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 Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:39 am
Chao looked up from the book she was reading at the thunk and stood, fearing Reid had gotten the need to fly again and was throwing himself off various objects around the house. "Reid?" she called.
"Mu?" came the response anc the sounds grew louder and suddenly Chao was staring at a ball of... things. Not just one or two kinds of things, but many things that should, in all reality, not be sticking together like they seemed to be doing. There were pillows and shirts and plushies and socks and a chair leg and... Claus?!
"Reeeid..." Chao began, quickly rescuing the very freightened looking baby dragon, and her son's head poked around the side, "what is that?"
"Ka'amaree!" he chirped warmly.
Chao stared and Reid grinned, though the grin started to fade after a few moments passed and his mother just didn't stop staring. "Mu?"
"Reid, where'd you get the Katamari?"
"Fai!"
"...right, we're going to go have a little chat with your brother..."
-roolll-
"No! No, that's okay, just leave the Katamari here."
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:41 am
"Fai?"
"Hrrm?"
"Wha're they doin'?"
Fair raised one red eyebrow, finger pausing where it was, suspended over the 'Channel Up' button on the remote.
"What's who doing?"
"Them," the firefly gestured to the teev and Fae swivled his bi-colored eyes to look where his brother was pointing. They'd landed, of all places, on the Health channel. The man on the screen was puffing a breath into a woman lying, unbreathing, on the grass. It looked quite like what the woman and man on the last channel had been doing, except they'd both been standing.
"Be sure to keep the chin tilted up and the airway clear-"
"Oh, that's CPR, if someone stops breathing than you do it to help them start again so they don't die."
"Die?"
Oh, it figured his little brother didn't quite grasp the concept of death... "Erm... they stop moving and go to sleep... forever."
Reid blinked, "why?" Who would ever choose to go to sleep forever? Sleep was boring!
"Well... they don't have a choice, it just happens."
"Oh...."
The weather worked let out a strained sight and raked a hand through his hair, why did he have to explain this??
"Oh Reid... don't worry about it, okay? I've seen this special before, want me to teach you CPR? That way if you see someone and they're not breathing you can-" try to "help them."
Reid looked pensive then nodded, "yeah Fai show Reid," another firm nod and Fai began to go throught the steps of checking to see if someone was breathing, clearing airways and so on with Reid listening rapty, determined to take it all in.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:30 am
~A Message Left~
*briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing*
*click*
*BEEP*
Chaoooooo! Chaooooooo! Pick up the phoooooone!
Fine! Don't!
Morbid, here. I'm just calling t--Mummy! Who're you talking to?
Shhh...I'm calling Ms. Chao.
Oh. Why?
I need to ask her something.
Oh. Okay.
Anyway, like I was saying. I'm calling to tell you that I just got a hefty paycheck and I'd like you and Reid t--
REEEEEEEID! HI, REEEEEEEID!
*crash*
Oopsie...
Oh god...*shuffleshuffleclink*
I wanted to know if you and Reid wanted t--
*SCHPLOOSH*
OH, GOD! POE!
*assorted noises and unintelligible voices*
Uh...okay. Yeah. I wanted to know if you and Reid would like to join me and Ike for a day on the town. Yanno, go to the mall and such? Ike really misses R--
SAY YES, MISS CHAOOOO! SAY YEEEmmmphhhmpfffffmplbmph...
Ike really misses Reid and I'd really like to blow my money on something useful. Please call me back when you get this! Bye!
*SCHPLOOSH*
NO! OH MY FU*click*
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:24 am
Chao pushed the door closed with her hip, holding a bag of groceries in one arm while the other was rendered useless by a fiercely clinging Reid.
The firefly fluttered his wings and let go, doing a sort of glide down to the ground before toddling off down the hall, humming to himself, as his mother set the last bag down on the table.
"There! That should get us through the week," the guardian stated with a grin, flicking her eyes from the bags to her son who'd stopped his humming and his walking. "What's up Reid?"
"Tha ligh's glowing," Reid replied, pointing with one finger up onto the table which housed the answering machine.
"So it is..." Chao replied and was at her son's side in a moment, she clicked on the 'play' button.
"This was left pretty recent..." she paused as the message started.The message ~A Message Left~
*briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing...briiiiiiiiiiiiiing*
*click*
*BEEP*
Chaoooooo! Chaooooooo! Pick up the phoooooone!
Fine! Don't!
Morbid, here. I'm just calling t--Mummy! Who're you talking to?
"No honey, it's just a recording and now we've missed like half of it..." Chao pressed the back button and shushed her son.Quote: Shhh...I'm calling Ms. Chao.
Oh. Why?
I need to ask her something.
Oh. Okay.
Anyway, like I was saying. I'm calling to tell you that I just got a hefty paycheck and I'd like you and Reid t--
REEEEEEEID! HI, REEEEEEEID!
"Reid, shhh!"Quote: *crash*Oopsie...Oh god...*shuffleshuffleclink*
I wanted to know if you and Reid wanted t--
*SCHPLOOSH*
OH, GOD! POE!
*assorted noises and unintelligible voices*
Uh...okay. Yeah. I wanted to know if you and Reid would like to join me and Ike for a day on the town. Yanno, go to the mall and such? Ike really misses R--
SAY YES, MISS CHAOOOO! SAY YEEEmmmphhhmpfffffmplbmph...
Ike really misses Reid and I'd really like to blow my money on something useful. Please call me back when you get this! Bye!
*SCHPLOOSH*
NO! OH MY FU*click*
Reid grinned and glowed warmly and Chao, with a small glance at the answering machine's caller ID, punched in Rabid's number.
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:44 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:28 pm
--reserved for Aido homecoming--
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:41 pm
[November 21st, 2005]
[Late night arrivals.]
Deimos grumbled in anger as he had to hitch up hsi unconscious mother up onto his back once more. No matter his stength, this was tiring. He grounded under her weight and sorely wished the bus ahd not leftt right before he made it to the exit. He was already across the port of gambino when he looked to the side and a familiar rolling hill caught his eye. He changed course heading for the house when he dearly hoped her could get a bit of rest, and maybe some advil for his soon to be aching back.
The house was quiet, only a few lights were on as the excitement from the past few days had managed to drain nearly the entire household of energy and most of the members were currently asleep.
Aido yawned slightly, slumped at the kitched table with head forehead resting on the smooth surface, her bad arm cradled in its sling against her chest.
Chao placed down a steaming mug of tea down beside her and gave her daughter's shoulder a pat. "You should just go back to bed, hun."
"Mmm..." Aido murmured but didn't move.
Deimos hufffed as he finnaly made it up the hill. He swore that hill hadn't been that large before. He raised a fist and pounded on the door extra loudly. He was in no mood to be discreet. He wanted to get her of his back, now!!!
Aido blinked her eyes open at the pounding and released the steaming mug.
"Ai! Would you mind getting that?" came the call from the bathroom.
"Sure 'Mu," Aido called and stood up slowly, heading for the front door and turning the knob, "hello..." she called and blinked at the duo, "Dei? Miss Jizzy?"
Deimos would have been glad to see Aido, if he couldn't swear he felt his spine cracking. " 'lo Ai." He said with a grunt and continued forward her needed to let Mother down somewhere before his back broke.
Aido gave her head a shake and kicked the door fully open, ushering Deimos inside and into the nearest door off the hallway which led into the living room. Giving her sling bound arm a glare, as it rendered her helping Deimos annoyingly hard, she gestured for Deimos to lay Jizzy down and hopped back into the hall, "Aemu!" she called.
A toilet flush and moment later Chao's head poked out. "What is it? Who's here?"
"Dei and Jizzy, Jizzy's unconscious."
Chao hurried down the hall and into the living room, "what happened?"
Deimos let her down and gave a cheerful sigh. He bent backwards, his back cracking several times. "Thanks Ai. I wouldn't have made it back to HQ." He muttered, doing a few strenches before looking up at Chao. "Oh. right, what happened? The guy backhanded Mother, so I beat him up.."
"Oh...well," how do you react to that? Chao sighed, "I support the retailiation but, ugh, please just tell me you didn't maim him or something Dei."
Aido nodded and sat on one of the chair's armrests heavily, yawning as the adreniline dissapeared once again. Oh this day was starting to feel like a never ending rollar coaster....
Deimos gave a rather malevolent smirk as he recaled what he'd doen to the man. 'I set him on fire." He said, an edge of pride in his voice. He'd finally cast the fire.
"Oh hell," Chao groaned and sat down heavily, shaking her head. This could mean serious reprocusions for Jizzy in the future.... "Oh Deimos...."
"It was pretty cool too. See, I'll show you." He began to glance around the living room. "Anything you don't mind being burnt here?' He asked, moving to a table and picking up a notepad.
"Honestly? Everything. No fire here," Chao stated firmly and glanced at Aido, who had a look of mildly dazed shock on her face at the idea of Deimos frying someone, her currently sharp sense of mortality catching up with her.
Chao couldn't help but shoot a glare at Deimos. The teen stood and nudged Aido towards the door, "Aido, go upstairs, wake up Rico and go to bed, okay?"
The Tale came to her senses, "I'll get Uncle Rico," it was by no means an agreement to the other terms and Chao sighed, rubbing at her temples and turned back to Deimos and Jizzy.
"Shame. It looked great." He said putting down the notepad and cracking his back once more for good measure before ploping down on the floor. "He hurt Mother though.. See.. I wasn't even able to find the other earing.." He said, pointing to his mother's ear, which was bleeding, the earing having been ripped out. Her cheek and forehead were slightly purpled as well.
"I understand Deimos, honestly, I do. But you might've gotten Jizzy into a lot of trouble by doing this, people rarely take warmly to being flayed," Chao sighed deeply, "people sue, they fight in ways you can't just solve with violence. Buuuuutttt, we'll have to deal with that later. For now let's get some bandages and some ice and try to get Jizzy comfortable."
"Sue?" Deimos asked questioningly. "I can take on Pauls, Marks, Marys AND Sues if they mess with us." He said, standing to help her get the bandages and giving the air a one two punch.
". . ." Chao stared, "erm, court sue, with lawyers and such, not fanfiction sue Deimos." She shook her head and glanced up as Rico padded downstairs, Aido following close behind with Reid clinging to her good arm.
"And now everyone's up...."
"'Lo Reid, Lo' agaian Ai." He said, flashing a small smile at the pair, while entirely ignoring Rico. "But I can take on the lawyer's too. Lawyer's aren't fireproof, are they?"
"No, but they multiply and might try to take away all your Mum's money and you away from her, or just... this is something you can't fight with violence Deimos, it just makes it worse," Chao stated with a sad shake of her head.
Reid nodded to the older Mishap, waving one hand in greeting.
Rico, armed with a first aid kit, headed for the living room.
Deimos wrinkled his nose. "These lawyer's sound nasty.." He said. They sounds like some sorrt of virus that multiplied and made other people's lives miserable.
Back in the living room, Jizzy stirred slightly. "owww.." she said softly, her hand going to her bloody ear. It stung..
"They are, mostly. Now, all three of you, go into the kitchen for a bit or upstairs and sleep, while Rico and I talk to Jizzy, alright?"
Rico frowned and sat down by Jizzy, "hey hun..." he murmured worriedly, pulling out some bandages and a wet towet and moved her hand away from the cut.
Deimos gave a short sigh, but a possibility popped into is head and he went over to Reid and Ai. 'Come on, I'l show you something cool." He said, working his way up the stairs.
Jizzy arched an eyebrow questioningly. Hun? Why would anyone at work call her hun? She felt her hand being moved away and she became even more confused. She opened her eyes slowly, though one only wenthalfway thanks to a lovely shiner sweeling up there. "Rico? Wha.. why are you at the casino?"
Aido gave the Mishap a worried look and Reid blinked, curious. The duo followed him back up the stairs.
"Is that where you've been?" Rico frowned, "we've been trying to call you all day. You aren't at the casino, you're at mine and Ae's house right now."
Deimos made it up and entered the first familiar room, Reids. "Ok, now promise you won't tell Aunt Chao I did this, k?" He said, smirking as he began to think how he could.. contain the fire to show them.
"Yah.. I..I got fired from the bookstore.. I..I can't afford to lose my other job." SHe said softly, she'd ask how the hell she got here later, after he face stopped throbbing.
Reid tilted his head, "ki..." he replied, not knowing what Deimos was talking about.
Aido stiffened, paling, alarmed. The shadows at her feet perked and stiffened as well, "Deimos, no. No fire."
"What'd they fire you for?" Rico asked, alarmed as he gently began to ripe away the blood from Jizzy's ear.
Chao handed Jizzy a small, cloth wrapped icepack.
"I've got it totally under control." Deimos reassuered them, and focused as Mother had taught him. He imagined the enrgy forming as a ball in his falm and a spark flickered in his hand, growing to a rather large fireball. "See? No toruble!"
"Too many days missed. They said they'd alreadyy found a "more reliable employee.."" SHe sighed. "Thanks.." SHe said, taking the icepack gratefully and pressing it against her sore face.
Aido grimaced and took a step back, hand nestled firmly in the shadows. Dispite Deimos' reassurances she was far from relaxed.
Reid 'ooo'd lightly, tilting his head and taking in the ball of flame which had just suddenly appeared out of nowhere curiously.
"Aren't they not allowed to do that if it's for sickness?" Rico wondered aloud, it didn't sound right....
"No problem," Chao replied and leant back in another chair, "what happened at the casino?"
Deimos closed his fist and the fire sputtered out of existance. 'See, no troubles." He said witha triumphant smirk.
"No idea if they're allowed to or not.." She said, wincing of her face throbbed with the cold. "and in the casino.. I.. There were these drunk guys on one the tables I have, and he got me. I was about to jinx him when he backhanded me and I just kinda.. no idea what happened after.." She said softly.
Aido sighed in relief and released the shadows, which immediately melded back into their normal places. She leant heavily against the wall.
Reid nodded and clapped two hands in approval of the trick.
Rico growled in surpressed rage at the thought of anyone 'getting' Jizzy.
"From what Deimos told me all hell broke loose afterwards. He said he burned the guy..." Chao replied quietly.
Deimos smirked and bowed at the applause. "Cool, isn't it? Just imagien all the great stuff I can do now. I might even get to learn magic, and Jabir said he'd teach em to fly."
"He what? He couldn't have. He hasn't been able to cast at all so far." She said incredilously, one hand pressing tighter with the icepack and the other adjusting her slightly torn vesy back onto her shoulder. SHe did notice Rico's low growl and she felt a bit better, just cause.
Rael's head poked out of Aido's shadow and something seemed to pass between them. Placing Reid on her Companion's back she left the room.
Reid watched his siter leave then turned back to Deimos and nodded lightly, "mhm."
"Well, he said he did and seemed quite interested in giving us a demonstration," Chao replied and flopped fully into one of the chairs.
Deimos leaned in closer to Reid, flopping down on the floor. 'You should have seen it. I was awesome. Like one ofthe superheroes on Tv."
Jizzy gave a small groan, half due to the pain and half due to the fact Dei would now be trying to light every other thing on fire. "Urgh.. Thanks for telling me.." SHe said, sitting up, ignoring her ankle entirely. "I should get going soon though.. call my manager.. beg for forgiveness. all that fun stuff."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:00 am
--reserved for shopping entry--
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:53 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:48 pm
Barton was empty, something that the firefly couldn't help but recognize as distinctly wrong.
No keepers in the stores, no passerbyes on the cobbled stone walkways, no friendly cats or snarling dogs, nothing. No one.
And worst of all, no sounds.
With a bief shudder at the alienness of the town and a flick of his wings Reid turned, catching sight of a small flick of a skirt and a bare foot before it dissapeared behind a corner.
"Mu?" he called, hurrying after her, bare feet slapping against the stones with hard, wet slaps that echoed gainst the buildings and walls, growing in volume rather than lessening. Within moments the sound had grown to an intolerable volume.
With a cry Reid slapped his hands over his ears and launched himself into the air, only to plummet back to the ground, landing, not on stone, but in water.
Gasping at its frigidness he flapped his wings and beat his feet against the muddly bottom, unable to find purchase.
"Need help child...?" it wasn't merely one voice which spoke but many. Some were harsh and scarcastic, other sounded deeply concerned; Some purred, other rumbled; the mosiac of sounds was too much and the firefly cried out, flailing in the water.
Hands gripped his arms, pinning them to his sides-
Reid's eyes snapped open and he bolted upright in his bed with a gasp. The breath did not come willingly, immediately interupted with a series of hacking coughs.
The Mishap raised an arm to grip at his throat, it hurt! What was going on? Why couldn't he breath right?
It was only a few moments before the coughs trailed off, leaving Reid trembling slightly and struggling to push himself off the bed and into the air. Half flying, half walking he headed towards his Mu's room. She'd know what to do, she always did.
Later on Chao would question a bedridden Reid about the bruises on his arms but the fever wrought Mishap would merely mutter something about running into swamps and by the time he was well again both had forgotten the dark marks had even exsisted.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:52 pm
 [November 30th, 2005]
~Special Unit Beta Mission: J.A.C.K.E.T Retrival~-Liam, Rabid, Chao, Ike, Reid- -Click here for rp-
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:53 pm
[December 5th, 2005]
~Wandering walks and talks of spleens.~- Deimos, Ike, Reid- -Click here for rp-
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:48 pm
~The Final Stop~
Liam panted and groaned, struggling under the last of the presents. He now remembered Reid's gift and suddenly realized why he'd been having so much trouble carrying it down the halls. He silently cursed himself and dropped the gifts by the door.
"Are we done?"
"Yeah, we're done," Rabid smiled and placed a note atop Chao's large stack of presents, "Now we need to go finish decorating."
"Yay!"
"Can I put up some more tinsel?"
"Uuuuuurgh..."The Note Chao, my wifey! Your gift from me is a very traditional one for the Vavvian people. In Mei-Vaar, only one holiday is celebrated. This holiday is called "En Ai'aleth" which roughly translated to "The Day of Giving". For months before this day, the Vavvian gem shops are horribly busy. The people are buying the an'raei; gems that can be filled with most anything and set in jewelry. This traditions allows for each Vavvian to give and recieve a different an'raei each year. According to legend, the an'raei are enchanted and set a charm correspondinding to the meaning of the an'raei on its owner. It seems to be fairly true. Your an'raei can be strung onto a chain to be worn as a necklace or just placed around to look cool. Yours and only yours symbolizes protection. Yes, that is a bit of my blood...healing properties and whatnot. I figured Reid may be wanting a new piano bench. Vavvians generally send foreign benches with their pianos, so having a real Vavvian is much safer. Much luff!
Hey, Chao. It's Liam. I was cleaning out my old apartment and found your gift from me. It's very old and very Vavvian. it doesn't work so well, but it's pretty, no? I hope to see you soon.
Reid! Ike got u a piktur and Ike think its good Ike hop Reid liks!
Hello, Reid. I thought Ike said you liked dragons, so I picked one out for you. I hope you like blue. I hope to be meeting you at the party!
Sincerely,
Clematis
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:52 am
'Look before you leap' it was an important lesson, one ingrained into Chao skull long ago, yet as she pulled open the door to hallway and tugged at her dress she didn't even notice as her son leapt up and over the packages in front of their door, or even when he asked her what they were.
Ah, the trials and consequences of correctly stringing on a Heanzian smei-formal sleeve.
Reid grimaced as his Mu topppled over, dress clumping up as bare legs lay half sprawled over the boxes. "Ow..."
"Mu ki?" Reid asked patting at her cheek with one hand, the bells around his neck jungling slightly with the motion.
"Owo... yeah, m'alright, just a little bruised," Chao assured him quickly before rolling over and surveying the boxes, "but what in Heal's names are these?"
Reid moved away, doing a mix of a flutter and climb up to Chao's knee to look at the boxes, "Mu's nam's on 'em..." he called back, grumbling as Chao sat up and moved him to the side to investigate the boxes.
"Some of these are adressed to you as well Reid," glancing inside at the clock the teen shrugged, it wouldn't matter if they took a few more minutes. "Come on, let's open them."
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:53 am
The trip home was only supposed to be a short one, head back, check in to see if Rico had arrived and/or escorted Aido or if Chao had one more reason to grumble at her brother once he returned.
But they had yet to actually make it past Reid's room. The talisman which had been hung up near Reid's prayer doll was gone, or rather, replaced with something new.
The spirit was regarding both Chao and Reid curiously and they had no qualms about returning the stare.
Reid was the first one to break the silence. Smiling warmly he waved to the spirit, "'Lo Ave," the name was spoken with the ease of one who'd spoken it many times and earned a startled look from Chao.
The spirit focused on the child and a smile flit across his maw. With ease he floated downwards and proceeded to wrap around the odd being which had known his name. Hallo small one.
Finally giving her head a shake Chao snapped from her stupor, "Reid? What's going on?"
The firefly looked up and blinked, "Reid n'Mu 're meetin' Ave. Ave Mu, Mu Ave."
"Reid have you met Ave before?"
"Nope!" the firefly grinned easily, "bu' Reid has now, ca' Ave stay?"
Blank eyes turned on Chao and the guardian shivered slightly, "I...erm..."
"Please?" he'd finally gotten that word down.
"I-well, okay, just-yeah. Come on Reid we need to go check on your Uncle!" with that the flustered guardian scooped up her son and Ave flit away, only to follow them through the closet portal back home.
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