The Frozen Empire

[Nightfire]

The Churning Sea

The somewhat joint group of the Frozens and Burnings reunited with Jay and Bronze. Fire Diamond seemed to have an instant connection to Jay; it might be because of their vibrant colored bodies or sibling relations. Either way, Fire Diamond was still a bit sad about her mother's passing, although it doesn't seem to hinder her.

Dodo ran off after seeing Bronze and Jay, somewhat guiltily. Tiger's Eye wondered why.

Fearless pulled Evergreen aside to talk to her. Tiger's Eye and Laika, both suspicious of this, went after them, though keeping their distances.

Meanwhile, Arctic was getting chased by Onion and Lichen. They were slower than Onion, so they would need to find a new strategy to get away.

Jumping onto a stump, Arctic looked around. The best they could think of was climbing the steep slope up the mountain.

Running towards the mountainside, they had no idea they were about to bring together the mountains, forever.

 

Evergreen was taking the clover wrap off her eye, blinking off dried blood. A visible scar still showed, but at least Evergreen wasn't dead.

Evergreen: "What do you need, Fearless?"

Fearless glared at her. "You killed my father. You tried to kill my mother, while she was expecting. And then you did with that other poison-snouted monst-"

Evergreen: "Leave Tiger's Eye out of this. She was doing what she thought was right."

Fearless raised their chin. "She's as bad as you."

Evergreen didn't respond. "What do you need anyways? You didn't answer my question."

Fearless glared at Evergreen with such intensity, it could melt the mountain's snows forever. "I need to you to die."

[Nightfire]

Page 10!

[orinz]

iS iT bAd ThAt I dIdNt KnOw WhIcH wAs Fearless UnTiL nOw?

[orinz]

oR Lakia?

(i actually still dont know who lakia is)

[Nightfire]

Peace at Last

Very short post because Fox Heart is an icon

Fox Heart woke up to see her first child. Excitement filled her up; although she had seen this thousands of times before, each new child she had in every different body was unique, and she would love them, even if she forgot them eventually.

Although she was a spirit of evil and death and whatnot, she did sometimes do good; usually, to help her children in different forms. For example; convincing her son Iron to lead his tribe to a new, safer island and staying behind. Protecting her twins Ghost and Spirit from a bearyena, costing her life. Helping Ebony, her mate and her children escape the wrath of a terrible leader.

But there was one thing that stood out in every life; she always helped children whose parents died, abandoned them or didn't have parents at all.

No matter how bad she is at her core, like all villains, there was a soft spot. She wanted nobody to suffer like she did.

As Fox Heart looked down at her new child, he sneezed.

Fire Ruby and Dragonfruit were surprised, before Fire Ruby spoke.

"So.. we'll leave it here and tell Lichen you two can't be mates."

Dragonfruit stared at her for a second darkly.

Fox Heart stared down at the child.

Fire Ruby: "And we should probably kill it, before it could infect anyone else."

Something clicked in Fox Heart.

She had lived so many lives, she had forgotten how her original life went.

This seemed.. familiar. Almost like she was getting to watch herself.

"No." Fox Heart looked at Fire Ruby firmly. "I'm not leaving him. And I'm 1/3 of this tribe's leadership."

Fire Ruby glared back. "We'll see what Onion says about this."

For a second, even with the two fighting, Fox Heart felt as if she had finally found inner peace. Like she had finally gotten the life she deserved. At least, she was going to give her child that life.

[Nightfire]

Death of a Hundred Years

Bit of graphic description in the end of this one!

Barely enough time to react, Evergreen leaped away from Fearless as they sprang towards her with zero fear, living up to their name.

Fearless: "Get back over here, and pay for your crimes!"

Evergreen felt that she needed to pay, but she wasn't certain this was how.

Racing up from the mountain, a party of three blue-gemmed nichelings came up.

A gray one was running from two others, who stopped in their tracks.

 

Down on the rest of the mountain, the groups making up the different Empires began to split.

Fire Diamond, Bronze and Jay all left the tribes, planning to explore the mountain, Bronze and Fire Diamond settling down as mates.

Carrion, Rowan and Soil also decided to leave the Empires. But both agreed that if either group needed something, they could ask them.

Hundreds of years of history, lost just like that. The Empires would need to expand even more now.

Horizon and Alecto went up to join the remaining Empire nichelings, and tell them the news.

 

Tiger's Eye recognized Arctic and their ambitious, overly aggressive older half-brother.

She jumped forwards: "Onion! Stop. Don't hurt your sibling."

Onion glared at her: "Get out of my way! You've ruined everything for me! As soon as you and your stupid siblings joined, you and Horizon have been jeopardizing my position as heir and most powerful." He smiled maliciously. "At long last, I can secure my place as strongest."

He raised his claw up. But instead of hitting Tiger's Eye, he saw his claw intercepted by Arctic.

Tiger's Eye jumped forwards to the opportunity, and sprayed black venom all over his face.

.

Onion had never felt so much pain in his life.

It felt as if a thousand balance bears were all biting into his face at the same time, ripping at his eyes, noise, mouth, and twisted skull.

He faltered, falling backwards out of blindness and began to slide down the mountain's steep slope. He found a hotsprings and buried his face in its water in hopes the venom would freeze, but to no avail.

Raising his head out of the water, viciously scratching at his melting face, he felt snow fall from the sky, hauntingly calming.

He had been born in the prime of the snows, a blaze in the mountain that ravaged and inflicted pain for the sake of living up to Quartz.

Now, as he collapsed, in his final bloody moments, unable to move and think properly, brain being eaten up, it was only poetic that he died in the beginning of a new storm, drenched in water.

And at long last, a hundred years of horrible tyrannical crime, rule and wrongdoings were all lost to time.

[Nightfire]

Shadows of the Past

Lichen watched as Onion's body fell to the ground, dissolving into bones quickly.

He turned to run back to the rest of the Organization, but Evergreen grabbed the back of his head, and roughly dragged him back up the mountain. He didn't struggle.

Lichen watched as his brother, a cold and rude nicheling he hadn't known all that well, Dodo, left the Empires. Too brave for his own good.

Tiger's Eye stared at him, mouth hinged like a snake, preparing to shoot venom out at any second. "Tell us, Lichen, what were you and Onion doing chasing down Arctic?"

The pink nicheling stared into the jaws of potential death. His mind raced, but he couldn't think of a lie to save his mate and child he had never met. "Onion made this.. group. He forced me and Arctic to join. Arctic ran off, but I stayed with my mate and was made to help chase them down."

"Where is this group?"

Lichen swallowed fearfully, pointing his shaking paw towards east of the mountain.

Evergreen looked over from her stump. "He's right. I can see Pomegranate."

"How many nichelings are there?" Laika asks.

"Uhh. Me, Onion- he's now dead- Fox Heart, Fire Ruby, Arctic- but not really-, me and Fox Heart's child, and Pomegranate, if you saw him."

Horizon grinned. "Good. Easy to destroy. We have the ability to." She flexed her claw. "I suppose since you've been so helpful, we'll leave Fox Heart alive, and your child, I guess. Fire Ruby can make us immortal, so we'll keep her alive as well, just imprisoned."

Lichen shook in fear.

What have I done..?

 

Horizon smiled, preparing to go to war.

But, her sisters approached her.

Tiger's Eye looked at her sadly. "Horizon, I'm going to be completely honest with you. Me and Evergreen don't.. we don't want to fight."

Evergreen nodded. "I don't want to kill anymore. I've done that too much."

Horizon stared at them, a mixture of emotions filling her mind. But she knew to be a great leader, she'd need to be calm and fair to them.

Horizon: "If you help us defeat Onion's group, I won't make you fight at all after that."

Evergreen's eyes looked so hopeful, it was bittersweet. "Thank you, Horizon."

The shadows in Evergreen's past began to clear.

There's no way to change the past. You just need to prove you've changed.

And it looks like Evergreen has changed significantly.

[orinz]

*me getting excited and physically playing through a battle in the frozen empire somehow and for some reason*

[orinz]

urrrrrg why has this compelled me to actually work on my own playthrough????

[Nightfire]

AHAHAHAahahaha..haha..ha..

Don't know how to write this tragically because this is the only screenshot I got of this scene,,,, but uh

..yeah

black child is Dragonfruit and Pomegranate's btw

[Nightfire]

Next post is gonna be reallll depressing

prepare >:)))

[Nightfire]

Path to the Stars

Fearless came up from a lower hotsprings, carrying Onion's skull. Horizon nodded at them thankfully, holding it in her nimble paw.

It was time.

She plopped Lichen into the hotsprings.

"Don't leave. You'll die or get caught in the crossfire."

"But-"

"Whose your mate and child?"

"Fox Heart. And I haven't met my child yet."

Horizon nodded, leaving him.

The group carefully padded forwards, their footsteps muffled by the blizzard.

Just beyond their snowdrift was the group, anxiously wondering where Lichen and Onion went.

"3..."

Tiger's Eye was ready to fight this battle, tooth and claw, for her freedom.

"..2...."

She knew it was now or never.

"..1...."

The last nichelings she would ever have to kill. For her freedom.

Was it selfish? Yes.. the ends didn't justify the means.

But then again. She had to help her own tribe. She had to destroy all in her path because she was 'gifted'.

"...."

And then, she realized something.

'You will bring death to this island, one nicheling at a time'

It hadn't meant she would kill everyone.

Her own birth had been immediate death to the Burnings.

But then again, she hadn't killed anyone from the Burnings at the time.

Everywhere she went, there was tragedy; she couldn't avoid that.

It hadn't meant she was a murderer.

"..."

It meant she would see murderers. She would bring nichelings like Evergreen and the entirety of the Frozens to peace. 

If death represented someone who had killed, and had seen themselves above the rest, back down to the island.

She had spared Evergreen and taught her to be better, and to stop resisting herself.

She had helped the Frozens by sacrificing herself to the Burnings.

All acted as above conflict and better than the rest.

".."

And all had murdered.

"."

She hadn't become a monster at all- Fox Heart had lied, or Tiger's Eye had resisted.

"Go!"

She had finally found her calling; it was there all along. She was stronger than fate, she chose her own path.

 

The Frozens descended on the group.

Pomegranate instantly shoved his mate and daughter down the mountain.

"Run!"

Fire Ruby and Evergreen fought viciously. Her old training was obvious; she was avoiding Evergreen's venom-shooting range quite smoothly.

Tiger's Eye sprang forwards, biting into Fire Ruby, tearing into her shoulder.

Fire Ruby shrieked in pain, shoving her backwards. Tiger's Eye fell backwards, landing into a snowdrift.

She sprung forwards, purposely spraying snow into the surround nicheling's faces.

Tiger's Eye shot venom across her entire face, but her rage didn't falter.

 

Fire Ruby pinned down Tiger's Eye; claw raised, face melting in a horrifying show.

For a second, her life flashed before her eyes.

But this wasn't like the old times she was facing death.

It felt more of like an inescapable trap she kept avoiding; a problem she put in the dark and finally had to face, not a near death experience.

She had finally learned that her calling was in her all along; she didn't need to do anything to find it.

So what purpose did she have to resist dying again?

There was none.

She had left her mark on the world. She had put everything on the path to greatness. She had nothing left to lose now.

Instead of blocking her claw or trying to dodge, Tiger's Eye simply shut her eyes.

 

The path to the stars was ahead of her now, as all her pains vanished and light blurred her vision.

"..Goodbye, everyone."

The death of a legend, the rise of a truth.

[Chiyanna]

3 hours ago, Nightfire said:

Path to the Stars

Fearless came up from a lower hotsprings, carrying Onion's skull. Horizon nodded at them thankfully, holding it in her nimble paw.

It was time.

She plopped Lichen into the hotsprings.

"Don't leave. You'll die or get caught in the crossfire."

"But-"

"Whose your mate and child?"

"Fox Heart. And I haven't met my child yet."

Horizon nodded, leaving him.

The group carefully padded forwards, their footsteps muffled by the blizzard.

Just beyond their snowdrift was the group, anxiously wondering where Lichen and Onion went.

"3..."

Tiger's Eye was ready to fight this battle, tooth and claw, for her freedom.

"..2...."

She knew it was now or never.

"..1...."

The last nichelings she would ever have to kill. For her freedom.

Was it selfish? Yes.. the ends didn't justify the means.

But then again. She had to help her own tribe. She had to destroy all in her path because she was 'gifted'.

"...."

And then, she realized something.

'You will bring death to this island, one nicheling at a time'

It hadn't meant she would kill everyone.

Her own birth had been immediate death to the Burnings.

But then again, she hadn't killed anyone from the Burnings at the time.

Everywhere she went, there was tragedy; she couldn't avoid that.

It hadn't meant she was a murderer.

"..."

It meant she would see murderers. She would bring nichelings like Evergreen and the entirety of the Frozens to peace. 

If death represented someone who had killed, and had seen themselves above the rest, back down to the island.

She had spared Evergreen and taught her to be better, and to stop resisting herself.

She had helped the Frozens by sacrificing herself to the Burnings.

All acted as above conflict and better than the rest.

".."

And all had murdered.

"."

She had saved them from going down the path of death by bringing them down from the clouds.

"Go!"

She had finally found her calling; it was there all along.

 

The Frozens descended on the group.

Pomegranate instantly shoved his mate and daughter down the mountain.

"Run!"

Fire Ruby and Evergreen fought viciously. Her old training was obvious; she was avoiding Evergreen's venom-shooting range quite smoothly.

Tiger's Eye sprang forwards, biting into Fire Ruby, tearing into her shoulder.

Fire Ruby shrieked in pain, shoving her backwards. Tiger's Eye fell backwards, landing into a snowdrift.

She sprung forwards, purposely spraying snow into the surround nicheling's faces.

Tiger's Eye shot venom across her entire face, but her rage didn't falter.

 

Fire Ruby pinned down Tiger's Eye; claw raised, face melting in a horrifying show.

For a second, her life flashed before her eyes.

But this wasn't like the old times she was facing death.

It felt more of like an inescapable trap she kept avoiding; a problem she put in the dark and finally had to face, not a near death experience.

She had finally learned that her calling was in her all along; she didn't need to do anything to find it.

So what purpose did she have to resist dying again?

There was none.

She had left her mark on the world. She had put everything on the path to greatness. She had nothing left to lose now.

Instead of blocking her claw or trying to dodge, Tiger's Eye simply shut her eyes.

 

The path to the stars was ahead of her now, as all her pains vanished and light blurred her vision.

"..Goodbye, everyone."

The death of a legend, the rise of a truth.

NOOOOO YOU KILLED OFF TIGER'S EYE fhwehyrqerjkdd. I'm actually crying

[Nightfire]

15 minutes ago, Chiyanna said:

NOOOOO YOU KILLED OFF TIGER'S EYE fhwehyrqerjkdd. I'm actually crying

I WAS going to give her a good ending but she only had 6 days left on her lifespan and I didn't want to say "They won the war, Tiger's Eye is fina- oh no she's dead"

[orinz]

lol

(oops i forgot to quote the "I WAS going to give her a good ending but she only had 6 days left on her lifespan and I didn't want to say "They won the war, Tiger's Eye is fina- oh no she's dead"" comment, lol)

[Chiyanna]

1 hour ago, Nightfire said:

I WAS going to give her a good ending but she only had 6 days left on her lifespan and I didn't want to say "They won the war, Tiger's Eye is fina- oh no she's dead"

(Ah I see, I don't know what I would have done, probably cheated and gave her more days lol)

[orinz]

btw i have a question. is it normal not to have many comment on the side in rps or playthroughs? cuz in a playthrough i've done, i havent gotten many comments, and instead more reactions and simple viewing. and i also see the same here, not much commenting from much of the people who follow the playthrough, and only a lil more reactions than comments

[Nightfire]

1 hour ago, orinz said:

btw i have a question. is it normal not to have many comment on the side in rps or playthroughs? cuz in a playthrough i've done, i havent gotten many comments, and instead more reactions and simple viewing. and i also see the same here, not much commenting from much of the people who follow the playthrough, and only a lil more reactions than comments

It took a bit of time for the story to progress before there were comments on the side, enough for people to get attached to the story/ characters.

So it might take awhile if things develop too slowly or poorly

[Nightfire]

Season 3

 

Also for anyone wondering what counts as a season;

Brownie/ Truffle's life-death - season 1

Tiger's Eye finding her calling - season 2

Now this with Finch - season 3

And yes I did have to cheat this in shhhh

[Chiyanna]

(Who is Finch?)

[Nightfire]

44 minutes ago, Chiyanna said:

(Who is Finch?)

a wanderer I invited in

[orinz]

20 hours ago, Nightfire said:

Season 3

 

Now this with Finch - season 3

And yes I did have to cheat this in shhhh

hehehee... changing ze gene of wanders... i took a step furtherer... and did it to rogue males  >:D 

[MATTRESS]

I've been reading this for like months now and I still don't know what's going on lol

[Nightfire]

44 minutes ago, Polly said:

I've been reading this for like months now and I still don't know what's going on lol

its a bit confusing at times lol

[Nightfire]

On 7/1/2021 at 12:12 PM, Nightfire said:

I WAS going to give her a good ending but she only had 6 days left on her lifespan and I didn't want to say "They won the war, Tiger's Eye is fina- oh no she's dead"

Just going to say, the good ending would've gone down like this:

During the battle, Tiger's Eye would've killed Pomegranate, but jump behind him while doing so, and act as if she had died to 'fake her death'.

Evergreen would run over in surprise, and see Tiger's tail vanishing into the snow drift and trying to hide.

She would then decide to let Tiger's Eye run away and escape the pressure to be an all-powerful nicheling defender of the Empire, and also put all that pressure on herself. Kind of like the sacrifice Tiger's Eye did as a teen to protect the Empire.

Evergreen would act as if Pomegranate's body was Tiger's Eye, while also shoving Tiger's Eye down the mountain even more.

The Empire would mourn Tiger's Eye, who escapes down the mountain and eventually falls onto a swamp port.

She would have the same 'calling' realization thing. As the Empire is going back to the camp, Evergreen looks back and makes eye contact with Tiger's Eye. Both would kinda be like 'thank you for helping me'.

Tiger's Eye goes to explore the swamps (not literally go to the swamps) and Evergreen goes back to the camp.

.

I think after that, I would copy down Tiger's genes by turning off blind genes and doing the same thing I did with Truffle and Brownie, reset her lifespan to teen, and maybe drop the save file here.