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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:37 pm
Journal Entry: 01/31/07
I've always wondered why P'las had girls over all of the time. They always come over late, usually after my bed time. One night, I felt kinda sick and went to P'las' room to see if I could get some medicine. I had forgotten that P'las had a woman over.
What I saw when I opened his door.... was very strange. P'las and the girl both seemed embarassed. It scared me, so I closed the door and ran back to my room. I heard them moving around and the lady left. P'las then came into my room.
He reminded me that I wasn't supposed to come into his room when he had friends over. I told him I'd forgotten and that my tummy was hurting. P'las seemed to feel bad then, and he went and got me some medicine out of his room.
I asked him what he and the lady had been doing. P'las told me it was something that older boys and girls played. I asked him if I could play sometime and he said I'd have to wait until I'm older to play with girls like he does. I wonder how old I have to be... P'las and the woman seemed to be having fun. Maybe I can play like that sometime with some of the girls in my classes...
-Nibal
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:00 pm
Journal Entry: 02/01/07
Man... I guess I should've seen it coming eventually, but... I never really thought of the possibility of Nibal walking in on me while I had... a lady friend... over. The poor boy seemed rather startled and a bit frightened at what he saw. Needless to say, it killed the mood and my lady friend left while I went to comfort Nibal.
Poor kid. I felt really bad when he said he was feeling sick. Probably just a stomach virus or something, but I went and got him some medicine to help him feel better.
Then, he asked the question I hoped he'd never ask me before he turned at least 14. "P'las? What were you two doing?" Let's just say... I wasn't expecting this so soon and wasn't exactly sure how to answer it. I told him that "We were playing. It's how big boys and girls play."
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. The poor kid then asked me if he could play like that sometime! I told him he'd have to be older first. But, it really got me to thinking later, after I got him to go to sleep. How will Nibal be able to... please a woman? Considering that his skin's toxic. Well, there was that one girl who was resistant, but they said that even she could feel bad after a while if she was exposed for a long enough period of time. Will that seriously limit the women Nibal will be able to... do that with?
It could even limit his dating... I mean, he wouldn't be able to hold hands unless he's wearing gloves. He wouldn't be able to kiss a girl or...
Why the heck am I worrying about this so suddenly? I guess it just never hit me that being poisonous could really affect every aspect of your life. And, I guess, it's because Nibal's starting to grow up on me. He's no longer that little tadpole boy I first brought home. His tail has practically disappeared now and he's quite poisonous.
Poor kid. I'm definately going to have to have a talk with him before he gets old enough to consider dating... He'll have to be even more careful than usual, for emotions can make you forget certain things... especially when you're caught up in the moment.
I guess I've got a bit more time to think this over... though I'll have to keep an eye on the kids' files for some more girls that are resistant to poison...
-Perilas Coleman
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:37 pm
We probably should've done research sooner...
Son and father were sitting in the library, pouring over books about frogs in an almost religious fashion. Peri was cursing himself for not actually looking up some of this info sooner. Like the fact that Nibal didn't produce poison, but a neurotoxin. And that the toxin didn't have any effect until it got into the bloodstream. He was boggled by the large amount of scientific words in the article he was reading and had to look up about every other word in a dictionary, then half of those words as well.
Basically, he found out that the toxins Nibal produced attacked the nervous system and caused numbness. They could also cause loss of memory, vision, and/or intellect, headache, cognitive and behavioral problems and sexual dysfunction. That last one frightened Perilas just a touch.
"So, I'm poisonous... but I'm not?" Nibal asked when Peri tried to put the information at the kid's level.
"Well, you are. But someone won't get sick from just touching your skin unless they have a cut on their hand. But if they touch you and then touch their eye or put their fingers in their mouth... Then they could get sick," Peri explained.
"Oh." The boy's emotions had been on a roller coaster lately. When he'd found out that Reese didn't get sick, he thought that maybe only some people got sick from his skin, which meant that there would be some people that could actually touch him! But this wasn't as much fun. Sure, people could touch him now, but they'd have to be careful. And little kids wouldn't be able to touch him because they wouldn't understand and would probably stick their fingers in their mouth and not realize it. But... it was an improvement, small though it was.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:07 pm
Thankyou for all your hard work with us here at D-corp. Your child's dragon egg is near hatching, and we'd like to have you file another report on the progress of your child.
Enclosed is a sheet for them to fill out, you may help them. Also please include any and all changes in your child. Even the smallest detail may become of importance later on.
Sincerely
D-corp
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:23 pm
Mail Call!
Peri was surprised to see an envelope slipped under the door to his apartment. Curious, he collected it from the floor and noticed that it was addressed to Nibal. "Nibal! You've got mail!"
The boy poked his head out from his room. "Mail?" Peri nodded and showed the envelope to the child, who immediately ran out and opened it up. "It's a form... Here." Nibal handed the note along with the form to his father to read. It wasn't nearly as cool as the form.
Perilas read over the note. "Well, go work on filling that out, okay?" He went to the kitchen table to work on writing a letter to be sent back with the filled out form.
"Okay!" Nibal raced off to his room to work on filling it out.
After a while, he returned and handed the completed form to Peri. "Here, P'las. I'm done."
Peri looked over the sheet. "Good job, Nibal. They say that your egg's close to hatching, so your dragon'll be coming to live with us soon."
"Really?!" The boy jumped with anticipation. "Yay!"
"Let me finish this letter to send back, okay?"
"Okay!" Nibal raced back off to his room to play with his toys again.
Peri finished up the letter and put it and the form into an envelope. He sighed, figuring he'd drop it off at the receptionist's desk when he went to work the next day. She could get it sent where it needed to go.
Letter To... whoever the hell's gonna read this,
Well, Nibal's getting a little better at wearing clothes. We did some research and found out that the toxins he's producing only affect someone if they get into the bloodstream. So he convinced me to allow him to buy some looser fitting clothing. He did find a rather cool shirt at one of the stores. He also likes to wear swim trunks since they're looser fitting than most shorts. He's also given up wearing gloves since he loves using that skill that Mr. Solon taught him. Boy was I surprised when I saw them outside of my office window. Nibal found it to be a lot of fun and he's constantly showing me how he can stick things to his fingers.
Nibal's tadpole tail has completely disappeared now. Seems he's fully outgrown that stage.
-Perilas Coleman
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:52 pm
The Dragon Arrives
Perilas was sitting at his desk in his office that afternoon. Nibal was out of classes and was playing with some cars on the floor like usual when the phone rang. The boy didn't even look up. The phone rang a lot. Part of being a teacher, he supposed.
Peri picked up the phone. "Yes?"
A tech on the other end responded, "Sir, we have one green dragon about to hatch here." One could tell the tech was distracted by something going on in the background and was thus not very clear.
"Uh... okay..." Peri was wondering why they had called him. Had they dialed the wrong number? It took the man a moment before it dawned on him. "OH! We'll be there in a second," he told the tech before hanging up.
Now that had gotten Nibal's attention. The boy glanced up at his father. "Something wrong, P'las?"
"Your egg's hatching."
"Now?!" Nibal jumped up, eager to get going. "C'mon, P'las!" He didn't want to miss this!
However, one elevator ride and a run down the hallway later, they did miss it. Nibal opened the door to the room they'd been directed to in time to see a green blur pounce him and start to lick his face. The boy grew worried. "P'las!"
Peri chuckled. "Remember how I said your dragon would be immune? It's okay."
Nibal giggled from the floor where he was pinned down by his dragon, who had continued to lick his face. The techs had disappeared, so Peri was left to pry his child from under the enthusiastic hatchling alone. He helped the boy up, who looked over at his dragon. He'd already picked out a boy name and a girl name and now... he just needed to know which his dragon was.
"Uh... P'las? Is my dragon a boy or girl?"
Peri had noticed already when he was wrestling the creature off his son. "She's a beautiful girl." He grinned at his kid.
Nibal smiled. "Do you like Kalseru for a name?" He directed this at the dragon. "She was a goddess... though she was actually a rainbow snake and not a dragon..." He rather thought it fit since she oversaw boys maturing into men and his dad had said that his dragon hatching meant that he was old enough to take Peri's classes.
The dragon licked Nibal's hand, which he took for a yes. "I think I'll call you Kal for short." He smiled as Kalseru wagged her tail.
Peri patted Nibal on the shoulder (carefully). "C'mon, let's get back to my office and I'll finish up so we can show her our home."
Nibal grinned. "Yeah! I wanna show her my room!"
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:01 am
Go Fish
Nibal poked his head out of his bedroom door and peered about the living room, grinning as he spotted Peri sitting on the couch, idly flipping through channels on TV. "P'las!" The boy jumped onto the couch beside the man, stark naked as was usual when he was at home.
Peri glanced over. "Yeah?"
Nibal held up the deck of cards in his hand. "Can we play Go Fish?" Kalseru had followed the boy and was sitting in the floor, peering up at her strange, blue boy.
Peri grinned. "Sure thing, Nibal." He turned off the television and headed over towards the kitchen table, followed by an excited kid and a curious dragon.
Nibal climbed into a chair next to Peri and handed the man the cards. Glad that he'd taken the habit of always wearing his gloves so he wouldn't have to hunt them down for things like this, Perilas picked up the deck and shuffled it before dealing out seven cards to both Nibal and himself, then setting the remainder of the deck between them. "You go first," Peri told Nibal.
The frog boy was trying to get all of his cards in order, finally managing to get them all straight. "Okay.... got a seven?"
Peri shook his head. "Go fish."
Kalseru watched the game progress for a while, then padded off towards the boy's room again and climbed onto his bed. She grinned as she snuggled into the pillows and blankets. Nibal never let her lay on his bed when he was in here, saying she'd rip his sheets with her claws. But she knew how to be careful... he just didn't trust her for some reason. Pshaw. Well, he wasn't in here now to tell her to get off.
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:01 pm
Journal Entry: 07/02/07
P'las took me and Kal to the mall the other day. I don't like going to the mall... too many people and I have to be careful not to touch them accidentally. But P'las said that Kal needed to get out of the house and me too. I think it's because he was mad that she broke one of his figures, but maybe not.
Anyways, Kal didn't really like the mall. She was constantly hissing at the other people and her tail got stepped on more than once. She wasn't happy, so I left her with P'las in the food court where she could stay with him while I went to buy her a present. I wanted to find a chain to put the prize from my last skills class on for her, but I passed by a toy store and saw this green turtle inside.
I bought it and found a chain at another store, then went back to P'las and Kal to give Kalseru her present. When I got back, P'las' arm was bleeding and he said that Kal had bitten him! But she's too nice to do something like that, especially to P'las! I asked her if she'd bitten P'las and she shook her head no.
She loved the turtle, though, and carried it around in her mouth as we headed home so P'las could fix his arm and make it stop bleeding. I put the gem on her chain and showed it to her. She liked it as well and I put it around her neck. I'd bought the largest chain the store had had, but it looks like Kal's gonna outgrow it before too long. I guess they don't make chains big enough for dragon's necks...
-Nibal
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:10 pm
Journal Entry: 07/02/07
I'd been concerned about Nibal's dragon ever since we got her. For a green, she seems way too innocent... She broke one of my figures the other day and, when I yelled at her, she scampered behind Nibal, who made me apologize for yelling at Kal and "scaring her".
Anyways, so I figured the kid and that beast needed to get out of the house. It was raining, so the park was out of the question. So to the mall we went. That was a horrible mistake. Kalseru's tail got stepped on several times and she wasn't happy about it. I retreated to the food court with Nibal and the green so that we could sit in relative calm for a little while. But Nibal said he wanted to go get something for Kal and left her with me.
That was fine. Until I let a man take the chair that Nibal was to sit in. Kal got angry and started hissing and lashing her tail at the man. I told her to calm down and the beast bit me! She bit me hard enough to break the skin and my arm started to bleed.
Luckily, Nibal arrived soon afterwards with a bag in his hand. When I told him that Kal had bitten me, he seemed shocked and asked her if she had done that. THAT LITTLE BEAST LIED TO HIM! AND HE GAVE HER A STUFFED TURTLE HE'D BOUGHT FOR HER!
I couldn't believe it, so I just told them that we were heading home. And that little monster was just like putty in Nibal's hands as we headed back to the car. She was carrying around that little turtle like she was some kind of canine... Oh, and he'd also got her a chain so he could put the gem he'd gotten from finishing his second skill class on it for her.
Speaking of that skill class.... I really need to have a talk with Mr. Solon. First he's teaching my kid how to climb walls and ceilings with his hands and feet. And now he's taught Nibal how to use his tongue to snag things across the table or room...
-Perilas Coleman
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:17 pm
Piper's Homecoming
He really needed to read some of the things that he signed, Peri realized as he put down the phone. He'd just gotten a phone call from a group saying that they'd love for him to come in and do an interview for adoption. Now... when had he signed these papers for this? Peri couldn't remember, but considering you could get him to sign just about anything you shoved in front of him (a bad habit that he really needed to break...) the man just shrugged. He couldn't back out of it now, for they were already expecting him.
Several hours later, a rather energetic bird-like child was following him across the D-corp parking lot. Peri groaned as he thought of his son's reaction to this girl. Piper was rather fiery and they'd said that she would need to attend their school when she got old enough for special classes, but that he was to teach her general education stuff. Fun. At least Nibal had learned all that at school with just some help at home...
The man unlocked the door to his apartment. "Nibal..." he called out as he led Piper inside and shut the door. The frog boy appeared out of his room, stark naked (as was usual) and Piper screeched, covering her eyes with her hands. Perilas winced at the high-pitched noise. "Uh, Nibal... go get dressed..."
Nibal eyed the girl for a moment, then trudged off and returned a few minutes later with clothes on. "He's dressed now, Piper," Peri reassured the girl, who cautiously peeked through her fingers before lowering her hands from her face. "Piper, this is Nibal. Nibal, this is Piper. She's going to be your sister."
Nibal frowned at that. "Sister...?" He crossed his arms grumpily. "Don't want a sister!" With that, the frog boy stomped off to his room and slammed the door shut.
Perilas sighed as he eyed the strange bird-like girl who was bouncing (quite literally) around his living room. He'd spent that morning grumbling over the fact that he'd just gotten another child shoved into his care and had had to make a phone call to D-corp to arrange a larger apartment. The little two bedroom one was not going to hold two kids and a dragon. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be ready until tomorrow. So Peri was currently setting up a sort of bed on the couch, having dug out some spare blankets and pillows. The girl was (in Peri's mind) aptly named Piper. Peri figured it was because she couldn't shut up and was always piping up about something or another. Peri was not looking forward to the next day, trying to move all of his stuff up a couple of floors to their new apartment with this chatterbox in tow.
"Oooh, I likes fluffy pillows!" The torchic girl's voice invaded Peri's thoughts as she snatched the pillow from his hands and hugged it close. "Fluffy pillows are so softs and... well, fluffy! It's hard not to likes them."
Peri stared at the girl for a moment. "I see. Well, you'll get that pillow tonight and then I'll even let you have it when we get our new apartment tomorrow..."
Piper frowned. "A new place? Already? But I likes this one. This is my home, right? I thoughts I was going to lives here with you..."
Peri shook his head. "Remember Nibal?" He figured the girl probably did. She'd nearly talked the poor boy's ear off at lunch and the frog boy had retreated with Kal back to their room. The man didn't give Piper enough time to answer, plowing on with the rest of what he had to say. "Well, Nibal has his own room and I have mine. But there's not any more bedrooms here. So we're all moving tomorrow to another apartment. It's just upstairs a few floors and then you can have your own room like Nibal."
"Will I gets a dragon, too?" Piper remembered Nibal's dragon. It hadn't talked any and didn't seem to like her very much.
"Uh... no. Nibal has a dragon because that's why he was born." At least, the man hoped that Piper wouldn't be getting a dragon. Nothing had been said about dragons when he'd gotten this kid dumped on him. Oh well, he shouldn't worry about that too much. If she was to get one, she'd get one with or without him worrying about it. "Okay, Piper. It's bedtime... Do you want me to leave a lamp on for you?"
Piper went wide-eyed at the word 'bedtime'. "Nononononono! No bedtimes!" With that she fled across the living room to take refuge under the kitchen table. "NO BEDTIMES!" She screamed as Peri started across the living room after her.
Perilas frowned and shook his head. "No shouting inside, Piper. It's Nibal's bedtime, too. We all need to get some sleep tonight so we can move tomorrow..."
"NO BEDTIMES! NO! NO!"
"PIPER!" Peri had to shout to be heard over the girl's screaming. Nibal's head poked out of his room, curious as to what was going on in the living room. "Back to bed, Nibal." The boy gave a shrug and closed the door. Peri turned back to the girl under the table. "Now, Piper. Tonight you've got the whole living room to yourself to sleep in. Tomorrow I'll even let you pick out your own bedroom." And pray that the two kids don't fight over it... Peri added mentally. "But tomorrow won't come unless you go to sleep."
"DON'T WANNA GOES TO SLEEP! NO BEDTIMES!"
Peri winced as the girl shouted practically right in his ear. As he bent down to Piper's level, the girl took off, fleeing to the only other place in the apartment to hide; Peri's bedroom. Standing up, the man let out a long sigh before heading towards his bedroom. Entering, he saw a rather large lump in the middle of his bed. Grinning, the man plopped himself onto the bed and leaned over the lump, which giggled. "Okay, Piper. Playtime's over now."
The lump wriggled, making unhappy noises. "No bedtimes!"
"Yes, Piper. It's time for bed." Peri let up enough so that Piper could get out from under him. He sternly eyed the girl's head as it popped out from under the covers.
"Can... can I stays with you?" The girl finally asked in a small voice. "There could be scary monsters in theres... Piper sleeps in here tonight? Then sleeps in her own room in new place?"
Peri opened his mouth to try and come up with an alternative, but considering the progress made, the man shut his mouth and nodded. "You can sleep in here tonight, Piper." Blast it all, though, that meant he'd have to hunt down those pajama bottoms that he never wore... "C'mon. We'll brush our teeth and get our jammies on and get ready for bed, okay?"
"Okay... Can I haves the fluffy pillow?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:22 pm
Journal Entry: 08/04/07
Gah! I can't stand her! P'las never let me call him Daddy, but Piper gets away with it all of the time! He never even tries to correct her... And she never shuts up. Kalseru doesn't like her either... Piper tried to put all kinds of ribbons on Kal the other day and... well, it's probably good that Kal doesn't know how to use her acid yet because she would've. She wasn't happy at Piper and I had to help her get all those ribbons off.
Nibal
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:02 pm
You want to WHAT?!
Piper had been excited coming home from the mall and her visit with Fenrir. Unfortunately, her dad hadn't seemed to be in the best of moods and so she'd waited to talk to him about getting her ears pierced. Luckily, once the holidays were over, the man seemed a bit happier.
"Hey, Daddy?"
"Yeah?" Peri was reclining on the couch, idly flipping through the channels on the tv. Nibal was lying on the floor nearby with Kal, both messing around with something or another. It was probably alphabet flashcards, Piper mused. The frog boy was still trying to teach the green her letters, which was an interesting adventure.
Piper held out the pamphlet to her father. She'd already read over it, as best as she could, but she couldn't understand some of the words. "Can I get my ears pierced?"
That made Peri sit up straight. "Do what?!"
Piper jumped, startled by the odd reaction from her dad. She noticed that Nibal and Kalseru had stopped whatever they were doing and were looking over in her direction. "Fenrir's daddies do it. She says they're the best at it. One of her daddies gave me this and said you should read it with me."
Peri took the pamphlet, still a bit in shock from the suddenness of this whole thing. Piper was a girl, so ear piercings weren't that big a deal. It was just... sudden. "Uh... are you sure, Piper? It hurts when they do it."
Piper nodded. "But they're pretty! And Fenrir's gonna get hers pierced too! We're gonna get matching earrings!" The girl bounced a bit as she sat down nearly in her parent's lap.
"Let me think on it, okay?" Peri said, sighing.
The girl frowned. "But..." She stopped and nodded, her shoulders drooping. That meant that Daddy wasn't going to let her. Now she wouldn't get matching earrings with Fenrir.
Peri let Piper sit there for a few minutes before he finally gave in. "Okay, if you're sure you want them..."
Piper bounced happily, hugging her father. "Thankyou!Thankyou!"
The man chuckled softly as he pried the girl off of him. "Now, let's read over this, okay? You'll need to know what to do after you get them."
"Okay!"
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:32 pm
"Can I crash here?"
An AIM RP Quote: They were, not quite, homeless for the forseeable future. While a little wary about what a stay at Perilas's house would do to his new daughter, T'rin was too pissed to care...much. Besides the man now had a son so perhaps he'd be a little more careful about his ah--nocturnal-- activities...So here he was, sleeping beauty on his shoulder, pounding on the door of one Perilas Coleman. Which was just as well since he was supposed to be meeting his brother's and their kids at the waterpark the next day regardless. It just goes to show, the universe really did hate him. Quote: Inside, the knocking brought forth slight chaos. The family had been rather lazy about unpacking everything, especially stuff they hadn't needed right away. Peri could be heard yelling at Kal to be careful not to knock those boxes over with her tail and trying to calm Piper down, who was excited about the possiblilty of one of her friends coming over (though none knew where they lived as far as he knew) and Nibal attempting to get Kal under control, which caused the dragon to race about the living room, almost tripping Peri. Finally, the man arrived at the door and opened it, wondering who would be standing outside. Needless to say, who he saw was the person he expected the least. "T'rin...?" This was the brother he and Talner had tramatized as a child. Why would the man volunteer to show up at Peri's door? Quote: Much as T'rin wanted to punch his brother's lights out (not that he was in any way capable of violence), he really didn't want to wake Kate up. Instead, the man settled for glaring at his much older brother. "May I come in?" he asked coldly, far from his normal timid self. Shifting Kate slightly to releive his cramping arm, T'rin glared even harder at his brother, almost daring him to comment. Quote: "Uh, sure..." Peri was still unsure as to why his little brother was here, but he stepped aside to let the man in, hissing at his own kids to be quiet as he spied the sleeping child T'rin was carrying. Peri shut the door gently and gestured his brother on into the apartment. "We just moved a little while ago, so we're still unpacking..." He said in explaination of the boxes around the room. The man gestured towards the couch. Nibal managed to get Kal into his room and told her not to tear anything up. He shut the door and went into the living room, peering at T'rin. He recognized his uncle and grinned at the man, pointing at Kate. "Who's that?" About that time, Piper bounced into the room and started to say something loudly when Peri shushed her. She walked around the couch and looked at the sleeping girl as well. Quote: Ignoring the rukus for a moment, T'rin managed to set Kate down on the couch. Though the girl, shifted and half woke up, it wasn't long until she was completely out again. Satisfied he wasn't going to lose even more hearing T'rin marched over to Peri. Grabbing the older man by the shirt, T'rin began to drag his brother forcefully out of the room, tossing a comment to the kids on the way out, "I need to talk to your dad alone for a moment." It didn't even register that there was one more child then last time in the room. He was utterly focused on well, taking out a lot of issues on his older brother. Once they were in a different room, T'rin dropped his arm to his side. Fingers curled tightly into fists T'rin hissed, "Do you know what that damn company of yours did!?" Quote: Peri was just a bit startled that T'rin showed as much aggression as he did and allowed himself to be dragged into his own room. Having a feeling this wouldn't be going well, Peri shut the door. "I take it the girl's from D-corp?" He didn't seem too upset about the whole thing and sat upon the edge of his bed. "I'm not surprised. They blackmail a lot of people into taking their kids... you meet some interesting people that way..." Meanwhile, Nibal frowned that his uncle had poofed so soon and wandered back into his room to make sure Kal was behaving. Piper, however, was intrigued by the girl on the couch. She looked interesting! Quote: "Interesting!?" T'rin's voice cracked as it still did when he was under pressure or upset. "Perilas Alexander Coleman, if it weren't for you I wouldn't be in this mess! Not only do they give me a child, it got me tossed out of my apartment." Eyes narrowed dangerously. He didn't even want to start into the whole sister/mommy buisness either. "You will be putting us up until I can arrange for new housing." He stated bluntly. Kate shifted around, slowly waking up from the lack of warmth. Slowly her eyes opened to the back of a couch. Odd. "Cassi?" She asked quietly, hoping he was nearby. Quote: "Me?" The man seemed intrigued as to how he was to blame for this. "Well, the only available space right now is the living room. There's not any extra rooms... but you can crash on the couch. You know D-corp will give you an apartment, right? You just gotta pay utilities. Not a bad deal at all." The man nodded. "Plus it'd be just a short walk for her to go to classes and all. Nibal walks back and forth all the time, so it's not a big deal. It's safe, seeing how we're in the middle of nowhere and no one really comes here unless they've got stuff to do for D-corp." Piper shook her head, though the little girl couldn't see her. "No Cassi here." Unless that man's name was Cassi... "I'm Piper!" Quote: Scowling at the dimmness of his brother, "Yes. You. What else did you think they could blackmail me with?" T'rin snapped, then flushed as he realized what he had said. Turning his back on his brother, he huffed. "I'll help cook and clean while we're here," he offered as a peace offering of sorts as most of the sheer fire that had kept him going since early this morning diminished. Kate began to sniffle a bit, though she didn't turn to face the new voice. "No Cassi? But... Kate and Cassi always together. I want Daddy!" she protested, pulling in a deep breath and getting ready to throw yet another tantrum. Quote: Peri chuckled. "They blackmailed you with me? That had to be interesting!" He was blackmail material, huzzah! The man decided not to take the easy jab about T'rin doing the cooking and cleaning. "Sounds good to me." Piper jumped up as Kate prepared to throw a tantrum. "No cry! No cry! I'll get Daddy!" She rushed to her dad's door and pounded on it, bouncing in as Peri opened the door. "Little girl's going to cry! She want Daddy." Here the girl looked at the other man in the room. Quote: T'rin paled. "Nononononono..." he muttered as he hurried out to the outer room, scooping up Kate. "Daddy's here!" he said soothingly as Kate sniffled. "No Cassi? No Mommy?" She blurted out, snuggling into her new dad's arms. Frankly, T'rin was surpised she was adjusting so well, but then again, that was probably why the kids were give out so young. "No... but Uncle T'rin is here and... uh...?" T'rin stared at Piper for a moment before glancing at Peri. "Your cousin!," the doctor finally said. The dog-girl sniffled again, but peeked out at Piper. Quote: Piper looked quizzically up at her father, who sighed and explained. "That's my brother, T'rin, which makes him your uncle. And Nibal's uncle. And his girl is your cousin." "And Nibal's cousin, too?" Peri nodded. "And Kal's cousin?" Peri shook his head. "No... Kal's not really related like that..." The man went over and retrieved Nibal from his room, while Kalseru tagged along behind the boy. "Nibal, Uncle T'rin and your cousin are going to stay here for a while..." Quote: Ducking her head back down, Kate risked another peek at the strang bird girl. How weird. She wasn't like Daddy and she wasn't like Kate or Cassi. "You hurt Cassi?" She asked the strange girl, not sure whether to try and run her off or just accept it. T'rin kept patting the girl on the back, not entirely sure what the hell he should do. (Of course if Peri or Talner were there, both would point out that T'rin took to mothering just like a girl....) "Uh..... Better?" he asked quietly. Quote: Piper shook her head. "Me no know Cassi..." The bird girl looked over at her father, who shrugged. "Who Cassi?" She asked the room in general, wondering who this kid was and why she hadn't been introduced to this Cassi before. Peri gave a small cough and glanced over at T'rin. "Yes... who is this Cassi she keeps talking about, bro?" Quote: "Cassi me." Kate replied simply, still barely peeking out from her Daddy's shoulder. "Kate love Cassi. Techs doen't. Techs mean." Riled up at the mere thought of the D-techs, Kate bit down on the nearest object. T'rin's shoulder. The man stifled a yelp, and tried to shift Kate around, though the chiuhua was having none of that. "Er..." T'rin finally replied, once he felt like he wouldn't scream with pain, "There was another...dog..thing... person...." The man squirmed, "She went to someone else..." "Mommy!" Kate added, "Cassi with Mommy!" Quote: "Mommy?" Peri glanced at T'rin questioningly. Last he knew, he and Talner had managed to make their little brother swear off women all together. "So where is Mommy?" He asked, curious. Perhaps this was the reason T'rin was at the apartment? "Techs?" Nibal was interested in the conversation now. "You're from D-corp?? You got your dragon yet? I like mine! She's lots of fun an-" The boy's excited speech was cut off by Peri cupping a hand over the boy's mouth. "She's too young for a dragon yet, Nibal. She'll get to meet her egg when she gets a bit older. Remember how you had to wait?" "Oh... yeah. Waiting's no fun..." The boy frowned. Quote: T'rin turned around to face his brother and flopped onto the couch, Kate and all with a groan. The girl squirmed around until she could face the new-comers, eyes narrowed at Nibal. The girl growled warningly. The blue boy knew the techs. Maybe he was a meanie too. "Uh..." T'rin started, then sputtered to a halt. "Uh.. Cassi's mommy. Not Kate's, And I don't know," He didn't include the 'nor do I care' for fear of setting Kate into a screaming fest, yet again. "It was... Gah....Pink and frills and," T'rin closed his eyes and shuddered. It had been horrible. Quote: Peri frowned, then perked up. That meant she wasn't taken! He would meet her eventually, as well since this Cassi was from D-corp as well. Score! Nibal jumped as Kate began to hiss at him. "She scary..." He whined to his daddy, backing away. Kal did not take well to someone hissing at her blue boy. She charged forward and hissed right back at the chihauhau kid, fanning her wings out aggressively. "Kal, no! Bad!" Nibal wrapped his arms around the green's neck and tried to tug her back out of Kate's face. Quote: Tiny, weak, chihauhau. Big, strong, dragon. For most people it's common sense to let a dragon be. For Kate the hissing meant, "Meanie!" and an attempt to launch herself at the dragon. Thankfully for the puny little girl, T'rin, though off-balance for a moment, had his arms still around Katherine. Kicking and scratching, Kate tried her hardest to bite the nose that was so very close in front of her. "No, bad. No biting! No Kate!" T'rin said pleadingly, trying to skooch down the couch further from Kal, before finally just standing up and trying to juggle the girl while still moving away from the dragon. Quote: Unfortunately for Nibal and T'rin both. Kal took the straining and scratching and kicking that were all aimed in her direction as a challenge. Little kid or not, Kal was going to get her! The green strained and managed to break free of Nibal's arms and took off after T'rin, attempting to get at Kate. "Kalseru!" Peri groaned at the stupid green. "Nibal, help me get her into your room..." He hated dealing with the evil dragons and still wanted to shoot the techs for picking a green for his son. The two started towards the green, who hissed at them, threatening them to even try and take her away before she dealt out punishment to this evil being that had invaded her home! Quote: T'rin stumbled backwards as the very green, very large dragon with sharp pointy teeth suddenly surged toward him. Letting a screech that would rival Kate's, and did cause the girl to pause for a moment, he mananged to hop his way into firmer footing. "Meanie, meanie, meanie!" Kate shouted at the dragon as she tried to free her self from the constrain's of her father's arms. Deciding to have the sense that Kate was lacking, T'rin booked it to the front door. Fumbling for the latch, the man nearly dropped Kate and got bitten yet again. Finally he managed to slamm the door open, dart through, and slam the door shut again. Panting he uncerimoniously plopped Kate down in front of him. Quote: Kal paused at the door, triumphant. She had run them out of her house!! She would've trotted happily off to gloat, but she got tackled by Peri and Nibal and wrestled into Nibal's room, where the door was shut on her. After a moment's pause and some fierce muttering on the other side of the door, it opened just long enough for Nibal to get into the room. Peri sighed, rubbing his forehead for a moment before going to the front door and opening it. "We got her locked up for now... Nibal's going to talk to her and we'll just be careful not to let her near your kid..." Mentally, he was applauding Kal for the encouragement of getting his brother out of the apartment quicker. Quote: Kate took the opportunity to dash through Peri's legs and back into the house, hunting for her foe. Deprived of a battle, the flopped down and screamed in frustration, kicking her legs. Slowly the screams turned to hiccuping sobs as she sat, defeated, in the middle of the room. T'rin sigh, or sobbed, it was hard to tell which one. "Maybe.. Maybe I should just see if Talner has any room...." the man said in defeat. Quote: "Just call D-corp in the morning. I know there's some empty apartments still... The D-corp parents can rent them, you know. They're not bad and, like I said earlier, close for her to go to classes..." The man shrugged and walked back into the apartment, leaving the door open for T'rin. "I'll get you two some pillows and blankets." Piper had just sat and stared as the whole thing unfolded. She went over and patted Kate gently. "It okay. It okay..." Quote: Kate sniffled and replied quietly to the fire-girl in a scratchy voice. "The mean dragon left." T'rin nodded slowly, exhausted. Stupid brother's, stupid companies and he still had to go into work tomorrow! With another long sigh, the man fished out his cell phone and began to punch numbers. "Hello, this is Dr. Coleman. I'm afraid I have to take another personal day. ...... Yes, I know it's rather short notice...... Yes I'm aware this is not a good start..... I'm very sorry, but it's a family emergency.... Yes, of course..... Bye." Through out the whole call the man kept a wary eye on Katherine, terrified she would burst into tears again. What an emotional child... 'Had to be a cancer' said a small part of his brain, which almost made the man smile. Quote: Piper nodded. "Kal with Nibal. Nibal get onto Kal for being bad." Peri chuckled softly at his brother. "When I get done with my classes, I can help you move your stuff. Piper can help all day, she doesn't have school yet. And Nibal can keep Kal here so we won't have another... episode..." He glanced over at Kate as well. Quote: "Errr...." T'rin still wasn't sure he wanted his brother's to know where he lived but Peri had been... rather normal today.. almost like a human being rather than the spawn of Satan he usually was. "..Sure... Thanks...." Should he suggest a psych evaluation? Of course it could be the kids.. "Good." Kate nodded decisively. "Kate bite. Dragon no hurt Cassi." The chiuahua ignored the fact that Cassi wasn't exactly there to get hurt. After all, the dragon *might* hurt Cassi. Quote: "But... biting bad..." Piper was confused. Who was this freaking Cassi person?? Peri grinned. This form of torture was almost as much fun as the usual type! Quote: Kate narrowed her eyes. "Biting makes bad people go away," the girl countered. T'rin carefully kept his eyes away from his brother as he undertook the greatest indignity of all (and Peri and Talner said he didn't have pride. Ha!), thanking his brother. "Uh... Thank you Peri... For.. you know.. Yeah..." Quote: "But... biting hurts a lot..." Piper frowned. Peri glanced over at T'rin for a long moment. "Eh, Mom would kill me if I made you sleep on the street, you know..." Quote: Kate nodded. "Yup." Wasn't that point? T'rin laughed weakly. "Yeah, I guess so."
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:04 pm
MY SHINIES!
Kal was left alone in the house. Peri, Piper, and Nibal were all helping T'rin and Kate finish moving their stuff into their new apartment. Nibal liked the fact that his uncle was in the same complex and was not too far of a walk from their own apartment. Though his cousin scared him just a little bit... But with Kal still wanting to teach Kate a lesson, they'd had to leave the green in their apartment for the day.
Kalseru wasn't exactly happy about this. After sulking about the living room for a while, she debated shredding the pillows. But that'd just get her into trouble... She wandered into the kitchen to see if there was any food, but Peri was smarter than she was. All of the lower cabinets were locked shut with childproof locks. She debated trying to break them, but came up to the same conclusion as the pillows in the living room.
Bored, the young green dragon wandered about the apartment for a while. Since the silly man wasn't here, she could wander around his room. Her nostrils clamped shut as she entered the room. There were multiple pairs of boxers on the floor and the bathroom he had to himself was a mess. The seat was up and it looked as if he'd missed several times. The green quickly made her way out of the room and into Nibal's room.
She gave a sigh as she settled into the mess of blankets in one corner that was deemed to be her territory. She fished out the shiny that Nibal had given her. He'd put it on a chain, but it was almost too small to really fit her much anymore... which made her sad. She wanted more shinies...
Aha! Kalseru quickly got up and ran out the bedroom and into Piper's. The bird girl had lots of shinies! She wouldn't notice if they were gone... The little green searched the room and found the girl's jewelry box. Jackpot! Kal gathered as many of the bracelets and necklaces as she could before trotting happily back to Nibal's room to store her new shinies.
It wasn't much longer before three tired people returned home. Peri gave a sigh as he hit the airconditioned apartment and flopped onto the couch, tired. Nibal and Piper wandered off towards their own rooms to relax for a bit. However, Piper ran right back out of her room. "Daddy! My bracelets are gone!"
Peri slowly sat up, unhappy that his rest was cut so short. "Gone?"
"Yeah! My jewelry box is in the floor and it's almost empty!" She dragged her father into her room to show him. Peri wondered who would've stolen the girl's bracelets. They weren't worth much of anything, just cheap ones the girl had wanted. They were just shiny pieces of... wait..
Perilas turned and walked over into Nibal's room. "Kalseru." He addressed the green dragon, his tone warning the wyrmling to act innocent. "Did you take Piper's bracelets?"
The green acted offended. "Who me? I wouldn't!" She glanced over at her blue boy. "Tell him that I wouldn't!"
However, Peri was smarter than that. "Up, Kalseru!" He jerked his thumb, gesturing to the hatchling that he was going to inspect her area, regardless of what she was saying. Grumpily, the green got up and made her way over to Nibal, who patted her head.
"Here they are, Piper." He pulled a handful of bracelets from the nest of blankets and handed them to his daughter. With a frown, he turned to the green dragonet. "Kal, you can't take Piper's things. They don't belong to you. They belong to Piper."
Kal whined and looked up at her boy. "I'm sure she didn't know, P'las..." Nibal told his father, not liking to see his dragon get upset like this. "She knows now, though. Isn't that right, Kal? You won't take Piper's stuff now, right?" The green nodded, hoping that her boy could get her out of trouble.
Peri sighed. Nibal thought that the green was much more innocent that the man believed. "Well, okay. But don't do it again, Kal." He was tired and didn't really have the heart to tell Nibal he felt the green had known exactly what she was doing.
Nibal grinned as his dad let Kal off the hook. "Hey, Kal. Next time we're at the mall, I'll buy you something so you will have things just like Piper!"
Perilas managed not to facepalm as he walked back into the living room to get that rest he really needed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:42 pm
Journal entry: 07/25/08
Guess what! P'las set me up a class with the sub I had my last magic class with. He said he'd gone to greet her since she was new and all and ended up arranging the class for me. How nice! The class was fun. Since there was just me in it, Dr. Walker (that's what she said to call her) held it in her office. It was a bit messy, but she said she was still trying to sort everything out, being new and all. I offered to help her and she was very thankful about that. So, while we talked about magic, I helped her sort some of the piles. She said I couldn't see some of them, since they were about the other kids and stuff, but there were a lot for me to sort, still.
Anyways, she told me a lot about magic, going into some stuff we'd talked about in class in a bit more detail. She had a few simple spells that she said I should be able to do. She let me pick out one and I picked a water summoning spell. Dr. Walker said I had to think and make myself believe that the water was actually there.
So I practiced a bit and couldn't get it to happen. While I rested and sorted some more papers, Dr. Walker talked some more about magic. She said she actually couldn't perform any spells herself, but she'd read about magic a bit. Then she said I could go home and to practice my water summoning some more.
I finally made some water appear a little while ago, but it was very tiring. Kal was a bit startled when I made the water drop on her head. Oops. I hadn't meant to, but I'd been holding my hand over her head without realizing it and when I lost control of the water, it fell onto her head and woke her up. She wasn't too mad about it, though...
-Nibal
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