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Family::

Keppit - Gus's zombie mother. She adopted him when he was just a baby
Ranald - Keppit's personified split personality disorder. Ran can be a real pain
Jen - Anthro Skull Monkey. He's nice, and he likes to pick on his siblings
Saty - Gus's Jivvin sister. She''s a hot headed hard hitter, with little remorse.
Jim - Jen's son. Jim's too hyper for Gus to get along with.
Dan - Jen's boyfriend.
Booker - Gus's tiny Jivvin sprite who loves to read and learn.
Shade'' - Saty's tiny jivvin sprite. A small pink military hurricane.
Dromi - 6 foot tall Dinosaur anthro. loves sports, gentle as a butterfly.
Rusty - Dromi's tiny Jivvin sprite. Also loves all things sporty.
Willie - Small toad who thinks she''s a princess and can make others hallucinate.
Nate - Keppit and Fitz's Legitimate child... still too young to really like.
Fitz - Keppit's long standing boyfriend.

Friends::

Fenwrit - Anthro Jivvin, black mage, Gus''s best friend, a little unstable.
Tifa - Anthro Jivivn, very pretty, very tall, very nice, Gus wants only her happyness.
Kylara - A Jivvin that Gus sees eye to eye with. She's also very pretty and loves to read.

I'm very excited... I just won Gus in an auciton and now I'm having to do all that I can to keep myself from spazzing... He's perfect and he's exactly what I would have ascked for if I had been offered a custom.... that's how I knew that I had to have him and that he'd be perfect for me... I'm a little worried though because he doesn't really want to talk to me... he's very hyper, and yet he's also very timid.... when I tried to ask him questions about himself so that I could put them here in the log he got angry and so I stopped... I really hope that he ends up liking me.




*ok... this is Gus... I hate this thing... the book and all... it's gonna make the Keppit happy though, so ok.... I can... I want to read a book but I have to write here... Books? I like the ones with pictures.... I found this book.... Rabbits were in it... there were mostly rabbits.... and another book with some.... lions.... I'm not gonna write anymore... that's this for now... maybe later... but maybe the Keppit won't make me do this anymore...I'd like that*

*The Keppit made me go to a party... I don't like parties... I don't like to be with others.... not other people... not other jivvins... and not other Jen's... I just don't like it. I spent the whole time in the corner and under a desk.... it was better that way... I got to talk to Yiba more... and no one could see me talk to Yiba... The Keppit thinks I'm strange becuase I can see Yiba and she can't... she didn't say so, but I know so... that's why I'm not going to tell anyone else about Yiba...

Also the other day I poked another Jivvin... his name is Fen... and he was very mean... he was going to incinerate me... he was going to kill me for poking him... and I was very scared... but he changed his mind really quickly back and forth... mad and then happy... mad and then happy again... and I was going to leave but then another Jivvin... this one a green girl Jivvin... she snuck up behind me and scared me almost to death... I bet that made Hat Fen happy... her name is Tifa and she's green... did I already say that? I think so... but she was nice... but then she looked at Hat Fen and she got a mean look in her eyes and that scared me from her a little... so I met two Jivvins and they are both a little scary... and I couldn't see Yiba so I was afraid... *

*Yiba's gone...

It really makes me sad. and I looked all over the house for him. The Keppit even helped me, even though she and I both know that she can't see him... I thought that was really nice but Jen says that it's becuase she's loosing her mind. I don't want the Keppit to lose her mind and I wonder where Yiba is.

I made Fen make a promise, and he swore on some long named mage somewhere. He promised me that if I helped him get his collar off then he would never hurt me... ever... and so far it's good. I feel much better about it because he was the one that scared me most, and now that I have his promise he doesn't scare me as much anymore.

I don't like always being scared.*

* I've grown!! It makes me so... Happy. But I'd never tell the Keppit... I mean, Keppit. I'd never tell Keppit that, and I'd certainly never tell Ranald that. She'd just make fun of me. Truth be told I'm glad. I have always felt like I'm older and now I am. I can't wait to show Fen... O.o ... actually what if Fen has grown too? I don't know what he'll be like as an adult.... but I trust him. I really do. And I think I trust Tifa too...

There's this other Jivvin... Kano. He's a little shy and quiet. Reminds me of me. I don't know if I like him yet, but he hasn't done anything to make me think wrongly of him..........

It's really no wonder that I never had any friends when I was younger. *

I've made a life decision... at least I think it's a life's decision O.o ...

I like books right? and I get very posessive over them, right? and I keep a journal which I wirte in about what I've been doing... correct? .... well...

I've decided that I'm going to write a book. and it's not really going to be about me, but I'll be in it. It's going to be an action adventure about Fen (if I can get his permission and all) and I'll be the friend/sidekick character... not too much of a stretch... It will be a great achievement for me... and I'll write about jivvin relations... the ranks and all... that way those who read it will have another Jivvin's (mine) view on things, and maybe... just maybe there's a chance of me helping them throught that.

A being is most satisfied when he is able to solve his problems by his own hands.....

~ Gus's Deal ~

Gus watched Bruce head off and heard his last words repeat themselves in his mind... on there for a reason........... a reason.......

Gus got up and steeled himself to go over towards Fen... Bruce was right. That collar was there for a reason. To keep Fen still long enough so that Gus could help him without getting killed. And also so Gus could have a chance to pretend to be brave.

Pad...... pad..... *ohhhh now c'mon...* his brain told him *you're going to have to walk faster than that... go...... now.... NOW!* and Gus walked fairly quickly over to Fen and sat down out of arms reach.

"Iknow what that's really for. I saw that you wanted..... wanted to kill Bruce and you didn't..."

A sulky look was all that Gus recieved. Fenwrit was busily trying to chew through the chain, so his mouth was... rather busy, at the moment. After a minute of chomping and grinding, the black Jivvin gave up, drawing himself up as high as he could without straining his neck, then peering down at Gus.

"So? Maybe i'm just getting a bit of self control. After all, a kill wouldn't look very good on my record." He murmured, confusion gnawing at the back of his mind. Wasn't Gus just scared of him a second ago? Why was he approaching FENWRIT, of all Jivvins?

He swallowed noticably.... "I want to help you but I also want somehting from you..." He stood up and took a steo closer and then sat down... "if you promise me that you won't try and kill me anymore then I'll help you until we get that collar off you." Gus glances at the collar and licked his lips... he was shaking visibly... "It doens't really look comfortable and I think it shouldn't be there... but I also think that you'll... um.... break your teeth trying to get it off by yourself..." He looked up at Fen and stared into his eyes.... "Promise me you won't hurt me at all anymore and I'll help you."

Fenwrit kept Gus's gaze, his eyes still narrowed... but slowly, they widened, until he had a look of shock that matched his predicament perfectly. So... The blue runt wanted to help him. But in exchange for something. Hah! Maybe he wasn't so stupid after all. Adjusting his hat with his back paws, Fenwrit cleared his throat, looking away from Gus as he answered.

"Fine. I won't hurt you. Just help me get this off, huh? S'starting to bite into my skin."

Gus took a deep breath.... "You have to promise me and you have to look at me while you do it..." he licked him lips again and shifted his weight between his front paws twice... "I don't want to die and I need to know that you promise...." Guss then waited for Fen to explode at him... this might be too much, but it was something that Gus needed.

Fenwrit didn't explode... He knew he couldn't. He'd just hurt himself in the process. So, he leveled his gaze at Gus again, his eyes narrowing once more as he hissed out the promise.

"I swear, on the harrowed grave of Psmyl Skaa, that I will not harm you or threaten you in any way, shape or form, if you help me get this blasted ball and chain off. The breaking of a promise in this way guarantees the breaker a swift and painful death, and it's one i'll be keeping. Us mages have our honor, y'know." He looked as if he were about to choke on those words, but silently shushed himself. After all, if he got into any trouble with Gus around... Well, maybe the Jivvin wouldn't be so quick to leave his side.

Gus couldn't help but grin at Fen... it was a grin of relief... as if he had expected nothing more than death and now everything else was amusing... "I don't know who Psmyl Skaa is... but the rest of that sounds good."

He stood and walked over closer to Fen and looked at the collar... "How's it on there? Do you remember how they put it there?"

"They shoved it over my head. T'only worked 'cause my ears can go back... But it's hard to fold 'em forwards without hurting myself." Fenwrit lowered his head, batting irritatedly at the collar with one back paw. The chain clanked against the collar and ball, ringing in Fenwrit's ears. He furrowed his brow.

"'Ve tried chewing the ball off as well, that'd at least make the collar easier to get off... But the chain's 'urting my teeth, so I didn't get very far."

"Well" He gave a moment of serrious thought... "If it's magic then will a hack saw work on it? and if so then would you trust me to saw a collar off your neck?"

"A saw would work." Fenwrit nods, then laughs softly, standing and flicking his tail out behind him. "As for the saw-to-neck thing... I trust you. That, and once y've started sawing, the magic should dwindle. I can probably set up a small shielding spell so y'won't chop right through me."

Gus nodded and opened his mouth to say something then quickly shut it and grinned at Fen... "I almost said for you to stay here..." and without waiting for a response he was off and headed oustide (( where ever the tools are kept, he went there XD )) and he was back with a slightly dulled hacksaw before he had a chance to think about it... but a promise was a promise... even Fen had to be held to that...

He came to a skidding stop in front of Fen.... and grinned while holding the saw aloft... "ready?"

"Like sharp objects, do yah?" Fenwrit muttered, spotting the grin on Gus's face. Then, he shrugged, stretching out on the ground with his neck extended. "Yeah, i'm ready. Tell me when you're about halfway through, a'ight? Then I can do the shielding spell." Inside, he shivered. Never, ever again. He wasn't going to let Moo and Lenta near him after doing anything wrong after this....

Gus saw Fen lay himself out flat and he walked over and stood beside him for a moment longer than was truly neccesary... a promise was real... he sat down on his haunches and griped the saw in between both front paws... it took him a second to stop shaking enough that he could hold the saw still and then he started... a slow deliberate pace that allowed him full control and made plenty of progress...

7.43 minutes later he was halfway through a section of the collar... "Half..."

At the word half, a bit of black-light slipped in between the collar and Fenwrit's neck, enveloping him in a protective shield.

"Go for it." He murmured, shutting his eyes tightly. He could already feel his power running back through his veins... It was worth it. Taking a mage's power away, even for a while, was enough to drive him or her insane.

Gus was more practiced with the saw now, and once he saw that black light envelope Fen Gus began to speed up the saw...

3.51 minutes later Gus and the saw and the half of the collar that he had been hanging onto all went sprawling back as the collar broke into two peices... the peice that Gus now had, and the other which was still attached to the ball....

"Freedom!" Fenwrit hissed softly, wrenching his neck from the horrid collar pieces. He immedietly began shaking, bits of the cut metal flicking from his fur as he twitched and paced and wrenched himself around. It took a few minutes for him to stop, and when he did, he resembled a giant black puffball with a lopsided hat. But a pleased giant puffball. He rolled his shoulders backwards, sliding his fur back into place, then grinned broadly at Gus.

"I.... Ah.... Well. Thank you."

Gus just sat there with a saw in his lap and a stupid grin on his face... "You look like a burnt marshmallow..."

He picked himself up and shook the bits of metal off himself, but not so violently as Fen had.... then he turned his attention to the saw... "I think it's a lot more dull now than it was before..."

"Eh, s'not like anyone used it." Fenwrit shrugged. He carefully bit down on the dulled saw, then began to trot back to the shed to put it away. Without turning, he called back to Gus, tail flicking out behind him.

"Y'coming? We can put this back up or whatever. Then i'm gonna make sure my powers still work."

Gus stood and followed Fen at what was to be considered a safeish distance... "What you gonna try your powers out on?" He thought that it would be interesting to see Fen's powers when they weren't directed at him....