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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:48 pm
This was another of those times that he realized that trying everything that one saw on the TV was no doubt a bad idea, especially in the instance when it ended up with him having to go shopping. He hated it more then anything since only one store held his interest and that was the one he got games from, video games were the best! This place though was the worst... clothing shopping... just because he'd seen and wanted to test to see if he could flex and rip out of a shirt like the guy on wrestling he got in trouble and was stuck getting 'new cloths that fit better' as his mother had told him.
He'd tried his best but there was no talking her out of it even when he'd told her that it wasn't that they were to small it was that he had been trying to tear them. She didn't seem to believe him... though the fact that his pants look like capris and his shirt sleeves were above his wrists didn't help his arguments in the least. Damn but he was growing to fast and found himself often back in the same, awful predicament that was finding new stuff to wear. He didn't care what he worse so long as it matched relatively well enough and it didn't smell to bad or have to many holes.
Valens gave a sighing sound, "Save me Ellie?" He asked of the Silver that was walking alongside of him.
She looked him over, taking in his clothing that consisted of grass stains, torn knees, and a shirt that she thought used to be white but now seemed a sort of light brown then gave a snort and a shake of her head, no... no it would seem that fresh clothing were in order.
"Traitor." He muttered then found himself pulled along by his mother, not that it would be hard to keep from being pulled as he was already almost as tall as her, stronger and heavier, but it wouldn't be nice to fight with her since she was his Mom.
"It won't be as bad as all that, at least I am taking you out this time instead of your dad." Lamiah told him.
She had a point there...
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:13 pm
Fleur squealed as he looked over himself in a mirror, admiring the dress he was holding up to his shoulders. It was designed after the Winter Rose dress, but it was a lovely lavender color which, of course, was his favorite color. "What do you think, Dawnie?" he asked his dragon.
Aube en Argent let out a pathetic keening noise as she balanced a shopping bag on her nose. She really wished her boy would lose his obsession with shopping or at least find a different kind of shopping obsession. Why could he not be into normal boy things like sports, video games, and mud? No, it was dresses, jewelry, and shoes! If she had not seen him in the bathtub with nothing on before, she would have wondered if he was secretly a girl.
"Oh, quit whining," Fleur admonished her, putting the dress back where he found it. "You're a girl - you're supposed to like shopping." He ignored the exasperated look Argent gave him and proceeded to the next rack of clothes.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:23 pm
Valens found himself face to face with a rack of cloths, starring at them rather dumbly. His mother said she would go and check the pants racks and leave him to pick out his shirts. He reached a hand out to poke at them as if they were prone to violent attacks before he set to searching them. Half of them he didn't get what the jokes on them, a quarter had to bright of eye burning colors, and the rest... some of them he found to be acceptable. He held on up, "Check it out."
The shirt simple said: Insert Something Witty Here. Valens was soon laughing as if it were the funniest thing on the face of the planet, "Need this one." He said, then went searching again.
Ellie gave a shake of her head, why couldn't he get something nice? Something a bit more...dressy? Like those guy on the Spy movie, what was he called? Bond? She gave a shake of her head then blinked happening to catch the sight of Silver across a few aisles. She pushed up onto her back legs using Valens to prop herself up on to get a better look, wasn't that Argent?
"Greetings fellow Silver!" She called out to the other dragon, finally some company that was of the dragon race. She had never felt so happy!
Val gave his dragon an odd look when she was suddenly leaning on him and yelling across the store, "What are you..." He turned and tilted his head, "AH! I see! PHIL!" He lifted his arms and flailed them wildly to get the attention of the skunk boy his shirt doubling as a flag.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:38 pm
Fleur's ears perked up at the noise, and he looked around for a moment before smiling when he recognized the owner of the voice. "Valens!" he replied, waving back to him. The skunk quickly made his way over to the friend he had not seen since the dragon informational class, and Argent was no less pleased than Ellie to see another silver. "It's good to see you," Fleur continued once he no longer had to yell. Not once did he think that Valens already knew he was a boy, so his new attire might confuse the other boy. Every other male Fleur had met since acquiring his new favorite outfit had been tricked into thinking he was a girl.
Argent threw down the shopping bag on her nose and raised a claw in greeting to Ellie. "Another dragon," she sighed in relief. "You have no idea how relieved I am!"
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:47 pm
Valens grinned some, finally someone else to talk to other then the mother that had drug him here and a dragon that didn't talk back aside from in a language that was above him at the moment, "You get stuck shopping too?" He asked, "Maybe with your help I can sneak off. There are so many other stores that I'd rather go too, I heard a new fighting game is out but I'm not even allowed to look until I get all new cloths..."
Surely since Fleur was a guy too he didn't want to be here, maybe he'd gotten forced here as well by his mother? He looked around a moment, he didn't see any other adults at the moment aside from his own mother and those that worked here. Excellent! Escape should be easy enough given there was only one person here!
Ellie gave a smile, "I can guess." She said, looking over at her boy then gave a shake of her head, he was such a mess it was quite embaressing to have her friend and fellow dragon see him. Argents boy looked rather prettied up though, how lucky.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:56 pm
Fleur blinked at Valens and tilted his head before replying, "No, I'm just shopping on my own - I was thinking of getting a new dress." He twitched his ears and looked over Valens thoughtfully, noting that he really did need new clothes. "I could help you pick something out!" he offered, swaying his tail up and down happily. If there was one thing he liked more than shopping for himself, it was shopping for someone else.
Argent gave her boy a pitiful look, her hopes that shopping was over crashing around her feet. "I'm so tired of shopping day after day after DAY!" she whined to the other dragon, thankful she now had someone to express herself with. "It's all he ever does, and all he ever buys is clothes only girls should wear!" She looked meaningfully at the long blue skirt he now wore.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:27 pm
Valens seemed a little confused for a moment and his ears flicked back and forth as he mulled over the skunk's words. He seemed to be stuck on the wrong part of the it though and what he should find strange he seemed for the moment to miss... so then Phil wanted to be out shopping? Why would anyone want to shop? It was a rather boring way to waste... woah wait a second, "What? Yes!" He said, nodding his head rapidly. Phil could help him pick out clothing and then he could make his way to more amusing stores!
Ellie looked Fleur over more closely then blinked, oh my she'd not even really realized that the skunk was wearing girl's clothing only the fact that he looked well... clean, "Yours at least seems to understand what soap and water is for." She said, laughing a bit, "And do you know how hard it is to chase after a boy that has the directional sense of a rock day in and day out? Exhausting..."
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:53 pm
Fleur squealed in delight and immediately went back to the rack, looking for nice clothes for Valens. He quickly returned with several shirts of varying shades of purple and blue along with a few pairs of pants to go with them. When it came to shopping, he was like a lion after an antelope.
Argent glanced up at her boy when he returned and sighed, Sometimes, I think I'd prefer that. Especially since he makes me carry around most of his shopping bags. That can get very tiresome.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:03 pm
Valens looked over what was brought over to him and gave the cloths a strange look, "Ummm..." He wondered if he should asked, though as was usual with him the moment the though came to him it exited his mouth, "Isn't purple a girl color?"
He didn't know if he wanted to wear girls colors... it seemed to dawn on him then as he thought about that what Fleur was wearing. His ears turned forward, "Hey... wait a second... Are you wearing a skirt Phil?" He asked, a bit confused. Why would a boy be wearing a skirt?
Ellie swished her tail, "I guess children are always trying to do the opposite of what others think they should?" She made it sound as if she were so much older then Valens when she was actually younger, none the less she could feign wisdom and old age well.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:22 pm
"Purple's the color of royalty!" Fleur responded with a sagely nod. That was his argument whenever anyone questioned his taste in colors regardless of the fact that he was far from royalty. "But if you don't like purple, they had these same shirts in red too!" He looked down at his skirt though, admiring it. "You like it? It's so comfortable, and it keeps me cool in this hot weather." He smiled up at Valens. "Since my fur's black, I overheat easily."
"You can say that again," Argent sighed and shook her head. "Really, that IS why he got it to begin with, but it's just progressed to an obsession with skirts and dresses from there...I don't know what to do about him. He's going to get himself beat up again..." Argent frowned. That just slipped out.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:39 pm
"Color of royalty." He murmured, then gave a smile and nodded, "Yeah, red is good that is one of my favorite colors. Red and silver, some blues but not as much as the other two." He said, then listened closely to the explanation for the reasoning behind the skirts. Ahhh, comfort reasons he could understand, it didn't sound from what Fleur had said like he wanted to be a girl or anything that would be more strange, "Ahhh, I don't know if it would really work for me. Maybe one of them kilt things."
Fleur seemed small enough but him running around in a skirt would look plain silly.
Ellie tilted her head to the side at the comment that seemed to spill forth accidently from the other Silver and gave a glance over at to the skunk. She had no idea why anyone would want to harm the boy even if his mode of dress was a bit strange, "I assure you he is safe with my boy, Valens plays a bit rough and breaks things on accident because he doesn't know his own strength but he is careful with living things." It was the most assurance she could give as she knew she couldn't tell who or what else may cross paths with the skunk only that Valens was a good boy... if a dirty one...
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:08 pm
"Okay!" Fleur beamed and handed Valens the blue clothes he already picked out then rushed off to replace the purple clothes with red, holding up one of the shirts to him when he came back. "This will look really good on you, especially with your hair up!"
Argent nodded. "He said they met before we hatched in a candy store. Though he spent about half an hour going on about what a wonderful tail he has..." She shook her head. That was another thing which exasperated her sometimes about her boy. She honestly could not see what was so wonderful about tails that made him want to run his hands over every one he saw.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:16 pm
Valens gave a nod, that was much better. Red was a color that he didn't mind wearing since it went well with his natural three colors white, brown, and black. He looked the clothing over, it looked nice enough, no doubt stuff that would make his mother happy to see. His tail swished a bit and he looked at his hair which had a few braids in it giving it a half done look, "Up, huh?" He asked, that meant sitting still longer didn't it?
"Wait until your child sees it full of dirt, leaves, and sticks I bet he won't like it as much then." Ellie joked then looked over to watch as the smaller boy helped hers to find nice clothing, maybe Fleur would be a good influence and get her boy cleaned up a bit?
That would be nice.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:27 pm
"Oh, yes," Fleur said with a nod. "A ponytail would look great!" He lowered his gaze to Valens' tail. "And maybe some matching red beads in your tail." He would love nothing more than to put those in himself, but he was greatly resisting the urge to run his fingers through it, an accomplishment for Fleur.
Argent rolled her eyes. "You don't know my skunk - he'd probably rather it be like that so he'd have an excuse to brush it."
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:35 pm
Valens couldn't help but laugh, the idea of a horse with a pony tail struck him as funny. He lifted his hand to his hair and ran his fingers through the loose part of it, "I might try it at least once so that I can say I had a pony tail on my head and a horse tail on my backside." He told Fleur before laughing again, unable to help it.
Ellie gave a bit of a giggle, "Sounds promising, maybe your boy can clean mine up a bit." She knew that if that were true though Valens would need to do something in return so as not to seem rude, she wasn't sure what he could do though aside from dragging Fleur outside to play in the dirt? Her long tail set to swishing as she seemed to be thinking on that idea, Valens did need more socializing he spent to much time in front of his video games or running at random and trying to get lost.
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