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 Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:47 pm
"Oh.. uh this. Nah. I was ice skating and being the klutz that I am.. I kinda fell." SHe said. She'd been having loads of fun before the dumb skate crumpled under her. "I'm not the most coordianted person ever." She said with a non-chalant shrug. "Besides, Rico was right ready to knock the lights out of the guy at the skate kiosk, so I think he's been threatened enough."
Deimos was impressed. He was smirking and nodding in approval. "I don't steal much. Mother always catches me and makes me give it back. It's like she's.. phy.. uh she can read minds. But if you can steal, you'd make a good pirate. I'm a captain now, d'ya know?" He said, and his smirk grew wider as she noticed the tatoo.
"Nah, This I got from Jabir. I had a scar right here." He said, pointing to his forehead. "From a cross, and Jabir moved it over to my arm. It's permanent." He said, his chest puffing up slightly in pride.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:54 pm
Crow winced in sympathy.
"I feel your pain - at least you didn't walk headfirst into a sliding glass door. I've done that about ten times in the past few weeks." She laughed, relaxing and feeling happy for the first time in a long while. Looking slyly at Jizzy, she propped her chin on her hand and leaned in a bit closer.
" 'Rico'? Do my ears decieve me, or is there a boy in the picture now?"
The tattoo made Dei look really tough. Admiring its spiky shape, she pocketed the watch again and thought for a second.
"You a cap'tin? Tha's neat. I can be a piwa-no, a piira....pirate. Umph. I get to be one too?"
She smiled brightly for a second, but then her face fell.
"Umm...what's a pirate?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:00 pm
Jizzy chuckled, and nodded, her cheeks going a tinge of pink. "Can't get anything past you, now can I.." She said, shifting, so her ankle was less of a bother. "Yah. He's Chao's twin, ya know her? She has a mishap too, so you might have seen her around." She said, smiling.
"SUre. You can be part of my crew, Len." He siad, nodding, but he made a small eye rolla nd a sigh as Lenore asked. "Pirates sail the seventeen seas and plunder and steal from town and ride in ships. Liek Jack Sparrow does, in the movie." He said, hoping she'd seen it.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:52 am
Crow gave a sneaky smile.
"I'm perceptive that way, you know."
Chao, huh? Didn't ring any bells...
"I haven't really met anyone around. Just you, Azumi...and Rabid. Not really big on the social scene."
Lenore's eyes went huge as Dei explained. Oh, it sounded wonderful - to steal not just for fun? Now that was the life for her. She'd never been in a ship before but what the heck, there was a first time for everything!
"Woooow...sounds aw'some." Pausising to think for a second, she tried to remember where she'd heard that name before. It clicked after a few seconds.
"Oh, yes, yes! I know him - Mama's got lots of movies with him in it, but he doesn't call himself Jack in those ones. My favorite's From Hell - I think Mama likes it to 'cause he's got a nice accent in that one. She says she's got a squish - no, a...um...a CRUSH on him. I just like him 'cause it was a scary movie. People got killed in it!"
Lenore smiled and bounced on her heels, getting more excited by the second as she thought of her new title.
"Imma pirate now!"
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:15 pm
"Oh, well she's relatively new. I've been kinda stuck at HQ for a while so I've been with loads of people. I don't know any of the newest guardians though." She said, purposely steering away from the topic of Rico. "It's hard to keep up with it. Children seem to multiply like rabbits here."
Deimos beamed. Another recruit to his crew, and it was Len. Like torching two birds with one fireball. "Now you can pillage and plunder and get scuuuurvy." Whatever scurvy was. "And I'll have your back whenever we go plundering. I can torch anyone that gets in your way." He said, smirking. "Did you know? I can burn things now?" He said with pride, now this was soemthing he hoped would impress Len.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:51 pm
"Huh. I'll have to try to keep track of 'em better."
Stretching and cracking her knuckles contentedly, Crow rolled over onto her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows.
"Anything else happen while I was out of the social scene?"
Oooh. Scurvy. Sounded neat, in a pirate-y sort of way.
And Dei could burn things now? Dude, that was just cool.
"Can you show me how you do it?" Len asked innocently. She wanted to see Dei's special thing - then she could show him how well she could glide. It was almost like flying now that she'd gotten so much practice in.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:58 pm
Jizzy pondered a while and shrugged. 'Not much that I can say. Dei got a brother, went into the forest, got himself into a load of trouble, oh and yah. He can burn things now. I ahd to fireproof the entire house!" Jizzy made a large sweeping movement with her hadns. 'And still he manages to find ways to burn his homework."
Deimos beamed and nodded. He'd been waiting to show her. He set out his palm and focuses, openeing the door that kept his fire at bay. Sparks formed in his hand and then with a poof a fireball appeared in it, flickering and swayying with the wind. "Nice, ain't it?' He said.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:58 pm
Crow gave another sympathetic wince.
"Sheesh. Well...at least he hasn't set fire to you yet, right?" she asked half-jokingly.
"Wait...homework? Did you enroll Deimos at a school? Aren't the other kids a little...well, nervous around him?"
"Whoa."
Lenore watched the bright ball of flames in amazement. It was the most awesome thing she'd ever seen - to make fire just by willing it into being!
"Wish I could do that," she mumbled, flexing her long fingers and trying to imagine what it would feel like to conjure fire whenever she wanted. What could she do that was special, anyway?
Looking up suddenly and grinning slyly, she flared her razor feathers like a peacock.
"I can fly, yanno. D'you wanna see?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:10 pm
"I couldn;t enroll him yet. Not with the holidays so enar, not much point in having him start. I'm teaching him some basics for now and enrolling him once January rolls along. I expect I'll become fast friends with the school nurse." SHe said with a shudder. She dreaded the day she'd send Deimos off to school.
That's when he remebered it. "Right! Len, Jabir told me to tell you that laters, you and I can go learn to fly together!" He'd entirely forgotten abotu that. 'I can't fly at all, you gotta show me how you do it!" He said.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:22 pm
Crow gave a low whistle.
"Man. I can just imagine what gym class is gonna be like when they get to play dodgeball." A fleeting vision of Deimos laughing in victory on top of a pile of children with rubber ball-concussions flashed through her mind, and she had to stifle a laugh.
"Maybe once Len goes through another spurt, we can enroll 'em together. She and him get along so well."
Lenore puffed out her chest in pride and gave a knowing smile.
"It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it - I'm half a bird anyways, so it's real easy for me. C'mon, I'll show you how!"
Running off clumsily to the playground, she deftly climbed up the monkey bars and perched on the top. Smiling as a slight breeze ruffled her wild hair, she felt her body instinctively prepare itself for flight. Her tail of feathers spread and lowered, and her razor feathers rippled together as one to make solid sheet-metal wings.
"Watch!"
Throwing herself off the monkey bars, she plummeted to earth before arching her body into a U-shape. She swooped up and did a clumsy mid-air somersault before losing altitude and flopping onto the ground with a dull thud. Sitting up and blushing at the dud of a flight, she gave a silly giggle.
"Okay, so it's a lil' harder than I said. Still fun, though."
She looked Deimos over in curiosity. Jabir said they'd be able to fly together?
"Dei, how can you fly if you only gots those lil' wings on your head? I gots big wings and I still can't fly too good. Can your cape make you fly? Like....like...like a super-hero? Are you a super-hero pirate?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:33 pm
Jizzy chuckled. "By gods they'll be the terror of the school. I can see the fire and destruction already." SHe joked around, well partially. She totally though the fire part would happen. "But I'm sure he'd enjoy having Len around, though."
Deimos beamed in approval. He wished he could fly like that, but he hadn't quite gotten the hang of it yet. "I dunno how I fly, Jabir just said I could. I guess I could be liek a super-hero, but I'm not sure." He said with a shrug. His tail swished around, her feather attached tightly to it. "I can try though!" He said and started up the monkey bars.
He reached the top in no time flat and perched himself carefully on the top. Takign a breath he leapt, and plummeted. Well that didn;t end out to well.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:39 pm
Crow did laugh this time.
"Jeezaloo. King and queen of mass destruction and doom. They'd have the toughest bully crying by lunch time."
"Uh-oh."
When Dei said he couldn't fly...man, he'd meant it.
"Dei? Are...are you 'kay?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:45 pm
"He'd be lucky if he was just crying." SHe said, imagine the bnig bad bully handing over his lunch to Deimos. "WHat worries me is if he ever does chemistry...." SHe felt a chill voercome her at the damage costs.
Deimos moaned slightly as he stood up, wiping dirt from hsi shirt. His face sort of hurt and he didn't notice the blood trickling from his nose. "Urgh, well, yah. Told ya I wasn't to great.." He said pickign some leaves out of his hair.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:53 pm
"Well, if worse comes to worst, we could pack up and head to Mexico if they blow up the school," Crpw said mildly, imagining the look on Len's face as she egged Deimos on into adding just one more drop of vinegar and into a baking soda and lit cherrybomb-packed science fair model volcano.
Come to think of it, she'd like to see what would happen, too.
"I'll say. Grav'ty and you don't get along too good, huh?"
Clucking her tongue when she saw his bloody nose, she dug into another of her skirt pockets and produced a pilfered monogrammed handkerchief. Toddling over and offering the gold-threaded thing to Dei, she picked a leaf out of his hair with a giggle.
" S'okay, though. Once I get big, I'll teach ya how in no time. Then we can be flyin' super-pirates!"
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:02 pm
" Oh yes Mexico! No winter. Just warmth. Let's go now." Jizzy said, exitedly. She was never one for cold weather. "Gaian winters are not my style. I knwo some nice beaches in Mexico, and by gods the food is great."
"Nah we don't really." He said taking the ketchief and placing it by his nose. He pulled it away. Blood. He was bleeding? Oh well. He said, placing the kerchief back on to stem the flow.
"I bet you'll get big soon. You gotta tell me as soon as you do, k. Well go out 'sploring." He said, still using his toddler term for exploring. Some things never changed.
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