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Guardian on a Lonely Rock
On the shore of some distant island, stands a shrine of stone. Upon the large stone tower overlooking the sea is a glass house with a rotating metal throne. From that throne sits a deity made of the prayers of mariners in their time of need.
He sits there shining brightly through the stormy night protected by his glass housing. Come daytime this ghostly denizen recedes into the heart of his shrine to rest up for the next night. As he descends the stone staircase his faint gold light casts on the old stone walls. The only other sign of life was the cobwebs that hung in the corners.
He remembered centuries ago, his attendants whose life
It flapped in the wind; burning it's bright colours into the dim evening sky.
The symbol in the center - once known for ridiculing people - was now a sign of war.
War for all those who were ridiculed, for the ones left behind, for the ones imprisoned unjustly, and for the ones that had seen family hurt and even killed just because they were from "The wrong island" that once flew that symbol.
Yes.
War.
and this would be the war to end them all.
it had to be.
or else it would mean the end of the void.
Destruction and death.
Endless death.
We have to stop it all.
We have to stop it!
We HAVE TO STOP IT!
We... have to....!!
We....
I
It had barely begun to rain as IceFire heard the loud pop and the following BOOM from the clouds.
Thunder! She thought happily.
Thunderstorms were always her favorite weather.
She spread her black wings as far as they would go in the small space, feeling the air currents.
This was hers. ALL hers.
Or... at least it would have been. She could see other hybrids flying away to safety, hoping to not be struck by lightning. And no doubt they saw her.
She flinched as something touched her right wing, but as she turned around, it was only Shade standing there. His peregrine wings covered under a light rain jacket.
"What are you doing out here?" He a