Post by Raeghan on Dec 30, 2007 14:21:13 GMT -5
Two small pebbles blew softly down the street, skipping in the winds that blew from the oceans beyond. The Port City of Tre Betal was ravished. Ships were shattered to splinters. Houses and merchant shops were demolished and there was no sign of life. The Port City was completely destroyed and all its citizens destroyed.
The small stones suddenly stopped, almost unnaturally. The winds were still blowing, but the formerly light rocks were like lead now. They twitched and jittered back and forth, and then there form shifted altogether. Where there were once pebbles two eyes now blinked, the color of the iris as brown as the earth itself. The eyes blinked, scanning the terrain, and then closed. As the eyes shut, they shifted back into the pebbles which started quivering as the ground beneath them began to tremble.
Then, as if from nothing, a figure sprang up from the ground, rocks and soil falling away in the process. The figure looked gray and ashen, thick as if creature’s very skin was the stone it just sprang from. The creature moved slowly, turning about as it took in the ravished Port. Slowly, the creature began to walk forward, traversing the streets of the Port City. There was something here. Something that was pulling this creature like a master tugging a dog’s leash. Clumsily the creature moved and then stopped at a huge pile of rubble – once some sort of large building.
Almost instantly the large stone creature fell in upon itself. The stones fell away from each other, crashing back to the Earth. Everything was still, the harsh winds that were once blowing completely dying off. There was total silence and everything was completely still. Then the silence was shattered as the center of the rubble exploded outwards, like a geyser exploding outward. Dirt, rock, and splintered wood rained down around the lithe, tall female figure that now stood at the epicenter of the explosion.
She wore plain brown leathers and looked very much like a ranger. Her hair was long and blew in the wind that was blowing again as if nothing happened. She wore a band around her head adorned with ancient symbols and markings, telling that she was one with the earth. A druid perhaps or one of the mystic Dryad that lived near the City of Shadow. She was, in fact, neither and the eloquent staff she held in her hand told exactly what she was. An Earth Sedi, gripping the Arc of Earth that she had just plucked from the destroyed building.
She smiled softly, feeling the raw power of the earth fill her body. She smelled things she could never smell before; hear things she could never hear. Her vision incredibly acute. It was as if she had become the very animals of the lands, the majestic creatures of the forests and mountains. Her smile quickly fell into a frown as she began to tingle. There was something else here in the ruins of the Port City. Something else that called to her Sedian nature. Something that screamed out to her, searing her ears. She cried out, her form suddenly sinking down into the earth once more. The ground vibrated in an obvious path as she soared through the rich soil, moving towards the cause of the intense sensations she was feeling.
Once again the calm. The winds stopped, the sea froze and everything was insanely still. And, like before, debris suddenly exploded outwards. The Earth Sedi’s form surged upwards, her hair whipping violently about her head. There was an intricate pattern that seemed to be glowing red hot under and around her left eye. Her lips were curled back in a silent scream, yelling upwards towards the heavens as another power suddenly filled her thin frame.
The scream suddenly became audible as a massive pillar of liquid earth erupted from the center of where she was standing, surging upwards towards the sky. The waters around the Port City began to sizzle and boil as the fiery earth fell from the skies, the waves seemingly unending as the pillar of lava stretched higher and higher into the skies. The earth rumbled horribly, the piles of rubble breaking up more and more until chunks of rock were ground into sand.
And then the stillness as the terrible scream stopped. The pillar of fire stopped erupting and eventually the rain of fire had halted as well. Tre Betal was nothing now. A flat, arid landscape covered with pits and craters where chunks of molten earth came crashing down. The lagoons and bays around the Port City all boiled and bubbled, as if the very earth the water rested in was on fire.
But it was quiet and still again. Quiet and still because the creature that had caused this carnage was now unconscious. The surge of power from the Arc of Earth and then the Arc of Fire was too much to handle at that moment, and she had exploded outwards. The raw power of fire coupled with earth in primal destruction. She lay there, flat on the ground, the Arc of Earth clutched tightly in her right hand, the Arc of Fire burning softly in her left.
Slowly, her form melted away into the earth, as if she was being swallowed by quicksand. She was vulnerable now, in this unconscious state, and the manifestation of the earth would not be vulnerable. And so, like a mother putting a child to sleep, Rae melted away, the volcano like landscape being left behind as she regained her strength below.
The small stones suddenly stopped, almost unnaturally. The winds were still blowing, but the formerly light rocks were like lead now. They twitched and jittered back and forth, and then there form shifted altogether. Where there were once pebbles two eyes now blinked, the color of the iris as brown as the earth itself. The eyes blinked, scanning the terrain, and then closed. As the eyes shut, they shifted back into the pebbles which started quivering as the ground beneath them began to tremble.
Then, as if from nothing, a figure sprang up from the ground, rocks and soil falling away in the process. The figure looked gray and ashen, thick as if creature’s very skin was the stone it just sprang from. The creature moved slowly, turning about as it took in the ravished Port. Slowly, the creature began to walk forward, traversing the streets of the Port City. There was something here. Something that was pulling this creature like a master tugging a dog’s leash. Clumsily the creature moved and then stopped at a huge pile of rubble – once some sort of large building.
Almost instantly the large stone creature fell in upon itself. The stones fell away from each other, crashing back to the Earth. Everything was still, the harsh winds that were once blowing completely dying off. There was total silence and everything was completely still. Then the silence was shattered as the center of the rubble exploded outwards, like a geyser exploding outward. Dirt, rock, and splintered wood rained down around the lithe, tall female figure that now stood at the epicenter of the explosion.
She wore plain brown leathers and looked very much like a ranger. Her hair was long and blew in the wind that was blowing again as if nothing happened. She wore a band around her head adorned with ancient symbols and markings, telling that she was one with the earth. A druid perhaps or one of the mystic Dryad that lived near the City of Shadow. She was, in fact, neither and the eloquent staff she held in her hand told exactly what she was. An Earth Sedi, gripping the Arc of Earth that she had just plucked from the destroyed building.
She smiled softly, feeling the raw power of the earth fill her body. She smelled things she could never smell before; hear things she could never hear. Her vision incredibly acute. It was as if she had become the very animals of the lands, the majestic creatures of the forests and mountains. Her smile quickly fell into a frown as she began to tingle. There was something else here in the ruins of the Port City. Something else that called to her Sedian nature. Something that screamed out to her, searing her ears. She cried out, her form suddenly sinking down into the earth once more. The ground vibrated in an obvious path as she soared through the rich soil, moving towards the cause of the intense sensations she was feeling.
Once again the calm. The winds stopped, the sea froze and everything was insanely still. And, like before, debris suddenly exploded outwards. The Earth Sedi’s form surged upwards, her hair whipping violently about her head. There was an intricate pattern that seemed to be glowing red hot under and around her left eye. Her lips were curled back in a silent scream, yelling upwards towards the heavens as another power suddenly filled her thin frame.
The scream suddenly became audible as a massive pillar of liquid earth erupted from the center of where she was standing, surging upwards towards the sky. The waters around the Port City began to sizzle and boil as the fiery earth fell from the skies, the waves seemingly unending as the pillar of lava stretched higher and higher into the skies. The earth rumbled horribly, the piles of rubble breaking up more and more until chunks of rock were ground into sand.
And then the stillness as the terrible scream stopped. The pillar of fire stopped erupting and eventually the rain of fire had halted as well. Tre Betal was nothing now. A flat, arid landscape covered with pits and craters where chunks of molten earth came crashing down. The lagoons and bays around the Port City all boiled and bubbled, as if the very earth the water rested in was on fire.
But it was quiet and still again. Quiet and still because the creature that had caused this carnage was now unconscious. The surge of power from the Arc of Earth and then the Arc of Fire was too much to handle at that moment, and she had exploded outwards. The raw power of fire coupled with earth in primal destruction. She lay there, flat on the ground, the Arc of Earth clutched tightly in her right hand, the Arc of Fire burning softly in her left.
Slowly, her form melted away into the earth, as if she was being swallowed by quicksand. She was vulnerable now, in this unconscious state, and the manifestation of the earth would not be vulnerable. And so, like a mother putting a child to sleep, Rae melted away, the volcano like landscape being left behind as she regained her strength below.
