<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Condiment|Meddon" rel="stylesheet"><style type="text/css">.TenBri3_container1 {position: relative;z-index: 1;width: 540px;padding: 0;background: #7d7d7d;box-shadow: 0 0 2em #000;border-radius: 25px;}.TenBri3_container {position: relative;z-index: 1;width: 500px;padding: 15px;background: #000 url('https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4b/23/6f/4b236f1384dd96484b8897b90174cba0.jpg')no-repeat center top;box-shadow: 0 0 2em #000;border-radius: 25px;}.TenBri3_container p {margin: 0;}.TenBri3_image {height: 360px;visibility: hidden;border-radius: 25px;}.TenBri3_message {text-align: justify;font: 12px 'Times New Roman', serif;padding: 15px 20px;color: #dbdbdb;background: rgba(125, 125, 125, 0.78);border-radius: 25px;box-shadow: 0 0 2em #000;}.TenBri3_name {position: relative;z-index: 3;text-align: center;font: 50px 'Meddon', cursive;color: #7d7d7d;padding: 0;bottom: 380px;text-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #fff;}.TenBri3_quote {text-align: center;font: 16px 'Condiment', cursive;color: #fff;padding: 10px;}</style><center><div class="TenBri3_container1"><div class="TenBri3_container"><img class="TenBri3_image" src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b278/ruinedecho/17590388-8297-4637-b54a-59e036915156_zpsmlrfuhm9.jpg"><p class="TenBri3_name">Tenebris</p><p class="TenBri3_quote">The night is cold and empty</p><p class="TenBri3_message">The night around him is calm, the dark air is laden with the thick scent of the cool winter earth. His alabaster blotched sides shudder as he breathes. Tenebris is calm, water rushing about his thick bodice with crushing intensity. Yet the stallion does not move. He stays completely still amongst the steel waters of the river that grips him. This is a practice he had been doing for a long time.... Submerging himself in the frigid temperature seemed to clear his head. It made room for more precious thoughts and helped store away (or block) memories. His azure eyes are closed to keep out the blinding wind, lips cracked with a stinging bite. Slowly he begins to move, muscles tearing away from their forced hibernation. He does not gasp as he once had when he began this thrill, he merely moves onto the frozen banks of the river's bed. Speckled sides shake as he clears his dark pelt of excess water. Tenebris sucks in a deep breath now, suddenly bored of the river and what it had to offer for his hobby. Now he wanted to move onto bigger challenges, darker challenges...He travels to the destination in mind slowly. The pattered stag is not in a rush to make it to his challenger, for it would be there long after he had passed on. He takes the long route there, passing mountains, rivers, fields of rolling marigolds. The night bleeds into rosy mornings and fades once more into violet dusks. Though when he arrives, it is mid day. Not a cloud dotted the crystal sky. In fact, it was so clear he was sure he could see heaven reflected in the whitecapped waves beneath the azure dome.He has arrived at the ocean.The beach he stands upon is dark, fine ebony grains spilling over coal covered hooves before being washed away by lapping waves. The air is thick with salt and seaweed, he smiles a chapped lipped smile. His peace is short lived, however, for a storm is coming. And it is coming fast. It seems as though his eye were closed for a mere second before the storm was upon him. The once mirror of heaven above was now blanketed in thick storm clouds. Maybe if he concentrated he may hear the torment of hell instead of the cry of angels. With a twisted maul of horror, he backs away from the suddenly terrifying ocean water. His gaze travels from the sky to the ocean beneath it. When he had examined it before he had not seen the crashing waves upon solid rock, or the creatures that lurked beneath the murky waters. What he assumed to be sea creatures of twisted origin, were actually faces peering back at him. Was this hell that he was seeing? Or some twisted figment of his frozen mind? Though one face in particular calls to him and gives him his answer.She was as lovely as she had been the night they met all those years ago. Violet pansies were still twisted in the pale shower of her milky mane. Pale honey colored eyes stared at him with a deep sadness and longing. "Brama?" His voice is a whisper quickly torn to shreds by the intense wind swirling around him. It lifts his mane and throws it into focused orbs. When he regains his sight she is gone, replaced with long since faded images of his past. His mother, his sweet ,sweet mother... She stares at him with hatred. She mouths what seems to him a scream. 'I know what you did to her..' Her lips form the silent words and he screams, plunging into the crushing weight of the waves."MAMA."~~The world around him is black, but his is cradled in someones embrace. He looks down, and he has the body of a child, the legs he is caged in are familiar. "Mama..."
He is contempt, he feels safe. With a childish gaze he turns his head upward only to be faced with the twisted maul of what had been his mother. He saw what had been done to her all those years ago in that mountain pass. "Awake young Tenebris, your journey has only just begun."He can not find it in himself to scream.~~Tenebris awakes on a soft cushion of sand, his head pillowed upon long dried seaweed. Bones pop in his dirt crusted neck as he attempts to raise it."I wouldn't do that if I were you.." He screams in bewilderment, a quick noise of surprise. It is quickly greeted with laughter, and warm amber eyes are peering out at him from beneath a milk colored mane. "Hello, Im Alessa.. and I don't know your name."The girl that is speaking to him is young. She couldn't be more than three he thought. Despite her previous suggestion, the dark stallion stands, legs spread to support his famished figure. A dry tongue flecks out of his mouth to lap at parched lips, his eyes hollow of any recollection of what might have happened to him."Te-...Tenebris," He manages to choke this out before he is vomiting on the shore. His body expells seawater and memory, his body shuddering with the effort. "Oh dear me Tenebris. I believe you should come with me,"Despite the refusal in his mind, his body is weak, and it complies. He follows the girl deep into the heart of wherever it is he has arrived. They leave the beach and trek (what feels like) miles into the tropical jungle skirting the shore. Quite a bit later they reach a large clearing. At the center of it lies a small freshwater deposit, and all around it are horses staring curiously back at him."Welcome to my home Tenebris...Rest now and talk later."~~While it took days for the stallion to recover, it took him moments to make friends of the horses that inhabited the oasis. There was the quirky palomino girl Alessa that has brought him here. He quickly became infatuated with her... There was her father Leopold, a curious gray fellow who loved nothing more than his mate (Alessa's mother) Nerissa, a lady of.... open minded backgrounds. Among them, there was Giana, Helos, Miach, Emma, Fiond and Ferrin (Twin orphans) and Serephos.Quickly they became a family, roaming the oasis and the island beyond together. They were a finely oiled machine, each being a well-made part. Tenebris loved each and every one of them with his whole heart (maybe Alessa a bit more). He refused to see his life without them. He has found his home.~~"Tenebris you must awaken now!" The voice that calls to him is that of Helos, and it is urgent."No." He mumbles, eyes squeezing shut as if to ward out the sun."Awaken now you drunken fool! Alessa is gone!" His eyes fly open and his body is in motion. The ebony stallion above him is knocked aside with the force of his movements. Around him stand the others. He can see the heaving side of the stone colored twins Fiond and Ferrin. Emma clings to the blood red side of Giana, who's face is hidden in the twisted mane of Nerissa. The other men (Miach, Serephos, and Leopold) stand to the side, their faces grave."Why do you all stand here like ocean stones? Have you not looked for her?"
Tenebris is screaming, whipping his head to each of them in a blinded rage. His head is not correctly screwed on, his mind not processing that they were not at fault for this."We have searched the oasis, there is no sign of her.." It is Alessa's father who speaks, ebony mane hiding his sunken features."We must find her." It is Fiond now, speaking before his brother could. Tenebris offers a grave nod, his eyes trained upon the sandy earth."So find her we shall."</p></div></center>
He is contempt, he feels safe. With a childish gaze he turns his head upward only to be faced with the twisted maul of what had been his mother. He saw what had been done to her all those years ago in that mountain pass. "Awake young Tenebris, your journey has only just begun."He can not find it in himself to scream.~~Tenebris awakes on a soft cushion of sand, his head pillowed upon long dried seaweed. Bones pop in his dirt crusted neck as he attempts to raise it."I wouldn't do that if I were you.." He screams in bewilderment, a quick noise of surprise. It is quickly greeted with laughter, and warm amber eyes are peering out at him from beneath a milk colored mane. "Hello, Im Alessa.. and I don't know your name."The girl that is speaking to him is young. She couldn't be more than three he thought. Despite her previous suggestion, the dark stallion stands, legs spread to support his famished figure. A dry tongue flecks out of his mouth to lap at parched lips, his eyes hollow of any recollection of what might have happened to him."Te-...Tenebris," He manages to choke this out before he is vomiting on the shore. His body expells seawater and memory, his body shuddering with the effort. "Oh dear me Tenebris. I believe you should come with me,"Despite the refusal in his mind, his body is weak, and it complies. He follows the girl deep into the heart of wherever it is he has arrived. They leave the beach and trek (what feels like) miles into the tropical jungle skirting the shore. Quite a bit later they reach a large clearing. At the center of it lies a small freshwater deposit, and all around it are horses staring curiously back at him."Welcome to my home Tenebris...Rest now and talk later."~~While it took days for the stallion to recover, it took him moments to make friends of the horses that inhabited the oasis. There was the quirky palomino girl Alessa that has brought him here. He quickly became infatuated with her... There was her father Leopold, a curious gray fellow who loved nothing more than his mate (Alessa's mother) Nerissa, a lady of.... open minded backgrounds. Among them, there was Giana, Helos, Miach, Emma, Fiond and Ferrin (Twin orphans) and Serephos.Quickly they became a family, roaming the oasis and the island beyond together. They were a finely oiled machine, each being a well-made part. Tenebris loved each and every one of them with his whole heart (maybe Alessa a bit more). He refused to see his life without them. He has found his home.~~"Tenebris you must awaken now!" The voice that calls to him is that of Helos, and it is urgent."No." He mumbles, eyes squeezing shut as if to ward out the sun."Awaken now you drunken fool! Alessa is gone!" His eyes fly open and his body is in motion. The ebony stallion above him is knocked aside with the force of his movements. Around him stand the others. He can see the heaving side of the stone colored twins Fiond and Ferrin. Emma clings to the blood red side of Giana, who's face is hidden in the twisted mane of Nerissa. The other men (Miach, Serephos, and Leopold) stand to the side, their faces grave."Why do you all stand here like ocean stones? Have you not looked for her?"
Tenebris is screaming, whipping his head to each of them in a blinded rage. His head is not correctly screwed on, his mind not processing that they were not at fault for this."We have searched the oasis, there is no sign of her.." It is Alessa's father who speaks, ebony mane hiding his sunken features."We must find her." It is Fiond now, speaking before his brother could. Tenebris offers a grave nod, his eyes trained upon the sandy earth."So find her we shall."</p></div></center>
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