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 Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:40 pm
"I say under thirty minutes, 10 gold for it." Jizzy said smiling, looking over at the maze. "What bout you, Liam?' She asked, trying to nice and include Liam into thier fun. "How long do you think it will take until my boy burns down the maze?"
With a finall shuffle,d Dei emerged from the hole, pulling leaves from his hair. He reache dback pulling at his claock, which now had a small tear on it. 'Damn.." He said, letting the claok fall behing him. "Yeah, I'm fine, you guys k, right?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:53 pm
"Ike kay," Malachi said and peered down at his arm as it healed. He tossed the branch over his shoulder and peered back into the solid walls of bush, "Hasta be an e-zerr way to do maze..."
"I don't have any gold. Only Heldae. 1 Heldae, then."
"Huh? What?" Liam looked up, still blushing slightly, "Oh...err...I'm wi' Rabid." He only had a vague idea as to what they were talking about, but agreeing with the curly-haired woman had only lead him wrongly a few times.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:08 pm
Reid quirked an eyebrow as the cuts immediately healed then smiled, at least Ike was okay.
"Mhm, Reid 'ki," he replied, nodding and looking around. Was there an easier way to do the maze? It didn't really look like there was....
Chao looked about and hopped off, trotting away then returning with a pair of sneakers, placing one in front of their little group and dropping ten of the golden Gaia coins into it before flopping back down on the grass.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:27 am
Deimos looked around the large hedges. They were already deep inside, he couldn't see the exit. "Let's keep going." He instructed, taking a right turn into another long hallway in the maze.
Jizzy smiled and pulled out a small wallet from her pocket. The tsttered leather was empied even further as she pulled ten gold from it, dropping it into the shoe. "There." She said contently, stashing the wallet away.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:55 am
"Kay," Ike said and followed closesly behind Dei. The soreness in his arm refused to disappear, and he wondered silently if it was normal.
"Alrighty, if that's the way we're gonna do it," Rabid shifted her weight and pulled out 2 large silver coins, a small glass disk embedded in teh centre of each, "Two Heldae."
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:19 am
Reid looked back, up to the top of the hedge again and puffed out a breath of air. There wasn't even any way to tell if they'd already been one place or not....
Suddenly struck with an idea Reid reached out and grabbed a fist full of twigs before jogging after his friends, sticking one of the twigs into the earth when they took a turn and pointing it the way they were going.
Chao blinked, "how much is one Heldae worth? Ten Gold?" she threw in twenty five gold coins all the same.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:23 am
Deimso continued, nodding in approval to Reid's idea, though it took him a while to understand it. He took a left, dead end. A right, dead end. He growled. "This place is evil." He said angrily as he ran into yet another big ol dead end.
Jizzy would have bet more, if she ahd more. She still ahd to go see Rico's boss to try to gt a job. Now that she was without crutches she could do it a lot better.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:32 am
"Yeah," Rabid nodded and shuddered as a chill ran up her spine.
Ike huffed in frustration. This maze was insane. He stopped abruptly and peered up at the sky, shielding his eyes with his hand. He squinted his eyes until all he could see was a small sliver of the blue..blue that abruptly went completely black.
He uncovered his eyes and peered around, finding himself completely enveloped in darkness.
"REID?! DEI?!"
There came a familiar, gutteral laugh and 2 eyes appeared before him, but blue this time.
"HELP!!!!" he shrieked as the darkness picked him up by the tail, swinging him around violently, "HELP!!!"
He curled into a ball and covered his eyes, whimpering loudly. When he uncovered his eyes, though, he found himself laying on the ground and staring at the bottom of a bush. He snivelled and wiped a tear from his eye.
Liam felt a violent electric shock and bolted up to a sitting position. His left hand twitched spasmodically and he pulled his shirt off, flipping open a white plastic cover and pressing a slew of button embedded in a control panel in the left side his chest. Something wasn't right...
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:39 am
Reid had been unhappily plunging one of the dwindling number of twings into yet another 'x' shape as they moved away from the last dead end when Ike fell to the ground at his side.
Dropping what was left of the twigs Reid immediately rushed over and dropped to his knees, shaking his friend gently on the shoulder, "Ike? Ike?! Was' matter?" his looked glanced up and around the area for an obvious attacker. Had a monster attacked Ike?
Chao's blinked and propped herself up as Liam suddenly sat up and ripped his shirt open, frowning in concern, "what happened?" huh, was that a control panel?
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:59 pm
Deimos heard the commontion behind him and spuna round, fire forming in his palm already. "Ike?" He asked but it was obvious his brother wasn't ok. He leaned down by him, picking him up. "Reid. Lead us out of here." He said, knowing Reid had been marking thier turns. The maze was fun and all, but something was wrong with Ike.. Somethign wasn't right in here...
Jizzy looked over at Liam's twitch. "You o.." She trailed away as his control panel flapped open. "You okay?" SHe started again, having been a bit lost at the sight of it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:37 pm
Liam cried out in pain as his wrist snapped backward violently.
"UNIT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX MALFUNCTIONING! UNIT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX MALFUNCTIONING! UNIT NUMBER SIXTY-SIX MALF--"
The young man sighed with relief as he apparently pressed the right combination and things calmed down. He wiped the sweat from is brow and struggled to put his shirt back on.
"Yeah...I'm fine."
Ike sighed and wiped his nose, blinking the tears away. It was just another Moredream.
"Ike 'kay now," he said and wriggled from Dei's arms, walking by himself.
Rabid, who had been watching the glitch with frightened interest, now turned her eyes to the maze and the boys emerging. Something wasn't right...
"Jizzy wins," she pushed her Heldae toward her friend.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:49 pm
Chao had hopped up in alarm as the...thing began to blar out a message about disfunction. Actually she had no idea what had been screaming it, it'd just been there, so she eyed the most identifiable object, the control panel embedded in Liam's chest with more than a hint of distrust, as if pondering bolting back far enough to evade to a possible explosion. Honestly, the only time she'd heard something like that was when something vital in one of the airships had been shot.
At that point she'd just hopped off the side and activated a parachute, but she couldn't exactly do that here and... she honestly didn't want Liam to explode either.
"You sure you're alright?"
Reid nodded and quickly led the trio back the way they came following the sticks, soon enough the exit loomed in sight, he looked sideways at his friend as Ike escaped Dei's grip, "Ike sur' Ike ki?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:54 pm
Deimos eyed Ike for a moment befoe turning and heading towards the adults. "Lo.." He said, but stopped, eyes Liam. "And who are you?" He asked shiftily, he hadn;t noticed him before.
Jizzy took the money from the shoe casually, stuffing it into her pocket. She eyes Liam with worry. "Well, if you say you are okk." SHe said doubtibly, standing up, it was about time to go inside, get out of the cold.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:02 pm
Liam held a trembling hand over the ground, checking to see just how okay he was. He started at a particular patch of earth while he spoke.
"M' name's Liam, Deimos. Nice ter meet ye."
"I'm fine," Ike smiled reassuringly and approached Mummy, slinging tightly to Skelly.
Rabid was utterly confused by her son's statement, but tried to ignore it. He'd tell her if he wanted her to know. He had definitely been crying, though...
"Well, I guess we'd better be going soon."
"Hah!" Liam cried out suddenly and smiled. A long-stemmed flower he didn't recognize sprung from the ground, surrounded in a barely-visible light. Undead flowers. Cool.
"I'm fine...and...err..." he said and plucked the flower from the ground. He peered around, looking for a place to put it...ah!
He stood and bent over, handing the flower to Chao before blushing and scampering off toward the HQ.
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:14 pm
Reid nodded slightly, giving Ike one last concerned look and hopped into the air, flying over and making a clinging sort of landing onto his mother's dangling arm, "Mu?"
Chao blinked at the long-stemmed flower that was suddenly in her hand and the Liam who was now scampering away.
She looked down again and manuvered Reid onto her shoulder, regaining use of both arms and placed the flower safely into the bun of her hair, the long stemp neatly sticking out the bottom while the bloom rested on top. It was less likely to be crushed up there than if it stayed in her hand.
"Pre'e," Reid commented quietly, snugging into his Mu's shoulder, only to slide back down and Chao shifted and caught him against her chest.
"Mm, it is," why in Hael's name had he scampered off so quickly? Maybe he- no, that was stupid. Whatever. She'd thank him next time she saw him.
The teen shook her head and looked down at Reid, "how was the maze?"
"Ki," was all the toddler said as he crawled back up to sit on Chao's shoulder again, watching as everyone began to head back towards the HQ.
Chao turned and waved to those who were left, "guess we'd better grab the Katamari and head back as well. See you everyone."
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