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An... Odd Meeting with Roxy and Gera

There was a high pitched squealing giggling voice that belonged to a very energetic little girl who was learning to roll around on roller blades for the first time. Trin had gotten them for her after she noticed that Gera could morph wheels onto his own feet.

"FASTER GEWA FASSSSTER." She shrieked as they rolled down the sidewalk. Gera was careful to make sure she didn't run into anyone as well not go toooo fast. Despite the fact she kept demanding they do exactly that.

The metallic boy seemed to be rolling along just fine behind his sibling holding onto her hands as gently as he could manage as they moved down the street .

Dei wasn't to prone to leaving home alone these days but he was... bored. He blamed perhaps the fact that he had met a couple people when he was out and about and... he liked those people as scary as they were when he had first met them. Kay and Gera being the biggest examples of that, not to mention the other boy he'd met when he'd gotten himself lost the other night.

He peeked around the corner, looking back and forth then started forward. He had a little notebook with him that he was taking notes on, making sure that he knew where he was at all times. So long as he didn't run into that horrible cat he was pretty sure that he would be alright.

Roxy liked it all well and good that Gera was holding onto her hands but she wanted to go faster! She tried to pull her hands out of his but found he was just ...too strong for her.

"Gewa..." she whined, "Leeeegooo I can do it ba myself." she proclaimed though her big brother didn't seem to really believe her. He seemed to be thinking on it though she was still struggling to get out of his grasp.

The loud voices got his attention and he scooted forward to peek around another turn to see Gera and a girl out... skating? He blinked a couple times as he starred at them, finding this to be something rather new. He'd never expected to see him skating in such a manner he thought to himself before he ducked back, peeking at him, watched, then was quietly. A new side to Gera and something to behold he thought to himself. He found himself wondering for a moment who the girl was as he scooted back so that he wasn't in the way on the sidewalk.

"Gewa!!! LET GOOO." She cried again causing Gera to release his hold suddenly as her semi shriek nearly sounded like she was in pain. Now free she wobbled on her two little legs and toppled over. She didn't cry though she did look surprised and then worked on getting back up onto her rolly feet. Protesting when Gera helped her back up.

"Gewa...how am i saapose..to wearn if you do all da work??" she demanded her hands on her hips.

Deimos vanished from sight at the shriek finding both it and the little girl a bit on the startling side. She was... loud, both in sound and in the colors that she was wearing. He starred at her for a long while before looking over at Gera, and couldn't help but to stare at him. Now that they were closer to him he noticed that his metallic friend was looking so much different, so much bigger. He tilted his head to the side and starred, eyes a bit wide. His hair looked a little more solid, he was taller, a little shinier and kind of... sharper. He gave a shiver as his friend had taken on a slightly more dangerous look to him when he had grown.

The metallic boy only blinked at her and dropped his hands when she complained..in which she promptly fell back onto her butt. She complained a bit more but finally struggled onto her two feet and managed to NOT topple over.

"Bettah." She stated firmly as she wobbled forward. Gera kept his eyes fixed on his sibling like a good watch dog would.

Deimos watched quietly and found himself fading out once more and he felt the strangest sort of feeling building up in him though he had no real idea what it was, it was... odd. A strange feeling that stemmed from watching the metal boy playing with the girl in such a manner. He wanted Gera to look over at him, play with him... but... his eyes were locked onthe blond. It made him want to go over and cling to his friend, to take him back from his new friend but as he didn't have the bravery for that he just stood stock still, his notebook slipping from his fingers to land on the ground with a little 'thud', coming into view when it was no longer touching him.

Roxy didn't miss anything, being her age she spotted the notebook when it hit the ground. She pointed to it and nearly toppled again. "OOOO I WANTS IT." She proclaimed as she started to hurry in the direction of the notebook. Of course..Gera could of easily of gone to get it himself but instead he followed after Roxy to make sure she didn't fall and hurt herself.

"Hey!" The currently invisible Deimos squeaked as the girl that had taken his friend also just up and stole his notebook, he followed along as quickly as he could, "I need that to get home!" He didn't want to get lost again! Being lost this far from home was scary and the only way back meant having his notebook in his hands so that he could read the directions and landmarks that would get him back!

Gera blinked when Dei appeared suddenly and so did Roxy. She turned to face the new person staring at him...or was it a her? with her wide green eyes she held onto the notebook and then looked down at it and back to Dei. She gave him a large smile, "Yours?" she asked with a wobble on her legs.

Gera came up behind the pair slowing as he found that Dei had changed, bigger and more...solid? Yeah he supposed that was the right description.

"Hello Deimos." He stated.

He nodded, looking down at it, "I need it to get home." He said, looking a bit worried about the fact that he'd not been paying good enough attention and for the moment his fears of other things were forgotten in the light of the fear of getting lost again.

Roxy looked to the notebook and then back to Dei. "Play with me...have book back later." She stated with a nod of her head. "Gewa Gewa you know ?" She asked as she noticed her brother had addressed the figure though..was blatantly ignored by him. Maybe he didn't know.

He took a step back, unconsciously closer to Gera without realizing it as he found himself confronted with the girl's words, "I need it... it has my map back home." He said, feeling the shivers starting at the idea that the girl might keep his book if he didn't do what she told him to do. He gave a little whimper before turning his attention to the metallic child, "G-Gera... you have to t-tell your f-friend to give my map b-back..." He told the other boy.

Gera looked between Dei and then Roxy. She held the book possessively to her chest and he shook his head.

"Can't force....you convince Roxy..to give back." He replied with a bit of a rumble. Roxy only giggele and then moved to tug on Dei's leg.

"Name name! I Roxy! Dat!" she pointed to her brother, "is Gewa!"

"G-Gera..." Dei looked a little hurt that Gera wasn't going to even try to get the notebook back for him, he starred at his friend before he looked at the girl that was currently holding his notebook hostage. He looked at the girl who had gotten to close, tugging at his leg... and he took a quick few steps back to put room between them away from her grabby hands. He shook his head as he tried to figure out what to do... he didn't know the strange girl, wasn't sure he liked her given the situation at hand... found her scary if she was going to keep his book and make it so he wasn't able to ever get home.

The girl watched as he moved away from her and she thinking this was some sort of game gave a giggling shriek and then went to follow after Dei. "tag tag we plays?" she inquired in a rather hyper sounding voice.

Gera did know when Dei didn't like something...and so stepped in front of him to then bend over and pick Roxy up with several sounds of protest and whines as she then was sat on his shoulders. He had in the same instance plucked the book out of her small hands.

"Heeeeeeey...Roxy wanted to pway!" she whined booting the side of her brothers head with her roller skate. There was a clang...but Gera seemed on the whole unaffected.

A look of extreme relief appeared on the pink haired boy's face as he reached out to take his notebook, looking it over to make sure his directions were still in place, then gave a sighing sound as he hugged it to him, "P-Phew..." He murmured, shaking again though this time from relief as he glanced over at the pair once more. He watched the way that the girl kicked at Gera before he felt his... annoyance... yet another a new emotion well up a little. He supposed that leaving the house was good for something. He learned of new people and new feelings... though he had to admit he didn't quite care for this current emotion he was feeling. He didn't even seem to realize that it was causing another of his latent powers to flicker into existence. It was a momentary thing and only really effected one of the two he was dealing with... then it was gone again, leaving him feeling a little dizzy as he hadn't ever used that power before.

TBC...

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Dei and the Beast

Deimos was sitting on the front porch of the house, kept safely inside the screened in area while watching the way the world was moving by in front of him. He gave a bit of a yawn, still as sleepy as ever, still recovering but he was still happy, doing well. He was in a better mood as it would seem the medicine and vitamins were working to make him feel a bit better. He still had no motivation for leaving the house at the moment though he was thinking on the idea. It was intimidating, both times he went out things had gotten a little out of hand. The first time he'd gotten chased by that awful, one eyed cat and the second time he'd gotten all mixed up emotionally though he wasn't sure why. He wasn't to good with people... he was afraid of them more often then not and when he was able to meet with them, able to finally relax around them, it was because he was able to find something about them that wasn't as scary.

With Gera it was the fact that he seemed somewhat robotic in his actions and thus less scary, with Kay it was his cheerful attitude which made him impossible to find scary... aside from his skull and snake parts, and then there was Anon who would likely have scared the life out of in any other situation but he liked because the other boy had saved him. As little as he wanted to go outside he found himself wondering if he should do it none the less. Going out there was... frightening beyond belief, the people, the things, the animals, even the plants could present danger to him and to others making him tremble at just the thought but out there were potential friends... He lifted his head to look out once more when his entire body tensed up as he saw something walking up the walkway toward where he was sitting...

Though he realized he was standing now, starring wide eyed, "W-Why... why are you here!" He squeaked out as the one eyed cat approached. It got to the steps, walked up them and then hopped up to stand in the railing outside the screen watching him through its good eye. He starred, in shock and silence, as it sat down and starred at him. Then it started to make a strange sound that made Deimos tremble violently as he thought at first that the creature was growling at him... but after a long moment he suddenly seemed to realize what it was.. it wasn't growling, was it? No... it was... it was purring? He felt dazed, why would a cat that had tried to eat him want to purr at him now? Why would it be friendly now when it had chased him around not that long ago?

A thought suddenly occurred to him... what if the cat wasn't chasing him down to make a meal of him? What if... what if it just wanted him to pick it up? Carry it around? Do all the things that normal people did with pets? What if it had thought he was playing some sort of game when he'd run away from it? Deimos was suddenly drowning in guilt... he must have made the cat so sad the way that he'd run away from it like that he thought as he moved in a very slow manner toward the door to the porch, pushing it open so that the cat could come inside, "H-Here you are... you c-can come in." He told the creature and it did just that, slipping inside and walked over to hop up on the porch swing, laying down on it as though it owned it. The pinked haired boy gave a smile and walked slowly, cautiously over to sit down next to the cat and reached over to pet it ever so carefully. It responded by purring sounded, pushing up against his hand, then finally crawled into his lap before lounging there in a lazy manner.

It was frightening, but interesting, he had a friendly beast laying on him... it looked like it had been in more then one fight which made it an intimidating creature but at the same time it was... acting so happy. He couldn't help but to pet it, hug it, love it, and then fall asleep with it on the porch swing. He was still tired and the appearance of the feline had only helped to exhaust him once again, "Your a... nice kitty..." He murmured, his last words before he was out of it once again.

With Kay, Gera, and Gigan!: Part One

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It took more time then expected, the distance on a map didn't really give one a lot help with determining actual distance. It had looked really short on his map but it took him so much time going by foot. He was a bit on the exhausted time by the time he got across town to where the shop was supposed to be. Only problem being that the shop wasn't here. He tilted his head to one side, a hand coming to rest on one hip, "I don't remember it being a burger place Gigan." He told his giant of a cat.

The cat starred up at the sign that read Burger Town and gave a mewing sound. This was most certainly not the shop that his boy had been talking that was for sure, it had food not random items... the cat's tail swishing behind him and he gave a cute mewing sound and nuzzled against Deimos, tail swishing, then looked up at him with one glittering gold eye as if to say 'see how cute I am, buy me something?'

Deimos looked down at his cat for a long moment before kneeling down to gather him up in his arms and picked him up best that he could given how big he was and hugged him, "Kitties aren't allowed in there, Gigan... I suppose we could walk through the drive through and order though..." He looked thoughtful at the idea.before nodding and started forward. Going this way mean talking to some stranger but it would put him outside and safely out of reach of said strangers. He should be safe enough he thought and if not he could always let the hungry cat eat the scary people...

Xbalanque was starving. Absolutely starving. He felt like he hadn't eaten in days! Well...that wasn't entirely true. He actually had a massive breakfast, a bigger dinner, and several snacks in between. It wasn't that he hadn't eaten...it was just that he was a very active and growing boy! He needed his nutrients! Thus, he was going out for food...but there was no way he was going alone! That was way too boring! So he found someone he could drag along; Gera. He would have asked Roxy, but for whatever reason he either couldn't find her or she wasn't allowed to. That was okay with him though, Gera was still great company, even if he didn't eat! The burger place came into sight, and with it came a...rather familiar shade of pink hair. Albeit further off the ground than he remembered, but it was familiar enough. Getting that 'Curio Nearby!' vibe also helped. "Oh, hey...I know that pink hair!" He told Gera happily, pointing at the figure in the distance before calling out loudly. "DEEEEEEIMOS! HEY!"

Gera wasn't quite sure how he ended up accompanying Kay to the place that served food. Didn't he know that he didn't eat? Of course Kay did know and he was still not sure as to why he was coming. Especially since Roxy wasn't accompanying them. He was quiet on the way there listening to Kay talk he had little to say in the conversation though he did turn his head when Kay was suddenly announcing Deimos's name and then pointing to the pink hair boy.

He looked up, he waved as he was starting to understand a bit of the ...greetings of people.

"Hello Deimos." He replied after Kay in a much more...quiet manner.

Deimos gave a jump at the sound of his own name, turning quickly to look over his shoulder then sighed in relief. He thought that he'd been found by someone from his own family before he'd been able to find... wait a second! "Kay! Gera!" He turned and ran over toward them, despite his fear of running to fast as he always fears falling down on his head... he didn't want to get a scrap that got infected, didn't want to break anything, but two of the three people he was looking for were right here! He came to a sliding halt in front of them, while a part of the boy wanted to pounce them and hug them he didn't want to offend either of them... another of his fears.

There was a huffing sound from Gigan and he turned to follow after his boy, wanting his dinner but wanting more to protect his boy from strangers... and there was nobody stranger then these two if you asked him.

"Whoooa...didn't think ya had that in ya, buddy!" Kay laughed after watching Deimos run towards them. Ever friendly, the young man tugged Deimos into a hug, then stepped back. Nahual seemed okay with the close contact, as he recalled the pink haired one to be suitably afraid of him. "Oh...I thought there was something different! You grew! And still have feet, awesome." Grinning, he looked down at their feet; Deimos' sandled ones, Gera's booted ones, and his nearly constantly bare ones. Feet were still pretty cool. Kay was still very hungry, but hunger could take a side burner to seeing Deimos again. "Whattcha doin out all alone, eh?"

Gera watched as Deimos ran towards them, strange he had never envisioned the boy running before. Probably because he had never seen the boy run ever. He watched as Kay dragged Dei into a hug, and he wondered if he was suppose to do the same...but instead he only offered a hand, if Dei wanted a hug he would ask for one he guessed.

"Yes..you have grown tall.." He echoed Kay's thoughts there were times he wished he could process emotions better...be more like the two boys..but he couldn't think past the fact he was...just so very different from them.

"He is not..alone..Gigantes...is with him." Gera noted as he watched the cat come to keep up with his boy. He knelt and offered hand to the creature as he recalled that the cat didn't like him much last time.

Deimos gave a happy sound as Kay pulled him in for the hug that he had been thinking about, happily hugging him back... though he kept one eye on the hair snake, a little bit nervous around Nahual still as he didn't want to get himself chewed on by that particular part of Kay. He leaned into his friend for a moment before he drew back, giving him a smile... then looked a little confused, "I what?" He looked down at himself, noticing the sleeves of his robe did look shorter... and he was showing a bit more leg then when he'd left home... hrm. He hadn't noticed, maybe that was the dizzy spell he'd had earlier? Here he'd just thought it was something to do with being so far away from home on his own.

He looked over at Gera then took his other friend's hand, lacing their fingers together, having thought that maybe Gera wanted to hold hands with him, "Ahh... its strange, I came out trying to find the two of you." He explained, sounding excited and a little breathless over his luck in having found them both as he had.

Gigantes looked up at Gera as the hand was offered up to him, starred, sat down, and stuck his nose in the air, ignoring the metal boy. He didn't have milk this time around which meant he was out of luck when it came to making friends with the snobby cat. Strange that he could act so elitist since before Deimos had taken him in he was a stray fighting for his meals with other cats. That was then, this was now though.

"Gigantes?" Kay parroted, staring at Gera then looking around for this...Gigantes person. But there was nobody else around! Maybe he meant the cat? Blinking, he tilted his head...the cat did look like it deserved that name...big cat. "Huh...guess so...When'd you get the cat?" Now that it was pointed out, Nahual noticed it...and hissed lightly before curling up in Kay's hair. A snobbish move, but no feline was going to show him up! "You came to find us? Cool! Good timing, then! I'm starving, I wanted to get me some burgers and dragged Gera along for company." Kay explained with a grin, shaking his head. Sure he didn't really DRAG Gera, but it was damned close enough! He saw the big cat more or less snob Gera, and with a laugh he stepped closer, holding out his dark and scarred hand to try his own luck with the beast.

Gera was a bit surprised to have the cat snub him...he seemed to ...well accept him well enough last time. Though he was pretty sure it was because of the fact he was going to the store.

"Maybe...get something for Gigantes at the restaurant...they have fish there?" He inquired as he never ate out except for one time with Trin and Roxy at a Chinese buffet.

He ...had been about to pull his hand away from Deimos but found their fingers intertwined...and not wanting to be rude tried to keep his hand lax as he didn't want to accidentally crush the boy's fingers with his own and thus laid their arms down by their sides. O..kay this was new.

Gigan seemed to ignore Kay as well and only turned at mention of fish from the metal one and suddenly he was purring, once more he was Gera's friend it would appear. So long as food was involved he could share his affection with others other then Dei.. but only then.

The pink haired boy looked down at this cat before giving a shake of his head. Well, at least he was easy to figure out he thought to himself before he looked at Kay, smiling, "Really? We... ended up here because of bad directions, this was supposed to be the shop... but its not." He murmured, wondering how far off he was from here he'd been trying to get to. He seemed quite happy over having found his friends despite having gone to the wrong place, "If your going to eat I would love to eat with you guys... though Gigan can't go inside I don't think since hes a cat."

Gigantes gave an unamused sort of huffing sound at mention that cats couldn't go inside. How racist! His ears laid back and he looked displeased over the fact that he was allowed inside the restaurant but everyone else was!

"They might have fish...some places do." Kay would eat fish on occasion, but he loved beef way more. But...bad directions? Kay looked at Deimos for a moment, contemplating the way to the shop, then pointed down the street, the way they came. "Maybe you turned left instead of right?" Unless he came from a totally different direction but...well, at least he tried! The young man was well aware that he was being ignored by the cat, and at first he thought nothing of it...but once the feline looked offended, Kay laughed and knelt down more to the cat's level, ruffling the fur on it's head before scratching under its chin. "We'll eat outside then, so Mr. Kitty here doesn't get angry." He suggested happily, fearlessly touching and petting the black thing. "Fair enough?"

Gera nodded his head listening to the pair discuss the subject of eating. Really..he would just let his portion go to the cat, he didn't need food. Unless they had some form of metallic silverware he could absorb. He squeezed Dei's hand unconsciously, like he was flexing his fingers before he looked to Kay and then Dei and then back to Gigan.

"I can stay outside...with the cat. Not like I can provide much in the way of tastes and preferences..." he explained as he knew he would feel bad if he left the cat outside even for a couple of minutes. It seemed really attached to Dei.

TBC...

Reserved for Kay/Gera/Dei 3