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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:11 pm
"Whooops," Stae said, bringing the helicopter up a bit more, "Slight miscalculation of.. er.. altitude? Air pressure? Yeah, some s**t like that. She pulled back on the 'joystick', as she called it, and fiddled with a few buttons in hopes of speeding things up.
Rune, however, just laced his fingers behind his head and stared Julian down with that devil-may-care expression. "My name is not Mister, it is Rune. If you call me 'Mister' again, I will not acknowledge it. In fact, I think I might have to punch you in the baby maker." He gave a wink, pushing a pink and blue lock of hair out of his face, "I have no idea what the hell that thing is going to ask me, so I have no idea how to answer it. I'm just gonna wing it."
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:33 pm
As soon as Orestae began to play with the controls, Julian's own hands went to work. In simple terms, he ended up undoing all the damage she had done in a matter of seconds, and as co-pilot taken control of the helicopter. Fortunately for his well-being, the young scientist was taking the woman's threat half seriously. "Let me handle this, and we'll actually get to Egypt in one piece."
Julian merely grunted slightly in reply to the unicorn Fa'e's response, mentally noting to just not say his name at all.
"The usual riddle happens to be, what crawls on all fours in the morning, stands on two legs in the afternoon, and walks with three at night. Do you have any idea what the proper answer is?"
Gage, on the other hand, was busying himself with not looking at anything but his own hands. He had decided he really did not like the flying machine at all.
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:24 am
Stae leaned back, tucking her hands behind her head and adjusting comfortably to her seat. "Sure. Go for it." Somehow, in the interior of the helicopter, she managed to prop her feet up on the dash, carelesly hitting a few buttons in the process.
Carelessly, meaning she didn't make any effort to fix them. After all, that's what Julian was for!
Rune, however, was not so careless. He rolled his eyes skywards, blowing out a puff of air the made the bangs hanging in his face flutter slightly, "That riddle is bullshit," he began, glancing sideways at Gage, "Not only does a man's life not cycle as asolutely as a day does, but not all men use a cane in their last years. Some of them use walkers, some use wheelchairs, some use their own ******** legs."
"If it asks me that riddle, I'm going to punch it in the fetus."
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:28 am
Fortunately, Orestae's interference caused only a small amount of turbulance. While he had to avoid hitting a rather high flying seagull, Julian was able to steady the helicoptor with little damage done to his blood pressure.
"Fair enough," the older man agreed, setting the controls on a locked down autopilot. He would like to see the lady at his side mess that up. It should take at least ten minutes, which gave Julian more than enough time to try and talk Rune out of his plan. "But the Sphinx is not going to try and appease your sense of diversity. In this situation, it would be best for you to try to get the big kitty to respect you. It's the only way to get this done. Who knows how large this thing is going to be...."
"Great," Gage murmured much too perkily. He was still working out the bugs in his sarcasm.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:04 am
"Or," Rune piped up, grinning widely. There was something scarily nonchalant about the teen Fa'e, something that gave the distinct impression that if his own hair was on fire, he wouldn't do a thing to put it out. "I can walk up, see what happens, and punch it in the fetus if it asks me your lame a** riddle."
"And then I'll throw a bottle at it." Stae added, pulling the bottle out of the pocket of her lab coat and shaking it a bit too violently.
"Right, then she'll throw a bottle at it. See, piece of cake."
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:19 am
Julian marked all of Rune's courage up to the general idiocy of youths. He was sure the boy's tune would change once he was actively having his arm chewed off by a gigantic feline. The mental image was enough to stop any possible rude retorts, allowing them to fade and be replaced by those more sensible. "The bottle, Orestae, does not work in that fashion. You will have to simply attach it to the beast in some way and wait for it to work. I highly doubt it will be subdued by your young charge."
Briefly, the slightly mad scientist considered how he had gathered his own Raevan's soul. It was possible the glass-like container used to hold the Sphinx's soul might make the creature drowsy, as it had seemed to for the unicorn. If that was to be believed, things might be a little easier than he had thought.
Something did not bode well, all the same, and he was loathe to begin thinking like the lowest form of life left on the face of the planet. An optimist.
"Water," Gage whispered, pointing out a window at the fairly large body of the liquid that they were now flying above. It should have been impossible for the group to make it to any ocean in such a short amount of time, but yet again it must be stated that the contraption they were all riding in was Dr. Koyuki's. Sense was not part of the package.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:20 pm
The trip passed in a mostly uneventful fashion, with the usual array of bickering and bitching. Any attempts to alter Stae and Rune's plan would be met with, as usual, sarcasm and the occasional crude remark. Thus, the plan remained: Rune would distract the sphinx, while Stae lowered herself down on the helicopter ladder and found some way to attach the bottle.
"There," Stae said abruptly, pressing her face up against the glass, "There's the pyramids, we have to be getting close."
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:38 pm
Gage perked up from his state of almost-napping when Orestae said something of interest. He too pressed his face close to the window nearest him, mindful of his horn so that he would not accidentally pierce the glass. "They are so big..."
It took a longer pause before Julian stopped glaring in Rune's general direction enough to gaze out at the new landscape. His female "friend" had indeed been correct, as it seemed the autopilot had led them well and within maybe two hours, they had magically made it to Stereotypical Egypt Land. Finding a sphinx, the man mused, should not be too hard now.
"Keep an eye out," he instructed calmly, taking manuel control of the helicopter. Any insane actions they were about to take had best be left to someone with some degree of common sense rather than nano-chips.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:46 pm
Rune, on the other hand, held little interest in the pyramids, though that didn't stop him from taking a particular interest in sarcastic opportunity. "What?! Giant stacks of rocks? Hoshit, where oh where do I sign ******** hope the damn thing eats you," Stae murmured, her breath fogging the glass despite the heat outside. After all, a luxury helicopter wasn't a luxury helicopter without air conditioning, right?
"b***h."
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:01 pm
"They are very old," Gage responded casually. He was sure there was some amount of meanness attached to the other's tone, but they were kindred spirits. The green Frei was quite sure that meant more than a little personality problem. "It is neat."
He smiled, at the Fa'e, or at least the intent was there. The mask kept most of Gage's face nicely hidden.
"It won't be devouring me if I'm flying the metal birdie," Julian said, smirking idly. "And again, I suggest you be watching for this thing. I wouldn't want to pass by it."
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:22 pm
Stae didn't have time to respond to either Rune's comment or Julians lame-a** nickname for the copter, because as they moved past one pyramid, her eyes settled upon the unmistakable shap which they'd been looking for.
"Uh-huh," she said, tapping her nails against the window, "Take a look, Julian. You think I'm going to miss that?"
"Dude," Rune said, suddenly taking an interest, "It kind of looks like mortimer."
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:27 am
Julian had not missed sight of the Sphinx primarily as it would have been impossible. The creature was huge, quite literally the size of a barn with its massive lion like body only a shade darker than the sand it lay upon. On closer inspection the Sphinx was female, or at least it's head was that of what seemed to be a gigantic human woman. A normal man might have shuddered in the face of such an opponent, but all the scientist could really think was simply, 'if Rune dies it is not my fault at all'.
Gage's reaction was quite different. "Whoa!"
Flipping some key switches, the human male turned the helicoptor smoothly, so that it was now going towards the beast. "All right. Rune, if you can use those wings to fly, I suggest going down now. If not, there's a ladder to lower someone down with."
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:04 am
Rune was not one to listen to instructions. In fact, he was not one to listen to anything if it didn't have large, prominent breasts and a particularly low set of sexual inhibitions. Thus, it was no surprise when the Fa'e teen wrapped him yellow fingers around one of the empty emergency flares, pulled it out of its casing on the wall, and hurled it right out the copter door... and directly at the sphinx's head.
"Right-o," he said cheerily, hopping out a second later.
"If he dies," Stae said with a peciluarly apathetic tone, "I get the stereo I bought him for christmas."
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:59 am
"I will go with," Gage declared, following the yellow skinned teenager out of the heliocoptor. It was a long drop to the ground, at least fourteen feet, but there was an obvious upside to only having a third of one's full body. Instead of falling, the Frei seemed to drift, landing on his coiled loose end with what appeared to be very minimal damage.
"That seems fair," Julian remarked calmly as he pressed hard on the controls. The helicoptor rose higher, well out of what the man thought as "Sphinx Smash" distance. Methodically, he switched the autopilot back on, carefully standing up from his seat as he moved towards the rear. It was quite easy to locate the rope ladder he had mentioned earlier, and then only slightly more difficult to set it up near the helicoptor's side door. "You're sure you wish to do this? She looks angry."
The young scientist's words were something of an understatement. Upon being hit, the Sphinx's far too human face twisted and contorted in obvious rage. Its attention stayed on the whirling contraption for only a moment, and then it was bounding closer to the smaller figures. The being was not an idiotic one, and it could easily judge which prey might be easier to destroy.
It growled loudly, impossibly long tail whipping at the sand behind it.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:07 pm
"Well this was a good idea," Rune said with a sigh, taking off in a run as soon as his feet hit the ground. His wings never did provide particularly stable flight, but they were enough to keep him from breaking his legs after jumping out of the copter.
Up in the copter, Stae grinned quietly to herself. The sight of Rune running for his life was just a bit too exciting to resist.
"She's a giant ******** cat," Stae said, kicking the rope ladder out the door once Julian had secured it and watching as it unfurled below her. Tucking the soul bottle into one pocket, Stae not-so-carefully lowered herself onto the first rung, gripping tightly with one hand while giving Julian a mock salute with the other.
"Let's get this s**t over with."
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