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Date Posted: 22:00:30 03/03/02 Sun
Author: Daceno, Humans, Mutatio, Bat-things
Subject: Something-or-other...

I crept to the corner of the empty room and lay down. There was a grinding noise above me and cage bars suddenly shimmered into existence. I reared up and looked around in alarm. ~Whaaa...?~ Suddenly the building began to shake violently. The ceiling fell around me, making me cough harshly. I looked around and nearly screamed. A creature stood up and nudged a Human female. The thing looked like a mutated dog, with a choppy muzzle, think body, and a scary gleam of intelligence in its eyes. There was a Human male, no, two. The floor started to shake, then collapsed. When I looked around this time, it was even scarier, because there was a Human male in a robe that had not even been touched. Which obviously meant that he was a sorcerer. I reared up again and pounded the cage door with my hooves. The sorcerer was contaminating the air somehow and making it hard for me to breathe. I managed to break a bar, exhale, and wriggle through.

Suddenly, the building simply disappeared. ~*Now! Come to me, my beings!*~ he yelled. In a very familiar language. MY language! Which sounded very strange, coming from a Human, like a deeper version of a normal Daceno. Actually, kind of like mine. {What did he say?} the creature asked me. I jerked in surprise, swiveled my head towards it. ~He said, now come to me, my beings,~ I replied. I heard a soft whirring sound and glanced up. A flock of creatures that looked like giant bats with huge jaws and fangs to match flew overhead.

I gulped air and exhaled through the air-slits in my body. I shot up into the sky and repeated the process again and again. By controlling the slits through which the air exited, I was able to power towards the nearest creature and collide with it, knocking it to the ground. ~Your turn now,~ I called to the dog-mutation. It immediately tackled the bat. Meanwhile, I filled my air system, and exhaled fiercely, shooting sideways across the ground. ~Oops!~ I muttered tersely. I changed direction and went straight up, into another bat. I snapped at its wings, my beak cutting right through the leathery hide. It fell almost on top of the sorcerer, who was too busy looking defeated to dodge.

Two other bat-things flew towards me, jaws snapping. Since there was only one thing to do, I did it. My big beak-mouth gulped air, and when they were only a couple yards away, I exhaled and shot stright up. Into the waiting bat-creature. The other two veered off easily. I felt like a fool. It had been a trap! By some miracle, however, I was able to get away without too much damage. But I still had three bats on my tail, and I was getting a little ditsy from not absorbing any air and working so hard, so fast. ~*Go now!*~ the sorcerer yelled, again in my language. They flew off immediately, to my great relief. I glanced down and saw that the mongrel and Humans were also not hurt badly.

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