RubyEclipse
03-26-2006, 11:34 PM
It's been a while since I wrote anything, so I figured I'd post this for you guys to see first before it went anywhere else. Feedback, as always, is awesome. :)
NiGHTS and Fuji!: Homebound
The door shut slowly, locking in place as Yuri let go of the handle and turned to look at her new house in Pioneer 2's residential area. She looked at the clock, noticed the time, and began counting down.
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,..."
A bit softer now, as if she was straining to hear something:
"..4, ..3, ... 2, ... 1...."
KABOOM!
"Yep, right on time," she thought to herself as she smiled. NiGHTS was cooking again tonight.
A yell came from inside the kitchen:
"NO!! EGGS DO NOT EXPLODE!! H-HOW!? Argggh!!!"
She walked past the living room where their three chao were busy playing some online RPG, and entered the kitchen.
Woah. That was pretty bad, after all.
NiGHTS turned and smiled, a once white cooking apron now stained with yellow egg all over it. A bit of yolk dripped down from his hat onto the floor, and he stood there, frozen, and just smiled.
"Uh... guh... Heya, Yuri..." he said, not moving his hand from the frozen-wave-position.
"Oh dear.. what did you do this time?"
"Well, you know that Crazy-French chef dude? I tried one of his recipies, and uh... hm. It didn't really work out." He shrugged.
"Wait.. you mean the show Psychochef!?"
"Um, yeah, that one. With the flamethrower-grill-thing, that was awesome!"
"They took him off the air three years ago for grillhicular manslaughter, NiGHTS."
"Grillhicular? Is that like vehicular or something?"
"I dunno, I just made it up. But he burned 12 audience members to death with one of them! He was CRAZY!"
"Oh, is that so? Heh, well, uh.." He rubbed his hand against the back of his head, turning around to put up the ingredients quickly. "I thought the whole calling for "3 tablespoons nitroglycerine" was a bit odd, but hey, he was on TV, so I figured it had to be right!"
Yuri sighed, and began preparing the usual - Honey BBQ Rappy wings. NiGHTS had eaten these things ever since the first book, and they somehow still seemed to work. Whatever, she thought, it certainly beats the alternative: Delbiter Delights.
Meanwhile, in the other room...
"Dude, my BKB so owns your TJ SWORD!!! HAH, EAT IT NOOB!!!"
"SHUT UP, HENRY! JUST BECAUSE YOU PLAY WITH DUPES DOESN'T MEAN YOU OWN!!"
"Oh, but it DOES Kazoo! You see THAT!? That's 2000 damage with a crit RIGHT IN YOUR FACE, N00b!!!"
Two purple globs shot across the screen with a "bweee" noise, and Henry and Kazoo's online personas hit the ground dead, dropping their weapons and meseta.
"Hah. Megid owns you, silly dupe users!"
Immediately following, Henry and Kazoo launched a simultaneous attack in the real world upon the unsuspecting Fuji, who, to his dismay, found it impossible to shoot actual balls of megid like his FOmar named "NiGHTS" could. Darn, real life was never any fun. Henry tried to put him into a headlock (Mistake #1) and he hoisted Henry over his shoulder and sent him flying into the wall, Chao imprint embedded in it and all. Kazoo was a bit smarter, and instead gave up and used his time to kill Henry's character while he wasn't playing. These guys are smart, I tell you.
"Come on guys, supper is ready!"
Before the last syllable in "ready" was even said, the controllers were falling slowly to the ground and all three chao were immediately found in their seats around the table (Booster seats, mind you), with grins on their faces and happy upside down "V"'s in their eyes.
Yuri smiled. "Sheesh, you guys are still fast. I could say food a mile away and you'd be there within seconds."
The three chao exchanged toothy grins, knowing that, in fact, it would be much much faster than that. When it came to food, these guys were serious.
NiGHTS put the apron up and took a seat at the circular table. Fuji to his right, Henry to his left, Kazoo to his other left - er, right, or wait - well, his other other right, really. And finally, Yuri opposite him. She set down some plates filled with Honey BBQ Rappy wings and took a seat. NiGHTS smiled. "Yum! These things are the greatest. I'll test them tonight, if you don't --" He reached his hand out to grab one of the wings.
SLAP! Yuri's hand met his a little too soon though, and he put on a puppy dog face immediately to show his dismay. "Darn. And they look so tasty, too..."
"Not before the prayer, come on now. Don't you want to set a good example for the kids?"
NiGHTS got that Anime-style sweatdrop thing again, and said, rather jokingly, "Kids..? You mean, uh, the Chao... ?"
"Well OF COURSE I mean the chao! But they're close enough, right?"
"How so? I mean, they eat a lot, they play video games all day, they hardly do anything productive -- MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT! They ARE just like kids these days!"
No sooner had he said this then a disgruntled Fuji sent a spoonful of gravy into his face with a burning "SPLAT!"
"Ah!! My eye!! I'LL KILL YOU!!"
The chao laughed in unison, and NiGHTS wiped the gravy off with his Purple and Pink polka-dotted knapkin. "I swear, you do it again, you live on the streets. I know I've said this like 22342343234322348703284098 times before, but I mean it this time! Anyways, the prayer... I'm hungry.." He closed his eyes, and Yuri did the same. They used the same prayer at every meal, on every day and in every month. It went something like:
"Thank god we aren't gonna starve tonight. AMEN!"
NiGHTS opened his eyes, shot a hand towards the Honey BBQ Rappy wings, And ---- WHAT!?
They were gone. All of them. Three chao with faces bulging with food stared at him innocently.
NiGHTS suddenly developed a newfound twitch in his forehead as he attempted to calm himself down. He clenched his fist silently under the table, angry at how close he'd been to his favorite meal, only to have it stolen by three little blue chao who obviously couldn't have eaten all of that. And yet, somehow, they did. He seriously didn't get it.
"I'm going to give you three seconds to get a piece of Honey BBQ Rappy wings back on the table..." he said slowly. "And if one isn't there when I open my eyes, I swear, I'll take away your Action Replay so fast you won't know what happened to it." He shut his eyes, and Henry and Kazoo exchanged worried glances with mouths bulging.
"One...."
"Two..."
There was a slight noise as something touched a plate.
"....Three."
NiGHTS eyes came up slowly and he stared at the plate that should have had the wings on it earlier - and noticed, to his surprise, that there was actually something there.
A sticky, slobbered on rappy wing-bone sat on the plate, and all three of the chao sat with their cute (though stuffed) smiles in the exact same pattern they had before.
"Whatever. I'll just eat some leftover Sand Rappy Sandwhiches." NiGHTS got up, moped over to the fridge, opened the door and stuck his head inside.
"Yuri... The sandwhiches... they're..."
Yuri shifted uneasily in her seat at the table. "Well, um, they were old, so I --"
"YOU WHAT!?"
"-- so I threw them out! They might have gotten moldy!"
"But they were only a day old!! And things don't get moldy in the fridge!!"
Fuji was quick to motion that he could prove otherwise, and left the table.
"Whatever..." NiGHTS finally sighed and gave up. "Oh, but Fuji --"
The chao stopped mid-step as he was returning to the video games.
"Don't eat the Action Replay. I still have to make up some more TJ swords with 100 hit tonight and sell them on ebay."
The chao grumbled in response, his plan discovered already, and went back to continue throwing cards at vulmers.
-- End of Chapter 1 --
NiGHTS and Fuji!: Homebound
The door shut slowly, locking in place as Yuri let go of the handle and turned to look at her new house in Pioneer 2's residential area. She looked at the clock, noticed the time, and began counting down.
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,..."
A bit softer now, as if she was straining to hear something:
"..4, ..3, ... 2, ... 1...."
KABOOM!
"Yep, right on time," she thought to herself as she smiled. NiGHTS was cooking again tonight.
A yell came from inside the kitchen:
"NO!! EGGS DO NOT EXPLODE!! H-HOW!? Argggh!!!"
She walked past the living room where their three chao were busy playing some online RPG, and entered the kitchen.
Woah. That was pretty bad, after all.
NiGHTS turned and smiled, a once white cooking apron now stained with yellow egg all over it. A bit of yolk dripped down from his hat onto the floor, and he stood there, frozen, and just smiled.
"Uh... guh... Heya, Yuri..." he said, not moving his hand from the frozen-wave-position.
"Oh dear.. what did you do this time?"
"Well, you know that Crazy-French chef dude? I tried one of his recipies, and uh... hm. It didn't really work out." He shrugged.
"Wait.. you mean the show Psychochef!?"
"Um, yeah, that one. With the flamethrower-grill-thing, that was awesome!"
"They took him off the air three years ago for grillhicular manslaughter, NiGHTS."
"Grillhicular? Is that like vehicular or something?"
"I dunno, I just made it up. But he burned 12 audience members to death with one of them! He was CRAZY!"
"Oh, is that so? Heh, well, uh.." He rubbed his hand against the back of his head, turning around to put up the ingredients quickly. "I thought the whole calling for "3 tablespoons nitroglycerine" was a bit odd, but hey, he was on TV, so I figured it had to be right!"
Yuri sighed, and began preparing the usual - Honey BBQ Rappy wings. NiGHTS had eaten these things ever since the first book, and they somehow still seemed to work. Whatever, she thought, it certainly beats the alternative: Delbiter Delights.
Meanwhile, in the other room...
"Dude, my BKB so owns your TJ SWORD!!! HAH, EAT IT NOOB!!!"
"SHUT UP, HENRY! JUST BECAUSE YOU PLAY WITH DUPES DOESN'T MEAN YOU OWN!!"
"Oh, but it DOES Kazoo! You see THAT!? That's 2000 damage with a crit RIGHT IN YOUR FACE, N00b!!!"
Two purple globs shot across the screen with a "bweee" noise, and Henry and Kazoo's online personas hit the ground dead, dropping their weapons and meseta.
"Hah. Megid owns you, silly dupe users!"
Immediately following, Henry and Kazoo launched a simultaneous attack in the real world upon the unsuspecting Fuji, who, to his dismay, found it impossible to shoot actual balls of megid like his FOmar named "NiGHTS" could. Darn, real life was never any fun. Henry tried to put him into a headlock (Mistake #1) and he hoisted Henry over his shoulder and sent him flying into the wall, Chao imprint embedded in it and all. Kazoo was a bit smarter, and instead gave up and used his time to kill Henry's character while he wasn't playing. These guys are smart, I tell you.
"Come on guys, supper is ready!"
Before the last syllable in "ready" was even said, the controllers were falling slowly to the ground and all three chao were immediately found in their seats around the table (Booster seats, mind you), with grins on their faces and happy upside down "V"'s in their eyes.
Yuri smiled. "Sheesh, you guys are still fast. I could say food a mile away and you'd be there within seconds."
The three chao exchanged toothy grins, knowing that, in fact, it would be much much faster than that. When it came to food, these guys were serious.
NiGHTS put the apron up and took a seat at the circular table. Fuji to his right, Henry to his left, Kazoo to his other left - er, right, or wait - well, his other other right, really. And finally, Yuri opposite him. She set down some plates filled with Honey BBQ Rappy wings and took a seat. NiGHTS smiled. "Yum! These things are the greatest. I'll test them tonight, if you don't --" He reached his hand out to grab one of the wings.
SLAP! Yuri's hand met his a little too soon though, and he put on a puppy dog face immediately to show his dismay. "Darn. And they look so tasty, too..."
"Not before the prayer, come on now. Don't you want to set a good example for the kids?"
NiGHTS got that Anime-style sweatdrop thing again, and said, rather jokingly, "Kids..? You mean, uh, the Chao... ?"
"Well OF COURSE I mean the chao! But they're close enough, right?"
"How so? I mean, they eat a lot, they play video games all day, they hardly do anything productive -- MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT! They ARE just like kids these days!"
No sooner had he said this then a disgruntled Fuji sent a spoonful of gravy into his face with a burning "SPLAT!"
"Ah!! My eye!! I'LL KILL YOU!!"
The chao laughed in unison, and NiGHTS wiped the gravy off with his Purple and Pink polka-dotted knapkin. "I swear, you do it again, you live on the streets. I know I've said this like 22342343234322348703284098 times before, but I mean it this time! Anyways, the prayer... I'm hungry.." He closed his eyes, and Yuri did the same. They used the same prayer at every meal, on every day and in every month. It went something like:
"Thank god we aren't gonna starve tonight. AMEN!"
NiGHTS opened his eyes, shot a hand towards the Honey BBQ Rappy wings, And ---- WHAT!?
They were gone. All of them. Three chao with faces bulging with food stared at him innocently.
NiGHTS suddenly developed a newfound twitch in his forehead as he attempted to calm himself down. He clenched his fist silently under the table, angry at how close he'd been to his favorite meal, only to have it stolen by three little blue chao who obviously couldn't have eaten all of that. And yet, somehow, they did. He seriously didn't get it.
"I'm going to give you three seconds to get a piece of Honey BBQ Rappy wings back on the table..." he said slowly. "And if one isn't there when I open my eyes, I swear, I'll take away your Action Replay so fast you won't know what happened to it." He shut his eyes, and Henry and Kazoo exchanged worried glances with mouths bulging.
"One...."
"Two..."
There was a slight noise as something touched a plate.
"....Three."
NiGHTS eyes came up slowly and he stared at the plate that should have had the wings on it earlier - and noticed, to his surprise, that there was actually something there.
A sticky, slobbered on rappy wing-bone sat on the plate, and all three of the chao sat with their cute (though stuffed) smiles in the exact same pattern they had before.
"Whatever. I'll just eat some leftover Sand Rappy Sandwhiches." NiGHTS got up, moped over to the fridge, opened the door and stuck his head inside.
"Yuri... The sandwhiches... they're..."
Yuri shifted uneasily in her seat at the table. "Well, um, they were old, so I --"
"YOU WHAT!?"
"-- so I threw them out! They might have gotten moldy!"
"But they were only a day old!! And things don't get moldy in the fridge!!"
Fuji was quick to motion that he could prove otherwise, and left the table.
"Whatever..." NiGHTS finally sighed and gave up. "Oh, but Fuji --"
The chao stopped mid-step as he was returning to the video games.
"Don't eat the Action Replay. I still have to make up some more TJ swords with 100 hit tonight and sell them on ebay."
The chao grumbled in response, his plan discovered already, and went back to continue throwing cards at vulmers.
-- End of Chapter 1 --