Thanks again to:
GoldensunShiba: Thanks for all the good laughter?
GrassDragon: (Imagines) it is, isn't it? ^_^
Amandaxter: Thanks for the review, even if I can't really tell what you said...
Phoe-chan: Amen to that! ^_^
~* Blah *~: Thoughts
@,--: Break in time/POV change
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@,-Flowers---
part two: New people, New places
Flut-flut or Chocobo?
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Kira looks around, confused.
"Where am I?"
Yamikai flips the bottle closed and smiles slightly. Daxter notices that, now, she's back to being distant and calm. ~* Why was she bubbly in the first place? *~
"We are in the forbidden jungle. Daxter can fill you in on the rest." She pulls out the tiny dagger and sharpens it again. Daxter looks at her strangely. ~* What's up with her? *~
"HA!"
Everyone jumps at Daxter's yell. (Well, except Daxter)
"I figured it out! You only put on the cold, heartless act! You're normally as cheerful as you were when you brought Jak in here, and the rest is a act to throw people off!" He beams at his cleverness.
Yamikai looks at him closely. "Are you sure that it's not that I put on the bubbly-ness?" Daxter looks into her sanguine eyes. After a moment, he breaks the gaze, shivering again.
Yamikai continues to stare at him, then nods and returns to sharpening the knife. After a while, she slips it into its calla lily sheath and brings out her throwing star and a bottle.
@,--
Kira thinks about the confrontation, looking sideways at the abnormally quiet Daxter. For some reason, her questions are met with total silence. ~* When Daxter doesn't even try to hit on me, you know something's wrong. *~ She glances at the elf she doesn't even know the name of. The stranger finishes spreading the thick liquid on the throwing star and tucks it into her hidden pouch, then stands up. She walks over to Kira.
"Daxter isn't responding to you." A statement, not a question. "Call me Yamikai." The elf- ~* Yamikai *~ Kira corrects herself- studies her for a moment, then unties one of the ropes around her ankles. Suddenly, there's a foot and a half of rope between her feet. Then Yamikai kneels next to Daxter and unties the lead holding him down, wrapping it around her hand. Then she slings the still unconscious Jak over her shoulder effortlessly and looks expectantly at Kira.
"What?" Kira asks nervously.
Yamikai shakes her head. "Stand up. We're leaving this awful jungle."
@,--(Author leaves computer to go back through Forbidden Jungle)
They cross a bridge and cut through a circular formation of Precursor columns, Yamikai pausing for a moment to examine the inscriptions on the coppery metal. Kira can't help but notice that Yamikai's eyes are just a few shades darker then the structures. They climb a small, makeshift ramp of driftwood on the far side of the structures, dodge a spiked log, and walk up more driftwood ramps in a spiral around a tree. The sun starts to peek over the horizon, and the ruby light catches in the waterfall next to them.
Kira gasps at the fall. The plank she is on shivers.
Yamikai glances up at her (She's in the rear), then down at the cliff. "Huh, afraid of a little height?"
Daxter speaks up for the first time. "I don't blame her- we are traveling with YOU." Kira shoots him a grateful smile. She determinedly looks away from the edge and continues up.
The last piece of driftwood is perhaps ten feet long, stretching out and coming to rest between two large ferns. They climb the slight slope.
Kira gasps again.
Beyond the rocks edging the cliff, there is vast plain of short green grass. And when I say vast, I mean VAST. Nearly on the scale of the Calm Lands, they stretch as far as any one of them can see as tiny hillocks and dips.
Now it's Daxter's turn to gasp, but for an entirely different reason.
"AH! I thought I got away from flut-fluts!" Forgetting his fear of her for a moment, Daxter scrabbles up Yamikai's side and hides trembling between her neck and Jak's limp body. Yamikai actually laughs.
Kira steps closer to examine them and almost trips over her ropes. Righting herself, she peers at the giant birds. "They aren't flut-fluts. I don't know what they are, but the neck's too long, and the coloration is different."
Daxter peers out from his hiding place, then jumps out and dusts himself off. "I knew that!"
The two girls glance at each other and burst out laughing. Daxter looks offended.
"S...So, what ARE they?" Kira gasps out when the laughter recedes. Yamikai grins, her eyes dancing, and gestures at the blue-bodied, golden-winged and tailed riding birds.
"What, you've never seen Flutabos?"
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You'll notice that I changed the big barrier. How do you like the new one? And PLEASE review? For me? (Puppy eyes)
Jo: FLUTABOS? (Falls over laughing)
Grr... They're cute! They're the size and build of chocobos, mostly blue, but with bigger wings (Golden brown colored), stronger legs (grey-gold), a long, flowing tail (also golden-brown), and a single golden feather curling from the top of their head over their dull gold beaks. ^_^ CUUUTESY!!!
Jo: As cute as your brother.
Ian: (appears) Then I guess they're really good looking! ~_^
If they were as cute as IAN, I would have trashed the idea from horror.
Ian: Grr...
Jo: High five, Alana! (High fives with me)
GoldensunShiba: Thanks for all the good laughter?
GrassDragon: (Imagines) it is, isn't it? ^_^
Amandaxter: Thanks for the review, even if I can't really tell what you said...
Phoe-chan: Amen to that! ^_^
~* Blah *~: Thoughts
@,--: Break in time/POV change
;:;;:;;:;;:;;:;;:;
@,-Flowers---
part two: New people, New places
Flut-flut or Chocobo?
@,--'--,-----
Kira looks around, confused.
"Where am I?"
Yamikai flips the bottle closed and smiles slightly. Daxter notices that, now, she's back to being distant and calm. ~* Why was she bubbly in the first place? *~
"We are in the forbidden jungle. Daxter can fill you in on the rest." She pulls out the tiny dagger and sharpens it again. Daxter looks at her strangely. ~* What's up with her? *~
"HA!"
Everyone jumps at Daxter's yell. (Well, except Daxter)
"I figured it out! You only put on the cold, heartless act! You're normally as cheerful as you were when you brought Jak in here, and the rest is a act to throw people off!" He beams at his cleverness.
Yamikai looks at him closely. "Are you sure that it's not that I put on the bubbly-ness?" Daxter looks into her sanguine eyes. After a moment, he breaks the gaze, shivering again.
Yamikai continues to stare at him, then nods and returns to sharpening the knife. After a while, she slips it into its calla lily sheath and brings out her throwing star and a bottle.
@,--
Kira thinks about the confrontation, looking sideways at the abnormally quiet Daxter. For some reason, her questions are met with total silence. ~* When Daxter doesn't even try to hit on me, you know something's wrong. *~ She glances at the elf she doesn't even know the name of. The stranger finishes spreading the thick liquid on the throwing star and tucks it into her hidden pouch, then stands up. She walks over to Kira.
"Daxter isn't responding to you." A statement, not a question. "Call me Yamikai." The elf- ~* Yamikai *~ Kira corrects herself- studies her for a moment, then unties one of the ropes around her ankles. Suddenly, there's a foot and a half of rope between her feet. Then Yamikai kneels next to Daxter and unties the lead holding him down, wrapping it around her hand. Then she slings the still unconscious Jak over her shoulder effortlessly and looks expectantly at Kira.
"What?" Kira asks nervously.
Yamikai shakes her head. "Stand up. We're leaving this awful jungle."
@,--(Author leaves computer to go back through Forbidden Jungle)
They cross a bridge and cut through a circular formation of Precursor columns, Yamikai pausing for a moment to examine the inscriptions on the coppery metal. Kira can't help but notice that Yamikai's eyes are just a few shades darker then the structures. They climb a small, makeshift ramp of driftwood on the far side of the structures, dodge a spiked log, and walk up more driftwood ramps in a spiral around a tree. The sun starts to peek over the horizon, and the ruby light catches in the waterfall next to them.
Kira gasps at the fall. The plank she is on shivers.
Yamikai glances up at her (She's in the rear), then down at the cliff. "Huh, afraid of a little height?"
Daxter speaks up for the first time. "I don't blame her- we are traveling with YOU." Kira shoots him a grateful smile. She determinedly looks away from the edge and continues up.
The last piece of driftwood is perhaps ten feet long, stretching out and coming to rest between two large ferns. They climb the slight slope.
Kira gasps again.
Beyond the rocks edging the cliff, there is vast plain of short green grass. And when I say vast, I mean VAST. Nearly on the scale of the Calm Lands, they stretch as far as any one of them can see as tiny hillocks and dips.
Now it's Daxter's turn to gasp, but for an entirely different reason.
"AH! I thought I got away from flut-fluts!" Forgetting his fear of her for a moment, Daxter scrabbles up Yamikai's side and hides trembling between her neck and Jak's limp body. Yamikai actually laughs.
Kira steps closer to examine them and almost trips over her ropes. Righting herself, she peers at the giant birds. "They aren't flut-fluts. I don't know what they are, but the neck's too long, and the coloration is different."
Daxter peers out from his hiding place, then jumps out and dusts himself off. "I knew that!"
The two girls glance at each other and burst out laughing. Daxter looks offended.
"S...So, what ARE they?" Kira gasps out when the laughter recedes. Yamikai grins, her eyes dancing, and gestures at the blue-bodied, golden-winged and tailed riding birds.
"What, you've never seen Flutabos?"
@,--'--,-----
You'll notice that I changed the big barrier. How do you like the new one? And PLEASE review? For me? (Puppy eyes)
Jo: FLUTABOS? (Falls over laughing)
Grr... They're cute! They're the size and build of chocobos, mostly blue, but with bigger wings (Golden brown colored), stronger legs (grey-gold), a long, flowing tail (also golden-brown), and a single golden feather curling from the top of their head over their dull gold beaks. ^_^ CUUUTESY!!!
Jo: As cute as your brother.
Ian: (appears) Then I guess they're really good looking! ~_^
If they were as cute as IAN, I would have trashed the idea from horror.
Ian: Grr...
Jo: High five, Alana! (High fives with me)