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Amazon Lukoi

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Date: May 21, 2008
The Prophecy
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Being a statue, Llidya had a lot of time to think. Especially when everyone was gone. There was nothing to focus on, nothing to listen to. And she was completely aware the entire time.

She missed Ash, the witches...and Dina, and wondered if she would ever get back to normal. To get to know her daughter of blood. She sighed inwardly, and looked to her wolf.

The beast had just been resting since their ill attempt at escape a few days past. It had healed pretty fast, but that was to be expected, what with her paranormal healing abilities before she'd been infected. She noticed movement then, but not in her little back room. It was out there somewhere, on the spiritual plane with her wolf. Something was approaching the tower of jade and it looked to be too tall to be any type of lycan Llidya had ever seen.

She watched as whatever it was got closer, idly curious. Until her wolf jumped up, hackles rising. She reached out to calm it down, and was lashed out at with a burn of fiery pain. What the hell?! They'd fought before, but this had never...

Her attention was taken by the approaching thing suddenly, and Llidya lost consciousness for the second time as a statue. A dream started raging it's way through her skull.


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Images swirled, images she couldn't begin to comprehend. She could see them, but she could not
understand put them together to form a coherent story. There she was, a Jade Statue, sitting in
the back room of Thirteen Moons. There was a strange light from within. Her
spirit maybe? Connected to that odd green glow was a dark line that disappeared
into iself, into the supernatural plane. To her wolf. The image went closer to the
statue and the glow, and it could be seen that the line wrapped around the glow of her
life force several times. Following the line, it originated from the wolf, and was holding
her captive. The wolf looked up, and slowly shifted into a fox with seven tails.
Quickly the view moved back to Thirteen Moons, zooming out through the ceiling to the
sky. Lightning of a dark red hue peirced the sky, and icy cold spheres of
blackness fell upon the islands and the surrounding ocean. Buildings and
trees were toppled by the wind. And blanketing the sky was an impenetrable cloud
of black. Faint glows pulsed throughout the phenomenon, circling.
Back to the room, she watched as something struck her as she was frozen, shattering her into
a thousand pieces. The wolf now fox jumped about, still trapped within the tower before the
strange glows from the cloud descended upon it and bore it away.
Back to the room again, there was the sound of chanting. There she was, whole and complete, not shattered as it seemed. As the chanting intensified, the jade fell away in pieces, like
an eggshell, and she stepped out, smiling in relief. The line from the wolf/fox creature
disintegrated and the creature bounded away, towards an odd tear on the plane.
Supernatural creatures dying left and right, with no apparent wounds, the wolf/fox
creature bounding across the globe, grinning as it caused Chaos.
Back to the room again! Once again encased in jade. A person shrouded in darkness,
an asexual being creating a darkness in the room. Reaching into the jade prison, pulling
her forcefully, painfully from the statue. She lay there bleeding, the wolf/fox still trapped
in that jade tower, that line still wrapped around her as she was cut open, entrails
pulled from within. Pure evil seeped to her through the vision as a heat and pain so
intense flooded the area. Something dark and ominous appeared as she and the wolf/fox
breathed their last. There was chaos, evil all over as blackened creatures with batlike wings
descended down upon the populance, raping, murdering and pillaging. All through
these horrible images was the soft sound of laughter.

The images seemed to rewind itself, back to before Llidya came to the islands, when she was
globe trotting with the Sanguine Syndicate. To the time in Tibet where she pocketed a jade
figurine of a seven-tailed fox. To the line that transferred from the figurine
to Llidya, entering underneath her fingernails. A line that led to a wolf that as the time
rewound, transformed into a fox very similar to the figurine, seven tails and all. Time
kept reversing as the fox was stuck there, going back hundreds of years to a time of
war. Sword versus lead. The seven-tailed fox pranced over the battlefield,
feeding on the energy of the emotional humans, and the magics of
the war mages. Back another hundred years, to when the
fox was imprisoned again, and this time thousands of years passed before
the fox was free again, unaware of it's future of imprisonment. It's actions
carefree and seemingly frivolous as it fed off of all creatures, taking
both their magics and emotions. No law or order ruled this fox. Back
to the before, of the discovery of a royal court, of the fox's insolence and refusal
to join either of them, wanting to do as it pleased for all
of eternity. The time reversal stopped, and started forward again, following the
creatures of the court rather than the fox, and how they joined together
to stop the all powerful creature, and their plans to imprison it.

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After that, there was only darkness.


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Kali Incarnate

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Date: May 26, 2008
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To sleep! perchance to dream:--ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
Hamlet III,i,65-68

She had spent so long in the land of dreams among the stars and planets of the divine, watching the wheel of time spin with the seperateness of a being far gone from the Earth that it was almost more true to her than reality. Yes her body lay still for part of the day while Apollo shone his light down on the world, but it was always night somewhere. Darkness always waiting to overtake new territory. In corporeal form she walked the dreamscape, visiting those who called to her. Sometimes seeking specific minds with which to link. Those who could teach her more about this modern age of technology. So much still to learn, so many things forced into the small confines of these human brains.

Her Sammuel slept nearby and she played along the edge of his consciousness, taunting and teasing in her usual fashion. Her dark prince just as Marcus was her golden. One day would he come to hate her with fierce love as well? The dreamscape was one she had taken him to often, a beach among the isles of Greece in the daylight. Her memory of such was vague, so many meliniaii had passed since last her eyes had beheld the wonder of the sun. Yet now that illusion was more crisp, more perfect. She had seen movies since awakening, this thing that was like a portal to another universe. The first time she saw the sun in almost four thousand years was on one of those screens. For a moment there in the darkness a tear of sanguine fluid rolled down one of her perfect cheekbones. Leaving a tantalizing stain against the pale light of her skin. It was a single tear only, somnething that came from an instinctual place inside her. Even in her last years of humanity the Achralivanka had kept me as an apostate. My life lived in darkness even then. She was ten summers when last she saw the sun so in truth it was hard to miss it much.

On the sunswept dreamscape she roamed with her Dark Prince, their naked bodies gleaming with a wash of freshly spilled blood, so much brighter because of that light in the heavens shining down on them. The power that flowed around was thundrous, as though by their will they could open the Earth to its core and drop civilization down into the pits of hell. That black sand beach was littered with the bodies of the dead, flesh ripped and torn, insides bared to the light, their hearts torn free. And there they stood soaking in the power that each of these lives had given to them. Their skin was slick with blood as their bodies came together, her milky breasts pressed roughly against the thick curve of muscle at his chest, and he kissed her like he could taste her soul. It was a dream, but it was real. All senses engaged, all energy focused, and in such a state she opened herself to what was truly beyond.

It was not often that anything surprised the great Kali Ma, but it was about to. Vaguely at first she felt a subtle pressure, like when air pressure changes. Something that makes you want to pop her ears. In the dream she looked up towards the sky, and Sammuel was on his knees begging her not to go, not to leave him, but her attention was already turned. Like paint washed away by the rain the dreamscape swirled and faded. Sammuel sent off to whereever he was when she did not bring him to her. With the receding dream behind her she let her spirit climb into that other realm, just to the boundaries of where her powers could take her. That bitch Maya and her children were the only ones who could truly travel into the ether, the realm between realms, the land of passage, and place without end. Only they could see the great beyond and know the secrets beyond the veil, and Kalika hated her a little for that ability.

It mattered not though because whatever this was was coming towards her. It was nothing she could not control. If she wanted to deny it she could easily turn it away, but why would there be any cause for that. Corporeal form stayed in limbo as this new prescence wrapped itself around her, twineing its energy with hers until they melded together. It was only a matter of letting go, and when she did her vision (or the dreamstate equivalent) burst suddenly with dazzling incredible light. The world shimmered with millions of shades of green, each facet like something thrown off a chrystal, sparking through her mind in a way that made her feel like her whole being might just become this greenish light. It swept through her and then.....

Hhhhhhhhhh!

That was the sound she made inside her coffin as her perfectly shaped lips parted and she took a breath like a human waking from a nightmare. Eyes had flown open in a flutter of impossibly thick black lashes. There was noone there to see her eyes in that moment but if there had been they would most likely have backed away fast. The black of her pupils had been eaten, the whites disappeared. Her eyes were pools of that tempestuous crackling green light. Pools of perpetual motion that swam with warm color. Hands gripped the edge of that coffin and she pulled herself up to a sitting position like a sleep walker. It was daylight outside. She could feel it, could feel the sun beating down, could sense it through her wolf and her human. They stood in the midday sun and she was awake. Never had she awoken so early. Never sooner than around 4 in the afternoon, but this was closer to noon. How?

Then it was like her mind exploded and the colors in her eyes burst into motion, like her eyes were the portal to a vision. Inside her mind the tape played. Something from long ago. A place where she had once been. The legend was old but not older than her. The magic was strong but not stronger than her. Or this was what she believed. The vision flooded through her and she laughed. Laughed with a dark madness as she saw the destruction of the world. If such power could be harnessed, could be used then anything was possible. Even thinking it the ward on her upper arm burned, the councils way of thwarting her. Well, they could not keep her bound forever. Just as suddenly as the visions had come they left and she was alone with her thoughts and her plans.

The jade statue. She had to find the jade statue.



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Winds of Power

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Date: May 26, 2008
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The air was still, it never was still for long around Miyu but the air was still.  As still as it might be before a storm arrived.  Below ground where the wind did not rule she might have had better results in what she was trying but instead she stood in the wide expanse of the small shrine in her back yard.  She had been terribly efficient this turn around, before moving from one place to another.  This time,  house was found to her specifications and before she had moved the Shrine was built by a import company that she hired.  It was blessed and upon her arrival to Hawaii it was completely usable and ready for her.  The sliding rice paper doors on three of the four sides of the shine was open and still the air was not moving.  Fingers reached within the hem of her white kimono top and removed the four prepaired strips of paper.  With a flick of her wrist they went to each courner of the room, seemingly of there on will.  The Kanji symbols glowing brightly as the outside of the shrine shook with the will of the wind to enter. 

Knees folded and she settled on her rear on the pillow, legs folding as she closed her eyes.  Around the pillow various jars of herbs and powders sat in there special positions.  Miyu would endure the silent meditation for hours, nearly a full day.  It took every ounce of her power to to work this spell, it was the hardest that she personally knew.  Fingers moved as she was drawn out of the meditation to reach for the jars before her.  Both hands picked up one thing, sand and salt.  Each was thrown in front of her across the slick wooden floor.  Each grain of salt and sand echoed loudly like a rock avalanche in her head.  Left hand held up before her as she pointed it down ward moving it in a circular pattern.  The sand and salt would spread outwards till it was a perfect circle.  Mint, silver flecks and fine white powder of ground conche shell, each was pinched and tossed into the circle in front of her.  Each moment causing the blood in her veins to thud louder.

Voice rose but it was not English she chose to speak it, it was Japanese.  Hand still moving in that circular motion she pushed herself up.  Legs felt weak and like jello from sitting for so long but she ignored the pain of her body, staff lifted from beside the cushion she had sat on.  It was with that sing sound voice that the real pressure started to vibrate.  She was safe within her own boundaries due to the spell cards plastered to the courners of the shrine.  Although the wood creaked and whined as the wind battered it as if it was a hurricane.  Only a little longer and she could release it. 

Staff was slammed into the wood beneath her three times before that hand still making circular motions stilled and grasped the staff, her voice echoing three words with each rap of the staff to the wood floor.

 "Uchidashimasu seishin koi!" 

The words of power finally spoken, it happened in a flash.  The air broke through the bindings on the shrine walls as it should and hurricane if not tornado force winds slammed into Miyu.  Although they centered around the circle of power before her.  Hands glowed on the staff as the internal power of her priestess kept her standing against the force of the wind.  With a crack of what sounded like lightening Miyu was tossed off her feet some distance back.  The wind died as suddenly as it had come, but the pulsing of power did not.  Her ears rang with the sound of the lightening crack and a hand felt around blindly for the staff that was knocked out of her hand.  Finding it she gingerly climbed to her feet facing the pusling of power within the circle she had made.

Within the confines of the circle writhing on unseen air was an Elemental.  A fully aware and capable elemental danced in it's windy glory.  Blues and greens swirled as it took a semi human shape, the color of rain clouds and sunny blue skies swirled over it's shape.

You have called me priestess, offer your payment and let the deal be sealed.

It was not spoken in words but rather into Miyu's mind which was a bit unsettling.  But it was part of the whole deal.  The staff was set back down since the spell had worked and from within the Obi sash about her waist the tanto was removed.  Thick black braid was shifted over her shoulder and the end part sliced clean off.  One couldn't be vain about such heavy duty spells.  The tanto was moved to her finger and her pinky nail was cut down to her skin, careful not to cut herself and draw blood and ruin the whole casting.  Two steps brought her to the circle as the Elemental watched her with that dancing storm like gaze.  To give the payment she would have to seal the pact and release it from it's circle of power.

Hair to bind you, nail of my body to entrust you.  I seek your protection, guard me in the shape of a dog.  Be my eyes and my guide in this land.  Do you accept Elemental?

She didn't speak outloud, she didn't have to.  The Elemental was already in her mind.  It happened in a flash, the circle broke with a loud bang and the hair and nail pushed into the mushrooming power.  There was only one chance but Miyu wouldn't know the outcome.

Blackness sucked her down.  Down into dreams.  Seven Tails, the dark Godling was there.  Anyone worth there weight in gold as a Shinto Priestess or Priest would know that creature.  And this was what she woke too, knowing where the beast was and where it was trapped.  Hawaii just got suddenly more interesting.  Blind eyes openned, although she didn't feel pain, it was more like she was bathed in the warm wind, held aloft from the floor seeing as how it had caught her.  A hand reached out and connected with warm soft fur.  That single touch felt disorientating, she could see a picture of herself floating a few inches from the ground  but from a different perspective.  She could see but it wasn't with her eyes, it was through the shrine dog eyes, the shape the elemental had taken.  That was going to be hard to explain, but with the comfort of the elemental there, she smiled.  It had worked.  Exhastion was riding at her mind like a plague and she had no strength left to fight it, finding herself sucked back down into a quiet nightmare of foxes and Shrine dogs.  When she awoke she would search out the fox and the woman and then things might be better understood but for now she let herself drift.

-- Edited by Winds of Change at 12:35, 2008-05-26

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