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C E R E S
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i. ☂ . ii. ceres ; named after the greek godess of growing plants and motherly relationsh
ips. iii. masculine female iv. 500 w, 2,841 ch
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Xia: Go chihuahua crazy on this kalon. Who does she think she is ??

Much to the party's disapproval, you decide to start squirming around and barking at the s
triking brown kalon. Adrenaline pumps through your veins, and fear above all outrules it.
You try not to show, though, which ends up coming out as frustration.

Xia Nuyen: Let us go ! Theo can hardly stand heights and Ol
lie's already chewing thorns! ( Stop that, dude. Disgusting. )
???: You don't understand. I'm protecting you. Who ar
e you anyways?
Xia Nuyen: Same could be asked for you ! What gives you t
he right to capture us?

They fiddle around nervously, glancing back and fourth with those.. Lightning-like eyes. S
omething tells you that they're not doing this to harm you, but that's just a thought to be
pushed back. You're the leader here !

Ollie: Stop munching on those thistles, calm down Xia,
and try to consult the mountain dew kalon.

Hey, they do look like they've had some hardcore mountain dew. You've tried to get your t
ongue that green but failed countless times. Sick tricks.

Ollie Dubois: X, calm down and listen. If they-
???: She.
Ollie Dobois: Okay, she- wanted to kill us, she would've by n
ow. I mean, I'm not the brains of the group and I know that !
Xia Nuyen: Ok, ok. You've managed to convince me. So, my
sterious kalnapper, what exactly do we not understand ?

You stare at your pink friend a bit more and only imagine what defensive tactics she's thin
king up now. Looking to your right, you see your fish-like friend in some sort of trance, th
inking things through. A thorn jabs at your shoulder. A far-off coyote howls, and an owl ho
ots. Other than that, the night wasn't much of an eerie setting.

???: I've experienced the things out there and I don't want a
nyone else to feel like that. It messes with your head so much. Please, don't go. You can s
tay with me in my cabin.
Theodosia Arethousa: I think I've got this down !
???: .. What down ??
Theodosia Arethousa: Oh, please set us down first. You can
jab Xia if she tries to run. ( Don't mess this up, Nuyen. )

Theodosia: Finally open up about what was happening in your
head.

Being the brains of this party is like being the tallest gnome. It takes a lot to think of a so
lution for these two, especially in a predicament like this one. You try to reason with the
motherly kalon.

Theodosia Arethousa: Listen, we're adventurers. Ollie's a lo
cal merchant, Xia's a warrior, and I'm a Scout. Our jobs are to find out what is happening
to our kingdom; which aren't particularly good events, might I imply. If you don't let us g
o now, we won't be closer to our goal.
Theodosia Arethousa: You aren't the villian, right?
???: ...

You knew those words would stump her. Glancing over at your friends, approval is written
all over their faces.

???: Fine. But please be careful. It gets worse and worse.
Ceres: Also, my name is Ceres.

[koegami]

;A;

[Goddess Sword]

Username: Bill Ciforce
Name: Acacia
Gender: Female
How did you escape?:
Fay and Galena seemingly hadn't learned their lesson from the encounter with that fairy a few days prior. Stepping off the trail for just a moment, they and Ramey suddenly found themselves encased in thorny plantlife, wrapped up in a net of thick vines.
"Tory, what the heck was that for?!" Fay yelled, having nearly been skewered on a large thorn.
"This isn't my doing! Why did you stray from the path again?!"
"I regret everything," Galena groaned.
From the branch of a tree above them, a voice spoke. "Well, well, well. Somebody didn't watch their step." A Kalon lay draped across the thick branch, eyes cold and yet seemingly amused by their plights.
"Hey!" Fay called, looking up. "Is this your trap?"
The stranger shrugged. 'Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Why do you ask?"
"Could you let us down?"
She laughed. "And why should I do that?"
"...Because Tory has magic and could totally wreck you?" she suggested.
"Pfff. Okay, sure. And I'm secretly a dragon."
Fay nudged Ramey as best she could, which wasn't much at all. "Tory," she whispered. "Dude, do some fire stuff or something."
"And get us all burnt to a crisp in a burning net? No thanks, I'm good."
She nudged him harder. "Dude. Get us out of here!"
He groaned. "One of these days I'm going to refuse to help you when you get us caught up in these messes." And his lantern flared brighter and suddenly thorny vines of his own popped up from the earth, one reaching up and wrapping around the strange Kalon before she could react. He pulled the Kalon down to face level and glared at her. "I have vines too, sweetheart. Let us go unless you want to be tied up in them for the rest of your days."
Her cool attitude had quickly been replaced by fear and panic. "Okay, okay, jeez! Can you let me get my dagger out so I can cut you down?"
"Fine." He loosened the vine's grip on her and watched carefully as she unsheathed a dagger. Raising her up, she obediently cut away at the vines holding them aloft, and soon they had fallen in a heap on the ground. The vines retracted back into the earth and let the stranger go, and she hopped down next to them.
"Sorry about that," she said. "The name's Acacia. Nice to meet you!"
Ramey rose to his feet and glared. "If you were really sorry, you would have left by now. Run away, kitty. I'm in a bad mood, and you won't like to be around for that." He turned to Fay and Galena, who rose shakily to their feet. "Let's go. We need to find those other gems." And he trotted off ahead, leaving the three girls behind in an awkward silence.

[lucas.]

Username: lucas. || Name: Alexzander, likes being called Zander || Gender: Male || Member(s) Used: Samiyah || Roster Post: ♥

How did you escape?:
"tell me, stranger, why i should let you go?" the kalon, who was much taller than samiyah growled. she was supposed to be terrified of him, but she couldn't really picture being scared of someone who looked so.. not scary.

she chuckled and looked up at him, "you don't look scary at all, sir!" she said and tried to prance around him, however he would not let her past him whatsoever, seeing as her paws were wrapped in vines, she frowned. "ah, c'mon big guy! you're not that scary, stop trying!"

"i'm not letting you go past until you tell me why you're here and why i should let you go through," he seemed to be angry at samiyah, but the girl continued chuckling, clearly amused by the situation when she probably shouldn't be. "i advise you stop laughing at everything i say."

"let me go.. and i'll give you blackberries?" she looked up at him and pulled a small bag of berries from her backpack.

it took alexzander a minute to think about the offer before he accepted the bag of blackberries, "how dare you know my weakness, young kalon," he rolled his eyes at her, "have fun continuing your adventure. i'm sure berries will work on basically anything if you get stopped again." the vines unwrapped from her paws and she smiled brightly.

"thanks for the advice!" samiyah yelled as she continued to run through the forest, clearly unaffected by the kalon that had just been stopping her from continuing going through the forest. of course, she expected stuff like this to happen, especially when you're in such a scary environment. but i mean, let's be honest. who doesn't love berries?

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[recherché.]

Username: Kaori Miyazono.
Name: Niyone.
Gender: Male.

How did you escape?:
Niyone simply escaped by wiggling his way out. Once the vines were tangling him all up, he tended all of his muscles and waited for the vines to finish. Once the tightening seemed to stop, Niyone simply relaxed himself and dropped from the vines, letting out a small laugh. Admittedly, he squirmed a little just to be extra. After he got free, he just ran away as if it were a crime scene.

[lovage]

Username: Fernmoon
Name: Lin Koa
Gender: Male
How did you escape?:
Cinna immediately started to struggle in the trap. "I promise you
if I could get out. I would personal trap you myself." Cinna said.
Artemis glanced over at Cinna with a look that made her stop
talking. "Aw, look a small kit can easily make a guy stop talking
just by a glance, how sweet." Lin Koa taunted them.
"What did you just say!" Artemis shouted. You could easily see the
rage in her eyes.
"Artemis, don't think about it." Cinna said calmly. Artemis opened
her mouth to protest, but quickly shut it knowing her sister was
right. "Now that's settled. I just want to say I'm not a guy. I'm
female, you idiot!" Cinna shouted.
Feliks soon walked in and looked at them not saying anything
then slowly backed away. "Feliks, get back here!" Cinna and
Artemis said in unison. Koa started to laugh, out of the blue.
"What's so funny?" Artemis said. She soon started to growl at Lin
Koa.
"Everything you are saying is just so amusing! I'll let you out if
you amuse me." he said, trying to stifle a laugh. Artemis and
Cinna looked at each other before Artemis broke the silence.
"Cinna, do you remember that one time when your diary ended
up missing?" Artemis said. Cinna nodded. Artemis continued on
with, "Well, you see I hated you so much to the point I didn't
want to even live with you. So I thought something like, 'Well, if
I burnt her diary she will run away never to see me again.' So I
did that exact thing, and it didn't work. Now I'm telling you what
happened to it, just to amuse some guy who lives in the woods."
"You did what!" Cinna shouted furiously. Lin Koa didn't seem
amused at all.
"It's not working!" Artemis whispered to Cinna.
"Chop! Chop! I don't have all day." he said impatiently.
Cinna sigh then said, "Knock, Knock." Artemis stayed silent, waiting
to see what her sister had to say.
"Who's there?" he said. He didn't seem interested in what Cinna
was about to say.
"Lettuce." Cinna replied. Hopefulness showed in her eyes.
"Lettuce, who? I know what you are going to say." he asked.
"Lettuce out of her as we are on a mission! Just lettuce us out, please!"
Cinna said. The hopefulness, in her eyes, were soon replaced with
desperateness
"Ha, ha very funny." he said. He stood up getting ready to leave.
"Wait, where are you going?" Artemis cried out.
"Home. We will try again tomorrow." Lin Koa said. He was starting to
walk away until a shadow jumped out.
"You aren't going anywhere without releasing them." Feliks mumbled though
the sword in his mouth.
"Okay, okay." Lin Koa said, pulling something to release them.
"It was that simple!" Cinna shouted. Lin Koa started laughing after she said
that. "Oh, come on!" Cinna complained. She started to walk away after having
enough of it . "Wait for us!" Artemis said, running after Cinna with Feliks.

[Birdy]

Username: The Pirate
Name: Amberville
Gender: Female
How did you escape?:

Jordan looked into the piercing eyes of the strange kalon, her fur bristling with annoyance. A sharp thorn pricked into her side, drawing blood and causing her to wince. The stranger's lips began to curl into a smile at the sight of her targets and she let out a brief and dark chuckle.

"We've had a real tough time with trespassers lately, ya'know?" she spoke in a cool voice. Her sharp yellow eyes glistened with mischief. "I'd say you lot are a thorn in the side, but....well, I think you know all about that."

"Unhand us!" roared Alistair. He tried his best to shift positions and look at their attacker, but found that moving only further entangled him. He hissed at sharp jabbing of thistles into his paws. Nearby, he could hear his companions whimper and grunt against their own barriers of thorns.

"We're not trespassers," Jordan said. Amidst the throbbing pain, she gritted her teeth and tried her best to remain calm. The forest folk had been kind to them so far; she would do her best to avoid conflict if at all possible.

"Why should I believe you?" asked the stranger. She narrowed her eyes, her ears falling flat against her head.

"The thing about us trespassers," began Anya, "is that we tend to have sharp claws and sharper teeth. How about that for a reason?"

"We are not trespassers," Jordan hissed. Her tail tip flicked irritably, giving a warning glare to her companion. It was moments like this that caused her to double-think inviting the feisty kalon. "We were asked to fetch a crystal. We're only here to help."

At Jordan's words, the attacker's eyes widened. Rather harshly, she dropped the rope she'd been holding in her paws, sending Jordan and her party to the ground with a large thud.

"You know of the crystal?"

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[wishbone!]

totally wasted a spot. good luck everyone!

[JminT]

Username:JminT
Name:Nori
Gender:male
How did you escape?:
Reassured them you weren't an enemy and went on your way,, except it wasn't that easy.
A sudden crunch of a dried twig being crushed brought Pip's eyes up in alarm. He looked around with the faintest unease into the dark forest that enclosed him. Finally reassuring himself that it was simply a scurrying woodland creature, he turned around to get on his way. That is, till he was met with a pair of glowing yellow eyes. Just as quick as he jumped in fright, he was swept up into a primitive trap. Entangled in the earthy net craftily made of odds and ends found in the forest, he struggled frantically, but to no avail. As his heartbeat eased slowly, he gave up the problematic wriggling and paused momentarily to observe his surroundings from the high net. And finally he noticed someone perched on a tree branch practically right across from him, smiling cheekily with a devilish tint in his glowing yellow eyes. Pip stared at him with a slowly palpitating heart. Something about this kalon was definitely off, and he was hoping he'd escape before he found out. Right when Pip was about to muster the false confidence to interrogate his abductor, he was cut down and released. Recovering from the slight drop, he looked around once more alertly. His search was deemed successful when he spotted his open backpack and scooped his scattered equipment into his bag, just in time to see the strange kalon walk away.
"Hey!",
Pip barked fiercely, surprising himself in the process. This kalon, without stopping, nor a tiny flinch, simply raised his ears. To listen to Pip, perhaps?
"What was that about?"
Pip questioned cautiously, finding himself trailing behind the peculiar kalon. After a short moment, He stopped following the stranger and rummaged through his backpack for his map, finally deciding to get back on track to find the crystal. After bouts of confusion, Pip found out not only his map was missing, but he realized that the kalon from before must have taken it. Fueled by the fear of getting lost in this forest with out his map, and the adrenline of facing them again, Pip bolted after them, finally finding them unsurprisingly studying his stolen map, and without thought leapt onto the unsuspecting thief. After a short moment of wrestling, Pip found himself pinned down with his nose in the dirt, the mysterious stranger smiling down at him.
"What do you even need this map for?",
The victor said chuckling.His voice sent faint chills through him and pricked his fur up.
"I.. need it... to .. find the crystal!"
Pip shouted as he squirmed and struggled under him. This statement suddenly ended the kalon's soft chuckle and the forest was once again silent—the only thing that counld be heard was Pip's panting as his opponent finally got off of him. Without another hesitation, the mysterious stranger said,
"Good luck."
and walked away. Leaving Pip dazed.
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[steamplonk]

username: steamplonk
name: avery
gender: male
how did you escape?:
the kalon's voice pierced cosmo's ears. "why are you here?" he purred, his breath smelling of oil.
"please, sir, let me go," cosmo replied rather calmly.
"and why should i do that?" avery laughed. he shoved cosmo's bag in his face. "i've already gotten all i need from you."
"hey, watch it!" cosmo yelped. "stop! that's mine!"
the forest kalon laughed again, and feigned dropping the bag into a nearby rabbit hole. "uh-oh! what could possibly be in the bag that's ~sooooo~ important? money, a pet? your keys? let's find out!" he grinned maliciously. cosmo could only struggle against the vines holding him back. he winced as the kalon slowly unbuttoned the bag, smirking, as thorns dug into his fur.
"please!" cosmo yelped. "i'll do anything you want! please just let me go!"
avery stopped suddenly and turned to cosmo. "anything, you say?"
cosmo nodded desperately. "please, i just... anything, i swear."
spinning the bag's strap around his paw, avery's smile stretched from ear to ear. "wonderful!"
"now will you please let me out?" cosmo begged. "please, i've got somewhere to be, people will be worrying about me and i-"
his pleads were cut short as the other kalon sent him and the vines tumbling to the ground in one quick swipe.
avery's tone grew sharper. "i need you to help me find my snake."
"really?" cosmo raised an eyebrow.
"what were you expecting, i don't want your soul or something stupid like that," avery snapped. "i just want you to help me out a little bit, man. or is that too much to ask for, considering i just saved your life?"
"well, you were the one who put me in danger in the first place," cosmo muttered. "but whatever, i'll help you find your stupid snake."
"fantastic," avery sneered. "he's a two headed albino snake, and he's very small and sweet. he loves tortilla chips and grapes." his tone softened as he kept talking. "an-and he loved to cuddle, and to wear sweaters" -he began to sniffle- "i miss him! oh please, help me find my devon." he grasped cosmo's shoulders and began to sob into his chest.
"chill, dude," cosmo said, more than a little weirded out. "i'll help you find your snake. i think i've got just what you need..." he shuffled through his bag, pushing aside random junk, and pulling out a small ziplock baggie of grapes.
laying a bunch down on the ground, he and avery waited nearly a half hour before a familiar sss-sss-sss drifted through the air, and a tiny albino two-headed snake slithered up and began nibbling on the grapes.
avery picked him up, wiping the tears from his eyes. "oh, thank goodness! my baby!"
it was more than a bit odd to see the large, menacing kalon weeping over his tiny snake, but nonetheless cosmo bid the two goodbye and goodluck. turning away to continue on this journey, cosmo thanked the stars he got out of the situation alive and well.

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