((-gets shot twice- I am really epic failing this wek aren't I? Hold on let me see if I can get Van to notice))

When Dri saw the snake lady, Medusa, let's say he is currently quivering in his metaphorical boots at the moment. That lady, gave off a vibe that said PREDATOR in big bold letters and Dri would rather much not like himself to get eaten. Praying silently to very tree spirit he knew of, Dri was very much a happy camper when the scary lady went away in a huff.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Dri began to see that this was beginning to progress too slowly to his liking. So he added, "Hey 'scuse me but can you do me a favour and go down and talk to him, pwease? His social skills need developing"

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Sighing a bit, Van began to have a feeling that someone was trying to address him. Tuning round a bit, Van found that there was a red-haired male trying to talk to him, hand out for a shake.

"A-Ah, I apoligise for my rudeness. I'm Van Anh Le, I a pleasure to make your aquaintance..." Van tried to remember what the red-haired male called himself.

((Sorry for the shortness I have to go to school now. Bye!))

((School is good, tis where you learn things.))

Mo noticed the little Dri's scared appearance when he saw Medusa come and go. "Don't be afraid of Medu~sa-chan, Dri-kun. She may be mean but she's not going to eat you..." He said, trying to comfort the poor sprite. ... or at least I hope she doesn't... He thought afterwards.

"Oh?" Mo said, looking back down at Van and back to Dri. He did the same thing he did before, with his body somehow managing to by upside-down while he hung onto the tree with his feet. "He~llo again, Marco!" He said, greeting Van as well with a nod. He gave a smile, and really didn't notice all the blood rushing to his head. Then again, he could stay like this quite awhile.

((Just for the reference, this is how Mo's popping his head in and out of the tree. Isn't it ironic that this person also has an eyepatch? O.O He's not falling out of the tree, just hangin' there))

"Marco." Marco reached out and gave Van a handshake as Mo popped out of the tree. As Marco screamed like a little girl, "MO, STOP DOING THAT!!!!" Blushing, Marco tried to compose himself. "Sorry, Mo and Van. I'm really bad with surprises. Sorry." Marco walked over to a corner of the Meeting Zone, and sat down away from the crowd, so as to calm down and keep himself from crying and showing negativity.

((TAMAKI!! :>))

Mo probably guessed Marco was pretty embarrassed after he screamed, and pouted while he still remained in his upside-down position. "I think I made him up~set..." He said, but actually pretty surprised Marco could scream like that.

"Bravo, bravo." Said Medusa to both Marco and Mo, finally coming out of the trees. It was almost like she appeared there, with some blood still lingering on her lips. Well, she had tried swallowed her newfound food whole but it was hard to do so with such a small throat. Human forms are so inconvenient, she thought to herself before continuing to talk.

"I thought someone was being murdered." She said, ignoring the 'please be nice' look from Mo. "... And if you want that idiot to stop popping out of trees your underestimating his idiocy." She said, tugging the boy down from the foliage by his hat to the floor. The little spite-in-a-doll tumbled down along with him. "Oh?" Medusa chuckled, looking down upon the creature with her demonic smile. It was enough to frighten probably any living creature on the earth, and could've scared the spirit out of it's current doll-body if Mo hadn't butted in.

"Medu~sa-chan! Are you in a better mo~od?" Mo asked, getting up from his position on the floor and protecting Dri from her death-look with his hand. "That hurt a lot too..." He murmured, but turned his attention back to Marco. "I'm sorry, Marco, I won't pop out of any more trees *around you*, ok~ay?" He said.

((XDDD TAMAKI, He's always a good laugh! And lol at the ninja pirate boy. How ironic it is indieed. XD))

Dri sighed with relief, feeling quite comforted by the fact that Mo's friend, Medusa wasn't going to eat him. So he just stayed where he was and watched his human friend try to interact with more of these people. However, when Mo started to hang upside down, let's just say Dri became a bit dizzy.

Van, once again, unfazed by both the sudden scream and appearance of Dri's friend, since Dri does it on a constant basis. "Ah. Pleasure to meet you Mr Marco." Van greeted bowing to Marco and Mo, "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mr Mo..."

However, it seems that Marco wasn't handling the surprise all that well, judging by the way the red-haired slumped when he sat. Van was quite concerned but being, as Dri would put it, socially retarded, he didn't know what to do to comfort the red-head. And it didn't help that the newcomer, whose vibes were sending off warning bells inside Van's head, was scaring the living spirit out of Dri's doll body.

"U-um... you guys are alright right?..." Van asked.

Dri let out a scream of frustration (as wel as fear now that the scary lady is back), wriggled out of Mo's hand, ran towards Van and ascended quickly into the safety of Van's long hood. Only to whack Van on the head with another peach seed and a hard tug of Van's black locks.

"OF COURSE, DEY AREN'T CHU EMPTY NUTHEAD!" Dri exclaimed, causing quite a ruckus under the hood, "GO COMFORT HIM! OR CHEER HIM UP!"

Sheepishly Van turned his attention towards Mo, "Ehm...shall we go try cheer Mr Marco up, Mr Mo?..." Dri facepalmed himself. Van was sooo frustrating sometimes!

Marco wiped his face with his hands and picked himself up. "I'm sorry Mo, but I've had some really bad experiences with people popping up and out of unexpected places." Marco giggled a little bit as Dri facepalmed himself. "I'm sorry. I will try to be a little more," pausing to think of the correct word, "fun." Smiling, Marco tried to reasure Van, Dri, and Mo.

"Is ok."* Said Mo, patting Marco on the back. "Every~one's got some bad experience(s)!" I really don't think that was 'unexpected, though...

"'Fun', outgoing, hap~py-to-actually-be-on-the-trip, whichever." Mo continued, running back over to pick up the tiny Medusa and carry her back to Marco. She didn't weigh much, but struggled to be free like a young girl would a kidnapper off the street (without any screaming though). She even bit into Mo's arm, though by now she must have figured out that had no real effect on him whatsoever. "Even Medu~sa-chan's going to try to be more friendly." Mo said reassuringly to Marco, then turning an almost equally demonic as Medusa's glare down at the tiny demon his voice turned more threatening. "Isn't that right, Medu~sa-chan?"

Medusa released her teeth from his arm, having a glare-off with Mo for a couple more seconds before responding. As much as Medusa's bite had no effect on Mo, Mo's 'frightening tone' had no effect on Medusa. "Fine." She mumbled, giving up the struggle and basically just awaiting him to put her down.

After receiving an answer, Mo put Medusa down and his tone once again it's friendly and childish nature. "Se~ee?" He said, but then stopped upon hearing his stomach growl loudly. "Oh dear, I am pretty hungry myself..." He mused.

((*Meant to say 'it's ok' but I'm just typing how I would talk XD))

"It is very comforting to know that you guys are alright..." Van commented, his umbrella and hood ever keeping him from the harsh glare of the sun, which also provided some protection for Dri from the scary lady.

Once again, Dri facepalmed himself at the social retarded-ness of his friend. Sure it was mainly from inexperience and conditioning but that still doesn't stop Dri from being frustrated by it once and a while.

"Van, chu are such a nuthead sometimes..." Dri mumbled from his place under Van's hood, pulling a full frown (which to most would look like a pout) at Van's idiocy.

Van, cracking a small smile a bit, shrugged his bag off and opened it. "I remember packing a lunchbox full of food. I'm sure we can share it, unless..." There Van found his lunchbox but being a vegetarian, it was mainly full of various fruits and sliced vegetables like carrots, apples, grapes, oranges, cabbage leaves and celery. "You guys don't like eating these..."

Van offered the box to the two males, looking down meekly. Dri cheered happily at the gesture. Sure it was out of politeness but still, Van was not a hopeless case afterall! This just proves it. To celebrate Dri slid down from his spot and into the lunchbox to grab a grape and eat it. Smiling and sighing happily in content, Dri dug into the grapes, offering one towards the scary lady hopefully as a sign of peace and truce.

"That's very kind of you, Van." Said Mo, eyeing curiously what he had in the lunch bag. "And I'm happy with eating *almost* anything." He said with a cute and childish smile. He really did look like a girl...

Personally, though, he would have enjoyed eating cake and tea but then again having that too often would be bad for him. Being a very picky eater, he would probably avoid eating any fruits of vegetables with as little as a tiny brown spot from oxidizing. Luckily for him there wasn't much since the sliced fruit was pretty fresh. Mo cocked his head down as Van offered the food. "You shouldn't look down too oft~en, it'll hurt your neck." He added, and with his head leaning over a bit too far even fell down. He got back up instantly, brushing himself off and taking the box politely. "But thank you ve~ry much for sharing your food!" He finished bowing, giving Van a reassuring smile.

Medusa watched Mo loose his balance and fall over, rolling her eyes to the fact he was such a klutz. She was distracted in her mocking though by the little spite offering her a grape. "Tch." She sneered, looking in the other direction. The most obvious reason was that she was almost a total carnivore, but another was that she wasn't expecting someone to be polite enough to offer her something. Not to mention it was someone she really didn't like from the beginning... Ah, but she never really does like most people from the beginning.

((Sometimes i think I mixed up Dane's and Mo's sexual orientation =.= Mo seems more bi and/or womanly then any other dude i know... well, that's actually debatable...))

"Thanks Van. I love fruits." Marco giggled a little bit at his own joke and picked out a sliced apple. He started to take a bite of the apple slice when he saw Mo fall over. Marco started to giggle as he tried to eat his apple slice. Calming himself down a little, Marco looked at the lunch box adn saw a small sprite he hadn't noticed before. "Hi. Who are you, if I may ask?"

((Just for anyone who's a bit curious about why Dri can eat, Dri's wooden doll body is animated by the spirit so everything moves and looks just fine, it's just his joints that show that he's a doll...^__^; I should draw a picture of this to explain a bit more....If I had to compare it'll have to be like Disney's Pinochio.))

"I-it's fine, I'm used to-" Van managed to say before Mo fell down from leaning down too much and then getting back up again looking as if the fall hadn't effected him. Amazed Van just stared for a bit before catching himself from staring for too long rather rudely as well as to prevent the sensation of blood rising to his nose. Van almost didn't heard what the others had said from turning his head too fast.

"Ah, you're welcome..." Fortunately Van managed to prevent himself from getting a nosebleed. Cursing in his head about the injustice of good-looking and androgynous male as well as having a 'penis nose' as Dri had so crudely dubbed it and being homosexual.

'Ah~ the wonders of hormones!' echoed a rather feminine voice, almost singing.

Van wanted to facepalm himself right then and there.

Judging by the way the scary lady was acting, Dri's mood dampened a bit since the lady seemed to be acting rather cold. But being a youthful (and brash) young sprite, Dri was determined not to give up. Still the situation, no matter what angle he looked at it, it did seem rather fruitless by Medusa was acting towards him. Perking up a bit, Dri beamed happily and introduced himself to the tall red-head.

"I'm Dri, a peach tree spirit! Nice to meet chu!" Dri offered a small hand towards the male, "You're Marco right? Sorry for my fwend, he's a bit of a nuthead..."

Sighing with resignation, Van just took a celery stalk and started chewing on it where loud but muffled crunches could be heard once in a while. There were times where Dri was truly infuriating, but then again, Van rather had Dri as a friend than no friends. It got lonely once in a while.

((I had to look up what 'androgynous' meant XD I'm such a brilliant person when it comes to vocabulary...<.< LOL PENIS NOSE! That pretty much made my entire day. Unfortunately for Van, Mo is a straight male O.O Even I get confused, though.))

Mo was busy munching on a carrot stick and completely not noticing the apparent crisis Van was having. In fact all that he was thinking about was the fact that the carrot he was eating was a bit dry, and debating whether or not to tell that fact to everyone around him. Then, thinking that if he did that he might offend something, he completely decided not to and continued to eat with loud munching sounds.

When he finally noticed how silent Van became, he stopped munching and swallowed before asking "Is there something both~ering you?" He asked, completely oblivious to the fact Dri could have offended him. Medusa acted harshly to Mo on multiple occasions, and so did Mizuki so he was used to such things and wasn't bothered by that too much.

((Sorry for the short posts, I have things to do around the house =.= in such hot weather too...))

Sophiya walked to the meeting place, hours behind everyone else. Why she had no sense of direction she didn't know but it was kinda confusing to be in a forest, and she had seen some weird stuff on her ventures off the path. there had been some weird looking bugs and giant butterflies but everything else had looked normal-ish. there where trees and birds and wildlife and little streams with snakes in them. She shivered when she remembered this. she sat down and looked around to see if she knew anyone there. nope... she thought

((Sophiya is wearing: these shorts over these leggings, this tee with this cardi over top, these shoes(black) with these bags (1,2(pink),3(pink),4) these glassesin her hair,like a headband.))

(( WAVI IS BACK!! We can go back to the other one now, but you dont have to, I am just saying that.... oh nvm.))

((I know she's back we are all still stuck until something posts))

((Sorry about the absence, school caught up with me and gave me assignments to do. DNA and polypeptides models are hard to make. ^^; And don't worry about Van, he is a healthy male who knows when a guy is quite good-looking.))

Automatically without thinking Van quickly blurted, "N-N-no! Nothingisbotheringme! I'mfine!" Once again to save himself, Van just went back to mutilating his celery with his teeth with loud crunches.

There are times where Van really disliked having the annoying voices inside his head. They often say the most embarassing or weirdest comments which often made him blurt them out without knowing. Which could possibly be the reason why he tends to keep quiet alot.

"Don't worry bout Van." A munch on the graoe here, Dri continued, "Keep going, Mista Mo. It's good that Van gets used to these situations." Dri kept munching on the round grape's flesh enjoying the sweetness of the purple fruit, not minding at all that he was getting drenched by the juice.

"So what's this trip about? I saw it on a board and had to persuade Van to get here." Dri asked opening the question to the two, allowing either to answer it.

((Bleah I feel that my posts are getting shorter and shorter... =_=; ))

((Lol, it's okay. I'm not having much time to get online myself.))

Mo was having a little trouble decoding what Van had said so quickly, but was fine once he finally thought of it in his head.

"Well I actually don't know myself, I just took the chance to come here." He said, pondering over the reasons why such a trip was set up. "Maybe it was to waste time... or a learning experience?" He suggested. Suddenly something flashed before Mo's eyes, sending him backward in sudden shock and to the point of falling over... again. It turns out it was only a butterfly flying past but it was too late for him to release that before tumbling over. In mid fall, as most people do, he impulsively grabbed the first thing he could to stay balanced. This happened to be Van's arm, and he unintentional pulled the boy down with him as Mo fell to the earth.

"Ow~chie!" Mo said when he realized he was on the ground, which was more then a couple of seconds after the fall itself. Getting up, he brushed himself off and looked around almost in shock. "Where did Van go..." He said before seeing him on the ground. "Van... how did you get there?" He asked.

Too focused on eating another green stalk of celery, Van didn't notice Mo grab onto him in midfall until everything around Van became a fast blur and he felt impact. his lunchbox landing on his head with soft thud. Luckily Van still had his umbrella in his hand. Unluckily for him the hinges snapped off from its place, making a side of the umbrella floppy from the lack of support.

"Ow..." Van said rather monotonously, despite the pain on his head.

Dri whom managed to see Mo midfall, had the brains to climb out from his spot in the lunch box and jump out of it before Van's heavy body can squish and possibly smash his wooden body.

"Van! Are chu okay? Are you hurting anyway?" Dri said, unknowingly saying the wrong word, since Van was still teaching him.

Lifting himself off, and dusting the dirt from his navy hoodie, Van replied to both the concerned parties, "I'm fine. Not bruised in anyway." Smiling a little at his little friend's mistake, Van looked at Dri from his height and corrected Dri, "It's 'anywhere' not 'anyway', Dri."

Lifting his umbrella to shade himself from the sun Van tried to fix the broken hinge as he addressed Mo's question, "I fell down when you dragged me down. Are you injured anywhere on your person?" Concerned both by the possible injuries that Mo may have gotten from the fall as well as his broken umbrella, Van tried to fix the hinge as well as trying to remember if he bought a first aid that he managed to take from home.

Mo pondered, completely not remembering dragging someone along with him during his fall. "I did?" He asked, and his face actually looked concerned. "I'm so sor~ry Van! I rea~lly didn't mean to!" He apologized, putting his hands to hit mouth like someone would if they saw a disaster.
"I wouldn't worry about his injuries, this idiot survives anything." Medusa said in the background of the whole situation. She was sitting cross-legged on the nearby ground, her face showing a very board and sarcastic appearance rather than her usual ticked-off attitude. Are we ever going to get out of this meeting zone? She thought to herself, sighing with an obvious tone of boredom.

"Did I make you break you're umbrel~la?" He asked, looking over at Van trying to fix a hinge. "And I'm perfect~ly fine... so really don't worry about that." Mo said, putting his hat back on and finding a piece of grass on his shirt very interesting. He didn't notice that his hip probably cracked a little, but since there was no pain it's not like he really cared if it was.

((sorry 'bout the short post =.= My brain isn't working as it should...))
((But I do have some pretty pictures of Questa that I wanna post soon! She's smiling ^^))

Looking at his umbrella Van can see that some of its hinges had popped out of place and looking rather irrepairable but nonetheless, Van tried his best to see if he can get the hinges to go back into their places later on at the end of the trip anyway since he didn't space to do so in.

Shifting his attention toward the worried male Van replied calmly, "Yes you did, but do not worry about it. When I have the time back at school, I'll try fixing it. It's broken but not completely. So no harm done.. So Van placed his broken umbrella in his bag, zipping it close before standing up and dusting himself.

Dri slowly climbed up Van's pants and surely made his way onto Van's shoulder, seating himself on there very much like a parrot or avian companion that most people had. Unknowingly echoing the boredom that Medusa is currently feeling, Dri yawned rather loudly before saying, "So when are we gettin' out of 'ere and having fun? It's gettin' a bit boring don't cha think?" Dri was really excited to go on exlploring hoping to see more tree spirits like him, especially at the thought of meeting, talking and playing with them.

[[-shot- Short post is short. I should be studying for exams. Bah! Getting swamped with so many things to do. -_______-]]

((i'm sorry if this is a random question...when is this...like is this after the winter break, before, summer??))

(( I think it's over since Wavi is back))

((Lawlz. I still love how they went on a field trip. XP))

(( It was a brilliant idea at the time..))