KK: Actually, Raphael is quite old. You're welcome ^_^ I really wanted Raphael and Donny fight verbally. 1. Being it can be very funny. 2. It kinda, in a way, gives them both character development, in regards to their personality.
At our ground zero ...
[video=youtube;6msDwLtgCso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msDwLtgCso&feature=related[/video]
"This is wonderful" called a voice from within the northern region of Jade Jungle, "I have the island to myself" The picture slowly moves to the right revealing half of a cocnut with a bendy straw in it, being held by a caucasian hand, "I'm at the top of the food chain" picture slowly moves revealing a face of a blond whose eyes are underneath a light blue miter, "Yes, this vacay is just what the doctor ordered" he said with a smile. He then frowned, "A shame. As soon as a few days I'll have to go looking for Leonardo again. If I don't all our chances at winning this twisted game go down the drain. I still find it odd how electricty and an eclipse can have any relation. All I can think of is heat and energy crossing like the sun and moon do in an eclipse"
3 ... 2 ... 1... IMPACT!!! We landed near the area he was. He seemed to be sitting on a lounge chair. The Ravens dropped us an inch from the ground and the began to rest, they were sweating their feathers off. However, they first accidently rammed into some palm trees. "Are you all right?" Raphael asked.
"... Affir- ... Mative" They said before passing out.
Donny shook his head, "Dat is one expierence I don' eva want to go through again"
"Soh wair ar we?"
Rye looked around, "That ... Is a good question-where are we, Raphael?"
"Only a day away from the village"
"A day? ... A day?! ... A DAY?! HOW HUGE IS DIS FREAKIN' ISLAND?!!!"
"Well there goes the ambiance" The man tilted his miter to reveal black sunglasses, "And you guys are who?" We all looked at him.
"What da hell ... What's a bishop doin' here?"
"I actually dress like this for a different reason. So once again, who are you?"
After the formalities and explanation ...
"Huh. So that's the reason, now that you mention it, not too long ago I saw a few Spearguys running around in a panic. 'Course that was a few hours ago, so I guess it doesn't really matter"
"We need ta fined thim befor they deside ta cum bak, utherwhyz we woahn't be thair ta stop thim"
"Just who is your translator? None of them will understand you if you can't speak their language"
Ryelin grinned and stuck his left thumb out at Raphael, "Heh, Raphael's our translator"
"Negative" Raphael stated.
Ray and Rye looked at him with horrified expressions, "WHUT?!!!/WHAT?!!!" they said simantaneously.
"I know many things, but other languages, aside from my first and english I have no knowledge of"
Donny crossed his arms, "An' why am I not saprised?"
Raphael scowled, "You're on my list for that"
"Oh, I'm so scared" he said sarcastically, flaing his arms unenthusiastically.
Meanwhile Rye and Ray had huddled, "Ray? ... How the hell are we supposed to negotiate without having someone who knows the shyguy language?"
"I dohn't noh. Buht, I du noh that they woodn't giv us thuh mishin if we coodn't finish it"
Donny had struck a nerve in Raphael, "You want this to get physical?!"
Donny was now crossing his arms, "No, trust me. You don' want physical"
"Kay' then, so who pray tell do they think will be our transl-" They (Being Ray and Rye) looked at the mystery man. I was somewhat skeptical of this man being our translator, but maybe he could do it.
"And just how do you know what I would want?!"
"1. bein' the skirt will get between us an' 2. I'm not someone you wanna go mano a mano wid"
"Where I come from!" He settled down for a second, "Being here" and then struck a nerve again, "We have a little phrase called; actions speak louder than words!"
Donny looked around, after about 5 seconds he walked over to a large red palm tree (About 15 feet taller and a yard wide), and patted it, "Dis'll do" he said. He cracked his right knuckles, then moved them around a bit, he began to clentched his body as he inhaled.
Raphael looked puzzled at Donny's actions as were the others spectating (Me, 3 of the Ravens, and the mystery man). Ray and Rye approuched the man, "Uh, yeah mind if we ask a question?" Rye asked.
The man shook his head, "Huh, what?"
"How wel du yu speek sheye geye?"
The man snickered, "Lemee' guess. You two want me to be your translator, right?"
"Ya/Yes" The two said simantaneously.
"So predictable. I can tell the two of you weren't hunting me, so you must have heard of me and realizing you limited opinions, have turned to me for help having just remembered. Am I right or not?"
Donny then exhaled after about holding it for 30 seconds and then repeated the same actions with his other hand. After that he repeated the same steps all over again.
"Well yeah, but-"
The man held up his right arm, "Save the excuses for some poor sap. While I do know the language, I have enough money right now and trying to threaten me will do you no good" He then took a sip of his coconut milk, "So pray tell, what are you going to use to compansate me with?"
I could sense some hostility from them after that comment, but only breifly. "An' wair du yor culinairy skils lie?" Ray asked, "Sherly yu dohn't want jus' meet, froot, an' coconut melk evry day?"
Donny then began to take his suit, tie, and shirt off. Afterwards he clentched his hands, his muscles and nerves began to pop-out a bit, it was the first time I actually began to take his earlier words seriously. He leaned back, his right hand clentched in a fist, and then punched the base of the tree. As if cut by a buzzsaw, the section of the tree that was directly underneath his hand broke-off and fell off the stump, "Dat loud enough fo' ya?" he then grabbed the rest of the tree with his two hands and began to throw the log in the air and catch it repeatably.
Even Raphael was freaking-out at the sight, Donny's strength was almost unbelievable O_O
Ray and Rye turned around as the mystery man tipped his sunglasses as if not believing what he was seeing. He then tilted them back a moment later. "You sure know how to cover your bases; brain and brawn. I want to stay on the island, but the food offered for sorting this problem out will more than likely be some variations to what I've been eating so far, but at least it'll be different. Besides, this might allow me to get in Leonardo's good book, so I'll be killing to birds with one stone"
At Spearguy Village ...
[video=youtube;fArO54JNZp0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArO54JNZp0&feature=related[/video]
After walking through dense jungle we finally arrived to the Spearguy village, a day later (Technically 2 seeing as the sun was going down soon after 1 hour of walking and we made camp). "Here we are" the man, (Whose name is Dawn Rebirth) informed.
A weird language was heard and we then managed to see two spearguys running-away.
"Some'tin tells me dey already know who we are"
Ray turned to Dawn, "Wut did it say?"
"Crud, that's what it said"
Ray then looked ill, "Ya, they noh us" she said putting her over right hand over her face.
Rye shrugged, "Might as well, seein' as we're goin' ta be negotiatin' with them. So let's
find the cheif and see if we can make peace"
In Spearguy Cheif's Hut ...
The cheif looked just about the same as regular Spearguys; red hood, white mask with 2 red horizontal lines on where cheeks would be, grass skirt over hood, blue shoes, and was holding a spear. His only difference was that he had a feather held together by another rubber band (As this held together their masks). His facial expression, well I don't really know what it was, but it felt awkward standing there in front of him.
"So what do you want me to tell him?" Asked Dawn.
Rye shrugged, "Something among the lines of we've come here to make peace"
After the two of them speaking a language I had no understanding of Dawn finally translated, "I have nothing to say to any of you"
Donny took a few steps forward, "Ask him why he had his men attack my clients, I mean what da hell did dey even do?"
After talking a bit more in shy guy, "I have no qualms against the yoshis, however you
and the people of your buisness are another story. While you seem to want to make peace with us and the yoshis we have heard from a reliable source that you have no mercy for interlopers of your buisness. For that matter, the motives behind your actions are unpredictable. How do we know you won't just do the same to us as you have with many others when you find no use for us?"
"Aren't you spearguys cannibals?"
Dawn hesitated and as he tried to translate that rude question Ray and Rye began to jump at Dawn yelling, "NO!!!"
Rye held him down while Ray invaded Donny's personal space, "AR YA CHREYEIN' TA PISS'IM AWF?!!!"
"Well are dey or aren't dey?"
"Our people are not cannibals" Everyone's attention was turned to a female sounding voice coming from a spear guy (Or spear girl), she had a feather tied to her headband like the cheif, however she also has earrings in the shape of the masks worn by shy guys. "Cannibalism; is the eating of the flesh of our own people. Although some people reffer to it as the eating of humans by a person, in which case what you say is true. But by what we believe in, we are not cannibals"
Rye and Ray looked at eachother mouth gaping for a few seconds before slapping their faces simanteously. If I had to venture a guess, she was intended to be the translator, not Dawn.
"I'm sorry, but please leave"
Outside Cheid's Hut ...
"Well that could've gone better" Rye said shaking his head.
All of a sudden we heard a bunch of shy guy language, we turned their way to see three shy guys huddled, they didn't have grass skirts, paint on their mask, or spears in their hands. Each took a turn at talking, then one of them looked our way, and ran in the opposite direction. Everyone but Dawn was puzzled, "What ... Da hell ... Was dat?"
"The problem" Everyone turned to Dawn, "This what they were saying: Looks like things are going according to plan. Yeah, who would have thought spearguys could be so gullible? Those guys are wasting their breathe on them, whose the most brilliant mastermind? KING BOWSER!!! Crud, it's them! Run!"
"Bowser? He never learns his lesson. What is he planning on doing this time?"
"Ryelin, who's Bowser?" I asked.
"An ego-maniac royal. He's the king of the koopas, but he's allied with many other species, the shy guys to name one. If I recall correctly at a time Rapha-"
Raphael interrupted "Caw. He's gone through hundreds of different plans, however all have been twarted by Mario. Though this time it's questionable if Mario even knows about what's going on here"
"Givin' thuh fact that we no soh lil' I'd say no"
"Bowser has only two objectives; Marrying Princess Peach and World conquest"
Donny crossed his arms, "Is dat right? No wonda my clients wa attacked. Bowsa's tryin' to mess wid da sydnicate cuz' wa progressin' so fast" Donny tightened his hand into a fist, "Alright let's follow dem right to where deir hidin' an' take'em down!"
Ray took out a tiny folded piece of paper, then began to unfold it, and unfold it, and unfold it, and unfold it. The tiny piece of paper was 3' wide both ways. "Looks like Oh-kuh-nay jru us a map"
"Mio dio, chop down a whole fo'est why don' ya?" Donny said smacking his head.
"Thuh mor un-buh-leave-able part is that it wuhz ownly pallm seyez at first"
That was very unbelievable, but so was jumping from a 5 story tree and not landing with even a sprained ankle. "So ... How does it work?"
"The exact details are over your head an' mine, but basically the paper works like a print-out, in the sense that Okane or someone else types up directions for us to do, it can even give images. The paper expands everytime a message/image is sent" Rye explained.
"... Now dat's somet'ing. Somet'ing like that would save a lot of trees"
"The paper may not look like it, but it's actually data, an' yes, it would"
After that we started following the map, though I didn't get to see it.
"... That's my idea ... I checked the entire universe ... And still found nothing like it. And how the hell do they know Okane? Could they be ...?" Dawn muttered to himself.
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Hope everyone who reads it, liked it. Also please give your thoughts ^_^
Edit: Oh yeah, kudos to those who noticed the little easter egg within this chapter.
Chapter 16 - Landing and learning
At our ground zero ...
[video=youtube;6msDwLtgCso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msDwLtgCso&feature=related[/video]
"This is wonderful" called a voice from within the northern region of Jade Jungle, "I have the island to myself" The picture slowly moves to the right revealing half of a cocnut with a bendy straw in it, being held by a caucasian hand, "I'm at the top of the food chain" picture slowly moves revealing a face of a blond whose eyes are underneath a light blue miter, "Yes, this vacay is just what the doctor ordered" he said with a smile. He then frowned, "A shame. As soon as a few days I'll have to go looking for Leonardo again. If I don't all our chances at winning this twisted game go down the drain. I still find it odd how electricty and an eclipse can have any relation. All I can think of is heat and energy crossing like the sun and moon do in an eclipse"
3 ... 2 ... 1... IMPACT!!! We landed near the area he was. He seemed to be sitting on a lounge chair. The Ravens dropped us an inch from the ground and the began to rest, they were sweating their feathers off. However, they first accidently rammed into some palm trees. "Are you all right?" Raphael asked.
"... Affir- ... Mative" They said before passing out.
Donny shook his head, "Dat is one expierence I don' eva want to go through again"
"Soh wair ar we?"
Rye looked around, "That ... Is a good question-where are we, Raphael?"
"Only a day away from the village"
"A day? ... A day?! ... A DAY?! HOW HUGE IS DIS FREAKIN' ISLAND?!!!"
"Well there goes the ambiance" The man tilted his miter to reveal black sunglasses, "And you guys are who?" We all looked at him.
"What da hell ... What's a bishop doin' here?"
"I actually dress like this for a different reason. So once again, who are you?"
After the formalities and explanation ...
"Huh. So that's the reason, now that you mention it, not too long ago I saw a few Spearguys running around in a panic. 'Course that was a few hours ago, so I guess it doesn't really matter"
"We need ta fined thim befor they deside ta cum bak, utherwhyz we woahn't be thair ta stop thim"
"Just who is your translator? None of them will understand you if you can't speak their language"
Ryelin grinned and stuck his left thumb out at Raphael, "Heh, Raphael's our translator"
"Negative" Raphael stated.
Ray and Rye looked at him with horrified expressions, "WHUT?!!!/WHAT?!!!" they said simantaneously.
"I know many things, but other languages, aside from my first and english I have no knowledge of"
Donny crossed his arms, "An' why am I not saprised?"
Raphael scowled, "You're on my list for that"
"Oh, I'm so scared" he said sarcastically, flaing his arms unenthusiastically.
Meanwhile Rye and Ray had huddled, "Ray? ... How the hell are we supposed to negotiate without having someone who knows the shyguy language?"
"I dohn't noh. Buht, I du noh that they woodn't giv us thuh mishin if we coodn't finish it"
Donny had struck a nerve in Raphael, "You want this to get physical?!"
Donny was now crossing his arms, "No, trust me. You don' want physical"
"Kay' then, so who pray tell do they think will be our transl-" They (Being Ray and Rye) looked at the mystery man. I was somewhat skeptical of this man being our translator, but maybe he could do it.
"And just how do you know what I would want?!"
"1. bein' the skirt will get between us an' 2. I'm not someone you wanna go mano a mano wid"
"Where I come from!" He settled down for a second, "Being here" and then struck a nerve again, "We have a little phrase called; actions speak louder than words!"
Donny looked around, after about 5 seconds he walked over to a large red palm tree (About 15 feet taller and a yard wide), and patted it, "Dis'll do" he said. He cracked his right knuckles, then moved them around a bit, he began to clentched his body as he inhaled.
Raphael looked puzzled at Donny's actions as were the others spectating (Me, 3 of the Ravens, and the mystery man). Ray and Rye approuched the man, "Uh, yeah mind if we ask a question?" Rye asked.
The man shook his head, "Huh, what?"
"How wel du yu speek sheye geye?"
The man snickered, "Lemee' guess. You two want me to be your translator, right?"
"Ya/Yes" The two said simantaneously.
"So predictable. I can tell the two of you weren't hunting me, so you must have heard of me and realizing you limited opinions, have turned to me for help having just remembered. Am I right or not?"
Donny then exhaled after about holding it for 30 seconds and then repeated the same actions with his other hand. After that he repeated the same steps all over again.
"Well yeah, but-"
The man held up his right arm, "Save the excuses for some poor sap. While I do know the language, I have enough money right now and trying to threaten me will do you no good" He then took a sip of his coconut milk, "So pray tell, what are you going to use to compansate me with?"
I could sense some hostility from them after that comment, but only breifly. "An' wair du yor culinairy skils lie?" Ray asked, "Sherly yu dohn't want jus' meet, froot, an' coconut melk evry day?"
Donny then began to take his suit, tie, and shirt off. Afterwards he clentched his hands, his muscles and nerves began to pop-out a bit, it was the first time I actually began to take his earlier words seriously. He leaned back, his right hand clentched in a fist, and then punched the base of the tree. As if cut by a buzzsaw, the section of the tree that was directly underneath his hand broke-off and fell off the stump, "Dat loud enough fo' ya?" he then grabbed the rest of the tree with his two hands and began to throw the log in the air and catch it repeatably.
Even Raphael was freaking-out at the sight, Donny's strength was almost unbelievable O_O
Ray and Rye turned around as the mystery man tipped his sunglasses as if not believing what he was seeing. He then tilted them back a moment later. "You sure know how to cover your bases; brain and brawn. I want to stay on the island, but the food offered for sorting this problem out will more than likely be some variations to what I've been eating so far, but at least it'll be different. Besides, this might allow me to get in Leonardo's good book, so I'll be killing to birds with one stone"
At Spearguy Village ...
[video=youtube;fArO54JNZp0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArO54JNZp0&feature=related[/video]
After walking through dense jungle we finally arrived to the Spearguy village, a day later (Technically 2 seeing as the sun was going down soon after 1 hour of walking and we made camp). "Here we are" the man, (Whose name is Dawn Rebirth) informed.
A weird language was heard and we then managed to see two spearguys running-away.
"Some'tin tells me dey already know who we are"
Ray turned to Dawn, "Wut did it say?"
"Crud, that's what it said"
Ray then looked ill, "Ya, they noh us" she said putting her over right hand over her face.
Rye shrugged, "Might as well, seein' as we're goin' ta be negotiatin' with them. So let's
find the cheif and see if we can make peace"
In Spearguy Cheif's Hut ...
The cheif looked just about the same as regular Spearguys; red hood, white mask with 2 red horizontal lines on where cheeks would be, grass skirt over hood, blue shoes, and was holding a spear. His only difference was that he had a feather held together by another rubber band (As this held together their masks). His facial expression, well I don't really know what it was, but it felt awkward standing there in front of him.
"So what do you want me to tell him?" Asked Dawn.
Rye shrugged, "Something among the lines of we've come here to make peace"
After the two of them speaking a language I had no understanding of Dawn finally translated, "I have nothing to say to any of you"
Donny took a few steps forward, "Ask him why he had his men attack my clients, I mean what da hell did dey even do?"
After talking a bit more in shy guy, "I have no qualms against the yoshis, however you
and the people of your buisness are another story. While you seem to want to make peace with us and the yoshis we have heard from a reliable source that you have no mercy for interlopers of your buisness. For that matter, the motives behind your actions are unpredictable. How do we know you won't just do the same to us as you have with many others when you find no use for us?"
"Aren't you spearguys cannibals?"
Dawn hesitated and as he tried to translate that rude question Ray and Rye began to jump at Dawn yelling, "NO!!!"
Rye held him down while Ray invaded Donny's personal space, "AR YA CHREYEIN' TA PISS'IM AWF?!!!"
"Well are dey or aren't dey?"
"Our people are not cannibals" Everyone's attention was turned to a female sounding voice coming from a spear guy (Or spear girl), she had a feather tied to her headband like the cheif, however she also has earrings in the shape of the masks worn by shy guys. "Cannibalism; is the eating of the flesh of our own people. Although some people reffer to it as the eating of humans by a person, in which case what you say is true. But by what we believe in, we are not cannibals"
Rye and Ray looked at eachother mouth gaping for a few seconds before slapping their faces simanteously. If I had to venture a guess, she was intended to be the translator, not Dawn.
"I'm sorry, but please leave"
Outside Cheid's Hut ...
"Well that could've gone better" Rye said shaking his head.
All of a sudden we heard a bunch of shy guy language, we turned their way to see three shy guys huddled, they didn't have grass skirts, paint on their mask, or spears in their hands. Each took a turn at talking, then one of them looked our way, and ran in the opposite direction. Everyone but Dawn was puzzled, "What ... Da hell ... Was dat?"
"The problem" Everyone turned to Dawn, "This what they were saying: Looks like things are going according to plan. Yeah, who would have thought spearguys could be so gullible? Those guys are wasting their breathe on them, whose the most brilliant mastermind? KING BOWSER!!! Crud, it's them! Run!"
"Bowser? He never learns his lesson. What is he planning on doing this time?"
"Ryelin, who's Bowser?" I asked.
"An ego-maniac royal. He's the king of the koopas, but he's allied with many other species, the shy guys to name one. If I recall correctly at a time Rapha-"
Raphael interrupted "Caw. He's gone through hundreds of different plans, however all have been twarted by Mario. Though this time it's questionable if Mario even knows about what's going on here"
"Givin' thuh fact that we no soh lil' I'd say no"
"Bowser has only two objectives; Marrying Princess Peach and World conquest"
Donny crossed his arms, "Is dat right? No wonda my clients wa attacked. Bowsa's tryin' to mess wid da sydnicate cuz' wa progressin' so fast" Donny tightened his hand into a fist, "Alright let's follow dem right to where deir hidin' an' take'em down!"
Ray took out a tiny folded piece of paper, then began to unfold it, and unfold it, and unfold it, and unfold it. The tiny piece of paper was 3' wide both ways. "Looks like Oh-kuh-nay jru us a map"
"Mio dio, chop down a whole fo'est why don' ya?" Donny said smacking his head.
"Thuh mor un-buh-leave-able part is that it wuhz ownly pallm seyez at first"
That was very unbelievable, but so was jumping from a 5 story tree and not landing with even a sprained ankle. "So ... How does it work?"
"The exact details are over your head an' mine, but basically the paper works like a print-out, in the sense that Okane or someone else types up directions for us to do, it can even give images. The paper expands everytime a message/image is sent" Rye explained.
"... Now dat's somet'ing. Somet'ing like that would save a lot of trees"
"The paper may not look like it, but it's actually data, an' yes, it would"
After that we started following the map, though I didn't get to see it.
"... That's my idea ... I checked the entire universe ... And still found nothing like it. And how the hell do they know Okane? Could they be ...?" Dawn muttered to himself.
*
Hope everyone who reads it, liked it. Also please give your thoughts ^_^
Edit: Oh yeah, kudos to those who noticed the little easter egg within this chapter.
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Also, I've decided to put the music in links, so it won't disrupt the reading flow. (Though the reason I did it that way before was so people could let the music play while they read, without having to switch between either tabs or windows :/
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