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Birthday Bash!

Chapter 3

Previously...

"Are you going to be okay Norma?" Shirley was starting to worry as her face was now turning scarlet.

"I think I can hear my ears ringing and I'm feeling really light-headed..." and Norma collapsed after finishing her 99th balloon...

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"Alright, we'll leave him on my bed," Senel told Will as they made their way up the stairs of his house. They placed the sleeping bundle on the bed and their arms sighed in relief after putting Jay down.

"Man, even though he's little, he gets quite heavy after carrying him for that long..." Senel sighed as he slumped down onto the floor in front of his bed.

"Let's leave this note here," Will placed the note on top of Jay after covering him with another blanket.

"I can't believe he slept through all that..." Senel sweat dropped, giving Jay one last glance before going back downstairs. "So Will, do we just go back now?"

"I suppose so," they left the house and were on their way back to the Oresoren Village.

Meanwhile...

The girls were busily preparing for the party except for Norma, who was currently stretched out from blowing too many balloons. At the moment, everyone would agree that the nickname 'Bubbles' would be a perfect name for her...

"I can't believe she blew up 99 balloons that quickly..." Shirley stared at the boxes filled with balloons.

"She looked like she was having so much fun!" Grune smiled.

"I'm not too sure about that anymore..." Shirley mumbled to herself.

"Phew... backing a cake that big is harder than I expected..." Chloe sighed as she joined the other girls. "Wow, that's a lot of decorations you three made there! Shall I help you make anything?"

"No, we're all done here," Shirley brought out the boxes filled with decorations. "We just need to put it up now!"

Just at that moment, Senel and Will entered the village, "we're back!" they announced.

Also at that moment, Norma woke up from her not-so-pleasant occurrence, "whoa, what happened to me?"

"Well, I think you blew too many balloons up to quickly..." Shirley informed.

"Ooooh yea... I was blowing balloons and I passed out!" Norma scratched the back of her head, sticking her tongue out, "oops... Hey, Senny! Teach! When did you guys get back?"

"We just got back, and then you woke up," Senel told her.

"Hey, then you guys got back at the perfect timing!" Norma suddenly exclaimed. "You can help us put these decorations up!"

The two sighed, they were exhausted from carrying Jay all the way to Werites Beacon, even though they used the duct, "alright..." they agreed reluctantly.

Grune gave the pep talk, "now lets get to work everyone! For Jay! CHARGE!"

"Wait! Where are you going?" Chloe asked as Grune began to leave the group.

"Hmm... Where was I going?" Grune tapped her chin as she returned to the group.

"I thought so..." Chloe grumbled.

"Anyhow, Senny and Teach, you can start decorating from the entrance and come towards the center of the village, us three gals will start from JJ's house and come towards the center, and, hey! Where's Red?" Everyone looked around.

"Yea, where is he?" Chloe asked. "I haven't seen him since I told him about the plan..."

Somewhere in the Forest of No Return...

"Hmm... I know that thing is around here somewhere..." a certain red-headed bandit walked through the forest. "Aaha! I knew it was here!" Moses suddenly lept up and attacked the monster, "HEEYA!" He easily defeated the monster and retrieved the spoils left behind, "yeehaw! I finally got what I came here for!" Moses cheered happily and skipped out of the Forest of No Return.

Back to the Fun Bunch...

"Oh well, we don't need him anyway," Norma shook her head. "Let's get to it gang!"

They all grabbed a box of decorations and split up into two groups, the guys and girls, when Moses returned, "hey, everybody! Moses is back!" he cheered but found that everyone was too busy to even notice that he had entered the village. The wind of awkwardness blew out of nowhere, "how does that wind blow in caves anyway?" Moses wondered. "Hey Senel! Will! I'm back!"

"Oh, welcome back, Moses," Senel said without even looking at him.

"Can you give us a hand up here?" Will asked from on top of a ladder.

"Sorry, no can do! I've got a special order to make! Be back in a bit!" Moses ran off somewhere, leaving Senel and Will gawking at him.

"MOSES!" Will yelled.

"Whatever..." Senel went back to work.

Moses had ran off to the Oresoren's workshop where they synthesize weapons, "hey dude! I need to get a weapon synthesized!" Moses called over the counter.

"Alright, which weapon would you like to make?" the otter asked.

"I want that Hotate!" Moses exclaimed with a grin on his face.

"WHAT! I was thinking that you 'd want a spear or something..." the otter had nearly fallen over the counter.

"Oh, it ain't for me," Moses explained. "It's a gift for someone! He loves his daggers and I know he ain't got this one!"

"Oh, I see..." the Oresoren smiled. "Would you like to get it wrapped?"

"You can do that?" Moses asked. "Then I want it wrapped! And make it a star patterned one!"

Moses handed over the material he gathered and the gald needed to make the weapon, "I can't wait to see the look on his face when he sees this!" "So how long is it going to take?"

"It'll be done before the party!" the Oresoren laughed.

"Hey! How'd you know it was for Jay?" Moses frowned feeling his surprise was ruined.

"Well, you said it was a gift, and Jay's the only one that uses daggers around here, besides those other assassins, but I doubt you'll be giving them gifts..." the otter explained.

Moses gapped at the otter, "whoa, I think someone's been around Jay for too long..." then another thought crossed the bandit's ever-so-empty brain, "if Jay were 'ere, he'd probably say... 'Oh my god! It's the sign of another cataclysm! Moses is thinking!' right after I said 'I think'..."

The little otter quivered in fear as Moses suddenly let out an enraged howl and yelling about how annoying the little shrimp was, and grumbling, he left the store.

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Well, that's the end of another chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! Please R & R