Pycon Paradise (Solo)

[Ariel]

26 Winter, 510 AV

Ariel was sitting on her kitten's saddle. She hadn't yet named it, and was still struggling between a few. The reigns were resting in her hands, and the pair were walking through several long blades of grass a few feet away from the emerald clan's lands. The sun was high in the sky, and there was only a light breeze coursing through the grass causing them to sway in a way that reminded Ariel of the sea. The air was crisp, and the scent of sweat and horses lingered in the air, carried to Ariel's nostrils by the breeze.

Ariel rode along, in a fairly straight line. She was still getting used to riding, after a life on her feet, or in people's pockets, or sitting on their shoulders. The experience was rather foreign to her, although, not something she necessarily saw as a bad one.

After awhile, Ariel pulled up hard on the reigns. "Whoa there!" she called to her furry friend, forcing it to stop as she dismounted by swinging her leg over the side of the saddle and hopping to the ground.

Ariel had forced her kitten to come to a rest in front of a large rock-like structure. The structure towered over her, at about two feet tall, and another three wide. The structure was a sand-like color, and closely resembled the one thing that gave the tiny pycon life: clay.

Upon closer inspection, (walking up to the mass and licking it), Ariel discovered that it was indeed what she had thought it was, a clay deposit. Ariel jumped up and down with joy, spreading her tiny arms out and practically hugging the massive clay deposit. She wasn't sure she had ever seen so much clay in one place in her entire five years of life.

Overwhelmed with both joy and excitement, Ariel's eyes started to sparkle as she ripped off tiny bits of clay with her hands, and began to shove the clay in her mouth, chewing loudly and quickly, before grabbing more and repeating the process. Chew, chew chew! More more more! Shove shove shove! Eat eat eat!

Ariel was so overjoyed, and busy stuffing her face with clay that she hadn't even noticed the shadows circling overhead. She hadn't heard the chirping of various Endrykas birds, or the soft flapping of their wings. She hadn't noticed anything other than when her mouth had run out of clay to chomp on.

By the time she did, however, it was too late, the birds were diving at her, and the clay, and all the poor pycon could do was scream at the birds to get away, and cover her head with her hands. Her kitten, which should be having a field day with all the birds around, was conveniently, no where in sight, lovely, she thought, as she yelled at the birds who for whatever reason, were eating small nibbles of her clay, or breaking off pieces and flying away with them.

Ariel straightened herself up when the tiny brown birds with black eyes and black beaks started to leave her alone and go after the clay deposit. She waved her tiny fists at them, and wished she were bigger so that they would all go away. "Hey, stop eating all my clay!" Ariel shouted, as she picked up a tiny pebble and threw it at one of the birds, it missed by a few inches, and quickly came crashing back down to earth, and all Ariel could do was stare in horror up at the birds, how could they take all that wonderful clay away from her?

OOCYes, this is yet another thread in which Ariel is both psycho, self-absorbed, and completely insane =)

[Ariel]

Ariel took a few steps toward the clay deposit, and touched the bottom with her tiny clay hands. Surely there was a way for her to get rid of all those pesky birds. That way, she could have all of the clay for herself, she thought, as she looked up at the sky. The tiny brown birds were circling the mound of clay, and still, her kitten was no where in sight. Ariel sighed. "Why is it that I must always do everything myself?" Ariel muttered.

Perhaps it would be easier for her to fight them off if she managed to climb on top of the clay deposit, Ariel thought, as she looked around the relatively smooth surface for any sort of unevenness in the clay that may serve her as a sort of footrest. Ariel looked up and down the clay deposit, circling it a few times, trying to plan her ascension to the top of the deposit. Ariel felt as though she were trying to climb a mountain. The task seemed rather hopeless, considering how smooth the deposit was, Ariel wasn't sure just what she would do.

Ariel looked around, wishing that she hadn't wrecked her eating knife, because then she could simply carve footrests into the deposit. Wait, a minute, a tiny candle lit up over Ariel's head, as she looked back up at the deposit. She could always rip off small sections of the clay to make footrests, the clay was soft enough after all.

Ariel bent down a bit, and scooped off a small portion of clay from the deposit with her hands. The clay was slightly warm, and a little sticky. She took a bite out of it, before tossing the remaining portion on the ground. Ariel stuck her foot in the hole she had just made, it was a perfect fit for her foot. Ariel removed her foot, planted it back on the ground, before straightening up again, and making another little hole a little higher than the first one. Ariel then placed her foot in the first hole, and then the other in the second, her body was now wrapped around the deposit, as her hand reached up and dug out another little foot hole, the clay falling to the ground over her shoulder. Ariel grabbed the new hole with her hands, and pulled herself farther up the deposit, before making a new hole, and another and another, eventually, she reached a point where she was hovering about 6 inches off of the ground.

Ariel's hands were resting in her latest foot-hole, her feet had lost their footing, and she was dangling against the deposit, as the wind blew past her, forcing her body to sway, and nearly lose its hold. The birds were chirping ominously above her, and pecking at the top of the deposit, presumably trying to get more for themselves. Ariel grumbled, "stupid birds." As her fingers started to slip, having lost her concentration, and most of her strength during her valiant effort to reach the top of the clay mountain, Ariel fell to the ground. She landed on her back with a low thud. Her wings had flattened beneath her, her eyes were shut tight, and her head was seriously starting to hurt. Ariel was thankful her kind didn't bleed, or truly bruise, because she would have made a really mess. The birds were still chipping away at the clay, while others were circling the deposit, they seemed to be laughing at her and her misfortune. Ariel lazily, shakily, rose her right fist into the air, she shook it slightly, as she shouted, "I will not be defeated!" into the air, as her hand fell to the ground.

Ariel sat up, rubbed the back of her head with her hand. "Oww," she muttered, closing her right eye tightly while the other remained open. "Now where did that cat go?" she questioned the air, "he would be so helpful right about now." Ariel got to her feet slowly. The ground was spinning around her and her head was pounding. Ariel shook it, as though she were saying, 'no no no!" trying to get the feeling to pass. It took a few minutes, but it finally did, and Ariel stared angrily up at the birds who seemed to be mocking her. "You know, I don't think you'd do that if my kitten was around!" Ariel hollered as she folded her arms over her chest. She would have to find another way to defeat those evil brown birdies.

[Ariel]

But what else could she do? Ariel wondered, as she looked up at the sky, as though it held all the answers. Several fluffy white clouds were suspended in the light blue expanse, hundreds upon thousands of miles above Ariel's head. Looking up at it just made Ariel feel so tiny, even tinier than usual. Ariel sighed, and looked down at the ground below her feet again. At least looking down didn't make her feel so small and insignificant, she thought.

The birds were still chirping around her, swooping into the clay deposit before picking a small portion of it off and flapping away. Ariel would have to think fast, or their would be no clay left for her, and that surely wouldn't go over well with the pycon.

Ariel scratched her chin, with the fingers of her right hand, and muttered the word, "hmmmm... hmmmm..." over and over. Ariel was stroking her imaginary clay beard and thinking deeply. What to do, what to do, she wondered, as she began to tap her foot on the ground, as if willing ideas up and out of the dirt beneath her feet. She definitely didn't want to try climbing up the deposit again, falling down once was more than enough for a single day. Her kitten was still among the missing, and she was short on supplies. Unless the pebbles, blades of grass, and dirt that surrounded her, or clay deposit itself could be considered useful. Ariel doubted it. She sighed heavily, as she bent over and picked up another small pebble and tossed it half-heartedly at one of the birds. The pebble missed by a few inches, and quickly came crashing back down to earth. It made a low thud on impact.

"What a surprise..." Ariel mumbled, as she picked up the same pebble, and thew it more forcibly this time, since she was starting to grow more and more frustrated by the minute, the red pigmentation in her cheeks becoming more and more prominent. "Get away from my clay you stupid birdies!" Ariel hollered as she watched the pebble soar through the air, and hit one of the bird's in its left wing. A single light brown feather broke off of the wing, and fell to the ground. It danced in the wind, swaying lightly on the wind, as though it were weightless, before landing on the ground to Ariel's right.

The bird that Ariel had hit seemed shocked, but only for a mere moment, as it quickened the pace at which it flapped its wings, before diving into the clay deposit, ripping off a piece, and flying away. Ariel grumbled, her tiny clay hands balling into fists, her eyes turning into tiny daggers as she grit her teeth and mumbled, "stupid no good birdies eating all the clay... stupid..." as the pebble she had thrown hit her on the head, and she fell back on her butt, the world going temporarily black.

[Ariel]

Ariel awoke what she assumed to be a few minutes later, judging by how high the sun had gotten in the sky. It was shining brightly down upon her, but her view was obscured by her kitten's ears. The kitten was standing over her, licking Ariel's forehead with its sand-papery tongue. Its nose was sniffing her face, and its breath was hot. The kitten's eyes were wide, and its head was tilted slightly to the side, as it leaned down and licked her forehead again. A thin line of saliva lingered on the upper portion of her face. Ariel laughed, and wiped it away with the back of her hand. "Well hello to you too," Ariel muttered, as she sat up and patted the kitten's nose with her right hand.

The kitten blinked, and retracted his head a bit. A few beads of blood lingered on the kitten's whiskers, and a strong metallic smell soon filled Ariel's nostrils. The birds were silent, and only one still lingered atop the clay deposit. A half-eaten brown bird carcass lay a few inches away from Ariel, to her left. Blood was trickling down its ruffled feathers. Its wings were spread open, against the ground. They were caked in blood. Ariel smiled, and looked up at the kitten, patting its nose again.

"Now you get rid of the nasty birdies," Ariel laughed, as she got up.

"That will show you!" Ariel hollered at the remaining bird atop the clay deposit, she was shaking her fist as the kitten mewed up at the bird. The bird chirped once before flapping away. The kitten mewed some more as it left.

Ariel rubbed her head with her right hand, it was still sore, but at least she had taken control of the clay mountain. Now she had the clay all to herself, Ariel thought as she approached the clay deposit, and ripped off several pieces. She threw a few into her mouth, and chewed, before taking more and placing a small portion into the kitten's tiny saddle bags for later.

Ariel then put her tiny clay foot in the stirrup, and swung her leg over the saddle. She sat up straight in the saddle, and gripped the leather reigns in her tiny clay hands. She kicked the kitten with her legs, and called "lets go!" to it. The kitten reluctantly began to move forward, and the two rode away from the clay deposit, stepping over the tiny bird carcass on their way. Ariel would have to remember where the deposit was for later.

[Mixcoatl]

The Lord of the Hunt is Pleased! The Lord of the Hunt showers you with gifts in joyous celebration! Ariel Experience +3 Weapon: Pebble +2 Climbing +1 Riding (Kittens) Lore The Feeling of Riding Eating your Fill Being Laughed At By Birds Determination Looking At the Corpses of Thine Enemies Additional Notes: There, now you're not defenseless. Cute thread! You know the drill. PM me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!