by Green Plumb » Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:56 pm
Username: Green Plumb
Vaerro's name: Anáptoa (or Aná for short) Based off of the greek word ανάπτω, (or anápto̱ in phonetic english), meaning kindle.
Vaerro's gender: Female
Vaerro's story (must be at least one paragraph):
Ana stared at the flickering toungues of flame dancing freely before her eyes. The warm light sent her spine tingling and the intricate metal fire basket holding this natural wonder flashing with sparks. Pricking her four warm brown, velvety ears in sync, she scanned the comfy little obsidian den she called home for any sign of another vaerro, including her busy mother.
All clear. Proceed with mission, agent Ana.
Ana smiled to herself. She loved to pretend she was a spy ever since her ever-traveling father had told her one of his many stories of the outside world. She swished her tail happily at the thought; her father's few story evenings were precious events to her, even held in comparison to the flame festival. Taking one last quick glance at the entryway, Ana turned her gleaming eyes to the dancing colors in front of her. Reaching out a trembling paw, she tensed, awaiting the searing, blistering heat lap her. Her fur flattened to her sides, ears clung back, her tail quivering, her face and eyes screwed up in anticipation as she slid her paw forward ever so carefully.
Forward...
Forward...
Forrrrwarrrrd....
Why is it not hurting? I'm probably just not there yet.
Ana's mother would never let her try anything like this. The pain of royal fire was so intense that a grown vaerro would run for mama, yelping with his tail stuck under his legs at the touch of the smallest spark.
Ana didn't care.
She wanted to know.
Know if she was a ...
There was a screech from the doorway as a very surprised vaerro dropped something on the floor with a big CLANG!
Ana jumped and opened her eyes.
Cover blown! Awaiting instructions from base! She thought frantically as she saw the confused/furious eyes of her mother.
"Anáptoa! What in the name of Pyross do you think you're doing?!?!" her mother screeched as she rocketed accross the den, bowling Ana away from the fire basket.
Ana, her pelt ruffled, answered solomnly, "Seeing weather or not I'm a -"
"Anáptoa! I told you once, I told you a thousand times! Never, ever, ever touch royal fire! You could get yourself killed! I-"
Ana's mother cut herself off, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.
Wow! I've never seen her like this! Ana thought. She instantly regretted her daring stunt. I... she thinks I could have killed myself.
Walking over to her mother, Ana whispered, "I'm sorry, Mama. I... I just wanted to be a Pyrpaw. I know that there's almost no one like that any more, but I just had to try! I had to! Fire... it's not just fire to me, mama. It's a living, breathing, fantastic creature, just like you and me! I just had to know if I... if I... was capable of controlling something that powerful."
Ana looked down at the cave floor and sat on the cold, hard obsidian.
"I'm so sorry. I understand if you're mad at me, mama."
Ana's mother flicked her daughter's forehead with her bushy black tail.
"No, Ana. I'm the one who's sorry."
Ana looked up, curious and a little surprised.
"You are, mama?"
Her mother didn't reply. Instead, she stood and padded over to the back of the cave, beckoning with her tail for Ana to follow. Ana scampered after her mother, excited and a little wary.
Ana's mother sat in front of the back wall, smiling down at her little, ambitious, beautiful, intelegent ball of fire. Anáptoa. Her mate had chosen the perfect name to suit her.
So much like her father. So much, but could she... ?
Ana cocked her head. "Why did we come over here, mama?"
Ana's mother smiled. "Watch."
Then, Ana's mother slid out her claws and traced a small square in the obsidian wall. The thin line that followed in her wake glowed like ink made from molten embers. When the ends of the square met, Ana's mother took her paw away from the wall and watched calmly as the chunk fell away from the obsidian, leaving a little square indent about two inches deep.
Ana stood there, gaping. Her mouth hung open and her eyes were huge.
Not at the fact that her mother had just torched a secret hiding place in the wall using only her claw; that was small in comparison to what she was gaping at now. At what was inside the hiding place.
At a Pyrpaw amulet.
It glowed and pulsed, shimmering with more energy than one could imagine. It looked mostly like a normal coal; the black surface alive with firey streaks. But Ana knew by the color of light this phenomenon was emitting that it was certainly, most definitley not a regular coal. Instead of white or yellow, orange or red, a light so rich and thick that it could have been liquid gold seeped out of it and bathed the whole room.
“Ana. This is something I should have showed you long ago.”
Ana looked up at her mother, who was staring at the amulet.
“Your father is a Pyrpaw.”
Ana nearly choked in disbelief. “You mean… the… the last Pyrpaw? It was … it’s Papa?”
Ana’s mother looked down at her. Ana couldn’t read her expression.
“Yes, dear. But he is no longer one. He asked great and mighty Pyross to retire his powers.”
“But… why?”
“He found it very hard to be so … different. He wanted to be a normal vaerro, even though he had the power of all the fire in the world.”
Ana thought about this, and decided that her sensible father did the right thing if he was happy. But she couldn’t get one question off her mind.
“But… if his powers have been retired, does that mean… does that mean that there are no more Pyrpaws? Ever?”
Ana’s mother smiled down at her.
“No. There still might be one left.”
Ana bouced around excitedly. “Who? Who? Thyron? Glonor? Flame? Coal? Shala? Do we know them?
Ana’s mother smiled again. “Of course we know them.”
Ana sat down hard with a look of concentration on her face.
“Athend?”
“No.”
“Larysa? Orden?”
“No and no.”
Ana sighed and looked up at her mother. “Is it someone who’s so old they’re almost dead? ‘Cause I want to meet them before they are!” She wailed exasperatedly.
Ana’s mother laughed. “No, my sweet. You’re thinking too hard and too far! The vaerro who might very well be the last Pyrpaw is sitting right in front of me.”
WIP! Please tell me when you're going to decide on the owner, Scout! I really want to finish this! ^^
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~Greenie
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Green Plumb on Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:31 am, edited 2 times in total.