Haunted By His Phantom Bride [open]

[Aiko]

There was a full moon that night. Tsubasa perched high, his sunken crimson eyes trained on the glowing white orb. It reminded him of one of her eyes, round and bright and perfect that it was. The only thing wrong with its representation was the color, but if the crow demon sitting in the forest canopy narrowed his eyes a bit, he could imagine it was the correct hue. He stared for so long at the full moon that when he closed his eyes, the pale circle was still burned into his vision. Bare chest rising and falling, he imagined that two more circles joined the first, recreating her eyes in his dark vision behind his lids.

The demon crow’s slender chest heaved, his claw-tipped fingers gripping the rough bark of the branch on which he crouched. His single foot curled its talons around the branch, clenching and unclenching as he tilted his head back, shuddering slightly, his mind wrapped around the unforgotten image. He shivered as a wind gusted past him, startling him into opening his recessed eyes. The image disappeared from his mind, and he swore under his breath, returning his red eyes to the moon. He lifted his hands, balancing with practiced skill on his one foot as he crossed his arm-wings over his slim chest. His breath puffed in the eternally cold air around him as he stared up at the moon, disregarding all but its pristine image.

Slowly, Tsubasa summoned back the image of his old mate, who had been slaughtered by a strange but cruel priestess. He imagined his mate flying, her wraithlike figure darting across the full moon, defter than any nighttime cloud. And then a soft whisper filled his ear.

Have you forgotten me, Tsubasa? Have you forsaken the one you love?

The crow demon whipped around, startled by the memory of one of her many voices. Another wind blustered through the forest, unbalancing him. The gust tore open his wings, unfurling them and yanking him into the sky. He beat his wings helplessly against the cold, laughing wind, fear filling his shallow red eyes. He couldn’t move! He was being carried away! Where was his mate? Where had she gone? Was it her who carried her on the wind like this? A strangled, bird-like cry escaped the demon’s throat.

[black]“Where are you taking me?”[/black] he cried, still beating his wings as the wind bore him higher and higher into the cold, slightly damp air above the trees. But there was no answer. Louder, he screamed, [black]“Don’t leave me! I haven’t forgotten you!”[/black]

[shokyo]

Kaida hopped on one foot to the other to the other [and so on] instead of walking forward to an unknown destation. She humed a tuned softly as she happily bounced around the forest. Each step in the snow froze her feet but didnt make any difference. She was used to getting cold since she was a white dragon demon. Stopping, she took out her orb and held it up high. Winds began to sweep up the snow from the ground and was sucked into the orb. The orb itself was made of glass, but inside it looked like it was snowing in there. Stopping the winds, she held the glass infront of her face and looked into it.

Looking up she saw a crow demon flying past her on a natural ,or what seemed natural, wind current. It didnt seem to like it since it wasnt the one flying. It was being carried away by the winds. "Dont worry birdie" she said heroically running after the crow demon "I'll save you" her voice was childish even though she was tring to act like a hero. She ran after the demon, her feet crunching against the snow with every step. Jumping from her spot, she looked like she flew up into the air. She landed on a tree branch before jumping up again, cating the demon, cradiling it in her arms.

[Aiko]

Tsubasa was whipped and bundled through the strong air current, his arms thrown open against the prevailing wind. He blinked as his eyes began to tear, and then squeezed them shut, letting the little drops of liquid accumulate on his sticky lashes. For a few moments more, he struggled against the beating wind, and then relaxed his arms, which were being whipped around against his will anyway. [black]If you’re taking me away with you, my beloved,[/black] he thought, his lips forming the words though no sound came out, [black]I will come.[/black]

And then something heavy and solid struck Tsubasa, and his watery eyes snapped open in surprise. He felt unfamiliar arms wrapping around him, tucking away the wings that allowed him to be carried away so easily on the powerful gust. Without his wings open [unless Kaida has some sort of power to fly that I don’t know about], the pair of entangled demons began to fall. But the crow demon merely looked down at the silvery hair of his assailant as they tumbled through the air that was winter-bitten in spite of the season. His own hair whipped past him in loose strands as he rasped, [black]“What—who are you?”[/black]

[shokyo]

Kaida kept the crow demon close to her as she fell down. Her eyes were closed tight as she thought I forgot about the falling part as she could feel the air wip fast her as fast as she was falling. If she transformed right now, she would proubly crush the poor crow demon. Tucking in her legs for the impact, she knew that she was nearing the ground. With a loud thud, she hit the ground. Her legs felt like someone was poking them with millions of needles all at once.

Letting out a sigh, she looks at the demon cradled in her arms and remembered the question he had asked her. "Im Kaida" she said happily even though her body left like hell "Im a dragon demon" Her legs still hurt badly but her back hurt to from the sudden impact of the ground. It felt stiff but she managed to keep a smile on her face. "You?"

[[Is Tsubasa in demon form or sumthing cause I've been going w.the presumption tat he's in demon form]]

[Aiko]

[ooc: He’s in his human-ish form, but he’s pretty small, so your posts still work relatively well.]

The little demon-girl took the brunt of the impact. A surprise, really. Tsubasa still felt his limbs jarred, and his teeth rattled together inside his mouth. He closed his eyes for a moment to soothe his rattled bones, then reopened them to lay recessed red pupils on the demon-child’s face as she replied. And then his eyes began to wander around the cold, dark forest, as if the child held no interest for him. His eyes snapped back for a moment as she posed her own question.

He paused a moment, needing to remember the right words to say. [black]“I am crow demon,”[/black] he rasped slowly. [black]“Called Tsubasa.”[/black] His sunken eyes drifted around in the darkness, stronger than a human’s with the lack of light. Finally, his darting gaze landed on the girl’s arms, still around him, as if protecting him. [black]“Release me,”[/black] he told her, even as he jerked back to break her grip on him. As soon as he got free, he would flap up to a tree and perch on a low branch, giving the dragon demon his halfhearted attention.

[shokyo]

"Okies!" She said happily ,smiling brightly as she spoke, as the crow-Im mean- Tsubasa squrmined in her arms. She let him go and he instantly flew up to a branch of one of the trees. She followed him with her eyes for a second before realizing she'd lost her staff. "Oh no! I lost my staff. I lost my staff" she got up, even though her limbs were sore from the impact. Her legs still felt a bit wobbly and her arms, just felt plain weird. "I lost my staff. I lost my staff" What ever the crow demon was saying as she tryied to find her staff, she didn't hear him.

[Aiko]

Staff…? Oh yes, Tsubasa had had one of those as well, hadn’t he? What had happened to it while he had been carried away by the wind? He stretched his wings and flapped clumsily to the next branch, heading in the drection he was sure he had come. He could still feel the wind gusting above the canopy; he simply went in the opposite direction. Quickly the crow demon forgot about the dragon demon who had been his rescuer as he searched for the tree where he had been perching. She slipped through the seive of his mind as Tsubasa haltingly made his way through the trees, searching, searching, always searching for the meager pile of his belongings at the base of some tree.

Eventually, he found his pack and walking stick lying by the roots that formed the tangled base of a rough-barked trunk. The crow demon hopped from his latest branch, fluttering his wings to keep from losing his balance as he fell. He landed, swaying on his single foot, and then steadied himself before he hopped, still flapping for balance, to his things. He slung his pack over his shoulders and bent to retrieve his staff. As he rose, he leaned heavily on the impromptu crutch. Finally, he was standing, hunching his bony back as he leaned over his staff, his sickly pale, bared chest rising and falling as if with great effort.

What had he been doing up until that point? His mind wandered back to an image of his lost bride, and still hunched but stilling his breathing, he closed his sunken eyes, letting his inner eye wrap itself around her lovely image, with her silken feathers and her brilliant, clever eyes…

[shokyo]

[[Wanna know supton weird? I said staff when I meant to say spear...]]

Kaida ran around in the snow covered forest, stopping every now and then to get on her knees and dig through the snow. The snow was about six inches deep but finally, she found it, tripping over it in the snow. Quickly she dug it up, pulling out a long spear that looked almost purly made of silver. She held it up high in the air to make sure it was her's and she reailezed it was. Looking around she saw she'd lost the crow demon."Tsubasa!" she called out as she wandered aimlessly pas a few leaf stricken trees.

[[sorry not a big post...crap i smell popcorn!]]

[Aiko]

A voice! A faint voice on the frigid air! Tsubasa’s eyes popped open like a pair of zits to reveal bloody redness underneath. It had been a woman’s voice, but it was quiet now. Was it her? Was it his beloved? No, it was not. Tsubasa knew the voice of his mate better than the lullabies his mother had used to sing him to sleep when he was but a nestling. That brief call on the forest air had not been the voice of his mate, but of some other female. Who? After a moment, the crow demon remembered a tiny dragon demoness sailing through the air to crush his wings against his body… Oh, it must be that one. Tsubasa didn’t care about that one.

Extending his wings while still holding onto his staff, the crow demon fluttered to a low tree bough and gripped it with his single foot. He crouched, drawing his wings around his pale chest for warmth and hiding purposes. He peered down at the forest floor with his sunken crimson eyes, not interested in making himself seen if the dragon demon happened to come his way.

[ooc: Length is not important, so long as what needs to be said is said.]

[shokyo]

Kaida sighed as she heard no one reply to her her call for Tsubasa. I guess he flew off or somthing she thought to herself as she walked along in the wintery-like snow, even though it was spring. She kept a smile on her face as she walked along, against the wind. It wasn't that strong, mabey just like a small breeze. Looking up, she saw there were many clouds that began to fill the skys. She grabbed ahold of her spear tightly as a small gust of wind began to surround her, like it was circling around her. Soon the snow was swept up in the unnatural winds. The ball of wind grew larger untill a white dragon appered out of it. At first glance, it looked like a gaint heap of snow but then she spread her wings and began to fly upwards, towards the clouds for cover.

[Aiko]

[ooc: End.]