Dare To Dance The Tide:: Pos

[morningstar]

Never before had she made such a stupid mistake. Not in all her 24 years of life. She'd always been so careful. So careful not do... well, this sort of stupid idiocy! Why now, you say? Her judgment must be slipping. Waning with the thoughts of warmth and summer.

Morningstar had just been wandering around. She knew it was a pack territory, but she couldn't bring herself to care at the moment. Sometimes, a Sennyo just wants to see a beach, y'know? Ah, but then she'd spotted the island, and the sandbar that reached out to it. Trouble was, it was a bit later in the day, and a few minutes after she'd lightly stepped to the island, the female had found herself stranded. The tide rolls in fast, it seems.

And now, it looked like a distant storm was rolling in. The sky was dark with clouds on the horizon, blocking good portions of the sun's light. And the wind was blowing; violently. The waves were getting higher and higher. Morningstar didn't want to be stuck out here all night with rain. She padded back to the end of the island and looked at the distance to the shore. It didn't look that far, maybe a dozen yards. None the less, Morningstar wasn't so good a swimmer in the first place, and this would be suicide.

But another thought of spending a lonely night out in the open on the small island made up her mind. She'd swim back to shore or die trying. She just hoped her wings wouldn't get torn. With a huff of air, she began her descent from the island into the water. It wasn't so bad at first. As long as she could still touch the bottom, and she'd slowly take it. Yes, almost there and...

"Achk!

A wave had crashed over her head and sent her tumbling into the point of no return. She came up for air, gasping and pawing frantically. There was the shore! Just had to make it! As she paddled though, things only seemed to get farther away. Was she even making any progress? Morningstar didn't know anymore, and exhaustion was quickly setting in. But then another large wave came tumbling down and washed her under. The Sennyo managed to claw her way back to the surface, only to see she was no longer facing land.

Where was it? Where was she? Turning her head, she saw nothing and she couldn't seem to turn around. It was then that she realized she was being carried farther out to sea. The violent sea where the waves were even bigger. "Help..." She called out weakly, doubtful that anyone would hear over the roar of the waves. She suddenly wished Erredor was here, even if he couldn't physically help her. Perhaps he would take her soul to the dream realm where she could live in peace forever... Even though a part of her knew that was impossible. Her eyes began to droop, and her paw paddles became even weaker. She was dimly sure she was going to drown.

[pc]

The ocean. Expansive, dark, and full of life. Fish flitted around the large, red, fleshy mass that appeared to be coral. That coral was NOT a fish, however. The Cael lay in wait as he was getting weak with hunger. He was facing upwards, towards the sky, waiting for a large fish to swim by. A storm was brewing, and he didn't need to be stranded.

A large green fish swam by PC, triggering his hunting reflex. His squid half flipped back to its normal state as PC impaled the fish. He reached down to grab the fish as the surrounding water turned a sickly shade of red, and he started eating the fish.

A bolt of lightning flashed down and hit the water, the force of the electricity slamming PC down into the reef. His fur rippled as the wind blew water across the sea, towards the shore. To his left, he suddenly spotted a large purple shape with wings. The shape kept bobbing up and down and getting pulled away from shore. PC watched to see if the figure would be okay.

PC choked on a piece of fish and the figure, which he now recognized as a Sennyo, feebly called out "Help..." He instantly dropped the fish and reached for the wolfs paws. He grabbed them with both hands and started pumping water out of his second mouth to push them towards shore. "Come on! Keep moving! Don't black out!" He yelled backwards to the she-wolf. A giant wave tumbled on top of them, dragging them under again.

PC looked around frantically. HE could breath under water, but she couldn't. In the rush of adrenaline, a memory flooded back to him. When he was little, learning to swim, He had found a cave that had a large air pocket in it. He swam forward and left, entering the tunnel towards the cave. He swam this way and that around the spikes that were called rocks. He rushed upwards and there was the cave.

He flung the Sennyo onto the beach and started pumping on her chest. On the fourth pump, turquoise water spewed out of her mouth and hit him in the face. His eyes closed and he retracted, clearly grossed out. He stared deeply into her chocolate eyes. "You really are quite beautiful, you know that?"

OOC: Daci let me Powerplay a little bit

[morningstar]

She was suddenly being tugged along by something. A Sea-monster? Morningstar thought weakly. She turned her head to see some tentacles pulling her through the water, towards land. Then, another wave crashed them under and she blacked out, swallowing a double lungful of water.

The next thing she woke up to involved a lot of spluttering, coughing, and a dim male voice speaking to her. She raised her head to look straight into the eyes of another wolf. A Cael, by the looks of his tentacley back half. So that's what was dragging me... Looking up at him again, she sighed. "You think so?" With a slight smile. Well, she'd just almost drowned and a Cael had saved her, and now all he thought to do was compliment on her looks? Wow, talk about living on the bright side.

Well, she was okay now, more or less. But she was stuck in some sort of cave, it seemed, and it looked like the only way out was via swim. She really didn't want to swim again. Dragging herself to her paws, the Sennyo stood and looked at the Cael. "Thanks... for saving me." She wheezed. Were in all hells was Erredor? Not thinking on it, she decided to compliment him back. "And your not bad looking yourself." Well, he did look nice.

It was a dream. A male had actually cared about her enough to save her from drowning, then instead of saying something like "you owe me big time for that!" or "you idiot, what the hell were you doing taking a swim during a storm?!" he'd complimented her on her looks. Well, surely there were few other surefire ways to a Sennyo's heart, but this was definitely a good one. He'd rescued her. He was a big, strong male and he'd rescued her.

The blue-faced purple Sennyo smiled at him. "My name's Morningstar. Yours?" Her antennae twitched a bit, flicking the water off of them. Morningstar loved his bravery. She had to know his name. She wanted to know his name. She wanted to feel his fur... against her own. It was then that Morningstar realized... she'd fallen in love.

[pc]

It hit him. The utter, forever-applying truth. He loved her, and there was no way to deny it, or doubt it, or get rid of it. They were perfect for each other, soulmates. His tenor voice rang out in the cave, as he said "I'm PC".