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 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:30 pm
A woman wonders to your front door and leaves something on your doorstep. You open the door to see what it is and discover a black box wrapped with a red bow. You pick it up and bring it inside, a bit weary of what may lay inside... You open the box and see purple wrapping tissue paper, a sheet of crimson stationary laying ontop of it all. note Greetings! I seem to have made something that might be to you and your child's liking. Do not worry, nothing will explode in your face or jump out and bite you. smile Hope you enjoy your present! *PS: I made one for every child* ~Sao Kasai
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:31 pm
X thought she had heard some movement outside, so she decided to go check the mail, but before she could take a step out the door to their mailbox, X noticed two neatly wrapped gifts on the front porch. Raising an eyebrow, she bent down to scoop up the gifts and notes, forgetting entirely about the mailbox and returning inside the house.
Hearing the TV on, X didn't bother to yell for Zanna, instead she went into the living room and flopped down on the couch under Zanna, who was perched on the high back of the couch intently watching the dicovery channel...again.
"Gifts for you Zannadee." X set the smaller package on her lap and read out the note that went along with it, while Zanna tore into the gift, squealing as she found what was inside.
"It's ME!"
The same process was repeated with the larger box, though Zanna seemed more careful with opening this one, maybe since it was bigger? But the same it was followed by a squeal and an exclamation about how it looked just like her.
"Hmm... we might have to take you shopping to return gifts sometime soon, but first we have to meet more of the children..." X pondered and made mental plans as she set the two notes down on Zanna's lap, which the young girl quickly snatched up and peered curiously at it.
"Is this what you said? Teach me how to do what you did! Zanna was jealous that X could make these markings turn to spoken language, since she took X's beauty and made it better, why couldn't she do this?
X just laughed and looked at the clock. "I will teach you, just not tonight because it's bedtime..." And with that she scooped up the younger girl, presents and all, and toted them off to bed.
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:42 pm
RP prompt:
Zanna seems to be lively from dawn to dusk, and then till the moon rises. But her climbing tree urgh seems to be calming down now...
...now that she wants her very own cubby/hidey hole. You're to RP X making/buying Zanna one.
But that's not all. You're to also RP Zanna dreaming about her cubby beforehand, so you can do this over time. In the dream her cubby is low in the ground, half buried, and has beautiful tribal markings around the framework...
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:29 am
Zanna was in 'her' tree drawing as usual when she spotted something different in the yard towards the edge of the orchard and close to the back of the house. Something she had never noticed before, and so she decided she must go explore it! Making a mental note that it was by the willow tree, Zanna packed up her art supplies hastily and made her way down the tree even quicker, landing on the ground softly from her jump and taking off towards the willow.
The 'run' took half the time it should have, Zanna almost appearing in front of the strange structure that she had viewed from her tree. Zanna was in awe as she continued to look at it, soaking in the details as she run her hand along the framework, and then along the marks on her stomach.
"Like mine..."
She murmered to herself before sitting down in front of the structure, which was half in the earth and half out of the earth, like a half buried club house. Pulling out her art book and markers, she began to draw what she saw, so she could show her mum without actually showing her where it was. This was her secret, her special place; she had found it so it was hers.
Once done with the drawing, Zanna put away her art supplies once again and stood up, making her way over to the front door of the house, but when she moved to turn the doorknob and push the door open, someone called her name.
It was X. Suddenly the landscape around her became fuzzy and far away, Zanna tried to grab on but it left her anyways. She heard X's voice again and realized that she was in her bed, her covers kicked off and upon opening her eyes she noticed that it was daylight and there was a smirking X looking down at her.
"You slept late." X purred triumphantly as she disentangled the little girl from the sheets. "Let's go eat, Nathan made us breakfast." With that X hopped off of the bed and made her way into the kitchen, if Zanna wanted food she'd come and get it, no rush needed.
Zanna blinked, she was so very confused. She was there, she could feel the markings carved into the wood, and she drew it even. Why did it disappear? The young girl sighed and looked over to her backpack.
The drawing!
Bolting out of her bed, Zanna snatched up her backpack and quickly pulled her art book out, flipping through it as fast as she could till she got to the drawing she was looking for, the drawing that shouldn't be there if the dream was really a dream.
Dream Cubby by Zanna
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:16 pm
Nathan was in the kitchen stacking pancakes on various plates when X came through with a smile, she loved pancakes and was horrible at making them, so Nathan was a godsend as far as cooking went.
"She'll be down soon...No being an a** Devon or I'll steal Nathan from you."
X peered over towards the direction of the colder part of the room and gave it a warning glare before she moved over to Nathan and stood on her tip toes to give him a quick motherly kiss on the cheek, which elicited an eye roll from him. Sticking her tongue out, X took a plate of pancakes and made her way over to the kitchen table where a glass of milk was already set up at her spot, along with silverware and whatnot.
"You're a cooking godsend Nathan, and Devon... over here where I can feel you."
A teenagerish groan of dissappointment and whining came from the doorway to the kitchen, but in a few moments X felt the chill and heartbeat in the back of her mind. "Much better," she murmered softly. Nathan just smiled at the cooking compliment, glancing up at 'Mom' for a moment before returning to his pancaking.
No sooned had Devon moved his ghosty a** out of the doorway did Zanna quietly walked through it, bringing both X's attention and Nathan's eye to the young girl. Zanna approached X and her pancakes first, but quickly turned to Nathan when her mum had motioned towards the Pancake King and she noticed the pile of plates o' pancakes around him.
"Pancakes!" She hurried her butt over to Nathan, climbing up to the counter via Nathan's leg and grabbing a plate, hopping down and to the kitchen table easily while flashing the PK a grin of thanks. Zanna was still very confused as to why she still had that drawing, which she had torn out and shoved into the back of skirt, but the pile of pancakes had her hunger occupied for now. Once Zanna seated herself, she dug into her pancakes at lightning speed it seemed, earning her a strange side glance from X, who was eating just as fast, maybe even faster than the young reflection of her.
Nathan just chuckled and brought himself, two stacks of pancakes, and the milk jug over to the table, sitting himself down where Devon had situated himself with a slight shiver, the heartbeat comforting him no matter how cold he was. Besides, this way Nathan could keep an eye on Devon himself without having to actually watch him. As Nathan finally started his first pancake, Zanna had just taken a huge swig of milk after her last bite of her last pancake, sending a proud grin over to the Pancake King while ignoring X, who had finished before the young girl.
"Who are you?" Zanna chided, finally aware that she had never met this man before and he was living in her mum and dad's house, sure she had seen him occasionally, but never really talked to him.
Nathan moved to speak, but X beat him to it.
"That's Nathan, he's your big brother." She stated simply, snatching the second stack of pancakes from the 'brother' with an innocent grin and a look that said 'it's good for you.'
His eyes went wide as he tried to compute what X had just called him, along with the situation that put him in. He and Devon had a family.... a real family, and he was a part of it! Nathan didn't know whether to be happy or depressed, but he chose the former with X's smile and the look that she was giving him, so he beamed before returning his eye to Zanna.
"Yep, I'm one of your brothers, just like Slush."
Zanna grinned happily, she liked Slush, but she missed him being gone all these days, even though X had told her he was on 'vacation'. She liked Slush so if Slush was her brother, then Zanna decided that she'd like Nathan because he was her brother as well, and because he was the Pancake King.
"Nice to meet you Pancake King."
The Pancake King was still adjusting to the fact that he now had a permanent family, an apparently new nickname, and the fact that they accepted him and Devon, who's hearbeat had quickened at the mention of them being brothers. He too was happy to have a family, even if he was dead, X didn't treat him as such.
Zanna smiled and turned her attention towards X, who was relishing inwardly over her victory in making Nathan smile and Devon behave, not noticing Zanna's movements till the little girl spoke up.
"Mum...?" She started off cautiously, how was she supposed to tell her mum that she just had a dream where she drew something that wasn't there, and then found the drawing in her bag that was across the room. It freaked her out, but she really wanted that little house that seemed to be built just for her, and she wanted it so bad that she decided to ask her mum for it. Pulling out the picture from her skirt, she layed it on the table and pushed it to X. "Can I have a house like this by the willow?"
The vampire took the picture and peered at it, getting only a vague idea of what the 'playhouse' should look like, but she smiled and nodded anyways.
"I think we can work on it, I'll talk to some people and get a sketch drawn up, so we can get to building it."
X had the urge to dote upon her 'daughter' so she damn well was going to do it, even when she had no clue how to build anything. Taking the drawing into her pocket, she gave Zanna a grin before leaning back in her chair and speaking again.
"I'm not much of a builder, but I promise I'll get the family and some friends to help with it. We could even make it a party, what do you say?"
Zanna grinned and nodded, happy that X didn't ask about where she had gotten this strange idea from and that she was getting a party out of it as well. Her mum seemed too excited now for that thought to even cross her mind, since she was already chattering with Nathan, who was leaning back in his chair with an amused look, about party plans and what not.
"Thanks Mum."
Before she could be pulled into the planning, Zanna hopped off of her seat and made her way outside for the day, her dream still ladened in her mind.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:03 pm
A semi-loud thud was heard from the living room, perking Zanna's curiousity from her seat with Nathan, who had graciously agreed to help Zanna with her reading and writing, in her room, and seconds after the thud the young girl was up and out of the room and heading towards the living room. Nathan just let a smile tug at the corner of his mouth as he too stood up and followed her, though not at the same excited pace, since he was pretty sure what it was since X had been shifting funds around recently for a 'big purchace.'
His eyebrow raised curiously when the settled on the Halloween styled and very ornate pot, which appeared to have a strange liquid in it, and in shifting his eye upwards, he came across a beaming X with her hands on her hips. At least she seems to be happy with the pot of orange goop, and if she was happy, then so was he, besides it wasn't his money she spent.
"You're an interesting woman..."
Shaking his head, Nathan turned to look for who he had originally be following, while X just stuck her tongue out in an intentionally obvious childish gesture.
"You'll see... wait a week or so..."
Scoffing, X gave Zanna, who had apparently found herself something to occupy herself, a light smile, and then Nathan a cheeky grin before she left the living room, leaving poor Nathan with a pot of 'goop' and a Zanna who seemed to have a fox like creature crawling all over her. Okay, so nothing to serious, Nathan smiled and turned to sit down when something clicked, Zanna was being mauled by an unidentified fox like thing! Snapping himself around, he was about to snatch the fuzzmauling thing off of Zanna when he heard her giggling, and then noticed that the fox was not mauling her, but playing with her.
"Can't anyone be normal in this house?!"
This coming from a man who sewed his own eye shut and has a crush on his agent, not to mention is the Pancake King and responds to that name as much as his own. Too bad X wasn't there to make fun of him, that would have been the cherry on the top. Blinking for a moment, Nathan looked back and forth between the pot and the girl being attacked by the kitsu, which was now squealing in delight, before shaking his head and exiting the same way X did. Might as well bloody cook dinner.
Meanwhile Zanna had discovered Mikazuki, or Zuki for short, a kit kitsu that X had won a while back as an egg, and now finally hatched it was a beautiful, energetic kitsu, who apparently was quite fond of Zanna now. And once they had finished their rambunctious meeting, Zanna finally stopped giggling and scooped up the kit, standing up before walking to the couch and plopping down on it, kit in lap. There Zuki curled up in Zanna's lap, and fell asleep knawing on the ties on the young simu's skirt, and not moments later was the Discovery channel on and occupying Zanna's attention. Ironically, there was a show about foxes currently on, and the young girl sat transfixed for its entirety. X had just found herself a new babysitter.
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:13 pm
Engagement RP
Zanna had heard the yelling the day before, but thought nothing of it since she had been exploring the bowels of X's house and was a pretty hard sleeper, Zanna only found out the gist of what had happened the next day. When Slush told her the news she immediately grinned and clambored onto him in a scaling sort of hug, and then she oogled the ring for a bit before tearing after Nathan for some of his pancakes, which she had missed from sleeping in.
X found it all very amusing, once the two SMs had patched things up, thanks to Nathan, Devon, and her, but then again, pancakes always seemed to do the trick.
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:38 pm
After pretty much giving up on the carpentry/building aspect of the 'cubby' that Zanna seemed to want, X decided to call and hire men to do the job, while still having a little get together if possible. She was stressed beyond belief, with halloween coming up Zanna has yet to pick out a costume, and she had been stuck dealing with party plans on top of the other excitement that had happened. Slush and Isto's engagement was a surprise considering what Isto had come over to tell the younger SM.
"Why is my life such a ******** roller coaster?"
X spoke outloud, to noone in particular even though Nathan (and she assumed Devon as well) were in the living room with her, watching some movie that she didn't care to pay attention to at the moment. Hearing Nathan chuckle, X finally brought her eyes up to his, an irritated look playing across her features. Nathan caught her glance and raised an eyebrow before he spoke.
"Maybe you should stop adopting...kids.."
Nathan's eyes trailed down to her lap, where her newest addition was curled up happily on her lap, Mikazuki, a kit kitsu who X had recently adopted. Glaring at him, X ran her fingers throuh Zuki's fur, eliciting a soft purr from the animal.
"Oh she's adorable and you know it."
The one-eyed man was about to make another statement when Zanna bounded into the living room with a grin on her face, and this is when X remembered that she had promised that the two of them would deliver invitations to everyone today.
"You ready to go Zannadee?"
X grunted softly as she stood up and smiled at Zanna, Zuki waking up with the movement and immediately climbing onto X's shoulder, intent on coming along. The cresent kitsu nuzzled X's neck before it plopped down and got comfortable for the ride, and with a chuckle, X walked past the nodding and positively beaming little girl and picked up the bag of invites by the door.
"Let's go slowpoke."
At the mention of her being slow, Zanna tore off after X, darting out through the doorway and hopping into the passenger seat of the car, which she adored riding in for some reason, making sure her seat belt was fastened before giving her mum a smug look.
"Who's the slowpoke now?"
The young vampire just shook her head and made her way into the driver's seat, buckling up before transfering the kit to Zanna's lap and placing the bag of invites at Zanna's feet. Starting the car and backing out of the driveway, X cheerfully asked Zanna, who was busy playing with an overexcited Zuki, a question.
"So who's first on the list...?"
Zuki just squealed and rolled on top of the paper in Zanna's lap, grinning over at X when she looked down at her two girls. This is going to be a long day.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:04 pm
Building Part 1
Sometimes things were simple, other times not, but right about now things were very amusing to X and very frustrating to Zanna. While X was laughing and leaning into Nathan for support, Zanna was screaming at big burly (not to mention hairy) men with heavy machinary. It was so funny, that Nathan was even laughing heartily, having a hard time supporting himself, much less him and X, in the meantime. Both of their eyes were glued to the skantily, and brightly, clad child whom was waving one arm angrily at a man she had so kindly named 'DirtyNoseHair' while the other hand was planched onto her hip, her fingers twitching every so often.
It was then that X whispered to Nathan between laughs, "I'd go get popcorn, but then I may miss something good!"
Nathan just nodded jerkily through his laughing, his one eye not moving from the girl in charge as he added his two cents in.
"Like mother, like daughter..."
X was too busy with her newfound entertainment to care about Nathan's remark, and she positively snorted with laughter when thus dubbed 'UglyBelly' suddenly stopped working to take a rest, sending Zanna into yet another screaming rage.
"God damnit UglyBelly! I don't have time to pay for you to sit on your lard a** and sweat! Get back to work before I make you cry for your momma..."
The simu's dark obsidian eyes burned holes into 'UglyBelly' until he obediently stood up and hurried back to work with a hastily muttered 'Yes miss'. It was thought that Zanna would smile now, smug in her control of the situation, but instead, she just turned to the nearest burly man, poor unlucky 'ToiletSeatHair', and apparently scared him as well.
The two on the sidelines were very surprised that these men, some two, even three times (some even more) the size of this little girl were taking orders with such fear and obedience. However, Zanna seemed to have about her a commanding aura when angry, her sweet, 'innocent' appearance changing to one of a person in power, strong and able to face anything if needed. Either that or the men were all just giant babies with no sense of testosterone in any of their organs, much less the more important ones. X was not only amazed and amused, but proud of Zanna, that at this age she already seemed to be able to whip men to her will with a flick of a finger, and she made a mental note for when Zanna was a teen to not let her work too much of her magic.
Meanwhile, X's daughter was very much enjoying the situation, her angry obsidian eyes glinting with amusement, and X was sure if there was a whip available that Zanna would be wielding it and slave driving the men in a most literal fashion.
It was decided in Zanna's mind that fat, overly hairy men were worthless and disgusting creatures and she was glad that Monkey wasn't of such looks. Zanna was about to smile at the progress, the underground portion, her catacombs, having been finally dug out to her specifications, so her slaves were now able to move onto the next step: foundation, insulation, and whatnot, but then she noticed the disappearance of 'BeardedBrow', the 'main' contractor. She gave of a snarl, her fangs suddenly visable, and after giving her next orders, plus an ungodsly consequence if they were not to complete their tasks, before she set off to find 'BeardedBrow.'
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:23 pm
Building Part 2
The day had already barely begun and X was already having one of the best days of her life, and the best part of it was, all the men were fearful of her as well, as they should be, all because she looked too much like a grown version of the she-demon little girl that puppeteered them. Yep, X was currently in a smaller community of heaven, and at around midday the project was going quite well, 'BeardedBrow' had been found just minutes after Zanna had stalked off after him, and the above ground portion of Zanna's 'secret place' had just been started, accompanied by a few sweetly barked orders.
Nathan had gone inside hours ago, enjoying the 'music' that Zanna was creating while he cooked the family dinner, and by the time he was midway through there was a silence, and worried that the young girl had killed off all of the so kindly named workers, Nathan cautiously peered out of the nearest window. Apparently one of the workers, whom he hadn't caught the Zanna name of yet, had stupidly snuck off and took a nap, and Zanna had just found him.
The girl stood over him, quiet but obviously fuming quite angrily, seemingly waiting for the right moment before...
"I don't pay for you to nap..."
Zanna's low growl was accompanied by her grabbing his grungy looking pony tail, and yanking hard, so hard that he started to move in the direction which she dragged him, causing pained and unhappy screams from the worker. This reminded Nathan to never cross Zanna, especially when she grows up. Shaking his head, he quietly returned to cooking, his music now restored as well as the sound of men actually working.
X however had remained outside, lounging in the grass with Ziven, who had taken a liking to the two violent girls in the family and was currently curled up in X's lap, basking in the sun and watching Zanna with a catgrin on his face. The Stymph's 'lounge chair' also watched Zanna, but she was watching to make sure the girl didn't kill anyone and that none of the men went after her, highly doubtful. Mostly X just enjoyed watching Zanna make these men into pools of very pliable manwork.
"Quit your ******** bitching! The faster you bloody finish, the faster you get your filthy, scum ridden asses out of here, and the faster you get paid... Now ******** put a move on it..."
Though the voice seemed scarily calm, Zanna's eyes flamed black still, twitching to and from every one of the workers' eyes, making sure they heard her before shooing them off angrily.
"Your daughter... and sadly my sister, are scaring the hell out of me..."
Slush's voice came from above and behind her, and all X did was grin happily in a proud motherly way before patting the ground behind her head.
"She's increasing productivity... now pillow..."
The SM sighed and raised his eyebrow, but chuckled all the same, plopping down behind her so that X could lay her head against his legs, which she did almost immediately. Noticing Ziven on X's lap he grinned, moved his tail so that the tip of it bopped the cat like creature on the head, and then quickly moved it away and acted like nothing had happened.
Ziven suddenly sat up, eyes wide and ears back as he jumped around to find the offender of the sudden attack, and his eyes fell on Slush causing an immediate hiss and pounce to ensue. Grinning and chuckling, Slush flicked his tail at Ziven, keeping it out of reach for the most part and teasing the little pumpkin colored fluffball as much as he could.
"Hmm... maybe she should plan the wedding..."
Thwap. X's arm moved back and whacked Slush in the stomach, a satisfactory smile emerging at the sound it made when it hit him.
"Nope, you're doing this yourselves... lazy ********..." Slush murmered to himself, both from the hit and the fact that his attempt at getting out of work had failed.
The two of them, Ziven still interested in Slush's tail, returned their attention back to Zanna when they heard another one of her angry, growling statements of 'encouragement'.
"Five bucks says UglyBelly cries in the next five minutes.."
X grinned evilly and peered upwards to Slush, who nodded in agreement with a grin to match his mother's.
"You're on..."
Needless to say in the next five minutes, X was five bucks richer and about ten times more entertained than before. Zanna also seemed to be very proud in her recent accomplishment, for she turned to X and gave her a wide, gloating smile before turning to UglyBelly and preceeding to keep the waterworks flowing.
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:09 pm
Building Part 3
By the time dinner was actually ready, Zanna had dismissed all but the hired artisan, who was now working diligantly, yet with a sense of unease, on the tribal carvings, using Zanna's 'tattoos' as reference. At least this one knew what he was doing, either that or he had seen the ongoings of today and was not about to rile up this little, very scary, girl again. Yep, that would be a BAD idea on his part.
Nathan was still inside, and was about to tell Zanna and X about dinner when the phone rang, and since everyone else was busy or outside, he picked it up. It was for X, urgent call, about several children whose homes had been destroyed and that needed a home, needed to be adopted. The girl, Lena, had heard about X through Through the Looking Glass, having bought an artifact of her own there not too long ago. All of this was explained to Nathan, along with directions to her 'shop', which he wrote down and then thanked the woman before heading outside paper in hand.
"Oy X, just got a rather important call... about an abandoned child..."
He called out to the woman as he walked over, handing her the slip of paper once he reached her, which she quickly scanned, and after giving Zanna a quick look, she stood up.
"Make sure she eats and he gets paid..."
Turning her head up to him, X nodded in thanks and hurried to the car after she gave him some last directions, and in no time the car had pulled out of the driveway and was careening towards said shop.
Zanna didn't notice X leaving, because she was admiring the work of the nervous artisan, and after giving him a few praising words, she looked up and noticed that Nathan was there. Giving him a wave and a beckon, the young Simulacra turned her attention back to the man in front of her. Unlike the others, this man was lanky and older looking, his white hair whispy and messy, but his eyes looked very young. Maybe Zanna wasn't yelling because he wasn't fat and lazy? Probably.
"Zanna...dinner's ready whenever you want it, X told me you have to eat though...because--"
He was cut off by the young girl's stubborn voice, making a motion to the man working near her.
"He's almost done, don't worry I'ma eat... This guy isn't lazy like the rest of the fat ones.... thank gods."
The man was thankful that she wasn't...like she was earlier, but her presence made him very uneasy, and thus he worked harder to make everything perfect, missing the smirk this brought to Zanna's lips when she noticed this.
The Boiz nodded and then shook his head as he turned and headed back inside, finding the food to feed Ziven and Zuki before he actually dug into his.
About an hour later, the sun was beginning to fall and Zanna was still outside, but now she was actually marvelling at the markings on the framework. They matched her markings perfectly, in color, shape, and pattern, so she excitedly paid the man with the money X had given her, tore inside and grabbed her dinner, and not moments later was she inside her new 'house' eating her dinner sitting on the floor.
This place needs furniture, but other than that, Zanna was perfectly satisified, along with being absolutely confident in her 'power' to control men. Without me, this would have all fallen apart... she thought to herself smugly before returning thoughts to her food. Mmm... Nathanfood always seemed to hit the spot.
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:39 am
Zanna's Journal nathan said i shod try and write more, says im good at it for my age. im smarte. i showeed the icky men today to. i made them build my dream right. they stink. mum didnt eat dinner with us today, but she came hom with a kid later tonite. made me curious, but the girl is sleepin rite now and mum looks tired. maybe tomorow? ya whem i sleep. night paper.
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:23 am
X's journal Sometimes I wonder about those two, Slush and Isto, but today I'm just proud and touched. Moo, my official sister-in-law now, is going to be quite pissed when she finds out about this. They probably won't be coming out of Slush's room for a while though, maybe just for food and bathroom usage. Speaking of not sleeping, Aka, the young girl I adopted recently is apparently a deep sleeper until she's woken up by nightmares. I feel that it's my job to stay and comfort her when she wakes up, which she always does. It's a good thing I'm used to not sleeping much as it is so that it doesn't make me weaker. Nathan's a big help though, with the food and taking care of me and what not. Lately he's been a bit absent minded, spends a lot of time cooking and writing, as well as fingering gods knows what in his pocket. Maybe it has something to do with sire and the other night at Fa'e Headquarters. Best not ask him about it. Zanna's fort-thing went well, it's beautiful and now she spends almost all of her time in it, though I dragged her inside when it started to snow the other day. I don't quite trust her with firewood yet, maybe when she's a teen. It's strange how she puppeted the men that I had hired to help, but it was quite amusing actually, to the point where we, Slush and I, watched it for the most part of the day. That girl does seem to have a strange way with men, but that's probably cause she takes after me... I think. Well till later, I think Aka's awake again. -X
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:49 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:52 pm
Zanna at Fa'e HQ A purple and black haired girl of around six poked her head in, her deep purple eyes scanning the room before she walked in. If anyone hadn't known better, they would've thought it was a younger version of X, since they looked nearly identical. The girl even had the necklace shaped scar around her neck, one of X's 'tell tale' marks, as if she was hard to identify without it.
Finally, the young girl scurried in, an oversized coat wrapped around her, concealing her markings as well.
Fighting was also heard outside, but no one else entered HQ quite yet.
Solo looked up as the door opened. When what came through was... Uhm... No, it wasn't X, but. Wait? He stood for a moment, thoroughly confused. As he stood, Qlon hovered up from around the fa'e's feet and went to examine this new person that held Solo's interest.
Humming happily, Aylee sauntered back into the main area, a bag of sugar cookies in her hand. It was amazing what you could find when you looked! She spotted the girl as well, but passed it off as some freak occurance of nature that must have happened to X. Her mind focused instead on the shouting voices that were coming from outside.
Well, she'd wait for them to come in. She doubted she could break up their fighting anyway.
Zanna noticed the boy staring at her, and what a bright boy that was, the amount of orange on that kid was frightening. Oh well, at least it isn't that god aweful pink color...
The young girl thought to herself as she walked over to the orange boy, noticing now that he had fox ears and... two tails. The simulacra's eyes raised in delight, oh how she loved animals and she secretly wondered if he should be on the discovery channel.
A smirk played on the girl's lips as she stood over Solo by the fire, now warm enough to rid herself of this jacket, revealing her intricate top and wrap around skirt. Her tribal markings on her left arm, stomach, and right ankle were also seen.
"Who are you? And why were you staring at me?"
Still blunt as ever.
Solo blinked at the girl. Well she was certainly not X. X wouldn't talk to him like that, she probably would have asked him to dance. He blushed slightly at the thought, then shook his head, "I'm Solo. Sorry, you just looked a lot like... Well... just someone I know..."
Qlon huffed slightly at being ignored, then spun around to follow the purple haired girl. She was now talking to Solo. Unfortunately he didn't understand them too well, so he spent his time hovering in circles around the girl, collecting data on her.
Aylee munched happily away on her cookies, half watching Solo and the mini-X, half listening to the yelling outside. She never remembered X having markings like that, or wearing clothes like that either. Meh, didn't matter much anyway. Down to five or so cookies (Yes, she had gone through about a dozen in five minutes), she stood and moved towards the door. She wanted to see exactly what the yelling was about (though she already had a vague idea).
Nathan stalked in right as Aylee was moving towards the door, nearly hitting the sugared girl with the door as he came in, obviously followed by Devon due to Nathan's irritation.
"Leave me alone about it for a while... PLEASE! Noone's stealing me away from you so just shut the ******** up!"
The man growled and scanned the room for Zanna, so intent on finding her that he didn't notice Sire sitting on the couch.
Zanna grinned deviously at his comment. So he thinks I look like X hmm... should be fun... The grin widened more as she thought of things she could do to this boy, she was sure he could amuse her.
"I'm Zanna... and you're quite a cute fox, why do you have two tails hmm...?"
She raised an eyebrow before laying the coat down and sitting carefully down on it, not trusting the cold floor. When she spoke to him, Solo would feel a bit uneasy around her, maybe even a bit interested. Zanna had noticed that she could catch the attention of any male she wanted, though currently it would only extend to those around her age. Maybe she'd get better at it when she grew into a teen?
Solo blinked awkwardly at the girl, "Er. Yeah. You do. Uhm..." He shook his head to try to pull himself together. It was odd. Normally he would have gotten angry at being called cute. Stupid women. He tossed himself back down onto his beanbag and stared confusedly at her. This girl was unnerving. Finally he remembered her asking a question and said, "Uhm... I don't know. I just do." That was probably the lamest thing he'd ever said.
Qlon hummed angrily now. This girl was just ignoring it! It wasn't just a hunk of machinery, y'know! Whirring unhappily, it tilted itself up onto its side and moved itself in front of the girl's face, obstructing her view of Solo. It wanted attention, dangit!
Aylee yelped as she almost got whacked with the door. She pulled herself back a little, yet somehow managed to slip and fall... Right through Devon, no less. She hit the floor with a painful thump, "Itai yo..." At least she had been right about what they were fighting about... right?
"Adorable still..." She was most definately enjoying the squirming that Solo was doing, and the stammering. Exceelllent.
Zanna was about to reach out and pet the closest tail when some sort of mechanical, wizzing metal wheel-thing. Growling somewhat, Zanna grabbed the cog out of the air with one hand and moved it to the side, peering at it inquisitively.
"What in the blazes are you?"
Devon's ear perked when he heard the thump along with the familiar voice, though it didn't speak english. Whirling around, he saw Aylee and moved to help her up, but forgot that he couldn't help her if he tried.
"You okay Aylee...? Sorry for the chill..."
Nathan just stalked over to a beanbag by Zanna, plopping down on it and sighing softly, closing his eyes in thought.
Solo shrugged, it didn't matter much to him. But... Fetus? He blinked at Nathan and arched an eyebrow, "What do you mean fetus? And don't give me a definition, I know what one is. But..." The kitsune fa'e shook his head, trying to get the concept into his mind. He pulled his tail away from Zanna without even thinking, and twisted it together with his other one.
Qlon hummed happily at being pet. Finally it spotted Nathan and pulled itself out of Zanna's grasp. Who was this new person? It hovered on the floor near Nathan's beanbag, trying to get as much data on the man as it could.
Aylee blinked at the ghost, "Eh? Oh!" She looked down at the bag of sugar cookies in her hand and opened it. Looking inside, she made a whining noise and said, "My cookies got squished!" After a moment she shook her head. She was sounding too much like a hyperactive idiot! She really did need to calm down.
Devon just gave her a strange look, before smiling out of habit.
"No more sugar."
Zanna glared at Solo when he took his tail away from her, and now that her other hand was free, she dove forward and tackled him, perching herself on top of him.
"Tails please..."
She held her hand out impatiently while pinning him down with the other and her bodyweight, and she was pretty strong for a six year old. Under her gaze would be extremely unnerving, and Solo's nerves may come back again, maybe even causing him to feel compelled to do what she said. Zanna was liking this so called 'power' of hers, maybe she could make this one cry like the workers?
Nah, this one was absolutely too cute to do anything like that to.
Nathan just eyed the whirling thing before answering Solo's question.
"Yep, she got a saber toothed tiger fetus yesterday in a test tube, bout went crazy too..."
Aylee pouted, "But sugary things taste good..." Okay, so they tasted a little TOO good. Solo had been complaining recently that everything she cooked had SOME sort of sugar in it. And it was true, now that the christmas season was approaching, she was making everything with sugar. And putting herself in a permanently hyper mood in the process!
Solo yelped as he was tackled and forced back on the beanbag, "Yaah!" That was it. Females were by far completely and utterly insane. He needed more male friends. For being so small, the girl was strong. Okay, so he was also just very weak. But what the hell! He twisted under her weight, then out of desperation untwisted his tails for her. Stupid stupid females.
Qlon tilted itself onto it's side and stared up at Nathan as best a cog could. It made some whirring noises, then hovered up a few more inches in the air, just... staring at him.
Zanna grinned sweetly and hugged his tails, they reminded her of Mikazuki, who was currently gaurding Aka with Slush, he had more than one tail and she always loved to snuggle into them. Her expression changed and she murred happily, petting and hugging the tail. It was then that Zanna realized how she actually missed X, so she snuggled into Solo's tails for comfort.
What a weird kid Zanna was.
"If I can't have sugar, you can't..."
Devon stuck out his tongue before putting his hands on his hips and mockglaring.
Becoming lazy again, Nathan closed his eyes and ignored the whirring cog, not really giving a ******** at the moment.
Zanna was still hugging Solo's tail before she quietly admitted something, not meaning for him to hear her.
"I guess I miss mum..."
Aylee narrowed her eyes, "Oh I can't can I?" She took a piece of cookie out of the bad and bit it. "Mah!" Okay, she shouldn't be taunting him, but he was a ghost! Couldn't hurt her, right? Besides, he was too cute not to taunt.
Solo yelped when Zanna grabbed onto his tails. What was WITH this girl? He pulled himself as far away from her without making her let go of his tails. Geez, he needed to get away from these people... Talk to some actual Fa'e for once! Hopefully they would be a little more sane...
Qlon studied Nathan from a moment, then made a loud mechanical humming noise. It rolled around him in the air, trying to attract his attention.
The moment she saw Solo back away, she snapped out of her trance right quick, grabbed his nearest ankle and dragged him back to her. Zanna gave him a glare for a while before her look softened and she let him go. What was with her tonight?
"Go if you want..."
Her tone was sad, and she brought her knees to her chest, hugging her arms around them while resting her chin on her knees and staring off into space.
Nathan heard her, but ignored the mechanical whirling thing, it was annoying him, and as he opened his eye he shot it a glare before gazing at Solo.
"X left today... and as much as she'd hate to admit it... she probably misses her mum... Don't be so hard on her..."
He gave a good glare to Solo with his good eye before shooing away the cog and closing it again.
Devon on the other hand made an 'oh really' sound and then became entirely invisible to Aylee before zipping off to the other side of the room. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Aylee pouted miserably. "Meanie," She said, to thin air. Wait. No. She shook herself again. Who would be impressed by her acting like a child? ...Then again, why was she trying to impress a ghost in the first place? Sighing a bit dejectedly, she moved off to the kitchen to put the cookies in the trash... It wasn't like she could see Devon anymore, anyway.
Solo rolled his eyes. He hadn't thought he was being hard on her in the first place! God, he really needed new friends. With a sigh he turned and faced Zanna. She really did look a lot like X... He stared at her for a moment, then said, "I'm not going to leave, I just... Don't really like people touching my tails..." He shrugged.
Qlon pouted after being shooed away, and decided to examine the other areas of the room. It had already gotten it's data on Nathan and Zanna... Was there anyone else it could play with?
Devon watched as Aylee dumped the rest of the cookies in the trash. Score, he wins. This resulted in a happy little victory 'float' around the room, bringing cold air to all.
Zanna continued to stare at the wall, she was walling up like X usually did when she was hurt, but she finally decided to respond.
"But they're beautiful, very soft and shiny coat... It's ...ah nevermind..." She sighed and trailed off since she was about to go into some Discovery channel mumbo jumbo, but then decided not to.
Score, the metal buzzing thing is gone, Nathan grinned and returned to watching the two kids on the floor near him, reaching down and lightly running his fingers through Zanna's hair in comfort. The motion didn't go unappreciated.
Aylee sighed and leaned on the counter after placing the cookies in the bin. Why was she feeling depressed now? Meh, it would pass. It usually did, though some times it took a few days. She moved towards the fridge and looked through it's contents. Seeing nothing she wanted, however, she shut the door and went back to sulking...
Solo stared at the girl. He really didn't care about the shiny aspect of it, it just plain felt weird when people touched them. He twisted them back together and placed them around his waist. Watching Zanna he said, "I don't really understand why you're depressed. You have a lot of other people who live with you... Personally I'd be extremely relieved if my guardian went on vacation."
Qlon scooted around near the ground. He spotted two girls as well as a wolf boy. Or man. Whatever. The cog whirred over towards then and sat a few feet away, just watching them, wondering what they were doing.
"Slush and Isto both like it... so I just thought... Wait? Why the hell am I explaining myself?" She heard his statement about wanting his gaurdian to leave and sighed, "That's not the same though... it's different for a 'mother' to leave than for a gaurdian too... Even though mum and I aren't exactly blood related...."
Zanna shifted her eyes over to Solo, looking at him for a bit before speaking yet again, seems she took on X's rambling trait as well.
"You don't like people do you...?"
Nathan just stayed watching the two, ready to wail in incase something happened.
Devon on the other hand felt bad the minute he saw Aylee sulking, and then made himself visible again floating over to and close to her.
"You don't mind the cold...?"
Solo blinked at her, then looked up at the ceiling for a moment, "Nah. It's not that different... I mean, in a way, Aylee IS my mother. She's the one who raised me from when I was little. I wasn't actually born, just... created..." He shrugged and looked back at the girl, "Anyway, I call her my guardian because it's factually correct..." He stared around the room, then answered her question, "Not really. People tend to be too excitable. I prefer books..."
Qlon scooted closer towards the two people. It wanted to know who the giant wolf man was. It couldn't understand most of what they were saying, but it could watch their actions...
Aylee looked at Devon and smiled slightly, "Nope, not at all." She was just glad she could see him again. She shrugged and watched him, "Why should it bother me? My body tends to be various degrees colder than most peoples, anyway..." She trailed off. For some reason she wasn't up to speaking much at the moment.
"Ah I see... but it can't be, since you want to get rid of her it seems... And hey! What's wrong with a little excitement?"
Zanna raised her eyebrow and smirked slightly, her mood somehow lightened a bit at the idea of dragging Solo into mischief. When he looked at her, she made sure to wiggle her eyebrows at him, chucking to herself.
"You're one of few..."
Devon grinned and moved to give Aylee a hug, his arms raising a bit before he remembered painfully that he couldn't hug her, that he wasn't alive.
"I wish it were still Halloween day..."
Solo stared at the girl, then shook his head, "No, she is it's just... Ugh..." He buried his face in his hands, "Have there ever been a time when you've been in a public place with X and she's done something extremely embarrassing?" The kitsune boy shuddered slightly, "Well it's like that EVERY DAY with Aylee. EVERYTHING she does is an embarrassment..."
Aylee blinked at Devon, "Halloween? Why?" She shrugged slightly, "I actually was a zombie for halloween, but..." She didn't see how halloween had anything to do with anything, really...
"Well on Halloween... I woke up alive, only lasted the day though..."
Devon, though the topic was sad, managed a smile, and a light chuckle at the zombie comment, remembering X attempting to tear the house apart looking for people to feed on. Taking out some of Moo's smaller pets while she was at it.
Zanna thought for a moment, not really able to think of anything embarassing that X had done. Maybe it was because they were so alike that she did nothing, but Zanna decided there was another reason.
"Nope... Mum is uber cool... We pull pranks on people, mostly Slush and Isto..." An evil grin slipped across her features, and for a moment she really did make a scary mini X, eyes sparking black and everything.
Nathan was now snoring lightly with his head tilted back on the bean bag, some babysitter he was.
Aylee watched Devon in silence for a moment, then finally spoke, "Wish I had been there that day," She gave him a small smile, "It must have been a fun day for you." She noticed the sadness in his eyes, then decided she would definitely have to make him something for Christmas...
Solo stared at the girl. She thought that was FUN? Well, in any case it was better than what Aylee did. His guardian was hyper off sugar half the time, and the other half she was playing tricks on HIM... Meh. Or creating homunculus for people down in her lab, which was almost as bad. He shook his head and said, "I prefer books, all the same. They tend to be more entertaining, and they don't embarrass me in public."
Devon just raised an eyebrow and smirked lightly, "It would've been fun with you methinks..." His smirked moved to an outright grin as he thought of what he was about to say next. "It did kind of suck when X didn't agree to make me a man, just once was all I wanted..."
Yep, Devon was definately a fifteen year old boy with lots o hormones.
"I bet you'll start perfering girls when you're old, or boys even... or if you're like a lot of my family, both..."
Zanna wasn't teasing either, a look of seriousness on her face, and for a moment she looked older than she seemed. Part of the good things about being around a mum who was brutally honest about everything, she did know how to be grown up when she wanted. If she wanted.
"Tis only a matter of time... for all of us, or so mum says..."
Aylee stared at him for a moment, then burst out laughing. That totally hadn't been what she had expected him to say, but it was amusing nonetheless! Holing her sides, she said, "Really. Somehow I can't imagine you asking X that. I can easily imagine her refusing you, though."
Solo shook his head, "If you say so..." At the moment he had no taste for either gender. But then, he was only ten or so. Why would he need to? "Meh. Aylee's seventeen or somethng, and so far I have yet to see her like anyone..." he rolled his eyes, "Anyone ALIVE anyway..."
Zanna's eyes went wide and she snickered when she heard Solo's last comment, about dying of laughter by the time she decided to speak.
"So she has a crush on Devon... most excellent, I must tell mum when she gets back..."
Oh this was brilliant, more blackmail for X to use to get her way, and Zanna would be there to enjoy all the fruits of the happens too. Score.
"What's so funny? I just wanted to get LAID DAMNIT! Can't a dead guy get any respect around here...?"
Devon yelled that a little too loudly, and to everyone except Nathan, who was sleeping, and Aylee, it had sounded like the voice just came randomly from the room. Too bad X wasn't there to amuse herself with these ongoings.
Aylee struggled to stop laughing, but the boy's outrage only made her laughing worse. Finally she managed to hold it in and stood up fully and smiled at him, "Sorry, sorry. I wasn't laughing so much at that you wanted to, but at that you actually asked X!" She snickered slightly, then shut her mouth for fear she would start laughing again. Devon was too sensitive, but then again he had a right to be. He didn't get to do most of the things everyone else did.
Solo groaned and rolled his eyes, both at Zanna AND at the voice that had shouted. He wasn't sure where the voice had come, but he had a good idea. Aylee had been talking a lot recently about that kid, and she did spend an awful lot of time talking to thin air when she was at HQ... He shook his head and looked at Zanna, "As long as it doesn't somehow get held over my head, tell her what you want."
"Why not X? She's hot, not related to me, and is good in bed... don't ask..."
Devon was quite serious, yeah he's a dirty perve, but he had been stuck at 15 for six whole years, which really sucked.
"It was worth a try..."
Zanna shrugged lightly, "Mehbeh... depends on what you offer me to keep it from over your head..."
Her eyes sparkled, knowing full well the damage she could do just by 'advising' X on a few things, or she could do what most boys his age hated. Her 'evil secret move', she had seen X do it and get whatever she wanted when Zanna was in her mirror, maybe it would work on Solo too.
Aylee raised an eyebrow at Devon, "I wasn't going to. And I didn't think she was your type." She grinned slightly at him, wondering if he even HAD a type. It didn't matter to her, either way. Stretching, she moved out of the kitchen and into the livingroom, flopping herself down on the couch. The kitchen was too small, even for two people.
Solo blinked at her, "Uh. Right. I shouldn't have to offer you anything. It's common courtesy to no tell things like that." He rolled his eyes. It was mostly Aylee's problem anyway. Everything about his guardian was a problem...
Qlon was bored. There was nothing to do anymore. Fed up, the cog decided to go bug Nathan again. It moved over near the man and made the loudest whirring noise it could.
Type? Devon sighed and shrugged his shoulders, following Aylee out to the couch and 'plopped' down next to her on the couch, kind of floated there actually. He never really thought about girls like that, or tried not to since he was dead.
"You're no fun.. even Nathan's fun at times..." Zanna poked Nathan in the leg and he growled in response, grunting and rolling over on the bean bag.
She grinned lightly as Nathan responded, before she returned her attention to Solo, wondering whether she should do her move that boys seemed to hate. Neh, maybe later.
Nathan groaned loudly when the whirring noise started again, and he blindly swatted in the general direction of the cog.
Aylee watched Devon try to sit next to her and smiled quietly. The boy could be pretty cute sometimes (okay, often), even if he was dead. She stared at the fa'e and X-look-alike in the center of the room, "They seem to be getting along decently..." She hated being at a loss for conversation. It came from never talking to anyone. Solo stayed in his room all day, Albel just insulted her, and Kari couldn't speak yet...
Solo blinked at Zanna. Fun? He wasn't trying to be fun. He was trying to keep his sanity! It was something that was proving harder with every person he met. Expecially when most of the people he met were from X's family. He shook his head at her, "Meh, whatever. I prefer to live in the world of books. Nothing else interests me."
Nathan finally stirred out of his sleep, sitting up and then looking at the time on the wally, his one good eye about buggering out of his head.
"Zanna, Devon... let's go... It's that one's," Nathan waved a hand at Zanna while she stood up, "bedtime."
Zanna groaned, stood up grudgingly, and tugged on the coat, zipping it up before giving giving Solo a slight glare.
"I'll see you later... You... crazycute fox..."
And just to be evil, Zanna tackled him and then pressed her lips to his cheek before running out laughing evilly.
Nathan just rolled his eyes and glared in Devon's direction.
"You too!"
The ghost grumbled and attempted to pat Aylee on the head, but failed of course.
"Maybe I'll see you soon...?
With that both he and Nathan left HQ after Zanna.
Aylee blinked at they left, then looked up at the clock, "Is it really that late?" She stared mindlessly at it for a moment, then opened her eyes wide, "Wait... Past midnight?" She jumped up from the couch and punched her fist in the air, "YES! Tis my birthday!" She lowered her fist slightly and blinked confusedly at nothingness, "Now if only I could remember how old I was... We'll stick to saying seventeen!"
Solo blinked rapidly after the girl kissed him. GOD DAMN WOMEN! He rubbed furiously at his cheek, then glared as his guardian made happy yells about the clock. He shook his head and moved towards the door, "If it's past midnight, we should be leaving too..."
Aylee looked down at him, "Oh. Yeah." She sighed, and they left the HQ, Qlon rushing after then before the door shut.
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