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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:09 pm
"February 17th. You're older than me," he laughed, snapping his knife closed. Replacing it in his pocket, he continued, "I'll be sure to get you something, too. I.. don't know if I'm gonna do anything. It's still a while away, and I guess it depends on stuff closer to then. Moo had a big party for my sister when she turned one, but I don't live with Moo anymore, and she doesn't remember me, so I doubt that'll happen. Maybe Banda'll surprise me, though," he finished, looking hopeful. One could never know.
"You and Kilah might not get along so well." He flashed a toothy grin, chuckling. "Not that she just lashes out without cause, but she'll beat the snot out of people if they bug her. At all. Or acts like she will." For a moment he paused, then, rolling his eyes, he coninued, "She's all talk, for the most part, but very believeable. And then it's usually me and Mignon who actually fight back." Jaxom's broken wrist, for example.
"I think I am," he answered with a nod. "But I don't know what I'm gonna go as yet. We went to the costume store, but I didn't like anything there, so me an' Banda are going to make my costume. I just haven't decided what to do yet. What about you?"
And then the roses. Lyrus' pride and joy. His grin softened to a proud smile, and he nodded, 'designing' one with his hands while he described it. "I still make them, and they're getting better. At first they were just shards or glass hooked together in a sort of vague flower...but now I'm getting better at actually shaping the glass an' such, and they're really nice. See, I have these glass discs, and I break them and reshape the shards into petals , and usually just hook some of the thinner pieces back together for the stem and... I'd be happy to show you!" Finally, someone appreciated them!
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:27 pm
"Not by much though! Just about a month. And I just grew today...how long have you been a kid for?" Anisia asked with a small smile on her face. "And don't worry! If Banda doesn't, I will!" She said with a laugh. "It'll have lots of confetti and sweets! Like cookies! I hope you like cookies. I think my friend Flitch is crazy for not liking them!" She added randomly. "Oh, and what would you like for your birthday? I don't want to get you something you wouldn't like..."
"Well, maybe we would? I don't know. I'll be sure not to er...bother...Kilah if I ever do meet her. Yukito told me how I'd probably like Mignon though." This Kilah person didn't seem like someone she was all too excited to meet. She wasn't sure how she could handle the situation...nobody's ever really been mean to her before.
"Oh definitely! I love anything sweet. And the more candy, the better!" Anisia said with a chuckle. "I've decided to go as a genie. Nothing terribly crazy or original, but I'm sure I'm going to have fun." She said with a nod.
"Oh wow. They sound so pretty. I can't wait to see them!" Flowers were such beautiful things to her...which is why she kept all of hers from her previous quests. Ani gave Lyrus a smile. She could see the proudness in his own.
Then the next door caught her eye. For some reason, she felt the need to open it and see what was inside. She walked toward it and peeked inside to find
...the Jungle Plant Room.
((And the list of rooms in the thread says its complete with man eating plants! Fun. :0 What will they find in heeere? xD))
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:38 pm
((Fuuuuunn >3 Vicious plants are always a plus.))
"Just today?" He blinked, then quirked a brow. "Really? I guess it's been about a month or so since I grew. Wish I'd known you sooner," he added after a moment. "I always thought I was broken 'cause Kilah and Mignon grew so long before me. Would've been nice to know I wasn't the only slow grower."
Briefly he fell silent, looking thoughtful, then blinked and grinned, snapping back to the discussion. "Thanks a lot! And yeah, I do like cookies. Have you ever had cookie cake? It's much better than regular cake." Even if Banda didn't agree. But Banda was weird. "Um... I dunno. I guess I'd like just about anything. I like glass stuff, though. And knives." And shinies in general. Lovely fancy decorative expensive things...mmm.... Anyway. "What would you like for yours?"
And another subject change. "I only heard about Halloween a few days back, so I still don't really get the whole thing," he admitted, probably something he wouldn't even have told Kilah. She was likely to make fun of him for it. Not that he would have minded much--it was Kilah, after all. "There's candy involved?" That definitely made it worth it! "I bet you'll make a good genie. Me an' Banda are gonna try and come up with a good costume this evening. He had to work today."
Without thought he followed her to to the door and, on a whim, pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped inside. And paused. What the heck was this place? All these weird plants...inside? He grinned. "Want to explore?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:56 pm
"Isn't that weird? I'm older but growing slower." Anisia gave a little more thought about the aging process. "I wish I would've met you sooner too." She could understand him thinking he was broken. She had thought the same. "I used to think that too. Aard and I are the same age, and he grew way before me. I always felt a little left behind since most of my friends were taller and I guess you could say, 'older.'"
"No problem! It'd be fun. And I don't think I've tried a cookie cake before. I'll have to get Kiita to buy one...it sounds good!" Ani said with a laugh. "I like things every girl would like." She replied, then paused. She wasn't sure if Akilah and Mignon were girly like her...and Lyrus only seemed to talk about them...did he know what girly things she was talking about? "Uhm. Stuffed animals, real animals, flowers, jewelery, anything really." The girl added with a smile.
Anisia entered after the lamb boy and looked over his shoulder to look at the...whatever room this was. It looked like some sort of garden...a very twisted oen at that. "Sure!" She said, returning his grin. "You lead!" She added.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:12 pm
"Chaco told me everyone ages at their own pace," Lyrus replied reassuringly. "But I also knew you had to have another quest before you'd get the one that made you grow. And I got that quest, but, as far as could tell, nothing happened when I finished it. So I started thinking I had screwed up and broken myself when my child quest never came. But then I grew." And damn, had that been a relief. "I felt the same way. I've known Kilah and Mignon since we were babies, and they've always grown way before me.. It was just upsetting."
"You have to try cookie cake," he exclaimed, suddenly brightening. "It's -great-! We haven't gotten any for a while, though. Acia's birthday was the last time--she's my sister. I'll have to bug Banda about it." He paused. Things every girl would like. Yes, he was very glad Ani had specified. Otherwise he would've gotten her a baton or dagger or something. Or maybe jewelry. So he was close. "Good! I'm sure I'll find something you'll like."
'You lead.' Lyrus positively beamed. That was one of the worst things about being best friends with Kilah--She was mafia leader, he was second in command. And then at home, Jaxom was leader, Lyrus was....er...enemy? In any case, it was good for him to have a chance every so often. Nodding his agreement, he started into the room, not bothered with most of the plants, but pausing every so often as a particularly strange one caught his eye. "I've never seen half of these before."
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:47 pm
"Oh, I didn't know how many quests you had to have before a growing quest." This was new information to Anisia. Was it the same number each time? Probably not. Guess she'd just have to find out when they came along. She didn't expect getting another quest anytime soon though, since she just finished one a few hours ago. Oh well.
"Thats what kind of cake I'll have to get you for your birthday then!" Ani decided, smiling to him. "Maybe me and Kiita can make you one, if we can get a recipe." Then again, Kiita wasn't the best cook out there...hm. Maybe it'd be better if they just bought one.
This girl was a follower. She couldn't picture herself leading in most cases. It was always easier just to go along with someone. As she walked alongside Lyrus, her eyes wandered about. Some of the plants...disturbed her a little. "I've never seen a lot of these plants before...they're really...wild." Ani commented, "Do you think anything else is in here?" Meaning some sort of rabid animal or something.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:05 pm
He shrugged. "I only knew 'cause of Mignon and Kilah. I don't know for any older yet." Though he had no doubt that Kilah and Mignon would grow before him. He didn't mind so much anymore, though. There were lots of people his age and younger, and now he knew he wasn't broken, -and- had friends who would be growing as slowly as he did. Life was good.
"We have to have it sometime before then, though," he decided with a nod. "Because you don't even know if you like it. But I'm sure you will. Everyone likes cookie cake." Except for Banda, as forementioned. But, also as before, Banda was weird. So he didn't count.
This was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. "Some of them are pretty strange.... I dunno. It seems like the kind of place where an animal or something would live, but at the same time it doesn't...'cause it's inside." Lyrus was used to big fancy mansions--Moo had one. But jungles inside of said mansions were just unusual.
Catching a movement out of the corner of his eye, he quickly turned towards it, but frowned when all he found was a new plant--a strange variation of a venus flytrap, though he didn't know it. One of the traps had closed over something. ....He poked at it. "This one moved."
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:23 pm
"I like any deserts! Cake or cookies, as long as its sweet." Anisia said with a small laugh. Her and her sweet tooth. Someone could probably buy their way into her heart with just chocolate alone. "And if you like it that much, it must be good!" She added with a nod. "Whenever you get your hands on another one, just gimme a call."
"I didn't expect to find a garden...if you could call it that...inside a mansion. They have one outside already." It was becoming clear she seemed a little nervous. And it only heightened when Lyrus pointed out one of the plants moved. "W-what? It moved?!" Ani began to play with her fingers uncertainly.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:32 pm
"Will do," he promised, grinning. However, his attention quickly returned to the little plant. He eyed the closed trap, then glanced to a nearby open one, marveling at the red center. And, on a whim, he poked it, snatching his hand back as the trap glided closed. "Did you see that!? The plant tried to bite me!"
Coolest. Thing. Ever.
Still marveling at the little plant, he resumed, "Yeah, it doesn't make much sense. How do the plants grow in here?" He wasn't really expecting a reply. It was certainly a strange place... Pulling his attention from the plant, he gestured for her to follow and set off exploring once more. There must be some other cool plants in here somwhere! Bigger ones.. The fly trap was neat, but too small to hold his attention for long.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:40 pm
"Whoa! Thats crazy!" Anisia said. Gaia had weird things, but she's never seen a plant move before! Let alone try to eat someone's finger! Though she had to admit, the trap did catch her interest. "...Its pretty cool though." She finally admitted after a pause. 'Cause it was. But she wasn't gonna touch it! No way!
"You don't think all the plants in here can move, do you?" She asked, as she passed a pile of vines while following the lamb boy. "Do you think there are bigger ones like that one you were poking earlier?" That wouldn't be good.
...
Who would keep a giant, kid-eating plant in their house anyway?!
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:07 pm
"I dunno." He shrugged and, without really thinking, withdrew his knife from his pocket, casually flipping it open and shut. "I definitely saw that one move, but it just closed, I think. I doubt the plants themself can, like...more from place to place or anything." Of course, the trees in the Forest could. Lyrus wasn't allowed to go into the forest. Even Loony!Moo had warned him against it, and he took that seriously. Moo didn't remember much these days unless it was absolutely imperitive.
But, bigger ones... "There might be bigger ones. The little one tried to bite me.. It probably eats bugs or something. I don't think a bigger one could find anything to eat around here..." What would a bigger one eat, at that? He grimaced. Best not to think about that right now.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:40 pm
"Lets hope they can't really move from place to place." Anisia said, more to herself than to Lyrus. She felt funny in this place. She was probably being paranoid though...thinking she was being stalked. By what, a leaf? That's just silly. Though in place like this...she honestly wouldn't be too surprised.
"I don't think there'd be many bugs in here...maybe a few. Or maybe one of the gardeners comes in here and just...lets a bucket of bugs loose or something." The idea sounded gross to her. Picking up bugs from outside and bringing a thing full of them inside.
Anisia stopped to take a look at some pink flowers that seemed to quiver every now and then in unison.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:53 pm
Why would there be bugs? They were in a garden, after all... Only they weren't, Lyrus realized, snapping back to reality. They were inside of a building. Glancing around, Lyrus shot a glare to a bunch of purple flowers hanging from a vine, from which a sickly sweet smell issued. Blasted things mussing his thoughts. Brushing aside the vine, he continued through the plants, but paused as another flower caught his eye.
It was easily the most beautiful blossom he had ever seen: a deep, blood red shade, something of a large orchid, laced with dewdrops... Or what looked like dewdrops. Lyrus didn't bother to remember he was still inside and they couldn't be. The flower rose on a single thin stem from the floor, where a circle of short, velvety looking grass surrounded it, only adding to the flower's grace.
Lyrus wanted that flower.
Not for himself, of course... He could give to it Ani or something. Yeah, that'd work. Without bothering to think it through, he stepped over and onto the circle of grass, bending to reach for the flower. However, a slight shift in the floor made him pause, and he frowned, straightening up and taking a small step back. Or tried to. His feet were stuck fast to the 'grass'.
"Oh hell n--"
The trap fell shut.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:14 pm
How cute they were, the little quivering pink flowers. Ani began to wonder why there weren't plants like these outside of the room. She was beginning to feel tempted into picking one of them, but she decided otherwise and let her attention wander elsewhere. She glanced around to make sure she wasn't being separated from her newfound friend, only...she didn't see him.
"Lyr-?"
'Oh hell n-'
It took a minute too long for Anisia to realize what just happened. "LYRUUS!" She cried, running forward toward the giant plant that just ate her friend. "Nononono!!" She didn't know what to do! She began to panic. Mygodaplantateherfriendhe'sgonnadie!
Looking around, she spotted a stray branch that looked like she could lift. Rushing toward it, she picked it up and carried it to the giant plant again. Then she began to wack it, "Let.Go.Of.HIM!" She shouted at it. After giving it a few good wacks, she began to kick the base of it.
Unfortunately, she didn't know if she was hurting Lyrus in the process of beating it up.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:23 pm
Lyrus panicked. There was no way in hell that he was going to sit around and let this plant eat him! However, he quickly realized that squirming did no good--with the plant as it was, it just meant more stick-grass latching onto him, and put him in a very uncomfortable position inside of the plant. And it was getting tighter. He screamed.
But afterwards, he forced himself to calm down somewhat. He wasn't going to get out if he kept freaking like that. What to do, what to do, what to--OW. Someone was hitting him! And then he heard Ani, and his anger faded. He could deal with a few bruises if it meant getting out of here.
Only it didn't seem to be helping. Indeed, the plant was retaliating in its own way--tightening all the more in an effort to keep its meal. This wasn't going to work. It was tight, and dark, and close, and--DAMMIT, Lyrus did NOT like this one bit. Renewing his squirms only earned him a knick on the wrist from his knife, which he had managed to keep hold of. He yelped, cursed, blinked...and shifted his hand as well as he could to cut a short tear through the plant, shoving the knife through afterwards, along with as much of his hand as he could fit. It was a start, anyway.
Deep breath, and shout: "ANI, take the knife!"
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