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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:25 pm
Ligeia was standing outside, leaning against a large blue colored dragon with his eyes closed and he was waiting. His father had gotten a request from one of the parents who'd taken in a trio of the D-Corp children. The man was seeking out someone to watch after his little ones while he went to work. The owl had gotten drafted to keep an eye out for them as he'd done several babysitting jobs before. Normally he would be happy about it, would be smiling as he wanted... today wasn't a normal day though was it?
He opened up one dark eye and glanced off to the side and gave a bit of a sighing sound, "Is there a reason why you came along?" He asked with a weary sigh.
Ter gave a smirk from where he was laying on his wyvern, coils threaded through the the spines of Baroness and she was laying there looking quite pleased with herself since their presence was rubbing Ligeia and the Frost dragon, one of her rivals, the wrong way, "I can go any where I like Ligeia, for the moment where I would like to be is in front of the building." He said it in such a manner that made it sound so simple.
"I suppose so." The owl said, giving a bit of a sighing sound and looked ahead over the landscape, "Can you at least be nice to them? I heard you talking in a puffed up a way about teasing that boy in the elevator."
Ter gave a chuckling sound at the mere though, "Not my fault, he was... to much like you." He said with a snort, "Boys should be tougher, not done up like girls and overly soft. They just get picked on and beat up. I was showing him how the world really is."
The owl crossed his arms and rested his head on them on the Wyvern's neck and flicked his tongue out at the owl.
"It can be better if people like you would be a little nicer." He said, "Be nice to the ones we are supposed to be watching or I will show you that soft people can be tough too."
Ter blinked in surprise, both him and the Wyvern turning to stare at owl in shock and Ligeia only smiled his normal, soft smile as he continued his wait for the trio they were going to babysit.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:41 pm
A few minutes later a mini-van pulled up in front of the D-Corp building. He immediately spotted the two teenage boys, both already with dragons. He could only assume that one of them were Ligeia. He parked the car and got out. He had dark black hair and a darker complexion. He had some odd looking garments on and a braided pony-tail down to the back of his knees. He was from the old country, and had lived in a Buddhist temple for a couple of years, it was only natural that he was, well, unnatural. It was hard to believe he was a CSI agent. Though true he wasn't on the field it was still such a strange line of work for a Buddhist.
He stepped out of the van and opened up one of the back doors where three rambunctious looking highlander cow triplets popped out.
The first one out had curly red hair and a scowl. Clay turned his head back and stuck his tongue out at the other two before taking off a distance from the van.
The second one was a girl, blonde curly hair. She had some flowers and well, they looked a little worn. Not to mention a few of the same color petals were around the first boys lips.
The last one was a slight chubbier than the first two, he has black curly hair and was carrying with him a batman and joker action figure.
Marco kept an eye on all three as they ran off towards the building the first two stopping dead in their tracks as they saw the dragons. Romeo stayed a little closer to his dad but stared at the dragons as well.
As they watched the man walked in front of them to greet the boys, "Hello, I am Mr. Barlow, I am to assume one of you is Ligeia?" He said looking between the two of them, "I cannot tell you how appreciative I am of you taking care of my children, I wasn't expecting to be called into work so suddenly." He explained.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:55 pm
Ligeia stepped forward away from Vorel and toward the man and the trio of small children when they started forward, "Yes, I am Ligeia." He said, then motioned, "This is Vorel, my brother Terpischore or just Ter for short, and Baroness." He figured it would be easiest if he were to introduce them as he didn't know if Ter would introduce himself... he wasn't one for politeness and manners.
"Hey." Ter said in greeting, turning his attention to the trio. His interest in Marco was little to none because he was a man. Now if their parent had been a good looking woman he would have care a little bit more.
The two dragons look at the tro of little ones, gave them huge, pointy toothed smiles and greeted them.
"Hello." Said the Baroness.
"Hello!" Said Vorel though in were in draconic.
Ligeia smiled before looking at Marco once more, "I don't mind at all, my father would have come himself but hes been busy lately with different classes." He explained, aware that Marco had talked with his father about the job first before it had been handed over to Ligeia.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:06 am
"It's a pleasure to meet you." He said taking Ligeia's hand and shaking it, "You three as well." He added nodding towards Ter and the two dragons, "Come here for a moment you three." Marco instructed to the triplets.
Romeo was already close enough to Marco but Dei and Clay had to break their gazes with the dragons for a moment before heading over to their father. Clay especially took his time.
"This is Claydon, this is Deidre, and this is Romeo, say hello you three." Marco said as he knelt down behind the three and had motioned to each as he said their names.
The three responded with a hello, Dei and Romeo's a little more enthusiastic than Clays.
The little red headed boy seemed enthralled with Baroness. All of her spikes and scales and sandy color, she looked so awesome. He waited impatiently for his father to finish up so he could go and see the dragon better.
"Thank you again so much, I'm rather reluctant to leave them, them still being so young and this would be the first time I had to leave them with some one other than my father." He said with a laugh that seemed to carry, "I suspect though that you are a very capable young man." He nodded. Marco had a strange aura about him, and very good posture, he seemed much more fluid than rigid, though not in an effeminate way.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:25 am
Ligeia smiled at the man as they shook hands, "I will keep my eyes on them you needn't worry. I was going to take them to one of the terrain rooms to play." Luckily for him he was able to go to a few of the terrain rooms with permission from his father and some of the other teachers of D-Corp.
He turned to look at the trio, "There is a field room upstairs we can go to, there are flowers growing there. There is also a room with a shallow stream to play in... though if before going there we would have to ask your father."
The owl turned his attention to the man to see what he thought and preferred.
Ter looked over at the redhead before he slithered off the side of her neck and down onto the ground. He coiled up and lounged against his body and was about eye level with the redhead, "He seems to like you Baroness." He sounded proud of it, after all she was his beauty.
She lowered herself down to the ground, barring her teeth into a grin.
Vorel tilted his head to the side and gave a little wag of his tail, wow! They were watching lots of little kids today, it had been a while since Ligeia watched a group this size.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:37 am
"I actually plucked them right out of the pool when I got my phone call, so they still have their bathing suits on underneath their clothes. I see no problem with a field or stream." He said with a nod, "Unfortunately, I really need be going now. Thank you again very much. And you three, listen to what Ligeia tells you, he is in charge until I return." He said peering down at his kids before turning to head to his van. He was trying to find a less sporadic job since acquiring children, it was quite a hassle though.
Clay took straight off as soon as his dad had his back turned to them. He ran up to Ter and his dragon staring a moment before going, "Wow!" He looked Baroness over his eyes wide as dinner plates. He hadn't seen a real dragon before, and this one looked way more like a traditional dragon than the glassy blue one.
Dei looked around a bit before looking down at her now less than perfect bouquet. Clay had decided that they looked tasty so a fight had ensued over them in the car. Now seeing they were no longer perfect she casually dropped them to the ground without a second thought.
Romeo seemed to be interested in Geia, or he at least seemed to be. He was looking at the taller boy though didn't quite say anything.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:52 am
Ligeia lifted a glove covered hand to wave as the man headed back to the van and headed off before turning his attention to the two little ones closest to him, "Deidre, Romeo, Claydon shall we go we go inside to play?" He asked of them.
Ter pushed up to his coils and looked over at Ligeia, "I think I might come along." He told him, lifting himself back up onto his dragon's back and coiled himself through the dragon's spines, "I will play a bit."
The owl turned to look at his brother before giving a little sigh, "Be nice and you can come along." He said before motioning to the little ones, "Would you like to ride up on Vorel's back?"
Vorel moved closer to Ligeia, lowering himself down next to him so that he would be low enough for them to climb up if they wished it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:58 am
Romeo smiled as he was offered a ride on the dragon. He nodded rapidly as his ears twitched as he watched the glassy looking dragon come over.
"Really? Cool!" Deidre said as Ligeia offered them a ride on his dragon. She had never seen a real dragon before, let alone ride one. Dei wasted no time climbing her way up on Vorel.
Claydon didn't seem as interested in Geia's offer as the other two, "Can I ride with you instead?" He asked looking up at Ter, "Your dragon looks more like a real dragon." He stated in awe at Baroness. He wanted so bad to touch her but he had manners drilled into his head by his father so he was hesitant at first but the carefully reached a hand over to her and gently ran it down her scales.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:10 am
Ligeia watched as Deidre climbed up onto Vorel's back, making sure she was careful and when she was seated securely he turned to Romeo and held a glove covered hand out to him, "Need help up?" He asked of him, smiling.
Vorel turned his attention to Clay for a moment, a little hurt when he was told he didn't look like a 'real dragon'.
The owl patted his dragon's neck, "Shhh, its alright Vorel. You have two people to give a ride to, let Baroness carry one of them." He murmured.
Baroness gave a chuckling sound, tail swishing in delight when the red haired boy basically said that she was a better dragon then Vorel was. As such she did something that was very rare, something she had never done before... she knelt down low so that Claydon could climb up onto her back.
Ter gave a laugh, "Wow, kid. You reall go on her goodside." He said, "Sit between some of the spines on my coils." He said. He didn't offer Clay a hand, instead having the boy climb up on his own if he really wanted up.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:20 am
Romeo smiled as he was offered help and made use of the offer. Putting both of his action figures in one hand he used the other to grab Geia's hand for help and got himself up on Vorel, "Thanks." Romeo said looking around once he was atop Vorel.
"So smooth!" Dei said with delight as she stroked Vorel's skin. He felt like so peculiar for something living. She seemed delighted by this and continued to pet him.
"Sweet!" Clay said enthusiastically as he wasted no time climbing up onto Baroness. She looked a lot rougher and tougher to ride than the other dragon. He felt like he was a lot more accomplished than his siblings, "So cool....thanks!" He said excitedly as he ran his hand down the dragonesses back and he sat carefully on one of Ter's coils as instructed and gripped onto one of her large spikes with his other hand to steady himself.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:39 am
Ligeia smiled before he walked over and he opened up the door for Vorel to go in first followed by Baroness. When the two dragons and the ones they were carrying were inside the owl followed, "We will be taking the elevator up to where the Terrain rooms are." He explained to the trio as they walked through the front lobby to where the elevators were. He lifted a hand to tapped the button to summon the elevator to them.
"Not a problem, figured we would be funner to hang out with then those to." The snake said, grinning to the point he showed his fangs.
Ter watched the numbers for a moment, half wishing the doors would open to show that little rat-dog but it would appear that they weren't so lucky. As such he would have his fun with the boy riding with him.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:47 am
Clay didn't seem too put off by the boys fangs. He was a tough guy, he didn't get scared...but still, they did look pretty sharp. He thought as they entered the elevator. Clay seemed pretty interested in Ter and Baroness, they both looked so cool, and he felt cool for being around them, "I heard the name Baroness before..." Clay said trying to remember where he heard it, "Oh yeah! It was from that cartoon my brother watches, he's always watching cartoons, it's all he does." Clay said trying to make himself sound cooler than Romeo.
Romeo heard Clay but didn't seem to care. He liked his cartoons, he didn't see anything wrong with it. He instead entertained himself with his action figures for the duration of the ride up to the terrain room.
Dei seemed to swoon over Vorel, complimenting how pretty he looked, and how shiny he was, she also mentioned some things about making him a flower crown and wanting him to come to one of her tea parties. She seemed to be a little jabber jaw, or at least she was when she discovered something pretty.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:58 am
Ter gave a laugh, "Yeah, she was named at Baroness from G.I.Joe." He told Clay, "Thought it was the perfect name for her since I am a Cobra." He patted the dragoness' neck.
She looked over her shoulder at Clay first, then over to Romeo giving him a second look now and a little more interesting. She and her boy would sometimes lay about the apartment to watch cartoon and be lazy. That the dark haired boy liked cartoons made her like him a bit more even if he would rather ride on Vorel.
Vorel have a purring sort of sound as he listened to Dei talk about the flower crowns an tea parties, both of them caught his interest even if he hadn't had either himself.
Ligeia gave a smile when there was a ding allowing them to leave the elevator, "Alright, down this way." He said, leading the way and he opened up one of the large doors and stepped back to let the two dragon's and their riders into the room.
The room they went into first was the one with the waterfall and stream running through it, there was tall grass and rocky ground around the water making it look as if someone had taken a piece of the outdoors and brought it into the building, "We will play here first and then we can go to the field room next." He told them.
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:09 am
Romeo giggled a little bit over hearing Ter explain his dragons name to Clay. He got it and thought it was pretty funny, Cobra Commander and Baroness, though he personally liked the G.I. Joes, the snake boy couldn't help that he was a cobra.
Clay was more clueless to the name play. He stuck his tongue out at Romeo when he giggled, he didn't like the fact that his brother got the joke and he didn't. Clay looked around at the waterfall and rocks, he perked up again interested. Those rocks looked like they would be fun to jump off into the water. Maybe he could get away with that since his dad wouldn't let him use the diving board.
Dei looked interested in the new room as well wrapping her arms around Vorel as best as she could with her tiny arms and gasped, "It's so pretty!" She squealed excitedly, "Can Vorel swim too?" Dei asked looking over to Ligeia wondering if the dragon wanted to swim, "Are you gonna swim too?" She asked unsure to whether or not Ligeia had a bathing suit.
Romeo smiled and drew his attention away from his action figures for a moment. This would be the perfect setting for the Jokers deadly water balloon factory hide-out!
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:14 am
Ligeia smiled before walking over to the water and stepped out of his sandals, "I can come in a bit but I am not the most graceful swimmer." And the water wasn't exactly deep enough for him to actually swim in even if he were better at it.
Ter gave a grin before he slithered off of Baroness' back onto the ground, "Baroness isn't much for swimming." He told Clay as the wyvern had stopped a good distance from the water and laid down. She would watch but wouldn't participate.
Vorel on the other hand was already trotting toward the water, stopping at the edge of it and laid down so that the kids could climb down off of his back so that they could play in the water. Once they were down he was all for rushing in himself.
"No splashing." Ligeia said to his dragon as if reading his mind.
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