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Coal spun in the air around Nell his aura flickering in distress. Once he was sure that he had Nell's attention he started moving back toward the grill having it in mind to show her.


Theirn smirked slightly, "suppose excitement comes in all forms." Quirking a brow slightly he inclined his head toward Trivii, "you should be safe," pausing a long moment Theirn added, "I don't plan for anyone to have to..." Frowning slightly he shrugged and glanced toward where he could see the movement of the wisps.

"...it looks like they are into something," reaching up he gestures toward where the excitement with the wisps had started up.

The black fiend nodded as Miranda spoke, 'The Athan man did? That's really neat actually. I was given to Merci by Citrine, I haven't seen her in a really long time. I was kind of a special case though, if Merci hadn't taken me I probably would have died.' Dio's eye moved down to look at Rutie, a warm feeling of affection seemed to be coming from the older fiend. 'I've been around now about four years. Merci says I act like a teenager though.'

It looked like Dio was about to say something else to Miranda when Bloo flew up into his face. The teenager reeled back a little bit in surprise, but as soon as he was able to focus on the stone he relaxed a bit. 'Hello Bloo! I haven't seen you in awhile.' He lifted his hand up and offered it to the wisp as a place to rest. Dio glanced up at Algie and he gave him a nod, 'Hello Algie, you look winded. This little guy giving you the run around?'

Merci gave Rhys a squeeze before she let him go. She turned to look at Amon and nearly choked when he suggested Vance was gay. She lifted a hand to cover her mouth before a gale of giggles escaped her. "Gay? Oh Gods no. He's just... fancy? I really appreciate you letting him stay though, it gets me out of a fight later." The fox woman looked back to Rhys and gave him a wide smile, "Well you know what would help your chances of getting into a pastry tasting? Going over there and telling Vance the plan. I have no patience for him right now. He squeezed me so hard on the way over I think my ribs are going to bruise." Merci gingerly rubbed her side and gave her step son a sweet smile. Yeah she was probably a bad person for trying to foist the responsibility, but really it was probably better then getting into a fight in the middle of a barbecue.

Vance had no idea he was being talked about. He was happily munching on the sambal, at least until Sulfur floated nearer to him. Her glow was easily seen, and he grumbled a little bit. "Seriously you can't bother other people during this thing? That was the point of bringing you."

The wisp in question slowly approached him, and moved up to settle on the brim of his tophat. Her flames dying down until the light she emitted was minimal.

“Oh Algie, hello again~!” Miranda beamed. Of the guardians she’d encountered so far, the wizard was definitely her favorite. “Hello little Bloo~!” She wiggled her fingers at the wisp in a greeting.

Rutie, it seemed, had his own way of expressing his joy at meeting the other wisp again, promptly rising to try and draw little Bloodstone into it’s tiny vortex of shadows. Perhaps this one would be more fun than Sullie had proved to be.

“Oh, Rutie, leave him be, mh?” Miranda said softly, finally ‘un-lazing’ a little and moving to capture the floating quartz in her cupped hands. “Not everyone is as energetic as you are,” she chided him. “They might not want to play.”

She looked up at Algie, ignoring for now the little wisp’s excessive bopping and bumping against her skin to set himself free. As long as she felt no distress from her tiny warden, she’d hold onto him for now. So far, it seemed, he still considered this a game. “See, we were just talking about how I got him. Apparently Athan tried to pick something ‘harmless’ for me, but I can’t see why he’d make such a fuss.” She looked about, the three grown fiends, and the handful of wisps. “They all seem nice?”

So Dio was only four years old, huh? Well, it didn’t entirely surprise her. Gaia was a true melting pot, and it seemed everybody and their mother had ‘adopted’ one sort of (half-)magical creature or other. Most of them growing in leaps and bounds and quite a few literally over night. It made her really wonder what it’d be like with Rutie. What would it be like, to suddenly share her flat with a little ‘boy’ who could float through walls and never slept?! She wasn’t overly concerned though. Dio certainly was a sweetie, and so were Neph and Ruku. Miranda never quite understood what Mr Athan’s fussing had all been about.

Coal spun around Nell before darting off toward the grill. Staying low he darted toward the bag of coal sitting nearby. Bouncing up and down in the air Coal waited for Nell to come toward him, trying to draw her attention to the bag.

Dropping down from over the bag Coal circled Amon's legs quickly before hiding back under the grill. He wanted to draw attention to the bag and the man at the grill, they would probably have to distract him.

Bobbing again Coal moved toward Nell and then the bag, she was on the bag...he was going to get the burning man! Darting back toward Amon Coal bumped into his leg.

Theirn stood back watching the little wisps, frowning a little he glanced toward Trivii murmuring. "I think Coal's upset...and it looks like they are up to something." Theirn's eyes widened, "er...I think he's trying to attack the man at the grill..." frowning Theirn looked up to the sky, he was calm and the moon wasn't full. For a moment the guardian stood trying to pinpoint what was making his wisp aggressive, luckily Coal really couldn't do a whole lot of damage.


Rhys smirked slightly, "well if your bribing me I suppose I can go bother Vance." Before heading off Rhys reached over and made another burger one of the new ones so it wasn't too dark. "I'll bring a peace offering," giving a slight wave Rhys tucked his wings close to his body and headed over toward the Medusa.

"Vance getting picked on by a little shadow I saw," Rhys smirked slightly coming up to the Medusa, although Medusa tended to be taller then he was he didn't seem all that bothered by the one in front of him. "Here something a bit more meaty," Rhys offered over the burger, "Merci has found some alternatives to you having to take oen of the bikes back home.

Merci glanced up at Amon and she smiled a bit. "I think there are a few differences. I've never really met a naga I think, but I know that my Medusa are rather unique. There are a few of them though and I'm not the only one who has one of them. The fact of the matter is that Vance has to pretty much do whatever I tel him to. If I told him to get on that bike and go home, he would have to to do it, he wouldn't be able to resist my command. It's something in their make up, they bond to a person and they serve them. I just don't treat mine like servants, so many of them get abused and mistreated that I couldn't bear it. Plus I like it better this way, they are my friends and I protect them." She took another bite of her burger and sighed in happiness. It was perfect, and she was honestly a bit hungry. She probably shouldn't have skipped a meal, but she was glad she did. The food was exquisite.

Dio beamed at Algie and he moved over to give the Wizard a hug. 'I've missed you! You look so good! The fiend released him, and gave him a pat on the shoulder. 'Thank you, I feel a bit more in control of myself lately. Speaking of older, Bloo, you look fantastic. I can tell you're stronger already.' The teenager was just so happy to see some of his friends. He looked around suddenly and then sighed a bit. Hawk, Mystic and Red were all not here. He couldn't help a sudden little twinge of loneliness.

He realized he was the oldest one here. It took him aback at how far he'd come. Dio turned to look at Miranda and he sighed, 'We're not harmless, and not all of us are inherently good.' He turned to look at Miranda, and his visible eye held a little of the sadness he'd felt a moment ago. 'We're all different, and the abilities we have are different. I think that the Athan man chooses very carefully the people he trusts us to.' He wanted to say more, but he knew that people needed to find out the things he'd found out their own way.

Vance looked down at Rhys and he took the burger from him. He ended up dumping the rest of the chips and sambal onto the plate with the burger so he could have a hand free to eat with. "Really? I thought for sure she'd make me get back on that horrible thing." He shuddered a little bit, he really didn't like riding in anything other then the car. It made his center of balance feel all off and like he was going to fall any second. "How am I getting home then? She only brought the bike."

Sully rolled off the brim of Vance's hat, and she caught herself in mid air. He'd been moving around far to much for her to rest there like she thought she would be able too. The little blue flames burst back into life as she moved a bit away from Vance and toward Rhys, bobbing a bit in greeting.

The little yellow wisp darted off, toward Merci. Vance was being boring, and Dio wasn't doing anything. Maybe Merci would be more interesting.

The fox woman put her burger down when she saw the little yellow wisp. "Vance not being entertaining enough for you?" She couldn't keep the amusement out of her tone. "Well you can come hang out with us I suppose."

Sully did a little circle around Merci's head before she moved off toward Anais. Her little flames danced as the wisp seemed to be inspecting her.

"What …” Amon looked down, squinting and trying to spot whatever had just bumped into his leg. A bug, he suspected, from the size and force of it. A rather big one.

Crumple, Rip, Thud, Crash

“Well. What. The. F-” With a look of surprise Amon looked at the bag of coal which had just tumbled over, its contents spilling on the lawn. Had he just knocked it over? Nah, no way, too far away. And there wasn’t anyone else nearby, except for … “Ah-hah.” The little wisp was hard enough to spot, but her bright orange gave Carnelian away, and Amon was quick to snatch her out of thin air. Coal’s presence, however, he missed entirely. A black rock, surrounded by shadows, during night time – too hard to spot being handicapped with only one eye and not knowing what to look for.

“Ahem,” he said loudly, not bothering to pick the spilled coal from the ground yet. “I have one misbehaving wisp – carnelian, I think it is, unless there’s something that looks really similar – I’d like to hand back to its guardian. Personally, thank you.”

Nephrite wasn’t quite sure what drew her attention towards the mischievous wisps first – Amon’s irritation, or the perplexed faces of their guardians? She had (vaguely) been heading towards Theirn and Trivii, wondering if they might be interested in looking at her magnificent greenhouse …

But now her focus was on Coal and Carnelian – yes both of them – her delicate features darkening in a scowl. What did those two think they were doing?!

Amon had seized the carnelian wisp, but it didn’t seem like he’d even spotted the coal one. Well. She’d show that annoying little floating piece of rock. No One messed with her guardian. No one but herself, at least.

She grabbed the jug of chai Athan had brought along from the food table, and swiftly approached the coal wisp before it could make its escape, wrath written all over her features. ‘Take that!’ she hissed, turning the jug upside down and dousing the wisp with its contents. Never mind she hit her guardian’s feet as well.