Ärï
Pup
you got the rhythm, i got the blues
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Post by Ärï on Feb 11, 2008 16:08:16 GMT -5
Silver dragged herself toward the Starlit Plains, currently living up to their name with starlight shining down upon the vast openness of the plain. Her thin form was racked with coughing, her throat raw and bleeding from days of nearly nonstop coughing. She was tried but her body wouldn't sleep, her green eyes gone dark and empty. Silver hadn't eaten in days and had no energy to fight the disease currently running wild in her body. Everything she ate came back up in a bloody mess so she had given up trying. Water tasted matallic and gross, making her gag. Reaching the top of a slight slope, Silver found herself too tired to keep going. She collapsed in a heap, coughing again, flecks of blood decorating the ground around her and her vision hazy as her cloudy green eyes gazed up at the stars overhead. Is this the end of me? Alone and diseased? She thought sleepily.
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Post by Kismet//Accalia on Feb 11, 2008 16:15:56 GMT -5
Zuni was running across the plains. He was already fast, but he wanted to become faster. He stopped when something caught his eyes. Who's that? He turned and rushed over to Silver. He looked around and saw the blood. "Hey, are you okay? You look terrible." He sniffed the ground. I smell sickness.. a disease. But... what kind of disease is this? He looked at Silver, his eyes filled with worry.
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Ärï
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you got the rhythm, i got the blues
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Post by Ärï on Feb 11, 2008 16:21:00 GMT -5
"Stay...away" Silver gasped, choking on her own blood. Trying to breathe, Silver spit out the blood but it hurt to breathe, her throat raw from her constant coughing. "Its...its almost...over" Silver choked, stomach churning like a stormy sea. Everything hurt and everything was blurry, her eyes, her hearing. Everything was dull. Silver's stomach churned again, trying to expell whatever it thought was there. There wasn't much, nothing more then painful heaving. Silver collapsed again, panting and trembling. She was sick, not just physically but emotionally. She was spent. Silver felt ready to die but...not this way. It hurt so bad...everything burned hot and uncomfortable. Her fur felt too close, too thick, she couldn't breathe. Silver writhed, trying to escape, whining pitifully, sobbing without thinking.
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Post by Kismet//Accalia on Feb 11, 2008 16:30:56 GMT -5
Zuni took a few steps back. "W-what's almost over? What ar-are you talking about?" The coughing. The blood. It scared him. Everything scared him since his brother's sudden appearance and personality change. He walked to Silver again and lightly placed a paw on her neck. "Can you breathe? Are you okay?" His eyes clouded as more thoughts raced through his head. Terrible thoughts.
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Ärï
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you got the rhythm, i got the blues
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Post by Ärï on Feb 11, 2008 16:35:45 GMT -5
"I...I'm" Silver gasped, choking a little on her words, "finally...dying." Silver laid limp on the ground, breathing coming in fast uneven pants, blood trickling from her parted jaws, forst-toned orbs clouded over with pain and sickness. Her paws shook as her body trembled. Someone had told her the last phases of the sickness. Silver knew now she wouldn't make it that far. Not anywhere near. No. She'd probably die gagging on her own blood like she was now. More coughs escaped the sterling femme. It hurt. It burned beyond tolarance. Hellfire. Why was she having to suffer like this? Another pained sob escaped Silver, cut short as more blood was ejected from her body. Everything was turning white and black at the same time, the ground under her bucking and rolling like some ocean wave on steroids.
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Post by Kismet//Accalia on Feb 11, 2008 16:44:39 GMT -5
"What!? No! Not yet!" Zuni's eyes became clouded with tears. He didn't know what to do. He looked around. Nothing. What would be on the plains that he could use to help, anyway? His heart was pounding fast as he looked at the dieing Silver. "Don't die, please. You just can't." His buckled beneath him and he fell. Crying. He rested his muzzle on top of Silver's. "Don't die," he whispered. "Please."
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Ärï
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you got the rhythm, i got the blues
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Post by Ärï on Feb 11, 2008 16:52:46 GMT -5
Silver's eyes closed in pain as she struggled to breathe, her burns feeling like they'd been burned, like in the fire. Silver struggled to breathe, blood choking her. It was hell. "I...I'm ready" Silver whispered, voice nearly lost as she gagged again, spitting out more blood. Where the heck was all of this coming from? "I...I've been..wasting away. I'm done...fighting." Silver laid her head on the ground, jaws parted. She looked horrid, so thin her ribs showed, eyes cloudy with sickness, blood on her maw and clogging the ground around her. Silver's fur had lost its healthy shine. She looked hollow, the little light remaining in her eyes fading. Silver moved her head and touched Zuni's nose weakly. "Sorry" she rasped, voice barely a whisper. Her head fell back against the ground and a sigh escaped her bloodied maw. Silver's eyes glazed over, fixed on the stars shining so brightly overhead, shedding their cold light upon the shell of a wolf that had once been Silver.
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Post by Kismet//Accalia on Feb 11, 2008 17:03:19 GMT -5
Zuni closed his eyes.He was quiet for awhile before he stood. He knew Silver was dead now, there was nothing he could do. It was probably nothing anybody could do. "You were a good friend. Maybe, even my only true friend." He looked up at the stars. What to do now? I have to tell someone what happened. Then what? After Silver is buried. I have nothing else to live for. Everyone... everything is changing. And I'm last in line. He looked back down at Silver's body. Because it's so hard for me to accept. I can't accept these changes... So I keep being moved to the back. Until it is too late. He let his tears fall freely. He didn't care if anyone was around to see. It wouldn't matter either. He sighed and finally stopped crying. It was too late now. He wasn't sure what to do. Go hurry and find someone? Or bring Silver's body to the camp to announce her death. He sat down and waited. Thinking.
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Ärï
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you got the rhythm, i got the blues
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Post by Ärï on Feb 11, 2008 17:08:31 GMT -5
Silver's form appeared, visible only to Zuni for she now stood in the ranks of Twilight. She stood far out in the Starlit Plains, sterling fur lit but unearthly moonlight, green eyes bright, muscle rippling under her pelt, no longer broken and lost. Its not too late. Never too late. Silver's muzzle turned skyward and she let out a long clear howl though only Zuni could hear it. The song died as her form once more disappeared to the Realm of Twilight. She wasn't in pain, no longer broken but bright and whole as she had once been.
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Post by Kismet//Accalia on Feb 11, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -5
Zuni pricked his ears and looked around, confused. That howl. So familiar and strange. It made his eyes brighten up a bit. What was this sudden happiness? Why should he be happy? "Anyone there?" He knew there would probably be no answer. He looked up at the stars again. He didn't need to think about what he said next. He knew it was going to happen soon. He sense it in his pelt. "Don't worry Silver. We'll be together again."
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