Ruined Sleep - 8/8
rexequinox illustrates Karen's first transformation into a gryphon from the rewrite of Reel123's Unveiled Legends series, Emergence, contained in Chapter 6: Many Nightmares.
I fell in love with the story about 8 years ago when the original was written and fell in love with it again when he started the rewrite last year. He's currently on a hiatus with the rewrite but I strongly encourage reading all chapters or go back to the original and read all the way through Emergence, Existence, and Eldrus.
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 6: Many Nightmares
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 1: A Long Tail
Emergence rewrite, all chapters
No. She had to lift this! Before she knew what she was doing, Karen walked- no, loped- across the garden, noticed the fence ahead of her and gathered her legs. Powerful feline hindquarters shot her clean over the barrier by several feet, and she landed on the other side in motion, building speed as another fence came.
Another leap carried her over, out of Mr Jenson’s garden, and directly towards thick thorny rose bushes. With a gasp, her wings lashed out, cracking to their full length and slammed down.
BOOM.
The pressure bent and ruffled the bushes, and lift gave her another six feet to clear the hedges, stumble, and topple over on softer grass. That was on her back and she hated it, so Karen rolled, daring another glance around.
She definitely wasn’t a wolf.
She was a big monster, reflected in the windows by the light of the street-lamps. Maybe as large as a bear or tiger? The latter fit better, she was four legged and rather feline. But her front was avian on a scale normally reserved for dinosaurs, with fierce avian eyes and wings like sails.
More noises came from further down the street. Shouts. Human parents.
She had to get this lifted- either Logan had done it to her as a prank, another demonstration of magics superiority over her feeble humanity, or he could help her all the same. And the fastest route was a direct line- not tracking around obstacles but over them!
Her lungs surged, deep breathes gathering cycles through her air sacs, and she bent, gathered her limbs, and ran.
She had to jump early to clear the next fence with its additional roses, but another beat of her wings brought her clear onto Caleb’s lawn. She was ready to land this time, charged across it, and took another jump before she was out of the gardens, crossing a road. Yet, another bound, another lope, then her muscles coiled like springs, her wings rose, and she threw herself upwards.
For an instant Karen felt the threat of gravity far more than she had as a hawk. This was a big creature, a heavy body, could something like this really fly? But Scevola had wings, and she was nowhere near his monstrous size so she hurriedly flapped again, and again and again and again and again, shedding blood and glass shards as she rose.
Roof tiles slipped underneath her. She tucked her legs, aware of how close she had been to slamming into a building. It seemed to help, and more massive strokes of the wings lifted her above the lights, and into the heavens.
I fell in love with the story about 8 years ago when the original was written and fell in love with it again when he started the rewrite last year. He's currently on a hiatus with the rewrite but I strongly encourage reading all chapters or go back to the original and read all the way through Emergence, Existence, and Eldrus.
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 6: Many Nightmares
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 1: A Long Tail
Emergence rewrite, all chapters
No. She had to lift this! Before she knew what she was doing, Karen walked- no, loped- across the garden, noticed the fence ahead of her and gathered her legs. Powerful feline hindquarters shot her clean over the barrier by several feet, and she landed on the other side in motion, building speed as another fence came.
Another leap carried her over, out of Mr Jenson’s garden, and directly towards thick thorny rose bushes. With a gasp, her wings lashed out, cracking to their full length and slammed down.
BOOM.
The pressure bent and ruffled the bushes, and lift gave her another six feet to clear the hedges, stumble, and topple over on softer grass. That was on her back and she hated it, so Karen rolled, daring another glance around.
She definitely wasn’t a wolf.
She was a big monster, reflected in the windows by the light of the street-lamps. Maybe as large as a bear or tiger? The latter fit better, she was four legged and rather feline. But her front was avian on a scale normally reserved for dinosaurs, with fierce avian eyes and wings like sails.
More noises came from further down the street. Shouts. Human parents.
She had to get this lifted- either Logan had done it to her as a prank, another demonstration of magics superiority over her feeble humanity, or he could help her all the same. And the fastest route was a direct line- not tracking around obstacles but over them!
Her lungs surged, deep breathes gathering cycles through her air sacs, and she bent, gathered her limbs, and ran.
She had to jump early to clear the next fence with its additional roses, but another beat of her wings brought her clear onto Caleb’s lawn. She was ready to land this time, charged across it, and took another jump before she was out of the gardens, crossing a road. Yet, another bound, another lope, then her muscles coiled like springs, her wings rose, and she threw herself upwards.
For an instant Karen felt the threat of gravity far more than she had as a hawk. This was a big creature, a heavy body, could something like this really fly? But Scevola had wings, and she was nowhere near his monstrous size so she hurriedly flapped again, and again and again and again and again, shedding blood and glass shards as she rose.
Roof tiles slipped underneath her. She tucked her legs, aware of how close she had been to slamming into a building. It seemed to help, and more massive strokes of the wings lifted her above the lights, and into the heavens.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Gryphon
Gender Female
Size 905 x 1280px
It's an amazing story too if you have time to check it out
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