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Avery wasn't really paying attention to much else, other than blankly staring at the dragon, but when Colette pulled her hand from his, he remembered that he had been doing something rather important. He spun around, and saw Spiro, and waved. "Hey, Spiro! You got any bandaids? Colette got a scratch, it's all dirty... Mom says you're supposed to clean it with soap and water... but..." he trailed off, not knowing what to do to solve this. The only thing he could do was go get an adult.


Alida blinked as she was patted on the head, and then abruptly left alone. She sighed, a bit diappointed, she'd wanted to play with the baby a little more. Oh, well, I have work to do anyway. At least the beach looks nicer than it did this morning... She walked over to the next peice of rubble and worked at getting it over to the dumpster.


Sybil nodded solemnly, and said, "Hello, Yuki. You're friends with my big brother, right?" She was talking about Ritsu. If he wasn't friends, and had come here to terrorize her brother (which, sadly, was easy to do) she was ready to defend him. But she didn't get bad vibes, so she thought he was safe to be around. She crept a bit closer.


Ritsu stayed quiet, waiting for Sybil and Yuki to get to know each other a little bit. He didn't want to ruin anything if they decided they liked each other, so he just contented himself with being grateful for the rest from working. Why is she staring so much? I know she likes to, but... She's usually a little more discreet about it. He played with a small peice of driftwood in the sand while he thought about it.


Rime had finally waded into the water, and reached the couch, which she began to drag towards the shore. It was water-logged and probably useless, but if it could be dried out, it was a very nice couch. Not surprising, considering where it had come from.

She got onto dry land and it took more effort to move the couch, so she stopped dragging it, and bodily lifted it from the water and set it a few feet on land. Water gushed from it's padding, eventually slowing to rivulets that made their way back to the ocean.

She shouted, to anyone who cared to listen, "Anyone want a couch?" Her voice was deeper than usual, with a rumble on the lower tones, but it was somehow still feminine.

Avery grinned. "Wow, that's great, Spiro! You're ready for anything, ain't'cha?"

He winced when the dragon bellowed, but he thought he caught a familiar tone in the voice, and he whirled, looking completely aghast, and going a little pale.

"...Mom..?" He choked out quietly, just about the quietest and most still he'd ever been. He was standing with his feet spread out, and his hands at his hips, like he was getting ready for an old west showdown.


Sybil ignored the sounds of people shouting, and continued her slow creep towards Yuki, still staring. Ritsu laughed kind of nervously, and waved a hand at her a little. "Sybil... you'll scare him... please... please don't do that."

She looked at him and shrugged, but stopped, for the moment at least.


Alida had reached the dumpster, and was now working at shoving it up the ramp that Arafel had so nicely provided, and it was working well.

Now I only have to do this several thousand more times, and the beach should be good as new. She thought drily, as the rubble tumbled from the top of the ramp and she dusted her gloves off on each other.

She paused to turn around and take a look at the beach, and her eyebrows about flew into her hairline. Her mom... had transformed? But why? She never did that! Weird. I'll have to ask her about that later...


Rime rumbled deeply, and shrugged her wings. So no one wanted it, she'd let it dry out, and see if it was salvagable. She began to look around for anything else that was large enough to be worth her time, and her gaze settled on a large spire of rock rising into the air. Normally it would take a crane and a lot of pulling to get it out, but Rime was certain she could handle it.

Alida dusted off her hands after depositing another chunk into the bin, and then turned to look at their progress. They'd been here most of the day, and it showed, at least in patches. The beach wasn't clean, not by any stretch of the imagination, but there was more sand visible than there had been in the morning.

She noticed Arafel letting the baby down, and watched for a moment, wondering if she could take a break and go play with him... he was such a cute one...

She sighed. She better ask Arafel if it was okay, first. So she trotted over to the woman, and tried to figure out how to get her point across.

She came up with writing in the sand, if it was flat and there was a stick.. or she could use her finger... Wonderful, Alida, that's the best you can come up with? I bet she'd figure it out if you pantomimed. She's smart.

She reached Arafel, and bit her lip, glancing over at the baby once more. She waited until she had Arafel's attention, and then tilted her head questioningly, as she pointed at herself, and then the Akira. She smiled hopefully.

((whoops. This was supposed to be in the apartments...))

The little conversation was soon interrupted by a less-than-enthused voice,
"Hello."
Hatori had stepped up beside Yuki and Ritsu from Kami-sama knows where, bright eyes peering out at them from his arms, a little child happily hanging onto the older male's hair. The dragon shifted, glancing about- Ah... Looks like the other guy he brought along broke off somewhere... Oh well. He probably wouldn't be too far. It wasn't like him to wander off without a reason, so he simply forgot it, demonstrating his patience by the fact he seemed to barely notice the fidgetty child in his arms, looking warily towards the girl near Yuki...
"Has anyone seen Freize?"
Who knew where that guy could be.. Leaving him with all these kids.

The aforementioned 'mutt had begun trodding around a large chunk of rubble that was a bit larger than half his size, and twice his size in width, sizing it up for a moment or two before moving to place his hands on either side of it... He hadn't done any heavylifting for a long while, and although this wasn't really heavy, it might be some work on this terrain... He needed it. He drew in a deep breath, curled in his fingertips, and lifted the heavy chunk of debris.. He took a careful step back, gaze darting back and forth... And then he moved forward carefully, going to dispose of it. See? Nothing too heavy. Maybe for a human, but he wasn't one of those, so he didn't worry about that kind of stuff so often.

Spiro nodded,
"Yeah, take it."
He settled back afterwards, jamming the rest of the bandages in his pocket, staring down uncertainly towards the floor..
"Guess so.."
He didn't really know how to respond to Avery's comment.. Was he ready for anything? Well, maybe, but... Not... Not ANYTHING... But.. Hm, drop it. He glanced curiously back up towards them after a moment or so of his own thoughts. He stepped forward, taking the wrapped bandage without a word and beginning to undo the wrappings- he was used to opening these things, with all the times he ended up hurting himself.. He then took her hand, still silent, taking the bandaid and carefully applying it to the wound.
"There..."
He nodded, mostly to himself, and then crumpled up the trash in a fist and jammed it in his pocket with the rest of the medical supplies.

Souka was wandering about the beach, looking over the rubble in a disdained manner. What a terrible scene... He ended up stumbling into someone familiar, and relaxed as soon as he recognised her. Arafel. He smiled up towards her silently, reaching up to tug at her sleeve. He wasn't one that was known to talk much, but it didn't really matter. The creature was none too bright anyways, so just walking around with his dense smiles and discouraged frowns got across his feelings very well. (Souka: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/Soul_kins/Freize.jpg )

Yuki jumped, just barely. He didn't have much of a problem with people sneaking up on him... it was when they came on frontal that messed with his head.
He looked up, smiling just slightly..even though it seemed so distant "Your feeling better?" the boy edged behind hatori, trying to find a bit of protection from this girl that wouldn't back off. It made him nervious... very very nervious.
This was good... He'd.. get rid of himself. Bottle his real emotions away, then stuf fit in a safe and throw away the key. He'd become what everyone allways wanted to be... then people would like him, and.. maybe he could like himself.

He coughed softly into a fisted hand... flinching when it upset the rib. Why couldn't he have broken his arm or something... something that coughing wouldn't have affected. He did it so much, as hard as he tried not to.
He was suprised... Arafel would take him out with her all the time. She never seemed to worry about him getting weak and transforming... She didn't lock him up inside his room for safety. She...was just wierd.


The were-pup nearly bursted with excitment. He loved love, simple as that. Attention and everything. His tail wagged at 50 mph (not really but you get the idea) as he apparently deciding licking her face was the best thing to do at the moment.
He snuggeled down into the cuddle, seemign to calm down enough for that.

Arafel chuckled, watching the two "I'll let you watch him then.." aa.. it was too cute for words. If only she could have a picture... "oh! wait!" she grabbed a camera out of nowhere, as mothers tend to do and snapped a picture, leaving the poor baby blind from the flash. The woman grinned, and set the camera away where she had got it from heading off to pick up more things.
She paused, looking at the familiar green child-thing that came up next to her. Her tail gave a single wag as she patted the soulkin on the head with a smile. Her little way of a silent hello back. Something in her made it feel wierd to speak unless spoken to. Yay for new additions to the family. Her two were tucked away some where safe, with chu. Misoka was around here somewhere... Probably in the water.

Colette blinked watching him apply the bandage so easily smiling her usual bright smile "Thankyou!" somehow she meant it as if he had just saved her life, and.. possibly in her eyes he had. Who knows...
"Its smart to be well-prepared! So.. Spiro is smart!" she declayred firmly, moving to her feet, getting caught up in Avery's general enthusiasm. "My hand? its fine! see?" she wiggled her fingers as proof, resisting the urge to flinch when it actually hurt.
"So.. we should get back to cleaning! So everyone can come back and have fun..." she seemed very sincere about the whole thing.. cleaning it up and whatnot so other people could use it again. Back to the pleasing everyone but herself... Even if it hurt she'd go on. That was all part of being the chosen.. right?
She started to go.. but instead found herself falling face first giving a startled yelp before eating sand.

((*shoves misoka in cuz he's cute..* XD))
Misoka was infact in the water. Where he allways was if he could find it... which was why his attire consisted only of swim trunks. Even when they weren't going anywhere near any. He had submerged as far as he dared to go... Hopefully it wasn't deep enough to get himself eaten. He was quite content at the moment... the water was still stirred into a murky fog. So he felt well hidden, which made him feel safe. even if there was some sort of shark out there...
The sea-lion shonen boy slunk along the bottum, avoiding creatures and whatnot before picking up a small pipe, hauling it back to the more shallow water. He poked his head out, catching his breath as he dropped tossed the pipe up onto shore. There.. someone should find it now.... and then he wouldn't have to leave the comfort of his sheltered water.

((Hatori's going to become parental.. o__O))

Sybil furrowed her brow slightly. Why did he hide behind the older boy? All she wanted was to get close to understand him more...


Avery slapped his forehead as Colette tripped, and he went over to pick her up out of the sand. "Are you okay, Colette? Didja get sand in your bandaid? That stings, I know. I hope not, 'cause you just got it cleaned out! Maybe we should take it easy for a while?"

He looked over at Spiro, too, to see what he was thinking.


Rime had noticed someone else entering the water and pulling rubble out, and he rumbled a friendly greeting at the boy. "Hello, are you here with someone?" she asked amiably.