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Post by persephone on Oct 18, 2009 15:36:35 GMT -4
The sunlight danced down upon the fiery red hair of a girl. Her form was slender and tall, yet not ungainly. Everything about her was beautiful and graceful. From her delicate fingers to her finely sculpted face. Her green eyes were revealed from beneath the thick black lashes as a smile curled on her lips. “A beautiful day..” The voice that came from her lips was musical and gentle, like the wind that blew threw the trees. Her white face tilted down to her arms, examining the flowers that were there. It seemed as though she was holding a rainbow to color, for the blossoms were red, gold, orange, blue, yellow, white, purple, and any other color you could imagine. Lifting a flower to her face she tucked the white blossom behind in her fiery red hair.
Her feet carried her to the edge where there were strange blossoms, of a golden color. They seemed to be a carpet for her as her bare feet carried her across the soft ground. Suddenly the beauty was gone and the world about her was bitten and eaten by flame. A gasp came from her mouth as the bundle of flowers fell from her hands onto the ground. She observed the destruction with horror. That is until her eyes focused on a small sprout, struggling to grow. Kneeling down she stroked the petal softly. “Don’t worry.. you will survive this winter..” She smiled as her hand hovered over the sprout. Soon the sprout tripled in size as it’s roots spread deep into the soft earth. Opening her eyes she stood up and looked at the tree. A smile played on her lips. “Yes, you will live..” there she stood, a lone angel, white wings outspread, overlooking the sprout like a protective guardian.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 18, 2009 15:52:18 GMT -4
Hades had been watching this angel for a moment. He had just been passing by, checking th forest's damage when he spotted her. More specifically he spotted her pure white wings. They were beautiful, better than any other pair of wings he had seen in his whole life, ye they were not the most powerful, those wings belong to the dragons. He found himself staring at them for a moment, but then he saw her white face, so much different from his. Although he was probably one of the palest Dark Elves ever. He stepped out from a grove of blackened trees, coming into the open area that separated them before. He acted as if he hdn't seen her when he stepped out. His eyes were scanning around the dead and dying trees.
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Post by persephone on Oct 18, 2009 16:00:09 GMT -4
The sound of footsteps caused Persephone to jolt out of her trance with the sprout. Turning sharply she looked at the man who had intruded. His red eyes were looking around and the dead trees around her. Had he seen her? Her wings pulled close to her back as she thought about him seeing her. Why hadn’t she heard him come until just now?
Her green gaze watched him for a moment. “An elf..”She thought as she noticed his ears, there was something catching about him, but she couldn’t explain it. Her face turned a shade of red as her eyes looked down at her bare feet. The feeling of butterflies in her stomach crept up on her. Oh why did she have to get so nervous around people she didn’t know. Her smiled wavered for a moment as she managed a little, “Hello” The word caused her face to turn another shade of red. Tucking a piece of wavy red hair behind her ear that had the flower she clasped her hands behind her back, hoping to stop them from shaking so much.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 18, 2009 16:23:26 GMT -4
Hades turned around when she spoke, it wasn't all too loud but he still heard thanks to most of the area being dead quiet. He first noticed that she was turning a little red and that her wings were gone, probably behind her back. "Hello." He said, his lips curling into a smile out of habit thanks to his strange kindness. Hisred eyes went to the pile of flowers, it contained blooms of all different colors, some of which he didn't think existed in nature. "Those flowers are the most colorful I've seen in a long time." He said.
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Post by persephone on Oct 18, 2009 16:31:21 GMT -4
Her gaze, which had drifted down due to embarrassment snapped up to his eyes. A bright smile made her face light up like the morning sun. "Oh yes! I know where all the flowers are in this forest. You can find them if you just open your eyes and look." Her love for nature poured through her words as her white wings relaxed a bit. She walked closer to him and kneeling down on the soft earth gathered a white flower that blushed to a pink on the edges. "This one I found was near the swampiest parts of the forest. It was just sitting there just waiting to be picked!" She picked up another one that was a golden yellow. "And this one.. oh this one was in the deepest part of the forest..Hiding behind the roots of some trees." reaching up she took the white blossom from her hair and examined they starry blossom. "And this one..is my favorite.[/h]" She twirled it gently, making it seem as though it had its own light. "I made.." She looked up with a bright smile when she suddenly noticed that she was close to him. A stranger. Her eyes grew wide and her wings pulled around her in embarrassment and she backed a step or two away.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 18, 2009 20:58:05 GMT -4
Hades watched and listened to her. She seemed to love flowers, just about as much as he loved silence. He nodded after every one of her individual things about flowers. "You...made it? I can only make flowers out of shadow, even though none of them have color other than black." Hades said, opening his hand. Shadows from around him began gathering and formed into the shape of a black rose, the flower he loved to make most. He smiled a little, but he knew it couldn't be as beautiful as the real thing, or the flower she created.
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Post by persephone on Oct 18, 2009 21:14:07 GMT -4
Persephone drew her wings back from her face and looked up at him. "Oh, stop talking so much your blabbing his ears off." She scolded herself with her thoughts. But these thoughts were soon left behind as she saw darkness swirl around him, waving into the form of a black rose. Taking a step forward she gazed at the rose intently. "How beautiful, yet so mournful..she went to touch it, but her slender hands just passed through the darkness. With a little smile she muttered to herself. "A black rose...yes.. why haven't I though of that.."
Kneeling down she gathered some dirt into a pile all around her. Taking some from here and there until there was a small mound. Picking it up she let the different colors of dirt mix and then fall into a pile. Closing her eyes she whispered, " Dark as night, but with the light of the stars so bright. It will comfort grief, and give strength to the weak. Light will reflect off of it like tears....." The rest was inaudible. Holding her hand over the mound of dirt and with a picture in her mind she waited. Nothing happened at first, than the dirt moved. Slowly a sprout crawled up reaching for her hand as she lifted it further from the ground. Soon the sprout grew into a full fledged plant. Within a matter of minutes the rosebush looked to be 5 years old. A rose blossomed. Unfurling it's velvety black petals that seemed to sparkle with light.
Opening her eyes she smiled and plucking a flower off without drawing blood held it out to him. "One like this?" A smile played on her lips, shyness forgotten, for the moment.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 18, 2009 22:06:51 GMT -4
hades smiled when her hand passed through the shadow flower. "It isn't solid, not enough shadows for that." He said. then she went a little bit away and began gathering dirt around her. He watched her do the process. His eyes couldn't believe it, a real black rose came from the pile. He went over to her slowly as the bush grew. She then plucked the rose and showed it to him. "Yes...that is a real black rose. The most beautiful kind to my people." He said, his mouth in a big smile and his eyes wide,
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Post by persephone on Oct 18, 2009 22:16:14 GMT -4
His smile seemed to light up his face like a full moon did to the night. Persephone stared at him for a moment before she grew bashful again. Her wings pulled around her, hiding her red face from his compliments. One of her green eyes peeked from over the wings before she buried her face behind the tip of her wings. “I’m glad you like it….” She smiled slightly and bashfully as she backed away a bit. Kneeling down byt the fallen flowers she picked up a sky blue one and examined the flower sourly. It had been crushed slightly. With a sigh she passed her hand over it. The blue petals smoothed out and looked brand new. Sticking the stem in the ground her hand circled around the base for a second and when she put her hand away the flower stood up and grew for a second before stopping. “Start a new life and spread your color through this forest..” She smiled slightly at the flower as her gaze looked at the charred trees. “This place needs your brightness.”
She stiffened as she realized that she had been talking out loud, her face turned a new shade of red before turning around. Suddenly aware that he was probably watching her. “oh do forgive me.. I’m not..used to..well… being around with someone..” She stuttered as she wiggled her toes nervously.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 30, 2009 10:06:28 GMT -4
Hades watched her, using her wings to hide her face. She was probably embarrassed or something. This made him smile a little more. Then he watched as she retrieved a blue flower, just as beautiful as the black rose she had made. She then planted it and said it would brighten up this place. "Don't worry, I haven't really talked to other people in a long time as well. Unless you include those few people that happened to find me. Without including those, the last time would have been...about 150 years ago." Hades said, recalling his long period of loneliness. His heart had been completely empty those long years. He had carried the emptiness with him for so long he wasn't really sure what having true happiness would feel like. Although his mind did tell him it would be soon that he would rediscover it.
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Post by persephone on Oct 30, 2009 10:13:00 GMT -4
Persephone's green eyes glanced back at the blue flower which had now grown roots and had stretched its leaves out. A smile played on her lips as she pulled the wings from her face and peeked out from them. Astonishment resided in her eyes. "One-hundred and fifty years!!" she gasped. She knew what it was like to be alone, though she had her flowers and the trees around her to give her company. "Don't you have any family?!" Those green eyes of hers had grown large and looked at him with endless depths of curiosity.
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Post by kaiji4 on Oct 30, 2009 10:20:11 GMT -4
Hades' smile vanished, as did his relative happiness, for the moment at least. "I used to have family..." He said, the sadness and shame evident in his eyes. Hopefully she couldn't read minds, because his was filled with all the memories of slaughtering his family. Killing his parents, his brothers, his friends. The only one he didn't regret killing was the little snitch who told the elders about the human's village near his. A smile of mixed emotions came across his face, filled with sadness, happiness, anger and some others. "They're all gone...wiped out." He said after the long pause between words. His face returned to its calm, un-emotional exterior.
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Post by persephone on Oct 30, 2009 10:29:29 GMT -4
Persephone searched his face. There was such loss, such anger, such loneliness. Unconsciously she took a step toward him she got closer and looked deeply in his eyes. yet just as she did his normal calm and expressionless visage came back. This time she took a step back. "That's...terrible.." She looked at him with wide eyes. "I know what it is like to loose a family. I was out picking flowers when my village was raided. I never saw anyone again." She smiled sadly. "Though now this is my home, the trees, the flowers brighten my day, and the little critters are my family." she looked up at him, expecting to see him looking at her strangely, like all the people in her village had.
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Post by kaiji4 on Dec 16, 2009 20:41:12 GMT -4
Hades looked at her. Yes, it was terrible. Much more terrible than she knew. Then she mentioned how she lost her family, but found a new one here in the forest with the little animals and flowers. He smiled at her. She looked up just as he smiled. "Well, it's just like friends. They're just the family you get to choose." He said with a little bit of a laugh. It didn't seem too strange to him. He sometimes thought of the shadows as his family so it wasn't very strange.
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Post by persephone on Dec 16, 2009 20:51:23 GMT -4
Her green eyes searched his face for a moment before her face turned bright with a smile. Planting a little pink flower in the ground and hovering her hand over it, it grew much faster than the other ones.Standing up she looked at him, "I'm glad you understand.. not many do." Lifting her hand she twirled a little curl of bright red hair and sighed slightly. Yes, it was nice to have someone who finally understood things. Looking up at him, all her shyness had been forgotten. Hwo different this meeting hd been for her. Usually if she met anyone she would scurry away like a frightened doe, but this time.. she had stay, and she was glad she had.
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