AmbrosiaCaress
Phoenix Rising!!!
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The Keep loomed in the distance, a great shadow that watched over the lands beneath. Darkness, Silence, Evil, Vicious, Pain, Screaming, Death.. All words that could, and had, been associated with the great Keep, and the Killer that lived within.
It was said that He was an Assassin...
It was said that He was a Mercenary...
It was said that He was a Monster....
It was said that He was a Demon....
Some even dared to call Him... Lucifer....
He hunted, He killed. They were His prey, His victims.
Forever sworn to worship Him.....
Sometimes, He demanded a sacrifice.....
It had been many moon cycles, many summer seasons, many winter frosts, since a sacrifice had been demanded.
The people of the villages and lands surrounding the great Keep and the wood that cloaked both it and it's Demonic presence worshipped, prayed, sang, begged to Him, of Him... hoping that a scarifice would never again be demanded, that they not suffer His anger, His wrath when one was not accepted...
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She was born 18 seasons ago. Her mother passing into the dusk of the dead the night that she took her first crying breath. Raised by her Father, he blessed her with the name Shinae... it meant Grace... which was his wife, her mother's name.... "Shinae... beautiful Shinae" he whispered, crooned, holding his daughter.
She would be his only child.
She grew up in the shadow of the Keep, and the stories, the horrors, that many spoke about. The Elders knew well the Demon that lived within, even if one had never seen Him. The youngsters, at first frightened, grew skeptical of the stories... and it became the village sport, among many of the towns and villages that surrounded the forst and the monolithic Castle within, to dare another to venture to the Keep, to bring back a stone, or a trinket, anything that would prove they were close, and that no harm had come to them. It was a sport mostly amongst the growing boys, but the females were not immune to it as well...
Many ventured within. Most returned, but always, there were ones that did not, almost always they were female. The people of that particular village would send out a search party, but never would the adults get too close. None wished to awaken the Beast within... But still, the young ones persisted, never really recognizing the danger or the evil....
None, not even the Elders, knew that He often walked among them. A Stranger in a dark cloak. His prey carefully chosen. Many strangers traveled thru the land, it was not uncommon for one to pass thru....
Shinae's 18th celebration was a joyous occassion for the people of her village. She was stunningly beautiful, the girl with no mother, with a fall of midnight black hair that danced down her back in a dark veil of shadow, and almost violet eyes, a deep purple sheen that was nothing short of amazing. This night she wore a shift of sheer liliac, laced over a black gypsy skirt... her supple shoulders bared, the ebon of her wild mane so dark against the pale of her skin.
Shinae
All were celebrating, the birth of a woman, her 18th season.... Including the cloaked Stranger, who watched with a dark crimson gaze......
It was said that He was an Assassin...
It was said that He was a Mercenary...
It was said that He was a Monster....
It was said that He was a Demon....
Some even dared to call Him... Lucifer....
He hunted, He killed. They were His prey, His victims.
Forever sworn to worship Him.....
Sometimes, He demanded a sacrifice.....
It had been many moon cycles, many summer seasons, many winter frosts, since a sacrifice had been demanded.
The people of the villages and lands surrounding the great Keep and the wood that cloaked both it and it's Demonic presence worshipped, prayed, sang, begged to Him, of Him... hoping that a scarifice would never again be demanded, that they not suffer His anger, His wrath when one was not accepted...
********
She was born 18 seasons ago. Her mother passing into the dusk of the dead the night that she took her first crying breath. Raised by her Father, he blessed her with the name Shinae... it meant Grace... which was his wife, her mother's name.... "Shinae... beautiful Shinae" he whispered, crooned, holding his daughter.
She would be his only child.
She grew up in the shadow of the Keep, and the stories, the horrors, that many spoke about. The Elders knew well the Demon that lived within, even if one had never seen Him. The youngsters, at first frightened, grew skeptical of the stories... and it became the village sport, among many of the towns and villages that surrounded the forst and the monolithic Castle within, to dare another to venture to the Keep, to bring back a stone, or a trinket, anything that would prove they were close, and that no harm had come to them. It was a sport mostly amongst the growing boys, but the females were not immune to it as well...
Many ventured within. Most returned, but always, there were ones that did not, almost always they were female. The people of that particular village would send out a search party, but never would the adults get too close. None wished to awaken the Beast within... But still, the young ones persisted, never really recognizing the danger or the evil....
None, not even the Elders, knew that He often walked among them. A Stranger in a dark cloak. His prey carefully chosen. Many strangers traveled thru the land, it was not uncommon for one to pass thru....
Shinae's 18th celebration was a joyous occassion for the people of her village. She was stunningly beautiful, the girl with no mother, with a fall of midnight black hair that danced down her back in a dark veil of shadow, and almost violet eyes, a deep purple sheen that was nothing short of amazing. This night she wore a shift of sheer liliac, laced over a black gypsy skirt... her supple shoulders bared, the ebon of her wild mane so dark against the pale of her skin.
Shinae
All were celebrating, the birth of a woman, her 18th season.... Including the cloaked Stranger, who watched with a dark crimson gaze......