I stand upon a rather large train that had plowed through a still open portal and come crashing to a halt on Dr. Ibrahims fromt lawn, "So, You kids ready for your vacation?"
I stand upon a rather large train that had plowed through a still open portal and come crashing to a halt on Dr. Ibrahims fromt lawn, "So, You kids ready for your vacation?"
After a good ten minutes of rubbing, Ferra has to go. The hatchling tries to follow her several times out of the pen, pushing her with his nose. She simply laughs and pushes back slightly until he gets the idea to stay put. Eventually, he gets bored and trots off.
"There. You see? Efficient in all ways, including dismemberment," I sigh. The doors to our rooms are opened.
"Wow. Very...spacious," I marvel, as the maid closes the door behind Regina and I. I look over. "And hey, a huge bed covered in silk sheets. Let's test it!" I grab her and flop onto the bed with her while she gives a small shout of surprise, trying to playfully squirm from my grip.
"Thomas, dinner will be soon!" She giggles.
"It was a huge fish. We have time."
The kids start unpacking and flopping around on their beds.
"When do you think we'll be allowed to go do our things?" Lu says, staring up at the ceiling with two hands behind her head and two on her stomach.
"Tomorrow, I suspect," Aurum says, "Although the sooner we can work on Aurora's clothing, the better." She looks around. "Where's Fers? Is she still with the King?"
"Probably," Aegis says, looking out a window, "so there's noooooo telling."
"Please, you don't have to spend your vacation time on me," Aurora says shyly.
"Well we're gonna, so theres no use protesting," Lucida says with a grin, rolling off the bed and flopping onto Aurora's. "Now c'mon, let's play something. How about War?" She digs out a pack of cards and begins shuffling them.
"Oh, no. The last time we played, Aegis tipped the table and called it Total War," Aurum says.
"How else am I supposed to play? I don't have hands!" Aegis says, laughing.
"You can still hold cards! And what about all those "interest-free loans" to yourself when you're the banker in Monopoly?" Lu raises a brow.
"Meh, aggressive acquisition," she shrugs.
"I swear, Aeg, sometimes I think you just play dumb to get to me," Lu says, shuffling cards with all four hands.
"Are you saying I'm smart?" She grins, flopping down on her stomach on the bed. "Deal me in."
Ischi continues to explore Rep's palace, looking in awe at everything. "Ni's former boss....has much.....much things." she says impressed
(BTW guys: I made the first real Transmorpher manamo: check out the Sky-Jinkx(Based on Sky Lynx) from the main Transmorpher page ifyou can)
(I was going to give a description of what was out the window... no matter I'll do it anyway. Basically the kids room is near the top of one of the castles towers and has a rather nice view of the city, the rolling plains leading out from the city, the mountains out in the distance as well as a smaller tower nearby.)
As Ferra returns I reach into my pocket, "I have one last thing for you before we go back."
I pull out an ocarina and hand it to her, "I got this for you back when you were mute. I figured you could use it in place of vocal commands. Maybe you can still find some use in it."
With that I from a summoning circle forms aroud the two of us.
Ferra and I appear in the middle of the room, "Argis, I want you to know that cheating in board games is punishable by having to clean up after Squeaker. You don't want to have to clean up after Squeaker."
"What?? That's malarkey! And since if I flew around here I'd get snatched by some ancient flying reptile I have to stay indoors, and the only indoor sport I know is annyoing Lucida. Go fish."
"Darn!" Aurora pulls a card from the deck.
"Majesty, what's that smaller tower?" Aurum says, putting her hair up.
"The Tower of DOOOOOOOOM!" Aegis says in a spooky voice.
I look over my shoulder at the tower then turn back to Aurum, "We used to store whoopie cushions and rubber chickens in it. But we've had to fill it in due to it being used as a molting post by a Kushula Daora. It's just solid brick and concrete now."
"Ooh, I'd like to see that!" Lucida says.
"Whoopie cushions and rubber chickens?" Aegis grins.
"You know what I mean, you dolt. Fives?"
"Ha! Go fish!"
"Since we have time before dinner, I think I'm going to walk around a bit," Aurum says. Want to come, Ferr?"
"Sure!" She nods enthusiastically.
"How long before dinner, Majesty? Is there anything you recommend seeing that is nearby?" Aurum looks to Rep.
I shrug, "The castle itself has quite a bit to see. My menagerie is full of reptile kingdom fauna. That might be of interest."
I glance over to Lucida, "We do have a storm rolling in tonight so you might get lucky kid. Though I should warn you, if you do hear a crash outside, don't draw attention to yourselves. Kushulas eat metal."
With that warning given I disappear from the room.
I appear in the middle of the room, interrupting the two, "Hey, just making sure you guys know where the bathroom is and what not."
Aabi and I slowly make our way back to our old tower home, reminiscing over the fun times we've had within these walls. She points over to a painting of Rep crossing the Delaware river and laughs. "Remember when I got drunk that one time and punched a hole through that wall? Ha! We covered it up with that pillar and no one was the wiser. Oh and that painting is covering a nasty stain. And that one... Well that one isn't nailed to the wall anymore. Ahahahahaha!"
"Boy, you sure seem to have left your mark on this place."
Aabi shoves me and chuckles "You're no better! What about all those chairs your fat ass broke, or the gashes your sword left in the wall, all the beds you broke when-"
"Ok! Ok! I get it! Sheesh, you never forget anything."
She wraps herself around my arm and looks up at me with a smile. "Nope, Not. One. Thing." She brings up her free hand and touches the tip of my nose then gives me a gentle slap. We play fight as we make our way to the entrance of the home has been repaired and painted with a glossy periwinkle finish.
As I open the door I notice that it too has been repaired and polished along with everything else in the tower. Everything from the hardwood flooring, carpets to the rafters and ceiling fans were polished to perfection.
"Agh! All this light is hurting my eyes!"
Aabi: "Tell me about it, where's everyone else." That's when we notice that the rest of the home is sealed off with a slimy wall and a "Class in session" sign pinned to it.
Ischi finds a large complex of hallways lined with large sealed enclosure, each one holding an animal and replicating that animals natural environment.
A deviljho notice Ischi's entrance and stomps to the edge of its enclosure, growling hungrily as its drools, a distinct acidic hiss sounds as its slobber hits the ground beneath it.