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Diji woke up with a yawn and slid off the couch and onto her feet, allowing the cat to jump down with her. After rubbing her eyes, she stretched to wake herself. Her eyes sparkled when she saw Theo. She leapt forward and glomped him. "Good morning!" She had the same upbeat, youthful voice, but her body seemed to surpass it during the night. She sat on him with the fully developed body of a young lady in her late 20s.
"Ahh! What!"
Theo fell under the unexpected weight of the now much larger Diji. "Since when do you have tits?" He stared at them in befuddlement.
Diji smiled, just now noticing that she was in her 'monthly stage'. "It's to help me grow up! Why?" she leaned in and buried her head under his neck. She was trying to be sexy, hoping Theo would like her, "You like?"
"Wait--ergh--y
ou're still 11?!" Theo protested, trying to find her ribs under all that boob to push her off him.
Lakutos walked in, the spell hiding his reptilian form dispersing as he walked through the doors. He froze and dropped his coffee as he saw Theo pawing up some little cutie. "Whoah man....the least you could do was take it in the back..."
"Look--it's not wot it looks like!" Theo yelled frantically. "She jumped me!" He gave her a good shove.
Diji was pushed back off of Theo's knees and hard onto her butt, "Oof!" She slid onto her own knees with her hands pushed onto the ground, between her thighs. Her tail flickered back and forth behind her. The leaf dress that the young Diji was wearing now fitted as a short skirt and her top was severely stretched out from her new acquired bust. She kept a wide smile, despite her sore bum.
"Yeah sure....jeez man." Lakutos said as he walked to his cubicle and wiped the coffee off his pantleg. He looked over at Theo and raised an eyebrow. "Well where's the brat you were supposed to be watchin?"
Theo scrambled to his hooves and ran behind Lakutos, using his reptilian shoulders as a shield. He pointed past one of his ears. "She's right there! She spontaneously sprouted tits and an ass overnight!"
A pile of papers and files flopped to the ground and scattered across the floor. "What in Hizmahna is going on here?" Talisman at this time took the opertunity to trott across the floor and pounce into the center of Diji's ampel busome. She immediatly set into rupping her face across Diji's plump womanhood. "Oh no." Nessa proclaimed. "Great, your a Cycliarian aren't you? Your going to devope like this once a month aren't you? Aren't you?!"
"Erm..." Diji muttered, a little shocked by the shouting from Nessa. She pet the cat kindly as it purred against her chest. "I can't help it." she shrugged her shoulders.
"See? See?!" Theo proclaimed in Lakutos' ear, as if that proved he wasn't a total pervert. "Wait, what?" He asked Nessa.
"She's a Cycliarain." Nessa explained. "Their kind are scattered all throughout the veils. Even different species have the trait. But she'll develop into a full fledged woman for a few days every month. It would probably be best if she stayed away from the men folk once the sun goes down."
"Awww Why? I didn't do anything wrong!" Diji stood up straight, her chest following a moment later. Her leaf skirt barely covered the important areas. She lifted her leg a little and itched her calf with her toe on the opposite bare foot.
"Oh frell." Nessa said looking away immediatly "OMOM!" She proclaimed and a giant, Hawaiian, flower print garnment covered Diji from head to toe. It concealed those important parts that where on the verge of revealing themselves. "It's not because you've done anything wrong. It's just while your in this state. When you return to normal you'll have the same privilages as you do now. BUt for your own safety and the male's sanity, stay away from them at night."
"I'm not familiar with your sorcery, but isn't this a little...ugly?" Diji asked, lifting the bottom up a little. She didn't like the feeling at all, it was restricting and didn't breathe as well.
"At night?" Theo asked warily. "What happens at night?"
"Nothing does....I don't think." Diji explained, chewing on the collar of the floral gown. Tearing it, she ripped it down the middle. Carelessly, she walked away from it and sat on one of the desks and dug her hand in her sack and pulled out a little brown bag, similar to a leather sock.
"Because..." Nessa noticed the girl ruin her garment "Trihst." She said and a t-shirt appeared on the girl. It was long and baggy. "She'll... get... she um... It's complicated, illegal in 50 states and 1,267,859 different veils. Trist me, stay away from her."
Diji grumbled at the even more hideous shirt. From the leather sock, she pulled out a large blue beetle. It was roughly the size of a fully ripened strawberry and even longer antennae. It twitched in her fingers before she crunch down on it with her teeth, ripping off the head. Placing her lips on the opening, she sucked out the yellowish mush on the insides. "Why are you so mean to me? I can't help that I'm doing this. It usually goes away in a few days." she scowled, taking off the shirt again. "Oh sorry, want some?" she held out another blue beetle to the others. She hoped over to her Theo, "Do you want one?" she asked, looking up at him with bright blue eyes and a cute wagging tail.
"Not anymore," Theo gritted between sharp teeth, hiding behind Lakutos.
Lakutos looked at the beetle and grinned. "I'd love one." He told her,s haking Theo from his shoulders roughly. "Bloody coward."
Nessa watched in horror as Diji chowed down on the centapeed-like critter. She made a reaction as if she would vomit. "I'm not ... ugh, intending to be... excuse me... mean. It's just--... Excuse me!" She dashed off to wretch the contents of her stomach. She returned a moment later, her antenna slightly droopy. "Sorry, what I meant to say was: It's just that I was trying to explain your condition. I want you to be safe." She sighed thinking her rambeling might s well just be bothering the girl more. "Want to go outside?"
Niko had taken to sniffing around the room quite excitedly. The Wolfhound stood about four feet at the shoulder. His nose was fastened to the ground as he sniffed around the Coven Officer's feet. Then sudenly he found what he smelled. He pounced on Diji with excitement and began humping her leg. "NIET!(sp?)" Boris shouted and lunged for his wolfhound. "Niet Niko, NIET
Diji bit off the head of a beetle and handed it to Laku as the dog started to hump her. "Sicko!" she kicked the dog off and jumped away a little. Her attention went back to Nessa, "Why?"
"Gee thanks..." Lakutos mumbled to Diji. He couldn't believe she just took a bite out of the beetle before handing it to him. Not to mention she bit off the head, that was his favorite part afterall. Nevertheless, he popped the beetle into his mouth and indulged on the delicacy.
"Aww...You don't like them?" Diji asked, tilting her head. She bit off another head and spit it out, suckling on the guts on the inside.
Lakutos was disgusted to see her spit out the head. "Actually, I prefer to eat the entire beetle. To my people, the head is the most delicious."
"Oh-" Diji grabbed the head and jumped in front of Lakutos, "Here!" she said happily. Her fangs sparkled as she grinned.
Lakutos blanched. "That's been on the floor...." he pouted. He acted as if the fact that the bug used to crawl around in the dirt didn't bother him as much as the fact that the head was just on the floor.
"You are both disgusting," Theo said, bolting for the kitchen.
"Well if your going to be picky baby about it..." Diji popped the head into her mouth, letting down on it with a loud crunch. She watched Theo leave and frowned, her eyes getting a little watery. Her tail stopped wagging and rested on the floor.Her toes curled under slightly.
"Don't sweat it. He's probably just off to get some grass." Lakutos told her with a grin.
Diji dug in her sack after putting the rest of the beetles back. She took out a handful of grass that was tinted blue. "THEO!" she shouted with a bounce and a jiggle.
"It's tea, thank you," Theo yelled back, then grimaced as his new fangirl shouted his name. His tea, as he called it, was dark green and still boiling as he drank it from a large steel mug. "Ye needn't shout at me, brat, I ken hear you just fine."
"Eat this please." Diji ran over to Theo, ignoring the beetle lady for now. "It will make your breath minty fresh and help your respiratory system! Momma told me." A hand held up the blue grass as the other grabbed onto Theo's wrist that held the mug.
"Will you leave me alone if I do?" Theo asked, not very hopeful. He tried his best not to spill the boiling tea on Diji.
Diji wrapped her arm around Theo's other arm. It was cozily placed between her newly formed, plump bosoms. She took her other hand and dropped the blue grass into the cup and quickly latched onto his arm with both arms now. Diji's tail curled around his. "I know you don't want that, silly."
Theo snarled something feral, shaking her off. "Get off me, you swine! What the hell gives you the right to ruin my tea?" He felt like throwing it in her face, but remembered the last time he got in trouble for giving people second-degree burns. He stalked back into the kitchen and tossed the hissing green sludge into the sink, where it ate at the metal going down the pipes.
Diji stood there, looking isolated and lonely. Her tail fell and rested the puffy end on the tiled floor. She kept her eyes locked on the doorway where Theo walked out, hoping he would come back in. Getting bored, she jumped back in front of Lakutos and Nessa and awaited orders with a happy smile.
Theo snarled to himself, pacing the kitchen. Now he would have to make another batch. "When are we getting rid of her?" He yelled to Nessa as he threw plants together--turnips, lettuce, dandelions, exotic flowers, some hash, rape seeds, some cumin, a watermelon, and some unidentifyable things. He mashed it into a pulp and poured water into an old beaten pan, leaning the tip of his horn into it to bless it as he threw it on the stove to heat up.
Nessa had disapeared again while the girl and lizard feasted upon her less intelegent cousins. She reappeared in the kitchen, her eyes where green and her antenne droopy still.
Boris had taken niko outside to cool down after his short lived romance with Diji's leg. He sat on the steps of the garage explaining to Niko why he couldn't date any of Diji's limbs.
Theo glared at Nessa, impatiently waiting a response. "Well?!" He barked.
Diji took advantage of being alone in the large workroom. She jumped onto a desk and looked curiously at the papers and utensils. Despite being an adult now, she still could crouch, flex and maneuver like a child. Using her toes, she picked up the keyboard by the cord and poked at the buttons with her fingers. Bringing it out of stand-by, it made a welcoming chime sound and lit up. Startled, she grabbed a pen and jammed it into the screen, shattering the glass.
Lakutos cursed as she jammed a pen into his computer monitor."What the hell?!" He asked her, staring at the shattered monitor. "Seriously. What the hell?"
Diji flinched a bit, thinking that Lakutos had left with Boris. She jumped up from the table and grabbed onto the poles that lined the ceiling. "Oh- my apologies." She jumped down from the ceiling and landed like a cat on her feet, glancing at the monitor, "Thought it was some sort of witchcraft."
"It's electricity. The same thing that lights the lights in here." Lakutos explained to her, completely forgetting the fact she was from a jungle veil at first.
"She likes you." Nessa said like an annoying step-sister. She smiled for a moment then got sereious. She put her staff on the counter "Look, it's going to be crazy around here till the ball tells us what to do. I'm sure all our lives are going to be uprooted. And considering her infatuation with you you might want to continue sleeping in the cell. But lock the door."
"Y'think?!" Theo snapped. He ran his fingers through his hair, growling. "Yeah, well--look, how long is it going to take for the ball to get back to us?" He asked, knowing full well it wasn't on a schedule.
"You know full well that it's not on a schedule." Nessa said "We had 79 cases of Fan-fan noodels stuck in the office for six months."
Diji ran to the couch and grabbed Theo's headphones and mp3 player. Smiling at it, she hooked it in a loop on her vine belt.
"You want I should put an anti Jungle Girl spell on that?" Nessa
"Don't bother, she'll just get at it anyway," Theo grumbled, finishing making his tea and pouring it into his mug, knocking it back as soon as it came off the stove.
Her attention span failing once more, Diji saw something that caught her eye. She sprinted and slid to a stop by a wax plant. She sniffed the soil briefly, frowning. Grabbing a leaf, she licked it quicky and stuck her tongue out in disgust.
Lakutos shook his head and couldn't help but chuckle a little bit. "Hey, kid, if you want to eat a real plant, your buddy Theo always has a nice selection."
"Lakutos I swear to Sleipnir I will murder you in your sleep if she gets anywhere near my stash," Theo yelled viciously, hearing him offer his garden to Diji.
Diji pushed the plant pot with her feet and stood up. She clasped her hands and stood on her tippy toes, "Please?" she pleaded, looking in the direction of Theo in the other room. "The bugs didn't fill me up very much." She looked at Lakutos, "Why are there no plants here?"
"If we leave plants out, Theo has a tendancy to eat 'em." Lakutos joked, hoping his friend would hear him.
Theo hissed at him from the kitchen. "I'm going to go harrass the denizens of the internet," He yelled. "If you need me, write your problem down in a letter and mail it to Guam, cause I don't give a damn." He tromped off to his small cubicle and fired up his lame-ass 90's computer.
"Do you want to go outside Diji?" Nessa asked. It just so happened that the break room led out to a patio area where the smokers where supposed to be exiled. Since the building was set on the outskirts of town there was a large field behind the headquarters. There where a few trees along the edges of the building but it was something. That and the Covenant made sure that all surrounding areas of their bases where protected by magic. If Diji where to play outside no one would even see her.
Diji giggled at Theo's little spurt, finding his frustrations enjoyable to watch. "Yes please." she said to Nessa. "By the way, what are your names?" she asked like a well brought up, young lady.
Bowing dramatically, Lakutos introduced himself. "I am called Lakutos Knorr. You may call me Lakutos." He straightened up and waited for her response before going to find a new monitor
"Hello Laku!" Diji smiled brightly, exposing her sharp fangs as she did. "Nice to meet you!" she hugged him briefly, giggling as usual.
Lakutos blanched when she shortened his name and stiffened when she gave him a hug. "Nice to meet you too..."
"And you?" Diji let go of Lakutos and turned to Nessa. She opened her arms and readied her hug.
"I'm Melas Un-Kamun Sa Muraman Nessa, but everyone calles me Nessa." She opened her arms ready and waiting for her hug.
"Hi!" Diji jumped and hugged her new friend. Not meaning to, her boobs squished against the bug lady's own.
Not extecting that Nessa laughed and shrugged it off. She patted the girl on the back. "We don't have much of a back yard but their is a pear tree outside."
Diji noted Nessa's words and ran towards a doorway, leading outside. Without waiting she went out, and scouted the small yard.
Nessa sighed "Trust me, if she were a pupe`, this would not be this easy."
"Well at least she knows what tastes good." Lakutos replied with a grin.
Nessa looked at him with distain, "You're disgusting." She then turned and barged out of the room.
Lakutos shrugged it off and went to the back room to get a new monitor from their supply closet.
Diji ran up in the pear tree like a squirrel. She ripped off some bark and put it into her sack. Seeing the little bugs on the trunk, she leaned in and licked them right up.
Rummaging through the supply closet was not exactly the way Lakutos wanted to spend his day. He pushed a few boxes out of his way and found what he was looking for. They had received some flat screen monitors a couple of months ago, but decided not to hook them up until the old monitors died, that way they wouldn't really need to order new ones for a while longer.
Nessa's fingers tapped her keyboard angerly. She pretended to actualy have work to do, still pissed off at Lakutos.
Theo spent most of his time at work trolling forums and starting firefights on the internet. It wasn't his favorite hobby by a longshot, but he felt it was good for his reputation, so he kept at it.
Boris appeared outside the closet door in which Lakutos was rummaging. His arms where crossed and he looked slightly perturbed. Boris thought of himself as the keeper of the peace between their fair group and with Nessa typing as loudly as she was he'd never get back to his nap.
Diji jumped down from the tree and walked through the yard and near it's boarders. There were no boundaries to her.
Nessa's Staff stood straight up on it's own and began bouncing in place. Nessa was still typing. "If anyone is watching the girl she's trying to get pass the containment spells outside."
"Well," Theo replied, also still typing, "If th'spells're any good, it doesn't matter if ehnyone's watchin' 'er, does it?" He challenged.
Diji soon bounced into an invisible wall and stumbled back a little. She took a step forwards and poked at the bubble. Using her claws, she slashed at it several times and when that didn't work, she tried biting it with her fangs, but to no avail. Diji sat hard on the ground, frustrated and scowling at the bubble wall. "Maybe I can make something..." she started digging in her bag for various ingredients.
Lakutos nearly bumped right into Boris, not having heard him approach. "Excuse me." He said as he headed back to his cubicle, tossing the busted monitor into his trash bin and hooking up the new one.
Boris followed Lakutos and stood at his cubical entrance with his arms crossed.
"Just saying." Nessa said still typing. "It might be a good idea to know where she is seeing as the oracle said she will be the death of us all. Wouldn't want her attacking us in the night and feeding our clowakas to whatever is skittering around in her pouch."
Diji had a bowl of mixed ingredients that she had gathered from her travels. It was an orange paste of some sort. Standing up with the bowl in her hands, she made a large, tribal symbol on it. The symbol was roughly the size of a mini van and made all by her fingers. "Hope this works."
Lakutos turned and looked at Boris after he got the new monitor hooked up. "Can I help you with someone, Boris?" He asked him plainly, as if he didn't know why the big Naissur was there
Boris wasn't one to beat around the bush. "Apologize to Nessa." He said seriously. "You and Theo joke as if it's nothing but you know how she gets when she's upset. Her spells aren't as strong as they should be and I don't like seeing her upset."
Diji looked hard at her symbol on the bubble. Clasping her hands together, she took a breath with her eyes closed. "Tskintki Dempt kaw!" She shouted, leaping towards the painted symbol. Diji planted her hands on it and immediately the paint glowed orange and the bubble popped. Pleased, Diji jumped a little with glee.
Theo's ear twitched. "Aw, hell," He sighed, getting up out of his chair and wandering outside. "Where d'yethink yer goin?" He asked Diji, leaning against the doorsill.
"There was a barrier around this place." Diji said, turning around, "But it's okay, it wasn't powerful at all. So I fixed it!" She smiled big, showing her fangs. Diji was so proud of herself that she used a spell in something other then practice like she normally does. Her eyes flickered past the boundaries, "Wanna go exploring with me?" she asked, eagerly.
"I don't see what she's upset about. All I said was that Diji knows what to eat." Lakutos said plainfully. "And it's true. I don't see why she's so worked up about it."
Theo stared at her for a moment, his expression unreadable. Finally he shrugged and grinned his sharp teeth at her. "Sure. Noth'n else to do today."
Diji jumped, her bosoms following a second after, "Yay!" she clapped once and ran to Theo. She grabbed his wrist with her hands and pulled him out onto the yard. She giggled like a typical little girl who was doped up with sugar. "I have a question. Nessa says that I come from a different world, why am I here? Are you from a different world too? No one really looks the same. Why are you here? Is it impossible to get back?"
At the same moment Diji punctured the forcefield outside Nessa's staff jerked violently bringing her attention away from her work. She stood up sharply, snatched her staff and marched for the kitchen exit. Seeing her forcefield gone her body spazmed with anger. "What in hizmana did you do?!" She groweled.
Boris took Lakutos by the shoulder and took him to the kitchen "See." He said "If you'd not upset her the girl would never have broken the spell. It dosen't matter if you don't see how it upset her. it only matters that now all of her spells are a charms away from being broken. Do you want the basement to flood again? Apoligize."
Diji was holding Theo's wrist tightly. They were both on the edge of the yard. She looked back at the screaming Nessa, "You had a bubble around this place, I fixed it! We are going exploring...wanna come, Ness?" She smiled innocently at her, still holding onto her Theo.
"Fixed it? There was nothing wrong with it!" Nessa shouted. "It's been up for three years!" She sudenly realized that she was yelling at the girl. "I'm sorry... Theo, do you think you can get some burthas root while your out? I'm going to need it to reinforce the barrier again and Niko ate the last of it last week." She reached into her robes and pulled out a necklace and a pocket watch. She gave the watch to theo and the nexklass to diji. "These will conceal your apearances till I get the barrier back up."
"Y'owe me," Theo reminded, taking the watch from her. To Diji, he said, "I'll explain along the way." Snapping the watch on his wrist, his horn and ears vanished, along with his tail and hooves. Now he just looked like a stringy, lanky blonde with a bad attitude.
Diji's appearance changed her red hair to black, suiting her olive skin more. Her tail and elf-like ears vanished aswell. She was once again stuck in human attire, that of which included a jean skirt and a green t-shirt, stretched at the chest of course. "I hate this..." she frowned.
Lakutos groaned as Boris yanked him off after Nessa. He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Like we really have anything to hide anyway? On the outside of the building, we just look like a run down place, with or without the bubble." He shook the massive man's hand from his shoulder. "But I see your point, I suppose i will have to apologize."
"Yeah, well, they hate you more," Theo explained, leading her off to the old dirty streets. "See all these people? They're called humans, and they dominate this planet, in numbers, if not anything else. And they hate other species. Put them in cages, or in specially denominated areas, do tests on them they think are too dangerous to risk one of their many. So if you wandered out here with yer charmin' claws and fangs, they'd do the same to you."
"REALLY?" Diji smiled, leaning against his arm like a girlfriend would, "You think they are charming?" she batted her eyes exaggeratedly. She looked around at the humans a little, they all looked so...fat and ugly. Some of the male's attention went to Diji herself and her lovely figure. Diji didn't notice, her eyes going back to her Theo. "What about your story? Why are you here? Can you not go home? Why am I here?" When she looked up at him, she imagined the unicorn Theo, not this blond imposter.
Theo was a bit annoyed to see that reaction, but continued, enjoying the envious looks of the humans. "I'm here as an ambassador from my Veil. I can physically go home if I really need to, but I can't because I have a duty to fulfill here." He glanced at her. "You are here because of some terrible fluke in the space/time continuum, and we're putting you back as soon as we can," he said dourly.
"Ohhh so your like a prince or chief...or something like that. Can I visit your veil?" Diji asked with high hopes, "I can meet your mom and dad. Do you have any pets? I would like to see them too." She thought for a moment, "You can come see my veil too! I can show you all the great spots to hunt and swim." Though no one could see it, her tail was wagging from side to side like a happy puppy.
"No," Theo said forcefully, "crossing Veils is never a good idea. It's bad enough that you're here."
"Oh-well.." Diji's eyes shifted down to the concrete, then back up to his, "How do you know I'm not a princess in my veil." She smirked devilishly. Diji's arm wrapped around his.
"I s'pose I don't," Theo replied, "But it doesn't seem likely your royalty knows as little of the Veils as you do."
"Mere details." Diji shrugged off, playing along with her little lie. A business man whistled at Diji as he passed her by, "Huh?" she asked, looking back at the man. "What is with these human-folk?"
"They want to mate with you, but they don't want to bear the responsibility of helping raise your offspring," Theo said plainly.
"What?! How dare they?" Diji released Theo and whipped around to face the man walking away that whistled at her. She pulled out a dagger from who knows were and bent her legs, about to spring out. "I'll make sure that creature never lays eyes on me again."
Theo reached out and snatched her by the ear. "Nope," He said resolutely, dragging her away at a quickened pace.
Diji pounced as Theo grabbed her ear, which made it hurt even more. "Ack-! "Let go, that hurts!"
"They've got enough stabbings in this damn city without you interfering," Theo said grimly, still dragging her behind him. "Put the knife away and I might let go."
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Nessa whipped around and marched into the kitchen without acknoweledging Lakutos. Her hair took an extra second or two to react to her movement due to it's ungodly length.
Lakutos turned and moved after Nessa, not entirely wanting to apologize, but he could see where it would be most beneficial. "Nessa, hold on."
Diji slid her knife away instantly. Her ear felt throbbing with blood rushing to it. Her eyes watered a little on reflex. This was the same ear that Nessa tugged on earlier. "Why does everyone do this?!"
Nessa didn't stop when she heard Lakutos' voice. She just kept going.
Boris looked down at Lakutos and pointed after Nessa.
Theo finally let go a good block later. "It's effective," he said bluntly. "We'll stop doing it when you stop asking for it."
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With a great sigh, Lakutos continued to follow after Nessa, waiting for her to at least stop running away. She obviously wasn't about to listen to him, so he'd have to get her cornered, he assumed.
"I did not ask for it!" Diji said back quickly. Her ear was red and felt as if it was ripped off. She whipped her water eyes. "It's because I still have your music, isn't it?" Diji reached in her pack and pulled out his mp3 player and offered it back, hoping he would be nicer.
Nessa Went to her cubical and shuffeled her files around. Then she checked the stock closet for the materials she'd need to reactivate the shield around the building. She took out what she had and entered the kitchen where she began mixing a potion very aggrivatedly and with a great clanging of pans and chopping of herbs.
Lakutos was getting very annoyed with how she just kept walking away from him. He followed her into the kitchen and locked the door behind him. She wasn't going anywhere now. "Nessa, quit running away already."
"You ask for it by misbehaving!" Theo said, snatching his mp3 player from her and shoving it in a pocket haphazardly. "Come on, then," He said gruffly, walking at a solid clip towards a Harry Potter shop. "I hate this front," He grumbled. "Utterly ridiculous, 'hiding in plain sight' nonsense..."
"What?!" Nessa shouted slamming down a pot of something green she was about to boil. The contents sloshed dramaticaly up into the air and slapped down stickely on the floor. "What? Come to see if my insides are good with sharp cheddar? Suppose I just fashion a spit while I'm in here? Or did you just come to step on me?"
"Yea, I like the normal you better." Diji said honestly. When she noticed the store they were aimed towards, she sprung forwards and glues her eyes on the glass. "OOooo...what's this?" she asked, looking at the displays. "Are we going here?"
Looking at her with clear aggitation on his face, Lakutos angrilly replied with, "I came to apologize, but I can see that you really don't care if I do or not." He looked at her sternly. "You need to face it, I'm a reptile. I eat insects, but it's not like you actually come from the ones on this planet. And it really isn't like I'm about to go and try and eat you. From what I can tell, you'd probably be sour."
Nessa looked at him as if she couldn't believe that he'd said that. "AAAARRRGGHHAAA!" She shouted and threw the pot across the kitchen. "MAKE THE POTION YOURSELF!" She shouted. "And when Covenant HQ finds out we've been operating without a 6532 standard containment field I'll be taking three years off this exoskeleton laying on a beach in Ocixem!" She stormed out of the kitchen. Her staff zoomed after her of it's own will.
Lakutos grumbled and bent down, picking up the pot and placing it back on the stove. "Gah....freakin sanctimonious insectoid..."
The Oracle appeared in the door way holding Dolly over her apron. "She will kill us all." She warned like a creepy thing from a horror movie. "The jungle girl will be the end of us."
"With all due respect, Oracle. I do not see how that is possible." Lakutos told her calmly. "She's only a girl of 11." He stooped to wiped up the mess left on the floor, looking at the small girl that the Oracle appeared to be. "If you have more information on how she'll be the end of us, I'd be happy to hear it, but I don't think you'd share it anyway, would you?"
"Aren't you an Inspector Lakutos?" The Oracle "I could tell you but where would the fun be in that?"
Theo sighed painfully. "Yes, we're going in here." He laboriously pushed open the glass door. It jingled his arrival, and he gestured for her to follow.
Diji sped inside after him and look goo-goo eyed at the store products. "Ohh...look!" She grabbed a few expensive, shiny objects carelessly. Her tail wagged, almost knocking over another glass figure. "Oopsy-daisy!" she smiled.
"HEY!" Theo yelled, pointing an accusing finger at Diji. "Don't touch ANYTHING. We're only in here for a minute so I can pick up a few things."
Diji put the items in her hands down right away. She put her hands behind her back and smiled inconspicuously. After a moment, Diji caught up to Theo and wrapped an arm around his. She was holding his arm in a childlike manner, despite what onlookers would think. "What do you have to pick up, Thee-thee?"
"My name is Theo," He enunciated, touchy about being given a cute nickname. He glared at her, lifting his arm and, finding it most securely in her grip, sighed resigningly. "Burthas root, for Nessa's spell that she worked very hard on that you broke." He walked up to the cashier and asked, "Do you have any chocolate frogs left? I keep buying them for my daughter and they keep dying within a week," He said, and before he could respond, decided, "I think I'll just peek back there and see what you've been feeding these poor creatures," brushing past him. He stepped aside obligingly, protesting dispassionately, "Oh, sir, you can't go back there," and followed him. Theo trailed Diji behind him, closing the door in the employee's face and sliding a shipping crate aside, showing the entrance to the real magic shop underneath. "She'd sell sea shells by the seashore, but the shipments stopped coming, so she doesn't anymore," He called down the steps.
"And ain't that a damn shame?" A creaky voice shouted back from the bottom. "Come on, then, you're lettin' in the draft."
He looked at Diji and said again, "Do -not- touch -anything-," and lead her downstairs.
Daughter?" thought Diji before she realized that it was just a trick to slip in the back of the shop. "I promise that I'll be really good!" she smiled before scratching her chest a little, "But don't you think it's a little...well...unauthentic to not find your own spell ingredients? Not only that, but she is making you do it? Momma tells me that spells are more powerful if you find the ingredients on your own. Her bubble spell was only a 1st level."
"Magic works a little different here," Theo explained. "It might be inauthentic in a traditional sense, but we can't really afford to send Nessa out of the city to scavenge for spell components every time she runs out." He reached into a shelf and pulled out a tangle of roots, thin and long, that squirmed in his hand and wrapped around his arm.
"What will the shopkeeper want in exchange for those items?" Diji asked, very interested in the writhing roots.
"I'm not looking for fun right now, Oracle." Lakutos told her with a little smirk.
"...It depends," Theo said uneasily. "Sometimes we get lucky and it's the currency of this Veil. Other times, it's hard to predict. I don't really like coming here for that reason but they can get away with it because these places are hard to find on this planet."
"Ooohh..." Diji replied, poking at the attached root to Theo's arm. Her ears perked as it writhed and twisted more. Her attention span shifted again. "So how come I can't go to your veil? I bet it's pretty! Are there a lot of others like you?"
"The girl is the key Lakutos." The Oracle said "Understand the girl and you can fix the problem."
"I understand that she is the problem. You've already accomplished that part." Lakutos told her with a stern voice.
"It's very beautiful there, actually," Theo told her after a moment. "Yes, we are the dominant species on my Veil, along with another--but they are uninterested in interveil politics, and all the better for it." He raised his arm and smirked, watching as the root tried to worm down his forearm. "I'm an ambassador of my people--on this veil, they call us unicorns." He shuffled through the shelves some more, finding other roots and strange fruits and taking a vial of grey liquid.
"You sure I can't visit at least once? What if I promise to be really good?" Diji asked, trying to butter up. She took notice of the store clerk giving her leering eyes.
"Tell you what," Theo said, smirking. "When I get to go home, you can come visit."
"Yes!" Diji jumped and circled around Theo quickly, minding the delicate items around them. "Thank you! I'll be good and listen, I promise!" She settled down and tried to act her age, well...the age she looked anyhow. "When are you going home?"
Theo smirked. "Ambassadors never go home." He went up to the store clerk, scraping the root off his arm and setting the others on the table. "How much?" He asked.
The clerk looked at the items, taking out an old book and looking up the prices. "$250.58's your total," He said, after a quick calculation in his head.
Grumbling, the unicorn fished out his wallet and put down the amount, exactly, in cash. "Go ahead, count it, make sure," He said. The clerk shook his head, stashing it away without looking at it.
"Have a good day, Theo," the clerk said blithely.
"Come on, then," Theo said to Diji, leading her out of the store.
Diji pulled her shirt down with a tug, adjusting it. "Can I take Nessa's spell off yet?" she hoped, grabbing onto Theo's arm again as the two walked back.
"Are we back at base yet?" Theo asked patiently, weaving in between the denizens of the city.
Diji sunk her head between her shoulders and pouted, "No." Her lips puckered and her nose scrunched, unhappy with her predicament.
"Then no, we can't take off Nessa's spell." Theo looked around. "But would you rather stay cooped up at the base without the spell, or wander the city at your leisure with it?"
"Yea yea...I know..." Diji huffed, keeping up with Theo. She kept her pout, "This is just too itchy."
"Did you know that at least half of magic is perception?" Theo said. "All it is is an illusion. But it appears to your senses like a type of fabric that you know irritates your skin, so you fill in the blank area that should say it's itchy yourself. So...it's your own damn fault," He concluded.
"Well when you say it like that, it seems obvious." Diji explained as they wandered down the sidewalk. She switched sides with Theo, now she was closer to the road then he was. As they walked, Diji leaned over and glanced quickly into the parked cars. One had gone off earlier when she was being chased.
"Why are you looking to me for answers?" The Oracle asked "The one you should be talking to is Nessa. She holds the key to undoing our destruction."
"They're some kind of transportation device," Theo explained, not having much experience with them himself.
"I don't like them." Diji said quickly and plainly. She could barely stand to look at them for a long time. The cold steel of the car bodies made her uncomfortable. "Wanna play a game when we get back?" Her eyes lit up, staring into his.
"D'pends on what the game is," Theo said warily.
Diji puckered her lips and scratched her chin, "Well that too depends, what do you like to do for fun?"
"I am looking to you, because for starters Nessa refuses to speak to me simply because of the way that I eat." Lakutos. stated calmly, "Not to mention that we all know that you know far more than you wish to share."
The Oracle sighed and vanished. He'd have to get threw to Nessa or doom them all.
"...For fun?" Theo frowned, looking at her like the question was absurd. "You're a strange girl."
"Maybe a little- but really, what do you like to do for fun?" Diji repeated, wanting an answer. "We have a large waterfall where I live. It's the only one of it's kind for a long ways. It's fun to jump down and splash into the lake under it."
"Running," Theo finally said, and seemed contented to say no more on the subject.
Diji held his wrist tightly and jolted ahead, pulling him at the wrist, "Well come on then! Let's run!" She was anxiously ready to play with him.
Theo grinned and cocked an eyebrow. "I don't think you could keep up with me," He said confidently.
"I can try!" Diji encouraged, pulling at his arm a bit more. "Come on!" she let go and booked it towards the headquarters. They were out of the city by now and the destination was already in sight.
Lakutos grumbled as the Oracle did her little vanishing trick. He shook his head and went after Nessa yet again. He would make her listen to him, even if it meant he'd have to start eating her to do it.
Elswhere in the office Nessa Could be heard rummaging threw something angrily.
Lakutos walked back into the office on a mission to find Nessa and confront her about this stupid issue of her's. He found her rummaging around and walked right up to her. "Nessa, you've never gotten this upset over my eating habits before. Have you thought that maybe, just maybe there is soemthing more going on here?"
Nessa Whipped around her hair reacting a moment later as usual. "What?" She shouted "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
"Remember The Oracle said that this kid will be the death of us." Lakutos Said "Maybe her being here is effecting you or something."
"... Waaaaait a minute." Nessa seemed to gradually calm down. "Come with me!" She ran to the office where there was a very large bookshelf of unimaginable knowledge. "It's here I know it is..." She rummaged threw the books franticaly. "THere!" She snatched a book from the shelf threw it on the desk and began rifeling threw the pages. "Here!" She said pointing at a poage triumphantly. "OK It's October right? Halloween is just a few weeks away. WE all know about the evil equinox and how the changing of the moon can beckon spirits threw the veils and all that jazz. Well Diji's little monthly spell thing is tied into that. All magic. I think She's exibiting some kind of pharamone which makes the other females in her vicinity to go crazy, seem unapealing to any males. She's in heat and it's fucking with my antena!" Nessa threw boith hands in the air "SCORE ME!"
Theo started running shortly after she did, falling into an easy lope at her side. His much longer legs seemed to give him an advantage here, but he stayed next to her.
Despite her size and age, Diji was very quick, but as fast as Theo, but she kept her own fairly well. Her eyes went to him, then to her destination. She tried her best and sped up.
Theo flashed a grin and suddenly set on a burst of speed, beating her to headquarters by an embarrassing stretch. He walked back and forth, waiting for Diji to arrive, and didn't look at all perturbed by the race.
Diji finally made it to the door of the HQ where Theo was. She leaned against the side of the building, panting for air. Her neck and forehead were dripping with perspiration. "Ok.....you win..." she said between pants. She dropped to her knees and shifted to her butt to rest for a second.
"I told you," Theo said smugly, sticking his hands in his pockets, the bag with his ingredients hanging there from his pocket. "Maybe when you're as old as you look we can try again."
"I would be better if I looked how old I am." Diji came back, looking down at herself. "I have too much weight here-" she grabbed her butt, "...and here." She grabbed her breasts and let go. They bounced a little afterward, "Your so skinny, you don't have to carry all of this." She said, trying to think of any other excuses.
"First of all, don't grope yourself in front of other people," Theo said severely. "Second of all, I doubt it." He smirked and entered the building, taking off the watch and tossing it somewhere. "We're back," He announced to the general public.
Diji put her hands behind her back and smiled, "Sorry." She entered behind Theo and took her necklace off as well. Diji was happy to see her tail again. "Hello hello!" she shouted.
Lakutos looked at her curiously. He wasn't entirely sure what she was getting on about really. He wasn't as much of a detective that the Oracle thought he was. He was more warrior than detective, he was intending on simply being the guy who sliced and diced whatever kinds of monsters emerged from the veils.
"Don't you get it?" Nessa asked as if he where stupid. "She's gonna drive me crazy and I'm going to kill you all if we don't find out a way to stop her from changing."
"Who?" Diji asked, tilting her head to the side. "Where is she?!" she asked frantically, wanting to attack anything bothering her new friends.
"YOU ya retarded little shit!" Nessa blurted but she caught herself before she allowed the pharamones to get to her by curling in her antenna. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! I didn't mean that. Um... I can't explaine it to her!"
"Allow me." Boris said appearing out of no where as the large Naissur did so often. He knelt down to Diji and with his bright eyes and bushey face said sweetly "Little mishka (god don't let pnel kill me) you ave glaced ovice vith a dangerous gif't. You shouldn't git near Nessa for a few dass. She needs to fint correct magjic to solve a completely unrelated problem." He smiled hoping she got it.
Diji's ears bent down when she got yelled at. She then stared at Boris as he spoke. It took a second for her to understand what the hell he just said. "Why is she mad?" she asked plainly.
Lakutos looked at Diji with a grin, figuring he'd take the fall for this one. Nessa could repay him later. "She's mad because she caught me eating my lunch. A couple of her distant relatives I guess."
"Well why is she made at me--" Diji paused, "Oh...the bugs?" She reached and dug in her bag, "Here. You can have some." Bringing the little brown sack of tropical beetles and handing it to her. "You could've just asked. Here, I can even break their necks if you want." She took out a thick, juicy blue beetle and placed her fingers on the head, about to rip it off.
AS Diji began her torterous display the small shells on Nessa's back popped open. Without hesitation her small glitter beetle wings flapped quickly and she hovered a foot or soo off the floor. With a loud CRACK she disapeared.
"She iz not mad at you little vone." Borris reassured Diji. "She just haz a weak stomach. Perhaps it iz good idea to not kill bugs around her. You see Nessa iz a bug, she dose not like seeing her kin eaten. It iz not you just her emotions."
"But how does she do magic without insects?" Diji asked. She took the beetle and snapped it's neck. It's legs were twitching a little when she sucked out the smiley innards. After swallowing, she popped the shell in her mouth and crunched on it loudly like a ice.
"There are different ways to use magic." Lakutos told Diji plainly. He had never heard of using insects in magic before.
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