Post by solstice on Jul 13, 2013 1:22:18 GMT -5
Name: Solstice
Species: Raptor (Deinonychus) [yellow-colored]
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Location: Waterfall City
Personallity: Outwardly determined, dutiful, extremely quick-thinking, master his fear very well. Inwardly insecure, trying to live up to his ancestor and namesake's name, easily awed by new locations.
Effects: N/A
How you ended up on the island
OTHER-
He made a mistake. He knew he had made a mistake the moment his foot had slammed into that nest and he had felt his talon latch into the opening. His movement had been blindingly fast, preventing himself from tripping, which would have doomed him given the great black wall of destruction that was following hot on his trail.
It was still not enough. He had been too slow, even with the thingytail of trans-phased particles allowing him to bend time until the entire world was moving at a crawl's pace. The explosive shockwave from the killer asteroids that had destroyed the homeworld was too close and with this last mistake, he would not make it back to his home time period.
His namesake would have never made such a gross mistake. When Solstice the First had led the Saurians to the Strangers' arks and into space, away from the doomed homeworld, he had never made mistakes like this. For all of his brillant yellow scales and red eyes, he knew that he was nothing like his illustrous ancestor. For one, he wouldn't find himself doomed when performing a routine mission in one of the lesser impact zones from the final years of the homeworld.
Just how much of the liquid phased matter was left in his body? How much of it had he wasted performing little shifts here and there? He barely had enough. Soon, he'd have nothing left. He needed to perform the jump, to get back home.
He yelped, diving to the ground as a massive piece of rock was lifted from the shockwave and thrown forward. The boulder, several times his size, barely missed him. The very moment he had dived to the ground, he kicked into the ground while pushing himself, resuming his breakneck sprint, his time shifting ability slowing down time and allowing him to keep ahead of the shockwave.
But he was weakening and even with the time slowdown, it was gaining on him. Time jumping usually require a certain level of speed, to reach a natural runway so the jump could be correctly performed. An incorrect jump could send him way, way off-course. It could send him in such a way that he'd appear inside of a solid object or maybe even in deep space. But he knew he was not going to make it.
He's not dying on a lousy routine mission. Inwardly, he accepted that he had always been a mediocre Runner and well, he always knew he would fail miserably someday. After all, there exist two types of Runners: mediocre Runners and live Runners. But no, he didn't want to, he wasn't ready. He's not becoming a pile of bones on a doomed world. He's not joining those who could never make it off in time.
He decide to chance it.
In one supreme effort, the exotic matter inside of his body begun to glow as his heart pounded, pumping it through his entire being. A blue light surrounded the raptor as it ran, after-images trailing as he accelerated beyond what the laws of physics should allow. In one great flash, the figure vanished...
... but the sight of his home base did not greet him. The metal walls of the Runner base was not what he saw. Instead of metal, he saw... stone. Instead of low ceiling and the weak light of artificial lighting machines, he saw daylight.
So... yeah. He knew it would cause him to go off-course.
"Where am I?" he asked himself, aloud, not suspecting that although he had left the time period as he had intended, he was still on the same planet, unaware that his entire view of what had happened on the homeworld was going to be changed forever...
Species: Raptor (Deinonychus) [yellow-colored]
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Location: Waterfall City
Personallity: Outwardly determined, dutiful, extremely quick-thinking, master his fear very well. Inwardly insecure, trying to live up to his ancestor and namesake's name, easily awed by new locations.
Effects: N/A
How you ended up on the island
OTHER-
He made a mistake. He knew he had made a mistake the moment his foot had slammed into that nest and he had felt his talon latch into the opening. His movement had been blindingly fast, preventing himself from tripping, which would have doomed him given the great black wall of destruction that was following hot on his trail.
It was still not enough. He had been too slow, even with the thingytail of trans-phased particles allowing him to bend time until the entire world was moving at a crawl's pace. The explosive shockwave from the killer asteroids that had destroyed the homeworld was too close and with this last mistake, he would not make it back to his home time period.
His namesake would have never made such a gross mistake. When Solstice the First had led the Saurians to the Strangers' arks and into space, away from the doomed homeworld, he had never made mistakes like this. For all of his brillant yellow scales and red eyes, he knew that he was nothing like his illustrous ancestor. For one, he wouldn't find himself doomed when performing a routine mission in one of the lesser impact zones from the final years of the homeworld.
Just how much of the liquid phased matter was left in his body? How much of it had he wasted performing little shifts here and there? He barely had enough. Soon, he'd have nothing left. He needed to perform the jump, to get back home.
He yelped, diving to the ground as a massive piece of rock was lifted from the shockwave and thrown forward. The boulder, several times his size, barely missed him. The very moment he had dived to the ground, he kicked into the ground while pushing himself, resuming his breakneck sprint, his time shifting ability slowing down time and allowing him to keep ahead of the shockwave.
But he was weakening and even with the time slowdown, it was gaining on him. Time jumping usually require a certain level of speed, to reach a natural runway so the jump could be correctly performed. An incorrect jump could send him way, way off-course. It could send him in such a way that he'd appear inside of a solid object or maybe even in deep space. But he knew he was not going to make it.
He's not dying on a lousy routine mission. Inwardly, he accepted that he had always been a mediocre Runner and well, he always knew he would fail miserably someday. After all, there exist two types of Runners: mediocre Runners and live Runners. But no, he didn't want to, he wasn't ready. He's not becoming a pile of bones on a doomed world. He's not joining those who could never make it off in time.
He decide to chance it.
In one supreme effort, the exotic matter inside of his body begun to glow as his heart pounded, pumping it through his entire being. A blue light surrounded the raptor as it ran, after-images trailing as he accelerated beyond what the laws of physics should allow. In one great flash, the figure vanished...
... but the sight of his home base did not greet him. The metal walls of the Runner base was not what he saw. Instead of metal, he saw... stone. Instead of low ceiling and the weak light of artificial lighting machines, he saw daylight.
So... yeah. He knew it would cause him to go off-course.
"Where am I?" he asked himself, aloud, not suspecting that although he had left the time period as he had intended, he was still on the same planet, unaware that his entire view of what had happened on the homeworld was going to be changed forever...