[LT][OF] Amethia at Arms

[katy]

Aura snickered a bit as she watched Theo get totally smashed. Normally, the same thing would be happening to her, but after so much time spent hanging out with Jay and his Bastard Hippos - you have to step-up your drinking game to the next level.

She snapped out of her nostalgic trance to listen to Jay talk about leaving for the war in the morning. She was glad they were leaving early, in her *fragile* mental state she doubted she could last a trip with these warriors (AKA, the animals with thumbs) without seriously injuring someone. She nodded along with Jay, half-listening and half-telepathically plotting revenge with Mr Buckle. She jumped up when Jay mentioned Kankuro; hopping off the barstool and trodding on Theo in an attempt to hide behind Jay. All with crossing her arms very defensively across her chest.

"You're damn right he was big! And PERVERTED! Where is that animal? I bet he's plotting something in retaliation for me bashing a lute over his head...even though he deserved it; didn't he Mr Buckle?"

[Sobi]

"In your end of what?" asked Theo in a daze. "What implication? Ah don't get it...."

She looked around, everyhing becoming blurry. Blast. The floor had definitely cast something on her. Wasn't it possible for her to enjoy a simple drink without this devilish hex? "Stupid floor sucks me down..........an' den my face goes boom an' Ah see all funny after.................." she mumbled to herself.

"Hey, why did McMuffin Man break everything?" she heard herself ask. At the moment, with all the alcohol coursing through her body, she felt herself being torn into two entities. The body which she was rapidly losing control over, and her mind which was floating somewhere between awareness and delusion. The Neptunite felt as though she was witnessing the events taking place before at the present, from a nother person's eyes. She absolutely hated it, and hated the floor as a result, thinking that it was behind all of this.

"OWIE! Dat hurt......" Theo whimpered as Aura trashed her body further." She glanced at the shiny belt buckle. In her inebriated shape, it looked all too much like candy. Theowas in the mood for candy.

[katy]

Aura looked at Jay, somewhat alarmed. She had been amused by the drunked antics of Theo but now...

"I swear to Lurline, Jay, if she pukes on MY floor I will kill you for giving her a Bastard Hippo. I will personally...oh dear, is see going to pass out?" She gazed at Theo with a mixture of sympathy, horror and curiosity.

[starrevolution]

Lydia leaned on the counter watching the conversation silently with a bored expression on her face that could almost be considerd a smile at least coming from Lydia, it was the best you could probably hope for from her.

"Idiots is the best word to describe them" she added in. "I agree with your idea... Jaynus was it? Avoiding them would be a top notch idea." Lydia said dryly giving a kind of disgusted glance in the direction of the sleeping waarriors.

She was having doubts about the mission because of the warriors but now that they would not be a part of it she had a feeling it might even be easier

[Sobi]

"Watcha starin' at me for?" Theo asked. She grabbed the counter for dear life, and with all her strength heaved herself upwards. Slowly, clumsily, she regained her footing. "A Bastard Hipple.......adt sounds reallly good right about now...like da candy in your hand," Theo smiled crookedly, pointing to Aura's precious Mr. Buckle.

[KuroNeko]

"Theo, for the sake of your own life, stay away from Mr. Buckle and don't puke on the floor." Jay warned with the air of an owner telling his new puppy where to poop.

"It's nice to meet you Lydia." Jay liked that Lydia seemed to have a rather ... sane air to her. Working at a bar -- with Aura -- full of drunken idiots made sanity a somewhat rare thing in his life.

[Sobi]

The thought that Boobie Lady had actually named her candy set Theo into another giggling fit. "But the candy looks so.....pretty," Theo replied as if starstruck by the prized object in the well-endowed (then again, anyone compared to Theo could be called well-endowed) woman's hand. "Ah've only had one drink, too......gimme some credit...............................but if ya gimme another pretty drink Ah can guzzle it down and give it back........on da floor!"

Feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, whether it was from the alcohol, from funny team-mates, or from the fact that she now really had to go the little Neptunite's room, Theo grinned lopsidedly. The fact that she had just enlisted in a war she knew nothing about, didn't even know which side she was on or who she'd be fighting hadn't yet sunk in. It probably wouldn't for another few days. In fact, Theo being Theo, it would probably never sink in at all.

"So ow'z about anuver drink?"

[katy]

Aura looked confused for a moment, trying to figure out what sort of candy she may or may not've been holding...maybe she had drank too many Bastard Hippies - HIPPOS, DAMNIT - afterall. She followed where Theo's finger was pointing and gasped out loud at the insinuation.

"Mr. Buckle is NOT candy! He's a sentinent being with more feelings than half the oafs in this pub!" She yelled, gesturing wildly to the warriors, still knocked out on the floor. She sputtered with anger, doing another quasi-dance with strange hand movements. She fumed for a bit, and then forced herself to turn her attention to Lydia who seemed a bit interesting.

"Hi." She said, sounding a bit forced. "You seem rather sane. What are you doing in *their* company." She glared at Theo for good measure, stroaking her buckle.

[Sobi]

"Oh! you Dance too?" Theo asked, interrupting the conversation without a qualm. "I can dance too! I can Dance too!"

As if by will power alone, Theo managed to move her numbed limbs in a shaky Dance, hardly what anyone could call "dancing". However, she kept at it, inching closer and closer to Boobie Lady, and using her arms for added effect began swaying them ever so casually, every once in a while trying to swipe the candy she now had her eyes on.

"This be gooooood practice," Theo said happily. However, all the movement, was not doing wonders for her stomach. It was with this perseverance that Theo had miraculously even become a Dancer in the first place.

A few muffled groans could be heard, and Theo was quite certain that the source was not her stomach. She turned her eyes to the knocked out warrior, and saw a head popping out from the table. It had just as soon popped up as it had crashed backdown on the cushions of another man's buttocks, however, it meant only one thing: The brawling warriors were stirring.

Naturally this had no effect on Theo, who was still determined to eat that candy. In her mind, she had already decided that the candy would taste like strawberries...........Silver strawberries.................yes..............

[starrevolution]

Seeing the dancer who spoke with belt buckles, the Neptunite who was too insane for her (or anyone else's) good and the rest of the brutes made her hopes of this mission being easy plummet. At least Jay seemed to be comparativly sane.

"Im just here for the saim reason everyone else is - to sign up for this war." Lyida told the dancer, eding away from her and Theo in case loss of sanity was contagiou

[katy]

Aura looked at Theo distrustfully as the drunken dancer inched closer and closer. She was scared for Mr Buckle, and her floors, but mostly she was scared that some other strange person would attack her boobs. Fortunatly, she decided to make a preemptive strike.

"Aha!" She yelled at Theo, spinning out of the way gracefully and shoving Mr Buckle down her shirt. "Ample cleavage wins again!" She did a victory dance; "Watch and learn..."

She was just about to break into her jazzy solo when she noticed some movement from out of the corner of her eye. Her breath hitched when she noticed the stirring warriors. Oh no, this was exactly would she didn't need.

"Jay..." She tried to begin pleasantly, "how strong were you doing the lute spell just before?"

[paulfalcon]

Meanwhile, the night had loomed over the forests nearby Persys, trees over shadowed everything and any unexperienced traveler could end up getting lost if they didn't keep to the main road... which was hard to keep track of to begin with. Harsh clanging noises broke through the calmness of the forest as grunts are heard from something not so human or anything civilized for that matter.

"Hmph... to think that there would be so many monsters out in this area." was all Kankuro thought as he held his sword over his head, blocking a worn-looking Ax that was pushing down against it. The one who wielded the Ax had some similarities of a humanoid but, looked more monsterous. This sort of creature who walks among the forest is what people had come to call a "Troll". The Troll growled at Kankuro in frustration, removing his Ax to take a sideways swing at him. Kankuro hopped back and breathed heavily as he watched his opponent carefully.

"This is going to be a huge pain... at least I seperated myself from the rest... it'd be a hassle trying to protect them." Kankuro thought as he sees the monster come his way again. This time, he didn't back down, stepping in and rushing with his sword. Blood is seen gushing out in the night sky. Kankuro swings his blade, removing the blood from his blade as the now headless Troll's body is seen slumping to the floor behind him. "But, there is no Troll that's going to keep me from reaching Ethenia..."

As Kankuro goes to slip his sword back into it's sheath and his shield on his back, he heard a beastly growl from the bushes. Kankuro turned his head to the origin of the noise and saw three panthers coming from the bushes, looking hungeredly... as if wanting to sink their teeth into Kankuro's fresh meat. Kankuro retrieves his sword and shield as he readies himself like a warrior does, not looking to back down. "This is gonna be one hell of a night..." Kankuro says in a cocky voice before welcoming his new adversaries with the cold, unforgiving sharpness of his blade.

[KuroNeko]

"I swore my spell would hold them off at least until tomorrow ... unless... " his mind searched for an explanation. "Unless... Oh. That'd be it. Since my Lute was channeling the magic energy, the spell was probably weakened when you broke it." He gestured to the broken remains of his precious, precious lute.

"Someone get me some music makers and I can put them back to sleep... Or..." a grin spread across his face that could only be described as devilish. "We can have some fun and knock them all out individually."

[Sobi]

Theo squinted her eyes at Aura's cleavage. She chuckled. Silly Boobie Lady thought that boobies would prevent her from going after candy? Theo, lacking any reasonable size of breasts could not understand the fury of a woman who gets groped by elderly men, who gets hit on by bars....or who were about to have a young 16 year old stuff their hand down their clothes. Which was precisely what Theo proceeded to do.

While the other Dancer was conversing with Jay, Theo kept dancing, closer and closer, inching her way her ever so closer to Aura, and reached down between her blesséd lady parts and grabbed the candy she had been eyeing. It was only when she saw it for what it really was, a mre buckle that she sighed and stuffed it back inside of Aura's shirt.

"That's not candy...... It's a LIE" Theo exclaimed, completely ignoring the fact that Aura had indeed, told her that it wasn't candy. She slid down, her back against the counter, keeping her knees up and rested her head, waiting for the world to stop spinning. Somehow, the Bastard Hippo, the dancing and Aura's screaming seemed to be upsetting her innards further and further.

A part of her still wished she was back at home, where her mother would sit beside her bed whenever she would feel ill, and rub her back. It was only when she remembered that her Mother had created an evil pact with her Father to either sell her to be a man slave, or to make her work hard and be a moey slave, that she remembered why she wasn't at home, and why she souldn't feel that Motherly touch anymore. Curse the evil plots of parents.

She heard Jay's words as an echo in her head. She lifted her head from her knees and adjusted her eyesite on the Ascherite. Knocking people out? It could be fun....

[KuroNeko]

Jaynus's whip was tightly entangled around the leg of a chair, and he casually swung it over the heads of the stirring warriors with just enough strength to knock them back into unconciousness without breaking the chair. Sure he had been brought up not to hate people without good reason, but hurting them... was en entirely different matter.