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 Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:27 pm
Ah yes, that place. Well when there was no other way to get answers, getting them from the source was th ebest bet. He'd talk to that Ianna lady, theone who gave him the watage.
DAMMIT! There he went using that word again. The one that brat had called them. That just messed up the feline's mood a bit more as he closed his eyes. No, no... calm. Deep breaths. Ah much better, back to being calm. He'd already went off the handle being angry with one kid, they couldn't all be bad. He certainly didn't need all of the children hating him, it wouldn't be the environment to raise a child around, not when he'd likely need to bring the girl in for checkups right?
Although it was still hard to imagine the wand as a child. Even witht he mist forming around the tip in a cloud as it did, it was simply hard to picture it. His eyes moved down to check ont he winged lavender thing that was poking out of his bag as he moved along toward where he'd found the shop before.
Today was going to result in some answers. Answers and informing that woman of the bad seed that was the kitsune child he'd met. Certainly letting those parents raise a child like that wasn't in her plans, right? No, of course not.
"Da-da we there?" The boy called cheerily from the feline's back. The orange tail poked out from the end of the labcoat. It was pearly white for once, seeing as how Raja had stolen it t wash it the night before. till the bicolored haired boy was as curious as ever. He'd clung to Raja at the mentio of going to some new headquarters place and ended up getting a piggyback ride from the father figure. "Wan' see place." He added trying to pull himself a bit higher up to look ahead and tightening his grip around the man's neck as he did.
Giving a quick gag Raja worked to loosen Jeanus' arms as he nodded. "Almost there. Just around the corner." He replied quickly spotting the shop as he rounded the corner. Right on through and into the back. He'd been told he could come anytime, so this had to be alright.
"Misty from here?" The boy chimed to further a statement he'd heard earlier. His father had been babbling about the wand and stuff, and thus it meant that it had to do with Misty. That's what the child had dubbed the stick anyway.
"Yes, this is where I was given the wand." He stated as he shoved the door open. He didn't see anyone at first glance in the shop, so he moved quickly toward the back which he'd been shown as being an entrance to the target area. Headquarters, now just don't get distracted.
However that didn't last long.
As soon as the door was opened a delighted gasp came from the boy who was still clinging to his back. "Da-da is fancy there place!"
"Yes, but-"
"Esplore place?"
He really needed to learn not to let the kids come with him on business trips.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:38 pm
Kierla was already lounging on a couch.
Actually lounging wasn't the right word; she was sleeping.
One couldn't really blame her. Aricia had to be the most energetic kid in the world when it came to jam jars. Apparently she had thought they were sparkly. The perfect toy to...throw around.
An hour of cleaning up splattered jam and shattered glass later, Kierla had brought her troublesome baby over to the HQ. There, at least, anything broken wouldn't be hers.
Aricia certainly was hard at destructive work. It was just something she liked to do. Currently, she was gnawing at a table leg, pausing only to screech a "GEE!" at the newcomers, then resuming her chewing.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:47 pm
Oh the place screamed of toys, and new things to the found toddler. He quickly began to wriggle trying to free himself, and the fact that if he moved to much he might start strangling his father was what got him his wish and he was allowed to slide to the ground after Raja crouched down. Not that giving the child freedom got Raja any closer to his goal.
The loud noise quickly atracted the hard to miss boy's attention. The child's wings reminded him mildly of his hair. Of course he had white hair, but the red... No his hair was much darker thanthat, reddish still. A browny red. His father had a color he called it, but the word didn't mean much to a toddler. Certainly not one who was about to find out just what was with this winged creature. It was strange like his fluffy spotted cat sibling. "Wing-wing like icey drag-drag!" The boy chimed as he tried to scamper over toward the child who was making a mess of the furniture within her range.
This... was not a good start at all. "Jeanus, no..." Came the useless plea from the man as he moved forward to snatch up the mixed breed of a boy. Not only had Jeanus messed up any chance of a quick speedy move to business, but he was getting to see another interesting display with a child. Chewing furniture? Would his... The man glanced at the wand in his bag. "You are not allowed to eat the couch..." He stated under his breath as if the wisp could hear him before turning his attention back to the orange tailed child. "Jeanus we need to-"
Useless. Jeanus was too busy peering at the child who he'd now made it up to. His tail waving in and out of view from under the coat he had on. Raja had shorted it a bit so he didn't drag on the floor as much, as well as the boy having grown a bit. Still the thing was obviously too big for him, and it was a cloth covered hand that reached out to poke at the wings. "Wing-wing like Ymir drag-drag. You drag-drag?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:55 pm
Aricia, for once, paid no attention whatsoever to the other people in the room - chewing on the table required her full attention and usage of skills!
But she certainly noticed the poke to her wings. It was as if it had come from nowhere, and completely surprised her, causing her wings to suddenly flare out in their full glory before retreating again, this time fully, into her back. "GAAAABOO," she mumbled around the wood in her mouth, eyes sliding around to stare curiously at the new person.
The boy's idle chatter, however, had woken Kierla. With a loud groan, she opened her eyes blearily - then, realizing there were other people in the room, snapped up to a stiff sitting position. "Hello," she said as flatly as possibly.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:08 pm
"Gaaaaboo..?" The child tilted his head to one side staring at the creature. This was a gaboo then? "You not drag-drag thing?" He added seeming to find it a bit hard to down that not all things with wings were dragons. Oh sure, the red head loud girl had wings, but they were on her arms. Not like this one. This one had wings on her back, like Ymir dragon thing. The boy glanced off for a moment ignoring the waking woman before looking back at the girl, seemingly oblivious that she might not grasp anything he said. "Is gaboo mixed type drag-drag?" Because perhaps this was another kind?
Yes, that had to be it! Raja had said that Ymir was a mixture of a frost and silver drag-drag thing. So that meant that this girl could be another type? It made perfect sense! "Gaboo is drag-drag new thing!" He exclaimed proudly nodding his head. He'd made anew discovery just like da-da the scientist. This was something Jeanus could be quite proud of.
"Jeanus..." Came the slightly quiet pleading tone as the feline cast a slightly apologetic look at the woman who'd just woken up. "Uh, hello. I'm sorry if we're bothering you. It's just that Jeanus hasn't been here before and-" The cat paused as he watched in slight horror as the curious child took his discovery moment further.
No longer was it a gentle poke, but rather a tug to find out how sturdy the moving wings where. "Why wing-wing odd like hair?" The boy mumbled narrowing his blue eyes slightly as he shifted to get a better look at the things. "No match like Ymir drag-drag thing wing-wing." Before the boy could do more he was snatched up along with a few nervous laughs from the blond man.
"Jeanus we do not pull peoples wings, I explained that with"
"Is nah Ymir drag-drag wing-wing. Is like loud girl feath-feath wing-wing."
"Yes, but it's not nice to tug them."
"Is nah?"
Thank god, he'd gotten the point across. "Yes, it's not nice. Not even if you're trying to learn should you do that to people." He lef tthe boy with that thought for a moment before giving the woman a slight smile. "Er, yea... sorry about that too. He's not usually like this." Oh, but that wasn't true. Jeanus always wanted to learn something, a habit he'd icked up from his father. "And... uh..." The fact that the table was damp had just hit Raja again. These children... if this was another wand one, they caused a lot of trouble.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:17 pm
Aricia now abandoned her table completely; there was a few noticable teethmarks, remarkable, considering she only had one tooth. This fact she proudly displayed as she grinned, most of it a gummy pink. "DAGOODEE," she shouted back at Jeanus.
When her wings were tugged on, she let out a loud wings. The wings immediately retracted into her back, leaving no trace that they had ever existed in the first place.
"Aricia doesn't want her wings to be touched right now," Kierla said. "I think it's because she just took a bath." God, was that jam hard to get off.
She observed the two strangers. The kid - Jeanus, the father called him? - was certainly adorable, but very loud in her opinion. Which sort of overrided the good trait, making him normal.
Normal was good. Kierla took a shot at friendly. "I'm Kierla." For a second, she debated over whether to offer a hand to shake, then decided against it. Normal people were sometimes mean.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:28 pm
Jeanus was still wrapping his head around the fact he couldn't just tug on anyones wings. So he'd need to find a better way to test them. "Washy?" The boy grimaced mildly wriggling against the graps as the mention of a bath came from any mouth. "No washy, chemy-chemy good. No need clean." He quickly stated darting his gaze between the three figures quickly.
"Be nice." The man declared briefly as he set the child back on the ground rather than put up with him trying to get loose and falling. "Or there will eb another bath." Even if there weren't odd things on the boy this time. Having him knock over a table of things from work on himself wasn't good. Even if they hadn't been toxic unless he drank them.
Freedom once more! Freedom to try to figure out jsut where those wings vanished to. "No more pull. How wing-wing work? Like drag-drag thing wing-wing?" He babbled inching toward the younger girl as curious as ever.
Keeping an eye on the boy as he briefly smiled at the woman. "I'm Raja, and that is Jeanus." He didn't bother to offer his hand either, instead nodding his head lightly. He didn't have the best view of the children involved with this place, nor their parents. At least, not at the moment. This child was being allowed to chew on furniture, that wasn't as bad as the cursing one... but it wasn't good either. The score was looking rather bad.
And he wasn't getting the task at hand done either. "I... er I'm guessing Aricia..?" He paused hoping he wasn't yelled at for recalling the name wrong. "Is one of the wand children?" He didn't know what else to call them. As he mentioned it though his hand strayed slightly to check on the thing in his bag. Yes, perfectly safe, it had become a habit to keep a lookout for it. The day that thing fell meant the day he'd have a guilt trip over breaking the wand. "But that's a stupid question, you wouldn't be in here unless you'd met that lady."
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:37 pm
"Yes, she is," Kierla said, trying to sound as if it was a completely normal thing. Even after having taken care of the wand, watched it sprout into a wisp, then a ghost, then into a real live baby...all this magic stuff was creeping her out. "Is Jeanus one?" she queried, not seeing the wand upon his person at first glance. Maybe she was just still a little sleepy.
A quick smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, then pushed them back down into a neutral line. "So Jeanus doesn't like baths either?"
Aricia stuck her tongue out at the kid, turning her back away from him, then letting her wings slowly fill the air behind her.
Hmmph! This kid had no wand, no shiny things that she could try and steal. How boring. Maybe he had some in pockets or something. "Shyee?" she questioned. Or maybe he had other things, things that sang "Twinkle" when she punched them. "Toos?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:57 pm
He blinked at the question. "Eh... oh no. Jeanus is..." He eyed the boy a moment. "A special case..." How did you explain that someone shoved a bundle into your arms on the street that turned out to be a kid? Actually, assuming that they dealt with wands here... that might be considered normal. "No, I um... well the wand is just smoking." He added, shrugging slightly. "It's not that odd I guess... I've seen wierder..." Not really, it still seemed odd, but he didn't need to tell her that.
"I've found most children dislike baths. Well, Keanu doesn't mind them. Arianna never agrees to do anything, and Jeanus just thinks being covered in wierd substances is the best thing in the world." Yes, it depended on the child. "You simply need to learn how to deal with each one." Arianna needed to be tied up, Keanu you just told him he couldn't practice until he took a bath. Jeanus? You dumped him in the water. Laiou didn't mind as long as someone stayed in the room, or it was durring the day. So many odd quirks to deal with though...
Jeanus frowned as the girl refused to allow him near her back and the wings appeared again. He couldn't get near tem to peek at, how could he investigate if he couldn't get near it? Even as he tried again the two words didn't seem to click in his head. It wouldn't have mattered if they did, Raja was the only one with a bag that had things in it. Jeanus didn't tend to keep things in the two large pockets on the pilfered labcoat he wore. Still talking seemed not to work. He needed a new way to get the girl to sit still so he could see how her wings worked. Something neat would do, but he wasn't at work with Raja. That was where all the neat things were...
His eyes began to look around the room in search of something to distract this odd 'gaboo' with temporarily with. No, too high. Too bland. Hey that might work. It looked like some discarded keychain. Maybe it had fallen off a bag or something. Too a child like Jeanus, it was a new discovery. The item alone might have kept the elf newt hybrid occupied. So off on the new journey he went to snatch up the newest object of interest. "Is like drag-drag thing maybe?" He mumbled to himself as he did.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:05 am
"Hmm..." It sounded as if Raja had a lot of kids. At least, more than her. What was it about Gaia and people having bucketloads of children? For one thing, her sister...
"Oh, your wand is wisping?" Or maybe it was ghost. But he said the wand was smoking, so probably wisp. After a heartbeat's wait, Kierla's curiousity got the better of her. "Can I see it?"
Aricia's narrowed eyes followed Jeanus's as he searched. So he didn't have anything! Then, it was a waste of time to spend anymore time with him. Or maybe he could recite a poem to her. That might be fun.
Then her gaze alighted upon the keychain the same time Jeanus's did. "EEE! SHYEEETOOS!" she screeched, babbling and pointing at it excitedly. She grinned with pleasure as the kid went to fetch it. So he might make a good servant after all...
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:20 am
"Is that what it's called?" He asked in the brief moment before she spoke again. "Eh... Yes, I suppose." The kitsune had snatched it before, and certainly the woman wouldn't take it right? He carefully shifted the flap of his bag to extract the delicate wand. Or at least he assumed it was. The two semi-transparent wings atop the tip always made him worry, it wouldn't be hard to snap them off right? After he'd freed the item he held it up in all it's misty glory for the woman. "That woman told me it's a gelfling, a girl to be exact." Ah yes, that note about the wings. And the whole sex crazed thing? Not something he was looking forward to dealing with. "I'm tot he point of believing that Ianna lady, but I don't quite know what to expect from her aside from wings somewhat like the ones on the wand..."
Jeanus never intended to serve anyone, he just had his own interests. Ones that went along with what Aricia wanted right now. He made it to the object and eyed the thing for a moment. Some ornate key that had been painted with silver. This much was obvious because the paint had peeled off in a few spots, though it still made a light chiming noise as he picked it up and the metal ring fell to clank against the key itself. The fact the girl had suddenly exclaimed about the object caught the boys attention once more and as much of a plan that could be formed in his head was created. Yes, this would do.
The boy quickly wobbled back over toward the pegasus holding out the newly obtained thing toward her as if it was a peace offering. "See, no wing-wing pull. Just looky learn?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:28 am
"It's beautiful." And it was. The wing-like shapes on the top of the wand made Kierla wonder just what kind of creatures these gelflings were. The color, although not black, was pretty as well. Finally, she decided to undermine her pride for once and ask. "What are gelflings?"
Unfortunately for Jeanus, Aricia no longer was interested in the keychain whatsoever: another, more prettyful thing had been brought out into the open. She glanced over the offering, then completely ignoring the boy, she yelled.
Really. Really. Loud.
"SHYEE WAAA!" she cried out, stretching her arms toward the purple wand. When finding out she couldn't reach the pretty thing, her fists opened and closed in frustration as her wings fluffed themselves and her legs kicked wildly. It was as if a hill of ants was just knocked into her dress. "WAAA! DAAA!"
Suddenly stopping her wriggling, Aricia glared at Jeanus as if it was all his fault she couldn't reach the wand. "Waadaa," she said bossily, pointing toward the object of her desire.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:48 am
Beautiful was a good word for it. Raja had thought a similar thing when he first saw it. Thenhe'd been told it was his new child. Oh Keanu had been overjoyed at the thought of a little sister, well one that wasn't somewhat rabid like Arianna. However the fact he had to now explain them well... "They're..." He rubbed his head. "Only the girls have wings, that's why I was told this must be a girl." He had done a bit of research on them thankfully. "Fairly peaceful and nature loving. Truthfully I should know more, but well..." I don't want to tell you what else I found out. About the whole physical thing. "I'm sure she's going to be a very sweet young lady." I hope she is, I don't need more problems. That was what he meant.
And his plan was foiled by his father. Well that wasn't new.
Anytime the elven eared boy had a genuinely genius plot Raja stopped him. Here it happened again with the lavender wand, something that even the wails from his target wouldnt get the boy to go after. He'd long since learned that the wand was a no-no. Raja had put him in enoughtime outs relating to that object that it was well proven. Still the noise did hurt his ears and his hands quickly clamped over them to attempt to block it out.
Raja simply reacted by both ears falling back and wincing. It sounded as bad as when they tried to dress Arianna. It didn't tak ea rocket scientist ti figure out what the girl wanted either, she'd looked and reached directly int he direction of a rather fragile wand. Something she wasn't going to get. "Oh no, be as loud as that harpy all you want, you're not getting this..." Was the only reply she was going to get. If Raja had learned one thing, it was how to tell a child no. So almost as quickly as the thing had appeared the orange eared feline was carefully replacing the object in it's hidden location.
And with that Jeanus had to go back to plan A. Maybe once the thing was out of view she'd forget it, he really couldn't try for Misty. "No no kay. Misty nah toy. Thing for wing-wing looky?" He bopped the key up and down a few times pleadingly. Maybe? Maybe?
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:01 am
"That's what I said of Aricia, and look...or hear...how she is now," Kierla said. It was impossible to tell if she was joking from her voice, but chances were she was not, listening to Aricia's.
"WAAA! DAAA!" the pegasus child was currently yelling again, beating her fists on the ground angrily.
Then, everything calmed down: she was no longer screaming or flailing. Apparently she was trying a different approach. Her crying was reduced to pitiful sniffles, and the teary eyes widened to cover half her face in an absurd puppy face.
Wow. She must have really been practicing. Her thumb even went into her mouth to achieve the innocent effect. "Pweeezee?" she said as sweetly and baby-like as possible.
She continued to ignore Jeanus. If he wouldn't get her what she wanted, he wouldn't get what he wanted either.
"Aiii won' 'urrrrt i'," she added.
At that moment, Kierla knew the joy of being a mom.
"She said her first sentence!" the woman squealed, her feet suddenly breaking out in a little jig (what? this was Kierla?). The fact that Aricia was being a total leech toward their new acquaintances escaped her; she'd said her first sentence, nevermind how obnoxious it was!
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:27 am
Oh hell no. Nothing was breaking through that defense. If Keanu had been there the snow leopard would have snagged the wand to hand it over, but he wasn't. This was Raja we were talkign about, who dealt with Arianna on a daily basis. No temper tantrum or... oh god... One eye twitched as it took what restraint the man had not to break down into an 'aww' and hand over the priceless wand at the sight of those eyes. "No. That's what Keanu says, but some things are just too fragile for kids." The man replied shaking his head firmly. "Absolutely not." Evenif she had said her first sentence in trying to get the object.
"Maybe when you're older, or my future daughter isn't stuck in it." As a puff of smoke. How is this supposed to be my daughter again? Science was lost in this world sometimes.
Jeanus was not to be left out. Since she was ignoring him, he simply snuck along to peer at her wings while she was busy dealing with the father. "Da-da how wing-wing work?" Woops, that might have ruined it. "Misty have wing-wing too. Misty drag-drag thing? Gaboo too?" He babbled reaching out to possibly go after one of the wings again.
"JEANUS REA MORRO DO NOT TOUCH!" Raja had been watching the girl, and wether the boy would have gotten anywhere near those wings, or not he needed to once again be taught that no was no.
"I wasn't going to pul-"
"Don't touch. It's the same with the wand." The man rubbed at his temple. It was a good thing the household dragon was such a good tempered creature or Jeanus' hands on habits would have been a lot of trouble already. "Leave her wings alone, she obviously didn't want you touching them earlier, so not now either."
The boy frowned eyeing the now off limits item. The same as the wand... that meant trouble. He flopped down on the ground glancing at the girl. "Ya da-da says no misty. No wing-wing. New place have other thing esplore?"
"..." The man sighed shaking his head. "How quickly you lose interest..." He mumbled ignoring the woman who seemed to have hit a scary high from the sentence. He'd never felt that joyed when Keanu spoke. Then again, the child had spoken even worse than this baby, hadn't he?
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