Class: Demon
Name: Nox
Personality: Nox is a bit odd at first to most people she meets. Depending on her mood at the time she can be shy at first, or very outspoken. But regardless, she is almost always smiling, something that comes easily to her and something that others can make her do easily. She isn't quick to anger, though when anger does overcome her, she is best left alone until she calms down. She prefers to follow rather than lead, but when others are running about like chickens with their heads cut off, she is quick to assume the role of leader and try to get some order out of the mess. In large groups, she tends to stick close to those she knows best, or by herself if she knows no one.
Appearance: Nox is average height, about 5'4'', with an average build for a girl of 18, though has noticeable curve to her. Her complexion is on the paler side, her eyes a bright green, and her ankle-length hair dark as the night sky, though it holds a coppery sheen in the right light. She has small, rather unnoticeable scars scattered about her body, but sees them as visible memories rather than deformations. A small mouth is set above a stubborn chin and thin nose, her eyes beneath eyebrows neither thick nor thin and as dark as her hair. She wears a ring on her left ring finger carved with an inscription that has worn to unreadable over the years, and a piece of rhodonite connected to a black leather cord around her neck. Her clothing consists of a form-fitting black shirt that falls just past her hips, covering a black belt and the top of a pair of dark blue jeans. Black shoes cover her feet with thick soles, which are made to be slip-resistant. A black jacket is tied around her waist when she isn't wearing it which, considering the rather warm weather, is often.
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She stumbled on, eyes searching the bare horizon with bright green eyes bare of emotion and feeling save for a small spark of hope. There was always hope in her, regardless of how things looked or turned out. Even now, when there was nothing to be seen but waste, tumbled down and broken buildings, and no inhabitants, there was hope in her. But that was a good thing. It kept her going. Hope, and determination. She was a stubborn one by nature.
A long breath escaped her lips as a sigh, her eyes, green as new spring grass, searching the dismal sight before her. How far had she traveled now, and still nothing? She didn't know how many miles she had covered in the three days she had been traveling, and preferred not to think about it. Her feet reminded her every waking moment and with every step she took.
A breeze flew by her, and she closed her eyes, leaning against it lightly. It moved her hair gently from her face, offering her a moment of respite from the hot, slightly muggy air around her. It felt nice, and even brought the smallest smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. But it also brought with it a faint sound that made both her heart and that small spark of hope that still lived in her to a sudden stop. Was that water...? She knew better than to get her hopes up, but that spark of hope flared for a moment.
She opened her eyes and they began to quickly search the land around her again. There, in the ground a few hundred meters before her, was a rather large hole in the ground. She was still only a moment after seeing it before she took off at a sprint for it, her feet protesting the whole way, but she shook it off. If it really was water, it would be the first in two days that she had. Just the thought made her mouth water a bit, or feel like it was, at least. Her tongue still felt like sandpaper.
She slowed down as she neared the edge of the hole, then stopped at it's edge. The hope in her receded back to the spark it was before, but something else burned in her at the sight that beheld her eyes: curiosity. This was definitely not a water source, though the sound of running water filled her ears more loudly now. Instead, light met her eyes as she peered over the edge of this vast hole, a light that challenged that of the sun for it's brightness. She had to squint for it to not hurt her eyes. What in the world had she stumbled upon?
She leaned in a bit further to see, and the ground at at the edge of the hold crumbled under her feet, sending her falling forward. For those fist few moments, time seemed to slip by in slow motion. Again, her heart seemed to cease beating, her eyes widening and breath catching as surprise and a sudden sense of dread filled her. The walls of the hole, made dark by the bright light shining up from below her, filled her vision. Then everything sped up again.
Wind whipped by her, sending her long hair flying and tangling above her. It flew past with a force great enough to steal away the scream she knew would have emitted from her very core if she was able. She would have held her eyes closed tight if she wasn't so dratted curious and scared to close them. Scared as she was, a twisted part of her wanted to know just how far away whatever it was she was going to be slamming into was, and just what it was.
The wind around her was cold, but suddenly, as if she had dove into a completely different atmosphere, warmth engulfed and filled her, sending goose flesh rippling over her skin and throughout her body. But something was wrong with this warmth, with her body. She couldn't figure out what it was, but something didn't feel right. For a moment, that's all she could concentrate on. Then new noises came to her ears, like white noise that became louder until, finally, you noticed it. Roaring, the thundering of a great waterfall. How she placed that, she wasn't sure. She hadn't before heard a waterfall, but she had heard of them, and heard the described. But beneath that, if she listened more closely, other noises could be heard. Was that a monkey screeching? Things just kept getting more and more odd. Only when the light suddenly became blue did she realize how much attention had been lost to the noises instead of her surroundings.
Her eyes scanned the blue around her, trying to figure out what exactly it was when she spotted a handful of orange and red spheres, one of which had two sets of rings around it. Were those...planets? More to be curious about, on top of the noises and happenings that had taken place only moments ago. Had it only been that short a time?
Her thoughts were cut short as she landed on something rather soft, considering the speed at which she had been falling, though it still forced an
oof out of her. She lay there a moment to catch her breath before she lifted herself onto her hands and knees. More questions raced through her mind at the sight of the jewel-like scales that met her eyes. She had handled her fair share of snakes and lizards to know that what she now rested on were scales. Slowly and a bit fearfully, she turned her head to look into the face of the thing that now held her.
Her eyes met the gaze of what, at first, looked like giant cats eyes. Then she took in the sight of the face that surrounded it. It was far from being a cat. It didn't take her long to realize that it was a dragon, which only confused her more. Dragons just...didn't exist. As much as she had wished it, it just wasn't true. But the sight before her made her question her beliefs.
"Hello Nox, you have just fallen from Top Earth. I am Valerin, the dragon of Rainbow Lake. You're lucky I was out here in my lake and, not in my tree cave this early in the morning or you would've been killed from drowning. You see, this lake has no bottom and seeing how your only a demon you wouldn't have been able to swim out. You can't even use your element yet."
How did he know her name? What was Top Earth? Dragon? Rainbow Lake? Tree cave? Demon? Element? What the hell was going on? Instead of asking these questions though, all she could do was stare in wonder. Even as she was lowered to and set on the ground, she didn't take her eyes off of the dragon until he disappeared below the surface of the lake, rainbow scales glittering in the light. It wasn't until the surface of the vast lake took on the appearance of blue glass that she looked around.
If her mind wasn't to blank yet full of questions, she would have found this place beautiful. The light of what she guessed was a sun (she hadn't yet looked around to find the source) turned the grass the color of her eyes. A myriad of other colors filled her vision in the forms of flowers and trees, the likes of which she had never seen before. Even some of the colors were new to her eyes, and seemed almost impossible. But her curious nature had been extinguished for the time being. There was just too much to take in, too much had happened in such a short amount of time. She couldn't comprehend it all just yet. So she stayed still in the grass, taking in the sights, the dry warmth of the air around her, and the new sounds until her brain decided to catch up to her.
(Holy post O_o)
