Okay, I guess I should edit a bit more. No, make that I HAVE to edit more. But, thanks to all reviewers, and readers! It makes me so happy to go check my e-mail and see a bunch of reviews! (actually, it comes 1 at a time, but I'm always happy when I get a review!)
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Uh, yes, after that rant, back to the story. If I make any really bad, obvious mistakes, tell me, okay?
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Chapter 7: Random"Wait, where's our purplish brothers and sisters?" Geode looked around the bedrooms, not seeing them anywhere.
Felix gazed around too. "Doesn't look like this room's even been touched! I don't think they even came in here!"
Geode stared at the room for a few more seconds, then shrugged. "Maybe they left early so they could hog the boards?"
Felix copied the action, and said impatiently. "We should go now, I haven't seen snow for a while. Even though I was getting quite sick of it..." mutters under breath about stupid Mars lighthouse with no fire, being covered in ice, and also being immensely cold. Geode merely cast him a slightly amused look, and waddled out the door. Felix followed, still muttering under his breath.
Silence greeted them when they stepped out of the hotel. Echo openly stared. "F-f-f-felix?!"
The other djinn openly stared, open-mouthed. Felix was HERE?! But, wasn't he supposed to be back home in Vale, fuming and worrying about the safety of his djinn by turns?
Felix blinked and looked around. "Why is everyone staring at me like I just said Weyard was octagonal?"
Echo gulped. "Uh, well... we weren't expecting you, you see..."
Felix smiled, then grinned. "Oh, that! Well, I didn't think you'd all be able to survive, being the little things that you are, you know!"
Geode poked him good naturedly in the foot. "That's insulting, and you know it!" Felix laughed at this. "I knew that!"
Echo was still staring, along with the rest of the djinn. Felix was acting natural, smiling, and LAUGHING!
Geode was chuckling to himself, inside his head. The Jupiter djinn really should've been here to see this! He would've recorded it on video tape, but unfortunately the djinn were a little too small to be able to hold them up, let alone use them. He sighed. He would've loved to be able to record the one time that Felix actually let his guard down, and laughed with others. It was something that happened once in a lifetime, he reckoned.
Felix focussed his attention back on the crowd of djinn in front him. "Well? Weren't we going snowboarding?"
He tilted his head. "We were, right? I think we should get going." He squinted up at the sun. "The sun's pretty high up already. I'd guess that it was about mid-morning. "
The crowd of stunned djinn murmured assent, and they shuffled off after Felix and Geode. The Jupiter djinn, all of which had woken from their long nap, giggled to themselves from behind the trees. Oh yes, they'd been shocked to see Felix too, but THIS was going to make it even more hilarious! They flew quietly over the trees, Gust and Breeze poking and prodding each other by turns.
"Shh! Be more quiet!" Gust hissed as he poked Breeze.
Breeze scowled and whispered back. "I wasn't making any noise at all!" and adding a prod for good measure.
"You are now!"
"But you started it!"
"SHHHHHH!!" The other djinn all hissed at them. They shut up, looking shame-faced, and continued flying silently, though it was noticed that they constantly jostled each other for a better position. Torn between amusement at their childish behaviour, and their frustration that they couldn't behave, they merely kept quiet.
Meanwhile, at the snowboard renting shop, Felix was talking to the shopkeeper.
"What do you mean, we can't rent 72 boards?! I thought this place was an all-gear-any-time shop!"
The shopkeeper was looking apologetic, and perhaps a little scared. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we simply do not have that many boards."
Felix scowled. "What kind of shop is this? I mean, " he waved at all the djinn behind him, "look at my friends here! they came here to have a nice holiday! How could you destroy it by telling them that you don't have enough boards?!"
Echo was poking shyly at Felix's foot. "Uh, Felix?"
Felix looked down impatiently. "Not now, Echo! Can't you see I'm busy?"
But Echo just pointed at all the djinn. "We're really small you know... I think we could do with 18 boards. 4 of us could easily fit onto 1 board."
Felix blinked. "Well, I guess you have a point." He turned back to the shopkeeper. "Okay, we'll just have eighteen boards.
The shopkeeper opened his mouth, but Felix got there first. "Before you say anything, you must have AT LEAST 18 boards, because otherwise how would this little shop of yours hold up?"
The shopkeeper glared, offended. "I wasn't going to say anything about the boards. I was just going to mention that the, uh, well, they, " he pointed at the djinn a little uncertainly, not sure what to call them, "Might benefit from some straps to hold them to the board."
"Well, then, give us some!" Felix was getting impatient. "We don't have all day you know!"
The shopkeeper shook his head. "I don't have any that would be of, uh, suitable sizes for these little..."
"Djinn," supplied Echo.
The shopkeeper was shocked, to say th least. He gazed at Felix, then at Echo with a picture of horror on his face. "You didn't tell me they could talk!" He turned and almost ran out the door, except for the one little fact that Felix had grabbed the collar of his shirt. "Look here, I don't care if you can't appreciate my friends here, but running out before giving us the equipment we paid for is thievery!"
The shopkeeper pointed wildly in a direction, "The boards are over there!" and ran off.
Felix sighd. "I was hoping we'd be able to get along with the people in this world, but it appears that that will not be the case." He walked over to the place the shopkeeper had pointed to, to se if the boards were there.
Most of the djinn followed, but several stayed behind, intent on the trophies in the cabinet behind the counter.
"Shiny!" Mud stared at the largest trophy in awe.
Petra was looking at the trophies too, but she was staring at the smallest one, with beautiful designs on it. "Pretty pictures..."
They started trying to climb the counter, so that they could get to the trophies, but were too slow. Geode had come back, with a couple of other Venus djinn, and dragged them back to Felix.
"You shouldn't run around like that!" he scolded. "It's not safe you know! You could get kidnapped!"
Petra and Mud blinked. "But we didn't even move! We were just looking at the pretty trophies!"
Geode frowned. "Well, those trophies might've been djinn-eating monsters who enjoy looking pretty!"
Mud looked confused. "Djinn-eating monsta? (NOT a typo)"
Petra rolled her eyes. "Geode, you have an overactive imagination."
Geode glared. "Let's just get back to Felix, shall we?"
Felix had found the boards and was busy passing them around to the other djinn. Of course, he didn't notice that the boards were all slightly cracked...
cackles I'm sorry, but if I keep writing, that would break my record of having short chapters in this sotry! And besides, I'm sure not many people like this story enough to want to read the next bit anyway.
Mist: ::glares at writing:: I'm hardly even in this!
Heh heh... Well, see, you aren't exactly very important right now.
Mist: ::frown:: Excuse me?! ...evil death glare You'd better include me in the next chapter!
O.o uh, oh, yeah sure.
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