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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:55 am
*
Ecavi had sat in the living room quietly for about an hour after she'd gotten home and found Min wasn't there. She'd gone upstairs and brought Ceri and Myze to the living room, feeling bad that she'd had to leave them alone (though she trusted Fallen and Briar to know what to do if something happened) and deciding to entertain them for awhile. Myze has stayed quiet since Ecavi returned, quietly wondering to herself what would happen when the dragon returned home. Ceri had brought her yo-yo with her downstairs, so Ecavi had decided to try to teach her to use it right.
"Is it around your finger?" she asked the thule.
"Yah!" Ceri exclaimed, holding up her right hand to show that the string was around her index finger.
"Not that one," Ecavi smiled and moved the string over a finger. Ceri was always a good distraction if something was bothering her.
"Oh," Ceri stared at the finger that the string was moved to, "Huur!" She threw the yo-yo at the floor, but nothing happened.
"Not like that," Ecavi said with a short laugh as she collected it and wrapped the string around it again, "Come here."
"Kay," Ceri cooed as she was lifted from the floor and sat on Ecavi lap.
"Like this," Ecavi said, taking Ceri's hand in her own, and gently turning her hand so the yo-yo rolled off of it. The yo-yo didn't return to her hand, though.
"This?" Ceri repeated and made the same motion with her empty hand.
"Yes, only with the yo-yo in it," Ecavi explained as she leaned over and rolled the yo-yo up again.
*
The afternoon went quickly despite the fact Jasmine hadn't arrived yet. Ceri still hadn't figured out the yo-yo, and though Myze did take a turn she didn't figure it out. Ecavi made supper everyone and even set some aside for Jasmine in case the dragon returned home, but she couldn't take it any longer. As much as she wanted to trust that Jasmine would come home, she knew the dragon was pushing it now.
"All right," Ecavi announced after everyone had eaten, "I'm going to go try to find Jasmine; you all have to behave while I'll gone."
No one seemed that surprised, Ceri even continued playing with some peas that were still on the table. Ecavi eyed the aduthule for a moment, and then sighed, "I'll take Ceri and Myze with me, it'll be easier on you guys."
Ceri perked up this time, "Noo! Don't wanna. Cold!"
"Ceri, it's not that bad," Ecavi sighed.
"I go," Myze said from her spot beside Ceri at the table.
"Hm?" Ecavi looked at the night thule, "You'll come without Ceri?"
Myze nodded.
"Ceri, Myze is coming with me," Ecavi looked back to the day thule. She hoped this would make Ceri come with her, since Ceri was the hardest to look after and taking Myze wouldn't help them out that much.
"Cold out," Ceri explained again with a pout.
"Fine, you guys can handle her?" She looked to Briar and the Noodle Animals.
Briar and Fallen nodded, but Nya cried out, "I want to go too."
"All right," Ecavi agreed. Nya did hang around Jasmine a lot.
*
Ecavi walked along a street in Barton wringing her hands. Myze was clinging onto her back and looking over her shoulder, enjoying the cool air and dimming lights. Nya was flying several feet about her looking around for any sign of Jasmine. They weren't having any luck, but Ecavi kept walking.
"Where would she go after that?" She questioned.
"She's not here," Nya said sadly, fluttering down to eye level.
"Museum?" Myze suggested in Ecavi's ear, she wasn't sure where Ecavi had gotten Jasmine but if she had run away herself, she'd go to the Aduthule museum.
"She wouldn't go to the museum, Myze," Ecavi sighed.
"Her museum," Myze tried to explain.
"What?" Ecavi turned her head to look at Myze, and after staring for a moment, she realized what the thule was suggesting, "No, I don't think she'd go back there. But we could check, she might have gone to see if Sunny or someone was there." She turned around and started heading in the right direction. Nya ascended once again and kept an eye out for the golden dragon. It didn't take them long to reach the adoption agency, or to find out that she wasn't there.
Nya flew up higher and circled around the building, Ecavi was about to shout up to see if she saw anything but a swish of Myze's long tail reminded her that she also has wings.
"Hold on," she warned Myze, who tightened her clawed grip on Ecavi's shoulder as the fairy wings fluttered and lifted Ecavi off of the ground. Soon she was in the air with Nya, joining the search for the dragon girl. They flew some distance from the agency, nearing the west of the town. It was getting darker, harder to see and Nya was getting tired. Myze's violet eyes were bright and wide as ever as she looked around the sky, not at all bothered by the height- only bothered by the occasional drop in altitude caused by Ecavi's lack of practice in flying.
"Hm?" Myze murmured as she caught sight of something golden flying low to the ground. It was coming from the direction the Aduthule museum was in, and neither Ecavi nor Nya were looking. The night thule watched for a moment before moving her head to beside Ecavi's ear.
"Min," she informed the fairy.
"What?" Ecavi asked, looking over at the thule. Myze's voice was so quiet that it was difficult for her to startle anyone so Ecavi managed to stay level as she was pointed back in the direction of home, the direction Jasmine was now heading. The fairy couldn't see as clearly in the dark as Myze could, but she headed in that direction with a call to Nya, "Come on."
*
Jasmine was having a hard time staying airborne the entire way home, but was managing decent stretches in the air. When she was almost home she stumbled to the ground and walked the rest of the way there without realizing that her mother, Myze and Nya were all following behind her.
"Great," she murmured when the house came into view, the front light was on. Of course, it could have been off and she'd have the same reaction. The light on meant either that mum had gone looking for her, or was waiting for her to come back and being obvious about it. If it had been off it would have been a sign of how much trouble she was in. She went up the steps quickly and pulled at the door, only to find that it was locked.
"What the heck?" she groaned and pulled harder at the door, with no luck.
"Jasmine," a voice came from behind her. It was a serious and calm-angry tone of the voice that belonged to her mother, and it made her tense. Jasmine turned around slowly to find Ecavi standing on the ground in front of the porch with Myze at her shoulder and Nya flying above her. Ecavi looked mad, Myze indifferent, and Nya worried.
"Forget your key?" Ecavi asked.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:11 am
"Der," she exclaimed, looking to the kitty plushie beside her, "Don."
She picked up the journal with some difficulty, considering the book was of great size compared to the one-foot tall girl, and held it out for the plush to see.
Proud of her work, she closed the orange and yellow book and got to her feet. She walked around the kitty plushie and picked up the yo-yo.
"Yoyoyoyo," she babbled as she picked it up. With an ignorant smile, she held the yoyo in a hand briefly before tossing it to the ground in an attempt to make it work. Being tangled up and not tied around a finger, the yo-yo just fell and rolled across the floor. Ceri wasn't disturbed by this; instead, she followed after it and tried again. After several attempts, she was finally losing spirit.
'Ceri?' a telepathic voice asked tonelessly, just as Myze peeked around the entryway to the playroom while looking for her twin.
"No wirk," Ceri said in a whiny voice, halting in her current chase after the yo-yo. Myze's violet eyes moved from her sister to the yo-yo just as it rolled into the wall. The night thule was almost surprised to see it rolling along with the string all tangled up and around it in odd ways.
'It's tangled,' she informed her sister telepathically.
"Agled?" Ceri repeated.
" 'avi," Myze suggested, this time speaking aloud.
"Myze no help?" Ceri asked, going over to the wall and retrieving her toy. Myze gave her sister a calculating stare before finally holding out a claw, thinking that maybe she'd be able to figure it out. Ceri gave a squeal and waddled over to hand her sister the yo-yo, then waited impatiently as if expecting Myze to be able to fix it instantly. This was not the case, however. Myze took the yo-yo in one clawed hand and attempted to pull at the string with the other.
'I can't,' Myze admitted apathetically to Ceri, holding out the claw, 'Ask 'avi.'
Ceri frowned and took the yo-yo back, attempting to toss it again in hopes it would suddenly work. Of course, it did not magically untangle, so she picked it up and ran from the room to find Ecavi to help put it right.
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:26 pm
"Ceri," Ecavi called as she came down the stairs carrying a box, "Myze."
Myze looked from Ceri to the doorway but Ceri continued to try to untangle her yoyo.
"I thought you'd like to do some painting," Ecavi announced as she came into the playroom, she was carrying a box similar to the one she'd had set out when they had painted their room after they moved in. She went to the low table in the playroom and set the box down on top of it, extracting some big sheets of paper.
"Well," she said, looking at the aduthule, "Come on."
Ecavi spread the papers out over the table and got out some small containers of paint. She smiled, thinking back to when they painted the girls' room and Ceri had stuck her hands into the trays of paint. She started unscrewing the lids from the paints while Ceri waddled over babbling cheerfully while still clinging to her yoyo.
"Panpanpan," she babbled, stopping at the table and grabbing a green bottle of paint. With a giggle she held it up and turned it over- it took only a couple seconds for paint to slide down the inside of the bottle, landing in a glob on the paper as well as on the day thule's hands and yoyo. Myze walked over and eyed the mess Ceri had already made.
"Good work, Ceri," Ecavi beamed, surprising both Aduthule with her positive attitude towards spilling paint. Even Ceri knew usually when she did something like this, even if 'avi didn't get mad, she usually tried to correct her. The expressions were enough to make Ecavi grin and explain, "We're painting, if you want to do it like that go ahead. It just might take a little longer to dry."
"Heeeee," Ceri giggled, set her yoyo aside, and grabbed an opened jar of pink paint and made a tossing motion with it at the page. She dropped the container back with the others and put both of her hands into the paint on her paper.
"Go on Myze," Ecavi said, pushing some blue paint toward the girl. When greeted with a sour expression she pulled a paintbrush out of the box and handed it to Myze, "I had a feeling you wouldn't like finger-painting as much."
Myze hesitated before taking the paintbrush in one claw and the blue paint container in the other. She gave an almost thankful glance to her guardian before moving to a spot at the table a safe distance from her sister's messy finger painting. With a bit of trouble, she situated the paintbrush in her claw, dipped it into the blue paint and started to paint just one big blue rectangular shape on the paper.
With a grin, Ecavi helped herself to some purple paint and started making smudgy looking shapes with her hands on a page in front of her. Ceri continued to mix her pink and green blobs over her page, making a thick coat of multicolored paint on it. Myze, without hesitation or thought to her sister or guardian, returned the blue paint and grabbed the yellow paint. She wiped the paint off of the brush on a nearby page that wasn't being used and then started making yellow dots on the blue page.
"Alright!" Ecavi exclaimed when she finished her work, "Look here, guys."
She'd figured it'd be a good idea to at least test them on some stuff while they had fun painting, it couldn't hurt. They look so small and have never seemed to change; she felt that maybe she was underestimating them. Ecavi held up her page, which had some shapes done in finger-paint on them. Ceri looked up from her work, keeping both hands in paint, and Myze set her paintbrush down before looking up.
"What's the first one?" Ecavi asked.
'Circle' Myze said mentally.
"Blurkle!" Ceri squealed happily, trying to repeat what Myze had said.
"Very good, Ceri," Ecavi beamed, "What color is it?"
This time Myze didn't say anything, but looked at Ceri expectantly.
"Umm," the girl paused, "Blue!"
"Very good," Ecavi nodded. Ceri had said the right color, thinking of the one farthest on the right of the page. She could recognize the colors and shapes, but she wasn't very good with numbers. Myze, on the other hand, was pretty even with all of them- which is why she recognized the circle as the first thing on the page.
"Myze, you try," Ecavi said, looking over at the darker girl, "What's the.. fourth one?"
"Oringe Trangle," Myze said with only a little hesitation.
"Very good," Ecavi nodded, and then looked back at Ceri.
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:46 pm
"Why?" Ceri asked in a long, drawn out question.
"Why what?" Ecavi asked, shifting the yellow girl in her arms to make sure she didn't fall. They were almost to the Noodle Shop with Myze walking along behind them, for Ceri had decided she wanted to be carried the rest of the way not too far back.
"Why goin'?" Ceri asked in a more natural manner.
"Why not?" Ecavi replied, "Don't you like going places with me?"
"Nooo," Ceri said with a giggle, looking around.
"Oh, come on, Ceri," Ecavi laughed, giving the little thule a nudge.
"Okay," Ceri said with an exaggerated sigh.
"Here we are," Ecavi said finally, taking a key out of her purse with her free hand and unlocking the door to the Noodle Shop. Normally she'd be able to just walk into the building since Noodle had learned how to handle the shop and its customers, but she couldn't leave it unlocked when she left before. She opened the door and held it for Myze.
"What do you say, Myze?" Ecavi reminded the girl, as she'd been working on for a while.
"Thank you," Myze murmured.
"TANK YOU!" Ceri squealed as Ecavi went in the door.
"You're welcome," Ecavi said with a laugh, setting Ceri down so she could play.
"Wee!" Ceri screeched and headed for some blocks in the corner of the room. Some toys were kept around for when younger Animals showed up and of course for when Ecavi had to bring Ceri with her. Myze didn't hesitate in walking over to the corner, though she went and sat down rather than joining in with her sister.
"Ok, you two be good," Ecavi said, doubling check the door was locked and the shop said closed for now, before heading to the backroom where she'd left Noodle. Myze and Ceri do all right without constant supervision, especially where the shop is designed with some things for 1-2 foot creatures to play in.
*
"Bi' tower!" Ceri giggled as she stacked three blocks, making a tower almost as big as her.
"W, K, J," Myze murmured from beside the wall, reading the letters on the sides of the blocks that she could see.
"W, K, J," Ceri repeated curiously, looking at the blocks from where she stood. What she could see was actually a C, R, L, but she didn't know that. Myze, on the other hand, recognized that the blocks probably weren't the same letter the whole way around. The night thule got up from her spot by the wall and went around to check, nodding when she saw the other letters.
"No," Myze said softly, pointing to the blocks Ceri had named, "Again."
"No' W, K an' J?" Ceri squeaked, and then actually tried to remember the letters. "C!" she exclaimed, pointing to the correct letter, "For Ceri!"
Myze nodded, then reached up and flipped the 'W' block over.
"M for Myze!" Ceri screeched.
"K, 'avi?" Myze asked thoughtfully, eyeing the K and wondering if the 'kah' sound from 'avi's name came from a C-A or K-A.
*
Ecavi was in the back room with Noodle while the girls tried to figure out how to spell her name. She was hoping that all Noodle needed was a rest, so she'd shut her down in hopes that starting her up again would be like waking up a sleeping person. Not knowing much about robots, it was the best and easiest fix the fairy could hope for.
"Come on, Noodle," she mumbled, reaching up to behind Noodle's left dog-ear.
"BrP." Noodle jolted, but didn't move again.
"Oh, please, Noodle!" Ecavi said, pushing the button two more times, "I'll take you shopping if you. just. work!"
"Brrrrr..."
With a sigh Ecavi pushed the button again, then stepped back, "If I was a robot, how would I work?" She circled Noodle a couple times as if just staring at her motionless body would somehow give her a clue as to what was wrong and how to fix it. She crossed her arms and frowned.
"Why hasn't Sae been around?!" she exclaims, "She'd know what to do."
She takes a chance pushing Noodle's on/off switch again, but the sudden odd jump that Noodle accompanied by strange fuzzy beeping sound makes Ecavi jump several feet into the air. Hovering up and away from Noodle for a moment, Ecavi decided she'd have to take Noodle to ... somewhere to be fixed. Maybe a computer shop.
*
After the experiment with Noodle, Ecavi tidied up the kitchen, made some noodles for lunch for everyone and tidied up the kitchen again while Myze and Ceri played with the blocks. Making sure Noodle was turned off and that she locked the door behind her, she took the girls and headed back home hoping that Jasmine would have found Sae at home.
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:30 pm
'See, better with green!' she told Myze telepathically.
'Yes,' Myze replied indifferently, but walked over to a paper that Ecavi had finished with, grabbed the gray crayon and started marking over it.
"Girls, come on," Ecavi came back into the room, putting on a jacket, and carrying a bag that looked like it had some clothes in it, "We have to go to the hospital."
"Hur?" Ceri turned her head as if she was going to look at Ecavi, but kept her eyes on the paper.
"What?" Myze asked in her soft voice, actually looking up from the paper. A hospital? Who was hurt?
"Jasmine is there with a friend," Ecavi explained, zipping up the jacket and holding out her hands to encourage the Aduthule to come over to her, "I'm not going to leave you guys here, come on." She smiled, though it was obvious she was concerned- she hadn't gotten much of an explanation out of Jasmine over the phone but had been assured she was all right.
*
After Ecavi arrived in the hospital she asked a nurse if there was any play area for children, and quite fortunately there was one in the Barton Hospital. Afterwards, Ecavi was glad she'd asked and left the girls there for Jasmine looked startling while covered in blood from trying to help her friend. So Myze and Ceri got to play in the play room with some of the other children from around the hospital.
*
'Myyyyyze,' Ceri called out, holding one rather big block in her arms as she searched for her sister.
'What?' came a telepathic, apathetic reply from an area that Ceri could not figure out just from the voice.
'Blocks, Myze!' Ceri held up the block as if she were showing it to her sister, but she wasn't there, 'Come play!'
'Coloring,' Myze replied. She did have a coloring book open infront of her, where she was hiding from the other children, but she wasn't much into the coloring of the giant pictures.
No reply came from Ceri, instead the day thule waddled over to a couple of children that were almost triple her size to offer her block to them. With the help of some other children, Ceri managed to make a mess with the blocks and a lot more noise than was necessary. The woman supervising them had to calm them down a bit, but didn't manage it before Ecavi came back to check on them. After successfully locating Myze, they took a walk around the hospital to give them a break from either being loud or being in a loud room.
*
After a couple of hours in the hospital, they were ready to go home- all of them, including Jasmine. Ecavi carried Ceri, Myze held onto the fairy's shoulder while Jasmine just walked along with them. There was little to no talk about what happened with Jasmine, instead Ecavi focussed on the day the Aduthule had had.
"So, did you have fun, Ceri?" she asked brightly.
"Ahuh!" Ceri exclaimed, wriggling into a more comfortable position in Ecavi's arms.
"Myze?" Ecavi asked, looking sidelong to the shoulder the dark thule was on.
"Neh," Myze replied, though she was holding tight to a picture she'd spent most of there time in the playroom coloring- she had taken it from the coloring book.
"That's some picture you colored," Ecavi commented, "It must have taken you a long time."
"Nyaah!" Ceri chimed in, nodding enthusiastically. It had taken Myze a long time.
"Can I see?" Jasmine asked, moving to be beside Myze. Myze glanced at the dragon briefly, then handed her the coloring.
"Wow, nice," Jasmine commented, looking at it- it wasn't very good, but it was all right for baby coloring. Luckily, the dragon-girl knew to humor children, even if Myze never seemed convinced. Myze snatched the picture back quickly when it was held out for her to take again.
"Shirt," Myze said, turning to Ecavi instead.
"What?" Ecavi asked, looking over.
"Shirt," Myze repeated.
"Greeeeeen!" Ceri exclaimed.
"Oh!" Ecavi gasped, realizing what they were talking about, "Yes, yes. We'll work on that some more later. It's almost spring time!"
"What?" Jasmine asked, looking curiously to her mother.
"Oh, I'll need to work on that with you too," Ecavi grinned.
"What?" Jasmine repeated.
"Don't worry about it," Ecavi beamed.
"Dress!" Ceri exclaimed.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:57 pm
"Odd," Min murmured, "No one to make sleep on the couch here."
"Jasmine?" Ecavi called from the playroom, "Come here, Min."
"Mimimimimimi," Ceri babbled, mimicing Ecavi's tone to try to draw Min to the playroom.
"Did someone sleep on the couch last night?" Min asked curiously, when she arrived at the door to the playroom, leaning on the doorframe.
"I did," Ecavi explained. She was sitting cross-legged on the floor with Ceri sitting in her lap; they were facing the table with some paper and many crayons in front of them. On the paper was an odd rectangular looking shape, but it was clearly scribbled over many times by the day thule. Myze was sitting off to the side, sitting back against her cat plush with the book of stars she'd gotten from Koko for Christmas opened in front of her.
"Why?" Min asked, staying by the door.
"We have guests, Jasmine," Ecavi said, suddenly sounding serious.
"We do!" Min exclaimed, "Who?"
"Well-"
"Bunny!" Ceri erupted from Ecavi's lap.
"Bunny?" Min repeated, looking at Ceri. The day thule just smiled at her.
"Tabby," Myze mumbled off-handedly, not looking up from her book.
"What?" Min looked to Myze. She could almost swear she'd heard Tabby's name..
"That's right," Ecavi said, "Tabby is here, Min."
"What?!"
"And Ralph and Mitsy," she continued.
"When? Why? Where?" Min questioned, no longer leaning on the doorframe, "What?!"
"Nigh' " Ceri explained, scribbling on the paper in front of her.
"They showed up last night," Ecavi elaborated, "You have to be nice."
"I am nice!" Min grumbled indignantly.
"Min," Ecavi sounded more serious.
"I can't help it if she likes to argue with me," Min crossed her arms. She'd never forgotten that she and Tabby always argued, though she doesn't remember all of them she does remember some of the last one. Tabby said she couldn't be a princess.
"You have to be nice," Ecavi said, "They've had a hard time the last couple of months, Min. You saw their house yourself." She wiggled back from the table a bit, moving Ceri to the floor and standing up to look more eye-to-eye with Jasmine, "I don't know how long they'll be here, you just try to be nice and helpful."
"Mom-"
"What?" Ecavi cut her off.
Jasmine paused, "Alright, I'll be nice."
"Be ni' Mimi!" Ceri cooed from her spot by the table.
"I will, Ceri," Min stuck her tongue out playfully at the thule.
"Good," Ecavi beamed.
"Goo' " Ceri added.
Jasmine rolled her eyes and decidedly walked into the playroom, around her mother and past Ceri. She sat down beside Myze and leaned over to look at the book, "Get farther, Myze?"
Myze nodded.
"Anything good?" Min asked, and Myze pointed to a paragraph on the page.
"Ceri," Ecavi said, sitting back down on the floor, "Let's get back to work on your dress! You have to make up your mind, hon."
"Ranbow!" Ceri squealed, crawling over to Ecavi and climbing back onto her lap.
"One color for now, Ceri," Ecavi smiled and scooched back to the table.
Min, after watching Ecavi and Ceri replace themselves infront of the table, looked at Myze, "Did you decide on yours?"
Myze nodded, and grabbed a piece of paper that was half stuck under her cat plush, "Look."
"Wow," Min said, in a humoring tone really, as she looked at the rough sketch of what looked kind of like a long sleeved shirt with very wide sleeves.
"Wings," Myze indicated, noticing how Min's glance lingered on the sleeves.
"I think it might be more comfortable with shorter sleeves," Min commented, glancing over at Myze's batlike wings.
"Small," Myze replied, looking back at the book.
"I've had that discussion," Ecavi explained from the table, "I'll figure something out."
"Oh," Min blinked, and then handed the paper back to Myze, "It's good, why don't we read from the book?"
Myze just stared at Jasmine for a moment; her stare was a calculating kind, though very dimly so. She didn't care too much about being falsely agreed with, and she didn't care too much if Min read with her. "Ok," she finally said in her usual quiet voice.
"Ok! Where were you?" Min asked, looking back to the book, and started reading from where Myze pointed.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:42 pm
"Myze, it just won't work," Ecavi groaned, sitting at the kitchen table with a notepad infront of her. Myze didn't answer, but rather looked back at her guardian with distaste. Why can't she have a sweater? 'avi can sew, she can make it work. The fairy shook her head, as if knowing what the night thule was thinking.
"You can't have sleeves with your wings, not easily," Ecavi explained, then added, "or comfortably."
"Vest?" Myze murmured softly.
"I don't know, you'd like a sweater vest?" the fairy blinked in surprise.
"... no, sleeves," came a decided, but still quiet, voice.
"What about sleeves?" Ecavi sighed, leaning back in her chair, "Explain it to me."
"Want sleeves," Myze mumbled.
Ecavi sat up a bit, "I'd have thought if anyone wanted good grammar, it'd be you."
"I want sleeves," the night thule said, sounding agitated.
"Ok, good," Ecavi smiled, glad she'd gotten Myze to say more than one word. She knew that Myze liked to keep speech to a minimum, while Ceri liked to say everything all at once- something told her both of them were capable of better speech than either let on. She went on, "You know, it doesn't hurt to speak in sentences, Myze."
"Don't want to," Myze mumbled, crossing her arms. Just then, Ceri came waddling into the room at top speed, holding out a piece of paper.
"Dress," she squealed, going right to Ecavi's feet and pulling at her pant leg to indicate that she wanted up, "Upupup!"
"Ok, ok," Ecavi smiled down at Ceri, lifting her up and standing the day thule on her knees.
"Dress, 'avi?" Ceri squeaked brightly, holding up the paper. It was the drawing they'd done together as a design for the dress that Ecavi had promised to make her.
"We'll work on it soon, Ceri," Ecavi grinned, taking the paper.
"Now!" Ceri screeched, still happy but demanding.
"Now what, Ceri?" Ecavi asked, deciding to try to make the thule speak more.
"Dress now," Ceri mumbled.
"What about it? Say everything," Ecavi smiled.
"Want to make dress now, 'avi," Ceri blinked, tilting her head. Why was she being questioned about what she was saying? Did 'avi suddenly not understand her?
"Who wants to?"
"I do," Ceri said, looking surprised.
"We can't right now, we'll go shopping for fabric soon, ok?" Ecavi nodded.
"Now," Ceri repeated, then immediately tried again, "'avi make the dress now?"
"Not yet," Myze spoke up suddenly from her spot, looking at her sister.
"Shopping soon?" Ceri asked sadly, looking over at Myze.
"Yes, we will go shopping soon," Myze nodded, looking pointedly over at Ecavi. The fairy beamed, nodding her approval. Maybe the girls would both try a little harder to speak better sentences now! And they're obviously excited about the dresses. With a grin, Ecavi looks at Ceri- maybe she could put the two together and get Ceri to help her convince Myze a sweater won't work...
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:48 pm
Lenachan358 " Do you think we could make some money by selling this ?" Carlos asked and showed lots of flowers to his green brother who was almost acting like a chameleon inside the grass. " You can sell anything. Ebay." Gaspar growled and tried to find some more nice looking pebbles. They had seen other children sell their old toys and stuff on a blanket at their street and now they wanted to do the same with different intentions. Lena had told them to walk out of Barton Town and pick some flowers on the fields their. They also had sweets and fruits with them for a picknick. Latpas Mathus flapped and stretched his wings boredly, hovering a few feet above the sidewalk and his twin. Flying was his newest pleasure, and he was not about to let his land-loving brother rain on his parade. "I'm going to go ahead a bit, all right? Catch you later?" He had already begun flying down the sidewalk when Reve's voice reached him. "Wait! Look over there!" He pointed down at the end of the sidewalk. Mathus swiveled in midair. "Don't you think that they're... like us? Can't we go see?"Mathus sighed. This was not the way he wanted to spend his day out of the house away from his guardian. "Pleeease??" Reve whined, poking his lip out. Mathus sighed again. "Oh, all right!" He landed with a soft bump on the sidewalk and began walking toward the pair. Ecavi Myze and Ceri, having recently proven to Ecavi that they are a little older than either seem to let on, have been allowed to go outside and play on their own. Myze was walking along with her arms crossed, letting Ceri lead the way. The night thule has been trusted with making sure her twin stays out of trouble, for surely despite not being a baby the girl can be too hyper for her own good. " Graaaassss," Ceri beams, wandering through the same grassy area as Gaspar and Carlos. She's pleased that spring is back and that everything seems so much brighter than before. And so, laughing loudly, she leads their little trek through the grass. ' Ceri,' Myze murmurs telepathically, ' Do you see them?' " Whaaaa?" Ceri turns to look at Myze, who is several feet behind her. ' Look there,' Myze says, pointing off ahead of them to where Carlos is visible through the grass, and Reve and Mathus seem to be heading in that direction. Ceri immediately squeals at the sight of others, scrambling off towards them excitedly. Lenachan358 " That's good then. We should collect more and if we have enough we can sell them very cheap and...." The blue Thule almost threw the bunch of flowers away as he saw others approaching. Before he could say anything though, Gaspar growled at him. " No, don't tell me. There's a giant sunflower ?" Carlos shook his head and just pointed at the pairs. " It's...FRIENDS !" Squealing with joy he quickly looked for the nicest flowers in his arms. Gaspar hit his face with one hand and tried to be as invisible as possible. Latpas "Oh look! Some others have come too!" Reve murmured happily, pointing the day and night pair out to Mathus, glad to see that so many Aduthule were convening in one spot. "Fantastic," Mathus muttered unenthusiastically as the blue Thule with the flowers in his arms pointed toward them. "And I was so hoping I was going to have a chance to run away," he thought to himself. They had nearly reached the place where the pair were sitting when Reve flashed them a cheery smile and let out a bright "Hello!" Ecavi Unfortunately for Gaspar, the closer that Ceri got the more noticable he became- and of course the green thule is one of her favorite aduthule! With a joyous laugh, she heads for him instead of the others and gives him a great hug when she gets there. " Gapar!" she squeals, calling him by the name she'd adopted for him before, though the tone of voice does suggest it's not the same as before- like she knows it's a nickname now, rather than just his name. Myze just walks along silently, taking her time to reach them and making no effort whatsoever to pick up the pace even after Ceri reaches them. Her arms still crossed and her violet eyes narrowed, she watches them. Her eyes fall on what looks like a movie shadow, Mathus.. he doesn't look enthusiastic.. Lenachan358 Instead of an answer a yellow daffodil was offered to Reve. Carlos beamed at the approaching ones and cocked his head to one side while happily fluttering with his wings. " Nice to see you." O and there were Myze and Ceri ! He knew them far better than the other ones, but they seemed familiar too. " We collect flowers and stones." Gaspar growled, but was quite surprised as something yellow rushed towards him. With an eep the boy was pushed to the ground and now he stared at Ceri pretty confused. " Ceri." The green Thule stated and nobody could make out if it was a nice greeting or just a statement. Latpas Reve accepted the daffodil with a smile, and sniffed it daintily. "Nice to meet you too!" He remembered his manners hastily. "And thank you, for the daffodil -- I love flowers!" He bent to inspect the collection interestedly, and in doing so snuck a glance at his twin -- he didn't look too happy. Didn't he like meeting new Aduthule? Ecavi Myze stops walking some feet away and takes a seat in the grass decidedly. This is where she's going to stay, she is just going to watch Ceri and make sure she doesn't get hurt (because it doesn't matter if she hurts someone else, like when she tackled Gaspar.) Ceri giggles loudly, scrambling to her feet and ignoring the odd tone that comes from Gaspar. She grabs his hand and tries to help pull him to his feet, " Gapar! Stand up~" She looks over at the other aduthule there, gasping at the sight of the flowers behind passed around. Such pretty flowers~ Lenachan358 " You can help picking !" Carlos smiled broadly and moved over to Myze to hand her a blue flower, before he turned back to Ceri. She was his brother's best friend she definitely deserved something nice. Picking something orange he offered her the flower quite friendly. Gaspar sighed and got onto his feet on his own trying to beat the dust out of his fur. He still had one of the stones in his hands and it actually seemed like it was a very pretty sparkling one. But it was HIS ! Just as Ceri was. Wrapping one arm around her he glared at his brother and the others. Would he be able to sell her ? Ecavi Myze stares at Carlos when he offers her a blue flower, staring at it for a couple seconds before finally taking it from him. It's an ok flower, it's a nicer gesture. She isn't sure whether it's good or bad that she looks approachable. Maybe it's better that way, even if she doesn't want to mingle. "..." she pauses, then murmurs after Carlos is a couple of steps away, " Thank you." " Flower!" Ceri gasps, taking the flower from Carlos delightedly, " Eee! Thank you, flower." Used to not worrying about full sentences, she gives her thanks in as few words as possible, but makes sure that she pronounces the 'th.' " Gapar flower?" She asks brightly, looking at him and not worrying about his arm or the glare at the others. Lenachan358 Carlos didn't seem to mind actually and just sat down on the grass to make some nice flower crowns out of this. Lena had told him that doing this was possible but somehow it didn't want to work out. Looking around he wondered if Myze would be able to help him. " I collect the stones." The boy growled and showed the one in his right hand to Ceri. Perhaps they could sell Ceri and then she could sneak out and come back and they could sell her again ? Ecavi Myze's violet eyes watch as Carlos tries to weave a crown out of the flowers, her mind wandering back to some of her books. The origami book, which was all about folding things, and some othe craft books she'd read when there was nothing else to read. Nothing about .. folding flowers together, or whatever the blue one is doing, but could it be much harder? Not that she wants to help him, of course! She scoffs mentally, deciding she's thinking this purly to know that she can do it and he can't. Ceri blinks, grabbing the stone from Gaspar's hand and examining it carefully. Why is Gapar collecting stones? They aren't as pretty as the flowers. Though this one is rather nice. " Why collecting stones?" She asks curiously. Lenachan358 Gaspar couldn't help but gasp as she just took the stone. He was about to shout at her and his tail already started to move furiously as she asked the question and he became totally confused. Wasn't it obvious ? " We collect stones and flowers and then we sell the stones and flowers and get money for stones and flowers." Yes, she definitely needed to be sold. Carlos watched Myze who seemed to be watching him. She seemed intelligent. Quickly he got up and moved over to the night Thule with a smile. " Do you know how it works ?" He showed the strange mixture of flowers to her and grinned. Ecavi Ceri is oblivious to how angry she's made him and keeps a good hold on the stone, watching him expectantly for the answer. She grins, " People buy flowers and stones?" It's one of the first full sentences she's spoken, but it really couldn't be shortened up that much. The concept of selling things has never occured to her. Maybe if Gaspar and Carlos do it, she should too! " I want to help," she beams. " ..." Myze eyes the blue thule warily when he brings the flowers over to her, taking two of them from him after a pause and looking at them carefully. Maybe they could just be tied together, how else would they stay in one piece? Something could be used to re-enforce it, but they don't have anything like that. " I'll try," Myze murmurs, taking the two flowers and wrapping one stem around the other carefully and attempting to knot it.. [ INCOMPLETE X33 ]
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:49 pm
Ecavi Just outside Barton, in the fields of fresh spring flowers.. that is where Ceri has decided her and Myze are going again. They'd seen other aduthule there, and Ceri is certain they'll see more! It had taken only a little convincing to get Ecavi to let them go, especially since it's so close to home. "Come on, Myze!" Ceri giggled, leading the way from several feet ahead of her twin. Myze trudged along after her, hoping they don't run into anyone in the fields again. Why can't they just go back inside? Or by a tree? Stupid sun.. Kanth And, lounging naked in the grass, arms and legs spread akinder, lay a young naked boy. His face was stoic, and he let his tail twitch as a butterfly landed on his arm.
An annoyed sound escaped from his lips, but he soon supressed it and endured it, trying VERY hard to gain control of his 'wrath', as Kanth had called it.
Screw that.
He was about to set the stupid thing on fire when he heard the voices, and curled his fingers. Hmmm... perhaps innocents would be far more fun... Ecavi Both girls being roughly one foot tall, they are too short to see the strange naked boy from where they are. Ceri, cheerful as ever, heads right for some flowers, humming tunelessly now. "Flowers," she sings, "Hm!" She plucks a daisy from the ground and turns to where Myze is, holding it out for her twin despite being several feet away from her. ' A flower for Myze,' she explains telepathically. Myze's ears twitch at the message, and she keeps walking closer at the same pace- something that the day thule is quite used to and not bothered by. Ceri keeps holding the flower out, waiting for Myze to arrive. Kanth Upon grinning in advance, his hand reached out and GRABBED Myze's ankle.
And, in suit, followed his teeth. Ecavi When Myze felt something grab her ankle her first reaction was to pull away, and being much weaker than the grabber she falls to the ground with a hiss. Her emotions remain fairly level until suddenly she feels teeth sink into her leg, at which point she hisses furiously at whatever that odd thing that has her is. Ceri drops the flower with a yelp, feeling much of Myze's anger in a sudden burst. These sudden changes affect the thule so greatly since Myze usually doesn't have emotions great enough to sense. "Myze!" Ceri cries, starting towards her sister. " No!" Myze hisses outloud to her sister, not focussed enough to say it telepathically. She reaches out and slashes at the strange face that is attached to her ankle. Kanth Reeling back, the boy hisses back, before latching to her face and wrapping around her body, this time clamping his teeth down on one of her ears.
"Ssstoooopid..." He hissed, drool dripping from his open mouth. Ecavi Myze snarls when he suddenly shifts his attack reaching up and digging her claws into whatever she can reach and attempting to bite back at him. Her tail sways wildly on the ground as she goes. Ceri, watching from only a couple feet away, is now wide eyed, teary and whimpering, "Myze! Myze!" She can't do anything! What about Myze? Why would that funny looking thing attack her? Kanth Kefka didn't like pain. Indeed, as soon as he was inflicted with it, he dealt out more. But this, in turn, meant fire.
And, with his fingertips pressed against her in various places, he let fire spew forth, attempting to burn her for her retaliation. NO one was supposed to go against HIM! Ecavi Myze tenses at the sudden burning sensation coming from the strangers fingers- if anyone hates fire, or hot things in general, it's this thule. She gives a strangled growl and all at once makes more of an effort to fight back and escape at the same time. As she struggles madly to get free, she lets her claws dig in deeper. She is determined not to let go until she is sure she can get free, not about to just let someone attack her without consequence while she tries to get away. "Myze!" Ceri cries again, racing over to them and swatting at the thing that's hurting Myze- ineffectual, but all the thule can think of doing to try to help. "Leave Myze alone!" she screeches desperately. Kanth Not admitting defeat, Kefka tore away and hissed at her, now keeping his distance as he tended to his wounds.
Of course, that also meant that now he was giving dirty glares at them. Ecavi Myze, finally wrenched free of the attack, hisses in the general direction the boy went and crawls back a bit. Ceri, with tears streaming down her face, clings to Myze as soon as she is free. "Noo," Myze pulls away from Ceri, who happens to be touching several burn marks and sore spots from the struggle. Her hair had come loose, though the hair pins were still there, tangled into the blue hair. "Myze," Ceri whines, letting go of Myze and looking over to the attacker and calling out, "N-n- Don't hurt Myze! Be nice!" Why can't everyone just get along? Maybe this isn't a good field after all! Kanth "I was nice," Kefka hissed, drawing up and puffing his cheeks at Myze in a degrading manner. "Ffffhhhh."
He really disliked both of them, and he thought the blonde one was an idiot. Of course, he had respect for Myze... she could fight!
But... it was very little respect. Ecavi "I- it's not nice hurting people," Ceri argues, standing in front of Myze protectively, though she has no means of protecting herself really. Fortunately Myze is still paying attention. ' Not infront of me,' she hisses mentally at her sister, knowing if he tried something again Ceri would just start crying loudly instead of defending herself. The day thule sniffles and moves a bit. With a slightly bleeding ear and ankle, Myze inches back a little more and glowers at the strange creature with Ceri mimicing both actions- though the day thules glare is more of disapproval. Kanth "......" Kefka only stared, though stood back up and feinted towards the brown 'thule again, making a loud bark for a noise, obviously attempting to scare her. Ecavi Ceri yelps when Kefka seems to dart forward and bark, moving to try to hide behind Myze- her fear overcoming the want to be able to protect Myze. Myze flinches and bares her teeth at him, moving back a bit more. Next time maybe Ceri would listen to her and they'd just stay home. "Stop," Ceri whines, clinging to Myze's shoulder having forgotten that it is likely hurting Myze. Kanth Kefka only laughed, a white streak appearing across his pale face. Oh, this was simply grand!! Such simple pleasures that came with harm, and they'd remember him for a looong time coming.
And Kefka did so love being remembered for what he did...
His laughter didn't cease. Ecavi Myze's eyes narrow and a growl comes from behind her teeth when he starts to laugh. Laughing. Laughing at her. Laughing at having been able to hurt her in an unfair fight, which he didn't even win. "I wouldn't laugh about an unfair fight I didn't win," she hisses, her voice a little louder than normal but keeping the low quality that forever seems to stay with her voice. Ceri whimpers quietly when he starts to laugh. What a scary creature! And Myze isn't just leaving, which scares the thule as well. She steps back, considering running back home and going to find 'avi- she'd be able to help! Kanth "Entertaining~" He half-sung, giving her an intense gaze, almost seeming... fond.
In a creepy sort of way.
Oh yes, he'd remember these two... they would provide him entertainment for the future. Grabbing a clump of flowers, he made a show of picking them apart, before throwing them at the two 'thules. "HAah!" Ecavi Myze is sure she won't forget whatever this stupid creature is, glaring furiously at him and not bothering to question how entertaining a tied fight could be- seeing how maybe ambushing someone could be amusing. Ceri watches with big, sad, green eyes as Kefka tears apart the flowers, flinching greatly when they're suddenly thrown towards them. Myze, on the other hand, watches coldly as he tears up the flowers and remains unflinching when they are thrown. "Home, Myze?" Ceri asks quietly, reaching out to try to convince her they should just go. Myze gets to her feet and steps back a bit, watching Kefka carefully. She would love to go and try to attack him again, but she's smart enough to see it wouldn't go well and Ceri's begging it quite effective. Kanth "Home, home!" He replied in a small voice, making it shrill, and an imitation of the tan 'thule's voice. As soon as he said that, he waggled fingers at the two, then whistled low at the dark 'thule.
"... dooooggg~" Ecavi Myze hisses, moving to go forward at Kefka's taunting, determined to teach the peach idiot some manners. She is stopped by a sudden tugging at her arm, and she doesn't need to turn around to know that Ceri is trying to stop her and get her to just go home. ' Let go,' Myze growls telepathically. ' No, let's go home,' Ceri replies in the same manner. ' Let go,' Myze repeats, pulling away from her twin and stomping forward. There's an evident limp in her walk, from the bitten ankle mostly, but she doesn't stop right away. "No! Home, Myze," Ceri calls after her, crying again. She stumbles backward this time. She'll go home and get 'avi to come get Myze if Myze won't come with her. She turns around and makes a run for it. Kanth Tilting his head, Kefka grinned all the wider, though his laughter stopped. He looked... insane.
Absolutely... insane.
Drawing his fingers up, he made a small waving motion at Myze, shifting his weight and letting out a snort. "I'm Kefka, and you are...?" Ecavi Myze glares at Kefka, slightly confused by the introduction- and she stops several feet away, still looking furious. Maybe this 'Kefka', as he'd introduced himself, is as crazy as he looks. Does he deserve to know her name, though? "Myze," she replies through gritted teeth. Her legs wobble a bit, but she quickly resteadies herself. Ceri is still running back home, which luckily isn't incredibly far away. Kanth "I admire you... but you won't last long." He replied, his eyes flashing a very light blue before he turns his hand, making the air around her swirl. "Best to tend to your wounds... if you want to live."
The laughter resumed, low, and very... strange. "Kekekekeke..." Ecavi Myze snarls inwardly, looking at Kefka from head to foot- wobbling more when he turns his hand. She takes on a defensive pose, not saying anything to him but rather glaring. Ambush, laugh, taunt, laugh, introduce, laugh, threaten, laugh.. does he ever stop laughing? Kanth No. No, Kefka never really stopped laughing. At least, not for an extended period of time, but he did have his short moments. And boy, were those moments ever short.
"Such eyes are unbecoming of a lady as yourself... though, I'm starting to think otherwise." There was the chiding grin. Ecavi She twitches, tempted to just lunge at him and try to shut him up. Walking away may be a better choice, she knows, but it definetely wouldn't get him to shut up. Of course, she seems to ignore the fact that her guardian showing up and reprimanding her may look worse. "Such a laugh is only becoming of a maniac," she grumbles, mimicing his sentence structure intentionally, stepping back finally. Kanth "Indeed." He seemed to think on this, and concerned himself with just waving, smiling happily. "Have a nice day... whatever's left of it." Kefka then grinned rather darkly, staring at her as she retreated.
Oh yes... he'd be watching her for quite some time. Ecavi Myze hisses lowly, ceasing her backing away and defiantly going no where. At first, anyway. If only she could reach and smack the grin off his face.. with a final growl, she backs off a couple more paces before turning around entirely. She will just go home. Who cares what happens with Kefka or what he thinks? With her arms crossed, she just starts walking in the direction of home, not really paying attention to what she sees right away- then she realizes that she can see Ecavi approaching, holding Ceri in her arms. Great. Atleast she'd turned around before they arrived. Kanth Kefka, already sensing that trouble was heading his way, did the best thing he had always known to do.
Flee.
Fortunately, for him, he was rather secretive about it... this time. Ecavi "Myze," Ecavi's voice came, she was part walking, part flying in an attempt to stay low but move a little quicker. Her tone is full of concern even before she gets close enough to see how badly Myze is actually hurt. "Myze!" Ceri cries, her tears dried but still rather panicked. "Oh dear," Ecavi murmurs, kneeling down and gently scooping up Myze, "Are you ok?" By this time, of course, Kefka has fled so the fairy doesn't get a look at the attacker and focuses on the injured thule. Myze flinches when Ecavi picks her up, but feels a little relieved to be off of her own feet. Whatever adrenaline that had been keeping her going has finally left and she relaxes a bit. Biting her lip, Ecavi says nothing else and takes the girls back home.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:03 pm
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"Myze, it's ok," Ecavi murmurs soothingly, walking into the living room and gently placing Ceri down on the chair, "We'll get you cleaned up and do something about those burns.." Her tone has a slightly panicked edge to it, the overreacting many parents would have when a child the size of Myze is hurt.
"Myze," Ceri sobs from the chair, sitting upright and curling her long tail around her. She watches with wide, sad eyes as Ecavi leaves the living room, still carrying Myze, to get something to clean the thule up with..
Tabitha is sitting in front of the television in the living room. When Ecavi enters, loudly slamming the door and talking, Tabitha grits her teeth and lowers her ears. She cringes slightly, naturally hating loud noises, when Ecavi enters the living room. However, when her golden eyes rest upon the sobbing Ceri, she lifts her ears up in curiosity and watches with interest, but, not being able to catch a glimpse of the other 'thule in Ecavi's arms, assumed the fairy must have some how upset the other tiny 'thule- and grumbles in a discontented manner at this assumption.
Ralph and Mitsy, sitting on the couch watching Television as well, instantly turn their attention to Ecavi. Being shorter than Tabitha the do not catch the glimpse of Myze either. Mitsy, however, instantly hopes down from the couch and towards Ceri's chair to comfort her.
"I wonder what has happened?" Ralph says with a little nervousness, as he looks to where Ecavi left, wondering if he should go help.
"Ecavi made that other one cry. She made that other one cry." Tabitha shrugs.
Ralph looks at Tabby for a second and shakes his head. "I'll be right back," he grumbles, and hops down from the couch and out of the living room, looking for Ecavi.
Ceri rubs her eyes sadly, watching the doorway that Ecavi left through intently- she will come back right away with Myze, right? Myze is going to be ok.. she doesn't notice the looks or sounds from Tabitha, but she does notice when Mitsy comes over to her. New tears fill her eyes and she reaches towards Mitsy, "Bunny~ Myze go' hurt."
Ecavi emerges from the bathroom shortly, carrying some cloths and what looks like a bottle of peroxide- and of course, a tired and unhappy looking Myze. She almost runs into Ralph, but stops with a gasp- realizing she needs to slow down a bit. With a frown, she looks at Ralph, "Could you do me a favor? Can you go to Myze and Ceri's room and find the starry blanket?"
Myze peers over Ecavi's arms at Ralph silently, cringing a bit from the movement and ending up shifting uncomfortably around in her guardian's arms. No where is comfortable anymore, why can't she just be set down somewhere?
Mitsy frowns and climbs onto the chair Ceri is in and gives Ceri a warm hug, nuzzling her.
Tabitha tilts her head a little from side to side. Ecavi went and hurt Myze? Her tail flicks. "hmm..." this was just like a show of generic justice. Was Ecavi a child abuser? Tabby puts a claw to her mouth in contemplation and strokes her whiskers.
Ralph jumps when Ecavi almost runs into him. "UH-" he blinks a moment to regain his composure once Ecavi asks him to get a starry blanket. His red eyes scan what appears to be a badly hurt bundle in Ecavi's arms. "O-of course." He nods dumbly, and then trots off towards where he knows the room to be.
Ceri sobs more openly now that she has someone to cling to, holding tight to Mitsy and trying to figure out what they'd done that made that funny looking thing want to hurt Myze. To the peaceable little girl, it makes no sense- they were just going to pick flowers. She mutters something about the flowers and sun, but it's barely understandable.
"Thanks," Ecavi calls after Ralph as he goes off to find the blanket, and then she turns to the living room- now that Myze is struggling to get comfortable, she knows it's probably a good idea to get there and get her cleaned up quickly. She pauses only a second to look around the room when she comes in- glad that Mitsy went over to Ceri, and having no idea what Tabby is thinking she doesn't worry too much about that. She sets Myze gently on the couch, against a pillow near the end, and then sorts through the items she'd gotten from the bathroom. Unconcerned with the near-dry blood getting on the couch for now, she opens the peroxide and wets a cloth.
"Myze," Ceri mumbles, watching from the chair.
Min is almost home, wearing the ratty old coat Sunny'd given her to wear until she got home, and she's started being a little more careful. She hasn't been able to fly because of the lack of clothing, and she won't be able to use that to her advantage to sneak around to her own window to get into the house unnoticed. Assuming that her mother is probably in the kitchen, or occupied in the playroom, she doesn't hesitate to to chose the path around the front of the house to get to her room. She walks by the living room window without much concern, until she glances in and see that that is where it looks like everyone is.
Mitsy just embraces Cero calmly, with a sad expression on her face. She listens to Ceri's incoherent babbling and nods quietly, petting Ceri and trying to soothe her.
Tabby stares over Myze on the couch and shudders at the blood falling on the couch. She quickly averts her eyes with a grimace, looking sick from the sight, until her golden eyes fall directly on Min. Tabby absent-mindedly waves to Min in a half-hearted manner, so that it is not entirely noticeable.
At this instant, Ralph enters the living room as well, holding the starry blanket high above his head, so that he is not paying much attention to what or who is outside the window.
Ceri snuggles into Mitsy, glad to have someone who seems to listen to what she's saying- her sobbing subsides and she cries silently as she watches Ecavi. The blood is mostly dried up, though still slightly wet around the wound- and Ecavi gently lifts Myze's leg from the couch to start cleaning it off. The night thule hisses at the sudden cold sensation from the cloth, though it is not an angry hiss- if only the burns would be that cold..
"Sorry Myze," Ecavi murmurs, her back is turned to the window so she doesn't notice Min, or that Ralph is back with the blanket, "This might sting a little.." She puts a small towel she'd brought beneath Myze's legs and wipes off as much of the blood as she can, adding a little more antiseptic. Myze leans back against the pillow, flinching as little as possible at the slight fizzing sound coming from the wound due to the cleaning.
Jasmine, pausing briefly to stare in surprise- wondering what her mother is doing, even, looks over at Tabby and stumbles back a bit when she sees that the purple dragon has seen her. She shake her head a bit at Tabby, willing her not to draw attention to the window, and then darts off to get to her room's window as quickly as possible.
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:50 pm
"Myze," she murmured, holding tight to an orange colored crayon, "Who was it?"
Myze paused, staring intently at her twin for a moment before deciding to tell Ceri, "Kefka."
"He tol' you?" Ceri asked, a bit surprised by the answer, for Myze hadn't told anyone else that the thing had a name. Her question hadn't come out exactly how she meant it, 'what' may have been a more suitable word to use.
The answer only came in the form of a nod.
"What was Keka?" Ceri asked, looking back at the paper with a scowl and starting to draw.
'I don't know,' Myze answered telepathically, 'A maniac.'
"What's that?" Ceri looked up, unsure of the strange word that Myze used.
"Crazy," Myze answered, rolling her eyes and leaning her head back against the stuffed animal to stare up at the ceiling.
"Oh," Ceri went back to her paper, grabbing a red crayon and scribbling furiously, "Yeah."
Neither needed to say anything to know they both shared that view of Kefka, though Myze continued to seethe angrily as she stared up at the wall. The dark thule listened as Ceri scribbled away at the paper, pausing briefly only to switch crayons. Ceri, still a little worked up by the whole situation, worked away with bleary eyes. There should not be any scary things around here.
"Keka," she murmured when she finished her picture, picking it up and walking around the table to Myze. A couple of crayons rolled off the table, but Ceri didn't stop to pick them up again. She held out the paper for Myze to take, and waited as a clawed hand reached out and pulled it from her sister.
"Kefka," Myze repeated, eyeing the drawing that Ceri had made. It was a fair portrayal of her attacker, in her opinion.
"So 'avi an' e'eryone knows to be careful of him," Ceri explained, rubbing her eyes and taking the paper back from Myze.
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 11:34 am
 Click for enlarged image! {Picture by Deitsae}
Italics indicate flashback. Ecavi sat on the balcony just outside of Myze and Ceri's room, leaning against the wall of the house, holding Myze in her arms while Ceri giggled and stood looking out through the space between poles in the railing around the balcony. The two girls usually did not wear clothing, but today they both had on something new- the dresses that Ecavi had planned out with them. Ceri had on a pink dress with a yellow sash and flowers on it, while Myze wore a dark violet dress with a silver star on a breast pocket. Neither girl had gotten the outfit they'd asked for, and while Ceri hadn't noticed that her dress wasn't green, receiving a dress, of all things, put Myze in a sour mood. * The day started out quiet, in the early light of morning Ceri was the first one awake, as was usual. The day thule got her start by having a conversation with her orange tabby plush, which was seated at the foot of her bed. She wasted no effort on trying to be quiet, though she knew Myze lay hidden from the light by her starry blanket.
"G'morning, Kitty!" she chirped, giving the plush a hug, "It looks like it going t'be sunny today!"
The plushie gave no reply, but Ceri squealed cheerfully and scrambled over to the window to look out at the newly risen sun.
"Yep!" she announces, turning back to the shiny eyes of the kitty and staring intently at it, "Today'll be a good day, I know it!"
Still no reply came from the plush, and Ceri's voice lowered to a whisper.
"No Keka 'ttacks, sunshine," she paused, then continued with a giggle, "And today's special. "
After the ordeal with Kefka, the thule had needed to be reassured that they wouldn't be attacked again, and she was quite happy to believe Ecavi when she was told that it wouldn't happen again. Aside from the violence-free day she was expecting, she knew something was important about the day, but she couldn't remember what exactly.* "It's a beautiful night out, Myze," Ecavi commented quietly, looking up at the dimming sky, and the bright stars that had started to appear in it. She smiled, despite the scowl on the night thule's face. Myze was now bandage free, the cuts were healing and the blisters from some of the burns were ever painful to the girl, but healing as well. "Yes," Myze hissed when she was given a gentle nudge, giving a brief irritable glance at her guardian before looking back up at the stars. "Stars, like on Myze," Ceri said, complimenting Myze with a simple telepathic explanation of how she'd interpretted the comment- the night is beautiful, for it has stars like on Myze. With a grin, the shining thule turned to face her sister and guardian. "That's right," Ecavi beamed, though she didn't know exactly what Ceri was thinking when she said that. * Ceri had gone to Ecavi's room shortly after her conversation with the kitty, only to find that the fairy was already awake. She was sitting on the bed, holding onto an envelope and a photograph when Ceri came into the room. Both with smiles on their faces, they went downstairs and started breakfast- and Ecavi put the photograph onto the fridge. It was of a small, glowing blue and yellow relic of two creatures curled around one another- Myze and Ceri before they'd emerged from their relic.* "I think you're dress looks beautiful, Myze," Ecavi commented, looking down at the girl sitting on her lap with her arms crossed over the silver star on her dress. With a giggle, Ceri gave a telepathic nod of agreement to her twin. "I didn't want a dress," Myze said sullenly. "We've talked about this," Ecavi said with a quiet laugh. "Your wings are too big!" Ceri finished the explanation for her guardian with a smile and nod. If Ceri knew the explanation so readily, there was no doubting that Myze knew it. The night thule just rolled her eyes at her sister, sighing and looking emphatically back up to the sky. "We'll figure something else out, Myze," Ecavi sighed, though her tone was still rather amused, "In the meantime, you should atleast pretend to be grateful for the gift." * Myze woke up later than Ceri, and took her time getting out of her bed. One look at the bright purple of the wall told her that the day would be sunny, and that wasn't necessarily what she liked- but she knew it was that season again. Her thoughts were on something else this day, though. With her eyes on her own black and white kitty plushie, with the astrology book propped up next to it, she thought about the day.
Ceri knew today was special, but didn't know why. Not only did Myze know this, but she knew why the day was special. With her violet eyes looking down to the blisters, which blend in well with the white stars on her body, she noted apathetically that Ecavi probably knew about today as well. The fairy had made a comment about today being special, though she didn't explain herself.
Of course, it's not surprising their guardian would learn their birthday.* "Can we turn off the lights?" Myze asked, looking from the sky to Ecavi as the sky darkened. The stars would be so much easier to see if the lights below were not on, and then she could enjoy herself more. "Not right now," Ecavi replied, "Everyone else is still inside, and they might get hurt wandering around in the dark." "So?" Myze shrugged apathetically, and shifted her eyes back to the sky. She didn't pretend to care about the others needing the lights, just as she hadn't cared to pretend she was enjoying the dress all that much. "For a birthday present?" Ceri squeaked, scrambling over and climbing onto the other side of Ecavi's lap, ignoring a soft hiss from Myze as she was shifted uncomfortably around on her wounds, "No lights are better, 'avi... if we have a flashlight." As much as Ceri could appreciate the stars, she knew she wouldn't like to be in the dark without a flashlight. "A little later," Ecavi agreed, "When everyone is in bed, then it won't matter. And I'm sure you'll still be up, Myze." * "And we have cake!" Ecavi exclaimed with a grin, after everyone'd had lunch. No one was surprised by the appearance of cake except for Ceri, who squealed delightedly as she remembered why today was a special day. The most surprising thing about the cake was the size of it, for there were so many to eat it that it was bigger than they might have expected.
"It's our birthday!" Ceri cried brightly, grinning at Myze. Myze gave her usual unflinching nod, unmoved by the sudden apparition of a celebration for the occassion, having expected that Ecavi knew and would not ignore it. After serving the cake, Ecavi retreated upstairs to retrieve their gift, while Jasmine noticed the photograph on the fridge and admired it.
After the cake was eaten, Ecavi set a gift infront of each thule. Ceri wasted no time, not even to wipe the frosting from her hands and face, to start trying to tear through the paper. Fortunately, before the pink dress inside was revealed, Ecavi had a face cloth at Ceri's fingertips and got her cleaned up.
"The dress!" She smiled, holding up the lovely pink and yellow dress, before standing up and attempting to dress herself at once. Myze watched on, not having touched her package yet.
"Yes," Ecavi said, helping Ceri get her new dress on, "I finished this one just for your birthday."
"Thankyou," Ceri murmured politely, remembering what Ecavi had said about being polite, and then turned on her twin expectantly, "Open yours!"
Without a word, Myze looked to her gift and tore carefully at the paper. If Ceri had gotten a dress- not the green one she asked for, Myze noticed- then she would, of course, be getting the sweater she'd asked 'avi to make for her. She remains expressionless when the purple dress is revealed, and looks up at Ecavi.
"Well?" Ecavi asked, reaching out and picking up the dress to show her, "What do you think?"
"It's a dress," Myze commented in her quiet voice.
"Yes," Ecavi nodded, "It's so much easier than a sweater for now-"
"I didn't want a dress," Myze interupted.
"I know," Ecavi sighed, unbottoning the back and sides of the dress, which she'd specially designed for Myze to fit into easily, "But this will fit you nicely, I made it so you're wings are still comfortable. I'll try to get something else done another time, Myze."
"Ok," Myze said after a pause, but still made no move to put on the dress. She could appreciate the thought that went into it, and the difficulty her wings could caught- she's not stupid, she's always understood the reasoning with her wings, but it didn't mean she'd want to wear a dress.* Ecavi hadn't been too surprised by Myze's reaction, and did eventually get her to wear the dress. The day had gone pretty well, and now the three just watched the stars come out together, waiting peacefully for time to pass so they could get the lights turned out for a better view. Of course, only if they got Ceri a flashlight.
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:17 pm
Back dated entry.
June 10
The point of this entry is to show that Myze and Ceri are involved in some other RPs, just only as minor, background characters. They were present in the RP where Jasmine and Rhine snuck off, if only at the very end- which is written about here. It also introduces the cat. It was early in the morning of Jasmine's birthday and Ceri was already up and about with Ecavi. As usual, Ceri had woken Ecavi up, but today the fairy was pleased to be up and about early- she was expecting someone! After getting Ceri some cereal, they sat at the table together while the day thule ate.
"Ceri, I'm going to need your help this morning," Ecavi said with a smile, "Jasmine's gift will be arriving soon, and I want you to help with it."
"Wha' is it?" Ceri asked, tilting her head.
"You'll see," her guardian answered brightly, glancing up at the clock. It was a little after seven in the morning by now, but that's about when she was expecting the gift to arrive. The item in question was coming from a neighbor, and the neighbor was happy to bring it over themselves; it was just easier that way.
"We going to have cake?" Ceri asked hopefully.
"We sure are, you can help decorate that too," Ecavi answered, "We'll see if Myze wants to help out too, though."
"Ok!" Ceri squeaked gleefully.
*
"Ok, thank you," Ecavi was saying at the door, now with her arms full of.. something. She stepped away from the door, closing it, to find Ceri standing just behind her staring up at the giant fuzzball in her arms. The fairy gave a bright smile, "Ceri, just the girl I was looking for. You want to show him around?"
Before Ceri could ask, the fuzzball in her guardian's arms lifted it's head. It was a cat! He was an adult, with big blue eyes and a bell on his collar. Jasmine was getting a cat for her birthday! The day thule squealed in delight and nodded enthusiastically in repsonse to the question.
"I knew you would," Ecavi said, kneeling down onto the floor, "You have to be gentle with him, he's not much smaller than you and he's much more sensitive than your kitty."
"Ok!" Ceri assured Ecavi, reaching and petting the cat gently, but going against the fur.
"Careful," Ecavi said, shifting the cat a bit and bringing out a hand to guide Ceri in the right direction, "Let's go in the living room with him." She slowly got to her feet and walked the short distance from the doorway to the living room, and set the cat down on the floor. Ceri followed closely after her. The cat's first reaction was to crouch low on the floor and look around the strange room.
"It's ok, kitty," Ceri cooed, petting him the wrong way again.
"Ok, you keep him busy," Ecavi smiled, and went back through the hall to get the other cat stuff ready.
*
"Ceri, he doesn't like it," Myze muttered to her twin, watching the feline dart behind the couch. Her scratches, burns and ego were healed well since the attack from Kefka, but much to her dismay the drawing that Ceri did was still on the fridge as a warning to everyone else in the household from the worried little day thule.
"But I'm just playing," Ceri replied, trying to follow him behind the couch.
"Be gentle," Myze reminded her, walking over to the other side of the couch where the cat was coming out trying to avoid the yellow creature that was following him. She gently scratches behind his ears. Myze is also fond of cats, though not in the same enthusiastic manner as Ceri is, which is considerably better for the cat. She remains expressionless, but the tabby seems to enjoy the calm attention.
"He likes you," Ceri said in a sing-song voice, walking out from behind the couch and gently petting him now that he's staying still.
"He likes being scratched," Myze corrected her quietly.
*
"No, no, no," Ecavi said with a laugh, watching as Ceri tried to open the sprinkles and popped it open, spreading sprinkles everywhere. The day thule gasped and watched the colors roll over the table and floor while her twin shook her head, holding onto a container of icing.
"It's ok!" Ceri cried, tossing aside the empty sprinkle container and grabbing the sprinkles from the counter and trying to stick them on the cake.
"Don't do that," Myze attempted despite the clamor Ceri was making in her efforts to save the sprinkles, and the only reason her sister heard her was the telepathic connection. Ceri stopped, fists full of sprinkles and smiles at Myze. Ecavi just stood by, shaking her head and giggling.
"No more sprinkles?" Ceri asked, looking back and fourth between Myze and Ecavi.
"No, that'll do," Ecavi said with a final laugh, "We can use icing to decorate instead."
"Can Mimi help?" Ceri asked.
"She has company," the fairy reminded her, glancing down the hallway, "We'll get her to help us eat it when we're done, how about? That way Rhine can have some too."
"Ok!" Ceri said, giggling as Ecavi took her hands and got the sprinkles from them.
"We'll clean up first?"Myze asked, swishing her tail over the edge of the counter and brushing the sprinkles to the floor.
"Not that way," Ecavi said, watching Myze with a smile, "We'll get them all off the floor when we finish, ok?"
"Alright," Myze murmured. Ecavi smiled at her and then went to one of the drawers to get some plastic baggies and food coloring. They would decorate the cake however they liked, having been the only volunteers really, and then they would have everyone come and have some cake. Returning to the counter with the cake on it, Ecavi put the icing Myze was holding into the baggies, added some food coloring and when it was mixed she cut holes in the corners.
"There you go," she said, "decorate away."
When the girls had finished, Ecavi praised their handiwork. Ceri claimed to have drawn Mimi on the cake, while Myze did very little- she wasn't so fond of icing, and did manage to spare part of the cake from Ceri's liberal hand. Ecavi took Ceri into her arms and gave Myze a hand down to the floor to walk.
"Let's go get Mimi, then," she said, walking down the hallway and calling out before they near the door even, "Jasmine!" She was guarding herself against any anger she might incur by "bothering" the teenager while her boyfriend was visiting, but also trying to be polite and give them some respect. There came no answer, but that didn't bother her- it was quiet when she reached the door so she assumed they were listening.
"Jasmine, we have your cake ready," Ecavi continued, opening the door. When the door opened, there was a yowl and the cat from the morning came barreling out of the room, clearly unhappy with whatever was going on in the room. After sidestepping the cat, Ecavi peeked into the room, bringing Ceri for the ride, and found no one there. Myze's ears twitched at the lack of sound, guessing no one was in there. Both aduthule looked up at Ecavi, who was just frowning.
"Alright, we'll just wait for her to get back," the fairy said in the calmest voice she could manage, "Why don't you go watch TV with Tabby or play in the play room or something." She turned and walked back to the living room, setting Ceri down on the couch. Myze followed them and clambered up to her chair.
*
Ecavi was in the kitchen cleaning up the mess from the cake when Jasmine suddenly appeared and went to the fridge to get drinks casual as anything. Ceri was too busy trying to get the cat to come out from under the couch to notice, but Myze noticed from her spot on the chair. The night thule, however, turned her attention to her sister and just waited for her to get impatient about the cat- then perhaps she'd come and help. Ceri continued for several minutes, and didn't even stop when Rhine, the guest in the house, appeared by the living room, followed closely by Jasmine.
"Kitty, kitty," Ceri said loudly, as if increasing the volume increases the attraction of the cat to the caller, "Pstpstpst!"
Myze's eyes turned up to the dragons. Ecavi had come from the kitchen and was walking to them, and it didn't take long taking the few steps to the living room from the kitchen.
"I think it's time for Rhine to go home, Jasmine," she said simply but seriously. While she made no outright comment, she made no effort to hide the fact she was not happy about something they've done. Rhine stepped between Jasmine and her mother, and Myze's eyes twitched a little bit. Even Ceri turned to look when Rhine took charge, and talked back.
To Ceri, all that really mattered was the tone of voice she heard coming from each person. Rhine was talking to Ecavi, and he sounded serious in a way that was not uncommon when Jasmine was angry with her mother. It was obvious that the conversation is not good, and all the day thule could do was frown. Myze, on the other hand, listened carefully to everything that was said and couldn't help but be entertained by the situation. She understood what was going on, and that Rhine wasn't on a good track to earning Ecavi's friendship. She was startled, however, when a ring was pointed out on Jasmine's hand to prove that Ecavi wasn't the only one responsible for Jasmine now.
A ring.
Her violet eyes moved to her guardian, and she could almost sense the surprise in the cold look that the fairy was giving the dragon. As the boy was let out of the house, Ceri was still sitting on the floor looking upset and Myze was on the chair looking amused. Ceri made a low, throaty whine, but to her surprise she felt something funny on her hand under the couch. When she pulled her hand away, the cat came out and looked at her, looked at Jasmine, and then back at Ceri, settling on the floor infront of her.
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:20 pm
Back dated entry.
June 17 or later.
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:25 pm
.: QUEST TIME :.
Myze & Ceri
It's nature to desire something you do not have. Aduthule are no exception to this. What do Myze & Ceri desire? As a guardian you can give them the guidance they need, however you cannot give them physical help in any way. Can they obtain the item of their desire? What choices do they make? What actions do they take? Most importantly, will they succeed or learn a life lesson from their trial. Everything rests in their hands.
(( Please answer the quest in five entries or more ))
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