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Post by Feliciano Vargas on Mar 4, 2012 5:31:18 GMT -5
There is nothing wrong with Beauty and the Beast! *scowling*
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Post by Walker Jones on Mar 4, 2012 5:54:26 GMT -5
I don't think we were saying that there was anything wrong with it...
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Post by Feliciano Vargas on Mar 4, 2012 5:59:41 GMT -5
You did last night, though. *points to her comment*
But I like the story, KitKat, just not the comparison to BatB
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Post by Walker Jones on Mar 4, 2012 6:21:00 GMT -5
Reed... I'm a fan of Beauty and the Beast too... I'm sorry if any of us said anything that irked you, but I'm pretty sure none of us meant it.
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Post by Feliciano Vargas on Mar 4, 2012 6:24:29 GMT -5
I never said you weren't, Weaver.
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Post by Carina Jones on Mar 4, 2012 15:05:39 GMT -5
I'm glad you like it Reed
And I'll be honest, while you can draw some comparisons a little vaguely to BatB It's really not that similar at all if you really think of the story of BatB. (I'm more concerned with not becoming too similar to some characters in Inu Yasha if I try to continue ;;-.- )
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Post by Carina Jones on Mar 12, 2012 22:04:01 GMT -5
AN: Once I'm pretty sure I'm done with this I'll have to post all the character & creature info I've been working on today. Right now it's probably spoilers (Assuming I manage to get more) xD
This seems to be a year or two post Mister Shadow
Part 2: Mister Sage
Lorenzo glanced at the position of the sun his foot tapping impatiently on the branch. She was supposed to have come back hours ago. Where in the world had she gotten to? That girl… He still wasn’t sure what the hell he had gotten into taking her in. It had been obvious the child wasn’t human when she had seen him, but he hadn’t been able to figure out what she was until her wings started coming in a couple months ago and set her other abilities off. What had possessed an Airy to settle down with an Earth Elemental Mage was beyond him, but the mix in their child was… interesting.
At times it seemed that the child could settle on nothing at all and couldn’t keep still itching to be moving and exploring and other times she could spend hours absorbed in a lesson. And – he thought with fond frustration – she seemed to have almost no fear. She scared the wits out of him trying to fly from the upper branches of one of the tall oaks. He was sure she was going to break her neck until her element kicked up. One of the tree’s branches in a strangely gentle manner catching the small girl and looping up to place her up where Lorenzo had been about to dive from before returning to its natural place. He was almost certain he had felt the tree itself sympathizing with him about the foolishness of young fliers as it set the lightly giggling child down.
Lorenzo sighed darting among the shadows in the trees eyes half closed focusing on that distant beacon of awareness that he had come to recognize as his young charge. If she had tried that again she was going to get quite a scolding. Her wings had not grown in enough yet for it to work even if her nature kept urging her into the sky.
He came to a stop at the edge of a small clearing frowning down as another being pinged at the edge of his awareness. He slipped into the shadows cloaking himself to see. How was it that there could be another in his forest and his shadows could barely find them? It shouldn’t be possible; he frowned down at the slightly messy head of dark blond hair. And Carina… that child was trying to give him a heart attack. Sitting on some strangers lap and chatting away happy as could be…
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About an hour ago…
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Leonardo struggled to make his way through the woods. All his reading had not prepared him for what he would find when he actually entered the Shadow Demon’s Woods. And really these people had no creativity with naming. Before it had been “Woods”, then you lock a Shadow in there because you’re scared of it and now it’s “Shadow Demon’s Woods”. Why couldn’t they call it Root Wood or Yellow Thicket or Oaken Grove? Something that pertained more to the trees themselves than the poor man they had trapped there.
Or well at least Leonardo was ninety percent sure they had trapped a poor man here and not a shadow demon. The stories from the area didn’t sound anything like a shadow demon. Tricking people to stay out of the woods rather than luring them in, no horrific deaths, just a single heart attack - which really there was no evidence to prove this shadow man had anything to do with it anyway – and it was all preceded by a long period of peace and low crime in the town which had seen times less pleasant since this shadow demon was “banished”.
All in all that did not spell shadow demon to the young Sage and if that’s what it spelled to a priestess these days he really had to wonder about the quality of education this next generation was getting.
It was just about then that Vinci, lost in his musings, managed to stumble over thick root and land neatly on his face in the bushes. But when he turned his head to look from where he was lying there were no roots so raised that he should have tripped on them.
“I could have sworn my foot caught on something.” He muttered in confusion.
There was a giggle from the bushes next to him and he looked over to meet the bright brown eyes of a little girl who didn’t appear to be more than seven or eight years old. “Er, hello.” He said, blinking owlishly over.
The little girl giggled and gave him a bright smile. “Hello!”
“Did you, did you happen to see what I tripped over?” Leo asked, standing and brushing off his clothes.
“Uh, huh.” The little girl nodded and Leo looked around trying to see what she could have spotted.
“Well what was it?” He asked, not seeing anything.
The child giggled again. “This!” She said pointing, and suddenly a thick root lifted lazily from its resting to just about the height of Leonardo’s ankle.
He looked at the child incredulously. “Did you do that?”
“Uh huh!” She said, nodding as the root rested back into the grove that it came from.
“Why would you do something like that? That hurt.”
“Because! I’ve been trying to get your attention for a while mister! You’ve been walking in circles!”
Leonardo blinked down at her again and then looked around where he was standing. It did look a bit familiar… “I have?”
“Yup, for a pretty long time now too. I thought I could help you if you were looking for something. I know my way around here.”
“Ah, well. I’m looking for someone. The shadow man that they say lives in this forest.”
“Señor Sombra?” The child asked looking up at him curiously. “I don’t know if he’ll come out for you. He’s not always fond of people.”
“You know him?” Leo asked startled, she didn’t even look frightened at the mention – perhaps another point in favor of his own theory… “And what exactly is a little girl like you doing out here in the forest anyway?”
The little girl laughed again, “I live here.” She reached out and took his hand tugging it, “Follow me.”
Leonardo frowned in confusion, what exactly was a child doing living out here… He caught a hint of motion out of the corner of his eye and took another look at the back of the child tugging him along. His eyes widened slightly seeing two small white wings that fluttered occasionally as she moved. An Airy and an Earth elemental? How strange… And while looks could be deceiving he was fairly sure this was truly a young child. She couldn’t be more than ten, only just starting to grow into her powers and her wings.
“Here we are!” she said suddenly gesturing around a picturesque little clearing.
“And where exactly is here?” He asked, brushing off a log to sit down, and getting a rather large surprise as the little one clambered up onto his lap.
“This is one of our clearings. I figured you could take a rest from walking in circles.” She said nodding.
“Our Clearings?”
“Yup! Mine and Señor Sombra’s.” She said with a nod as if it should be obvious.
“So you really know the shadow man?”
“Yup! Señor Sombra takes care of me. I live with him now ‘cause mommy and daddy are gone.” She looked slightly sad for a moment before smiling again, little white wings fluttering with happiness, “But it’s ok because I have Señor Sombra now.”
“Can you take me to see ‘Señor Sombra’?” The little girl shook her head. “Why not?”
“Because he won’t want to see you. Señor Sombra doesn’t like people. He tried to make me go home when I first got here. But I thought maybe you could tell me why you want to see him and I can tell him when I go for lessons today and then maybe he would want to see you!”
Leonardo was having a little trouble keeping up with her speaking so quickly. “So if I tell you why I’m looking for him, you might be able to help me find him?”
“Si!” She said smiling at him brightly.
Leonardo couldn’t help himself he smiled down at the little brunette. “I guess I can do that. Well… First things figure I guess. My name’s Leonardo Vargas.”
“Oh!” The little girl made a small exclamation of dismay. “I’m sorry!” She hopped off his lap and gave a slight curtsy, “My name’s Carina! It’s really nice to meet you Mister Vargas.”
Leo smiled. “You can call me Leonardo, Carina. It’s nice to meet you too.”
“Ok Mister Leonardo!” She said smiling before looking at him a bit nervously.
For a moment he wasn’t quite sure why, but then he realized that with remembering her manners she must have realized she shouldn’t just hop up onto his lap. He sighed. “It’s alright Carina.” He patted his leg slightly embarrassed. “You can come sit again if you like.”
Carina flashed him a bright smile before clambering back up onto his lap.
“Well ok, like I said my name is Leonardo Vargas. And I’m looking for ‘Señor Sombra’ because I think he might be my elder brother, Lorenzo. We haven’t really met, He disappeared when I wasn’t much more than your age, but I’m looking for him because he’s the only family I have left. I need to find him.”
The little girl looked up at him curiously. “But if you’re his brother why aren’t you a shadow like he is, Mister Leonardo?”
“Ah well… sometimes children take after one parent more than the other. In this case my Brother took after our father mostly, while I take after our mother. Our father was a Guardian Shadow, like Lorenzo, and our mother was a Sage, like I am.” Leonardo did his best to explain. He was rather surprised to see her nodding in understanding when he looked down at her.
“It’s like when the wolves have cubs and some of them took more after the daddy and some after the mommy. It’s genetics, Señor Sombra taught me about that!” Another point in favor of Leo’s theory, the man was smart and able to teach. “So if he’s Señor Sombra and you’re his brother does that make you Señor Sage, Mister Leonardo?”
Leonardo laughed slightly. “I guess it could.”
Carina grinned. “Yay! Hey Señor Sombra! Are you going to come out and say hello to Señor Sage soon?” She called out looking over at the trees to one side.
Leonardo looked up, his sharp golden gaze piercing the shadows seeing the one that he could just sense now that Carina had pointed him out.
Lorenzo nearly fell off his branch. He had forgotten that she had become as adept at sensing him as he was at sensing her. He sighed jumping down to the ground. He might not have seen Leonardo since he was a child. But there was no denying it when those intelligent golden eyes met his own dark red-brown.
“It’s nice to see you again, Leonardo.”
Leonardo smiled. “It’s good to see you too Lorenzo.”
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Post by Walker Jones on Mar 12, 2012 22:48:45 GMT -5
Very nice, my clumsy OC fits in very well. XD
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Post by Alfred F. Jones on Mar 12, 2012 22:50:36 GMT -5
*grins* you know I love Vinvin. And after all his lecturing about proper education of priestesses and NOT A SHADOW DEMON how could I not let him in xD He'd hurt me.
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Post by Walker Jones on Mar 12, 2012 22:54:25 GMT -5
But he's a pacifist. XD
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Post by thestateofeli on Mar 12, 2012 23:05:14 GMT -5
This is amazing *thumbs up*
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Post by Alfred F. Jones on Mar 12, 2012 23:18:45 GMT -5
Ok fine. He would start lecturing again and NEVER. SHUT. UP. =.=
^//^ thanks, Eli.
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