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Post by Willowishness on Jan 18, 2009 14:52:46 GMT -5
An eight moon old she-cat was lying on her belly on a rooftop, watching the nightly activities of the Gypsies.
Her name was Lump.
Her dull gray tabby pelt and unremarkable brown eyes weren't what you could call pretty and she looked bored stiff.
She was a Gypsy; she'd run away from her twolegs to become one.
But where were the beautiful cats, the mesmerizing music, and the incredible dancing she'd come for?
All she saw were chatting she-cats and vendors desperately hawking their wares wherever there was a mouselength of open space.
It was still early at night. The moon had barely risen and the fire had been lit about thirty minutes ago by that hobo twoleg.
Lump's ears flicked when the barest threads of music reached her ears, so quietly that she couldnt even desipher the tune. She looked around, wondering where it was coming from.
She couldn't spot a source.
Other cats were glancing around too, hearing the quiet music ringing in the distance.
And then it got louder. Some of the sitting cats got up and shuffled their feet awkwardly to the beat. They seemed self-consious, but when other cats started doing it too, they got braver. Soon, there was a weave of moving cats on the ground around the fire.
Lump's heart beat in excitement. This wasnt much like the dramatic and alluring stories she'd heard of dancing Gypsies, but it was good enough for now.
((Whoever wants to post their gypsies here is free to.))
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Post by ~Stormy~ on Jan 18, 2009 14:56:29 GMT -5
Emotion watched the cats danced and leaped down to join. She had been taught by a legendary cat herself, a cat who called herself the queen of the Gypsies but who really wasn't (I can't remember her name... kitty plays her and the name starts with an... H? I think)
She began weaving to the music, twirling gracefully and even doing two backflips, so fluidly she looked like her paws never touched the ground. Her black pelt was visible as she danced near the fire.
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 19, 2009 0:00:38 GMT -5
((That would be Onyx. =P))
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Post by $~Swifty~$ on Jan 19, 2009 11:12:58 GMT -5
(I think it was Obsidian.... or something...)
A small she-cat flashed past the torchlight. The crowd was getting larger and she knew it. Akira flicked an ear and climbed up onto a nearby store to get a better look, away from the crowd of cats... She'd only gotten here to the gypsies a couple of weeks ago and was quite curious as to what was going on... best to find out away from the crowd she'd decided. Her blueish gray eyes scanned the dancing cats below her and she almost wished she could join them, but... at that thought she giggled to herself... Her dance? Knowing her she'd fall and break something... she'd just have to be content watching and she was
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 19, 2009 22:42:33 GMT -5
Lump's brown eyes flickered when she noticed a smallish she-cat longingly looking on from the sidelines.
The gray tabby jumped and landed on the store roof beside Akira.
"Want to dance with me?" She asked in a high mew.
She'd feel less awkward if she had a partner to cover her mistakes and vise versa.
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Post by ~*Demon*~ on Jan 20, 2009 20:05:52 GMT -5
(yes Obsidian, Onyx died remember?)
Obsidian was getting old now, she sat on the edge, ehr feet tapping ot the beat as she watched others stand...
Hinata perked an ear and pulled out a few of her drums, just one or two, she dragged them towards the fire listening to the tune she started to tap out an intricate beat to it.... using her tail and four paws, practically dancing on the two drum heads.... a steel drum and a djimbe.
Jiki crept out of her little hole, walking forward into the light, listening to the beat Hinata was playing, and the sounds of music.... she swayed a little. Seeing Emotion dance she strode out next to Emotion, and caught the beat in her paws. Stepping, forward cross back step hop.. twirl. up spin down... her tail flicking along with her adding to the fire patterned she-cat's dance, The amazing acrobatic she-cat dancers were as much of the Gypsy legend as the music.... As the music worked it's way though her muscle and through her bones her feet began to fly.
Obsidian stood now swaying, not challenging her ex student at all, just swaying and stepping lightly.
Terrantia, less formally known as Rant. arrive don the scene, curiosity sparkling in her eyes. She danced slightly in place, her earrings chinking together... studs up top and on the inside edge of her ears, the rest were little rings wrapping around the outside edge of the ear, silver and gold. with large hoops at the bottom. One gold, the other silver (One per ear). She had a small diamond on the side of her nose, a piercing. and a little ruby on her lower lip. Her tail had seven simple gold and silver bands, placed along the tail, each with it's own design. One was connected vines and leaves, another braided silver, another gold with gemstones.. so on and so forth. She had bangles on all four legs, ankles and wrist. She had a white leather choker with gold dog tags engraved with her name and favorite quotes. One said "Forever the sun will shine as long as you light it in the morning" and the other said "Karma makes the world go round" One had her name, the other had Savarifi's on the opposite side from the quotes. Then she had a longer silver chain, with a gold locket, it had a little bit of savarifi's fur attached inside. the door had the words "Together forever" engraved in it. She missed her sister... She moved more towards the center of the group of dancing cats before stepping a little, dancing, almost like break dancing, with acrobatics spun in...
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 20, 2009 20:48:29 GMT -5
((Speaking of Savarifi, where IS she?))
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Post by $~Swifty~$ on Jan 20, 2009 21:58:24 GMT -5
Akira nearly jumped out of her fur when Lump landed beside her. After nearly slipping off the side of the roof and just barely catching her footing in time she blushed deeply, but then again... it was dark and not many would notice. "Errrr.. sorry you startled me" She stammered awkwardly licking a paw and swiping it across her face in embarressment. "Uhhhh... I'm not much of a dancer... I usually end up hurting myself" Akira finally replied after a long awkward pause blushing even more.... How glad she was that it was dark....
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Post by EmberGlow on Jan 21, 2009 16:40:18 GMT -5
Keiko, who had finally decided she will leave with the Gypsies with her mate and friends, padded toward Hinata. The gray and white she-cat was old, and she disliked dancing. For her it was like torture. But liked music, so she sat down beside her friend and hummed the beat.
"Don't you ever get tired?"
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 22, 2009 22:38:17 GMT -5
"Come on, don't be a fun sucker." Lump mewed in a low tone, leaning nonchallantly forward towards Akira, nearly causing the other she-cat to loose her balence again.
"No one here dances well 'cept maybe that tux over there," without looking, Lump indicated, with her cropped stub of tail --her ex-twolegs must have cut it; she DID look like the bob-type of cat that twolegs took joy in chopping the tails off of--, Emotion, who was dancing like she'd been trained by Onyx or Leea or Luna, the greatest Gypsy dancers of all time.
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Post by $~Swifty~$ on Jan 23, 2009 19:39:19 GMT -5
Akira hesitated again for another long awkward second before giving a slight nod "I.. guess...." She muttered obviously uncertain, but Lump didn't look like she was much of a dancer either... and half the other cats here dancing soooo.... she wouldn't look too stupid. She gave another nod obviously a good bit more confident in herself. "Alright, it'll be fun" Akira finally decided getting ready to jump off of the roof, her fluffy gingerish pelt shining in the torchlight that flickered below.
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 23, 2009 20:01:12 GMT -5
When they reached the area where the other cats were dancing, Lump's dark eyes scanned the area, picking up the beat of Hinata's drums.
Thrum!-tap-tap--Thrum!Thrum!-tap-tap...
Then she glanced at Emotion for a moment, picking up some idea of how dancing was supposed to go.
Then the nine-moon-old began an oddish sort of dance, a twist off Emotion's with her own style obviously interwoven. Less showy than Emotion's and less practiced, but still not bad. It involved a lot more skidding-of-paws than the black she-cat's and a lot less leaping and flipping. The twisting was about equal.
After a good ten seconds, Lump paused, excitement making the thicker fur along her spine stand up, as if electrified.
"You try." She told Akira, eager to see what her partner would come up with.
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Post by ~Stormy~ on Jan 23, 2009 20:06:44 GMT -5
Somehow, Emotion boxstepped twice with all four paws before two backflips. She jumped into the air, and twisted horizontially, like a battle move where you would dig your claws into your enemy and twist them around, throwing them to the ground. Emotion landed on all four black paws, never failing to sway to the music.
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Post by Willowishness on Jan 23, 2009 20:36:39 GMT -5
"See there? You're great!" Lump resumed dancing, altering her new-found style to suit Akria's better. Obviously, the two were dancing together, you could tell by the way they seemed to circle each other with their dance moves.
"I think we're getting good! Feel like challenging Emotion?" She was clearly joking, as you could tell by the way her ears flicked.
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Post by _)Misty-ith(_ on Jan 24, 2009 12:53:57 GMT -5
Scuffle strolled in amongst the cats, grinning. These dance festivals were his favorite. He followed the thumping of the drums to where Hinata was playing next to Keiko. "What, is that the best you can do, Hinata?" he meowed teasingly.
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Post by ~*Demon*~ on Jan 24, 2009 14:17:52 GMT -5
Hinata grinned and thought a second, not hesitating in her beat, she added to it. tapity thrum thrum ding tap, using the sides and rims and heads she made the beat more complex, a dance in rhythm. "Let's see you get your drums and do better Scuffle." she teased back.
9And I have no clue, I kinda.. err forgot about her.)
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Post by EmberGlow on Jan 24, 2009 16:32:16 GMT -5
Keiko grinned at Scuffle's comment and Hinata's reply. She then padded away, looking around. She was hopeful that Celeste came. Even more that LightSun or LightningStrike were here.
Killa, who was watching Emotion with all her dancing, looked like she was dying to dance, too. She was a really good dancer, but she was pregnant, so she'd look quite awkward with such a belly.
The calico purred when her mate, Havok, came sitting beside her.
Rar, Killa's first kit with another tom, came stumbling toward the dancer. The tiny fox-like she-kit looked around, seeming very shy. She sat down a little apart from the group, and tried to look invisible. Her ears prickled, listening to the music. Who was at the drums? She looked around again, trying to find the source.
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Post by _)Misty-ith(_ on Jan 25, 2009 20:46:56 GMT -5
"Aw, that's not a fair challenge, Hinata. No one's better than you." But all the same, Scuffle's eyes glitter, and he disappeared back and behind Hinata, only to reappear dragging a sett of bong-looking drum-things. "But I can keep a beat." He beat the secondary drums with his paws, but just enough to keep the underlying beat to Hinata's music. His drums seemed not to make much of a sound, other than a low thump, but sent out a vibration amongst the dancers.
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Post by ~*Demon*~ on Jan 29, 2009 19:17:09 GMT -5
Hinata grinned "Exactly...." she teased scuffle back. dancing across her drums, they were large enough, she did literally stand on them and play them, her paws crossing each other, tail beating down on this one, then that one, occasionally using her claws to add whoosh sounds or little ticks... then the tail band son ehr tail to make a more metallic sound, or do rim hits....
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Post by ~*Snowy*~ on Feb 1, 2009 15:50:53 GMT -5
A blue-grey cat shuffled back and forth dancing to the music. She was covered in coal and ashes, she worked as a smith so of course she would be dirty. She had no mate really but she loved to dance and sway wherever the music took her.
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