SO GLAD THAT I WOKE UP ☆ o, air elementals

[RHINESTONE.]

RHINESTONESTAR ❝ RHINE ❞ LEADER
"TALKING" || "TELEPATHY"

It was time for Rhinestone to try swimming once again. He had been avoiding the activity, ever since he had taken up his current new form. He wasn't sure how the water would interacted with his eyes and the condition that they were in, and he didn't want to risk something going horribly wrong so soon after his return. Unfortunately, one of Rhine's strongest skills was his ability to hunt underwater prey. He had always prided himself on it, and he didn't want to give it up, especially since things seemed to be warming a little as of late. He wanted to catch as much aquatic prey as he could before any of the water potentially froze over again, or huge ice chunks emerged to get in his way. So, after a little while of hyping himself up, the serval had slipped out of camp and headed towards the ocean. For once, the male found himself hesitating at the shoreline, black eyes focused downwards at where the water lapped gently at the sand. Despite his hesitation, he continued his trudge forward.

Slowly, the blue flank of Rhinestone disappeared down beneath the water, his muscles moving as naturally as before as he swam through the water effortlessly. It took him a moment to find his coordination again, not used to his limbs being so long, but once he got used to it, he found a grin coming to his face. After a long moment of thought, the leader eventually dipped his head down into the water, a silent breath of relief leaving him when he found that he wasn't struck with immediate pain. The water stung his eyes, as usual, but he could deal with that. At least, long enough to catch something decent. So, he continued his slow strokes through the water, until eventually he spotted a rather large looking fish down below. Holding in his delighted gasp, Rhinestone dived down after it, claws outstretched and ready. What Rhine didn't know, though, was that he had just made a rather fatal mistake. Because, as he dove down deeper and deeper, the pressure began to build against his eyes, until there was a flash of intense and agonizing pain.

He still kept his vision, but the sudden sharp flare of agony caused him to shout, air rushing from his lungs as his body involuntarily twitched. Almost instantly, his lungs began to burn, and he found himself flailing to get upwards and away from the pain. He could feel his body growing weaker, however, and he found himself beginning to panic, thinking that he was about to drown. His limbs were growing heavier, and it seemed as though the top of the sea was growing farther and farther away. In a fit of hopelessness, the leader let out another shout, only to startle himself. Suddenly, there was a thrum of power throughout his body, and it was as if a massive force had slammed against the water below. His thin body was rocketed upwards, and he was flung from the water, his long limbs flailing in all directions until he fell into the sand of the shore.

As relieved gasps of air left the feline, he seemed totally unaware of what was going on around him. Soaking wet and breathing heavily, Rhine had wind whipping and howling around him, so strong that it was almost enough to knock anyone who approached away from him. He was in such a state of shock that he didn't even notice it, unable to make it stop fully just yet.

( tl;dr: rhine went to hunt fish for the first time in his new body and felt a bunch of pain in his eyes when he went down too deep, causing him to shout and lose a lot of air and almost drown. he used his newly discovered air elementals to launch himself from the water and landed on the shore where he's now catching his breath with the wind howling around him )

tags + roleplayed by stilly + the palm glades