The Ones With No Names
The story of Lilo and the experiments that didn't need names.
Lilo had been grounded. She had talked to a stranger, gone out of the ocean with him, all that junk, and now she was confined to her room. She sat on her bed and sighed repeatedly, alone and bored with nothing but...
"Well, it looks like you've done it again."
Lilo listened to her inside voice absentmindedly. "Where's the aloha cousin thing that Nani had to convince Mr. Jamison she had, anyway?"
"All older sisters are hypocrites," said the voice. "Sometimes the only ones you can trust are fish."
"Do dolphins count?"
The voice thought for a moment. "Sure."
Lilo smiled. "Where's Stitch when I need someone to doll out advice to?"
"Check and see if he's home."
Lilo bounced up and looked out the window, but it wasn't Stitch she saw.
At first glance, she thought it was a green house. But closer examination showed that even though it had an equine figure, the mane had been replaced by a swept-back dorsal fin which stopped at the bottom of its neck. It started again halfway down his back and ran to the base of his long, green tail. His black eyes accentuated his sea-green, pleasantly shaped head and body. Instead of hooves, his thick legs branched into two large, webbed toes. Two rounded ears tipped his beautiful head. As Lilo watched, the algae-colored horse walked up to the land buggy and sniffed it; he was bigger than the car!
Lilo gasped and opened the window. "Hello!"
The green horse jumped and looked up and Lilo. It began to step backwards.
"NO! No! I don't wanna hurt you!" Lilo grabbed a piece of blank paper and waved it as a white flag. "I just wanna talk to you!"
#Talk to me?# The green beast stepped towards the house slowly. #She wants to talk to me?#
"Could you come up here so I don't have to shout?!"
The horse beast, unable to talk, grunted and nodded. He jumped onto the roof in one big bound, landing just below Lilo's window. She gasped and petted his muzzle. "Did you know that all big sisters are hypocrites?"
#Sounds like 166 to me,# he thought to himself. He nodded.
"You know, my big sister Nani works at the Birds of Paradise hotel, and at the hotel they encourage 'aloha hospitality'."
#Aloha?#
"Well, I went to go feed Pudge the fish, and I couldn't go by myself because it's against the rules, so I asked someone to go with me. And when Nani found out, she grounded me and now I can't leave my room!"
#Hmm...#
Lilo began to scratch the muzzle of the horse creature. "So where's the hospitality, huh? Where's the aloha?"
#What's aloha?# the creature asked himself. He looked to the side to contemplate, and Lilo began scratching his ear.
"There are very very very few people who actually mean what they say when they say it, that's what I've found out." Lilo sighed mournfully. "Parents don't take you to parks, friends don't return your dolls, and experiments don't return your calls."
#Experiments?# The horse twitched its ears and ducked under the windowsill, out of Lilo's reach. I've been found out!
"Sometimes the only people you can trust are fish and dolphins." Lilo leaned out of the window. "Well, that and potato bugs."
#Potato bugs?# Horse Thing picked his head back Well, maybe she hasn't found me out.
"And the old Stitch."
Horse Thing cocked his head in curiosity, wiggling his long ears.
Lilo reached downward and pulled out a large, heart shaped rock. "Stitch gave this rock to me after I came back from hula school. He said it was a Myrtle beating rock, and I laughed. But now he's changed and spends all his time with Angel... I should probably just throw this thing away..."
Horse Thing began to feel sad for the girl who had never once mentioned her name. Oh man... Rough life, kid...
"I'd come outside and play with you, but I'm still grounded," Lilo sighed. She rested her head on her tiny hands. "If you could come back in a week or something, I should be free to play. We could go swimming or something."
#Swimming? Oh no, I forgot! I gotta get to the water and quick, or I'll dehydrate!# He licked her cheek sweetly and jumped back to the ground, diving into the forest to graze.
"Bye bye!" Lilo waved and ducked back into her room, closing the window behind her.
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ONE WEEK LATER
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Stitch bounded through the door, Angel jumping along behind him. "Home sweet home!" he cheered in Turian.
"I remember this place!" Angel answered. "Are you sure Lilo will be okay with me staying here?"
"Of course!" Stitch waved his arms invitingly. "Our ohana is your ohana!"
"But, I did drive all the experiments to evil, steal you away from your own family, turn you over to Gantu, all the while completely ignoring her. Not to mention keeping your with me and Mr. Ho'omalu for an entire week."
Stitch's ears drooped. "Oh yeah. Um... Maybe we Should keep our distance from Lilo-"
"STITCH!" Lilo flung her arms around her "doggy" friend. She had changed into her best "fun time"clothes; a purple t-shirt with a red hard and cargo shorts. "You're back, finally! Oh man, I can't wait to tel-"
"Uh, uh, Lilo, Lilo!" Stitch grew out all four arms and, with one set, pulled her by her wrist and, with the other, pushed her towards Angel. "Um, Angel's on vacation. She's staying with us, okay?"
Angel smiled nervously and twiddled her fingers. Lilo grimaced.
"Oh yeah..." Lilo's fists began to tighten. "It was because you were in town that I was grounded and didn't see Stitch for a WEEK!"
Lilo's sudden shout made Stitch and Angel jump; the little Hawaiian took the heart rock out of her pocket and whacked Angel in the nose with it, breaking it in half. With one piece still in her hand, she ran out the doggy door, leaving Angel with a broken nose and Stitch with a broken heart rock.
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"...and then he had the nerve to ask me if Angel could stay in the house!" Lilo sobbed into Bella's chest.
The burka-ed experiment hugged Lilo and chattered to her in Urdu, leaving Bolee to translate. "Bella's not sure if she knows what to say. She thinks you're a little too attached to Stitch. Maybe you can make friends with some of the other experiments, like with me and Bella."
Lilo sniffled and wiped her tears on an exposed bit of Bella's tentacles. "Well... If you say so... Okay."
"Meega bushi kaga," Bella nuzzled her little girl's nose affectionately.
"That means she loves you, and I love you too," Bolee purred. He gave Lilo a quick pat on the head and nudged her towards the door. "Bye bye!"
Lilo wiped a tear from her eyes and closed the nursery door behind her. As she turned to face the road, a green leg stood in front of her. She looked up to see a familiar equine head peering down at her.
"You're back!" Lilo hugged his leg with gusto, stuffing whatever was in her hand back into her pocket (she had forgotten). "Oh, I thought I'd never see you again!"
#Are you kidding, you're cool!# is what he wanted to say, but he couldn't, so he simply gave Lilo a soft rub with his snout and picked her up in his teeth placing her on his back.
"There are some people I wanna introduce you to sooo bad!" Lilo held a finger to her chin. "Well, maybe not people..."
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Lilo giggled. "So you like Jell-O, huh Richter?"
Richter, taking a lunch break some shaking shakes, laughed and nodded, poking the Jell-O hill again. "It wiggles!"
Horse Thing made that snuffing sound that horses make and nodded, helping himself to a tongue-full of blue Jell-O. Richter snarled and downed the whole hill, bowl and all.
"Richter!" Lilo mock scolded. "Behave yourself now!"
"Soka!" Richter spit out the bowl, swallowing the Jell-O. "Ha ha ha!"
Lilo looked at her horse-y friend and stuck out her tongue; her way of saying that whatever had just happened was too ridiculous to describe with words. Her friend cocked his head and naively licked her tongue, making her gag and giggle at the same time.
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Lilo chattered on as Clip gave her a quick trim. "His hair is Soooo long, that he has to wash it with laundry detergent. It's like 13 feet long or something!"
Clip paused and shivered, the thought of 13 feet of delicious hair enticing her tiny brain and making her fur stand on end. She squealed in delight and put the finishing touches on Lilo's hair. "Done! Next!"
Lilo's horse friend walked forward, flicking his long and matted tail. Lilo held out her hand. "This is my new friend. I haven't learned his name yet. He needs his tail trimmed."
#I don't like anything near my tail, okay?# he snarled in his mind as Clip hopped onto his back. She examined the green hair, looked at her claws, and bolted down to start trimming. Within a few seconds, she was done, belly full and palate elated. Her happy customer flicked his soft tail with glee, rearing onto his back legs in joy (and throwing Clip off in the process).
Lilo laughed. This thing ruled!
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Jumba stepped into the living room, eyeing Stitch and Angel on the sofa together. Angel had her nose in bandages, and she and Stitch both held in their hands the same rock. Jumba closed his top eyes (he was farsighted in his top eyes) and inspected the rock; just as he suspected, it was shaped like the left half of a broken heart.
"Say, 626, isn't dat naughty girl bashingk rock you gave little girl last veek?"
"Ih." 626 sighed and lifted the rock so he could see it better. "Lilo mad at Stitch."
"Eh? Vhy is dat?" Jumba opened his top eyes again and leaned against the top of the sofa.
"Lilo mad at Stitch for leaving." Stitch leaned back and looked deeply into Jumba's bottom eyes. "Stitch feel bad."
"Angel's fault, Angel feel bad," said, well, who else? "Lilo hates me."
Stitch grabbed Angel's hand in two of his. She pushed himself into his chest and began to cry. He patted her head while Jumba stroked his ears. "There, there, little ones. Little girl is just in bad mood. After a vhile, it vill pass, and all of you will vill be vatchingk movies from India on the sofa again.
"What's India?" Angel asked Stitch. Stitch looked up.
"India is country. They make weeiird movies. Lilo loves them." Stitch remembered back to when they had watched that fun movie "Kal Ho Na Ho" last month. Lilo could never explain her love of Bollywood movies, she just did. The thoughts made a rare tear escape from his eyes.
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"I like movies from India," Lilo informed Yin, who cocked his head as most experiments did when confused. "We watched this fun one called 'Kal Ho Na Ho'. I liked the music."
Yang prodded Yin with a tentacle. Yin snapped to attention and shot a jet of lava into the ocean, which Yang quickly cooled. Lilo held her nose so as to not inhale any volcanic dust. "You probably saw that movie when you were at St- I mean your cousin's sleepover."
Yang shook her head. The horse beast sniffed Yang's tentacles and received a sharp bite on the nose from Yin, who growled and snuggled Yang's head. The horse thing whinnied sadly and turned away, accidentally running into Lilo's stomach. She hugged his head affectionately. "It's okay, big guy. I know what it's like to feel lonely."
#Who said I was lonely...# He closed his eyes in shame, knowing full well that he was.
"Well, there's one more thing I want to introduce you to. Pick me up!" Lilo loosened herself up so that her horse friend could pick her up more easily. "We need to go out sea. Do you know how to swim?"
#Do I?# He shook himself to make sure Lilo was holding on tight. Yang felt a bad feeling in her stomach and told Yin to go tell Jumba who had Lilo.
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"527? Oh no!" Jumba typed frantically on his experiment computer. "527 is experiment I designed after takingk swimmingk lessons at local community pool. Designed to attract people to ride on its back and then to be DROWNINGK them!" Jumba habitually let loose his evil genius laugh before he realized what was happening. "Wait, no laughingk! 527 has little girl!"
Pleakly and Stitch whimpered in fear while Angel probed Yin for more information. She walked towards her large creator. "Lilo said something about a sea serpent in the ocean with experiment eyes just before they left."
"That sounds like experiment 549. Is basically a living torpedo, designed to drill holes into the hulls of ships. Oddly enough, both 527 and 549 are havingk non-response gene. Only usingk powers when needingk to. But still..." Jumba held his hands together. "Okay, Lilo could be in immediate danger. 626, 624, gather up all water experiments and find Lilo. It could take a while."
"Why?" Pleakly peered over Jumba's shoulder at the experiment file; 527 was huge! "Something that big can't possibly swim!"
"I didn't program 527 to swim," Jumba monotoned. "Dat would be stupid. 527 focuses internal energy source into his toes which turns his own feet into anti-gravity generators!" He chuckled. "Is genius, no?"
Stitch was a bit confused, and he said so. "So, what exactly does that mean?"
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"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Lilo couldn't believe it; her horse friend was walking on water! His toes glowed green while the water underneath him supported his large figure effortlessly. The small Hawaiian one giggled giddily; it was almost like she was in a fairy tale! The good kind, without the stupid princesses with inferiority complexes, but the kind with magical animals and things!
"That's her up there!" Lilo shrieked, pointing forward. "You see her?"
All that 527 could see were two blue ears sticking out of the water, but he stopped none the less. 549 popped her head above the water and examined the taller experiment, her eyes squinting untrustingly. Lilo waved hello.
"Hi, sea serpent! Meet magic horse!" Lilo patted her steed's side. "Magic horse, meet sea serpent."
527 poked 549 in the forehead. #Wow, a literal four eyes.#
5249 suddenly ducked underwater. Lilo jumped. "Where'd it go?"
527 felt a tail brush against his leg. #You no nice, pig dog!# said a high, feminine voice.
527 snorted. #I can hear you!#
#I hear you too!# 549 growled back, popping her head above water and baring her fangs.
"GUYS! Stop fighting!" Lilo pounded her fists against 527's side. "We need to try and get along! We're ohana!" She received two weird looks. "That means family. And family means that WE DON'T FIGHT!"
549 and 527 looked at each other.
#Should we bother?#
#Friends like me.# 549 shot out of the water and nuzzled Lilo lovingly. The little girl giggled and hugged her back.
"Let's play for a little while, with the dolphins!" Little Li pulled back her hair. "We'll get to know each other!"
DONE!
Kal Ho Na Ho is a real movie from India. It's cool! You've gotta watch it.
The story of Lilo and the experiments that didn't need names.
Lilo had been grounded. She had talked to a stranger, gone out of the ocean with him, all that junk, and now she was confined to her room. She sat on her bed and sighed repeatedly, alone and bored with nothing but...
"Well, it looks like you've done it again."
Lilo listened to her inside voice absentmindedly. "Where's the aloha cousin thing that Nani had to convince Mr. Jamison she had, anyway?"
"All older sisters are hypocrites," said the voice. "Sometimes the only ones you can trust are fish."
"Do dolphins count?"
The voice thought for a moment. "Sure."
Lilo smiled. "Where's Stitch when I need someone to doll out advice to?"
"Check and see if he's home."
Lilo bounced up and looked out the window, but it wasn't Stitch she saw.
At first glance, she thought it was a green house. But closer examination showed that even though it had an equine figure, the mane had been replaced by a swept-back dorsal fin which stopped at the bottom of its neck. It started again halfway down his back and ran to the base of his long, green tail. His black eyes accentuated his sea-green, pleasantly shaped head and body. Instead of hooves, his thick legs branched into two large, webbed toes. Two rounded ears tipped his beautiful head. As Lilo watched, the algae-colored horse walked up to the land buggy and sniffed it; he was bigger than the car!
Lilo gasped and opened the window. "Hello!"
The green horse jumped and looked up and Lilo. It began to step backwards.
"NO! No! I don't wanna hurt you!" Lilo grabbed a piece of blank paper and waved it as a white flag. "I just wanna talk to you!"
#Talk to me?# The green beast stepped towards the house slowly. #She wants to talk to me?#
"Could you come up here so I don't have to shout?!"
The horse beast, unable to talk, grunted and nodded. He jumped onto the roof in one big bound, landing just below Lilo's window. She gasped and petted his muzzle. "Did you know that all big sisters are hypocrites?"
#Sounds like 166 to me,# he thought to himself. He nodded.
"You know, my big sister Nani works at the Birds of Paradise hotel, and at the hotel they encourage 'aloha hospitality'."
#Aloha?#
"Well, I went to go feed Pudge the fish, and I couldn't go by myself because it's against the rules, so I asked someone to go with me. And when Nani found out, she grounded me and now I can't leave my room!"
#Hmm...#
Lilo began to scratch the muzzle of the horse creature. "So where's the hospitality, huh? Where's the aloha?"
#What's aloha?# the creature asked himself. He looked to the side to contemplate, and Lilo began scratching his ear.
"There are very very very few people who actually mean what they say when they say it, that's what I've found out." Lilo sighed mournfully. "Parents don't take you to parks, friends don't return your dolls, and experiments don't return your calls."
#Experiments?# The horse twitched its ears and ducked under the windowsill, out of Lilo's reach. I've been found out!
"Sometimes the only people you can trust are fish and dolphins." Lilo leaned out of the window. "Well, that and potato bugs."
#Potato bugs?# Horse Thing picked his head back Well, maybe she hasn't found me out.
"And the old Stitch."
Horse Thing cocked his head in curiosity, wiggling his long ears.
Lilo reached downward and pulled out a large, heart shaped rock. "Stitch gave this rock to me after I came back from hula school. He said it was a Myrtle beating rock, and I laughed. But now he's changed and spends all his time with Angel... I should probably just throw this thing away..."
Horse Thing began to feel sad for the girl who had never once mentioned her name. Oh man... Rough life, kid...
"I'd come outside and play with you, but I'm still grounded," Lilo sighed. She rested her head on her tiny hands. "If you could come back in a week or something, I should be free to play. We could go swimming or something."
#Swimming? Oh no, I forgot! I gotta get to the water and quick, or I'll dehydrate!# He licked her cheek sweetly and jumped back to the ground, diving into the forest to graze.
"Bye bye!" Lilo waved and ducked back into her room, closing the window behind her.
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ONE WEEK LATER
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Stitch bounded through the door, Angel jumping along behind him. "Home sweet home!" he cheered in Turian.
"I remember this place!" Angel answered. "Are you sure Lilo will be okay with me staying here?"
"Of course!" Stitch waved his arms invitingly. "Our ohana is your ohana!"
"But, I did drive all the experiments to evil, steal you away from your own family, turn you over to Gantu, all the while completely ignoring her. Not to mention keeping your with me and Mr. Ho'omalu for an entire week."
Stitch's ears drooped. "Oh yeah. Um... Maybe we Should keep our distance from Lilo-"
"STITCH!" Lilo flung her arms around her "doggy" friend. She had changed into her best "fun time"clothes; a purple t-shirt with a red hard and cargo shorts. "You're back, finally! Oh man, I can't wait to tel-"
"Uh, uh, Lilo, Lilo!" Stitch grew out all four arms and, with one set, pulled her by her wrist and, with the other, pushed her towards Angel. "Um, Angel's on vacation. She's staying with us, okay?"
Angel smiled nervously and twiddled her fingers. Lilo grimaced.
"Oh yeah..." Lilo's fists began to tighten. "It was because you were in town that I was grounded and didn't see Stitch for a WEEK!"
Lilo's sudden shout made Stitch and Angel jump; the little Hawaiian took the heart rock out of her pocket and whacked Angel in the nose with it, breaking it in half. With one piece still in her hand, she ran out the doggy door, leaving Angel with a broken nose and Stitch with a broken heart rock.
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"...and then he had the nerve to ask me if Angel could stay in the house!" Lilo sobbed into Bella's chest.
The burka-ed experiment hugged Lilo and chattered to her in Urdu, leaving Bolee to translate. "Bella's not sure if she knows what to say. She thinks you're a little too attached to Stitch. Maybe you can make friends with some of the other experiments, like with me and Bella."
Lilo sniffled and wiped her tears on an exposed bit of Bella's tentacles. "Well... If you say so... Okay."
"Meega bushi kaga," Bella nuzzled her little girl's nose affectionately.
"That means she loves you, and I love you too," Bolee purred. He gave Lilo a quick pat on the head and nudged her towards the door. "Bye bye!"
Lilo wiped a tear from her eyes and closed the nursery door behind her. As she turned to face the road, a green leg stood in front of her. She looked up to see a familiar equine head peering down at her.
"You're back!" Lilo hugged his leg with gusto, stuffing whatever was in her hand back into her pocket (she had forgotten). "Oh, I thought I'd never see you again!"
#Are you kidding, you're cool!# is what he wanted to say, but he couldn't, so he simply gave Lilo a soft rub with his snout and picked her up in his teeth placing her on his back.
"There are some people I wanna introduce you to sooo bad!" Lilo held a finger to her chin. "Well, maybe not people..."
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Lilo giggled. "So you like Jell-O, huh Richter?"
Richter, taking a lunch break some shaking shakes, laughed and nodded, poking the Jell-O hill again. "It wiggles!"
Horse Thing made that snuffing sound that horses make and nodded, helping himself to a tongue-full of blue Jell-O. Richter snarled and downed the whole hill, bowl and all.
"Richter!" Lilo mock scolded. "Behave yourself now!"
"Soka!" Richter spit out the bowl, swallowing the Jell-O. "Ha ha ha!"
Lilo looked at her horse-y friend and stuck out her tongue; her way of saying that whatever had just happened was too ridiculous to describe with words. Her friend cocked his head and naively licked her tongue, making her gag and giggle at the same time.
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Lilo chattered on as Clip gave her a quick trim. "His hair is Soooo long, that he has to wash it with laundry detergent. It's like 13 feet long or something!"
Clip paused and shivered, the thought of 13 feet of delicious hair enticing her tiny brain and making her fur stand on end. She squealed in delight and put the finishing touches on Lilo's hair. "Done! Next!"
Lilo's horse friend walked forward, flicking his long and matted tail. Lilo held out her hand. "This is my new friend. I haven't learned his name yet. He needs his tail trimmed."
#I don't like anything near my tail, okay?# he snarled in his mind as Clip hopped onto his back. She examined the green hair, looked at her claws, and bolted down to start trimming. Within a few seconds, she was done, belly full and palate elated. Her happy customer flicked his soft tail with glee, rearing onto his back legs in joy (and throwing Clip off in the process).
Lilo laughed. This thing ruled!
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Jumba stepped into the living room, eyeing Stitch and Angel on the sofa together. Angel had her nose in bandages, and she and Stitch both held in their hands the same rock. Jumba closed his top eyes (he was farsighted in his top eyes) and inspected the rock; just as he suspected, it was shaped like the left half of a broken heart.
"Say, 626, isn't dat naughty girl bashingk rock you gave little girl last veek?"
"Ih." 626 sighed and lifted the rock so he could see it better. "Lilo mad at Stitch."
"Eh? Vhy is dat?" Jumba opened his top eyes again and leaned against the top of the sofa.
"Lilo mad at Stitch for leaving." Stitch leaned back and looked deeply into Jumba's bottom eyes. "Stitch feel bad."
"Angel's fault, Angel feel bad," said, well, who else? "Lilo hates me."
Stitch grabbed Angel's hand in two of his. She pushed himself into his chest and began to cry. He patted her head while Jumba stroked his ears. "There, there, little ones. Little girl is just in bad mood. After a vhile, it vill pass, and all of you will vill be vatchingk movies from India on the sofa again.
"What's India?" Angel asked Stitch. Stitch looked up.
"India is country. They make weeiird movies. Lilo loves them." Stitch remembered back to when they had watched that fun movie "Kal Ho Na Ho" last month. Lilo could never explain her love of Bollywood movies, she just did. The thoughts made a rare tear escape from his eyes.
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"I like movies from India," Lilo informed Yin, who cocked his head as most experiments did when confused. "We watched this fun one called 'Kal Ho Na Ho'. I liked the music."
Yang prodded Yin with a tentacle. Yin snapped to attention and shot a jet of lava into the ocean, which Yang quickly cooled. Lilo held her nose so as to not inhale any volcanic dust. "You probably saw that movie when you were at St- I mean your cousin's sleepover."
Yang shook her head. The horse beast sniffed Yang's tentacles and received a sharp bite on the nose from Yin, who growled and snuggled Yang's head. The horse thing whinnied sadly and turned away, accidentally running into Lilo's stomach. She hugged his head affectionately. "It's okay, big guy. I know what it's like to feel lonely."
#Who said I was lonely...# He closed his eyes in shame, knowing full well that he was.
"Well, there's one more thing I want to introduce you to. Pick me up!" Lilo loosened herself up so that her horse friend could pick her up more easily. "We need to go out sea. Do you know how to swim?"
#Do I?# He shook himself to make sure Lilo was holding on tight. Yang felt a bad feeling in her stomach and told Yin to go tell Jumba who had Lilo.
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"527? Oh no!" Jumba typed frantically on his experiment computer. "527 is experiment I designed after takingk swimmingk lessons at local community pool. Designed to attract people to ride on its back and then to be DROWNINGK them!" Jumba habitually let loose his evil genius laugh before he realized what was happening. "Wait, no laughingk! 527 has little girl!"
Pleakly and Stitch whimpered in fear while Angel probed Yin for more information. She walked towards her large creator. "Lilo said something about a sea serpent in the ocean with experiment eyes just before they left."
"That sounds like experiment 549. Is basically a living torpedo, designed to drill holes into the hulls of ships. Oddly enough, both 527 and 549 are havingk non-response gene. Only usingk powers when needingk to. But still..." Jumba held his hands together. "Okay, Lilo could be in immediate danger. 626, 624, gather up all water experiments and find Lilo. It could take a while."
"Why?" Pleakly peered over Jumba's shoulder at the experiment file; 527 was huge! "Something that big can't possibly swim!"
"I didn't program 527 to swim," Jumba monotoned. "Dat would be stupid. 527 focuses internal energy source into his toes which turns his own feet into anti-gravity generators!" He chuckled. "Is genius, no?"
Stitch was a bit confused, and he said so. "So, what exactly does that mean?"
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"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Lilo couldn't believe it; her horse friend was walking on water! His toes glowed green while the water underneath him supported his large figure effortlessly. The small Hawaiian one giggled giddily; it was almost like she was in a fairy tale! The good kind, without the stupid princesses with inferiority complexes, but the kind with magical animals and things!
"That's her up there!" Lilo shrieked, pointing forward. "You see her?"
All that 527 could see were two blue ears sticking out of the water, but he stopped none the less. 549 popped her head above the water and examined the taller experiment, her eyes squinting untrustingly. Lilo waved hello.
"Hi, sea serpent! Meet magic horse!" Lilo patted her steed's side. "Magic horse, meet sea serpent."
527 poked 549 in the forehead. #Wow, a literal four eyes.#
5249 suddenly ducked underwater. Lilo jumped. "Where'd it go?"
527 felt a tail brush against his leg. #You no nice, pig dog!# said a high, feminine voice.
527 snorted. #I can hear you!#
#I hear you too!# 549 growled back, popping her head above water and baring her fangs.
"GUYS! Stop fighting!" Lilo pounded her fists against 527's side. "We need to try and get along! We're ohana!" She received two weird looks. "That means family. And family means that WE DON'T FIGHT!"
549 and 527 looked at each other.
#Should we bother?#
#Friends like me.# 549 shot out of the water and nuzzled Lilo lovingly. The little girl giggled and hugged her back.
"Let's play for a little while, with the dolphins!" Little Li pulled back her hair. "We'll get to know each other!"
DONE!
Kal Ho Na Ho is a real movie from India. It's cool! You've gotta watch it.