[[My apologies to all involved in this next scene. Please inform all involved for me, as I...ah...have to be elsewhere. Ya, that's it. *runs for the nearest exit, thinking of the best hiding spot he can find*
Scene Twelve
~Wait a minute, Mr. Postman...I need a dictionary~
Moogie walks alone through a giant mushroom forest. A dark mysterious forest, filled with anomalous unidentifiable noises. Sinister shadows conceal their secrets with tightly clenched jaws. It is the manner of place that one could vanish into, and never be found...or missed. The breed of place only nightmares give rampant hallucination to. All alone, solitary, where someone...or something... could be right behind you, skulking, stalking, hovering maliciously with venom dripping fangs, the hair raising on the back of ones neck, chills crawling down the spine, and you would...
Moogie, looking quickly over her shoulder- "Enough! That isn't funny anymore. Now you're just being mean."
The creaking of nameless objects in an unnatural deviant breeze is her only answer. The wind whispers across her fur, the final caress before the predator's ever so silent strike. It feels as if the is forest closing in, closer and closer, though nothing really moves in the surrounding gloom. Paranoia sets in... skittering along the recesses of the mind, giving birth to countless imagined noises wafting from the rising, obscuring mist...or are they real? Was that the sound of a footstep? The whisper of steel on leather? The heart beats faster, blood pounding in ears. Only the...
Moogie, nervously watching the dark, eyes flicking from here to there, near panic- "Stop, already! We get your point. You don't have to..."
"BOO!"
Moogie- *shrieks* falling on her tail, not her face for once.
"Oh sorry. Did I scare you?"
This, being a silly question to ask, goes without answer, as it is plain to see that... well, I'll just make it easy for you. Have you ever seen a cat turn a corner and end up face to face with a strange, possibly rabid dog? That is how Moogie looks at this moment. And in no shape to answer silly questions with obvious answers.
Moogie, holding her paws over her pounding heart.- "YES! You did!"
Or I could be wrong.
"I said I was sorry."
The voice seems to belong to a young enki woman... a very abashed Fenki at that. She has grayish fur, the tips around her head are dyed red.
Moogie- "Karyuu? Is that you?"
Karyuu- "Uh-huh."
Moogie pouncehugs.
Moogie- "FINALLY! A female character actually played by a female! I'm so happy!"
Karyuu, grunting- "Uh... Moogie? You need to get a grip... and not on me... you're strangling me..."
Moogie lets go- "Sorry. But I just don't see how he can get me into trouble this time."
A long silent pause follows. There is the sense of an evil grin in the air. A massively malevolent smile, driven from the edges of dark madness...
Moogie- "Oh no, you better NOT! Karyuu will KILL you."
Karyuu looks at Moogie with utter confusion. Moogie grinds her teeth, most likely preparing herself for the worst.
Moogie- "You had better believe it."
Despite Moogie's fears, nothing of that sort is going to happen, as Karyuu would kill me. Moogie heaves a sigh of relief.
Moogie- "So what are you doing out here?"
Karyuu- "Well...as to that...it's a little embarrassing."
Moogie- "Figures. You might as well tell me. I'm sure it's going to come out anyways before this scene is done."
Karyuu, digging her paw in the ground embarrassedly- "Well...if you won't tell anyone...we're starting a boy band."
Moogie, having just heard the last thing she ever expected- "Boy band!? But you're a...wait, we?"
Karyuu- "Ya. Hey guys! We have an audience! Come on out!"
At her call, a group of almost all actual 'boys' comes out of hiding, sheepish looks on faces all. Karyuu looks on them with pride.
Karyuu- "Let me introduce Efflixi..."
Efflixi bows.
- "..Demarthl..."
The Fenki bows. Moogie frowns.
Moogie, interrupting- "Didn't you already have a part?"
Demarthl- "No...that was Zayek. She wouldn't want to be in a guy's band. She prefers to hang with the girls."
Moogie, ignoring the innuendo- "How can this be a 'boy band' when half of you are female?"
Elf, actually male- "Thy many pardons, m'lady, but that be'ith a mere technicality. We be'ith members of an enlightened society, and not need'ith to be precluded by the winsome fancies of gender separation."
Karyuu (I'm sure some of you know what's coming)- "Hush Drak. You know no one understands you when you talk like that."
Moogie- "Draklar?!"
Oh, yes. You knew I couldn?t leave him out of this. Just when you think he's out, someone drags him back in. 'sides, this'll teach him for leaving.
Draklar- "As true as the Azure Sun casting its blessed rays upon us, so true be'ith your words of greeting."
Karyuu- "I said stop it."
Draklar bows in a somehow superior, humble acquiescence.
Moogie- "That's Drak all right. Who's that hiding in the shadows?"
Indeed, a large form hides in the shadows. How Moogie spotted it before it was mentioned is unknown.
Moogie- "I have good eyes. Come on out. We all know you're there. You might as well be as embarrassed as the rest of us."
The shadow comes out at Moogie's kind, thoughtful beckoning. Once in the light, it becomes a large Ynwnn, and another actual male. He tries to keep his face hidden.
Efflixi- "Oh come on. All Ynwnns have the same texture. It's not like anyone is going to recognize you, Acraig."
Acraig, standing straight with as much dignity as he can manage, which happens to be quite a bit- "Thank you Fes. I don't know how we would get along without your imperturbable wisdom."
Draklar- "Thow hast dealt him a fearsome scorching, my good sir Acraig."
Everyone- "Knock it off!"
Karyuu- "For those of you who don't speak Drak, I believe he said 'BURN!'."
Draklar- "Indeed, twas..."
Moogie- "Zip it. I can't believe you put Draklar, two girls, though one is played by a guy, and a programmer in a Boy band. What were you thinking? Are you insane?"
That is what I will plead. Now, while Moogie seemed to be arguing with herself, the band gets the most brilliant idea. Moogie holds her breath.
Karyuu- "Hey, I just got the most brilliant idea! The main requirement for joining our boy band is having a high post count."
Moogie- "Well it must have been something, since it obviously wasn't being a boy. Wait. Where are you going with this?"
Karyuu- "Weeeeeell, since that is the reason...and all of us have high post counts?but no one has a higher count than??
Moogie- "Oh no you don?t!"
Acraig, in a deep noble voice- "Come now, Moogie. With you as our lead, we shall soar to greatness and honor beyond compare. Think on it as a duty."
Moogie- "I am trying not to think on it at all!"
Draklar- "You must choose'ith..."
Everyone- "Can it, Drak!" or similar phrases, with or without helpful explicatives (swear words, for you that didn't know).
Efflixi- "Moogie, you just have to be in 'The Postmen'."
Moogie- "I knew it. I just freaking knew it. If I see one more bad pun..."
Karyuu- "We need you Moogs. It's all we need to go public."
Moogie- "No you don't! You all need mental help is what you need. I am so out of here."
The Postmen all look at each other...and come to a unanimous decision"
Draklar- "Grab'ith her!"
Moogie screams, and starts running...
Meanwhile, in that other part of the Labyrinth that I mentioned in the last scene, an odd meeting is about to take place...but since this post is already more than three pages long in Word, I think it best to give your weary eyes a rest.
