Sereni-Tree: Boros cliffhanger, engaging paramours
POSTED BY: cozen
UPDATED: Monday, March 6, 2006 11:36
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This is Thread 40!
For the complete “Guide to the Clubhouse / Treehouse / Sereni-Tree Threads”, see:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=11877
Near the beginning of the following thread is “TheRealMe’s Guide to the Sereni-Tree, V4”:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=16740
Previous thread (summarized below) at:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=17692
(Interim Summary)
Oh the Sereni-Tree:
It seems that there is a certain amount of couple-activity going on, with Soul and Serenity, Mai and Elemdee, and (with aid from Cupid-Soul on Valentine’s day) Ath and Kelly, as well as ItsAWash and TheRealMe. There have been picnics and parties and a great time had by all.
The ghost of Riverclone is still haunting her old room, now occupied by Washie.
The Ocean Cloud Scam on Grendel’s Find (involving Jadehand, Seryn, Rat, Quincey, Cozen, Mai, LMD, and TheManInBlack disguised as Washie) went off without a hitch, or only a few, with lots of platinum acquired by the conspirators to construct the real shuttle. Jadehand’s Nametags of Shapeshifting came in very handy, as he pretended to be Serenity’s arch-enemy from Boros, Heinz the Scar-faced guy, and bullied platinum out of the locals. I can’t wait until the real Heinz finds out! Rat wants to head off to Earth-That-Still-Thinks-Digital-Watches-Are-Cool to buy stuff, but the Sereni-Tree is currently heading to Boros to rescue our missing crewmates.
MALICIOUS RETURNED TO GRACE US WITH HER PRESENCE! ALL HAIL THE MISTRESS MOST HIGH!
PsychicRiver used the permanent dimensional portal in Engineering (who knew that it was still working!) to return to Zoid’s Pub at the Bottom of the Tree on Earth-That-Still-Is. From there, he summoned his pifflepony friend Ororo for some solo adventure.
Also, Seryn seems to have developed extensive personal shapeshifting powers, and has lately adopted the form of a MysteryMan (one even more mysterious than Jazaf!).
Soul decides that he wants to marry the pregnant Serenity, and consults with her brother, Ath. Then he gets a diamond from Rat, and platinum from Jadehand, and gets Jazaf to metal-shape an engagement ring for him, but Cozen’s llama Schwartz swallows it! Llama-kabobs, anyone?
On Boros:
The group with Safe, Jack, Citizen, ScorpionRegent, Bride6, and Bride7 wandered through tunnels to arrive at an alley near a hanger that Needy told them about. The group with Needy, Amylisai, Flechette, and Versereader have done the same, though by a different path and after escaping a nasty encounter with the Alliance.
Safe’s group gets out of the tunnels and Bride6 shows that she is handy with a gun, but crossfire from Alliance troops from either ends of the alley have caused problems, and, despite much clever gunplay, grenade-tossing, and dumpster-moving, Our Heroes have been pinned down. Needy’s group (at least he and Flechette) have joined this firefight. Needy and Bride6 have been severely wounded, while Safe and Flechette have been hit as well.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Boros:
The squad of Alliance troops try to charge back through the smoke to reach Safe, Jack, Citizen, and Bride6. Bride7, hidden among them, follows behind. As they come free of the smoke, Bride7 starts blasting them in the back with her shotgun. Meanwhile, Safe, Jack, Citizen, and Bride6 start shooting from their front. The Alliance squad is broken, and scatter for their lives.
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Originally posted by MysteryMan:
sitting a little way away, Esme relaxed and happy in his lap having here tummy tickled, he watches Mai and LMD talking, catching the odd word and biting his lip slightly. He turns away, not wanting them to feel him watching, I wonder if i'll ever manage to get to the point where I can just sit and spill like that... Jeeze, how is it fair that I get to grow this whole other body and still have to sit here, prey to stupid female slushyness? *pout* but it is sweet...
Shwartz ambles over, scavenging for more carrot bits, a look of either accusation, or intense concentration on its face. Hey, its hard to tell with Llama's.
'hey, so maybe I am a big girls blouse! You smell like hundred year old wet dog bedding.'
Shwartz makes a low grumbling in the back of his throat.
Well, It not my fault. You reek, deal.
He holds out a bit of carrot top for the animal to eat, but insteadof accepting it the llamma just stands there, the gurgling noises increasing until finally, with a gross goughing sound, he spits a huge glob of drools and slime and hair and bits of carrot and something which glints and shines even amongst the mess.
Oh my god thats disgusting! eeeuurrrgghhh! oh god! what the? Leaping up shaking his hand wildly in an effort to dislodge the awful goop, he falis to notice the slight glitter before it sails across the room. For a brief moment he stands torn between the desire to get the crap off his skin, and another to kick the llama's ass so hard that it'll need panel beating to remove the boot marks.
The desire to clean his hands wins, and the llama escapes, looking just about as pleased with itself as any llama can.
Accross the room, unnoticed, the goop lands under a small couch, Souls ring glinting and flashing in the intermitten light that reaches it.
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From the thread before this one:
On the Sereni-Tree
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“Huh?!” Ath's words cause TheRealMe to wake from sleep, startled, disoriented, dragged away from his dream. He ponders on how his mind could possibly craft that wonderful, blissful dream that he had just experienced! Why, he hadn’t felt like that, since… oh, since…
Washie stirs nearby. What’s SHE doing here? TheRealMe looks around. Uh, oh! These are her quarters. So it wasn’t a dream… So what in the world…
Then TheRealMe remembered Washie’s words:
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"Pressure points, yeah. Among the things I picked up in Guild training. Has to do with the major and minor chakras. Are you familiar with how they work? 'Cause, if work slows down a bit around here, I could school you a bit, maybe at the same time we're re-stocking that kissie supply."
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‘Chakra tuning,’ or whatever she had called it… was truly amazing! But how had he ended up here? It was quite unlike him, to so quickly…
Right! It was the arrow. The love arrow that Soul shot him with. It had messed with their minds, causing… uhhh… well…
But wait! Washie hadn’t been hit with any arrow. Hmmmm… That meant that either she really liked him, or else she was one hell of an accommodating Ship’s Counselor!
TheRealMe decides that he needs to either reward Soul or toss him into the brig! He’ll decide after he has something to eat.
Softly, he begins, “Washie? Are you hungry? Should I fix us some breakfast?” As he speaks, he gets up and turns to head toward the kitchen.
Someone is there!
“You can’t stamp it out completely. Evil returns. Always returns.” The young woman turns her face up from the shadows to stare directly into TheRealMe’s eyes. “Sometimes, it comes back even stronger!”
TheRealMe squints without his glasses. “Riverclone? No, it can’t be! You… You’re…”
“‘The vorpal blade went snicker-snack. He left it dead, and with its… head…’” Riverclone becomes a little distressed. “He left it dead! Took its gorram head away as a trophy! He didn’t even TRY to talk to it!” Her expression turns more serious. “After all, it might have had something to say! It might have had a reason. A reason to burninate the countryside!” There are tears in her eyes.
“Riverclone, I’m sorry! If I had been there when it happened, I would have stopped him! I swear! Somehow, I would have found a way!”
“To save me? Get me out? Alive?” Riverclone brushes the tears away, then she gets distracted by the sight of her own hand. Her voice becomes a whisper. “Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.” Then, she focuses on TheRealMe, speaking gravely. “No, it was the right decision. Would have been dust anyway, by now.”
And suddenly, she is gone!
TheRealMe sits down in a chair. He brushes away his own tears.
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*Washie stirs and stretches a little as the man next to her rises from the bed. She's sated and sleepy still, not ready to follow him into wakefullness just yet. Eyes remaining closed, breathing slow and regular, she lays in between roused and slumber but last night's chakra-tuning, which she'd not shared in far too long prior to this night, pleasantly intrude.
"TRM," she murmurs, hand reaching over to the side he'd rested, "What must he think of all this?" Brow furrowed at that, she rises up on her elbows and peers into the cabin's gloom to find the object of her thoughts.
The First Officer is half-dressed sitting in a chair with his face in his hands. She has a sense of a sad spirit having recently been here, the signature left behind is that of the girl with the long dark hair from her vision.
*Shrugging on a cream and mauve kimono, leaving it open immodestly (Hell, he'd seen it all already) she pads on small bare feet to the man in her chair. "Hey. She been here again?"
The Real Him hurriedly wipes his face on his bare arm, shrugs into his shirt on the
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Ath hits the comm: "TRM? Could you come to the bridge please? I think we may have trouble."
TheRealMe turns to ItsAWash. "I'm sorry, I'm needed on the Bridge. Sorry about the haunted room. We can get you new quarters."Quote:
"TRM? Could you hurry, please? A little running wouldn't go amiss."
TheRealMe leaves Wash's quarters and starts running. He speaks into his com-link. "What, Ath? What's up?"
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"We have an Alliance cruiser between us and Boros. Not only that, but they're demanding to talk to our commanding officer. And they aren't very patient."
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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*realizing she can't just sit and do nothing while her son is off doing Merlin knows what, she decides to find out if Ath needs any help*
*she zips up her coveralls, tightens her boots, and quickly marches off to the bridge*
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"We have an Alliance cruiser between us and Boros. Not only that, but they're demanding to talk to our commanding officer. And they aren't very patient."
Well, open the comm. You've got TRM and I standing right here. Let's hear what these elephants have to say.
*Ath starts at twg's voice and cautiously looks to TRM. twg sighs and walks over to a console and presses the comm. Don't they believe in her anymore?*
Thank you for holding, how may I help you today? Burger? Fries? Perhaps a sundae?
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Soul is still standing in the same spot, staring at the ledge where his ring for Serenity had been sitting. Somehow, someone had stolen it from right under his--
Wait! Llama saliva? His hand had been absently settling on the ledge and had come across a slimy substance. Quite a bit of phlegm was sitting on the ledge, and unless someone on the TREE had an incredible bad cold, the only possible source of that much salive is...
Soul's eyes widen.
Schwartz ate the ring?!?!?!?
His eyes narrow.
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*KellyofLuthien stares in disgust at the vomitous mass flung under the couch in the common room. She hears another burp erupt from poor Schwartz.*
"Oh no you don't!" she exclaims, grabbing the fur on his neck. She leads him out of the common room, walking as quickly as possible, a quiet prayer to Eru that he not vomit on her pretty gown escaping her lips.
KOL heads toward the animal park, Schwartz following shamefully in her wake. As she reaches the water park bay doors she sees Soul tearing toward her at breakneck speed.
"The ring!" he shouts. "Where is the ring?!"
Kelly groans. Surely there was only One Ring? The One that was destroyed in the fires of Orodruin?
"Er, I'm not sure what you're talking about, but this llama needs rest and a quiet place. He just vomited in the common roo--"
Before she can even finish, Soul has raced out of the bay doors, heading toward the common room.
Kelly is perplexed. "Strange people here," she says to herself.
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*Serenity looks up in alarm as Soul comes tearing into the common room.*
Soul! Is something wrong?
Oh, nothing! Everything's fine.*He says, leaning against a table, and trying to look nonchalant.
Are you sure? You look upset.
Oh yeah! Everything's great. No problems. *He casually peaks under the table.*
Okay. Whatever. Don't tell me. *With some difficulty, Serenity gets on her feet and heads into the kitchen for more popcorn.*
The more pregnant I get, the weirder he acts.*she mumbles to herself. What's he going to be like when the baby's born?
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Soul waits until Serenity is out of the room, and then finally exhales. He runs for the table and looks under it. Disgustingly, there are pieces of llama vomit all over the place. Thankful for his iron-clad stomach, he quickly begins to fish through the goop. Not finding the ring, he moves onto the next pile. Nothing.
Next pile. Nothing.
Next pile. Nothing.
He reaches the small sofa, and is beginning to think that the llama never ate the ring, when his fingers touch something hard and round. He pulls the small object out of the pile, and--
"I found it!!"
"Congrats. You discovered llama puke," LMD says from his seat on the other sofa.
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
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