[ANOM] Light turned to Darkness

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Payback in Spades
Autumn 1994

Featuring Aruahl


Mentioning of; Ilar Kike(NPC), Atefeh Abbas (NPC), Bano (NPC), Girolamo (NPC), Tarek (NPC) and Wynne (NPC)

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A squeal of surprise made Aruahl turn her head to Tarek, who was gazing to the outside world from the opening of their little cave. She joined him and indeed saw the stars falling from the sky. They both gawked until Aru was snapped out of the trance, scrambling her things to go meet her friends outside. Tarek and Wynne gave her a questioning look when she swung her satchel around her neck. "I won't be out for too long" She simply said, about to take off for the skies. Another squeal from Tarek made her stop in her tracks. She sighed "What?" giving her younger brother an impatient look. "C-can we join you?" he said, trembling on his legs of excitement. She shook her head "No, I'll lose you both in the crowd, it's better if you stay in the cave. You can watch it from here, Mom and Dad will return soon anyways." Aruahl reasoned, gently giving them both a little hug before finally taking off for the sky.

She circled the crowd for a second before landing near a patch where she recognized her brother and some of his friends. Aru folded her wings and gave everyone a joyous greeting before finding her friends not that far off. She managed to get a drink, which was way overpriced for the night and then spent the rest of her time gazing at the stars. They were all beautiful, the one shining brighter than the other. Everyone seemed to be out and about to see the meteor shower. She heard someone yell right besides her, a small rock had hit her shoulder. She quickly overlooked the rock, not knowing what it was, until the cries and shouts began to rose. The biggest star was slowly making way to the earth. For a moment, it seemed that everyone had their gaze locked onto the falling rock. Until one cry alerted everyone and made the whole crowd moving.

Aruahl had to literally dance between the falling rocks, avoiding to being hit and at the same time, making sure she was getting the hell outta there. In the flurry, she caught a glimpse of her brother and his friend Girolamo, she joined them and right when they were going to take off for the caves, a rock hit her brother in the flanks, big enough to make him roll over. Another one hit her head, sending her to eat the sand beneath her. She groaned, rolling on her back to see how the big star was quickly approaching the Oasis. "... What the hell is happening?" she mumbled to herself, before blacking out completely.

The young hen woke up again in a haste, not long after she had fallen, rising up to her feet and quickly trying to fly away. She dove towards the Honeycombs, where she could see her father Ilar spreading his wings over the twins with a concerned look at the sky. "Aruahl, get away, now" he said in a low and stern way, ushering the two fledgelings outside of the cave. Bano came flying, a gaping wound on his right wing, but he was able to reach their cave. "We need to get out!" He cried. Tarek and Wynne were crying in distress, not knowing the adults' reason for being so afraid. At that moment, Atefeh, their mother, came flying and with her talons, grabbed Wynne. "Get Tarek!" She cried to her mate, while flying off with her child. Aruahl gave Bano a look before flying after Ilar and the others. The big rock was coming their way.

Aru followed her parents, flying as fast as she could, with Bano right besides her. The whole family was able to leave the Honeycombs, but the rock was faster than them. The biggest shooting star of the year, probably, crashed into the Palace and the Honeycombs. The horrid sound it made, loads of their herdmembers' voices joined the destructive sounds. Squeals, screams, yells and desperate cries filled the air. In their haste of trying to get away before it would crash, Aruahl and Bano had gone before their parents. But it was when Aru noticed that they weren't behind them anymore, that she cried to her brother to turn around.

They dove right back to the Honeycombs, where the falling earth was becoming extremely dangerous. On the ground, in some of the cracks of the enormous meteorite, Aruahl caught a glimpse of the red hide of her sire. She went down, slowly realizing it was indeed him, and her mother, that were laying there.

In a hurry she landed next to them, with her talons she shook their bodies. "Momma, Dad! Wake up, wake up, wake up!" She cried out, her eyes slowly filling with tears when she realized they weren't breathing anymore. A loud sob left her mouth, hastily looking around for her siblings that they were carrying before being caught by the falling star. Bano landed next to her and when Aruahl was trying to make them wake up over and over again, he put one of his talons on her chest, holding her back. "Aru... It doesn't matter anymore now. They're gone" He said, his stern voice strangely resembling their deceased father. "Search for the twins" he then instructed, looking for them as well. In the end, Aruahl gently rolled over her father, who was laying on top of their mother, to then very gently pick up her mother. With doing that, they uncovered the very scared younglings. They were crying silently, gazing in fear at Bano and Aruahl. "Thank Roth you're both okay" she said, dropping to her knees to give them a big hug.

Bano gazed up at the biggest star he had ever seen. He couldn't remember seeing them actually falling and attacking the Saraphs this way. It had landed on the Palace as well, he wondered what they had done to Roth to deserve this.

But was it Roth? It was night, after all.


Word count; 993




TL;DR
Aruahl and her brother Bano were able to escape the meteor shower, but their parents Ilar and Atefeh, were caught by the bigger rock, and in their fall, they take the blow that eventually ended their lives. Wynne and Tarek, the twins, were physically okay, protected by their fallen parents. What shall they do after this?

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