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 Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:37 am
  A lonely morning...
Zuri spent the next week eating and sleeping. It seemed to need time to recover from its exciting first few days of life.
But the week after that, things changed- again.
Bright light was flooding into Keilyna’s room even though the curtains were still closed, and her bed was empty. It had been neatly made, though her pyjamas had been dumped rather unceremoniously on top in a scrunched-up pile. But Keilyna was nowhere in sight.
And the hut was silent.
Zuri was disquieted at this unusual state of affairs. The house was never this quiet! The only sound that it could hear was a strange ticking sound that seemed to be emanating from the round thing hanging on the wall, with numbers and moving sticks inside. So it fluttered out of its basket and flew out of Keilyna’s room to check the rest of the house for signs of life.
But there were none- the house was empty.
All empty.
Even Raindrop had deserted its washbasin. A new batch of lemon-scented bubbles wandered aimlessly across the surface of the water...
And Zuri felt quite aimless at that moment, too. Where had everyone gone? Zuri was not happy.
And Zuri was angry.
It was not fair! Why had it been left alone by itself? It wanted someone to play with, to talk to. It wanted to have fun!
Zuri glared at the deserted washbasin and wished it had legs. It wanted to kick something! Hard.
But Zuri was hungry, too, so it wandered into the kitchen to find something to eat- and to give it more energy to be angry with, of course!
There was a green plastic bowl on the table.
It contained a slice of fruitcake.
Fruitcake!
Zuri arrowed across the kitchen and descended upon it, tearing a large chunk out of it and chewing ferociously. The fruitcake was a good target for its anger!
But soon, all too soon, the fruitcake was gone. Zuri looked about the table, wondering what else it could eat.
Then it saw the little yellow sticky-note stuck to the table next to the fruitcake bowl. It had been so busy eating that it hadn’t noticed it before!
Zuri hopped on to the rim of the bowl and peered down at it. There was writing scrawled upon it, but Zuri had not yet mastered the art of reading very well.
The puff read the words out aloud. "G... go... owed... mow... rr..nee... n... gee...... Zed! Yoo... arrr... i..."
Zuri was puzzled. What did that mean? It tried again.
"G... go... owe... gooed? Mower... neengee... Mowerneengee... Gooed... mowerneengee?"
The puff thought hard. Then it realised that it sounded similar to the first thing Keilyna had said to it every morning- except for this one. Good morning!
"Gooed mowerneengee!"
Zuri decided that the other word must be its name. It was slightly mollified that Keilyna had at least thought to leave a note for it, but a yellow sticky-note did nothing to alleviate the puff’s boredom. There was too much writing on the note for it to bother trying to read any more.
Then it noticed the alphabet chart and a few extremely simple picture books lying on one of the chairs. Since there was nothing else to do, Zuri decided that it might as well look at them some more- maybe by the time Keilyna got home it would have a wide enough vocabulary to launch a tirade at her!
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:44 pm
 
From the mind of Keilyna...
Oh dear.
I came back from school today and the kitchen was a mess!
There was fruitcake and crumbs all over the floor, as well as the vase of flowers that I was supposed to be painting for Art! I am very glad that I only put them in a plastic container... I dread to think of what damage glass could have done to poor Zuri.
I wish that my Wethkin wouldn't like making so much mess, and that it would clean it up afterwards. It must have been looking at the picture books and alphabet chart because it left them all scattered on the floor as well. I almost wish that Zuri was like Raindrop... but not quite. Because then it wouldn't be unique any more!
And then I tried to make Zuri clean up its mess, but it flew on top of the fridge and wouldn't come down until I had done all the cleaning up. Zuri seems to be quite an uncontrollable Wethkin... If it won't listen to me, what can I do?
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:47 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:16 pm
Zuri's escapade...
The next day, Zuri wanted to go to school again.
But Keilyna still didn’t think this would be a good idea, so she said no.
Glaring at her, Zuri realised that it would have to come up with a better plan than just hiding in her lunchbox. But since the puff was good at planning, it came up with an idea quite quickly.
And so it was that Zuri said ‘Bed’ to Keilyna, and wandered back into her room. Where it began to arrange the tiny scraps of cloth that served it as blankets, so that they looked as though something was sleeping in them.
And then the devious little puff flew out of the room again, to wait near the front door behind a rack of shoes...
Some time later, Jinxeh walked to the front door with her bag full of hospital gear and other paraphenalia.
She didn’t notice Zuri at all.
In fact, she was talking to herself under her breath!
She sat down and began to put on her shoes, but still didn’t notice the little Wethkin behind the shoe rack.
Then she got back up, retrieved her bag and opened the front door.
Zuri scuttle-bounced out from behind the shoe rack.
But Jinxeh did not notice.
“Bye Kei!” she called.
The puff followed closely behind Jinxeh’s shoes as she walked out the door, then scuttled for the bushes as soon as her back was turned to close the door behind her!
Then Jinxeh turned around.
And saw Zuri retreating behind a rather large, prickly dark green bush.
She blinked in surprise.
And then she set off for her bus stop, deciding that whatever she had seen had just been some random stray animal.
When Keilyna dashed out of the house to catch the school bus again, Zuri was ready.
As the girl started walking towards the bus, Zuri flew behind her and hid behind a tree that was near the back of the bus. As she got inside, the door closed, and she sat down on a seat next to a window.
The bus driver began to prepare to drive off again...
And Zuri acted!
Springing out from behind the tree like a hungry- albeit miniature- predator, it zoomed onto the roof of the bus!
And then the bus began to drive off again, accelerating down the road.
On top, an onion-like creature was perched, crouching down low so it wouldn’t be blown away.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:48 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:41 am
  A chance meeting...
Part 1 of an RP by Keilyna and mooshroom
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, mooshroom = Olive
Kianga floated nervously above the head of the milling people filling the canteen. She thought it wouldn't be a problem to get food- just fly it, pick something up and fly out. The problem was that there were so many people packed up against the counters serving food that there was no way something (even small and invisible as she was) could gwt there without beign squished to death. Actaully, being small would probably make it worse.
Kianga sqealed with joy as she noticed a familliar black ponkytail weaving it's way through the line up. Zooming at the speed of light (not literally) Kianga glomp-tackled the back of the ponytail owner's head. "Yan!"
The black haired girl turned around and looked at empty air. She shook her head and wondered if she was imagining things. Maybe Xanthe or Wen Wen had called out...
"Yan!"
No. It was definately right behind her. A tiny squeak, not a human's voice. She squinted into the space the voice came from, before starting and realising the person behindher was glaring. Yan turned back around quickly, her ponytail whipping behind her in an arc- the Wethkin clinging there giggled happily at the ride it was getting.
Yannay gulped nervously as she picked out a pasty to have for her lunch, and handed the money over to the cashier. She wasn't sure which she'd rather- thast the giggling following her to the table her friends were waiting at was real, or that they were just in her head.
Kianga, once her ride had reached a table, detatched herself from Yan's ponytail and hovered down the the girls' plates. She helped herself from the variety of foods there, before happily settling down on Yan's plate. It was then that she noticed Zuri fly in, and she happily flared and called out in a greating.
Yan blinked spots away from her eyes. Her was sure she'd just seen a tiny, glowing creature sitting on her plate. None of the other's seemed to have noticed it, so she just sat there quietly. Maybe she was going crazy...
Zuri perched on top of the canteen’s microwave, surveying the room for food.
There seemed to be a lot of it in one corner- but still no fruitcake! The little puff was feeling quite miffed at this. How could they not have fruitcake? It was just not fair!
Then the Wethkin noticed Kianga, and flew over to greet it, surprised.
"Gooood mower-ning!" Zuri chittered, quite unaware that such a greeting was only appropriate for- well, mornings. Surveying the contents of the plates on the table, it was quite disappointed to realise that no fruitcake was here, either. "Fruitcake?" it asked Kianga hopefully.
Yan blinked as she saw a flying onion land on her plate, but then the image faded. She decided that she'd finish eating as quickly as possible, so she could get away from the canteen and it's odd ghosts.
Kianga shook her head, but picked up a french fry from someone's plate and offered it to Zuri instead. "Tri it."
"Tanks!" Zuri said as it crunched upon the strange, yellow stick. "Nice... but fruitcake better!" it chittered. The Wethkin peered up at the girl whose plate it was sitting on, and gave a little chittery-giggle at her confusion.
Kianga followed Zuri's gaze and laughed. "Yan iz Mooshee's fwend. Kay's too."
Full now, the sunlight puff gave a high pitched burp and looked from something to do. Her eyes skimmed over the mocrowave and other appliances in the kitchen part of the canteen. Not today...
She looked around for a little while before noticing a spoon half off one of the plates on the table. She rolled a pea from the plate onto the spoon, and hovered just above the handle. "Fwee.....Too....Wun...Fire!" She dropped onto the spoon and watched happily as the pea flew through the air and almost hit a random girl on the back of her head. Kianga swore quietly as she rolled another pea into place. She adjusted the loaded spoon a fraction, then when she was happy guestured for Zuri to have the honour of launching it.
"Kay fend?" Zuri looked around for Kei. "Kay not here?" it asked hopefully. "No let see! Be here... Kay not know! She... no let come!" The puff chittered anxiously.
However, Zuri's troubles were momentarily forgotten as it giggled at Kianga's antics. Purloining another yellow stick thing and shoving it in its mouth like a cigarette because it was too big to fit inside, Zuri flew excitedly over to the spoon.
"Fwee... too... wun... fie!"
Zuri watched with an expression of fierce concentration as the pea flew through the air... and landed in someone else's lunch.
Kianga sighed as the pea once again floated harmlessly over the girl's head. She adjusted the spoon a bit more, then looked aroudn for ammunition. All the peas were gone! She cusred and looked for something else...
There was a pile of something mushy and white-ish on her plate, and Kianga decided that would have to do. Hovering above the handle of the loaded spoon, Kianga counted down once more.
"Fwee...Too...Wun...Fire!"
The mashed potatoes landed splat bang in the middle of the girl's face, and Kainga did a little victory dance.
"WHO THREW THAT??!" The girl had stood up and was looking around the canteen accusingly. Kianga snorted with laughter, as the girl picked up a roll and chucked it at a guilty looking girl across the room from her.
"FOOD FIGHT!" Someone else yelled, and before long the air in the canteen was buzzing with food.
Kianga grabbed Zuri's leaf-stalk, and tugged her out of the room. It was fine when she was throwing food at other people, but when food was being thrown at Kianga? Now that just wasn't right! Still pulling Zuri along, the sunlight puff made her way out of te canteen and back onto the lawn outside. She let go of the stalk.
"Now wut?"
Zuri giggle-chittered with laughter and nearly collapsed on Yan's plate from so much laughing. The puff squealed in protest as it was dragged from the canteen. It wanted to watch all the people throwing food at each other and messing the canteen up! Struggling hard to escape, Zuri only succeeded in slowing Kianga down and nearly getting knocked over by a spoonful of spaghetti. And horror, oh horror- someone actually saw Zuri and made a grab for it, thinking it was food that could be used as ammunition!
Zuri got out of the way just in time, and stopped struggling against Kianga. Now it wanted out of the canteen as soon as possible!
As the two Wethkin reached the safety of outside and the lawn, Zuri drifted down to sit on the grass. It looked mournfully up at Kianga with spaghetti dripping down its sides.
"Wunt cleen?"
Kianga looked aorund for something too clean the other puff with. She spotted a massivle swimming pool- much bigger than the one Mooshroom had banned her from going near at home, after that time with the filter...
She pointed. "Thare?"
Zuri turned around to look.
Little beady eyes became big and wide with fright!
"Nuuuuuuuu! Nuuuu thare!"
Just looking at such a wide expanse of water made Zuri skitter-hop one terrified pace backwards. Spaghetti smeared itself on the grass as the puff did so. Then Zuri had an idea that elbowed its way through all the panicked terror and latched tight on to its mind! It began to roll about the lawn in the bright, warm sunshine, trying to rub all the spaghetti off.
Kianga smiled and shrugged. "That gud too. " She looked back at the water, an expression of longing on her face. The water glimmered and sparkled in the sunlight, and it looked so inviting...
Kianga looked back to the now almost clean Zuri and picked a piece of spaghetti off her head. "Wanna go ecks-plour?" She looked around and couldn't find anything else interesting. She hoped Zuri knew somewhere...
Zuri rolled over once more, then sat up. The puff was now totally spaghetti-free- though a little bit of sauce had managed to cling to one of its sides and had collected dirt from all the rolling. The sauce's force of association with Zuri had been stronger than the dirt's force of association with the ground! So the little Wethkin was sporting a dark brown splotch on one of its sides, that rather resembled a cow-splotch.
"Kay!" Zuri replied to Kianga. "Splour fun! What-where? No oh-sen," it added hastily.
In the distance, the sound of a bell ringing sent a stream of students flowing back out of the canteen, and Zuri hurriedly fluttered out of the way of a stampeding trio of students.
"Follow?" the puff suggested, gesturing at the rivulets and trickles of students that the 'stream' had split up in to. "Fun?"
Kianga smiled mischieviously. "Yup-Yup!" She randomly attachesd herself to a stream, and followed the flow to a large classroom. As she entered the room, she noticed shelves on the walls filled with the oddest things.
There were a bunch of butterflies inside glass, jars of unidentified floating objects and dried creatures that looked particularly uncomfortable. At the other end of the room, on a long white desk there was a tank. There were mini-trees and water and dirt and all sorts of cool stuff inside it. Kianga decided a closer look was in order.
She curiously fluttered over to tank, and slipped inside- not thinking for one second that something dangerous could be inside it. Luckily for her, there wasn't, and Kianga found herself nose to nose with a giant frog! Well, giant to a tiny puff, anyway.
She gulped.
"Zooree?"
Zuri bobbed along beside Kianga as the stream they were attached to meandered along, split up into tributaries and trickled through various classroom doors. As the stream split, Zuri hovered behind Kianga to see which classroom the puff would venture into, then followed.
The classroom reminded Zuri a little of the food room (the Home Economics kitchen!) but there were no delicious aromas of food permeating the air. In fact, the classroom was filled with a rather unpleasant smell- a sharp odour that reminded it of the smell in Raindrop's basin multiplied several times over. Though Zuri would certainly have found the smell removed by the disinfectant much worse...
The Wethkin floated along the windowsill, eyeing all the plastic containers lined up upon it. They contained objects that looked rather like shrivelled-up versions of itself- sprouting broad beans. Zuri was very glad that it didn't look as horrible as the shrivelled-up 'onions', and got so distracted looking at them that it totally forgot about Kianga. Until...
"Zooree?"
Zuri deserted the broad beans and looked around for its friend. But where was Kianga? A quick look around the classroom proved unsuccessful- the only bright yellow thing that Zuri spotted turned out to be a student's mobile phone half-hidden in one jacket pocket. The class seemed to be settling down and the teacher was beginning to talk in front of the classroom. Since Zuri couldn't understand most of what she was talking about, it ignored the lesson and fluttered across the room to see if it could find Kianga.
There!
Closeted away in a funny glass box was Kianga! Zuri zoomed closer to look, and squealed in fright when it saw the creature that was staring at its friend. It seemed as though Kianga needed saving....
Zuri flew inside the tank, and looked around for something to scare the giant green monstrosity away with. It was too big to be moved by force!
Or perhaps a distraction was in order?
Zuri thought that distracting the monster would be easier than scaring it, since it decided that monsters were scary, not scared. But what could it do?
Fluttering near the top of the tank to get a better view of the situation, Zuri froze in terror as it came face to face with another giant green monstrosity.
The puff's eyes went wide, and it began to shake.
"K...Kee...kanga?"
Both the monsters in the tank turned to look at the new puff. Kianga took this chance to quickly dart out of the tank, and guestured for Zuri to do the same. The one closest to the onion-puff licked its lips, and a long pink tongue darted toward Zuri.
But fear glued Zuri to the surrounding air, and the puff could not move!
Its eyes were two big pools of alarm as a long, pink thing darted straight towards it and flicked under it and wrapped around the unfortunate Wethkin!
Zuri's eyes bulged in terror.
And high-pitched chitters of horror-fright-terror ripped through the air!
The tongue retreated in alarm. The frog wasn't used to its food protesting so loudly! It slowly backed away, and the movement dissolved the 'glue' that stuck Zuri in place.
Zoom!
A blur of colour like the multi-coloured leaves of fall shot upwards and out of the tank. The greenery rustled, unsettled by the speed of the puff's passing.
Free!
The coloured blur arced through the air like a rainbowed comet trail and settled down on top of an unused bench. As it slowed, it became recognisable as Zuri, and when it was safely upon the bench it began to shake from the after-effects of its ordeal.
Kianga zipped over to Zuri and started conforting her. She couldn't really help much though, cause at that moment a shadow fell over the sprites as someone was about to plonk their books on the bench. Kianga grabbed Zuri's stalk and quickly yanked her off the desk. This room was too dangerous! There were to many things for a little puff to get hurt by, even for Kianga.
"Wunt sayf place? Kum." She whispered to Zuri, so the monsters in the tank wouldn't hear them, and she quickly made her way out of the room and back towards the year 10 common room.
Once there, Kianga sighed. This place felt much safe, even if it did smell like the inside of a toilet. She fluttered over to Moosh's bag and rummaged around in it, looking for somewhere confortable to rest. She found a blue lunch box i the front section of the bag, and with Zuri's help, prised it open. Inside was a spoon and a piece of glad wrap, since Moosh had already had lunch. Though left in one corner of the box was a large piece of fruit cake. Kianga knew Mooshroom didn't really like the stuff, but her mum had packed her lunch. It would make a nice cushion anyway...
"We stay heer. We gow too Mi howz."
Zuri began to calm down, and stopped shivering. But then a shadow loomed over the puff and it squeaked in dismay. It felt itself being yanked away- and just in time, too, for a heavy-looking pile of books many times Zuri's size landed in the spot the Wethkin had just vacated!
And then Zuri was falling- but it managed to recover in time to flutter upwards before it splattered (or bounced, more likely) upon the floor.
It nodded in agreement and followed Kianga out of the classroom, with much relief.
The puff had never seen the common room before, and was quite disgusted when it did. It was so messy! And the air smelled quite unpleasant... Was this really Kianga's 'sayf place'? Zuri did not think much of it, but there didn't seem to be any people around so it seemed safe enough. Though privately it thought that all the people had been scared away by the mess and the smell!
Zuri floated over to investigate what Kianga was doing, and helped the other prise open a box that rather reminded it of Kei's box...
And oh!
Could it be...?
Fruitcake?!
"Froot-kei!" it chittered in delight as it zoomed in to the box and snuggled up to the cake. "Heer good," Zuri agreed. "Verry gooood."
Kianga smiled, and cuddled up too. The day was catching up on the puff. She closed her eyes for just a second...
Mooshroom sighed as she walked into the common room. Double IT used to be so fun. I wish I never had to go on Exel again as long as I lived!...Well not really, but it is extremely boring.
She opened the door to her locker and hopefully looked inside. Kianga was still missing. She had wandered off at school before, and had mysteriously appeared in Moosh's kitchen the next night on quite a few occasions. Even though she was worried about her puff, Mooshroom knew she'd be able to find her way home.
She noisily stuffed her books in her bag, while whistling the Hokey Pokey and did not hear the faint Kianga-snores coming from her lunch box, nor the occasional munchings of a certain autumn puff on fruit cake. She swung the bag and continued towards the car park.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:14 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:03 am
Attack of the snake-erd...
Part 3 of an RP by Keilyna and mooshroom
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, mooshroom = OliveMooshroom yawned sleepily as her alarm started beeping at her- telling her that it was five o'clock and she should be getting up. She quickly hopped out of bed, used to getting up this early most mornings for her rowing trainings, and moved to her wardrobe. She pulled out her rowing uniform which consisted of a red, yellow and black striped zootsuit and a white polo-shirt.
"Kianga!" She whispered to her puff before heading off to the bathroom to get changed. "Are you and Zuri coming?"
The puff squeed happily, and hopped out of her flower-pot bed with the most enthusiasm Mooshroom had ever seen this early in the morning. She then proceded to poke Zuri while squeekily calling its name.
"Zoooo-reee...Zoooo-reeee..." Poke, poke.
"Guess that's a 'yes' then..." Mooshroom muttered to herself, then lef the room to go get ready.
Zuri's eyes fluttered open upon hearing Kianga's voice.
"Unh...? Dark still. Zuri sleep now. Tired."
The little puff burrowed deeper into the flowerpot, making grumpy-sounding noises. It had just been woken up from a lovely dream of being trapped in a fruitcake castle and having to eat its way out!
"Froot-kei..." it mumbled sleepily, hoping it could re-enter its previous dream.
Kianga bounced up and down on top of Zuri. "Now! Kum now!"
Mooshroom came back into the room, looking quite red, yellow, black and stripey, and picked up the fighting Wethkin. "You'd better come, Zuri. You don't want to see her when she's angry. Kianga stuck out her tongue at the other puff in triumph as they were both carried by Mooshroom to the door of her house.
She had a water bottle with her, and when her dad woke up to take her, they piled into the car and drove off towards the river.
While Moosh was helping her crew get out the boat, Kianga stayed with Zuri near the boat house. "Wate till she gone, then we ecks-ploor."Zuri cried out as Kianga bounced on top of it.
"No-no-NO!!"
The puff wriggled and squirmed. "Want sleep! WANT SLEEEP!!"
The puff refused to move until Mooshroom picked it up from the pot, and then it lay limply in her hand.
Zuri slept in the car for the whole of the trip, and only re-awoke when they had arrived at the river. It grumpily flew out of the car and hovered near Kianga.
"Want sleep. No want 'splore!""But snake-birds..." Kianga said, looking longingly at the swans floating on the river. She hadn't learnt her lesson from last time.
By now, Mooshroom was on the water, and her attention was completely in the boat. Kianga smiled and pointed to her. "Can do wut we wunt now. She won't bee mad." Her eyes wandered back over to the swans...Zuri sighed. It supposed that Kianga wouldn't stop trying to convince it till it did what the puff was suggesting. And it would have to wake up properly eventually, anyway...
"All-right," Zuri conceded. "We find snake-erds then." It fluttered closer to the river and peered over at the rowing team.
"Mooshie look fun-ee. All fun-ee." Zuri giggled.Kianga giggled, and shook her head. "They okay. Old men reeelly funny"
She followed Zuri to the edge of the river, then took the lead. "Kum with me."
Kianga fluttered over the dirty water, and landed in the reeds on the other side, waiting for Zuri."If'n they's okay, then gran'farthas must be reeeally, reeeally fun-ee." Zuri jiggled about. "Gran'farthas here?"
The Wethkin followed Kianga to the edge of the river, then flew across.
"Dir-tee. Yuck-yuck-yuck!" The puff eyed the water with trepidation as it flew. "Why Moosh-ee want row here?" it asked, a little confused. "She like mess?"
When Zuri reached the other side, it hovered about the reeds. It didn't want to land because they were so close to the water!
"Wut now?""Nah, Mooshee no like mess. She like complaining though." Kianga smiled. "We go find snake birds now." Kianga lifted off from the reeds, and floated down stream, towards a bridge crossing the river. As she flew underneath, a shadow fell over the puff, and she shivered at the change of temperature. "Just under heer...then we find snake bird nests..." Kianga slowly floated on ahead, through the dark tunnel of the bridge and out into the sunlight where she floated, waiting for Zuri.Zuri nodded. "Moosh-ee no like dir-tee Wethkin!" it agreed, remembering the previous night. It followed Kianga downstream, and under the bridge- it found it quite strange and scary there since it had never been in such a place before. When it re-emerged, it fluttered up to Kianga.
"Snake-erds yet?" it enquired."Soon..." Kianga said, leading the way back towards the bank and the reeds. She wove through the maze, searching for a rustle of black feathers. When she emerged on the other side, Kianga frowned in puzzlement. They were normally here...where could've they gone...
"Thay lost..."Zuri looked around in dismay. They had come all this way for nothing? And when it could've been sleeping, too! But the Wethkin did not voice such sentiments. Instead, it looked around.
"No snake-erds." Zuri was disappointed. "We sleep? Maybe snake-erds sleep too.""Nu...They might swim though!" Kianga said, having a great idea. She zipped back throught the reeds and fly upstream, under the bridge again and past the club house. She peeked back over her shoulder to see if Zuri was coming, then flew on ahead some more. "We go under this next bridge, and then we see if snake-birds are floating in the messy water." She called to Zuri. "Hope so...""Snake-erds swim?" Zuri was intrigued, for it had never seen a 'snake-erd' before. "Swim away?"
Zuri followed Kianga again, though it found it to be quite nice underneath the bridges now that it knew what to expect- they were so nicely cool and dark! Which could've been why Kianga disliked them, but anyway...
"Snake-erds float as well? Float an' swim? Why everyone likes the mess-ee war-ter?" Zuri wondered aloud, for it certainly did not like the 'messy water'.
"I not likes mess-ee war-ter at all!""They prolly not like water. They just have to swim. Mooshee say that they are dum."
Kianga was silent as they flew under the next bridge. One of the reasons Kianga disliked them so much was that her light made the shadows seem deeper and darker, and she had an over active imagination.
As she cleared the brigde, she let out a little squeal of delight. Three black swans and their almost grown-up grey offspring where floating in the water ahead. "Snake birds!"Zuri emerged from the bridge after Kianga... and saw them!
The Wethkin gave a little jump of fright-surprise at the unusual appearance of the 'snake birds'.
"Snake-erds funny!" it chittered. "Like Moo-soom! Snake-erds play?"
Zuri zoomed closer to one of the 'snake-erds' and happily waved its stalk.
"Mowerneengee good!" it cried.The closets swan just gave Zuri a glance before slowly floating away to join the others. Kianga hesitantly- remembering the last encounter with the birds- drifted over to the swan. "Hungree?" She asked, since they were repeatedly sticking their beaks into the water to feed of the algae. She pointed to Zuri. "Might like her. Shee's food."Zuri hmppphed, annoyed at being so ignored. Were the snake-erds hard of hearing? The puff certainly couldn't see any ears on them, so it supposed they must be.
"GOOOD MOWERNEENGEEE!" it yelled, its little onion vocal chords stretched as tight as they could possibly go.
One or two swans made startled movements at Zuri's cry, but resumed their morning feed. The little Wethkin hovered above the river's surface, sulking.
At Kianga's words, one of the swans looked up with interest and afixed Zuri with two bright, beady eyes. Zuri waved its stalk happily.
"Mowerneengee, snake-erd!" it chittered brightly.
Belatedly, Zuri's brain finally registered the import of Kianga's previous words.
At that same moment, the swan lunged, its beak gaping wide.
"KIANGA!" Zuri shrieked as it zoomed hurriedly out of the way.
The swan flew out of the water to give chase, hunger lending speed to its wings.
It was fright that lent speed to Zuri's.
But even fright-powered Wethkin wings were no match for the draught of the swan's powerfully beating wings.
Like a fragile leaf in an autumn gale, Zuri was knocked out of control. Spinning, whirling, falling...
Zuri hit the water.Kianga squeaked in fear as her friend fell down, down into the dark water of the Torrens. Thinking of nothing else to save her, Kianga followed the onion into the depths of the putrid river. She let out a few bubbles as she searched in the tiny amount of light she shed for any sing of her friend... There! A black shape was moving away from her, and Kianga followed it ever deeper, trying to shine as bright as she possibly could. Zuri found itself looking at an old, mouldy shoe.
The shoe, however, did not look back.
The water of the river was muddy, polluted and /extremely/ dirty, the little puff realised. A much more suitable environment for a Toxikin, rather than a Wethkin. But suitable or not, this was the environment that Zuri found itself in.
And, it realised that it didn't like it one single bit.
Besides, of course, the fact that it /hated/ large expanses of water.
Especially large expanses of muddy, polluted and /extremely/ dirty water.
Wings frantically fluttered, ineffective against the enormous weight of the river. The sponge-like Zuri had swelled to almost twice its size! And still it sat there, looking back at the shoe..."Zooo-reee?" Kianga bubbled through the water. She searched deeper and deeper until at last she saw something in the gloom. "Zoo-ree?" She burbled. Grasping onto it, she rose to the surface again. The thing was stuck slightly in the mud at the bottom of the river, and as Kianga pulled even harder, in popped out with a slight squeching sound.
After what seemed like an age, Kianga emerged from the flithy water and blinked in the sunlight that was now sparkling on the surface of the lake. She dragged her burden to the edge of the bank, and the squealed in dismay. What she had grabbed was not Zuri, but was...a shoe?!Zuri blinked as something blurry but bright entered its vision... and stole its shoe! Now it was all alone in the cold, wet, and the dark... still at the bottom of the river. It burbled unhappily. It didn't like being underwater at all! It vaguely wondered if it would ever get to see the surface again as it wriggled about in an attempt to get free of the mud...
Meanwhile, at the edge of the bank, the shoe wasn't feeling very happy, either. Unlike Zuri, it /wanted/ to be back at the bottom of the river, for that was its home!Kianga quickly jumped back into the river and sunk to the bottom again, searching slowly and carefully- not wanting to miss Zuri. Of course, this took forever since she could only see about 5cm infront of her in that disgusting water. Once, she saw something that looked suspiciously like a person, sleeping on the bottom of the river and she -very- quickly headed off in a different direction.
Finally kianga saw something that definately looked like Zuri- a very wet and soggy Zuri, but a Zuri all the same. "Zoo-ree!" She yelled through the water and then sped off towards her friend. Kianga yanked on Zuri's leaf stalk and slowly the onion pulled free of the mud.Rescue!
Zuri felt very relieved, but also felt pain in the base of its stalk. It hurt, being pulled out of the mud like that! But since it wanted out more than it wanted not-pain, it endured the pain in silence.
A large bubble emerged from the little puff's mouth and floated away.Kianga and Zuri both burst free from the water, and Kianga pushed the onion towards the muddy bank. "Yay! Zoo-ree safe!" She exclaimed, and floppled onto the ground. "Me tired now..."Zuri flooped onto the ground, and as it did so, all the water that had puffed it up slowly began to seep out of it like water from a sponge.
"Thank-you K'anga," it gurgle-chittered as it gradually began to deflate. "Zoo-ree hate water. 'Specially dirty water. And snake-erds mean," it added. "Not even say gooood mowerneengee to Zoo-ree." The little Wethkin pouted."I know! They were more nicer, but Mooshee's frend hit wun with an oar, and-"
"Kianga?! KIANGA! Where are you? I wanna go home and have a shower....Kianga?!" Mooshroom interrupted Kianga's story with her persistant calling. The wethkin blew up her cheeks.
"Kumming..." She grumbled. "Moosh prolly hit by an oar too..." She whispered to Zuri, before flying off towards her owner.
"My mum's waiting in the car, and- What on earth have you two been up to?!" She exclaimed, looking from the muddy Kianga to the sopping wet Zuri. "I guess we'd better clean you up again when we get home. Then we'd better take you to school- only Zuri, by the way. Kianga you're not coming to school with me for a long time... and we'd better give you back to Kei. I bet she's worried sick. Especially if she knew you were with this one." She pointed to Kianga, and then headed of towards the car. "You guys coming?""Nope!" Zuri said brightly, but it followed Moosh and Kianga anyway.
It left a trail of dirty water on the ground as it flew, but luckily, no one seemed to notice or wonder why a trail of water was suddenly materialising on the ground seemingly all by itself.
Then, Zuri remembered something.
Turning around, it waved its stalk frantically and cried, "Good-bye shoooooe!"
The lone shoe sat silently on the grass as it 'watched' the trio leave.Mooshroom let Zuri sit on her lap on the drive home, much to Kianga's disappointment. She tried to explain to Kianga that her Mum might be a little bit confused if the seat was magically getting wet, but Kianga didn't really care. She was just feeling left out, and so to annoy Mooshroom she pretended she was dead for the rest of the car trip. Mooshroom rolled her eyes and just ignored her puff and her increasingly wet lap until they got home.
She smuggled the puffs into the bathroom, cleaned Kianga and the complaining Zuri under the shower, dried them off and then let them stay in her room until she was ready.
"Moosh won't let me kum to school," Kianga was telling Zuri as Mooshroom came to collect the fall puff. "And I'm not gonna try to sneek. It wood be fun, but Mooshee might get more annoyed than normal...And I'm tired."
Mooshroom entered the room as if she hadn't heard anything.
"Are you ready, Zuri?""Zoo-ree want K'anga come too!" Zuri complained. "Zoo-ree not go unless K'anga come too. So, Zoo-ree not ready."
The little obstinate puff flew up high into the air where Mooshroom could not reach it.
"Zoo-ree stay."
Mooshroom felt kind of bad, as Zuri tried to pressure her into letting Kianga come. She didn't know what to say, but for once it was Kianga who saved her.
"Nu...Me don't have to kum. Zoo-ree, you go like we planned, and I'll see you soon."
Moosh smiled, extremely proud of her well behaved puff at this moment in time. She was growing up to be so sweet and selfless. Mooshroom, however, had missed the conspiratorial wink that Kianga shot to Zuri.
"Will you come now, Zuri?" Moosh said, turning back to the onion-puff.Zuri giggled silently to itself, whilst pretending to be upset.
"O-kay. Zoo-ree coming then. Bye-bye K'anga!"
Then, with a sudden burst of energy, the puff zoomed around the room once and then shot out the door.
"Zoo-ree COMES!!"
The Wethkin puff finally came to rest on top of a shoe next to the door, and waited for Moosh to arrive.
"Moosh so slow," it grumbled to itself.Mooshroom rolled her eyes at Zuri, then smiled to Kianga.
"Thanks for not being a pain." She said, then realised how rude that sounded. "Oh, I don't mean to be mean or sarcastic or anything, I was trying to compliment you. You know what I mean, don't you?"
Kianga nodded. "It's okay. Kianga wants to sleep anyway. And me is grounded." She curdled up in her flower pot. "Buh-bye."
"Thanks again. See ya when I get back, 'kay Kianga?" Mooshroom quickly left the room and went to go find her school hat...
Poor Kianga, all alone at home... She thought Maybe she would buy her some ice cream on the way home as a treat for being so well behaved?
Kianga made sure Mooshroom had left the room before quickly and quietly slipping out and into Mooshroom's bag. She hoped her owner wouldn't even suspect anything this time, or else she would be in soooo much trouble...
Mooshroom picked up her bag, headed to the door and picked up Zuri. "We'll get there a bit early today, so hopefully I'll be able to give you to Kei before class starts and you have to sit quietly till reccess in my locker doing nothing." She laughed at that- no Wethkin she had ever heard of would sit quietly doing nothing.
Mooshroom's Mum came to drive her and her sister to school, and she hopped into the front seat. Amazingly enough, it was a pretty uneventful car trip, and Mooshroom arrived at school with plenty of time to give Zuri back to her rightful owner.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:20 pm
-Insert Enya-Zuri-Kianga RP here (still in progress)-
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:29 pm
From the mind of Keilyna...
Hrm. Looks like Zuri finally noticed Endymion in Jinxeh's room. I feel sorry for poor Endymion after what Jinx told me those two Wethkin did to him... though since it seems as though he slept through it all, he probably didn't mind. I really cannot comprehend how that Talaye can sleep so much, though! But...
It wasn't my fault!!!
About the durian bubblebath, I mean. I just saw some lemon bubblebath on sale in some Chinese shop the other day, so I thought I'd buy it for Raindrop... and then I put it in Raindrop's bathroom... I suppose they just packaged it wrong? ((OOC: Or more likely, Kei just wasn't looking at the label on the bubblebath...))
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:43 pm
Make way! For the second installment of... ninja
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:34 pm
 It was all Yannay's fault...
Part 1 of an RP by Keilyna and yannay
Key: Keilyna = Dark blue, yannay = Red
The sky was growing dark and a cold chill was beginning to seep into the air. Keilyna looked around worriedly at her companion.
"Ah, Yan, I think we're lost, don't you?"
She pulled her jacket closer around her and shivered. In one of the jacket?s pockets, a certain little Wethkin called Zuri chattered unhappily.
"I'm cold. I don't like this place." Keilyna echoed her Wethkin's sentiments, but in words.
A glance upwards; the dark canopy of leaves and writhing branches above them seemed to burn with an evil-seeming glow in the light of the setting sun.
A glance downwards; the dark, moist soil of the forest?s undergrowth came into view. And...
"Mushrooms!" Keilyna exclaimed delightedly, waving and pointing one finger at the unoffending fungi. "Look, Yan! Your subjects!"
"My subjects?" Yannay asked, peering at the small red and white mushrooms popping up from the ground. "How come they're just... appearing?"
She looked at the sky. Rain was starting to fall, seeping into the ground where the mushrooms were now multiplying by the hundreds. There were not only the standard ones, but the mushrooms were a multitude of different colours.
"What the?!" Kei exclaimed. "What are you doing to the poor mushrooms, Yan?"
Then the first droplets of rain landed upon her head.
Splat. Splat. Splat.
"Oh, no!" It's starting to RAIN!" she cried, stating the obvious. "We must find shelter, Yan! Quickly!"
A frantic look around revealed no likely-seeming places. The dark forest loomed threateningly above the pair of friends...
"Zoo-ree want home!" squeaked Kei's pocket. "Not want here..."
Kei sighed. "I wish we could go home, too, Zuri, but it's all Yan's fault that we're here, isn't it?" she said, mock-glaring at Yannay. "If we'd turned right instead of left back there, we'd be back by now!"
Yannay ignored Kei's comment.
"Are you that afraid of rain?" she asked. "Really, it's not that bad."
The air was very chilly and Yannay noticed Kei was shivering. She smiled cheerfully.
"I told you to bring a jumper, but here!"
Yannay reached deep into a pocket and drew out a sleepy ball of fire. She threw the warm ball (her Wethkin?!) to Kei.
"Use it as a hand-warmer. Enya won't mind."
Without waiting for an answer, Yannay turned to the mushrooms beneath her feet.
"You know what?" she mused quietly to herself, "it looks like they're forming a path... we should probably follow it- after all, mushrooms wouldn't cause harm to their Queen."
Just then, a big, fat raindrop exploded on top of Yannay's head. Cursing, the angry girl plucked a nearby (very large) mushroom and propped it on her head like a hat-umbrella. She picked another one and threw it over to Kei.
"This is actually quite fun!" Yannay thought after her anger was over.
"Thanks!" Kei said, for once actually managing to catch the firey Wethkin without it slipping through her fingers. "Though I hope it doesn't burn me..." she added, eyeing the flickering flames in her hands warily.
Sensing the presence of a nearby fellow Wethkin, Zuri peeked cautiously out of Kei?s pocket.
"Enna!" it squeaked. "Cold," it added. "Hope rain not put Enna out."
Following Zuri's example, Kei also squeaked as the umbrella mushroom flew through the air towards her. Not wanting to drop Enya, she quickly tried to transfer the little Wethkin to one hand so she could catch the mushroom in the other.
But the girl was not fast enough.
Thud!
The unfortunate mushroom landed in the soggy undergrowth of the forest.
"...Oops.
Sorry, Yan."
Kei eyed the mushroom. Or, to be more precise, the extra coating of dirt that covered the mushroom.
"I don't like mushrooms," she announced cheerfully.
Yannay was busy watching the mushrooms, but she heard Kei's words.
"Why don't you like mushrooms?" she asked, feeling slightly annoyed. A streak of lightning flashed across the sky.
"And anyway, we had better get going. We'd better follow the mushrooms."
"The mushroom got dirty," Kei clarified. "But I like clean mushrooms. It's fun washing mushrooms, you know. You fill the sink up with water and they bob all about! But... there isn't a sink here." She looked back down at the offending mushroom. "So, I don't like mushrooms."
Kei squeaked again as the thunder rolled through the air, and the lightning ripped viciously across the fabric of sky.
"I don't like this place," she announced. "I told you we should've found some shelter. Staying in forests during thunderstorms is BAD! Isn't it, Enya?" she asked the puff now cupped in her left hand.
Yannay opened her mouth to say something, but froze as a chilling howl filled the air.
"ARGHHHH!!!!" Enya screamed, terrified, and dashed down Kei's jacket.
Her scream was echoed by Yannay who dashed around Kei, grabbing Kei's throat and nearly strangling her.
"Sorry, sor.. ry," Yannay gasped at the choking Kei.
They stood in terrified silence for a while.
"What was that?" Yannay asked, her voice small and trembling. She squinted at the dark, fierce sky. The clouds were rolling apart, and the small splatter of rain had stopped. The black sky had no stars, and a single fat, full moon loomed menacingly, emanating an ominous yellow glow.
"It's the MUSHROOM MONSTER!!" Kei screeched.
Her cry, however, abruptly subsided to a gurgle as Yannay proceeded to nearly strangle her. The girl wriggled about wildly.
"Lemme-go-lemme-go-LEMME-GO!!"
Meanwhile, Zuri shrieked in fright as its warm, dark sanctuary suddenly filled with blindingly bright flames.
"Help Zoo-ree!!" it chitter-squeaked, shooting out of Kei's pocket and burying itself in the little dent behind Kei's neck. "Zoo-ree no want burn!"
The choking Kei yelled and squirmed at this new intrusion.
"No-no-no, Zuri! It TICKLES!"
The noise startled Zuri and it fled again- this time, to Yannay.
"Yannay save Zoo-ree! Yannay Zoo-ree save-help-Zoo-ree! Z-zoo-ree s-s-scared..."
And then, there was silence.
"I don't know what that was," Kei said in answer to Yannay's question. "But I think we just gave it a fair idea of where we are... whatever it is. I think we should start moving away from this place before it finds us- and quickly. Shhhh!"
Without another word, Kei started to walk briskly away- totally ignoring the mushrooms at her feet, due to her 'affliction' of unobservant-ness. As the girl walked, she tried to ignore the suffocating darkness and the feeling of evil spreading out its black tentancles to pervade the very atmosphere of the immense forest. And as she walked, she tried to ignore the thud-thud-thud of her rapidly thumping heart...
Yannay stared at Kei, who was rapidly disappearing. Zuri was hiding in one of her pockets.
"Hey!" she called, suddenly realising that Kei was walking into a dark patch of forest. "Hey, you're going the wrong way!"
With a snatch of panic and terror, Yannay realised Kei was now a tiny speck in the distance.
"No, no, no!" she yelled wildly. "This way, this way, this way!" She pointed at the mushroom path.
But Kei was nowhere to be seen.
"Arghhh!!!! Don't leave me!" Yannay screamed and tore after Kei (hopefully), heading blindly in the direction of a dark patch of forest. She was so terrified that she didn't hear another howl, softer this time but somehow sounding nearer than the first.
Then, suddenly, Kei emerged from behind a bush. She had returned to find Yannay, wondering why her friend hadn't followed after her. After all, there could be a scary, evil monster of impending DOOM arriving at any moment, and all Yannay was doing was standing there and screaming?!
"Shhhh!" Kei hissed. "It'll hear us! I think it's coming closer... Come on!"
She grabbed Yannay's arm and dragged her along after her, further into the depths of the forest.
Another bone-chilling howl echoed eerily through the forest, sending shudders of terrified fear through the pair.
Kei's heart beat even harder and faster, as though it wanted to leap from her body, take its chances and make a dash for safety all by itself. But of course, it didn't. But it kept trying, as Kei stumbled blindly onwards.
Zuri curled up into a miserable, shaking ball of vegetable in the depths of the interior of Yannay's pocket.
More howls followed the first, clawing and tearing through the air with vicious ferocity.
And the mushrooms... the mushrooms quietly continued to multiply, as Keilyna and Yannay stumbled further and further away from their path to safety...
Yannay scrambled through the bushes, and almost died of fright as a dark figure jumped from the bushes and hissed at her.
But it was only Kei.
Or it looked like Kei.
"Are you, umm... Kei?" Yannay asked stupidly.
An eerie light glowed from under Kei's chin. A fiery ball was glaring at Yannay.
"Enya?" Yannay was uncertain.
The figure beside her grabbed Yannay and dragged her away.
Only a few minutes of terror passed, but they felt like hours to Keilyna as she dragged her friend away. She sincerely hoped that they were running away from the monster, rather than towards it. As they fled wildly through the depths of the forest, Kei yelped as she stumbled over a log. She wished that they had at least some source of light with them besides the eerie yellow glow of the unnatural-seeming moon, and it was not helped by the fact that Yannay was being uncharacteristically totally silent. Not even a whisper or a yelp from her as they tripped and stumbled their way through the forest's undergrowth.
"Are you alright, Yan?" Kei whispered as softly as she could manage. "You're not hurt, are you?"
Then a howl that seemed as though it came from just behind the pair shattered the air. With a frightened yelp, Kei dragged Yannay next to her and turned around...
Yannay was dragged by the strange girl. She was extremely confused. What was going on?
Suddenly, a howl filled the air again. This time, Yannay didn't scream but only looked nervously around. The forest was very dense and Yannay thought she saw two shadowy figures behind a large tree. She dragged the quiet Kei behind a bush and peered over the top of it. The figures came closer and closer.
Their faces suddenly emerged. Startled, Yannay took in the faces of another Yannay and Kei. It was as if she was staring into a mirror. The shock of it brought the girl to let out one great scream.
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:40 pm
Reserved for the second instalment of 'Witch in the forest'. ninja
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