Welcome to Gaia! ::

Ze'zee on Gaia
I will be a mother! Even to a Cabbage!
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Arriving on Gaia had been both eventful and uneventful all that the same time. There was no one to greet her, or throw a house warming party for her, but there were so many things Ze'zee had to do, that she didn't even think of that. First there was moving in, then reporting, practicing and everything else for the orchestra she was now apart of.

Pay was better here, to say the least. She had a three bedroom, two and a half bath place with a pool in the back yard. This beat the hell out of the little two bedroom apartment she had. It also had a real dinning room, sitting room and a family room - which she had her TV and entertainment things set up in.

But living here on Gaia was, well, lonely to say the least. There was no one for her to hang out with, other than fellow orchestra members, but they had families. She didn't.

There was something Ze learned quickly about life on Gaia: almost anything you could adopt could turn into a child of some sort, from flowers, to books, to cups (and far more). That knowledge had her mothering drive going. After all, she wasn't getting any younger! There was no need for a mate, on a planet where her kind weren't really here, when you could adopt!

That's what led her to adopting a cabbage. Yes, a cabbage. It was one that she had picked out from others, signed papers for, had background checks or whatever it was that they needed. Frankly all of that had become a blur in her mind. The fact of the matter was Ze'zee was going to be a mom! Of what, she wasn't sure, but whatever it was, she'd be happy to have her baby.

At the moment, she was reading over how to care for her baby. The cabbage was seated in the sunlight and was due for a watering. On the table there was a little cd player playing some classical music this time and not jazz or blues. Classical was good for babies in wombs, right? So why can't it be good for a baby in a cabbage?

Ze looked over to her cabbage again, smiling at it as she started to mist it with her squirt bottle. “There, my pretty one, keep growing. And when you’re ready, we’ll get to meet face to face, and I can show you all sorts of things,” she said in soothing tones. It was hiding her personal eagerness to meet her baby. Did all mothers feel this, when their babies were in their wombs? Probably. How could you not be eager to meet you little one?

“Maybe I could teach you music, we could go to movies, hiking, bike ridding, swimming, or shopping!” Then she stopped, blinking. What if her baby was a boy? Boys didn’t really like to shop. Not unless they liked to look good. “Or if not shopping, then maybe some back yard base ball, or yard tag-football,” she amended.

Then she shook her head, caressing her little cabbage and watching fondly as its leaves perked up at the touching. “It doesn’t matter what you want to do or learn. We’re going to have fun, doing it.”

Silently, Ze hoped she hadn’t just jinxed herself.

The baby and I

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The days went by with a kind of routine to them. Ze'zee would wake up, sprits some water on her little cabbage that was in her room and make sure it wasn't freezing cold. The cold was really something she had to get used too. It was never cold like this on Zard. In fact, the cold was making her home sick, but every time she looked at her baby-to-be, she knew it was worth coming here.

Then she would go about her own morning shower and breakfast, talking to her cabbage as she did. After that, it was time to practice in the music room. But today, as she was practicing, something was different. There was a small, crispy sound resonating though her music.

Ze stopped, listing to the sound as it was a bit like... well, lettuce being taking off for a salad. Lettuce? The cabbage! She turned quickly, going to the table next to the window where the morning sunlight was entering. There sat the cabbage with the inner core starting to pull away. The Zardian held her breath for a moment, her mind going into a neutral state as she watched. Her baby was being born!

Quickly she rushed around to figure out what to do to help this, and ran into the bathroom down the hall, getting a towel. When she got back to the table, she was able to see the cabbage pilling away to revile the little girl. She was pale tan like color, with hair that was short, black with red streaks of color it in. Her little pudgy body was curled up and scrunched up from having been in the cabbage. Ze could just make out that there was a tail attached to her baby.

Then the eyes, round and sea green, opened, looking up at Ze, taking in the Zard's features as if imprinting them on her young mind. A smile and a coo erupted from the baby's mouth as she reached out to her mama, opening and closing her hands. The rest of the body followed the urge to be picked up, wiggling in the cabbage. Ze finally let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and picked the baby up in the towel.

"Hey there, baby," Ze said softly, holding her child in her arms, one hands going to stroke the little cheek. But a small hand came up, grabbing Ze's finger and holding on to it in glee. "Baby Aurora."

The New Girl
This is an -OLD- RP, done in about Aug06 (just shows how long I've been planning her) But there will be old baby lisps and things here.
Rose and Ice are allowed to fix them, if they want.
Players: Trinityblue, Ice Queen, Rosemilk
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Chris was sitting in the corner again. They had given up on lecturing the poor boy when he broke something, but he insisted on punishing himself. This is why his back was to the room, his tail flicking back and forth behind him as he absently sang a little song to himself.

It was as quiet as he could keep it, but his voices had a way of carrying through a room, no matter how quietly he sang. Thankfully it was a sweet, comforting, wordless song that was more likely to put kids to sleep than to rile them up.

On the wildly contrasting other side of the scale was his cousin-sister-something, tiny blonde Wisp Darnell: for the first thing, she had gone way overboard with the fingerpainting and had deftly and innocently dodged both Evan and Xi's efforts to clean her up free of child-safe acrylic paint. She looked rather like a small, smudged rainbow mural, and there were blue flecks in her yellow-blonde hair as she came and sat herself down next to Christian. She never bothered punishing herself unless she really understood she had done a bad thing: and then she got so unhappy and full of self-recrimination that that was punishment in itself.

"Hiya hi!" she said to her younger brother-cousin-thing, and twisted her legs into an Indian-sitting position. Then: "You keep singing." Wisp pulled her knees up to her chest to listen better, resting her cheek on her slightly smudged-pink kneecaps. "I like it, Chris!"

While over in the front of the daycare was a new set of faces. Ze’zee, a member of a lizard like race with healthy green skin, held a baby not of her race. It was her newly adopted daughter: Aurora. “Look Sweety, more people to meet!” she told her baby happily.

The child looked at the people around, clinging to her mother, then shyly looked away.

“You’re going to have to stay here, like a good girl, while mama goes to work. I’ll be back!” Ze insisted with her girl, walking over to a mat and setting her down. Aurora was able to walk around on her own, and talk some, but when child was shy, she didn’t speak much.

Then, with a little kiss on the head, her mother was gone and Aurora was in this place of strange new kids. Amazingly, she didn’t cry.

"I bwoke the table," Chris said, stopping singing and looking at Wisp. "Dad's gonna haveta fix," he added before turning back to the corner and starting to sing again.

"Aw, that's okay," Wisp said. "S'cause Mr. Table's small and you's humungous. Table's fault. Get you a bigger table!" Pleased at this summation of the topic at hand and wholeheartedly believing it was the table's fault, she patted Chris' leg. "Unkie Tyler's good't fixing stuff, he can fix anyfing - hey! Hey!"

Totally distracted, she pointed a finger over at the other side of the room. She was pleased that she was wearing a cute overall dress and tights: good for meeting new people! "New girl!" she told Chris in a stage whisper. The small blonde cupped her hands over her mouth and shouted to Aurora: "Hiiii~iiiii-yo!"

Aurora’s head turned in the direction of the greeting. The pretty, bright colored – tough a bit messy – was calling to her. She looked around a moment, then decided that there wasn’t anything to do her, and pushed herself to her feet. She was still clumsy at this and her walking was more like waddling. Her ladybug covered sundress fluttered around her legs, short enough not to trip her. Her small tail helped her balance.

The closer she got, the more she heard the signing. She liked the singing a lot! It was different from her mothers, and made her more curious, if not a little sleepy. “ ‘Ewo,” she said, once close enough.

"I'm in time out," Chris said, only glancing over his shoulder quickly at her before turning back. "I'm bad." Then he started singing again, though it wasn't nearly as sad sounding as it had been. He liked company!

Wisp was deeply pleased by the whole thing. "You got a pritty dress!" she squealed. "Ladybirds!" She had a tail, too - just like Chris! Obviously an excellent sort of girl to have as a friend.

Aurora grinned at her, liking a compliment and decided to address her first. “’Angh yu,” she said, going to her knees again and crawling to them. This was the time that the dress got annoying, and she stumbled slightly in her crawl. Her hand then went to the pretty colors on the girl. “Pitty!”

Then her attention was drawn to the singing boy. “Whah yu bad?” she asked, looking at him in concern.

"I bwoke the table," he said, looking over at her again. "Las week I bwoke the dwesser, too."

"Chris's ginormous," Wisp explained gravely to the new girl. "But not In Trouble." In Trouble meant that you got sent to Time Out, they weren't bad kids - Chris just felt awful and wanted to spend some time in a self-inflicted Time Out. "Who's your name?"

"'Rorah," she answered, her own name being a bit difficult for her to say. "Yu's?"

So they weren't bad? Okay! Chris was big big big, though. Biggest of all kids!

"My name's Christian," Christian said before going back to his singing. It was hard to be in time out when everybody wanted to talk to you!

"Wisp Dar-nell!" She was proud of her long name, even if it was a bit hard to say. Now they were a little knot and it was only very vaguely a Time Out for Christian: Wisp drummed her feet on the floor and patted her 'cousin's' shoulder. "Chris, when you gonna be good again?" Then she got distracted: "Sing Rorah somefing!"

Rora looked up at him now too, wondering when he was going to get out of the boring corner. Though he sang. She liked singing! “Yu singh nice!” she told him happily now.

Chris glanced up, looking for an adult to tell him to get out of the corner, but they hadn't told him to get INTO the corner, so he guessed he could let himself out. He turned, careful not to hit either of the girls. "I dun sing for peoples," he said seriously. "I have funny voices."

And he did. Two different voices were talking at the same time, one slightly higher in pitch than the other.

"But it's cooooool," Wisp protested. Nobody else could sing like that! She clapped her hands, pleased and proud that Rorah obviously held the same opinion. "He can climb real high," she told the new girl. "An' jump!"

Rora's eyes were huge with wonder and amazement at his voices, now that she really heard them. They were nice! Then her bright eyes got larger (if possible) at what he could do. She couldn’t climb like that! Not yet. “Woow….” she said, looking at him in wonder again. Chris was officially cool in her mind.

He looked down, flushing slightly not that they could see it. "Nah, I'm just a little... stwong," he said modestly.

Luckily, Wisp was there to more correctly blow his trumpet. He was her little brother: of course she was more than proud of him! Rorah had to know his virtues! "He's soooper strong," she told Aurora. "Stronger'n..." Who was suitably strong? "A dump truck. He's bigger'n some grown-ups, too!"

Aurora nodded, gapped mouthed in agreement. “C’is biiiiggg!” she echoed, hold her arms out as far away from her as possible. “C’is swong!” Then she clapped her hands and laughed. “C’is sooper! Ah wike C’is! ‘E song good tu!” Apparently, Chris now had his very own fan club.

If he had been blushing before, he was downright sheepish now. He wasn't used to so much praise! Not even from Wisp! It was nice, but it was getting embarrassing! He needed to think of a way to distract them.

"Wisp can make wainbows," he told Rory, nodding seriously. "They pwetty."

"Not aaaall the time," Wisp said modestly. Making rainbows was just making rainbows, it wasn't like she could lift up cribs or anything! "Jus' sometimes."

“Oooh...” Rory’s mouth had formed a perfect ‘O’ with this statement. She couldn’t do anything like that! That made them “Sooo kuol!” she said, giving her new found friend a bright smile.

For some reason Chris's heart beat faster at that smile. He returned it, showing his baby fangs, his tail flicking happily behind him. "Does your mommy wook wike you?" he asked. "Wisp's mommy is bwonde and wooks wike her, kinda. Mine don't."

"My mommy don't have eyes," Wisp reminded her friend: that was really the main difference, as Wisp had eyes! "Chris gotta beee-yooo-ti-ful mommy callded Missy."

“Mama is wizer wike,” Rory explained happily. She didn’t look anything like her mom. “She’s all gween an’ has bwue eyes! ‘N wong wong tail!”

Chris nodded, perfectly happy just to listen to the two of them talk so he didn't have to. He didn't like his voices. They didn't sound like everybody else's, no matter what Wisp said about liking them.

They were both so much prettier than him...

Wisp clapped her hands enviously. "I wanna tail," she said. "I'd have one hyoooooge one. You two's so lucky!"

Rory looked back at her tail, waving it slightly. Then she pouted. “It get stuck in doors! T’at hurts,” she said, pointing out a bad thing with tails and doors that closed on their on and you didn’t bother to move away in time.

Chris nodded in agreement. "An' when I chew on it, it hurts," he agreed seriously. Nothing ELSE seemed to hurt the boy, no matter how many times he had fallen or run into things.

None of this seemed to perturb Wisp very much. She wriggled out of the little knitted jumper she was wearing over her overall and tucked it into a back pocket; it dragged behind her a little like a tail, but not very much. "Maybe when I grow's up I'll getta tail," she said. "You two are co~ool. Rorah, do you's like climbin'?"

“Iah can’t climb wewl,” Rory told her sheepishly with her head tucked down and a little finger going to her mouth in an embarrassed manner. It was true, though! She could only climb up on the couch and chairs.

"That's okay," Chris said. "I can cwimb enough for all of us."

"Is true!" said Wisp, trying to cheer Rorah up; she waggled her butt, making her sweater 'tail' wiggle back and forth. "Chris'n climb anything."

“Reawy?” Rory asked, looking up at him with new admiration again. “Wha we go cwimb?” She was working on standing again, so that they could go some where. She wanted to see! This was her first time here.

"We haveta wait till wecess," Chris said seriously. "Then we can cwimb the jungle gym."

"Yeah!" This cheered up Wisp no end: she loved recess. Then Aurora could see how Chris climbed! He climbed better than anyone else in Daycare, and Xi or Evan didn't even have to watch him carefully on the monkey bars in case he fell off!

"Okay, sprats," said the Chinese man from the far side of the room, cupping one hand to his bandanna. "Applesauce time."

Rory looked over at this announcement and wondered what it meant. Then she looked at her friends to find direction, only to edge closer to them both, as if hiding from everyone else.

"Applesauce is good," Chris said before getting to all fours and heading for the table at an easy lope. It would be the first time Rorah saw him move, but he forgot about that with the thought of food on his mind.

Satisfied that this was a good thing (and she did like applesauce), Rory followed them at a much slower pace. She was taken back by the way Chris moved, but after a few moments of watching, she decided that this was very cool! And it seemed much faster, but she wasn’t willing to try it yet.

Chris looked up at Xi, chewing on his bottom lip as he looked at the table. "Can I sit wit'out a chair?" he asked hopefully.

"You sure can, buddy," said the bandage-mouthed daycare worker; he gave Chris a bowl rather than the little pottle of applesauce everybody got, and a spoon that he and Evan had rustled up that broke far less readily than the plastic spoons everyone else got. "You do what makes you comfortable. Just sit nicely so we can make sure you're not stickin' that spoon up your nose, okay? Hey, Aurora! You want some applesauce?"

Wisp plumped herself down next to Chris, immediately beginning the difficult process of pulling the top off her applesauce so that she could get into it. Applesauce was cool, because it also meant recess followed!

Rory gave Xi a very shy look as she sat next to Wisp. “Yes pwease,” she said so softly that she might not have said it at all. A bright blush also covered her cheeks.

"Tank youu," Chris said happily as he started digging into his apple sauce. Not once did he shove anything up his nose. He liked Xi.

"Good girl, it'll make you grow up big and strong," Xi said cheerfully to Aurora. She also got the applesauce and the spoon. "You just have the cutest manners, don't you? Here you go, eat up."

Wisp had managed to pull the top off her pot and was tucking in; she made little nom nom nom sounds as she devoured it hungrily. Playing and everything was really hard work. "Lesh go monkeybarsh affawards!" she said, with her mouth full.

That just made Rory shyer as she opened her thing of applesauce, with much difficulty. These things made you fight for your food! But once that was succeeded, she ate happily, and nodded to what Wisp said.

Chris finished first, placing his bowl and spoon very gently on the table and looking patient. He would wait for the girls to finish. He ate too fast.

Even though he did it every time, Wisp still looked amazed and tried to eat at double speed: how could he eat so fast? For a moment she didn't look very ladylike at all as she shovelled it in, and she was glad that Missy or her mother couldn't see her!

Aurora was encouraged by Wisp’s fast eating, eating fast as she could too. She didn’t want to keep them waiting! Then, after swallowing, she had to remember to BREATHE! Breathing was important, so said her mommy. It was true, as she learned on bath time.

Chris ate so fast!

Once she was done, she gave a sigh, setting her cup down.

"You otay?" Chris asked her, frowning slightly. "You wooked purple there for a moment."

Finally, the pot was empty! Wisp surreptitiously wiped her face with her sleeve, dabbing delicately, satisfied with herself. "Done!" she crowed.

Rora gave a little embarrassed laugh, blushing to the roots. “Forgot ta bweathe,” she told him. “We c’n go outside now?” she then asked, to get his attention off of her.

He looked up at Xi. "We can go outside now?" he repeated to the man, hopefully.

"You all finished?" The three kids looked as though they were the first ones to. "Well, so long as none of you have choked, okay? Yeah, you look fine. Good eating, guys. Go have some fun."

"Wheeeeeee!" Wisp scrambled up from her chair and made a dash for the door to the outside playground.

Aurora gave Xi a very bright smile, then remembered her shyness as she got up and quickly as she could, followed Wisp to the door. She was eager to go outside and play! And see the jungle gym and Chris climb! Maybe she’d get good at it too!

Chris gave him a big smile and got up, barely managing to keep from knocking the table over in his haste to head out the door.

The weather was crisp and clear outside; Wisp had flung herself wholesale into a swing, on her stomach as she wriggled herself around the right way and flung herself into the air. She loved to apparently do dangerous things that would inevitably break her neck; she flung her legs out so that she could go higher. "Do climbin'!" she cheered at Chris: he had to show Rorah that they weren't just fibbing!

Swing!! Rory loved swings! She went for the one next to Wisp, planting herself in it and starting to swing. Chris was visible from here! “Iah wanna seeee!” she called out to him, laughing happily.

Chris headed for the monkey bars, a bit intent on showing off for the new girl, and climbed up easily before swinging from one bar to the next as if he had been born to do so. Halfway across he stopped, hanging easily from one hand as he scratched his head with the other. "You dun fall, otay?" he asked them, worried they might hurt themselves swinging.

"We's good swingers," Wisp chirped, to make Chris feel better. And they were! They were going higher than most people in the Daycare could at all! Wisp laughed out loud to see Chris pulling himself across the bars so easily; he always looked just like a stuntman on a TV show. "So cool!"

Rora laughed, seeing how well he climbed and just how high they were going, but her attention was on him. “Yu cwimb soo wewl!” she called out to him, cheering him on. She wanted to climb like that!!!! With that in mind, she dragged her feet on the ground till the swing stopped enough for her to jump off. Then she went to bars to try and climb.

He turned, watching her with big eyes. "You dun fall!" he said seriously, worried that she would. With that thought he let go of the bars, landing on all fours and moving under her to catch her if she did.

Obviously Chris was overly protective of females.

"She climbs great," Wisp informed Chris. There was nothing to worry about - Rorah was awesome! She dragged her shoes in the bark until the swing slowed down so that she could get the chance to clamber up after the new girl, too.

“O’ki,” Rory told Chris as she started to climb. Her tongue stuck out to the side in concentration as she started to go up. After a few bars, she looked back Wisp. “c’on Wissp! It—“ She had to stop talking and she realized something very important: she was high up. The second important thing she noticed was that she didn’t like being high up!

She yelped, giving a little whimper as she clung to the bar. Aurora discovered she didn’t like heights. This was the highest she had always been!

"Rorah?" Chris asked, seeing her go pale. "Rorah, leggo. I catch you." He lifted his arms to do just that.

Chris was being a hero! Deeply excited, Wisp wanted to be a hero too. She clambered up on the bars, pulling herself up to get to their new friend, struggling gamely in order to reach her.

"Is okay!" she assured her. "Just drop!" She and Christian were a great tag team!

Rory clung tighter, looking from one friend to another. Letting go was a silly idea! She didn’t want to let go and fall! But Chris was under her and would catch her, right? Wisp and he said so! Taking a deep breath, closing her eyes tightly, and she let go.

He caught her, hugging her to his chest as he fell onto his bottom. He was trying not to break her, as well.

His eyes were also closed.

The third member of their party confirmed that Rorah had landed safely in Chris' arms: she immediately cheered, pulling herself up to sit on the bar and bravely wave one hand as she chirped in congratulation. "Chris's SO COOO-OOOL," she said. "And Rorah!" Rorah had been brave enough to jump, after all!

Slowly Rora opened an eye as Wisp cheered. That had to mean everything was okay. And it was. Chris had caught her! Both eyes opened and the smiled at her hero. “C’is and Wissp saved me!” she added to the cheering. “S’ank yu, C’is!”

Chris breathed finally and opened his eyes. She didn't look broken! That was good! "You otay?" he asked, not quite letting go of her. His heart was still pounding against his chest. That had been scary!

He looked up at Wisp. "You no fall!" he commanded.

"I dun fall," she replied. She was fine! She was totally fine! Wisp beamed at Chris to show him how fine she was, kicking her legs and reaching out one small hand to wave at them both - only then she realised that she really was a little high up, and had never been that high before without an adult around. Her smile began to turn a little sheepish.

"I jump?" she said.

Rora’s eyes went big as she saw that now Wisp was in trouble! Quickly she squirmed so that she could get out of Chris’s arms and he could save her! Once on the ground, she backed away. “Save Wissp, C’is!” she begged, looking at him hopefully.

Chris stood, rolling his eyes. "Wisp like use me as slide," he told Aurora, not sounding nearly as anxious as he had with her. But obediently he sat down, holding up his huge arms for her to land in. "You jump."

"Whee!"

It was not nearly as scary considering Wisp tended to use Chris to get up to high places, sneak cookies, and generally as a playground expansion; she flung herself wholesale down onto him, laughing the whole time. "Fun!" she said to Rorah: she had to learn that Chris was awesome to jump onto! He could catch better than an adult!

Rory clapped her hands, laughing as Wisp enjoyed herself, jumping into Chris. He was soooo cool! And he really could catch well! Now everyone was safe and alright and no more scary bars. “Now we all safe!” she announced, like that wasn’t common sense.

"Me cwimb, you two, no," Chris said as he put Wisp down, in a decisive tone. They were forbidden to climb until they could do it without falling!

"Boooooo," Wisp said despondently, but she soon cheered up; she flung herself into the swing again, blonde ponytail bouncing as she flung her legs out to speed it up. "Should play hidea-go-seeks," she announced, trying to stand up in the swing to swing at the same time: obviously Chris had his hands full trying to make sure she didn't kill herself.

Aurora threw herself at the swing, just like Wisp did, only she got up and turned around so that she could swing. Daycare was GREAT, she decided, after making two new friends! This wasn’t that bad at all, now!

waiting for an rp

just in case i think of something to write.