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| Harmony Spall ~ Almost blind daughter of light | ||||||||
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Well, things were just starting to get 'great' in Harmony's life, with a new step-mother, some new cousin that happened to be a old friend/crush and other cousins wanting to get in her life. Lucky, none of them were around or would dare to go anywhere near the forest around the Spire which Harmony was exploring. | |||||||
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| Owned by: James ~ Posted on: {{{2}}} | ||||||||
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Roleplay
Daybreak: Daybreak drew close this time. The wolf had been skittish in its repeated incursions for days now, careful to remain out of sight - always keeping its distance from the ominous tower its prey resided within which bore the undeniable aura of titans. But this time was different. No, this time she left the place behind. And it was a she, apparently. The wolf-spirit stalked behind the mysterious girl with a natural grace that came quite easily for a being of pure light. It moved almost silently on ethereal pad-paws, carefully watching her from behind trees or atop stones whenever her back was turned. Very familiar. Too familiar.
Harmony: Ever so often, some weird bright thing would just pop into Harmony's enhanced vision, something that was a little bit off and unusual for her condition. She kept ignoring it, hoping that it was just normal until Harmony had enough, turning one of her rings into its sword form, while causing herself to become invisible.
Daybreak: Much too familiar. It was unmistakable. The wolf crept closer, giving the air a few curious sniffs as it wove between trees. But then suddenly, in spite of its nose, its trained eyes lost track of the strange girl. It stepped out slightly from its cover and perked up its ears for a moment, before promptly vanishing.
Harmony: 'This thing is like me,' Harmony thought as she slowly made her way over to where the wolf vanished, still being invisible. She may be a bit stupid, but she sure as hell knew how the invisibility power she has works.
Daybreak: The wolf bowed low, sniffing around a couple more times. Light bent around its form, making it effectively invisible, but all the same it cautiously dimmed the shimmering light of its own body. Smelling the girl come toward it, it hopped sideways a bit and circled around her, careful for any reaction.
Harmony: She gently poked stuff with her sword while invisible, hoping she could at least find the wolf. "Fine, I'll try another way," Harmony said to herself as turned herself visible again while also turning her other ring into a shield. She quickly made a bright light source in front of her shield and started to reflect that light around, hoping to see a slight difference in the reflected light that could be the invisible wolf
Daybreak: Head cocked as the light passed a foot away, the wolf gave a soft yip almost like a bark and crouched low. Its invisible tail swished back and forth just off the ground, barely blowing the grass around.
Harmony: The yip that she could barely hear only just annoyed Harmony. "Where ever you are, you stupid dog, show yourself." Harmony yelled out, after she cut off the light
Daybreak: After a momentary pause the wolf complied, its form glowing back into place off to her side. By way of a trick in the light the wolf was usually nigh-impossible to see out of one's peripherals - in daylight, at least. It watched inquisitively for the moment she would notice.
Harmony: Even with her glasses on, the glowing form of a wolf stung Harmony's vision, in the directions she could see the wolf. She turned to face the wolf, the point of one end of her sword directed at the wolf. "Stop it, or you'll get a piercing the hard way."
Daybreak: The wolf sat back unfazed. Its tail wagged playfully for a second, and then it moved in a flash, jumping toward the girl - only to vanish in a burst of light and reappear behind her, streaking away through the brush.
Nyxil and Harmony
Harmony: Training with and being around boring old demitians could only entertain Harmony so much. It was started getting to the point where, even though she had been in the Spire for an hour, Harmony was excited to go see that wolf made out of light that she only really found outside of the Spire.
Daybreak: Daybreak kept a sharp watch on Harmony from afar. The wolf's keen senses were ever reliable as he followed her away from the Spire. Unfortunately, even his nose had its limits, and his attention was often elsewhere lately. He had to miss their game yesterday. Something was off with the Lady, and the Master too, and anticipation made Daybreak's fur stand on end. He shook the unease from his coat and teleported ahead of Harmony, shimmering into being in a patch of sunlight shining through the trees. This stretch of wilderness was much more open and sunny than where they had first met, with less trees and a lot more knee-high grass - though all the underbrush around him burned away with the sudden heat of his teleportation. His tail poked up above the rest.
Harmony: Even with her glasses on, the sudden change of light stung at Harmony's enhanced vision, but it was an all familiar pain that can with being around the wolf made out of light. "Hey, boy, how's it going?" Harmony said softly as she approached the wolf, brushing her hand on the long grass and looking a few seconds into the future, just to get a little leverage over what the wolf would do next
Daybreak: Daybreak gave his customary greeting, running in a quick circle and swishing his tail playfully. A good way to tell her he was in a good mood, and of course, that their games were all in good fun. They had sparred occasionally, and chased plenty. Something across the wolf's empathy links made him think the time had come for something... else. And Daybreak was determined to catch her by surprise. As soon as his greeting was done, he broke into a dash toward the girl, vanishing in the grass for a split second - and closing his jaws on the leatherbound sheath of a longsword. A brief flash of light reflected from its celestial bronze crossguard was the only warning before Daybreak leapt up from the underbrush, swinging the sheathed blade in an impressively well-executed upward swipe.
Harmony: Harmony's look into the future gave her an idea to what the wolf would do once it reappeared, and gave her enough time to turn one of her rings into a shield and position it to block the wolf's swipe. "I'll never understand where you've learnt how to use weapons like that," Harmony murmured as she turned her other ring into its sword form and spun the sword around.
Daybreak: The reverberations from his sword crashing into Harmony's shield catch him off guard, and the wolf is forced to fade out into intangibility as her blade arcs straight through his body. Either her reaction time was improving, or she was getting more comfortable using the Mistress's gift of foresight. Not to be outdone so easily, Daybreak manages to catch his weapon again as he drops to the grass, and tries to whack her in the ankle while slipping past.
Harmony: "You stupid wolf," Harmony said as she wasn't prepared for the wolf to attack her ankles with the sword. She then proceeded to turn her weapons back into rings before making a war hammer out of light and swing it at the wolf, over her head.
Daybreak: Daybreak raised the weapon between his teeth to deflect her blow, but his awkward hold on the sheath wasn't enough to counter her unexpected strength. She's definitely improving, the wolf managed to think before his guard broke and his sword was forced aside. Daybreak let out a piercing yelp as the hammer blurred through his form and lodged into the dirt below, pinning him to the ground. The wolf's semi-tangible body never broke or cut the way a real flesh-and-blood animal's would, and he didn't actually have internal organs to worry about, but having an object stuck through him was still unpleasant.
Harmony: Finally pinning down the wolf so quickly gave Harmony a sense of pride. "Got you this time," Harmony said as her warhammer disappeared. "Only if you could talk and I could find out who you stole that sword from."
Daybreak: Subtly as he could manage, Daybreak drew the dispersing light of Harmony's hammer into himself. He'd worked that trick out a while ago. It made sense, he supposed - both Harmony's constructs and his own body are the exact same brand of divine daylight. She seemingly hadn't noticed yet. All the same, the newly absorbed light filled in the gap in his back, and even left him a bit brighter than before. He found his feet and swished his tail a bit, trying to push some impression of the words "Didn't steal it!" into the girl's mind.
Harmony: Harmony watched quietly as the wolf took in the light from her warhammer construct into itself. "Ok, that's pretty cool," Harmony said as she looked away from the wolf, which was now hurting her eyes. "You are so mysterious."
Daybreak: You're the real mystery, Daybreak thought. There was no denying the girl's powers, but the wolf still had no idea where she came from, or why he hadn't known of her sooner. And unfortunately, building up their empathy link until he could talk to her was talking a long time. I spent years with the master before he heard me, but could talk to steak-boy so quickly. Was it because-! Daybreak's ears shot up in realization, then slumped again in disappointment. It was because the master was friends with him. That won't work here. Master, you can't run from this forever. The wolf paced in circles, dragging his sword's scabbard through the grass.
Harmony: "What's wrong boy? Going to return that sword to whoever you stole it from?" Harmony giggled a little bit watching the wolf drag the sword.
Daybreak: ... That's it. It's been months. He can't keep ignoring this. Daybreak came to a stop with his back to the girl, taking a moment to find his resolve. The sound of a low wind rustled grass through his silence. Then, when he was ready, the wolf's fur began to stand up. In a flick of motion a deafening crack of thunder, Daybreak tossed his ancient sword up and ripped it from its sheath. Sparks of electricity hissed from its blade as he turned back to face her. A low growl escaped through the teeth clenched around the longsword's leather-bound hilt.
Harmony: Harmony backed away from the wolf, making a shield, similar to her own, from light. "What are you going to do with that, because I'm sorry if I offended you."
Daybreak: Noticed the sparks, and switched to a non-conductive shield. You really are improving. Now fight me seriously. Daybreak didn't hesitate to leap forward again, this time releasing a violent burst of light as he moved, and forcefully swung the blade in a wide arc by loosening his bite and and catching it again in the other side of his mouth.
Harmony: "What has gotten into you?" Harmony mumbled as she used the shield to block the sword, while twisting's Daybreak perception of reality to believe that there was another wolf, made purely out of darkness, behind him.
Daybreak: Catching sight of the double in his peripheral vision, Daybreak blinked a short distance back as soon as his strike connected. For a moment, he was visibly puzzled, and gave a low growl. Dusk? The master's construct? But... he isn't here. The wolf feinted forward and barked threateningly, watching for a reaction.
Harmony: Didn't expect that to work Harmony thought as she let down her shield, but kept her focus on the illusion. She quietly moved to her right as the wolf also did the same, with an obvious snarl on its face, if it could be seen in the first place.
Daybreak: Dusk... doesn't... Wait. Daybreak gave the air a cautious sniff and confirmed his suspicions. It had no scent. Smart, smart! Daybreak leapt toward the fake wolf, sword poised - only to teleport at the last moment, into the air above Harmony, for a downward slash.
Harmony: In the split second that Daybreak teleported, Harmony lost concentration on her illusion, and when she saw Daybreak above her, Harmony quick raised her arm and willed her ring to turn into its shield form, and blocked the sword itself, but not the electricity. Harmony lost control of her arms and legs, which started to spasm out for a couple of seconds, cause her to lose her balance.
Daybreak: The wolf kept up his momentum after the strike, landing heavily against the shield with his back paws, and leapt down, aiming to practically spring off of Harmony's back - claws and all - along the way.
Harmony: Harmony had a quick look into the future and saw what Daybreak was planning. Just before he would spring off Harmony's back, she did the one thing she always hated to do, Blink, to just in front of where Daybreak would land, with her sword in her hand
Daybreak: Determined not to be outpaced, Daybreak twisted through the air and clashed his sword against Harmony's in a shower of sparks, then pushed off and slid to a stop in the grass. Good.
Harmony: A slight spasm happened in Harmony's arms when her sword clashed with Daybreak's. "Seriously, how can you fight so well?" Harmony grumbled when she turned her shield back into a ring and gripped her sword with two hands, before striking from above at Daybreak.
Daybreak: Work, the wolf thought, trying as ever to push some part of the meaning of his words into Harmony's mind. Daybreak panted and redoubled his bite on the blade, forced to go intangible to avoid Harmony's strike. Daybreak had hundreds of hours' practice using a sword against other monsters, but the truth was, he'd never beaten a demigod with one before. If not for the weapon's lightning enchantment, he doubted he could seriously threaten Harmony anymore - but that wouldn't stop him. Daybreak's body shimmered as he slipped through Harmony's sword and swiped at her legs, then teleported up to chest height for a second horizontal slash.
Harmony: Harmony completely regretted doing it but didn't care at the same time. She willed her shield back to block Daybreak's strike, while creating a greatsword above Daybreak, point facing down, while also causing an illusion to make it seem like the sword wasn't above him.
Daybreak: Not quite fast enough, Daybreak fell to the ground with a pained howl as the greatsword transfixed his body. D-damn-- Daybreak struggled for a moment to absorb the blade's light like before, but faltered, pain breaking his focus. A brief lapse in strength cost him his grip and his sword tumbled into the grass.
Harmony: Knowing what Daybreak might do, Harmony turned her sword back into a ring and picked up Daybreak's sword, all while willing the greatsword to disappear. "You ok, boy?"
Daybreak: The longsword hummed and vibrated softly under Harmony's touch. Daybreak had barely stood up before the sound of thunder boomed in the distance, sending his fur on end. He let out a loud howl, and as if on cue - the sky went black.
Harmony: Once the sky went black, Harmony kept her eyes on Daybreak and moved into a position ready to strike whenever. "Was this you?"
Daybreak: Daybreak gave no reaction, his howl to the eclipse overhead hanging in the air for a precious few seconds. Then, impossibly, the darkness deepened.
Nyxil: A tall figure slipped out of empty space mere meters behind Harmony, and, as quickly as it appeared, exploded in a sphere of ink-black shadows that completely engulfed the area, encircling itself and Harmony in a thick mist. The figure hit the ground in a sprint, scooping something out of the grass without missing a beat as it threw a glowing celestial bronze chakram that cut through the darkness toward Harmony's back.
Harmony: In the instant she saw chakram, Harmony created a shield of light to block it from hiting her back. She then created a dome of light around herself in case any other attacks came. "Who's there?" Harmony yelled out to the odd shape she could just make out in the darkness
Nyxil: The stranger contemplated for a split second, wondering if he should snuff out the barrier, but instead didn't bother and kept up his momentum, shadowtraveling straight through it to the darkness already inside. For a single moment, lit up by the glow of Harmony's shield as he caught his ricocheting chakram and raked it with full force against her defense, Nyxil locked his dark, harsh eyes with hers.
Harmony: "Who are you, or the wolf gets it," Harmony yelled as she created an illusion of Daybreak about to be stabbed by a knife made of light
Nyxil: Nyxil faltered for a brief moment, chakram at his side as he glared bloody murder at Harmony. A second wave of darkness sent ripples through the black mist, this one stronger and more forceful than the last, threatening to overpower and snuff out everything it hit - barrier, shield, and illusion. "You're the one that needs to start talking," he spoke coldly, face partially obscured behind messy black hair. Then he surged back into motion, feinting forward with his chakram in his right hand while keeping the left behind his back.
Harmony: "Put your weapons down then," Harmony said, as her all her weapons disappeared before she blocked Nyxil in a invisibl barrier to blind him.
Nyxil: Nyxil's eyes widened as his vision went blank, but gave her no response. Instead, the son of Nyx jumped back and hurled his chakram at her again, then dropping to one knee a short distance away with the object in his other hand - his sword's discarded sheath - set against the grass. She can see through perfect darkness. She can blind me. Not a cabin god. He huffed and closed his eyes, turning all focus to his surroundings.
Harmony: With the chakram coming at her, Harmony reacted almost instantiations by bringing her shield up but it wasn't enough. Harmony wasn't fast enough and the chakram skimmed her shield and grazed her side. "Who are you?" Harmony yelled out.
Nyxil: He kept his eyes shut tight and remained still. Every living thing had an energy to it, and thanks to his priesthood, Nyxil could sense them. He may be blinded, but with the downtime Harmony seemed willing to give him, he focused all his attention on detecting her life essence. "I'm the guy you just fucked with by hurting that dog. For your sake? Better be a damn good reason."
Harmony: "So its your dog that's been annoying me and stole a sword off someone?" Harmony said before she quickly astral projected herself, Blinked to where the guy was and tried to see what weapons he had on him.
Nyxil: The son of Nyx had a crossbow slung on his back, and was gripping the empty sword sheath in his left hand, but otherwise seemed unarmed. At a glance the only thing out of the ordinary about him was what looked almost like thorns poking out from his messy black hair, from some kind of Greek-style laurels tangled in underneath. If not for Harmony's enhanced eyesight, however, Nyxil wouldn't have given her the chance to see much of anything - the moment her should-be invisible astral form blinked toward him, he spun to one foot and roundhouse-kicked straight through her, ripping his sword sheath from the dirt in the process.
Harmony: As soon as the kick went straight through, Harmony went straight back to her body, with enough Intel of what the guy had on him. Using her powers, Harmony broke the crossbow's trigger, using a light construct. "Just tell me who you are and I'll tell you that you're dog has been driving me nuts.:
Nyxil: Nyxil was in a defensive position the moment Harmony vanished from next to him, holding the sword sheath aloft. No sooner had she summoned the light-construct to jam his crossbow than Nyxil snuffed it out with darkness of his own. Astral projection tripped his sixth sense, but a light construct, in the middle of his artificial night, right behind his back? That tripped his seventh, with all the subtlety of banging a drum right next to his ear. Still not attacking, though, Nyxil noticed. After a quiet couple seconds of (blind non-)staredown, he relented and dropped his stance, tilting his head toward where Daybreak laid in the grass a distance behind Harmony. "That so? Giving our friend here trouble? With my sword?" The injured wolf telepathically sent a pained huff of acknowledgement. Nyxil rolled his blinded eyes and dropped the inky-black field of darkness he'd shrouded them in, though the eerie eclipse that had heralded his arrival stull hung overhead. "Give me back my eyesight. It's not like I need it to kill you anyway, this is just annoying. And give me back my sword." He twirled the empty sheath and took a step toward her.
'Harmony:"Yeah, no can do. I can't change it back. You'll be blind for a while, which is better than what you could be." Harmony said as she walked over to where the sword was and picked it up, all while thinking about how she could potentially get away if it all went sour
Nyxil: "You don't seem very excited about the idea of playing nice, do you," Nyxil said with a smirk. He didn't move a muscle as the midnight darkness immediately in front of her coalesced into a long spike, threatening to pierce her stomach if she kept walking. It gave a slight quivering hum as it appeared - a deliberate extra touch - but the second one that manifested a few feet behind her was silent. "First I've heard of a demigod not being able to drop a curse they inflicted. Not as in control as you wanna act?"
Harmony: "Yeah, it's not really a curse. You are just kinda blind right now because of light." Harmony said as she saw something odd both in front and behind of her, something that just looked like a spike. Harmony combated it by stepped to the side and created a light platform above the spike things she could see.
Nyxil: Nyxil cocked his head. She reacted to both. Light-sense like my shadow-sense? Or can she see behind herself... He shrugged. It was becoming obvious to him that she wasn't a major threat - zero offense, all crappy defense. He didn't bother snuffing out her light constructs this time, and instead just let his shadow-spikes collapse to the ground, a formless haze among the grass. "I have... notoriously good eyesight, you know. Think I'll just wait it out then. Anyway - sword."
Harmony: "How come you can't see then?" Harmony slowly walked towards the guy, with her shield on her right, and light platform on moved to stand vertical on her light, all while having the sword in her left hand. "How come you want the sword so bad?"
Nyxil: He looks her up and down for a moment as she approaches, focusing on the subtle vibrations her every movement sent through the dark. For a blind man, his gaze settled eerily close to direct eye contact. "Cause I don't think you'd get along too well with the guy that made it," he said with a smirk. "You probably shouldn't be holding that thing if you want this, eh, hideout of yours to stay quiet. Besides, like you'd be able to use it. Go ahead, take a swing. Too afraid to attack?" The demigod shrugged and closed his useless eyes, then took up a casual defensive stance, with his open left hand outstretched toward her and his right - twirling the empty sheath - behind him.
Harmony: "And where do you think I am from?" Harmony's light shield disappeared and she stood in a defensive position, with her normal shield, as she put the other sword to her back, and tied it to her with light. Her sword appeared in her right hand, as she slowly moved towards the other guy