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 Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:51 pm
It was unbelievably hot out these last few days, and while her air conditioner at home did still work, she had the overwhelming urge to get out into that horrible heat to go to the pool. Despite not being one for crowds, the pool was always an exception, since people usually stuck to their own groups and generally ignored the people around them. Which was fine for her, just...she imagined it was hard to ignore a screaming toddler.
"Tek! Shh! It's just water!" The blue haired woman, dressed in a checkered black and blue tankini, pleaded with the baby, trying to get at least his lower half into the water. He had a floaty and water wings, there was no way he could topple over! Still, he just wasn't having it. He growled at her when she held him above the water, and let out ungodly screeches when even a toe was splashed.
Finally she gave up and sat him on the ledge of the pool, keeping a hand on either side of him as a guard, but sinking herself low enough in the water to blow bubbles with her mouth. What was she going to do with him? She pondered the best method of attack, staring at Tek with narrowed eyes. Tek, of course, returned the favor with a curled and snarling mouth.
There was no way he was getting into the water, especially not while looking like a retard! That damned woman would give up eventually, he was sure of it.
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:59 pm
"You know how to th'wim, right, Hot'th?" Rusty asked as the pair of men walked towards the pool. Hoss rolled his eyes, stepping in front of his father and making the man stop. He reached up with those horrible rake hands and gently cradled Rusty's face.
"We live on a faaaarm." Hoss drew the word out, rolling his eyes. "We have a crick. Of course I know how to swim."
Rusty, as usual, ducked his head and smiled, letting Hoss go off to do his own thing while he dove in the deep end and practiced his own swimming.
Hoss was fairly adept at swimming, it seemed, but he couldn't help but notice how... Loud that toddler was. He'd been pretty loud himself. He swam past, getting a better look at the kid...
Wow. That was pretty awful. Two different wings, a halo, ears, a tail? It was like he'd been created from the writings of some highly.... Imaginative teenage girl.
"Loud little git, huh?" He mentioned to the boy's poor mother, rolling his eyes at the little monstrosity. How hilarious!
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:21 am
Switch stood up a bit straighter when addressed, looking over her shoulder at the...strangely coloured boy. Purple skin, orange...hair? Those eyebrows looked like large fuzzy caterpillars to her, and the thought made her shudder just a little bit. Passing it off as the temperature change from water to air, she sighed and nodded, glancing over at her little charge. She hadn't quiet noticed his unique hands just yet. "You have no idea, this is practically his indoor voice." She sounded exhausted to say the least, and waved a scarred hand at the new boy, a couple of her fingers still carrying band aids. "A little brute with a sharp tongue."
Tek's displeasure had turned from his apparent Guardian to the new person. What was he, an eggplant? His wolf-like ears flattened back into his dark hair, growling a little louder at the annoyingly coloured stranger than he had been as his Guardian. Switch always received less of his displeasure than anyone else did; after all, Switch did have a decent rack in his opinion. How could anyone get truly mad at a doting pair of breasts?
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:29 am
"I used to be like that." Hoss mentioned, still hideously amused by the shiny little beast. "Granted, I was an adult in a baby's body, so." Shrug! Hoss didn't seem to care about weirding out people, apparently.
"Yenno," He said to the growling baby, smiling at the annoyance that was directed at himself, "It's a lot cooler in here. You'd probably like it, if you weren't acting like such a puss." Hoss spoke with that annoying tone that most adults spoke to babies with. Wonderful!
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:53 am
"An...adult in a baby's body?" Switch parroted, her eyes widening in surprise. "Um...how is that possible?" She'd seen all manner of strange things on Gaia. Hell, she ran a shop that made items into children! But she had never heard of an adult trapped in a child's body. Never. Green eyes moved from the purple child to the furious Tek, wondering who would win this one; challenging words, or pure stubbornness.
Tek's narrowed gaze moved to slit even further at the annoying tone and less-than-acceptable words. Who did this idiot think he was, butting into their world? What an a*****e! Now he dared to mouth off? In response the young one snorted, and after swaying from side to side a bit he managed to get onto all fours, tail raised like the alpha dog, and went to defiantly crawl away. Show him! He doesn't take orders from any---hey why was he moving backwards?!
"Ooooh no you don't, you little brat!" Switch had gotten a hold of his little clawed feet, tugging him back just enough to grab his waist under the very childish (but still somehow boyish; it had some sort of super hero on it!) floaty, bringing him back towards the water.
Tek's response? Bite. The little monster managed to twist just enough to grab his Guardian's arm, and with a growl he sank his surprisingly sharp Baby teeth into her skin...just deep enough to make her yelp in pain.
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:06 am
"Just drop her in the water. She won't drown." Hoss advised, seeing the baby bite her. His fingers clinked together; that wouldn't get you too far, kid! "Not with all her little floaties."
"With me, I got kicked off my planet for various things. Got sent here, magic s**t happened, and boom, I'm a purple angry scottish-eyebrowed boy." Another shrug. "From what I've seen, anything in this place is possible. People poppin' out of candles, babies made from food, Hell, you see more angels than you see humans."
"Iffen it makes you feel better, sweetheart," He mentioned, "I did the same thing to my guardian. I eventually turned out decent. Granted," He eyed the awful little beast. Seriously. A halo? All that was needed were horns. "I had some sense in me."
If it was a regular baby, it was dumb. If it was a smart baby, Hoss was proably pissing it off.
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:50 am
Switch tilted her head a bit. She was definitely listening, but what caught her attention the most was the gender terms the kid used. While Switch giggled in amusement, Tek stared with his almost always narrowed eyes at the eggplant with freakish eyebrows. She? He was no she! Retracting his fangs from poor Switch's arm, he returned to scowling. The little Monster didn't growl this time, merely held out chubby clawed hands towards the creature that right now annoyed him more than anything. Even more than being trapped in this pathetically frail body.
"Actually..." Switch chuckled, squeaking a bit when Tek stopped biting her. "Tek is a boy." But she could see how he could be mistaken for a girl! Poor thing. The woman was far too amused with the new kid's mistake to even remember to reprimand the little brat.
"Tek, if you want to go to him, you've got to go in the water." Switch warned, and when she didn't receive so much as a glare in response (really, the boy seemed much too focused on the metal handed kid), she slowly lowered him into the water. He whined a bit at the cold, but didn't do much else...just made the same grabby handed motion to the purple kid.
"And...yeah. It kind of does make me feel better. You're right though, kids come from everywhere now-a-days..." She wasn't sure about Tek though; Tek wasn't an adult in a human body, well...as far as she knew, anyway. He did sometimes do or gesture like he understood, but he was just a Baby! It had to be a coincidence. Though she wasn't at her shop, she could still feel that magical pull silencing her when she thought to tell about it. With a sigh, she continued. "I found Tek in a weird pod-thing that practically crashed into my shop. There was a picture inside, but it looks nothing like he does." It was clear that it baffled her, her green eyes focused on the water around Tek, her own hands lightly swaying through the cool liquid. "...Oh! I'm sorry, my name is Switch, What's yours?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:20 pm
Hoss gave a long "hmmm" at the gender correction, watching the flailing little monstrosity. "You can come over, but I bite back." He warned, clicking his rakehands on one another.
"M'Hoss." Hoss said to Switch with a bob of his head. "I'm a lot different than my picture in my pod." He said, a bit nostalgically. It'd been a few years since he'd been like he once was... And Female.
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:38 pm
"Nice to meet you, Hoss." Switch nodded, sinking back into the water. Aaah, it felt so good on her warm shoulders... "You came from a pod, too?" Humming in curiousity, her green eyes moved from Tek to Hoss, then back again. "So...could you two be from the same...thing?" She waved her hand in the water, not quite sure of what to call it. To be honest, she hadn't gotten around to trying to read those papers that she found with Tek...then she just plain forgot about them.
Tek's narrowed gaze moved to observe the rake hands, scowling at them before returning his disapproving stare to the creature apparently called Hoss. Hoss. That was a stupid name. Eggplant was better. Still, the tot made determined grabby hands at him, until Switch gave the floaty a push to get him closer. Stupid Eggplant, Tek thought with a grumble, grabbing the other boy's orange hair and pulling. What? It was the closest thing to grab onto! He was totally innocent! Just a Baby, not aware of what he was doing.
Pffft, what a load of s**t.
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