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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:54 pm
Stae was once again cleaning up around the lab, sweeping up shards of broken glass that were broken only because of her own short attention span. Once again, she had left herself to the clutches of boredom, and was working fast as a result to cover her tracks.
She highly doubted Julian would let her out of a talking-to for throwing things around the lab again, and the last thing she wanted to hear was him being his usual, boring self.
Dumping the glass into the trash can, Stae frowned softly and hung the broom and dustpan back on their pegs next to the key rack. Things had been so uneventful since Kyou had bestowed her with the little bottle that now hung in the pocket of her lab coat, and Stae hadn't yet decided exactly what the hell she was suppose to do with it.
Of course, as soon as her eyes fell on a small set of silver keys, her problems were solved. She snatched the set from their respective peg and headed for the door.
To the Kyoutsu-copter!
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:15 pm
Unfortunately for a certain young lady, Julian was quite happy to be his usual 'boring' self. That meant that despite Orestae's attempt to clean up all of her mess, he was able to find the slightest sliver of glass. Naturally, he was not pleased about it what so ever.
"Orestae!" the intern shouted, stomping down the hall towards the launching pad. Shortly behind him followed his Raevan, Gage, the one that had alerted him to where the other scientist had fled to. It was a mistake on Orestae's fault to assume that the official lab helicopter belonged to Kyou. The object was actually Dr. Koyuki's property, and thus Julian's while he was in charge.
That meant, that stealing it, was going to piss the man off quite a great deal. "ORESTAE!"
The reason he did not use an informal title before Orestae's name was not for the same reason he did Chloe's. With the good doctor's assistant, he ignored the 'Ms.' due to the feeling of closeness. With his fellow employee, he ditched the term due to closeness and an absurd amount of irritation.
So quick were Julian's strides, and his Raevan's floating, that they made it both to the launching area before the woman they were after could manage to fully board the helicopter.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:21 pm
******** had just managed to get her foot into the helicopter when Julian came storming out. Rune, however, was already in the back seat. The Fa'e teen had an odd way of beating Stae to most of her ideas, and he hadn't waited so much as a second upon seeing Stae heading for the copter before joining her.
"Gage, you snitch!" Stae yelled, hoisting herself up into the helicopter and jamming the key in the ignition. Her knowledge of how to fly it was shaky at best, but hey, practice makes perfect!
Stae's grin was broad as she turned the key, "Come on, Julian!" She said, masking her irritation at the stick up his a** with a jovial laugh, "We're going to Egypt!"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:33 pm
Gage offered an only partly apologetic eye glance. He had not meant to tell on the woman. It was just Julian had asked, and there was a good deal more loyalty there than there was for Orestae. In the end, the Raevan felt he had been left without a real choice.
On instinct, Julian pulled himself into the helicopter while it had still not taken flight. He grabbed onto his ward's arm, dragging him inside as well. Gage was pushed into the seat alongside the Fa'e, whom neither Raevan nor mad scientist was acquainted with, while the human took the passenger seat by his co-worker.
"What do you think you are doing?" the man said bluntly, looking over the various buttons and gadgets with infinite comprehension. He had taken classes. "This is lab property, not something to take a joyride in."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:43 pm
"Oh shutup." Stae said, the blades whirring just as Gage and Julian managed to get inside. "I'm not taking a joyride, you stuffy a**. I'm going to go get this," she took the bottle out of her pocket, "thing filled so that I can have one of those." She jerked her thumb towards Gage.
"I still think this is a bad idea," Rune said, cracking open the soda he had pulled out of the fridge before running to the copter, "One, you're still drunk."
"Hung over," Stae promptly corrected.
"Hung over, and two, I think our ******** house is crowded enough."
"Then I guess you'll have to stop sleeping with people so you don't know anyone up, eh?"
The copter lifted off of the ground, shakily, and a second later they were off.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:52 pm
Julian had nothing to say to that other than a rather sharp glare. He turned in his seat to face the direction they were going in. If one considered basic logic, a trip to Egypt was not a one day thing. In fact, it surely should have taken at least some weeks. Of course, one had to consider that the helicopter came from that lab.
Considering the sheer insanity associated, there was no way the trip would take more than a day or two. In which case, Julian might not have to kill Orestae on their return. With that thought in mind, he turned to look over his shoulder.
"Knock up?" Gage suddenly piped up, still innocent in his understandings of the world. He did not sit on the seat, so much as rest the part of his body that existed ontop of it. His loose end still went swirling, over the side of the seat and down towards the floor.
Somehow, the scientist was able to shoot both Orestae and her unicorn-boy a dirty look at the same time. They were not to explain that term what so ever, on pain of death. "Nothing."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:00 pm
On pain of death, of course, meant that Rune was to launch into a full scale explanation.
"You see, green-boy, when a man and a woman love each other.."
"Love each other?" Stae said with a raucous laugh.
"Or when they are both extremely horny," Rune continued, "They give each other a special hug. And when they give each other this special hug, sometimes the woman gets pregnant. We refer to that as 'knocking her up.'"
"Oh shutup," Stae said as the radio blared a warning about flying over unauthorized airspace. She promptly snatch the radio from the receiver, mashing the talk button and speaking in an almost sing-song tone, "Gambino Air traffic control, this is Orestae Benedict, pilot of the S.S Kiss My a**. I hope you'll forgive me flying in your airspace, but, well, I just don't give a damn.
She set the receiver back down and gave Julian her most charming smile. "So. Stuffy pants. It's been a while."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:12 pm
Gage tilted his head, his confusion not in the majority of the explanation, but within the term 'horny'. He looked the stranger over, finally noting why he was not making him nervous as most he did not know did. With a slight gesture, the Raevan waved, gesturing at his own horn, then at the Fa'e's. "We are horny?"
Fortunately, Julian was suddenly not paying attention to the two in the backseat. Instead, he was grabbing onto the radio reciever, muttering a small message of apology and something intelligent that basically unevolved to 'PleasedonotkillmeIamaninnocentvictim'.
The man set down the transmitter just in time to be called 'stuffy pants'. The death glare was returning. "I have been busy. Doing work. A concept I assume you are unfamiliar with."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:19 pm
Rune couldn't help but burst out laughing, nevertheless nodding. "Sure, man. Horny."
Stae snorted in response to Rune's explanation, flicking some sort of switch whose purpose she did not know. The cabin lights flickered on and off with it.
"Yeah, well," she began, "It's not my fault that I have an inheritance and you have a stick up your a**. Besides, what the hell do you call what I do at the la- You know what. Nevermind." Obviously, Stae was well aware that she did nothing at the lab besides break s**t and watch TV.
"Don't you ever chill the hell out?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:28 pm
Gage nodded, and then seemed to become instantly bored with the conversation. He looked Rune over once more and then promptly shifted so that he could see out ahead. Then, just as promptly, pulled up his mask so it might hide his eyes as well. "HIGH!"
"I 'chill the hell out' when I am doing so in a responsible fashion. You might also want to lower your voice, if only because you may not be the only one suffering from a hang over," Julian replied as bluntly as possible. He leaned back in his seat, ignoring the squeak from his Raevan. There was really nothing he could do about their current position in the sky, and he doubted he could say anything soothing enough. It was better just to wait until they made it, in some impossibly fast fashion, to Egypt.
Of all places. "What creature are you looking for, anyway?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:36 pm
"Right," Stae snorted, "You probably have to get drunk in order to loosen up, don't you? At least you don't have money problems, you know? I mean with an a** that tight, you must be able to shove coal up there and s**t out a diamond in a matter of minutes."
Rune patted Gage's shoulder lightly, staring gleefully out of his own window, "Come on, man. It's not that bad. A hell of a lot better than trying to fly on your own." He folded his own wings a little bit behind his body. They were pretty damn useless when it came down to it.
"We're hunting a Sphinx," Stae said with an entirely innocent smile.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:49 pm
"Perhaps insulting me would not be the best idea, when I do know that helicopters, or at this this one, lets the co-pilot override the pilot's system if need be. In other words, unless you want me to turn this show on the road around, I suggest we talk about something that is not my a**," Julian replied, his eye twitching a bit though his tone and posture stayed calm. He clasped his hands together, "Such as how you think you're going to get a Sphinx to stay still enough for you to steal its soul."
Gage inspected Rune's wings from where he sat, keeping his hands on a lap that did not exist. His own, small wings looked mechanical, and even clicked very quietly as they started to flutter. "This is...safe?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:58 pm
"And I know that if you so much as touch those controls, Julian, I will not hesitate to slit your throat and shove you out that door." She was smiling, but there was nothing in her voice to imply that she might be joking.
"You're so violent," Rune said, rolling his eyes and nodding to Gage, "Yeah, man, it's safe. The only unsafe thing here is the PMSing, white-haired witch in the front seat."
"Shutup, my little pony," Stae said. "And it's simple. Rune is going to distract it by trying to answer that riddle s**t, I am going to somehow climb on top of it, and I am going to gank its soul."
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:54 pm
Julian was quite sure he could handle that paticular woman, but he still kept his hands away from any of the flight control devices. It was best to use caution around the insane. You never knew when they would start going all crazy all over again.
Thus, ignoring the threat verbally, the young scientist manuvered in his seat so that he might face the yellow skinned being. He, like Gage, was not familiar with the Fa'e. The most he knew was the creature was surely crazy. Like it's guardian.
"And, Mr. Rune, I am to assume you know how to safely answer a Sphinx's riddle?" the man asked in the manner of one who is not very convinced. "You do know the nearly biblical one?"
Julian's questioning was cut off by Gage's almost bird like chirp of surprise as the helicopter nearly struck a tree. "This is NOT safe. Such a lie."
The Raevan brought his loose end up a bit, like a full bodied person bringing their knees up to their chest.
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