The Series of Short/Long Tales


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10:26pm Jul 7 2011 (last edited on 10:47pm Jul 7 2011)

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Bam.
I'm bored.
I've got a few ideas, most of them ripped-off of my RPs xD
So my stories will change, but no worries, the ti
tle shall help avoid confusion :D
 
Contents
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Escape
SOMEOTHERSTUFF 
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Please please please critique? :D



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To-Be-Continued Stories
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Escape - Pg
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Short-Completed Stories
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HAHANONE :c
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10:46pm Jul 7 2011 (last edited on 8:37pm Jul 8 2011)

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Escape
Prologue 

Hackles raised, lips drawn back in a snarl, eyes blazing with fury. Blood pounded in his ears, nothing but rage coursed through his body. Every instinct shouted leap for the throat! 

Ears flattened, pathetic whimpers, tail tucked between legs. Fear flooded through a thin body, eyes focused only in front at the menacing shape. Every instinct whined flee!

Jeers sounded from everywhere, humans shouting their encouragement, even though the two in the arena couldn’t understand a word. Despite the loud cheers, a threatening growl rose above them all.

A shape launched itself into the air, cruel, long black claws extended. There was barely enough time for a shrill whine to escape from the opponent's lips, only to be cut off with a hurk!

Blood everywhere, staining grey fur, polished white teeth and claws, tail raised up in triumph. The crowd roared once again, some humans even standing up to clap. 

The red seemed to fade, the rage seemed to ebb away. Amber eyes, once glittering so cruelly, began to widen in horror. There was no time to think about the brutal acts that happened in this now-bloodstained arena, a chain clinked and tugged at a black, metal collar, and the wolf was lead away from his first victim. 




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5:01pm Jul 8 2011 (last edited on 1:51pm Jul 9 2011)

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Chapter 1
 
Vorlos couldn't see anything. The small crate he was stuffed into was pitch-black, and the unfamiliar smells flooded his nose, making it almost impossible to breath. He heard the rumble, similar to the roar of thunder during storms. The only senses he could rely on was his smell and touch. He could still feel her fur against his, and her fear-scent stained the air.
"Vorlos, where are we?" She whined, pressing against him for comfort.
"Shhh, Nysha. We'll be alright. We won't die." Vorlos tried to reassure her, but Nysha only snorted at his words.
"Alright?" She asked, voice still trembling. "Five wolves disappeared from our usual forest trails, never to be seen again. And now the humans have come after us! How can you say we'll be alright, brother?!" Her voice was quickly becoming high-pitched. Suddenly, the two wolves were flung to the side when the a sudden halt jerked the crate, hitting a hard surface. Nysha gave a short yelp of surprise, landing on the ground, hard.
Light flooded in, only to be replaced by the ugly red face of a human. Vorlos snarled ferociously, standing protectively over his fallen littermate, who tried to growl along with him. 
Thump, thump. The two wolves experienced a sudden jolt of pain. Nysha's head fell instantly, her eyes closed, though her lips still bore the shadow of a snarl. A small but thin ob
ject that resembled a strange stick protruded from her neck. Vorlos could feel his mind going fuzzy, and glanced down only to see the same strange needle-like ob
ject sticking out of his pelt. That was when his vision went black, and the wolf's legs gave out, unconscious before he hit the ground.



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Oooh.  I like. :D  You are very good at this, my friend. ^^  So the plot is a fighting arena?  Or something? -tries to guess-

I'm not good at giving advice, but let me take a crack at it. P:

You are very good at timing your story and keeping in sequence.  Meaning that you don't jump over things too much and that you keep in line.  Also, your details are very good - you don't seem to really skip a beat at all.  I can pretty clearly visualize what situation the characters are in.  Your interpretation of the characters is wonderful, too.  By that, I mean you don't say something like 'Oh no.  Vorlos knew he had been tranquilized with a dart.'  Instead, you think of it like a wolf:  they don't know what the heck is going on or what a tranq dart is.  So you instead say 'a small but thin ob
ject that resembled a strange stick protruded from her neck'.  c:

Although, you should work on elaborating on their surroundings and what the characters look like.  I'm not saying that you have to go in and edit, because this seems fine now, but just make sure you explain things moderately vivid in relation to those topics later on. ^^




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Thank you very much, Icey <3 Haha, yeah, I had a hard time thinking of what to do with the dart. I was like WHAT STUFF IN THE WILD LOOKS LIKE A TRANQUILIZER? -_-

And yes, I know. The first paragraph stinks :c I originally didn't want them to know they were in a crate, but the way I described it made it feel like they were in space or something xD I'll definitely elaborate, this first chapter is shrouded in mysteryyyy e_e 




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Chapter 2
 
Vorlos jerked awake to a sudden, loud CLANG! Nysha lay next to him, limp and as quiet as ever. Her red pelt was barely moving, and her mouth was slightly open. Nysha's black legs weren't even twitching, an annoying sleeping habit she had. Instantly alarmed, Vorlos rose and nosed Nysha urgently, fearing the worst. The humans had taken him and Nysha from their pack, how could they take his own sister from him?
"Nysha, Nysha!" Vorlos barked, pawing at her with a black forepaw. To his immense relief, his sister took a deep breath and exhaled, slowly opening her amber eyes.
"Ugh, what, Vorlos?" She moaned, shaking her head like a confused elk. She opened her mouth to yawn, exposing sharp, white teeth. "I'm sooo sleepy." Vorlos rolled his eyes. Trust Nysha to complain even at times like this. That was when she became fully awake, eyes open and ears pricked. "Where are we?" She asked. Vorlos realized that he didn't pay attention to his surroundings, instantly going to Nysha's side. 
Everything seemed so... Surreal. They were first packed into a small and cramp space, and now, it seemed like the world belonged to them. There were trees, their paws touched clean grass and the rocks offered perfect shelter. But the air was clean, devoid of the familiar smell of wolves or prey. The rocks were arranged almost too perfectly, forming a circular hole that invited them in. No fresh water ran through this forest, and no wind blew through. The strangest of all, was what seemed to be a path that lead to somewhere... Nudging Nysha to her paws, Vorlos lead them along the perfectly trodden down path, only to stop and curl his lips. At the end of the path, there was a completely different world. Animals were everywhere, locked up behind strange, silvery confinements and worst of all, humans surrounded the area. A few were looking into Vorlos and Nysha's strange new world, smaller ones had their lips curved upwards and pointing at them with elongated paws.
Vorlos instinctively curled his lips, and ran at them, only to slam into something. Humans pointed at him, making loud hooting sounds that resembled the owls that flitted through his old home. Shaking his head and staggering to his paws, Vorlos tried to leer at them, leaning in. He found his nose pushed back against an invisible force. After a closer look, Vorlos realized that the humans couldn't go through the invisible force either, and their hoots seemed muffled. Satisfied that at least they had a bit of privacy, Vorlos gave them a last growl and strutted back to a confused Nysha, tail raised to show his disdain.
"I'm going to ask again. Where are we, Vorlos?" Nysha asked in a meek voice as they walked towards the stone dens and away from the humans. Vorlos shook his head.
"This has something to do with the humans, I'm sure, Nysha." He said darkly. Nysha's eyes widened.
"How can the humans craft an entire forest by themselves?" She asked, voice filled with disbelief.
"I don't know how they do it, but it must be them." Vorlos shook his head. 
"Hey, look! I think I smell meat." Nysha lifted her ginger snout to sniff out the source, with Vorlos following suit.
"Nysha, let's be careful..." Vorlos said, but Nysha was already trotting off on her long, black legs. Vorlos groaned and followed, the two identical littermates heading even further back into the forest. Nysha suddenly lifted her head, eyes locked straight ahead.
"Through those weird trees!" She said, and ran ahead. 
"Wait- ugh, why does she never listen?" Vorlos growled and followed, expecting Nysha to crash clumsily into a tree. Instead, when Nysha approached the strange-looking tree, it gave way. The trees flapped open, as if it was a river, and Nysha had splashed into it. Even that didn't stop her, and Nysha continued running, further, further, further into the darkness. Nervous, Vorlos closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then charged recklessly. Hearing the flap of the trees, Vorlos looked back to see the fake background behind him. With a sigh of relief, he continued onwards, stopping right behind Nysha.
"Look, Vorlos! I found meat!" Nysha pawed a red slab of flesh. Vorlos gave it a cautious sniff.
"I don't know, Nysha. This meat doesn't smell... Natural." He said nervously.
"Oh, hush. I'm starving!" Nysha took a bite while Vorlos winced, expecting her to collapse. When she didn't, taking another hearty bite, Vorlos felt a bit more assured, nervously chewed the tip off. Only then did he realize how hungry he was. His stomach craving for more, Vorlos ripped off a large hunk. Despite the metallic taste in the meat, Vorlos' stomach welcomed it, as the two wolves had not tasted food for days. 
"Ketu, look! New denmates!" A voice cackled from the same area they were in, causing Vorlos to choke on his meat and Nysha to jerk her head up. 
 
[[ uhm, okay, tell me if this sounded strange. The 'flapping trees' is meant to be acurtain with a fake forest-tree print on it ]] 



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Um.  It sounded weird.  xD  But I'm sure everything will be explained soon by the creepy wolf and Ketu :D



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Herp, here comes Ketu to the rescue xD



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the... the... the... post... eated... chapter... 3

 




Detneth106

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Try writing in Word then, love. x3 Also.

When she didn't, took another hearty bite, Vorlos nervously chewed the tip off. 

That's written funny. <3 The place where you wrote 'took another heart bite' doesn't fit between the other two lines. Something along the lines of 'when she didn't collapse and took another hearty bite, Vorlos nervously chewed the tip off.'

Not sure how to put it so you still have that middle-line thing. :P It doesn't really fit the context grammatically. 





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5:27pm Jul 9 2011

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wh...wh...wh...wh...WHAT?

An Det is right. owo




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Ohmygawrsh, sorry ono I used to wrong tense xD There, fixed it up a little. Thoughts on the plot, Det? ono I was worried it was too cliché.



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Haha, plot-wise, I've just given rather similar advice to someone else: I don't like animal stories. Mainly because I think that people fail to bring out the animal in the story, what I'm reading doesn't feel like wolves to me. The names and everything don't feel wolfish, if I had to imagine talking to wolves I'd imagine a lot of their names to be round and low with little sharp sounds for example (it's a bad example though haha). Heck, I would have even liked it if you followed Oppel's tactic and made it so all the wolves couldn't see colour (dunno if they're colourblind though). But I have a persona vendetta against those sort of stories though xD so don't take my word for it.

Your writing style int he prologue is poetic but awkward. The constant repetition of structure in the paragraphs sort of lost the effect you wanted to go for me thinks and I personally think it's too short to be more enjoyable.

I think you need to be more deive though! Haha, it's good and all but I think I don't get such a strong impression of their setting. It's still aright though. 'flapping tree' would sound weird, they may have felt it resembled a tree or even recognised it as an image of a tree.

Overall I think you're going too quickly and there's too little words to explain it all xD; it's still a good effort and while I'm not one for these sort of stories, I'm sure there are others that are more appreciative.





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7:31am Jul 12 2011

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Oops, I forgot about this o.o Thanks for the critique, Raru. I guess I started out really enthusiastic about this tory, but then I gradually was like 'meh' ono 



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Haha, don't give up with it though! c:

Unless you can't go anywhere with the plot. idk. But still don't give up!





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