Celestial Guardian Of Light - The Living Spirit

[Drekentai]

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◊Theme Songs◊
ʬʬʬʬʬParadise Lost [x][x]PL[x][x]
ʬʬʬʬʬLucky Break [x][x]LB[x][x]
ʬʬʬʬʬThe Seventh Trumpet [x][x]TST[x][x]
ʬʬʬʬʬEndorphins [x][x]E[x][x]
ʬʬʬʬʬAshes Of The Innocent [x][x]AOTI[x][x]

ʬʬʬʬʬSong Times And Identification: You will notice through out the story little double quotes with time numbers in them, ex: ((00:00-1:24 TS)) This means that the part that you are about to read after seeing the time, will begin at around that time into the song, until the noted time. If a new bit is to start, with no time, than the song would to be to continue on from there, same time area. Also, Each song has identification letters, as seen in the example, this means that it'll be within which ever song the short is allocated to. For example: ((02:34 - 3:54 ISA)) ISA is assigned to the song I Stand Alone, meaning that the part will have that time of that song. Do note, the times are times of the linked videos.

◊Location◊
ʬʬʬʬʬWhere Does It Take Place?: Tropic Falls

◊Characters◊
ʬʬʬʬʬWho's Involved? Drekentai HieloRey, Sheba Inu (Nala_91), Siroh (Rodgie), Noana (Noana), Shelby (Shelby), Symphony (Symphony), Teival (Moony), Eska (Tinet), Travisque (Luna)

◊We Begin..◊

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((00:00 - 00:54 PL)) The male had been walking for a few days now: Enduring extreme heat. With every pawsteps he found himself approaching a familiar area: Tropic Falls. He was finally here. The area sounded empty, but if one was to look carefully, one would see figures hidding around here and there.

ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "Having put up with a handful of heat, you better have a straight answer for me."

ʬʬʬʬʬ Drek was tired from the walk, he was weak from it as well. If others and those of which didn't believe in spirits would see him, or even then hear him, they'd take him for a psychotic. His eyes gazing around, spotting the falls in near distance. They may have been called the Tropic Falls, but he preferred to call it lands of the d@mned, especially after what had happened to him here. The place was safe, that's one point, it's just that blasted hill he'd been dreading. So into safety, he made his way into a small cavern, or.. A den as one would call it. Settling down to the soft sand the male rested his head to the side of his paws, eyes closing; but too soon. Sheba approached with a low voice.

ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Mind if I join in? Never know what could happen in here, sends shivers down my spine."
ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "Sure, just don't be so shocked if I already knew what was going to happen."
ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Why must all these bad things happen to you of all things, better to sleep it off."

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((00:00 - 00:32 TST)) After dosing into a light sleep with Sheba next to him, the male opened his eyes to some quiet sounds. Head lifting up to see he'd noticed a female standing not too far ahead. "Looking for anything or anybody?" It wasn't all that caught his attention though, his head rose up ahead to look at the hill. Faint, blue clouds of fog seemed to rise up from the bottom of the hill, clashing at the top: Rising like a wave. With every clash of the waves to the top would the shrines engulf into larger cold flames for no more than a split second. With only a sudden notice had Drek only just realized something more unusual. Well, unusual to others anyways. Asides faint blue waves of.. Fog, more or less energy to him, a small bright.. Fountain-like thing grew to spawn energy, as if it were a spewing volcano: A weak one. He just got here, just not long ago, and all this is already happening? He'd have to have been dreaming. With tightly shut eyes, a low growl came from the depths of his throat, re-opening them only to find out that fountain was still there, and those waves were still crashing. Though, the waves themselves begun to grow fainter with time, eventually fading away.

ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "..Don't tell me I'm the only one seeing any of this."

ʬʬʬʬʬ Quietly moving himself up as Sheba continued to rest, the male begun to slowly move forward, out of the cave, towards that.. Fountain of energy. The once sleeping Sheba woke, wondering as to what Drek was up to, in the middle of the night, too.

ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Eh, Drek, where ya going?"
ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "Getting what I came here for."

ʬʬʬʬʬ Familiar scents were noticed, but not as many as unfamiliar. He seemed to feel as if Eska was roaming around, Shelby as well. Reasoning for knowing Shelby was there was because he'd noticed her eagle fly and roam around. After stopping into his tracks, the male continued to walk ahead, past the female of which had arrived not long ago, seeming perhaps, lost.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((00:54 - 01:10 PL)) The three shrines, suspected to be home of the spirits, threw off a bright glare of bright light: Another fountain, higher up through the mountain path, begun to burn.. Well, Spew. Reaching closer to the first one he stopped in his steps, taking a good look at it. He slightly turned himself, lifting his long, thick tail from behind him. He swiped it through that 'fountain'. In effect, A link of energy seemed to be drawn to his tail from the fountain. His snake-narrow pupils slightly widened (Though only going as wide as a cat's would be when in focus), pulling his tail out; causing the link to break: Remains of the link fading away as if they'd disappeared. One effect from the link came to him, but a question arose with it. He felt as if energy was being drawn from him, as while he was questioning himself as to why all this was going on.

ʬʬʬʬʬ Just as he'd been on the walk up to the next fountain, which was higher on the hill and his gaze was focused on, the female whom he'd just bumped into had spoken. As all meanwhile, Shelby's presence was being sensed more, but Eska's scent faded away. All but meanwhile, another figure, not clearly visible, especially not to Drek, he'd been too focused, was roaming around, curious, Siroh. He too begun to move, everybody seemed interested in the flames and fountains by now.

ʬʬʬʬʬTeival: "No, not exactly. What are those strange machines?"
ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "Weather or not you believe in spirits my answer doesn't change. And my answer would be; home of whatever it is made me what I am."

ʬʬʬʬʬ With the attempt to lift a paw to continue heading onward towards the next fountain, he begun to feel weight drag him down against the ground, feeling heavier, causing him to drop from the sudden change. He only had one thought left, most likely they were trying to hold him back from curiosity. "..You're not holding me back." With that passed by, he held his head up, looking up ahead, pushing himself back up with struggle as a low growl submerged from his throat.

ʬʬʬʬʬ As he continued to attempt walking up ahead, ascending the hill to the top, he walked through this fountain of energy this time. Just passing through it, the fountain itself grew brighter and stronger, another link created, seeming to him as if he was being drained of energy. Something was trying to weaken him, it could most likely have only been one thing, considering how it was being done. On top of that, it's that one thing that he'd been after. As Drek passed through it, the link died out, but now regardless on where he was, it seemed he was being drained. This was most likely probably due to the fact that beams of aura were being thrown out from his markings and into the ground; Sparking and not constant. So now, the male was being drained, and weight was pulling down on him. He took a look back quickly to look at the others, they seemed to be getting nothing. Oh joy, he was definitely going to seem insane now.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((01:06 - 01:32 E)) Next thing you could tell, Sheba was up and heading towards him. But with the attempt of help, the strength of the cold coming along with the energy had most likely gotten her paw stone cold. With nothing but a leap back, she'd been Scared now.

ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Oivey Drek. - God d@mn!"
ʬʬʬʬʬTeival: "Spirits eh? I don't believe I do,"
ʬʬʬʬʬNoana: "Hello? Anyone there? I won't hurt you."
ʬʬʬʬʬTravisque: "Erm.. Hello?"
ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "Than you might want to start believing at this point."

ʬʬʬʬʬ People were beginning to speak up by now. Somebody appears to have been following behind him, quietly enough so that he'd been unable to notice. Noana seems to have felt like he was being followed as well. As while on the other hand, it seems people were coming to join as well. A gathering? Well wow, what a time; not for Drek, that one was dead obvious. Most of those whom were around were all wanting to know what was with the blue lighting by now. Even a female whom had been resting, Symphony. A male had also just arrived, Travisque.

ʬʬʬʬʬ As while Sheba spoke, her voice gave a clear enough signal she'd gotten her paw frozen up by now. Only the tip of his tail'd converted to a dark maroon at the time, it was hard enough to do anything when he was being drained as time raced by. His tail begun to throw off the faintest of the flames. Though, as soon as they'd lit up, and Sheba's paw did as well, melting the ice, he lost his spark: Tip of his tail weakened of power, returning to a clean blue, flames sparked out. Not only that but it was cold enough to consider that any form of minor flames would be wiped out.

ʬʬʬʬʬ With a strongly focused goal of getting up there and getting the answer he wanted he hadn't let himself look back to see who was there, or what was even going on for that matter. The higher he was on his climb to the top, the stronger the weight seemed to pull down on him. There was only one factor that made him think something else was beginning, or about to: As the pull strengthened, the ground begun to shake lightly. Now to note, there was a floating island in here. And.. It too was receiving all of that impact, it hadn't been moving or cracking, but small pebbles could be seen falling down from it. It wasn't a quake, but it was gravity that'd been increasing; pulling down harder on everything.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((01:02 - 01:30 TST)) With whatever energy he'd had left from his struggle to climb, being drained by time, he tried to make some more light, some of his own; the wings of light which carried unknown tribal designs, somewhat related to those of his markings. With every spark of energy that flowed from him, it flowed from the wings now as well, causing them to pulse from light wings to faintly nothing, repetitively. It could show by this point that he was literally being drained of his energy and pulled down to the ground, every single step was a struggle to hold himself up. Though pulsing, it also showed he was doing all he could to keep them spawned, they went under an occasional bright state, being almost purely white, bright as the sun; blinding. With a push of the wings and back legs, he tried to push himself off the ground, taking a leap up to try and approach one of the steep areas that were somewhat close to the top. Unfortunately, he hadn't quite exactly succeeded: Due to the strong down pull he found himself being pulled right back down, ending up almost collapsed onto the ground. With a struggle he tried to prevent himself from falling flat again. If he did, it'd be even harder to get back up: And the land was slowly beginning to shake a little more noticeably, though still faint.

ʬʬʬʬʬ With air-filled lungs, the male stood, shakily: He let out a loud, loud and vicious cry. His cry was so loud, the pain and helplessness could be heard in the tone, it caused his body to rage up, as if it was trying to defend itself. His markings threw off what was probably the brightest of the lights seen yet that day; it was blinding, lethally blinding. As his cry slowly faded out, so did the blinding light: It died off to a less-bright blue, dying and fading out.

ʬʬʬʬʬ Even though he was weak and low with strength at the moment he'd been pushed by adrenaline. He quickly moved his way up, as if he was ignoring the struggle that was taking him down over time. The male reached the mere top of the hill, the 'prize' as some would call. Though, as he stopped to the steep hill to look up, the tree too begun to throw off some energy links of its own.

ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Drekentai! - Run away as fast as you can, if not you will be killed! Run run I say!"

ʬʬʬʬʬ It seems Sheba was beginning to get scared. Looks like the quaking wasn't just him feeling it after all. Out of everybody that was around, she was most likely the only one aware of what could go on. All others around got Sheba's cry; Symphony, Noa, Siroh.. Everybody seemed well aware by now They all wanted to keep going on, keep watching, keep heading towards the energy, but for most the instincts came in, causing them to head out for safety. better dead than alive as one would say.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((Full Song LB)) The climb was certainly difficult. He'd costed himself a big boast of energy simply trying to push himself off the ground, or even then spawning the wings. Deciding to spare what he'd have had left he forced himself to claw his way up the short but steep hill. Even though weak, he slowly made his way up, but with a noticeable struggle. Pulling himself, more or less merely dragging himself, the male had been laid out against flat land: At the top he now was. His eyes were sealed shut when he was flat to the ground, so he opened then: Glare filled with pain. He should have climbed the other side, a small gap was keeping him from getting where he wanted to get to. He struggled to simply push himself back up. The down-force was in fact stronger than normal.

ʬʬʬʬʬ He forced himself to take a few steps forward, merely leaning off the edge as if he was going to drop, but he did this only to give himself a boost from the edge. His back legs pushed against them, shooting himself forward in the direction he wanted, where he wanted. As soon as his claws hit the land, he tried clawing his way back up, but he was beginning to slide down merely, so it was harder to claw and actually make progress upwards. As his claws dug in and he slowly got closer to the top, he finally got the pull he needed & tug his way up.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((01:44 - 02:11 TST)) As he pulled his way back onto his paws, he moved forward with extreme struggle. He was weak enough to the point where holding himself up was almost impossible now. If he'd fall, he'd be down and no way back up. He came to a stop at the mid line of the two shrines, raising his head to look up to the one he touched, fifty years ago, the one where it all started, where he became... This. The sky begun to fog up it seemed, cold fog, all while the large tree was losing the energy it'd been spewing out. As while the tree's energy died out, so did the rest that covered the hill. Symphony seemed to be getting hit by the impact of the cold, and she was one of who might say the few to have stayed.

ʬʬʬʬʬNoana: "You can't be serious.. - Hello? Hey! Anyone there?"
ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Sir you have to get out of here, the mountain, volcano, or what ever is going to burst. You really need to get to a safe spot please follow me."

ʬʬʬʬʬ If one was listening, one would hear two members entering a conversation, or at least it seemed to be. Sheba seemed to be warning everybody. Only thing is; Drek himself doesn't know what'll happen. As that went by, Drek kept his stand. Focusing his eyes on the shrine, memories rushed through his mind; memories of his first encounter: Being trapped and having absorbed something unreal. As the cold fog slowly clouded the sky, falling, the land around him begun to freeze up. The grass was growing cold to the point where it was just like winter: It would crystallize and next thing you know, frozen. An aura-like ring of cold fire begun to grow around him, rising from the ground. As it rose, the feeling he'd been trapped and helpless grew bigger, he was, weak after all.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((Full Song AOTI)) His eyes remained focus on the shrine, frown was slowly being formed; as if he wanted to break that shrine, end it all. All three shrines' cold flames begun to get unfocused just as if wind was blowing them out. They grew. Stretching towards Drek, reaching for him as if to create a link. Head slightly moving to the side he looked to the shrine just across the tree, watching as the link reached for him. He was feeling the energy come back to him. Was this some sort of joke? Was this a test? In fact, he felt somewhat of an 'overload'. Another ring of cold fire begun to grow from around him, a bigger one this time. When they got close to the point where he could feel something was around, approaching, he freaked. He told himself one thing, and one thing only. "You're not getting me." Gravity begun to grow stronger all meanwhile. He wouldn't be able to tell. He tried to take control of the flames, Make them a light of his own, make them. Bigger. By the time those three links had reached him it'd been too late.

ʬʬʬʬʬ He was trapped, frozen. Each chain link took an entrance into him through his markings, seeping through his fur and into him. The feel of it? Not too pleasant you could say. Cold, as if he'd been taken over, no longer in control of himself. With those links seeping into him he'd begun to feel unstable. Not from being weak; but from having too much to release. By instinct, he tried to defend himself, stop it from going any further after taking consciousness of himself again. He attempted to release an even colder, cold aura, stronger. What was unusual, was that small orbs seemed to have trailed from his paws, marking out these.. Symbols, leaving the trails of light on the ground as they marked it down. If one was to look from above, an elemental symbol would, more most likely could, be seen. The faintly glowing orbs faded off, leaving a glowing symbol on the grass. As the symbol was complete, it seemed to have acted as some.. Enchant, a ritual possibly? It had caused the ground to grow cold, quite quickly as well. The clouds of cold merely begun to turn into semi-solid ice. A bright glow could be seen forming around him. The enchant took effect, more visible of an effect now. The frozen clouds begun to race up, beaming into the sky. Drek was trying to save himself from this, but by doing so, he ended up casting what had been happening. His narrow eyes begun to glow brightly, the lime green eyes had been throwing off light of their own.

ʬʬʬʬʬ As the links continued to seep into him from the flames of the shrines and his eyes throwing off the faint glow, he wasn't fully aware of what was going on, being taken over. A deep look into his eyes would reveal the presence of more than one being. These were spirits, and they were taking part of him. The exact spirits that had done all this to him, turned him into this. With all the power that'd been flowing around, the links were broken, but the shrines were thrown off from the sudden drop. Both nearest to him were found snapped near the metal rings, tops had 'popped' out, falling to the ground.

ʬʬʬʬʬ With the little bit of awareness that remained from the.. Well, so far completely possessed male, he tried to free himself with all he could. Cold flames were beginning to be tossed everywhere, frozen fog still beaming up. What scared him senseless was that, he wasn't feeling weak, or drained. These spirits were taking him over, badly. Trying to take back control of himself as the cold blazed past him upwards he closed his eyes, as if trying to 'cut' the spirit's vision, though most likely not so possible considering they can see him from the simplest flame. His tail was clouded with crystal blue cold flames, burning at the tip and markings, even through each ring near the end. He let his mind enter a phase of a calm moment, trying to do what he use to at very first, when he found out about the abilities. In his mind was pictured a calm setting, plain grass, no more, no less. And so, all this.. Friendzy begun to ease out, ending up to a sudden stop. All that had already been created simply flowed away until the normal warm weather of the place caused it to fade out.

ʬʬʬʬʬ The quake was beginning to grow a bit stronger now. The floating island itself was beginning to shake a little. So that was the cause of the quake? The island loosing focus due to the temporary gravity increase which noticeably slowly faded out with time? Ok, this was all unreal. Drek took no time to think, once the setting was calm for once outside of his mind, he let himself stand for a few moments. His fur through off a bright, somewhat thick of a blue light, forming those.. Wings, they seemed brighter, more luminescent than before, though. Within no time his eyes opened, Wings pushing down against the ground, completely throwing him up into air. His head was focused upwards, frown built upon his facials. On occasion he pushed against the gravity with his wings, bolting himself up higher into the air. From the ground, you could see his figure shrink and fade into the sky, though, his tail left a trail of still-burning cold-blue flames.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((02:03 - 02:23 E)) Silence. A few moments had passed by, no sign of Drek had been seen for those moments. Once he'd reached a good enough height, faaaar past the Island, which was slowly collapsing beneath itself, he'd span out his wings to slow himself down, coming to a stop. Away had the wings gone, sparking as if mini explosions were happening to each of the light cells until no more 'wings' could be seen. His though were lethal to himself. "Take this life - Make it yours!" Drek begun to free-fall towards the ground, but above the island. As speeds increased, he let flames engulf him: A fiery drop, trailing from his drop as a burning meteor would. From ground's view, a ball of fire could faintly be seen, growing with time as he approached.

ʬʬʬʬʬ As he'd gotten closer to the mountain, 'cracks' of light could be seen coming from it, brightest and strongest at the closest point to Drek. He slightly rolled so that his front paws where lowest. His eyes kept focus, the island was beginning to merely shatter. Only feet from touching the top, a strong shield shaped glow of light begun to grow bright as he'd impacted into the shattering island. As soon as the impact was done, flames stopped spewing out, leaving behind flames scattered above him, flames dying out with little time. The island begun to rumble, slowly beginning to take a fall. As for Drek, he took a hard fall of his own. With the strong hit to his front paws he let himself roll, causing him to be thrown off the edge and towards the land. Legs stretched out as he fell, the male took the impact to the land, body being thrown into a slide against the ground after being thrown back up once or twice from the impact. He'd tried to push himself back up on his paws, merely half way to the ground with his head down, panting as if he just ran multiple marathons.

ʬʬʬʬʬ He lifted his head up to look up to the island: Into a slow but heavy downfall it came, cracks weakening more as it fell to land, causing it to split in a few areas through the fall. It approached the land, getting closer and closer, but the closer it got, the faster it's fall was. With the strong impact the land took a big hit, quaking as if a bomb just went off. Pieces of rock, grass, dirt, land, you name it, it was all coming flying around, spreading. The island had impacted into part of the mountain. The hit was hard enough to cause it to go digging into the ground for a good distance. Some of the chunks of the island had been snapped into mere pebble piles from the impact, they were too small to take the hit.

ʬʬʬʬʬ ((Full Song PL)) Ground shook hard for a while, as while Drek begun to tremble himself.

ʬʬʬʬʬDrekentai HieloRey: "What am I..."

ʬʬʬʬʬ Even his voice was shaky. He dropped on the ground, trembling beneath himself with sealed shut eyes. He opened them to take a look at his paws, watched as he shook. Sheba, in the distance, had noticed the fall, taking a run for Drek, heading to him, trying to care for the fallen guardian.

ʬʬʬʬʬSheba Inu: "Your crazy you know that?! But not a monster.. Be thankful I came back here, but hell I could be crazy as well for coming back in this hell of a place."

ʬʬʬʬʬ He took out his claws, digging into the land. With still shaky paws, the male took a look ahead, his memory would once again haunt him for years to count from events. With a shaky voice, he spoke. "I.. I have to get out of here. Sorry, Sheba." It was his only temporary escape. He'd most likely have to return here, for it would soon be found as his home for what he now is. He struggled to hold himself up, He tried to run without falling, heading away, anywhere away from here. Through the run, he'd gone out of control. Wings were clouding in a ghostly manner, fading and re-showing, sparking out and lighting up. The male still hadn't had full control over his body.