Demi~

When no one answered my question, I stood up to go get some more fire wood. As I bent down to grab a small twig, I heard a earsplitting, bloodcurdling scream. I straightened and ran back to the campfire. Jeannie had fainted! Oh my! I thought. Luckily Zander had caught her before she could fall to the hard ground. 

"Is she ok?" Macey asked, walking over to Jeannie.

I sat down next to her and felt her pulse. "She will be fine...I think. We'll have to wait and see. I'll stay with her in ca-" I stopped. Zander had drawn his sword and was walking menacingly towards Macey. What is he doing???  I wondered. But then he walked past Macey and jabbed a little creature that was behind her. 

I looked around and with horror realized that there were many of these weird creatures. I grabbed the nearest stick, and everyone execpt Jeannie started fighting off the beasts. Caston explained what they were and what they did so we somewhat knew what to expect. A Hollowface came at me with full speed and it knocked the wind out of me! I doubled over in pain from the force. 

"Are you all right?" Zander shouted from several feet away.

I couldn't breath just then so I just nodded. 

"Demi?" I guess he hadn't seen me nod. I used a nearby tree to stand up. After taking some time to breath deeply I shouted back.

"Yes! I'm all right thank you!" That was a lie of course. I felt very light-headed and so I sat back down. There were only a couple more monsters that I could remember seeing before I closed my eyes and either passed out or fell asleep.

Bradleys POV

"Zander." I said, walking towards him.

"Bradley, go. Be with them. And not me." Zander eeplied, still walking away from everyone.

"Zander, listen to me." I said, jogging to catch up with him.

I satrted to put my hand on his shoulder, when he grabbed my hand a turned around sharply.

"Listen to me, Bradley. Leave me alone. If you don't, you'll regret it." He said.

I was about to respond, when I was grabbed from behind by a 25 foot tall creature.

"ZANDER!!!! HELP ME!!!!!" I screamed, as I was dragged away.

"Bradley!! Zander, DO SOMETHING!!!!" Macy screamed.

I tried to fight it off, but it held me too tightly. I stopped trying as it dragged me to my doom, wherever it was. 

~Macey

I stand there shocked. That really hit me hard.

Bradley follows him but Zander keeps brushing it off. That is before something attacks and grabs Bradley.

That snaps me out of my trance, "Bradley!! Zander do something!" I shout. I don't hesitate and start running after the monster.

It's a Shadowbeast. No one knows what they do. No one has lived.

The beast ran off into the forest. Off of our path.

I grab my horse and hop on before taking off after it.

"MACEY!" Someone yells.

I ignore him. I'm not useless. I'm not dead weight. I can save people. 

I hear another horse behind me, "what do you want?" I ask. It's probably Sebatian or Demi.

"I'm not letting you go after that thing alone."

I almost fall off of my horse. It's Zander.

"Why? Because I'm useless? because someones life is on the line?" I mutter not looking at him. I keep following the trail that the beast left behind. 

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So....... IDEA!

@Sammy Everlast shall we ship Macey and Zander? Ig could be like a "I hate you!" sort of thing and then one saves the other multiple times and then like a "I have your back" thing!!!! If not that's totally fine but I think it would be cute! 

~Leilani~

After all that drama, we finally made it to the village alive, although not all of us were awake. After Jeannie and Demi had been asleep for nearly four hours straight, we resorted to the tried-and-true trick: Cold Water!

Splash!

"AUGH COLD COLD COLD!"

Shivering, but awake; Demi and Jeannie were led to their rooms to change out of their wet clothes. The rest of us sat in the tavern below the inn, eating stew and not really talking. Every once in a while someone would try to strike up conversation, but it always faded out after a few minutes. Eventually we just sat in silence. 

Soon everyone was finished with their stew, and still no one was talking. It really bothers me when there are this many people together and no one is saying anything.

"So." All eyes turned to me. "What do we do now?"

"I dunno." Zander sighed. "I guess we go back to the forest?" 

"We'll have to," said Sebastian firmly. "That's where the kids are, right?"

Everyone nodded, but halfheartedly. The forest was big, and the kids...weren't. 

"Maybe we can ask the peope here," I said. "Maybe they've seen something. They have to have seen something." I knew I was really trying to convince myself,  but maybe it was true. After all, we were in Silva Vivus Umbrare. With dragoncats and itrixes, what couldn't  happen?

Sorry that was a typo I meant IBRIX, not ITRIX

Hey everyone, sorry I've been gone! We had this huge storm as a result of hurricane Isaias and the power's been out, but we finally got the generator working so I'm back for now.

@Dolphin, I might be open to shipping Azi with Iyara, but two things. One, I did already say that I would ship Azi with Caston, but Caston's CBer hasn't posted yet so I guess that probably isn't happening anymore, since I'm not going to ship my character with an inactive character. And two, I think Azi is like 3 years older than Iyara, so if it were going to work they might have to be a bit closer in age. I think for now maybe we could just have them be friends, but maybe it can develop into something more once we see how this RP progresses. Thanks for asking :) 

Azi ~

Three hours later, and I'm still shaking. So many magical creatures, dead, and all because we couldn't understand them in time. If not for humans extradordinary capacity to hate, those creatures would have wanted nothing to do with us. It's us humans who are the monsters now.

Ben, the ibrix I picked up earlier, hisses and leaps onto my head. He glares at the others around me, but it's oddly comforting. Ben doesn't know who I am or what I've done, and he doesn't care. He may be grumpy and ill-tempered most of the time, but he's protecting me, even if he doesn't know it. He was the only one around to see the few tears that slipped down my cheek the first time I was alone after the fight we just had.

"I don't feel so good," I mutter, as chills take over me. But no one hears. The events of the past day leave me with a bad, sticky feeling, and I know now that it's time to say something about what just happened.

"None of you listened to me," I say quietly, as we finish eating our stew in the tavern under the inn.

"What do you mean, we didn't-" Macey begins, but I cut her off.

"No, you didn't listen to me, none of you, while we were fighting those creatures. I was trying to tell you. Anyone who knows anything about magical creatures knows that shadowbeasts, murkbeings, and hollowfaces can track feeling of hatred. Caston told you that. So why were you trying to fight them? The best way to fight one of those creatures is to not fight it at all. Fighting with hatred only earns you more hatred in return. Thank god no one got hurt, but with all the arguing we've been doing, it's only a matter of time. And those creature," I continue, my voice breaking a little, "did not deserve to die."

"They were attacking us," snaps Sebastian.

"I-" I break off, because it's true, because they couldn't have known, because they were only trying to defend themselves, but still. "That's the problem. When people don't see magical creatures for what they are, because they aren't so different from us. Sebastian, Macey, and Zander, if you keep fighting you will only attract more unwanted attention. We are small enough that we can make decisions as a group. We don't need a leader, at least not yet, and if we did it should be someone chosen by the group and no one else."

"You may believe that all magical creatures are just cute fuzzy little animals who don't ever want to hurt us, but I lost my leg to a manticore attack. My sister is missing and it's probably because of them. So don't tell me to trust some monster just because you like animals more than people!" Sebastion shouts.

My eyes sting and I look away, trying not to show how much that hurt. I'm quiet for a while, trying to hold back memories, but just before they dismiss me from the conversation, I speak, still shaky. "I lost my sister too. A hollowface killed her when I was seven. And no human ever stopped to try and help me or see if I was ok. I'm on this mission because I don't want that to happen to anyone else, but I also think that unless people learn to understand creatures, we'll never be able to stop this."

Before anything else goes too wrong and anyone can speak, I get up quickly from the table and head back to my room. 

This is one dramatic RP!