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Here be the events of Scarlet, <b><u>Carmelita</b></u>, <b><u>Desdemona</b></u>, <b><u>Diamanda</b></u>, <b><u>Etharael</b></u>, and <b><u>Maelarin</b></u>. Please do not post unless you have permission from the owner.

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<b><u>Name:</b></u> Scarlet
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Sia
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 11.10.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Reptile
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Common
<b><u>Items:</b></u> Silver Scarf; Equipped. Red Laurels, Equipped. Basic Red Bracelet; Equipped. Red Forehead Jewel; Equipped. Basic Red Earings; Equipped.



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<b><u>Name:</b></u> Carmelita
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Ren
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 11.18.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Fox
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Common
<b><u>Items:</b></u> Basic Purple Scarf; Equipped. Basic Purple Earrings; Equipped. Purple Forehead Jewel; Equipped. Basic Purple Bracelet; Equipped. Purple Laurels; Equipped. Basic Purple Pendant; Equipped.



<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/uq9ft.jpg">
<b><u>Name:</b></u> Desdemona
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Hhwan
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 12.03.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Deer
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Common
<b><u>Items:</b></u> None.



<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/untaggedShu.jpg">
<b><u>Name:</b></u> Diamanda
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Shu
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 12.08.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Stone
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Uncommon
<b><u>Parents:</b></u> Desdemona (Hhwan) + Dalkenarohs (Coba)
<b><u>Items:</b></u> None.



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<b><u>Name:</b></u> Etharael
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Kapri
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 12.11.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Goat
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Common
<b><u>Items:</b></u> None.



<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/untaggedHolika.jpg">
<b><u>Name:</b></u> Maelarin
<b><u>Species:</b></u> Holika
<b><u>Date:</b></u> 12.21.04
<b><u>Gender:</b></u> Female
<b><u>Type:</b></u> Plant
<b><u>Owner:</b></u> Con
<b><u>Rarity:</b></u> Uncommon
<b><u>Items:</b></u> None.
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<u>Date Added:</u> 11.19.04

1) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/183897.jpg">
2) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/mkjtk.jpg"> 3)<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/mkjrp.jpg">

<i>1) This is Scarlet as she looked like without her Scarf.</i>
<i>2) Here's a more recent picture, after she's found her scarf and she's proudly displaying it.</i>
<i>3) I might as well add Carmelita in here. Also a recent picture, she looks just like when we met her.</i>


<u>Date Added:</u> 11.25.04

1) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/scarletacc.jpg"> 2) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/carmelitaacc.jpg">

<i>1) Here's Scarlet with her new accessories. ^-^</i>
<i>2) And here be Carmelita. Ph34r! razz </i>


<u>Date Added:</u> 12.11.04

1) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/uq9ft.jpg">2)<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/vw5rn.jpg">
3) <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Av-Con/vyplj.jpg">

<i>1) It's Desdemona, the deer Arupan, which are known as Hhwan.</i>
<i>2) It's a Shu. Her name is Diamanda, or at least, that's what I gather from the Hhwan.</i>
<i>3) This Kapri, by the name of Etharael, arrived with Desdemona, and Diamanda in her arms. She seems a bit more friendlier than Desdemona.</i>
<b><u>Reserved. Maybe I'll make this my whole toybox post. razz </b></u>
[entry;date:11.18.04;#1d,#1t]

I decided to start a journal today. I don't even know how I <i>got</i> this journal, just that I had willed it and it appeared. And, as always, I marveled at the world I was walking in.

Indeed, a strange world it was, and a strange effect it had on me. But before I go rambling off, I must describe a small bit of this world.

It is a grassy plain, tall, long grass that goes for miles and miles and miles, like the sea, or the desert, with seemingly no end to it. And in the middle of this desert or sea of grass, there is sometimes an oasis, or an island. And that is a tree.

Yes, you've got it, we're traversing miles of tall, grassy plains just to get to a tree. Well, there's several trees, and they're all different, so it kind of depends, but you know.

And so, my journey had started near a huge, HUGE tree. Bigger than anything you've seen. Who knows, bigger than a twenty story building, maybe, or maybe even bigger. I'm not a tree expert and I didn't really try to figure what type of tree it was, so ehh.

I was there because of Scarlet. Scarlet being my Sia, of course. Sia are snake-like beings, but with the upper part being humanish, except for perhaps the hands, which were scaly, and the tongue, which was snake-like. Which was why, perhaps, her name had been so ironic. Her scales and her hair were green. The only thing red were her eyes. But perhaps those were enough for me to call her Scarlet, before I had even seen her.

And then there, we had met a few Arupan. Two prominent ones were Dal and Naiy, both which have strange, longer names that I cannot ever remember. And their human companion: Curriaan. And it was Curriaan who had suggested to go to an apple tree, but Scarlet had wanted to go off elsewhere, so the three Arupan had split up, and I had followed mine.

Southwest. To find a peach tree.

Much happened there, but writing tires me, especially when walking. To the point, we - Scarlet and I - are heading south from the [did I mention it was huge?] peach tree, to a strange destination which I cannot even begin to guess.

Perhaps I shall write more later.

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[entry;date:11.18.04;#2d,#2t]

Here I am, writing another entry while we're on this journey.

The world we're in is a very strange place, really. You see, when I look at Scarlet, her greenish scales shine an emerald color, and her hair has a brilliant luster, as well. And her shirt seems to be pure white, really. It's as if all the color is drawing to her, focusing on her, so that she's nice and clear and crisp and bright.

It's the eyes. I can't compare them to rubies. I look at their redness, and the first thing that pops into my mind is blood. But I think that's just me.

And I think, so are the colors. I mean, sometimes, say, back at the peach tree, random peaches were highlighted - they were brimming with a strange luster. I think, perhaps, I am hallucinating or something.

On another note, earlier I had thought about rivers and lakes and other things. And now, as I think back to rivers, I have an almost certain feeling that I'll see one soon. Or perhaps it's just a stream, or maybe a pond or something, but I know there will be water.

But when?

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[entry;date:11.18.04;#3d,#3t]

Have you ever imagined yourself following a fox? I sure haven't. But then again, I didn't really imagine being in this world, either, and here I am.

I'm walking with Scarlet, because she fell back to match my pace. She doesn't like fox-girl. She's hissing to me in an urgent voice, but I keep telling her to shut up because I'm writing in my journal and she's distracting me.

The fox's name is Carmelita, she says. She says we're off a bit on the direction part; we're going too much east. She says she's been to the tree. An orange tree, she says, and she says there's a small stream there, too. I was right about the water part.

What I don't understand is, if she's fine at her tree, why did she come here? And choose me, of all people? And what's with her weird proposal to us? She says she'll get us to the tree, but then she'll keep going on our adventures. I said she could lead, just because, well, I guess I'm tired, or something. We don't need her. But she's here to stay.

She's kind of like Scarlet. Her fur glistens, her clothes shine, but her eyes... her eyes are like amethysts. Plotting, forever plotting amethysts.

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[entry;date:11.20.04;#1d,#4t]

Phew... so, Carmelita got us to the orange tree, but we didn't really stay long.

Somehow, using the pond near the tree, Carmelita had gotten all of us to a similar pond near a banana tree, where we met up with Naiy, Dal, Curriaan, and their new companion, Rekal.

Strangely, Carmelita seemed to know, or at least know the names of, everyone BUT Rekal. And she's oddly quick, at one glance she's there, at another glance she's somewhere else entirely. And she's also usually talking all friendly-like, but the next moment she'll narrow her eyes, and that makes her look angry.

That magic... or tricks, or whatever it is, of hers, is beginning to bother me, though.

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[entry;date:11.23.04;#1d,#5t]

Phew... it's been quite a while since I wrote here.

For some reason, I can't remember much of the last few hours. I know that I've been dreaming a lot - weird, strange dreams, but I should still be able to remember!

The strange thing is, what I <i>do</i> remember is being near this tree... and, well, first of all, it had bright, luminescent green leaves, and sometimes I'd see a flicker of blue, too. But the amazing thing was that it was raining in the area of the tree.

And the place was churning with mud all around. I think I might've gotten sucked under if there hadn't been one of those portal ponds of Carmelita's there. Anywho, now I've found Scarlet again! Or she found me, or something?

This is so confusing me.

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[entry;date:11.25.04;#1d,#6t]

You should've seen Carmelita and Scarlet! They're both outfitted with lots of stuff, really. Carmelita is wearing a bracelet, laurels, earings, a pendant, and a scarf! And Scarlet, too, is wearing a bracelet, laurels, and earings! Not to mention that silver scarf she had found one day!

They look kind of festive, don't they? Otherwise, nothing much has happened... I don't think. Hmm....

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[entry;date:12.03.04;#1d,#7t]

You can't believe what just happened! I woke up (I don't really know how I fell asleep in the first place, but it must have been from boredom) to find myself in a freezing place, with snow piled up in the outer radius of the tree.

Carmelita and Scarlet have both been coping well, and Scarlet's scarf seems to be warm? I don't know what the fuss is about.

Maybe winter finially caught up with this world. I bet it hasn't snowed where I've come from yet, but perhaps this place just has drastic changes. Which there are probably more of soon...

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[entry;date:12.11.04;#1d,#8t]

It'd be foolish to write so many things over again, or write less because the big part is done. So to quote:


Con
<Con and her Arupan were trudging through the snow. It was no longer gentle, this snow, instead, howling winds rose up and battered the snow around, until Con felt sorry for her Arupan and glad for her layers of protective clothing.

But her Arupan seemed unphased. Scarlet's scales, perhaps, had helped her through wind and snow, and as Carmelita had once remarked, Scarle'ts silver scarf seemed to have a special quality of warmness to it.

Carmelita too, seemed alright. She had on a scarf, but it was just a scarf, and nothing more. Still, that must have helped, as the wind threw her hair and fur around, as the tiny snowflakes drove into her with force. Carmelita pressed on boldly, not faltering.

Con looked up, but there was nothing to see. But it was a different kind of nothing - before, before the plains had been covered with snow, it had been a friendly, sun-shining world, where, although you could see nothing important on the horizon... Con shrugged inwardly. The snow now covered the tall grasses, but not completely, so that the grasses still poked out to sway in the wind.

Now the visibility was reduced - from what seemed like miles to mere yards. The gray clouds above showed nothing by which they could follow, the snow came from all sides, and it seemed that even if they walked for hours or days, the scenery would forever stay the same. That was strange in itself, Con thought, but then that thought was lost as she urged her Arupan to keep closer to her, so they wouldn't get lost.

---+---

Desdemona walked through the snow, slowly, so that a young Arupan, a Shu, could keep up with her. Her mind flickered back to where she was going, and how she had ended up so far south? It was ridiculous! Her destination was to get back to the forest, which she knew was in the north. But this was hard - the little snowstorm that had started earlier was now a full-fledged blizzard.

Desdemona herself was not cold, being a deer-type, but she wandered about the Shu, who's name, as she gathered, was Diamanda. But the little baby Arupan trudged along, seemingly even happy to have all this snow surrounding her, even as it battered her off course at times.

She eyed Diamanda with some amazement, as always. The Shu had grayish fur, but it seemed to shine, even though there was no sun for it to do so. She also had a strange, silver pattern on her cheek, and sometimes it, too, shined, which always caused Desdemona to wonder. Now, she fingered her own silver stream of hair. She did not know how it came to be this way, but it seemed Arupan had markings of their own.

She had touched the Shu once, several times. Diamanda's fur had been cold. It was a strange sensation. She didn't understand why, though, and that's what troubled her. Surely, if the Shu was this cold in this god forsaken blizzard, she would be dead by now? She would not be frolicking around in the snow...

She sighed. How had she come to be the guardian of the Shu? It was hard to remember anything. It was as if, with the white snow, her memory had been blanked out. But once she got to the forest, by whatever means necessary, she knew she'd remember. She <i>had</i> to.

....was that a figure walking ahead of her? It was so hard to see, but maybe... "Come on, Diamanda," she urged the little Shu forward.

---+---

Etharael walked through the snowstorm. She didn't know what she was doing, and once in a while, she shivered, as a stronger gust of wind sent the snowflakes crashing into her. She felt numb, but at times, the stange, silver swirls on her body would flare and she would feel a little life returning.

She wondered about how she would look if somebody saw her now. The clothing she wore was white, so would she look disembodied? Would her shirt flicker with the silver designs ingrained on it? She knew this was all unreasonable, but perhaps the cold was getting to her.

She was just about to contemplate the purpose of life when she heard a voice behind her, and a squeal as a small little Arupan attached itself to her leg. Ignoring this, she looked behind at the deer Arupan and asked, "Excuse me?" as she had not caught the Arupan's words the first time around.

"May I join you?" The voice was cold, almost as cold as the wind and snow, thought the Kapri, but then she shook her head and giggled nervously inwardly at such stupid thoughts.

"Of course, err, I suppose," Etharael answered. The more the merrier?

Before she could say or think of anything else, the deer Arupan said, "Pleased. I'm Desdemona and I'm heading for the forest." Seeing Etharael's confused look, the deer Arupan said impatinetly, "Up north. Don't you know <i>anything</i>?"

Etharael was surprised at the tone of Desdemona's voice, "Err, of course. North." She looked down at the baby Arupan, and Desdemona, following Etharael's voice, replied, "Shu. Diamanda." Etharael was left by herself to figure out that Shu was what the Arupan species was called and that its name was Diamanda.

"That's nice," the Kapri said awkwardly, picking up the Shu to hold her. But the moment she had, she wanted to drop the little Shu. It was <i>cold</i>. This was abnormal. It was...

"People," came Desdemona's sharp voice. Etharael strained and saw blurry figures through the snow. Desdemona, without waiting, pushed past Etharael and went to meet them, and so, Etharael, carrying Diamanda, followed after her.

---+---

Con looked up and blinked. Two figures were approaching their group. She frowned, but then, why would anyone want to harm her party in the middle of a <i>snowstorm</i>? To steal their scarves? Heh...

The figures came into focus soon. A Hhwan and a Kapri, as Carmelita later informed her, and as Con herself would later find out, that little furry Arupan in the Kapri's arms was a Shu. "Hi!" Con shouted, waving her arms. "Amazing to find someone in a huge snowstorm when you can barely find anyone out in the plains, huh?"

Was Con rambling? Did anyone care? She thought she heard a voice yelling "Hi," back, but she wasn't sure. And then, suddenly, the three other Arupan were there, to the side of her, coming closer. It was as if they had broken though some invisible shield and were now here, in their group, unable to seperate.

"I'm Etharael," the Kapri stated, to which the Hhwan gave a strange look.

"Desdemona," she murmured, and then, "Diamanda." She had pointed at the Shu. Then she whispered to Etharael, "What kind of name is that?"

"Somebody once told me that Etharael was the name of a city of light. I bet you can't say the same thing about your name," replied Etharael, trying to joke and be friendly, but the cold look on Desdemona's face stopped any further efforts.

She turned away from the Hhwan, walking over to the human. "Err... well..." she didn't know what to say, and it seemed Con didn't either. The Kapris wordlessly handed the Shu over to Con, who didn't feel the cold through her layers of clothing, or perhaps just didn't feel the cold at all.

Slowly, wordlessly, the now bigger group of Arupan continued their journey north. Scarlet and Carmelita were up in the lead ahead, and the Kapri walked a bit farther behind, and then came Con. And off to the side, but so she could keep a view on the Shu, lingered Desdemona, somehow an unfriendly presence in this gray and white place.>


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