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Post by Daisy Duke on May 7, 2010 22:53:09 GMT -5
Starlight let her eyes finally close all the way as she saw him relax and lay down. She knew that he would be alert all night. So would she. Her ears, casually remained pointed in his general direction so that she could hear him if he decided to move and try and attack her while she was sleeping. She found that she wanted to trust him but of course she couldn't. She had just met him and they had almost already gotten into a fight right after they met so she couldn't be to careful. She smiled to herself as she heard his response to her good night. His voice gave away that he was from a far off land of some sort. Her whiskers twitched a little in acknowledgement of his response before she let out another large yawn, her eyes remaining closed before she lay down her head back down on her paws.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 8, 2010 17:00:57 GMT -5
ooc- Do you want to skip through the night and say that it's morning?
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 8, 2010 20:39:09 GMT -5
ooc: Yeah that's fine with me.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 9, 2010 13:41:55 GMT -5
Granite woke suddenly in the pre-dawn light. “I hope I haven't slept in too late...” he muttered aloud. As he slowly opened his eyes, he found an unfamiliar scene before him. Sleeping not far from him was a female puma, not Farsight or Snow or- Granite's thoughts cut off as he remember. Starlight. That's what her name was. In a flash of memory the male remembered where he was. Stalking quietly out of the den, hoping he hadn't woken up Starlight, the male crouched outside of the den to watch the sunrise. A ritual burned deep inside him bubbled forth, and he found he wanted to perform it. As his hushed voice sounded, it had an almost musical quality to it and was quite pleasing.“The sunrise to a new day, a day to survive and yet again watch the new sunrise. By my sweat and blood, may I prove my worth of this day.”
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 10, 2010 20:40:53 GMT -5
Starlight awoke at sunrise as she usually did. She opened her eyes and rose slowly to her large tan paws before stretching each of her limbs out in turn. She let a large yawn escape her jaws before blinking her golden green eyes and gazing out of the cave to see Granite disappearing out of the entrance. She waited a minute before she jumped to the ground of the cave and padded out behind him, smiling slightly as she saw the fluffy white clouds in the sky. Good, the day wouldn't be totally scorching hot like yesterday had been. "Good morning Granite. I trust you slept well?" She said to him, strolling casually up next to him, a very feline like smile on her face as she glanced over at him before turning to look out into the distance ahead of them.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 11, 2010 14:53:33 GMT -5
“Quite well, thank you,” replied Granite simply, his cold eyes staring off beyond the horizon. Then they glanced over at the female. Her fur has a certain gleam in the sunlight... he noted to himself almost absentmindedly. He also noted that on his shoulder, some dried blood was causing his fur to stick up. Smoothing it with his tongue, the male found he wished he could stay a bit longer with her. Talk with her, but about what he wasn't sure. “Have you always lived here, or did you come for else where, like myself?” he asked her. Then he added. “I don't mean to be nosy, but you are the first puma I have met outside of my family. I also haven't spoken with another puma in what seems like such a very long time, and even with in my own family I often said the wrong things.”
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 11, 2010 17:00:05 GMT -5
Starlight didn't answer right away but wasn't offended or angered by his prying question. She almost found that she wanted to tell him about her family and her history which was very unlike her. Usually she felt that it wasn't anyone else's business. She finally tilted her head to the side and gazed at him with her golden green eyes for a moment before speaking. "I use to live up in the mountains like you say you did. My mother brought me here when I was very young. I remembered my father was going to come with us but he didn't make it. . . I remembered that they told me something about how my father and mother weren't allowed to be together, let alone have me. I was told that they were going to kill me so me and my mother had to get away. I will never forget watching my father fighting off some of the other cougars that were trying to get to me. . . but he was outnumbered and there was no way he would be able to survive. . . I watched him die that night, while my mother carried me away. . ." She said softly, her golden gaze staring off into space as if she couldn't really see anything but the horrible memories playing again and again in her mind. "When we finally found the cave I live in now, we were able to find food and water and survive. My mother died shortly after though. The cougars had hurt her pretty bad and at first she was okay but then it got infected and she couldn't fight it anymore." Starlight added, coming back to the reality as she glanced at his expression once before looking out at the horizon and the slowly rising sun. ooc: I was thinking that maybe Starlight and Granite were both cubs in the same group of cougars and they were suppose to be mates when they were old enough, sorta like an arranged marriage. Like the Lion King with Simba and Nala. And maybe they really did like each other as cubs but they don't really remember each other, they just remember that they liked another cub when they were little. And Starlight's mom could have cheated on her mate who was ranked high in the group of cougars with Starlight's real dad but the other cougars didn't know she had until she finally told them and they kicked her out of the group or pack or whatever it is and tried to kill Starlight. Lol I totally just came up with that off the top of my head. What do you think?
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 12, 2010 15:06:33 GMT -5
ooc- Awesome! I LOVE that idea! Part of the reason Granite left was because he didn't agree on a lot of things with the other pumas in the Pride(You know, like a lion pride? XD), and this could be the turning point for him, the first of many reasons he was kicked out/left!
bic- Granite had slowly stiffened as Starlight described a familiar scene to him, but of course he had been on the other side. The moment had been frozen into his memory forever. Granite was peeking out of the cave, watching in horror, and unable to move at the scene outside of his den. His father was helping to attack a blood-covered puma along with the rest of the pride! The others cried for the blood of Granite's best friend. She didn't belong! She was half-blood! That was what they yelled. How could they say that about her!? She was the best friend a puma could have, and belonged here as much as he did! The terror in the eyes of his friend...Granite was frozen in time, only able to stare in horror as slowly, the puma they were attacking bled to death even as his friend and her mother fled out of his sight range. Slowly, a small ball of ice began to form in him, but it wasn't until what happened next that his life changed forever... “There was a puma in my pride that had been driven off,” he said slowly, “She was my friend, my best friend. We did everything together, and I could never have imagined a moment without her. One day, my father pushed me into our den, and he didn't know I would peek out of the den. He...he helped drive off my friend and her mother. He fought with a puma who was trying to keep everyone from killing her. I couldn't believe that they'd do that. Not to my friend. When my father came back...I confronted him. He was angry with me for watching, said I wouldn't understand. I yelled and screamed at him in anger, but he wouldn't listen. He said that my friend was a weakling who would weaken the clan. Of course, I knew from wrestling her that she was just as strong as me... but to sum it all up, that event was the first in a chain that caused me to leave. Well, I actually was thrown out, but I would have left if I hadn't been thrown out. Who needs them? I never belonged anyway.” The entire time he spoke, Granite's eyes had been on Starlight, but now his cold green eyes looked away and back across the desert. “I always wondered if I could have stopped it, if I could have saved my friend. I'll never know, but the knowledge still gnaws at me today." Granite paused. "The events are so similar. Do you...do you think, we could be talking about the same event?”
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 13, 2010 16:19:16 GMT -5
Starlight stared blankly out at the sunrise as he too described his history. Yes, they did seem quite similar but surely they couldn't be the same thing. She didn't remember him. She did however remember her best friend in the whole world. He had always been there for her and would never do anything to hurt her. Her mind wandered once again back to when she was a mere cub. Her eyes saddened as she remembered how she use to be a sweet, carefree and untamed spirit. Always ready for adventure, being friends with everyone and never judging anyone but their cover. But now. . . ever since her mother and her father had died, she seemed to be almost a completely different creature all together. She was harsh and hostile to new company, it didn't take much to make her mad and she didn't like being told what to do. What had happened to her that had changed her so much? She knew that she couldn't keep living life like this but now she was a lonely puma living in the middle of the desert with no one for company except for the hungry coyotes. She raised her eyes to look at him, blinking a few times to refocus on his face, his eyes. "You remind me of someone. . . someone I knew long ago. . ." She muttered, narrowing her golden green eyes in confusion as she sorted through her memories to see if she could recognize him now.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 14, 2010 17:28:53 GMT -5
Thinking about his cub-hood brought back very dear memories, and Granite had to force his eyes to stay dry. Then he had thought he was invincible. No one could harm him or his best friend. They had been so happy, coming up with their little hunting games, and little fighting games. They explored and they laughed at the bugs that scuttled away from them. He rubbed his forehead with his paw, and his black stripe on his forehead stood out clearly against his tawny fur. He had been born with it, and the unusual marking was often comment on, even when he was a cub. Something...The was something about Starlight and his friend, but he couldn't exactly match it up. “I-I know what you mean,” Granite mewed slowly, his brain trying to comprehend everything. “Unless...No, that really can't be possible. That would mean everything I thought was true was a lie.”
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 17, 2010 15:03:55 GMT -5
Starlight sighed in defeat as she failed to realize who he was. Her eyes turned to look at the ground, clouded with frustration and confusion. When he spoke and it sounded like he might know where they had seen each other before, she raised her head again, some of the gloominess in her eyes disappearing as she hoped against hope that he knew. "No, what is it? Maybe it will help me remember something. . . Tell me. . ." She pressed him, a warm and friendly smile on her face as she gazed at him. Starlight absentmindedly brought her hind leg up to her shoulder and scratched gently at the scar that cut across her shoulder and stopped on her upper leg. She had gotten it when she was a cub, when her mother and her had been trying to escape. One of the cougars in the pride she had been living in had left her with the deep gash as she fled the territory with her mother, running for their lives.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 17, 2010 16:03:36 GMT -5
Granite refused to meet Starlight's eyes, and his proud shoulders slumped in shame. “...That you're the friend that I thought was dead so many seasons ago. If you are, I can understand it if you hate me...I should have said something or done something, but instead I stayed hidden like a coward. Ever since that day, I said I'd never let anything like that happen again.” The male puma licked his tawny chest. “But there's only one way to know for sure if you are who I think you are.” Granite's eyes looked back up at Starlight, and a bit of hope sparkled in them as well as a nameless feeling. “Before you-she left, there was something we did together. We climbed up above all the dens, and we looked down. Every family had a separate den, so the walls were like honey combs. She said, “I wish it could always be like this. I don't want anything to change.” And I said, “Well, don't you want to grow up an learn how to fight? One day, we'll be the best fighters in the whole pride, just you and me!” Then I told her a secret, something I had never told anyone. As I told her, we watched the most beautiful sunset ever. Then our mothers called and we had to go. You-she said she'd never forget that day or what I had told her. And...and when she said that, she pressed up against me in the very same way you just did.”
ooc- Granite told Starlight about how when he had been missing when they were much younger and smaller, he had been carried off by an eagle because his father wasn't watching him well enough. His father lied about it and said he had taken Granite to see the StarStones, and had made Granite swear not to tell anyone. Granite said that he had been afraid of his father, but that he wasn't going to let his father scare him any more. Of course, the reason he had stayed in the cave when Starlight was driven out was because he was scared of his father.
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 17, 2010 16:21:35 GMT -5
Starlight continued to stare out at the sun rise, her eyes widening as she listened to him explain the exact memory she had been playing in her head when she saw the sun rising. Th esun rise and sun set always made her think of her best friend. And now it almost seemed to real. She suddenly took a deep breath, not realizing that she had been holding her breath. "You told. . . me. . . that you were not going to be afraid of your father anymore. . ." She answered softly, her voice barely above a whisper. Her eyes glazed over for a moment as she stared unseeingly out at the horizon before she finally blinked the haze away and turned to look at him, a uncertain look on her face. She turned away, her golden green gaze looking over at the mountains and forests that loomed far off in the distance. That was where they had both come from. She had thought she would never see anyone from there again. "I forgive you. It wasn't your fault or your responsibility to keep me safe. It's alright." She added, answering his earlier apology. She looked over at him once more, a smile playing at one side of her mouth and her eyes clearing some more.
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Post by Bunny of Randomness on May 17, 2010 16:40:34 GMT -5
Granite's large tawny paws kneaded the ground, as his hazy memory allowed him to remember the name he had called out so many times, the name he had known so well. The day he always thought would never come was here, and now... “Oh Starlight! I've missed you so much! It was never the same at home after you...left. I should have done something, but instead I let Father stop me from saving you....” The puma laughed humorlessly. “The irony is that the only time I finally got out of his grip was when he literally threw me out of the mountains, and that let me find you. But why should I care about them? They're a bunch of useless hypocritical cub killers. I don't need them! I don't need anyone, but at least I have you again. You're the only one I could trust, the only one who understood.”
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Post by Daisy Duke on May 17, 2010 19:54:23 GMT -5
Starlight smiled warmly at him as she listened to him ramble on and on like he use to do a lot when he was a cub. She rolled her eyes at him but felt a purr begin to rumble in her chest. A content sigh escaped her muzzle as she rose to her paws and crossed the space that seperated them. Her emerald gaze held his steadily. Her paws carried her over to his side once more, and she pressed her shoulder up against his side, rubbing her head playfully on his neck as she took in his scent again. This time though, instead of it smelling like a lonesome cougar who had just drug himself across the entire desert, he smelled like home, like her real self. She felt her old playful and friendly spirit warming deep inside her and she couldn't help but smile again. Now it seemed as if she could finally be happy and live a better life. All she needed was him and she knew everything would be okay no matter what happened. "I missed you so much Granite. . . I am so glad you're here. I don't think I could have lived this horribly lonely life for much longer. . ." She muttered softly in his ear, another happy sigh escaping her.
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