::Very convenient. Have you seen the small mithril dragonling that Vai has late...::
Phaezeriel breaks off as the cafeteria shakes with a loud crack and boom. He looks over at the, now massive, elemental smoking on the floor.
Who is that?
"Isn't he like your uncle or your cousin or something? Why so formal?"
Ephebe shrugged. "Time travel can make for some weird family dynamics. He had a huge crush on Mom when he was ten. And therefore hated me. He wasn't that weird with my counterpart, but her memories are ...getting fuzzy honestly. I wrote down most of them in case I really forget about her childhood memories and what our family members are like."
Sometime during the destruction of the chair and the burning of the remains, a pad of paper and a pencil appear next to Ehos with a smiley face drawn on the first page.
"Use this." It says in rather blocky letters.
"Pleased to meet you," Kyuu said, eyeing Michael warily as he offered a hand in greeting.
"Pleased to meet you to." Michael replies, shaking Kyuu's hand and feeling relieved when nothing sharp or poisonous stabs his hand. He frees Saffire from the force field. "No biting!" He tells the small drake. "If you bite you can't go fishing next time we're in Anderail."
"So, um, Kyuu, where is the rest of your family? We're kind of looking for them."
"He had a huge crush on Mom when he was ten. And therefore hated me."
"He had a huge crush on Mom when he was ten. And therefore hated me."
Kyuu shrugged. "They went on a tour of the school. I stayed here so I could let Neko-chan know to meet them at her room. Anderail, huh? I've heard of it, but I've never been."
"It's where I'm from. If you're not careful you'll miss the city for the trees though."
He studied Saffire for a minute. "Nanami was right. Obaa-sama is going to get a real kick out of that thing."
"As long as he doesn't start to S-I-N-G we should be fine."
"What have I gotten myself into?" Vai muses out loud, unable to hide the fact that she was smiling. "It seems like everyone and everything in this family is crazy."
Ehos grabbed the notepad as he dove out of the way of the rapidly expanding golem. He looked back in sorrow at his breakfast, which was now all over the floor. He picks up the pencil and begins to write 'Are you okay?', and then displays it to the elemental.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Vai muses out loud, unable to hide the fact that she was smiling. "It seems like everyone and everything in this family is crazy."
"Yep, we're all certifiable," she said, laughing. "That's why we work so well together."
Kyuu shrugged. "They went on a tour of the school. I stayed here so I could let Neko-chan know to meet them at her room. Anderail, huh? I've heard of it, but I've never been.""It's where I'm from. If you're not careful you'll miss the city for the trees though."
He studied Saffire for a minute. "Nanami was right. Obaa-sama is going to get a real kick out of that thing.""As long as he doesn't start to S-I-N-G we should be fine."
Kitty shuddered. "Don't give him ideas....also, he can spell," she said, handing Saffire a shuriken to gnaw on before he could show off his vocal stylings.
Wyrd sits up, rage and frustration clear on his face. One massive fist crashed to the floor, making everything near it jump slightly and putting several small cracks in the stone. For a moment it seems as though he does not see anything, then his glowing, molten eyes settle on the elf. He moves as though he is taking a deep breath and the eyes close. His the glowing red cracks in his body, showing the liquid iron through them close and he cools, returning to the sculpted iron features from before. Once he is cold again, he opens his now obsidian black eyes and regards the elf.
I am fine. This is just embarrassing, frustrating, and infuriating. It is hard to stay small enough for this building.
He looks over at the table where the elf's breakfast is now all over the floor, then around him where several other breakfasts are now on the floor.
I am sorry for ruining your breakfasts.
Wyrd turns molten again briefly, the liquid iron running down his chest and seemingly into his legs and he shrinks rapidly to his human sized form. Cooling almost immediately he stands and heads for the door to the cafeteria.
Enre walks in with his niece and nephew to get food when he sees the massive golem looking being talking up a lot of room when he was about to say something the golem being shrink he than goes to get food.
"I did not know that." Michael says, thankful that Kitty intervened. "He's not far off from being able to read then, I guess... Ha, Anthony's going to have his hands full trying to keep up with Nova!"
"Yeah, most of my textbooks have chewed edges from where he tried to turn the pages. I keep telling him it would work better with his claws. He can't manage anything more than picture books yet though."
"C'mon," she said to Kyuu. "I'll show you my room. Hopefully we'll make it there before everyone else. I'm not sure I can handle having them go through my stuff when I'm not there."
Hmm. Never seen an elemental able to do that. Anyways...
Phaezeriel turns back to breakfast and shop talk.
Well, this is my first time seeing an elemental, so you've got me beat there. You were talking about Vai's silver dragon-thing, right? Yeah, I've seen it. What about it?
"C'mon," she said to Kyuu. "I'll show you my room. Hopefully we'll make it there before everyone else. I'm not sure I can handle having them go through my stuff when I'm not there."
"Maybe we should send Saffire then, to guard your room or at least slow them down."
"Meep!"
As Vai went through the clothing, she favoured generally more cute outfits. Things like bows and ribbons were what she liked, and this really comes across in the choices, but she's always looking for advice from her sisters and the owner.
"C'mon," she said to Kyuu. "I'll show you my room. Hopefully we'll make it there before everyone else. I'm not sure I can handle having them go through my stuff when I'm not there.""Maybe we should send Saffire then, to guard your room or at least slow them down."
"Meep!"
As they reached Kitty's room, it was obvious that the door was already open. Inside a young man, about the same age as Kyuu, was rifling through Kitty's things.
"Aoi! I just cleaned up in here!" she exclaimed.
"Sorry, Neko-chan," he said sheepishly. "Obaa-sama's orders. you understand."
She sighed. "Well, at least put it back the way you found it!"
"Michael, this is my cousin, Aoi, but he's lived with us so long, he's more like an onii-chan than a cousin. Aoi, this is Michael, my boyfriend."
Aoi grinned and waved. "Nanami said you had a boyfriend. It's still weird you know. I still think of you as being much younger. Also, if you hurt her, we'll have to kill you," he said to Michael in a friendly, conversational tone. "Nothing personal."
Aoi grinned and waved. "Nanami said you had a boyfriend. It's still weird you know. I still think of you as being much younger. Also, if you hurt her, we'll have to kill you," he said to Michael in a friendly, conversational tone. "Nothing personal."
"No problem there. If I hurt her I'm not sure I could stand being around myself. She was the first person here who was nice to me because she wanted to be. Plus, you know, the whole girlfriend/boyfriend thing." It was amazing. Even though the subject should have him shaking, Michael was calm. It reminded him of the time he'd come across a bear, actually. It had the same "Don't bother me and I won't bother you" look that Aoi had. Almost.
Aoi nodded and he and Kyuu started straightening up the room. They were having a rapid conversation while they did, but Michael couldn't understand more than one word in twenty, though it did seem to be in the same language as the scrolls that Kitty had made...at least it sounded like what she read to him before she translated it into something he could understand.
Kitty shook her head. "Sorry. Actually, so far they're being really well behaved compared to what I expected, but it's not nice of them to talk about you right in front of you in a language they know you don't speak," she said pointedly.
Aoi had the good grace to look a little ashamed, but Kyuu just grinned and shrugged.
Ephebe pulled a flowery dress from the rack and wrinkled her nose in distaste.
"This is Vai's style, not mine. When I try to wear stuff like this I look like I just escaped from an elementary school somewhere."
Vai pipes up as Ephebe pulls the dress out. "I like it, though I don't know how you can stomach that much pink. It hurts the eyes."
Aoi had the good grace to look a little ashamed, but Kyuu just grinned and shrugged.
"Don't worry about it, I don't mind." When Aoi and Kyuu aren't looking, Michael holds a vial up for Kitty to see(it reads comprehend languages) and drinks it.
Ehos looks dejectedly after Wyrd, knowing what it felt like to not fit in. He wonders if he should chase after him. He got up and glared at anyone who looked like they were going to laugh or say something mean. Ehos follows after Wyrd, a little worried about how to get his attention. He knew he probably shouldn't touch the elemental, just in case. So he'll follow quietly behind him.
Vai pipes up as Ephebe pulls the dress out. "I like it, though I don't know how you can stomach that much pink. It hurts the eyes."
"No way. This is hardly pink at all," she said, putting the floral dress back and pulling out a bright pink knit dress with glittery stars on it. "Now this is pink. And much more my style."
Ephebe headed into the changing room.
Fieri shrugged and shook her head sadly.
"All those years of ballet have completely warped her sense of fashion," she said, mock-mournfully.
The first thing he notices is that the scrolls on Kitty's wall make sense. Sort of. It turns out that poetry really doesn't translate well.
The second thing is that the rapid flow of speech between Kyuu and Aoi is starting to make sense.
"Well, I didn't find any dirty books or anything....is that good or bad?"
"Aoi! Nanami was bad enough....not to mention educational enough. It's not like I need those books, you know! And stay out of my stuff," Kitty said, blushing bright red.
"Nanami does have a tendency towards exhibitionism," Kyuu agreed as he pulled a frilly undergarment out of a drawer and looking at Kitty with a raised eyebrow. "Although these would suggest that they were intended to be seen at some point..."
"Kyuu, cut it out! It's not like I picked those myself. I got them the same way I got all my other clothes, from the lost and found bin," she said, looking like she wanted to crawl under her futon and hide.
"I don't know, Neko-chan....He seems a little short....what is it exactly that you see in this guy?"
"Aaaaaaaagh!"
"I don't know, Neko-chan....He seems a little short....what is it exactly that you see in this guy?"
"Aaaaaaaagh!"
Michael is just the tiniest bit shocked when Aoi pulls out the frilly article of clothing, but nonetheless seems to be enjoying the back and forth. He does make a small, marble-sized piece of ceiling fall when he hears the short comment though. If he had the angle right, it should be a rather painful, but still harmless, bonk on the head.
"Don't worry, Saffire spits lightning, not rocks. Must have been a loose piece in the ceiling or something."
::I made the mithral dragon for Vai. It is actually psychic rather than magical, but it amounts to much the same thing. It hides her and lets her contact others telepathically. Rather than being bonded to me, it is bonded to its owner.::
Wyrd walks quickly back to the garden he was in before the fiasco in the cafeteria, walks to a huge oak and sits underneath it. That is when, with a start, he realizes that Ehos is following him.
Hello again.
He holds out a hand and a squirrel comes to rest on it. He picks up a couple of acorns and places them in his hand for the squirrel.
It is easier for me to concentrate out here with nature around me.
::I see. Well done. This doesn't cloak, but I suppose that could be something I could implement in the future. This is going to get much, much smaller, and the range is going to be increased, although I'm not sure by how much. By the looks of it, Aananda still hasn't done much with it.::
::You should hide it from magical and visual detection. But how do you link a construct to yourself so that it can create magic things for you?::
Gets his food, then sees Jim and Phaeze and walks over
"Hi guys...can I sit with you? Had a question I wanted to run by you guys, regarding an item to supress nausea..."
Ghalen enters the cafeteria, and gets in line for breakfast.
'She was right I am starving...' he thinks to himself, and loads his tray up with enough food for someone 3 times his size. He looks for an empty table...and sits down.
::You should hide it from magical and visual detection. But how do you link a construct to yourself so that it can create magic things for you?::
::Well, I'd imagine only these guys are the ones that can do it, although the homunculi creating process covers them all. These are just linked to my life force. It's a trick I learned from my creator, Dr Krueller.::
@Krays, Take a seat, we were just enjoying a nice conversation. THis feeling, Nausea, you said.... what is it?
Nausea huh? Ephebe doin okay?
"Yes, nothing beyond the norm for pregnancy, though."
Well, perhaps an application of sense linking. Or perhaps a modification of blindness/deafness. Basically either link her senses to someone who is not so hypersensitive, or numb the offending senses entirely. Of course food probably will not have much taste after that.
Well, I've got my hands full with the project I'm working on right now. Could you take this one, Phaezeriel? Time could be a factor, with mine, y'know.