Dinner and a Moive What Could go Wrong?
As the two of them walked out in to the hall way Arty felt a strange pain in her belly and had a puzzled look on her face. It was making a growling sound. She said, "Hum me turning into a Cuno Girl is giving me a strange pain in my stomach what could it be?" Ted said, "Well if it got messed in the portal it would have killed you by now so it must be something else." They walked passed two vending machines and Arty said, "That's what I need food I'm starved! I haven't eaten all day on the plane ride on the way here."
He said, "Well Ok I will get you some snacks and a drink to hold you in till the restaurant." She said, "That's very nice of you the people that I've seen would have ran away the first second they saw me like this." After batting the vending machine like an ogre for a few minutes Ted gave Arty two honey buns along with a twinkly. Quickly she picked it out of his hand and ate all of it. He loved the feel of her soft feathery blue hands. Arty on the other hand loved how the food tasted in her beak and how it slid down her throat into her belly. Unknowingly her hunger was becoming like that Articuno that broke out of it's cage to go hunt for food.
The good thing for her about all of this being a Cuno Girl was that now she didn't have to use her hands to open the bags which were a pain in the butt. He said, "Ah Arty could you help me open this honey bun bag?" He said. She grabbed it and pulled it open with her beak and accidently ate the food. As she crewed it and swallowed it she said, "Oppose I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that guess I'm still starved." "It's Ok considering what I did to you by accident today." He said to her I think that was my last $1.75 in singles that I have. "
Arty pulled out a small bag and opened it and looked inside to see what she had in terms of money. "O fish sticks all I have is some Euros and this machine won't take them. Hum but I'm still starved I must have something to eat right now or else!" The tone of her saying this had the sound of Articuno's screech in it. Ted remembered from his father said from many years of fighting giant monsters and many zombie and vampire movies that while the monster is still thinking clearly like a human. If they ask for something such as normal food or drink and they get it. It will keep them from thinking about eating or attacking normal people. The only thing that was wrong about saying this is Articuno in the wild are not aggressive towards humans and don't view them as any kind of food.
He thought of something dumb and from his punk greaser friend Motor Oil and his friends the J Brothers why not break into the machines and eat everything. Her eating what's inside of these vending machines would be better then her attacking and eating anyone. The Bio Company does own these things and it was their teleport that made her into a hungry Cuno Girl so it's their fault for doing this to her."
Before he said anything Arty took her hand and used her new amazing strength to punch a hole in the glass and rip off the glass case of the vending machine casing the door to go crashing to the side of her. She then dragged the thing over to the table were Ted was at and sat down next to him. Gently she laid her new tail next to him and started eating anything that she wanted. After drinking down several sodas she looked at him and said, "Well let's get going loll they don't really put a lot of food in these things." Picture seeing them both walking down the hallway with two smashed up vending machines and cans and bags everywhere.
Ted looked at Arty in her pair of regular jeans and a short sleeve shirt with white snow flakes on it. Now along with her feet that had large Articuno claws thinking well she doesn't need to ware shoes ever again. But she still has that large blue Articuno tail. Right now he was thinking if the fly liked sugary stuff when he became the fly what would Arty want after becoming part Articuno which is like being part Seagull?"
The idea crossed his mind hey wait sea birds like fish so I'll take her to the all you can eat Supper Sushi King Buffet. Arty and Ted left the Bio Lab Office building to go to the Richmond Canal Walk. Arty thoughts about Ted doing this to her by accident Ah well I could wait a week and Dr. Gort could fix it. She looked down at her long blue tail and her ripped clothes, "Ah it's not so bad as I thought expect why do I still feel so hungry after eating everything in those two vending machines. I really don't like the food they have in them things in the first place."
Arty and Ted where now walking along the Richmond Canal Walk to watch the Battues leave for the Ohio River in West Virginia. Arty said to him, "What is a James River Battue again?" He said, "They are the old wooden flat boats that used to sail the James River from Covington Virginia down to Richmond Virginia's tidewater basin. They where manly around in the 1700's thought the late 1870's on the James River but thanks to the Virginia Canal Society they rebuilt them. We celebrate the annual migration of the Battues once a year by going from Lynchburg Virginia to Richmond."
Arty said, "Why are they going up river instead of going down river?" He said, "Well thanks to the canal society's hard work a mega corporation restored the old James River & Kanawha Canal from Richmond to the falls of the Kanawha in West Virginia as gift to the state. But what makes this canal cool is that it has to go though a nine mile tunnel under the Allegany Mountains to reach the Kanawha River in West Virginia.
We are going to right with them for the first eight miles to Bosher's Dam which is located at the nine mile locks. After that I'm going to take you to the best all you can eat for $9.99 sushi place in town."
We are going to right with them for the first eight miles to Bosher's Dam which is located at the nine mile locks. After that I'm going to take you to the best all you can eat for $9.99 sushi place in town." Her beak began to water when she herd the sound of all you can eat sushi.
He kept talking about the canal system sense he was a canal nerd, "Well the Richmond Canal Walk is set into three levels each higher then the one before as you go up the James River. The Canal Walk is the lowest part in the river. Once you go through about two canal locks that raise you into the Haxall Canal level. You go for about a half a mile in till you reach the end of the canal which leads you to three more canal locks. The canal locks then lift you up into the eight mile watered section that leads to Bosher's Dam.
Arty saw that the people at the festival where in very strange looking white and brown colored 1700's clothes even Ted was dressed like a Battue man a 40 foot long wooden Battue pulled up to them at the canal turning area where boats load up.
A group of Ted's friends came and said, Come on we got to get to the locks first or we will be stuck here all night." They looked at the half Articuno half human Arty and said to her, "This is a Battue Festival not an anime convention. Ted didn't you give her the email?" He said, "Ah you could say that she got the wrong email." Not wanting to tell them that she was really a freak experiment made at Dr. Gort lab.
They both jumped in and each grabbed a long ten foot wooden pole to start pushing the Battue up the canal. A man looked at Arty and said, "What the Bluegill is she spouse to be? They didn't have human Articuno hybrids back in the 1700's. We are trying to keep this as historical as possible."
The Battue was now making its way up the canal and though the very old canal locks by May mount Park at the Byrd Park Pump house by oil lamp. It was hard to see anything. She said, "This is kind of romantic in a sense." The other people didn't really say much but Ted loved her comment. Then someone said, "From the looks of how you been handling that pole I think you really are some type of Pokémon Human hybrid. But I do have the feeling that Ted was some how had something to do with it." Arty said, "What do you mean he had something to do with it?"
Everyone said,"Well he is not the sharpest tool in the shield and he is sometimes a screw up when he doesn't mean to." Arty lathed, "Well you do know those two things are right." They where now in a large group of about 14 other Battues who where at Marymount Park waiting to go though the two sets of canal locks. Arty felt her stomach grawel and she felt very hungry. She said, "Do you guys have anything to eat on here?"
Ted handed her a large eight inch long piece of salted Battue style county bacon and some hardtack biscuits. Arty looked at it and said, "I think it wouldn't hurt to give it a try." Ted said, "This stuff is so hard that not even Suicune could chew it apart it's the way I like it."
Arty ate a lot of the bacon and hardtack having an Articuno's beak was a very good thing to have. Even after eating a lot of this stuff she was still very hungry. The full moon was out and it gave everything around the canal and the canal water a white tint to it. The lights of the other Battues was behind them now and it looked like the time for Ted to spill his romantic feelings for Arty. A crew member lathed at Arty and Ted, "Ha you think that Goldfish minded insulator hoarder could ever feel romance towards a female!" Arty looked at her madly.
While all this stuff was happening a large seven foot copper head snake showed up and came on to the boat. Suddenly everyone saw it and said, "Ah Copperhead and stood on top of stools and barrels. Her hungry Articuno side of her thought mm looks very tasty. She picked it up with her hand with out it biting her and bit off its head. She swallowed it down with a slurping sound and started chewing on it. Hum she thought what a great taste but I'm still hungry for some strange reason.
Ted thought ah after all she is now part seabird I kind of expected her to start acting like one. The Battue neared it's drop off point at the Nine Mile locks by the Huguenot Bridge. They both got out and walked over to Ted's blue 1960's corvette. He said, "Now to take you to the all you can eat Sushi Buffet."When she sat down her crest feathers hit the roof of the car.