The Bonfire: Official Event Thread

[Arcadia]

Raheal smiled. He saw her grasp the necklace. "I'm glad I could have been some help to ease your pain on her. I only pray the best for her, where ever she is now."

Raheal over heard the small voice of a child, and the way she addressed Pandora.......mommy.......and to make it more surprising Pandora had responded. "Wait....your a mother? How come I didn't know about this? I-W.....I just.........why.......how.........when did you become a mother?!" Raheal's voice showed no anger, only confusion. He had never seen Pandora with children. Is that where she was for the past week? To take care of her children? And if it was how did he not know about this until now. His head started to hurt as he thought about it more. Raheal sat down in the grass in hopes of getting answers.

 

[Nicole]

Phaedra had wanted to protest but decided against it. Her mother was right and she needed to find her sisters. Lord only knows what sort of trouble they could get into here. "I will Mommy..." She said smartly before skittering off to look for the others. "Dalia... Amber... Ossa... Mom wants you!" She called out as she ran towards the tree line. Phaedra had the thought that they were up to no good, and was delighted at the prospect of catching them being bad. She could run back to mom, and tell everything.

Instead of her sisters though she caught sight of a woman crying. Many people were crying here, but this one looked different. She seemed more sad than the others. Her mom had explained that people would be here to cry, and that it was best not to bother them. But something inside Phaedra pulled her along.

She approached Storm slowly, one might say with caution. seeing this woman like this made her feel sad. She had to know why she was crying. "Umm.. Excuse me.. Are you sad?" She asked approaching storm slowly. "Please don't be sad.'

@Kathinja

 

[Kait]

It had been a while since Chloe had gotten to let loose and dance, in a public place and without a glamour. Chloe had both of her bodyguards nearby, so it was safe enough, and by now a lot of the hatred for her and her father had died down.
She didn't exactly have good dance moves; most of it was flailing and jumping around, kind of like what everyone else seemed to be doing. Most of the people here that she met were cool enough, and a good time was had by all.
But soon, she needed to take a breather. She got a bottle of water and sat down by the fire.

And that's when she saw it. Across the fire, for several solid seconds, she saw her old family. Her mother, the father who raised her, her brother. All of them, standing together as a group, staring at her.

And then they were gone. Chloe kept staring at the space where they had been, disbelieving what she had seen. The family members and loved ones people saw here were supposed to be dead. They were all normals. They should have been safe, back in their world. Why would they all...?

It was like she had lost them all over again. She thought she had gotten over it. Tears pooled in her eyes and fell down her cheeks as she stared at the bonfire, trying to process what she had just seen. She tried not to be obvious about it. Her face was unwarped by her grief, at rest. She leaned back and poured water down a sore throat.

She felt a familiar demonic presence nearby. It felt related to her, like her father, but not nearly as strong. Was that the ghost of her mother, watching over her? Or was it something else?

...And on an unrelated note, why were there smaller spider-demons like Pandora running around all over the place?

@Pallas

 

[Pallas]

Amber watched with her six yellow eyes towards the brilliant and radiant flame near the center of the clearing. The inviting glow of the fire almost beckoned her to join and mingle with the rest of the crowd but she refused its temptationious calling. Her mother told her to stick by the tree lines and that is what she was going to do! Besides, she had no problems being by herself now that her dumb sisters were not around to mess with her. Just her and this cute juvenile raccoon directly behind her.

Amber looked behind her to find her furry little behind her who had gotten a little be closer to her than the last time she had looked behind her.

"Oh! Oh hello there tiny racoon! Did you come to say hi?" spoke Amber softly as to avoid scaring off her new furry friend.

Amber rotated her body to face the tiny mammal. Amber gave the tiny creature a warm gentle smile even as it stared back to her frozen in fear of her. The two locked eyes with each other for what felt like a whole minute, but the moment Amber raised her hand to try to pet the creature, it quickly scampered off into the foliage. As the raccoon scurried off into the darkness, Amber recoiled her hand and looked on sadly to where she had last say the raccoon.

"Awww..." quitely whimpered Amber... she really wanted to pet the fluffy critter.

It was just then Amber could hear a familiar voice calling out to her. It was a bit distant be even she can make out her bigger sister's voice calling out her name and how her mother wanted to see her.

"Oh... COMING!" cried out Amber as she used her at legs to leap off from the tree branch and rapelled herself saftly to ground with her thick spider silk to support her on her decent.

Once she had all eight of her feet on the ground, Amber scurried among the many guests searching for either her mother or her fellow sisters. Being around so many people made her search rather disorientating for the young spider demon unaccustomed to being around so many people in one place. Unable to find her mom or her sisters on her own, Amber thought she should ask the people to help find her family. Her mom would be pretty unmistakable given her size and appearance so someone is bound to have seen her!

"Excuse me! Have you seen- oh... okey. Hello! Did you see big spider lady... around... her... ummm... okey.... I guess your busy. Hi Miss! Can you help me- oh... err... I guess not. I'll just ask someone else."

Amber was routinely ignored each time she tried to ask her question. Amber was undeterred however, they were all busy and so it was understandable that they would ignore her. That was when Amber made eye contact with a pretty looking demon lady who did not appear too busy so Amber wasted no time striding over to her. Once Amber is now standing across from the demon lady with cute little demon horns, Amber gave her a charming little smile and asked the lady her question.

"Hello ma'am! Have you seen my mommy? She looks like me but bigger! Like... really big!"

To emphasize the size of her mother, Amber stood as tall as she can on her tippy toes and hold her right hand as high up in the air as she could manage.

"This big! Have you seen her?"

Amber then lowers her herself back to her original position, stilling looking up the the demon lady expectantly with her big yellow eyes.

@Kait

 

[Kait]

Chloe just stared at the small spider-girl.

This was the demonic presence she had been feeling, wasn't it? And her mother sounded like she must have been Pandora. Pandora had mentioned having a clutch of kids before, but she didn't know anything about the father. Was this one actually...?

She didn't have time to process that yet. The girl asked her a question. "Well, I haven't seen her recently, but I do think I know who she is. Your momma's name is 'Pandora,' right?"

Note to self, do not call Pandora 'momma' in front of the small ones.

"My name is Chloe. Your mom told me that she was a mom now. What's your name?" Chloe wiped her face on her sleeve and started to get to her feet. She wanted to find Pandora too, now.

For now, she was frantically trying to rationalize away why she sensed that this child was related to her. It couldn't have been her child. How could she have made Pandora pregnant?! That didn't make any sense.

Maybe this was her dad's fault. That would have made more sense, but it would still mean that her life was about to change in a big way.

 

[Nicole]

Part of Pandora wanted to laugh at the whole scenario. She had no real source of explanation for everything. even the vague answers her father had f\given her didn't help much. As Raheal sat down she too settled down, all the while keeping an eye out for the children. No doubts they were still nearby, wandering about. this was kind of hard to talk about. She had accidentally let it slip to Chloe that there were children. Malara had needed to see what was going on. And now the last of the important people she needed to tell was the reaper. She had no idea how he might respond to something like this. It was after all one of the most overwhelming things to happen in her life.

"Surprise!" She said with a slight mock grin. No that was the worst thing she could have said. But with that out of the way she needed to dump her thoughts now. "I don't know how it happened... It was all so fast, I've been trying to take care of them.. there were a thousand now there's only four... Daddy came by told me stuff. I don't know what I'm doing... And now I cant stop talking..." She covered her mouth with her hands to stop the flow of words for a few moments. She was intending to give Raheal a chance to process things as it was a big deal. These could after all have been his.

She took a second now to stand up again looking out over the groups of people to see where her daughters were. She had heard Phaedra calling the others earlier, but that had since gone quiet. Perhaps they were still in the woods and being shy. That meant she might have to find them. Though for now she would give them a moment to see if they came or not. "The one you saw... Her name is Phaedra. Then there is Dalia, Ossa, and Amber." She tried to sound encouraging as she spoke now. "Don't be mad.."

 

[Pallas]

Amber stared back... stared back with all six of her eyes.

Amber wondered as to why she was looking at her like that... was it something about her hair maybe? Probably not but Amber combed through her hair real quick with her chitiin coated fingers. Once the demon lady spoke, Amber lowered her arm to her side and listened to her with utmost attention.

Amber gave the demon lady who introduce herself as Chloe a nod to confirm that Pandora was indeed her mother's name.

"Yeah! Thats my mom~ And my is name is Amber! Nice to meet you miss Chloe! Well... I better go find my mom before she gets too worried. Umm... do you think you can help me look for her since you already know her? Theres... so many people here so... I dunno where to look." commented Amber, sheepishly glancing around her before she looks up the Chloe for assistance with pleading eyes.

@Kait

 

[Kait]

"It's nice to meet you too. I'll help you find your mom, Amber; I think I want to talk to her right now."

It was becoming more and more clear to Chloe that this was her child, though all of her mind was trying to deny this fact. It didn't make sense. She thought she had been safe from this sort of thing. She was too young to be a parent. She wasn't ready.

And now she had two life-shattering threatening to strike her tonight.

Chloe walked around the bonfire. As it turned out, Pandora was on the other side of it, where Chloe hadn't been able to see her. "There's your mom." Chloe waved to Pandora and walked swiftly towards her, careful to give the bonfire a wide berth.

"Hi Pandora. I, um, met one of your children." Chloe glanced at Amber. "She's just, unreasonably adorable." Glance at the man she was speaking to. "Am I interrupting something?"

 

[Arcadia]

Raheal was at a loss of words. He couldn't fully process this. He could only say three words, the three most important words. "Who's......the father?" Raheal had known Pandora had multiple other lovers. It was just in her nature. His tone sounded almost worried, if the father was unresponsible then Pandora would have to take care of them herself. He didn't want that for her.

When Pandora told him the names he smiled. "Those are....beautiful names. And yes Phadera was quite cute. I expect her to be as beautiful as her mother when she grows up. " When Pandora shook told him to not be mad he just shook his head. "Why would I be mad? It's a wonderful thing. Sure the four little ones might cause you trouble but you'll still love them and cry when they leave you. It's a beautiful thing. I should not and will not be mad"

 

[Pallas]

"Hi Mom" cried out Amber as she approached her mother Pandora

Little Amber looks up to her mother with big grin on her face, showing off those razor sharp chompers of her's. Amber then looked around her, noticing that her sisters where not present. Was she the first to arrive?

"Pheadra said you needed me? Well... I'm here now! Miss Chloe helped me find you! She is a nice lady." chittered the amber-eyed spider girl

Amber then proceeds climbs herself on her mother's massive abdomen and sits herself on top of skull-like pattern on her mother's back. From there... Amber just sits and watches her mom, Raheal, and Chloe from her mother's back.