Festival Follies
After the fiasco of earlier, everyone resumed his or her roles of preparing for the festival.
"Ok! Everyone time to get this place snazzy!" Isaac said happily.
"Snazzy? I thought this was a normal festival not a formal outing Isaac…" Jenna chimed in.
"Right…You know what I mean…let's get this place set up!" called back Isaac.
"Look at Mr. Leader…I guess that means he'll be dancing with Jenna at the festival!" Sheba said while Jenna and Isaac exchanged blushed looks at one another.
"Well they do seem to get along well, unlike others…" Mia says with a sigh as she takes a glance which appears to be Garet playing with a banner setting it up while Ivan holds a the ladder Garet is on.
"Not so close, whoa, steady…steady…" calls Garet from the ladder down to a commanded Ivan.
"Please Garet, if it isn't too much trouble…make up your mind…I can't keep this thing steady all day…" Ivan complained from below.
"Ivan, relax…I have a plan…Isaac isn't going to be the only one with a date for the festival…" He sneakily takes the banner and testing its strength, and a shocked Ivan looks on.
"What are you doing Garet? We are supposed to be setting up for later!" Ivan replied firmly.
"Just relax it will be well worth it…" Garet says as he watches from the corner of his eye and Mia is talking to Jenna and Isaac while helping decorate as well.
"These party favors look good here don't you think Jenna?" Mia asks.
"Oh yeah, perfect! Thanks Mia, don't you agree Isaac?"
"Yeah definitely Jenna" Isaac replies while blushing.
"Aw, he's blushing, Jenna you are so lucky to have a guy like that…" Mia replied.
"I know, but what about you Mia? Isn't there anyone for you? Jenna replied.
In the distance Garet can be seen preparing to swing like Tarzan to his unsuspecting Jane, in an attempt to get her to notice him more, as Ivan looks on perplexed.
"Are you sure this will work Garet?" Ivan replied. "I don't think it will…"
"Just give me a small draft with your psynergy that will let me swing to her, I need to impress her…it just has to work!"
(Sigh) "Ok Garet I better get the bandages ready…" with a flick of his wrist, Ivan produces a small draft below Garet to give him a bit more altitude for when he swings. The banner maybe long enough, but there is still a great chance Garet due to his size and weight could very well snap the banner. With Jenna on festival design and the thousands of thrashings that will come from her and the rest for the miscalculation in the amount of weight the banner can hold could be very costly. So, the only logical solution Garet could come up with even as bright as it may not be is to make himself lighter.
"Shouldn't you be light enough without psynergy, your head is just full of air…" Ivan said to himself.
"What was that?" Garet shot back.
"Nothing…nothing…break a leg, Romeo…" Ivan said nervously.
"Yeah…er…no I just want to swing over to Mia…" Garet replied daftly. With that Garet began his flight of fancy or just plain reckless maneuver to impress Mia.
"I am not sure, every here seems nice but I am unsure, if anyone here I really do like…maybe…" Mia said as an object in the distance began to get closer.
"Hi everyone!" Picard cheerfully said as he helped Felix wheel the cake out on its cart.
"Picard, ugh more help! The cake…the cake….hard to steer…" Felix grumbled trying to keep the enormous pastry from getting away, all marveled on the cake's splendor as Felix was trying to keep it in place.
"Wow! Nice decorating guys!" Jenna shouted.
"Yes very nice work!" Isaac agreed.
"Well you can tell it was mostly Picard's work here." Mia added.
"Well I can't take all the credit, Felix helped too…" Picard blushed.
"A little help…please…" A red faced Felix replied exhausted.
"Is that too heavy for you old man?" Picard replied
"Old…old?! Who are you calling old, grandpa? You out live all of us combined!" Felix huffed.
"That maybe so but, the cart isn't giving me that much trouble…" Picard places his hand on it.
"Felix you need to be a bit more like Picard, he doesn't get winded so easily!" Sheba replied.
"Well I wouldn't say that…" Picard blushed, causing Felix to get red out of jealousy for that remark.
"Ok! That is it!" Felix shouts as he lets go of the cart and Picard stabilizes it.
"Felix! Don't be rude, we are just playing, besides we know you helped out, so relax!" Jenna comforted him.
"Yeah, you are right, no need to get bent out of shape over it, guess there is only one Picard…" Felix grins evilly at him, Picard's eyes grow wide with terror as if at the mercy at what he is going to say next.
"Please no…" Picard silently, says to himself at the mercy of Felix's next words, the words that haunt Picard relentlessly everyday. As if someone turned on the cheesy movie effects in that the next words came out of Felix's mouth in slow motion…
"POW…….POW……..PICARD!!!!" Felix said
"POW POW PICARD!!!" Jenna excitedly shouted after her older brother.
Then the chorus of Mia, Isaac and Sheba chimed in to the siblings: "POW POW PICARD! POW POW PICARD!! POW POW PICARD!!!"
Everyone but Picard laughed at the expression of a flushed Picard and admiring the cake.
"Good old Picard!" Sheba said
"Can always count on him!" Added Isaac.
"Yup!" The duo of Felix and Jenna replied together.
"Why me?" Picard replies to a laughing crowd of adepts.
"Well this cake is really good! You think it will be enough for everyone in Vale?" Mia asked.
"Plenty! Even with Garet there, speaking of which where is he, I haven't seen him or Ivan…" Jenna replied.
"Good question, but what are they doing?" Sheba asked.
"Hanging banners, what could possibly go wrong?" Isaac added.
"WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!" From the distance a worried Ivan shouts.
"Why am I not surprised…" Felix answered.
Out of the distance the blur moves closer, swinging on the banner that is worthy of being in a movie as a stunt double Garet "King of Banners" Makes his entrance.
"Tarzan come for his Jane!!!" Garet shouts as he swings in like the apeman, with a shocked crowd, along with a shocked Mia nearly getting picked up by Garet, but he overshot by an inch and swung over her, letting go of the banner and become a human bullet, due to Ivan's psynergy.
"It's a bird?" Jenna shouts.
"It's not a plane!" Picard says.
"It's Garet!!" Mia said as she looked behind her as Garet flew by.
The human bullet landed in the only thing within range.
"The cake!!" Sheba shouted as Isaac and Jenna dived away from it as a Garet flies into it headfirst splattering cake on everyone.
"What in Vale has happened?" Kraden said as he left his house after a bit of "research" in his books. Following the commotion that is in Town Square only to find all the adepts lying on the ground covered in cake.
"I just got new clothes on!" Jenna stormed.
"Cake is not good fashion sense…" Sheba replied.
"But it does look good on you…" Felix added, only to get cake thrown in his face by Sheba.
"Garet, what were you thinking, or wait not thinking!" Isaac said, taking cake out of his ear, pulling out part of a wax candle.
"Mmmmph…mmmph…" A grounded Garet replied, with legs flailing from the compounds of the dessert.
"Is everyone all right?" Ivan replied as he caught up to Garet, and was look upon by the others. "Oh my…"
"Ivan…do you know anything about this?" Sheba asked.
"I would like to inquire him myself…" Picard said picking up a piece of cake gingerly.
"I would like to too…" Mia said, rolling some cake up in a ball and getting ready to take aim.
"No…please…no cake…we didn't have dinner yet! Ivan said nervously, ducking as cake went flying in his direction.
"Goodness! Everyone what is the meaning of this? Enough playing! We have a festival to get ready for! Back to work!" Kraden told the adepts who all stared at him in shock. "Look at this mess! The cake is for later not now…I never got a piece…"
"You never got one?" Isaac replied
"We can arrange that…" Jenna smirks.
"How? Oh…" Kraden looks on as all the adepts minus Garet assault Kraden with cake, dragging him in it and pelting him with cake balls.
"Mmmmmmmm…..cake……" Garet replies from the base of the cake.