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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:03 am
~ Bruce worries ~
Bruce trotted in, in search for little Gus but all he found was a ball and chain sawn in half on the ground. a sligh panic crawled down his spine and a worry grew for the little jivin...
Gus trotted back into the living area to get the collar peice without the ball attached... Fen had sent him back for it, though what Fen could want with it Gus could only guess....
He trotten in and looked around... there it was...
After resting by Hawk's side, a glimpse of blue caught his eye "there you are, her...what are you doing? and where's Fen?"
Gus startled at the sound of Bruce's voice... he assumed his regular position of staring at Bruce with wide eyes and stammered an answer... "I'm .... I'm just getting this part of the collar.... F... Fen's over there..." he pointed with a paw...
with an uneasy look, Bruce looked in the direction of Gus's paw and saw Fen fuddled in a dark corner where he blended in well "why is his collar off? what have you been up to?"
Gus raised an eyebrow... "I took if off for him... with a saw.... and now we're going to test his magic, but not on me.... he said so." ... He wipped a paw across his nose "I told you earlier that I was going to h.. h... help him."
test his magic hey..? and not on you he said? and how do you know hes not planning on testing majic on me or someone else you know? im only concerned about your well being little Gus, its in my instinced. ive got a soft spot for you, kid
Gus grinned. "He promised that he wouldn't hurt me if I helped him. He swore on someone with a strange name and all..." he wiped his paw across his nose again. "I'm glad that you like me though"
well if he tries any of that voo doo on me, il make sure il teach him a couple of tricks of me own
"Voodoo, eh? I'd like to see how your tricks add up to my... voodoo." Fenwrit replied coyly, appearing quite suddenly beside Gus. Then, almost as suddenly, his tone became nasty. "Just so you know, pinky, I won't go back on the pact I made with Gus, but I sure as hell can school you in manners. There wasn't anything in that pact protectin' you."
Gus jumped a mile and flattened against the floor at Fen's entrance... then he slowly stood up and frowned at Bruce. "He would have gotten out sooner or later... and I didn't want to.... to... stretch the bargain too far."
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:05 am
~ Fen keeps his promise ~
Bruce snarled showing his back teeth to Fen "pinky eh? it is you who is the one who needs manners" his horn then lit up silver until a little silver ball settled on the tip of the horn and a thin beam of light struck Fen between the eyes, just enough to shock him a little "my tricks may not be as strond as yours but im older and wiser
Fenwrit snarled, swaying slightly as the bolt hit him. He averted his gaze to the ground, torn between blowing up the area around him and his pact with Gus. In the end, blowing things up won. A black bubble began to float towards Gus, glowing with a protective light, and Fenwrit cursed it for being so slow. After all, the sooner he got Gus shielded, the sooner he could release the hatred that had been growing for Bruce in his mind.
Bruce could see the hated in Fen-s eyes, he was in for it now, but because of Bruce's nature, he did not want to harm Fen, but to calm him down. so in a soft whisper, Bruce lowered his head and in the language of jivin, he spoke in long soft words that seemed to echo slighty in the air. the atmosphere became warm and fuzzy and when he stopped he could see Gus half asleep and wondered if Fen's hatered was too strong for the spell
Yes, the hatred was too strong; Fenwrit's bubble finally engulfed Gus, flashing yellow before fading back to black. He seemed unphased as he dug his claws into the ground, snarling at Bruce.
"Nice try." His voice rang out clear and strong, laced with anger. As he spoke, his horn began to glow, a bright red this time. From that horn, a giant red ball grew, like a bubble on the end of a straw that's slowly being inflated. As it grew, Fenwrit murmured other words, these not quite as loud and furious, but certainly as powerful.
"Ashhamen te se narguil du ve..."
Bruce felt the ground beneath him begin to shake, he knew there was nothing he could do apart from crouching down and sealing himself inside a glowing pink bubble, then he sat up. "why do have so much hatered? you're a Sage, its not normal of the breed to be like this"
Gus painiced when the Bubble went around him... in face he howled very loudly, not even sure if the bubble was going to encase the sound as well... and when the bubble was right in front of him he turned and tried to run but ended up running right into the back wall... too late to run....
Gus was safe and forced to watch two Jivvins fight...
Fenwrit ignored Bruce; He was only concentrating on the overwhelming hatred that was slowly flowing into that great ball of red light. Something crackled, and the ball grew suddenly, until it was almost as big as Fenwrit himself. And the concentration on Gus's shield spell began to fade... Unintentionally, but all the same. The black around that ball-shield broke apart, flowing into Fenwrit's red ball of light, and making it grow even further.
Gus saw the sheild fade and he poked at it... finding that his paw went through it, without a second thought he jumped through it... the static shock that he got was enough to make him lose sight for a second... and he found himself staggering...
Gus managed to regian enough wit and sanity to see that it was almost too late... without thinking he jumped in front of Bruce prepared to take the full blast of whatever it was that Fen was throwing...
Fenwrit still had enough sense to aim, at least for the moment, and when he saw Gus in the way... Well, he panicked, to put it simply. At once, he started shouting, both in warning to Gus and in a counterspell.
"Get out of the way, you great blue oaf! Da sash dene felthareizin..." The ball, although sparking wildly and still growing, began to suck itself back into Fenwrit's horn, and Fen's eyes went blurry at the sudden rush of magic and hatred that entered his body. And, quite suddenly, he lost control. His legs shook underneath him, and the spell fell from his lips, leaving the much-smaller ball on the tip of his horn... Then, the ball flew. Straight towards Gus and Bruce. Fenwrit's legs gave way, and he crumpled, choking out a cry of pain and suprise.
Gus was in front of Bruce when the Fen's magic came rushing up to him... It was just a little ball... but then, Fen was a lot more powerful than he knew how to control... so Gus, being the stupid naivve little pup that he still was... didn't move.... and the blast hit him in the full....
He immediatly felt ill and completely powerless.... and like Fen, who it seems had taken half the magic, his little legs gave way and he collapsed... however, unlike Fen, he wasn't used to the magic and he lost consciousness for a moment... little blue head falling to the carpet and lying completely still...
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:06 am
~ Aftermath ~
"Tyshed!" Fenwrit muttered, every trace of magic and anger gone from his voice. The weary black Jivvin now had a headache the size of Manhatten, and a terror growing in his throat. It was very possible his blast could have killed Gus... And that would have broken their pact... He'd be cursed. Killed. Or worse... Cast from the Order. He struggled to his feet, mumbling apologies to the Order members under his breath, then stumbled to Gus's side and gently nudged him with one footpaw.
"Ah... Gus? Gusss... Wake up."
-Black-
Gus moaned.....
-Black-
He opened his eyes a smidgeon and was suddenly hit with a sharp pain in his head.... light... headache.... He moaned again and raised his head...
-Black-
Was he still not able to see then? .... He managed to open his eyes a little more and realized that it was Fen.... standing really close.... "You might.... might... not want to ... to.... do that anymore... "
Fenwrit laughed, mostly out of relief, then sat down as his head began to swim. Returned apologies... They were flooding back to his mind... Ahahaha, that was great. At least the Order members hadn't sent any questions along with it. And when the apologies were finished, his head was still aching, his whole body tense and shaking with the magic that had been sucked back up inside of him. He'd need a few days to recover from this one. Crap, that was worse than a collar.
"I won't. T'least, not as badly. The shield... It... I'm sorry."
Gus laughed, bringing more pain to his head, and stopping himself.... "I think I hurt myself much worse on the sheild... I bumped my head and stubbed my toe you know..." and he laughed again before he remembered that it wasn't a good idea to laugh....
He let his head fall to the ground again.... stable... that was so much better.... "How did you do that?"
"I'm a Mage." The words came easily for Fenwrit, though much softer than he meant to make them. That was probably due to the constant throb in his head. "As a Mage, you're granted the ability to read spellbooks and understand them, by the Order of Mages. You must learn those spells and use them as you see fit. Each spell has a counter spell, and you must learn those too. I'm a Black Mage, so the types of spells I use are much more destructive than those of, say, White or Red Mages." Then, he growled softly. "I'm not a Sage, like that bumbling pink idiot said. I'm classified as one, because Moo and Wegs feel it's not right to give me a new title." He didn't sound irritated at this last bit, but just... confused. And tired. Very tired.
"I don't think that I want to be able to learn any magic... it's too painful." and this time he managed to keep himself from laughing...instead he flopped over and poked Fen in the head with his tail.... "Does your head hurt as bad as mine? ... or worse then? ..... "
"Yours probably hurts worse than mine, for the moment." Fenwrit whispered. "But only for the moment. I sucked back a lot of magic and hatred, so i'll be feeling it for a while. And trust me..." For the first time in his life, Fenwrit let his guard down, and emotion filled his voice. "You don't want to be a mage. Ever."
"I already said that." Gus's head was still laying flat out so there was no jolting or anything...
He let his eyes fall shut and felt himself drifting down into painless sleep... "You know? It hurts less if you don't move..." and then he faded away, letting his long blue tail drop down beside Fen's...
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:07 am
~ Interupted ~
Gus had been sitting in a corner with a book open at his feet... but the seeminly crazy female jivvin in the center of the room had atracted his attention and he had since silently closed the book...
"What are you doing?"
*After continuing to rock for a little while, carmen's ears suddenly swiveled as she head something close. Pupils enlarging she finally let go of her tail and turned over on her side faceing the one that spoke. Tail flopping back and forth slightly she gave a shrewd glare and followed with a slow, sly reply.* "Who wants to know? "
Gus raised an eyebrow... all these little jivvins were really bold... It had taken him forever to speak to someone and even then it hadn't been his choice... it was better this way though... he had at least two friends in Fen and Tifa...
He gave a lopsided grin in his best effort to be bold... "A good guy."
*Raising an eye brow she snickered slightly at his attempts. Swinging over her right arm she placed a paw on the ground and hoisted herself up off of the ground. Sitting on her haunches she looked down at his reading book and gave another qyizzling look* "Good guy ehh? If your so good then why are you waisting your time on reading?"
Gus imediately threw both paws protectively over the book... "Reading is a great way to spend time!" He was really hurt. Reading was all he had done up until a few weeks ago when he had made Fen his friend... and this book was the best! It was all about impisonment and revenge... it was a GREAT book!
He pulled the book over closer to him... "It's better than chewing on myself..." He mumbled.
*Oooooh now that wasnt fake, She said to herself giving a faint chuckle* "I guess you can be bold. " *She then disreguarded the comment meant to be an insult, she didnt really care. Being one of the most carefree Jivvins out their you could call her anything you wanted and she would reply with the same sneer.* "Well at least im not clenching to a book like its my teddy bear. "
Gus shuddered.... first of all she saw rigt through him... and second... he was clutching at the book... and third... here was yet another jivvin who had a hold on him... he eased up on the book and let it rest flat on the floor...
"well it's a good book." He realized that he had been very curled up and made an effort to sit up straight again... "It's a classic. all about revenge and personal hardships."
"Revenge? hardships? Ehhh? Sounds like a normal book to me." *Eyes that where once glued onto the blue jivvin now moved down to the book that he was clenching. Trying to get a better look she sqiuinted her peircing yellow eyes at it.* "hmm..." *She said puzzlingly, then she returned her gaze to the blue ones eyes.* "To me life is an open book that can be manipulated however you wish it to be. This includes choosing your own path, thats something no one can take from you." *Blinking at this comment she then shook her head, why was she talking so much to someone whom she didnt even know the name of? Oh well. *
Gus blinked and stared at her... then he turned the book around so she could see it better... "Count de Monte Cristo..... "
Then he just watched her with wide eyes.... she was manic... insutery one second and then deep and insightful the next... he liked that deep and insightful part... but then again... there was that insultery part.... like Fen... Mean and then Clever.... Tifa.... Sweet and Kind and then malicious when speaking to Fen.... Why wern't these jivvins the same all the time? Gus wondered if he was the same all the time or if he changed .....
"Gus... " He sighed "My name is Gus... I live with the Keppit and the Jen."
" Ahhh, ive seen My owner read that once of twice." *Blinking in response to some.. weird looks that the blue one seemed to be giving off, she then just shrugged it off and figured he was just thinking. After a few seconds she then heard a name come from the muzzle of the male. The think that puzzled her most was the fact that... he didnt owe her anything. Usually Carmen didnt get names from others unless they owed her something... but in this reguards she now owes the blue one named Gus a favor.* "Carmen." *She said with a slight nod followed by a tail swish. She then realized that he also gave a name of his owner... so she then owed him this.* "Lilwere is my owner."
Gus sighed again and then smiled.... he was going to talk to her and he was going to keep the manicicicty to a lull.... he was going to keep her nice... or try his best.
"So... you looked bored.. want to ... um... do something?" he looked around and was immediately disgusted with himself... if she had been bored enough to chew on her own tail then who the heck was he to think he could change that!
"we could.. um... go to the kitchen and get a drink? ... or we could..." He glanced at the book... she had already made it clear that she found reading a waste of time.... he shifted the book with his tail... "we could make something? Like a fort of cushions or something... " he really didn't know how to play in groups... that was Fen's genre.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:10 am
~ Enter Evil ~
Monev sauntered into the center, delicately shaking snow from his deep red fur. His hopeless human had still not given him the gift she had been so enthused about. This was a rather large disspointment on her part, the vhaid was about to give her some scrap of respect. But... Of cours ehe thought better of it.
He cast a glance around the room with his tawny eyes, looking for a glimpse of that parrot-like green jivvin he had taken to: Tifa... Lockheart was it? He was sure she had said something of the sort. Seeing she was not around Monev slipped into an over-dramatized fit of self-pity and misery, flopping unto a couch and drooping his ears and tail.
"If i wasnt bored i wouldnt have been playing Rock-the-boat With my tail now would I have been?" *She said in a sly tone... but then she changed it back to the normal one with a quick sigh* "Oh well... if you cant beat em join em Ne?"
*Thinking silently to herself she wondered what she should do... Gus had given his suggestions, but she needed to come up with a few.* "How about.... we go hunting! That sounds like fun to me... but then again.." *Re thinking to herself she remembers how she usually hunts for shiny objects.. which she conviently stowed away in her stash. Though their was one object she has yet to get... and she will get that, one day.* "or... we could play hide and go seek..." *With a shrill laugh that quickly turned to a grin and she sat up and got into a pouncing position.* "your it."
Gus startled..... Hide and ..... hunting.... other jivvins...... he was slightly short of breath but this seemed to be the activity she had chosen...
"Rules... " they were going to need rules... and most likely another player... " We need rules... and we should ask any others if they want to join in..."
Monev lifted an inquisitive brow at Gus and Carmen, quickly loosing his 'oh woe is me' demeanour for the 'I'm not interested until you ask me to join the conversation' he often portrayed. With the idle flick of his tail, the vain jivvin attempte dto bring attention to himself.
"More joined in.. means others that i can chase!" * A Completly dark look formed across her face, yes oh yes.. the hunt will be on... Looking around she tired to spot if any others where around. Out of the corner of her eye a small red flicker penetrated her senses. Another jivvin!.... but.... Wre they too young to play? They did look a little.. small. Oh well! more fun.* "Hey, red lil one over their, wanna play a game?" *Usually she didnt speak out first, but then again... this was a new game to her... a new game indeed.*
Gus jerked his head around... when did that Jivvin come in? and then he turned back to Carmen and he almost cried out in fear.... the look on her face...
Monev huffed his chest up and gracily sauntered over, his nose held high. "I have a name, little red one indeed!" he scoffed. "Monev Moratao, the one and only existing vhaid." he announced himself nodding in greeting. No bowing for him, ooh no. It wasn't his.. way of things.
"You two are?" he sniffed, his attitude and cockiness was unphased by the larger jivvins.
"oooh.... everyone make way for the stiuck up cocky Jivvin of the bunch." *The sneer in her under tone raised as the reply from the other Jivvin pertruded, oh yes... more people to corrupt.. life is good.* " What type of name is that anyways? Oh.. and if your nose could get any bigger i doubt the ceiling could have any more less holes." *turning towards Gus she gve him a slight nod, but was theira wink in that nod?*
Gus's maw was hanging open... another one... and Carmen had moved back into manic... and gus couldn't leave without drawing attention to himself... and from here a game of hunt/hide and seek would ony result in pain... and needless to say pain was bad.... No speaking no moving... maybe they'd just forget about him...
Wink......
Carmen had winked at him.... What? now he was on her side? or was he just in the way... he glanced back over his shoulder and no one was there.... somehow he couldn't bring himself to respond... he was scared.
Monev just sniffed at carmen. "I am surprised that older jivvins can get to such immature heights as to insult one younger than they. Shame. I was hoping there was some form of decency, in this place other than Fenwrit and myself. Though the black mage has seemed to have lost his wit aswell."
With a sparkle to his yellow eyes he sat down calmly, swishing his tail. "Pity."
*With yet another roll of her eyes she shook her head from what looked like out of pity.* "Pity on me? Should be pity on you. Say what you wish but you cant get me riled up that easily. And isnt it considered a crim to rag on your elders? Theirs a two way street hun and i have no problem telling others how i feel." * With a last comment to the younger one she gave a grin followed by a snerk.*
* Looking over to Gus now she tilted her head to the side and replied in a normal... well... fairly normal tone.* "no comments eh? Gone back into your quiet mode? Geez you need to seriously talk more."
Monev sighed, "If I'm not mistaken ti was you who insulted first. I wouldn't consider you, of all jivvins, an elder. More as an under-deserving miscreant. But, my opinions seem to fall on deaf ears in this human-run place."
The red vhaid was really, through and through, a pompous cocky a**. But, it was his nature and he wouldn't change it around for anyone. Jivvin and human alike. Typical of his kind after all...
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:11 am
~ Gus Gets Angry ~
From the start of Monev''s speach to Carmen''s desire for him to speak more Gus had been slowly building a short rage.... although he didn''t raise his voice, it was easy to tell how mad he was...
"Why? so miserable little hotheads like you two can sit here and verbally slam me behind my back, or even worse, to my face? I''ll have you know that no one here is very high up in the so called social comunity and therefore neither of you has the right to slam anyone. Not me, not each other and certainly not Fen! I assure you that he hasn''t lost his wit... he might not be useing it right but it''s still there and if you were smart then you''d watch yourself..." He gasped suddenly realizing what he was doing, and a look of pure terror passed across his face....
he fell into a whisper and let his eyes drop down to his book... "I''d rather keep my mouth shut and be thought a complete fool then to open my mouth and remove all doubt." ... he thought about fleeing bout couldn''t bring himself to move...
Monev looked at Gus in a very rare surprise. His yellow eyes narrowed into a murderous glare, he collecte dhimself and answered in the calmest tone possible. Have you not seen Fenwrit of late? If you haven''t you have no right in any way to speak good of him. He''s head ove rheels for the red and white one, Misae, and is obsessing over her tail." he said in a disgusted voice.
"You must be one of those domesticated jivvins that listens to everything their owner says. Completely and utterly depiscable! Our species deserves to be higher than those ''humans.'' When you say we have no rights and neither ar ehigher-up.. Well what right does a human have to call us a ''pet,'' and rule over everything we say and do? Slavery."
It was clear Monev had a very low opinion of humans.
*A Slight chuckling formed in Carmens throat that eventually escaped from her mouth like a shrill cry.* "Hoho, Me? Insult you first? Well if thats the way you wish to put it. See, i dont take anything as an insult, If i did then i would slowly be enraged. Look at me? do i seem enraged at al? no. And with the status thing... obviously either you have your head to far up your a** so you cant hear or you are deaf, their might seem to YOU theirs a hierarchy.. but then again, im not the stuck up ove am I- *broken in sentance she turned around agin to face Gus. A grin spread over her face that turned into.. a friendly laugh?* "Ahh... much better... see you can do it. And dont turn your voice down, keep ot up. No one has the right to tell you different."
*Looking back to the red one once again.. a slow sneer emerged from her brow. See.. she didnt mind her being ragged on.. but her friends.. no... she had little friends in this world.* "Hmm... now heres a question for you... who feeds you? grooms you? Who does these things? you claim that you are higher? then why do you use the lowly? Are you much of a coky a**- ok never mind that question was answered the second you spoke. Their is NO need to rag on another. Tag on me all you want... oh another thing... i personally think you need to look in the mirror. you say that you believe in ranks? Sorry to break it to you hun... your only a pup, a low rank."
Gus was done... no more being mean from him... it scared him to death coming from other jivvins... but if it was even possible, then it scared him more when it came from his own head...
"There are no ranks... not even to separate younger from older... and the Keppit never called me a pet.... she calls both the Jen and me her sons."..... and with this statement came a realization for Gus... one that made The Keppit into just ..... Keppit.
Carmen hit the head on the nail, the one thing that made Monev think he needed to feel better than others.. that made him so... heartless. A difference came over the jivvin the moment the words exitted Carmen''s mouth.
Hmm... now heres a question for you... who feeds you? grooms you? Who does these things?
The words echoed through Monev''s young naive mind like an earthquake. His fur raised quickly, teeth bared, claws digging into the floor. "you want to know who takes care of me? Who feeds, grooms, pampers, and loves me? That answer is easy, no one. My ''human'' who you think deserves respect is to caught up in her own self-pity and past that she doens''t even notice that I am in the room. I am forced to stay in anothers home, and fend for MYSELF. Now if you''d like to ask me one more time who deserves my respect and loyalty... You better think of my circumstances."
The red jivvin was beyond worked up now, his eyes shone with hard-kept tears. "Zeejay cares more about killing her enemies than she does about taking care of her ''son.'' Monev who? That''s all the thought I''m worth. You...." he panted out of breath to verbally assault Carmen and Gus further.
*Carmen must admit that she was slightly taken aback by the comments from both Jivvins... but then again all she did was shrug them off as she usually did.* " Look, hun. "*She said looking at the red one.* "We all have issues... we all have problems... yes, sometimes you might need a shoulder to cry on? Yes you might not have the best circumstances in life. But heres another question for you, what do you expect others to do about it? Its not their faults the circumstances are what they are. I dont care if you view me as heartless and or a ''meanie'' but i am stating my views. Go look to someone else if you wish for Pity."
*Tone staying the same as she switched over to Gus, she slowed the pace of her voice and the harshness of her tone.* "Lilwere come to think of it treats me as if i am her sister.... No matter." *Changing back to her other state of mind she rounded back on the small one.*
Gus hung his head.... and let it hang through the latter part of Monev''s speach and the whole of Carmen''s.... truth be told... he really did care. and he really did want to help Monev... and he really did want to keep Carmen sane... but it wasn''t his place and he wasn''t the one to help them... He was sorry for getting mad... first of all because it made him scared of himself and secondly because it spurred on this.... but how do you say you''re sorry to a jivvin who''s better than you in his mind and has no need for your condolences? ... or how to say you''re sorry to a bipolar personality? .... he didn''t know the answer so he just set his paw on the book and lay down on the floor with a sigh.
"Well I take it that neither of you wishes to play hide and seek anymore."
Monev eyes flared with such a sudden and pure hatred, it surprised himself. "I don''t need a ''shoulder to cry on'' and sometimes you may consider thinking of what your own purpose as a species is in life. Is such a breed as glorious as the jivvins doomed to just be pet and what you call ''family'' to such a race as humans? I am surprised in how you two just loose your very pride to those... those.. pitiful things."
"And as for ''pity'' you think I seek. I''d rather be bled to death than accept pity from the likes of you. Now I may be a pompous a**, but atleast I don''t surrender myself so easily to those swinish humans. I am a vhaid, the royal ranking in jivvin terms. But form what I see you two have lost all of your knowledge of the true jivvin heirarchy. You.. You two are just as lowly as humans themselves, you are a disgrace to our once noble line. shame on you two."
Monev stood up huffily and spoke in a voice of pure menace and vile longing to make his words true. "I think of you two now, not as my own kind, but as foul human scum. I dearly wish that you live a short and miserable life, damned to all eternity with your ''family''. Mark my words, you''ll see me again, and when you do.. It''ll be your last glimpse at life." he threatened not caring how they took it.
Gus sighed and put the book up on a shelf then spoke mostly to himself, not caring if anyone heard...
"You may not want my pity... but you have it. What you do with it is your concern... not mine." To gus... jivvins were strange... and he was beginning to share the barest of opinions with Monev. Jivvins didn''t know where they stood.... Gus didn''t know where he stood.... but he did know one thing.
Keppit loved him. and she wasn''t a human anymore. Ranald loved him. and Ranald was a human. Jen loved him. Jen was a strange monkey mutation. Fen..... Fen was his sworn friend til death (which admitedly Fen had once almost caused) ... and friendship and family ... that was something that made you someone. If Monev didn''t have family then mores the pity... but friendship was his if he wanted it. ... but it wasn''t Gus''s place to say this... so he didn''t...
What was the one thing Gus knew? He knew who he had... and he headed to the one room cabin that he shared with the 1 person, one zombie, and one monkey that cared for him.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:11 am
~ One sided Conversation ~
Kano arches and eyebrow down at Moochi from his perch on top of a bookshelf
The center was quiet... then... a dark blue paw shot out from under a sofa and grabbed a dictionary off the shelf, and as soon as the paw was there.... it wasn't there anymore.
Kano archs an eyebrow, but doesn't say anything...for some reason, he never said much of..anything no a days or really ever since he grew. Going down one shelf at a time, he hops down the floor and then starts to look for who took the book
Suddenly Gus's voice can be heard "What!?!?!"
the dictionary slams shut and slides out from under the sofa
Kano jumped a bit, but being natural curious, he slowly approachs the sofa, small wings folded down on his back and he peeks underneath the sofa, wanting to see who or what is down there.
Gus notices movement in the corner of his vision and it startles him so much that he jumps... "Ow!" And hits his blue head on the bottom of the sofa....
looking out if slightly blury vision he manages to see another jivvin about his size... it not a tad smaller. "You really oughtn't not sneak up on people... " he closed his book...
Kano jumps a little, startled that another Jivvin seems to have taken up residence underneath the sofa, but he lays down and squints to get a better look, not saying anything
Gus just stares at this other Jivvin.... He toyed with the idea of inviting him under to join him... but there was only so much room... and besides, the last jivvin under the sofa with him was Fen and that had been one terrifying experience, fun packed with everything just short of actual death. .... And that was an experience that Gus wasn't eager to repeat...
"Are you just going to stare at me?" He blinked... " My name's Gus... I'm blue and I live with ... Keppit... and Jen."
Kano stares at Gus, but still doesn't say anything, but he smiles a little and he runs off, but just as quickly, he comes back with what seems to be a collar and he pushes it to Gus so he can read, and on the tag is "Kano" and he flaps his wings a little, glad he found someone that is blue, like him.
Gus puts a paw on the collar and pulls it towards him...
"Kano" ... He blinks... "Did I say that right?" He looked down at the tag and then at his book... he'd read it already three times... this was his fourth time reading it... "You read?"
Kano nods when Gus gets his name right, but he nods vigorously when he asks that he reads, and he shots off again, returning with a large book in his mouth and he pushes it to Gus, and the front reads "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship"
Gus pushed the book towards the front of the sofa... but didn't push it out. "If you do then I reccomend this one... it's a classic." He crawled out from under the sofa and headed for the front door. He was headed towards the cabin... home... to get another book most likely... or take a small amount of verbal abuse from Jen and then watch Keppit berate him for the trouble. ...
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:12 am
I told Jen about my book idea and he laughed right in my face. He told me that I don't have enough real life experience to be able to write an action book. And as much as it hurts... I have to admit that it's true. I don't have ANY experience with combat or fighting, or anything like that. So I need to learn.
I asked Jen if he would teach me... but he just laughed again. He tells me that he's never been in a fight in his life... that he's the sarcastic one and not the type to launch himself across a table at the slightest hint of an insult... truth be told again, I already knew this because when I was little I read Jen's journal, but I won't tell him this since it would hurt his feelings and he'd know that I know things about him that no one should know... since he never told anyone.
Long story short... Jen knows two other Skull Monkeys that could teach me to fight .... He won't ask Isto.... but he says he might ask Mauli...
I want to learn. I trust Jen.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:14 am
She's a pain in the royal behind... Example? Well, so far I've only known her a couple of weeks (Keppit brought her home as an adopt just like me, only she's not anywhere near as nice as I was... in fact I'd go so far as to say she's my exact opposite) but in those couple of weeks she and I hav gotten into no less than 10 fights. EVERYTHING is an insult to her, and I just can't understand it. I was worried about the Jivvin population... I thought that they were pig headed and arrogant, quick to fight, lying wrecks of flesh and bone... and that all they ever seemed to want to do was hurt each other and themselves...
Example? Take me for instance... the first time I met Fen he threatened to kill me for no reason at all, simply because his presence made me jump........... Monev... he thinks himself above every other jivvin, and above every human, and above everything and one else for all I know. I have high hopes for Monev, since he's smart. But if he doesn't start seeing himself as... a jivvin then I don't know how he can be helped.........................
........... Tifa..... Tifa's story is the one that breaks me inside the most. She and Jack (though I can't vouch for his character since I've never met him, but I did touch his hat once) were together as what you might call a couple for the longest time.... and then he left. and not just left, but let with another female who was also carying his child.... I have to admit that I can't validate the truth in the story (rumours and such travel fast) But I can't see where any Jivvin, or any being for that matter, would want to hurt her. You just have to look at her and hear her talk to know that she's not a liar, she's not a theif, she doesn't attack people who breathe wrong... she's smart and she's a really really really good friend. I imagine that if she ever happened upon a friend in trouble that she'd be there in a heart beat to extact them from the danger, and then probably extract that danger from the world (to put it mildly) ... How can a person intentionally hurt a Jivvin like that?
I'd like to meet this Jack. Just to try and see what Tifa ever saw in him... and to suss the story myself.
But back to the original point. My sister (Saty) is a pain in the royal behind........ But she makes me see the good in all the others, becuase so far (and I've never had to live with any of the others so I don't know the full extent of their behavior) Saty's the worst and none of the others are as bad as she is. If I can live with her, then I can live with anyone.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:17 am
Any way... Tifa and I were talking and she made mention that she would be interested in reading them... I have only to reach under my pillow here to find the book... with it's torn cover from when I snatched it from Jen one day... but there's not much else that makes it original, or special... except maybe the writing inside..... I've been thinking about it and I would like her to read them... but not at the same time.... she's smart, but maybe too smart.... plus.... I wrote a poem about her... and I don't think she'd want to read it, because it's about the sappy bonds of friendship.... O.o .. actually .. I think I'll write it here just in case I decide to tear it out of the book before I let her read it...
"Abandon all love, ye who stand at the dock... "
At the edge of the dock, way out on the pier,
stands a shadow down on his luck, who no one can hear.
He tries very hard, but he can't seem to smother,
his sobs to himself... his cries for his other...
He yells his life is all wrong, with no way to steer,
He's been waiting for 'love'... but it just won't appear.
He thinks he's never really seen it... That it just can't be real.
That surely by now... this... 'love'... he could feel...
He can't want to try, and he lost all his trust...
But for calling this.. 'love'... trust is a must.
Just pick up your fingers! let go of that pier...
let yourself trust! There's nothing to fear!
And waiting down here in a boat on the sea,
with arms stretched out wide... I'll answer trust's plea.
Try for this ... 'love' ... and give it your all,
I'll be waiting to catch you... if you ever should fall.
I'll tell you my secrets... my love I will send.
For you are my smile, my hope... my friend.
~ Do as you heart commands you... I'll always be your friend...so you'll always have my love to stand behind you and help keep you strong.
There... I'll probably tear that out of the book later... maybe. O.o
But back to Keppit. Lately Keppit and Jen have been moping around the house and hugging each other all the time. I never met Emelyn, but apparently she's ill and it really means a lot to both Keppit and Jen... even Ran has been saddish... they keep talking to Emelyn on the computer all the time and they're always cheery and stuff when then do... but once they stop then they get all sad again. They say that Em's really far away, and that to keep the relatives from calling she took all the phones off the hooks... and that really seems to bug Keppit because she can't call... and her mom doesn't want to talk to her anyway because keppit reminds her of Em's illness.... So keppit's the worst of the three... but Ran's feeling it, and Jen is sad for the Aunt that he grew up with. It's left up to me to keep Sadie away and out of trouble... O.o which means spending time with her. *sigh**note:: the poem is not about relationship love... but rather friendship love... and in case my metaphor is too thick >.< it's Gus telling Tifa that she should take the things she wants... and if she wants Jack back then she should take Jack back... He's a little Naive blaugh But I love him anyway.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:18 am
Gus needs to meet his sprite so I Meanwhile ninja
Across the cabin... up near the roof... in Gus's loft..... A small pair of green eyes stared out from under the blanket at Shade` and Saty.... the eyes watched the pair until the owner of those eyes thought he knew enough about Saty and Shade`, and then a little white Jivvin Sprite trimmed with two different colours of green snuck out of the covers, down the ladder, across the floor and out the door. He stood in the entryway to the cabin staring out over the forest area..... there was a small stream that looked a little dirty, and lots of trees, and some more trees... and hey! A platform up in the trees...
He ran over to the base of the tree and stood at the bottom of the ladder, but he was too short to reach the rung. He stood there pondering until he realized that he had wings.... giving them an experimental flap he lifted himself up off the ground a little. But the effort was monumental and tired him out immediately... so instead he used his little tail to help push him up the ladder... rung for rung... step for step... and thinking all the way how sore his tail was going to be after this... but he'd never been up in a tree before. (O.o .. come to think of it he'd never been anywhere before) After having pulled/pushed himself up 46 ladder rungs he found himself standing on a platform in the trees, quite high up actually, and only one partially build wall to keep him up there.
He found that he liked the height, and so it came to pass that he ventured out onto a branch and from there he moved out across the trees.... until he came to an unsafe branch... *CRACK*
Gus was sitting reading a book... it was much better to get out of the cabin when Saty was there. The book was a sience fiction taking place in the mind of a patient in a mental institution. It was really interesting.... but not so interesting that he didn't hear the high pitched scream that seemed to be demonstrating the first half of the doppler effect as it got louder every half second.....
The Js tried his hardest to slow himself with his wings as he fell... but the momentum was too much for him and he plunged right down into a Blue mass resting at the bottom of the tree....
Gus's breath was knocked from his lungs when the Js landed on him, but after he regained his regular breathing habits he reached out and picked up a dazed little Js between his front paws. Setting him down on the grass, Gus began to straighten the little guy's fur... "You alright?"
"Iza... woah..."
Gus laughed. "Where'd you come from? Before the tree I mean... What's your name?"
"Iza.... *whew* You saved my life!"
"Not really. You'd have probably been ok anyway. What's your name?"
"Um... I don't know."
"You can't remember?" Gus was worried. Did this little Js have amnesia?
"No... I mean I never had one. I just um... Whatcha call it? Came out of a pink thing..." He stared up at Gus...
"Oh... you mean an egg!" Then it occured to Gus... "You came from a pink egg? Where's the egg now?"
The little Js pointed back over behind Gus... to the cabin.
"You're my Jivvin Sprite!... or Saty's... But then you'd probably still be tied to a chair.... were you tied to a chair?"
"no... that was Shade`. She's pink and that Brown you is making her more sadder."
He thought for a moment. "Ok. We'll go back to the cabin and we'll get you something to eat none the less." He looked around for his book... and there it was... but the cover was bent and the first few pages torn. It had probably gotten that way when this Js had landed on him. With a sigh he picked it up and held it out so that the little guy could see it. "My book's ruined."
"Booker-uin-ed... O.o what's booker-uin-ed?" He looked so cute sitting there staring up at Gus...
"It's Book.. and Ruined. not Booker - uined..... this is a book and it's been torn, which means that it's ruined." He grinned down at the Js
"Ahh. I see.... I still like booker uined better." He nodded his little head.
"Hey that can be your name!. Booker."
"Booker?" He thought about it for a second.... " I like Booker even better as a name." He jumped up with a grin, ran over and gave Gus a hug...
Gus was shocked... as he always was when he recieved physical contact... but after a moment's hesitation he put a paw on Booker's back and returned the hug.... "C'mon. let's go get you something to eat."
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:19 am
There... it's all done and Keppit isn't as stressed as she was before... though I wouldn't say she was really stressed, since she's not the stressing type... more like the ulcer developing type. But she's fine and she's stuffed all the puppets from that show into the closet so that she doesn't have to look at them anymore... But Ranald keeps sneaking them out and stuffing them in Keppit's face... Ran's actually a pretty good puppeteer, as is Jen. I myself have never had the inclination to do anything of the sort with puppets... though they are everywhere... I think I saw Saty with one the other day... she's been rather reclusive lately. Always spending all her time up in that unfinished tree house that she and Ranald have been building.... I don't really see the glamour there.... O.o ... it's a platform with a few covered bits... Ran tells me that it's nowhere near finished.
I've been doing nothing really... not been going anywhere, or doing anything... and you know what's happened? Something that I never thought would happen.... I miss some of the other jivvins and people that I know.... I'm being anti-social and I'm not happy. O.o .. how's that for shocking? Well... when it comes to me that's shocking.
I came in the cabin the other night to find Saty with my Poem Book... I about fainted on the spot... well not really, but she had it in her mouth... and after I bargained with her to get it back for almost an hour, Booker jumped on her, she dropped the book, and then he and I ran out with it as fast as out legs could carry us.
Speaking of Booker... he's a cute little guy who's really interesting. I'm glad that he hangs around with me. He always wants to learn... anything and everything... and I think that I learn more when he's around... I'm going to teach him to write so that he can keep a little journal of his own... I think he'd like that. I might also try and teach Shade` to read and write... if I can get her to stop crying long enough that it... O.o
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:20 am
I've been spending most of my time at the new Skull Monkey Headquarters with Keppit, Dromi and the sprites for the last month, and I'm glad to say that we are almost done painting and fixing the place up and everything... and I'll never have to spend so much time there ever again. It's strange, but as long as I can remember I've been living with Keppit and Ranald and Jen in our cabin here. It's just one small room with three lofts, a sofa and a double bed. Jen has a loft, Saty has a loft, and I have a loft. Booker and Shade` both sleep with me, Ranald and Keppit fight over the couch and the bed everynight, and Dromi and Rusty prefer to sleep in a tent in the backyard. The whole Smo HQ is many many many many rooms all packed into a three story building on a giant lake... and whenever I'm there I feel lost and lonely... I don't remember much about my life before coming to live here with Keppit and Jen, but the strongest feeling is of lonleyness... and I don't know if it was repressed or something... but I really really don't like it. If I can help it I'll do my very best to never find myself completely alone again.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:21 am
I haven't been to the jivvin center in the longest time. I have also been avoiding the Skull Monkey Headquarters with all my might... But that doesn't mean that other people are. I thought that by staying here I'd feel more at home, and not so lost in that giant three story building... but Keppit and Jen have been spending so much time there I never see them anymore. And Dromi took Rusty to a summer camp with him, and Ranald and Saty have been spending so much time at the Jivvin center. Poor Booker, I've been clinging to him in an effort to not be alone anymore. I wonder if he's getting sick of me???
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:22 am
I have a dilema. Ranald went out and got herself a jivvin egg. It's a boy and so far I think someone said that it was a Vhaid. So far, out of all the jivivns that I've met, I've only really not gotten along with two... and one of them is a Vhaid. Saty and I don't get along well anyway, so how am I going to live here with two dissagreeable sibblings?
Speaking of Saty, it's not fair to say that she's still unbearable. I think she's finally coming to realize that she has a really good life here. Ranald built her a tree house (yes it's finally finished) and she's been living out back. I think when she's out there she has time to think and calm down, and perhaps she misses us... She's really much nicer recently. I've always loved her, but I think I'm starting to like her.
Now we'll just have to wait and see about this new Alexander.
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