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The three of them had gone out to pick up some clothing, it was one of those times where it should have been easy, to the store, in, find what wanted, out, and off to home. Orpheus was starting to understand though that where kids were concerned nothing was so simple as that. In fact the word 'simple' ceased to exist. The first problem of course being that the children with him lacked the normal shapes that would make cloths shopping easy. Terpsichore lacked legs in general so buying him pants, socks, and shoes were out of the question, not that he minded though as that saved him money, then there were shirts which worked just fine when Ter was calm, when he flared up though that was another story, the neckline of the shirt was a bit to tight for his hood. So after trying on a good half dozen shirts, and the snake seemed to be questioning the need for them as he didn't see the point in clothing, they were able to find tshirts that would fit so long as they were several sizes to big and Orpheus cut the neckline so that his son would fit in them even with his hood open. The other things they got him were a couple of button up shirts, they were easier to handle as Ter needed only to button them up as far as it felt comfortable. While Orpheus would have liked to have gotten all button up shirts Ter wanted the tshirts as they had pictures on them that he found amusing.

Ter did rather well with it, he stayed still and kept his hood down as he tried the stuff on, only twitching now and again when Orpheus picked out something that he didn't find to be that nice looking. He didn't want anything cute, anything dull, anything to plain. White button up shirts got the worst of his yellow eyed glares and were put back in exchange for blues or other colors.

Tossed in the cart at the end were a half dozen tshirts to be modified with a pair of scissors and three nicer, button ups of various colors.

It then came time for them to find clothing for Ligeia... who had seemed to have disapeared when the fight with Ter had begun. Orpheus set to searching the section of clothing they were in, expecting the owl child to be around. Maybe he'd gotten bored with the picking out of clothing for his younger brother and had gone off in search of his own cloths?

*****

Ligeia gave a happy screeing sound as he picked up a shirt, holding it up to his chest and then set it with the other things that he wanted, he couldn't try the shirts on as they currently were as his wings would be in. He'd found three shirts, two pair of pants, and two skirts. There were some socks that were soooo cute! Though he would have to modifie them as well. They were called 'toe socks', they were striped, and adorable. The tips of them would ahve to be removed though so that his talons didn't claw them up or ruin them.

"Ligiea?" The sound of his father's voice was quite... confused as he found his son in the girls section with a pile of clothing. He opened his mouth as if to tell him to put them back then tilted is head, watching the way that he fussed and preened in front of a mirror, as if seeing if the shirt that he picked up off of a rack would look good on him. It reminded him of something that Emer would do... he gave a sound as he realized that his son was acting like his daughter. It wasn't the first time as Ligeia had gone around one night in some of Emer's clothing... but... this was a lot different. This would involve him buying these cloths for the owl child.

"Ah! Look. Isn't it cute!" Ligeia said, oblivious to his father's confusion as he turned to show his father the blue shirt that had ribbons on the sleeves.

"Ahhh... it is... ermm..."

Ter coiled up along side his father looking over at Ligeia and flicked his tongue out, hissing.

Ligeia's dark eyes narrowed, "I didn't ask your advice! You can't even wear pants." He said, crossing his arms fluffing up.

The snake flared up some, hissing at him again shaking a hand at him. He couldn't care less about being unable to wear pants... most of the time. When Ligeia made it sound as if he were lacking though he found himself getting ticked off over it, feeling as if he had been insulted gravely by the owl. Orpheus gave a sigh laying one hand on Ter's head to keep him from lunging at his brother, "Ok, ok. Put your things in the cart ok?"

Ligeia gave a scree and his things were tossed in along with Ters', "Can I get some sandles too? I was looking at them and they have open toes so I can wear them with my feet the way they are!" He said, excited.

Orpheus nodded and the owl rushed off towards the shoe aisle, wings flapping along after him to move him along faster towards his destination, "Come on then Ter, lets follow your sister." He murmured, trailing after Ligeia.

Ter giggle-hissed at his father's words, looking into the cart. That made sense then, Ligeia was turning into a girl! Maybe it was something that birds did? Snake's shed their skin and birds turned into girls... Yes. Wait, did that mean Paxton would do the same thing? He found himself mildly disapointed in that idea. That his friend would turn into what Ligeia was...

He slithered to the cart and climbed into it, coiling up in the front of it instead of walking.

Sandles were choosen easily, a simple pair with wooden bottoms, ones that Ligeia wore comfortably. The things were checked out quickly both boys handed their bags so that they could carry them, excited over their new things. The owl more so then the snake but Ter seemed to get more excited as time went, as if his brother's feelings were infecting him.

Swimming Class with Medusa and Lucia

And This is How We Make Popcicles...

They were headed outside he knew that, though why owl child was carrying along a pitcher of koolaid with him was beyond the comprehension of Orpheus's mind. It had to be something of interested of else Ter wouldn't be following after them. He was curious about it too and there we went to figure out what they were up too. He wondered if he should go with them, figure out what it was that they were doing and if he should stop them or not... but then again it was just juice and the containers that they were carrying with them were made of plastic so... he really shouldn't worry about it should he? He sat back in his seat looking over his clip board for a moment, attempting his best to read over the notes he had for the up and coming classes... which lasted for only a few minutes before he could no longer resist the temptation that was figuring out what it was that his sons were up too. He had to know!

*****

Ter was coiled up to the side, out of the way as he'd been told to be watching a Ligeia set up the cups in front of his dragon. He had known that his brother and the dragon were up to something when he saw them gathering different dishes from the kitchen to put in a bag, knew they were up to something when they made the red juice and started to head out of the kitchen and off towards the door. After all how maybe people made juice then left with all of it without being up to something? So he'd fallen into step with them. Neither Ligeia nor his dragon had stopped him, not that he would have let them, and here they were.

Ligeia proceeded to fill each of them with koolaid to a certain line before putting a utensil in each. A fork in one, spoon in another, seven cups in total so that meant seven attempts at whatever it was that they were going to do. He then turned and motioned to Vorel to come over and get ready. The Frost Dragon instead scooted forward, lowering his head to sniff at a cup before he caught it in his teeth and tilted it back to drink the contents, staining the edges of his mouth a purple color from the red koolaid on his blue skin.

Make that six attempts at this...

"No, no Vorel! Don't drink it yet. Wait until after we are done ok? We talked about what it was that we were going to do remember?"

The dragon looked up from the empty cup to the other ones before his eyes widened a little in comprehension, nodding. Yes, yes he remembered now what it was that they were going to do! His tail started to lash in an excited manner, so much so that now Ter found himself that much more curious abotu what it was exactly that they were planning on doing. It had to be something interesting to get the dragon in such a state. He pushed up on his coils in an attempt to make himself taller so he could get a better view.

"Ok, try the first one." Ligeia said, stepping to the side so as to be out of the way. He knew that it wouldn't really affect him but just in case. The dragon drew a deep breath into his lungs and then expelled a cloud of fog over the cup. It seemed to be a bit to hard as the cup was knocked over and frozen securely to the ground by the juice that had spilled out of it, "Not to bad for a first try. Maybe this time if you hold onto the cup? It won't spill then."

Ter slithered a little bit closer so that they could see the aftermath of the dragon's breath and he gave a sound that said he was impressed. Normally he wouldn't let him or Ligeia know that he was impressed by something that they had done but this time... He clapped his hands together for Vorel. This seemed only to get the dragon that much more excited and he spat out some more of the freezing breath without doing as he as told by Ligeia. This time two cups of juice ended up frozen together. Not a bad try aside from that.

Ligeia laughed, "Didn't fall over this time but now they are stuck together. Three more tries Vorel."

The three of them, so tied up in the freezing of juice didn't notice that they had a new observer, Orpheus who was standing off to the side. He had had his arms crossed over his chest and a smile on his lips, "Having fun?"

Ligeia, Terpsichore, and Vorel all jumped before turning to look at him. The two kids smiled as Ter picked up the frozen together cups to show them off, "RED!" He cried happily.

Orpheus smiled brightly as he walked over to them, looking down at it, "Thats cool." He said, he was happier about the fact that Ter and Ligeia were getting along and playing together then the fact that Vorel could make popcicles. He took the cups from his son and looked them over. He then turend his gaze to Vorel who was licking at the frozen juice from the cup that had been spilled over.

"We learned in class that he was good with the icy breath so we wanted to try it out more." Ligeia explained but he didn't count the accident in the park since that wasn't planned. This was better, nothing got broken, it was a controled experiment, and he was quite pleased by the results, "We have three more cups to try." He told Orpheus, turning back to his dragon to ask him to try those ones out next... only to find that the juice was already gone from the, cups tipped over, "Vorel!"

"Seems like your dracling wanted the juice instead." Orpheus said, unable to hold in his laughter. It always was hard to get little ones to listen wasn't it?

"B-But..."

"You will get to try again another time. Come on, lets pick up the cups and head inside." He said, motioning to the three of them to get to picking up the mess. It didn't take them long before they were heading inside, a small patch of red ice left behind where they had been playing.

Going Through Hell Again

No... No it was that feeling again... Ter jerked up so that he was sitting up, the world around him a bit blurry. He was blind... ish. Not this again, not this horrid shedding thing... He gave an angry hissing sound as he stummbled off the bed that he was curled up on and staggered for the door. He fell against the door, opened it up and yelled out of it, "RED!" He cried out, "RED!!!"

Orpheus jolted awake from the desk that he'd fallen asleep at. He'd almost fallen over when he heard the voice yelling at him. He blinked a couple of times before he started down the hall to the bedroom door at his boy was standing in. He knelt down in front of him, "Ter?" He murmured, reaching out to lay a hand on him. The redhead flinched as the boy jumped and bit him, Orpheus gave a wince and a hiss, "Hey, hey. Its alright kiddo." He told him, reaching out to stroke his hand down his son's face, "Its just me." He wrapped his arms around his son and pushed up to his feet with the snake child in his arms. The wound throbbed but that would be fine, he had the antivenom sitting on his desk for just such an occasion. He sat Ter on the couch, picked up a vial of the antivenom and drew up the needed amount into a syringe, he checked the instructions once more before sitting it into his leg, injecting it to reverse any effects that Ter's venom might have on him.

He then returned, a little wozzy but ok, to his son's side, "Ok. Now, tell me what is wrong." He told him.

Ter lifted his hand up to poke and scratch at his face in anger and Orpheus couldn't help but laugh at the reaction, "I see, shedding again huh?" He asked of him as he wrapped an arm around him, "Thats not such a bad thing is it? Your just having a growth spurt thats all. You remember last time you shed your skin?"

His answer was a sort of dejected sound, yes he remembered it. The only good part of it had been him getting to meet up with two people while he was suffering and they'd helped him to get over it and even feel a bit happy despite the annoying, itchy process that was him shedding his skin. He gave an angry hissing sound and then coiled up half in his father's lap complaining at him in the snake language that the red head regretted not knowing.

"You just need to rest, relax, and you will get passed this just like you did last time. Maybe if you don't go rushing off this time you will be better off? No more getting lost while blind." He leaned back against the couch, shifting a bit. There was a dull ache in his arm but at least he knew that the antivenom worked. Now he just wanted to rest up a bit, "I'm gonna sleep now I am still a little exhausted, you want to just camp out here with me?" He asked.

Ter gave a hissing reply, eyes closing behind the flim of skin that was over his eyes. Maybe he was right? Maybe if he just slept through it he wouldn't have to deal with this hell?

Growth Infos



He'd been lucky enough to shed back enough of the skin that he was lossing so that he could see the work that was before him. A sheet of paper with a bunch of questions on it that he had to fill out, things about himself about his dragon that was to be born from the spiny egg he'd seen. The snake child gave a hissing sound as he filled in the info with a black pen he'd gotten off his father's desk. Then fetched some crayons so that he could then color the image at the top of the paper that was of his dragon's egg.

When he was done with it the paper was left behind on his father's desk so that he could send it away when the redhead found it.

~Reserved for Hell Ends & The Baroness~

Wyvern Dragon Class