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 Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:56 am
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Hey, Journal.
Today I took Kianga to the Fair. It was heaps of fun, especially since most of the people there couldn't see her and she could do pretty much whatever she wanted. I tell you, having a puff is a great way to get more free samples of food after the person giving them out has told you that you've had enough. The chocolate guy got a bit suspicious after about ten pieces floated from the plate, and told me to rack off. Hehe...Good times.
Kianga also helped me win a giant plushie dragon. It was on one of those rigged games, so I didn't feel too guilty cheating. I mean, I might've actually had telekinetic powers like the person running the ring toss though I did.
Hey...d'you think that's how they do it on those magic shows and stuff?! Maybe they all have Wethkin or other sprite-y things that just do it all for them...?
I'm gonna have to check this out...After I've taken that fairy floss away from Kiagna. I didn't want to let her have that much in the first place but how can you say no to a face like that? That much sugar can't be good for something that small...She's gonna hurt herself -or break something- bouncing off the walls like that!
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:31 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:43 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:54 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:34 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:29 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:16 am
The birds had been happily accepted by her sister when their owner had been asking for someone to give them a good home. Moosh had an odd suspicion that the birds, Dag and Norbert they had been called, had been mistreated by the previous owners. It was probably more that the children they had lived with had poked and prodded them to the point of nervous breakdown whilst trying to get them to talk. Norbert, especially, shuddered every time he even heard anyone speak...Poor things.
It seemed, however, that for some reason the birds had taken a liking to Kianga, much to Mooshroom's dismay. Already, they had learnt tonnes of new words, and Mooshroom's family members were amazed. They knew nothing of the little yellow puff sitting endlessly in front of the cage, throwing up all of the terribly pronounced swear words she knows until Moo drags her away.
Her Valentine's Day Spritkins had recently started to join Kianga, and they too had learnt new words. Of course, Kianga hadn't just taught the birds cursing, but had taught them to say enlightening phrases such as "Kianga's sooo pretty" and "Kianga is better than you!".The bird's vocab wasn't as diverse as the puff's however, and pretty much all she had learnt was "Kianga wants a cracker!" Mooshroom was so sick of hearing this that she had duct taped her puffs mouth closed.
She had figured a way out of it in about ten minutes.
Mooshroom sighed again and contemplated other ways of getting her puff to shut up...
Maybe a jar would work...?
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:24 am
Pulling her puff behind her, Mooshroom sprinted down the hallway and out the door. Her mum was already in the car, and as soon as Mooshroom was seated she back out the driveway.
"Did you get your water bottle?" Her mum asked, giving Mooshroom a suspicious look as she wasn't holding onto anything.
"I realised it was already in my bag." Mooshroom was a terrible liar- mainly fro lack of practice- and she didn't like to lie to her parents. But what was she meant to say? Mum, I just need a few more minutes to find my magical sunlight sprite. Yeah...
"Bye Mum." Moosh gave her mum a kiss on the cheek and hopped out the car door. Kianga buzzed impatiently by her ear and she absently swatted her away.
She pulled her bag from the boot of the car and swung it around one shoulder with difficulty, before struggling to put her other arm in the strap of her ten tonne bag. Teachers give out waaay too much homework, she thought to herself.
The year 10 common room- if it could be called that- was more like a dungeon than anything else. It was dank and dark, and filled with horrid smells from the toilets that opened into it. The floor was littered with putrid rubbish, and covered with teacher's torture devices.
Stepping over some girls sitting in the middle of the floor in the narrow hallway, Mooshroom made her way to her locker. Kianga squeed indignantly as Mooshroom shoved her into it with her books.
"It's only for the first lesson. I don't think you coming to our religion class is a good idea." Mooshroom's religion teacher was a cranky old lady who liked nothing more than to shove Christianity down her pupil’s throats every chance she got. She probably wouldn't take to well to an invisible sprite causing havoc in her classroom.
Mooshroom unzipped her bag to make sure really did have her water bottle and looked in her lunch for the sake of it. Yoghurt...vegetable juice, doesn't seem to bad...Fruitcake? Yuk....
She picked up her religion studies books and went off to find Kei. They had this class together...
Kianga peeked through the slits in Mooshroom's locker, making sure the coast was clear. There were still a few people left in the locker room. One of them was talking on a mobile phone, asking her mum to bring her homework assignment that she'd left on the kitchen table. Deciding it was safe enough- no one could see her anyway- Kianga squeezed between the slits and plopped to the floor. Humming a tune she'd picked up from one of Moosh's brother's games, she bounced her way out of the common room and rolled down the school driveway towards the sports centre.
One the way there, Kianga noticed something wonderful. A giant garden (to her, anyway) filled with all sorts of flowers. With a squeal of delight, the puff zipped around, looking, smelling and feeling all the different types. The sprite felt like a kid in a candy shop as she tasted all the delicious aromas. She had just found a patch of long, strong-smelling, purple flowers when she heard a bell ring. Moosh had explained to Kianga that the bell at her school rang at the beginning of the day, at the end, and at the start and finish of the two breaks the students got for eating. This must be the beginning of the first break. Mooshroom had called it something like Ressex. Odd name, if she had any say about it.
All of a sudden, the lawn area filled with stomping feet, and Kianga decided she'd better move on before someone accidentally squished her. She continued on to her previous target, before the flowers had distracted her.
Kianga waited outside the door of the sports centre, hoping that someone would come by and open it. She couldn't squeeze under this door, because of the fluffy-seal at the bottom. Well...maybe if she was desperate, but it wouldn't be worth the tickling. Not that long after Kianga had set up watch, a small group of students came trudging towards the door.
"I can't believe that you won't admit it!" A slightly chubby one cried.
"I didn't take your cake! Get over it!" Another exclaimed loudly. “It’s not as if you need it anyway!"
The heavier one crossed her arms angrily and stormed off like a thundercloud. The third girl in the group looked at the second one accusingly.
"What?! It wasn't my fault! She was accusing me!" She yelled defensively.
"Whatever you say..."
Kianga seized the opportunity and zipped in through the door before it closed.
The sports centre was so tall! The ceiling seemed to go on forever to the puff, and she happily flew up to sit on one of the steel beams supporting it. The ant-like people below were wearing white polo shirts and black watch tartan skirts, and playing an assortment of different sports. Some held odd long handled bats and were hitting a feathery ball around. Others were whacking balls over a net with their hands. Kianga didn't know the rules of any of the sports, but she had a great time chuckling at the ones who obviously stuffed up.
The bell rang again, and most of the students slowly filed out of the sports centre. A blonde teacher emerged from a door to the side of the hall and got out a small book and pencil. She ticked off the names of the students present and then started to demonstrate how to kick a soccer ball properly. Kianga watch intently for a few seconds before getting bored, but she was too comfortable to move. Tiny high pitched snores started to radiate from where the puff was curled up, but only one or two people looked up curiously.
Mooshroom bit back a yell as she looked inside her Wethkin-free locker. When she got her hands on Kianga... She wasn't really worried for the puff's safety, just that of the people around it. She sighed. There was nothing she could do at the moment. If she was late to maths, she'd have to start worrying about her own safety. She'd look for Kianga at lunch. She fished her maths text booked and graphics calculator out of her bag and ran to catch up with the other girls in her class.
"Hey, Xanthe? Did you do exercise 4a? I think I got them all wrong..."
Kianga was startled from her sleep by another bell, like that she'd heard earlier. Kianga tumbled off her beam in surprise, but managed to catch herself just before she hit the ground. Her stomach grumbled hungrily, and she decided it was about time she found some food. Sniffing the air and following her nose, she ended up at a large, old looking building teaming with people coming and going, like a giant ant's nest. She didn't really want to go were there were so many people, but if there was food...
Kianga took a deep breath and hurled herself inside...
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:15 pm
(Prviate RP) Mooshroom Keilyna
Kianga floated nervously above the head of the milling people filling the canteen. She thought it wouldn't be a problem to get food- just fly it, pick something up and fly out. The problem was that there were so many people packed up against the counters serving food that there was no way something (even small and invisible as she was) could gwt there without beign squished to death. Actaully, being small would probably make it worse.
Kianga sqealed with joy as she noticed a familliar black ponkytail weaving it's way through the line up. Zooming at the speed of light (not literally) Kianga glomp-tackled the back of the ponytail owner's head. "Yan!"
The black haired girl turned around and looked at empty air. She shook her head and wondered if she was imagining things. Maybe Xanthe or Wen Wen had called out...
"Yan!"
No. It was definately right behind her. A tiny squeak, not a human's voice. She squinted into the space the voice came from, before starting and realising the person behindher was glaring. Yan turned back around quickly, her ponytail whipping behind her in an arc- the Wethkin clinging there giggled happily at the ride it was getting.
Yannay gulped nervously as she picked out a pasty to have for her lunch, and handed the money over to the cashier. She wasn't sure which she'd rather- thast the giggling following her to the table her friends were waiting at was real, or that they were just in her head.
Kianga, once her ride had reached a table, detatched herself from Yan's ponytail and hovered down the the girls' plates. She helped herself from the variety of foods there, before happily settling down on Yan's plate. It was then that she noticed Zuri fly in, and she happily flared and called out in a greating.
Yan blinked spots away from her eyes. Her was sure she'd just seen a tiny, glowing creature sitting on her plate. None of the other's seemed to have noticed it, so she just sat there quietly. Maybe she was going crazy...
Zuri perched on top of the canteen’s microwave, surveying the room for food.
There seemed to be a lot of it in one corner- but still no fruitcake! The little puff was feeling quite miffed at this. How could they not have fruitcake? It was just not fair!
Then the Wethkin noticed Kianga, and flew over to greet it, surprised.
"Gooood mower-ning!" Zuri chittered, quite unaware that such a greeting was only appropriate for- well, mornings. Surveying the contents of the plates on the table, it was quite disappointed to realise that no fruitcake was here, either. "Fruitcake?" it asked Kianga hopefully.
Yan blinked as she saw a flying onion land on her plate, but then the image faded. She decided that she'd finish eating as quickly as possible, so she could get away from the canteen and it's odd ghosts.
Kianga shook her head, but picked up a french fry from someone's plate and offered it to Zuri instead. "Tri it."
"Tanks!" Zuri said as it crunched upon the strange, yellow stick. "Nice... but fruitcake better!" it chittered. The Wethkin peered up at the girl whose plate it was sitting on, and gave a little chittery-giggle at her confusion.
Kianga followed Zuri's gaze and laughed. "Yan iz Mooshee's fwend. Kay's too."
Full now, the sunlight puff gave a high pitched burp and looked from something to do. Her eyes skimmed over the mocrowave and other appliances in the kitchen part of the canteen. Not today...
She looked around for a little while before noticing a spoon half off one of the plates on the table. She rolled a pea from the plate onto the spoon, and hovered just above the handle. "Fwee.....Too....Wun...Fire!" She dropped onto the spoon and watched happily as the pea flew through the air and almost hit a random girl on the back of her head. Kianga swore quietly as she rolled another pea into place. She adjusted the loaded spoon a fraction, then when she was happy guestured for Zuri to have the honour of launching it.
"Kay fend?" Zuri looked around for Kei. "Kay not here?" it asked hopefully. "No let see! Be here... Kay not know! She... no let come!" The puff chittered anxiously.
However, Zuri's troubles were momentarily forgotten as it giggled at Kianga's antics. Purloining another yellow stick thing and shoving it in its mouth like a cigarette because it was too big to fit inside, Zuri flew excitedly over to the spoon.
"Fwee... too... wun... fie!"
Zuri watched with an expression of fierce concentration as the pea flew through the air... and landed in someone else's lunch.
Kianga sighed as the pea once again floated harmlessly over the girl's head. She adjusted the spoon a bit more, then looked aroudn for ammunition. All the peas were gone! She cusred and looked for something else...
There was a pile of something mushy and white-ish on her plate, and Kianga decided that would have to do. Hovering above the handle of the loaded spoon, Kianga counted down once more.
"Fwee...Too...Wun...Fire!"
The mashed potatoes landed splat bang in the middle of the girl's face, and Kainga did a little victory dance.
"WHO THREW THAT??!" The girl had stood up and was looking around the canteen accusingly. Kianga snorted with laughter, as the girl picked up a roll and chucked it at a guilty looking girl across the room from her.
"FOOD FIGHT!" Someone else yelled, and before long the air in the canteen was buzzing with food.
Kianga grabbed Zuri's leaf-stalk, and tugged her out of the room. It was fine when she was throwing food at other people, but when food was being thrown at Kianga? Now that just wasn't right! Still pulling Zuri along, the sunlight puff made her way out of te canteen and back onto the lawn outside. She let go of the stalk.
"Now wut?"
Zuri giggle-chittered with laughter and nearly collapsed on Yan's plate from so much laughing. The puff squealed in protest as it was dragged from the canteen. It wanted to watch all the people throwing food at each other and messing the canteen up! Struggling hard to escape, Zuri only succeeded in slowing Kianga down and nearly getting knocked over by a spoonful of spaghetti. And horror, oh horror- someone actually saw Zuri and made a grab for it, thinking it was food that could be used as ammunition!
Zuri got out of the way just in time, and stopped struggling against Kianga. Now it wanted out of the canteen as soon as possible!
As the two Wethkin reached the safety of outside and the lawn, Zuri drifted down to sit on the grass. It looked mournfully up at Kianga with spaghetti dripping down its sides.
"Wunt cleen?"
Kianga looked aorund for something too clean the other puff with. She spotted a massivle swimming pool- much bigger than the one Mooshroom had banned her from going near at home, after that time with the filter...
She pointed. "Thare?"
Zuri turned around to look.
Little beady eyes became big and wide with fright!
"Nuuuuuuuu! Nuuuu thare!"
Just looking at such a wide expanse of water made Zuri skitter-hop one terrified pace backwards. Spaghetti smeared itself on the grass as the puff did so. Then Zuri had an idea that elbowed its way through all the panicked terror and latched tight on to its mind! It began to roll about the lawn in the bright, warm sunshine, trying to rub all the spaghetti off.
Kianga smiled and shrugged. "That gud too. " She looked back at the water, an expression of longing on her face. The water glimmered and sparkled in the sunlight, and it looked so inviting...
Kianga looked back to the now almost clean Zuri and picked a piece of spaghetti off her head. "Wanna go ecks-plour?" She looked around and couldn't find anything else interesting. She hoped Zuri knew somewhere...
Zuri rolled over once more, then sat up. The puff was now totally spaghetti-free- though a little bit of sauce had managed to cling to one of its sides and had collected dirt from all the rolling. The sauce's force of association with Zuri had been stronger than the dirt's force of association with the ground! So the little Wethkin was sporting a dark brown splotch on one of its sides, that rather resembled a cow-splotch.
"Kay!" Zuri replied to Kianga. "Splour fun! What-where? No oh-sen," it added hastily.
In the distance, the sound of a bell ringing sent a stream of students flowing back out of the canteen, and Zuri hurriedly fluttered out of the way of a stampeding trio of students.
"Follow?" the puff suggested, gesturing at the rivulets and trickles of students that the 'stream' had split up in to. "Fun?"
Kianga smiled mischieviously. "Yup-Yup!" She randomly attachesd herself to a stream, and followed the flow to a large classroom. As she entered the room, she noticed shelves on the walls filled with the oddest things.
There were a bunch of butterflies inside glass, jars of unidentified floating objects and dried creatures that looked particularly uncomfortable. At the other end of the room, on a long white desk there was a tank. There were mini-trees and water and dirt and all sorts of cool stuff inside it. Kianga decided a closer look was in order.
She curiously fluttered over to tank, and slipped inside- not thinking for one second that something dangerous could be inside it. Luckily for her, there wasn't, and Kianga found herself nose to nose with a giant frog! Well, giant to a tiny puff, anyway.
She gulped.
"Zooree?"
Zuri bobbed along beside Kianga as the stream they were attached to meandered along, split up into tributaries and trickled through various classroom doors. As the stream split, Zuri hovered behind Kianga to see which classroom the puff would venture into, then followed.
The classroom reminded Zuri a little of the food room (the Home Economics kitchen!) but there were no delicious aromas of food permeating the air. In fact, the classroom was filled with a rather unpleasant smell- a sharp odour that reminded it of the smell in Raindrop's basin multiplied several times over. Though Zuri would certainly have found the smell removed by the disinfectant much worse...
The Wethkin floated along the windowsill, eyeing all the plastic containers lined up upon it. They contained objects that looked rather like shrivelled-up versions of itself- sprouting broad beans. Zuri was very glad that it didn't look as horrible as the shrivelled-up 'onions', and got so distracted looking at them that it totally forgot about Kianga. Until...
"Zooree?"
Zuri deserted the broad beans and looked around for its friend. But where was Kianga? A quick look around the classroom proved unsuccessful- the only bright yellow thing that Zuri spotted turned out to be a student's mobile phone half-hidden in one jacket pocket. The class seemed to be settling down and the teacher was beginning to talk in front of the classroom. Since Zuri couldn't understand most of what she was talking about, it ignored the lesson and fluttered across the room to see if it could find Kianga.
There!
Closeted away in a funny glass box was Kianga! Zuri zoomed closer to look, and squealed in fright when it saw the creature that was staring at its friend. It seemed as though Kianga needed saving....
Zuri flew inside the tank, and looked around for something to scare the giant green monstrosity away with. It was too big to be moved by force!
Or perhaps a distraction was in order?
Zuri thought that distracting the monster would be easier than scaring it, since it decided that monsters were scary, not scared. But what could it do?
Fluttering near the top of the tank to get a better view of the situation, Zuri froze in terror as it came face to face with another giant green monstrosity.
The puff's eyes went wide, and it began to shake.
"K...Kee...kanga?"
Both the monsters in the tank turned to look at the new puff. Kianga took this chance to quickly dart out of the tank, and guestured for Zuri to do the same. The one closest to the onion-puff licked its lips, and a long pink tongue darted toward Zuri.
But fear glued Zuri to the surrounding air, and the puff could not move!
Its eyes were two big pools of alarm as a long, pink thing darted straight towards it and flicked under it and wrapped around the unfortunate Wethkin!
Zuri's eyes bulged in terror.
And high-pitched chitters of horror-fright-terror ripped through the air!
The tongue retreated in alarm. The frog wasn't used to its food protesting so loudly! It slowly backed away, and the movement dissolved the 'glue' that stuck Zuri in place.
Zoom!
A blur of colour like the multi-coloured leaves of fall shot upwards and out of the tank. The greenery rustled, unsettled by the speed of the puff's passing.
Free!
The coloured blur arced through the air like a rainbowed comet trail and settled down on top of an unused bench. As it slowed, it became recognisable as Zuri, and when it was safely upon the bench it began to shake from the after-effects of its ordeal.
Kianga zipped over to Zuri and started conforting her. She couldn't really help much though, cause at that moment a shadow fell over the sprites as someone was about to plonk their books on the bench. Kianga grabbed Zuri's stalk and quickly yanked her off the desk. This room was too dangerous! There were to many things for a little puff to get hurt by, even for Kianga.
"Wunt sayf place? Kum." She whispered to Zuri, so the monsters in the tank wouldn't hear them, and she quickly made her way out of the room and back towards the year 10 common room.
Once there, Kianga sighed. This place felt much safe, even if it did smell like the inside of a toilet. She fluttered over to Moosh's bag and rummaged around in it, looking for somewhere confortable to rest. She found a blue lunch box i the front section of the bag, and with Zuri's help, prised it open. Inside was a spoon and a piece of glad wrap, since Moosh had already had lunch. Though left in one corner of the box was a large piece of fruit cake. Kianga knew Mooshroom didn't really like the stuff, but her mum had packed her lunch. It would make a nice cushion anyway...
"We stay heer. We gow too Mi howz."
Zuri began to calm down, and stopped shivering. But then a shadow loomed over the puff and it squeaked in dismay. It felt itself being yanked away- and just in time, too, for a heavy-looking pile of books many times Zuri's size landed in the spot the Wethkin had just vacated!
And then Zuri was falling- but it managed to recover in time to flutter upwards before it splattered (or bounced, more likely) upon the floor.
It nodded in agreement and followed Kianga out of the classroom, with much relief.
The puff had never seen the common room before, and was quite disgusted when it did. It was so messy! And the air smelled quite unpleasant... Was this really Kianga's 'sayf place'? Zuri did not think much of it, but there didn't seem to be any people around so it seemed safe enough. Though privately it thought that all the people had been scared away by the mess and the smell!
Zuri floated over to investigate what Kianga was doing, and helped the other prise open a box that rather reminded it of Kei's box...
And oh!
Could it be...?
Fruitcake?!
"Froot-kei!" it chittered in delight as it zoomed in to the box and snuggled up to the cake. "Heer good," Zuri agreed. "Verry gooood."
Kianga smiled, and cuddled up too. The day was catching up on the puff. She closed her eyes for just a second...
Mooshroom sighed as she walked into the common room. Double IT used to be so fun. I wish I never had to go on Exel again as long as I lived!...Well not really, but it is extremely boring.
She opened the door to her locker and hopefully looked inside. Kianga was still missing. She had wandered off at school before, and had mysteriously appeared in Moosh's kitchen the next night on quite a few occasions. Even though she was worried about her puff, Mooshroom knew she'd be able to find her way home.
She noisily stuffed her books in her bag, while whistling the Hokey Pokey and did not hear the faint Kianga-snores coming from her lunch box, nor the occasional munchings of a certain autumn puff on fruit cake. She swung the bag and continued towards the car park.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:25 pm
Private RP MooshroomKeilyna
Kianga woke as the car jolted over a bump. She smiled happily to herself. She had gotten this far. Now she just had to hope that Moosh wouldn't send her new friend straight home. She couldn't wait for a sleepover...
Kianga yawned and wondered what Zuri had gotten up to while she was sleeping.
Zuri was quiet. The only sounds that emanated from the puff were quiet munching noises as it alternatively napped, woke up, ate, then fell asleep again. The puff was enjoying the relxaing time it was having in Mooshroom's lunch box, but then...
A wave of noisy chatter swept toward the dozing puff, and knocked it out of a peaceful sleep! The puff muttered in annoyance, and nibbled a bit more on the fruitcake to cheer itself up. Munch, munch, munch... Zuri paused mid-chew to consider how lucky it was that Kianga's 'sayf place' had also been home to a chunk of such delicious fruitcake.
The Wethkin's contemplations were suddenly disrupted as the lunchbox began to shake! It swung from side to side, and Zuri curled up in fright, clinging to the now significantly smaller slice of fruitcake for comfort. It did not dare to make a sound... what if something was searching the bag for two scrumptious Wethkin-snacks?!
There was a gigantic lurch, then the lunchbox settled into a steady rocking rhythm, accompanied by the sound of footsteps. They were moving! Zuri was beginning to wonder how much of a 'sayf place' this lunchbox really was...
Another gigantic lurch, then the lunchbox was still. And then... there was a jolt, and the Wethkin had the feeling that it was moving forwards at a very fast rate! It curled up in fright. It wanted to be able to see where it was going! The light shed by Kianga was a comfort in the darkness of Mooshroom's bag, but after being jolted aboutseveral times, Zuri began to feel a little ill.
It turned toward its friend as Kianga yawned, and chittered a little sadly. It was not enjoying the car ride much. Zuri curled up into a ball again, and felt itself being rolled all about the lunchbox as the car jolted over another bump in the road.
Kianga cheeped comfortingly to Zuri. It wasn't long before they reached Mooshroom's house. Not like how long it took to get to Keilyna's! As if to prove her words, the car slowed, turned and then stopped in Moosh's driveway.
Kianga motioned for Zuri to follow her as she prised open the luch box lid and slipped out. She dug her way to the bottom of the school bag and sat there silently, waiting for Mooshroom to carry the bag inside.
Soon enough, the bag swung out of the boot of the car and onto Mooshroom's shoulder. As it rythmically rocked its way into the house, Kianga stayed silent. There was a thud as Moosh plonked the bag down in the hallway. A giant hand appeared above the puffs and pulled the lunchbox and drink bottle out of the bag. Kianga dimmed her glow so that the owner of the hand wouldn't notice the puffs at the bottom. As the hand retreated, and footsteps moved down the hall, Kianga and Zuri snuck out of the bag and made their way- through the laundry so they wouldn't encouter Moo- to the kitchen. Once there Kianga opened the pantry door and they made their way inside.
"We wait here four while. Then Mooshee won't no we kame with her."
Zuri gave a little whimper as another jolt made it hit its stem on the lunch box's lid, then was silent. It was very glad that the trip was nowhere near as long as the morning's bus trip. How Zuri wished they had caught a lift on the car's roof instead!
As the car slowed and stopped, the puff lay quietly at the bottom of the lunchbox. Its insides began to quieten down as the motion stopped. When Kianga opened the lunch box lid, Zuri's gaze flickered upwards with curiosity, but it did not move until Kianga had already vacated the box. Then Zuri fluttered out, too, replacing the lid and burrowing down to join Kianga.
And then the motion started again! Zuri gave a little groan, and an unhappy squeak as the bag was plonked on to the floor. The puff was lucky that all its protestations were muffled by all of Mooshroom's homework!
Then finally- finally- the puffs were left in relative peace and quiet. Zuri followed Kianga to the pantry as they slipped out of the bag.
When the puffs were safely inside Mooshroom's pantry, Zuri gratefully settled down on to one of the shelves to rest. "'Kay. We stay. Rest."
Kianga nodded, and curled up on a bag of brown sugar. She lay just right so that she could still see Zuri.
"Wut do yoo do for fun at yoor house?" She asked the other puff.
Zuri leaned back against a bag of self-raising flour and wriggled around, making sure that it was facing Kianga. The puff thought. "Fun...? Froot-kei? Sleep. Moooving pik'tas... once. Play with things? Boring... What you do?"
"Chase things, brayk things...Annoy Mooshee, puffs, birds, dogs...Ecks-plode things..." Kianga flared brightly on the last one and giggled. "Ecks-plode make Mooshee supa mad."
Zuri giggled, its stalk bobbing up and down as the puff shook with laughter. "'Splode things sound fun! How... eeeek!"
The puff had been laughing so much that it had somehow fallen off the shelf! It did not react in time to save itself, so it was extremely lucky that it landed on a nice squishy bag of sugar that had been left lying on the floor.
"Oops," Zuri said as it stared up at the ceiling, lying on its back where it had landed. "...'splode?" it finished off its previous sentence. "How 'splode?" it repeated, in case Kianga didn't know what a 'How eek oops 'splode' was.
Kianga moved to the edge of the shelf and peeked at the other puff. "Poking... thwacking?" Kianga peeped over the shelf a bit further and ended up tumbling down on top of Zuri.
"Eeeeeek!" Zuri squeaked as Kianga fell on top of it. "Heeelp?" It wiggled about under Kianga, trying to get itself un-squashed. "No try 'splode me!" it said, hoping that that had not been Kianga's intention when it fell off the shelf.
It hadn't, but why not give it a go anyway? Kianga giggled, and leaned in to poke Zuri. "'Splode!"
Zuri squirmed and chittered indignantly as it was poked. "No 'splode!" it protested- then a rather exuberant wriggle freed it from underneath Kianga, and Zuri tumbled on to the pantry floor with a squeak of surprise. The puff rolled, then came to a halt as it made contact with the pantry's door. Then Zuri bounced up and shot outside!
Finding itself in Mooshroom's kitchen, Zuri looked around for somewhere to hide. It noticed one of the funny box-things that it and Kianga had played with in the Wethkin Headquarters, across on the other side of the kitchen. That seemed like a good place to hide, so Zuri quickly fluttered across and dived inside, hoping that Kianga had not seen where it had gone.
Once inside the microwave, Zuri flicked its spindly stalk out and quickly closed the door. It swung shut- on to the Wethkin's stalk, which had not gotten out of the way in time! Zuri gave a wail of distress, and the tip of its leafy stalk flopped limply outside of the microwave door. It was now too short to reach the microwave door's handle and re-open it...
Kianga followed Zuri out of the pantry, giggling happily. As the other puff slammed itself in the microwave door, Kianga gave a yelp of surprise. "Nuu! Zooree!" She zoomed up to the microwave and grabbed Zuri's stalk, trying to yank her out of the microwave that way. After a few squeals of pain from the sprite inside, Kianga changed her approach and started pushing random buttons. She didn't manage to open the door, but she did set the microwave for 15 seconds, and by chance, hit the START button.
And suddenly, the darkness of the microwave was banished by a light that was even brighter to Zuri's vision than a Kianga on top of the puff! Zuri whimpered and closed its eyes tightly, trying to press its face to the bottom of the microwave box to hide from the light. But worse was to come...
The microwave plate began to turn, and a horrid humming noise buzzed sharply through the air! Zuri shrieked as intense heat shot through the air and blasted it with a wave of burning energy! If Zuri had been an ordinary onion? the results would not have been pretty.
Zuri was lucky- very lucky- that it was not an ordinary onion. But then again, ordinary onions do not get themselves in to such scrapes, do they?
Meanwhile, the microwave plate rotated in a stately fashion past the onion, completely oblivious to its cries.
Kianga squealed, and hit the buttons again, trying desperately to stop the microwave. Luckily- for Zuri, though maybe not Kianga- Mooshroom chose just that time to walk into the kitchen, carrying her and her sister's lunch boxes in her hands. They tumbled to the floor in a crash as she saw the scene in front of her. "KIANGA!!!? What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Mooshroom ran up to the microwave and hit the STOP button, pulling the practically melted Zuri from inside. "Oh my goose!! Are you okay?" She place the still warm Zuri in the sink and started filling it with water to cool her down. "Kianga!" Mooshroom wasn't angry now as much as she was worried. "How did Zuri get here? Does Kei know? Oh, gosh, I hope she isn't angry that my puff practically murdered hers?"
Kianga squeaked in protest, half yelling in words half just plain squeaking. She wasn't the one that stuck Zuri in the microwave. That wasn't her idea at all. She just wanted to have a friend over for a play. Anyway, Mooshroom was the one who just left her in the locker all day at school. What did she expect?
Moosh sighed and looked back at Kianga. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't really be angry at you. How many times have I told you not to go into the microwave anyway?"
Kianga meeped an apology. "Me not no that it makes Wethkin melt... Never touch again!"
Mooshroom smiled and gave her puff a noogie. "Now let's try and help Zuri, okay? You go get the phone so I can call Kei."
Kianga nodded and zipped off, while Mooshroom filled the kitchen sink with icecubes from the freezer.
Zuri flopped in immense relief as the microwave was suddenly plunged back in to darkness and the heat dissipated. It was too shocked from its ordeal to do anything other than lie flat at the bottom of the microwave.
Then the door swung open, and the puff was grabbed from the scene of horror! It lay limply in Mooshroom's hands as it was carried over to the sink. And then Zuri was falling... falling...
Into water?!
Zuri found the strength to cry out just before its mouth was submerged and the puff sank to the bottom again in the midst of a sizzling hiss of steam. But for once, the water was a relief- or at least, it would be until the Wethkin ran out of air again. It lay limply at the bottom of the sink, almost too worn out to care. Surely someone would notice it needed rescuing in time, anyway... if anyone wanted to rescue it.
Meanwhile, the phone in Jinxeh and Keilyna's hut was frantically ringing. Raindrop peered around curiously as it heard the distant sounds from its wash basin, but decided to stay and play with its bubbles instead. Not that the Wethkin would have been able to pick up the phone anyway- if it had even known what a phone was!
The phone continued ringing, but it soon became apparent that no one was going to answer it. It rang, and rang, and rang into an empty silence... for neither Jinxeh or Keilyna were at home.
Moosh hung up the phone and cursed under her breath. She tried the number twice more before placing the phone on the counter and turning back to Zuri. She yelped as she noticed the puff was completely under water and hurriedly turned off the tap. "Kianga, grab me a towel for Zuri," she said, fishing her out of the sink, "And I'll make you guys dinner. What do you like to eat, Zuri?"
Zuri lay on the towel- not only limp, but sopping wet as well! The Wethkin looked fatter than usual, but the reason was soon apparent as water began to trickle out of the puff as though it were as sponge, slowly deflating it back to its proper size.
"War-ter baaad."
At Mooshroom?s question of what it liked to eat, Zuri?s response was immediate. How could it not be?
"Frooot-kei!" Zuri chittered excitedly. "Yummie! 'Lishous!"
Mooshroom smiled. "We don't usually have fruit cake around the house, but my mum had bought some a while ago. The last piece was in my lunchbox, but I didn't eat it, so you can have it." She ran over to where she had dropped the lunch boxes and placed them on the counter. Looking inside, she frowned. "I'm sure I didn't eat it?" She looked suspiciously at Kianga. "Have you seen the fruit cake?"
Kianga nodded and pointed at Zuri.
"She ate it, didn't she? Were you hiding in my lunchbox again?"
Kianga whistled innocently, and Mooshroom looked towards Zuri. "Is there anything else you like to eat?"
"Froot-kei!" Zuri cried enthusiastically. By that time, the puff was back to its normal size, and the towel was drenched in water. Zuri sat up, carefully testing its stalk to see if it was still intact. It was, but it felt sore when the Wethkin tried to wriggle it around. The puff was so busy examining its stalk that it nearly missed Mooshroom's question.
"Anything...else? Froot-kei!? Zuri said. "Froot-kei good."
Mooshroom didn't seem to think this was a good answer, so Zuri hurriedly thought again. "Not know," it said. "Choc-let? Chip? Cake? Cook-ee?"
The puff slowly fluttered off the saturated towel and found somewhere drier to sit- namely, on top of Mooshroom's head. It was warm and comfortable there, so Zuri curled up to rest there.
Mooshroom rolled her eyes at the puff on her head, and moved over to raid the pantry. It was obvious the puffs had been in here too, considering there were bags of flour and sugar all over the place. She fished out a bag of chips, some cookies and went over to the freezer for some ice cream- Kianga's favourite.
"Okay, puffs, dinner time!" She called out, as she laid the food on the table. Her mum wasn't home- she had gone to take her sister to netball, and her brother wasn't back from work experience yet. Her dad was in Africa for his work, so Moosh was home alone for the moment and didn't have to worry about pretending the puffs didn't exist.
Kianga zipped over to the table and settled down to devour a quite large, for the puff, bowl of ice cream. "Tank-oo!"
Zuri peered down at the food on the table, but stayed on Mooshroom's head. It didn't want to leave the nice, warm comfy nest... it was nearly as good as a fruit cake! It would have to try sitting on Keilyna's head later, if she would allow it after the puff's transgressions.
"Food heer?" Zuri piped up. "Food good. Cook-ee? P'ease?"
The puff snuggled deeper into Mooshroom's hair, messing it up even further.
Mooshroom gave a slightly annoyed mumble, and shook her head. "I'd rather you didn't." She reached up and plucked the puff off her head. "I wouldn't want crumbs and ice cream in my hair. Then I'd have to wash it." She carefully tipped the puff out of her hands and into the bowl she had set out for it.
Kianga looked up from her ice cream and giggled at Zuri. Her face was covered in white sticky mess.
"Don't laugh, Kianga, and don't eat so fast either. If you eat all of that ice cream in one go, you're bound to explode. It's bigger than you are!" Moosh joked and patted the puff on the head.
Kianga stuck out its tongue and flew over to Zuri, offering her a cookie.
Zuri squeaked in protest as it was removed from its new 'nest' and unceremoniously deposited within the cold, hard bowl.
"Cold!" it cried. "No goood."
The puff hovered in the bowl, then fluttered out as a cookie-bearing Kianga flew over.
"Thaaankooo!" it said, landing on top of the cookie and causing Kianga to drop it with all the extra weight. Zuri tumbled back into the bowl amidst a shower of cookie and crumbs.
Loud crunchings and munchings emanated from the bowl for a few minutes, then it was silent. The puff's stalk peered out of the bowl, finely dusted with cookie crumbs. The rest of a cookie crumb-coated Zuri emerged and perched on the rim of the bowl.
"Fun!" it chittered. "Kianga try?"
Kianga grinned and shot a glance at Moosh. The puffs owner shook her head, knowing exactly what it was planning on doing. Kianga shook her head too, and as if in slow motion, jumped into the bowl of ice cream. Mooshroom sighed and walked off to get a sponge- too tired to scorn her any more. Kianga's head peeped out from the bowl and licked the ice cream off her face. "Funfunfunfun!"
Zuri giggled as the puff splashed into the ice cream bowl.
"Meant try with cook-ee," it chittered, "but 'scream fun too!"
The Wethkin grabbed another cookie and dived into Kianga?s ice cream bowl, spraying ice cream all over the table as it landed inside.
"Fun fun fun!" it cried, bouncing about in the bowl and getting covered in ice cream. It was turning into a snow Wethkin! Zuri playfully splashed Kianga with ice cream and soggy cookie, chittering with delight.
Kianga giggled, diving into the pool of ice cream. She happily gobbled up some soggy cookie, before surfacing.
Mooshroom walked back into the room, saw the cookie and ice cream all over the table, floor and chairs, and went to get a bucket and a mop- her sponge wasn't enough here. When she came back in, she was also carrying a small towel.
Kianga was happily splashing Zuri with some ice cream when Moosh's hand closed around her. Mooshroom scrubbed at the sunlight puff with the soapy water before throwing her out of the kitchen and into the hallway. Finished with Kianga, she turned her attention to Zuri.
Zuri yelped in fright as Kianga was grabbed, pummelled with the sponge, then thrown out of the kitchens. Humans were so vicious! Not wishing to receive the same treatment, Zuri quickly darted out of the bowl then fell downwards, zigzagging its way out of the kitchen whilst dodging Mooshroom! A trail of sticky, white ice cream trailed along behind the fleeing puff.
But just as Zuri thought it was safe, it crashed into Kianga!
Mooshroom grabbed both puffs and dumped them in the water. She scrubbed Kianga again and wiped off Zuri; careful not to hurt its stalk or traumatise it too much- it wasn't used to her anyway. Kianga waited in the hallway till Mooshroom gently released the puff, and called for it to follow her to Mooshroom's bedroom. Kianga was exhausted after the long day, and wanted just to curl up in her flowerpot. But she realised that Zuri had nowhere to sleep.
She flew out of the room again, back to Moosh. "Zuri need sleep."
"Oh, I forgot about that. Um...she's fall equinox, right? Maybe if you grabbed some leaves from the garden and put them in your pot, she could sleep there with you?"
Kianga looked like she was about to complain about the redecorating, so Mooshroom interrupted. "I can empty it out when she leaves, so you'll have your old pot back. Kay?"
Kianga nodded slowly, and went outside to find some leaves. After a few trips, she had a nice pile in the pot, and had only dropped a few in the hallway. "Sleep here?" She asked Zuri.
Zuri cried out in terror as it was dumped into the water.
"No war-ter! No warter! Warter bad! Baaaad! BAAAAD!!"
The little puff wriggled and wriggled and tried to escape, but to no avail. Mooshroom would just not let go! When the girl finally did let Zuri go, the puff arrowed away from the horrid 'ocean' as fast as it could fly. Finding Kianga in the hallway, it said, "Warter baaad."
Zuri followed Kianga outside and helped it gather some leaves. Though the puff did get distracted more than a few times, splashing about in the leaves and trying to throw them at Kianga. When the puffs had finished and were inside again, Zuri looked at the flowerpot.
"Heer? Sleeep? 'Kay."
The little puff tumbled into the pot. By the time it had reached the pile of leaves at the bottom, it was fast asleep.
Kianga smiled and joined the other puff, taking only a fraction longer to fall asleep.
No sooner had Mooshroom finished cleaning up than her mum, sister and brother all walked in. She sighed, and went to go clean the lunch boxes again.
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:30 am
Mooshroom
Keilyna
"Kianga!" She whispered to her puff before heading off to the bathroom to get changed. "Are you and Zuri coming?"
The puff squeed happily, and hopped out of her flower-pot bed with the most enthusiasm Mooshroom had ever seen this early in the morning. She then proceded to poke Zuri while squeekily calling its name.
"Zoooo-reee...Zoooo-reeee..." Poke, poke.
"Guess that's a 'yes' then..." Mooshroom muttered to herself, then lef the room to go get ready.
Zuri's eyes fluttered open upon hearing Kianga's voice.
"Unh...? Dark still. Zuri sleep now. Tired."
The little puff burrowed deeper into the flowerpot, making grumpy-sounding noises. It had just been woken up from a lovely dream of being trapped in a fruitcake castle and having to eat its way out!
"Froot-kei..." it mumbled sleepily, hoping it could re-enter its previous dream.
Kianga bounced up and down on top of Zuri. "Now! Kum now!"
Mooshroom came back into the room, looking quite red, yellow, black and stripey, and picked up the fighting Wethkin. "You'd better come, Zuri. You don't want to see her when she's angry. Kianga stuck out her tongue at the other puff in triumph as they were both carried by Mooshroom to the door of her house.
She had a water bottle with her, and when her dad woke up to take her, they piled into the car and drove off towards the river.
While Moosh was helping her crew get out the boat, Kianga stayed with Zuri near the boat house. "Wate till she gone, then we ecks-ploor."Zuri cried out as Kianga bounced on top of it.
"No-no-NO!!"
The puff wriggled and squirmed. "Want sleep! WANT SLEEEP!!"
The puff refused to move until Mooshroom picked it up from the pot, and then it lay limply in her hand.
Zuri slept in the car for the whole of the trip, and only re-awoke when they had arrived at the river. It grumpily flew out of the car and hovered near Kianga.
"Want sleep. No want 'splore!""But snake-birds..." Kianga said, looking longingly at the swans floating on the river. She hadn't learnt her lesson from last time.
By now, Mooshroom was on the water, and her attention was completely in the boat. Kianga smiled and pointed to her. "Can do wut we wunt now. She won't bee mad." Her eyes wandered back over to the swans...Zuri sighed. It supposed that Kianga wouldn't stop trying to convince it till it did what the puff was suggesting. And it would have to wake up properly eventually, anyway...
"All-right," Zuri conceded. "We find snake-erds then." It fluttered closer to the river and peered over at the rowing team.
"Mooshie look fun-ee. All fun-ee." Zuri giggled.Kianga giggled, and shook her head. "They okay. Old men reeelly funny"
She followed Zuri to the edge of the river, then took the lead. "Kum with me."
Kianga fluttered over the dirty water, and landed in the reeds on the other side, waiting for Zuri."If'n they's okay, then gran'farthas must be reeeally, reeeally fun-ee." Zuri jiggled about. "Gran'farthas here?"
The Wethkin followed Kianga to the edge of the river, then flew across.
"Dir-tee. Yuck-yuck-yuck!" The puff eyed the water with trepidation as it flew. "Why Moosh-ee want row here?" it asked, a little confused. "She like mess?"
When Zuri reached the other side, it hovered about the reeds. It didn't want to land because they were so close to the water!
"Wut now?""Nah, Mooshee no like mess. She like complaining though." Kianga smiled. "We go find snake birds now." Kianga lifted off from the reeds, and floated down stream, towards a bridge crossing the river. As she flew underneath, a shadow fell over the puff, and she shivered at the change of temperature. "Just under heer...then we find snake bird nests..." Kianga slowly floated on ahead, through the dark tunnel of the bridge and out into the sunlight where she floated, waiting for Zuri.Zuri nodded. "Moosh-ee no like dir-tee Wethkin!" it agreed, remembering the previous night. It followed Kianga downstream, and under the bridge- it found it quite strange and scary there since it had never been in such a place before. When it re-emerged, it fluttered up to Kianga.
"Snake-erds yet?" it enquired."Soon..." Kianga said, leading the way back towards the bank and the reeds. She wove through the maze, searching for a rustle of black feathers. When she emerged on the other side, Kianga frowned in puzzlement. They were normally here...where could've they gone...
"Thay lost..."Zuri looked around in dismay. They had come all this way for nothing? And when it could've been sleeping, too! But the Wethkin did not voice such sentiments. Instead, it looked around.
"No snake-erds." Zuri was disappointed. "We sleep? Maybe snake-erds sleep too.""Nu...They might swim though!" Kianga said, having a great idea. She zipped back throught the reeds and fly upstream, under the bridge again and past the club house. She peeked back over her shoulder to see if Zuri was coming, then flew on ahead some more. "We go under this next bridge, and then we see if snake-birds are floating in the messy water." She called to Zuri. "Hope so...""Snake-erds swim?" Zuri was intrigued, for it had never seen a 'snake-erd' before. "Swim away?"
Zuri followed Kianga again, though it found it to be quite nice underneath the bridges now that it knew what to expect- they were so nicely cool and dark! Which could've been why Kianga disliked them, but anyway...
"Snake-erds float as well? Float an' swim? Why everyone likes the mess-ee war-ter?" Zuri wondered aloud, for it certainly did not like the 'messy water'.
"I not likes mess-ee war-ter at all!""They prolly not like water. They just have to swim. Mooshee say that they are dum."
Kianga was silent as they flew under the next bridge. One of the reasons Kianga disliked them so much was that her light made the shadows seem deeper and darker, and she had an over active imagination.
As she cleared the brigde, she let out a little squeal of delight. Three black swans and their almost grown-up grey offspring where floating in the water ahead. "Snake birds!"Zuri emerged from the bridge after Kianga... and saw them!
The Wethkin gave a little jump of fright-surprise at the unusual appearance of the 'snake birds'.
"Snake-erds funny!" it chittered. "Like Moo-soom! Snake-erds play?"
Zuri zoomed closer to one of the 'snake-erds' and happily waved its stalk.
"Mowerneengee good!" it cried.The closets swan just gave Zuri a glance before slowly floating away to join the others. Kianga hesitantly- remembering the last encounter with the birds- drifted over to the swan. "Hungree?" She asked, since they were repeatedly sticking their beaks into the water to feed of the algae. She pointed to Zuri. "Might like her. Shee's food."Zuri hmppphed, annoyed at being so ignored. Were the snake-erds hard of hearing? The puff certainly couldn't see any ears on them, so it supposed they must be.
"GOOOD MOWERNEENGEEE!" it yelled, its little onion vocal chords stretched as tight as they could possibly go.
One or two swans made startled movements at Zuri's cry, but resumed their morning feed. The little Wethkin hovered above the river's surface, sulking.
At Kianga's words, one of the swans looked up with interest and afixed Zuri with two bright, beady eyes. Zuri waved its stalk happily.
"Mowerneengee, snake-erd!" it chittered brightly.
Belatedly, Zuri's brain finally registered the import of Kianga's previous words.
At that same moment, the swan lunged, its beak gaping wide.
"KIANGA!" Zuri shrieked as it zoomed hurriedly out of the way.
The swan flew out of the water to give chase, hunger lending speed to its wings.
It was fright that lent speed to Zuri's.
But even fright-powered Wethkin wings were no match for the draught of the swan's powerfully beating wings.
Like a fragile leaf in an autumn gale, Zuri was knocked out of control. Spinning, whirling, falling...
Zuri hit the water.Kianga squeaked in fear as her friend fell down, down into the dark water of the Torrens. Thinking of nothing else to save her, Kianga followed the onion into the depths of the putrid river. She let out a few bubbles as she searched in the tiny amount of light she shed for any sing of her friend... There! A black shape was moving away from her, and Kianga followed it ever deeper, trying to shine as bright as she possibly could. Zuri found itself looking at an old, mouldy shoe.
The shoe, however, did not look back.
The water of the river was muddy, polluted and /extremely/ dirty, the little puff realised. A much more suitable environment for a Toxikin, rather than a Wethkin. But suitable or not, this was the environment that Zuri found itself in.
And, it realised that it didn't like it one single bit.
Besides, of course, the fact that it /hated/ large expanses of water.
Especially large expanses of muddy, polluted and /extremely/ dirty water.
Wings frantically fluttered, ineffective against the enormous weight of the river. The sponge-like Zuri had swelled to almost twice its size! And still it sat there, looking back at the shoe..."Zooo-reee?" Kianga bubbled through the water. She searched deeper and deeper until at last she saw something in the gloom. "Zoo-ree?" She burbled. Grasping onto it, she rose to the surface again. The thing was stuck slightly in the mud at the bottom of the river, and as Kianga pulled even harder, in popped out with a slight squeching sound.
After what seemed like an age, Kianga emerged from the flithy water and blinked in the sunlight that was now sparkling on the surface of the lake. She dragged her burden to the edge of the bank, and the squealed in dismay. What she had grabbed was not Zuri, but was...a shoe?!Zuri blinked as something blurry but bright entered its vision... and stole its shoe! Now it was all alone in the cold, wet, and the dark... still at the bottom of the river. It burbled unhappily. It didn't like being underwater at all! It vaguely wondered if it would ever get to see the surface again as it wriggled about in an attempt to get free of the mud...
Meanwhile, at the edge of the bank, the shoe wasn't feeling very happy, either. Unlike Zuri, it /wanted/ to be back at the bottom of the river, for that was its home!Kianga quickly jumped back into the river and sunk to the bottom again, searching slowly and carefully- not wanting to miss Zuri. Of course, this took forever since she could only see about 5cm infront of her in that disgusting water. Once, she saw something that looked suspiciously like a person, sleeping on the bottom of the river and she -very- quickly headed off in a different direction.
Finally kianga saw something that definately looked like Zuri- a very wet and soggy Zuri, but a Zuri all the same. "Zoo-ree!" She yelled through the water and then sped off towards her friend. Kianga yanked on Zuri's leaf stalk and slowly the onion pulled free of the mud.Rescue!
Zuri felt very relieved, but also felt pain in the base of its stalk. It hurt, being pulled out of the mud like that! But since it wanted out more than it wanted not-pain, it endured the pain in silence.
A large bubble emerged from the little puff's mouth and floated away.Kianga and Zuri both burst free from the water, and Kianga pushed the onion towards the muddy bank. "Yay! Zoo-ree safe!" She exclaimed, and floppled onto the ground. "Me tired now..."Zuri flooped onto the ground, and as it did so, all the water that had puffed it up slowly began to seep out of it like water from a sponge.
"Thank-you K'anga," it gurgle-chittered as it gradually began to deflate. "Zoo-ree hate water. 'Specially dirty water. And snake-erds mean," it added. "Not even say gooood mowerneengee to Zoo-ree." The little Wethkin pouted."I know! They were more nicer, but Mooshee's frend hit wun with an oar, and-"
"Kianga?! KIANGA! Where are you? I wanna go home and have a shower....Kianga?!" Mooshroom interrupted Kianga's story with her persistant calling. The wethkin blew up her cheeks.
"Kumming..." She grumbled. "Moosh prolly hit by an oar too..." She whispered to Zuri, before flying off towards her owner.
"My mum's waiting in the car, and- What on earth have you two been up to?!" She exclaimed, looking from the muddy Kianga to the sopping wet Zuri. "I guess we'd better clean you up again when we get home. Then we'd better take you to school- only Zuri, by the way. Kianga you're not coming to school with me for a long time... and we'd better give you back to Kei. I bet she's worried sick. Especially if she knew you were with this one." She pointed to Kianga, and then headed of towards the car. "You guys coming?""Nope!" Zuri said brightly, but it followed Moosh and Kianga anyway.
It left a trail of dirty water on the ground as it flew, but luckily, no one seemed to notice or wonder why a trail of water was suddenly materialising on the ground seemingly all by itself.
Then, Zuri remembered something.
Turning around, it waved its stalk frantically and cried, "Good-bye shoooooe!"
The lone shoe sat silently on the grass as it 'watched' the trio leave.Mooshroom let Zuri sit on her lap on the drive home, much to Kianga's disappointment. She tried to explain to Kianga that her Mum might be a little bit confused if the seat was magically getting wet, but Kianga didn't really care. She was just feeling left out, and so to annoy Mooshroom she pretended she was dead for the rest of the car trip. Mooshroom rolled her eyes and just ignored her puff and her increasingly wet lap until they got home.
She smuggled the puffs into the bathroom, cleaned Kianga and the complaining Zuri under the shower, dried them off and then let them stay in her room until she was ready.
"Moosh won't let me kum to school," Kianga was telling Zuri as Mooshroom came to collect the fall puff. "And I'm not gonna try to sneek. It wood be fun, but Mooshee might get more annoyed than normal...And I'm tired."
Mooshroom entered the room as if she hadn't heard anything.
"Are you ready, Zuri?""Zoo-ree want K'anga come too!" Zuri complained. "Zoo-ree not go unless K'anga come too. So, Zoo-ree not ready."
The little obstinate puff flew up high into the air where Mooshroom could not reach it.
"Zoo-ree stay."
Mooshroom felt kind of bad, as Zuri tried to pressure her into letting Kianga come. She didn't know what to say, but for once it was Kianga who saved her.
"Nu...Me don't have to kum. Zoo-ree, you go like we planned, and I'll see you soon."
Moosh smiled, extremely proud of her well behaved puff at this moment in time. She was growing up to be so sweet and selfless. Mooshroom, however, had missed the conspiratorial wink that Kianga shot to Zuri.
"Will you come now, Zuri?" Moosh said, turning back to the onion-puff.Zuri giggled silently to itself, whilst pretending to be upset.
"O-kay. Zoo-ree coming then. Bye-bye K'anga!"
Then, with a sudden burst of energy, the puff zoomed around the room once and then shot out the door.
"Zoo-ree COMES!!"
The Wethkin puff finally came to rest on top of a shoe next to the door, and waited for Moosh to arrive.
"Moosh so slow," it grumbled to itself.Mooshroom rolled her eyes at Zuri, then smiled to Kianga.
"Thanks for not being a pain." She said, then realised how rude that sounded. "Oh, I don't mean to be mean or sarcastic or anything, I was trying to compliment you. You know what I mean, don't you?"
Kianga nodded. "It's okay. Kianga wants to sleep anyway. And me is grounded." She curdled up in her flower pot. "Buh-bye."
"Thanks again. See ya when I get back, 'kay Kianga?" Mooshroom quickly left the room and went to go find her school hat...
Poor Kianga, all alone at home... She thought Maybe she would buy her some ice cream on the way home as a treat for being so well behaved?
Kianga made sure Mooshroom had left the room before quickly and quietly slipping out and into Mooshroom's bag. She hoped her owner wouldn't even suspect anything this time, or else she would be in soooo much trouble...
Mooshroom picked up her bag, headed to the door and picked up Zuri. "We'll get there a bit early today, so hopefully I'll be able to give you to Kei before class starts and you have to sit quietly till reccess in my locker doing nothing." She laughed at that- no Wethkin she had ever heard of would sit quietly doing nothing.
Mooshroom's Mum came to drive her and her sister to school, and she hopped into the front seat. Amazingly enough, it was a pretty uneventful car trip, and Mooshroom arrived at school with plenty of time to give Zuri back to her rightful owner.
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:31 am
RESERVED for Kianga/Zuri/Enya RP... ((if we ever finish it...^^))
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:09 am
Unlike on most mornings, on this one Kianga was happy to rise before the sun. She even woke before her owner, and was presently bouncing up and down on Mooshroom's blanket-covered chest.
"Meeree kreesmas meeree kreesmas meeree kreesmas!!" She chanted happily at the still half asleep person lying below her. "Upupupup!"
"Wad are you talking bout?" Moosh mumbled, and batted at the annoyingly awake sprite. She had two weeks off from rowing, and during this time she was hoping to sleep past 6:00am at least once...
"Krismas! Up! Geefts!" Kianga said more persistently, showing her enthusiasm for this special day by emphasising each word with an especially hard bounce.
"Oh, you're right! Let me get up..." She propped herself up on her elbows, and opened her eyes a bit to squint at her shiny puff. "Could you dim it down a bit" You're blinding me..." Kianga obeyed, and stopped bouncing long enough for Mooshroom to swing out of bed, then zoomed off down the hallway. "I'm coming, I'm coming... But you know, we aren't allowed to open presents until everyone's awake, and dad always takes particularly long getting up on Christmas." She called after Kianga.
A rude sound came back at her, and Mooshroom rolled her eyes. "Then again, it couldn't hurt if you opened yours now. No one else even knows you exist..." She fished a neatly wrapped parcel out from under her bed, and with it tucked under her arm, followed Kianga to the family room.
This Christmas, in fact, was special in itself. Some of Moosh's relatives from Canada were Down Under for Christmas and New Year's. Her Oma was staying at her house, in her sister's room, while the rest of the relatives were staying at a hotel neat the beach. Moosh peeked in to her sister's room and saw that her grandmother must already be up. Predictable, really. She was always the first awake, which was saying something because Mooshroom normally woke up at about 5:30. She could tell that there was something about this that wasn't good, but couldn't put her finger on it. As soon as she opened the family room door, however, it might just as well have come up and slapped her on the face.
Moosh's Oma was staring Kianga with a bemused expression on her face. Kianga was staring back, trying to look serious, thinking it was some sort of game. Kianga squeaked as Mooshroom entered.
"No fun. She too good..." Kianga whinged, and floated over to Moo's head. Her Oma followed the flight of the puff and frowned in confusion. She was a very unexcitable person, and Mooshroom wouldn't have thought her at all able to believe in magic- let alone strongly enough to see Kianga. But being such a person, it meant that she just took it all in her stride. She didn't say anything, so Mooshroom offered an explanation.
"This is Kianga. She's my Wethkin...It's kinda like a magical weather puff thing. She won't hurt you or anything, unless you are hording sweets from her." She smiled nervously. "Umm...Kianga, this is my Oma, Erna. You kinda already know her."
Kianga impatiently flew up to Moosh?s grandmother and nodded. "Pleesed to meet you." She squeaked.
"Pleased to meet you too." Erna said back, smiling now.
Kianga nodded again and then flew back to Moosh. "Geeefts!"
"Hehe" Okay, okay. You win." She pulled the parcel out from under her arm and sat down on the couch. She turned to her Oma. "I had kinda promised that I'd let Kianga open her present now, before anyone else woke up. It's kinda hard to explain presents opening themselves and paper flying randomly around the room." She said with a grin, and watched as Kianga hastily unwrapped the present.
"Oh, no. That's fine." Erna said and sat down next to Moosh and the puff.
"Thankoo!" Kianga exclaimed as the gift was revealed. Sitting in the midst of the torn wrapping paper was a giant Chocolate frog from Haigh's Chocolate- the best chocolate shop in the world! Well, Moosh thought so anyway. It was a bit smaller that an A4 piece of paper, and wrapped in shiny golden foil. "Thankoothankoothankoo!" Kianga glomp-tackled Mooshroom's and almost knocked her over.
"Alright, alright..." She cleaned up the paper, and carried the frog back to her room- hiding it once again under her bed. As she returned to the family room, she noticed that her sister Joan was making her way down the hallway. "Oma, would you mind keeping this a secret between you and me?" She whispered to her grandmother.
"Sure. No one would believe me anyway." She whispered back, with a smile.
"Thanks." Mooshroom grinned. "Merry Christmas."
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:34 am
A few weeks after Christmas, a package turned up on Moosh's doorstep. It was a brown, cardboard box with lots of small holes punched out of the top of the lid. It had a note attached, but all that said was:
"Merry Christmas
To: Mooshroom"
She lifted it up hesitantly and gave it a little shake. The box hiccuped, and Mooshroom almost dropped it. She looked down her hallway to make sure no one was looking, then smuggled the box to her room.
She placed the box on her bed and lifted off the lid. Sitting on the bottom was what looked like a tiny Christmas pudding. Moosh stuck her finger in the box and poked it. The pudding hiccuped again, before floating to her face and smiling groggily. Mooshroom fell backwards is shock, landing on her bum in the middle of the floor as a whiff of alcohol drifted over to her. She glared up at what she realised was a drunk Spritkin as the pudding wobbly floated over to her desk and curled up in a box of her grandmother?s homemade rumballs. No sooner had she stood up again before the sound of squeaky snores drifted out of the box, signalling that the pudding had fallen asleep.
"Great..." Moosh said, moving to her desk. "Why do I always get the puffs with issues?" She placed the lid on the box, and pushed it under her bed. The other puff's snoring had woken up Mooshroom's other three Spritkin, who were now flying in random directions around the room, literally bouncing off the walls. Kianga peeked out from around her daffodil on Moosh's desk, uttered a few rude words, and then disappeared again with an angry flare.
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:29 pm
MooshroomKeilyna
Keilyna was sitting on the floor. Well, to be precise, she was sitting on the floor of the 'entrance hall' of the little (er, actually relatively big?) grass hut that she and her sister called home. There was a rather suspicious-looking volume in her hands, and an equally suspicious folder on the floor away from her feet (so it wouldn't get dirty). To complete the scene, a flying vegetable was hovering about the pile of shoes that lived next to the doorway. It did not seem to mind being in close proximity to feet and shoes. The vegetable- er, a Wethkin known as Zuri- settled down on a rather sorry-looking thong and peered across at its guardian.
"K'anga?" it asked hopefully. "Mush-rum? Here yet?"
But Keilyna did not answer. It appeared as though the girl had gone deaf as she flipped over the next page in the manga volume she was reading: FullMetal Alchemist, Volume 4.
Mooshroom wandered along a winding dirt road that was shaded with massive tropical palms. An impatient blur of sunlight buzzed around her head and shoulders, and she shooed it away. For about five minutes they walked, before Mooshroom stopped.
"Kianga..." She looked up at the sunlight puff that was now humming annoyingly whilst floating in random circles just out of reach. "I think I'm lost..."
Kianga blew up her cheeks and squeaked in frustration.
"I know, I know. Don't get angry with me! I'm hot and tired too."
She sat down in the road, not in the least bit pleased by the dirt, and sighed. Kianga made a farting noise, and then let herself drift up in lazy circles above the canopy of trees.
"See anything up there?" Mooshroom called out to her puff.
"Nu..." was the high-pitched reply.
"Mush-rum LATE!!" Zuri squeaked shrilly from its thong-perch.
But still, Kei did not notice the Wethkin.
Zuri drew a deep breath.
"MUSH-RUM LATE!!!"
Kei's head jerked upwards and the volume tumbled to the floor. She scrambled to her feet, Japanese folder in hand (to be used as a weapon if necessary), and looked anxiously around.
"What's wrong, Zuri?!"
The folder was lifted defensively.
"Mush. Rum. Late!!" Zuri repeated, sounding extremely miffed.
"Oh. Is that all?" Kei promptly sat down again and resumed reading the manga volume.
If it had had a foot, the flying onion would have stomped it hard upon the thong. But it did not, so it settled for fluttering upwards and then thonking back down hard upon the thong. The onion was catapulted out a conveniently-placed open window and into the vegetable patch- er, front garden. Zuri quickly recovered from its surprise and decided that since it was already outside, it might as well go searching for the Mush-rum and K'anga by itself. Then it started down a promising-looking dirt road...
Mooshroom was now lying on her back in the middle of the road, knees up and an arm over her eyes to block out the sun.
"See anything now?" she called lazily to her puff, who had settled down on the top of a palm tree where she had a good view of the road.
"Nu..."
"Now?"
"Nu..."
"Now?"
"Nu..."
"Now?"
"Nu... Yes!"
"Wha-?" Mooshroom pushed herself up into a sitting position and squinted off down the road.
After a few seconds she noticed what looked suspiciously like a tiny floating onion.
"...Zuri?"
"ZOOREE!!" Kianga exclaimed as she catapulted herself down from the tree and flew down the road towards the unsuspecting puff. Mooshroom jumped to her feet and followed her.
"Wait up, Kianga!"
"K'ANGA!!"
A red-and-orange-and-yellow-and-green streak of colour permeated the air and then coalesced into a multicoloured onion as it approached the sunlight Wethkin.
"K'anga! K'anga! K'anga!"
Zuri flew excitedly around its friend in loops and crazy aerial displays.
"K'anga HERE!!"
The little flying onion was so excited to see Kianga that it totally ignored Mooshroom, however...
"ZOOREE!" Kianga bounced happily up and down, before tackling its friend and causing them both to go tumbling down the road.
"Do you know the way home, Zuri?"
Kianga also ignored Moosh, because she was ruining their reunion.
"Zuri?" she repeated, a bit louder this time.
"K'anga come-come-COME!!" Zuri squeaked as it was bowled over by the little sunlight puff. Regaining its balance, the flying vegetable shot up intho the air and proceeded to fly back the way it had come.
Meanwhile... back in the little quaint grass hut, Kei flipped her copy of Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 4 closed, and looked up.
"Done!" she exclaimed happily. "But I don't think I have the next volume..." Her face fell at that realisation. "Where's Moosh and Kianga to distract me from my misery?"
Kei paused and looked around.
"What? They're still not here? And... oh! What happened to Zuri?! Zuri, Zuri! Are you here? You haven't been kidnapped, have you?"
Kianga giggled and buzzed off after Zuri, once again leaving Mooshroom to run off after them.
"I hope you know where you're going, Zuri, 'cause I'm completely lost." She looked around at the palm trees passing by on each side of the road. "They all look the same..." she grumbled, starting to get a bit puffed now.
Kianga shooshed her owner, and pulled a bit further ahead, as if threatening to leave her behind.
"Don't you dare... Kianga!" she puffed, "Or no... icecream... for you!"
Kianga sighed and tugged on Zuri. "We shood. Slow down. Moosh is too fat and unfit to keep up."
"KIANGA!!" Mooshroom yelled, and chased after her naughty puff.
Kei stepped out of the hut.
"Zuri?" she called.
But there was no answer.
"Zoooo-reeeee!!"
The garden stayed silent.
Then... there was an echo! Kianga!
Kei blinked.
"But I just said 'Zuri', not Kianga, didn't I? I'm confused... Eep! It's Kianga and Zuri and Moosh!"
Kei waved frantically at the fast-approaching trio.
"Kay!" Kianga exclaimed, tackle-glomp-cuddling Zuri's owner. "'ullo!"
Mooshroom stumbled up the path, almost making it to where Kei stood before slumping to the ground.
"Good night," Mooshroom said, lying flat on the ground and staring up at Kei. "How are you?" She closed her eyes. "I'm a little bit tired."
"Hi Kianga and Moosh!" Kei greeted, patting the little sunlight Wethkin on the head. "Would you like to come in? Though if you don't, you can always just stay outside," she added. "It looks as though Moosh, at least, wants to."
Zuri bobbed up and down in the air.
"K'anga-Zoo-ree play!" it announced.
"I'll come inside. Just give me a sec..." Mooshroom said, slowly pushing herself to her feet. "Actually, do you have anything to eat? We had breakfast before we left, but we were lost for quite a while..."
"Kianga-Zooree play!" Kianga echoed, and shot off around the corner of the hut. "Hide and seek!"
"Put some food out for them too, I think. They'll be back as soon as they smell food. Kianga's a bottomless pit."
"Okay, then!"
Kei jumped inside, waited for Moosh to do so as well, then closed the door and raced off to the kitchen. She quickly returned with a plastic container in her hands.
"Cookies!" she announced brightly, opening the container. "Want one?"
Zuri followed Kianga around the corner.
"All-right then! K'anga hide, Zoo-ree seek!"
The little winged onion settled down on top of a flower (half-squashing it in the process), then began to count.
"Won. Too. Tree. Five. Ate. ...Won? TEN! Zoo-ree comes!!"
Kianga had zipped away, and found a nice spot to hide inside a hollow tree. Of course, she had forgot the same thing she had the last time she had done this- that her light made it pretty obvious where she was hiding. She thought she was pretty smart, however, and giggled silently to herself as she waited for Zuri to come.
"TEN!" Zuri chitter-squeaked. "Now, Zoo-ree find K'anga!"
The little Wethkin looked around for its friend.
"K'anga like bushes? K'anga... in bush!!"
...CRASH.
Zuri fell through a tangled network of leaves and twigs- and most likely, spiders and insects as well.
"Zoo-ree comes!
...Eep?
.......
...Zoo-ree stuck."
The little Wethkin wriggled about, trying to free itself from the tangle.
Five minutes later...
A rather worse-for-the-wear Zuri tumbled out from the bush in a shower of leaves and dirt.
"Zoo-ree free!
...Now where K'anga is?
...Zoo-ree not find K'anga." Zuri pouted, then fluttered over to investigate a suspicious-looking flower pot.
Kianga moved right to the edge of the hollow and risked a peek outside. She could see Zuri flitting through different plants in the garden below, and giggled to herself again. She retreated back into her hiding spot and curled up in what looked like a comfy bed in the middle of the hollow. It was lined with soft feathers, and was the perfect size for her to wait and rest in.
Zuri had finished investigating everything suspicious in the lower reaches of the garden, and was beginning to become frustrated.
"Zooree think K'anga not here," it grumbled to itself. "Not find Kianga."
The little puff looked up at the trees in the garden.
"Pretty trees. Zoo-ree go sleep now,"
Zuri fluttered higher into the air and looked about. Spotting an inviting-looking hollow in a tree, it flew over.
"Zoo-ree rest here."
It flitted inside.
Zuri's eyes opened wide.
"It...can't be...K'ANGA?!"
There was a delay as the implications of this sunk into the puff's brain.
"FOUND YOU!" it screeched delightedly.
Kianga let out a snore and rolled over in her nest-bed. She was having a fantastic dream about an island made of ice cream, covered with chocolate sprinkles and strawberry syrup. Then, all at once, a giant onion landed on the island and started an earthquake, jumping up and down and splashing caramel everywhere.
"K'anga!!" It roared-
Kianga awoke with a squeak, to find Zuri bouncing up and down on top of her, trying to wake her up.
"Hey...where did the ice cream go...? Kianga said sleepily. "I'm hungry..."
"Found you! Found you!" Zuri cried, accentuating each word with another bounce on top of Kianga. When the little puff finally realised that its friend was awake, it settled down on top of Kianga as there wasn't enough space in the hollow for it to do anything else.
"Ice cream? Did K'anga say "ice cream"? Where? Zoo-ree want ice cream!"
Bounce, bounce, bounce.
"Mooshee. She always has ice cream." Kianga wriggled around, struggling to get out from under Zuri. "Let's go find her now!" Finally she dislodged the other Wethkin and zoomed out of the hollow, towards Kei and Jinxie's hut. "Last one there's a cotton leg!" Kianga called out.
Zuri yelped as it thundered down onto the bottom of the hollow, Kianga already zooming off.
"K'anga waaiiit!!" Zuri cried, bouncing out og the hollow, then zooming across the yard to follow its friend.
"Zoo-ree not a leg!" it added in protest, wings frantically beating as fast as they could.
But, Zuri was not fast enough, as Kianga had had too much of a head start. The little puff crashed straight into one of the hut's walls, going too fast to break in time, whilst Kianga watched on.
Zuri bounced back, and landed on the ground.
"Ouch," it said. "Zoo-rree not a led. Zoo-ree a Wethkin puff that want ice cream!"
It fluttered back into the air and went into the hut to look for Mooshroom.
Meanwhile, Kei and Moosh were sitting inside the kitchen, happily munching upon two large, chewy, choc-chip packed chocolate chip cookies.
"I can't wait to read the next volume of FMA!" Kei exclaimed. "I want to read more...FMA is good! But so is Chrno Crusade," she added. "I want to watch the anime!"
Kei continued rambling on about manga and anime for another minute before she was interrupted by the arrival of the two puffs.
A flying vegetable crashed into Kei's chest.
"Ice cream!" it cried as it fell ito it's guardian's lap.
"Zuri want ice cream!"
Kianga followed suit, crashing into -her- owner's head.
"Iiiiice creeeaam... Iiiiice creeeeaaammm..." She smiled sweetly at her concussed owner. Mooshroom glared.
"Please?" She added hopefully.
Mooshroom rubbed the egg-sized lump that was quickly forming on her head. "Whaa...?"
"Ice cream. I'm hungry." Kianga repeated, getting slightly impatient as her stomach grumbled.
"But I don't have any ice cream. Why would I?"
"Cause I'm hungry." Kianga pouted.
"Ask Kei. It's her house, and she might have some. Politely." Moosh added sternly as her puff floated over to Kei and Zuri.
"Ice cream!...Please?" She quickly added, only just remembering to be polite. She turned around and stuck her tongue out at Mooshroom, who gave her a warning look.
"Kianga..." She threatened. Kianga quickly behaved.Kei blinked.
"...Ice cream?" Kei echoed blankly. "I haven't heard of any manga or anime called that. Where'd you hear about it?"
Zuri chittered exasperatedly. "Ice cream food Zoo-ree want. K'anga want too."
"...Oh. Er. I think we might have some in the freezer, I'll just go and check. Want some too, Moosh?" Kei asked, wandering over to investigate inside the appliance.
Kei dragged out a tub of neopolitan ice cream and dumped it on the benchtop.
"There you go!" she said, opening it up. "Ice cream!"
"Ice cream!!" Zuri cried in delight, zooming towards the tub and diving into it."Yup, ice cream is always good." She lent back on her chair to watch Kei search for the ice cream. "Thanks!" She said, and looked around for a spoon to start serving it out with. "Guys! Rrr...." She exclaimed, as first Zuri and then Kianga- both muddy from their adventures- dived into the tub.
"Almost always good..." She grumbled. "What about if we stick with cookies, Kei?" She put down her spoon and picked up a really big one to munch on. "They're weawwy goog." She mumbled around the biscuit.
Kei closed her eyes.
"No..." she moaned. "My poor ice cream is contaminated!"
Zuri looked up from its muddy ice cream bath.
"What 'tamee-nated?" it chittered. "Zoo-ree want know."
It slid across the slippery surface of the ice cream and crashed into Kianga.
"Wheeeeeee!"
Kei sighed.
"Contaminated ice cream is dirty ice cream. Muddy ice cream, especially. And now, Moosh doesn't get to eat it because it's all dirty. Naughty Zuri!" she admonished.
"Zoo-ree not naughty."
Then the little Wethkin puff burrowed down into the ice cream in a shower of ice and sweet melted confectionery.
Kei sighed again, and reached for another cookie instead.
To be continued...
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