Rumors

[Azrael/Iris]

"You've heard right, Oarashi...nothing seems to get past Torak." Artie said, giving a wolfish grin.

"Thank you, Lien. But..I don't think my fiance would be too happy to be marrying a werewolf..plus..I don't have much time until..the change consumes my human mind.." Artie replied to Lien. He looked down at Eldrin still dissapointed in himself for missing the frog.

Artie sighed and turned to the large mushrooms.
"Shall we press on, friends? Daylight is wasting." he asked, Sky flew back to Artie's side and floated by his head.

She quickly took notice of Oarashi and flew up to him. "Hello! My name is Sky!" she greeted.

[Schrödinger's cat]

"Hmmm, I suppose you are correct about that. . . Besides I've. . . " Lien paused. Nah, it would be best if his friends would rather not know about his blood-thirsty dragon side. Not as if that side of Lien would emerge anyways. "I can offer help to the other side if you need to."

"Sky?" Oarashi repeated? Gazing in wonder at the fairy. After all, he had never seen a fairy nor anyone so small in his entire life, even the year spent here in Hyrule.

[Azrael/Iris]

"I appreciate the offer...but...I like having control over my transformation." Artie said, crouching low and taking a giant leap onto the first mushroom.

"I guess we'll speak later...he's impaitient...then agian..we have been searching a year." Sky said, quickly flying to Artie's side.

[Eldrin/Vai]

Eldrin jumped up from where he lay and dusted himself off. "Finally! Let's get going!" He grinned and jumped onto the mushroom next to Artie. He was understandably excited. After all fairies placed pretty high on Eldrin's (extensive) list of things he liked, and making fun of old ladies with moles was a hobby of his.

He jumped ahead to the second mushroom, then the third, and finally stopped to wait for his companions.

[Azrael/Iris]

Artie barked with excitement after Eldrin, hopping after him with equal speed. Landing on the third mushroom and turning his head to look at Lien, Ink and Oarashi still on the other side.

"Hurry up!!" Artie called, he had forgotten how great it felt to be with friends. He felt...happy...hopeful...something he had not felt in a while.

[Schrödinger's cat]

Lien frowned as he looked at the mushroom right across from them. Did he really have to-

Oarashi blew right past by a startled Lien and leapt gracefully over the gap on to the other side. The dragon Prince sigh as he too then took two steps back and jumped over the gap and to the other side with Artie, Eldin and Oarashi. "Hate jumping, I prefer flying." Lien grumbled angrily as he unbuttoned his cloak and stuffed it his pack. After all the extra material added on too much drag to Lien and slowed him down a lot.

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Ink sighed as he watched the others, he was not enjoying this jumping. And with more people he felt uncomfortable, his eyes looking between each of the newcomers in his eyes, he at least felt at ease with the hylian turned wolf, Artie. Ink leaped to the next mushroom, barely making the jump and landing crouched before standing up. He couldn't help but look at Lien several times, feeling an itch in the back of his mind as he looked at him. The young lad shook his head clear of the thoughts though, he did not need confusion setting in at a time like this. He was here to help Artie, and that was his sole purpose at the moment.

[Azrael/Iris]

Artie watched as Ink had trouble jumping between the mushrooms.
"If you need help, Ink...You can climb on my back." Artie said, turning to the waterfall and facing the cliff to get to the Great Fairy's Cave.

[Schrödinger's cat]

Out of the corner of his eyes, Lien noticed how Ink had been staring at him the whole time. "Is something bothering you? Don't worry, I won't be offended." Lien spoke up, trying to see what was on his mind.

[Azrael/Iris]

Artie crouched low and kicked off the ground with his powerful legs, landing on the cliff with one of his front paws on the ground to keep himself from hitting the side of the cliff.

He turned to face the small band of his friends.
"Hurry up!!!" He called excitedly.

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((Feel free to drag Ink around and pass him along, I probably won't be posting to Saturday or Sunday.))

[Eldrin/Vai]

Careful to avoid the horn, Eldrin grabbed Ink and jumped across after Artie. He landed precariously on the edge of the cliff and, after stabilizing himself, put Ink on Artie's back. While they waited for Lien and Oarashi, Eldrin gazed in the direction of the Great Fairy's cave. He had never actually met a Great Fairy, having never had a reason to. But in his obsession with fairies, Eldrin was eager to meet one.

[Iona]

Alemine caught up to Pyrrha, but was confused by her lack of action. She saw Pyrrha staring up at the others and matched her gaze to what the woman was staring at. Scowling, she saw nothing but the lilypads they were to jump onto to get to the cliff. "What are you looking at? There's nothing there. Gods, you are really weird,"Alemine muttered and sat down on the giant leaf, watching small fish dart back and forth in the water below them, humming quietly until the spell left her companion.

Frozen, Pyrrha stared wide-eyed to the distance but wasn't seeing anything, lost in her memory. Her hands tingled with sudden adrenaline as she finally, finally remembered something. Most of her early childhood was filled with strange memories and up until she finally gave up on trying every sort of method to remember the origins of those memories and to find more, she hadn't thought much of it. Until now, when she suddenly remembered something.

The air was filled with hazy, golden rays of sunlight and smelled of cold. Giant trees cut the rays of the light into curtains and delicate, lacy beams. A man, with wild black hair, lifted her up into his arms and her tiny hands clapped in delight, her wrists adorned in the thinnest bracelets of gold. He raised his face up to the light, making his tanned skin seem to shine, the scars on his face disappearing momentarily.He chuckled as she clapped and hummed a solemn song.

"West of the wolf, east of the rains. Above the snow but under the sun. In the era of the drought, time remains, unchanged, undone. In the lands of the people of the rocks and of the sun and river, find your answer."

He smiled and gently put her down and walked off, a large feather slipping out from his sleeve.

Pyrrha blinked, remembering the man's golden eyes, but found Alemine's bright, wide black ones staring back at her. "You have a mosquito on your chin. It's huge. Like, the size of a horse. So, are we going after them?" she asked, staring up at Pyrrha, swinging her legs back and forth over the edge of the lilypad. For a moment, Pyrrha had no idea who this girl was or why she was talking to her.

Promptly remembering, the woman spun on her heel and leapt onto the other lilypads, and onto the cliff, stopping just behind the group of people. Alemine grumbled and stopped to desperately scratch at the red welt of a mosquito bite on her knee. "She's losing it, I swear. What kind of person talks about droughts and time? What a freak." Getting up, she sighed and followed her companion.

[Azrael/Iris]

Artie moved a bit to make sure Ink firmly stayed on his back, despite his size...he was suprisingly heavy. It didn't matter to Artie in the current form he was in.

His ears twitched and he turned around as he heard the sound of two people climbing the cliff, startled, he turned around and growled at the two newcomers...unsure if they were friend or foe.

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Ink peaked over Artie's shoulder. "Do you know him?" Ink asked curiously as he moved to point over the wolfman's shoulder at Lien, his eyes resting on the dragon prince. "Cause he's giving me a headache, just like you do." The young boy said dully, his red eyes looking at Artie for a quick moment before landing on Lien once more. He looked at him for moment, a look of confusion on his face as if he was trying to remember or figure something out.