{Hollow Headstones* [Navy vs Empusaes - Day 6]

[arx!!]

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Walking between the raindrops
Riding the aftershock beside you
Off into the sunset
Living like there's nothing left to lose

The anthem booms and three faces appear. The girl from 12 and the boys I was with just a day ago appear in the sky and then disappear and the anthem cuts out, leaving me alone again in the dark. My heartbeat seems to be beating against the back of my eyeballs and in my lips. I hurts to touch move my shoulder and the heel of my foot shoots pain all the way up my leg every time I take a step. Everything hurts. The queen has fallen and broken her crown even before climbing the hill. I keep my head down, watching my feet continue on some unknown path to a place where maybe it gets better and things don't hurt so much. Or they could be taking me somewhere where it all aches 10 times more painfully. But whichever it is, I couldn't care less. Her majesty is ready to hand over her kingdom. The queen is tired. I watch the breath from my nostrils billow out in front of me in elegant clouds. Back in six I can remember building snowmen in this kind of weather. If only it would snow - then I could create whoever I wanted from sparkling white flakes from the heavens and not the ashes that have risen up from hell.

Suddenly, I walk face first into something. I stumble backwards and moan as my head begins to thud again, my brain pounding achingly against my skull. Shut up girl! I told you to keep your mouth shut! I shake my head to try and clear it of fuzz, but instead it only makes me dizzy and I find myself leaning against a rock to steady myself. Dad, I am shut up! God, my lips are fucking sewed shut!! Just for you, Daddy. Only for you. I hold my eyes closed for a moment until I feel snakes crawling up my legs and then I have to open them to make sure nothing is there. Nothing is ever there - I've officially gone delusional. I raise my head and find myself staring into a pair of eyes. I turn again to see my hand on a shoulder. I rip it away, and whip back around to the eyes, waving my weapon around, threatening my attackers. But they don't move. They stand in a frozen state, glaring with dead eyes like stone at me. I lower my weapon back down to my side and stare back. I recognize this person - both these people. It's a queen's job to know the subjects of other kingdoms.

But they aren't staring at me. They are staring at each other. I take a step back out of their way, feeling like I intruded on something I shouldn't have. I remember when District 6 got so close with this boy, only to get beat out by the kid from 10. I feel like I should pray to him to help get me through if only because we represented the same district, but instead I only turn away. Her majesty doesn't kiss the feet of the could've-been-kings. And the I turn to see more. Tribute after tribute. Rows of killing and yelling and weapons flailing and cold stares and death - so much death. I walk past tributes from the 54th, to the 58th, all the way to the 61st. Kids from my district, people I never really bothered about before now stand before me. I twirl around and weave through row after row of headstones. I'm waking through a graveyard - not of bodies, but of memories. Memories so cold that the air around me seems to have frozen.

I'm stunned when I trip backwards over something on the ground and splash ion a puddle of icy cold water. I scramble back up and shiver at the chill the water sends through my bones. I turn to look at a boy lying in water, reaching for something that isn't there. My heart stops beating and the world goes completely silent. No, no, no, no, no. Then I walk around the boy on the ground, my feet freezing as they hit the water. Then I look straight into his eyes, and reach for his hand, missing his touch by just inches. Tears roll down my cheeks and I rake my hands through my hair and force air through the tiny opening in my lips, trying to grab for air. I thought this shit was over. I thought I was done. I crumple to the ground and I realize I can't even sob because the stitches in my lips won't allow it. The quiet continues and I think my heart has frozen solid.

I crawl back around and find myself crawling on top of him and curling up in a ball. I'm sorry, so sorry. Please, I'm sorry ... Then I close my eyes and drift away against the cold stone who reaches for my impending statue.

I wake to the sound of screeching and flapping wings. I scan the skies and then my eyes come to rest on a creature sitting on top of Kiera's statue. Then another appears near Atlas. And because it has become instinct, I pick up my weapon and charge silently as another screech scrapes against my ears.

Attacks Empusae #1 with Cat o' Nine Tails (flail)
[dice=200+12000]
{12016 -- Miss -- 0.0 damage}
Figures ...

Chasing after gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we knew
Hold on and take a breath
I'll be here every step
Walking between the raindrops with you

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

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[arx!!]

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

Walking between the raindrops
Riding the aftershock beside you
Off into the sunset
Living like there's nothing left to lose

I swing as hard as I can with as much accuracy as I can muster, but with all my muscles aching in protest, I find myself completely missing the creature and hitting a stone shoulder instead. The monkey-thing hops away only to return to bite me while it's companion uses it's tail to whip me in arm. They screech again and I resist the urge to cover my ears. Because although the queen doesn't speak, she does listen. I throw one off of me in a flurry of pain and try as hard as I can not to just stop fighting now and stitch myself shut again. I feel blood dripping down my body and already I can see my arm turning an odd color. More cuts, more bruises. Tattered and torn. I'm nothing but a beaten down rag doll anymore. Or maybe I always have been like this. Perhaps I have never truly been anything more to anyone than something to laugh at and beat on. Perhaps the queen is only just a lowly peasant in disguise.

I scramble back to my feet, telling myself that I can do this. I can win this battle. I have down it before, back in the lotus fields and even back at the coast line. I can do this. But just before I can raise my weapon again, my head seems to burst with something. Cold beats against the back of my eyes and I clutch at my chest where my heart has stopped beating. Blood presses against my fingers but it's just as cold as I feel. I hear a screech, but it is only muffled as a memory flashes through my brain. I hear a voice and turn around and around but no one is there. It's all in my head. It's always in my head. Her majesty has her own demons to deal with, she doesn't need the whole kingdoms too. I squeeze my eyes shut, my head aching with nothing but a muted screech and a tiny whisper. And flashes of light - the way a dream might look. Remember the last time you thought you could do something? The last time you thought you could kill? I watch images of the past flash in my dark head. Blood spatters across my face and my legs begin to burn again as I feel blades dig deep into them. Blades fly everywhere and I watch faces break and crack and eyes fill with fear and death. I swallow hard when I feel his skin beneath my fingers. Do you remember the last time you tried, girl? Yes. Everyone died. I killed all of them. It was all my fault.

My knees grow weak when I see Theseus' brown eyes shielded over with pain and fear and death. My eyes fly open to let tears pour out. I watch the creatures stagger their way closer and closer to Theseus who is stretched out across the ground, reaching. The king reaches for the queen who betrayed him. The queen who left him. The queen who killed him. And although I'm afraid to try and know I must. This is my chance to save him, to help him, to revive his soul and help me from feeling so guilty. Guilt - it will go away if I help him won't it? He will forgive me if I try right? I can do this can't I?

So I step forward and kick the thing out of the way and give a muffled shriek before I swing.

Attacks Kiera-Empusae with Cat o' Nine Tails (flail)
[dice=200+12000]
{Broken Left Collar Bone -- 6.5 damage}

Chasing after gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we knew
Hold on and take a breath
I'll be here every step
Walking between the raindrops with you

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

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[arx!!]

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

Walking between the raindrops
Riding the aftershock beside you
Off into the sunset
Living like there's nothing left to lose

[Filla, filla, filla, filla, FILLAAA]
[Idek what to write anymore lolz]
[Umm - more alliance loss angst??]
[Freaking out and shizzz]
[This girl cray, this girl cray - THIS GURL CRAYYYY]
OTHER#1
OTHER#2
SPEECH
BEAST

Attacks Kiera-Empusae with Cat o' Nine Tails (flail)
[dice=200+12000]
{Gash/Bruised Right Knee -- 3.5 damage}

Chasing after gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we knew
Hold on and take a breath
I'll be here every step
Walking between the raindrops with you

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

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[arx!!]

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

Walking between the raindrops
Riding the aftershock beside you
Off into the sunset
Living like there's nothing left to lose

[Ugh, these bitches are killing me ...]
[kk last fillerrrr]
OTHER#1
OTHER#2
SPEECH
BEAST

Attacks Kiera-Empusae with Cat o' Nine Tails (flail)
[dice=200+12000]
{Broken Right Knee -- 7.0 damage}

Chasing after gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we knew
Hold on and take a breath
I'll be here every step
Walking between the raindrops with you

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

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[arx!!]

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵

Walking between the raindrops
Riding the aftershock beside you
Off into the sunset
Living like there's nothing left to lose

[This is me fillering for now cause I gotta fleeeee]
[Navy manages to drink her water (Messy task I might add)]
[Uses needle and thread]
[Uses first aid on self]
[Uses 15 ft of bandages]
[Uses bundle of med plants]
[yayayayay]

Chasing after gold mines
Crossing the fine lines we knew
Hold on and take a breath
I'll be here every step
Walking between the raindrops with you

۵ ۵ ۵ ۵ ۵