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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:46 pm
I shall edit for gramatical errors later >>
[You'll find your way back down.]
Normally a bit of rain and freedom was something the teen rejoiced in. She'd been given a small reprieve from homework, the startling small amount had been done in school during the blessed things known as study halls and Chao had gone to splurge her Gaian Gold in Durem.
Of course, by the time the gathering storm had let loose its fury it was anything but "a bit" of rain. It was like she had, yet again, angered some otherworldly Power.
Thus she'd sought for shelter, finding herself soaked by the time she tore through the door into a nearby open store. It seemed to be a potion shop, but that wasn't unusual. The Heanzian knew that Gaia was filled to the brim with spell casters, though personally she knew very few.
Sneezing a little she shuffled in place, hoping the shopkeeper wouldn't mind that she was making a rather large mess in her little corner. Then suddenly a light snapped on, making her start slightly and shuffle towards the door as she was pinned with the light from the cat's eyes. Before she could quite make it out the door to take her chances with the storm a young woman had emerged, giving the cat a curious look before starting at Chao's soaked appearance.
"Oh dear!"
Flushing the teen waved her hands in panic, "nonono! I'm sorry! I'll leave!" she turned to bolt out the doors only to have her armed dragged as the other woman nearly dragged her back into the shop.
"No no, I'll have none of that, my dear. The cat's eyes glowed for you, and even if they hadn't it would be more than rude of me to force you out of my shop because you were dripping a bit."
Fidgeting Chao allowed herself to be dragged out of the main portion of the shop, barely catching sight of a tall being before she was placed firmly in a chair, "stay here, ah! Yes, Jabir would you mind fetching a towel for this young woman?"
The tall being made an affirmative noise and flittered out of sight before Chao could get a firm look at it.
A slightly mischievous smile was tilting the woman's lips when Chao's grey eyes flit back to her, "I haven't introduced myself properly, my name is Maggie."
"Oh, yes, nice to meet you, my name's Chao."
"It's nice to meet you as well Chao, now, I don't suppose you know what a Mishap is, do you?" At Chao's slightly lost look she continued, "Ah, well did you ever wonder what happens to the creatures created by spells that have gone wrong? Most can easily be reverted but there are a few so complex, so unique that they turn into a permanent living being, the Magical Mishaps as we call them. They're sweet little things, really," the tall being arrived back at that point offering the soaked and dripping teen a towel.
Chao merely blinked at his abnormally long legs, neck and arms, then quickly got past it and smiled, "thank you Mr...?"
He smiled, "Jabir."
"Jabir then, thank you," at that she rubbed at her face and hair, after a few moments she peaked back at Maggie, "um, not to seem rude or anything, Maggie, but what does this have to do with me?"
The woman chuckled a bit at that, "well, my dear, the cat's eyes glowed for you! That mean's you're a potential guardian."
Chao really was quite unsure as to what to make of that but at that moment the fleeting desire to be near the front door again passed through her.
But then the woman hugged her and she and Jabir vanished, leaving Chao to fidget and contemplate just whether or not she could make it out the front door before her curiosity kept her in place.
She was still pondering that little question when Maggie returned, a bundle wrapped carefully in her arms and suddenly Chao understood what she'd really meant as being a potential 'guardian'.
Hael....
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It was sometime later when the poor teen arrived back home, bundle tucked carefully in her arms, a new umbrella up over her head.
The door shifted closed and she plopped down the umbrella to dry near the front door. Within a few moments she caught sight of a scarf hanging downwards from the ceiling and looked up.
"Ai, hey, not stuck are you?"
"No, just wanted to see who was here," the Tale said with a light smile, peering curiously at the bundle in her mother's arms. "Who's that?"
"Erm, grab Fai and I'll meet you two in the kitchen and explain, alright?"
With a curious tilt to her head Aido nodded and disappeared back into the Shadows and Chao briefly wondered when that had become so blatantly normal an occurrence within the house.
The teen made her way to the kitchen in a slight daze and sat down heavily in a chair, looking down at the bundle in her arms. One emerald eye peaked open to look at her before flitting closed again and the teen turned her attention to the steps nearing her.
Grey eyes so like her own blinked at her and she returned her twin's look with a helpless one of her own.
"Why do I attract glowing children?"
"Glowing...children?" Rico echoed quietly, tilting his head when Chao bent the tiny bundle in her arms towards Rico.
"Glowing children," the teen confirmed looking up as two pairs of closening steps signaled Aido and Fai's arrival. With a deep breath Chao stood and looked to her two wards considering, "Aido, Fai, well... erm... you have a little brother now it seems."
"Little brother?" Fai asked as Aido stepped forward, halo glowing warmly. At this the little firefly boy in Chao's arms twitched back to wakefulness to blink at the glowing girl. With a tiny gurgle he uncovered stomach lit up as two of his four arms reached up towards the glowing object.
Aido smiled gently and looked up to her mother, "can I hold him?"
"Sure," Chao replied and gently handed the Mishap to Aido who stepped back in order to show Fai, in reply the firefly boy peered at them both with keen emerald eyes, making a slight face as Fai ran a hand through his hair then grabbed the elder boy's finger when he went to move on.
Fai laughed and looked to his mother and uncle, "what's his name?"
A warmly smiling Chao looked to her sons and daughter, "oh, yes, Reid."
"Reid?"
"I like it," Aido murmured, grimacing as Reid took hold of a dangling strand of her hair and tugged, though the little boy's face turned apologetic when it didn't budge and she made a noise of discomfort. He instinctively didn't like that tone and wanted her to go back to the soft, light noise she'd been making before and expressed this all with a slightly urgent grumble.
Noticing that her family's eyes were still on her Aido elaborated, "like river reeds but not quite," Reid smiled and settled back, releasing his brother's finger to paw at Aido's scarf, "I just like it."
Smiling Chao slumped back in her seat, "that's good. I'm glad you like it. It means red-headed I think in...some... language. But it did remind me of river reeds. We'll have to drag out the old cradle and such I suppose and set them up in one of the extra rooms, Fai, Aido, would you mind doing that? I'm beat."
"No problem." "Sure Mu." Came the light chorus from the two and Aido handed the little boy back to Chao who waved lightly to her departing wards, listening as Fai began to ask his sister whether or not she thought snow was in order.
Rico laughed gently and slid into a chair besides his sister, "they took it well."
"Yeah, I'm sorta surprised."
"Really?"
"Yeah, the place I, erm, adopted Reid from said they have a Headquarters and that many of the guardians live there. Reid has a room there, already set up."
"Aha...."
"There is a point to this, really, just let me ramble, I'm too shell shocked to be coherent."
Rico nodded and chuckled lightly under his breath and allowed Reid to latch onto one of his fingers and explore his palm rather thoroughly, before seemingly losing interest and going to sleep.
"What I was thinking was, could you, or perhaps Dad, set up a portal between his closet here and his room there?"
"Like in Howl?"
"Well... yes. Alright, yes. It is like in Howl, but, just. Yes. Think it'd work?"
"Probably, need Dad's help though, he and mum," Chao grimaced, "oh, stop it Aeon." Rico snapped, causing Reid to make a face at the coarse tone, an expression neither of the teens noticed. "Anyway, they'll want to see Ai, and Fai and Reid instead of just pictures of them."
"I suppose..." with a yawn Chao got to her feet, "I'm going to go take a nap in my room, call me down for dinner?"
"No problem, sleep well."
With a nod and wave Chao headed up, keeping Reid close to her as she went to her room and promptly fell in bed for a nap, barely aware when Reid curled up against her, fully prepared to sleep until the sun finally went down. Although once the luminary set all bets were off until the rest of the night. Not that Chao was aware of that, having barely looked at Jabir's medical notes, let alone actually absorbed the sentence "full nocturnal habits."
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:39 pm
[September 28th, 2005]
cross-posted in Aido's journal
[Unfinished Symphony]An exhausted guardian... Hallo Journal.... Well, it's been a very, very long week and a half. I have been snagging a scant 3-6 hours of a sleep a day. Yes. Day. When Reid first joined us, wrapped in a blanket with only a note saying "full nocturnal habits" and "glow intensity changes according to mood" I foolishly didn't think anything of it. I didn't think anything of the fact that, according to the woman, Maggie, the mistake which resulted in Reid's birth heavily involved fireflies. Have you even seen a firefly during the day journal? No? Well, that is because they are nocturnal. I, the wonderful Heanzian Gaian that I am, am not nocturnal; I am, in all fact, the opposite of nocturnal. I follow a nautical day. Or used to. Here is what I have managed to work out; Weekdays: Get home from school: 3:30PM Go to bed: 3:45PM Wake up: 7-8:30PM Hang out with Reid/do schoolwork/nap time: 8:45PM-6AM 6:05AM: go back to bed 8:00AM: wake up-->go to school that's, what, 6 hours, 8 hours on a good day? Thank gods I'm through puberty. Once I adjust it'll be better, but for now my senses are getting all skewered. Hopefully Reid will adjust to a more daytime oriented schedule in the future ;; Otherwise, it's been an okay few weeks. We went to the mini-shop district today. Reid bought a few wishing dolls, apparently Jizzy's Mishap, Deimos, left an impression because he pointed to one and shouted out his name. The shop also included a section which just sold plushes. Reid picked out a small, very fuzzy ' lunatic' plushie while Aido choose a sheepie and a Jack Skellington plush for Fai. I heard them talking about a 'plush war' they want to start up and get Reid involved in. I fear for the lamp fixtures. We also picked out a 'fabre' plush for Sanar off on Ar'Idil, though Aeon hasn't written in nearly a month. Bah her. Gods I'm so tired....
Reid looked up from his plush as the pen slid to the floor and his mother's posture slumped.
Glow flickering in curiosity the little boy shrugged after a moment when he realized his mother was asleep. Hugging the lunatic plush with two arms he quietly to crawled out of the room and into the hallway. After all, he hated it when he was woken up and with his mother in that state the room promised to become very boring and quiet quite quickly.
But the rest of the house wasn't destined to such silence and Reid tilted his head, wings fluttering as he caught the dim traces of sounds coming from down the hall.
With a determined huff the Mishap quickly set off down the hallway, towards one of the few still lit rooms. The door was fully shut, muffling the noise quite a bit and prevents Reid from entering.
Emerald eyes peered up, sizing up the obstacle before the young Mishap retreated a few steps and rammed into the door headfirst, nearly knocking himself senseless in the process.
Thankfully the door opened before he could attempt to repeat the process and Aido peered out, halo glowing as she looked down the halls then downwards towards the floor, blinking when her eyes settled on her younger brother whose face fell into an easy expression of happiness as the music from her speakers echoed into the hall.
"Heya Reid," the Tale murmured, picking up the Mishap, "Mu fall asleep?"
The Mishap babbled incoherently, two arms latching onto Aido's shirt and scarf while the others snatched at the air, trying to seize the pleasant tones and store them somewhere safe. An attempt which quickly proved fruitless, though Reid's spirits couldn't be dampened as his sister brought them both into the room and the song ended and a chorus of hushed voices that didn't belong to either of them sloshed into the air as a new song began.
The Tale sat down next to her bed, besides the large black creature Reid had begun to associate with the name 'Rael', and set Reid down on her lap as the song began to pick up, shifting into the beginning mix of odd sounds and musical instruments to a more concrete rhythm.
Reid glowed with glee. He'd never really heard sounds like these before, save in a slightly muffled version when his mother put headphones in her ears.
Noting her brother's happiness Aido smiled sleepily, leaning her head against the top of her bed before pulling down one of the blankets, wrapping around the two of them.
"You like it Reid? It's called 'Finished Symphony."
Reid blinked and suddenly fixed his sister with a hard look, gripping his plush, "sym..hy?"
Aido smiled and ruffled Reid's short hair fondly, "mhm, Sym-pho-ny."
"Sym'phn'y," Reid stated after a moment of intense concentration. The word was familiar, albeit hard to say.
After a moment the feeling passed and Reid grinned, glowing happily and clapping his free hands, "sym'phn'y!" he chimed again and shut his eyes, snuggling up against his sister, letting the music wash over him, feeling everything fall into time as Aido's breathing even out and she passed into an uneasy sleep. But the music didn't cease, it kept on, shifting and changing with the occasional voice accompanying the instruments until finally, some time later Rico when poked his head in and lifted the siblings into bed, shutting off the lights and the music as he went out.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:25 pm
[Enter and exit.]
Participants: Deimos, Aido, Reid, Jizzy, A very angry elder tree and and even angrier Jabir.
The sand crunched gently beneath the Tale's bare feet as Aido sat heavily on the side of the sandbox, watching her younger brother flit about, gentle glow illuminating the otherwise dark lighting the area was currently experiencing.
It was the middle of the night, some bizarre hour during which most would probably be asleep, but Aido was restlessly awake and had offered to take Reid, who was simply reveling in the night and working off the excess energy that came from a day or mostly sleeping, down into the seemingly open air of the Green Area while their mother caught up on some much needed sleep.
The firefly Mishap sat down in the center of the sandbox and looked around pensively, smiling as the sound of crickets chirping became louder now that he'd stopped moving. Somewhere off in the woods an owl hooted and Reid's glow brightened at the pleasant sound. Looking at his sister, who was humming under her breath he prompty attempted to imitate the hoot, though the sound came out rather differently than he'd intended it to, causing the babe to make a face. Aido merely chuckled and hooted back at him.
Though Deimos would never truly admitted, he relished in his mother's current illness. This meant she slept more, for longer and at night he could sneak out that much easier. Todya he planned to see the outside of the HQ by night and was making hsi was down to the gardens.
Now Deimos could see relatively well at night, so the glow in the distance seemed rather oddly placed to him. He gazed at it, and hissed as he identified it as a a halo.. It was instict. It took hima few seconds to realize who the halo belonged to.
"AI!"
Aido blinked and looked around at the sound her her name being called.
Reid, just as curious about the sudden new noises crawled over to his sister's legs and attempted to climb up them, only to be picked up halfway through as Aido stood, finally sighting Deimos.
With a grin the Tale waved her free hand towards the Mishap, "hey Dei!"
The demonic mishap rushed towards Aido, his cloak belowing behind him and his tail swishing, though it as more of a happy wag than anything else. "What Ai doing out late?" He asked and spotted Reid, wavving softly. "AI take care of little?"
"Dei!" Reid chirped in sudden recognition as the Mishap headed their way, so his sister and Dei did know eachother! He returned the older Mishap's wave with one of his own, glowing softly in pleasure as Aido placed him on the ground and gave Deimos a small hug.
"Didn't feel like sleeping," Aido explained, sitting on the ground so she was at level with the two mishaps. She nodded at Reid, "mhm, m'watching little," she smiled at that nickname, "while Aemu gets some sleep, what're you doing out by yourself?"
"'Sploring.." He replied giving AIdo a soft squeeze before parting. He wasn't the biggest fan of being hugged. "I go 'sploring when Mother sleeps." He said, patting the small Mishap on the head as a greeting. "Will Ai and Reid go 'sploring with me?"
"Sure," the Tale was always up for a bit of exploring. She looked to her baby brother who had just made a face at Deimos after being patted. "What do you think Reid?"
Reid gave her a curious look at that, not understanding with "sploring" was. He shrugged and crawled to where Aido's bag was and attempted to open it.
"I think that means yes..." Aido murmured and opened the bag for him. Reid grinned at his elder sibling and quickly plunged into the bag. A moment later he emerged with something firmly clasped in all of his hands so that no part of it peaked out.
"Dei-ar'n," he stated firmly, looking at Aido meaningfully.
"Oh!" Aido started and grinned at her brother, "I forgot we had him with us."
Reid lopsidedly crawled back to Deimos as Aido gently took one of Deimos' hands so Reid could place the object firmly within the older boy's grasp, keeping it hidden for as long as possible before he removed his own hands. Sitting in Deimos' hand was a small, plush devil-tailed doll.
"Reid got him for you, he's a wishing doll," Aido explained with a smile.
Deimos gazed at the small doll in his hand. Then look up at Reid and Aido. "Thanks.. Dei give present to Reid one day too. Equilent 'change.. k" He said and brought his tail around, slipping the doll onto it. "Does he have a name, like Zir?' He asked. He liked it when things had names...
"Mhm, his name is-"
"Ar'n!" Reid stated proudly and Aido nodded.
"Aeron," she translated smoothly.
((and, for those curious: Aeron=maculine form of Agrona who was the Goddess of war and death heart ))
Dei gave Aeron a gentle push so it swing softly on his tail. "Aeron almost as cool as Zir." He said, smirking at the pair. "Now come. We go to forest!" He said, pointing towards the forest over in the distance. During the picnic Jabir had prevented him from enetering it, which was a perfect reason to go inside.
If Aido had known that generally one was not supposed to go into the forest, more likely than not she would have steered their group in another direction. But the Tale had no idea of that rule and the forest merely looked like the one at home so she nodded and tried to pick up her younger brother.
Reid grumbled and quickly wriggled out of her grasp, he could move on his own after all, and headed towards the forest at a quick crawl.
With a shrug she followed, silently calling out to Rael who responded sleepily, letting her know he was nearby if anything should happen.
Deimos led the way into the dark forest, despite the fact the he was the only one who didn't cast light forth. He marched without fear into the towering trees. "You think there treasure here?" He said as he weaved in and out of trees.
"Maybe," Aido murmured, following Deimos closely, her halo glowing warmly, illuminating the area around them. Stooping down she finally got a firm hold on Reid who huffed but didn't wrestle out of her arms this time. Crawling was hard work, espically with so many huge trees about to go around.
Emerald eyes glanced about, taking advantage of Reid's new posistion to see deeper into the forest they were steadily making their way into.
Deimos was fearless to the forest, moving away branch and bramble in his path. "Well I find the treasure and be a pirate!" He said, swerving. The exit of the forest was nowhere in sight now..
Aido glanced over her shoulder, just a flicker of worry in her gaze when she saw that the exit was out of sight. It was fine to be this deep into the forest when she was by herself but she couldn't help but worry about what might happen. If they went in too much further she'd call Rael and get them all out of there.
"Piie?" Reid asked curiously, tasting the sound of the new word and wondering what it could mean.
"Pirate! I captain and I have big crew. I have Wy, Ai, Zir and Osso." He explained, before he tripped and fell face first over a very very large treebranch. He grumbled and got up, hissing at the gigantanourmous tree. The only tree he'd ever seen that was bigger was the one at Crossroads.
Reid was about to ask what a captain was when his attention was drawn up the sides of the huge tree. Besides him Aido gasped at the magnitude of it.
"Wow..." she breathed, she didn't think there was a tree in exsistance bigger than the Crossroads, but here it was.
Dei grumbled and knocked his small fist into the tree, causing a load of leaves rain down upon them, many getting stuck in Dei's hait, which only made him more upset. "Stupid tree.." He hissed and took one step forward before he flew upwards, now hanging upside by his foot from a vine.. Damn them smart trees..
Aido gasped and gripped onto Reid a little tighter, rushing forward, besides her Rael poked his head out of the ground, "Deimos! Are you alright?"
"Dei!" Reid called up in concern.
"Of course not ok. I UPSIDE-DOWN!!" Deimos shouted, flailing around with the tree, but the vine seemed to have an iron hard grip on his ankle. "LEMME GO, DUMB TREE" At this insult the vine lurched and the small wish doll fell from hsi tial to the floor. "Aeron!!!!"
In one fluid movement Aido had mounted Rael and the shadow had propelled them into the air, jumping from branch to branch towards Deimos.
The tiny wishing doll feel neatly into Reid's lap as Aido pushed herself up, off of Rael's back and onto one of the branches. Her insticts all focused on getting Deimos out of the trees grip before something awful could happen.
"Please don't hurt him," she called seemingly to the tree, hoping Deimos would stop calling the tree dumb, it couldn't be making it feel any kinder in regards to the Mishap in its grasp.
Rael bounded off the tree and quickly headed back to the bottom to leave Reid then come back for the Tale and the Mishap.
Seeing that he was heading away from the others Reid glared and attempted to jump off the Shadow like Aido had done, but instead found himself unable to move, tiny tendrils of Shadow were wrapped. With a indignant gasp her growled and attempted to wrestle his way out, letting out a sad little whine when he realized he couldn't escape.
Deimos flailed as the vine carried him up. 'Lemme go!!" He said and hen puled himself up and began tearing at the vine with his claws. At theis onslaught another vine dropped down and gripped Dei's other leg and swing him around. "AHHHH, LEMME GO!!" HE shouted.
The tree rumbled slightly, perhaps hissing even as it tossed Dei around like a rag doll.
Bending down Aido swung herself down, latching her legs around the tree branch and grabbing a bit of her own shadow. With a hiss the slippery tendril sharpened in her hand, becoming a crude, knifelike object. As the vine neared she grabbed it and cut just above where he hand held. "Grab hold of it Dei!" she called.
Reid was so frustrated he'd begun to bang his tiny fists against Rael's backside, babeling viscously. The Shadow, while not hurt from the onslaught, grumbled unhappily.
Deimos did, and soon he was dangling by the vine. The tree hissed in pain. Deimos looked down and gasped softly. "I just relaized I dun like heights..." He said, trying hard not to let fear in his voice but it showed.
"leave the demon with me..." The tree rumbled in almost a low growl. It talked too. 0-o
"I'm sorry if we've hurt you but I'm not leaving Deimos," the Tale placed stress on the name, "with you. Espically if you're going to hurt him." In typical Aido fashion she didn't seem to be at all surprised that the tree talked merely angry that it would try to hurt Deimos. Her legs slid a bit as Deimos's full weight was placed on the vein in her hands and quickly she began to haul him up.
"It'll be okay Dei, just hand on, 'kay?" she called soothingly.
Rael waited near the bottom, having decided that leaving the firefly Mishap by hisself would be a very bad decision indeed. Once Aido had Dei he would retrieve them and they would get out of here.
On Rael's back Reid had yet to cease his attempts to wrestle away from Rael.
"Give him to me!" The tree bellowed and shot a vine towards Deimos.
Dei's tail flicked it away angryly as he began to climb the shadow. "Go way, tree!" He shouted.
"I know it's Erebus! Give him to me and we shall rid the world of the demon!" The tree said angryly..
The tree had offically crossed its boundaries as far as Aido was concerned. The young Shadow Mancer, "no! He's Deimos now, not Erebus," she practicly snarled, the expression of fierce anger foreign on the normally content Tale's face. Her halo was bright and glaring as she lunged forward, finally grabbing Deimos' hand as it finally neared and she pulled them both up and onto the branch.
"And even if he was Erebus I wouldn't let you hurt him," she snapped.
As Aido finally grasped Deimos' hand Rael launched himself at the tree again and Reid instantly stopped his barrage when he saw they were heading back for the other two.
The tree roared. "He will destroy you all!" He said as his vines receded and the tree feel silent once more..
Deimos clung to Aido as Rael coem for them. "Will we jump?" He asked shakily.
Aido didn't even glance back at the tree as it roared, only barely glancing to the side as the vines shot back to their original posistions. She was a bundle of anxious, protective nerves, lean muscles coiled and tense.
At Deimos' question she glanced down and shifted him to a better posistion, "it won't be far, just hang on to me," she said, voice amazingly calm and soothing considereding she was ready to strike at just about anything that moved towards them from within the depths of the tree.
Rael bounded off several branches before finally getting just under them. Aido quickly jumped and landed on her Companion who then turned tail and headed back down the tree.
Reid shifted, looking concerned but happy the two were back and held out Aeron to Deimos.
Deimos took Aeron and held him close, hanging his off his tail once more. "Thank.." He said, clinging to Aido still. He felt a bit safer now that he was on Rael. He shifted uncortably. He was not made for the air..
It was only moments before they were on the ground, which they hit at a run. Soon Rael had propelled them out away from the enormous, angry tree. Behind the two Mishaps Aido was standing straight, halo bright to illuminate anything that could be coming, though one hand had wormed its way onto Deimos' head and was soothing down his hair while the other was holding onto Rael.
-Are you alright?- Rael asked, the question was adressed to both Mishap and Tale.
Reid nodded leaning against Aido's arm and facing forward on Rael again, letting out a small yawn.
Dei felt them land and he immediatly felt much better. He felt so helpless in the air. He sighed and gripped onto Rael's shadows tightly as he answered. "I fine now. Foot hurt little, but me strong." He said determinedly. He was a lot tougher on the ground.
"Did it get cut?" Aido asked worriedly, glancing at Deimos before going back to scanning the area until Rael privately told her to stop being so paranoid as they were nearly out of the forest.
Deimos shook his head. "It just.. hurt.." He said softly, not wishing to press on upon his weakness. He put his ankle near Rael and the cool feeling of the shadows made it feel a bit better, but not too much.
"DEIMOS! DEIMOS!" Cries were heard outside the forest.
Aido gave him a gentle one armed hug and Rael sped up beneath them.
Reid tilted his head at the slightly frantic calls of the older Mishap's name.
Deimos winced slightly at the calls of his name and he seemed to noticably shrink.
Jizzy was pacing nervously in the garden, chanting softly. She'd panicked so much, she didn't know where Deimos was. She'd resorted to magic, I mean, she'd already used it once, she might as well get back into practice...
"Eleka nahmen nahmen Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen.."
She chanted and soon a whisp of white apperead by her side, she whispered to ti and it sped off into the forest, hovering by Deimos as it located him.
"Your 'Mu?" Aido asked, peering curiously at the wisp while threw a glare at it over his shoulder.
-You're not supposed to be out on your own, are you Deimos?- Rael asked.
Reid smiled and waved to the wisp.
Deimos shrunk some more and nodded. "Mother not happy.." He said softly. This was not good..
Jizzy peered at the forest where the wisp had flown in, but not seeing anythign yet, simply bounced on her heels in impatience.
The bright white wisp fluttered about Deimos head before coming over to Reid and tingling slightly as a return to the wave.
Aido grimaced, sighed and Rael slowed as they exited the forest at a slow trot.
Reid smiled at the wisp and leant out, attempting to touch it. What would it feel like?
Jizzy saw the glow of the wisp and rushed to the forest. 'Deimos. Oh gods, Deimos you had me so worried? Oh, hello Aido, Reid." She said before roundign on Deimos once more. "How do you think I felt waking up and you aren't anywhere?"
The wisp was warm, nice and wamr. It tingled, almost of it was giggling.
"Hello Ms. Jizzy," Aido murmured, raking a hand self-consciously through her hair, unsure of what to do. Of course Jizzy was worried, Aemu was worried when she didn't know where she was after all....
The firefly boy smiled at the warmth and glowed gently in pleasure before looking to Jizzy, frowning and whimpering at the harshness of her tone.
The wisp zoomed up close to Reid's fac eand 'landed' on his nose. It made a soft jingling noise to soothe the small child.
"I'm sorry Mother.." He said meekly, not feeling brave at once confronted with his mother. He might have been a demon, but as the saying went, hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.
Jizzy sighed. "Promise you'll at least leave a note next time.." SHe said softly and Dei nodded fervently.
Reid sniffled but calmed down as Jizzy's tone shifted and the tiny wisp landed on his nose, as it jingled at him he tilted his head, as if trying to puzzel out what it'd said.
Aido smiled slightly, feeling a sense of deja vu. She'd had many conversations with her mother like this one.
Jabir approached the small group by the woods with a pacing furry. His neck was fully risen and his eyes were burning brightly with anger. He found very difficult to keep his temper while he spoke
"I don't enjoy to be awaken in the middle of the nigth, specially to be told someone had been wandering off in the woods without permission!!!" he turned his gaze to Deimos
"Yes, I'm aware of your little adventure with the tree elder. The others (trees) told me everything" he snarled at him, showing his fangs (something that happened everytime he was in a bad mood)
"I will be seeing you in my office first thing tomorrow. Please accompany him there Jizzy" his voice smothered a bit as he turned to her
"As for you Aido" he looked at the Tale "I expect you to be fully aware of the house's bondaries next time"
"Now if you don't mind I'll go back to my sleep... if there's any left after this mess" he grumbled and went back to the house, still swishing his tail angrily
Deimos shrunk back, so low it was shocking. He had been shouted at by both Mother and Jabir and he felt terrible.
"Come on, Dei.. Nice to see you AI, Reid.." She said and picking up the child from off Rael's back.. Deimos was in so much trouble...
The wisp was being ignored byy Jizzy and dove into Reid's hair, hiding and tingling slightly.
Reid grimaced at Jabir's harsh tone, shrinking back against Deimos for a moment as the elder Mishap shouted. Finally he clasped two hands over his hands over his ears as Jabir's tone turned cold in an attempt to keep the sounds away from his ears, barely aware of the wisp as it ducked into his short hair.
Aido grimaced and hung her head, cheeks pink with shame. She hadn't know but, what was the saying? Ignorance cannot serve as a sheild or something of a similar nature.
"Yes sir," she murmured finally, glancing back up to watch Jabir leave before nodding to Jizzy. "I'm sorry I didn't keep them out of the forest, it looks so like the one at home, I didn't know there were bounderies..." she sighed and shook her head, she'd be more careful next time, what would have happened if Deimos or Reid had been really hurt under her watch?
"We should head back home, bye Ms. Jizzy and Dei," she said, drawing the still curled up Reid closer to her as Rael began to trot towards the doors that led out of the area.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:07 pm
[reserved for aftereffects of the first romp in the forest]
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:45 am
Tori looked down at a small piece of paper, frowning slightly. He hadn't quite memorized the location of all the new Mishap's rooms yet, and he only had his Halloween gift for Reid with him right now, so it wouldn't be very nice to barge in somewhere else. The tall man shuffled up to a door, standing for a few moments before shrugging and knocking. He'd been through enough wrong numbers on telephones in his life, a wrong room number couldn't be that bad, if he indeed didn't have Reid's room.
Wycliff wiggled his little rump, causing his tail to wave back and forth. He was once again clutching a small, brightly-colored plush in his arms, which proved a daunting obsticle when trying to crawl. The little Mishap was dutifully trucking along, though, at his Guardian's heels, without a worry in the world. After all, Tori would never leave him, so if he ever got tired, he could just tug on the man's pant-leg, and his Guardian would carry him the rest of the way.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:46 pm
For a moment no one answered, nor was there any noise to indicate that anyone was even within the room.
Then suddenly something that sounded like a door opening, a breif blast of instrumental music, before it abruptly cut off, and the sound of someone trotting towards the door all quickly sounded before the door opened. A slightly rumpled looking Chao peered out, long hair nearly falling out of the bun she shoved it into for school earlier and rubbing her sleepy bluegrey eyes with one hand, Reid safely cradled against her with the other.
"Um, hello," she said with a blink and a tenative smile, focusing on Tori.
Reid looked back from attempting to look over Chao's shoulder, back into the room, where the music had been coming from and blinked at Tori, two of his four arms clasped around his own plush, a very fluffy looking bunny like creature.
"Ra?" he asked quietly, glowing slightly in curoisity. Who was this?
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:01 pm
Tori stepped back a little at the abrupt sounds. When he saw the other Guardian, however, his lips parted slightly in a broad grin, and he stepped back toward her. "Hello!" Tori said, very happy that he had found the right room. "Am I disturbing you?"
Wycliff looked at Reid, swallowing slightly. This Mishap was one of the new ones, one Wy hadn't met before. Reid had some interesting features, mostly his ties to the insect world, what Wy wanted to investigate. Alas, now was not the time. The little Mishap wobbled foreward, holding out the little kitty plush. "Gif....gift?" He spoke slowly, sounding out the new word his Guardian had taught him earlier.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:41 pm
"Oh! No! Not at all," Chao said hurriedly, snapping off the last remains of her sleepy stupor with a shake of her head. "I-erm, my name's Chao and this is Reid," introductions, yes, those were supposed to come first when one met someone new in a new place, or even not in a new place. "Who might you and your little one be?"
Reid blinked at the semi-familar word, tilting his head to the side, and shutting his eyes. Deciding that he liked the tone of it, and of Wycliff, the little Mishap smiled and wiggled until his mother let him down.
"Gif?" he parroted slowly once he was on the ground, trying to get the word right. Was that the other mishaps name?
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:52 pm
"Ahh, good..." Tori relaxed slightly, happy that he wasn't disturbing anything. "It is wonderful to meet you, Chao, and Reid..." The tall man ran his eyes over the little Mishap, smiling. "My name is Torikonero, which you may shorten any way you wish, and this..." He guestured to the side, toward his Mishap. "This is Wycliff...We're here to give you a gift, for Halloween!"Wycliff nodded several times, happy that this new Mishap was friendly. "Gift!" The little Rhino-boy pushed the plush toward Reid, smiling. "Gift!"
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:10 pm
"It's a pleasure to meet you both!" Chao said with a sincere smile, looking fondly at the two interacting Mishap boys. "I still feel so new here, knowing almost no one.
Looking to the plush she grinned. "Thank you," she was quickly relaxing into the conversation. "Wow, halloween's coming already, isn't it?" She'd nearly forgotten, what with no conspiracy theories buzzing about Gaia.
Oh! It was the kitty's name! "Gif!" Reid grinned and pat the kitty plush several times with one hand.
Chao smiled and lent down, "Reid, honey, he's giving it to you."
Reid blinked and gave the older mishap a curious look, as if asking him if his mother was right, before tenatively taking the plush, waiting to see if the other boy would grab it back.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:19 pm
"Ahh, well..." Tori smiled softly, following Chao's eyes and wrinkling his nose happily as he noticed Wycliff and Reid. "Halloween is indeed soon, yes..." The tall man nodded, looking down at his hands.
Wycliff smiled and nodded quickly as the kitty was passed to Reid, giggling slightly. "Giiiffttt!" He said loudly, giggling some more at the odd way he sounded out the word.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:02 pm
"Gifffffft," Reid finally managed and gave the kitty in his arms a small hug then frowned; now Wycliff didn't have anything. His glow dimed, as he turned contemplative, the other boy's coloring reminded him of something....
Looking around for a moment he suddenly smiled, glowed brightly, turned and, securing the kitty plush in one arm he turned, crawled through the open and into his room, looking over his shoulder and motioning for Wycliff to follow him.
Chao blinked and shuffled aside slightly so the two Mishap's could pass, "Reid?" she called, poking her head in to make sure they didn't get into anything they weren't supposed to.
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:45 am
Wycliff blinked a few times, looking up at his Guardian before following the other Mishap. He idly wondered where they were going, as he had never been in this apartment before.
Tori watched the Mishaps make their way into another room. "Er..." He frowned slightly, shifting from one foot to the other. "Where are they going?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:32 am
Reid hadn't crawled very far, merely to a bed set up against a nearby wall, scattered with several plastic shopping bags. Tugging against one of them the bag tumbled down, barely missing the two Mishaps. Darting forward Reid reached in and pulled out a fairly large, pillow like plush they'd picked up and accidently left in his room. Wycliff had reminded him of it.
With a grin the Mishap turned and plushed the plushie pillow towards Wycliff, "gift!" he chirped warmly
"Not far," Chao replied, glancing back and shuffling aside so Tori could see inside as well.
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