[Iku]

The Dreggon Ambush
by ~Lolipopgi

A blotch of elastic green liquid splattered across Iku's flabbergasted face. "Ew, I got scaraleaf intestines all up my nose!" she sneered, wiping it with difficulty off her pale face. "I never should have removed my mask." When she had cleared her face of goo, she pulled up her black mask over her nose. It was unusual to see a sram without one on, after all. "Thanks anyway, Aki."
From behind the mass of broken green shell that oozed with innards, a grinning girl with sky blue hair rose to her feet. All up her arms, there was blood smeared as if she'd thrust them into a kaniger's fresh corpse to see if she could make a hole on its opposite side. It made her look quite barbaric, but no matter how many baths she had, Akizura could never wash them clean. That was the curse of the sacrier race.
In Aki's hands, she swung a pair of stout, but sharp daggers. They glistened in the sunlight with every spin.
"My kill!" she chirped childishly, crushing the large bug's head with her bare feet.
Iku sighed. "It would have been mine if I hadn't dropped my daggers," she moaned, picking up her own pair, which were ice-white. "I was so ready to stick this blade into its face."
Akizura cackled with mockery, circled around the dead scaraleaf and walked to her mount parked nearby. "I tell you, it's those little blue scrolls you've been reading lately! They're a jinx!"
Iku rolled her eyes, but humour twinkled in her dark eyes as she tossed her hood over her face.
The creatures on which they clambered blinked their bulging white eyes at their owners. They were crazy bird-reptile crossovers that served as the role of transporters over long distances - dragoturkeys. Iku's red and black 'turk' began to peck madly at the fence it was tied to whilst the other one, which was jet black, lolled its floppy tongue from side to side. Iku looked upon the creatures with slight disgust while Akizura found this break from fighting a good time to wrap herself around her mount's neck in an embrace.
"Honestly, Pep," Iku sighed, calling her companion by her unusual nickname. "Don't you think they look like someone dropped an ougaad on their heads when they were born?"
The blood smeared girl looked at Iku, innocently stroking her long blue plait over her shoulder. "I think they're cute..." she mumbled, scratching the black dragoturkey's chin. She gently climbed up the side of it, brought her leg over and sat down, patting the back of its neck. "Where to now?"
Iku, though reluctantly, straddled her mount too. "Well, our almighty leader told me to get some..." she rummaged blindly through her rucksack and retrieved a pathetic piece of torn parchment, reading it quizzically. On it was a list of ingredients for a potion, though the ink was smeared a bit. "...Black... dreggon shells?"
Raising her eyebrow, the girl named Pep scoffed. "And why can't he get them?" she joked.
Iku shrugged. "He said he had to go on an exhibition to some forest up north with his sister," she guessed. She rubbed her shoulder with obvious discomfort. "I don't like being this far away from him," she muttered with a shudder. "I'm scared we'll fall into trouble and he won't be there to haul us out of the mud, like he always does."
Pep nodded, thinking about that time when she'd wandered into the camp of very angry bworks the previous week.
And I keep thinking he's off meeting some hot and exotic pandawa from his old guild!" Iku added with a strong tone of paranoia.
"You needn't worry about that," Aki reassured her friend, chuckling. "He's far too short to score with someone like that!"
"Short as in..."
"Oh all ways." The sacrier grinned widely and began to chortle. Iku sighed. "No offence, hun," Pep had to add.
Though she was still a little offended, Iku smirked and seized the reins. "Come on, Pep Pep, I can hear noises that sound vague enough to be dreggons. We must be close."

As they trekked further across the grassy fields towards the trickling river that lay ahead, the quieter it became. Perhaps to the faint hearted, scaraleafs were frightening monsters. But to those frightening monsters, what lay ahead was a lot more fearsome. The bridge separating safety from potential death lay before the two adventurers like a looming shadow. It didn't help that the stench of the heavy air smelling of rotten eggs and burning moss grew stronger as they approached.
All of a sudden, the ground trembled and a booming cry shattered the silence. Iku jumped and Aki screamed as their dragoturkeys went insane! They bounded about, bouncing their bottoms up and down, thrashing their beaks and squawking maniacally. With one powerful kick, the girls were thrown off their mounts and sent crashing to the floor. Rubbing their sore arms and heads, they watched with despair as their companions bounded away into the distance, and away from the Dreggon Peninsula.
"Shit sake," Iku cursed, her body shaking all over. "I left my stash of bread in Lumpage's ass-bag." She massaged her temples with aggrivation. "Let's hope we're not here for long."
Aki stood up and brushed the dust off her trousers. "You don't need food to fight, hun," she stated with a smile.
"But I like food!" Iku protested. "Fyorl doesn't call me Fatso for nothing! I have a reputation to uphold!" But she couldn't hold back her hysterical laughter. She was grateful for Akizura's optimism. "Alright, let's roll over this bridge and find some goddamn walking eggs!"
As they ventured deeper into the mysterious land, Iku noticed under the unruly branches of ivy there were crumbling buildings. Buildings made of stone and wood - manmade. Had these houses once been inhabited by people? She stepped forward right into a pile of some solid cylinders. She yelped in disgust to see it was a pile of bones. Her mind told her they were human bones, but her heart told her to forget what she'd just seen.
Closely behind her, Aki pranced clumsily about the place, as if she expected to step in dreggon faeces. "I'm scared I'll set something off."
"Let's hope whatever you set off doesn't slice off your head," Iku said, knowing Pep would be the cause of her death, accidentally.
Out of nowhere, a flaming rock the size of a gobball rained from the sky and landed with a pounding dunk on the ground before Iku. She gasped and leapt back.
"FFFU--" For a split second, Iku's form vanished completely. A blink later, she reappeared, yanked her daggers out from her belt and began running away towards Aki in panic. "AMBUSH!"
With a gulp, Akizura watched as a herd of half-hatched reptiles marched towards them from behind the ruined houses. Some had stout but beefy legs sprouting out a colourful shell body. Some even had arms, lined with heavy grey claws. They stormed forward towards the intruders.
Iku shouted out to her teammate, still clutching her daggers tightly. "I'm gonna cut them down!"
However, the sacrier named Akizura seemed awfully distracted, her hands clasped together and her eyes shining. "They're like little colourful egg soldiers!" she squealed, gawking at a jogging white shell with fat blue feet. "I love them!"
The dreggon before her slowly lifted its shell cap and from the shadows where its eyes should be, a burst of bright light erupted, punching Akizura in the chest and she was sent flying backwards. She collided with the floor and blood dribbled from her mouth. Her eyes were wide with shock. "OH FECK!" she yelped, spitting. "I HATE THEM!"
Forcing herself to confront Aki's attacker rather than going to rescue her suicidal friend, Iku sprinted forward. She launched into the air and aimed her daggers, ready to drive in the blade...
But before she could cut the the walking shell lizard down, it lifted its arms and there was a flash of light as hundreds of mini, shining plates of gold materialised and embed themselves on its outer shell. So when Iku landed on her feet, her daggers failed to break through and instead ricocheted off, creating no more than a scrape on the metal. The sram clad in green looked on with dismay. "I can't damage it!" she exclaimed, staggering away. She looked around her and her heart dropped.
Surrounding them was an army of dreggons, each with tribal-like lines scored across their shells. Within seconds, Iku and Akizura were dodging fiery rocks that hurtled from the sky.
"That's it," Iku growled. "They die now!" She clenched her fists, shut her eyes and swung her cloak around her body. In a puff of smoke, she disappeared. The sacrier gulped.
"Don't leave me all alone!" she whined. "How am I supposed to fight them?!"
"Just distract them while I set up a trap!" whispered a harsh voice. Aki jumped, but nodded.
She began to wave her arms upwards, jumping madly. "Over here, I'm gonna scramble you feckers!"
Provoked, the army of dreggons huffed angrily, blowing steaming breath through what was probably their nostrils. A distance away from her, a dreggon with hands tossed a small spherical egg the size of a piwi. Aki dodged it deftly and it landed soundlessly on the grass beside her. Alarmed, Akizura kicked it aside as the ferocious dreggons stomped towards her.
She was shaking as they thrashed their tails in her direction. One whacked her so powerfully it gashed her stomach. She wheezed and exhaled loudly. Her arms pulsed and her heart pumped violently. Her white eyes blazed and a wide toothy grin stretched across her cheeks. What was once a weedy little girl was now a steaming, killing machine.
"Come to Pepper!" she called confidently, taking out her daggers. She pounced at the nearest dreggon and sliced right through its metal shield, cutting it almost clean in half. Akizura cawed with pleasure at the sight. "Who's the tough one now?!"
The half dead dreggon stumbled about in pain. Then it slowly raised its elbows and created a great beaming sphere that surrounded it. Seconds later, the cracks in its shell had vanished and was good as new.
" come on!" Akizura protested, gawking at it with horror. "This takes the piss!"
In the mist, Iku's invisible figure shook its head with disbelief. But her 'trap' was almost ready. Briskly, she drew a cross of black powder on the floor with her fingers, darted around more enemies unseen and drew another. She continued to do this until a circle of crosses was made, surrounding the army of dreggons. She hissed to her teammate. "Ready!"
Akizura yowled and swung her leg, forcing her foot into a green dreggon's face and pushing it backwards. As it hit the floor, the crosses on the floor around the mass of dreggons glowed. Then every scrap of ground within the circle exploded and gusts of smoke burst up into the air. Shards of shells flew in all directions and the smoke cleared, leaving only a pile of comical fried eggs steaming on the battlefield.
Picking pieces of shell from her hair and readjusting her bandana, Akizura sighed with relief. "Is that all of them?"
As her teammate emerged from the mist, Aki glanced at Iku, who was staring into the distance. There was still one more, and it was angry.
"Can you set up another trap?" Akizura suggested.
Iku swallowed. "I've run out of gunpowder," she admitted. "And my daggers are useless against those fucking outer shells of theirs."
It tottered towards them and before she had a chance to defend herself, it headbutted Iku in the gut, causing her to crash into Akizura closeby. They fell to the floor, sprawled messily over each other.
With bafflement, Iku realised how close they were and scrambled off her friend. But Aki was grinning like a gobkool, her cheeks rosy. "Your boobs just squished against my face," she said, giggling. "I like your boobs."
Iku frowned, quite flustered. "Not the time, Aki. Get up, it's coming this way."
Sure enough, the dreggon, which was a mini crimson dragon with a black shell hat, was stamping its way towards the girls.
"I've had enough of your bullshittery," Iku rumbled. "Too many eggs are bad for my system."
She raised her fingers to the sky and inhaled deeply. The sky turned black as a thick cloud began to form above the confused dreggon. Blustery wind swept around the sram and her fierce eyes turned to shadow. Her hood was blown off to reveal her unruly black locks. The black dreggon squawked as a mass of pure black energy surged from the clouds, purging the dreggon and it was destroyed by the dark blast and sent to oblivion.
Exhausted Iku panted and fell to her knees, relieved that she had won. A cute face appeared next to her, comforting her with her smile.
"Boom," the sram said, huffing with amusement. Aki pecked her friend's head and pulled her hood back over her head. "Let's pick up the shells and get out of here."
The sram nodded. "Right," she replied, scooping up the remains of the red dreggon and shoving them in her rucksack. They stood up and went to walk away when there was a tiny little gasping sound near where they stood.
On the floor was that small little egg, the size of an apple, slightly cracked and shivering. And it was ticking dangerously fast...
"Huh?" Aki said stupidly. Iku's eyes bulged and she screamed.
"FUCKING RUN!" And she seized Pep's hand and fled as fast as her legs could carry her. Without warning, the shell burst and there was a colossal explosion of fire. They could feel the intense heat on their backs and necks, flooding towards them. Screeching in panic, the girls scrambled desperately over the bridge to find their demented dragoturkeys hopping madly at the sight behind them. Hastily, Akizura and Iku jumped onto their dragoturkeys, tugged the reins and sped into the distance, not daring to look back on that horrible world ever again.
The sacrier looked at the sram. The sram looked back. "I bet Fyorl wanted us to die, that's why he sent us," she insisted, scowling and panting.
"You're so pokable, Iku," Aki said, beaming.
Iku went to look at the recipe for the potion. "What exactly IS this potion anyway?" she asked, peering at the parchment with an eyebrow raised. There was a long pause. Then...
"It says we need ten shells."
Their dragoturkeys squawked with amusement.

Akizura

Zattai

Fyorl


With Elessima the eniripsa, Jiva and Shika.

Xelor x Pandawa

Lilindir, Fyorl's alt

With Zrednic and Reyla

This post has been edited by Iku: 28 September 2011 - 02:12 AM

[Cajun-kun]

Nice stuff. The one with the turq made me laugh. B> Cosplay.

[Iku]

Iku

Jason-parelamus, Dark...something, Amai-hime and Reyla

[Formulamonster]

I need to stop visiting this section of the forums or lose my self esteem D:

I don't look good in a bikini D:

This post has been edited by Formulamonster: 26 September 2011 - 10:42 AM

[Persona]

Hey, you never told me you could draw. o.o These are awesome!

[Apex]

Loving the Google sign xD

[Iku]

Exploring Nolifis Land pt 1
by ~Lolipopgi

Through the azure bamboo forest, a silent female figure slunk. Beneath the sparkling sun that slithered through the sky of leaves, the glint of a slim blade winked. In an opening, amber light flooded the floor, and in the very centre of it was a lean, bronze tower of bamboo. Suddenly, the tree shuddered and what appeared to be a pair of beady eyes blinked beneath two furry brows. In the light breeze, its cinder beard swayed. In the darkness, the female eyes twinkled with satisfaction. She quickly glanced at the small scratchings in the ground near the foot of the creature where there was a small star, hastily scribbled into the dirt.
Just a little more... the female thought, licking her dry lips beneath her dark mask. Just a little to the left... She stroked the shaft of her daggers with anticipation, a craving for action clear in her wide eyes.
The bamboo tree with eyes heaved and stood up. Instead of roots, there was a pair of little feet that resembled arachnees. But before the body of bamboo could shift its weight into the trap, a giant sword of glass swooped towards it.
From the bush behind which she was crouching, Iku the sram yelped out a cry. "No!" But it was too late. The big, floating sword had already flown its way into the circle of stars. Instantly, the ground erupted! Dirt zoomed all around and the sword exploded in a puff of white smoke. A disgruntled gasp escaped the fuzzy jaw of the old tree and it scampered away into the sea of bamboo, and out of sight.
Howling to the sky, Iku flung her daggers to the floor. "PEP, YOU RETARD!" she shouted, pulling down her mask and spitting into the dirt. "Holy Bambootoes are extremely timid! I told you to keep that fucking sword under control!"
From amidst the trees emerged a blood-soaked female. She was shivering, and her teeth were dug down into her lip. To her annoyance, Iku noticed she was holding back a hysterical giggle.
"I can't help it, Iky," said the girl, whose hair was bright blue like the waters of Sufokia. "It just goes crazy when you're around! You're so arousing!"
There was a pause, in which a small shrub tumbled in the breeze between the two. Iku narrowed her eyes on her companion, Akizura, and did not hesitate to hold back a smirk. "I see what you did there."

After about half an hour of stalking the forests of Neutral Pandala, the green-clad sram and the air-headed sacrier drew the conclusion that there were no more of these rare 'Holy Bambootoes' to be found. Either that, or they had inadvertently walked right past one, which was easy when masses of stationary bamboo trees surrounded them. There was a bitter stench in the air of damp moss, mixed with another scent that smelt of baked bark. Around her heads, swarms of mosquitoes swirled and every now and then, one would poke Iku in the eye.
"I am seriously sick of this place," she groaned, wiping the moisture from her forehead with the back of her hand. "It's too hot, and my shoulders are getting bombarded by snouts. Let's just get to a zaap and muck about at Elfi's house, whether he wants it or not."
Cackling, Akizura nodded enthusiastically. "I've got so much junk to unload on his bed. It'll be hilarious."
"Pep, that's disgusting."
Nearby, there was a quavering bellow followed by a loud crash. Iku and Aki exchanged clueless glances then crept closer to spectate. Iku instinctively pulled her black mask over her face and ducked into the bushes. Meanwhile, Akizura stood frozen on the spot, twisting her head frantically.
"Uh..."
A hand burst from the foliage, seized her by her plait of blue and yanked her into the bush to join her companion. Another hand clapped over Akizura's jaw. "Don't make a noise!"
In the clearing, beside a shallow green pool, was a skinny male with arms smothered in crimson liquid, rather like Aki's. He was on his side, spluttering and panting noisily, blood dribbling down his cheek. He gulped and staggered to his bare feet, swaying slightly. Then, there was this empty silence. Not even the clicking of crickets could be heard. From across the waters, mist drifted in, engulfing the male sacrier. He shuddered and looked all around him. He swiped the mess from his face with his wrist and bared his teeth. Behind him, a crunch. His ears twitched; he swung around, roared and jabbed the air blindly with a stout blade.
"SHOW YOURSELF!" he shouted, his voice distorted by paranoia. "You won't beat me this time!"
Iku and Akizura's eyes widened. "I can't see a thing!" Iku whispered. She cupped her hands together, and gently blew onto her palms. Slowly, the mist dissipated to reveal the tattered figure of the sacrier, shaking in a pool of his own sweat and blood.
Pad pad pad. Pounding footsteps. Then, two bulging eyes came into view, followed by a pink beak...
"Oh!" Akizura exclaimed. Iku pinched her friend in the shoulder in response.
"Is... that...?" she murmured, squinting her eyes.
"Think again," said a voice smoother than phoenix blood. Finally, the mysterious rider became visible. Despite having wickedly sharp ears, platinum locks of hair and bright azure wings perched on her back, the most striking feature of this female warrior was the dastardly grin on her face. It complemented her soft, rosy cheeks, that would lead any traveller to think she was but an innocent child. But though she was tiny, the fire of battle in her eyes would prove otherwise.
"It's Dickface!" Iku breathed, jumpy with anticipation.
"Who the feck...?!" Aki replied, snorting.
"Elessima, of course. Fyorl's little sister! That's our... sadistic... nickname for her, but we often just refer to her as D.F. It's kind of like why y'all call me Fatty."
Pep stuck out her tongue. "We call you that because you're fat, though."
Iku simply glared in response.
Meanwhile, the sacrier inhaled forcefully, creating a scarlet whirlwind around him. "Come on, midget, attack me."
Elessima lowered her eyelids and parted her lips. Casually, she lifted a finger and lightly waved it. The sky darkened as thousands of excited lightning bolts crawled over her skin. Her eyes glowed a piercing white that drew out the sweat from the sacrier's brow. Suddenly, the hot-pink dragoturkey stormed forward. Out of nowhere, this 'midget' heaved out a gargantuan, gold broadsword lined with thick metal teeth.
What the hell..." the male muttered, wincing. "What kind of eniripsa uses a sword?"
With a humorous huff, Elessima answered: "An awesome one."
Smiling smugly, she lugged down the chunky sword and watched it smash the sacrier full on in the chest. It sent him soaring into the pool and he was showered with green water. He spat excess moisture then surprisingly, there was a cheeky smirked smear on his face. He let out a wheezy guffaw, but Elessima neither flinched nor reacted.
"You torture me and torment me..." he said, clenching his fists and tensing his shoulders. "But now you will be punished!"
Elessima raised her eyebrow.
The ground vibrated and the bamboo forest shook menacingly. There was a blinding flash and a roar. Elessima's smile faded as the sacrier sent a ball of white fire rocketting from his fist, punching her in the gut. She flew off her mount and hurtled to the ground. Still, her expression did not falter, even as the blood trickled down her lips.
Quickly, she sprung to her feet and relentlessly threw herself at him once more. In alarm, the male threw up his hands in defence.
"But you're an eniripsa!" he shouted. "You're practically vomitting blood! Why don't you heal?"
SLAM! Blade met shoulder; It spewed like a red fountain. Life faded from the sacrier's eyes...
"Why heal when I can kill?" said Elessima cooly. "It's a waste of time and effort."
Shrivelled and drenched, the sacrier growled. "You're no eniripsa..! You're just a stupid iop wannabe!"
At that, Elessima scoffed and shook her head with disappointment. "I think you need to calm down. Here, have some pie."
Still hidden, Akizura giggled as she watched Elessima launch a flaming pastry. It slapped the male right in the face and he fell, lifeless and defeated.

If you want the rest, comment. Otherwise it's very I HAVE THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A 6 YEAR OLD AND AM FAR TOO POMPOUS TO READ THAT, BUT FEEL FULLY QUALIFIED TO COMMENT ANYWAY EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL THIS IS REALLY ABOUT. HERE'S MY RESPONSE THAT WON'T CONTRIBUTE TO THE THREAD. and takes up space xD

This post has been edited by Iku: 28 September 2011 - 02:11 AM

[harry maskell]

one word... MORE!

[Iku]

Exploring Nolifis Land pt 2
by ~Lolipopgi

Swiftly, Iku rose from her hiding place and clapped her hands enthusiastically. With a jolt, Elessima turned to face her familiar. She grinned in a friendly manner then walked idly over to her ex-opponent's corpse before heaving it ashore. She knelt down, slotted her hand into his legging pocket and retrieved two silver coins. "Here's what I was looking for," she muttered, dropping the coins down her top. She caught Iku and Akizura gawking and failed to hold back a snigger.
"You totally slaughtered him, Eless!" exclaimed Iku, clasping her hands together in admiration. Behind her, the blue-haired drifted, hands tucked behind her back.
The eniripsa nodded in her direction. "Who's she?"
Iku seized Akizura's shoulder hastily and flung her before Elessima. "This is Akizura."
Shyly, Pep twiddled her plait and flashed a grimace at this stranger. When Elessima glanced awkwardly at her, Iku's eyes widened with surprise at her friend's humility.
"She's probably just scared of you."
"Oi!" And the tension was gone.

"So what in the world are you doing in Pandala, Dickface?" Iku asked. At this, Aki chortled again.
Elessima reached down her top and eased out a scroll of scrappy parchment. "This. Let's just say I'm a part-time bounty hunter."
Iku looked remorsefully at the disfigured mess of a body sprawled on the floor. "I suppose his name was written on that paper."
The eniripsa nodded. "I have another." And once again, Akizura smiled as the little girl pulled out another scroll from her breasts. "I'm heading north to track this one."
The green-clad sram jiggled excitedly. "Can we come?!" she asked, hope shining in her eyes.
Elessima frowned. "It's a bit dangerous up there. There are some powerful creatures that not even I can defeat," her voice dropped to a whisper. "They're undead. And they show no mercy."
"Well," Iku replied. "The more the merrier then!" She punched the air triumphantly. "Teamwork!" And Pep mimicked her. However, Elessima was not amused.
"It's not a matter of defending ourselves, though," she explained, climbing aboard her mount. "You can avoid crossing their path if you're very careful."
Questioning glances were exchanged between Aki and Iku.
"Please?"
Elessima sighed, rolling her eyes. "If you don't waste my time."

So the three travellers trudged their way through the misty, bug-swarming forests of Pandala. Thanks to the bulky thighs of her dragoturkey and her incomparable impatience, Elessima often raced ahead, leaving the other two lost and ignorant, and to guess where their leader had bounded off to.
Soon enough, a swinging, wooden bridge emerged through the fog. It was supported above steaming waters by mere ropes of bamboo tied to two lopsided trunks on either side. In the distance, a howl reverberated. In fright, Akizura jumped. The mist caressed their bare skin, sending shivers down Iku's spine. She gulped and stared at the bridge.
Elessima nudged her mount and it cautiously placed one foot onto the bridge. It creaked eerily, causing the dragoturkey to rear back instinctively, snorting fearfully. With a sigh, the eniripsa leaped off, patting its neck.
"Fine, stay here," she said to it quietly. Afterwards, she flashed the other two a furious glare. "Move then!"
Straightening themselves quite like how a kilibriss does before it springs into motion, Iku and Akizura shuffled their weight to the bridge.
"Let's get this over with," Iku muttered. Pep said nothing, but her legs bockled with every slightly sway of the rope bridge before her friend. She huddled herself behind Iku like a child.
"Come on, Pep," the sram groaned. "Stop being such a cheeken. Grow some balls!"
"Do no want!" Aki responded, her lip quivering.
"Suit yourself." In a puff of smoke, Iku vanished. Pep froze, eyes bulging.
"Fatty..." she stammered. "D-don't... do that..."
Silence. Nearby, Elessima's eyes smiled mischieviously.
"Dora, this is no time for exploring!"
"Boo!" a whisper tickled her right ear. Aki's shoulders tensed and she screamed, flying over the bridge quicker than you can say 'ouginak'.
On the other side, she panted noisily, sniffling and tearful. "I hate you, Dora!" She whirled around, inhaled and shouted: "Come on then!" She whirled her fist around above her head, swinging an invisible rope. She tossed the imaginary lasso and tugged tightly.
"What the--" a voice on the opposite side of the bridge gasped. Grinning a wide, sharp-toothed grin, the sacrier roared as she yanked Iku out of the shadows, dragging her along the ricketty bridge. She whailed like a kido, flailing her arms until she stumbled onto the other side. She flopped on her front, face first into the dirt, grumbling and cursing beneath her hood.
"What in the world did you just do?!" she growled, her face completely drained of colour.
"Nothing, I'm just so attractive."
In the distance, they heard an exploding guffaw.

[Iku]

For Apex for Christmas. <3


Also, final part of Exploring Nolifis Land!

This island separated from the rest of the world was like no other place Iku had ever visited. The ground was moist everywhere, often so damp that the mud would grasp her feet and try to pull her under. The stench of rotting flesh stained the air, and dripping from the trees were torn limbs and tendrils of innards. All around her, Iku swore she could feel the touch of a cold hand on her neck and on her belly. She shuddered and huddled her shoulders for comfort. Thankfully, she had the warm embrace of Akizura to calm her spirits.
"This place is horrible," said the sacrier, pulling her hat over her eyes and scratching her arms in disturbance. "It's like a graveyard."
"It might as well be," Elessima muttered. She unrolled the yellow parchment she'd been carrying and skimmed her eyes over it. "Let's get a move on, before my bounty escapes."
Behind them, there was a booming cry. Iku and Aki yelped in dismay, ignoring Elessima's angry orders to be quiet. They spun around.
A great, white panda carrying a tall, gleaming katana came sprinting towards them.
"Dickface, what do we do?!" Iku muttered through gritted teeth. But when she searched for her companion, she had vanished. To her horror, she spotted the little girl charging towards it!
"What the fuck are you doing?!" Iku yelled, frantically jumping about. She felt a light poke in the shoulder. "What?!"
Akizura was gawking at something. Iku carefully followed her gaze...
Judging by the thundering footsteps it was making, the oncoming monster was probably humungous. Each stamp was as loud as Iku's pounding heart beats. To their right, there was another bellow. To their left, a cackle. Instinctively, the girls huddled together in the middle, waiting in a box of fear and apprehension.
Kicking aside a bamboo tree, a giant white fox stomped. It moved on its thick hind legs, and its fists were larger than a kaniger.
Akizura squinted her eyes... and stared straight through it!
"Is that a ghost?!" she hissed.
"This is a graveyard!" said Iku, touching the hilt of her daggers for reassurance.
Stopping before them, the giant ghost thrust out its chest, banged its fists on the floor and roared. White saliva sprayed their faces.
"But it seems pretty fucking realistic to me!" Iku breathed, her eyes practically bursting from their sockets. "Dickface! Help!"
Meanwhile, Elessima was in her knees, hunched behind her massive, rectangular sword. The panda struck its katana at the metal, sending lightning sparks spinning off it. "I'm kind of busy right now. Just keep the Yokai Firefoux ghost busy... and yourself alive."
The towering white fox growled.
Iku and Aki looked at each other. "RUN!"
Just as the hairy beast lugged down its fist, the pair dived desperately out of its reach. Instead, the fist smashed into a tree, which uprooted and toppled to the floor. The firefoux growled angrily and ground its teeth. Its bone-white fangs were like scythes, ready to butcher their bodies and send them to hell. It began to charge towards Akizura, whose feet had rooted her to the spot. Iku cried out for her safety.
"Tell me what to do!" Aki squealed.
"Catch!"
Out of the corner of her eye, Aki saw a small black disc soar towards her. She caught it, the monster mere metres away, and it combusted in her hands. Hundreds of menacing ropes and chains burst through the ground like unnaturally fast growing roots, latched onto the firefoux's face and limbs (and Aki's) and tied them to the floor. The firefoux's bound snout snarled.
"Nice one," called Elessima, who was running in circles away from the very energetic ninja panda. "Now stop standing around and do something useful!"
Iku gaped at her, feeling quite powerless. "Uh..."
"Quickly! This pandikaze just doesn't tire!" Elessima yelled, fatigue distorting her voice. Under her breath, she appended: "fucking hell."
The sram nodded sternly. She slowly lowered her eyelids and inhaled through her notrils. As she exhaled, Elessima had to blink a few times. She was seeing double! A woman completely identical to Iku had emanated in a puff, wearing a wide, devious grin on her face. She turned to face her master, who thrust her finger in the direction of her teammate.
"Go, go, go!" Iku ordered her twin. Without a word, the double sprinted towards the pandikaze ghost, who felt immediately provoked by this suicidal being. The double didn't seem capable of anything else until it planted two firm feet onto the feet of the pandikaze. It squired wildly, waving its katana violently. But the double refused to budge.
This intriguing tactic allowed Elessima to catch her breath. Akizura, in the meantime, was in a bit of a stitch.
"Hrrrrrrrpp!" she trying to scream through her gagged jaw. The firefoux was wriggling excitedly, edging closer and closer to her face. Its ghastly breath was all she could smell, feel and see, causing tears to well up in her empty eyes.
Elessima shook her head in disapproval while Iku bit her lower lip. The little healer raised her hands, focused them on the paralyzing trap Iku had casually tossed to Akizura.
"Brace yourself," she told Pep, who nodded in a feverish manner. She breathed in and a scarlet sphere flashed around her; she squeezed her eyes shut.
The eniripsa uttered a few words which Iku could not decipher causing the ropes that trapped Akizura to catch fire. The flames danced so eagerly that soon enough, Pep was free from her binds. She leapt onto her feet, eyes still fixated upon the flames. They had already started eating up the ropes tying down the Yokai ghost...
Iku shifted near to Elessima, who was rubbing her own blood onto Pep's burns. Her red liquid seemed to soothe her skin. They took the brief opportunity to rest before the battle resumed...
With the girls gaping in terror, the giant firefoux rose. Ropes and chains burst unpredictably and snapped violently as the beast ascended. They could see it was furious as its face was wrinkled in a snarl.
"I don't wanna die!" Iku whimpered, pulling her hood over her eyes timidly. "I promise myself if I'd kill Dark Vlad first!"
Elessima looked at her, furrowing her brow. "I think you need to calm down."
"Behind you!" Pep cried. And sure enough, the restless panda samurai from previously had returned. It stepped over Iku's dead doppleganger and cantered towards them, brandishing his sword. Oncoming pandikaze from one side and a fiercesome Yokai firefoux on the other. They were surrounded!
"Run or attack?! Attack or run?!" Iku shrieked, flapping her arms. A vein throbbed on the eniripsa's forehead. The ghosts were closing in; the three huddled closer.
"Run!" Iku screamed.
"Attack!" Aki roared.
"Duck!" Elessima demanded. At once, the team's knees' caved and they collapsed to the floor, just as the Yokai took a murderous swing. They rolled out of jeopardy as its fingers practically stroked the tops of their heads and collided with its teammates stubby nose. The pandikaze grunted in agony, tottering about dizzily.
"Wow, it didn't even hold back attacking its own teammate. Are you two related, Eless?" Iku joked. In attempt to glare darkly upon her friend, Elessima simply chuckled as if to agree. She jumped to her feet and Iku mirrored.
Upon realising what it had done, the firefoux stamped the ground stupidly. It raised its steel paw once more, intent on crushing the vulnerable blue-haired sacrier, who had not been paying attention and was still lying around.
She squeaked in alarm. "Feck you, guys!" she said.
Iku punched Elessima's shoulder in frustration. "Pep, for fuck's sake, just do something!"
The Yokai's fist zoomed towards Pep's head...
Pop! A flash of red was all she could see. Suddenly, she was lying on the ground elsewhere, metres away from danger. She thought she'd died until she spotted her friends, Iku and Elessima, and a huge fox ghost punch a sword-wielding teddy bear in the face!
"What did I...?"
The pandikaze was destroyed by its own ally, fading into nothing, like white sand in the breeze.
Iku whirled around until she could stare her friend in the eyes. "Pep, you did it!"
Gormless, Akizura forced a smile.
"No time for celebratng," Elessima pointed out, dusting ghost residue from her shoulder.
"Oh, piss off," Iku groaned at the firefoux, whippinh out her ice daggers from her belt. "I'm'a rip you up so bad you gonna look like a fool with pants on the ground!"
"What...?" Elessima rumbled, pondering why she ever hung out with this girl.
"Allow me!" boomed a manly voice in the distance. Glimmering sunlight cascaded through the trees, showering the figure in light. It was a beefy-shouldered man, with tall blond hair and a bold red cross stamped on his tunic. In his hand was a fat, broadsword, challenging the immensity of Elessima's, which he rested casually on his back. But the most distinctive feature he had was his sparkling, toothy grin.
"Don't worry, girls, I'll save you from this accursed beast of the Underworld!" he called, almost serenading them. Iku stared at him in disbelief, Aki watched in bemusement and shock while Elessima, whose eyes had suddenly turned so dark, wore a satisfied smirk.
But all three waited hopefully for this iop to distract the great, white ghost.
He stepped forth, provoking the firefoux instantly. It spun to face him.
"Dancing swords of mutilation, go!" the man shouted, raising his weapon to the sky. A circle of fast orbitting swords surrounded him and drew blood from his skin like dozens of syringes.
"He seemed so happy," Iku whispered. "Now he's self-harming." Pep walked to join her companions. "Maybe you should show him your boobs, Pep."
"I'll do it," Elessima suggested, raising a little hand. An awkward pause hung in the air. The other two looked glumly at her chest.
"Just... no."
A shrieking battle cry erupted from the iop. With one, flaming swipe of his sword, the Yokai firefoux was ripped apart until it was nothing more than a spirit in the mist. Blissful silence filled the air, mixed with the soft sound of rippling water.
The iop kissed his blade and slung it over his shoulder, thrusting his chin out. "Now I've saved you, ladies," he said suavely. "How about some hot lovin'?"
All of a sudden, Elessima appeared out from under and gashed the full length of his back with her own weapon, landing calmly on her feet. Her eyes were cunning like, well, a fox.
"What the fuck, you crazy bitch?!" the iop exclaimed viciously, his heroic composure shattered as he spluttered blood. "I just saved your ass!"
The eniripsa shrugged blankly. "I don't give a shit. I didn't ask you to save us. You're my bounty, so I'm going to kill you."
At this, Iku exploded with laughter, clutching her sides. "Ruthless, completely ruthless." And Akizura giggled alongside her, feeling a lot more comfortable in the deadliest forest in the world.

[Xu-Xu Furry Boobies]

Formulamonster, on 26 September 2011 - 10:26 AM, said:

I need to stop visiting this section of the forums or lose my self esteem D:

I don't look good in a bikini D:

this is where I checked you profile because for a moment I thought "wait.. what? formulamonster is a gurl????"

@iku: my favorites are the google sign and the last drawing

[Handz]

so beautiful

[harry maskell]

Poor iop

But good story none the less!

[Iku]

Hey ho, new plushie! Introducing Makarony the feca:

Part of an upcoming series of plushies for a new friend, Guybrush.

Edit: Ew fecas have elf ears. Need to edit.

This post has been edited by Iku: 07 February 2012 - 04:51 AM

[Iku]

Happy V day, Apex.

This post has been edited by Iku: 15 February 2012 - 05:26 AM

[-Bird]

Wowwwwww SUPER talented!!!!

[Maguls]

Iku, on 15 February 2012 - 05:25 AM, said:

Happy V day, Apex.

I am still waiting for a Sram plushie !

good work so far Iku.

[Iku]

Four-seasons the iop!

[MarkB]

Haha at seasons

Great stuff

Won't lie the google thing is pure genius lovin it
Love how u make the dolls as well, and clothes