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 Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:42 pm
 A prelude to a kidnapping...
RP by Jinxeh and Keilyna
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, Jinxeh = Violet
Jinxeh had refused to go.
She didn’t want to visit the Wethkin Headquarters, she had said. She wanted to stay home and study- though that probably meant 25% study and 75% computer-ing and story-typing. Or something like that. And then she had wandered off to her room, leaving Keilyna sitting at the dining table, flicking through the daily newspaper and trying to think of a plan.
I could steal her slippers- no, that wouldn’t work.
I could offer to make her a cake if she comes- but then she might think not going is a more healthier option.
I could offer to not make her a cake.
But that probably wouldn’t work either.
Keilyna sighed, and flipped over the next page of the newspaper. The double-sheet confronting her was filled with supermarket ads, so she flicked a page over again. This was filled with an article about some fashion model, so she ignored it and firmly covered the model’s photograph with the newspaper page that came after that.
And was confronted by a sales pamphlet.
A pamphlet with pictures of books printed all over its front.
Including several books that Keilyna had been wanting to read for ages. True, they were still in large paperback form, but they were so cheap!
Half the price of what they would cost in small paperback form?!
Then Keilyna’s eyes finally drifted to the large, bolded text stamped in the centre of the pamphlet’s cover.
A closing down sale? Yes!
Turning the pamphlet over, she looked at the address on the back. And couldn’t believe how lucky she was that day.
Not only was a book sale of the like she had never seen before being held today- and only today- but it so happened to be just down the street from the Wethkin Headquarters!
Now, Keilyna was sure, this was something that Jinxeh wouldn’t be able to say ‘no’ to.
Not at all.
A book sale? Now that was /one/ temptation Jinxeh could not resist! Of course, she still wanted to work on her book (and fit a little bit of study in as well), but... well, books! She packed Kei and herself lunch since Kei was not wont to do such things herself. Cheese sandwiches of course and some snackright. Then out she got the bus tickets so they could make their way to the bookstore. Not to mention Gaian gold, of course. Quite a bit of it!
Raindrop was left behind at home, in the washbasin, but unbeknownst to her, Kei had smuggled the wethkin out in Jinxeh's lunchbox, having filled it soap suds and water.
Raindrop was having the time of its life! It splashed about happily, rocking the lunchbox until the lid came off and Raindrop flew out! It zoomed around, fluttering its little translucent wings, and splashed both Kei and Jinxeh.
Jinxeh was horrified. "What is /that/ doing here?" she cried, "and my lunchbox! It's ruined! KEI!"
Cheese sandwiches and snack right biscuits? Seeing that Jinxeh had packed them both such a boring (though healthy) lunch, Keilyna just had to bring along some extra (unhealthy, of course!) food. Just before they left their grass hut for the bus stop, she grabbed a packet of gourmet toffee from the pantry and a few bite-sized chocolates and shoved them into a bag.
“There we go,” she said happily as she tied up the handles of the bag and picked it up. Then, she picked up two plastic bags sitting on the dining table- one containing Jinxeh’s watery lunchbox and the other holding her own Wethkin-and-fruitcake-containing lunchbox. (The plastic was for in case Raindrop’s lunchbox leaked!)
And so it was that Jinxeh and Keilyna set off in the direction of the book sale- er, the Wethkin Headquarters?
It was when the two sisters were sitting in the bus on their way to either of those two locations that Keilyna began to hear Jinxeh’s lunchbox rocking about. Just in case, she shoved it away from herself, and closer to Jinxeh.
And then the lid came off, and out flew Raindrop!
At Jinxeh’s horrified exclamations, Keilyna clapped her hands over her ears so she would not be deafened. Hands still covering her ears, she protested.
“You didn’t take Raindrop along and she wanted to go! So I took her! You should be nicer to your Wethkin,” she added reproachfully. “And there’s nothing wrong with your lunchbox- it’s only soap suds and water! Isn’t that what you use to clean it with anyway? Or don’t you clean your lunchbox?”
Meanwhile, some of the other bus passengers were casting strange looks over at Jinxeh and Keilyna. They wondered what the two of them were shouting about, and why there were soap suds and bubbles flying through the air without any visible cause- or if any actually saw Raindrop, they wondered what on earth it was. Keilyna attempted to be oblivious to all the attention, but kept casting nervous looks around the bus. In the end, she settled for staring out the window and ignoring everyone.
Unfortunately, in the events that ensued, Keilyna and Jinxeh missed their bus stop. No one ever said that either of them was good at directions.
Jinxeh looked up from her studying. “Keilyna, where are we?” she asked.
Keilyna didn’t know.
Jinxeh peered out the window. But it was too dark to see.
Too dark?!?!
“What time is it?” Jinxeh cried.
It seemed that they had stayed on the bus for so long that it had made two trips back and forth already.
“The book shop will be closed!” she cried frantically, and grabbed her bus timetable out of her satchel. Scanning it quickly, she measured the time.... if they were lucky, very lucky, they might be able to get there before it closed!
“Uh... mm... what?” Keilyna mumbled. The silly thing had fallen asleep on the bus! Her eyes flickered open. Then, what her sister had just said finally paddled its way through the fog of her sleepiness to understanding.
“We’re going to miss the book sale?!” she shrieked, earning more strange looks from the bus passengers- though they were different ones of course, by now.
“We have to HURRY!” she cried, grabbing her bags. “Where’s the shop?”
Jinxeh was poked repeatedly till she responded.
((Note: RP still in progress! But in the end, the Wethkin HQ is visited, and there are various people and things around... and one of them happens to see something else for the first time and plot to, well, kidnap it. ninja ))
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:00 pm
  A disappearance...
Written by Jinxeh and Keilyna
“It’s gone! My Wethkin egg... GONE!”
Keilyna’s voice rose to a panicked shriek. She had just gotten ready for school when she had realised that her Wethkin egg was not in its customary place on the fruitcake tray. All that was left was...
“CRUMBS!” Keilyna cried. “That’s all that’s left! Just... CRUMBS! No egg! It’s GONE!”
She looked around the room frantically but there was no sign of her egg. Jinxeh, who was in her room getting ready for work in the Gaian Hospital, replied from behind the closed door.
“I’m sure it’s fine!” she shouted. “It’s probably just rolled off somewhere. I’m sure you’ll find it eventually.”
Eventually. Keilyna snorted at that. She peered closely at the fruitcake tray to see if she could find any signs left from whatever had stolen it. For there was no doubt about it- her egg was gone.
But there was nothing out of the ordinary around the tray except for a small droplet of water that had probably been from where Jinxeh put her drink bottle.
Keilyna was frustrated. Where had her Wethkin egg gone? Eggs couldn’t just vanish- or could they?
She muttered unhappily as she heard the school bus pull up in front of the hut.
“I’m coming!” she yelled, though it was unlikely the driver could have heard her shout through both bus and hut walls.
Keilyna grabbed her school bag, shoved her feet in her shoes and stumbled out the door towards the bus, loose shoelaces flying behind her like frenzied snakes trying to eat her toes.
Once safely in the bus, Keilyna started to think of all the horrible fates that could have befallen her Wethkin egg.
And worried Keilynas have very overactive imaginations.
Inside the bathroom there was a basin.
Inside the basin, there was water running. Raindrop had managed to manuever the tap so that water came rushing out, and of course, Raindrop had not forgotten the plug.
Raindrop had also overtaken the other basin, and soap suds filled both of them.
Raindrop splashed about contentedly, surrounded by its favourite thing: soap bubbles. Rainbow-coloured bubbles circled it like a warm halo, and Raindrop itself was lounging on the back of a nice little floating ship.
Raindrop was quite proud of the little ship it had acquired. It was brown and oval and had a nice bump in the middle for Raindrop to sit in. The little wethkin paddled about, using its wings as oars. The boat it was in continued to float along, fruitcake crumbs bobbing in its wake.
By the time the school bus dropped Keilyna back home, she was feeling quite resigned. She had decided that it was probably too late now to do anything to locate or save her egg... unless it had been kidnapped for a ransom? But she wasn’t that rich at all, and the thought did not fill her with much enthusiasm.
But it was better than the alternative.
Perhaps.
Unlocking the front door of the grass hut, Keilyna wandered over to her room where she dumped her school bag on the floor. Then she decided that she should probably start preparing dinner...
Very unenthusiastically, she wandered over to the bathroom.
So caught up was she in her own miserable thoughts that she would have ignored Raindrop completely- if not for the fact that the mischievous little Wethkin had taken over both basins so that there was nowhere safe to wash her hands in.
“Raindrop!” she said exasperatedly as she looked around for the Wethkin. “Isn’t one basin good enough for you?”
Raindrop burbled gleefully, bubbles spiralling everywhere.
Keilyna spun around to look in the direction the burbling had come from.
Her eyes widened.
Her mouth dropped open.
A strangled noise escaped from it.
And Keilyna looked quite silly- especially when two other Keilynas were doing the same thing in the bathroom mirrors.
“W-what are you doing to that poor egg?” she eventually gasped out. “It could be... it could be drowning! You could’ve killed it! It could be...” Keilyna’s eyes widened even further at the thought, and were filled with horror. “It could be DEAD!”
Keilyna rushed over to the basin that her Wethkin egg was floating in and picked it up. Raindrop made a burbled protest that was ignored.
The egg made its own protest by somehow turning off the sparkles that had previously surrounded it.
But Keilyna did not notice.
With her Wethkin egg safely out of the water, she fled the room.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:07 pm
Of locks and lockers...
The next day, Keilyna brought her Wethkin egg to school with her.
She didn’t trust Raindrop to leave it alone, and she didn’t want the egg getting soaked any more. Who knew what damage could’ve been done to it in its little sojourn in the wash basin?
It could have been a lot.
Or it could have been none.
But, the over-protective Keilyna didn’t want to take any chances with it. If it was still alive...
So, Keilyna nestled it amongst the fruitcake crumb-nest in her lunchbox, closed the lid and stowed it away in her locker.
And locked it, of course.
This routine proved to be quite successful over the next week, and no harm came to the little Wethkin egg. It rocked and spun as happily as it had done before, and did not seem to mind being hidden away in a locker for most of the day. Keilyna took it home with her each night, and brought it back to school with her each morning. The Wethkin egg never got near the wash basin again, and Raindrop never got to kidnap it again.
All was fine- until Keilyna somehow managed to lock her key inside her locker.
She had to borrow the bolt cutters from the school’s office to break into her locker and rescue her lunch box, and grumbled at the waste of the lock. She wondered if she could recycle it, but one of her friends- who had helped her to cut her lock- whisked it away and fed it to a rubbish bin before she realised what was happening.
Keilyna bought a new lock that night- a combination lock this time- so that her egg might be safe the following day inside her locker. She had decided that the number-memorising side of her brain was to be trusted slightly more than whatever part it was that made her so clumsy and forgetful of things.
Being the strange person that she was, she set the combination code for her lock as the first three digits of the average atomic mass number of the element astatine.
The next day, Keilyna dropped her bag in the corner of the locker room, picked up her new combination lock and wandered over to her locker to test it out.
Then she found that her new lock would not fit through the lock-holes in her locker.
Mistrustful, Keilyna realised that she would have to carry her Wethkin egg to classes with her, just to make sure it would be safe. Annoyed, she started taking out her books for the morning’s classes as she tried to devise a safe way to carry her Wethkin egg around with her without looking strange. Or at least, no stranger than usual.
But no bright spark of inspiration was forthcoming.
Feeling resigned, Keilyna decided that she would have to carry it in her pencilcase. She would just have to try her utmost to ensure that she didn’t drop it on the floor like she usually managed to do every few days or so.
She evicted her recess from its glad-wrap covering and shoved it in the paper bag she was now using to carry her food around in, since the Wethkin egg was occupying her lunch box. Then, she sprinkled some of the fruitcake crumbs into the glad-wrap and wrapped up the Wethkin egg.
Storing the package in her pencilcase, Keilyna fervently hoped that it wouldn’t be mistaken for someone’s lunch.
But she would just have to risk it.
And then the bell rang for everyone to head off to class, so Keilyna and her Wethkin egg set off to room W1 and a boring Geography lesson.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:12 pm
A hatching...
Japanese.
Keilyna’s favourite subject. Or so she liked to think.
Her Japanese class was quite small this year, and only consisted of four people. Or five, including the teacher. Which meant that everyone received lots of attention- although this could usually be considered as a good thing, Keilyna certainly did not think so today.
Not when she had a Wethkin egg in tow.
Japanese was the last lesson of the day, for which Keilyna would be very grateful for as she looked back upon that day’s events.
For although the Wethkin egg had generally behaved throughout the day in her pencilcase, it began to act quite strangely as Keilyna carefully placed her pencilcase on her desk and plonked her books from other lessons onto the floor.
The egg began to emit strange clicking sounds and rock violently amongst the pencils and pens in the pencilcase.
And although no one else in the room could hear the egg itself, they could certainly hear the pencils and pens being shuffled about and knocked together.
Hayley- the most talkative person in the class- looked at Keilyna’s pencilcase inquisitively.
“Is there something in there?” she asked. “It sounds like a mouse or something.”
Uh, oh...
“Um,” Keilyna said, a pink flush beginning to colour her cheeks, “I don’t know. I’ll have a look...”
She pulled her recalcitrant pencilcase towards herself and unzipped it. Sure enough, the little Wethkin egg was rocking quite hard- harder than usual.
After one look, Keilyna was certain of one thing:
Her Wethkin egg was hatching!
She thought fast, and tried to affect a confused look.
“There’s something odd in my pencilcase,” she said. “I didn’t put it in there... it’s like, the rubbish from someone’s recess or something.”
She pulled it out, holding it in her fingertips as though it were something dirty that she had picked up off the ground.
“Yuck,” she said.
Her cheeks were a very bright red as she turned to the teacher.
“Um... Do you think I should put it in the bin outside?” she asked. “The inside bin... might not like it,” she added in a rush.
Eyeing the glad-wrap and fruitcake crumbs in disgust, the teacher agreed. She didn’t seem to notice the Wethkin egg or the sparkles that were flying everywhere, even through the glad-wrap.
Keilyna got out of her chair and nearly tripped over her books in her haste to get outside. She quickly pushed the door closed so no one could see that she wasn’t going to put her precious Wethkin egg in the bin.
Sitting down on the bench next to the bin, she quickly unwrapped the egg and laid it on the bench. She cupped her hands around it so that it wouldn’t fall off, and watched in awed amazement as it began to glow with a bright, golden light. It was now emitting sparkles like beta-radiation, and Keilyna closed her eyes before their searing intensity.
The air around her hands grew warm, but then slowly began to fade. The bright sparks of light dancing patterns behind her closed eyelids began to disappear, and she cautiously opened her eyes.
To be confronted with...
Keilyna gasped.
It was a beautiful Wethkin larvapuff!
Shaped rather like a sprouting onion or some kind of bulb, yet with many more variations in colour! Surrounded by a cloud of glittering sparkles, with miniature pale green translucent wings! And a soft aroma drifted through the air- but it was not of onions, nor was it overwhelmingly pungent or offensive to the nose.
It was the scent of the air on a cool autumn (or fall!) day.
Extremely hard to describe, that was the only thing Keilyna could liken the scent to. But she supposed that it did make sense, if it was supposed to be a ‘Fall Equinox’ larvapuff.
The little puff fluttered its tiny wings as it rocked on the bench. It chittered at Keilyna, sounding overly much like a squirrel. She carefully reached out a hand to it and scooped it up. The puff did not resist, and snuggled into her palm. Its shiny black eyes flickered shut, and it seemingly fell asleep.
Holding the little Wethkin protectively, a smile of contented bliss hovering about her lips, Keilyna made her way back to her Japanese class.
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:24 am
  An eventful Japanese lesson...
Alas, to Keilyna’s dismay, her newly-hatched Wethkin puff did not sleep for long.
Nearly half-way through the lesson the little larvapuff stirred, its eyes fluttering open.
And it was hungry.
From its perch on the empty desk behind Keilyna, the Wethkin fluttered quietly into the air. Keilyna was too busy concentrating on the new kanji her class was being taught to hear or notice. Her green kanji booklet was spread out on her desk, and five complicated looking kanji were staring at her.
“Ubi pen,” her teacher said. “Kaite kudasai. Ichi, ni, san, shi...”
All the students were drawing the kanji that was on the whiteboard, in the air and with their fingers. Each stroke was counted in Japanese.
...kyuu, juu!”
And then all the students started to write the kanji in their kanji booklets, over and over again. Keilyna’s head was now down and staring back at the kanji that had stared at her, whilst she busily wrote on the page. She was definitely too busy to notice the antics of a certain Wethkin that she believed to be asleep.
Meanwhile, the larvapuff hovered in the air, surveying its surroundings for anything that looked even remotely edible.
Then its gaze fell onto the table at the back of the classroom.
Where an array of fairly realistic-looking plastic Japanese food had been laid out on plates and a tablecloth.
Food!
The little Wethkin descended hungrily into the midst of the large imitation food, and tried to take a bite out of a piece of sushi.
But the plastic was too hard for the little Wethkin to eat.
Hungry and upset, it knocked the plate of plastic sushi off the table and on to the floor.
Everyone in the room turned at the sound.
“What the...” someone in front of Keilyna muttered.
“It’s a GHOST!” cried another.
Keilyna almost got out of her seat, but decided it would be safer for her if she pretended she didn’t know what was going on either.
“I think it is a ghost,” she agreed- though not very convincingly.
But the little Wethkin did not appreciate being called a ghost- especially not by someone who it thought had liked it. In a mini-tantrum (this bad mood mostly brought on by hunger), the Wethkin proceeded to knock all the other plates of plastic Japanese food off the table.
Soon, the floor was littered with plastic food.
Everyone was staring at the table and the floor, wide-eyed and horrified.
“I knew it was a ghost!” someone whispered in horrified fascination.
Keilyna’s Japanese teacher clearly did not know what to do.
“Out,” she said at last. “All of you- get out of the classroom. I’ll see if I can find someone capable of dealing with.. this thing. Whatever it is.”
Everyone gathered up their books as fast as possible and evacuated the classroom. Not wanting to look too strange, Keilyna included herself in the rush.
The poor Wethkin was now feeling quite frustrated- and even more hungry- so it followed everyone outside. It fluttered its little wings as it looked around for something more edible than plastic sushi.
Then it smelled food.
Real food, it was certain.
To Keilyna’s dismay, her Wethkin flew across to W9- the Home Economics room- and through a window that had been left open.
Uh, oh...
Keilyna had absolutely no idea what could be done. Especially since she had already eaten everything in her lunch box. She quite unimaginatively cursed the circumstances that had conspired to make her Wethkin hatch at such an inconvenient time and place.
She considered her options.
She could rush into W9 and try to catch her errant larvapuff before it caused too much havoc. But then everyone would think her to be insane as they would most likely be unable to see the Wethkin.
Keilyna certainly did not want to spend the rest of her life in a mental institution.
So that really only left one option open for her- to wait outside and pretend that she had absolutely nothing to do with the ‘ghost’ that was haunting the school.
Soon, terrified shrieks began to emerge from W9. Keilyna supposed that seeing a meal you had just cooked magically disappearing before your eyes would be pretty frightening.
But what could she do but wait outside the Japanese classroom with the rest of her class?
All she could do was hope that her Wethkin would satiate its hunger soon.
Then the door of the Home Economics classroom was thrown open, and a class of panicked apron-wearing students burst outside onto the pavement. They were babbling loudly amongst themselves in disbelief and confusion. A teacher emerged soon after, and shouted at them to be quiet so they would not disturb other classes. Though enough classes had already been disturbed by a certain hungry Wethkin. Then, the Home Economics teacher went off too, presumably to find someone who knew how to cope with ghosts in kitchens.
Eventually, the Japanese teacher returned and announced to her class that they would finish off their Japanese lesson in another classroom, so they set off to S2 to do so. And so the rest of the lesson passed quite uneventfully. Not that there was all that much lesson time left after certain Wethkin distractions.
After the lesson, Keilyna wandered back over to her year level’s locker rooms. The topic of invisible ghosts invading classrooms was the favoured topic of conversation amongst all the chattering students. But she couldn’t see Mooshroom around, so she couldn’t tell her friend about the antics of her hungry little Wethkin- and the real version of events.
After packing her bag with a few Wethkin-loads of homework, Keilyna ventured outside to find her Wethkin. She decided to check the Home Economics room first, but as she walked over the pavement in the direction of W9 she spotted the larvapuff reclining under one of the nearby trees. It seemed to be sleeping again. There were a few crumbs of something around its mouth, and they looked suspiciously like...
Fruitcake.
It seemed as though the larvapuff loved fruitcake just as much as its egg had. Which wasn’t that surprising after all, Keilyna decided. She carefully picked up the dozing Wethkin, trying not to awaken it. Then she began to head off in the direction of the school bus so she could get home and tell Jinxeh all about her very unusual day.
As she walked, Keilyna wryly wandered what her sister would think of her Wethkin.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:50 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:04 am
An early riser...
The soft light of morning filtered through the edges of the pale blue blinds that cascaded over the windows of Keilyna’s room. It traced the outlines of the forms contained within in glimmering light, and shimmered placidly across the surface of the mirror in smooth waves. It danced effortlessly across the rock-shape buried deep underneath the quilts of the bed, and lightly brushed the cheeks of the dozing form burrowed under a miniature fluffy blanket on the sofa.
The form began to stir, disturbed from its slumber by the strange, unfamilar cacophony of sounds that emanated from beyond the window. It had never heard such sounds before, and was puzzled.
This was the first morning it had ever lived through.
But the sounds did not seem particularly menacing- they even seemed quite cheerful and friendly- so the form did no more than wonder at the source of those enigmatic sounds.
Wriggling out from under the blanket, a rather unusual entity was revealed: a living creature that bore quite the resemblance to a winged, sprouting onion.
Not that it would have liked to hear that description of itself, of course. Keilyna’s Wethkin larvapuff was a sensitive thing.
Sitting in a little pool of pale sunlight, it peered over at the rock-shape humped up in the bed. The creature inside... it was not Wethkin, but some strange being so enormous that the puff fit easily in its hand! A giant. Not Wethkin.
But why did it feel as though an invisible cord were attached between them both, linking their souls together...?
The Wethkin found this concept rather bewildering as it considered the lump in the bed.
But then, surrounded by silence and with seemingly all the time in the world to lose in contemplation, the little puff realised something else. It could feel another... bond, wriggling across the floor like a length of vine and disappearing out of the mouth of the cavernous room. It knew it led to something that felt like... it felt like a kindred spirit!
Curiosity piqued, the Wethkin launched itself off the sofa and into the air. Tiny wings fluttering, the puff bobbed across the room, over the sleeping Keilyna and out the doorway.
Outside, in the corridor, it paused. It looked around cautiously, checking for any signs of danger. But sensing none, it bobbed onwards.
Towards the bathroom.
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:21 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:10 pm
In which Fall Equinox acquires food and a name...
Water gurgled down the drain.
Keilyna had pulled the plug out, hoping that she would be able to see her Wethkin in the basin without all the obscuring water and bubbles.
Raindrop burbled in protest, wondering why the girl always had to come along and spoil her fun. It was just not fair!
Keilyna looked around for Raindrop, and again, she was met with a surprise...
A very fat, sopping wet onion-Wethkin was sitting on the table next to Raindrop, with water trickling out from it like a sponge! As streams of water flowed away from it and dripped onto the floor, Fall Equinox began to slowly deflate back to its normal size.
Keilyna just stared.
Raindrop had rescued Fall from the basin?! But why had the rain Wethkin waited for so long before doing so? Raindrop knew the answer, but she wasn’t going to tell...
Raindrop had thought that Keilyna was joining in the game of hide-and-seek, and had decided to help its new friend escape from being found! Luckily, it had decided that the best way to do so was to get Fall out of the washbasin, since Keilyna had been so frantically searching inside it...
Then Keilyna recovered, and marched over to the table. She gently picked up her Wethkin, and looked at Raindrop.
“I really don’t think that Fall should come here again,” she said. “It’s too dangerous for her. Did you know she almost drowned just then?”
Then Keilyna turned and left the bathroom, to dry her Wethkin off and find breakfast for them both.
Some time later, Keilyna sat at the dining table with her Wethkin, carefully drying it off with a soft blue handtowel.
“There you go,” she said at last, putting down the towel. “You’re all dry, now. Would you like some breakfast?”
Fall Equinox, who had been silent ever since its rescue from the washbasin, gave a little chitter of agreement.
“Right. Would you like some fruitcake, then? And perhaps you should have some milk... how about I make you a banana milkshake?”
Fall Equinox’s chitter of agreement was more enthusiastic, this time. Keilyna was glad that it seemed to be recovering from its ordeal in the washbasin. She went to the packet of fruitcake, cut a generous slice for her Wethkin, and then put it (the fruitcake!) into a bowl.
“Here you go,” she said as she plonked it in front of her Wethkin. “I’ll go and make the milkshake for you, now.”
Fall Equinox flew onto the rim of the bowl to get a better look at the slice of fruitcake.
It was huge!
It was a generous piece for a human, but for a Wethkin... it was MASSIVE!
Big enough... to make a home in?
And then Fall Equinox hopped into the bowl with a delighted chitter and began to bounce around in its new ‘nest’. And eat bits of it, of course, since it was hungry.
Keilyna returned half an hour later with three frothy banana milkshakes.
One for her, one for Fall and one for Jinxeh.
She knew by now that there wasn’t any point in trying to feed Raindrop anything but bubbles.
But where was Fall?
The Wethkin did seem to have a knack of disappearing every time she turned around.
Then she looked inside the bowl and saw her Wethkin playing inside.
“Don’t play with your food,” she told it. “And here’s your milkshake. Please try not to drown in it too.”
Fall flew out of the bowl to investigate its milkshake- which was at least ten times bigger than itself. How was it supposed to drink this thing?
Eventually, Keilyna seemed to realise its dilemma.
“Oops,” she said. “Sorry. I’ll get you a straw, maybe that will help.”
So she went and got a stripey, bendy straw from the pantry and stuck it into Fall’s milkshake.
“There you go! Now you’ll be fine,” she reassured her Wethkin.
Then she began to slurp her own milkshake up with enthusiasm, and totally forgot about Fall Equinox whilst she was doing so.
The Wethkin eyed the straw with some trepidation. Keilyna seemed to have forgotten about it for the moment- such a strange human she was!- so it would have to try and work out for itself how to drink with the thing. The straw was high above its head, and so thick (for a Wethkin)... So Fall flew up into the air, and managed to slurp up a mouthful of milkshake through the straw whilst hovering mid-air. It was hard. But the milkshake tasted nice, so it drank until it had had enough and then flew back to its bowl to play.
And then Keilyna remembered her Wethkin, and quickly and loudly slurped down the remainder of her milkshake, shoving the empty cup aside.
“I think you need a better name than Fall,” she informed her Wethkin. “Something nicer.”
Her Wethkin looked silently up at her as it listened.
Keilyna continued. “And I’ve been thinking that Zuri might be a good name for you.. It means things like ‘splendid’ and ‘beautiful’ and ‘pretty’ in Swahili. Would you like to be called that? Fall doesn’t really mean much, you know. Except for, well, falling?”
Fall chittered excitedly. It wanted to be splendid and beautiful and pretty!
“I take it you want to be called Zuri, then?”
Fall bounced up and down in its bowl, spraying fruitcake crumbs everywhere.
“Okay! You shall now be known as Zuri,” Keilyna told her Wethkin. “So... what would you like to do now?”
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:49 pm
From the mind of Keilyna...
Zuri nearly drowned today.
My poor Wethkin... I can hardly believe it.
I must keep Zuri away from the bathroom. After all, who knows what might happen next time? I don't want to know...
And I have this sneaking suspicion that Raindrop only rescued Zuri because she thought it was a game. All a game.
But at least Zuri is still alive. I really don’t want to think about what might have happened if I had decided to sleep in for longer...
But anyway. I got Zuri to drink some milk in a milkshake today- I should really get it to try some other foods as well! I wonder if it will like toast as much as I do. Who knows?
I tried to teach Zuri to speak this afternoon, but it seemed to prefer exploring the house and playing with things. It seems to be quite a curious Wethkin. But I did manage to teach it how to say ‘Fall Equinox’, though when it says it, it sounds like ‘furl ekki-ocks’ or something. But I am sure that Zuri will improve!
Earlier on this evening, I made a proper fruitcake for Zuri. And since she seems to like living amongst fruitcake crumbs so much, I found a nice basket and put blankets and fruitcake in it for her. She is sleeping in it now... Maybe I should try and get to sleep, too.
Though did you know...?
It’s the Fall Equinox tomorrow!
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:15 pm
 An unusual dream...
RP by Jinxeh, Keilyna and Tasah
Key: Amphitrite the Equus Goddess (Tasah) = Indigo, Raindrop (Jinxeh) = Blue, Sputter the Spritkin (Tasah) = Teal, Zuri (Keilyna) = Dark red
Zuri slept. It was curled up in its new fruitcake and blanket-filled basket, but its sleep was far from peaceful. For as the little Wethkin slept, it began to dream, and the dream was very strange and disjointed...
Sputter chitters at Zuri and tries to carry on what seems like a very one sided conversation.
Amphitrite just nudges the gummy with with a hoof before trying to sniff at it. "Strange thing it is. "
Amphitrite gives the jelly blob another little nudging.
Zuri chitters happily back at Sputter and eyes the strange gigantic blue creature warily!
Amphitrite blinks a bit at all the chittering going on. Shaking her mane and accidently dislodging a few fish in the process. Nosing them back into place before eyeing the odd little creatures again.
Sputter mmrrrrs happily as there is a chittering response. Blinking a little wide eyed and going silent thought when he finally notices the big creature.
Zuri peeeks up at the big blue thing and at all the fishies. It decides the mountain might be an interesting place to explore and launches itself off the ground and lands on Amphitrite's back, chittering excitedly to Sputter!
Another blink and there is a vegetable on her back! Amphitrite gives a shake before turning her head to look back at the...thing...Snorting at it in disbelief. Though some of the fish in her mane pause and just look googly eyed at the invader.
Sputter gives a blink himself as Zuri launches into the air. Looking a bit in awe at the rather spectacular event....Zuri scaled the mountain in one bounding leap! Excited chittering commences as Sputter bounces around, seeing if there is something for him to bounce upon first to cover some distance ebfore attempting to reach the moutain's curvey back!
Zuri flutters its wings at Sputter, wondering if the other can fly! Then stares googly-eyed back at all the strange googly-eyed creatures and chitters at them and bounces up and down on Amphitrite's back!
Amphitrite snorted and stamped her foot. She was a goddess, not a jungle gym!!! One of the fish spit a stream of water at Zuri after a goole-eyed blink.
Sputter pouted a bit, all he could do was bounce about. No pretty wings like Zuri!
Raindrop joins in the fun.
Amphitrite. Water playground!
Zuri had an idea! It jumped onto Amphitrite's tail and slid all the way down to the ground to join Sputter. Then tried to bounce back up the goddess' tail, deciding that if it could do that then Sputter could, too!
Amphitrite gave her head a good shake as Rain landed on her ear! The indignity of it all, it was no wonder to her now on why she usually kept to her river. These stranger creatures were such pests! Her tail gave a swish as Zuri slide down it, potentially sending Zuri on a small flight once the end of the tail was reached.
Sputter gave a happy chitter as Rain joined in on the water playground. It was becoming a grand old party. He sponged over towards the tail in seeing Zuri slide down it, those fishies would be good bouncing steps, even if wiggly ones.
Spotting Raindrop, Zuri chittered happily to it. It splash-bounced around in the goddess' strange tail, glad that the tail seemed to be something one was unable to sink in. Then decided to try bouncing on the fishies too, like Sputter!
Amphitrite absorbed Rain and morphed into a Rain-Equus....in Jinxeh's dreams! While really snorting in distain, her ears turning this way and that as her tail gave another little flip-flop-swish. "I am not a playground!" Turning to snort and nose at the little wobbly things that were almost dislodging her beloved fish!
Sputter bounced upon the fishies happily chittering all the while as he navigated up and down the long flowy tail. Fun! Fun! And the little flips that sent him soaring caused happy squees!
Playground? Zuri pretended not to understand, chittering a happy reply to Amphitrite. Then bouncing one last time on a fishy and flying off and away... onto the goddess' head! Fun fun fun! Zuri examined the shell-things in Amphitrite's mane and wondered if they were edible.
Ears flattened back as one of the things landed on her head. Amphitrite was not a happy goddess! She tossed her head about and nickered loudly! And it began to thunder with clouds starting to roll in.
Sputter gave a long leap and landed on the curvey back of the neat playground! Giving and happy chitter as he woggled back and forth happily.
Thunder! Zuri had never heard it before! Frightened, it burrowed into Amphitrite's soft curly blue mane to hide, and decided that whilst it was doing so it might as well try one of the little whitish-pink candies in the goddess' mane.
Yuck!
The shell tasted horrible and Zuri bounced up and down agitatedly as it looked around for something else to take away the taste of the bad-tasting candy.
The shell gave off a little 'ee' as it was bit!! The sound and the feeling only angiered Amphitrite futher, several flashes of lightening and more thunder sounded. The rain took up spead and size as it splooshed down everywhere, and Amphitrite tried to n** ad the pest that was hurting her shells!
The loud sound causes Sputter to squish on down, looking aobut all wide eyed as he tried to figure out where the sound came from. it must be a big giant! And...ack....Zuri had vanished! Sputter gave out a frightened little whimper, he was abandoned on the big mountain and it was getting dark and scarey.
Big wide mouth, coming towards Zuri! Eeeeeek! Wide-eyed, Zuri slid-bounced down Amphritrite's mane and down her back and down her tail and crashed right into Sputter, sending fishies and water spraying everywhere!
Nostrils flairs as Amphitrite snorted after her teeth clamping down on nothingness. Eyes bearing down on the slipper turnip pest. How was it turnips could be such pests, she was going to have to have a talk with the Harvest god....His crops were going to suffer for this outrage! And her beloved fishies were being knocked out and could be lost!
Sputter was a most frightened little squishy, closing his eyes all tight, for surely this was just some strange nightmare. But then Zuri smacked into him and dislodged him. A loud chitter of fright, well loud for one his size, sounded as he started tumbling and sliding down Amphitrite's side!
Zuri's frightened chittering joined Sputter's as the onion-thing fell upside-down for the rest of the way and landed on its head at the end of Amphitrite's tail! And the thunder was so loud! And the lightning so bright! Zuri wondered why all the lightning and clouds were below her and why she was wearing Amphitrite's tail like a hat, and whimpered.
Sputter tumbled and went *splat* onto his head! A loud squueeeeeeee came and he wiggled and jiggled about wildly, more frightened then ever! He couldn't move and everything was upside down!
Seeing the one off of her, Amphitrite gave the teally blob a swift kick with her hoof, sending Sputter soaring through the air. Quite a loud chittering shriek seeming to be produced in the process. Now, where was that awful turnip that had hurt her shells and displaced her fishies. A rumble sounded as she snorted and snuffled through her tail in search of the intruder her fishies fled from.
But now, the scary big face-thing was near- why was it upside-down?! Zuri flapped its wings and tried to fly away, but they were tangled in all the fishies! The loud chittery shriek that it had heard before did not seem to hold a very promising fate for itself... but jiggling around, it managed to free itself and went tumbling all the rest of the way down Amphitrite's mane and onto the ground!
Poor Sputter went splut and squish, flattening out to a miserable quivering mess when he landed smack into a rock. The shrill sound being cut off suddenly when he hit, and ended up knocked out.
Amphitrite nipped when she got the odd scent...the turnip did not smell like a turnip. But her teeth cuahg tnothing bit a bit of hair, again. She glowered, another thunder-boom sounded in the sky. Ah-ha! there was the annoyance, on the ground. Just perfect...She side stepped a bit and lined up her hoof just right before letting it loose!
Zuri cried out as it flew blindly through the air, unable to use its wings to steady itself or slow its fall! And then the ground loomed up in its vision, and...
Zuri woke up!
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:34 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:31 am
 The Fall Equinox- Two Swahili Wethkin and a microwave...
Part 1 of an RP by Keilyna and mooshroom
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, mooshroom = Olive
And so it was that Keilyna and Zuri set off for the Wethkin Headquarters. They left Jinxeh and Raindrop behind, and had a relatively uneventful bus ride... getting off the first time it reached the bus stop!
They went down the street, and found the Headquarters quite easily. And then wandered along and through the front door. Keilyna opened it quite cautiously, shy person as she was... and then tried to sneak in unobtrusively. Zuri, with no such worries, zoomed inside and immediately started exploring the place.
Kianga and Mooshroom had been sitting on the floor of the Wethkin HQ staring at the door, hoping that someone might come and visit. So far they had become good friends with a few of the other owners, but hadn’t even had a chance to talk to some of them and they were hoping that they would have a chance to make new friends today.
So when Kei entered the shop, she had no chance of avoiding Mooshroom and Kianga’s attention.
“KEI!” Mooshroom yelled out, jumping to her feet and running over to Kei. “Why’re you here?” She hadn’t heard about Keilyna’s new Wethkin.
Kianga flew in excited circle around the pair of them, buzzing happily.
Kei blinked in surprise as Moosh ran over to her.
"Hello, Moosh!" she said, glad that the only person there was someone she knew. "I'm here because... I wanted to come! It's the Fall Equinox today, you know."
Spotting Kianga, Zuri fluttered over to greet it, chittering happily. It bobbed up and down in the air, sparkling happily.
Kei continued, "And this is Zuri, my Fall Equinox Wethkin! It only hatched two days ago, you know. On Friday! And at school, too... it messed up the Japanese room and invaded the Home Ec. room and everyone thought there was a ghost!"
"Aww...Was that all the ghost was..? I was hoping I could go around the school with a vacuum and try and catch it...." Mooshroom said, completely seriously. "Hey...wait! That means your avacado really was a Wethkin!" She followed the puff with her eyes as Kianga chased it around the room. "Now it's an onion! Make sure no one eats it by mistake." She grinned cheeckily.
"I don't think that Zuri would let anyone eat it!" Keilyna protested. "Maybe you should make sure that no one mistakes Kianga for a cream puff and tries to eat her!"
Zuri gave a little squeal as Kianga began to chase it, and zoomed to the other end of the room. A miniature sheaf of wheat fell from the ceiling onto Kianga and Zuri giggle-chittered as it dodged and then flew over to examine Mooshroom.
"Foooour equi'ox!" Zuri chittered. "Fooooour equi'ox!"
Mooshroom looked at Kianga, then looked back to Kei. "I've never thought of that before...I'm sure no one would want to eat her though." Mooshroom raised her voice slighty, and said so Kianga could hear, "She's pretty rotten. I'm sure she'd give you indigestion."
Kianga stuck out her tongue and Mooshroom laughed. The puff quickly got distracted by other things again, and started silently shadowing Zuri, so the other puff didn't see her.
Zuri landed on Moosh's head, and peered down at Kei. "Four equi'ox!" it cried.
"Fall Equinox," Kei corrected her Wethkin.
"Four equi'ox."
Keilyna sighed. "You tell Zuri, Moosh. It's Fall Equinox, right?"
Distracted, Zuri looked around from her perch for Kianga, but she couldn't see the other Wethkin! "Kanga," she said. "Kanga. Four equi'ox."
If Kianga had a chest she would've stuck it out as Zuri said her name. (Kind of) She preened happily and looked at Mooshroom to see whether or not her owner had noticed that Fall had just proven how cool she was.
Mooshroom was concentrating too much on her conversation with Kei. "No, Kei. I'll think you'll find it actually is Four equi'ox. You have one smart puff there..." She said and gave the onion a noogie.
"Kanga!" Zuri bounced up and down on Moosh's head, trying to spot the other Wethkin. It seemed miffed that the other was hiding from it. "Kanga!"
"But it is Fall Equinox," Keilyna protested. "It said on the list of all the Wethkin! There's no such thing as 'Four equi'ox'... is there?"
"Kanga! Kanga! Kanga!" Zuri was bouncing higher and thumping harder on Moosh's head in frustration.
"I'm just joking, Kei."
Moosh found it kind of funny that Kei thought she was being serious, just as Kianga thought it was funny that Zuri couldn't find her. Moosh didn't think that was funny, however, becasue she was getting a headache.
"Kianga, stop hiding! You're giving me a headache."
Kianga sulkily came out from behind Zuri. "Sowee..." She apologised to the other puff.
"That's better." Mooshroom said, and continued talking to Kei.
Kianga's stomach gave a massive rumble for something so small, and she suddenly had a great idea. She signalled for Zuri to follow her, and headed for the HQ kitchen...
Poor Kei always liked to take things literally. "Well... you always sound serious, so what else am I supposed to say?" she asked Moosh. And giggled as Zuri bounced up and down on her friend's head.
As Kianga emerged, Zuri zoomed off Moosh's head and straight towards the Wethkin. Zuri bounced off the ground just next to Kianga, then hovered in the air, chittering happily. "Kanga! Kanga! Kanga!" And then as Kianga headed off to the kitchen, Zuri followed. This was so much more fun than drowning in a washbasin!
"Sorry, Kei. Anyway, how's your english assignment going? I couldn't do question 3..." Moosh then turned the conversation to boring school talk, as the Wethkins made their way to the kitchen.
It wasn't huge, but Kianga instantly found what she was looking for- an oven!
She flew over to it quickly and bounced up and down in delight. Mooshroom had never let her in the kitchen at her house after that incident with the freezer, but Kianga had seen Mooshroom use the oven before. It made things hot. Really hot.
Excitedly, she moved over to it and examined it. After a few minutes though, her excitement turned to disappointment, because she would never be able to figure out how to use all those complex button and knobs- let alone open the door!
...That's when something else caught her eye. On the counter right next to the oven was a small white box- the door slightly ajar. Kianga had seen one of these before, and knew that it was almost like an oven, but it made things hot quicker. Excited again now, Kianga motioned to Zuri to press certain buttons on the microwave as she squirmed through the door.
This was going to be fun!
"My English assignment?" Kei asked. "Er... I haven't done very much of it yet, but..." The boring twist that the conversation was taking faded away as Zuri entered the kitchen with Kianga.
And wow! This kitchen was totally different to the one in Keilyna and Jinxeh's hut! It was much more spacious, and there was so many things to look at! Zuri zoomed close to a bowl of strange-looking fruit, sniffing at them and trying to get them out of the bowl so as to get a better look at them. It flew into an odd-looking knobbly green thing (a pear!) and tried to push it out. At first, the green thing refused to budge, then all at once it flew out of the bowl and bounced onto the floor!
Zuri fluttered down to get a better look at it. Then started to roll it around on the floor like a ball! Such fun!
Looking around for Kianga, Zuri saw that the other Wethkin had flown into a funny white box-ish thing and was motioning to it to press the buttons on it. Zuri deserted her pear and flew over.
So many buttons to choose from!
The Wethkin decided to press a large, grey button near the bottom of the panel, but it did not do anything. It pressed the button again, but still nothing happened.
What Zuri did not realise was that the button was the 'start' button, and it was very lucky for Kianga that the door had not been closed when it had been pressed!
Zuri decided to try pressing other buttons instead. There were buttons with strange swirly symbols on them (numbers!), and it decided to press the one with a '9' on it.
The number immediately popped up in bright blue in the dark rectangle near the top. Excited, Zuri pressed some of the other symbols and watched as they popped up on the screen as well.
But what the illiterate little puff did not know was that it had just scheduled its new friend for 9 hours, 47 minutes and 3 seconds of frying in the microwave!
Kianga started at the microwave around her, miffed. Why wasn't it working? Whenever Mooshroom pressed the buttons it started humming....
She squeezed out of the half opened microwave, accidentally closing the door behind her. Kianga didn't notice, however, and joined Zuri in the button-pressing. After setting the microwave to 7 minutes and 39 seconds, Kianga accidentally pressed the start button without realising what it was.
As the microwave began to hum, and the plate inside span around, Kianga bounced up and down agrily, using all sorts of swear words that Mooshroom had definately not taught her. She was meant to be inside the microwave when it worked! Not here, watching!
Hearing cursing (although badly pronounced) coming from the kitchen Moosh strained her neck to try and see inside. Seeing the glow of her puff bouncing and swearing, Moosh cried out and stalked to the other room.
"How many times have I told you not to go into my brother's room and pick up bad swearing habits?" Mooshroom grabbed the angry puff and held her in her cupped hands. Then Mooshroom noticed the microwave.
"Not again with the appliances, Kianga! The reason I tell you not to mess with them is 'cause they're dangerous if not used right." She pressed the stop button on the microwave and noticed Zuri. "And soon the other owners won't want you around because you're a bad influence. You wouldn't want that, would you?" She gave Kianga a hard look.
She swallowed loudly and shock her head ((poetic license XD)) and zoomed over to cuddle up to Zuri. "Onyon stay?"
Moosh smiled and nodded. "Okay, and you can stay in here as long as you don't do anything dangerous, you hear me?"
Kianga nodded, and Moosh walked back to Kei and continued the conversation as if she'd never left. "What do the glasses symbolise? I thought it might be intelligence, but I'm not sure..."
Kianga looked at her friend, wondering if Zuri could think of anything interesting and safe to do. She couldn't...
As the microwave turned on and Kianga started bouncing and swearing, Zuri joined in- the bouncing, not the swearing! It chittered happily in counterpoint to Kianga's swearing, excited that they had managed to make the box do something!
But then Mooshroom came in and interrupted all their fun.
It was not fair! She had no right to do so! Zuri glared at Mooshroom as it wrapped its little long stalk around Kianga in a hug. Though it did feel obliged to correct its friend about what it was...
"Four equi'ox! No unnyin!" it said indignantly.
Then Mooshroom left, and Zuri contemplated trying to make the 'pliance thing hum and spin again, but it seemed as though Kianga wanted to obey its human.
So what could they do?
Zuri thought.
And then an idea sprang to mind!
Disentangling itself from Kianga, it zoomed over to the bowl of fruit and started to tumble some of the other fruit onto the floor to join the pear. A strange, squishy orange thing just went 'plop' and stayed where it landed, but a red thing with a stalk bounced and then rolled over to lie a corner.
What fun!
A playground of fruit!
Zuri fluttered down to sit on a curvy yellow thing that reminded her of a slice of basket, and began to rock back and forth on it.
Fun fun fun!
The little puff chittered at Kianga and gestured to the fruit with its leafy stalk, trying to get its new friend to join in the fun!
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:38 pm
The Fall Equinox- Two Swahili Wethkin and a kiwi fruit...
Part 2 of an RP by Keilyna and mooshroom
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, mooshroom = Olive
Kianga smiled mischievously. Mooshroom never said anything about making a mess, did she?
Hovering about the fruit bowl, Kianga chose her fruit carefully. Not a hard one, or something too small... That one! She spotted a brown and furry fruit right near the bottom of the bowl. If she’d known anything about fruit, she would have been able to tell it was a kiwi fruit, but she didn’t. It was perfectly mushy, and just the right size.
She burrowed into the fruit in the bowl, an after pushing a great number or fruits and a Zuri out of the way; it was exposed on the top of the mound.
Kianga began to bounce, hoping to squish the fruit and splatter it everywhere. And on each bounce:
"Fun!...Fun!...Fun!"
Zuri gave a little annoyed chitter as a fruit nearly fell on top of it and squished it. It glared at the funny yellow ball, then fluttered back up to see what Kianga was doing.
Fruit trampolines!
Zuri giggled; she'd just had another great idea!
Hovering in the air, the puff chose a target- a large one, just in case. It was a big bunch of purple spheres, and looked just perfect for what it was going to do next!
Zuri flew over to the grapes and hovered about a metre or so above them.
Then its wings stilled.
And Zuri plummeted down.
Splat!
Purple grape flesh and grape juice spattered everywhere! Onto the floor; onto the legs of the table!
And on to Zuri, of course.
Not that it made much difference, since the purple sort of blended in with the puff's colouring.
Fun fun fun!
Kianga giggled, glad to see that Zuri was joining in. It'd make a fantastic partner yet! Mooshroom's Valentine's day spirtes were okay, but they were pretty think and didn't often think for themselves. That was a good thing if you had something nasty to do, Kianga admitted to herself as she continued to bounce.
The fruit didn't seem to want to pop, and she signalled for Zuri to come and help her burst it.
Dripping grape juice over the floor, Zuri fluttered back up in to the air to admire her handiwork. What a fine mess it was!
And oh, did Kianga need help with her fruit? Zuri was glad to give it!
The little Wethkin flew about a metre above the kiwi fruit- it nearly hit the ceiling!- and then tried the same trick on the fruit.
Zoom!
Boink!
Zuri bounced off the fruit and landed in a saucepan that someone had forgot to keep!
Or wait a moment... perhaps it had been left outside because someone had put a heap of sugar inside, presumably so it could be used to cook something with sometime soon?
Oops.
A rain of sugar flew through the air, pattering on to the stove and the floor like a light drizzle!
Zuri fluttered out from the saucepan to glare at the kiwi fruit... but what the puff did not realise was that much of the sugar had stuck to the sticky grape juice on its body! It was a sugar-coated Wethkin!
Kianga Ooooed at the puff's cool technique, but it was no more successful than Kianga. She sat on the kiwi fruit to think. Maybe they needed something sharp to pierce the skin? They were in a kicthen, so there must be something around here somewhere...
Kianga aboandoned the fruit, and set to opening (slowly and with a lot of difficulty) all of the different draws she could find and rumaging through them for a knife....
The sugar-coated Zuri didn't want to waste time opening funny box-things like Kianga was. It wanted immediate results!
So it flew over to the offending kiwi fruit, glaring fiercely at it. Then it flew right up till its stalk touched the ceiling, and then tried to fall on the fruit again.
Zoom!
Boink!
Zuri was catapulted through the air- again.
It was actually quite fun!
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Whoosh!
And Zuri crashed right in to Kianga!
Such a good aim that kiwi fruit had!
Zuri had knocked Kianga right into the drawer she'd just opened, and Zuri came tumbling in after. Slowly the draw slid closed, and as Kianga detangled herself, the last bit of light was disappearing. Well, Kianga still glowed, but that's beside the point.
Kianga meeped sadly, and looked around their prison. She had finally found the knife draw, it seemed, but that didn't really matter now. She turned to Zuri.
"I wunt owt...!" Kianga whined. She didn't like the dark, being a sunlight Wethkin and all, so she was a bit afraid of being stuck in here forever...
Oh dear.
It seemed as though the contents of the drawer were now sticky and sugar-fied, as well as Kianga! Zuri had landed on something cold and metallic- the knife, though it did not know it.
Zuri began to chitter in panic as the drawer slid shut. It didn't like being trapped...
"I wunt owt!" Zuri echoed Kianga. "Wunt owt! Wunt owt!"
The little puff bounced agitatedly in the drawer, making it shudder and jolt.
"Wunt owt! WUNT OWT!!"
If Zuri had had legs, it would have been kicking at the drawer as well.
It was a very distressed Wethkin!
"Wunt owt! Wunt Owt! Wunt OWT!!"
Mooshroom broke off from conversation in the middle of a very boring decription of what she had written for part 2a of her english assignment. She looked at the kitchen is astonishment, as if she didn't know any better she could have sworn the drawers were talking.
"What the-?"
"WUNT OWT!"
She took a step towards the noise before her expression changed to annoyance. "What have you done this time, Kianga?" She entered the kitchen and quickly located the source of the noise. As her puff squeed happily and flew in circles around her head, Mooshroom couldn't be too angry with her. After all, looking drawers wasn't a bad thing. But by the looks of it, she'd have to clean all these sticky knives off. And her puff. Kianga wouldn't appriciate that...
"Kei?" She called out. "Do you mind Zuri being sticky and covered in sugar?"
As the drawer re-opened, Zuri zoomed out and started bouncing all around the kitchen, relishing its freedom!
"Foooour equi'ox! Foooour equi'ox!"
And as the Wethkin bounced and flew, it left sticky purple and sugary marks upon everything it touched...
Kei wandered in to the kitchen to see what her Wethkin had been up to, and stopped in the doorway...
What?!
"What?!" Kei voiced her thought aloud. "How could two little puffs make such a big mess? I hope that I don't have to clean it all up! I'll help clean up Zuri, though."
Zuri was indignant. Couldn't it clean itself up if it wanted to?
But Zuri didn't want to clean itself up.
At least, not yet.
Zuri glared at Keilyna and flew on to the top of the fridge where it could not be reached.
Mooshroom giggled as she looked around the kitchen, slightly happy that for once it wasn't only her puff making a mess.
"Maybe we should convice your sister to bring her Rain puff along. It could help us clean this mess up." Kei had told Moosh about Jinxeh's new puff, and the mischief it had gotten up to, at school the week before. "Bubble would be pretty helpful now. Ah well...I'll go find a bucket..."
Mooshroom started rummaging around through the cupboards and drawers, and eventually found a bucket, which she then began to fill with hot water.
"Kianga?" Moo called. Her puff had slowly been trying to sneak out the door. "Grab a sponge. You helped make the mess and you can clean it up. Besides, Kei and I won't be able to reach the marks on the ceiling."
Reluctantly she picked up a sponge and began to srub off the largest purple mark on the roof, glaring at Mooshroom as if to say, "Why doesn't Zuri have to help?"
"Kei, d'you think Zuri would like to help clean. If she's anything like Raindrop..." Moosh grinned.
Kei sighed. She really should set a good example for the Wethkin and help clean up too... But at least she had Moosh to help her- she was glad of that!
Exploring the cupboard under the sink, she found another sponge, and a bottle of detergent. She squirted generous amounts into the bucket of hot water so it would make lots of bubbles. Maybe Kei was beginning to turn into Raindrop...
Withdrawing a dripping sponge from the bubbly bucket, Kei squeezed it and looked around for Zuri. The puff was still sitting on top of the fridge! Another sigh escaped from Kei.
"Zuri, you really should help to clean up, you know. You helped make this mess, too!"
Zuri was not impressed. What was wrong with a mess? It was sure the kitchen would just get dirty again soon, so what was the point of cleaning up?
But Kianga did not seem to appreciate being made to clean whilst Zuri was not... and Zuri didn't really want to upset her new friend. So the Equinox puff flew down slowly and quite sulkily to obtain a sponge and help clean up too.
But Zuri did not know where the sponges were kept! And if any were in the bucket... well, Zuri could not see them, and it didn't really know how to clean in the first place.
So the puff just took the easy way out. It zoomed at Kei, flicked its stalk around her sponge and pulled, before the girl realised what was going on.
"Hey!" Kei cried as the sponge was yanked out of her hands. "That's not very nice, Zuri! Won't you give me my sponge back? Please? Stealing is wrong!" she added.
But Zuri was not paying any attention. It had joined Kianga cleaning the stains off the roof, and didn't really see why Kei should be so upset... the girl had wanted it to help clean up after all, hadn't she?
After about half an hour of scrubbing, Moosh was satisfied that they had removed every sticky spot and sugary stain from the room. Kianga dumped her sponge in the frothy, now-purple and cold, bucket water with a tiny high pitched sigh. Mooshroom collected the others sponges, except for Zuri who didn't seem to want to let go of it, and put the bucket away. Kianga sleepily floated over to Moosh and, tired from all of the scrubbing, curled up to rest in Mooshroom's hair. She giggled as faint snoring noises started emitting from the top of her head, and smiled apologetically to Kei.
"I think all of the cleaning and playnig and mess making has tired her out. Might be best if we headed home. I have to finish my English assignment anyway." She pointed out. She walked slowly to the door, careful not to dislodge Kianga, and quietly opened the door.
"I'll see you later, Kei. Maybe you could convince Jinxie to come along to, eh?"
Keilyna replied, "Well... I could try to, but she doesn't seem to be very keen on visiting here, you know. Did I ever tell you that the only time she came here was because there was a book sale going on nearby? But anyway... see ya, then! And have a good rest of your day," she added.
Still clutching her sponge, Zuri zoomed overhead. The Wethkin was upset to see that Kianga was asleep- and doubly upset that the sunlight puff was sleeping in Moosh's hair. The naughty Equinox puff had wanted to drop the sponge on to Mooshroom's head, but now that was not an option!
Zuri tried to think of other ways in which she could drop the sponge on to Moosh but not Kianga, but for once, she failed to think up a solution.
Glaring at Mooshroom in annoyance, Zuri flew over Kei's head- and dropped the sponge there instead.
"Ouch!" Kei cried as the sponge hit her head. "What the...?" A hand reached up to retrieve the object, and Kei removed the wet sponge from her head.
"Zuri!" she said exasperatedly. "You really shouldn't go around dropping sponges on people's heads- it isn't nice! And now my hair's all wet..."
Zuri just giggled as it zoomed to the ceiling where it could not be reached.
"Four equi'ox. Seeeeeee... yaa-ah...." Zuri experimented with the new phrase she had learned.
Mooshroom giggle and waved. With Kianga still sleeping on her happily dry head, Mooshroom stepped out the door and began the walk home.
"Bye!" Kei said, waving to Moosh.
When the two were gone, she turned to her Wethkin.
"Now, we really need to get you cleaned up..."
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:39 pm
The Fall Equinox- Equinox evening...
The sky was a dark, painted canvas of burnt umber and ultramarine blue, speckled with a mix of lemon yellow and white for stars. There was a large, grey crescent brushed into one corner- the moon. Down below, the dark colours of the sky cloaked the shadowed shapes of the Isle de Gambino, punctuated by flares of red, orange, yellow and white light- from travelling vehicles, street lights and houses. A few of those lights were emanating from a certain hut where two Wethkin and two sisters lived...
Keilyna and Zuri were sharing supper together at the dining table.
Fruitcake for Zuri, of course. It had been offered many other kinds of cake- including banana and walnut, carrot, and chocolate cake- but it still preferred fruitcake best of all!
But Keilyna had a bowl of banana and walnut cake in front of her- she was getting quite sick of eating fruitcake all the time.
An alphabet chart was spread out on the table... Keilyna was trying to teach Zuri how to read!
After swallowing a mouthful of banana and walnut cake, Keilyna continued, “And this is 'Z'. Some people pronounce it as 'zee', but that’s just strange. It’s 'zed'."
"Z... zeg?"
"Zed," Keilyna said slowly. "Zed."
"Z... ze- zeb! Zeg... z... zeg? Zeg!"
"No, it's 'zed'. But don’t worry, you'll get it with practice," Keilyna assured her Wethkin.
"Zeg."
"Zed. But anyway... you can string those letters together to make words with. Like 'Fall Equinox'!"
“Four equi’ox.”
"Four-ll Equinox," Keilyna corrected absently as she wrote down the word for Zuri to see.
"Ef... a... ell.... ell... ee... queue... you... eye... enn... o... ex?" the puff asked doubtfully.
"That’s right!" Kei said. “But you don’t say 'ef'... just a 'f' sound. And 'a' is pronounced like 'or' in some words. And you don’t say 'ell', you say an 'l' sound! Like this: fall!"
"Four... ll. Fall?"
"Yes!” Kei said excitedly. “That’s right!"
"Four... Fall Equi’ox?"
"Put an ‘n’ sound between the i and the o,” Kei suggested.
"Equi...n...ox? Equi...nox?"
"Yes!” Kei cried again. “Now try saying the whole thing!"
"Fall... Equinox. Fall Equinox!"
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