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Rhino opened his eyes to see not the ranch that he had been on with Penny, Bolt, and Mittens, but to see people walking, and buying. Luckily, he was in his hamster ball, and on the edge of the road, so he was able to avoid getting stepped on. As he looked around, he was unable to see any of his friends! The last thing he remembered was Dr. Calico showing up with these little black things. Rhino had been unable to defend himself very well though, and now, he was in this strange new place.
Well, no point in just sitting here! Let's go find my friends! he thought. So, he stood up in his hamster ball and started off, down the road, hoping to find his friends!
Ciraph laid off to the side of the road, comletely out of the way, using his invisibility. Avoid drawing attention to himself. He just laid there watching the small, young humans. They were such an interesting people. They lived so quickly too. But, they were difficult to keep down, he had to admit. They overcame hardships and obstacles almost like they were nothing sometimes, and this was the strength of humans.
As he pondered this, he noticed something quite small rolling along, passing right by him.
Curious, he reached his one hand out and stopped the small ball from rolling, picking it up and holding it to his eye, his invisibility enveloping it, as well, so that it wouldn't be seen floating in midair.
He saw a small animal inside the ball, what looked like an animal that many humans kept as a pet.
"Why hello there, small one," he said pleasantly to the little creature, "why are you inside this ball? And, please, do not be afraid. I promise on Bourdis' scales I shall not harm you."
He gave the little creature a small, reassuring dragonic smile.
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Last Edit: Jul 21, 2009 16:25:22 GMT -4 by sumdood
As Rhino had been rolling down the road, he suddenly was stopped by something, and then all of a sudden a huge figure appeared in front of him! It was a dragon!
Oh my gosh! This is SO TOTALLY AWESOME!! he thought. Rhino had always wanted to meet a dragon! He had always known that they existed! And here was his proof! Now he could prove Mittens wrong! Wait, no I can't...Because I don't know where Mittens is... he sadly thought.
"Where hello there, small one, why are you inside this ball? And, please, do not be afraid. I promise on Bourdis' scales I shall not harm you."
As this huge dragon said this, Rhino slowly opened up his hamster ball, laying the piece of plastic that came off to reveal an opening, on this dragon's paw.
"I'm in my hamsterball! It allows me to get around quicker! Umm, have you seen my friends? I have this friend that was an actor, and he used to think he had super powers, he is a little white dog. And there is another friend of mine that is a black cat, and well, she isn't super, but she is a really good friend, and I seem to have lost them. I can't find them anywhere!"
As it were, Rhino had started talking really, really fast, like he normally does when he gets excited about something, so the dragon might not have understood all of what Rhino had said. Hopefully he did though!
Ciraph watched the little hamster, a grin spreading across his face as the small one chittered on about his friends. It was rather difficult to make out everything he had said, but Ciraph had gotten the gist of what he was asking.
"I am sorry little one," he said,"but I have seen neither a cat nor a white dog recently. Not for a long time, now that I think about it. But, I would be more than willing to help you look for them. Where did you see them last?"
He smiled, setting the little one and his hamsterball on the ground right in front of him, still keeping his small field of invisibility around them both.
A little red imp of a purple hue was waddling down the road. His movement looked so strange, it appeared as though he would tip over due to his pudgy appearance. Pain of the Underworld has arrived! But he's not seeking any lost souls of the unfortunate. You see, Pain here has just recently started another rare instance of a "vacation". So, for this one day atleast, he is able to relax and do any kind of thing he wants to, hopefully without Hades looking over his shoulder. The sheer thought of his boss, Hades, sent a chill up the fat imp's spine while he waddled. Still, this is supposed to be a "good time". As long as Hercules wasn't around.
Pain wondered what to do .... Isn't Orpheus having another concert today? The imp was lost in his thoughts, when all of a sudden, "Ooof!" he bumped into something BIG and ... un-seeable ... "Hey! Who's there?!" The fat imp's eyeballs glared over at where the thing should be. "You some kinda immortal? Ruuube."
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As the dragon talked, he said two very important things to Rhino. The first being somewhat sad, because he hadn't seen Bolt or Mittens. The second a very exciting thing! He said that he would help Rhino find them! That was....totally awesome!! Rhino would have a dragon helping him! Oh my gosh! This is SOO exciting!!! he thought.
Then, suddenly, a fat, purple-ish/red-ish imp type thing walked into the dragon's leg, Rhino said nothing. Because if the dragon was invisible, it might be for a good reason!
Ciraph quickly reached over and grabbed ahold of the imp and pulled him to the ground face-down so that nobody could hear him talk about the invisible thing he'd just run into.
"Quiet, small one! Do not let the humans know I'm here. I don't want to disturb them. I merely want to watch them!"
At this, ciraph let the imp go, allowing him to rise from the ground.
"And my apologies for the rough treatment. I didn't mean to be so.....rough."
Pain was quite unexpecting, and even more furious, at this invisible thing's sudden move. Plowing his face into the ground?! The little imp's mouth was filled with an entire mound of dirt! He would've probably hit this invisble thing, if it weren't for his dirt-covered eyes .... After much coughing and spewing of dirt from his face, the imp went on to complain. "Aak! I have DIRT on ma tongue, MAN!" The little imp spat out more of the horrible stuff from his mouth at rather large quantities. As the mixture of saliva and dirt began to pile up on the ground infront of himself, Pain stopped himself with a loud cough or two.
"I don't CARE what yer doin'! You do NOT do that kinda stuff ta-" The imp stopped himself with a sudden jerk .... Wait a minute. This invisible ... thing seemed strong ... It would totally suck for Pain to get clobbered by it if he were to fully anger the thing. Even so, the demon did want to know what was going on.
A sly smile inched over his entire face like a snake uncurling itself. He revealed some large, nasty sharp teeth. "Hey ... I'm sorry man! I didn't mean ta yell. Oh what OH what was I thinkin'? Who are ya anyhow? I don't know any immortal who would want ta watch boring mortals." Pain said this in half truth. He didn't care for apologizing to .... well .... anyone really. But he was curious as to why this invisi-thing wanted to watch humans. Pain's underworld job was entirely just watching dumb, dead mortals ... and it was a bore.
As commanded, Rhino sat in the dragon's hand, not saying a word, because well, Rhino had thought that the dragon was talking to him, and not the imp. Suddenly, realizing that he didn't know the dragon's name, he whispered,
"Umm, Mr. Dragon...what is your name? And...what is that red-ish/purple-ish thing down there? And sorry to bother you, but can we leave soon...please, please, please??"
Rhino didn't want to seem impatient or anything, but of course, he was in a hurry to find Bolt, and Mittens, and Penny! So, hoping that the dragon wouldn't get mad, he sat, waiting for an answer.
"I'm not an immortal," Ciraph said in amusement to the little Imp,"No, my small friend, I am a dragon. A member of a dying breed. But, let us not dwell on this. Come, join us! You see quite welcome. You could be helpful to my little friend here."
He smiled and pulled the Imp closer, bringing him inside Ciraph's field of invisibility, revealing himself and Rhino to the little Imp.
"You see, my friend here has lost his friends and I have just agreed to help him look for them."
Then he turned back to Rhino and said with a smile,"Mt name is Ciraph, my little fuzzy friend, and this other small one seems to be some kind of imp, if I'm not mistaken. This is not my first encounter with an Imp. I had to deal with one that was quite the mischief maker just a few short years ago. And, yes, we can leave soon. Just answer my orecuis questions. Where did you see your friends last? How did you get here? Explain the situation and perhaps I can help you."
"Waaaaah ..." Pain's eyes, and mouth, were wide open with both shock and awe. So the invisble creature was actually a "dragon" or whatever those lizard things were called. Even with the beast's warming words, the imp couldn't help but stare in shock, especially when he saw the hamster. It wasn't the huge dragon that scared him ... It was its attitude. Pain has been associated with some monsters--No, ALOT of monsters. And all of them were the same. Giant brutes that would destroy cities.
In a highschool, a two-headed cyclops could be swallowing children. At port, a giant sea snake could be swallowing children. And now, HERE, a dragon was hiding and talking with .... a rat, or hamster, or something in a ball ...
"Hold da phone ... Yer a ... N-n-n-NIIIICE monster?" Pain tried to keep a smile on his face, and even pretended to sound thankful. But really, he felt betrayed. Great. A monster that doesn't destroy things ... what has the Underworld come to? Well ... "Ya know what, NEVERMIND! Hey, rat! Jus' tell us what happened ta yer friends!" Pain doubted a little furry animal could talk, but perhaps if it could, things could start heading to the Underworld's side ...
So, the dragon's name was Cyraph. Well, it certainly sounded like a dragon name! Then, as Cyraph asked his question about where Rhino had seen his friends last, he took a big breath, and started to speak when he heard the imp say,
"Hey, rat! Jus' tell us what happened ta yer friends!"
This thing was mean! Can he not tell I'm a rat? I am clearly not a rat! Because no mere rat would know Bolt or Mittens! Rhino thought.
"Hey I'm not a rat! I'm Rhino, the hamster! And as I was about to say, I saw my friends last when I was at the ranch back home. Then all of a sudden, the Green-Eyed Man from Bolt's show came to the ranch. But, he wasn't his normal self...he had these little black things with yellow eyes. Then, as Mittens ran out the door, and Bolt started barking at the things, and biting them, one attacked me. Of course, I kicked and clawed at it, but I eventually got overwhelmed by like 50 of them! So, even being be-awesome, like I am, I was overwhelmed, and everything went black. Then, I showed up here, and now I'm talking to you! And that is my story. Now, can we find my friends?"
Of course, Rhino had exaggerated a little when he was talking about his fight with the heartless, but nothing else had been a lie, or had been exaggerated.
Ciraph pursed his lips together around his large maw at the hamster's story. So his new little friend had had a brush with the heartles, had he?
Of course, Ciraph could tell his claim of being overwhelmed by fifty of them was an exaggeration. But, that made the fact no less serious.
"I see, my little friend. I know what these black things you speak of are. They are dark creatures, named the Heartless, that are created whenever a person loses their heart. I must warn you now.....it is very possibly that these friends of yours were turned into heartless themselves when they were attacked. You should prepare yourself for this possibility."
Ciraph spoke in a solemn, but kind, voice with the hamster. He seemed to be optimistic enough, but even the most optimistic person can be utterly devastated by the thought that something bad happened to someone they cared about. Ciraph himself had experienced this when the rebels in Dryden had attacked his tribe, devastating their numbers and driving them to the brink of oblivion.
"But, also take heart, my friend. There's also a good chance they are just fine," he said to reassure the hamster, giving him a warm, toothy smile.
Pain listened half heartfully to the story of that talking .... whatever kinda animal it was. He only sparked a tiny bit of interest when he heard of the Heartless attack. "Hmph ... Riiiiiight" Now, he was most definitley associated with those shadow creatures. In fact, he sees the Heartless hanging around the Underworld's hallways every once in a while. Pain doesn't have too much to fear from them though. After all, both he and the Heartless are under Hades' control ... even so, they can be creepier than those slimy souls ...
Sheesh ... look at that gerbil! He just goes on and on! Yadda yadda and more yadda. He's more boring than being God of the Dead ... dead ... DEAD! Another one of his schemes popped into Pain's head. He fiendishly grinned alongside Ciraph's friendly smile.
"Wait a minute! Did'ja say yer friends name were Bolt and Mittens?" The imp fluttered his tiny wings and flew up to Ciraph's hand, where the rat was. "What a coincidence! Yer friends aren't alive! They're dead!" Pain said with glee, but still sounding mournful. "I should know ... their names ... they're in the Underworld's list ... I work there, by the way."
