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Gally's diary August 20, 2002

Eww, I wish Dib had told us he was going to be sick. After all the work I did getting the stench of other people's barf out of this Jhonen damned RV, he has to go and add his own mix to the.mix. Eugh. I made him clean it up though, while everyone else, including myself, piled into the local diner. I must say, on their behalf though, that I've never seen a sloppy Joe jump off the plate and run into anyone's lap. Poor Zim.he's going to smell like chili until we get to a place with a laundromat. If he had refrained from pulling a laser out and firing wildly around the diner, we might not have gotten kicked out. Too bad Phoenix missed the whole thing, though. She was still asleep in the RV. That must have been one hell of a spell to knock her out that long.

Well, we're back on the road then, and Dib, at least, seems to be one hundred percent better. He's been in his "room" for the last hour, and we occasionally hear him laughing wildly about proof. Zim's kept his mech- legs ready for running, in case Dib turns on him. Now, that would certainly lighten the mood..

Grr!! Nny still won't tell me where we're going! I have been pestering him literally nonstop-I think only the fact that he knows he'd lose one-on- one has kept him from disemboweling me with the car keys. That and the whole 'going out' thing..

Zim's log 08.20.02

I knew there was something amiss with that human food! It was going to kill me, I knew it! If you had seen the way that food surveyed its surroundings before leaping on my face! Had I not shot it eight times with the laser I always keep, we would be slaves to the Joe. That evil Joe..

We have been heading progressively west. The sky grows dark with the vaporized water clouds. I knew it was a good idea to bring my paste..

Phoenix-chan's Book of Souls-20th, later

*yawn* Nice nap. There was an awful clicking sound that woke me up though. It was persistent, like those annoying holes who bring five cameras to a museum or something. Hm. Ooo.we're almost to the beach! Beach? Look what you made me write, Gaeldrisan!

Later-after Gally left me alone *glare*

Uh-oh.Johnny's gonna kill me.I let the secret out! Oh.I have to go sit on the roof and hide now..

Dear die-ary:

The weather looks cloudy, as usual. We can't sit on the beach and look at the stars then.that's too bad. That's one of our shared interests, Gally and I. It's how we met. Ugh.I don't want to go into flashback mode. Who's to say if I'll ever return to the future?

At least there's one good thing about the beach this time of year. There may be gray whales migrating off Bodega Head. Whales are nice. No whales ever do cruelty to other whales. Orcas eat each other, but that's just what they eat. And they're all rubbery and smooth, free of the cumulating shit that most humans carry on their selves.

I have to go kill Phoenix now. She has revealed our destination to Gaeldrisan.

Dib's journal (I forget what today is)

Yes! The photos came out beautifully! There she sits.my proof, bedecked in shimmering scales of silver, crowned with a tiara of horn stublets.damn. I don't think I can go through with this. It's so tempting, but.they're so beautiful! There's no way I can share these pictures with undeserving journalists! I need to get rid of these. I'll throw them in the ocean when we get there. Nny says we're passing through Peteluma now. I guess that's a town near the coast. Maybe I'll see a mermaid.I wonder if they like to hang out in small fishing bays. I'll use my mail-order mermaid song tape to contact them! Once they hear the sweet melodies of their own voices, nothing will keep them from coming to me!

Gally's diary August 21st

Ooo! We camped last night in the Bodega Dunes campground! I love that place! Me and Phoenix played for hours last night in the sand dunes beyond the sites. I think we scared off some horses though.we were playing tag in our dragon bodies, and this rider came up and screamed. It was funny. I'm not sure if it was cuz we were dragons, or because Phoenix and I were playing tug of war with some sort of squirrel. Those things are evil, I swear it.

Johnny woke me up at 11:30 last night, after the game of tag was over, so we could go watch stars on the beach. There was lots of clouds, so it's didn't really count as stargazing, but we went flying. That was fun. I can't wait to get to the Grand Canyon.I can't wait to see the expression on Nny's face. Maybe he'll take it out on Dib. That would be funny.

Zim's log 08.21.02

Can't write. All I can say is I'm at.the ocean.and must bathe in paste. More later.

Phoenix-Chan's Book of Souls 21st

Yay, we're at the beach! Beach beach beach beach! Me an' Gally were running around playing tag in the dunes, until we scared the.stuff.out of this lady riding a horse. It was all Gally's fault, too. She went and started playing with that jackrabbit squirrel thing, and wouldn't share. It was instinct, I tell ya, instinct. Hehe.watch me babble. I can't help it. I'm a water dragon by nature, so just being at the beach makes me happier than Dib with a camera. We were having lunch at that big cliff place, Bodega Head, and I decided to jump off the edge of the cliff. Of course, I grew my wings before I got even close to the water, but the coloration in Dib's face when I came flying up resembled that nasty, yellowish sea-foam that congeals around rocks. He didn't finish his hot dog.

He seemed like he was really and truly terrified that something had happened. What's going on inside his large head, I wonder.probably some sort of autopsy plans for the resident aliens in the group. At least my little stunt made Nny forget to kill me for revealing the secret.

Mental note. Laugh at something for no reason, and give him something to really worry about. Mentally unstable sea-dragon. I can see the headlines..

Dear Die-ary:

Had lots of fun with Gally last night. We went stargazing, and then just sat and talked about all the good and bad things in the world; a long conversation, to be sure. We went for a flight before the sun rose, early enough for the rays of the cold sun to glance off Gally's scales and terrify some old fishermen. I'll never forget the sensation of flight, even if I go to Hell and back again a thousand times. The wind rushing through you, sanding away the accumulations of filth that come when you live with the humans for too long.

Damn. I'm beginning to sound like that little green alien. Human this, stinkbeast that. At least he's right about those, though. Most humans are pretty filthy.

Phoenix scared the crap out of that little boy Dib today. She dove off the Head to go flying, and I guess the little idiot forgot the whole 'I can fly' thing. He looked like.like soggy cheese. Soggy yellow cheese. It was worth seeing the look on his face though, to let Phoenix live. It was an accident that Gally found out where we were going, after all.

Dib's journal August 21

I thought I had lost my proof today! She leapt off a cliff, and in the confusion of the moment I forgot she wasn't even human! Man, I must be slipping. To forget that an alien is an alien is not like me. That's not a good sign..

My fellow agents would shun me. I took the pictures of Phoenix and threw them into the waves today. No one but those snobbish mermaids will ever know about her. I can't believe they didn't answer my calls..I think someone told Zim about how I looked at the cliff. He's laughing at me now, huddled in blankets on the couch. He's calling me 'cheesy little fool of a human' and other senseless crap like that. Where did he get cheesy?