Awsm! <3 It's been ages since I RP'd though, lol. Who makes the first post?

Sure, I'll go ahead then. <3

The little fawn glances up towards the treetops and listens to the sound of the forest. It's so silent and serene, it makes him look around anxiously. Melfice feels a slight chill over this silence, as he highly dislikes being alone. He quickens his pace and hurries towards the ruins, where he usually rests by the graves - he doesn't know why, they just make him feel calm.

Melfice stopped as he saw a silhouette somewhere further in. He was unsure whether to keep going, but took some steps forward towards the deer.

Melfice tilted his head to the side, wondering. He was not familiar with this fawn. But since he had already been noticed, he chose to approach it.

Melfice looked curiously at Shady. They seemed to be about the same size. He really had nothing to worry about, but he was always a bit nervous around strangers.

"Are you alone here too?" he asked the fawn.

Melfice did the same. He was calmer now that it wasn't so silent.

"Are you going somewhere?"

Melfice laughed slightly, and playfully raised his hooves a bit.

"Do you want to come with me then? I'm headed for the ruins. It's pretty scary to go there alone.

It felt great to have someone to accompany him. Melfice grinned widely.

"Great! ... Right, I didn't catch your name. Mine's Melfice."

"It's a nice name - easy to remember", Melfice said.

He then proceeded to take the lead, glancing over his shoulder towards Shady as he started walking. The ruins weren't far, he knew by heart where to go.

Melfice glanced at his companion several times as they walked beside each other. Most of the time he didn't know what to say, even though he wanted to break the silence by any means possible. He just wasn't good with people he didn't know, even if he'd like to claim otherwise.

"W-what's wrong?" Melfice asked. His pace slowed down a bit as he concentrated on watching Shady.

Melfice stopped for a bit and faced him, concerned.
"W-where is your mom? Is she...?"

The last part was merely mumbled. As Melfice himself had no mother, such a thing hit him close to home.

"You don't know? Why, what happened?"

Melfice didn't know why he took such interest.

Melfice tilted his head to the side, wondering.
"What do you mean, you're not from this world? Where else would you be from?"

Such a thing seemed inconceivable to the young fawn.

Melfice remained silent for a while, pondering over what his newfound friend had just said. He'd never thought about the matter in that perspective, he had always thought of the forest as a cradle to keep him and protect him, to let him be closer to what his parents wanted him to be before they disappeared from his life. The forest was all he had left.

"So you and your mother... You're both from outside this forest?" he carefully asked. "Maybe that means she woke up somewhere in the forest too!" he then said, in a more cheerful manner.

Melfice nodded.
"Then I hope we will see her. Don't lose hope. OK?" he said, smiling carefully towards Shady.

Melfice watched Shady, still standing up. His ears were flapping in the breeze.
"Are you OK?" he asked, still a little concerned.

Melfice flinched upon seeing his friend fall to the ground, he walked around him with a worrysome expression and kept calling his name with no response. He desperately looked around to see if anyone was close enough to help, but they were still alone.

"What am I going to do...?" he mumbled to himself.

He looked at Shady again, passed out in the grass, and decided. Determined, he started dragging the fawn towards their original destination, the ruins. It was the one place where he always felt calm, and the only place he could go to even with his eyes closed. Maybe someone there could help.

As Melfice kept dragging the poor fawn, he noticed his legs were twitching and spasming. He must be having a nightmare, Melfice thought. "Hold on... we're almost there." He calmly spoke to Shady.

He quickly glanced over his shoulder to see the ruins rise up behind him. He dragged Shady over to the graves and sat down by him in the protection of their shade. Here, he always felt safe.

Melfice felt uneasy watching his friend in his unconcsious state. He shook him a bit with his hoof to try to wake him up.

Melfice jumped right up into the air at his friend's sudden outburst. As Shady rammed his head into the tree, Melfice was unsure whether or not to approach, but the light intrigued him. Carefully, he took a few steps forward and raised one hoof to touch it.

Melfice listened to the voice in awe. At first he was shocked, but the warmth in the voice that spoke to him made him feel at ease. The protective nature in him that he was born to display arose from it's hiding place upon hearing those words, and Melfice nodded.

"He needs someone to be by his side... And I need someone to protect", he said. "You can count on me. If I really can help, then I'll do my best."

Melfice watched as the light disappeared, and proceeded to sniff on the items left on the ground. He let out a silent "thank you" and spontaneously assumed these items were to be put on and worn. With some struggling, he managed to get the leg wraps and skull mask on his body, and he then glanced towards Shady. He pushed the items to his side, and lay to watch him until he would wake up.

Melfice didn't quite know how to explain, so he simply smiled and leaned towards Shady. "Look at your reflection in my eyes. You'll be surprised."

Melfice jumped a little at Shady's sudden shriek, but smiled slightly afterwards. He carefully approached him and looked at their reflections in the tiny puddle.
"We got masks", he said, because for some reason he felt that it would be a bad idea to tell him about his meeting with the peculiar light. "Don't they look cool? And we got leg wrappings too!"