Wolfdanes' Mask (2)

Chapter 12: Cinders and Stones, Wolves and Dragons

A sudden image of white hair came across Oriana's mind. Sad dim garnet eyes stared at Oriana's own vermillion ones, a pale hand reached out towards her being. Then as if that hand was made out of glass it shattered into pieces within contact of Oriana's own out stretched cindered hand. Oriana glanced down with a sickly feeling growing within her middle. The cinders stretched upwards her forearm, her fingertips crisping away into the chilled air that whisked around her cold body.

These feelings were real, those images were real. Oriana took a deep breath to calm herself, and willed the cinders to seize their actions. The cinders slowly came to a stop at her shoulder, and as if time itself rewinded, so did her hand. Her sickly skin turned slowly back to its' natural sun-kissed color, but with an intricate design curling around her arm where the cinders touched.

Shaking the ill feeling still lingering, Oriana took in a deep breath before pushing herself up from the dusty ground. The ground beneath her slowly turned black as she set herself up, Oriana stopped midway and saw just what destruction her hands; or the cinder, could do with just a simple touch. Reacting quick, Oriana pulled her hands away from the ground, but the darkness wouldn't disappear. It seemed as if that simple touch permanently damaged the ground, and she had no way of healing it.

'Just what had Erebus done to me?!' Oriana grabbed her arms in comfort, but flinched when the cinders came to life when she retouched her new skin.

'So now I can't even comfort my own-self without damaging myself in the process? What bull-' Oriana was pulled out of her thoughts, when a gust of wind came from behind her. Making her come out of her thoughts, and without any protection, she fell back to the ground. Body aching, cinders reappearing with eagerness to destroy whatever it touched.

"Ah!" Crying out in pain, Oriana felt the cinders come to life with more eagerness than ever before, and just from how strong that gust of wind was, it wasn't a good sign.

Life was near by, and the cinders were hungry to devour what it could never touch.

The pain exceeded quickly, as the life hung over her balled up form. The cinders etched upwards once more, but didn't destroy her body this time. Instead, the pain just kept intensifying, and as the life form hovered over her body. Oriana could see the cinders reacting with great interest. Soon the cinders flared up, smoke flowing from her body. Oriana dared to take a glance at what made the cinders react so much, but when she did she immediately regretted doing so.

"No! Go! Get away from me! I'm a danger to your kind! I could kill you," she screeched out towards the flying lizard, but it had the distinct features of a cat. The creature didn't move a flinch when she waved her dark grey arms flung out towards it. Instead the cat-like-lizard creature, she was sure was a dragon of some kind, leaned towards her outstretched arm. The smoke encircled the cat-like-lizard creature and pulled it down closer towards Oriana.

It didn't destroy the creature, but instead attached itself to the lizard being.

Oriana was confused at first, but then a flash of bright blue light crossed her mind, and fire washed over her mind. Making her reel back away from the cat-like-lizard creature, but the creature had other plans in mind, and reached out towards her with its scaly head. When the two came into contact, Oriana felt and saw memories of what had happened to her, and the creature. She then remembered this different creature, how they met, their times together, and how she had almost met her end. If it wasn't for this creature who had saved her in that fire, she would never been able to make it back here.

In the realm of the living.

Oriana reached around the creatures' scaly head and wrapped her arms encircling the creature into an embrace. She then whispered the name of her dear friend and a bright blue light emerged from the two, enveloping the two they then disappeared with a couple of blue sparks twinkling where they use to be.

Quiet took over the two's disappearance, and darkness seemed to ease away. The Sun-glow brightened the area, and then it seemed to rain the poisonous Sun-glow, but then it suddenly came to a halt. Just before it touched the ground, it seemed as if it was being sucked into a worm hole. The same area where the human and half breed dragon disappeared, the Sun-glow was sucked in, but then reappeared on the ground in a circular pattern.

The two, human and half breed dragon reappeared and the Sun-glow all but dissipated beneath them into nothingness.

Intricate designs seemed to etch itself where the Sun-glow had touched. It glowed on and off as the two stood still, both glowing the odd green color the Sun-glow emitted from, but with a more blue hue circling around their chests'. If looked closely one could see glowing stones embedded within both the human girls, and half breed dragons breast.

The cinder smothered over both the girls' arms but stopped below her shoulders, intricate red and green mix designs of celtic symbols seemed to decorate her arms, some coming up towards her cheek on the left side. Stopping below her left eye, it seemed to cradle it and curl away from a dark line of black marking, circling under both of her eyes. Her vermillion eyes glowed brighter than before, her liver colored hair seemed to darken and grow far too long, some of it even seemed to curl and smoke from the cinders that emitted from the girl.

The half breed cat-dragon glowed darker and its' eyes' glowed a dark ember with swirling green; as if the Sun-glow infected the creature. The scales on the creature seemed to spike with such intensity that Sun-glow seemed to seethe from the creatures scales. Intricate designs decorated around the creatures chest, from where the stone was set, it swirled in and outwards from the creatures middle. The cat-dragon opened its' mouth, smoke poured out and green goo dripped from the creatures jaws.

The human girl turned towards the cat-dragon and mounted it with ease. The cinders smoke lingered away from the girl and circled around the cat-dragons' own body. Soon enveloping them both once more, and with a single command the two disappeared with a disturbing dash. The earth around the two and the once beautiful intricate Sun-glow designs on the ground seemed to be uprooted from the pressure, that Sun-glow gushed out of the ground.

U.C. POV

U.C. glanced up from his position from underneath the piles of Hanyo sisters. Candy still being outstretched from their grasps.

He could've sworn he heard someone calling out his name.

"Oh, bloody hell! Just give it to them U.C.!" yelled out an irritated C4.

"Gah, fine," with quick perception, U.C. saw his chance and threw the piece of candy high into the air. High enough to where he knew who exactly would catch it first, and that way he would be able to escape with ease.

The first to grab the wondrous flying candy was none other than Renee.

Flaming orange cropped short hair with midnight black showing on the bottom half of her hair flared up when she jumped from the group to grab the goody. Yellow champagne eyes gleamed with pride and extreme happiness when the piece of candy landed in her black and gold finger-cut gloves. The bangles on her wrist made a 'twang' and 'clang'-ing noise when she yipped in happiness of the sweets, swinging her arms up in joy. The golden bangle around her ankle shined from the Sun-glows' glow. Cream black and blue colored clothes flared out when the girl came back down to the ground.

"Win!" she pronounced.