Digi-riven's Notes: Hellos!!! ^_^ Another day another chapter. And umm… I ran out of things to say already… *gets depressed* I usually have such long Author's Notes too! *wails*
DragonGoddess's Notes: Hi happy peoples! I'm taking turn doing the disclaimer today! *there's a bright flash of light and DragonGoddess is now wearing an official lawyer-ish looking outfit* Ahem, neither of us own the Slayers or Wizard of Oz. Thank you. *Whispers wishfully* but I do own Val and if anyone tries to take him away I will HURT you!
~ ~ ~ (On today's episode… wait this isn't a TV series…)
After leaving the new canyon behind, the three traveled very quickly. DG was bounding along on all fours in her dragon form carrying Gourry in her mouth.
"La la la. La la la la," somehow DG was able to sing even with an unconscious jellyfish scarecrow in her mouth.
A wind blown Riven was on her back debating whether or not to fly. When the third tree nearly hit her she leapt off. "DG do you have to hit every single tree?"
"Well I'm having such a fun little rampage right now!" she said joyfully as she plowed into and abandoned cottage. And so things went until DG let out a yelp of pain "YELP!"
Riven flying behind DG couldn't stop in time and whammed into her back. Not that it did anything anyway. In fact Riven bounced right back off and fell to the ground.
"Ouchies!" DG whined "Who put the sharp metal pointy thing right in my rampage path?!"
Riven sat up "Metal pointy thing?" she walked over to the demolished area.
After closer inspection the metal pointy thing turned out to be a tin man. Complete with funnel hat!
"It's a tin-man!" Riven began the task of poking the metal thing with DG's tail since no stick was handy.
"Hey! Let go my tail!" DG pulled her tail away and in doing so lifting Riven up and knocking Gourry a few dozen feet into a handy cliff.
"Wheeeee!" ^_^ Riven had a blast holding on to DG's tail.
"I'M NOT AN AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE!!" hollered DG as she began to swing her tail faster.
^o^ "WHEEEEEEE!!!"
"Grrrr…So you want a ride? I'll give you a ride!!" with that DG took off into the sky and began spiraling and looping in a way that could make you dizzy just looking at it.
@_@ "But if I let go I'll fall or get slammed into a wall." Riven whined.
Luckily DG decided at that moment to land.
"Thankies…" Riven let go of DG'd tail and stumbled over to a chair that just happened to be conveniently there.
Still fuming DG changed back to human form to avoid any more "rides". She then walked over to the offensive sharp pointy object she accidentally stepped on. It appeared to be a suit of tin slightly dented around the chest area. So guess what she did then? That's right! She poked it with a handy stick!
"Whazzat?" Riven blink off her disorientation and walked over. Not having any stick she just poked with her foot.
"I could be wrong," DG started, "But I think it's the Tin-Man."
"It couldn't be anything else. It has no chest. I mean even I'm better endowed than that." Riven said.
"EXCUSE ME I'M NOT A TIN-MAN!!! I'M A TIN-WOMAN!!!" the flat suit of tin hollered.
"You're a tin-man now!" Riven shouted back. "Or something or other like that."
As the shouting match continued DG wandered over to the still unconscious Gourry to check on him. Now behold the return of the handy poking stick. Strangely enough one poke brought him around.
"You are now a tin-man! Unless you're cross-dressing! …Wait don't answer that I don't want to know." Came Riven's voice from the background.
By now Gourry was sitting up (miraculous considering he's been stomped by a dragon, thrown into a wall, and endured vicious stick attacks…but I suppose Lina's beatings can't be much worse…). He looked at Riven and the tin… person. Then he began to laugh. "Ahahahahahaha!!! Lina looks really weird!!!!"
Blink blink. "Lina?" Riven looked closer and indeed the tin…person was indeed Lina. "Eeep. I didn't do anything don't Dragon Slave me!" Riven ran and leapt behind Gourry using him as a jellyfish shield.
Pretty soon the lovely landscape had another brand new canyon (a circular canyon!). Everyone besides Lina was also now nice and crispy.
"...I look good in black." Riven looked at the bleak landscape. "Oi! DG where are you? How can you find a place to hide in here?" Riven wandered around looking for any sign of DG.
Then Riven saw a very not happy tail swishing from under a pile of boulders. Then… BAM!! DG bashed the boulders on top of her with her hammer. A mad dragon is not a pleasant dragon.
Riven dodged a few of the stray boulders from DG grand reappearance, however as if by some magnet one landed on her foot. "ITAEO!!!!" O_O "That hurt…" Riven sat down and rubbed her foot. T_T She kept one eye out for any stray rabid munchkins at the same time.
Just as Dg was about to rampage, again, she saw a sight that made her sob. "Noooooo! My precious munchkins! There were going to be a snack for my cute little chibi Val!" Lina of course was now enjoying a nice little snack.
"Munckins! Where?!?!" Riven looked around and saw Lina. "…Go Lina! Go, go, go!" Riven whooped and cheered Lina on. "I know you can do it! Finish that bag off! They can't win!"
Gourry meanwhile had smelt the scent of some sort of food, rocketed off toward the bag of munchkins as well.
"…And what were we doing? I forget." Riven blankly stared at the shocked DG.
"Sob… they ate all of them," DG whimpered, but soon her eyes got that pretty sparkly look, "Oh my cute little chibi Val… what shall we do now?" a bit melodramatic but oh well…
Riven waved her hand in front of DG's face. She sighed when she didn't get a response because DG was off in her little happy Val land. Taking out a big blanket Riven nudged DG onto it and dragged her back to the others.
Back with the others Lina and Gourry had finished the bag of munchkins. Gourry looked at DG and seeing that she was still off in happy little Val land, he decided to attempt to remedy her. Bet you can't guess how? Poke poke poke poke poke poke etc… Gourry being a jellyfish scarecrow could poke with many more arms then a normal person could. Soon DG snapped. "Will you quit poking me already?!" and out came the hammer, much like Filia's mace.
Riven sat down and watched Gourry go up and up and up and up etc… until he became a little twinkle. "I think he'll land…" Riven tested the wind." …several miles over there." Riven pointed the way they had came. "I think he's going to land in our canyon we made earlier."
"Does that mean we have to go all the way back to where we started?" DG asked.
"No we don't have to. Give me a minute." Riven rubbed her temples and thought.
As Riven was doing this Lina was glaring at DG, "Hey! I'm the only one who can whack Gourry like that!"
"Why?" DG asked as innocently as she could, "Is he your boyfriend now-" DG was cut short as a storm of fireballs and flare arrows flew towards her, along with some very colorful language courtesy of Tin-person Lina.
Riven absently put up a shield so she wouldn't get caught in the crossfire. "I got it!" She teleported away.
Neither Lina nor DG noticed that. Furious hammer swings and laser breaths accompanied the other magical missiles. The second canyon was getting larger… (we're a very destructive crew aren't we? Maybe we should start our own demolition team).
Riven popped back several feet above and sweat-dropped. "I think I'd better stay out of that. She looked at an imaginary watch on her wrist, "Almost time."
The two combatants were still completely oblivious. Heck, they couldn't even exactly remember why they were at each other's throats.
Holding out a hand Riven sliced open a hole and flew in to the little astral hole. She sat and waited until she saw Gourry falling. "Good luck down there!" Riven shouted when he flew by. (A perk about being a mazoku is manipulating the physical and astral plane. So Riven set a short cut up between the two areas via the astral plane.)
"What?!" Gourry landed between the two fighters.
"Gourry! You're OK!" Lina stopped and gave Gourry a hug.
"Awwww… you two really do make a great couple," DG gushed.
"WHAT!?" Lina yelled/growled.
"Just like me and my cute little chibi Val." DG ignored Lina and once again rushed off to happy little Val land.
"…" Riven blinked when she stuck her head out of the hole. "DG don't go back!!! We need you here! You and- "Riven turned a bit green. "I think I'm going to go back in here til Lina quits hugging Gourry." Riven pulled back into the hole and closed it.
Blink blink, DG exited her happy little Val land, and sidestepped the strange looking couple. "Hey where's Riven?" (when DG is in happy little Val land she isn't aware of anything else, the world could be blown up right from under her feet and she wouldn't notice, that's why she didn't hear Riven before.)
"Staying away until Gourry and Lina cut the love reunion!" came a disembodied answer.
"OH! I can fix that!" DG bent over and whispered something in Lina's ear.
"HE SAID WHAT?!" Whap bonk Pow!
"Lina…" Gourry whined. "What did I do?!"
"Cut the dumb act Gourry! (if that's possible…) You know what you called me! Apologize now, or else!" Lina was now in her scary evil fang mode. DG found all of this very amusing.
"Is this about the flat-chested comment? Uh… I didn't call you that! I called the other lady that!" Gourry yelled.
"Who? That crazy dragon? Or the Xellos look alike?" Lina asked a bit suspiciously.
"…I don't remember… Maybe I called them both that!" Gourry said brightly.
Gourry is now treading on very dangerous territory. The glares he was receiving all around looked as if they could melt stone. "What… do you mean… Gourry…" DG growled.
Gourry came to the conclusion. "I'd have to say that… everyone is flat-chested here!" ^_^
Well even Gourry should be smart enough not to make that kind of comment in front of three seething females with a tendency towards destruction (not to mention that the three females are a powerful demon, a crazy Golden dragon and… Lina, she's a category all to herself).
Twitch. "Give into my mazoku nature, try to be honorable… or just not fetch him when Lina or DG make their move… choices…." Riven muttered to herself.
"GOURRY!! YOU'RE GONNA GET IT NOW!!" Lina and DG started to throw their own particular techniques at the poor unfortunate jellyfish.
"And he's going… going… gone! And a spectacular duo attack by DG and Lina sends Gourry out of bounds into the nearby dark spooky forest! Yay dark spooky forest! And good play, tune in next time for flying Jellyfish." Riven saluted DG and Lina.
Yay! High-Five!
"Can we go in the dark spooky forest now?! Can we?! Can we?!" Riven bounced with every question.
"Hmm… dark spooky forest… equals… Perfect Bandit hide out! I say we go!" Lina said enthusiastically.
"Besides," said DG, "We really should get Gourry. I think just might have learned his lesson."
"Yay dark spooky forest! Yay dark spooky forest!" Riven was happily rejoicing in the background. "Yay dark spooky forest! ...and I can't think of anything to say except … Yay dark spooky forest!" And so she repeated it…. And repeated it… and repeated it….etc…
"Guess she finally found her own mantra… maybe I'll rethink chanting mantras in the future…" DG thought.
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And not to far away…
"Ow, stupid tree!….. Ow! Who keeps moving them around?! And who decided I should wear a dress?! I wear robes, not a dress! There is a difference! Dresses get caught in tress!" RIP "…ah, I think I'll need a new one soon. Just I have to get OW! Stupid trees… Why can't I travel in something that is more stable then a bubble?! I have to walk most of time anyway; bubbles are for fancy entrances only and-OW! …Maybe I should just blast this whole forest."
Gee, can you guess who it is? ^_^
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"OK cat boy! Just to make things clear THAT is your side of the cage. THIS is my side. Oh and the swing's mine too." The cutest monkey type dragon Val had just drawn a line down the middle of the cage with a hand piece of chalk.
"Who are you calling cat boy low-leveled primate …though you did leave the food and water on my side." ^_^ "I can live with that."
"WHAT?! Why you little fur ball! I bet you moved it while back was turned…"
"Actually… no. You did it all by yourself. Very good you, want a banana?"
"Grrrr…. Thems are fightin' words!" Can't you just feel the love in the air?
"If they are… look I have claws and you don't! Ha!" Xellos took a kung-fu (or is it cat-fu?) pose and brandished his claws.
"Really… well… I have… A HORN!!" Val points dramatically at his horn.
"Gee, oh yay." Xellos clapped his hands. "You can charge over on my designated side and get stuck in a wall or between the bars. It must be very useful to have a horn there…"
"Hey, actually it is! You never need a can opener when you've got a horn." Val said very proudly.
"…and people call me a fruitcake…" Xellos muttered and sweat-dropped.
"Hey I'm not a fruitcake! I'm just… *sob* misunderstood…*sob* Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. *sob* Nobody knows my sorrow…"
"Okay nutcake then." Xellos shook his head. "Fruitcake is too nice of a term."
"Well… Well… if I'm a nutcake then you're a… PINEAPPLE!"
Xellos gave Val a brief flat look before he leapt over to the bars,"…Help let me out! I'm in with a crazy monkey dragon who can't insult me back! How am I ever going to eat here?!"
"Shaddup Pineapple priest! Just remember I'm stuck with you! Just think of my feelings too for once… *sob*…"
"I am. How else would I feed? …I just know I'm going to starve… *whine* …and what will I do with all this food over here I don't have to eat…."
"Just what're you sayin'? You want to eat ME?! Ah help! Someone help I'm stuck in a cage with the psychotic pineapple priest!!" This time Val leapt at the bars.
"Eh, good enough." ^_^
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Riven: 0.o Well that was odd.
DG: Heh heh heh… pineapple priest… ^__^
Riven: Monkey dragon ^.^ But where did Val get Pineapple Priest. 0_o;;;
DG: It'll just have to be one of those great-unsolved mysteries.
Riven: We get to go in the dark spooky forest next chapter! Yay! I love dark spooky forests!
DG: -.-;;; Yes I know… And just who was that mystery person with the bubble?
Riven: I know! I know! I knoooooooooow! I really do! …but I can't tell people yet…
DG: Yep! Because… That is a secret! (I just love stealing peoples lines!)
Riven: -_-;;; You stole Xellie-chan's line! If anyone should steal it, it should have been me.
DG: Guess I was just quicker no da!
Riven: … I try not to steal lines! It would do the owners of those lines no Justice! So I let them have their lines so they can say it the way it was meant too! It is only just that we do so after all! And there are copyrights and rabid fangirls to worry about! I must protest against this-
DG: Strange… That sounded exactly like something Amelia might say.
Riven: …I think I just knocked myself out… @_@ *faint*
DG: ^___^ Well I guess that's it for today because I can't very well carry on a conversation with myself. (Yes you can.) I can? (Yep.) Wow I never knew. (Well we should end now anyway.) Why's that? (People are staring…) Oh… right… well just don't forget to read and review happy peoples! Bye! (Bye!)
Riven: *holds a sign up* [Bye.]
