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Learning to fly... more or less (Closed)
#441677 - Sun Jan 18 2004 08:11 AM
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(OOC: I didn't realise this thing has gotten so long. If you want, you can skip the first 2 maybe 3 blocks.)
Neema and Thialu had left the Welcome Center and were roaming the area, seemingly without any particular goal, it looks like Neema is searching something.
Thialu, currently looking like Neema's twin, doesn't say much, although it is very curious what Neema has planned. Everytime it asks, Neema tells it to wait.
After another half hour it can't hold back and asks: "Neema! Please tell me what we do out here. I am bored and I do not want to wait any longer."
"Wait just a bit we're almost there."
Thialu sits down on the road and says: "No! I will not do another step."
"Oh, c'mon! Get up."
Thialu doesn't move. It still is a bit peeved since Neema hasn't really given it much attention lately, although it trained so hard to get better at changing form.
Neema and Thialu argue a few minutes before Neema gives in.
"Okay, just follow me and I'll tell you."
Thialu quickly gets up and follows her. After a few minutes of walking side by side it asks: "What are you waiting for?"
"Thialu, did you tried to fly yet?"
Thialu remembers the little incident at the Infirmary with RedWolf not long ago "Sort of, why?"
"Look! We are here."
They stand on the edge of a cliff, maybe 300 feet high. Below them are fields and the occasional group of trees.
"And what do we do here?"
Neema grins and says: "We fly of course."
"But we do not know how."
"Oh it's easy. I got it all planned. First you change into a pair of wings on my back and then we jump of the cliff."
"Is this not a bit... dangerous?"
Neema waves aside: "Nah! It goes automatically. Just like when little birdies learn to fly. The mommy throws them out of the nest and then they fly. And if it doesn't work we can learn on the way down."
"I am not sure about this, but if you say so."
"Okay now turn into the same wings Nimilia has."
Thialu does as she says, liquefies and envelopes Neema. Moments later 2 cute little black wings sprout from her back (about 1 foot long). In the same moment a silver necklace with butterfly-pendant appears. From the silver butterfly come the words: "I am ready."
"Okay, I do the falling and you do the flapping... until we fly."
Neema says and runs towards the edge and is about to jump off as Thialu calls: "STOP!"
Neema brakes in the last moment. "What now?" she says angrily.
"I... I am scared."
"Oh you little wuss." Neema looks down and notices a river at some distance.
"Would it reassure you, if we would have some water beneath us?"
"Yes."
So Neema and Thialu go farther on the cliff, until they are above the place where the river comes out of the mountain.
They repeat the procedure and this time they jump...
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Thialu flaps the wings as fast as it can and Neema thinks light thoughts. But they don't gain height.
In fact their flight quality is not much better, than that of a 'lead-duck' and so they head straight down for the ground.
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After a few seconds they hit the water. "Splash"
Luckily Neema reacted quick-witted and 'softened' the water surface so the impact doesn't hurt so much. The water carries Thialu and Neema along before they make it on the bank.
Exhausted Neema lies down. The first thing she says, as she can speak again is: "I think the wings were too small."
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“What in the seven levels of earth?!” Epee exclaimed as she witnessesed Neema jump, flutter, and fall into the lake which she had been bathing in. She gave a wince as Neema hit the lakes surface, and decided it might be a good idea to go and see if who ever fell was still alive. Putting her gauntlets back on and throwing her towel around her Epee took flight and flew over to where Neema and beached. When she got there she was happy to find the person alive and offered them a hand up “Are you ok?”
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Warmth of imbrace, silance of tears, sarrow in voice, whispering cheer...
As you slip away, back, to cold bed and empty rooms, dieing fires
and shallow...tombs.
The rememberans of what was, Rememberance of warmth.
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(OOC: Neema fell into a river, not a lake.)
Neema takes the offered hand and stands up. "Thank you. Yes, I am okay. My backside burns a bit, but nothing else hurts."
She eyes Epee and says: "Hey, I think I've seen you at the Welcome Center. I'm Neema." she holds out a hand for Epee to shake.
Then she turns her head to the cliff, she just jumped off. "Pretty high. If we would have jumped from the other place, we'd be dead by now."
Slowly she realises, what she just said and her eyes get big and her knees soft. She sits down on her burning behind... "Ow!"
A voice coming from her necklace says: "I think it would be better, if we don't try that again."
Neema doesn't answer, but just sits silently and looks at the water.
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Morgan had been flying through the air, Cody holding her waist and clinging, when they saw Neema falling toward the river. As she hits with a "splash" Morgan lowers them to the ground. The two walk over to where she was and and Morgan smirks at her. "Very graceful fall there," she chuckles lightly uder her breath.
Cody shakes his head at his sister and looks down to Neema. He holds out his hand to her. "Are you alright miss?"
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Neema is absorbed in thought as Morgan and Cody address her. She turns her head towards them, but her gaze is still in the distance.
She blinks and shakes her head. "Oh, I haven't noticed you. Yes I'm fine. I just tried to fly for the first time. But it didn't work as I expected and I tried to figure out what went wrong, so I know what to do next time. *sigh* It looked so easy when the little birdies did it."
Again a voice comes from the butterfly pendant on her necklace: "What do you mean with again? You are not seriously considering to try that again, are you?"
"Why not?"
"Why?! We almost got hurt really bad. And we have not the foggiest notion how to fly."
"But nothing happened. And I want to fly."
Thialu does not want to reply to this 'watertight' argumentation, so Neema looks up from the conversation with her necklace and looks at people gathered.
And as if she just noticed that some of them had wings or something similar she says: "Hey, look Thialu! They got wings." (she means Epee and Morgan) "Do you know how to fly? Can one of you show me?" she says and her tail twitches from excitement.
(OOC: Yay! My 300th post!)
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((ooc:congrats on your 300th post!))
Morgand and Cody both raise a brow as Neema has a conversation with her pendant. They pass a glace to each othe and then look back to her.
As she mentions her wings, Morgan remebers she still hadn't sent away her wings. Her ear twitches lightly and she shrugs. "I'm not sure I'll be any good but I guess I'll try and help."
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THANKIE SO MUCH LISA!!! *pounces*
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ooc} *claps for the 300 posty*
ic} "Well um, learning to fly is, ah, air curents and things...You really don't have to jump off a clif to fly." Epee said as she rubbed the back of her head abashedly. Her wings fluttered soundles a little as she looked around, do to the fact that they were just haligrams.
"Lets see. There should be some steep grassy hill not to far away. They should be good to practice flying on. And as we make our way there, we can desuce how to fly." Epee smiles meekly as she hope the idea is apealing to Neema. She doeas notice the others and gives each a bow and hand shake, afterwards she relizes no one knows her name.
"Oh yeah! I'm Epee by the way."
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[img]http://www.masterzdm.com/hosted/EpeeCard.JPG [/img]
Warmth of imbrace, silance of tears, sarrow in voice, whispering cheer...
As you slip away, back, to cold bed and empty rooms, dieing fires
and shallow...tombs.
The rememberans of what was, Rememberance of warmth.
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Neema jumps around happily and says: "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you! Thialu, we are going to fly real soon."
"I am just glad, that we will not jump off that cliff again."
"Don't worry. We can jump off again, when we know how to fly."
If Thialu would have had some eyes at the moment, it would have rolled them now.
After she calmed down she says: "Well then, Let's go."
Neema will follow wherever you may lead her.
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"I'm Neema," Neema replies "Oh, I almost forgot. This is Thialu" she points first to her necklace, then to her wings.
Neema impatiently steps from one feet on the other: "When do we go? I wanna fly!"
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Ooc} *self prods self over here. Absolute look of guilt on her face*. Hehe…
Ic}”Well, its nice to meet you, both of you. And we can leave right now if you want.” Epee felt slightly giddy for some reason, if not nerves. She had never taught any one to fly before, in fact she had learned by herself when she had had real wings, and then re-learned after loosing them. She started walking in the direction of where the sloped fields where, and waited for Neema and Thialu to fallow.
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Warmth of imbrace, silance of tears, sarrow in voice, whispering cheer...
As you slip away, back, to cold bed and empty rooms, dieing fires
and shallow...tombs.
The rememberans of what was, Rememberance of warmth.
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Neema turns her head to look, if the two other are coming too and then follows directly behind Epee.
When they reach the hill she quickly climbs to the top. Apparently eager to fly she jumps in the air.
"C'mon Thialu. Make the wings bigger. I'm sure they are still too short."
A simple "Okay." confirms that Thialu has heard her. Shortly afterwards the wings on Neema's back grow to about 3 feet length.
Neema reaches out and grabs one of the wings and pulls it in front of her face so she can look at it. "Feels funny."
"Ouch! It feels painful."
"Oh, sorry. I forgot you are the wings."
"You forget easily." Actually it didn't hurt Thialu much at all. It just meant to protest against the forthcoming flight.
Neema says more to herself than to someone else: "I can feel them attached on my back, but I can't feel the wings themselves. It's like I wear a backpack with wings."
After this is settled Neema looks at Epee and waits for instructions.
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“Feels like a wearing a backpack with wings hu? Well I can relate to that, see…” Epee gabs her thumb at her jet pack as the holographic wings turn on.
“See, I don’t have real wings either…” –but I used to…- Epee finished the sentence in her mind, finding it unfitting to the currant topic at hand.
“Well now! To flying! Hmm…” Epee looks Neema and Thialu over for a moment “You aren’t heavy, and Thialu can certainly carry you. But that’s not where your problem is. Thialu you need to make yourself bit bigger. Once you’ve done that, you can catch the wind better, which will get you off the ground.” Epee waits till Thialu does this before going on.
“Now, on this kind of hill your aiming to glide sooo you run down hill and kick yourself off the ground when you hit the right speed. From there you just let the wind carry you. It sort of like floating down river with a paddle. You steer and the river moves you.” Epee’s wings flapped out behind her, soundless as always.
“Here, watch me.” A moment latter Epee was running down the sloped hill, wing stretched out behind her; it wasn’t till she reached a slightly rising nole that she opened her wings and started kicking off. Shore enough she was air born and gliding not that far from the ground. Epee circled a couple of times before landing in a run/jog. (little does Neema know that Epee didn’t have to do any of what she did to get air born. Her ‘wings’ are jetpacks after all, quiet ones that is ^__x)
“See?” Epee said with a smile “It’s not that hard. Go on and give it a try, and don’t worry if you don’t get off the ground right away.”
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Warmth of imbrace, silance of tears, sarrow in voice, whispering cheer...
As you slip away, back, to cold bed and empty rooms, dieing fires
and shallow...tombs.
The rememberans of what was, Rememberance of warmth.
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Morgan shrugs to Cody and they both follow the others. As they reach the hill they listen and decide to see what happens. They watch curiously.
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THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH! *pounce* *huggle*
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Thialu says: "Still bigger? I just made myself bigger, but okay. Here goes."
The wings grow again to a length of about 7 feet. An attentive observer will notice that her necklace disappeared, since Thialu put all the mass it had into the wings. Also the wings are thinner as before and slightly transparent.
"I'm done." it says and stretches to full length.
As Neema sees the new wing span, which is now a bit more than 14 feet, she says: "Boah. I'm a jumbo."
Then she prepares for 'take off'. "Are you ready?" - "Yes" - "Then let's start."
She runs as fast as she can, but she can't build up speed. The fully outspread wings act like a parachute and slow her down. "Thialu retract the wings! I can't run."
The wings fold up and Neema can run faster. When she is fast enough she calls: "Now open them!" and Thialu does as told and the wings open in a flash.
Now everything happens very quickly. Neema looses the ground under her feet and is lifted in the air. But she doesn't glide down. She goes up in the air almost vertically, makes a backflip and then comes down again with the feet first. She tries to touch down, but stumbles and rolls over. The rest of the hill she rolls down.
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As Neema finally comes to rest, she is dizzy and totters around.
"That's not what should have happened."
"You can say that again."
"But we made a somersault." she says and grins. "Ok, lets try again."
Thialu doesn't object and so Neema walks back up the hill.
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Neema reaches the top again.
"Okay Thialu. This time I will lean forward, so we won't get pulled up so fast."
"And I open quickly again, when you say 'now'."
"Yes... Well then, let's go."
Neema runs down like before and Thialu opens the wings when she says "Now!". This time they don't make a backflip, but start gliding after a short lurk upwards.
"We're flying! Look Thialu! We are flying."
On Neema's chest, where the pendant used to dangle, appears an eye. It looks startled and closes quickly.
After gliding for a few more moments Neema says "Now we do a curve Thialu."
Thialu hums approvingly "Mmmh."
A second later both lean sidewards to make a turn. Too bad that they haven't agreed upon a direction. So Neema leans to the left and Thialu to the right. The result is a rapid loss of height, soon followed by a hard contact with the ground.
Neema and Thialu are rolling down the hill again.
(OOC: Hello? Anyone here?)
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Morgan nd Cody both wince as Neema falls to the ground. "Oooo...That had to hurt, Morgan whisper to Cody.
Cody rolls his eyes and runs out to where Neema is, Morgan following behind him. Cody reaches his hand out to her. "Need some
help?'
Morgan steps beside her and smirks. She chuckles slightly and says, "You two couldn't agree which way to go? Next time, work that out before trying to curve around, huh?"
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THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH! *pounce* *huggle*
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Neema takes the offered hand and says "Thank you. It wasn't so bad. I'm stuffed pretty well."
The pouches of Neema's dungarees are full of candy. This way the impact was softened. Neema fetches some of them "Oh, they are all squashed. Looks like I have to eat them." and starts eating.
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Morgan said: "You two couldn't agree which way to go? Next time, work that out before trying to curve around, huh?"
The eye on Neema's chest focuses on Morgan and then he'll hear a voice: "I did not think we would make it off the ground. So I did not expect that."
As Neema hears that she has the mouth full and can't reply so she just rolls her eyes.
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Neema finished her sweets and says: "I did some thinking. The wings we have now are not really perfect. I can't just tell you every time I want to do something. This way we could never manage more difficult maneuvers."
"Like landing properly?"
Neema says irked "That was intended!"
"Oh, sure... And what do you want to do, to improve our maneuverability?"
"I've seen something or better someone in the Welcome Center. Remember the bat-girl? You turned into her shortly after you woke up."
"Yes?... Oh you mean you want wings like that?"
"Yeah. This way I can steer better... I think."
Thialu sets to work and transforms again. The wings 'melt' into a black gooey substance, which flows from her back to her arms.
"Hee, hee that tickles."
A new set of wings forms, attached to Neema’s arms. Thialu made the wings like the ones of a bat. The 'skin-wings' are kept in shape by 'bone-fingers', which Thialu connected to Neema's little and ring fingers.
After all is in place and the wing span is now approximately 15', it says: "I am done. You can try it now."
"Whoa, feels weird." she says as she moves her fingers and with it the tip of the wings.
She flaps a few times, but the only thing that is ascending are some leafs.
"So, let's try again." Neema says and heads up to the hill again.
(OOC: Would you prefer a slower post sequence? If you tell me how often you post a week, I will adapt my posting sequence accordingly.)
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Morgan and Cody both raise a brow as her wings changeto a bat's wings. They shrug and follow her to the top of the hill. Morgan steps a little behind her and watches in intrest.
Cody steps behind her, also watching Neema with intrest.
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THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH! *pounce* *huggle*
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Neema reaches the hill top and turns around. Then she notices that Morgan and Cody followed her.
"Oh, good that you are here. Could you check, if I do it right?" she says and moves her arms with the wings up and down. It looks very stiff, not like the dynamic movements of a bird.
Her flapping raises some dust and some loose blades of grass and blows it in their direction.
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Children are usually not very patient and Neema is not an exception. She doesn't wait for the others to answer and starts right away.
The technique hasn't changed much since the last time, except she doesn't need to tell Thialu to open the wings.
Neema spreads her arms with the recently attached wings and takes off. The gliding-part she already manages pretty well, but as she tries to do a curve she loses height again. This time though she can recover and goes up again... and down... and up... and down..... like a badly folded paper plane.
In the end she even lands on her feet.
"I think now I got it. It's really easy."
Thialu, surprised that they came down without rolling over says: "It worked better than I thought. But we still did not make a good figure."
"Who cares about how we look? Let's do it again!"
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" Maybe, if you wont push the air merely down you might be able to give yourself more control over your flight, it´s not how fast you can trust your wings down and pull them back up, you actualy have to give yourself some speed.." a female Voice notes from behind,..that, once turning to it´s source appears to be a white anthrowolf with a set of lightly silver glimmering wings folded to her back.
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Morgan and Cody both clap and run to her. "Good job," Cody says with a grin. Morgan smirks. "Nice....you actually landed." She chuckles under her breath slightly and look at the wolf anthrro. "Who are you?" Morgan asks raising a brow.
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THANKIE SO MUCH LISA!!! *pounces*
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"You really think so? Hey Thialu did you hear that? They think we're good." she replies to Cody and Morgan.
"Perhaps they watched that other person." Thialu says and its eye focuses at the winged anthrowolf.
"You know what? You almost sound a bit like my big sis. And I don't know, if I shall like that."
She turns her head to the new person and says: "Oh, another flyer. Hello there!"
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