Chapter 2: Of Chibis and Roadkill
"Tara, where the hell did my money go!?!?" screamed Adam, promptly tripping over a model of Envy. "And get rid of that evil palm-tree you like so much!!! I mean seriously, he wears a skirt!!!" "Actually it's a skort." replied Tara. "SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!" He yelled, swelling like a pissed-off bullfrog.
"What happened to my house?" Tara asked, confused. She glanced over to see Adso on the floor, knocked out, with what looked like blood gushing from his ears. "He happened." Adam replied, jerking his thumb at said cat.
They had gone to Tara's house after Adam discovered what she had done. Going back on subject, Adam started lecturing her angrily. "Tara, what were you thinking? We're going to be in a hell of a lot of trouble!!!!!" "At least we paid her." Tara said. "Yeah, with my money!!!" "You were going to pay for it anyway." she shot back. 'Shit, she has me...' he thought.
"Now give me those cards." he said, swiping them from her hand. Tara walked away, when she returned, she was holding a life-sized model of Gluttony as if it were a baseball bat. Adam being the ball, of course. The baseball, wisely, ran for it's life, loudly swearing along the way. "Come back here with those!" she yelled, dropping the model and lunging, grabbing at the cards. But Adam held tight, they were both tugging furiously at the deck.
Suddenly the cards scattered across the floor. "Now look what you've done!" she yelled. "Me? You're the one who stole the cards in the first place!" he spat. They continued to rant, not realizing that the cards were being suffused in a strange aura. When it finally caught their attention, the cards were beginning to sink through the floor. They were thrown back by a blast of light that formed into a strange design on the floor. "A transmutation circle!" Tara gasped. "What the hell is that?" Adam asked. "I'll explain later." she snapped, lunging for the remaining cards. She managed to grab four of them, but accidentally dropped one of them, that sank through the floor as well. The transmutation circle dissipated, leaving a burn mark on her floor in the shape of the strange design.
Both of them sat next to the circle, looking slightly shell-shocked. "What the hell was that?" Adam asked, breaking the silence. "A transmutation circle." Tara replied. "What the hell are those, then?" he asked. But before Tara could reply, a burst of light shot out of each card she was clutching. "Enough with the light!!!!" Tara yelled, throwing the cards onto the floor and scooting backwards. The beams of light shaped into three different figures. One tall, one medium, and one smallish figure. When the light disappeared, Tara glomped the small one. "CHIBI-CHAN!!!!!!!!!" she cried, gleefully. Suddenly The figure started desperately trying to escape her grasp. "Who the hell-WAIT DID YOU JUST CALL ME A CHIBI?!?!?!?!?" yelled the glompee. "Yes o-chibi-san." she replied. She finally got a good look at the figure. "Please tell me I'm dreaming.'Cause if I'm not, I am definately roadkill." she added as an after-thought. "You're roadkill." said Adam. "Shit. I'm actually hugging Ed..." Tara suddenly was doing a very good impression of a ghost.