I'm not crazy, am I? (OPEN)

[Velnias]

Babydoll

Some of them want to use you...

”They’re coming for me…Oh GODS, NO! NOT my sister, YOU THIEF! MURDERER!!!” I spat blindly, my head thrashing. ”Eloise, NOOO!!! Wake up! Wake up…wake up…” The ground came at me faster than I could stop it and my body, limber and weak, was unprepared for the blow. My face scraped across the hard dirt, and I rolled onto my side. Legs kicking blindly in the air, I skidded down a slope and tried to scrape my front hooves across the dirt, clawing, desperate to find some purchase on the steep slope. But I found nothing, could see nothing, my eyes were closed, and I had no strength to open them. When my body finally came to rest on level ground at the base of the rocky hill, I began to struggle. I groaned with exhaustion and the fresh pain I’d inflicted on myself from the fall. Wearily I put weight on my forelegs so I could sit up. I swayed there, and the world of darkness spun around me. I felt my eyes sink open and the living world at night was even more foreign to me than the backs of my eyelids. ”Ohhh……where am I? I must get away…must stop him,” I muttered, letting my head fall forward. My flank rested on the ground and my splayed forelegs bore the entire weight of my upper body. I was sure my ribs showed through my sides, and my shoulder blades showed through my withers, and my neck and face were gaunt and pale. The dark shading around my eyes was always there, as well as around my mouth, which was the same as my legs, hooves, and hair. Otherwise I would be pale ghostly white.

Mother used to call me Babydoll. Now Mother was dead. Eloise was dead. I was the last one left, and he was out to kill me. My struggle was so real, so every day, that I couldn’t escape. I hardly slept, only walked and ran and fell and got back up again. I couldn’t let myself stop. With the moonlight on my back I felt naked and exposed. My skin was beautiful and stretched thin over my slender body, and it had grown tough though my coat was always silky white. I’d fallen so many times that I was used to the sting, used to the blood that rarely ever came. In my body I had little to spare, less to bleed. I felt hopeless and full of my despair.

Lifting my serene head to the sky I pleaded with it. I begged. Tears streaked my face. ”Oh, stop him…save her…he’s the one who—who did it, not me…please,” I struggled to stand but my legs wouldn’t listen to me and instead fed me with a new shot of pain that made my blood boil and my face tingle and my vision go fuzzy. I was certain by now I had broken something. ”Oh, please, gods, no, they’re going to use me…going to…to…” I felt my knees buckle and fall to the earth. My eyes squeezed shut, my head hung swaying in the air. I felt it fall in slow motion to the ground, and felt the cool soil on my check, a dull, insensitive touch. ”I can’t, I can’t…stop,” I whispered. My whispers faded to nothing, and I succumbed to blackness.

And some of them want to be used by you...

OOC - that......was so much fun. I'm a twisted mind, yes I know....

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I Can Take It All Back
[shadow=red,left,300]Cody[/shadow]

My eyes blinked. I ran down the hill side running from what ever shadow would catch me. I saw a few horses, scared of them i ran faster. My heart beated as i saw another horse laying there..I couldn't see much through my black eye but i knew it was a mare. In pain and left, I was named I could take it all back for only one reason...my mother was forced. She hated me!!! My dad tried to forgive his bad deeds but noooo no one listened!! No one did!!Ugh, why am i even here? Then it struck me... There was a mare in frount of me..in pain and i once beaten had the same story. This was some thing that needed a ending, it dint have to be happy, just a good old story. I tripped as i jumped into a canter soaring down the hill. I was about 7 feet away from her when i asked. " Are you ok? I blinked, waiting.

[Velnias]

Babydoll

Some of them want to use you...

I dreamed about Eloise, and about the blood matting her mane. I dreamed of his evil grin, full of greed. Full of rage. Full of lust. I dreamed of her cries of terror, and his shrieking screams that came to my ears like adrenaline to my brain. I hadn't meant to hurt him, I didn't want to hurt anyone! But it had felt good. I had relished in his pain and torture. But I'd learned my mind couldn't be controlled; I couldn't even control it myself. It would have killed me to take a life, even that of the filthy slime that was my step-father. I'd run away that night, run and run and hadn't stopped. Leaving my sister's body at the mercy of him.

When I woke up, I screamed and the sound ricocheted in the gulley. "GETAWAYFROMME!!!" I couldn't see straight but I could see a horse standing in front of me, his figure looking huge over my broken body on the ground, his eyes dark to my blurred vision, and his voice raspy, my ears just catching it. His smell was that of a stallion, pungent, rank, ominous...no, no, he couldn't have found me! Not now! Nooooo!!! I tossed my head, my legs scrambled under me, and I finally heaved myself up from the ground. My hind legs quivered and my head throbbed but I couldn't stop. I had to get away! Just as my vision was beginning to clear, I caught myself in time to stop from stumbling over a loose stone underfoot. I jerked sideways, tendrils of smoky black mane flying away from my ghostly pale neck.

I felt my bones trembling and I tried to find ground, letting my small hooves pound out a galloping beat. I'd gone no farther than mere strides when I lost footing again and plummeted to the earth. Dazed, my voice fell to a hoarse whisper as I swung my head around, trying to stand again and face my newest enemy. Some kind of warm liquid dripped down my cheeks, but I couldn't be certain if it was blood or tears. "Stop chasing me...leave me alone, oh, please, tell me she's alive," I began pleading senselessly. As I struggled to stand I felt a quiver in my voice, my legs trembling under my slim frame, and I knew that if these limber legs struggled to hold me up I must be in complete and utter shock, because my oveall weight was little to nothing. My body was a streamlined shape of little muscle, of mere pale flesh on bone with a sort of haunting glow to it, and the dark parts of my skin were dark and gave my eyes an even blacker, eyen more ndless and piercing effect as they bore into the horse's skull. He wasn't large; or medium or small stature. But I clamped my mouth shut, straightening my jaw, and I caught my breath in my heaving chest as my sight ceared up.

Finally I saw only one of him, not two or for blurry representations, and my eyes narrowed. In the moonlight I assumed I hadn't been out for any more than a few hours and the glow of the sky made my coat luminescent, made my face look angelic and refined, as I was. A stray lock of many fell across my cheek and I raised my head to meet his with a level stare. "Leave me..." I hissed, but couldn't cover the smooth sweetness of my alluring voice. And yet as I said this I focused on him, his face, his frame, and then I thought about a hing that utterly surprised me. When he moves at me, I thought to myself, at least I'll know the quickest way to cut him off at the neck.

And some of them want to be used by you...

OOC - poor Babydoll, she's really sweet at heart <3

[Velnias]

OOC - You need to make this post more than 100 words NOT including OOC; as this is the word limit. I'll reply when you finish.

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I Can Take It All Back

My long mane curled around me making me sweat. What had happened? I looked at my self. Blinking i looked at the mare, so sweet..but only ripped apart. I herd her words, fierce and stabbing. What had i done wrong? This was a mistake, i had fear but of course i had never seen this mare before, and i am not stupid. Sighing i looked at her searching for words to say.


5 minutes later i was standing there still thinking. This most of turned the tides i could see her mercy. Taking a step closer i thought of the way life was. I had no story to tell for i can;t make the past the presant. Looking at her i knew i had to say some thing, time was running out. What did i mean by that? Well a saw a distance figure of another horse..yes i did. That must be the horse she was talking about. So i spoke. What do you mean? I'm cody and i came here because you were hurt.

[Velnias]

Babydoll

Some of them want to use you...

"You don't understand." I growled the words at him and they hissed through my teeth. My voice broke at the end as I left my eyes from locking onto his gaze and they started shifting around, looking in the trees. They studied every dark shadow in the whispering night, my ears catching every hint of the wind's scratching on the trees and in the branches. My ears hardly caught the sound of his voice; it was not important to me. My senses were in tune to nature, the creeping night, every shrapnel of bare leaf on the ground or sparse twig of grass seeming as though watching me with unseen eyes, an the night was too silent as it did so. The skin crawled up my back. My eyes never missed anything; for a brief second they caught a shadow, moving in the trees.

The shadow was invisible to the naked eye. My eye caught it because it did not move, while the rest o the forest moved and swayed in the nighttime breeze. I blinked; it was gone. I was so struck ith fright that my legs locked like stone pillars, trying to scramble backwards, out of my skin, away from the trees and out of the narrow gulley I'd trapped myself in. Because all around me the trees rose up except for the bare rocky hill I'd just thrown myself down. And while my body froze and my mouth fell open my legs turned to jelly and I couldn't control them. Cody was part of the scenery; a blur in the night. A shriek was born in my throat but I silenced it, the sound erupting as a mere hoarse yell.

"If you want to help me," I said, "Then help me!" I looked at him desperately. The shadow began to move in the trees. It drew near the edge of the trees. I heard its feet on the pine needles. And then my blood began to boil. It was starting again. But this time, I let the anger flood over me. I fixed my eyes upon the spot where the thing of an undefined shape - whatever it was - and a rumbling shook the ground. The figure paused. The ground exploded from under its feet and bits of transparent air separated into tiny shreds, flung all over everywhere as part of the shower of earth that rained around us. My eyes were cold and quiet, but wide open. "Stay away from me," I hissed in a frightful voice. I began to slink back into the shadows and began to run. Would he follow me? I dearly hoped not; I wouldn't have him slowing me down and they wouldn't have him in between them and my capture.

And some of them want to be used by you...

OOC - sorry for not posting very quickly.

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I Can Take It All Back

Cody snorted, having an idea of what was happening. The shadow came closer, stalking deeply in the hidden shadows of the forest. Cody reared letting out a fierce and loud neigh to the shadow. Pinning his ears back. Now he had to help the mare, which in case there were a few tings he could use. He cantered over to a small leafy plant. He grabbed some, then headed for the tree. Under it lay some flowers, he picked them and made juice out of it. Then walking to the mare, he smathered it on. "It may sting, but it will help." He whispered. The shadow seamed daring, more fierce. Cody sniffed the air, he couldn't make the sent out, but it strong.

[Velnias]

Babydoll

Some of them want to use you...

I collapsed on the ground, my tireless legs stumbling over the rocky soil. I couldn't keep myself up any longer and my feeble weight swayed in the wind. It nearly knocked me over more than once. My legs kept carrying on, though, until they could go no farther. It was at that point that a depressed sigh escaped from my lips, blanched pale with exhaustion and the silver moonlight's glare. I thought I saw streaks of red on the horizon though, just barely there in the black of night. My eyes were too weary to stay open. My stalker for now, was dead. I'd killed the standing dark, transparent thing in the forest. I thought I'd felt its blood on my face. Btut I'd fled too quickly and in too much rage and anxiety to register any feeling beyond the faint kick of adrenaline in my blood.

When my eyes fluttered open, the purple and red streaks of dawn were unmistakable. And the stallion's scent was also staunch in my nose. I flared my nostrils, instantly alert again and flinging my head up, I was met with that familiar spinning sensation. I splayed my forelegs, balancing my vision again, and when it stopped catapulting I got a clear view of the horse. He was doing something with some leaves and a strong aroma drifted from them. It made me perk up my ears and focus my gaze on the source. He brought it to me and I flashed my teeth in warning but was too tired to resist his attentions. I'd been taught against all that he was doing. That it was a girl's job to tend to her stallion, a girl's job to care for and dote over her guardian or master. Never had I had a stallion show some kind of kind gesture towards me. And still I did not trust him. But my head, feeling hollow with air and lack of hydration, fell hollowly back to earth. I grunted with the small impact and clenched my jaw. But closing my eyes again made the pain lessen.

I would've thanked him but my body simply began shutting down. I fell into a deep sleep, knowing that from the dull, growing ache in my head it was water I needed, not rest. And I couldn't afford to rest very long, but my body couldn't help it. When the red lit up the sky an hour later, almost, a cold draft of morning air shook me awake. Cody stood over me still, guarding me like a wolf over its prey. A wolf... I shook the thought away. Behind him I struggled to my four hooves and stood there, balancing myself. My limp silvery-dark grey mane fell over the sides of my neck, and my thin limbs just barely supported my slim figure. But there was the sound of water moving ahead. I led Cody with awkward but graceful steps, and once we found the stream it was a welcome sight. I lowered my muzzle to drink and as soon as the cold water slipped down my raw throat I forgot Cody, if only for a moment. When I faced reality again and let me body adjust to the morning light, there he was, still with me. "I still smell things," I warned him, my ears flicking around warily and a hint of a crazed look in my eyes when they rolledto look at him. I shifted on my hooves, showing him I was in a hurry. "Do you smell anything?"

And some of them want to be used by you...

OOC - that slipped out pretty easily--sorry for making you wait so long!

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I Can Take It All Back

wait for it....

Cody was there all along, he was ready. For the shadow he didn't know. He thought she would never wake up but with the help off a few unknown things he ahd made it this far. He seemed to the mare like a shadow, a ghost...A helping ghost...Cody looked at her. At him. At the shadow. A few hours had passed and now the streaks of sun light circled the horrizen. Cody followed her like a puppy dog to the river. He was aware. Ready. Silent...The wind seamed endless. He sniffed the air looking around.

Before he knew it he could here the trickle of water from the silent forest. No shadow. He still smelled it. But were was it? He looked at her still watching....He heard words, but he wasn't listening...he smelled it...he heard it...but he didn't see it."What?" He said his ears twitching. Cody blinked the forest around him seemed to fail..."I smell it.." Cody said the world became fuzzy and soft. He had no idea what was happening. A wolf? No there was no rip of claws or a howl of victory. A human? No..no rope or yell no pound off hooves...He did hear hooves, wild hooves...and there he knew the shadow was real.

OOC- That was fun to write! And don't worry about it.