his hands glowed.
He wore a white and blue mask, his face impossible to distinguish. Without warning, he hit Elowyn behind the blow and she passed out without a sound.
Moon looked at Knife.
“This idiot always needs my help, it’s starting to get annoying”
Galaxy at first didn't notice, then her ear twitched and Moon flew into the air and back down into a tree hard, falling out.
"There's a new meanie. Hopefully not dead, but knocked out. If not, well, that's too bad."
"Damn her hearing is good" Caligo said, impressed
"Gabe, can you and your friend come treat Elowyn’s wounds? I’ll tied this guy up." Aestus called out to both Gabe and the elf still hiding among the tree.
He made a rope using magic and used to tie the new ‘meanie’ as Galaxy call them.
As this was happening, Galaxy was looking at Aestus and smiling wider and wider. She paid no mind to anything else happening, not even the 'meanies'.
"......You remind me of my dad...." she whispers before snuggling into his side with a happy smile.
Knives stopped shaking enough the grab on to Caligo and pull himself onto him. He shudders, but this time it's from crying resting his head on Caligo's shoulder he begs, "Please don't put me in.......please, please,please.....I'm really sorry.....I was just hungry." His tone is low and weak, still shaking he pulled back and looked at Caligo, tears streaming down his mangled face..gods who did this to him?
"I always thought I would be the mom." Aestus whispered to himself, keeping a wing around Galaxy as he tied up Moon. The bad moon not his gremlin.
"It’s ok we were joking, I am sorry." Caligo apologised,holding on to him tight, trying to ground him to the present "…who did this to you?" He looked at the scared face and the trauma that filled those eyes, he’s seen it before, bright young mortals filled with hope turned emotionless weapons by his selfish creators.
He just want to talk to the person responsable, that’s all
"Someone, I don't know....I'm hungry.....and my head hurts." Knives looked around then Back at Caligo. "Everyone calls me knives but my name is Brutus, what about you?"
Caligo took a deep breathe to calm himself before answering "it’s nice to meet you Brutus, I am Caligo, my but friends call me Cal." He hope this mean Brutus won’t try and kill them anymore, hopefully, a god can dream can’t they? "We can get you some food, what do you want?"
“What a disappointment, you were supposed to help me, now you’re crying?”
Moon approached the group, determined to bring back to his master what he wanted.
"So tell me Brutus, should I kill you now because you betrayed me or because you are too weak?"
A cold way devoid of emotions.
“What a shame, I thought you had potential.”
Aestus yanked the rope binding the man’s arms together, causing him to stumble back a few steps
"You will shut up unless spoken to or loose your voice."As Aestus spoke, he produced a blade, the same one he made the night he met Elowyn and Gabe. Aestus is only waving the blade in front of Moon’s face, but it’s clear that having it any closer would burn his skin without even touching it. "It’s your call."
Galaxy rushed over, sitting down next to Caligo and Brutus.
"Hi Brutus! Don't worry! If the spiteful banana peel tries to hurt you I'll hurt him! How can we help you new friend?"
Moon did not step back, his lightning-shaped marks began to shine and the rope was wrapped in lightning and small gray clouds before it exploded. He took out his katana and aimed it at Aestus. Impossible to discern his intentions because of his mask.
"I just need her, if you let me take her I'll leave you alone."
Galaxy turned to look at what was happening.
"What are you doing meanie? That's my Papa, and my friend. You can't take them. I would just leave. Or go good! Or back down. After all, it is YOUR call. But try taking my friend and you'll end up in a worse state than Brutus here. So shut up, sit down. You're in a timeout." She told Moon with a stubborn look on her face.
Aestus turned to Galaxy, in disbelief at what he was just called.
Caligo was shocked as well but recovered faster and yelled at Moon "you’ll leave empty handed! Either willingly or forcefully."
She looks at Caligo, looking a little hopeful.
"OR not at all and we can have a new friend, right Momma?"
Caligo was speechless, opening his mouth to speak only to close it again, he repeating this a few times before finally saying
"Only if he play nice" to Galaxy, Before staring at Moon, daring him to try and hurt any of them.
"Moon it really isn't worth it......they are much stronger than you." Brutus reasoned "And frankly, you couldn't kill me if you tried.....I only went with you because I wanted food. I could have easily killed you instead. So I would watch your tone." He took a few step toward Moon still shaking a bit from his recent episode.
Moon looked at Brutus.
"Brutus, how naive you can be, of course that's what you imagine, you think you can beat me. Because I haven't told you anything about me."
Moon brandished his katana and a gray cloud formed in the sky. Then a tornado that blew into his katana.
"If I want, I can put you in a cell, where the toture will be your best friend. Like you can never have."
He made a simple movement and a gigantic tornado headed towards the vampire, impossible to dodge.
Galaxy rushed over and pushed Brutus out of the way of the tornado and got sucked in herself instead. Her screams were the last thing they all heard she was pulled in.
Caligo and Aestus were stunned for a second, before Aestus tackled Moon to ground, trying to wrestle the katana from his hands, accidentally ripping his mask off.
While Caligo changed form and rushed into the tornado, using the wind to his advantage, he flew right in the eye of the tornado, staying in the calmer wind to try and spot Galaxy.
Moon brought down a lightning bolt on his katana. Which allowed him to escape, he got up behind him there was the tornado, but strangely it did not attract him. He delivered a direct hit into the tornado which created lightning inside the tornado.
He raised his head to face Brutus and Aestus, his face was angelic and pale, fine silver earrings hung on his ears. His pure black hair contrasts with his gaze. His gaze, empty, without emotions, blue without lights without anything. His eyes were a deep blue in which nothing reflected, no joy, anger, sadness, fear, nothing.
He made a move that made the tornado shrink so that it would move faster.
Caligo was startled by the lighting, able to dodge them, but barely.
"Wait, it’s shrinking AND getting faster??? That’s not how it works!" He cried out and flew higher to avoid his wings grazing the harsh wind.
He could see Galaxy! If he only reach, but the lighting seemed to follow him, trying to remember what Caelis, his brother told him about it, right, it like metal! Having to do the hard deciding of parting with his wing brace, their metal armature served him well but they will get him hurt right now, letting them be taken by the wind of the tornado, at least the lighting was diverted away from him and Galaxy.
Flying high to catch Galaxy and yet even more so to escape through the clouds to avoid the violent winds, he struggled but kept flying, landing safely away from the tornado’s path.
She sees him and reaches out for him, shaking. She forgets the fact she has the ability to do anything as she shrinks to the size of a 4 year old. The wind whipped her hair around her and the cloth around her seem to almost snag on something and pull her farther away.
"WHAT IN ALL THINGS HOLY IS HAPPENING?!" a familiar voice shouts from behind Aestus. It seems Gabe has finally made it and he is thoroughly confused. The sounds of yelling and a tornado sped up the walking process. Brutus turns to look at Gabe, he was not expecting anyone else to show. The elf is caught off guard. "Woah....are you ok? What happened to your fa-" Gabe shakes his head, "not important right now, Aestus where is Elowyn? Also who's he?" The blonde Elf points at Moon with a judgey look on his face.
"I don’t know where she is but he knocked her out! He also made the tornado!" Aestus answered Gabe before lunging at Moon with his own sword, hoping the magic might melt the katana.
Caligo fought against the wind to catch Galaxy, her smaller size making her easier to hold against him, freeing the clothes from where it was snatched before trying to bring both them back to the group.
Moon's katana did not melt, on the contrary it strengthened. Moon then turned the katana which created a current of air which expelled Aestus.
"Dont worry."
He locked his empty blue eyes into Gabe's.
“Your friend is safe.”
Gabe tensed "what, the FUCK, did you do?!" Gabe always had anger issues, he did try to repress them, but this was Elowyn, the one friend he's had all his life. Besides, he didn't know this guy, but if he did something to Elowyn, Gabe was was going to do something about it. If one had closely looked at his hands, they could have seen they sparked a bit, just a little, as he yelled.
"I gave her a similar wound in her stomach so she can't move. I hope she doesn't make a mistake or she'll bleed to death."
Moon pointed his katana at Gabe to finish him off and launched a powerful lightning bolt in his direction.
The lightning bolt hit Gabe head on, he folded over but not in pain, rather from force of being hit. After the lightning dispersed he stoop up straight. "WHOOO! hahaha it's been a while!" He chuckles and walks right up to Moon, who is at a loss as to why Gabe is still alive. The blonde elf placed his hand on the black haired elf's shoulder, transferring all the pent up electricity he had received. He looked Moon dead in the face, with the most blank expression, "Oops." and pushes Moon over.
Galaxy curls into Caligo, gripping his shirt tightly.
"Don't let go don't let go don't let go don't let go...!" She whispered frantically over and over.
Aestus had no clue what the hell was happening , but for some reason Gabe could handle Moon? He wasn’t going to question it, he should try to find Elowyn and get her away from this lunatic while he is distracted.
Caligo held on right to Galaxy, and as soon as they were out of the tornado, he shielded her with his wings and body as they fell from the sky.
Moon pulled Gabe back and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Impossible an elf can't have that much power."
He looked at Gabe.
“You’re not just descended from an elf.” He concluded
Moon turned around and saw Aestus going in the direction where Elowyn was hiding, in addition to Caligo who had come out of the tornado.
"This mission is a failure, I won't be able to return home anytime soon"
He dissipated the tornado and picked up his mask, he looked at the group in front of him.
“Don’t leave Elowyn alone for too long because I won’t give up until I have her. Oh ! And I advise you to treat his injury quickly before it becomes too serious."
He put his mask back on and put away his katana, and disappeared into the forest.
Aestus quickly climbed the tree, a bit clumsily perhaps as he couldn’t see the smaller branches before they hit him in the face. But he ended up finding Elowyn much higher up on the tree then he thought.
She was in rough shape, it wasn’t much of a surprise but he still was careful when extracting her from the tree and when carrying her back down.
Galaxy was unharmed in Caligo’s arms, but he isn’t moving, silver blood ran down from his head and onto the ground, the grass seemed to react strangely to it.
She was shaking in his arms. When she sat up and looked around, she immediately cheered that she was out, until she saw Caligo. Rushing to look, her hands were soon covered in the blood. Galaxy looked around for anyone, but annoyingly, they had landed far from the rest of the group. White tears fell from her eyes as she eyes shown white.
"Don't leave me....! C'mon, wake up....!" She managed to choke out. The two were soon engulfed in a black orb that shifted between the black and a white. Within the orb, she was holding Caligo close, crying over him.
Elowyn could smell someone carring her was this strange elf? Or one of her companions?
She slowly opened her eyes and vaguely saw the person who was carrying her, Aestus.
"Aes...Aest...Aestus?"
She couldn't speak clearly, it probably required too much energy.
“Whe...re Ga...be?
Aestus relaxed a little, she’ll probably be fine if she can recognise him and ask coherent questions.
"I don’t think he is far. He was fighting that Moon elf….I think he won, things seems to have calm down." Aestus gently told her, still unsure on just how injured she might be.
"Are you hurt? I don’t think you’re bleeding anywhere but I can’t fully check-" he paused, he can’t feel Cal’s magic anymore.
Don’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’tpanicdon’t
He walked faster toward where Gabe last was, hoping he can take care of Elowyn and her injuries
“He...cut...me...on my stomach. I...did...everything...to...prevent it from leaking."
She showed her belt tight at stomach level.
"I can...walk"
"You sure?" Aestus gently switched from carrying Elowyn to helping her stand on her feet. He really need to stay calm, it might be good that she is no longer in his arms, he feel like he might burst into flame at any moment.
Caligo can handle himself. He is fine, he has to be, he’s always been fine after a hit, what if he isn’t. What if he’s death and he never see him again, he never got, he never got to tell-…tell what?
He shake his head, he can think of this later, he think Gabe should, be close enough to see them now.
“If I wasn’t I wouldn’t tell you.”
In truth her injury was more serious than she let on but she couldn't afford to let Aestus carry her, she could hear her mother's voice screaming at her.
'Did you need help? While you were armed, what a dishonor. You're not my daughter if you can't fend for yourself. '
She began to move faster.
Gabe could see Elowyn and Aestus walking in his direction, his happiness to see his friend was short lived when he realized she was bleeding. No Elowyn what are you doing walking?! The only thought that rebounded in his head as he ran, actually ran, ignoring all the pain in his leg to get to her.
As soon as he got close enough he reached out to touch her but hesitated, should he touch her? He wasn't 100% positive if he had dispersed all his electricity. What if he shocked her, or hurt her, or what if he...he didn't want to repeat the same horrible events that ruined his relationship with another friend. So he didn't touch her, as much as he wanted to hug her, he didn't.
"Elowyn, please don't push yourself....you're bleeding."
"Is it that bad? She insisted on walking." Aestus asked, he was shaking, trying desperately to ignore that nagging voice in his mind reminding him of the emptiness in his soul.
Impulsively, he picked Elowyn back up, he was so desperate to distract himself that he couldn’t help but blurt out "your magic is low again." to Gabe
"What? No, wait! I'm fine, don't worry. You, on the other hand, aren't fine." She said, addressing Aestus.
The young elf had this talent of guessing people's feelings by observing changes in their attitudes, it was like she managed to convince people.
"What's up ?"
"I am fine! I wasn’t injured, but we should really get that wound patched up right Gabe?" He does not want to think of this he does NOT he will not, if he ignore it it’ll be fine, he can just pretend it’s fine…but for how long?
…It’s fine! Why wouldn’t it be fine, it’s be fine when they treat Elowyn’s wound, yes. It will.
Gabe was still a bit caught off guard by Aestus's previous comment, could he tell how much energy he had on him? Well, if it was low maybe he could touch Elowyn. He threw caution to the wind and reached out his hands "I can take her, but I think you need to take a minute Aestus...." Gabe was well aware of Elowyn's talent, besides Aestus looked like he had shocked him instead.
After hearing a lot of noise, a seemingly elf (she’s not an elf but they don’t know that because of the hood) comes out of the trees with red hair, a hood on her head, and a mask around her mouth and nose. “What’s happening I heard a lot of—are you guys ok?” they asked.
Aestus was startled by the newcomer, he hadn’t even felt her approaching, he just handed Elowyn to Gabe and turned to this new person.
He is still quite agitated but he still ask nonetheless "who are you and what do you want?" He extended a wing out to hide Gabe and Elowyn.p from view of the stranger, just in case.
Another distraction from his thoughts, was it cruel to be relieved that he doesn’t have to think, even if there is a chance this new person is a threat like the other two, or just the one?
“Gabe I’m fine, I can walk.”
'fend for yourself'
Elowyn came down by force and got up, she tightened her belt, looked in front of her and approached Aestus while keeping a distance from the newcomers.
Gabe was mildly annoyed at Elowyns refusal of anyone's help, he stepped forward to pick her back up again but as he did so a sharp pain shot up his leg. He fell to his knees, and had his hands on the floor. Looking down so no one could see his face, trying his hardest to fight back against the tears.
Dontcrydontcrtdontcry
This horrible injury on his leg had left him pretty disabled, and it hurt to do just about anything. He just wanted to be normal again, but that would never happen, he had told Elowyn it would heal but that was a lie, he was told it would never heal. Just a disabled elf forced to give up being a traveling elf and be a merchant.
Aestus is far too overwhelmed, Elowyn is injured and seemingly too stubborn to accept help, Gabe is now in pain as welland there is a stranger RIGHT THERE that he still doesn’t know the motive on. AND. And…
Caligo is gone
He is shaking, he feel like he can’t breathe, does he even need to? Does it matter?
Aestus feel like he is going to combust, the world seem so empty and dark and…lonely…
he forgot how that felt, it’s been so long, not since. Not since he so stubbornly refused to accept he didn’t want to be friends, he wonder if he could tell how lonely he was back then. He’ll never get to ask
He sobbed, this is too much, he can’t handle facing the world without him. Aestus heard a screech, he took him a second to realise it was from him, his body felt different, like when he changed into an elf, but even stranger yet.
(Imagine this, but with more details, feathers, mainly down feathers where it’s orange, big feathery creature)
Gabe stared at Aestus, in awe and maybe a bit of terror. Maybe he should move, it's so unbelievably hot and kinda bright. He goes to stand but the pain is to much to support. Suddenly an unfamiliar person grabs his arm and helps him up. He turns to see, oh, it's that shimera from earlier. "Are you ok? You looked like you needed help getting up." Gabe was caught of guard. A slightly feminine voice was NOT what he'd imagine their voice to sound like. "Uh, yea thanks. Where's Elowyn?"
"Oh you mean you her?" The shimera gestures to the other elf their holding. "She's awfully stubborn."
They could say that again. Gabe was going to say something but Brutus picked him up. Whoa.....they're strong!!
"Well come on, we should go see if your friend is ok...I think I know where they are." Brutus looks at Aestus and partially yells, "I have no idea if you understand me, but if you do...You could follow to if you'd like." Then proceeded to walk in some obscure direction into the woods.
Aestus have a small whine, but followed, he recognised this person’s magic as the accomplice to the Moon, or ex-accomplice seeing as he wanted this, Brutus was it? Dead.
Plus seeing as they are helping them now, he supposed this Brutus is on their side now, at least temporarily.
But where are they taking them? And what friend? Galaxy? Oh is galaxy ok? He is not used to her magic maybe that’s why he can’t feel where she is right now.
…oh Llib, Krypto, he miss his gremlin so much, his tears don’t even get the chance to fall before they evaporate.
After struggling and screaming, Elowyn had given up on walking. She looked at Brutus and sighed.
"You stink"
Then she looked at Gabe and smiled at him.
The group slowly approaches the two missing people, with the hope of finding them alive and well.
Aestus followed a little way behind, both because he had to careful walking to not get hit by branches but also because he just doesn’t have the energy to move faster, he is just so tired and sad, he had slowly come to the realisation that, he may have been in Love with Caligo, if only he had been able to realise it sooner, maybe, maybe Cal would still be here.
Wishful thinking.
As they continue on, they start seeing odd statues. They started off small, then grew larger. Walking passed a particularly large bush, they come faced to face with a deer. A stone deer. It was frozen and a cruel fearful pose, like it was trying to run away. A few feet beyond it, was a large black orb, steadily going to white, then back to black, getting large by the second. A small bunny hopped over and touched it with its soft nose, before it slowly turned into a statue itself, mid turn from the orb.
Aestus’s walking slowed to a halt, to him, who navigated via feeling for the magic around him, the area in front of the group was, scarily devoid of any.
It was like a giant chasm, with an endless bottom, it was impossible for him to tell what could be there.
Aestus hesitated to continue with the others, it was as if a wall was right in front of him, keeping him from going forward and joined them.
Elowyn freed herself from Brutus's grip in order to move towards this orb looking at each poor animal transformed into a statue. She did not touch the sphere.
"Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"
She waited for an eventuality by stepping back.
After a moment, the spot she was looking at, only to her eyes, became translucent, and she could see Galaxy, in full tears, holding a limp Caligo. She looked scared, confused, worried, and slightly relieved at seeing someone else. But it was hard to tell all of that, because her eyes were white and glowing. When she spoke, her voice was muffled, but still echoed like before.
"El- -e -ot goo- -on- -ow wha- -appen- -oth- -an -alli- ou- -e spi- -ing!"
(only Elowyn can hear her)
(Psst! Hey! This is the blog I'll be using from now on! This is Lunawolfiefoxy btw, just in case!)
Brutus was too tired to fight Elowyn and watched as she approached the orb. "Hm....smells like blood." The shimera places Gabe down before taking a step closer.
Ah the familiar scent of blood, but this was different. A different blood. Maybe, a better blood.
He took another step.
Aestus paced nervously near the line where magic seemingly seemed to end.
He tried to figure out what the others were doing, but he was a little too far away to truly get a concrete answer, he is just glad he can at least sense where they are at this distance, since there is nothing to block his metaphorical ‘view’.
Against his better judgement he slowly advanced into this blind territory, bumping on…he doesn’t know what he is even bumping into, his feathers are thick enough he can’t really hurt himself at least, not at this speed.
He is closer now, he can make out all three of thei- his, companions… did that Brutus guy just say ‘blood’? Where? And why does Aestus have a bad feeling about Brutus walking that way.
Better safe than sorry, he learned that the hard way with… anyway he quickly ran up and snatched Brutus, lifting him up by the shirt, having to use his mouth? Beak? He doesn’t know what he has, since he doesn’t have hands at the moment.
Elowyn wanted to look behind but decided to focus her attention on Galaxy.
"Galaxy honey, we need you to let Caligo out so we can heal him."
Talking made her realize how much her injury was getting worse, her blood starting to stain her hands despite her belt.
"Please, come on "
She again tries to speak, but it's hard to understand. Sounds like "scared"? Maybe "can't let him out"?
Galaxy seemed to be out of it, but seeing Elowyn, it seemed to calm her down a bit. So much so that the orb seemed to dim, to the point everyone could see and hear what was happening inside.
(sorry, I didn't notice it went to the wrong blog)
Aestus is very confused, he can clearly hear Galaxy, but he has no clue as to where she might be, there is nothing in this area! As far as he can tell at least.
He almost took a step forward, wanting to look for her, but a noise from behind them caught his attention, he finally put Brutus down and ‘looked’ among the trees, trying to sense whoever might be there.
Leroy stood a bit away from the rest of the group, looking down at the twig he stepped on, hoping no one saw, or heard him. He was not aware of how wrong he is.
Aestus spotted his target approaching discretely before he pounced, landing right next to the intruder and quickly snatching them by the scruff, like he did Brutus.
Once he was sure he was holding on to them securely, he brought them (or is it a him?) back to the group, he can’t seem to speak in this form (that he figured out how to at least) so he hope they might interrogate this person for him, figure out who they are why they are here.
He doesn’t put them down, yet, with two injured it’s too risky to have them or him run around freely.