(The information for Marcus can be found here-<br/>Edit - 20/2/2020 -  Jesus has it really been a decade since I joined this. I have such amazing memories that came from this rp and the ones it led to with me and Arkain.<br/><br/>m<a class="postlink" href="http://rp.aryion.com/profile/Marcus_Rahdys">http://rp.aryion.com/profile/Marcus_Rahdys</a>m<br/><br/><br/><br/>"Damit all where the hell is he" the young man thought to himself as he spat more grains of dust and sand out of his mouth before altering the angle of his left wing and banking a little to take advantage of a better thermal that was rising a few yards away, sighing as the strain was taken off his aching back and shoulders for the moment by the gentle push of the warmer air under his wings he reached up to his face and pulled away his goggles and letting them flop down around his neck.<br/><br/>If it wasn't for the constant dust that the winds picked up and the muscles that were in danger of mutinying against their master because of his stupidity and the strain he was putting them under he might have been enjoying the view from far above the ground.<br/><br/>He had been traveling out here for nearly a week and he had been so tired the last time he had landed the night before that he had very nearly been unable to take of because of the driving winds lower down, so much so that he didn't dare land again until he was sure he could get off the ground again, and from the grit that was being lifted so far into the air to annoy him he doubted that the air was any calmer down there.<br/><br/>That was a big problem that had been poking at him all morning but not nearly as worrisome as the fact that he didn't know where he was going so just as he had done three times in the last couple hours he settled into a glide and unbuckled his jacket sleeve before he pulled it up to his shoulder to uncover the thick black lines of a tattoo in the shape of a salamander.<br/><br/>To anyone that might have been watching if they had been up there with him the next ten seconds might have made them question their sanity but for the young looking man it was completely normal as he ran a finger down along the things back as if stroking it before saying..<br/><br/>"come on you lazy sod, point me in the right direction or you wont get you next feed"<br/><br/>Almost as if it didn't much care the black tattoo remained still until with a little shake of its head it moved and the drawing made of ink began to crawl across the mans skin down along his arm to his wrist and turning so that its tail flicked and pointed to a place a little more to the west of where he was flying.<br/><br/>Turning his head and letting the sleeve slip back down he scanned the direction that his Youkai had indicated but saw nothing that made that way seem any better than the oth.........<br/><br/>"What was that?" rubbing his eyes to clear the tears that the grit caused he looked again but saw little more than the usual rock and dull colours.<br/><br/>He nearly decided to give up for the day if it had not been for the shimmer, turning his course towards it he wondered what it could be,..scanning for it he grinned as he saw it again far off in the protection of a wide barren looking valley and knew instantly that what he was seeing was the sun as it shone on the surface of a body of water.<br/><br/>Not really having any other destination other than wherever he happened to land for the rest of the day he pumped his wings vigorously to get into a higher stream of wind that would propel him on his way.<br/><br/>In his excitement he failed to control his entry into the jet stream and yelled in agony as he felt tendons in his wings strain horribly as the fast moving winds caught him of guard and dragged him along, in  a panic from the pain and surprise he locked his wings and spread his primary feathers out as far as they would go to get some measure of control back.<br/><br/>A distance that would have taken nearly two hours to travel on the lower thermals only took about half an hour but the guy had paid a great cost for his folly and he knew that once he got on the ground he wouldn't be able to get up again until he healed which could be weeks.<br/><br/>Still although in great pain he saw the water fast approaching as he groaned and pulled his wings in tight to his body and dived so that he could get out of the air current without over shooting the place.<br/><br/>He shot towards the ground and slowly eased his wings apart to catch the rising thermals that would break his fall gradually only to find....nothing, not even a trace of them where there should have been thick ones as the hot rocks and dirt met the cool water but there was nothing, his flight instincts told him that something powerful had happened here very recently to disrupt the air currents.<br/><br/>Desperate to slow his pace he frantically spread his wings and drove them  hard in long downward strokes.<br/><br/>"oh god, its not enough" he realized a few seconds before he hit the water but in those few seconds he concentrated and used what reserves of power he had to perform physical reinforcement upon his body, but despite the added protection and the speed that he had braked, the force of impact made him black out... but only for a moment as he felt the cool water forcing its way into his mouth as dazed and in horrid pain he started to sink.<br/><br/>(well that's it, my monster restart of a post, i hope it was a little entertaining)