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Adapt or perish: Sevival of the fittest.

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Anonymous:
The wind was strong today, and thick with the sickly haze that few ever dared to venture out in. The barron ground is dry and cracked. What parts of it that weren't solid rock crumbled to powder under the clawed feet of a reptilian creature who moved swiftly across the empty expance known as the Wastlands. What trail the creatur left in it's passing was soon blown away, leaving scarcely any sign it had ever been there. This eight foot tall creature was a Darrka Beast, a resident of the Wastlands, rare and scarcely seen. Remnants of an ancient speicies once though to be extinct, but mutated with time by the detructive ways of human kind. Part reptile, part bird, and part mamale, adapted for a life in a land where few else can servive.

This particular Darkka Beast however, was not alone. His name is Tornak, and is the companion of another Wastland dweller. Haruka sat securely on the back of the running darkka. He wore a special saddle she had designed and made herself to hold both her and whatever suplies they carried. Haruka, though she looks human, is actuly a mutant herself, as she lives out in the open even in the worst of conditions. She uses a mask only to guard her face against the blowing winds and dust. Also so any human she rarely crosses paths with will not think her anything other than one of them. Without it they might get suspicious of her, its happened before. It was both her fourtune and her curse that few so-called normal humans ever dared to wander far from their protected cities and dwellings on foot. Most humans seemed to dislike mutants, especially any mutants who lived out here. Dispite how much they may actually may be related.

Haruka pulls the raines, bringing Tornak to a halt at the edge of a ridge over looking a vast plane that spread out flat below them. The city of Teinar, or what was left of it, was somewhere off in the distance, but couldn't be seen from here. She had seen people come and go from the ruins many times, and asumed that at least some must still be living there. She rarely wandered that close to them though. Haruka was smart enough to know that they didn't want to be found, so she kept her disance. Except when her curriosity got the better of her. Today however, this was about as close as they would get.

There wasn't much there for her and Tornak. The only reason she ever bothered with traveling that far in the first place was to see what the humans might have done lately. On occation her venture would yeild an item of intrest that was dropped by someone traveling from one of their settlements to another. She had quite a collection, though she never let herself be seen by them, if she could help it, as she scavenged along their roads for the latest finds. It's not that she was afraid of them, its just the less they know the quietter. All things considered it was just better this way. At least, that is what she tried to make herself believe.

Anonymous:
A heavily hooded figure with a staff clasped tightly in a gloved hand limped across the wasteland. The figure was perhaps five feet tall at most, the black cloak masking most of her features. Her dress could be seen at the bottom of the cloak, a worn, hand woven brown fabric that reached all the way past her ankles, though it was a little on the tattered side. She seemed out of place, as if she had walked out of a history book, which wouldn't have been so far from the truth actually. Magic. Never anger a dark mage, particularly a mage who is a known murderer.

She paused in her limping walk to cough, though by it's muffled sound, it was likely she had a mask of some kind herself under that hood. No skin was exposed to the sun, but she had always been fair skinned, and the sun was harsh, not to mention the toxic air that could potentially soak into her sensitive skin. No, best to avoid it all.

She looked over the side of the mountain. There was supposed to be an entrance, but she didn't see a way in. Her eye was drawn to the horse. How had she missed that? Her reaction was to drop to her knees and look very meek and humble and hope the noble on the horse would simply pass her by-- or possibly toss her into the caves. That would be helpful, especially as she was starting to feel rather light headed.

Anonymous:
Tornak lifted his head catching the sent of someone, or something, nearby. His senses are quite strong, and rarely wrong, so when he said something was out there you could be sure there was. Haruka never ignored his warnings. Shifting in the saddle she turns, looking for whatever the beast had picked up. Several yards off a cloked figure seemed to be wandering in their general direction, though it it didn't look as if the person had yet seen Haruka and the darkka she road. Keeping Tornak still she waited, hoping the traveler wouldn't notice them. At first it seemed they hadn't, but then the figure's searching gaze fell apon them. Unsure whether or not to approach she only watched as the stranger fell to the ground.

Tornak's reptilian gaze eyed the unknown person with an intense stare, like a wolf eyeing a deer. She knew he wouldn't eat a human, if this person was in fact human, but it hurt to let the stranger think he might. Just incase they were unfriendly. Haruka pushed forward a few strides to get a closer look, but still kept a safe distance between them and the stranger. Raising her arm she attempts a greeting...

((Tornak: aka Darkka Beast. Just so you know. lol))

Anonymous:
Louhi had not even noticed the creature on the mount wasn't human, but with it's guesture of greeting, she allowed her lavender eyes to shift up to look it over, though most of her face was hidden in shadow. "I...I beg your parden if I have tresspassed on you lands" She said hardly above a whisper. She was actually less scared because of the reptilian appearance than she would have been had it been a human on a horse. Her eyes swept to the mountain side again, hoping for some glimpse of an opening. Someone had told her it was here.

((sorry, I misread the post earlier. I thought she was watching the darkka beast, and riding a horse))

Anonymous:
Getting a responce from the seemingly lost woman, Haruka lifts her mask just slightly to speek. "Do you search for something here?" She asks in a somewhat suspicious but fully human voice. Though she says nothing as to whether or not she owned the land. She didn't, by any human laws, own land. Here or elsewhere. She mearly traveled where she wished, but there was no reason that this stranger needed to know this.


({Tis ok, cant say I haven't done it myself on more than one occasion. You can read my info on Darkkas in my char profile if you want, I made the up myself. The pic is actually a species of bird-like dinosaur thats is only around 16 inches tall, lol. But for here they are 8 feet. ^_^ })

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